Oslo (AP) — Islamic extremism remains Norway’s biggest terror threat, but the danger of lone wolf attacks has also increased in the aftermath of a massacre by a homegrown anti-Muslim extremist, Norwegian security service PST said Tuesday. Agency Chief Janne Kristiansen told local news agency NTB that over the past three to four years there […]
Police in Gaza, ruled by Hamas’ Sunni Muslims, broke the bones of several Shi’ite Muslims last week, a further sign of a break between Iran and Hamas. Iran drastically reduced funding to Hamas this past summer after the Gaza regime did not back Iran’s support for beleaguered Syrian President Bashar Assad, a key ally of […]
Turkish Islamic scholar Adnan Oktar made a scorching response this week to a claim by the top Palestinian Authority religious leader that Muslims are obligated to kill the Jews. Oktar, who hosts a nightly talk show broadcast on the A9TV satellite television channel, raised the issue live on his program January 15 after being approached about […]
The U.S. says Israel’s international Mossad agents posed as CIA operatives to recruit Jundallah members in Pakistan to assassinate key Iranians, according to the Jan 13 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. Jundallah, described by the magazine as a “Pakistani-based Sunni extremist organization,” was in November 2010 designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization, […]
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry on Sunday accused the Obama administration seeking to score political points with “over-the-top rhetoric” after four Marines were caught on video purportedly urinating on the corpses of slain Taliban fighters. Perry’s comments put him at odds with Sen. John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, who […]
Enraged Iranian officials are vowing retaliation against Israel, the US and the UK over the latest assassination of a nuclear scientist, 32-year-old Mustafa Ahmadi Roshan, in Tehran. A former Iranian ambassador who served in Mexico and Italy recommended that an American being held in Tehran be executed in retaliation for the assassination. “The terrorist attack on […]
Canada has had one of the most liberal immigration policies in the world, welcoming tens of thousands of asylum applicants who claim to be fleeing persecution in their violent homelands, many of those from the Middle East. Canada’s new Conservative government has begun rolling up the welcome mat, stepping up efforts to track down and […]
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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday that U.S. officials had “some ideas” as to who was behind the assassination of a nuclear scientist in Tehran this week, AFP reported. During a meeting with soldiers at a Texas military base, Panetta insisted the United States was “not involved in any way, in any way with […]
Washington on Thursday placed sanctions on three companies from China, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates for selling refined oil products to Iran, AFP reported. The Treasury placed sanctions on Zhuhai Zhenrong Co. of China, which it called the largest supplier of refined petroleum products to Iran, the report said. The sanctions came a day […]
