The popular Islamist-jihadist forum www.alhesbah.org, hosted by RealWebHost in Texas, U.S., recently posted an anonymously written document from 2003 titled "The Excellent Summary of the Rules of the Art of Kidnapping Americans." The 60-page guide describes each stage of the kidnapping, explaining how to select the target and then how to follow him, seize him, transport him to a safe location, and hold him there, as well as how to conduct negotiations. The guide also explains how to execute the hostage should negotiations fail.
As the terror-support trial of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) continued today, FBI agent Lara Burns testified that a phonebook found at the home of Ismail Elbarrasse - un-indicted co-conspirator and former assistant to HAMAS leader
At massive rally, Hizb ut-Tahrir calls for a global Muslim state
More than 80,000 Muslims gathered in a Jakarta stadium, where clerics also called for implementing sharia.
Christian Science MonitorOn Sunday more than 80,000 members of the Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir filled a stadium in Indonesia's capital to call for a united Muslim state that would span the entire Islamic world. Speakers, who came from around the world to Jakarta, blamed Indonesia's economic and social troubles on secularism and democracy.
A hidden world in which Asian men “groom” young white girls for sex has been exposed with the jailing yesterday of two men for child-abuse offences.
Zulfqar Hussain, 46, and Qaiser Naveed, 32, from east Lancashire, were each jailed for five years and eight months after exploiting two girls aged under 16 by plying them with alcohol and drugs before having sex with them.
CAIRO, Egypt - An Egyptian Muslim who converted to Christianity and then took the unprecedented step of seeking official recognition for the change said he has gone into hiding following death threats.
Ahmed Abda Sherf Mohamed, 24, and Yousef Samir Megahed, 21, both students at the University of South Florida in Tampa, were driving through the area on Saturday to vacation at a North Carolina beach for Mohamed's birthday, their defense attorney said.
A bomb squad technician examines items removed from a four door sedan on Highway 176 in Goose Creek early Sunday morning. The FBI is on the scene investigating the suspicious car that was stopped by police Saturday night. A robot, center, removed several items including a backpack, a large gas can, and a red box from the car. The technician crawled on his stomach for a cautious up-close look at several items.
TEL AVIV – Hamas-linked militants kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam a female Christian professor in the Gaza Strip, according to the professor's family and officials from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization.
Washington (dpa) - Local police outside Charleston, South Carolina stopped a vehicle in which they found what were suspected to be explosives, according to media reports late Saturday.
Italy faces its "biggest terrorism risks" from North African jihadists, including some linked to Islamist networks in the Balkans, the Middle East and Central Asia, according to a report by the Italian secret services.
A judge accused four British-born studentsand a schoolboy who planned to fight a holy war against British soldiers in Afghanistan of abusing their country's freedoms yesterday as he jailed them for a total of 13 years.The Recorder of London said the young men had enjoyed the protection of Britain's liberties but had been prepared to break its laws after becoming "intoxicated" with the language of jihad.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -Serbian war crimes prosecutors on Wednesday charged an ethnic Albanian man for his role in the 1998 killing of eight Serb civilians during the Kosovo war. Sinan Morina, who was arrested in 2006 in neighboring Montenegro and extradited to Serbia, was charged with "expulsion, imprisonment, torture, rape and killing of eight Serb civilians," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -Serbian war crimes prosecutors on Wednesday charged an ethnic Albanian man for his role in the 1998 killing of eight Serb civilians during the Kosovo war. Sinan Morina, who was arrested in 2006 in neighboring Montenegro and extradited to Serbia, was charged with "expulsion, imprisonment, torture, rape and killing of eight Serb civilians," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
HOUSTON --A U.S. citizen convicted of receiving training at a terrorist camp alongside al-Qaida members in his efforts to help overthrow the Somali government has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Al-Qaeda threatened in an Internet statement on Monday to escalate attacks against the "enemies of Allah" in North African countries, warning Muslims to stay away from government sites.
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