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The internet’s number one jihadi has been captured and his identity revealed: Jawa Report—The identity of Irhabi 007 (also known as Qaeda 007 & Terrorist 007) has finally been revealed by the SITE institute as Younis Tsouli, a 22 year old from West London. Irhabi [which means 'terrorist' in Arabic] 007 was one of the [...]
Sprint’s Ambassador Program is giving select bloggers a free wireless phone and 6 months of free service to try out its Power Vision Network. Cool. Entrance into Sprint’s Ambassador Program is by invitation only. Source: Geek Ramblings
Magistrate Judge Kenneth S. McHargh today denied Mohammad Zaki Amawi’s request that bond be set for his release. Let’s see, what does the United States allege that Mohammad Zaki Amawi did? The following is an excerpt from the indictment against him: attempted to enter Iraq to wage violent jihad, or “holy war” against the United [...]
Kristy Leah West, an English teacher in North Carolina, was arrested today and charged with trying to sell heroin: Charlotte.com—Kristy Leah West, 36, of Lumberton, was arrested in Cumberland County on charges of conspiring to obtain a controlled substance by fraud and conspiring to traffic in opium or heroin. …
Der Spiegal today is talking about the New York Times revelation that German agents gave the United States Saddam Hussein’s battle plan before it invaded Iraq: Der Spiegal—Rarely has a denial been as categorical as the one delivered by official Berlin. The Monday article by the New York Times, reporting that German intelligence officials stationed [...]
Sen. Susan Collins, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committe, released an unclassified U.S. Coast Guard document yesterday. In the document, the Coast Guard said that questions about foreign influence, employees and operations made it impossible to assess the threat posed by the purchase. The Coast Guard refuted the Senator’s assessment in [...]
Actor Dennis Weaver has died at the age of 81: azcentral—Dennis Weaver, the slow-witted deputy Chester Goode in the TV classic western “Gunsmoke” and the New Mexico deputy solving New York crime in “McCloud,” has died. The actor was 81. Weaver died of complications from cancer Friday at his home in Ridgway, in southwestern Colorado, [...]
Abed Abdul-Razzak Kamil, an Islamic militant, was executed in Yemen today for the murders of three American missionaries: photo: Yemen Observer Yemen Observer—The Ibb Appeal Court executed this morning by a firing squad Abed Abdul-Razzak Kamil, who killed three American missionaries in Jibla, 5 km to the south of a southern province of Ibb in [...]
An explosion has occurred near the entrance to an Israeli arms facility in Haifa, Israel: INN—Six persons were reportedly hurt in an explosion that occurred at a defense factory in Kiryat Bialik north of Haifa. The factory is run by the Rafael company, a leading producer of high-tech aeronautic equipment for the IDF. Teams of [...]
There are new details today of President Bush’s bike accident in Scotland on 6 July 2005: Scotsman—The official police incident report states: “[The unit] was requested to cover the road junction on the Auchterarder to Braco Road as the President of the USA, George Bush, was cycling through.” The report goes on: “[At] about 1800 [...]
