February 08, 2012

It couldn't happen to a nicer keyboard koranimal.

Jesse Morton, a convert to Islam also known as Younus Abdullah Mohammad, plans to appear in federal court in Alexandria, Va., on Thursday, his lawyer told Politico. He will plead guilty to conspiracy, communicating threats, and internet stalking, Politico reported. Each felony carries a sentence of up to five years in prison.

Eunice archive.

Update by Howie!

Its almost kind of sad that all the really fun Jihadis are, you know, deflowered.

An annual study of Muslim-American terrorist related plots shows the phenomenon of Islamist homegrown terror is down. The study is here.

I pulled this chart so you can see what's going on. I especially like how Kurzman differentiates between plots carried out and those disrupted. In the end, the number of plots doesn't matter quite as much as the number which actually were carried out. I'd much rather have 5,000 thwarted plots than one repeat of 9/11.

If you read the study you'll see the names of the 20 Americans involved in the plots. I'll just note that of the 20, I knew 3 of them. The 20 above were those directly involved in plots to kill people.

Below is a chart showing those linked to terrorism in other ways. Again, there were fewer terror supporters arrested in 2010 than in 2009.

So, the trend is in the right direction and that's good news.

February 01, 2012

You don't say?

The Taliban in Afghanistan depend on Pakistan for support, even though they do not necessarily welcome it, a secret NATO report says, according to a journalist who has read it.

"It is a marriage of convenience," Times of London reporter Jerome Starkey said Wednesday, citing the report. The Taliban see Pakistan as manipulative, but they see no alternative to accepting its support, he said.

The Taliban are absolutely confident of victory, he said the report found, based on 27,000 interviews with over 4,000 detainees ranging from senior Taliban commanders to Afghan civilians.

They also include mid- and low-level Taliban, al Qaeda, and foreign fighters, he said.

The leaked NATO document revives the longstanding accusation that elements in Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency are aiding the insurgency in Afghanistan.

It says the ISI knows the whereabouts of all senior Taliban commanders, Starkey said.

SNAFU.

January 24, 2012

Read the entire study on Jihad, Crime, and the Internet.

January 23, 2012

They're BBBBBaaaaaaaaaaaacccccckkk!

Reuters

U.S. drone aircraft fired missiles in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region on Monday, killing at least four militants, intelligence officials and tribesmen said, the latest strikes in a resumption of the air campaign.

The unacknowledged Central Intelligence Agency drone program, a key element in President Barack Obama's counter-terrorism strategy, was seemingly paused after a November 26 NATO cross-border air attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, triggering fury. The United States resumed the program on January 10.

In Monday's attacks, two missiles hit a vehicle in the village of Degan, and another two struck a house in nearby Mohammedkhel village.

Intelligence officials said the strike on the vehicle killed mostly Turkmen, who were possibly members of al Qaeda. There may be more casualties, the officials added.

January 19, 2012

http://sharia4belgium.com/

You lose!

I guess now I know why Censored was so miffed and trying to blackmail everyone this morning. He was er, uh, a little sore ;)

Thanks to Oversee.net for responding favorably to our request.

Oh and I almost forgot.

http://www.youtube.com/user/sharia4belgium

But don't worry I left some for the rest of the Jawas.

http://www.youtube.com/user/shariahtube

Enjoy kids!

January 17, 2012

Interesting:

"In recent years we have seen a development in which (Muslim) people raised in Norway become radicalized, and for whom Norway and Norwegian society are the enemy," she told a news conference.

"These people have a lot of contact with extreme Islamists abroad. They travel to training camps in conflict areas and they travel to participate in armed combat before returning to Norway."

Responding to critics who have said the police are neglecting the threat from right-wing militants like Anders Behring Breivik, who admitted carrying out the July 22 attacks, she said the threat they represent is far smaller.

"The number of violent right-wing extremists is still low," she said.

For instance, we know a great deal about extremist networks on the right, left, and among Islamists, but don't cases such as Breivik or Nidal Hasan show that our biggest vulnerability lies with lone gunman?

It's why Samir Khan and his cohorts over at AQAP were busy urging Muslims to not join terror groups and simply follow Nidal Hasan's example for the past few years. They understand, correctly, that each added person in a cell increases the probability of detection and prevention. The only safe terrorist cell is the cell of one.

Luckily for us it usually takes a little something extra for an individual to commit mass murder. Usually they find that little extra thing in a social network that tells them that what they are doing is okay. That killing is a good or necessary thing.

But when you have no one around to help you over the wall that prevents most normal people from committing homicide, then usually you just don't climb it.

But, there is one thing that can help you do it. And that thing is being crazy.

Nidal Hasan had it. Behring Breivik definitely had it.

Being an extremist and being crazy is not a healthy recipe for peaceful behavior. How you address that, I do not know.

However, I think our normal human response is to dismiss people who are mentally disturbed as less dangerous. That is, if we hear some guy ranting on and on about some extremist ideology we are more inclined to be dismissive of him when we realize that he's also crazy.

At least, I think this is the case.

The temptation for law enforcement is probably the same. But law enforcement and CT officials need to fight that normal reaction and respond to reports of extremist rhetoric coming from a crazy person with more vigor rather than less.

January 13, 2012

Re:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gtjpzg9n7Vc

Related.

January 09, 2012

Then join the Internet Haganah forum

December 30, 2011

I mean who am I to encourage Zionists to risk life and limb to infiltrate, discredit and destroy a terrorist forum?

You know what I think, the forum lacks boobies. I mean every time I go there there are no hot chicks at all. Boring.

You've heard Twitter's excuse about hosting the Taliban's feed, but but but they are not an FTO (which they are) but what about these FTO's here.

MEMRI.org.: The MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor tracks the multiple ways in which jihadi groups are using social media such as Facebook,[1] YouTube,[2] and now Twitter – including "tweeting" news flashes, reporting attacks, battles, and other operational activities, sharing videos, inciting to Jihad and more. See:
"Twitter Continues To Evade Explaining Its Breaking of U.S. Law and Its Indirect Support For Online Jihad: The Case of Hizbullah and Al-Manar TV," MEMRI

Inquiry and Analysis No. 777, December 22, 2011, http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5942.htm
"Somali Al-Qaeda Affiliated Al-Shabaab Tweets Jihad and Martyrdom," MEMRI Inquiry and Analysis No. 772, December 13, 2011, http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5912.htm
"UK Home Office Bans 'Terror Organization' Muslims Against Crusades; Group Spokesman Anjem Choudary Still Communicating Via Twitter, YouTube," MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 4278, November 11, 2011, http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5809.htm
"Deleting Online Jihad on Twitter: The Case of British Jihadi Anjem Choudary – Tweeting for the Caliphate and the Conquest of the White House," MEMRI Inquiry and Analysis No. 755, November 4, 2011, http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5779.htm
"Why Haven't the Taliban's Twitter Accounts Been Shut Down?" MEMRI Inquiry and Analysis No. 746, October 7, 2011, http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5707.htm

This research also details Twitter's declared policy relating to U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations that use its service – a use that violates U.S. law and indirectly supports online jihad.[3]
The latest terrorist organization to begin tweeting, joining Hizbullah,[4] the Somali Al-Qaeda linked group Al-Shabaab,[5] the Taliban,[6] and many others on which MEMRI will be reporting soon, is Hamas. (For more on Hamas, see "The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas," MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 3867, http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5319.htm .)
It should be noted that other Palestinian groups designated by the U.S. as foreign terrorist organizations use Twitter as well, including the PFLP (http://twitter.com/PFLPgaza), which was designated an FTO in 1997 (see Appendix III).

The following report examines how the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas and its multiple apparatuses, ranging from its official information ministry, its military wing, its TV and radio channels, and its spokesman all use Twitter.

December 29, 2011

Some Muslims have started a 100,000,000 Facebook users who hate Israel page.

Lets be sure they never achieve their goal.

December 02, 2011

Ninemsn.com

British police say 22 people have been arrested outside of the US embassy in London during a protest over the use of military drones in Pakistan.

Scotland Yard confirmed the arrests on Friday at the demonstration organised by a group calling itself United Ummah.

The demonstration was advertised as a gathering that would include Friday prayers outside of the US embassy to draw attention to "the murder of Muslims with drones".

Add your best wishes in comments.

Image credit Daily Mail.

November 30, 2011

Is This The Kind Of Effort You “Commend?”

Same song, umpteenth verse. “YouTube staff review flagged videos 24 hours a day, seven days a week to determine whether they violate our Community Guidelines. When they do, we remove them.” And then when a user has three strikes against him, the account is suspended! NOT!

The users highlighted in red in the two groups below have all lost three or more videos to Community Guideline violations in the last nine days - but have not been suspended. Numbers in parenthesis indicate how many videos they started with, the second number shows how many videos they currently have. ALL of the 28 ID’s are actually just one person.

One of three things is at work here -

YouTube has not defined “terrorist” within their Community Guidelines, therefore their employees don’t know a terrorist from an apple vendor.

YouTube hires K-Mart rejects who cannot count up to three.

YouTube/Google – when all is said and done – really doesn’t give a damn.
Trust me, your money is safe on #3.

Google and Youtube's community policing policies are inadequate to the task at hand. Until they dedicate resources to this specific issue in a proactive manner, Jihadi propaganda will continue to inspire terrorists faster than we can investigate and stop them. A new proactive approach that makes it more difficult to upload and share terrorist propaganda and an active effort to preserve and share intelligence in appropriate cases is very much needed.

To be fair Google is only one front in the Cyber Jihad but its the one with the most reach and influence.

November 29, 2011

So sad that Hizballah has lost 75% of its Facebook presence.

You can help remove the last Hizballah Cyber Army Facebook Group here.

Or you could just post hot Zionist boobies there. We don't mind.

November 25, 2011

Daily Caller:

How is it that the U.S. Department of Defense can target individuals within al Qaida but can’t shut down their websites? Al Qaida, the Taliban, Ba’athist insurgents, Iranian-supported Hezbollah and many other terrorist groups have developed websites and online magazines designed to recruit, train, and inspire violence against U.S. servicemen or innocents in the West. The latest al Qaida online magazine, “Inspire,” directed by the late Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, includes a plea for any jihadist wannabe to make triacetone triperoxide (TATP) — a powerful explosive — as well as a color, fold-out recipe with mixing instructions and a list of places to buy the over-the-counter ingredients. Previous editions have called for the killing of specific Americans, asked readers to mow down Americans in shopping malls with trucks that have swords affixed to their front grills, and explained how to use an AK-47. One edition included the now infamous article “How to build a bomb in the kitchen of your mom,” which may have inspired New Yorker bomb suspect Jose Pimentel.

If Americans assume the U.S. government shuts down these websites and magazines or at least confronts the Internet service providers (ISPs) that host them, either inside the United States or worldwide, they would be very wrong. Al Qaida’s defeat may be within reach, but without contesting its online activities, al Qaida and its partner terrorist groups will likely survive and these pleas for local jihad may result in periodic random violence within the United States.

November 23, 2011

And the only thing you gotta do to join is help Opie and I flag these here nasty terrorist videos, have a Thanksgiving dinner that can't be beat and don't get up until the next morning when we'll all be getting Fatwas.

And do it with feeling....

Update: All the videos from this post are following a recent pattern of terrorism supporters uploading gruesome executions from the Iraq war. There is only one left there at the top. Its the beheading murder of a Nepalese hostage by al-Qaeda in Iraq.

We need your help to get this last one on the list.

November 21, 2011

We've been waiting a very long time for this. We have so much on this dude that I'm not sure where to start except to note that we've been following Jose Pimentel for some time and he's one of those hip-hop wannabe type Jihadis.

That, and it took me oh about 15 seconds tracked the bastage down when we first really started looking hard at him back in July.

Pajamas:

News is starting to leak about the arrest this weekend of a New York City man who planned to bomb police and military facilities. The NY Post reports:

The NYPD and Manhattan DA’s office have arrested a terror suspect who was planning to bomb city police facilities and US military sites, where he plotted to target returning war personnel and the families who gathered to welcome them home, The Post has learned.

The suspect, who lives in Manhattan, was arrested after he actually purchased bomb-making materials, sources said. He’d been on the authorities’ radar for about a year, the sources said.

It wasn’t immediately clear exactly where he planned to attack.

We can report here exclusively at PJM that the man arrested is Jose Pimentel of Harlem. On his Facebook page he describes himself as:

I am a Muslim convert from the Dominican Republic looking for other muslims living in the US specially in New York City to share a brotherhood with and to help each other stay firm on the religion. Also looking for anyone that wishes to learn more about Islam and other religions.

Jose was a prolific terrorist blogger and familiar face around the Revolution Muslim and Islam Policy websites. He shares a blog called http://www.kalamullah.com/ who's donations tracked back to Islam4UK and Islampolicy members.

His Youtube channel is here http://www.youtube.com/user/mujahidfisabillilah1.

Here are just a few of his websites.
http://www.trueislam1.com/
http://www.thefewtheproudthemujahideen.blogspot.com
http://allahsservants.blogspot.com
http://steedsofwar.blogspot.com

Oh and Jose, watch the cornhole Akhi!

Update: Reading CNN's description of this guy as a Lone Wolf is laughable. This person is a widely known highly networked individual who was a very active al-Qaeda propagandist in the online Jihadi community.

UpdateII: A note the our friend Jihadi Princess: You can wipe the websites clean all you want. Its too late.

Image credit Yahoo which has more including pics of Jose making his bomb in his mommy's kitchen, just like his bro Samir Khan instructed him to.

November 18, 2011

This is an interesting turn for CENTCOM. Given the paranoid mindset of many in the Muslim world, though, I wonder just how effective these counter-propaganda efforts can be when those doing it are up front about their relationship to the U.S. military?

Say something pro-US on some of these websites and you'll be branded a "liar", a "traitor", a "Zionist", or a "spy". Do it in the name of the U.S. military and remove all doubt.

It seems to me a far better strategy would be to secretly employ these people to counter false Islamist propaganda. The real problem with this kind of secrecy is the reaction the left and the media to it. But I'm not sure the solution here is "transparency". No, I think the solution is making sure the secret is kept.

Here's a tidbit:

In recent months, Mr. Safavi and his teammates spotted posts that included doctored photographs of Osama bin Laden purporting to prove that Al Qaeda’s leader had not died in an American commando raid. They turned up blogs stating that the Pentagon was accelerating war plans for invading many Muslim nations, and others amplifying Taliban accusations that American troops rape with impunity across Afghanistan.

Mr. Safavi works as part of the Digital Engagement Team, established in 2008 by the military’s Central Command to “counter extremist ideology, promote cultural awareness and explain U.S. interests,” said Maj. David E. Nevers, the team’s chief officer, who must approve all responses before they are posted on foreign-language Web sites.

But there is some hope from other agencies and groups working on similar projects:

The government’s expanding efforts in computer-network warfare, offense and defense are among the most secret enterprises carried out by the military and intelligence community. To counter the adversary’s use of the Internet, American cyberwarriors have hacked into extremist chat rooms to sow confusion, or to inject poisonous code to take down militant Web sites. Sometimes, they choose not to act, but silently track the online movements of jihadists to learn their plans.

November 17, 2011

Wired:

Twice in the span of a month, the Taliban has unleashed human waves on one of the U.S. Army’s most isolated Afghan outposts. Twice, the American soldiers guarding the tiny fort have beat back the attackers, killing scores of extremists while suffering no losses of their own.

Once the shooting starts, the Taliban know they probably have only a few minutes before the Apache helicopters and Air Force jet fighters arrive overhead and unleash Hell. “When fighters arrive on station, the insurgents can’t run away fast enough,” said Capt. DeShane Greaser, commander of the Margah troops.

...The air support arrived just in time, Greaser said. “There was a vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device heading to the COP and after the first bombs hit we got reports that the enemy said, ‘We’re turning around, there are jets overhead.”‘

November 16, 2011

Major drone action.....five drones all converged at the same time to hit this target....makes a body wonder.

The Nation

A major salvo of US missiles on Wednesday destroyed a Pakistani Taliban base on the Afghan border, killing up to 18 suspected militants including possible Al-Qaeda fighters, local officials said.

Five US drones fired up to 10 missiles into a sprawling compound in the Baber Ghar area of South Waziristan, killing 15 to 18 fighters in the deadliest such American strike in three months, the Pakistani officials said.

Five US drones carried out Wednesday's attack, one of the officials told AFP in the deadliest such coordinated strike in northwest Pakistan since a similar strike killed 21 fighters in the Afghan Taliban Haqqani faction on August 10.

"The target was a base of Pakistan Taliban. We have reports that 16 to 18 militants were killed," the official told AFP in Peshawar. Another official in Peshawar put the death toll at 15.

An official in Wana confirmed that a base of Pakistan's umbrella Taliban faction, Tehreek-e-Taliban, was destroyed and said there were reports that "some foreigners" were also killed.

"It was Taliban base. They were using this place as a training camp, to keep weapons and to take shelter," the Wana official said. "The drones came almost at the same time," he added.

November 10, 2011

BBC:

Home Secretary Theresa May is banning Muslims Against Crusades, a group planning an anti-Armistice Day protest.

The organisation had planned to repeat a demonstration seen last year, when members burned poppies near to London's Albert Hall.

Mrs May's order, which comes into force at midnight, makes membership or support of the group a criminal offence.

The organisation is closely linked to a host of other previously-banned groups.

...Muslims Against Crusades is the latest incarnation of the organisation originally set up by extremist preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed, who fled the UK six years ago.

...Its previous incarnations, Al Ghurabaa, The Saved Sect, Al Muhajiroun and Islam4UK are all proscribed groups.

Anjem Choudary, the leading public figure in the organisation, accused the government of attempting to cover up the truth.

Recent posts there included one by Abu Izzadeen asking of the assassination of President Barrack Obama was legal. Izzadeen, born Trevor Brooks, has since been arrested for violating the conditions of his early release from prison. He was serving time for supporting terrorism.

Also see our Omar "The Goat Humping" Bakri Muhammad archive here.

November 03, 2011

It's a good question, and answered in the new issue of the CTC Sentinal: Insights from Bin Ladin’s Audiocassette Library in Kandahar

I think the question we really want answered, though, is what kind of porn did bin Laden watch? When that's declassified I'm guessing we'll learn that he'd even make a German blush. Or Ronin.

October 29, 2011

Today CNN is noting the Twitter war between the US and the Taliban (video link).

But note the Taliban's tweets are all to links. I mean that's the primary use for twitter. To share links to websites where the actual propaganda is located.

The tweets link primarily to two websites:

http://alemara1.com/ and http://shahamat-english.com.

A little research into those websites reveal they are both hosted, in violation of UN sanctions, by VADS hosting in Malaysia. See the contact info at the link. I find that the email addresses that VADS lists on its whois records to be pretty much useless. But here they are as well.

vads@vads.com
msobri@tmnet.com.my
syahrul_liza@tmnet.com.my
idc@netmyne.com

For additional feedback to our Malaysian friends here is the link to the Malaysian embassy in Washington DC as well as the Ambassador's email.

malwashdc@kln.gov.my

Express your dissatisfaction with them for aiding those who kill our soldiers in Afghanistan. As always please be polite and to the point but above all please participate.

In addition to hosting there are two other assets in question here. The domain records themselves. Taking down the host is bothersome for the Taliban, but disabling and freezing the DNS records forces the Taliban to buy a new domain name in order to keep publishing their propaganda. An even more effective countermeasure.

http://alemara1.com/

Is registered to one Mostafa Ahmedi mostafa_ahmedi@yahoo.com

Ghazni
kandahar
kabul
kabul
Kandahar,8888
AF
Tel. +93.87878788
Fax. +93.676787, faazal hosting company

Please direct complaints about the DNS records toskatech@skatech.com.my.

SHAHAMAT-ENGLISH.com has the same registrar as above but is registered to the already known Taliban webmaster Adil Watanmal aka adilmadani@yahoo.com

DNS:
alemara10.sksatech.com
alemara11.sksatech.com

Created: 2011-04-25 13:16:18
Expires: 2012-04-25 05:16:18
Last Modified: 2011-04-25 13:16:18

Registrant Contact:
shahamat
shahamat - (adilmadani@yahoo.com)
shahamat
kandahar, kandahar, af 23000
P: +937.34343456 F: +0.0

You know what to do with this information Jawas. May the force be with you.

Previous.

Update: One additional thought, although the registrations appear to be in Afghanistan the Taliban's online communications are known to reside in Pakistan.

Dear Sir/Madame,

You are violating Malaysian and International law by providing business services to "The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan", better know as the Taliban.

The following U.N. Security Council Resolutions prohibit any individual or company from doing any business with the Taliban: 1267 (1999), 1333 (2000), 1390 (2002), 1455 (2003), 1526 (2004), 1617 (2005), 1735 (2006) and 1822 (2008). Specifically, the resolutions order member countries to "freeze without delay the funds and other financial assets or economic resources, including funds derived from property owned or controlled directly or indirectly" of the Taliban. Malaysia also has domestic laws implementing the above UN Resolutions.

Again, these are the OFFICIAL website of the Taliban: http://alemara1.com/ and http://shahamat-english.com.

Please cease and desist providing privacy/webhosting services to this internationally outlawed organization.

Thank you,

October 28, 2011

U.S waited to release the names until they were sure on confirmation.

A pair of U.S. missiles killed two al-Qaeda operations planners in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region this month, part of a 48-hour fusillade that also killed another al-Qaeda operative and a top deputy in the militant Haqqani network, U.S. officials confirmed Thursday.

The deaths were disclosed on the same day that a suspected CIA drone killed five leaders of a Pakistani Taliban unit linked to attacks on international forces in Afghanistan, according to local authorities in Pakistan. The Thursday strike brought to five the number of U.S. missile attacks in the lawless tribal area since Oct. 1.

Separate strikes Oct. 14 killed Abu Miqdad al-Masri and Abd al-Rahman al-Yemeni, two al-Qaeda veterans tied to the group’s senior leadership and actively involved in planning operations overseas, said two senior U.S. officials familiar with details of CIA operations. The officials said Masri was a former associate of Osama bin Laden.

“They were key figures important to what is left of the network,” said one of the two U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the highly classified CIA drone program.

Release of the names was delayed while U.S. officials sought to verify the deaths, the officials said. Other alleged senior militant operatives killed during a flurry of missile strikes Oct.13-14 were previously identified as Ahmed Omar Abdul Rahman, also known as Saifullah, the son of the blind Egyptian cleric tied to the 1993 bombing of New York’s World Trace Center; and Janbaz Zadran, a high-ranking member of the Haqqani network, which battles U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

October 21, 2011

Wow it appears Joey has a new hobby, outing Jihobbyists.

Yousef al-Khattab

Today's specimen is Abu Hadeed (shown here using his Youtube nickname). All jihobist like him try to strong arm you into accepting their rhetoric and most end up in jail where they believe they are the 'aseerun'. Anyway he is begging to make his point public so I will give him a platform. Interesting is the amount of times in his posts that he insults Khaleeji Arabs and uses terms like greasy & slimy. Seems to be a classic case of self hate,failure and blame it on the kuffar. You be the judge and don't forget to join his network,because indeed birds of a feather flock together.

Since Yousef had his falling out with the Jihad community they have turned their hatred against him as well. As they say politics make strange bedfellows.

In fact I'm of the opinion that even though I don't trust Yousef any further than I can throw him, his knowledge and expertise would be invaluable in the fight against terrorism and the spread of al-Qaeda propaganda.

We keep our focus tight here, for the most part we only direct our ire at known designated terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda and those who advocate for murder and terrorism against civilians. Civilians just like Joey.

Why don't you come with us? You're pretty good in a fight. We could use you.

Filed under Ministry of Irony. And oh, thanks for the tips dude!

October 15, 2011

Everyone chill it wasn't Adam...

ABC Online

Three separate US airstrikes have killed several suspected Al Qaeda militants in southern Yemen, including the media chief of the jihadist group's regional affiliate in the country.

The Yemeni defence ministry confirmed the deaths but insisted the strikes - in a militant stronghold east of the city of Aden - were carried out by its own forces.

"Three strikes, apparently American, which were launched against positions held by Al Qaeda militants in Azzan, one of the group's bastions, killed seven of them, including the Egyptian, [Al Qaeda media chief] Ibrahim al-Banna," a local official said.

One of the strikes hit a mosque near the apparent primary target of the strike, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

A number of suspected militants were also wounded and were taken to a local hospital which is under the control of the militants.

The Yemeni defence ministry confirmed al-Banna was among seven suspected Al Qaeda militants killed, adding that he was wanted "internationally" for "planning attacks both inside and outside Yemen."

Al-Banna was "in charge of the media arm of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula" and was one of the group's "most dangerous operatives," the ministry added.

Also among the dead was a son of the American-born Al Qaeda cleric Anwar Al-Awlaqi, who was himself killed in a US missile strike last month.

"Abderrahman Anwar al-Awlaqi was killed in the raid," a tribal source told AFP.

Yemen routinely denies that the US carries out offensive operations on its territory, insisting that it plays a purely logistic and intelligence role in support of Yemen's own counter-terror operations.

Update by Jane: The seven AQAP killed in Azzam, Shabwa included Egyptian Ibrahim al Banna who was among 28 arrested in Hadramout in 2008. The group was put on trial in 2010 for forming an armed gang; seven of the 28 were tried in absentia and its unclear whether al Banna still was in custody or not. An article written at the time of the trial ties him to Iraqi al Qaeda and Zarchawi.

A June drone strike in the same area killed Abu al Harithy Jr. of the 19 member Zarchawi cell that admitted fighting in Iraq and was tried in 2006; the Yemeni court accepted their defense argument that jihad is a duty in occupied Muslim lands.

UPDATE by Rusty: Bwahahahahahaaa!!!! Life's a bitch when you're an Awlaki.

Also, how could we kill Gadahn? He's already dead.

October 14, 2011

Is here at Censored31.

September 30, 2011

Anwar al-Awlaki, DEAD!

Samir Khan, DEAD!

Breaking News!

The US-born radical Islamist cleric and suspected al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed in Yemen, the country's defence ministry has said.

A statement said only that he died "along with some of his companions."

UPDATE by Matt Damon: Looks like it may have been a drone that got him.

Al-Arabiya television network cited local tribal sources as saying suspected U.S. drone aircraft - which are known to operate in Yemen - fired two missiles Friday at a convoy of vehicles believed to be carrying al-Awlaki and his guards.

Remember Sammy keep looking up......there is a drone with your name on it.

UPDATE II by Matt Damon: From Jake Tapper twitter account.

@ Jaketapper
Jake Tapper Sr admin officials tell ABC News that al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed

Update: Saints be praised Samir Khan is dead!

Yemen Defense Ministry says another American in al-Qaida, Samir Khan, was killed with al-Awlaki

As you know, the Arab world is rife with rumor that passes as fact. We'll keep you posted, but given that US officials are confirming off the record that Awlaki is dead, then I'll have to treat the naysaying as rumors until we hear otherwise.

The really personal news here would be that Samir Khan is dead. As long time readers know, Samir and I have had personal disputes over the years. It was Samir, then blogging as Inshallahshaheed, who threatened to kill my family. He even made this nice little graphic to go along with the threat.

Inshallahshaheed is Arabic for God willing, a martyr. Well, you got your wish Samir.

He who laughs last, laughs loudest.

Also, the guy not killed in a drone strike. He laughs loudest, too.

Update by Rusty: Sources in Yemen clarify why the rumor that he survived started: there were two missiles, he survived the first one .... but that second one? That one was the kill shot.

Update by Rusty: I like this from Malkin, who anticipates the reaction of the far left and some in the Ron Paul nutzo camp:

Obama’s far left flank will be unhappy if the mission to kill Awlaki, an American citizen, was successful. They will again decry such drone strikes against American citizens as unprecedented and lawless.

On this, I will come to Obama’s defense.

Awlaki’s membership and leadership in al Qaeda is undisputed.

We are at war.

And on cue, Glenn Greenwald opens his mouth and proves that he's an idiot. Update: And the chief Paultard himself, Ron Paul.

Update by Rusty: Two conflicting tales of how big this is by CT analysts.

Alix Levine: It's big

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross: Not as big as you might think.

I'm with Alix, it's big. What Daveed is talking about is the long-term resilience of al Qaeda. Yes, they're resilient ... but Samir and Awlaki are media personalites that they won't be able to replace very easily. And since they both were raised in America, they will have a hard time finding someone to fill their shoes. Even Adam Gadahn, another al Qaeda propagandist from the US, didn't have the same type of impact on Western audiences.

Samir, especially, spoke in terms that American and English speaking European radicals could relate to. Gadahn has been in Afghanistan/Pakistan so long, that he sounds no different than any other radical from the Middle East.

In a tweet to me, Daveed actually agrees with this sentiment. It's just a matter of long vs. short-term perspective. But let's not be buzzkills today, okay people? It's a day to celebrate.

Yassin Musharbash

If the reports are true, then AQAP has lost its most important propagandist.

In fact, here's an early CT analysis roundup over at Jihadica.

Also, Intelwire.

Update by Rusty: President Obama, speaking live at Admiral Mullen's retirement, has confirmed that Awlaki is dead!

One last thought: If Samir was in one of the cars, is it possible that the other American traitor -- the mysterious "editor" of Inspire, Yayha Ibrahim, also killed?

Update by Rusty: Wow, I can't thank Michelle Malkin enough for the lengthy post praising our work over the years counterring Khan's online radicalization message. Thanks Michelle!

Update by Rusty: Live press conference at WH.

Not a lot of details, so far, but a reiteration of news that came out earlier that we are now calling Awlaki “chief of external operations” for AQAP. In other words, his role wasn't simply "inspirational", it was operational.

Update: Carney says he doesn't have any information on whether or not Samir Khan was also killed.

Update by Rusty: Lulz, CAIR joins the lunatic left on right, concerned over "Constitutional issues" raised by killing traitors who openly admit they are at war with US.

Update by Rusty: Was Samir Khan guilty of being an American traitor? That's the question being asked by the left. But let's see how Samir answered this question in his own words.

Any questions?

Update by Rusty: Here's a good roundup, and here, and another one from Stacey McCain.

And over at PJM's The Tatler, they are running a number of old posts reminding us that Awlaki once was in tight with the powers that be in Washington. How tight? Well, he once trained Muslim chaplains on Capital Hill and lectured on Islam inside the Pentagon.

UPDATE by Rusty: An poster at the top tier al Qaeda linked al Fidaa forum claims he's from Yemen, and that Samir Khan has indeed been killed. Roggio posts the SITE news:

May Allah bless you my noble brothers. The news is true. We say, may Allah have mercy on our sheikh and our beloved, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed this morning in the area between al-Jawf and Marib in a Hilux 2005 vehicle, along with six people accompanying him...

Peace be upon you my dear brother. By Allah, I am from Yemen. Allah is witness that this news came upon us like a thunderbolt, but we consider him a martyr, because he was martyred along with another person, an American citizen of Pakistani origin who specialized in programming. The news was confirmed to me, and I apologize for the delay, because I was praying.

Bwahahahaaa update: It now appears that Anwar al-Awlaki will never again enjoy the company of a street hooker <---h/t: Will Amos

UPDATE by Rusty: Fingerprints confirmed identities of Awlaki and Khan:

U.S. operatives on the ground in Yemen used fingerprint analysis to confirm that a joint CIA-military drone strike Friday killed American militants Anwar Awlaki and Samir Khan, according to a U.S. government official briefed on the operation....

“Samir Khan was a bonus. It was a twofer,” said Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas), who serves on the House Committee on Homeland Security. “It’s a pretty good hit.”

..Kelly said Khan had extensive contacts in New York City and published the English language Inspire Magazine, which instructed lone wolves on how to build bombs at home, and in the most recent issue identified Grand Central Station as a target.

Kelly said Al-Awlaki was focused like no other on attacking the U.S. and Khan legitimized attacking women and children.

2007
Pre-Outing: 6 months before NYT's outed Samir, post about his blog
Irony: Samir predicts Allah will protect his blog
The Web of American Bloggers and The Terrorists They Facilitate
Muslim Blogger Advises: Join, Fund, Blog, and Pray for Terrorists
Post-Outing

Samir Khan Threatens Rusty
Inshallashshaheed Outted: North Carolina Jihadi in the News
Samir Khan talked to GIMF terrorists online
Samir Khan IS Our Bitch
For Samir Khan Inshallahshaheed: Rot in Hell you SOB Traitor!!!
"Pray for al Qaeda in Iraq"

2008
Khan challenges Rusty to come to Charlotte and fight (LOL)
Khan threatens Geert Wilders
Samir Khan Justifies, Equivocate Mumbai Massacre
Samir Khan Unemployed, Has More Time for Online Jihad
Charlotte Jihadi Asked "Are you anti-American?"
Samir Khan's Inshallahshaheed Humiliation Continues, Blog Homeless Again
Inshallahshaheed (Sammy) is Darth Odie's Beotch!
A Reply to Inshallahshaheed
Samir Khan aka Inshallahshaheed Hearts Westboro Babtist Church
Inshallahshaheed Blog Down Again!
Khan's friend arrested in Boston
American Muslim Explains the Morality and Genius of 9/11
Praises Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and al Libi of al Qaeda from Mom's basement

2009
Khan starts practice run for al Qaeda, starts his own jihadi magazine
Samir Khan's Idiotic Magazine Hits MSM: How Ghey is the Jihadi Workout?
Sammy and Joey Release Jihad Recollections #2
American Muslim Prays for Release of al Qaeda Terrorists
Samir Khan: Soon, The Blessed Invasion of Manhattan-- "Special Gift" for 9/11
Samir Khan should really stop hotlinking us (hilarity ensues)!
Inshallahshaheed AKA Samir Khan Steals Bill Roggio's Post Gets PWN3d!
In which we take down another of Samir Khan's blogs.
Inshallahshahheed Back Online
Inshallahshaheed: Warning, This Video Contains Music
Inshallahshaheed (Samir Khan) Banned from Image Shack/Internet
Khan's blog calls for killing of US soldiers

2010
Is North Carolina's Samir Khan Behind New al Qaeda Magazine? Quotes Yousef al-Khattab
Samir Khan: American al Qaeda
Samir Khan's Magazine Helped Swedish Bomber Blow Himself Up
Khan introduced convicted terrorist Zach Chesser to indicted terrorist Younes Abdullah Muhammad
Samir Khan behind graphics of new Al Qaeda recruiting magazine Inspire: officials
Charlotte Blogger Probably Acting in Operational Capacity for AQAP
Khan connected to would-be Oregon bomber
Federal grand jury meets to consider evidence against Samir Khan

2011
Samir Khan Begs American Muslims to Blow Themselves Up
Another Samir Khan "Inspired" Plot?
Academic Paper: Let's Kill Samir Khan & Anwar al Awlaki!
AQAP's Samir Khan (aka, Inshallahshaheed) Helping Fellow American Terrorist Omar Hammami (aka, Abu Mansour Al-Amriki) of al Shabaab
Khan Celebrates 9/11 .... 16 Days Late!

---Celebratory updates bumped down ---

UPDATE by DMartyr:

Update by Howie: Please M.C. Vader, don't hurt 'em!

Also, Party Time Videos below!!

Added this video, thanks to Legionnaire of the Banned. Very nice!

September 23, 2011

Three arrested including an "active blogger" on jihadist websites

RABAT (Reuters) - Moroccan security has arrested three people, including an active blogger on jihadist websites, who had planned to receive training at an al Qaeda camp abroad in order to carry out attacks in Morocco, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.

The suspects, who were to be trained in camps of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), had "planned to assassinate members of the security services in order to seize their weapons and use them in planned sabotage acts", the state news agency MAP said, citing a statement from the Interior Ministry.

MAP said the cell was led by "one of the most active individuals on jihadist websites with links to al Qaeda and who managed to forge close relations with leaders of terrorist organisations in Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, Iraq and elsewhere"

Should prove interesting to find out who this active jihadist blogger is..

h/t Berger

September 22, 2011

http://shahamat.info/english/

Nice try....loser!

September 21, 2011

http://shahamat.info/english/

F*ck you.

September 19, 2011

BBC:

Six men and a woman have been arrested in Birmingham in a large anti-terrorism operation, West Midlands Police say.

The men, aged between 25 and 32, are being held on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism in the UK.

The woman, 22, is held on suspicion of failing to disclose information contrary to the Terrorism Act 2000.

The arrests are thought to be the most significant this year, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said.

It is understood the investigation, which has involved security service MI5, relates to suspected Islamist extremism.

But the arrests are not thought to be related to the Liberal Democrats' conference which is taking place at the city's International Convention Centre.

I have this feeling that at least some of the names, when they are released will be familiar to Jawas.

Update more here from the Guardian which claims the arrests thwarted a major attack.

Guardian: Counter-terrorism officers have arrested seven people, fearing they were in the "advanced stages" of planning a mass-casualty attack on the British mainland, the Guardian has learned.

...Police say the plot, which they believe to be al-Qaida inspired, was thwarted after counter-terrorism officials received or developed intelligence about the men.

...West Midlands police said it had led a "major counter-terrorism operation" which was intelligence-led. The operation involved the domestic security service, MI5, with officers from Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command supporting the Birmingham-based force.

The terrorist threat level for the UK remained at "substantial" after the arrests. It was lowered from the higher level of "severe" in July.

The home of a man convicted of being involved in a plot to behead a British soldier was raided as police arrested six men and a woman as part of a counter-terrorism operation.

Security sources believe that the men, from Birmingham, are part of a potential al-Qaeda suicide bomb plot which was under guidance from Pakistan.

The group had been under MI5 surveillance for several weeks before the arrests on Sunday night although it is unclear where or when the suspected plot was to be carried out.[...]

One of the houses searched is registered to Mohammed Irfan, who was jailed for four years in 2008 for his part in a plot to kidnap a British Muslim soldier and behead him live on the internet[...]

Two of the men arrested were named by relatives as brothers Bahader and Ashik Ali.

Ashik Ali’s former wife Salma Kabal, 22, and her family live in one of the houses raided by police[...]

One neighbour, who did not want to be identified, said: " Ashik had an Islamic beard and was unemployed when he lived here.

"I heard that he wanted Salma to move to Karachi with him and live in a madras but she refused

September 18, 2011

Kill confirmed

Abu Hafs al Shahri, whom US intelligence officials have described as al Qaeda's operations chief for Pakistan, has been confirmed killed in the Sept. 11 Predator airstrike in Pakistan's tribal agency of North Waziristan. Shahri, whose real name is Osama Hamud Gharman al Shahri, was listed among the 85-most-wanted terrorists by Saudi Arabia in 2009.

According to Al Hayat Online, Shahri's mother was contacted "by a relative of her son's wife who is a foreigner" to inform her of her son's death. "His family received condolences on his death in Riyadh," the newspaper continued. Al Qaeda has yet to release an official martyrdom statement announcing his death, but when an operative is killed the terror group routinely notifies his family.

As Rusty said to me the other day when I mentioned there seems to have been a breakthrough......WHY?........who cares PASS the POPCORN!!!

September 14, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/user/saad97079

Yer our beotch!

September 12, 2011

Special 10th Anniversary of 911 Q&A With Thomas Hegghammer

h/t Aaron, who commented: "Really, this hits home"

Indeed it does.

September 11, 2011

And the war goes on....

AP

Pakistani intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed three people in an al-Qaida and Taliban safe haven along the Afghan border.

The two officials say a pair of missiles Sunday struck a house near Mir Ali town in North Waziristan.

September 10, 2011

Via FoxNews

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- Officials at Fort Bragg say an investigation is under way into the disappearance of nearly 14,000 rounds of ammunition at the Army base.

Staff Sgt. Joshua Ford, a spokesman for the 82nd Airborne Division, says the ammunition went missing from the 1st Brigade Combat Team at Fort Bragg.

Via 1389blog.

The Daily Mail

This is believed to be one of the men counter terrorism chiefs say are plotting a terrorist attack in America on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11.

An image of American-born 22-year-old Jude Kenan Mohammad has been posted on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.

He has been linked to what officials have called a credible but unconfirmed al-Qaeda threat to set off a car bomb on bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington.

The Wall Street Journal reported Mohammad is among three al-Qaeda leaders that investigators believe pose a particular threat because they have lived in the U.S.

Should that mission prove impossible, the attackers have been told to simply cause as much destruction as they can.

Mohammad, who was born in Florida, dropped out of North Carolina's Fuquay-Varina High School in 2006 and left the U.S. two years later to visit Pakistan, his father's homeland.

A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted him and seven other men in 2009 on charges that they conspired to carry out terrorist activities around the world. Two of the men have pleaded guilty, and the trial of four others is set for September 19 in New Bern.

Federal authorities have never arrested Mohammad in the case, saying that they believe he has been in Pakistan since the indictment was issued. [More..

h/t Andrea

UPDATE: I am still searching for the WSJ article, if anyone sees it please email me. Thanks.

Also, Rusty posted about him in 7/2009: Confirmed: Eighth Traitor on the Lam in Pakistan (UPDATED: Traitor ID'd)

UPDATE II: ABC news has more on this. I am trying to confirm this from a domestic source.

Officials may have the name of one of the suspected bomb plotters after a 24-hour intelligence manhunt, U.S. officials tell ABC News.

UPDATE by Rusty: Jude Kenan Mohammad was part of a larger ring of would be jihadis in North Carolina led by Daniel Boyd (aka, Saifullah). Of the eight indicted in the terror ring, only Mohammad was missing.

Mohammad had turned up in Pakistan where he was arrested. But our allies in Pakistan let him go.

Some allies, eh?

See also: Ziyadh Yagadi's Facebook account
7 Traitors Arrested in N.C. for Jihad Plans
N.C. 7 Jihadis in Court Today
Indictment against NC 8, including Jude Keenan Mohammad

http://www.youtube.com/hafz1000

You've been PWNED!

Thanks to Andrea.

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