Iranian Warships Headed Towards U.S. Coast

Iranian Naval Warship Fleet Headed Towards U.S. Coast.

by, Reuters | Yahoo News

An Iranian naval officer said a number of warships had been ordered to approach U.S. maritime borders as a response to the stationing of U.S. vessels in the Gulf, the semi-official FARS news agency reported on Saturday.

“Iran’s military fleet is approaching the United States’ maritime borders, and this move has a message,” the agency quoted Admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad as saying.

Haddad, described as commander of the Iranian navy’s northern fleet, said the vessels had started their voyage towards the Atlantic Ocean via “waters near South Africa”, FARS reported.

FARS said the plan was part of “Iran’s response to Washington’s beefed up naval presence in the Persian Gulf.”

The FARS report, which carried no details of the vessels, could not be confirmed independently.

In Washington, a U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, cast doubt on any claims that the Iranian ships were approaching U.S. maritime borders. But the official added that “ships are free to operate in international waters.”

The United States and its allies regularly stage naval exercises in the Gulf, saying they want to ensure freedom of navigation in the waterway through which 40 percent of the world’s seaborne oil exports passes.

U.S. military facilities in the region include a base for its Fifth Fleet in the Gulf Arab kingdom of Bahrain.

Iran sees the Gulf as its own backyard and believes it has a legitimate interest in expanding its influence there.

Iranian officials have often said Iran could block the Strait of Hormuz, at the mouth of the Gulf, if it came under military attack over its disputed nuclear program, and the Western war games are seen in the region as an attempt to deter any such move.

FARS said the Iranian navy had been developing its presence in international waters since 2010, regularly launching vessels in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden to protect Iranian ships from Somali pirates operating in the area.

:گزارش به فارسی – Report in Persian:

source: Yahoo.com

Posted on 10 Feb by Sharia Unveiled

Legal Challenge Exposing Massive CAIR Fraud Scheme Awaiting Judge’s Ruling

Senior Cleric Warns: Terrorism to Spread to Washington, London, Riyadh

TEHRAN (FNA)- Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, a senior Iranian religious leader, condemned the massacre of Shiite Muslims in a terrorist attack in Pakistan which he said has been financed by the US and Saudi Arabia, and warned that the terrorism that these countries support will one day backfire and target Washington, London and Riyadh.

“A horrible crime has happened in Pakistan and a number of predator animals who are called Wahhabi Takfiris have detonated bombs in a Shiite convention and martyred 120 people and injured hundreds,” Makarem Shirazi said in the Central city of Qom on Wednesday. He blamed the US and Saudi officials for financing such crimes against the Shiite Muslims, and said, “Today this crime was committed in Quetta, Pakistan, and tomorrow it will be Washington’s, London’s, Egypt’s and even Saudi Arabia’s turn.” Makarem Shirazi also blasted the Pakistani government for it loose security measures in protection of the Shiite community in the country. A total of 129 people were killed and 280 wounded in three bomb attacks across Pakistan on Thursday. Ninety-two people were killed and 200 others wounded in a twin bombing that targeted Shiite Muslims in a crowded billiards hall in the western city of Quetta. Earlier in the day, 12 security forces were also killed in a bomb explosion at a security check point in the city. In another incident, a bomb detonated inside a mosque in the Swat Valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, northwest of Islamabad, leaving 25 Sunni Muslims dead and 80 others wounded.

Posted on 17 Jan 13 by FARS News Agency

Massive fraud, cover-up by CAIR exposed in federal lawsuit

November 26, 2012

By: Christopher Collins

Last Friday, the Law Offices of David Yerushalmi, P.C. and the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) said that they filed a devastating legal brief supported by hundreds of pages of evidence, asking a federal judge to find the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) liable to five of its former clients for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

In a release to the media today, AFLC stated:

“The legal brief demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt that CAIR is a criminal organization that deceptively holds itself out to the public as the nation’s largest Muslim-American civil rights organization.”

“The brief and supporting evidence were filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in two companion cases, Saiyed v. CAIR and Lopez v. CAIR, in which David Yerushalmi is lead counsel. The brief and supporting evidence overwhelmingly demonstrate that CAIR was involved in a massive criminal fraud and cover-up that injured numerous client-victims who had looked to CAIR for legal assistance, yet the CAIR “attorney” allegedly handling their cases was in fact not an attorney.”

Yerushalmi, who is also Co-Founder and Senior Counsel of AFLC, commented, “The evidence has long suggested that CAIR is an organization set up by the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas to further its aims of stealth Jihad in the United States,” referring to the fact that CAIR was named by the federal government as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial.

“According to the facts that are carefully laid out in our legal brief and fully supported by the record evidence,” Yerushalmi explained, “CAIR has engaged in a massive criminal fraud in which numerous CAIR clients have been victimized, and because of the CAIR cover-up many still don’t realize it. The fact that CAIR has victimized Muslims and non-Muslims alike demonstrate that it is only looking out for itself and its ongoing efforts to bilk donors out of millions of dollars of charitable donations thinking they are supporting a legitimate organization.”

AFLC went on to say that five former clients of CAIR filed the two lawsuits in federal court alleging common law and statutory fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and intentional infliction of emotional distress against CAIR. These two lawsuits followed an earlier lawsuit which had also alleged that CAIR’s fraudulent conduct amounted to racketeering, a federal RICO crime. In that case, the court dismissed the RICO counts, concluding that CAIR’s conduct as alleged was fraudulent but not a technical violation of RICO. The two civil lawsuits were filed by Yerushalmi on January 6, 2010, and because they arise out of the same facts, the cases were consolidated.

AFLC stated, “The supporting evidence, which was compiled after more than a year and a half of contentious discovery that involved numerous document requests, motions to compel the production of documents that CAIR was concealing, and multiple depositions of high-ranking CAIR officials, shows that Morris Days, the “Resident Attorney” and “Civil Rights Manager” at the now defunct CAIR-MD/VA chapter in Herndon, Virginia, was in fact not an attorney and that he failed to provide legal services for clients who came to CAIR for legal representation.

The evidence also shows that CAIR knew of this fraud and purposefully conspired with Days to keep the CAIR clients from discovering that their legal matters were being mishandled or not handled at all. While Yerushalmi and AFLC represent the five plaintiffs in these two lawsuits, three of whom are Muslim Americans, according to CAIR’s internal documents; there were many more victims of the CAIR fraud scheme.”

“As set forth in the court filings, CAIR knew or should have known that Days was not a lawyer when it hired him. But, like many organizations accused of wrongdoing, things got worse when CAIR officials were confronted with clear evidence of Days’ fraudulent conduct. Rather than come clean and attempt to rectify past wrongs, CAIR conspired with Days to conceal and further the fraud. To this end, CAIR officials purposefully concealed the truth about Days from the clients, law enforcement, and the media. When CAIR did receive calls from irate clients about Days’ failure to provide competent legal services, CAIR fraudulently deceived them about Days’ relationship with CAIR, suggesting that he was never actually employed by CAIR.”

Robert Muise, co-counsel in the lawsuit and Co-Founder and Senior Counsel of AFLC, commented, “The overwhelming evidence marshaled in this case will finally put to rest the myth fabricated by CAIR’s PR machine and perpetrated by a complicit media that this is a legitimate Muslim-American civil rights organization.”

“This lawsuit strips away CAIR’s veil of legitimacy.”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its sister organization, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), have been controversial over the years and recently were systematically involved in the 2012 presidential elections in getting American Muslims out to vote for President Obama in the swing states of Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Those states election results became controversial due to voter irregularities and allegations of voter fraud in favor of President Obama.

Posted on 26 Nov 12 by Examiner.com

Al Qaeda 3.0: Terrorism’s Emergent New Power Bases

Homeland Security NTARC News | 12/3/2012

Under siege by drones in Pakistan and Yemen, al Qaeda 3.0 has exploited the Arab Awakening to create its largest safe havens and operational bases in more than a decade across the Arab world. This may prove to be the most deadly al Qaeda yet.

The first generation was the original band in Afghanistan created by Osama bin Laden in the 1990s. The second emerged after 9/11 when the group resurfaced in Pakistan and then across the Muslim world. Now a third iteration can be discerned in the wake of bin Laden’s death and the Arab Awakening.

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Posted on 3 Dec 12 by National Terror Alert Response Center

Al-Qaeda’s Child Soldiers

November 23, 2012 By Frank Crimi

Al-Qaeda’s longstanding use of children to wage jihad was on display in a recent video showing boys as young as five training with assault rifles and handguns at a terrorist training camp.

The video of the gun-toting, prepubescent jihadists was reportedly filmed by the Al-Qaeda-linked East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) at one of the terror group’s training camps in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region.

Since 1990 the ETIM, which has been fighting to create an independent Islamic state in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, has not only committed more than 200 acts of worldwide terrorism but has trained scores of jihadists to fight alongside al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

Like father like son, many of the young boys in the ETIM camp were reportedly orphans of slain al-Qaeda fighters coerced by their malevolent elders into carrying on their families’ jihadi business.

It should be noted that the use of child combatants is a worldwide plague practiced by a wide array of government, militant, insurgent and terrorist forces. In fact, it is estimated that most of the 300,000 boys and girls involved in the over 30 ongoing conflicts worldwide are less than 15 years of age.

Most of these child soldiers are either forcibly recruited — abducted at school, on the streets or at home — or have joined “voluntarily,” driven to enlist by a need to escape crushing poverty.

While some end up in government armed forces and civil militia, most find themselves serving in nongovernmental forces, such as terrorist and insurgent groups, with their combatant roles relegated to such activities as armed fighters, messengers, domestic workers and sexual slaves.

Yet, not surprisingly, al-Qaeda, the Taliban and its Islamist allies have taken their use of child combatants to a completely new and ruthless level, disregard that finds its expression in forced indoctrination and training that includes, among other things, using children as suicide bombers.

For example, al-Qaeda and the Taliban have constructed and operated a slew of suicide training facilities in Afghanistan and Pakistan, death factories that have trained over 5,000 Pakistani children, many as young as eight, as suicide bombers.

The Islamist predilection for using children as human explosives can best be explained by the unfortunate fact that children make particularly good suicide terror candidates given that, according to one US intelligence report, “they are more willing to martyr themselves due to their lack of reasoning on taking innocent lives.”

That willingness to die is exploited by the Islamists through a variety of ways, including desensitization and brainwashing. As one Afghan official noted, “They are made to watch video films, showing physical torture and killing of Muslims women and children …by what they call infidels.”

Juvenile bombers are also told that great rewards are earned for performing such deadly deeds. As one youthful captured suicide bomber said, he was told by his instructors that as a good Muslim he had a duty to defend Islam and that “as soon as I blow myself up, I will be in heaven and will get eternal peace.”

For those who chafe at the idea of self-slaughter, the terrorists rely on the threat and use of violence to ensure compliance. Not surprisingly, the need to resort to violence to guarantee obedience comes from the fact that many child recruits don’t come to the jihad willingly, but are the victims of kidnapping by the terrorists.

That type of forced coercion has been disturbingly demonstrated by al-Shabab, Somalia’s notorious Al-Qaeda-linked terror group that has gained a well deserved reputation for brutality in its efforts to remake Somalia into a Sharia-run Islamist state.

Specifically, an al-Shabab child terrorist training school was discovered earlier in 2012 by Somali government forces in the capital of Mogadishu. There, young children, all under 10-years-old, were found chained to beds where they were instructed in carrying out suicide bombings and other types of “martyrdom-operations.”

Of course, al-Shabab has found other creative uses for its underage recruits, some of whom are as young as seven years of age. After spending up to three months learning how to use heavy weaponry, including AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades, graduates are sent to the frontline to serve as human shields to protect adult fighters.

Like most Islamist terror groups, al-Shabab either abducts its child recruits from their homes and schools or entices them by offers of free food and gifts. In some cases, however, the Islamists take advantage of a child’s grinding poverty by paying for his services.

In northern Mali, for example, Ansar Dine, the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb have paid over 1,000 children up to $30 a day and $400 a month to join their forces.

The use of child combatants is also gaining in popularity in Syria where a report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry found the rebel Free Syrian Army, laden with Islamist and al-Qaeda-linked terror organizations, forcibly recruiting children, some as young as eight-years-old, into their ranks.

Yet, as horrific as life is for a child ensconced inside the ranks of an Islamist terror outfit, children outside their deadly confines can still find themselves unsuspectingly used for lethal operations.

In one such particular case in July 2012, members of al-Qaeda in Yemen asked a 12-year-old boy to deliver a packaged gift to his father, a tribal sheik who was an outspoken opponent of the terrorist group. When the boy entered his house, he was killed instantly when the package exploded.

Sadly, the appetite by Islamist terror groups for child soldiers doesn’t appear to be satiating anytime soon given the favorable cost-benefit ratio their use entails.

As Abdul Rahman Barman, a Yemeni lawyer and child rights activist, has explained, “Children and adolescents can be managed easily and can be recruited to carry out terrorist acts at a lower cost because it is enough to tell them that they will end up in paradise to encourage them to die while conducting a terrorist operation.”

Unfortunately for these children, the gruesome reality of their violent deaths will most definitely trump the empty promise of the jihadist paradise painted by their heinous guardians.

Posted on 23 Nov 12 by Front Page Magazine

Four Men Charged for Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Terrorism

FBI Los Angeles November 19, 2012

Public Affairs Specialist Laura Eimiller (310) 996-3343

RIVERSIDE COUNTY—Four men have been charged for their roles in a plot to provide material support to terrorists by making arrangements to join al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan in order to kill, among others, American targets, announced André Birotte, Jr., the United States Attorney in Los Angeles, and Bill Lewis, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office.

According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in the Central District of California, the defendants conspired to provide material support to terrorists in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2339A, knowing or intending that such support was to be used in preparation for or in carrying out:

• conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim, or injure persons and damage property in a foreign country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 956;
• killing and attempting to kill officers and employees of the United States, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1114;
• killing nationals of the United States, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2332(b);
• conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction outside the United States, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2332a(b);
• and bombing places of public use and government facilities, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2332f.

The defendants, listed below, are also known by alias identities listed in the criminal complaint.

• Sohiel Omar Kabir, 34, a former resident of Pomona and naturalized United States citizen, born in Afghanistan
• Ralph Deleon, 23, of Ontario, a lawful permanent resident alien, born in the Philippines
• Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales (further described herein and in the criminal complaint as “Santana”), 21, of Upland, a lawful permanent resident, born in Mexico and whose application for citizenship is pending in the United States
• Arifeen David Gojali, 21, of Riverside, a United States citizen

The complaint, which was unsealed today during the defendants’ initial appearance in U.S. District Court, alleges that in 2010, Kabir introduced Deleon and Santana to radical and violent Islamic doctrine and various extremist material, including essays and lectures by now-deceased al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader, Anwar Al-Awlaqi. Kabir traveled overseas in December 2011 and later to Afghanistan in July 2012, where he continued to communicate with Santana and DeLeon to arrange for their travel to join him in Afghanistan, according to the complaint. The complaint alleges that Kabir told Santana and Deleon that he had made contacts with individuals who have connections to terrorist organizations. Kabir further said that he would wait for their arrival before departing to a training location in Afghanistan and that, when they arrived, they would meet “the students” and “the professors.” According to the complaint, the term “students” referred to the Taliban and the term “professors” referred to al Qaeda.

The complaint alleges that Santana and Deleon told a confidential source working for the FBI, identified in the complaint as the “CS,” that they planned to travel to Afghanistan to engage in “violent jihad.” In addition, the defendants described potential targets for violent attacks, including overseas American military personnel and bases, according to the complaint. Evidence in this case demonstrates that the defendants used the word “jihad” to refer to armed combat, according to the complaint.

According to the complaint, the defendants both discussed the plot among themselves and with the confidential source. The various conversations detail the defendants’ plans to travel overseas to attend terrorist training, as well as to kill American soldiers and others. In one discussion with the FBI confidential source, Santana and Deleon discussed their preferred roles in carrying out attacks. For example, Santana stated that he had experience with firearms and that he wanted to become a sniper. Deleon stated he wanted to be on the front lines with a second choice of explosives. Both men also indicated they were willing to kill an enemy.

In September 2012, Deleon and Santana recruited defendant Gojali to join them and to travel overseas to commit violent jihad, as alleged in the complaint. The complaint further alleges that defendants Santana, Deleon, and Gojali made plans to join Kabir in Afghanistan to attend terrorist training, and that they arranged travel logistics, including flight arrangements and required documentation. The complaint details the defendants’ activity in raising funds for their travel to Afghanistan and their discussion of various cover stories and code words they could use to conceal their true intentions when traveling abroad. The complaint further alleges that Santana, Deleon, and Gojali conducted preliminary training in southern California at firearms and paintball facilities to prepare for terrorist training overseas.

Defendants Santana, Deleon, and Gojali were apprehended on Friday without incident by members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force and had their initial appearance before a federal magistrate this afternoon in U.S. District Court in Riverside, California. Santana and Deleon were remanded to federal custody and Gojali’s detention hearing was continued to Monday, November 26. Kabir is in custody in Afghanistan.

If convicted, the defendants face a statutory maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison.

This case is a continuing investigation by the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in Riverside, California. The Riverside JTTF is comprised of members from the following agencies: Riverside County Sheriff’s Office; Riverside Police Department; San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department; Beaumont Police Department; Ontario Police Department; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI); the United States Attorney’s Office; and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

This case will be prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, with assistance from the Counter-terrorism Section of the Justice Department’s National Security Division.

A criminal complaint contains allegations that a defendant has committed a crime. Every defendant is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty in court.

Posted on 19 Nov 12 by the FBI

The Rise of An Islamic State Under Obama

By Ted on November 7, 2012 in General

By Theodore Shoebat

Last night, hours before the election, Bill O’Reilly made a statement which, in many ways, foreshadowed the results of the election:

The demographics are changing. It’s not a traditional America anymore. And there are 50 percent of the voting public who want stuff. They want things. And who is going to give them things? President Obama. He knows it. And he ran on it.

With much of the population being pacified and babied, their apathy for the Middle East will be the cause of the swelling and spread of Islamic fundamentalism, because they’d rather have a welfare state then a more secure world.

Obama’s re-election has caused a major boost in confidence for countries like Britain and France in their wanting to topple Assad. But, it has also given confidence to Turkey, in their desire to oust out Assad; but the goal of the Turks is to conquer Syria, in order to revive the Ottoman empire.

A little while back, I reported on the Turkish plan to revive the Ottoman empire, and that Syria will be a primary target for the expansion of their universal empire. Syrian Ambassador to Tehran Hamed al-Hassan, had this to say:

Turkey is trying to reconstruct the Ottoman Empire in the region … “When Turkey’s Justice and Development Party won the Turkish parliamentary elections, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan presented his party’s victory to the people of Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Central Asia, and the Balkans which were once parts of the Ottoman Empire

Now with Obama re-elected, the Turks, England and France, will be pushing the U.S. more than ever to push for the ousting of Assad, with the help of NATO forces. That this is Obama’s second term makes this situation even more dangerous, because the president now has nothing to loose, since he does not have to worry about campaigning for a subsequent victory. His actions can be reckless, without the danger of not getting re-elected.

Expect to see Obama’s actions on the Middle East to be reckless, and the cause of chaos. We must expect to see the rise of Turkey following the future fall of Assad thanks to the U.S., Western allies, and NATO. With Assad gone, Turkey will then gradually take power over Syria.

Syria will be the first nation to go under Turkish rule because of its closeness, and the expediency of invading such a country, on account that Turkey is trusted by the West, and that Syria will voluntarily allow itself to be under the power of Turkey to fill its absence of a strong enough government. Though, I believe that before this occurs, Syria will be under the Muslim Brotherhood.

This will give rise to a Turkish superpower, which will ultimately expand throughout the Near East, which will pose a threat to the West and Israel.

The fall of Syria, and the rise of Turkey will be the result of Obama’s re-election.

Within hours of Obama’s second victory, Western allies had already designed a development for Syria, expecting a much more aggressive approach to Syria by the president. England and Turkey are already discussing the use of NATO against Bashar al-Assad, expecting more support from Obama.

British Prime Minister David Cameron stated that

There is an opportunity for Britain, for America, for Saudi Arabia, Jordan and like-minded allies to come together and try to help shape the opposition, outside Syria and inside Syria … And try to help them achieve their goal, which is our goal of a Syria without Assad.

Turkey is working with rebel groups, stating that NATO has discussed on using Patriot missiles to protect a supposed safe zone inside Syria.

Shashank Joshi, an analyst at London’s Royal United Services Institute, a military and security think tank, made a statement indicating the confidence felt by Western forces in their plan to oust Assad, on account of Obama re-election:

With the re-election of Obama, what you have is a strong confidence on the British side that the U.S. administration will be engaged more on Syria from the get-go

According to British Foreign Secretary William Hague, American, British, French, and Turkish diplomats are already scheduled to meet with Syrian rebel groups in Doha, Qatar.

David Cameron also said that he will press Obama to try and end the Syrian revolution.

As I have reported numerous times, the Syrian revolution is not peaceful, nor is it for the cause of peace and democracy, but for the establishment of a Islamic state in Syria, and primarily, for the configuring of a Caliphate. This recent video says it all:

A couple of months ago, I did an interview on the TV show Decision Point, in which was played a documentary I made on the Syrian revolution. Watch it, and see the carnage this demonic revolution has brought:

When the emotions of ecstasy from the Obama supporters subside, and an Islamic state arises, hopefully the insanity which has brought Obama into office will be cured, and the America of Bill O’Reilly’s time will revive.

Theodore Shoebat is the author of the book, For God or For Tyranny

Posted on 7 Nov 12 by Shoebat Foundation

International Institute for Counter-Terrorism ICT Database Report: July 2012

The following is a summary and analysis of the terrorist attacks and counter-terrorism operations that occurred during the month of July 2012, researched and recorded by the ICT database team. Important events this month included the following:

• On 1 July, 17 people were killed and 60 others injured when armed militants carried out a coordinated attack on two churches in Garissa, Kenya.
• On 5 July, six people were arrested on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack in London, UK.
• British traffic police discovered a car filled with explosives, leading to a major counter- terrorist operation between 3-5 July, resulting in the arrests of seven people in the UK.
• On 7 July, a Swedish Lebanese man, 24, was arrested in Limassol, Cyprus on suspicion of collecting information on Israeli flights to Cyprus and bus tours catering to Israeli tourists.
• On 11 July, six rubber plantation workers were killed and 27 others injured when suspected Abu Sayyaf gunmen ambushed a vehicle transporting them to work in Basilan, Philippines.
• On 12 July, nine police and prison trainee staff were killed and nine others injured by Tehrik-i-Taliban gunmen who attacked a police academy in Lahore, Pakistan.
• On 14 July, 23 people were killed and 60 wounded when a suicide bomber attacked the wedding reception of the daughter of a prominent politician in Samangan, Afghanistan.
• On 15 July, armed police in Edinburgh, UK arrested ETA militant Benat Atorrasagasti Ordonez, 36, more than 10 years after he went on the run.
• On 18 July, six people were killed and 32 others injured when a suspected suicide bomber detonated a bomb on a bus full of Israeli tourists at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria.
• On 18 July, an explosion in the National Security Building on Rawda Square in Damascus, Syria killed three of President Assad’s senior aides and injured several of his advisors.
• On 23 July, 113 people were killed and 299 injured in a series of coordinated attacks in Iraq.
• On 27 July, the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem posted a video online in which it again claimed responsibility for a cross-border attack on 18 June 2012.

EUROPE

Bulgaria

On 18 July, six people were killed and 32 others injured when a suspected suicide bomber detonated a bomb inside his rucksack on a bus full of Israeli tourists at Burgas Airport. Amongst the casualties was the Bulgarian bus driver. The bus was carrying 42 Israelis who had arrived on a flight from Tel Aviv from the airport to their hotels. [i] Bulgarian authorities initially said that the explosion was caused by a bomb in the bus’s luggage compartment. However, further investigation determined that a male suicide bomber had carried out the attack. Some aspects of the attack seemed unusual for a suicide attack: the attacker was carrying false US documents and wearing a wig, which may have indicated that he wished to disguise his identity to evade being caught after escaping the scene of the attack, suggesting that he may not have intended this to be a suicide mission. It was also strange that he was carrying identification with his photograph, as suicide attackers do not usually carry identification. [ii] CCTV footage showed the unidentified bomber, who had a Western appearance, wandering around the airport terminal building for over an hour before he boarded the bus. CCTV clearly showed the suspect carrying an oversized bag that, in hindsight, security officials believe contained three kilograms of TNT explosives. Police did not identify the suspect but said he was 36 years old, and had been in the country between four and seven days before the attack. [iii] Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu blamed Iran for the attack, and linked the attacker to Hezbollah. A senior Israeli official said that the attack was part of an intensive wave of terrorist attacks around the world carried out by the Iranian Quds Force, an elite international operations unit within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards, and by Hezbollah. [iv] On 21 July, a previously-unknown terrorist group allegedly tied to global jihad and calling itself Base of Jihad [Qaedat Al-Jihad] sent a statement to local media claiming responsibility for the attack; this claim was not verified by the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry. [v] Bulgarian security authorities were reportedly searching for additional suspects involved in the bombing. [vi] The explosion coincided with the 18th anniversary of an attack on a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in which 85 people were killed.[vii]

Cyprus

On 7 July, a 24-year-old Swedish citizen of Lebanese origin was arrested in the southern city of Limassol in connection with gathering information on Israeli flights to Cyprus and bus tours catering to Israeli tourists. [viii] Cyprus state television said the authorities had acted on an intelligence tip from Israeli agents. Police believe the suspect arrived on the island on 5 July to plan and orchestrate the blowing up of a plane or a bus. Cypriot security forces raided the suspect’s hotel and arrested him in his room. According to local media, detailed notes about Israeli aircraft were found in the suspect’s possession. [ix] Initially, the arrest was not made public; the suspect was brought before a local court in a closed hearing that extended his detention for five days. His detention was again extended in a second court hearing, this time for a week. According to local media, the suspect initially denied any involvement in terrorist activity, but after intensive questioning admitted to being a member of Hezbollah. [x] Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu blamed Iran for the foiled attack. [xi]

France

On 4 July, ETA member Juan Maria Mugica was arrested as he was driving a car in the town of Mauleon, in southwest France. He was not armed and offered no resistance. He was allegedly linked to a planned missile attack on former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar in 2001. [xii] Mugica had previously escaped a police raid in 2010 in Lizarta, in Spain’s Basque region, in which the ETA cell of which Murgica was a member was dismantled. The cell was suspected of transporting material for attacks, including a missile from France to the Spanish town of Hernani. According to the Spanish Interior Ministry, the cell’s leaders had ordered Mugica to fire the missile at a plane carrying Prime Minister Aznar to Bilbao, but the attack never took place. Since 2010, a European arrest warrant had been pending for Mugica for his membership in ETA and for possessing weapons and explosives. [xiii]

Kosovo

On 3 July, five people whose identities were not released to the public were arrested on terrorism charges. They were accused of attacking a Serbian police checkpoint at the eastern boundary between Kosovo and Serbia on 28 June 2012, wounding one Serbian policeman lightly. The suspects, all citizens of Kosovo, were arrested by European police. Two of the suspects remained in custody while the other three were divested of their travel documents and ordered to report regularly to police. [xiv]

United Kingdom

On 5 July, five men and a woman were arrested in London on suspicion of committing, preparing, or instigating acts of terrorism. Eight residences and one business were searched in the raid, [xv] which was carried out by counter-terrorism officers and MI5 agents investigating a suspected plot against targets in Britain (not threatening the Olympic or Paralympic Games). [xvi] Three of the men, brothers named Jahangir Alom, 26, Mohammed Alomgir, 24, and Moybur Alom, 18 – were seized at an address in East London.  [xvii] The eldest, Jahangir, who also uses the alias Abu Khalid, was a Metropolitan community support officer between May 2007 and September 2009. In 2010, he appeared in a YouTube video to explain why he had stopped being a police officer and had become an Islamic fundamentalist. Mohammed Alomgir, 24, was zapped with a police Taser gun during the arrest, but did not require hospital treatment. Scotland Yard said armed officers had been deployed during the arrest, an unusual tactic indicative of the risk counter-terrorism chiefs thought officers faced in detaining the suspects. [xviii] Another man, identified as Richard Dart, 29, a Muslim convert who uses the name Salahuddin Al-Britani, was arrested by police officers on the street in Ealing, West London – an atypical move. Dart had been radicalized by Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary, and was known to authorities for supporting the implementation of Shari’a [Islamic law] in the UK. Dart was featured in a YouTube video criticizing the Royal Family and British military action in Muslim countries. [xix] Police also arrested a 21-year-old man and a woman, 30, at separate residences. [xx] On 6 July, a seventh suspect – a woman, 22, was arrested in East London under the Terrorism Act 2000 on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. [xxi]

British traffic police routinely stopped a car on 30 June 2012 on the M1 motorway after becoming suspicious that it was being driven without insurance. The driver and passenger were released, but the vehicle was impounded and taken for investigation. Two days later, on 2 July, investigators discovered firearms and ammunition hidden inside the car; this led to a major anti-terrorism operation. On 3 July, three men in their 20s, the driver and passenger apparently among them, were arrested in Birmingham. Three further arrests were made across the West Midlands on 4 July. Finally, on 5 July, a seventh man, 43, was arrested in West Yorkshire. Police said they had recovered two non-automatic guns and a small amount of ammunition. It is not clear whether a terrorist attack was imminent, but police believe the plot had progressed beyond the planning stage. Police said the arrests were not connected to the Olympics, nor were they linked to the arrests made in London on the same day. [xxii] On 10 July, the three men arrested in Birmingham were accused under the Terrorism Act 2006 in Westminster magistrates’ court of preparing an act or acts of terrorism, including manufacturing an improvised explosive device and acquiring firearms, other weapons, and vehicles connected with an alleged plan to target the anti-Islamic group, the English Defense League. [xxiii] The men were identified as Jewel Uddin, 26, Omar Mohammed Khan, 27, and Mohammed Hasseen, 23. [xxiv] On 31 July, Uddin, Khan and Hasseen appeared along with Anzal Hussain, 24, and Mohammed Saud and Zohaib Ahmed, both 22, via video link for a preliminary hearing at the Old Bailey, at which they were charged under Section 5(1) of the Terrorism Act 2006 of preparing an act or acts of terrorism between 1 May and 4 July 2012, including the manufacture of an improvised explosive device, the acquisition of firearms and other weapons, and the purchase of motor vehicles connected with the charges. The men spoke only to confirm their identities and were remanded in custody ahead of a hearing in January 2013. [xxv]

On 15 July, armed police in Edinburgh arrested ETA militant Benat Atorrasagasti Ordonez, 36, after more than 10 years as a fugitive. According to Spain’s Interior Ministry, Atorrasagasti Ordonez, who had been on Spain’s most-wanted list since 2008, had been living in a rented property in Edinburgh with his family for ‘some time’. Authorities claimed that Atorrasagasti Ordonez, originally from San Sebastian, joined ETA in 1996, forging documents and smuggling people and weapons between France and Spain. [xxvi] A statement from the Spanish Interior Ministry said Atorrasagasti Ordonez went on the run in 2001, after the Civil Guard broke up the cell with which he was affiliated. After escaping to France that year, he joined ETA there. His fingerprints have been found on material taken in several police raids; in 2008, he was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison by a court in Paris. [xxvii] His arrest was a joint operation of Spain’s Civil Guard and Lothian and Borders Police. [xxviii]

On 17 July, Shasta Khan, 38, was jailed for eight years after being convicted of conspiring with her husband Mohammed Sajid Khan to bomb Jewish targets in Manchester. [xxix] She appeared at Manchester Crown Court, where she was convicted of engaging in preparation for acts of terrorism and two counts of possessing a record of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism. She denied the charges. Her husband pleaded guilty to engaging in preparation for acts of terrorism, and was given an indeterminate sentence, of which he must serve a minimum of seven and a half years before he can be considered eligible for parole. [xxx] In July 2011, authorities discovered a cache of terrorism-related material after being called to a domestic dispute at the couple’s home. [xxxi] The couple was allegedly radicalized in 2010-2011 by Al-Qaeda’s Internet propaganda, such as the English-language Inspire magazine, which regularly prints instructions for bomb assembly. Police said the couple had carried out “multiple reconnaissance” trips to the Jewish community, but had yet to choose a specific target. [xxxii]

AFRICA

Kenya

On 1 July, masked militants armed with grenades and rifles carried out a coordinated attack on two churches in the northern city Garissa, killing 17 people and injuring 60 others. [xxxiii] Police said seven gunmen carried out the attack; all of them managed to escape arrest. In the first attack, two policemen were shot outside one of the churches, and grenades were then thrown inside. As the worshippers tried to escape the gunmen fired on them, killing at least ten people. Then, in the second attack, three people were injured when two grenades were thrown inside a second church. One grenade exploded, causing injuries, but the second grenade failed to explode. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities suspect Boko Haram. [xxxiv]

On 24 July, Ahmed Mohamed and Said Mausoud, two Iranian terrorism suspects accused of being in possession of 15kg of RDX explosives, went on trial in Nairobi. The men were arrested on 20 June 2012 in Mombasa on suspicion of planning to detonate as many as 30 different bombs targeting British, US, Israeli, and Saudi interests, including prominent commercial and government buildings across Kenya. Both men denied the charges against them. According to Kenyan authorities, the suspects did admit membership in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force. Although it initially released the suspects on bail, the Nairobi court cancelled bail at the request of the state prosecutor; the suspects have been remanded pending the conclusion of their trial. [xxxv]

MIDDLE EAST

Iraq

On 3 July, a string of deadly attacks occurred throughout Iraq. [xxxvi] In Diwaniyah, a truck with a powerful bomb hidden in its cargo of watermelons exploded near a Shiite mosque, killing 40 people and injuring more than 100 others. In Karbala, a holy Shiite city in the south, two homemade “sticky bombs” were attached to two parked vehicles and detonated separately in a vegetable market, killing six people and wounding more than 29 others. Authorities announced a partial curfew, and said they had blocked all entrances to the city as they searched for more explosives. [xxxvii] In Taji, north of Baghdad, explosions killed two and wounded more than 15 others. Near the city of Baquba, Diyala Province, gunmen killed a soldier and police officer; later, the bodies of two people who had been shot in the head were found in a field. [xxxviii]

On 23 July, a series of deadly attacks occurred throughout Iraq, killing approximately 113 people and wounding 299 others. Authorities called this the worst violence since 2010. [xxxix] One of the most terrible attacks occurred when insurgents charged an army post near Dhuluiya, 45 miles north of Baghdad, killing 16 soldiers. In Taji, seven bombs were detonated, killing a total of 48 and leaving scores injured. Explosions also occurred in Sadr City, as well as in Kirkuk, Mosul, Samarra, Dujail, Khan Bani Saad City, Tuz Khormato, and Diwaniyah. Militants also attacked various army checkpoints in Diyala Province. [xl] On 25 July, The Islamic State of Iraq claimed responsibility for the attacks. [xli]

On 31 July, 19 people were killed, at least five of them policemen, and 50 were wounded, ten of them police officers, in two explosions in Baghdad. [xlii] The explosions occurred within minutes of each other in the central Shiite district of Karrada in the middle of afternoon rush hour. The first bomb exploded outside a restaurant and a bakery in Al-Andalus Square, and the second outside a court opposite a major police headquarters. Many cars in the area were destroyed. According to Iraq’s Interior Ministry, the first attack was carried out by a suicide bomber; however, local TV news channel Al-Sharqiya reported that both attacks were suicide bombings. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, but authorities accused Al-Qaeda in Iraq and its affiliates. [xliii]

Israel and the West Bank

On 27 July, the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem posted a video online taking responsibility for an attack on 18 June 2012.The video featured Khalid Salah Abd Al-Hadi Jadallah (aka Abu Salah Al-Masri) and Adi Saleh Abdallah Al-Fudhayli Al-Hadhl (aka Abu Hudhayfa Al-Hudhali), who said they had carried out the attack. Dressed in military attire, they are shown choosing an Israeli security patrol and a border town as the targets of their attack, which they said was meant to avenge “Muslims’ blood”; they dedicated the attack to Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri. The video also showed the attackers planning their attack using a model of the Sinai Peninsula; receiving training in bomb-making; and learning how to use live ammunition in the desert. Egyptian security officials, who offered little information about the group, said it was unclear where this training had taken place. [xliv]

Syria

On 18 July, three people were killed when a bomb exploded in the National Security Building in Damascus. Amongst those killed were three of President Assad’s senior aides; several others were injured. The building housed a research center run by the National Security Agency, one of many overlapping intelligence agencies. [xlv]

The attack occurred during a meeting of cabinet ministers and senior security officials. Syrian state media reported that Dawoud Rajiha, the Syrian Minister of Defense, was killed along with Deputy Vice President Hasan Turkmani and Assef Shawkat, Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law and Deputy Defence Minister. Several other senior officials were seriously injured, including Interior Minister Mohammad Ibrahim Al-Shaar and the country’s Intelligence Chief Hisham Bekhtyar, who died two days after the attack. [xlvi] The government said the attack was perpetrated by a suicide bomber who had worked as a bodyguard for members of President Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle. However, the Free Syrian Army, which claimed responsibility for the attack, said it had involved a remotely-detonated explosive. [xlvii] The group Liwa Al-Islam (Lord of the Martyrs Brigade) and the Free Syrian Army both claimed responsibility for the bombing. [xlviii]

Yemen

On 11 July, eight people were killed and 15 injured in a suicide bombing that targeted a police academy in Sanaa. [xlix] Authorities said the bomber detonated his explosives among a large crowd of cadets as they left the academy after classes had finished for the day. Initial reports put the death toll at 20, but it was later revised down. Local media said it was unclear whether the suicide bomber had been on a motorcycle or on foot, walking among the cadets. Reports added that the suicide bomber did not die immediately, but was evacuated to the hospital severely injured. According to authorities, before the bomber died he told medical staff he was affiliated with Al-Qaeda and came from Amran, a town 70 km north of Sanaa. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed responsibility for the attack. [l]

On 22 July, the Yemen Interior Ministry said it had foiled a terrorist plot against military and security installations and checkpoints, which was to have been carried out by militants disguised in military uniforms. [li] On 23 July, security forces discovered and defused a bomb at the entrance to an intelligence services building in Aden. The bomb was attached to a cell phone with an alarm timed to explode during a scheduled meeting of senior intelligence and anti-terrorism officers of the southern military region. There were no casualties, and no group took responsibility for the plot; the authorities blamed Al-Qaeda. [lii]

NORTH AMERICA

Canada

On 15 July, Quebec resident Mouna Diab, 26, renowned for fighting the stereotyping of Muslims, was charged with attempting to smuggle assault weapons to Hezbollah. [liii] She was arrested on 19 May 2011, after firearm parts were found in her luggage at Montreal Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau Airport, and charged with violating a Canadian-backed international arms embargo on Lebanon. She was also charged under Canada’s post-9/11 anti-terrorism laws with acting for “the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a terrorist group”. [liv] Authorities alleged that Diab had been sending firearms parts with people from her community who were traveling to Lebanon; the victims were unaware of the contents of the parcels she had given them. [lv] Diab is the first woman charged under Canada’s anti-terrorism laws. [lvi]

USA

On 31 July, Shaker Masri, 28, pleaded guilty in a New York court to membership in Somalia’s Al-Shabab Al-Mujahedeen. Masri was arrested in August 2010 as he was preparing to leave for Somalia to join Al-Shabab. He admitted to FBI agents that he had been plotting to raise the funds he needed to engage in jihad in either Somalia or Afghanistan. He also allegedly told an informant that he admired Anwar Al-Awlaki, who was killed in a US drone attack in 2011 and who was credited with inspiring the Fort Hood, Texas, shootings and the failed Christmas Day bombing of a jetliner approaching Detroit. [lvii] Masri faced a maximum of 15 years in prison, but because of his guilty plea is likely to face only 10 years in prison if convicted. The full details of his plea bargain have not been made public. Shaker Masri will be formally sentenced on 16 October 2012. [lviii]

SOUTH AMERICA

On 4 July, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels attacked an oil well in the southern Putumayo Department near the border with Ecuador, killing five workers and injuring three others. According to the Colombian Army, the five oil workers, who were contractors for the state oil company Ecopetrol, were killed by explosives and small arms fire. [lix]

ASIA

Afghanistan

On 8 July, Afghan authorities said roadside bombs and insurgent attacks killed 23 people in the Arghistan district near the Pakistani border. Amongst the casualties were 14 civilians, five policemen, and one member of the US-led international military coalition in southern Afghanistan. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Authorities said one bomb exploded when a minivan drove over it during the morning, and a second bomb exploded when other civilians, who were riding on a tractor, arrived to help the dead and wounded. Five policemen were killed and three others were injured while responding to a gun battle against Taliban insurgents at a checkpoint in the Musa Qala district of Helmand Province. Afghan police called for reinforcements, but the five policemen were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb. The bodies of 20 insurgents were recovered from the battlefield. [lx]

On 14 July, 23 people were killed and 60 were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt at a wedding reception in the northern province of Samangan for the daughter of Ahmad Khan Samangani, a prominent politician. Samagani was amongst the casualties. The Taliban denied responsibility for the attack. [lxi]

Pakistan

On 6 July, 18 people were killed and two wounded when a group of men on motorcycles opened fire on three vehicles filled with travelers attempting to cross the border into Iran from Turbat, in Baluchistan Province. [lxii] Local media reported that the assailants forced the travelers to disembark before being shot. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. [lxiii]

On 12 July, nine police and prison trainee staff were killed and nine others injured by Tehrik-i-Taliban gunmen who attacked a police academy in Lahore. The victims were mainly from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa near the Afghan border. [lxiv] Approximately 10 masked gunmen reportedly arrived on motorcycles and stormed a rented building in the Rasool Park area where the trainees were staying. All those killed were training to be prison guards. The militants were armed with Kalashnikov rifles and hand grenades. [lxv] The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility, and threatened further attacks, which they said were motivated by [a desire to avenge] the poor treatment of prison detainees. [lxvi]

Philippines

On 11 July, six rubber plantation workers were killed and 27 others were injured when gunmen ambushed a vehicle transporting them to work in Sumisip, Basilan. The militants demanded an initial bribery payment of P300,000 and a monthly protection fee of P100,000, which the plantation workers were unable to pay. [lxvii] Although no group took responsibility for the attack, authorities suspected the Abu Sayyaf group. [lxviii] On 27 July, clashes that erupted when Philippine troops attacked an Abu Sayyaf encampment on Basilan Island’s Sumisip Township left 12 soldiers and four militants dead. The militants fired at an army outpost in the same township and ambushed two groups of troops sent to back up the forces there. No one was killed at the outpost, but four of the reinforcement troops were killed en route. The authorities said the militants belonged to the same group that had ambushed the workers on 11 July. [lxix]

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References:

[i] Jerusalem Post, “7 dead in bombing of Israeli bus in Bulgaria”, 18 July 2012.
[ii] Jerusalem Post, “Questions and Lessons from the Burgas Bus Attack”, 30 July 2012.
[iii] New York Times, “Hezbollah Is Blamed for Attack on Israeli Tourists in Bulgaria”, 19 July 2012.
[iv] Telegraph, “Iran blamed after seven killed in bomb attack on Israeli bus in Bulgaria”, 18 July 2012.
[v] Jerusalem Post, “Previously unknown group claims Burgas attack”, 21 July 2012.
[vi] Ynet, “Qaedat al-Jihad claims responsibility for Burgas attack”, 21 July 2012.
[vii] CNN, “Israelis killed in Bulgaria bus terror attack, minister says”, 19 July 2012.
[viii] Jerusalem Post, “’Cyprus: Lebanese man planned attacks on Israelis”, 14 July 2012.
[ix] AFP, “Swedish terror suspect detained in Cyprus”, 14 July 2012.
[x] Haaretz, “Man detained in Cyprus was planning attack on Israeli targets for Hezbollah”, 14 July 2012.
[xi] Jerusalem Post, “PM blames Iran for thwarted Cyprus terror attack”, 16 July 2012.
[xii] AFP, “Top ETA member arrested in France: Spain”, 4 July 2012.
[xiii] CNN, “Suspect in plot against Spanish leader arrested”, 4 July 2012.
[xiv] EUBusiness.com, “Five arrested on terrorism charges in Kosovo: EU’, 3 July 2012.
[xv] BBC, “Six arrested in London anti-terror operation”, 5 July 2012.
[xvi] Guardian, “Guardian, “Six arrested in London over alleged terror plot”, 5 July 2012.
[xvii] New York Times, “Britain Arrests 7 More Terrorism Suspects’, 6 July 2012.
[xviii] BBC, “Six arrested in London anti-terror operation”, 5 July 2012.
[xix] BBC, “Anti-terror police arrest seventh person in London probe”, 7 July 2012.
[xx] Telegraph, “White Muslim one of six arrested over ‘terror plot’”, 5 July 2012.
[xxi] Guardian, “Seventh person arrested in London anti-terror raids”, 7 July 2012.
[xxii] Telegraph, “Terrorism arrests: car carrying weapons stopped by chance”, 6 July 2012.
[xxiii] BBC, “Three men ‘planned to attack English Defence League’”, 10 July 2012.
[xxiv] Guardian, “M1 terrorism suspects appear in court”, 10 July 2012.
[xxv] Press Association, “Six remanded on terror charges “, 31 July 2012.
[xxvi] BBC, “Eta’ fugitive Ordonez held in Edinburgh”, 15 July 2012.
[xxvii] Telegraph, “Terrorist suspect arrested in Edinburgh police raid”, 15 July 2012.
[xxviii] Ibid.
[xxix] Telegraph, “’Homegrown’ British terrorist bride jailed over Jewish plot”, 17 July 2012.
[xxx] Press Association, “Terror Attack Couple Jailed For Planning Anti-Semitic Strike In Manchester”, 19 July 2012.
[xxxi] Telegraph, “Couple charged with planning act of terrorism”, 5 August 2011.
[xxxii] Jerusalem Post, “Couple built homemade bombs to attack UK Jews”, 22 June 2012 .
[xxxiii] Reuters, “Attacks on Kenyan churches kill 17”, 2 July 2012.
[xxxiv] BBC, “Kenya church attacks ‘kill 15’ in Garissa”, 1 July 2012.
[xxxv] Xinhua, “Somalia: Trial of Two Iranian Terror Suspects Begins in Nairobi”, 24 July 2012.
[xxxvi] Telegraph, “Iraq rocked by string of bomb attacks”, 3 July 2012.
[xxxvii] Reuters, “Iraq Violence: Car Bomb Blast Kills 40 in Southern Iraq “, 3 July 2012.
[xxxviii] New York Times, “Dozens Killed in Rising Iraqi Violence, Including at Least 40 by Truck Bomb”, 3 July 2012.
[xxxix] Telegraph, “Iraq rocked by string of bomb attacks”, 3 July 2012.
[xl] Ibid.
[xli] Telegraph, “ 23 dead in Iraq”, 31 July 2012.
[xlii] Telegraph, “ 23 dead in Iraq”, 31 July 2012.
[xliii] BBC, “Iraq car bombings kill 19 in central Baghdad”, 31 July 2012.
[xliv] Haaretz, “Jihadi group in Egypt says responsible for attack killing Israeli on border”, 28 July 2012.
[xlv] New York Times, “Syrian Rebels Land Deadly Blow to Assad’s Inner Circle”, 18 July 2012.
[xlvi] Guardian, “Syria crisis: three members of Assad inner circle killed in Damascus”, 18 July 2012.
[xlvii] Ibid.
[xlviii] BBC, “Syria conflict: Ministers ‘killed in suicide attack’”, 18 July 2012.
[xlix] BBC, “Yemen attack: Deadly bombing at Sanaa police academy”, 11 July 2012.
[l] Reuters, “Al Qaeda suicide bomber attacks Yemen police academy”, 11 July 2012.
[li] Yemen Times, “A terrorist plot detected”, 23 July 2012.
[lii] Xinhua, “Yemeni police foil bomb attack in Aden”, 23 July 2012.
[liii] National Post, “Quebec Muslim activist becomes first woman charged under 9/11 terror laws over Hezbollah gun-running plot”, 15 July 2012.
[liv] Examiner, “Canada: Muslim anti-stereotyping activist arrested for terrorism, gunrunning”, 15 July 2012.
[lv] Royal Canadian Mounted Police, “Terrorism Charge Laid for Exporting Firearms Parts”, 13 July 2012.
[lvi] IPT News, “Former Muslim Stereotype Fighter Charged with Hizballah Support”, 13 July 2012.
[lvii] AP, “Shaker Masri, Chicago Terror Suspect, To Plead Guilty In Deal”, 12 July 2012.
[lviii] BBC, “US man admits plot to support al-Shabab in Somalia”, 12 July 2012.
[lix] Colombia Reports, “Southern Colombia ‘FARC attack’ kills 5 oil workers”, 4 July 2012.
[lx] AP, “Bombs, attacks kill 23 in southern Afghanistan”, 8 July 2012.
[lxi] Reuters, “Afghan suicide bomber kills 23”, 14 July 2012.
[lxii]AFP, “Gunmen kill 18 at Turbat restaurant: officials”, 7 July 2012.
[lxiii] International Herald Tribune, “18 travelers killed in Turbat bus attack”, 6 July 2012.
[lxiv] AFP, “Gunmen kill 9 security personnel in Lahore”, 12 July 2012.
[lxv] BBC, “Lahore ambush: Militants kill nine Pakistani police”, 12 July 2012.
[lxvi] AFP, “Gunmen kill 9 security personnel in Lahore”, 12 July 2012.
[lxvii] Philippine Daily Inquirer, “Abu Sayyaf attack kills 6 rubber plantation workers”, 11 July 2012.
[lxviii] AFP, “Suspected Islamist gunmen kill six in Philippines attack”, 11 July 2012.
[lxix] Guardian, “Soldiers killed as Philippine army clashes with Abu Sayyaf”, 27 July 2012.
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[Editor’s Note: Interesting with this report…looks like Catholics are really trying to take over the world and forcibly spread the belief in the Mother Mary to the world…oh no sorry got that wrong…it actually looks like, still historically for the last decade, Islamic Muslims…funny how that works, the Muslim Brotherhood draws up a plan to conquer the world, through violence or non-violence, and all this satanic mayhem happens in the world, but the Muslims fool the world by saying “We don’t condone terrorism”…but jihad isn’t terrorism in their thought process, because allah told them to perform jihad to force the world into coming to, and worshiping satan I mean allah. Islam, the “religion of peace”… (only if you’re a Muslim) will not hurt you because they do not “condone terrorism”. The sad thing is the general populace of the non-Muslim world is ignorant in the word play game Muslims play…an easy way to look at their thought process between terrorism and jihad is this…

You take Robinhood…he is told/commanded by the Princess, Maid Marian, through Friar Tuck (the clergy in the group) to go liberate gold from the people that are not part of the Robinhood group, Sheriff Nottingham deems this action as stealing, but, as you know the story of Robinhood, they don’t condone stealing, the do condone liberating gold for the poor people. In actuality, Robinhood and his merry men are stealing, but in their eyes, they are not, this is equivalent to Muslims committing terrorism, even though in their eyes they are not. Would the general populace of the world allow a thief to steal from them and the thief tells them they weren’t stealing, they were just trying to help you out by liberating your money so you are not tempting into spending it frivolously because he doesn’t belief in stealing? NO!, based on your intelligence, you know that he is stealing and not liberating…same with jihad. Ok, enough said, you should get the picture now in the word play.

…End Times…

[Editor’s Note: Once again, this is my opinion, not that necessarily of any local chapters or nation office of Act for America], In the events that have happened in the last few days, Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood president Morsi (thanks to Muslim Brotherhood operative Barack Hussein Obama) stated that he is against the murders of the Ambassadors, but naturally Morsi is going to say that he had nothing to do with this…although he has stated in the past that he hates America and Israel, and knowing that he is part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s global regime in trying to get rid of the “great satan” (America) and the “little satan” (Israel). Also knowing that he has full “authority” from allah to lie or commit taqiyya to advance Islam, then he is going to try and buffalo the world. As has been proven in the past, Muslim leaders say one thing to the West so make them feel good about Islam, but in Arabic, say what is/was their true intent.

There is a lot of unconfirmed news going around that not only did Morsi know about this, he was part of this as being a strict Islamic pusher, and the police did nothing to stop it. It is also rumored right now that Ms. Clinton and Mr. Obama knew it was going to happen up to 48 hours in advance, but they did not want to do anything either because they wanted a lesson to be learned…and that lesson was not to talk bad about Islam.

Now, with Obama knowing that he is the Islamic prophesied “Sun of the West” or the one that helps unit Islam throughout the world, and he possibly feels he is the Mahdi, he is not going to do anything concerning these Islamic terroristic events…the U.S. Embassy being attacked in Libya and Cairo on the 11th, which was pre-planned, and according to U.S. laws, is an actual ACT OF WAR, but also currently Islamic terrorist attacks on the Embassies of Yemen, and violent protests outside of U.S. Embassies in Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, and suspicious envelopes being sent to the U.S. Consulate in Germany, it seems that violent jihad has started against the West.

If we did not have a Muslim President that worked for the Muslim Brotherhood, then we would have started looking at going to war with Egypt and Libya, or at least stopping the 2 billion dollars a year, at taxpayer’s expense, financial aid, but a “good” Muslim will be looked down upon from not only fellow Muslims, but also from allah, so Obama isn’t going to do anything that will put his 72 Virginians…I mean, virgins, in jeopardy, you see, contrary to what people think…jihad isn’t only killing people, jihad is also supporting them, giving them money, giving them backing, taking care of the “martyr’s” families, indoctrinating infidels…and Obama is doing as much non-violent jihad as he can, and he doesn’t want to mess that up with allah.

DO NOT GET ME WRONG…and I can speak for local Act chapters, as well as for the Nation Office on this…WE DO NOT CONDONE ANYTHING LIKE THE MOVIE ( I will not even link the movie here because it is such a sarcastic piece of garbage, it isn’t worth anyone’s time) that supposedly upset the tolerant and peaceful religion of Islam (although originally it was in the news that the Islamic radicals I meant misunderstanders, wanted the US to release the blind sheik from the 1993 World Trade center bombing), nor anything like burning the Qur’an like has happened from individuals in the past, but let’s face it…hate crimes are, in essence, pro Muslim-anti anything else discrimination laws…so is the Islamic “religion”. You are a Muslim and say that Jews use Muslim blood in their Matzo bread for Passover (a fact that is, and never has been true), and the Jewish folks don’t go out killing Muslims for saying that, and in the U.S., Muslims aren’t arrested for inciting hate crimes against Zionism, but a kafir says anything about Mohammad that is true from history, or from his own words, like he is a pedophile, or a liar, or a pervert, or anything, than the Muslim world is enraged and kills people and in the U.S., you are blamed for the violence…how does this work? Where is the equality in this, where is the tolerance in Islam? Where is justice? Where is non-discrimination? Oh never mind, forgot Mohammad said you can be discriminating against infidels and kafirs…and Obama makes sure he fulfills his prophets’ will.

I want to end my sermon with this…the Biblical end time is here, kafirs in general, but “children of the book” specifically will be persecuted here in the U.S. shortly. Especially if Obama wins the elections, he will help the Muslim Brotherhood win American soil as an Islamic victory, and thus, Christians and Jews will be greatly persecuted…the Islamic Mahdi or, in reality, according to Revelation and Daniel in the Bible, the anti-Christ is the exact same person…just looked at on different sides of the wheel…I tell you this so you think about what you’re going to do when that happens, whether Obama gets re-elected or not, whether he is the anti-Christ or not, (there will be one, regardless of who it is, and the Bible points out that it will be an Islamic global leader). I strongly suggest you bow your head and ask Jesus Christ (not Isa) to come into your heart and to forgive you of your sins. Then you must start to change your life and gear your life towards Him. I strongly recommend you start going to a Holy Spirit filled, Evangelical church, and talk with the pastor to see what you can do to start to learn more about Christ.

Thank you for your time…and I pray that God Almighty, Yeshua Elohim, richly bless you and keep you safe from the Prince of Persia spirit that is quickly taking over the world!

Rev. Don