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jihad stories: 42 news summaries

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 Billboard Links Obama to Jihad 

Colo. car dealership wants this opinion heard

Nov 20, 09 8:42 PM CST
(AP) - A billboard showing President Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver car dealership that put it up. The sign shows a cartoonish Obama and bears the words "PRESIDENT or JIHAD?" Underneath Obama's image is the phrase, "BIRTH CERTIFICATE, PROVE IT!"... More »

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jihad • freedom of expression • car dealers • David Lee • President Obama • birther

 Radical Muslim Cleric 
 Killed in FBI Raid 

6 others held after series of operations in Detroit area

Oct 28, 09 6:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The leader of a radical Islamic sect was killed by the FBI today in a shootout in a Detroit suburb, part of a series of raids against the group, said to be plotting “an offensive jihad” in order to establish a state governed by Sharia law. Luqman Ameen Abdullah,... More »

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Iraq • FBI • jihad • Detroit • Islamic Sharia law • Islamic extremists • Dearborn, Michigan • Ummah

5 Guilty of Plotting
Aussie Terror Attacks

Jihadists convicted of planning mass killings after 10-month trial

Oct 16, 09 1:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Five men have been convicted of conspiring to carry out terrorist attacks in Australia using guns and home-made explosives. The men, busted in raids in Sydney, were accused of plotting attacks to force the government to change its Middle East policy. One of the men trained at a terror camp... More »

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terrorism • Australia • jihad • terror plots • New South Wales • Lashkar-e-Taiba

OPINION

 Win in Afghanistan, 
 or We're Doomed 

Defeatnik columnists paving path to another 9/11: Stephens

Sep 8, 09 8:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Three big-swinging columnists from the left, right and center—Tom Friedman and Nicholas Kristof of the Times, plus George Will of the Post—have joined the chorus of naysayers on the war in Afghanistan. But if we lose this "relatively easy fight," writes Wall Street Journal columnist Bret... More »

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Afghanistan • jihad • Islamism • Afghanistan war • 9/11 attacks

Terror Suspect Led Typical Suburban Life

But Boyd fought in Afghanistan, said 'good Muslims' waged jihad

Jul 29, 09 5:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - The arrest of construction worker Daniel Boyd and his sons for conspiring to support terrorists came as a complete shock to their neighbors in North Carolina, who describe the 39-year-old father as a friendly gardener and fisherman. But Boyd has followed an uncommon path. After converting to Islam in the... More »

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Islam • jihad • North Carolina • Islamic extremism • terror suspects • terror cell • suburbs • Muslim convert • domestic terrorism • Daniel Boyd

(AP) - Federal prosecutors said today that one member of a North Carolina group that sought to wage "violent jihad" is still at large. US Attorney George Holding says authorities hope to soon apprehend an eighth person described in an indictment unsealed yesterday. The person's name is redacted from court papers. More »

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US attorney • terrorism • Pakistan • jihad • United States • North Carolina • domestic terrorism • manhunt

 7 NC Men 
 Charged With 
 Plotting Foreign 
 Terror Attacks 

Suspects accused of conspiring to carry out jihad attacks on Israel

Jul 28, 09 3:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - A North Carolina construction worker, his two sons and four other men in the state have been charged with plotting to carry out terror attacks abroad, the BBC reports. The men, all but one of whom are US citizens, conspired to carry out jihad attacks in countries including Jordan and... More »

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jihad • terror plots • North Carolina • Islamic extremists • Raleigh • terror suspects • mujahedeen • Daniel Boyd

How Twin Cities' 'Best' Somali Youth Ended Up Jihadis

Islamist sympathies take promising men from Minneapolis to Mogadishu

Jul 12, 09 11:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - For a group of young Americans, the path to an al-Qaeda-affiliated terror group in Somalia led through the Carlson School of Management in Minneapolis, where one planned to become a doctor; another, an entrepreneur. But now the students are at the center of what may be the most pressing domestic... More »

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Somalia • terrorism • Minneapolis • FBI • jihad • Ethiopia • Islamist

London Teen: How I Was Recruited for Jihad

Group meeting in mosque invited boy to outside gatherings

May 17, 09 12:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Islamists approached him in the mosque, and before he knew it a 15-year-old Londoner was watching jihadist videos and being encouraged to train in Pakistan, the boy tells the Times of London in the “first inside account” of the recruitment process. “A lot of people think that... More »

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terrorism • London • jihad • extremists • recruitment • mosque • Britain • martyrdom • teenager

US Terror Reports Boost Jihadis' Radical Cred

Extremists elders complain youth give them less respect than  Western analysts do

Apr 30, 09 5:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Prominent anti-Western cleric Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi says he isn't going soft in his old age—and he's got the Western intelligence reports to prove it. The Jordanian jihad theorist, under fire from more radical and violent younger extremists, proudly points to a report from West Point's counterterror center labeling him... More »

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War on Terror • jihad • Islamic extremists • counterterrorism • Islamic extremism

(AP) - Osama bin Laden today urged Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel and condemned Arab governments as allies of the Jewish state, the AP reports. In a new message aimed at harnessing anger in the Mideast over the Gaza offensive, bin Laden spoke in an audiotape posted on Islamic militant... More »

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Israel • terrorism • Gaza • Palestine • jihad • Osama bin Laden

 Terrorists 
 Call for 
 YouTube 
 'Invasion' 

Jihadist site urges 'YouTube invasion'

Dec 3, 08 5:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Islamic extremists are being given training in how to use YouTube to spread anti-American propaganda, Reuters reports. A US-based terrorism monitoring organization discovered a posting on an extremist website that gives detailed instructions on best ways to use YouTube, and directions on finding software needed to utilize the site.... More »

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Islam • YouTube • propaganda • jihad • Islamic terrorism • Site Intelligence Group

 Art Classes Coming to Gitmo 

Prison camp staff will offer more activities
to distract detainees

Nov 23, 08 7:49 PM CST
(Newser) - Art class at Guantanamo Bay? Yes, it's in the works—along with geology class, Game Boys, access to newspapers, and more movie nights. The prison staff wants to keep prisoners "stimulated," Guantanamo's cultural adviser told the Miami Herald. "Once they are engaged and busy, they leave the... More »

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War on Terror • jihad • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • detainees

OPINION

How the US
Made Somalia a Terrorist Haven

Coalition overthrown, country is now run by al-Qaeda allies

Nov 18, 08 9:35 AM CST
(Newser) - Iraq and Afghanistan loom largest among the fiascos undertaken in the name of a "war on terror," Martin Fletcher writes in the Times of London, but there has been a third front in that offensive: Somalia. After 15 years of anarchy, the US helped destroy the country's first... More »

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Somalia • War on Terror • jihad • Islamic extremists • Council of Islamic Courts • warlords • al-Qaeda • insurgency


 Saudis Fight  
 Extremism  
 With... Rehab? 

Saudis rehabilitate terrorists using ideological approach

Nov 9, 08 1:12 PM CST
(Newser) - Saudi Arabia has a particular brand of counter-terrorism: a cozy detention center where captured militants share their feelings, practice art therapy, snack on Twix, rumble on PlayStation, and leave with the prospect of a wife. The retreat, Katherine Zoepf writes in the New York Times magazine, is part of the... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • Saudi Arabia • jihad • counterterrorism • rehabilitation • Islamic extremism • al-Qaeda

ANALYSIS

 Mass Trials 
 Signal Saudis' 
 Anti-Terror 
 Progress 

Nearly 1K will be tried according to Islamic law

Oct 24, 08 3:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - The biggest mass prosecution of Islamist extremists in Saudi Arabian history is the latest clue that the kingdom’ anti-terror campaign in on track, the Economist reports. The Saudis plan to try 991 prisoners on charges ranging from committing terrorist violence to justifying it in religious sermons—and will do so... More »

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Saudi Arabia • jihad • Islamist • Islamist extremists • Wahhabism • al-Qaeda • Islamic terrorism

 Al-Qaeda Crows 
 About US 
 Credit Crisis 

Some supporters hope for McCain victory

Oct 22, 08 1:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Al-Qaeda websites are celebrating the crippling crisis sweeping the US economy and financial markets, with some internet postings crediting al-Qaeda for luring the nation into a war that has exhausted its resources, reports the Washington Post. Some writers are penning messages expressing hope for renewed terror attacks and a John... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • John McCain • Taliban • Internet • jihad • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda • defense spending • Islamic terrorism • Election 2008 • financial crisis • al-Hesbah • Site Intelligence Group

Al-Qaeda's Top Web Sites Disappear

Militants experiencing technical difficulties since hacker attack

Oct 18, 08 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - All but one of al-Qaeda’s main message boards have disappeared, the Washington Post reports, and militants seem unable to get them back online. All five major al-Qaeda portals went down September 10, putting the kibosh on the group’s much-hyped Sept. 11 anniversary video. Only one of the... More »

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Internet • propaganda • jihad • forums • message boards • US intelligence • hackers • al-Qaeda

 Strike Kills at Least 9 in 
 Pakistan Militant Stronghold 

US missiles thought to have hit both terrorists and children

Sep 8, 08 7:54 AM CDT
(AP) - Explosions reportedly caused by missiles fired from drone aircraft hit a house and seminary linked to a key Taliban commander in northwest Pakistan today, killing at least nine people, officials and witnesses said. The blasts took place in a militant stronghold in Pakistan's wild tribal belt, a possible hiding place... More »

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Pakistan • jihad • civilian casualties • US military • Osama bin Laden • Pakistan militants • missile strike

 Al-Qaeda Calls for Gaza War 

Message from Osama's deputy urges attack on 'treacherous regimes'

Jun 5, 08 3:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden's deputy has called on Muslims to launch a  holy war to break Israel's economic blockade of Gaza, reports AP. The call was issued in an 11-minute al-Qaeda audiotape by Ayman al-Zawahri, marking the anniversary of the loss of Gaza, the West Bank and the Golan Heights in... More »

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terrorism • Gaza • Palestine • jihad • Hamas • West Bank • Osama bin Laden • Islamic extremism • al-Qaeda • Gaza blockade • Islamic terrorism • Ayman al-Zawahiri

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