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The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communiqué from Shabaab al-Mujahideen threatening the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) . According to the statement, “the bringing of immense quantities of free food rations, and specifically during the harvest season, has been devastating to the ...
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Somalia
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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban) have released a new communiqué from their shadowy leader, Amir al-Mumineen Mullah Mohammed Omar, to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha . In the message, Omar rejected negotiations, saying, “our mujahid people will not accept the negotiations ...
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Afghanistan
The day after Thanksgiving, Muslims begin the celebration of Eid al-Adha , or "Festival of Sacrifice," which commemorates the end of the Hajj season, and the willingness of the Prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son to demonstrate his devotion to Allah. The morning starts with prayers, ...
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Yesterday, I posted about my first installment in a four-part series for Canada's National Post
related to homegrown terrorism. Today the Post ran the second part, which examines Western recruits to the Somalia-based extremist group al-Shabaab. An excerpt: Beginning in late 2007, dozens of ...
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Somalia
Somali
In light of the recent shootings at Fort Hood, Canada's National Post asked me to write a four-part series for them, running today until Friday, exploring different aspects of the "homegrown terrorist" threat. Today they ran the first installment, entitled "The Danger Signs of Terror," which ...
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“We can’t just be saying, ‘O.K., everything is run by the U.S. government,’ we got to take out the U.S. government. The U.S. government is nothing but Kuffars.”
—Luqman Abdullah, imam of Masjid al-Haqq and Detroit representative of al-Ummah
“So the goal of the government is to ...
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The NEFA Foundation has released exclusive raw video footage obtained by NEFA Senior Investigator Claudio Franco depicting the July 13, 2008 Wanat-Kamdesh battle in which 9 U.S. soldiers died . The video follows the progress of the battle from early morning, when the firefight first broke out ...
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Afghanistan
There are times when Hugo Chávez just can't help but let his less appealing side peak out, as he recently did by publicly praising the convicted terrorist Carlos the Jackal, AKA Ilich Sanchez Ramirez during a speech Friday night saying: "I defend him. It doesn't matter to me what they say ...
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In about less than a week, India will mark the first anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks. After the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s Chicago breakthrough , now Italy has achieved some headway in the investigations relating to last year’s terror events(26/11).
The Italian ...
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Italy
Pakistan
The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of a video message from Shaykh Mustafa Abu al-Yazid (a.k.a. “Shaykh Saeed”) titled ““Blackwater and the Peshawar Bombings” . Addressing the recent violence in Pakistan, Al-Yazid stated, “We totally reject these bombings which occur in Muslim ...
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Pakistan
Conflict has often been a driver for technological advances and computer science has been no exception. The requirements of code breaking during World War II led to the construction of Colossus – the first totally electronic computer device, while the Internet was originally constructed to ...
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Dr. Ahmad Farooq, Senior Media Official, Al-Qaida in Pakistan . During the interview, Dr. Farooq was asked "how Pakistani individuals" had ...
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“Police, so what? Police die too! Feds die too! ...
Do not carry a pistol if you’re going to give it up to police. You give them a bullet.”
- Luqman Abdullah, the late imam of Masjid Al-Haqq
An October 2009 shootout at a warehouse in Dearborn, ...
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A New York-based Muslim extremist group known for its unabashed support for violence against Jews and others posted a link on its website Tuesday branding American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) Executive Director, M. Zuhdi Jasser, a "murtad," or apostate. Being labeled an apostate – a ...
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The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a statement by Saudi cleric Salman Al-Awdah condemning the Fort Hood shooting . Al-Awdah, who Usama bin Laden described as his "ideal personality" in a March 1997 interview, asserted that "this action taken out by Nidal Hasan was irrational and is ...
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What rights, if any, should alleged terrorist financiers be afforded? This question has plagued federal judges since the Treasury Department first began targeting those believed to be providing financial support to terrorist organizations over a decade ago. One recurring issue has been whether ...
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During its first year in office, the Obama Administration has invested heavily in improving relations with Syria. Not only have several senior American political and military officials travelled to Damascus for talks, the Administration has also engaged locally in discussions with Syrian ...
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The editors at the magazine Foreign Policy kindly invited me to contribute commentary on the fallout from the massacre at Ft. Hood and revelations about the online terror ties of Maj. Malik Nidal Hasan :
Upon learning of the reported "missed" link between the alleged culprit responsible for ...
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Foreign Policy
Even as the West seeks to engage Iran in negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program, Iran continues to arm rogue regimes and terrorist groups in blatant violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1747 . Such aggressive behavior on the part of Iran in support of terrorist groups and rogue ...
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Lebanon
Hezbollah
Bureaucracy, Culture & Ft. Hood Attacks
The Fort Hood attack was an intelligence failure, just like 9/11 and so many others before. In retrospect, it all seems obvious – these kinds of failures always do. It is easy to blame bureaucratic inertia, but it is also unfair. Large organizations ...
