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Red Cross: 16 Killed in Nigeria University Attack

Apr 29, 2012 12:41 PM CDT

Red Cross: 16 Killed in Nigeria University Attack

Bayero University strike resembles assaults by Islamist sect

(Newser) - Gunmen attacked church services on a university campus today in northern Nigeria, using small explosives to draw out and gun down panicking worshipers in an assault that killed at least 16 people, officials said. The attackers targeted an old section of Bayero University's campus where religious groups use a...

Islamic Extremist Gets Life
for Killing 2 US Airmen

Feb 10, 2012 9:52 AM CST

Islamic Extremist Gets Life for Killing 2 US Airmen

Arid Uka shot at servicemen in Frankfurt last year

(Newser) - An Islamic extremist who killed two US airmen bound for Afghanistan at Frankfurt airport last year and injured two others was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison today. The state court in Frankfurt convicted 22-year-old Arid Uka of two counts of murder. It also found him guilty...

Islamists Dominate Egypt Vote

Dec 1, 2011 7:31 AM CST

Islamists Dominate Egypt Vote

Muslim Brotherhood, conservatives have 65% of parliament so far

(Newser) - Ultra-conservative Muslim groups—Salafis—appear to be winning a surprisingly strong 25% of the vote in Egypt, as early results are announced from the first elections since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, reports the New York Times . Combined with the expected 40% going to the more mainstream Muslim Brotherhood, Islamist...

Fresh Clashes
Break Out in Egypt

UPDATED

Oct 10, 2011 6:29 AM CDT

Fresh Clashes Break Out in Egypt

As PM calls religious divide a 'threat to national security'

(Newser) - Fresh riots broke out in Egypt today, with hundreds of Christians throwing rocks at police outside a Cairo hospital where many of the victims from the previous day's massive clashes over the burning of a Coptic church were taken, the AP reports. Essam Sharaf called for calm in a...

Russian Women
Bombed for
Wearing
Bikinis

Oct 4, 2011 1:45 AM CDT

Russian Women Bombed for Wearing Bikinis

Life's a beach on the Caspian Sea

(Newser) - Russian women have become the target of bombers because they're ... wearing bikinis. While men show off their muscles and wrestle on the beaches of the Caspian Sea, women in the increasingly fundamentalist Islamic region of Dagestan have been blown up as a warning that they must cover up, reports...

FBI Training Manuals: Muslims Are Dangerous

FBI Training Materials:
Muslims Are Dangerous

INVESTIGATION

Sep 15, 2011 7:53 AM CDT

FBI Training Materials: Muslims Are Dangerous

Training materials are playing into terrorists' hands, say former agents

(Newser) - A shocking Wired exposé reveals that FBI counterterrorism agents are taught that "mainstream" American Muslims are likely to sympathize with terrorists, and that more "devout" Muslims are more likely to be "violent." The magazine acquired FBI training materials, some from as recently as March, which also...

US Drones
Strike Somalia

Jun 30, 2011 1:23 AM CDT

US Drones Strike Somalia

Al-Shabab leaders hit as our drones move into sixth nation

(Newser) - US drones have moved into yet another nation, this time targeting two men linked to al-Qaeda in Somalia. The strike last week succeeded in wounding the men who are among leaders of the insurgent Islamist group al-Shabab who are collaborating closely with al-Qaeda to organize operations beyond Somalia, according to...

Blast at Yemen
Weapons Factory Kills 78

Mar 28, 2011 3:04 PM CDT

Blast at Yemen Weapons Factory Kills 78

Devastating explosion signals deepening chaos

(Newser) - The seizure of a munitions factory yesterday by Yemen militants turned tragic today when looters set off an accidental explosion, killing at least 78. With President Ali Abdullah Saleh clinging to power and battling protesters, Islamist militants are getting increasingly aggressive, reports the AP, and today's explosion only served...

Why Are More Latinos Converting to Radical Islam?

Dec 9, 2010 7:31 AM CST

Why Are More Latinos Converting to Radical Islam?

Antonio Martinez is the latest troubling case

(Newser) - The FBI's arrest of alleged would-be terrorist Antonio Martinez highlights a growing concern among US officials: Why are more Latinos converting to radical Islam? The question is especially important because Latino converts are being radicalized in the US—and al-Qaeda appears to be specifically recruiting them, because they can move...

Best Defense Against Jihad: David Letterman

Dec 8, 2010 6:00 AM CST

Best Defense Against Jihad: David Letterman

Stop the revolution, I want to watch Eva Longoria

(Newser) - Forget spending billions of dollars on spies and government propaganda; the best defense against jihad appears to be flooding the homes of young people with Desperate Housewives and David Letterman. That's the assessment of a WikiLeaks secret cable entitled "David Letterman: Agent of Influence" that found young Saudis "...

Glenn Beck Estimates 10%
of Muslims Are Terrorists

Dec 7, 2010 6:46 AM CST

Glenn Beck Estimates 10% of Muslims Are Terrorists

That's a whopping 157 million Islamic terrorists

(Newser) - According to Glenn Beck, 10% of all Muslims are terrorists. And since there are 1.57 billion Muslims in the world, ThinkProgress notes, Beck is basically calling 157 million of them terrorists. The talk show host made the comment on his radio show yesterday, the Huffington Post reports, while he...

Go Ahead, Profile Me,
Says American Muslim

OPINION

Nov 29, 2010 12:16 PM CST

Go Ahead, Profile Me, Says American Muslim

It's time to stop being politically correct about this, she writes

(Newser) - Asra Q. Nomani is an American Muslim, but when it comes to airport security, she has no problem saying, “Profile me. Profile my family.” As the most recent would-be terrorist case highlights, "there is one common denominator defining those who’ve got their eyes trained on US...

Dozens of European
Terrorists Training
in Pakistan

Oct 4, 2010 7:32 AM CDT

Dozens of European Terrorists Training in Pakistan

Plus, 20 NATO oil tankers attacked

(Newser) - As Japan joined the list of countries issuing travel alerts for Europe, intelligence officials report that dozens of Muslim militants with European citizenship are believed to be training in Pakistan for terror missions—possibly in Europe. One senior Pakistani official puts the number of such extremists at "several dozen,...

Rebel's Widow Likely
One of Moscow Bombers

she was just 17

Apr 2, 2010 9:52 AM CDT

Rebel's Widow Likely One of Moscow Bombers

Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova's husband was killed late last year

(Newser) - Russian police believe that one of the suicide bombers who attacked Moscow Monday and left 39 dead is the very definition of a “black widow,” having lost her Caucasian Islamist militant husband to Russian security forces at the end of 2009. Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova, from Dagestan, was just 17....

Clinton: Pakistan Has to Fight

Oct 29, 2009 6:57 AM CDT

Clinton: Pakistan Has to Fight

Terrorism fight a no-brainer, she tells students

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton said today that Pakistan had little choice but to take a more aggressive approach, starting last summer, in combating the Taliban and other extremists that threaten to destabilize the country. In a lively give-and-take with students at the Government College of Lahore, Clinton said inaction by the government...

Bomb Kills 80 as
Clinton Arrives
in Pakistan

UPDATED

Oct 28, 2009 7:55 AM CDT

Bomb Kills 80 as Clinton Arrives in Pakistan

More than 100 injured in attack on family market in Peshawar

(Newser) - At least 80 people were killed today when a bomb ripped through a busy market in Peshawar, hours after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in the country to show American support for its campaign against Islamist militants. Clinton, on her first official visit to the country as secretary of...

10 Dead as Gunmen
Hit Pakistani Army HQ

Oct 10, 2009 6:39 AM CDT

10 Dead as Gunmen Hit Pakistani Army HQ

Third devastating attack in a week as Pakistan readies anti-Taliban offensive

(Newser) - Gunmen wearing military uniforms and wielding assault rifles and grenades attacked Pakistan's army headquarters today, sparking a ferocious gun battle outside the capital that killed four of the assailants and at least six soldiers, authorities said. Two of the attackers managed to infiltrate the heavily fortified compound in the garrison...

Fort Dix 5 Convicted
of Conspiracy

Dec 22, 2008 1:28 PM CST

Fort Dix 5 Convicted of Conspiracy

Muslim immigrants guilty of plotting to kill soldiers at NJ base

(Newser) - The five men charged in the Fort Dix terrorism case were convicted today of conspiracy to kill American soldiers, the Newark Star-Ledger reports. The Muslim immigrants from Albania, Jordan, and Turkey were investigated by FBI agents and informers over 15 months in 2006 and 2007. Hours of recordings documented their...

Sorry, US:
Mumbai Is Not About You

opinion

Dec 3, 2008 8:17 PM CST

Sorry, US: Mumbai Is Not About You

9/11 parallels neglect India's long fight with terrorism

(Newser) - US pundits have portrayed the Mumbai attacks as the 9/11 of India, a terrorist test of Barack Obama, and a deliberate attempt to go after US citizens abroad. "Sorry, it is not always about America," writes Indian native Isaac Cheriyathu in SpliceToday. Devastating, yes. But this was a...

Terrorists Demand Release
of Islamist Prisoners

Nov 27, 2008 5:56 AM CST

Terrorists Demand Release of Islamist Prisoners

Gunmen say they are part of Indian Muslim group

(Newser) - A terrorist inside Mumbai's Oberoi hotel, in which dozens of hostages remain trapped, has demanded the release of Islamic militants imprisoned in Indian jails. The man made his call for the release of "mujahedeens" in a phone call to an Indian television station. He added that he belonged...