After Gaza blast Hamas imprison 200 Fatah man in 'Gaza's Guantanamo'

Facts and opinion. 07.26.08 The bomb blasts events between Hamas and Fatah In Gaza, reveal a 'Gaza's Guantanamo' prison, a suggestive name,  innocent  passersby killed by the Fatah bombs including an...

‘US poised to raid militant hideouts in Pakistan’

Pakistan is grappling with surging militant violence fuelled by groups in the border areas. After Monday’s deadly suicide bombing in Islamabad and alleged Pakistani involvement in another such attack in Kabul. US...

Hezbollah sleeper cells may be active in Canada: report

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWith the USA Homeland Security NO Fly list of a million plus people, certainly this list will be out to good use.  Though Canada states they no longer use this list...

Sydney police boss 'in drug ring'

A police chief in Syndey has been accused of some very serious conspiracy charges."A senior Australian police officer has been charged in connection with an alleged international plot to import half a tonne of drug-making chemicals.Mark Standen is accused of conspiracy to...

al Qaeda Calls for use of WMDs against Civilians

Just remember, there is no threat. There never was. 9/11 was an inside job, Bush knew all about it. Go about your normal lives because this is obviously a strategically timed release by America's CIA operatives Osama...

Not-so-free-press: Andrew Mwenda (and others) arrested

"“We think the government is not happy with a story The Independent published in a recent issue exposing atrocities committed by government forces during the war.” — Bob Kasango, legal counsel for The IndependentFrom Reuters:"“Ugandan security forces on Saturday...

CIA Boss Reveals al-Qaeda Recruiting Western Fighters

Scary."CIA director Michael Hayden said today al-Qaeda was training operatives who "look western" and could enter the United States undetected to conduct terrorist attacks."al-Qaeda has transformed the remote tribal...

Niger Delta Militants ceasefire for Xmas

"MILITANTS in the Niger Delta have announced cease-fire on December 25. In an online statement to Sunday Vanguard signed by Jomo Gbomo, the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) said it was done in the spirit of Christmas. * Rivers govt imposes curfew on...

CIA "destroyed rendition interrogation tapes"

Of course there's no useful intelligence to be gleaned. And could it maybe, just maybe, have something to do with them not wanting the public to see its horrible torture techniques?"The CIA destroyed video evidence...

The Oddballs Inside al-Qaida's Big Tent Converts

Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, a sociologist of religion, has investigated converts in Germany and in the United State. "People want to be different," she  says. Islam allows a person to stand out from the crowd to a...

Al Qaeda's Comeback

"The new warning reflects an assessment about the success of the group's top leaders, including Osama bin Laden, in rebuilding much of its capabilities to train operatives and plot attacks. In many ways, the National Intelligence Estimate on the terrorist threat inside the...

History of the Car Bomb

"In a column on March 23, 2006 (A Vision, Bruised and Dented), David Brooks of the New York Times' wrote about "the rise of what Richard Lowry of the National Review calls the ‘To Hell With Them' Hawks." In part, Brooks characterized these hawks as being conservatives who...

US government fans homeland terrorism fear

"In a series of closed-door sessions in Washington, a panel of high level government and military officials, security "experts" are constructing a homeland security plan that would include martial law and the suspension of civil liberties. See: Contigencies for nuclear...

Al Qaeda Strikes Back

"Al Qaeda is a more dangerous enemy today than it has ever been before. It has suffered some setbacks since September 11, 2001: losing its state within a state in Afghanistan, having several of its top operatives killed, failing in its attempts to overthrow the governments of...

Meet the OPOs

"Howard Dean's cometlike campaign in 2003 was the first to integrate the Internet into a presidential race, and Joe Rospars was there, a 22-year-old working as an "all-around Web guy" until the campaign suddenly collapsed. Four years later, it's not just the upstarts, as Dean...

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