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Bin Laden, was the founder and undisputed leader of al-Qaeda for over 30 years. Osama Bin Laden may be dead in person, but his evil spirit may never die, as he continues to haunt us from hell.
Read the whole story of the infamous leader of the world's deadliest terrorist organization who had managed to elude capture and assassination for so many years on my Al Qaeda Watch blog, at http://www.alqaedawatch.com/2011/05/rise-and-fall-of-osama-bin-laden.html.Bin Laden, was the founder and undisputed leader of al-Qaeda for over 30 years. Osama... more
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Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel explores homegrown terrorism in "American Jihadi." The show chronicles the path of Omar Hammami, a high school student from Daphne, Alabama who became a top commander in an Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist group.
With the help of Omar's high school friend, Christof retraces Omar's path to extremism -- from Daphne, where he converted to Islam, to Toronto where he immersed himself into the local Somali community, and finally his journey to Egypt and Somalia.
The show also helps expose Omar's tactics in reaching out to young American Muslims through online videos that document Omar's engagement in Guerrilla warfare. Since 2007, more than 30 young American and Canadian Muslims have vanished, several of them reappearing in Omar's videos.
"Vanguard," airing weekly on Current TV Wednesdays at 10/9c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.
For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard.Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel explores homegrown terrorism in "American... more
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Correspondent Christof Putzel tweeted live commentary during the East Coast premiere of "American Jihadi."
+ @KajLarsen and I arrived in Mogadishu before the airport opened by hitching a ride from Nairobi on a World Food Program plane.
+ I was surprised to learn that a lot of people we met in Daphne had never heard of Omar Hammami. [Watch Christof's behind the scenes commentary.]
+ I hopped around bars + restaurants in Daphne for 3 days before I finally met someone who remembered Omar.
+ I hooked up with Bernie after meeting a waiter at a restaurant who had run into him at a Wal-Mart a few weeks earlier.
+ Omar had a reputation in Model UN of only choosing Muslim countries (such as Pakistan and Indonesia) to represent.
+ McMeans also included Omar’s name on tests she would give to her students, comparing Omar to Richard Reid, “the shoe bomber.”
+ Omar Hammami goes by the name Abu Mansour Al-Amriki. Al-Amriki means “the American.” [Watch a video about Omar's messages posted to internet forums.]
+ Bernie’s friends were disappointed that he’d found a new friend and was no longer interested in smoking pot and skipping school.
+ After 9/11, Omar condemned the terror attacks.
+ Omar and Bernie spent all their time studying Islam, sparking other Muslims in the community to mock them, nicknaming them “the Dixies.”
+ Since there were so few pictures of Omar we relied heavily on a few pictures of him we found in a Daphne High School yearbook.
+ Canada has one of the largest Somali populations in the West, with the census reporting 37,785 people claiming Somali descent.
+ I was surprised when after this interview the owner called me asking permission to sell bootleg copies of Mogadishu Madness in his store.
+ One of the best parts about hanging out with Bernie in Toronto was that he knew all the best Somali spots to eat!
+ Andrea Elliott wrote an excellent profile on Omar in the New York Times.
+ Sadiyo is an incredibly charming woman and we were honored that she granted us her first on-camera interview.
+ Sharon serves up a mean key-lime pie. While we were filming in Daphne, a Muslim gentleman from Toronto who Sharon had met online flew down to meet her and propose.
+ In Mogadishu Madness, you can see our first encounter with guys from Al Shabaab back when they were the military wing of the ICU.
+ Omar’s first hip hop track, “First Stop Addis,” can be heard in its entirety here: http://tinyurl.com/27gbl7c
+ In April, Omar released another video with Al Shabaab entitled, “Festival for the Children of the Martyrs.” [Watch an extended version of one of Omar's recruiting videos.]
+ Almost nobody in Toronto’s Somali community was willing to talk on camera about the men who allegedly left to join Al Shabaab.
+ Shirwa Ahmed earned the unique distinction of becoming the first American suicide bomber.
+ We were with Bernie and Sadiyo when news broke that one of the missing men was killed in Somalia fighting with Al Shabaab. [Watch a video about Al-Shabaab recruiting Westerners.]
+ Moe spent six months fighting alongside Al Shabaab in Somalia. He is starting an organization entitled Generation Islam dedicated to radicalizing young Muslims.
Watch a trailer for "American Jihadi" after the jump.Correspondent Christof Putzel tweeted live commentary during the East Coast premiere... more
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That's according to US authorities. Actually, the language they used is "unholy alliance". Catchy.
Three West African men accused of ties to al Qaeda were extradited to New York in December on drug trafficking and terrorism charges.
It was the first time U.S. authorities established a link suggesting al Qaeda is funding itself in part by providing security for drug smugglers in West Africa.
"As suggested by the recent arrest of three alleged al Qaeda operatives, the expansion of cocaine trafficking through West Africa has provided the venue for an unholy alliance between South American narco-terrorists and Islamic extremists," Bergman said in an interview over the weekend.
In a week when it's all Al Qaeda all the time (this is what, the third time I've written about them already and it's only Tuesday?) the DEA doesn't want to be left out. We've seen before that Africa is the new transit line for cocaine to Europe (as Christof Putzel reported in Vanguard: Cocaine Mafia) and we've seen a few more connections this week between Africa and Al Qaeda. But if the US government is right on this - could it be a potentially dangerous alignment of militant groups? Joshua Keating at FP Passport is skeptical:
...[A]s I noted last month, the three men arrested (whose self-proclaimed links to al Qaeda have yet to be proven) last month, were not caught making a deal with FARC, they were making a deal with an undercover DEA agent that they thought was representing FARC. The ringleader of the group, Harouna Toure, did boast to the agent about smuggling "two tons of hashish to Tunisia" and the "human smuggling of Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Indian subjects into Spain," but these wouldn't involve South American naro-terrorists. Is there any other evidence that FARC and al Qaeda are actually taking advantage of the "venue" they've been provided?
Keating also pointed out that Matthew Cordell of UN Dispatch gave an awesome name to the whole affair: FARQaeda. Now, that's catchy.
Watch Vanguard: Cocaine Mafia (Video)
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Don't say the magazine industry is dead yet - there's still some space left for expansion - like into the world of international terrorism.
Neal Ungerleider at True/Slant found this gem of jihadi literature online. It's a dense 73 pages and is titled "The Echo of Battle". (Maybe the magazine industry just needs to work on its titling?) Interestingly, it seems to feature a lot of discussions of movement philosophy as well as some very charming stock imagery:
Get your own copy over here.
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Fox News
Monday, February 15, 2010
The Taliban’s top military commander was captured in a joint operation by U.S. and Pakistani forces in Karachi and is being questioned in the same city, sources confirmed to Fox News late Monday.
For the Full Story on the Capture of The Taliban’s top military commander...PHOTOS...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/top-taliban-military-chief-captured-in-u-s-pakistani-raid-osama-bin-laden-next/
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is the most important Taliban figure to be caught since the war in Afghanistan began. He is close to the Islamic group’s spiritual leader Mullah Muhammad Omar and to Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden.Fox News
Monday, February 15, 2010
The Taliban’s top military commander was... more
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NO MORE CONVENIENT COINCIDENCES
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
After the Christmas bombing fiasco in Detroit, prettymuch everyone is talking about new body scanners and more torture and terrorism against decent law abiding airline passengers. Are we saying a word about the Dutch who lied to us about the terrorist's passport or the Israelis, yes, let's admit who they really are, whose airport security companies only seem to protect El Al planes and nothing else? No more terrorist "walk arounds" or hidden box cutters on planes. We aren't buying it anymore. We have had one coincidence too many.
Do we talk about folks like Michael Chertoff, the creator of our totally broken system of phony counter terrorism when he headed Homeland Security with its spying on everyone BUT terrorists. Chertoff, is the guy who now is out selling radioactive scanners to fix the problems caused by his own incompetence. He is going to make tens of millions off his own utter incompetence, or what we hope is incompetence. Does anyone really think we can stay ahead of the human mind with gadgets operated by illiterates, incompetents and, at times, terrorist sympathizers?
I would hate to start putting together a pattern of money grubbing companies, "fly by night" Cheney/Rove demagogues and the worldwide network of Israelis who seem to have their hands in both ends of every disaster and come up with an inescapable conclusion: If terrorism weren't so damned convenient, useful and profitable for everyone but the victims and the supposed terrorists, the two groups that get blown to hell, we might not have terrorism at all.
You don't have to be a genius to see a con, not one this lame.
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The next time an "expert," be it a retired spy, self proclaimed counter-terrorist consultant or one of the robotic Pentagon morons or, worse yet, the especially despicable gang at Family Security Matters, the GOP front group that fills my mailbox with childish "terrorist under the bed" stories intermingled with "vote for my thieving friend" and "send us more money so we can keep lying" messages, sticks its head up, it might be time to consider a Jihad here at home.
Time to call a halt to all of it.
I'm sorry. I am not buying any of it anymore. I'm not buyin 9/11 and Rumsfeld telling me, "I didn't know there were terrorists, it was a big surprise to all of us," or every Air Force plane in the US suddenly breaking at the same time.
I am not buying the, "We're sorry about lying to all of you about Saddam and his WMD's but we needed to steal his oil and it only killed 5000 or so kids, most of them not all that important anyway."
I am not buying the "Let's bomb and invade Iran though there is even less proof Iran has a weapons program than Saddam. There hasn't been a credible word about Iran, only the usual harping from the Murdock/Israeli press and the folks who want a chance at stealing Iran's oil too.
We knew the oil from Iraq, the oil Americans were bled to death paying for, was stolen from the people of Iraq. If a crime works once, why not try it again. Iran, expect a visit, we are coming to save you from yourselves. Start digging graves for your children, our oil tankers are on their way.
Then we come to the "whatever" in Afghanistan. I won't call it a war. War needs an enemy and some sort of objective. Our only objective is to "surge." Can't we do that here at home? It has kind of an indecent sound if you think about it.
I'm not buying the surge. Nobody is, but a few are pretending to, mostly because they are so addicted to constantly lying that they don't know how to stop. The entire idea behind our strategy is based on smoke, mirrors and horse manure. "Yes, the warlike Pashtun tribes are waiting with open arms for us to start handing out Ipods and Laptops. Nothing brings out love in a fanatical Jihadist like a bit of Steve Miller Band."
More at link:NO MORE CONVENIENT COINCIDENCES
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
After... more
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That's according to US authorities. Actually, the language they used is "unholy alliance". Catchy.
Three West African men accused of ties to al Qaeda were extradited to New York in December on drug trafficking and terrorism charges.
It was the first time U.S. authorities established a link suggesting al Qaeda is funding itself in part by providing security for drug smugglers in West Africa.
"As suggested by the recent arrest of three alleged al Qaeda operatives, the expansion of cocaine trafficking through West Africa has provided the venue for an unholy alliance between South American narco-terrorists and Islamic extremists," Bergman said in an interview over the weekend.
In a week when it's all Al Qaeda all the time (this is what, the third time I've written about them already and it's only Tuesday?) the DEA doesn't want to be left out. We've seen before that Africa is the new transit line for cocaine to Europe (as Christof Putzel reported in Vanguard: Cocaine Mafia) and we've seen a few more connections this week between Africa and Al Qaeda. But if the US government is right on this - could it be a potentially dangerous alignment of militant groups? Joshua Keating at FP Passport is skeptical:
...[A]s I noted last month, the three men arrested (whose self-proclaimed links to al Qaeda have yet to be proven) last month, were not caught making a deal with FARC, they were making a deal with an undercover DEA agent that they thought was representing FARC. The ringleader of the group, Harouna Toure, did boast to the agent about smuggling "two tons of hashish to Tunisia" and the "human smuggling of Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Indian subjects into Spain," but these wouldn't involve South American naro-terrorists. Is there any other evidence that FARC and al Qaeda are actually taking advantage of the "venue" they've been provided?
Keating also pointed out that Matthew Cordell of UN Dispatch gave an awesome name to the whole affair: FARQaeda. Now, that's catchy.
FROM THE NEWS BLOG: http://blogs.current.com/news/2010/01/05/al-qaeda-and-farc-bff/
SOURCES: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6034L920100104
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/01/05/how_worried_should_we_be_about_farqaeda
http://undispatch.com/node/9370That's according to US authorities. Actually, the language they used is... more
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On Saturday, Obama said the Christmas day non-attack over Detroit was the work of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the latest incarnation of the perennial boogieman used by government to frighten people into accepting foreign invasions and occupations and an ever-growing police state grid at home.
“We know that [Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab] traveled to Yemen, a country grappling with crushing poverty and deadly insurgencies. It appears that he joined an affiliate of al Qaeda, and that this group — Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — trained him, equipped him with those explosives and directed him to attack that plane headed for America,” Obama said in his address to the nation.
Are we Headed to a 3rd War? this time with Yemen? read the Full Story here...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/flight-253-attack-a-new-war-united-states-plans-retaliatory-attacks-on-yemen/On Saturday, Obama said the Christmas day non-attack over Detroit was the work of... more
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he United States has a clear obligation to the Sudanese people -- both in our role as witness to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, and as the first country that unequivocally identified events in Darfur as genocide – to help lead an international effort.he United States has a clear obligation to the Sudanese people -- both in our role as... more
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Online jihadists have already used YouTube, blogs and other social media to spread their propaganda. Now, a group of internet Islamic extremists is putting together a plan for "invading Facebook."
"We can use Facebook to fight the media," notes a recent posting on the extremist al-Faloja forum, translated by Jihadica.com. "We can post media on Facebook that shows the Crusader losses."
"We have already had great success in raiding YouTube," the poster adds. "American politicians have used Facebook to get votes, like the house slave Obama."
Groups like al-Qaida were pioneering users of the internet — to train, share ideas and organize. But some observers, like George Washington University professor Marc Lynch, see a reluctance to embrace Web 2.0 tools like Facebook. "One of the biggest problems for a virtual network like AQ today is that it needs to build connections between its members while protecting itself from its enemies. That's a filtering problem: How do you get your people in, and keep intelligence agents out?" he asks.
But as Jihadica.com author and West Point Combating Terrorism Center fellow William McCants notes, the proposed Facebook invasion "is not an attempt to replicate [existing] social networks." Instead, "the members of the campaign want to exploit existing networks of people who are hostile to them and presumably they will adopt new identities once they have posted their material."
The al-Faloja poster suggests seven "brigades" work together within Facebook. One will distribute videos and writing of so-called "martyrs." Another will spread military training material. Most of them will work in Arabic, presumably. But one of the units will focus just on spread English-language propaganda through Facebook.
Hey, check your Facebook page, I just sent you a bomb...Online jihadists have already used YouTube, blogs and other social media to spread... more
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Western intelligence sources in Pakistan believe that al-Qa'eda's prize American recruit and propaganda chief may have been killed in a CIA-directed air strike.
Months of attacks by unmanned US predator aircraft have caused carnage among the middle ranks of terrorist leaders in the lawless lands along the border with Afghanistan, where al-Qa'eda remains dangerous despite suffering a serious defeat in Iraq.
Their victims have included experienced Arab leaders and, it is now thought, Adam Gadahn, a former heavy-metal fan and so-called "killer computer nerd" originally from California. Nothing has been heard from him for months, leading intelligence experts to conclude that he may be dead.
Mr Gadahn has been credited with helping transform al-Qa'eda's al-Sahab propaganda wing into a slick operation which communicates in fluent English and produces professional quality DVDs, including one for Osama bin Laden last year.
But he may have fallen victim to an expanded programme of predator assassinations which in the last year has targeted and killed many of al-Qa'eda's military commanders, terrorist trainers and facilitators.
Jihadists around the world will be watching as closely as intelligence officials this week to see whether Mr Gadahn - also known as Azzam al-Ameriki - produces a new video message to mark September 11, as he has done every year since 2003. Western intelligence sources in Pakistan believe that al-Qa'eda's prize... more
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