An Islamist organization whose stock in trade is criticizing U.S. counter-terrorism efforts has been invited to train Transportation Safety Officers at Los Angeles International Airport. According to a press release by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), the organization recently
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates dismissed Tuesday a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s alleged targeted killing program, saying a federal court “lacks the capacity to determine whether a specific individual in hiding overseas, whom the Director of National Intelligence
The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) is preaching a global Caliphate and Islamic Shari’a law over America to its members, according to the 2010 ICNA Member’s Hand Book. This is a very different message than the group’s public outreach
Widespread banking and economic sanctions against Iran are drying up investments and fomenting internal discord, two top government officials testified before a congressional committee Wednesday. But they acknowledge that, so far, the restrictions have not had the desired effect of
The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom visited and praised a well-known extremist mosque in London Monday, and invited its youth to participate in an embassy-funded initiative to travel to the United States. The East London Mosque(ELM) hosted recent speeches
Throughout her career, journalist Asra Q. Nomani has never shied away from challenging conventional wisdom among Muslims when it comes to Islamist extremism and the threat of terrorism. In her latest article at the Daily Beast website, Nomani makes the
It took just $4,200 for al-Qaida of the Arabian Peninsula [AQAP] to launch its latest attempted attack, “Operation Hemorrhage,” the bombing of Western targets and cargo planes with mail bombs, according to a special edition of the group’s English language
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.
