Roads to Iraq

This is reported on Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Chief Editor Bari Atwan is an expert on Al-Qaeda and he is one of three persons who met Bin Laden: A source close to the leadership of a local organization in Yemen affiliated with Al-Qaeda said that Al-Qaeda followers will implement a major operation against the United States, which is much bigger than the 11-September ...

This is on the Yemen News Agency in Arabic [not available in English yet] which gives more details on the Israeli-linked terror cell "Jihad Islami" [as I reported yesterday]: The cell contains six persons led by Imad Ali Said Al-Rooni aka "Abu Ghaith Al-Muqdad Al-Yamani". The cell has already sent a number of threats to Arab and foreign embassies in Yemen, ...

Article on the Egyptian newspaper Dostor noticed the following on Biden-Palin debate: About the third of the debate time they talked about Islam and the Middle East; the war in Iraq, Iran nuclear threats, Israel security and the struggle in Darfur. If they talk about Europe then it was Bosnia and not Russia. He asks: Why Arab regimes do not take advantage of ...

This is very funny and on every Dutch newspaper for two days, the founding father of the Netherlands "Willem van Oranje" = "William of Orange" converted to Islam two years before his death and called himself "Yusuf Ibrahim van Oranje Nassau" according to Dutch historian Jochem van den Berg.

For the first time in centuries a major split within the five Shiites supreme references took place about the exact time to celebrate Eid Al Fitr. Ayatollah Sistani decided that Thursday is the first day of Eid, while the four other Ayatollah announced that Wednesday [today] is the first day of the Eid. Seen as a first dispute among the Supreme Clerics ...

Egyptian writer Yhiya Fikri asks the question and his theory is that Musharraf of Pakistan confronted the Islamists and the Islamists fought back. As for Mubarak case, he confronted the Islamists [Muslim Brothers], prosecuted them, and jailed them. The Islamists just accepted the humiliation, although they were the most popular political movement in Egypt in 2005.

I think there is some truth in Tarik Ali's article "Has the U.S. Invasion of Pakistan Begun?" of 18 Sep. Is the Pakistani intelligence inviting the Americans to "tame" the Pakistani government. Worth to read Aljazeera's "Who was behind the Marriott blast?" first. Pakistani terrorism expert Misbahallah told Islam online about the huge differences between the Pakistani government and the ...

Sistani's official website hacked by a group call themselves Group XP. they put a American [Youtube] video mocks Sistani and a statement says that they were away from targeting Shiites websites because they were busy hacking some porn website run by Christians from Israel.

I bet people heard of the Saudi judge who ordered the kill the owners of satellite TV channels [mostly owned by Saudis]. Newspaper Al-Arab online wrote an article called "prices seek to get rid of the religious institution influence" The article says that the "kill order" and the critics is part of the struggle between the old Saudi religious institution and young ...

Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Watan says that Al-Qaeda released a book called “The Jihadi attack on Manhattan second by second”. The book contains details of the 9/11, preparation plan, images of the attackers, and detailed descriptions of the four airplanes….etc.