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Feds: Chicago men discussed terror attack in India

A Chicago man charged with scheming to launch a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper also discussed a possible attack against a military college in India and advised a member of a Pakistan-based terrorist group on how to slip people into the U.S., prosecutors said Tuesday.

GOP Rep: Health reform scarier than terrorism

A Republican congresswoman said Monday that people have more to fear from Democratic health care legislation than from terrorists.

Atty: Chicago terror suspect could have been duped

Prosecutors urged a federal judge Wednesday to deny bond to one of two Chicago men charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Danish newspaper, while the man's lawyer argued that his client could have been the innocent dupe of an alleged coconspirator.

Obama visits Joint Terrorism Task Force in NYC

President Barack Obama is paying tribute to the men and women of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, whose job it is to prevent future terrorist attacks on the U.S.

Court won't get involved in Hamas financier suit

The Supreme Court won't let parents of an American teenager killed in a terrorist attack in Israel collect damages from a man accused of funding Hamas.

2 convicted in Germany of supporting terror group

A German court convicted two men Tuesday of supporting a radical Islamic group with links to al-Qaida and sentenced them to prison terms.

NY businessman pleads guilty to terror financing

A New York businessman accused of trying to funnel money to a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of terrorism financing and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Video shows Jakarta bombers before hotel attacks

Two Indonesian suicide bombers lounged and casually snacked in a grass field near luxury Jakarta hotels weeks before they attacked them, videos released by police Tuesday showed.

Britain to reconsider house arrest-style program

Civil liberties campaigners have criticized Britain's government after it said it will review — not scrap — a house-arrest style program used against some terrorism suspects.

Inside the terror plot that 'rivaled 9/11'

In one of the most significant terrorism cases since Sept. 11, a British jury convicted three British citizens, accused of plotting to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners, on a charge of conspiracy to murder. Read the latest on the case here.

Study: Terrorists shifting focus to 'soft' targets

Terrorists are aiming for hotels and other easier-to-hit targets as security measures at military and government facilities continue to improve, says a global intelligence company.

Indonesian police: Terrorist infiltrated airline

A suspect wanted in connection with hotel suicide bombings in the Indonesian capital infiltrated the national airline in a plot to carry out a "bigger attack," the police chief said Monday.

‘Betrayed’ Lockerbie families consider options

Relatives of Americans who died in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 were gripped in a “riptide of despair” after the bomber returned home and said they feared they would never fully know what happened.

Scotland frees Lockerbie bomber

Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on Thursday, allowing him to die at home in Libya despite American protests that mercy should not be sh

Indonesia police widen hotel bombing investigation

Indonesian police on Tuesday widened their investigation into last month's bombing of two Jakarta hotels, naming a suspect who may have served as a courier for al-Qaida to fund the attacks.

Last defendant sentenced in Calif. terrorist plot

A man who helped a prison-based Islamic militant group to plot against the U.S. government was sentenced Monday to 70 months in federal prison, prosecutors said.

Georgia man convicted of aiding terror groups

A 23-year-old Georgia man was convicted Wednesday of aiding terrorist groups by sending videotapes of U.S. landmarks overseas and plotting to support "violent jihad" after a federal jury rejected his arguments that it was empty talk.

England pulls out of worlds citing terrorist alert

England has pulled out of the badminton world championships next week after the tournament reportedly received a terrorist threat from a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group.

Ga. terrorism defendant to call on family at trial

The trial of a 23-year-old man charged with aiding terror groups abroad is expected to continue in Atlanta as the defendant calls relatives to testify in his defense.

Jury trial, not judge for 2nd Ga. terror suspect

Choppy homemade videos, a mysterious trek to Bangladesh and ties to a convicted Balkan terrorist are at the center of a federal case against a 23-year-old accused of supporting terrorism.

Napolitano says public vital in fighting terrorism

The U.S. government needs to do more to educate and engage the public, so that everyday Americans can be part of a multi-layered strategy to prevent terrorism, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said.

Moroccan terror leader gets life in jail

A man accused of leading a terrorist network was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for plotting terror attacks in Morocco, holdups in Europe, large-scale money laundering projects and arms trafficking.

EU supports more anti-terror data sharing with US

European Union nations on Monday unanimously supported expanding the bloc's anti-terror cooperation with the United States to stop the transfer of funds supporting terror groups.

Acquittal or new trial sought in Miami terror case

Five men convicted of plotting with al-Qaida to destroy a Chicago skyscraper and blow up FBI offices want a federal judge to declare them innocent or order a new trial, claiming that a juror who appeared skeptical of the prosecution's case was improperly removed during deliberations.

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India deepens defense ties with Israel
Source: JPost.com

"Israel and India enjoy close defense ties and Israel last year overtook Russia as the number-one supplier of military platforms to India after breaking the $1 billion mark in new contracts signed annually.

Iraq Pays $85 Million for Magic "Explosives Detectors"-- i.e. Dowsing Rods
Source: The New York Times

The small hand-held wand, with a telescopic antenna on a swivel, is being used at hundreds of checkpoints in Iraq. But the device works "on the same principle as a Ouija board" — the power of suggestion — said a retired United States Air Force officer, Lt. Col.

Why fundamentalism will fail
Source: The Boston Globe

A seemingly unstoppable force is being undone from the inside

(IN UK) Islamists who want to destroy the state get £100,000 funding
Source: Telegraph

Leading members of a group that wants to bring down the British state and replace it with a dictatorship under Islamic law have secured more than £100,000 of taxpayers' money for a chain of schools.

American Thinker : Resolving the Cognitive Dissonance of Islam
Source: American Thinker

The negative spiritual and intellectual consequence of believing two mutually exclusive concepts is "cognitive dissonance." Our interaction as a society with Islam is a direct cause of cognitive dissonance, for us as individuals and as a culture.

Fort Hood shooting: Texas army killer linked to September 11 terrorists
Source: Telegraph

Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt.

Tarek Fatah: Montreal welcomes an Islamist extremist in sheep's clothing
Source: National Post

Tomorrow evening the citizens of Montreal will be treated to a spectacle of Islamist double-talk that will leave them dazzled. Tariq Ramadan will be speaking to a gathering at the University of Montreal.

Sources: Iran gave Hamas missile that can hit Tel Aviv - Haaretz - Israel News
Source: haretz.com

Iran has supplied Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip a missile capable of striking Tel Aviv, defense sources said on Tuesday.

Web post by Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Malik Hasan could shed light on motives
Source: The Times

Investigators trying to understand why a US army psychiatrist launched into a shooting spree on a military base in Texas will be poring over an internet posting he is thought to have made comparing the sacrifice of Islamist suicide bombers and American military heroes.

Jihad's 5th Column
Source: investors.com

The Fort Hood terrorist is being portrayed as an "anomaly," an "aberration," a "lone wolf." Sadly, he's just one of many examples of jihadist traitors in the ranks of the military.

Alleged Ft. Hood Killer Linked To Obama: Nidal Was Homeland Security Adviser To Obama Transition Team

This is a link to the PDF file put out by the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute that identifies Nidal as one of the contributors to the report that was delivered to the Obama presidential transition team.

U.S. Muslims Condemn Attack at Fort Hood
Source: Daily Kos

In light of the tragedy at Fort Hood, I fully expect some Republicans to start "McCarthyite" attacks on all Muslims on the armed forces.  I have no doubt that President Obama will stand up to them.  This is America and we have freedom of religion.

Boston: Two indicted in alleged terror plot
Source: The Boston Globe

"Two weeks after a Sudbury man was arrested in an alleged terrorist plot to kill Americans, federal authorities announced his indictment yesterday along with a former Mansfield man they say is now in Syria.

Ft Hood Shootings.. Lessons to be Learned.. Not all Muslims or Arabs or Americans or Doctors or Majors are Terrorists.

The murderer was an army major, a psychiatrist, a Muslim, born in Virginia. At this time 13 people are dead, 31, including the shooter,, are wounded. The investigation is ongoing. Who or what is at fault? How could it have been prevented? Can future events be prevented.

To MSNBC the Least Important Thing about Killer Army Doctor is He was a Muslim Who Compared Suicide Bombers to Soldiers who Throw Themselves on Grenades to Protect Others: Meltdown with Keith Olbermann Part 14
Source: http://newsrealblog.com

"While every other news channel at the top of the hour led with the mass murders committed by Army psychiatrist Major Malik Nadal Hasan, Keith Olbermann led Countdown with a hysterical rant about the health care demonstration at the Capitol, implying it was treasonous, seditious  …

The Media Will Downplay His Religion, But God Help Us if His Car Had a Talk Radio Station On
Source: Redstate

What we know so far is that the soldier was a muslim and began yelling at his fellow soldiers statements in Arabic. The soldier was upset about having to deploy to Iraq. The military is saying this could have been a criminal incident as opposed to a terrorist incident.

Maoist Martyrdom Vs State Barbarism
Source: Countercurrents.org

Is Maoism in India really the only response to poverty and lack of development? Is an armed rebellion the only way to change the way the Indian State operates? Will such a movement lead to a better future for underprivileged people in this country? Are other forms of mass democra …

Former CIA Intelligence Officer in charge of Blackwater Xe in Peshawar
Source: Pak Nationalists

More evidence of how former President Musharraf and the present Zardari-Malik-Haqqani clique allowed the Americans to quietly turn Pakistan into another Iraq.

Karkare Rewarded For Honesty
Source: Kashmir Watch

After the Mumbai Blasts, the whole life in India began to revolve around this horrible incident. One can find the after shocks of this quake even after so many months. Certainly it was the worst episode in the Indian history of terrorism.

Pakistan needs a new world view
Source: FT.com

No one, by now, needs to be told that the war in Afghanistan is going badly, and that the western allies are in a quandary as to what to do about it. Yet, dreadfully urgent though this drip-bleed insurgency is, the real strategic challenge in central and south Asia is Pakistan.

Terrorism amendment dies in Senate
Source: Politico

The Senate has defeated an amendment that would have kept the plotters of the September 11, 2001 attacks out of ordinary federal courts—leaving military commissions as the only option for trying the terror suspects.

Pursuing the True Blue in Afghanistan

Perhaps the western presence via Bagram and other regional bases is an effort to forestall the further territorial expansion of a radicalized Islam. India does not want it and especially China fears it.

SHOOTER ALIVE. Fort Hood General's 2nd News Conference on Shooting

Lt General Robert Cone, commanding general is at this time talking about the 11 murders at Ft Hood.

Hezbollah "denies link" to arms ship seized by Israel | Reuters
Source: Reuters

"Hezbollah denies any link to the weapons that the Zionist enemy claims it removed from the vessel Francop," the group said in a statement.

Why Operation Green Hunt will fail
Source: Democracy and Class Struggle

The government says there is no 'war' against Naxals – yet it's preparing for one. However, Operation Green Hunt is a disaster in the making. Why? Because the government has so far failed to identify the root of the Naxal problem – namely itself.

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