Iraq is stepping up the effort to take control of their country on many levels. First there is the grass roots effort to defend and fight the terrorists. Now there is the security forces efforts to do sweeps in Baghdad and other regions know to be collecting points for terrorists. Iraq’s interior minister said Monday […]

How can anyone take Germany seriously when people with clear terrorist ties to Al Quaeda keep getting released on technicalities? More evidence why the liberals are wrong to want to bring the EU model of justice to the US. KARLSRUHE, Germany : A suspected Al-Qaeda financier was freed from jail in Germany after the country’s […]

This is actually a good sign that the insurgents are having the opposite effect than what they want. While the media latches on to the calls for local militia (how is this different from local police and army populated by locals??), the core of this is Iraqis getting ready to fight back. BAGHDAD (Reuters) – […]

The Interior Minister of Iraq, Bayan Jabr, outlined Syria’s role in the insurgency during an interview in Turkey, calling on Syria to get serious with terrorists and their border. He also had some word for Jordan, but not so pointed. He said that insurgent leaders were in Syria “and I have addressees and pictures with […]

The terrorist group which claimed responsibility for the London bombings and is presumably tied to Al Quaeda is not giving an ultimatum to Italy. A fundamentalist Islamic group has given Italy an ultimatum to pull its troops out of Iraq within a month or face a terrorist campaign on its territory, Italian media reported Monday. […]

TigerHawk planned on a live blog of CNN’s special on Iraq and asked for assistance, so I am giving it a try. I will try and come through and italicize my comments vs what they are saying on CNN. Coming in 5-6 minutes late, the first thing I heard was a bogus claim that the […]

This is disturbing. I first saw it mentioned at Jawa Report but it was not presented seriously (which is not a hit on Rusty, I just did not think to read into it too far). Then I saw it at Evolutions and it became clear this is serious. The Anarchangel is apparently the target of […]

I have no idea how solid a source this site is, but it is intriguing that Bin Laden’s number two may have been trained by the KGB. Moscow: Russia’s secret agency Federal Security Service (FSB), formerly known as KGB, had imparted militant training to Ayman-al-Zawahiri, the number two in the terrorist organisation Al Qaeda after […]

This is a great news in the GWOT as Afghan, Pakistan and US forces take out up to 60 Taliban who stupidly must have been grouping to try and stop Afghan’s upcoming elections. Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:44 AM ET ISLAMABAD/KABUL (Reuters) – U.S., Afghan and Pakistani forces have killed more than 60 suspected Al-Qaeda […]

There are numerous indications support for Bin Laden, Al Quaeda and their tactics are beginning to see significant declines. First discussed here, and now discussed in Morocco – with a surprising uptick in favorable view of the US. A new poll shows that public support for Osama bin Laden and terrorism has sharply declined in […]