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Bombings 'un-Islamic'

CAIRO - Al-Qaida issued a new English-language video Saturday denying it was behind a series of bombings in Pakistan that have killed hundreds of civilians, calling such attacks un-Islamic.  (AP)   PREVIOUS:  Muslims account for 85% of casualties in al Qaeda attacks   A study of al-Qaida's violence against Muslims  .pdf

 

'Dirty bomb' parts found

BELFAST, Maine - James G. Cummings, who police say was shot to death by his wife two months ago, allegedly had a cache of radioactive materials in his home suitable for building a “dirty bomb.”   According to an FBI field intelligence report from the Washington Regional Threat and Analysis Center posted online by WikiLeaks.   (Bangor Daily News)

 

Trio remanded

LONDON - Three men charged in connection with an alleged arson attack on the north London home of a businessman planning to publish a controversial novel called The Jewel of Medina about the prophet Mohammed have been remanded in custody.  (Telegraph UK)   PREVIOUS:  Firebomb attack

 

Terror threats 'scare us'

OTTAWA - The RCMP is investigating seven suspected terrorist plots so disturbing they "keep me awake at night," the senior Mountie for national security disclosed yesterday.  (Ottawa Citizen)   PREVIOUS:  CSIS keeping tabs on protesters   Protests 'to get more violent'   Extremist activity associated with 2010  A changed perspective

 

Jury convicts

GLASGOW - Mohammed Atif Siddique, a British-born Muslim student from Alva, Clackmannanshire, was convicted of possessing and distributing a range of terrorist material through websites and providing instructional material about guns and explosives over the internet.  (Guardian UK)   PREVIOUS:  Terror trial jury sees footage of 'execution'   Court told videos 'easy to find'   Terror jury sees bomb-threat video    Armed police arrest Scottish terror suspect   The War on Terror's professional witness

 

 

 

Canada's ability to share info

TORONTO - Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan says Canada has significant limitations in its ability to share information about potential terrorist suspects with other countries.  (CP)  

 

Anti-terror tactics 'weaken law'

GENEVA - The UK and the US have "actively undermined" international law in the way they fight terrorism, a report by judges and lawyers has said.  The independent International Commission of Jurists carried out a three-year global study. It concluded that many measures introduced to fight terrorism were illegal and counter-productive.  (BBC)   RELATED:  ICJ: Report on Corporate complicity in International Crimes

 

Cops release killers' IDs

MUMBAI - Indian police have released the names and pictures of the nine suspected Islamic militants killed during a terror attack on Mumbai - saying that they were all from Pakistan.  (Sky News)  PREVIOUS:   2008 Mumbai attacks    Massacre in Mumbai   Mumbai attacks

 

'Performance Art'

BELFAST - Convicted killer Michael Stone stormed the Irish Parliament with enough homemade bombs to kill dozens in a rain of fire and nails.  But it was all in the name of art, he says.   (Fox)

 

Bombing possibly tied to NY Anarchist groups

NEW YORK - Investigators believe the bicyclist who bombed the Times Square military recruiting station is a local man with ties to chaos-crazed anarchy groups, a high-ranking law-enforcement source said yesterday. (NY Post)   PREVIOUS:  Canadian link being probed   Times Square blast   Explosion at Times Square recruiting center   Military apparent target

 

Army blamed for hundreds of murders

MANILA - Philippine soldiers have murdered hundreds of left-wing activists since 2001 and their commanding officers should be held responsible, the head of a government inquiry has said.    (Reuters)   MORE:  Some politicos gave money to rebels: military    Communist rebels raid Philippine gold rush area    New People's Army

   

Stolen cars linked to terror attacks overseas

With one car stolen every three minutes in Canada, the cost for all Canadians who pay insurance premiums is more than a billion dollars. But the insurance industry accuses the Canada Border Services Agency of not doing everything in its power to stop it.   (CTV)   PREVIOUS:  US auto theft database is left to languish    US car theft rings probed for ties to Iraq bombings

Google Earth maps out Darfur atrocities

WASHINGTON - If you Google the word Darfur, you will find about 13 million references to the atrocities in the western Darfur region of Sudan - what the US has said is this century's first genocide.  As of today, when the 200 million users of Google Earth log onto the site, they will be able to view the horrific details of what's happening in Darfur for themselves.  (CNN)  Video: Google earth Darfur 

     

The system works

WASHINGTON - Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano is getting hammered because her first response to the "Undie-bomber" fiasco was that "the system worked."   We shouldn't have been surprised. Sure, she looks a little silly now that the facts are dribbling out. But she was just following the modern bipartisan, public relations template in this age of information management.  First, play down the problem. Second, emphasize what did not go wrong, assure us that those in charge are "investigating," and most important; emphasize no one in any position of responsibility is at fault.  (CBS)

Dysfunctional

New US screening rules 'ill-considered

Obama assails intelligence failures

Red tape won't boost security

Homeland ends subpoenas

Chris Elliott   Steve Frischling

Homeland strikes back, at bloggers

Call for Napolitano to step down

How US failed to connect the dots

System failed: Homeland

Northwest Airlines Flight 253

Illusion of security  

RCMP dispatched to airports

$50B intelligence machine is NOT working

Canada toils in secret

Canada obligated to copy US airport security

Our own worst enemy

Deluged of intelligence  

Baird backs airport search

Terrorist threat example

Welcome to the new reality

Imams issue Fatwa against attacks

'Terrorists winning'

Flying the freaked out skies  

Software would add privacy to body scanners

High-tech tools are no terrorism cure-all

Feds buying 44 full-body image scanners

Flying the freaked out skies

Under 18 exempt

New scanners break child porn laws

Tougher screening rules for passengers

Body scanners and double searches

Dilemma for Canadian airlines

Full body scanners will not eliminate threat

Airport security always one step behind

Chalk up another victory for the fear industry

Illusion of security  

How to have high security, little bother

Failure to act

Confusion reigns

Explodable underwear

No carry on bags

Bomber 'assisted by second man'

 
     

Man pleads guilty to charge

PHOENIX - A BC man charged with plotting to blow up the Trans-Alaskan oil pipeline on New Year's Day 2000 pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge.  Alfred Reumayr, 58, of New Westminster pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting terrorism transcending national boundaries at the US District Court in Santa Fe, N.M.   (Vancouver Province)

Secret spy days are over

As a consequence of the fight against global Islamic terrorism, an increasing number of open-court criminal prosecutions in Canada, the US and Europe have, at their genesis, information collected by shadowy secret agents rather than police officers.  (Ottawa Citizen)  PREVIOUS:  New spy game   M.I.C.E.   PERSEREC

 
     

Detainee confesses to bombing

WASHINGTON - Waleed Mohammed bin Attash, long suspected of plotting the bombing of the USS Cole, confessed to planning the attack during a hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a Pentagon transcript released Monday.  (AP)  PREVIOUS:  Sudan sued over USS Cole attack   USS Cole families take Sudan to court

Ottawa man's name comes up in US terror trial

OTTAWA -Documents seized in an RCMP national security raid at the home of Ottawa engineer Abdullah Almalki have surfaced in a terrorism-related court case in the United States.  (CanWest)   PREVIOUS:  Al Qaeda in Minneapolis: The Investigation   Al Qaeda in Minneapolis: The mission

 
     

Tribal leader's death may affect Pakistan politics

QUETTA - Many analysts say the death of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was a major blunder by the Musharraf government that may not only fan the flames of Baluch nationalism, but may also siphon precious military resources away from the fight against terror.  (VOA)

PREVIOUS:    Clashes at Baloch tribal memorial  Baluchistan  Fresh trouble in Pakistan's Baluchistan over killing

Canadian hideout?

A former Quebec university student suspected in a terrorist plot to bomb commuter trains in New York City had applied for a visa to return to Canada before his arrest, says a terrorism expert familiar with the case.  (CP)   PREVIOUS:   RCMP release suspect in NY tunnel plot   Overview of the 2006 NY Tunnel plot   Jet-set jihadist  NYC plot: 'real deal' or 'bravado'?   FBI uncovers plot to attack New York City tunnels   N.Y. tunnel plot uncovered

 
     

Chinese-made weapons used by Taliban

OTTAWA - Despite allegations that Chinese-made weapons are falling into Taliban hands and further endangering Canadian soldiers, Canada's foreign affairs minister never addressed the issue to his Chinese counterpart during the APEC summit last week.  (CTV) 

Iranian, Chinese weapons seized

The Taliban supply line

US concerned about Iranian weapons from China going to Taliban

Afghan government denies China supplies weapons to Taliban

Taleban 'getting Chinese weapons'

Chinese weapons 'reaching the Taliban'

 
     

Police reject UN criticism

MONTREAL - The elected official in charge of Montreal police says he knew nothing about a United Nations report slamming the force's use of mass arrests until he read about it in the newspapers. (The Gazette)  PREVIOUS:   Canada's anti-terror measures criticized by UN

Shining Path founder sentenced to life in prison

CALLAO, Peru - Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman, whose messianic communist vision inspired a 12-year rebellion that cost nearly 70,000 lives, was found guilty Friday of aggravated terrorism and sentenced to life in prison.  (AP)

 
     

Canadian 'major player' in smuggling ring

DETROIT - A U.S. judge denied bail Tuesday to a Windsor man accused of being "a major player" in a smuggling ring that sent money to a Lebanese terrorist group.   (Windsor Star)   PREVIOUS:  19 indicted in racketeering scheme linked to Hizbullah    Canadian men accused of funding terror

Terrorism report's release fuels political fight

WASHINGTON - White House release of a previously secret intelligence assessment depicting a growing terrorist threat gives both political parties new ammunition in the election-season fight over the Iraq war.  (AP)   ASSESSMENT:   Trends in Global Terrorism   Trends point to more diverse attacks more often

 
     

Pakistani player steps up jihad

Recent anti-terrorism arrests in Canada, Britain, Australia and the United States involve an array of allegations, but all have one thing in common: Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.  (National Post)  PREVIOUS:  'LeT special squad engineering terror'  OSAC: Lashkar-e-Tayyiba    Global Security    Ottawa to spend $650M to upgrade links to US spies 

Tory MP attended rally for group on terror list

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Jason Kenney is coming under scrutiny for his appearance at a rally organized by supporters of a banned terrorist organization.    (CTV)  MORE: National Council of Resistance of Iran   Canada: List of banned terrorist organizations   Wikipedia: National Council of Resistance of Iran

 
     

CSIS boss calls racial profiling 'fundamentally stupid'

ST. JOHN'S - The director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said Tuesday that the spy agency avoids racial profiling because it is "fundamentally stupid'' and does not knowingly use information gleaned under torture offshore because the practice is "morally repugnant.'' (CanWest News)   PREVIOUS:  Profile passengers     If you're a Muslim, its your problem  

Two more suspects arrested in German bomb probe

BERLIN - Authorities in Germany and Lebanon on Friday detained two more suspects in connection with a plot to detonate suitcase bombs on German trains last month. (Reuters)  PREVIOUS:   Second German terror suspect arrested in Lebanon   Train bombing plot surprises Germany   German police detain suspect in July bomb plot   German suitcase bombs ' part of terrorist plot'

 
     

Russian billionaire dials up Iran

TEHRAN - Mikhail Fridman, 43, is a secretive Russian billionaire who is spreading his corporate reach into Western Europe, the US - and beyond.   (Fox) 

Spies, lies & KPMG

Forbes: World's richest people 2006 - #50

Charges against visiting scholar

4th Iranian-American detained

Iran charges 3 with spying

Ali Shakeri  Kian Tajbakhsh  Pamaz Azima

Iran cracks down on dissidents

Refugees forced back to Afghanistan

Iran court reverses convictions

Teheran keeps reformers out of elections

Killers not guilty as victims were un-Islamic

Journalist beaten for being 'anti-Islam'

'Fanatics' attack with cricket bat

Mahmound Ahmadinejad

Iran calls Ottawa right abuser

No attack plans, says Iran leader

DRMS

Iran buys US military hardware

Feds seize non-profit assets

Alavi Foundation

Iranian Guards amass secret fortunes

Revolutionary Guards

Iran Guards warn US of blows ahead: report

US moves to blacklist Iranian corps

Part 1: Children of 'the resistance'

Part 2: Losing a son

Part 3: Father's sacrifice

Part 4: Getting out of an Iraqi terror camp

Part 5: 'I'm with the Mujahedin'

Sanctions: Iran on nuclear path

Iran's plot to mine uranium in Africa

Border guards seize British 'dirty bomb' lorry

Iran attack not ruled out

China arming Iran with missile technology

Iran pledges $50M to Palestinians

Iran: 'We are a nuclear country'

Facing down Iran

 

Everybody disowns shipment

Hezbollah and its Iranian and Syrian backers have flatly rejected Israeli claims that a shipment of arms and ammunition intercepted at sea was destined for the Lebanese militia group.  As Israel moved quickly to exploit the propaganda value of the find to highlight the role of Iran, Hezbollah "categorically" denied any connection to the case.  (Guardian UK)   Ship wasn't carrying weapons: FMs

Everybody denies link

Israel stops German ship

Israel seizes ship

MV Francop  

Arms ship takedown  

Israel seizes arms ship

Canada resumes financial aid to Palestinian

Fatah pays Hamas force

Canada cuts relations with Palestinian

Hezbollah guilty of war crimes

Hezbollah accused of war crimes

Amnesty faults Hizbullah's 'war crimes'

I didn't think abduction would lead to war

Hezbollah chief calls war a surprise

Hamas TV follows Farfour with Nahoul

Syria hails 'a new Middle East'

Israeli ambassador denounces MPs

The future of Lebanon leaving'

Israel delays larger offensive for diplomacy

Reuters withdraws all photos by freelancer

Altered war

Hezbollah's civilian strategy

Lebanon's PM revises death toll

Disingenuous?

Reuters admits to more image manipulation

Countdown to next Middle Eastern war

Nations refuse to disarm Hezbollah

From war to game of cat and mouse

I wouldn't have kidnapped troops

UN permits wide use of force in Lebanon

Peacekeeping reinforcements arrive

Hamas not interested 'secret fund transfers'

Palestinians: Tel Aviv bombing justified

Cash sparks new Hamas incident

Palestinian police storm government offices

Farfour the mouse

Kidnapped BBC reporter freed

BBC's correspondent released 

Palestinian militant groups

Hamas uses women as 'human shield'

Mideast peace remains elusive

Gaza militants use human shield

Hamas closes offices after day of violence

Gun battles break out in Gaza  

Protesters burn Hamas cabinet building

Eight die as Gaza factions clash

Palestinians Begin to Direct Blame Inward

Hamas figure slams Gaza' anarchy

Hamas chief attacks 'stupid anarchy'

Seized journalists freed in Gaza

Palestinian Deputy PM arrested in raid

Gaza stand-off born of weakness

No money for Hamas

Hamas

Israeli forces arrest Hamas ministers

Israeli forces arrest Palestinian officials

UN to limit contacts with Palestinian govt

US, Europe cut aid to Palestinians

Canada shuts out Hamas

Hamas launches website

Hamas Takes over Parliament

Who's who in Hamas?

Hamas' Options

Israel to impose Hamas sanctions

Hamas faces financial crunch if aid cut off

Furious protesters demand Abbas quit

Hamas 'secures' stunning victory

Hamas Claims Victory

Hamas - in its own words

Settler's body believed found

Gaza Under Siege

 

Scotland Yard guilty over death

LONDON - The Metropolitan Police was found guilty today of a "catastrophic" series of errors in the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian electrician shot dead at Stockwell Tube station two years ago after being mistaken for a suicide bomber.   (Times online)Met guilty over health and safety

2007 London car bombs

2007 Glasgow International Airport attack

2006 transatlantic aircraft plot

London bomb plot July 21, 2005

London bombings July 7, 2005

London bombings July 2005

2004 Financial buildings plot

Three charged over 7/7 bombings

A relentless bomb investigation

3 held in London subway attacks

Terror threat worst since 9/11

Muslim man guilty of murder call

MI5 'watched two London bombers'

London bombers not linked to al Qaeda

Hamza guilty of race hate and terror charges

Hamza guilty of inciting murder

London Mosque Had Weapons

Key to proving Hamza's hate

The battle for the mosque

'Al-Qaeda cleric' detained for deportation

BBC: London attacks

CBC: London bombing

CNN: London terror

CTV: London attacks

Times: London Bombs

London bombers: Key facts

Row over new rules for hate preachers

Sarin gas attack thwarted

Experts analyse bomber videotape

UK reveals terror deportation rules

MI5 shifts focus to terror threat

BBC: UK Aircraft terror plot

Bomb plots 'months in planning'

Adopt our values or stay away

Blair crackdown on grants to groups

Universities given 'how-to' guide

Islamists infiltrate four universities

Hot for martyrdom      Socialization

Stark warning on terror threa

British 'aware' of 30 plots has foiled 5

Al-Qaeda plotter jailed for life

Briton planned 'to kill thousands'

Briton admits plotting to bomb buildings

UK Police Trained at Islamic School

14 held in terror police swoop

16 arrested in UK anti-terrorism raid

Terror raids hit radical preacher

MSNBC: Terror in the skies

Young Muslims targeted by recruiters

Radical cleric will not be allowed back

Met chief admits mistake over de Menezes

Acts of hate: The full list

The clues to July bombing that MI5 missed

Police tampered with log on dead 'suspect'

No charges for Tube shooting cops

Family's disgust at decision

Bomb plot architect related to Zawahri

'They are using law to cover their mistakes'

Terror police find 'martyr tapes'

White extremists use terror videos

11 charged in alleged terror plot

Pakistani family's run through terror case

 
     

Taliban targeted Danes

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani officials said Tuesday an attack on the Danish embassy was likely a one-off linked to cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and will not impact the new government's talks with the Taliban.  (Reuters)

Blast site probe begins

Bomber targets Danish embassy

Bomb blast at Danish embassy

Blast outside Danish embassy

Cartoon protest Muslims jailed

Ancient words beget violence

Terrorists are always 'outraged'

The Pope & the Byzantine emperor

Pope stops short

Militants threaten to kill the Pope

Muhammad cartoons controversy

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Moderate Muslims need support

Moderate Muslims demand action

Media runs scared

Muslim hard-liners attack Playboy building

The End of Tolerance

Stretching the Jihad

The Cartoon Jihad

Mob targets Western businesses in Pakistan

Hidden motives behind cartoon riots

Italy cartoon row minister quits

Mankind is disgusting

Proving our point

Students protest free speech

Muslims read riot act

Al-Qaeda threatens jihad over remarks

West Bank churches firebombed

Pope sparks fury among Muslims

Muslim leader accuses publisher of hate

Muslim scholars say West must be educated

Threats force spokesman from MCC

Jyllands-Posten cartoons controversy

Judge dies in Turkey court attack

Libya suspends minister after cartoon riots

Libyan demonstration turns deadly

Nigeria cartoon protests kill 16

US Embassy Targeted

Australians are an obedient people

Australian police expect more violence

Racial violence continues in Australia

Second night of violence in Sydney

Controversial cartoons of Prophet stir debate

A thing or two about us infidels

Muslim anger fear halts opera

Sex 'toon probe off

Radical revision of Islamic texts

Cartoons protests map

UN's international unacceptable speech

Satire, or blasphemy?

Cartoon protests turn deadly  

Don't bow to religious fervour 

Anti-Semitism in the Arab world

Denmark's Muhammad cartoonist no regrets

'Not a good day to be blonde in Beirut

Cartoons of Muhammad

Denmark Moslem youth riots

Rioting youths burn hundreds of cars in France

CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS - Marauding youths torched hundreds of vehicles overnight and on Saturday in renewed violence coinciding with the first anniversary of riots that exposed a deep schism between poor North African immigrants and mainstream France.  (AP) 

Woman burned during French riots

Youths torch two buses near Paris

France scraps youth job law

It's a GM future

Protests escalate in France

French strike again

France has become a nation of Dingwalls

Strike of the absurd

Intifada a la francaise

Explosion of anger transforming France

French Cabinet oks curfews to stop rioting

In pictures: Paris erupts

French murder hearing in Abidjan

Barbarians of suburbs target French Jews

The murder of Ilan Halimi

Taking leave of 'the fear'

Finding peace in Canada

Barricaded in Paris

Reports link Canadian to attacks

CHICAGO -   The reports cite government sources and allege that Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Canadian citizen living in Chicago, may have attempted to recruit terrorists in Mumbai.   They also suggest that David Headley - Rana's alleged associate, who changed his name from Daood Gilani - visited Gujarat, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, all of which have nuclear installations.  In India, Headley has also been accused of helping to plan out the Mumbai attacks.   (CTV)  

Alleged links to Mumbai massacre

Suspects arrested by Italian police  

Who did he help get into the country  

Rana & Headley have elite Pak background  

David Headley & Tahawwur Rana    

Canada working with US, India  

2008 Mumbai attacks

India to share evidence with Pakistan

India detains hundreds over train bombings

Horror and shock for Indo-Canadians

Bloodied Mumbai heads back to work

BBC: Mumbai train attacks

Bombay train blasts

Explosions rock commuter trains in Mumbai

India arrests militant for bombings

Blast casts shadow over Delhi

'These are dastardly acts of terrorism'

Powerful explosions rock New Delhi

Blasts in New Delhi

India train derails

 

Suspect killed in custody

VANCOUVER - A mystery witness who said he was too fearful to testify at the Air India inquiry has now provided detailed information to an Indian magazine about the confession and in-custody killing of Talwinder Singh Parmar.  The witness, Harmail Singh Chandi, is a former Punjab police officer who says he was present when Parmar admitted his involvement in the June 1995 bombing during an intensive interrogation over five days in October 1992.  (Vancouver Sun)

Ministerial note from January 1986  .pdf

Ministerial note from August 1985  .pdf  

PMO tried to hide bombing facts

PMO withheld Air India report

Major Commission

Brian Mulroney    Fred Doucet

Malik drops suit

Air India memorial

Air India Inquiry

No need for probe

Air India victims' families deplore bickering'

Liberal MP's interviewed in Air India case

Gun used to kill Hayer traced to Sikh cop

Margin of Terror

Air India public inquiry

CSIS opposes Air India public inquiry

Report of Bob Rae 

Morden boss when Air India tapes destroyed

What did CSIS know?

Operation Silence

Documents name Bagri, Malik

Bomb-maker's family given funds monthly

Fearful Air India witnesses refuse to testify

Law reform urged at Air India probe

We'll press on, says Mountie

RCMP blame game

Air India inquiry cannot proceed

PM breaks Air India impasse

The sound and the fury of ethnic outreach

Widow tells probe of intimidation during trial

Witness blast multiculturalism

BC Ministry: Air India Trial

Babbar Khalsa

International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF)

Not guilty of perjury, says Reyat

Reyat denied parole

Air India bomb-maker tried to make deal

Man charged with perjury over testimony

Air India witness wants compensation

Air India Flight 182

'The utter wrongness of putting children in plastic bags'

Horrific scene described at Air India inquiry

 
     

Into thin air

The Americans were getting close. It was early in the winter of 2004-05, and Osama bin Laden and his entourage were holed up in a mountain hideaway along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.  (Newsweek)     Osama Muhammed Awad bin Laden

Officials say no evidence bin Laden has died

Paper: bin Laden been dead for a month

CIA unit that hunted bin Laden closed

Jail is a terror recruitment cell

The jail run by al-Qaeda

Women of al-Qaeda

Drug, terror new ways to launder money

Caught in the Osama obsession

Oussama Ben Laden serait mort  

Osama's 'mistress' tells wild stories

Al-Zarqawi's cell phone yields surprises

Jihadis adapt to counter-terror measures

Bush says 10 plots by Al Qaeda were foiled

CBC Indepth: Bin-Laden

Bin Laden claims responsibility for 9/11

Terrorism on the cheap

Probe reveals Islam's extreme edge

Inside the mind of a terrorist

Islam & the West

BBC Indepth: al-Qaeda

Guardian Special Report: al-Qaida

CBC: Terror alerts

Al-Qaeda Training manual

MIPT: Terrorism Knowledge base

CNN Special: The Hunt for Osama-Bin-Laden

Al Qaeda WMD attack 'feasible,' report warns

Al-Qaeda sanctions 'ineffective' 

Slaughter the infidels

Bin Laden: Goal is to bankrupt US

The Invisible Bankers

The money trail

Bin Laden no longer al-Qaeda financier

Officials: al Qaeda milks clueless charities

Charities in terror fund spotlight

Canadian 'R&R' for an ETA cell

The photo taken at an organic herb farm in D'Arcy, BC, shows three Spanish men and their wives relaxing in a garden on plastic lawn chairs, their coffee mugs perched on a round patio table.  It looks unexceptional, but it isn't.  When the RCMP found the snapshot during a recent raid in Vancouver, they identified the men as Ivan Apaolaza Sancho, Victor Tejedor Bilbao and Mario Ines Torres -- all wanted terrorists.  (National Post)

Court finds 21 guilty of Madrid bombings

Madrid bombings: the defendants

2004 Madrid train bombings

Police find car bomb

Rescuers seek bodies under Madrid airport rubble

Car bombing at Madrid airport

CNN Special: Madrid bombing

BBC Indepth: Madrid Train Attacks

Life sentence

MONTREAL - Desire Munyaneza was sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 25 years for torturing and raping civilians during the Rwandan genocide.  (CTV)  

Desire Munyaneza

Munyaneza gets life  

Sentenced to life  

Trial watch: Desire Munyaneza

HistoryWiz: And the World Stood By

Rwandan genocide

Genocide charge

Arrest and charge

Ottawa slow to deport Rwandan war criminal

Leon Mugesera

Alleged war criminal begs to stay in Canada

Shake Hands with the Devil

Ex-Rwandan col. 'kingpin' of massacre

BBC: Rwanda genocide

PBS Frontline: Triumph of Evil

     

Photos unsealed

TORONTO - Photos of a former Toronto student leader handling and firing guns at a rebel camp have been unsealed by US prosecutors in advance of his sentencing on terrorism charges.  (National Post)

Sathajhan Sarachandran

Canadian pleads guilty to buying missiles

S. P. Thamilselvan

Debit-card ring linked to Tamil terrorists

Tamil Tiger leader dies in air raid

Public face of the Tamil Tigers

Terror suspect linked to Canada

Tamil gang leader may avoid deportation

Toronto police raid Tamil gangs

Sri Lankan 'recruits child fighters'

Sri Lankan

Tamil Tigers

Liberal MPs attend vigil

Alleged LTTE front had voters lists

Tigers use Canadian charities as 'fronts'

Mounties call Tamil group 'arm of Tigers'

Police pore over Tamil papers seized in raid

Police raid offices of Tamil group

Tamil Tigers outlawed

Declawing the Tigers

LTTE intimidation & extortion in Tamil

EU bans Tamil Tigers over murder

12 Tamils arrested in Sri Lanka assassination

Massacre of innocent civilians by LTTE

Tamil Tigers openly feted on campus

Sri Lanka: 23 years of bloodshed

How RCMP chose to target Tigers

HRW: Child Soldiers

Military use of children

Child Soldiers: A global issue

 

Opium market declines

KABUL - Afghanistan's opium production fell 10% last year and prices are at their lowest in a decade, meaning "the bottom is starting to fall out" of the world's largest opium market, the UN said.  (AP) 

Afghan opium survey 2009

Afghanistan now has drug cartels

Poppy cultivation declines

Suicide bomb tactics backfire

How to be a jihadi: Taliban's training manual

Jihad 101 for would-be terrorists

Digitizing Terror

How-to guide for tracking terrorists on-line

Arrests in acid attack

10 arrested

Afghan leader drug trial in US

Warlord or druglord?

Warlords of Afghanistan

Drug haul may be world's biggest

Report of the standing Senate committee

Easy work, good money

Afghanistan 'record harvest'

Afghan opium production drops   UN report

Opium production in Afghanistan

World's biggest drug seizure

Police uncover 236 tonnes of hash

Taliban

Canada warns Afghanistan on corruption

Afghan heroin hitting our streets

Heroin trade vital for Taliban: RCMP officer

Opium Production in Afghanistan

Narcotics, Afghanistan and terrorists

Afghans open interrogation facilities

Group gets funds here to kill our troops

BBC Profile: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Tax worth $100M

Wikipedia: Hezb-i-Islami

Taliban leader 'killed' after RAF track phone

Taliban official admits strike killed chief

Killed Taliban leader's identify confirmed

US strike kills Afghan Taliban leader

UN sees Afghan drug battle faltering

Diverging trends between north and south

Helmand Province

Afghanistan Opium Survey Nov. 2008  .pdf

Afghan opium cultivation soars 59% in 2006

Canadians find link Taliban, drug trade

Address by PM to the Canadian Armed forces

PM: We won't back down

Afghan debate not really a debate

Too many MPs missing in action

Afghanistan now nearly 'a narcotics state'

Al-Zarqawi death buoys military in Afghanistan

'Painstaking' operation led to al-Zarqawi

Zarqawi Network Helped Bring Him Down

Zarqawi killed in Iraq air raid

Mastermind of bloodiest suicide attacks

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Part 1

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Part 2

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Part 3

Global Security: Hizb-i-Islami (Islamic Party)

Government of Canada: listed entities

Drug industry threatens to state building

UN warns Afghan opium crop to spur deaths

Opium plan poppycock, experts say

PM's visit coincides with major operation

Afghan Canadians volunteer for duty

Outside the wire

Canadian troops in Kabul overburdened

Military Ombudsman website

Department of National Defence

CIA Factbook: Afghanistan

CBC Indepth: Afghanistan

Guardian Special Report: Afghanistan

Following the Afghan drugs trail

 

US study finds billions of Iraqi oil missing

NEW YORK - Billions of dollars' worth of Iraq's declared oil production over the past four years is unaccounted for, possibly having been siphoned off through corruption or smuggling, The New York Times said on Saturday.   Between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels of Iraq's daily output of roughly 2 million barrels is missing, it said, citing a draft report prepared by the US Government Accountability Office and government energy analysts.  (Reuters)

Saddam Hussein 1937-2006

Iraq Study Group Report

Iraq insurgency has funds to sustain itself

Corruption: the 'second insurgency'Congress voted end to US watchdog on Iraq

Office of the Inspector General for Iraq

US reportedly put key nuke data online

US web archive reveal nuclear lessons

Rumsfeld a casualty of war

Kidnappers use victims as bombers

Iraq on brink of civil war: Pentagon

Bush: Iraq has not fallen into civil war    Sunni Islam in Iraq

Shiites Islam in Iraq

Gunmen slay pilgrims near Baghdad

Judge insists executed Shiites confessed

Commission on the intelligence capabilities of the US regarding WMD

Butler: Review Of Intelligence on WMD

Guardian Special Report: Iraq

34,000 Iraqi civilians killed in 2006, UN reports

Saudis reportedly funding Iraqi Sunnis

Saudis and Iran prepare to do battle

US stops audit of Iraq rebuilding

Contractors rarely penalized for misdeeds

Operation Iraqi Freedom documents

Bush rethinking Iraq

Rumsfeld's legacy

Counting corpses

Iraqis shot 'for wearing shorts'

CNN: War in Iraq

CBC: Iraq

CBS: War on Terror

BBC Indepth: After Saddam

Military.com: Saddam Hussein

Debkafile: Indications Saddam was not in hiding

The Reform Islam needs

Saddam regime funds financing insurgency

Sunni Islam   Shi'a Islam

     

9/11 suspects to be tried in civilian court

WASHINGTON - Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, Attorney General Eric Holder said, adding that he expects to seek the death penalty against them. (NBC)  

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The laughing 9/11 bombers

Ziad Jarrah  Mohamed Atta

Chillling message of the 9/11 pilots

The videos

Al Qaeda master mind 'admits' plotting 9/11'

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

Key 9/11 figured 'beheaded Pearl'

The 'confesssion' in full   .pdf

WTC emergency calls released

Transcript: United Flight 93 Cockpit Tape

Trade Center 911 calls released

Compensation for losses from 9/11 attacks

9-11 Commission final report

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Able Danger Blog

Able Danger Revisited 

Iraq most wanted

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