You have My Vote!
The NY Times
An Army colonel recommended Friday that Maj. Nidal M. Hasan be tried by a general court-martial and face the death penalty in the shooting deaths of 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009.
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Saturday, March 5, 2011
Capital Trial Is Suggested in Rampage at Fort Hood
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Frankfurt airport attack: police explore 'terror link'
Terrorist link? DUH!
Shouting Allahu Ackbar as your hosing bullets down on anybody is terrorism, killing U.S. military while doing it most definitely terrorism.
Unfortunately you never know where it is going to come from next, the U.K., Australia, right here at home? you never know.
Where there are Muslims the potential is there for some sudden Jihad Syndrome.
Guardian.co.uk
German police are investigating whether the fatal shooting of two US airmen at Frankfurt airport was a terrorist attack.
Another two American servicemen were wounded when a lone gunman opened fire on a US military bus parked outside the terminal building on Wednesday.
Investigators are pursuing what German media described as "substantial evidence" that the 21-year-old Kosovan suspected of carrying out the attack had links with Islamist groups in Germany. There is concern that more attacks may be in the works, said Spiegel Online.
FBI investigators were at the scene within hours of the attack and an investigation by the German authorities is under way.
The suspect, who is believed to have worked at t
he airport and grown up in Germany, has been identified by the Kosovan government as Arif Uka, originally from the northern town of Mitrovica.
Police are investigating reports he shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) before pulling the trigger and are examining his Facebook account, which details what appear to be Islamist beliefs.
His Facebook wall links to a jihadist fighting song and a comment made on a friend's posting refers to "these miserable kuffar [infidels]". The last entry is dated Monday evening.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Saudi Citizen in Texas Charged in Suspected Bombing Plot
"After mastering the English language, learning how to build explosives and continuous planning to target the infidel Americans, it is time for jihad," the student wrote in his journal, according to court documents.
MOOOOVE along folks Nothing to see here, just another Muslim living in America learning everything they can at our schools only to turn that Knowledge into Terrorist Jihad Tactics to be used to kill us!
No reason to be alarmed, no reason to get the FBI involved, It is not what you think.
Foxnews
A college student from Saudi Arabia studying chemical engineering in Texas has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly planning a terrorist attack on U.S. targets using explosive chemicals.
Khalid Aldawsari, who is legally in the U.S. on a student visa, allegedly targeted the Dallas home of former President George W. Bush. He was arrested late Tuesday on a federal charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.
“Yesterday’s arrest demonstrates the need for and the importance of vigilance and the willingness of private individuals and companies to ask questions and contact the authorities when confronted with suspicious activities,” said James T. Jacks, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
Aldawsari, 20, entered the U.S. in October 2008 from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to study at Texas Tech University, then transferred earlier this year to nearby South Plains College.
Federal prosecutors say Aldawsari had been researching online how to construct an improvised explosive device using several chemicals as ingredients. Authorities say Aldawsari's diary indicated the young man had been plotting an attack for years and obtained a scholarship so he could come directly to the United State to carry out jihad.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Sadr exhorts Iraqis to resist US 'occupiers'
The Fatass of Iraq returns home this week to the country he ran away from when the going got a little tough.(He did not want to meet up with the U.S Military)
He wants Iraqis to resist the American Occupiers!
"We still resist the occupier, by military resistance, and all the means of resistance,"
Ah Yes, Resist us Bitch!
He also wants a united Iraq, But so does the United States.
Too bad he is such a Dumbass he can't see it.
He is also a little late to the Party.
AFP
NAJAF, Iraq — Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday exhorted a boisterous crowd to resist the US "occupation" by all means, in his first speech since returning to his Iraqi home city of Najaf.
"We still resist the occupier, by military resistance, and all the means of resistance," Sadr said in the central Iraq shrine city, where he returned on Wednesday after about four years of self-imposed exile.
Tens of thousands of people turned out to hear him speak, waving a forest of Iraqi flags and pictures of the cleric.
"Iraq passed through difficult circumstances, which made everyone cry, and did not satisfy anyone except our joint enemy -- America, Israel and Britain," Sadr said.
"So say after me: 'No, no to America!'" The crowd did so, but in voices the cleric deemed to be too quiet.
Sadr asked: "Are you afraid of America? Say 'no, no to America! No, no to Israel!" The crowd roared back the same chant
Thursday, November 4, 2010
YouTube Drops Radical Cleric Awlaki's Videos
Oh how nice, YouTube finally does something good !
American and British officials had been pressuring the Google-owned company to take down the videos, fearing that Awlaki's Internet preaching would radicalize Muslims.
Uh Huh , And this had nothing to do with it,
Check out http://smackdownoftheday.blogspot.com/ and help take more of these Jihadi Jackass's off of Youtube
Foxnews
Popular video-sharing site YouTube has removed videos featuring calls to holy war by an Al Qaeda-linked Muslim cleric after pressure from British and U.S. officials.
YouTube spokeswoman Victoria Grand said the videos by Anwar al-Awlaki violated the site's guidelines prohibiting "incitement to commit violent acts," The New York Times reported Wednesday.
American and British officials had been pressuring the Google-owned company to take down the videos, fearing that Awlaki's Internet preaching would radicalize Muslims.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Extremist websites skyrocketing, says Interpol
Anyone who has been paying any attention , has known this for years .
It is just amazing that Interpol has waited so long to come out with the News themselves .
Visit these sites to take out some Terrorist Videos .
YouTube Smackdown
The Jawa Report
BBC
The sharp growth in extremist websites is making recruitment much easier for al-Qaeda, according to Interpol head Ronald Noble.
"The threat is global, it is virtual and it is on our doorsteps," he said.
Mr Noble told a conference of police chiefs in Paris there were 12 sites in 1998 and 4,500 by 2006.
He said tackling radicalisation had been made far harder by the internet because many of the activities involved were not criminal.
As soon as you knock out one, another pops up. It's like playing 'whack-a-mole'”
Increasingly, he said, the individuals targeted were young and vulnerable and from middle-class backgrounds.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Obama Bans Islam, Jihad From National Security Strategy Document
"The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century."
WTF ? The Great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century !
Are you Kidding me , Like this ideological conflict is not a problem of the present?
So the fight against Islamic Extremism is now no more Because Obama Says so .
Were Doomed , Just Plain Doomed !
Foxnews
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's advisers will remove religious terms such as "Islamic extremism" from the central document outlining the U.S. national security strategy and will use the rewritten document to emphasize that the United States does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terror, counterterrorism officials said.
The change is a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventative war and currently states: "The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century."
The officials described the changes on condition of anonymity because the document still was being written, and the White House would not discuss it. But rewriting the strategy document will be the latest example of Obama putting his stamp on U.S. foreign policy, like his promises to dismantle nuclear weapons and limit the situations in which they can be used.
The revisions are part of a larger effort about which the White House talks openly, one that seeks to change not just how the United States talks to Muslim nations, but also what it talks to them about, from health care and science to business startups and education.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Al Qaeda Leader in Iraq Calls for Continued Jihad Against U.S. 'Occupiers'
Nothing is ever good enough for the Mujahideen , no matter what it is they have their panties in a bunch over it !
The whole Jihad thing is getting so played out in the Muslim world , they call for a jihad over everything , and really all it amounts to is an excuse for them to be themselves - miserable , angry ,violent people !
Foxnews
CAIRO -- The self-described leader of an Al Qaeda front group has called for continued jihad against Iraq's American "occupiers" in the wake of the March 7 election that he claimed was boycotted by most Sunni Arabs, according to an audio tape posted Tuesday on militant Web sites.
In the 24-minute tape, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi said the parliamentary election and its results meant nothing for the mujahideen, or holy fighters, and that the next government would be no different from the previous one.
Shiites, who are the majority in Iraq, have dominated governments in Iraq since the 2003 ouster of Saddam Hussein, himself a Sunni.
Al-Baghdadi, the head of the Islamic State of Iraq, had vowed in his first election-related audio tape to violently disrupt the vote and warned Sunnis not to take part.
The turnout on March 7, however, was officially put at a respectable 62 percent despite mortar and rocket attacks that killed at least 36 people, almost all of them in Baghdad.
"We announce that the elections outcome means nothing to us ... we will continue chasing the [American] occupier and his agents until we purify the land from their filth," he said in the tape.
My name iz , Abu Omar al-Baghdadi , And Iz roll wit da Al Qaida , And Iz very Angry Wit Americans Ocupiers inz Iraq ,Iz callz for da Holy Jihad Against dem !
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Five Australians jailed for jihad plot
Should have been Life sentences , But 23 to 28 years is better than nothing .
Hopefully they don't have a get out early for good behavior policy .
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Five Australian Muslims found with weapons and chemicals to make bombs and convicted of plotting a terror attack in Australia were jailed on Monday for terms ranging from 23 to 28 year.
The men were found guilty in October 2009 of conspiring to commit an attack between July 2004 and November 2005 in retaliation for Australia's involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
During a 10-month trial, the prosecutor told the New South Wales state Supreme Court that the men obtained instructions on how to make pipe bombs capable of causing large-scale death and destruction and literature which glorified the actions of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Yemen: Gitmo alumni and AQ's Number 2 arrested - after auto accident.
Hah! We may have missed him with the predator drones but Yemeni authorities have nabbed him in a car crash. I'm loving it...
<---Said Ali al-Shihri
From Xinhua.net:
Yemeni security forces on Monday captured al-Qaida No. 2-in-command in the Arabian Peninsula, Said Ali al-Shihri, in southern Yemen, the Interior Ministry said.
The senior al-Qaida leader in Yemen was arrested along with another militant identified as S. Lamankib in the southern province of Shabwa, the ministry in a statement posted on its website.
The arrests came after the car of the two al-Qaida militants had been involved in an automobile accident on a highway in the Asailan district in Shabwa, said the statement. "They were rushed to the hospital and put under guard," it said.
In other al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula news - fresh threats against the US are issued. (I wonder if the Obama administration will pay attention to these?)
"The duty of our Muslim nation is to declare jihad against the infidels and their agent helpers, not only on the ground, but in the sea and air as well as their Crusader warships in the Gulf of Aden," according to the statement. "As they declared it to be an open war on the people of Islam, we must declare an open war against [them]."
DC Muslim 5: 'We're being tortured. Honest. And we want Daniel Pearl's former 'go to guy' as our lawyer."
Remember those 5 DC Muslim 'yutes' that went to Pakistan to wage Jihad? Well, now they are saying that they are being tortured, poor lambs. (Note to DC 5: It's not torture, it's the Islamic nation of Pakistan! How do you like your jihad now?)
Five Americans arrested last month for allegedly plotting terror attacks told a court Monday they have been tortured while in custody.
Muhammad Ameer Khan Rokhri, the former defense lawyer for the accused, told CNN Monday the five complained to the special anti-terrorism court that they were tortured by the jail authorities. He added that the court ordered medical check-ups for the five.
Aftab Hanif, the deputy superintendent of the district jail, told CNN that the allegations were false. He said nobody touched the suspects and added that they were even receiving better food than the other prisoners.
P.S. Looks to me like they just want to set up some bogus human rights bs in order to arrange a prisoner exchange for Aafia Siddiqui (Gray Lady of al Qaeda) currently on trial here in the US. Read on, possums.
Rokhri (their former lawyer) said the five told him they didn't want to him to represent them any more but would like Human Rights activist Khalid Khawaja to be their defense counsel. Khalid Khawaja is not a lawyer. He is a former member of the Pakistan intelligence service and founder of "Defense of Human Rights," a Pakistani Human Rights organization based in Islamabad.
Rokhri said the court has allowed the accused to hire any lawyer for their defense and adjourned the case until February 2.
About Khalid Khalwaja - he's a known bad actor with a heavy whiff of muslim moonbat about him:
<--- Khalid Khalwaja -and is that a prayer bump I see? Yes it is!
After being given a tip that Mansoor Ijaz is connected to leading militant Muslims in Pakistan, reporter Daniel Pearl will connect with Khalid Khawaja, who in turn connects him with militant Muslims who kidnap and eventually kill him. A leading Pakistani newspaper will claim that at one point Newsweek is about to accuse Khawaja of involvement in the plot to kidnap Pearl, but Ijaz vouches for Khawaja and convinces Newsweek to pull back its accusations.
And did Khawaja fly Osama Bin Laden's plane at one point in his checkered past?
Khalid Khawaja, “has never hidden his links with Osama bin Laden. At one time he used to fly Osama’s personal plane.”
He says no - but you will note that he doesn't say he didn't fly WITH Osama Bin Laden.
Mr Khalid Khawaja wrote last week to complain that I had erroneously called him a Taliban apologist and a person who confesses to be the pilot of Osama bin Laden. He states he never was Osama’s pilot, as he never qualified to be a pilot. While I have not seen anything to convince me about the former, I cannot prove him wrong in the latter even though the internet and rightwing talk shows are full of this introduction.
He has also been actively involved in the Pakistani Supreme Court case involving the stripping of Presidential immunity and has been lobbying for the release of the Gray Lady of al Qaeda, Aafia Siddiqui - currently on trial here in NYC. (see here)
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Clerics threaten to declare holy war if foreign troops land on Yemeni soil
“If any party insists on aggression, or invades the country, then according to Islam, jihad becomes obligatory,”
Obligitory ? oh that is spooky !
Timesonline
A group of influential religious leaders in Yemen has threatened to declare jihad — holy war — if foreign troops intervene to stem the spread of al-Qaeda in the country. The edict is a clear warning to the United States as it plans to step up its military involvement in the country.
The leaders said that a jihad would be called if foreign troops set up bases inside the country, or moved into its territorial waters.
“If any party insists on aggression, or invades the country, then according to Islam, jihad becomes obligatory," said a statement signed by 150 clerics and read out at a news conference in Sanaa, the capital. The stark threat came as Yemeni security officials declared that the country was openly now at war with the terrorists, who are trying to carve out a haven in a country riven by rebellion, secessionism, poverty and tribal loyalties...
The statement by the Yemeni Clerics Association, which wields considerable influence in the conservative Muslim state, seemed to be a clear attempt to limit the role Western forces can play in combating the new menace of al-Qaeda.
The religious group includes Sheikh Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, who was once the spiritual adviser to Osama bin Laden, and who is wanted by the US and UN on terrorism charges. The Yemeni Government has refused to arrest him, saying that no proof has been given linking him to terrorism. It is also fearful of going after so influential a figure.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Pakistan: Karachi bomb was planted in Koran box. Pakistanis stunned.
I ask again, where is the outrage? And is it just me, or does it sound like the Pakistani authorities believe the Shia in the Ashura celebration were in fact responsible for the bombing and ensuing riots in some sort of false flag operation? Hmmm.
From AKI:
Close scrutiny of CCTV footage and mobile phone intercepts by Pakistan’s top intelligence agency has shown that last week's deadly bomb attack in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi was not a suicide blast but a planted device. And the riots that erupted in the city were not a spontaneous reaction to the bombing, which killed 44 people, but a premeditated criminal act of violence that caused 500 million dollars of damage.
Pakistani interior minister Rahman Malik also confirmed during a visit to Karachi on Monday that the blast at an Ashura mourning procession was not a suicide attack.
“We are reviewing the case with a new angle and will uncover the whole conspiracy,” Rahman told reporters.
Pakistanis were stunned when CCTV footage aired on national television on late on Sunday showed last Monday's bomb was planted in a box containing holy Koranic papers.
The CCTV footage showed showed the outrage of participants at the mourning procession immediately after the bombing. But within one hour after the blast, the footage showed what appeared to be organised gangs infiltrating the mourners.
Pakistani interior minister Rahman Malik also confirmed during a visit to Karachi on Monday that the blast at an Ashura mourning procession was not a suicide attack.
“We are reviewing the case with a new angle and will uncover the whole conspiracy,” Rahman told reporters.
Pakistanis were stunned when CCTV footage aired on national television on late on Sunday showed last Monday's bomb was planted in a box containing holy Koranic papers.
The CCTV footage showed showed the outrage of participants at the mourning procession immediately after the bombing. But within one hour after the blast, the footage showed what appeared to be organised gangs infiltrating the mourners.
Read the rest here.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Panty bomber and Al-Awlaki did have a face to face meet.
Umar the panty bomber: Please note his eminently profilable forehead prayer bump. --->
Well, what do you know? Isolated extremist, President Obama? I think not.
From MSNBC:
The extent of the contacts between the cleric, Anwar al-Aulaqi, and the plane suspect are growing more apparent as investigators continue their probe.
A U.S. intelligence official said Thursday that "there was probably a face-to-face encounter" between Aulaqi and the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, during a stay in Yemen before the Nigerian man flew to Amsterdam and boarded Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines Flight 253. Separately, a top Yemeni government official said Abdulmutallab had probably met with suspected al-Qaeda operatives in a house that had been used by Aulaqi.
The house was subsequently destroyed in a Dec. 24 U.S.-backed Yemeni airstrike targeting an apparent meeting of suspected al-Qaeda leaders. (Ed.Note: So Umar bought his ticket on the 16th, the two Yemeni airstrikes took place on the 17th and 24th. He flew into Detroit on the 25th. Looks like we were a day late and a dollar short - and just plain damn lucky his underpants fizzled.)
Paging Said Ahmed. Paging Said Ahmed. Please pick up the white comment phone nearest you immediately.
These accusations are outragous. Sheik Anwar al- Awlaki a terrorist?
That is the most ludachris thing that I have ever heard about. I hope you all burn in the deapths of HELL. You crazy bastards.
Heh.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
I'm thinking very dark thoughts about the Ft. Hood Jihadi right about now...
His attorney says his widdle civil rights are being viowated - he's not able to pray from the Koran with his brother. Or so he claims.
What really happened? The guards stopped him from speaking in Arabic to his brother over the phone. Who knows what he was REALLY saying. (thanks to Logan's Warning for the ping.)
From the SF Chronicle:
The lead defense lawyer for accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan said Monday that he believes the Army is violating Hasan's religious rights because it prohibited him from praying from the Koran in Arabic with a relative.
Attorney John P. Galligan said he learned that police guarding Hasan at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio cut short a phone conversation Hasan was having with one of his brothers on Friday because Hasan was not speaking in English.
“Police at the hospital refused to let him pray, in Arabic, from the Quran with his brother,” Galligan said. “I think it's illegal and a violation of his religious rights.”
Hasan practices Islam, a religion whose followers hold that Jumu'ah (Friday) prayers are one of its most strongly affirmed duties. (Ed. Note: No kidding. Thanks for clearing that up, SF Chronicle)
[...]
His command, the Army's III Corps at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, has imposed pretrial restrictions on Hasan, including a requirement that he speak only in English with visitors or on the phone, unless an Army-approved translator is present.
Army officials did not respond to requests for comment about Galligan's contention. [...]
Read the rest here.
Monday, December 14, 2009
No deportation for Americans held in Pakistan
Of course some Jackass of a lawyer is going to fight against the extradition of these Guys !
Well Pakistan can have the little Douchbags ! What would we want them back here for?
All we would do is spend tax dollars to house them in Prison for awhile not to mention all the legal fees and court fees we will have to cover !
I say hook them up with the connections they need to go fight in Afghanistan , when the little bitches are Captured they will wish they never heard of the Jihad ,or when they are Killed , then they will have got what they wanted and deserved !
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani court ordered on Monday that five Americans detained in the country who officials said were seeking to join up with militant groups should not be deported, said a lawyer.
The lawyer said the court blocked any attempt to deport the five in response to a request filed by a human rights activist.
"They should not be handed over to the FBI or America or any other country until this petition is decided," said lawyer Tariq Asad from the eastern city of Lahore where the court heard the case.
"The court has restrained the government from handing the five over," he said.
There has been speculation that Washington may ask its regional ally Pakistan to deport the men back to the United States.
U.S. FBI agents and their Pakistani colleagues have been interrogating the young American Muslims who wanted to go to Afghanistan to fight U.S.-led forces, Pakistani officials said.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
US citizen David Headley was in the Mumbai Massacre "control room": confirms Pak Army officials are in on jihad, too.
Here is another prime example of an "al Qaeda Crown Jewel".
From Expressbuzz:
American-born terror suspect David Headley had not only actively played a role in conducting reconnaissance of targets in Mumbai but was also present in a control unit in Pakistan along with the masterminds of the attacks to guide 10 Lashker-e-Taiba terrorists to carry out strikes in the megapolis.
Sources privy to the investigations of the terror suspect's trail in India said 48-year-old Headley was very much present in the room4 from where the 10 LeT terrorists were being guided to various locations during the 26/11 attacks.
The investigators re-visited the intercepts and found that there were specific instructions being given to terrorists about entry and exit including that they had taken more time before reaching their final targets which included Taj Mahal hotel, Oberoi and Trident towers and Nariman House.
India has asked for a voice sample of Headley from the FBI to match with a voice which was unidentified so far for the security agencies. This voice was giving information on exact surroundings of the targets attacked by Lashker-e-Taiba militants. However, there was no firm response from the FBI on providing the same to the Indian investigators, the sources said. (Ed. note: I wonder if this is because Headley is being said to be cooperating with the FBI?)
Sources privy to the investigations of the terror suspect's trail in India said 48-year-old Headley was very much present in the room4 from where the 10 LeT terrorists were being guided to various locations during the 26/11 attacks.
The investigators re-visited the intercepts and found that there were specific instructions being given to terrorists about entry and exit including that they had taken more time before reaching their final targets which included Taj Mahal hotel, Oberoi and Trident towers and Nariman House.
India has asked for a voice sample of Headley from the FBI to match with a voice which was unidentified so far for the security agencies. This voice was giving information on exact surroundings of the targets attacked by Lashker-e-Taiba militants. However, there was no firm response from the FBI on providing the same to the Indian investigators, the sources said. (Ed. note: I wonder if this is because Headley is being said to be cooperating with the FBI?)
Other places that Headley was able to get into using his connections as an American?
"... (Headley) had used the service of many prominent individuals in the city to conduct a proper recce of the places which also included Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Israeli Embassy in Cuffe Parade and Israeli airlines office located in the World Trade Centre."
This is in addition to the actual Mumbai targets: Nariman House, the Taj Mahal hotel, the Leopold Cafe, Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus and the Oberoi-Trident hotels.
The Times Of India is also reporting that:
The FBI interrogation of David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani has, for the first time, confirmed what India has always known, army officers" are working in collaboration with India-specific jihadi groups like LeT and JeM.
MIA DC Muslim 5: "al-Qaeda's Crown Jewels"
Not much to report on the fate of the DC Muslim 5 (shown above), today. Although, I thought this comment from Rick Nelson of the CSIS very succinctly sums up the public relations and operational value of these douchebags to al Qaeda.
Per ABC News:
Rick Nelson, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said he sees these homegrown terrorists as "sort of the the crown jewel for international terrorist organizations like al Qaeda."
"To be able to get someone who can put a Western face on radical Islamic terrorism, someone who has the ability as a legal U.S. resident to travel fairly freely throughout the world with a passport makes them a very, very useful tool," Nelson said.
They are indeed tools, that's for darned sure.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Pakistan may face new jihad, this time on Internet
Cost-free indoctrination by the Taliban and al Qaeda is readily available on sites such as You Tube, which one official said was used by the five Americans to try and contact militants.
You Tube ? Yes that is right , these little wannabes watched You tube Videos to get all " Gay for Jihad , With all the thousands of videos taken down by "You tube Smackdown " there are still plenty of recruiting style videos on You Tube to see !
The internet is not a new frontier for Terrorists , But it is a growing front line , One that will only get worse , If not kept in check .
(You Tube Smackdown , is currently on strike)
ISLAMABAD: The detention in Pakistan of Americans seeking to contact militants and join holy war through the Internet suggests the country may need more than security crackdowns to contain threats from an insurgency.
The five men, students in their 20s from northern Virginia, were detained this week in the city of Sargodha in Punjab province, 190 km (120 miles) southeast of Islamabad, security officials said.
The suspects were being investigated for possible links to a Pakistan-based group suspected of carrying out high-profile attacks and with links to the Taliban and al Qaeda. Laptops, cellphones and maps of Pakistani cities were seized from them.
'It's a very difficult job to dismantle such networks which operate through the Internet. Their mode of communication was the Internet and email. All five and their contacts were using the same password and just putting their messages in draft and weren't sending them,' said a Pakistani security official.
'It's very difficult to detect them. If the FBI could not detect these types of messages, how can we? It's not an easy job.'
The possibility of having to track down militant networks on the Internet could not have come at a worse time for Pakistan. It is already struggling against militants who seem to carry out bombings at will, killing hundreds since October and raising questions over the stability of the nuclear-armed country.
Islamabad also faces mounting pressure from Washington to root out militants that cross the border to attack US-led troops in Afghanistan.
Radicalisation starts thousands of miles away from the strategic region. Some security officials say the Americans had intended to go fight in Afghanistan.
Two were of Pakistani origin. Officials said one of the Americans was of Egyptian origin, one of Yemeni origin and another of Eritrean origin, illustrating how the Internet can spread militant networks across continents, undetected.
If young men are leaning towards leaving behind the West to seek jihad, the Internet offers a variety of videos, made by some of the world's deadliest militant groups, to help them decide.
Cost-free indoctrination by the Taliban and al Qaeda is readily available on sites such as You Tube, which one official said was used by the five Americans to try and contact militants.
Videos romanticise what could be a violent future.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
MIA DC Muslims used Facebook and Youtube to start their careers in terror.
More details on the MIA DC Muslims keep on coming in.
We read here how the MIA DC 5 were rebuffed by al Qaeda because they lacked the right terror resumes and recommendations. Now we learn they had used Facebook and Youtube to try and make the right contacts.
Per the AP:
I'm sure you'll be happy to know that the MIA DC 5 have been in touch with the US State Dept.The men used the social networking site Facebook and the Internet video site YouTube to try to connect with extremist groups in Pakistan, said S.M. Imran Gardezi, the press minister at the Pakistani Embassy in Washington. When they arrived in Pakistan, they took that effort to the street.
"They were trying to link up to some groups, but there is no evidence for now that there was a definite plan," Gardezi said.
Local Pakistanis became suspicious of the young men and tipped off police, he said. Police arrested the group in a home belonging to the uncle of one of the men. Gardezi said the uncle had past ties to extremist groups.
Gardezi said the men have not been turned over to the FBI and said Pakistan intended to carry out its own legal process.
"We have had access to the five detainees," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters Thursday at an unrelated news conference. She called the move "part of the usual outreach" of the U.S. government and declined further comment.
For his part President Obama had this to say about the matter. And no, he did not say they 'acted stupidly'. (evidently only white American cops do that.)
President Barack Obama declined to talk specifically about the case Thursday, but said, "We have to constantly be mindful that some of these twisted ideologies are available over the Internet."
Obama, in Oslo, Norway, to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, also praised "the extraordinary contributions of the Muslim-American community, and how they have been woven into the fabric of our nation in a seamless fashion."
(I wonder if by 'seamless fashion' he means arranged marriages, honor killings and terror attacks?)
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