A missile fired from an American warship in the Mediterranean hit the car in which Muhammad Jamal A-Namnam, 27, was driving in the heart of Gaza City Wednesday, Nov. 3 and killed him, debkafile’s exclusive counter-terror sources report. Namnam was an operational commander of the Army of Islam, Al-Qaeda’s Palestinian cell in the Gaza Strip. […]
WASHINGTON – The Islamic mail bomb plot stretching from Yemen to Chicago may have been aimed at blowing up planes in flight and was only narrowly averted, officials said Sunday, acknowledging that one device almost slipped through Britain and another seized in Dubai was unwittingly flown on two passenger jets. Senior U.S. officials met to […]
Explosives found inside a modified printer ink cartridge on board a cargo plane at East Midlands Airport in the United Kingdom were primed to detonate in mid-air. The device was active when counter-terror police swooped on the aircraft early on Friday. Yemen-based terrorists had built the bomb to go off in British air space, just […]
WASHINGTON – A package containing explosive materials was intercepted in Dubai on its way from Yemen to a Chicago Jewish institution, and authorities in London were investigating a suspicious package in England as part of a terror probe that spanned three continents, officials said Friday. U.S. officials said they were increasingly confident that the packages […]
President Barack Hussein Obama, in a determination letter to Congress, has announced that he will allow an additional 80,000 immigrants – – mostly from Islamic countries – – to resettle in the United States during fiscal year 2011. Mr. Obama says that the increase in Muslim immigrants “is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise […]
WASHINGTON – The Islamic terror group tied to the Ft. Hood killings and the Christmas Day undies airbomber urge American Islamic jihadis to open fire on crowded restaurants in the nation’s capital to massacre U.S. government workers. The advice appears in “Inspire,” the latest issue of a slick Islamic propaganda publication by Al Qaeda in […]
‘I am proud to be a traitor to America’: U.S. citizen mocks his homeland in ‘Al Qaeda magazine‘. An American citizen has written about his pride at leaving the U.S. and joining Al Qaeda in Yemen. In Inspire – an English-language magazine produced by Al Qaeda supporters on the Arabian Peninsula – Samir Khan mocks […]
by Elad Benari Eight militants of German nationality were killed in northwest Pakistan by a suspected United States drone strike on Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials told Reuters. The eight were killed after two missiles from a suspected CIA pilotless aircraft struck a mosque in the town of Mirali. The officials said that the militants were […]
242 jihadists, 31 attacks, 28 networks. After examining militant Islamism in Europe, researchers have found that self-recruitment is on the rise among terrorist leader Osama bin Laden’s Eurofighters, and that there is no such thing as a standard Muslim terrorist. Dutch researchers Edwin Bakker and Teije Hidde Donker had an ambitious goal in mind when […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US State Department will soon issue a new travel warning to Americans in Europe after intelligence suggested an Islamic Al-Qaeda attack could be imminent. Citing a senior US intelligence official, said the announcement would be made as early as Sunday, and would warn Americans to avoid European tourist attractions and transportation […]
