The New "Feminism": Women Train as Homicide Bombers

Yemen, the new crucible of global terrorism
The axis of terror got bigger yesterday. After the presence of explosives in two packages bound for the US was confirmed – and a suspected 24 more discovered – their place of origin entered the big league as a crucible of deadly and disruptive Terrorism. As Magnus Ranstorp, one of the world's leading experts on the issue, told The Independent on Sunday: "Yemen has become the new Afghanistan." And, to go with this status, there comes to prominence one Yemeni who – in the eyes ...

Waq al-Waq: Bombs from Yemen (Updated)
We still don't know a lot about the two package bombs from Yemen that were discovered the other Day. Although I'm pretty certain that the next time I go to Fed-Ex on Hadda street to mail kilos and kilos of books back to the US it will be much more difficult than it ever has been before. Mostly, for me, the incident raises more questions than answers. But first: what we know, or at least, what I think I know. 1. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is an incredibly active organization that keeps pok...

Yemen Opposed to Presence of Foreign Forces
With a new round of calls to action following Friday’s bomb plot Scandal, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh warned today that his government is absolutely opposed to international intervention and that they will not permit Foreign forces to operate on Yemeni soil. Yemen has faced a number of calls for US Troops to participate in attacks against targets belonging to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), an auxiliary faction to the Al-Qaeda organization which is centered in southern ...

Taleban chiefs 'met Afghan president in secret Kabul talks'
Three Taleban figures met secretly with Afghanistan's president two weeks ago in an effort by the Afghan government to weaken a powerful Al-Qaeda linked network that straddles the border region with Pakistan. A former Afghan official said the meeting in Kabul included an ex-Taleban Governor, Maulvi Abdul Kabir. He comes from the same Zadran tribe as the leaders of the Haqqani network, an autonomous wing of the Taleban responsible for many attacks against ADVERTISEMENT Nato forces. He served a...

Imam in the cross hairs - The Week
Who is Anwar al-Awlaki? “Terrorist No. 1 in terms of threat against us,” in the words of Rep. Jane Harman, an Intelligence expert. The sermons of the charismatic, Internet-savvy imam have been found in the possession of nearly every Islamist Radical who has attacked Western targets in recent years, including the London subway bombers and Zachary Chesser, an American who recently confessed to helping Somali Terrorists. Al-Awlaki may even have been involved in the 9/11 Attacks (see be...

Growing support for CIA control of special forces: report (AFP)
Washington (AFP) – Support is growing in the US Military and administration of President Barack Obama for shifting to the CIA operational control over elite Special Forces teams secretly in Yemen, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Citing unnamed officials, the newspaper said the foiled mail bombing plot by suspected Al-Qaeda Militants in Yemen has added urgency to an administration review of expanded Military options. Officials said such a shift would allow the United States to st...

Officials: Bombmaker in Yemen a key suspect
CAIRO — He is suspected of packing explosives into the underwear of a Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner last Christmas and sent his own brother on a Suicide mission against a top Saudi official. Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, considered a key figure in al-Qaida's most active franchise, is now the chief suspect behind the mail bombs sent from Yemen and bound for the United States, according to U.S. Intelligence officials. Together with a U.S.-born preacher, Yeme...

Why Did AQAP Target Cargo Planes? It Appears Theyre Holding A Grudge About Their Gitmo Transport.
What did they freakin’ expect?  A ride on Air Force One? (NY Daily News) — WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda’s franchise in Yemen offered a hint only a week ago for why they would target U.S.-bound cargo planes , the Daily News can reveal. That’s the type of American Aircraft that delivered one of its Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s “commanders” to Prison in Guantanamo Bay after the 9/11 attacks . AQAP leader Uthman al-Ghamidi wrote in the new issue of the

Wikileaks, Assorted Actors And Faith-Based Frolics In The War On Terror
Take for instance the recent reappearance of 'Adam Gadhan', the all-American 'home-grown' spokesman for Osama bin Laden. Gadhan was born Adam Pearlman, the son of Californian hippy goat-rearing parents and the grandson of Anti-Defamation League Board Member, Dr. Carl Pearlman with whom Adam lived during his childhood. During his teenage years, Adam dabbled in the death metal scene before finally opting for Islam, to which he converted when he was 17. Soon thereafter, he seems to have disappear...

SOTT FOCUS: Crass Phony Terror Alert Over Printer Cartridges
Run for your lives (and take your shoes off)!! It's a toner cartridge covered in oven cleaner! Yawn. Here we go again. Two days ago, senior figures in the British airline industry, including the Chairman of British Airways, said that Britain should stop "kowtowing" to excessive US Security demands that were "completely redundant". Then today, in a crass and very obvious attempt to refute the BA Chairman's statements and reaffirm the fake reality of a 'Terror Threat', two 'suspect packages' are...

Bomb investigations lead to al-Qaeda in Yemen
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Revenge of the American Robot
Posted by Stephen Brown on Nov 1st, 2010 and filed under FrontPage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. A report published recently in the respected publication, Asia Times, states that Qari Hussain Mehsud, a high ranking al Qaeda deputy who helped organize the Murder of seven American CIA operatives last year, was killed earlier this month in a drone Attack in Pakistan’s rugged trib...

Suspect in parcel bombing released by Yemen police
London/Sana'a, Yemen - Yemen police on Sunday released a university Student Arrested the Day before on suspicion of having links to two parcels containing explosives found on US-bound flights, a security source said. Hanan Mohamed al-Sanawy, 22, a computer science Student "was released after investigations showed that she was the wrong person," the source told the German Press Agency dpa. Yemen said earlier it had Arrested Hanam al-Sanawy based on a US intelligence tip. Qatar Airways confirmed S...

US thanks Saudi for bomb information
Washington, Oct  30 (IBNS) US President Barack Obama has said the initial examinations of two suspicious packages bound for the US showed they appeared to have contained explosive materials. He said the packages, found in the UK and Dubai on two overnight cargo planes from Yemen, were destined for Jewish places of worship in Chicago. Obama said the discovery represented a credible Terrorist Threat against the US. The Contraband packages shipped from Yemen and addressed to synagogues in Chi...

The Hindu : International : Terrorism: Yemen not for foreign forces role
DUBAI: Faced with mounting international pressure to do more, the leadership in Yemen is sending out a message that it will not allow the West to run its counter-terror drive against Al-Qaeda. During his late Saturday Press Conference, Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh stressed that Sana'a would not permit foreign forces to undertake counter-terrorism operations on Yemeni soil. He added that Yemen would continue to participate in the war against Terrorism, but in accordance with its...

Suspect in parcel bombing released by Yemen police
London/Sana'a, Yemen - Yemen police on Sunday released a university Student Arrested the Day before on suspicion of having links to two parcels containing explosives found on US-bound flights, a security source said. Hanan Mohamed al-Sanawy, 22, a computer science Student "was released after investigations showed that she was the wrong person," the source told the German Press Agency dpa. Yemen said earlier it had Arrested Hanam al-Sanawy based on a US intelligence tip. Qatar Airways confirmed S...

Bombs in Cargo Were Designed to Destroy Planes, U.S.Believes
Source: NY Times John O. Brennan, the president’s chief Counterterrorism adviser, said Sunday that American authorities believe now that the two bombs found inside cargo packages were designed to blow up the airplanes carrying them, even though they were addressed to locations “associated with synagogues” in Chicago. “We’re looking at the potential that they would have been detonated en route to those synagogues aboard the Aircraft as well as at the destinations,” he said in a

Variations on Superman
It’s funny how stories like this seem to roll in, in pairs.  First, we learn that there is a comic reboot (I refuse to call these things anything as self-important as a graphic novel, even when they are good) of Superman called Earth One.  This seems like a self-conscious attempt to invoke Frank Miller’s classic series “Batman: Year One.”  (Incidentally, Frank Miller was last heard from in July set to release an anti-al-Qaeda comic called Holy Terror, which...

Variations on Superman
It’s funny how stories like this seem to roll in, in pairs.  First, we learn that there is a comic reboot (I refuse to call these things anything as self-important as a graphic novel, even when they are good) of Superman called Earth One.  This seems like a self-conscious attempt to invoke Frank Miller’s classic series “Batman: Year One.”  (Incidentally, Frank Miller was last heard from in July set to release an anti-al-Qaeda comic called Holy Terror, which...

The Day Privacy Died
I went last week to see The Social Network, the movie about the beginnings of Facebook. I’m a Facebook devotee. I think it’s a great way to get information out. I’m actually at a point where I need to create a fan page because I am approaching the “maximum friends.” That really makes me feel good, but what is the cost of that feeling? I’ve been telling my own Children for years, “There is nothing private anymore.” Many parents join in the chorus, ...

Tuesday's Net Neutrality National Referendum
Radical supporters of Net Neutrality have chosen to try and make the mid-term election a national Referendum on Net Neutrality. To make it easier to track the electoral performance of Candidates who have take the PCCC/FreePress Net Neutrality pledge, here is a Net Neutrality Election Tally Sheet, listing the 95 Candidates so that one can print out and record the outcomes on election night. Only 85 Candidates in 435 U.S. congressional races to take their NN pledge -- again all Democrats. 3 are to...

Cargo Bomb Plot: We Do Have Something to Fear
The combination of the Stewart/Colbert faux rallies and the latest Terrorist Attempt from al Qaeda got me thinking of Homer Simpson. Among the more unusual diversions from his work at the Springfield nuclear plant was Homer’s short lived career getting shot in the stomach by a cannon as the opening act at Homerpalooza. Prior to his act, two hipsters are talking to each other and one notes that Homer’s act is really cool.  When his friend asks if he is being sarcastic, he responds,...

Birthers Laughed Out Of Court; Forced To Pay Court Costs!
This is too good! A state Appellate Court in Sacramento tossed out a Lawsuit claiming President Barack Obama is not eligible to occupy the White House because he is not a Natural-born Citizen of the United States. The Court ordered the plaintiffs to pay all Court costs of the defendants. The Lawsuit was filed shortly after the 2008 General Election. The leading plaintiff (of three) was Alan Keyes, a former member of President Ronald Reagan’s administration from Maryland, and the 2008 Amer...

Check Laws To Learn If You Can Take Time Off to Vote
Each American Citizen 18 years old or over has a right to vote and most—not all—have the right to take time off to vote. Thirty-three states have laws on the books requiring employers to give workers time off to cast a vote. The District of Columbia and 17 states do not. With so much at stake in Tuesday’s Election, Working Families are mobilizing to get out every vote. So, it is important to know if you can get time off to vote or if you have to go before or after work. To find

France... "Spoiled and Selfish".... America's View
The French have reached a new low writes Edy Halpert. The former Public Relations director in Washington DC is now a mother of four, a freelance writer, and a teacher in France. She never forgets the serial comma. As an American Citizen, married to a Frenchman living outside of Paris, I am astonished and ashamed at the audacity of this country and its Citizens. France is a country with the greatest advantages in Health Care, education, and social benefits one could ever imagine. Food is abundant...