The West have unintentionally cleared the path for al-Qaeda to take control over 300 000 square miles of African terrain. “Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb” (AQIM) and its allies have taken over an area of the Sahara more than three times the size of Britain, complete with airports, military bases, arms dumps and training camps.
An amazing array of eye-opening al-Qaeda documents, seized during the raid of Osama bin Laden’s compound last year, will be made public today. The collection of thousands of files has been described as a treasure trove of information on the Islamist organization – and the single largest cache of terror material obtained at a senior level.
When Osama Bin Laden was killed, he left pretty big boots to fill as far as international criminals are concerned. So it stands to question, who would replace the world’s most notorious terrorist on the FBI’s most wanted list. A mass murderer? Perhaps a system-crashing, government-infiltrating hacker? Click through to unveil the man who replaced the face of terrorism.
French President, Nicolas Sarkozy announced late last week that his government will make visiting websites that advocate terrorism or hate a crime, punishable by fines or even prison. Au revoir, internet freedom?
Greek police released pictures yesterday of a bomb left on a subway train by left-wing extremists. The explosive was made out of two small gas canisters with about one and a half litres of petrol, a timer, wires and batteries. A terror group known as the Urban Guerrillas took responsibility.
Yesterday the European Union prohibited the use of X-ray body scanners, the kind frequently used by airport security in United States, citing cancer risks. American airport security, meanwhile, has deployed hundreds of scanners, screening millions of airline passengers – and if the European Commission’s conclusions can be trusted, exposing a fraction of those passengers to cancer risks.
An Islamist insurgent radio station in Somalia is giving young children weapons as prizes for Quran recitals. It seems they are breeding mini-pirates right in Africa’s back yard.
After 547 days of being held as hostages in Afghanistan, two French journalists,Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier, have been released and are due back in France today. The two were kidnapped on the 30th of December 2009 along with their Afghan translator, fixer and driver in the mountainous Kapisa province northeast of the Afghan capital of Kabul.
Since 9/11, flying has sucked. For all of the wrong reasons, flight security has become paranoid and despotic, and nowhere worse than the USA – where TSA agents have manhandled infants and the infirm in ‘the war on terror.’ So it’s nice to see that the Texas House of Representatives just banned TSA searches without probable cause.
A photo purporting to depict a very dead Osama bin Laden has been proved as a fake. Although it must be noted that only the photo is a fake and the man himself is very much a corpse, somewhere at the bottom of the ocean.
This new footage, which has just been leaked, shows an NYPD helicopter’s perspective of the event. The video was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act as part of an investigation into 9/11. Interestingly, actual footage of either of the towers collapsing has been removed. Do I smell a conspiracy?
An immigration officer in the U.K. tried to rid himself of his wife by adding her name to a list of terrorist suspects. What really upsets me here isn’t the abuse of power, but the fact that he didn’t think of outsourcing his expertise to the hordes of miserable husbands all over the world before being caught.