When Women Attack

Increasingly, the insurgency of Iraq is recruiting, training and utilizing female suicide bombers to carryout their devastating attacks. This news comes after a US-led coalition force investigated three Baghdad area suicide attacks that were apparently the work of al-Qaeda trained female combatants. And as it turns out, will continue to be so.
Though seemingly troubling, this [...]

Bhutto’s Death Was Not Commited By the Pakistani Goverment: Says Musharraf

A week after the tragic death of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani President Pevez Musharraf asserted that the government of Pakistan was not involved in the assassination.
Bhutto was gunned-down in Rawalpindi following a pre-election rally where she was cementing her stronghold as a viable opposition candidate to the incumbent President Musharraf. Though there is debate whether it [...]

Muslim Brotherhood Says: al-Qaeda Doesn’t Exist

Muslim Brotherhood Leader Sheikh Mahdi ‘Akef in an interview with MEMRI (thanks to JihadWatch for the link) that al-Qaeda was a fabrication of the United States and the Zionists. He added that the Muslim Brotherhood would be willing to send 10,000 “young men” to Palestine to fight for Allah. Interesting.
With al-Qaeda taking credit for three to five [...]

Finally Some Pragmatism in the Middle-East

After some weeks of discussion and deliberation, Saudi King Abdullah has pardoned the victim of gang rape sentenced to 200 lashes. This news comes just as the annual pilgrimage to Mecca (The Hajj) commences, in Saudi Arabia. The woman’s husband, who has spoken out fiercely on CNN and other news media outlets, said on Tuesday [...]

Al Qaeda-linked Web sites number 5,600: researcher

The new battlefield for al-Qaeda is increasingly becoming the internet and other technology driven media outlets. With over 900 new Islamofascism sites popping up each year, it seems as though the radical clerics are gain ground. Yahoo! has the story here.

New Osama bin Laden Tape

After much “anticipation,” the new OBL tape has been release and aired by Al Jazeera. Here is the full story. (Thanks to Reuters.)
DUBAI (Reuters) – Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden urged European countries to end their military cooperation with U.S. forces in Afghanistan, in an audio tape aired by Al Jazeera television on [...]

The Left Needs to Find Other Things to Be Thankful For

Is it becoming true that even the Arab World is tired of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the rest of the insurgency? And it turns out this week, that those staunchly opposed to al-Qaida are finally winning–for the the time being. No they say? Even the L.A. Times asserts–al-Qaida is losing its stronghold in several areas [...]