A jury in federal court in Manhattan convicted Ahmed Ghalfan Ghailani Wednesday of conspiring in the 1998 destruction of the United States Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Many, however, are focusing on Ghailani’s acquittal on 224 counts of murder and
For weeks, leaders of the Lebanese-based terrorist group Hizballah have been waging an international extortion campaign. Blood will flow, they promise, if a United Nations tribunal indicts any of its members in connection with the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese
Fear not: radical Islam on the Internet is still alive and well. Just days after positive signs emerged that the spread of radical Islamist hate speech on the web was to be curbed in part, the blocked content has made
During the past month, Imam Yusuf al-Qaradawi, spiritual guide to the Muslim Brotherhood, has called on Muslims to acquire nuclear weapons “to terrorize their enemies.” He also boycotted an interfaith meeting with Jews on grounds he believes they support murdering
National Public Radio, which fired news analyst Juan Williams last month after pressure from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has featured the Islamist group’s leaders on air nearly two dozen times in the past three years, while never addressing
Days after Britain’s security minister pressed White House officials for action, clips of al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki have started to be removed from YouTube, the Telegraph reports. Dozens of Awlaki recordings are posted on the popular video site and calls
Efforts to raise “one dollar a day per man” in support of al Shabaab militants fighting African Union forces in Somalia have led to a recently unsealed indictment charging three California men with conspiring to provide material support to the
Followers of the outspoken groups Revolution Muslim and the Islamic Thinkers Society are moving from ideology to violent action, a review of recent terror indictments by the Investigative Project on Terrorism shows. U.S. counter terror agencies have traditionally paid little
A report issued by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) in September shed light on a new approach in the discourse about jihad. Saudi writer Khaled Al-‘Ghanami wrote an op-ed in the al-Watan newspaper and ‘Abdallah Al-Naggar wrote one
A federal judge has ruled that the Bank of China may be held financially responsible for the death of a U.S. citizen killed in a 2006 suicide bombing undertaken by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). The case, Wultz v. Islamic Republic
Federal agents arrested a man Wednesday for plotting to bomb the Washington, D.C., subway system, the Justice Department announced. It was the second arrest in as many days involving Americans hoping to wage violence for al-Qaida or the Taliban, and
U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner has called on YouTube to make terrorist propaganda videos less accessible, particularly those of Anwar al-Awlaki, dubbed the “bin Laden of the Internet.” “We are facilitating the recruitment of homegrown terror,” Weiner, D-NY, warned in a
“In the age of cyberspace, an Iranian cyber-force could attack within the United States from Tehran” without reliance on Hizballah, said former national security official Richard Clarke in a speech Friday. Having co-authored “Cyber War: The Next Threat to National
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano’s appointment of “de-radicalization” expert Mohamed Elibiary to the Homeland Security Advisory Council earlier this month has thus far drawn little attention from Congress or the media, despite his record of criticizing successful terrorism prosecutions and praising
Despite connections to some of the hijackers and a record of radical sermons and speeches in the United States, fugitive al-Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki was a lunch guest at a Pentagon “Muslim outreach” event just months after the 9/11 attacks,
Pakistan’s military intelligence agency, the ISI, was heavily involved in 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, a 109-page classified Indian government report obtained by the British newspaper The Guardian alleges. The report is based on confessions of American Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) operative David
A federal judge sentenced a Jordanian man to 24 years in prison Tuesday after he admitted plotting to blow up a Dallas skyscraper. Hosam Smadi’s plea agreement signed in May capped his maximum sentence at 30 years. He admitted driving
The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and their ideological allies have called FBI searches of people suspected of supporting terrorist organizations in Chicago and Minneapolis “fishing expeditions” that trample the rights of innocent people.
An imam with ties to mosques in Florida and Iowa has been arrested on immigration fraud charges. Ibrahim Dremali and his wife Safaa Rashad Eissa were arrested in Texas last week and will return to Iowa to face charges, the
The Pentagon follows a six-step process that can go as high as the president of the United States before launching an aerial strike against a suspected terrorist target, according to military documents filed in a federal court in Washington. Those
Lebanon is a “university of Jihad,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a Hizballah General Assembly meeting held in his honor Wednesday. Ahmadinejad’s comments during the visit have so far been split between provocation and conciliation, in speeches addressed as much
Al-Qaeda makes a full press for Muslims in America and other Western nations to wage homegrown terrorist attacks in the second issue of its English-language magazine, offering grisly suggestions that “would cause chaos and trauma among the public.” The second
Al-Qaeda is becoming a media organization that engages in terrorism, rather than the other way around, said counterterrorism expert Jarret Brachman Wednesday at a seminar conducted at the University of Maryland. Brachman noted how As-Sahab, al-Qaeda’s media arm, has become
Officials with the FBI’s Chicago field office said they had no problem with Kifah Mustapha, an Illinois imam who was named as an unindicted coconspirator by federal prosecutors in a 2008 terror trial, participating in a Bureau Citizens’ Academy and
The civilized world is at a critical juncture in the struggle with radical Islam, British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a New York audience Wednesday. Speaking at an event sponsored by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), Blair
University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape, whose research finds religious extremism has a limited role in suicide bombings, is working secretly with a suspected Hamas front to pump up sales of his new book, the Investigative Project on Terrorism