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Bin Laden's deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri appointed al-Qaeda leader

Al-Qaida has selected Ayman al-Zawahiri to succeed Osama bin Laden according to a... more

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The new al Qaeda terrorist leader Saif al-Adel, and the King James version Bible Code

Using Bible Code software, we run a matrix on the new al Qaeda leader.

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The Death of Osama Bin Laden Will Not End Terrorism Threats

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Obama Announces Osama’s Death, People Cheer,Video. « Ramanan50's Blog

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Osama Bin Laden Killed in CIA Operation. « Ramanan50's Blog

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Egypt sees Qaeda link to blast; Europe warns Copts

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Al-Qaida threat on Iraq Christians linked to Egypt

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Terrorist Blast During Christmas Day Mass at Church Injures Many in Southern Philippines (PHOTOS) - The Daily Blender

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Al-Qaida Gives Tips On How To Kill Americans

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U.S.-Sponsored Somalia War Displaces Several Thousand

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Fidel Castro Claims Osama bin Laden is a US Spy

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Former F.B.I. Interrogator: Mosque Fight Helps Al-Qaida

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Ground Zero for Tolerance

Are the Republicans terminally stupid or are they just playing the dangerous fool? In either case, the irrational attack on Muslims everywhere by the GOP’s leadership is not only deeply subversive with regard to the American ideal of religious tolerance but also poses a profound threat to our national security. Nor does it help that some top Democrats like Harry Reid are willing to demean Muslims even as we fight two wars in which victory depends on our ability to convey a respect for their religion.

Just ask Gen. David Petraeus, who is leading the war without end to win the hearts and minds of Muslims in Afghanistan, how helpful it is to the Taliban for American politicians to identify all Muslims with terrorism. Or to the theocratic leaders of Iran who justify their hard line with the insistence that the U.S. is obsessively anti-Muslim.

Demonization of the Muslim religion is what this brouhaha is all about. Talk of the sensitivity of the victims of 9/11, ignoring those who were Muslim, is just camouflage. It is as absurd as it would be to blame all religious Jews for the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, killed by one gunman from a fanatical Jewish fringe group, or to ban the erection of an Orthodox synagogue anywhere near Rabin’s grave. As irrational an act of scapegoating as blaming all ethnic Germans for the acts of Nazis, many of whom claimed to be God-fearing Christians.

Yet that is the logical implication of the comparison that Newt Gingrich made when he likened the proposed erection of a Muslim community center two blocks from the World Trade Center site to putting a Nazi sign next to the Holocaust Museum. On his website, Newt goes further in identifying all Muslims with terrorism: “There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia. The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively towards us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.”

Consider the full implication of that call for an international cold war against Islam by the former GOP House speaker. Someone should remind Newt that both Republican and Democratic presidents have regarded Saudi Arabia as an ally in the war against terrorism and toward that end sanctioned the sale of very sophisticated weaponry to the kingdom and the sharing of intelligence with its military. So too with the Muslim-dominated government of Pakistan with which we have been allied for a half-century, not to mention our current Muslim allies in power in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a leader in Congress, Gingrich supported those policies, but now in his zeal to misrepresent President Barack Obama’s perfectly sensible stand that we are not at war with the Muslim world, he abandons not only his record but also any pretense of logic.

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United States Called 'Silent Killers' In Somalia

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UK government tried to prevent disclosure of detention manual

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No-one’s really bothered, keep going

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From "Mogadishu Madness" to "American Jihadi"

After reading about an American youth who converted to Islam and joined an extremist insurgency in Africa, I realized he and I had unwittingly crossed paths a few years before. In Current TV’s “American Jihadi,” a new episode of the Vanguard documentary series airing Wednesday, I go looking for the young man pictured above. I wanted to find him, if not in the flesh, at least to trace his route from small-town high school boy to anti-American warrior.
I was in the war-ravaged city of Mogadishu in 2006, one of the first American TV correspondents to see the place in years. An Islamic coalition calling itself the Islamic Court Union had seized control of the Somali capital and imposed an uneasy peace that at least possible to get inside the chaotic “failed state.”
To me and many other Americans, Mogadishu was best known as the site of the military tragedy and movie “Black Hawk Down.” Twenty-six years old and no stranger to hot spots around the world, I was drawn by the spirit of adventure and a journalist’s curiosity, despite warnings from others—including my father, a seasoned war correspondent, that the story wasn’t worth the risk.
It was. My colleague, Kaj Larsen, and I found Somali expatriates streaming back to their homeland by the thousands to pick up their lives in a spirit of hope and renewal, despite the ruins and hair-trigger tempers that were the legacy of a 15-year civil war. I interviewed Islamist leaders who had captured the city and listened to their pleas for peace and a chance to re-establish a nation. Accusing the Islamic Courts of having ties to Al Qaida, the U.S. government branded them as terrorists.
Shortly after my return to the United States to put together my piece, “Mogadishu Madness,” Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia with U.S. military support and drove the Islamists into hiding. Somalia plunged back into war.
As it turned out, in the flow of people arriving at the reopened international airport in Mogadishu during that brief period of peace was another twentysomething American. Drawn by a passion to help establish an Islamic state in Somalia, Omar Hammami had left his wife and family in Egypt and arrived in Mogadishu shortly after I did. Like many Somali Muslims who answered a call for jihad to fight off the Christian invaders from Ethiopia, Omar joined Al Shabaab, one of the most ruthless and determined factions that had previously fought each other but were now united against the foreigners.
After rising to become a top field commander, Omar is now a prominent Internet propagandist for the Somali allies of Al Qaida who helps recruit other young Muslims from the West to enlist in the cause. In the past three years, at least 30 American and Canadian citizens have turned up fighting in Somalia with Al Shabaab, more than have joined any other extremist group affiliated with Al Qaida.
In “American Jihadi,” I retrace Omar’s path from Bible Belt Christian to Islamic extremist. I flew to Daphne, Alabama with practically no leads and spent three days cruising bars and restaurants—local hangouts where I thought people Omar’s age might hang out. At a Hooters, I met a patron who vaguely remembered playing soccer with Omar as a kid, then another who believed her fiancé may have taken a class with him sophomore year.
Discouraged, I mentioned my quest to a waiter at a sports bar and grill on my last day in town. He had recently run into Omar’s best friend, a man named Bernie Culveyhouse, at a Walmart and remembered the street where he lived.
I went there, looking for a house that might offer some clue, and asked a 14-year-old playing outside if he knew the Culveyhouse family.
“You mean the people with rags on their heads?” he asked.
“Yeah,” I guessed.
“They stick out because we don’t have that many Jews around here.”
No one was home so I left a letter on the doorstep with a DVD of my work and requested that we meet to discuss my assignment.
As I was boarding a flight home to the West Coast with no story in hand, Bernie called my cell phone. He said he’d turned down every request for an on-camera interview but liked what he’d seen of my work and would agree to meet. I walked out of the airport and spent that evening with him, watching “Lost” and talking about “Mogadishu Madness”—and his dear friend Omar.
It was the first of many visits, including a trip to Toronto to meet Omar’s ex-wife, a Somali-Canadian, and the sister of Bernie’s wife. Bernie had taken much of the journey with Omar, beginning with their conversion to Islam in Daphne, to the Somali community in Toronto, and ending in Alexandria, Egypt, where they expected to find comfort and happiness in an Islamic country.
Bernie went home to Daphne with his family; Omar slipped away and was next seen on the Internet as a guerrilla fighter in Somalia.
Bernie and I still struggle to understand why.
Vanguard’s “American Jihadi” premieres Wednesday, June 30 at 10 p.m. on Current TV. Watch a trailer after the jump. After reading about an American youth who converted to Islam and joined an extremist... more

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Innocent Youth Held In Guantanamo Eight Years

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U.N. Is Warned of Somalia's 'Disintegration'

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American-Yemeni cleric advocates killing Americans

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