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Libyan Town Exports Grim Crop: Suicide Bombers

Reporter travels to Darnah to uncover insurgents' motives

(Newser) - American intelligence has long known that the bulk of foreign combatants waging jihad in Iraq are Saudi nationals, but Libya is a close second, with much higher per capita representation. Documents found in Sinjar, Iraq, showed 112 fighters in a group of 606 were Libyan, and 52 came from Darnah,...

China Arrests 45 in 'Olympic Terror Plot'

Terrorist plot averted, officials say, but credibility problem persists

(Newser) - China has rooted out two terrorist groups plotting to kidnap Olympic athletes and attack tourist hotels during the games, the Ministry of Public Security announced today. Chinese forces rounded up 45 suspects and seized explosives and “jihadist” literature in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. But China has often cried...

Osama Bin Laden 'Alive &amp; Well'
 Osama Bin Laden 'Alive & Well' 
Apr 3, 2008 4:25 AM CDT

Osama Bin Laden 'Alive & Well'

Deputy touts his health on internet

(Newser) - Seven years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden is alive and well, according to his deputy. "Sheik Osama bin Laden is in good health. The ill-intentioned always try to circulate false reports about him being sick," said Ayman al-Zawahiri in a 104-minute recording posted on the internet. The comments...

Bin Laden: 'Fire and Iron' Can Free Gaza

In new tape, al-Qaeda pushes continued violence against US in Iraq

(Newser) - Osama bin Laden calls followers to arms to stop the blockade on Gaza in a tape broadcast today on Al-Jazeera. Israel did not take the Palestinian territory "by negotiations and dialogue but with fire and iron. And this is the way to get it back," he said, adding...

Portrait of the Suicide Bomber as a Young Man

US military's profile reveals alienation, anger

(Newser) - The people carrying out suicide bombings in Iraq are overwhelmingly young men from other countries who grew up in large, poor families, the LA Times reports. After interrogating four dozen men taken into custody over 4 months, the American military has drafted a profile of the typical suicide bomber, who...

Al-Qaeda Yank Renounces US Citizenship on Video

Urges 'booby traps, not roses' for Bush trip

(Newser) - American-born al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn has renounced his US citizenship on camera to protest the incarceration of jihadists in America. Gadahn, also known as "Azzam the American," left California in the 90s to join al-Qaeda. The first US citizen charged with treason since World War II, Gadahn has...

Face of Jihad Ever More Youthful
Face of Jihad Ever More Youthful
Dec 28, 2007 3:03 PM CST

Face of Jihad Ever More Youthful

Teens as young as 15 turn to web to connect with extremists

(Newser) - They’re young, impressionable, disillusioned, and they’re seeking out al-Qaeda: Muslims as young as 15 are connecting with Islamic extremists over the web and becoming radicalized through jihadist videos and literature, the Christian Science Monitor reports. In Morocco and elsewhere, teenagers reinforce an increasingly decentralized al-Qaeda. They have “...

Soccer Mom Tracks Terrorists
Soccer Mom Tracks Terrorists
Nov 2, 2007 5:36 AM CDT

Soccer Mom Tracks Terrorists

Former cheerleader chats up jihadists on her home computer

(Newser) - A suburban Montana mom led US forces to Taliban cells in Afghanistan, found a renegade Stinger missile merchant in Pakistan, and identified a ring of suicide bombers. She also nabbed two domestic terrorists—all from her home computer. Shannen Rossmiller is an amateur Internet sleuth who poses as an al-Qaeda...

Pakistani Cleric Calls Ceasefire
Pakistani Cleric Calls Ceasefire
Oct 29, 2007 12:07 PM CDT

Pakistani Cleric Calls Ceasefire

Dozens killed in clashes with government troops, helicopters

(Newser) - Supporters of an extremist cleric who had declared a jihad against Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire today after fierce fighting this weekend claimed between 50 and 60 of their number, Al Jazeera reports. Pakistan had sent 2,500 paramilitary troops to Swat to head off Maulana Fazlullah, who wants to...

Militants Battle Pakistani Troops
Militants Battle Pakistani Troops
Oct 28, 2007 9:26 AM CDT

Militants Battle Pakistani Troops

Radical cleric spark deadly fight over Islamist rule

(Newser) - In the latest violent outbreak in Pakistan, supporters of an extremist cleric yesterday captured a police post in the north and beheaded 13 people following a battle with soldiers, reports the AP. Troops on Friday had raided Maulana Fazlullah's stronghold in the formerly peaceful Swat district, where the radical cleric...

Critics Force US to Review Terror Tribunal Findings

Hundreds of inmates cases to be reviewed

(Newser) - Facing mounting criticism of the justice system at Guantanamo Bay, US authorities will review hundreds of cases against inmates detained there. Officials have begun seeking new evidence or overlooked information because the  tribunal process which classified the inmates as enemy combatants has come under fire. The reviews could lead to...

Bin Laden Targets Pakistan in New Tape

Upcoming message will declare war on 'the tyrant Perez Musharraf'

(Newser) - Osama bin Laden is about to declare jihad against Pakistani President Perez Musharraf in a new tape, militant websites vowed yesterday, posting advertisements that usually presage a new recording by one to three days, according to the AP. At the same time, al-Qaida released a video on the same theme...

Ad Hoc Security Doesn't Cut it at Home

6 years later, US safeguards still off the mark, Slate argues

(Newser) - America’s ad hoc security is still off the mark, says Slate’s Daniel Byman: It fosters fears, ignores US Muslims and never plans from a terrorist’s point of view. “The very concept of homeland security is new for Americans,” Byman writes, “and the department was...

Iraq Detainees Swell by 50%
Iraq Detainees Swell by 50%
Aug 25, 2007 7:00 AM CDT

Iraq Detainees Swell by 50%

Most are Sunni, and many say they're motivated by lack of jobs, not jihadism

(Newser) - Since the January troop surge the number of detainees held by the American military in Iraq has increased by 50%, reports the New York Times. The overwhelming majority of those in custody, nearly 85%, are Sunni. And while Jihadism drives some Iraqi insurgents to plant roadside bombs, for many there...

A Prison Aims to Deprogram Young Jihadists

Shia and Sunni students agree on nothing but Harry Potter

(Newser) - The high-security Iraqi prison that once held Saddam Hussein now hosts a pilot program to reeducate jihadist youth. Newsweek visited Camp Cropper, which for the past two months has offered classes and psychological guidance aimed at deprogramming would-be suicide bombers. But the teachers have struggled because the hatred in the...

Editor's Murder Shows Failure of Tolerance

Hitchens hits cops for abetting criminality in religious guise

(Newser) - The notoriously irreligious Christopher Hitchens decries the Oakland police's tolerance of Your Black Muslim Bakery, one of whose employees has been arrested for the murder of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey. In an op-ed for Slate Hitchens writes that the bakery is in fact a front for jihadism and that...

13 Dead in Red Mosque Blast
13 Dead in Red Mosque Blast
Jul 27, 2007 8:57 AM CDT

13 Dead in Red Mosque Blast

Islamist students occupy Islamabad mosque -- again

(Newser) - Thirteen people were killed today by a bomb that rocked a hotel near the Pakistan's Red Mosque after Islamist students occupied the shrine—again—demanding the release of the mosque's pro-Taliban cleric. Workers had just finished repainting the mosque, in the wake of the bloody siege that ended in more...

American Al-Qaeda Returns
American Al-Qaeda Returns
May 30, 2007 7:07 AM CDT

American Al-Qaeda Returns

Zealous convert repeats old demands, threatens to top 9/11 and Va. Tech

(Newser) - Accused terrorist and viral Internet star Adam Gadahn resurfaced yesterday in a new video communique as "Azzam the American." Gadahn, 28, a California native who has become a major Al-Qaeda mouthpiece, appeared in widescreen format to promise that the group will continue its "defensive jihad" unless American...

Fort Dix Plot Draws Out 'Lone-Wolf' Terrorists

With Al-Qaeda lying low, officials fear a new crop of home-grown jihadists

(Newser) - The foiled Fort Dix plot revealed the one thing U.S. intelligence agencies least wanted to see, report Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball: evidence of an emerging home-grown jihadist movement. The would-be terrorists were "lone-wolf" operators, who drew inspiration from online videos and instruction manuals rather than taking orders...

Italians Ransom Journalist for 5 Taliban Prisoners

Widely criticized deal is first swap for a hostage in Iraq or Afghanistan

(Newser) - The Italian government bought the freedom of a kidnapped Italian journalist by arranging the release of five Taliban militants from an Afghan prison. The New York Times says it’s the first time prisoners have been openly exchanged in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan., and the move was widely...

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