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.

February 03, 2012

Good grief:

Reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar wrote to President Barack Obama last year indicating an interest in talks key to ending the war in Afghanistan, current and former U.S. officials told The Associated Press.

The letter purportedly from Omar was unsigned. It was passed through a Taliban intermediary in July and intended for the White House. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the letter and its contents are part of sensitive diplomacy with a fighting force that still targets U.S. troops.

Oh, and the next one to buy into this silly notion that Romney is just "Obama lite" is banned for being a total retard. It's a good soundbite, but it's just absolutely retarded. I mean, it's approaching wear-a-helmet level retardation.

Eh, who am I kidding: I'm way too lazy to ban anyone.

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 30, 2012

Long War Journal:

A member of the newly elected Egyptian parliament has called for al Qaeda's emir to return to the country "with his head held high and safely."

Aboud al Zomor, who served as the first emir of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and was later imprisoned for his role in President Anwar Sadat's assassination, said that he welcomes Ayman al Zawahiri's return to Egypt and that he would be given safe haven, according to a report published yesterday in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. The report was translated from Arabic by the Foundation For Defense of Democracies.

"When asked if he saw any danger in al Zawahiri's return, al Zomor said that 'he was not a threat to Egypt, the likes of al Zawahiri differed with the previous regime and they were only a danger for this regime and not for Egypt, and now he is liberating Afghanistan and Iraq...'" the report stated. Zomor also lamented that the US would be opposed to Zawahiri's return to Egypt.

Zomor denied having direct contact with members of al Qaeda, and claims to have renounced violence.

"I've distanced myself from that currently because I took the political line and closed the page on the past, as a result of which doors to peaceful action opened for us," he told Al-Sharq Al-Awsat.

Zomor is one of the primary founders of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the terrorist group that merged with al Qaeda. Zawahiri succeeded Zomor as the group's emir and presided over its merger with bin Laden's terror group in the 1990s.

January 23, 2012

In an article, the Associated with terrorists Press tries to waterdown a hate-filled speech by Palestinian's top Muslim cleric. Since the cleric's comments cannot be repudiated using Islamic texts, the press instead tries to weaken them by offering alternatives. The attempt only illustrates the AP's lack of understanding about the Quran:

The Quran, Islam's holy book, offers contradictory attitudes toward Jews and Christians. There are texts that enshrine tolerance and respect for other faiths, while others are spiked with hatred and incitement.

The text is not contradictory to those who understand the Quran. The Islamic holy book itself provides clarification in verse 2:106: "None of Our revelations do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, but We substitute something better or similar: Knowest thou not that Allah Hath power over all things?"

The Quran was compiled, not in chronological order, but rather by length of each chapter. If you did sort the book by chronological order, you'd discover two things - first, the earlier chapters were revealed by Muhammad when he lived in Mecca and the later chapters were revealed after he left to Medina. Second, that the Mecca verses are more peaceful while the Medina verses call for force and violence.

This isn't coincidental. While in Mecca, Muhammad had few followers. He attempted to convert people through persuasion. When they laughed at him and his new 'faith,' he tried to maintain composure with peaceful verses such as 109:6, "Unto you your religion, and unto me my religion."

It was only after he fled Mecca that he became angry and bitter, and this was reflected in later verses in the Quran. The new verses were increasingly violent and intolerant in direct contradiction to earlier verses. When his followers began to notice this, Allah, via Muhammad, conveniently added verse 2:106, which essentially replaced earlier, peaceful verses with "something better."

All holy books have contradictions. After all, they may contain the words of gods, but they were written by humans. Where the Quran stands alone is with its specific instruction on how these contradictions should be recognized. That isn't to say Muslims can't choose to follow the peaceful verses while ignoring the violent ones. They certainly may.

But lets stop pretending that radical clerics and Islamists are the ones taking verses out of context and "misunderstanding" the words of Muhammad. If we are to defeat radical Islamists, we need to first acknowledge that their motivation is a very real part of Islamic history. Let us - all of us, peaceful Muslims and non-Muslims alike - stop making this politically correct category error. It only puts us at a disadvantage.

January 20, 2012

Looks like we smoked a big one.

U.S. and Pakistani sources told Reuters that the target of the attack was Aslam Awan, a Pakistani national from Abbottabad, the same town where Osama bin Laden was killed last May by a U.S. commando team. They said he was targeted in a strike by a U.S.-operated drone on January 10 directed at what news reports said was a compound near the town of Miranshah in the border province of North Waziristan.

That strike broke an undeclared eight-week hiatus in attacks by the armed, unmanned drones that patrol Pakistan's tribal areas and are a key weapon in U.S. President Barack Obama's counter-terrorism strategy.

The sources described Awan, who also was known by the nom-de-guerre Abdullah Khorasani, as a significant figure in the remaining core leadership of al Qaeda, which U.S. officials say has been sharply reduced by the drone campaign. Most of the drone attacks are conducted as part of a clandestine CIA operation.

Permit me to nitpick the two items I've made bold. First, It's Bush's counter terrorism strategy, and, second, if it's reported by Reuters, it's not exactly clandestine.

At any rate, I'm breaking out the Hammer.

January 18, 2012

Why I'll be darned, the Pakistanis are good for something!

AP: Moeed Abdul Salam didn't descend into radical Islam for lack of other options. He grew up in a well-off Texas household, attended a pricey boarding school and graduated from one of the state's most respected universities.

But the most unlikely thing about his recruitment was his family: Two generations had spent years promoting interfaith harmony and combatting Muslim stereotypes in their hometown and even on national television.

Salam rejected his relatives' moderate faith and comfortable life, choosing instead a path that led him to work for al-Qaida. His odyssey ended late last year in a middle-of-the-night explosion in Pakistan. The 37-year-old father of four was dead after paramilitary troops stormed his apartment.

It also stresses the importance that al-Qaeda places on internet propaganda and communications.

He established diffuse Jihadi media groups and trained his brothers who followed the path of the Jihadi media. He administrated many websites and Jihadi forums, and he guided and planned and attacked the enemy masterfully. He led the Jihadi forums and websites of splendor, attacking the strongholds of arrogance and infidelity, weakening the determination of its troops, and sabotaging their great media plans”

In addition, it's nice that he was killed in Pakistan. It saves listening to all that bullshit crap about targeting and killing al-Qaeda members who also happen to be US citizens.

January 11, 2012

Is it just me or does this dude need killin'?

BBC:

The leader of Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist militants has defended recent attacks on Christians, saying they are revenge for killings of Muslims.

In his first video message, posted on YouTube, Abubakar Shekau referred to attacks on Muslims in recent years in several parts of northern Nigeria.

Boko Haram militants attacked several churches on Christmas Day, killing dozens of worshippers.

This has led to some reprisals against mosques in the mainly Christian south.

December 20, 2011

It looks like all our complaints finally paid off, no?

http://censored31.skynetblogs.be/

Are the Zionists outside yet? Better check.

Update:

Of course he tried again.

http://censured31.skynetblogs.be/

Oooopsy!

Related: Terror Supporter and Former Troll Censored31, Banned by Belgian Authorities.

Update: In my inbox this morning...

Bonjour,

Le blog a bien été supprimé

Cordialement

L'équipe Skynet

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 21, 2011

Creeping Shaira:

The tactics used 15 17 years ago are the same tactics used today. Deflect questions, ignore evidence, provide cover for the Islamist threat, blame the messenger for the words and actions of Muslims, blame Israel, dominant the discussion and waste time with irrelevant chatter, portray Muslims as victims in the wake of Americans being killed by Muslims, and so on.'

No politician, young or old, has any excuse – this issue has been known for at least 15 years, yet still has been ignored, if not aided, by most in office.

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

WAPO:

OSLO, Norway — The accused ringleader of a terror plot in Norway has rejected charges that he conspired with al-Qaida to attack a Danish newspaper, saying he was planning a solo raid against the Chinese Embassy in Oslo.

...Davud, who came to Norway in 1999 and became a citizen eight years later, said he traveled to Iran in January 2009 and had contact with al-Qaida there about receiving training. He said he rejected that option because he didn’t want to work under al-Qaida’s leadership, and instead sought explosives training from a “private group” that he refused to identify.

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.”‘

No word yet on how they intend to install the lasers before they send them to Iran.

Update: Oh wow they actually genetically engineered the frogs to fire the lasers themselves.

Amazing!

November 11, 2011

Remembering all who serve in the cause of freedom.

And also the Armistice of Moudros. Which is really the thing that Muslims Against Crusades dislikes about today.

They have to remember that we have and can still kick their ass.

November 10, 2011

For 236 years, the U.S. Marines have been defending and protecting freedom. Thank you.

Semper Fidelis!

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 09, 2011

Yahoo News:

Up to 70 Taliban fighters were killed after trying to attack a foreign troop base in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday.

The attempted assault happened late Tuesday at a combat outpost in Paktika province, close to the border with Pakistan where militants have hideouts. No international troops were killed or injured in the incident.

The killings came as a district governor from the same province died of his injuries after his car was struck by a roadside bomb.

Mokhlis Afghan, a spokesman for the governor of Paktika, said the attackers who targeted the ISAF base were likely to have come from the Pakistani side of the border.

"In a joint ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) and Afghan operation last night in Barmal district, between 60 and 70 Taliban militants were killed," he said.

"Initial reports show that this big group of militants wanted to attack a joint Afghan-ISAF base in Margha area of Barmal but were stopped and air assistance was called in."

The NATO-led ISAF said that an estimated 60 Taliban were killed in the clash and there were no casualties among international forces.

November 02, 2011

My instincts are to go with sarcasm: narcotics in lolipop form, what could possibly go wrong?

But to be honest, this is awesome. What rational person would prefer a shot to a lolipop?

The Fentanyl lollipop offers medics a faster way to ease the pain of a battlefield injury as the drug can be absorbed more rapidly through a lozenge in the mouth than from a needle injected into a muscle, Captain Block said.

"The absorption is actually faster through the blood vessels in the mouth. You don't have to worry about shock which will constrict the blood vessels in a major muscle in a leg or an arm," Captain Block added.

After US Marine special operations forces used the new sucker successfully, commanders ordered the lollipop to be distributed to medics throughout the Marine Corps, he said.

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 25, 2011

The Libyan branch of Qaeda al Jihad is known as Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. As Libya reforms after its Arab spring hard line Islamic groups are sure to attempt to hijack the revolution.

Philly.com"There is no question that al Qaeda's Libyan franchise, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, is a part of the opposition. It has always been Qaddafi's biggest enemy and its stronghold is Benghazi. What is unclear is how much of the opposition is al Qaeda/Libyan Islamic Fighting Group - 2 percent or 80 percent."

It appears the U.S. Middle East policy has a schizophrenic nature to it, filled with blatant contradictions. Why are we on the side of al-Qaeda in Libya but against them in Iraq and Afghanistan?

And what type of government will these leaders create in the newly “liberated” Libya?

Its this kind of power vacuum that al-Qaeda in the past has sought as safe havens and places to train and impose their will by brute force and terror. Places like Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq during the chaos following the fall of Saddam. Now Libya is a place of chaos and limited control. The perfect opportunity as al-Qaeda sees it.

A good number of boots on the ground belong to al-Qaeda and even if overall they are more moderate than the Afghan Taliban its doesn't take much to be more moderate than the Taliban.

This is the drawback with Obama's approach to Libya. We interfered with the process but only very weakly. It will be tough to muster the kind of influence and power in the country that can insure that Libya comes out of this at least somewhat better off than before.

Sniff. sniff.

The last of the nation's most powerful nuclear bombs — a weapon hundreds of times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — is being disassembled nearly half a century after it was put into service at the height of the Cold War.

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 18, 2011

I get the "no jewelry" rule in the military. But not allowing Marines to wear memorial "KIA" bracelets? That's just stupid.

As Dennis Prager says all the time (paraphrasing), "If all rules should be enforced all the time without exception then we wouldn't need human beings running the show, we'd have computers."

Thanks to MsUnderestimated.

Telegraph:

US forces are massing on the Pakistan border in eastern Afghanistan amid reports of an imminent drone missile offensive against fighters from the feared Haqqani Network, a Taliban faction which operates from safe havens in Pakistan's North Waziristan Agency, Pakistan Army sources have confirmed.

The scale of the American build-up, including helicopter gunships, heavy artillery and hundreds of American and Afghan troops, caused panic in north Waziristan where tribal militias who feared they could be targeted gathered in the capital Miranshah to coordinate their response.

Local officials in the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) warned that Pakistan's armed forces would repel any incursion across the border by American forces, but military sources in Islamabad and Afghan officials suggested the build-up was part of a coordinated operation.

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 27, 2011

Assad is a butcher.

Zainab Alhusni was a simple seamstress in Syria, well-loved by all her neighbors and friends. Now, in a tragic turn of events, she has become a symbol of the cruelty gripping that conflict-wracked nation.

Her older brother, Mohammed, became a well-known activist in the family's hometown of Homs in western Syria, often leading the demonstrations against embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and treating the wounded.

On September 10, the family says, Mohammed was wounded in a demonstration. He came back to his loved ones a corpse. The family believes he was tortured to death.
In a statement posted to YouTube, another brother, Yousif Alhusni, describes multiple gunshot wounds to Mohammed's chest and a single shot through his mouth.

"His arms were broken and there were cigarette burns to his face," he adds.
The family went to collect Mohammed's body from a hospital when doctors told them another unclaimed body with the label "Zainab Alhusni" had been kept in the morgue's freezer for some time.

When the family received the body, her head and arms had been chopped off. Chunks of her flesh were charred, appearing in places to have been melted or burned down to the bone.

September 21, 2011

Sexual orientation should be irrelevant in the military. Ideally, we should have the best soldiers possible. However, the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" should not be replaced with "Go Ahead, Flaunt It."

September 04, 2011

(Tripoli, Libya) Revolutionaries arrested one of Gaddafi's ruthless favorites on Friday. Huda Ben Amer, 57, is known as "the executioner" and "the vampire."

“If the revolution fails, Huda ben Amer will hang all of us,” one of the revolutionaries said on television, referring to one of the most formidable members of the Qaddafi regime, a woman who had for 27 years been considered one of the main participants in the Libyan leader’s atrocities against his people.

Amer, whose house in Benghazi was burned down a week after the start of the February 17 Revolution, was known for her role in several hangings of Qaddafi opponents, which is why she is known as “Huda al-Shannaga,” which literally translates to “Huda the hang woman.”

In her early twenties, Amer started earning her fame as Libya’s monstrous executioner when she took part in the violent clampdowns on dissident students, which began in 1972 and ended in 1985.

August 29, 2011

(Algiers, Algeria) The question of where Colonel Gaddafi is hiding has been percolating throughout the media with many believing he's hunkering somewhere in a Libyan bunker.

However, news from Saturday mentions this unconfirmed nugget.

A report on Egyptian radio attributed to rebel sources said a convoy of armoured Mercedes had entered Algeria from Libya and was thought to be carrying Qadhafi.

On the other hand, a more recent report indicates that Gaddafi's wife and three of his children have fled to Algeria which could explain the Egyptian radio broadcast about a convoy of armored cars entering Algeria. Meanwhile, Gaddafi is said to be hiding in the city of Sirte with a $2 million bounty on his head.

In any event, where's Gaddafi remains a mystery.(More….)

August 06, 2011

A must read post over at AoSHQ: Thank God for the Atomic Bomb.

H/T: Cortillaen

August 05, 2011

Right Side News:

Seif al-Islam claims that a joint statement between the regime and its new Islamist friends will soon be released. He said that the agreement was reached when the regime agreed to make Sharia the law of the land. The rebel city of Darna will become “like Mecca” and has already become “Waziristan on the Mediterranean.” After winning the war, he said that “Libya will look like Saudi Arabia, like Iran.” As for the secular rebels, “The liberals will escape or be killed…We will do it together.”

...The Islamist identified by Seif al-Islam as the regime’s new ally, Ali Sallabi, says the regime is lying. He says he supports a civil constitution, and is committed to overthrowing Qaddafi. Indeed, the Islamists have invested their hopes in the rebel cause. The Muslim Brotherhood is active in rebel-controlled Libya now, and Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi has issued a fatwa permitting the killing of Qaddafi. Al-Qaeda is against Qaddafi, and members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group are in the fight. There are also indications that Hezbollah is helping the rebels, but the terrorist group denies this claim.

Also Gadhaffi has no reason not to return to his radical roots and make allies with any Islamist groups he can. Effectively trading his survival for a radical Islamist state in Western Libya. Right on the doorstep of the rest of the civilized world.

August 03, 2011

Sudbury Patch:

Tarek Mehanna, the Sudbury resident accused in a 2010 indictment of conspiring to kill American troops in Iraq, will ask a judge today to dismiss some of the charges accusing him of providing support to al Qaeda, the Associated Press is reporting in the Sacramento Bee.

The report says Mehanna's lawyers will argue today at Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston that most of his activities are protected by the First Amendment in relation to free speech.

We are in a time of war you know. The enemy's propaganda network is a fair and crucial target. No war is ever fought, won or lost without propaganda.

Mehanna's claim of free speech or informational purposes is laughable when you consider the context. See our post here on Mehanna's multiple and long standing connections to multiple convicted terrorists and terrorist propagandists.

Arrested Blogger Identified: Tarek Mehanna

Like clockwork, Mehanna's family defends him as a nice boy who just completed his graduate work to become a pharmacist. What his family may or may not know is that Mehanna goes by the online handle "Abu Sayaba" and runs the "Iskandari" website which is devoted to promoting the Salafi ideology.

For instance, Tarek "Abu Sayaba" Mehanna has, literally, dozens of posts recounting the words of Abdullah Azzam, the intellectual backbone of al Qaeda. Also among his favorite authors are Sayyid Qutb.

In addition to friends like Maldanado who has been convicted on terrorism related charges, Mehanna's online buddies include:

Shades of Swords, who glorifies the executed Bali bombers as martyrs.
Inshallahshaheed, who we have an entire category devoted to and who claims he personally doesn't go off to fight the jihad because "it's hard" and who recently has set up his own media division in support of terrorist organizations.
Jihad Fields Are Calling, who's name pretty much sums it up.

And so on and so forth. In other words, the people he associated himself with online are either a) actively engaged in violent jihad; or b) actively engaged in supporting violent jihad through the distribution of terrorist propaganda.

His chances of having this dismissed runs about the same as former Revolution Muslim Emir Zack Chesser who plead guilty to Material Support for similar dissemination and advocacy for al-Qaeda.

I put them at zero/zilch/nada unless his lawyer feels he's gotten a sympathetic liberal judge. Its clear he agreed with al-Qaeda, tried to join the Jihad and wrote many times in support of al-Qaeda and its war against the United States.

More background here.

July 20, 2011

******Bumped because it's hilarious!-scroll down for newer posts******[SH]

Or maybe not.

I received this email from the official Taliban spokesman this AM.

Statement of the Leadership Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Regarding the Martyrdom of the Most Excellent Amir ul Momineen

Among the believers, there are men who have been true to their covenant with Allah. Some fulfilled their vow by death and some are still awaiting and they have not changed in the least. (S:33-V:23)

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficial, the Most Merciful

To all the inhabitants of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and respected Muslims it is with great shock and sorrow that the news is given that the Amir of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the Leader of the Taliban the Esteemed Amir ul Momineen Mullah Mohammad Omar Mujahid on the 15th day of July in the current year 2011, passed away after an illness of the heart. To Allah (SwT) we belong and to Him is our return.

But Michelle Malkin is reporting that the Taliban later denied their own press release, claiming phone hacking by US intelligence.

KABUL: Two Taliban spokesmen said their mobile phones had been hacked and false text messages sent out on Wednesday reporting the death of the movement’s supreme leader Mullah Omar, who is still alive.

“This is the work of American intelligence, and we will take revenge on the telephone network providers,” said spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, when contacted by Reuters to confirm the veracity of one text message.

The messages came from phone numbers used in the past by both Mujahid and a second spokesman Mohammad Qari Yousuf and said “spiritual Leader Mullah Mohammad Omar Mujahid has died” and “May Allah bless his soul”.

Really I fail to see a down side in this, either Mullah Omar is dead or...... the Taliban are so effing owned on the internet its not even funny.

What am I saying? Yes it is funny.

In fact I can't stop laughing..... really.

Update: It appears the Taliban have totally lost control of their website. The "fake Mullah Omar" announcement still appears on their English version of the new website which is hosted in the Netherlands.

Darn you'd have thought they'd have been safe there.

Nope. LOL.

UPDATE by SH: Taliban has a new Facebook page. Don't know if it is fake too!!: facebook.com/alemarah1

See my screenshot below fold:

Updated again: It now appears the Taliban's website is totally dead. The last active URL is throwing DB errors.

Bwahhahaaaa!

Also Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan[you have to request to join]:

July 18, 2011

Yes this is who we are fighting in Afghanistan. I seriously doubt the claims of the Taliban, the murdered people appear to be ordinary Muslims.

Long War Journal:

The Taliban videotaped the brutal execution of more than a dozen Pakistani policemen who were captured during last month's raid in a remote area of northwestern Pakistan.

The graphic video, which shows 16 Pakistani policemen who are lined up and then gunned down by Taliban fighters wielding AK-47s, was taken in early June in the Shaltalu area of the district of Dir in northwestern Pakistan, a Pakistani official and US intelligence officials who track the region told The Long War Journal. The executions were filmed after the policemen were captured during several days of heavy fighting.

....he graphic video, which was published on the LiveLeak website, begins by showing the policemen, whose hands are bound behind their backs, in a line along a hillside. A Taliban commander tells the policemen they are responsible for the execution of six Pakistani "children" in the neighboring Pakistani district of Swat. Just prior to executing the Pakistani men, the Taliban leader gives a quick speech.

"These are the enemies of Islam who originated from Pakistan," says the Taliban commander, who is masked and has not been identified, according to a translation of the statement received by The Long War Journal. He describes the men as "murtards," or those who have abandoned Islam.

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UPDATE by SH: ISI & bounty for TTP

July 17, 2011

Relevant given the recent second bombing of Mumbai.

Pajamas Media:

Urban terrorism in India has become synonymous with a group calling itself Indian Mujahedeen (IM) that claimed responsibility for at least four blasts this year. Added to its attacks in Jaipur, Ahmedabad, and New Delhi, the latest target seems to be Mumbai on July 13.

Police believe that improvised explosive devices (IED) were used to trigger the blasts which coincided with the birthday of Ajmal Kasab, the lone Pakistani gunman in the 2008 Mumbai attack, an operation for which he has been sentenced to death. The latest terror attack, which claimed about 20 lives, comes only hours after two other suspected Indian Mujahedeen operatives, who provided vehicles used in the 2008 serial blasts in Gujarat that killed 56 people, were arrested in a Mumbai suburb by the Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad (ATS).

Indian analysts believe that the IM emerged from militant elements in the Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) supported by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jihad-Islami (HUJI-B). SIMI and IM endorse the goals of Osama bin Laden and also seek to provoke an Islamist revolution by India’s Muslims. SIMI/IM has long-standing ties to global Islamist organizations, including LeT and Harkat-ul-Jihad-Islami (HUJI), as well as Pakistani intelligence agencies.

Some have suggested that IM does not exist at all as an independent group but is instead an effort by Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), to project an Indian face to the activities of Pakistan-based militant groups.

July 06, 2011

One of the latest military innovations from Lockheed Martin:

(Hat Tip: BigPeace)

Meanwhile, a Muslim Engineering student tries to comprehend a bizarre sliding glass entrance...

July 03, 2011

Excerpt from Terry Goodkind's Naked Empire.

We do not fight for land. We are loyal to an ideal - an ideal of liberty wherever man lives. We do not guard territory, bleed for a piece of dirt. We don't fight because we love violence. We fight for our freedom as individuals to live our own lives, to pursue our own survival, our own happiness.

Your unconditional rejection of violence makes you smugly think of yourselves as noble, as enlightened, but in reality it is nothing less than abject moral capitulation to evil. Unconditional rejection of self defense, because you think it's a supposed surrender to violence, leaves you no resort but begging for mercy or offering appeasement.

Evil grants no mercy, and to attempt to appease it is nothing more than a piecemeal surrender to it. Surrender to evil is slavery at best, death at worst. Thus your unconditional rejection of violence is really nothing more than embracing death as preferable to life.

You will achieve what you embrace.

The right, the absolute necessity, of vengeance against anyone who initiates force against you is fundamental to survival. The morality of a people's self-defense is in it's defense of each individual's right to life. It's an intolerance to violence made real by an unwavering willingness to crush any who would launch violence against you. The unconditional determination to destroy any who would initiate force against you is an exaltation of the value of life. Refusing to surrender your life to any thug or tyrant who lays claim to it is in fact embracing life itself.

If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.

If, hoping to appease it, you willingly compromise with unrepentant evil, you only allow such evil to sink it's fangs into you; from that day on its venom will course through your veins until it finally kills you.

Compromising with murderers grants them moral equivalence where none can rightly exist. Moral equivalence says that you are no better than they; therefore their belief - that they should be able to torture, rape, or murder you - is just as morally valid as your view - that you have the right to live free of their violence. Moral compromise rejects the concept of right and wrong. It says that everyone is equal, all desires are equally valid, all action is equally valid, so everyone should compromise to get along.

Where could you compromise with those who torture, rape and murder people? In the number of days a week you will be tortured? In the number of men to be allowed to rape your loved ones? In how many of your family are to be murdered?

No moral equivalence exists in that situation, nor can it exist, so there can be no compromise, only suicide.

To even suggest compromise can exist with such men is to sanction murder.

Many teach that saying someone is evil is prejudiced thinking. It's a way of belittling someone already in pain for some reason. Such people must be embraced and taught to shed their fears of their fellow man and then they will not strike out in violent ways.

They are dangerous to everyone because they embrace evil with their teachings. In so doing, in trying to be kind, to be unselfish, in trying to be nonjudgmental, you allow evil to become far more powerful than it otherwise would. you refuse to see evil, and so you welcome it among you. You allow it to exist. You give it power over you. You are a people who have welcomed death and refused to denounce it.

You are an empire naked to the shadow of evil.

These people think of themselves as enlightened, as above violence. They are not enlightened; they are merely slaves awaiting a master, victims awaiting killers.

Excerpt from Terry Goodkind's Naked Empire.

(From SnappedShot.com)

June 22, 2011

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