Feds move to seize 4 mosques, tower linked to Iran

Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government. In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed a civil complaint in federal court against […]

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Iranian Spy Satellite Sits on Launchpad

Iran is ready to launch its second homemade spy satellite, with the Safir 2 rocket (Messenger of Ambassador) already in position on its pad, DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report. The new satellite weighs 200 kgs, ten times more than Omid 1 (Hope), which was successfully tested only ten months ago, on Feb. 2. Tehran’s […]

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Fort Hood Disaster: Islam to Blame?

By: Tawfik Hamid An army psychiatrist’s alleged slaughter of 13 people and wounding of another 30 at Fort Hood, Texas, raise critical issues related to radical Islam. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an American Muslim who had counseled troops, allegedly made the comment “Allah Akbar — Arabic for “God is great!” — before he killed his […]

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Soldier Gunman Was Palestinian

From VirtualJerusalem.com: Speculation is rife in the US media about whether Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan’s massacre of 13 servicemen at America’s biggest army base, Fort Hood in Texas Thursday, Nov. 5 was motivated by terrorist ideology. US officials are tightlipped on the question, saying only the investigation will establish the facts. Witnesses among the […]

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‘Sanhedrin’ Warns UN on Goldstone

From VirtualJerusalem.com: The Sanhedrin has warned the UN General Assembly not to hold a plenum debate this Wednesday on the anti-Israel Goldstone Report. In a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and the UN’s member states, the Sanhedrin warns that continued consideration of what it calls the “hostile, fallacious, and malicious” Goldstone document will bring […]

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Netanyahu Berates UN on Captured Arms Ship

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the terrorist weapon shipment captured in an IDF raid this week constituted a war crime, and criticized the United Nations for its failure to respond to the incident. He noted the timing of the weapons shipment, which took place as the UN prepared to debate a report condemning […]

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