On Wednesday, TIME Magazine reported that Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s third cousin, Magomed Kartashov, served as his guide during his six month stay in the Dagestan region of Russia from January to July of 2012. The magazine refers to Kartashov as “one of
WASHINGTON, May 10 (UPI) —The FBI defended not sharing Russian terror warnings with Boston police before the marathon bombings, despite Boston police being in an FBI terrorism unit. The rebuttal came after Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis told the House
The Obama administration spent $70,000 in taxpayer funds airing an ad on Pakistani television. At the time, the administration was making the claim that the Benghazi terrorist attacks were caused by protests against an obscure anti-Islam film released on YouTube.
Sometimes the most stunning deceptions occur in broad daylight. It’s the classic ruse of the pathological manipulator; the hugely successful benefactors of a myriad of good causes such as disgraced financial moguls Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford. The State of
According to testimony offered at Wednesday’s hearing regarding the Benghazi terrorist attack, the State Department’s Accountability Review Board (ARB) was negligent in its failure to deal with the lack of communication between the State Department’s upper levels. In addition, ARB
Coptic Orthodox leader Tawadros II arrives in Rome on Thursday for a historic four-day visit to meet Pope Francis — a sign of growing rapprochement between the Vatican and the Orthodox world. The meeting on Friday will be the first
(AP) Israel police detain top Palestinian Muslim clericBy JOSEF FEDERMANAssociated PressJERUSALEMIsraeli police detained on Wednesday the top Muslim cleric in the Holy Land following disturbances at a disputed holy site in Jerusalem, in a rare crackdown on a leading religious
A bomb attack on Tuesday killed at least five people and wounded a Pakistani election candidate as he was campaigning in a market in the country’s northwest, police said. The attack in the town of Hangu, a flashpoint for violence
Apparently, a YouTube channel filled with videos that include al-Qaeda’s black banners and other violent Islamist images, still has Martha Irvine of the Associated Press confused over the motives of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. How else to explain
The Associated Press published an article Sunday about the men of the Pakistani village Mateela, who have kept women from voting for decades. However, the article makes no mention of Islam or Islamic fundamentalists such as the Taliban suppression female voters, instead
Hundreds of thousands of hardline Islamists demanding a new blasphemy law on Sunday blocked highways and fought running battles with police, leaving four people dead and hundreds injured in the Bangladeshi capital. Chanting “Allahu Akbar!” (“God is greatest!”) and “One
Imran Firasat, who has been in limbo in Spain for months with a growing list of charges over his vocal stance against what he considers the dangers of Islam, has been acquitted of “hurting the religious sentiments of Muslims.” This
(AP) Sunnis flee Syrian city after reports of killingsBy BASSEM MROUEAssociated PressBEIRUTThousands of Sunni Muslims fled a Syrian coastal town Saturday, a day after reports circulated that nearly a dozen people including children were killed by pro-government gunmen in the
(AP) Kazakh man linked to Boston suspect ‘normal teen’By LEILA SARALAYEVAAssociated PressALMATY, KazakhstanFormer teachers of one of the students from Kazakhstan arrested in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings described him on Friday as an easygoing teenager who distinguished himself
U.S. Senator for Florida, Marco Rubio: “This war against radical Islamic terrorism may last for the rest of our lifetimes and unfortunately, maybe even our children. There is still evil in the world, and evil must be defeated. The United
As soon as the images and identities of the Boston Bombers were revealed to the public, media reports began describing the Brothers Tsarnaev as ‘self-radicalized.’ Here is the Washington Post, The New York Times (describing President Obama), CNN, CBS, and
The governor of Tokyo apologised to the Muslim world Tuesday after saying Islamic countries have nothing in common but Allah and “fighting with each other”. Naoki Inose, whose city is bidding for the 2020 Olympic Games, was forced into the
(AP) Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretapBy EILEEN SULLIVAN and MATT APUZZOAssociated PressWASHINGTONRussian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after
A man known as “Misha,” who is suspected of being the person who radicalized Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, has apparently been identified by the FBI. Misha, a red-bearded, 30ish Armenian-American Christian who had converted to Islam, apparently became the
(AP) – Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call. In
The Southern Poverty Law Center has taken a lead role in the institutional left’s attempt to unilaterally intellectually disarm America on the issue of Islamic terrorism. In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, it’s worth looking at how the group has
Canadians are on their guard against the growing Islamist threat. After all, the last month alone brought the Boston Marathon bombing and arrests in Canada of suspected Iranian-linked al-Qaeda bomb-plotters targeting Canada-US passenger train routes. Add to that repeated stories
(AP) – The Taliban on Saturday announced the start of their spring offensive, signaling plans to step up attacks as the weather warms across Afghanistan, making both travel and fighting easier. The statement comes toward the end of a month
(AP) – Police in Bangladesh took five people into custody in connection with the collapse of a shoddily-constructed building that killed at least 348 people, as rescue workers admitted Saturday that voices of survivors are getting weaker after four days
Although law enforcement was lauded for quickly identifying and neutralizing both suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing last weekend, the FBI has much explaining to do over why now-deceased Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the suspects, managed to slip through the
