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“our Total Quality Jihad family…”

Plus accusations of covering up sexual abuse. What will Gerry Connolly say?

After Al Qaeda–then what?

Just ignore the Saddam-terror connection, okay?

“Our brother martyr Aden Hashi, has received what he was looking for — death for the sake of Allah at the hands of the United States.” You’re welcome!

Revenge of the Gitmo Lawyers

Al Qaeda takes questions, spins, bobs, weaves…

Defeatists defeated.

Religion of pieces.

Good news:
A leading al Qaeda member in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, has been killed, a Web site often used by the group and other Islamists said on Thursday.
A banner on the Ekhlaas.org site said Libi had fallen as a martyr, without giving further details.
It was not immediately clear if Libi’s death was linked to a [...]

Unintelligent.

American soldiers at work.

Get your jihad on the go:
Al-Qaida video messages of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri can now be downloaded to cell phones, the terror network announced as part of its attempts to extend its influence.
The announcement was posted late Friday by al-Qaida’s media wing, al-Sahab, on Web sites commonly used by Islamic militants. As of [...]

Scrappleface fights jihad on YouTube with caption sabotage:

Jihad bells, jihad bells, jihad all the way.

Never forget.

“Come to Jihad.”

Everything old is new again.

Worse than 9/11:
An American member of Al Qaeda warned President Bush on Tuesday to end U.S. involvement in all Muslim lands or face an attack worse than the Sept. 11 suicide assault, according to a new videotape.
Wearing a white robe and a turban, Adam Yehiye Gadahn, who also goes by the name Azzam al-Amriki, said [...]

Hey, you know Jose Padilla’s al Qaeda job application, posted today by ABC News?
If it looks familiar, you may recall that I posted the whole thing here back in January 2006 after reading about it in the Miami Herald and then obtaining the original document from the US Attorney’s Office in Florida. All it took [...]

The search is on. About 4,000 American soldiers are searching for three of their fellow troops missing near Mahmoudiya in the “Triangle of Death:”
Thousands of U.S. soldiers searched Sunday for three Americans who were missing after their patrol came under attack in an explosion that killed four of their comrades and an Iraqi army translator…
…The [...]

Lots of buzz about the reported death of al Qaeda leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri in Iraq. But take it with a big grain of salt. It’s sourced to the Iraqi Interior Ministry and “U.S. military officials appeared to cast doubt on the report.” Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, there is plenty of other action going on. Take note [...]

Good news: Al Qaeda leader Abdul Hadi al Iraqi has been captured.

Via BBC/AFP
Evan Kohlmann reports:
The Algerian Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat (GSPC)–now known as “Al-Qaida’s Committee in the Islamic Maghreb”–has issued a statement today claiming responsibility for dramatic suicide bombings in the capital of Algeria, and allegedly likewise in neighboring Morocco.
23 dead, 2 bombings.
Walid Phares gives the bottom line: “It is about a global Jihadi [...]

Osama bin Laden will apparently deliver an address to “the entire Islamic nation” in a new video.
Rusty Shackleford: “As-Sahab has been known to recycle bin Laden’s speeches in the past, edited and translated by our own American traitor Adam Gadahn.” He wonders if it might be a Zawahiri video coming out instead.
Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, a Bronx [...]

Laura Mansfield has the lowdown on al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman Zawahiri’s new 9/11 anniversary call for every Muslim to “make use of every opportunity afforded him to take revenge on America for its imprisonment of Sheikh Umar Abdel Rahman”–mastermind of the 1993 WTC bombing. There is also a generic warning:
He tells the people of the [...]

***scroll for updates…video of Iraqi PM announcement added…oil prices drop after announcement…the Kos crazies are at it already…scars and fingerprints used to identify Zarqawi body…dancing in the streets…Bush transcript…official CENTCOM press release…the Left acts like the Left…MSM spins…Nick Berg’s dad bashes Bush…Berg audio here…Task Force 145/Bill Roggio told you…1015am White House briefing coming up…Snow: “We [...]

The Miami Herald reports today on the latest development in the Jose Padilla case:
After the U.S. military invaded Afghanistan to oust its Taliban rulers, authorities found a locker full of applications to join al Qaeda’s holy war overseas.
Among the alleged applicants: José Padilla, the former ”enemy combatant” who once lived in Broward County.
A prosecutor produced [...]

The “Abdullah al-Azzam Brigades of the al Qaeda Organization” is claiming responsibility for the multiple rocket attack on a U.S. Navy ship in Jordan.
Athena at Terrorism Unveiled has thorough coverage and photos, and shares some insights about the claimed attackers and their M.O.:
This is the same group who claimed responsibility for the deadly Sharm el-Sheikh [...]

Pakistan arrested al Qaeda’s purported “No. 3″ guy, Abu Farraj al-Libbi this week. According to the country’s Information Minister:
“This is a very important day for us This arrest gives us a lot of tips, and I can only say that our security agencies are on the right track” in the hunt for bin Laden.
This morning, [...]