1,500 mourners showed up for the funeral of anti-al Qaeda tribal Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha. Sunnis in Anbar have vowed revenge.

Each day the noose tightens a little more.....

UPDATE: Nutroots rejoice over Abu Risha's murder. Can we question their patriotism now?

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When I first heard the news about Russia developing the world's biggest non-nuclear bomb, I was pretty pissed. If there's one thing I can't stand is for America to be second best in something. Especially when that thing is what we are known for around the world: blowing stuff up.

So, I am pleased to announce that America is still #1 at blowing stuff up!

Defense Talk:

The U.S. has a 14-ton super bomb more destructive than the vacuum bomb just tested by Russia, a U.S. general said Wednesday...

McInerney said the U.S. has "a new massive ordnance penetrator that's 30,000 pounds, that really penetrates ... Ahmadinejad has nothing in Iran that we can't penetrate."

He also said the new Russian bomb was not a "penetrator."

We Americans have such humongous bulbous bombs.

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"Moderate" Pakistan, back in the news. Osama bin Laden's approval rating at 46% in Pakistan.

I see a long post in this about democracy in the Muslim world, but frankly what's the use?

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I'd say it was unbelievable, but I'd be lying. It's completely and utterly believable.

Mike Adams:

It was a nice, peaceful morning until I received an email from someone claiming to be Professor Julio Pino of Kent State University....

“The martyr has no time for peace; no time to be cynical, or pessimistic.”

“The Muslim world is poetic, and the greatest of all epics is martyrdom.“Laa ‘ilaaha ‘illallahu (There is none worthy of worship but Allah) must be on his dying lips that he may enter Paradise. Not by chance did Mohammed Atta’s ‘Instructions for the Final Night’ counsel him [sic] make these his last words before crashing into the World Trade Center. Amen.”

Thanks to once-a-Jawa-always-a-Jawa See-Dubya at Hot Air. more...

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First O'Reilly and now Rush Limbaugh? It's like all those years of hard work are paying off. Or something like that. Rush's website has the transcript:

Then the Jawa Report on July 17th of this year:

"Hillary/Schumer want $1 Million For Hippie Museum -- How many Troops will have to go without supplies, armor or food because Hillary and Schumer want to fund a church to hippies? 'The grassroots free-market group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today released a list of Senate earmarks slated to be included in the Fiscal Year 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill. The 1,016 earmarks total nearly $392 million, and include millions for questionable projects such as $1 million in tax dollars for a museum dedicated to recreating the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival..."

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I have nothing against mall security guards. Nothing at all.

Still, when Ron Paul infers that our mall security guards have been the key line of defense protecting our malls from terrorist attacks, he's just. . . being Ron Paul.

Host : "It's a helluva a lot easier, to use your terminology, to blow up a mall, if they could pull it off, because people in a mall aren't armed."

Ron Paul : "But we have security."

Host : "So, you're saying that security guards in a mall do a better job than U.S. Marines in Iraq?"

Ron Paul : 'So far. So far they're doing pretty well. I mean, we haven't...how has it come that we haven't had another attack?"

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A new English subtitled video released by al Furqan on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq, an al Qeda front group, claims to show the body of Major Troy Gilbert. The Jawa Report has obtained a copy of the video.

I think there's a Geneva Convention violation here, but don't expect any protest from the usual suspects. more...

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(Baghdad) A prominent Sunni tribal leader and key ally of the U.S. in the Anbar Province of Iraq, Sheik Abdul Sattar Abu Reesha (pic), was killed by a roadside bomb earlier today in Ramadi. Two bodyguards were also killed.

Abu Reesha, 39, was head of the Anbar Salvation Council -- also known as the Anbar Awakening -- a coalition of tribes that has been working with the U.S. military to counter al Qaeda in Sunni-dominated Anbar province.

The council, funded and supported by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, was formed last year.

Police said the attack happened about a mile from Abu Reesha's home, but the deputy head of the Anbar Salvation Council, Sheik Hameed al-Hayyes, said the bomb struck the convoy 50 meters from his home in a heavily secured zone surrounding the house.

Al-Hayyes said Abu Reesha was leaving his home to go to his nearby farm, a daily routine, when he was attacked.

Al-Qaeda is suspected. Abu Reesha's high-profile cooperation with the U.S. and coalition forces made him a prime target. Achieving success in Anbar has roiled Abu Reesha's enemies.

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I've said it before: members of the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) are not hard to find, if the authorities took the online jihad seriously, all of them would be arrested. It looks like GIMF is finally being taken seriously.

Darcey from Dust My Broom tells me that a fourth GIMF cyber-jihadi has been arrested. This time in Canada. The noose is tightening.

I'll send you over to Dust My Broom for the details. But it makes you wonder: if GIMF has members in Canada, do they have members here in the US? more...

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A friend sent this to Aaron at Internet Hagana who forwarded it to me since he knows how much I despise the pro-al Qaeda propagandists at the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF). Thanks to dm+ for putting this background information on arrested GIMF operative Mohammed Mahmoud from open source material. I've redacted some of the information, such as Mahmoud's telephone number and address from it.

Mohammed MAHMOUD is an Austrian citizen of Egyptian origin (second generation immigrant), born 1985 in Austria. He an unemployed school drop-out active in the Austrian Islamic scene under the name "Amir".

In 2003 he undertook, invited by the Saddam-Regime, a trip to Iraq which was organized as well by “Antiimperialist Camp”. Media reports also read that he visited “terror training camps” twice in either Afghanistan or Pakistan, but authorities do not confirm this.

Back in Austria he runs the “Islamische Jugend Österreich” (Islamic Youth Austria), a small radical Islamic group in opposition not only to western values, but also to mainstream Muslim organizations in Austria.

In the photo below, taken on March 18, 2006, he gave an interview during a demonstration staged in VIENNA protesting the 3rd anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom, which was organized by the “Antiimperialist Camp”, an Austrian far left/anarchist organization. more...

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Heh, it looks like the man picked up yesterday in Dearborn Michigan for carrying around an AK-47 in a park is a blogger. And guess what? He's not Amish after all. In fact, his website graces viewers with a prominent image of ..... drumroll please....Ayatollah Khomeini.

The website is also laced with images of the 12th or "hidden" imam. He's the son of Dr. Ali Zorkot, which is sad since it looks like the elder Zorkot and the rest of the family aren't exactly what you would call radicals.

Here's his website. Have at it.

Thanks to Allahakchew.

UPDATE: Looks like some in the Zorkot family support Hizbollah. Check out this page:

Hizbollah is not a terrorist organization! Hizbollah is a national resistance organization. Hizbollah protects Lebanon.

I suck at backing up websites, someone might to cache this if they can.

UPDATE: He has a gallery here in which he confirms that he is on a personal jihad. One of the photos is captioned:

The Start of My Personal Jihad (in the US)

Thanks to KW and Dust My Broom for pointing that out.

UPDATE: LGF and Hot Air have related, including some more screencaps. And Debbie Schlussel has some background on Shia jihadis in Michigan.

Here's the image.

KW points out that image along with the caption "The start of my personal jihad" was posted on the day Zorkot was arrested.

UPDATE: Kafir uploaded a news story about him. Watch at end of post.

UPDATE: Well, isn't that special. Houssein Zorkot poses in front of a Hizbollah poster and missiles during a trip to Lebanon in the summer of 2007. Well, it seems we've discovered the point at which Zorkot decided to go on jihad.

UPDATE: Good news, police sieze laptop, FBI involved. Detroit News:

After his arrest, police sought a warrant at the man's home, where they seized a laptop computer and several pictures...

The man also had visited Lebanon within the past month, police said...

Dearborn police have called in the FBI to help with the case. FBI spokesperson Dawn Clenney confirmed they had been contacted about the case, but declined to discuss the issue any further.

Thanks to Larwyn for pointing me to this National Terror Alert post which noticed the computer angle.

UPDATE: I don't know how I missed this. Sweetness and Light runs the whois info. Thanks to Dan Riehl for pointing that post out.

UPDATE: So I keep hearing this nasheed (song) on several of his webpages and began to wonder where it came from. So I checked the source code and I'll give you one guess where the Hezbollah song is being hosted.....Youtube. Since the description of the song is "HEZBOLLAH ANASHEED", Youtube doesn't exactly have the ignorance excuse here. more...

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Coming soon to a jihadist computer near you: a new video from the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) celebrating the 9/11 attacks. UPDATE: Video added.

The audio on the video matches that from the "preview" an announcement of the upcoming release called it The Blessed Invasion of Manhattan and promised a "special gift" for 9/11. That announcement lead the FBI to investigate the possibility that it was a warning of an upcoming attack on 9/11. more...

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UPDATE: He's definitely a jihadi. His own words. Lots of updates at this link: Houssein Zorkot's personal jihad website.

My initial reaction was "dumb redneck", but I dunno. Are there any Muslim rednecks up in Dearborn, MI?

Press & Guide:

Houssein Zorkot, a 26-year-old Dearborn resident, was arraigned Tuesday in 19th District Court on multiple felony charges, including carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent — a five-year felony.

Zorkot, a third-year medical student at Wayne State University, was allegedly armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and dressed in black clothing with camouflage paint covering his face when he was arrested Saturday in Hemlock Park.

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TajAden is the Yemeni Southern opposition in exile and advocates the dissolution of the Yemeni state into its prior incarnation of North and South Yemen. The following statement is prompted by the civilian deaths in Dhalie and requests the UN supervise the withdrawal of Yemeni forces from "occupied South Yemen." Stating this in Yemen of course would get you thrown in jail, if not executed. Its an extremist position. Many in the South (as in the North) simply want a state that follows its own laws and deals with all citizens equally. Take it from me, that's not likely. I wish it was, but its not. Moderation may wane as the state employs increasingly repressive measures against the protesters (like shooting them) and fails to address the root causes of the issue. Summary of events follows.

TajAden 10th September 2007

Oh masses of our proud people in the occupied South Arabia.

On the 10th of September 2007, the large masses of our people in the capital Aden and in Dhala city as well have got out protesting peacefully against the Yemeni authorities’ forces that have arrested and abducted the southern liberal struggler leaders. The protest was for an immediate release of prisoners unconditionally in all cities of the occupied South Arabia.

In a hooligan frivolous action the Yemeni occupation forces have fired on the peaceful demonstrators in the city of Dhala, which led to the fall of 3 dead and wounded more than 10 people. Also they have prevented a peaceful strike in the city of Aden, the capital of the South. They besieged the city neighbourhoods with tens of military vehicles and tens of thousands of the Yemeni occupation’s criminals and murderers soldiers.

The Yemeni Security forces has already killed and wounded a number of demonstrators in the city of Mukalla and put many innocent people in jails without charge as they did in Aden. Also thousands of soldiers were deployed in several cities such as in Mahfad, Loader and Moodiah in Abyan governorate and cut off roads and set up barricades in the governorate of Lahj. The Authority also deployed tanks and thousands of criminal soldiers in the city of Alhabeelain and in the districts of Radfan province. This exercise of military tyranny continued in a number of cities in the governorate of Shabwah which is now under a comprehensive military siege.

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I'd like to say this can't be true, but apparently it can. You'll notice the carefully worded nuclear installations phrase. What, exactly, does that mean? Are they alluding to possible Syrian possession of nuclear weapons? Or is Syria trying to build a nuclear power plant?

What exactly they mean by nuclear installations is the difference between being concerned over Syrian ambitions as a regional power with the potential to one day possess nuclear weapons to panic at the thought of a nuclear conflict erupting.

NY Times:

One Bush administration official said Israel had recently carried out reconnaissance flights over Syria, taking pictures of possible nuclear installations that Israeli officials believed might have been supplied with material from North Korea. The administration official said Israeli officials believed that North Korea might be unloading some of its nuclear material on Syria.

“The Israelis think North Korea is selling to Iran and Syria what little they have left,” the official said. He said it was unclear whether the Israeli strike had produced any evidence that might validate that belief.

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Three members of the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) have been arrested in Austria. The three were involved in an online video which threatened Germany and Austria with terror attacks if they did not suspend their support of the NATO mission in Afghanistan.

AP:

Interior Minister Guenther Platter said the three — all second-generation Austrian citizens with Arab origins — were aged between 20 and 26. He said they were believed to have contacts to al-Qaida but offered no details, saying he did not want to prejudice investigations....

Platter said two of the three were a couple. House searches were continuing, he added. The three suspects are being interviewed, he said....

In a Web statement that surfaced in March, Islamic militants threatened to attack Germany and Austria unless the two nations broke ranks with the U.S. and withdrew their personnel from Afghanistan.

The video Howie uploaded in March can be seen here.

Last week Germany arrested three men for a plot to attack U.S. interests in Germany. More arrests were promised. I speculated at the time that the three were somehow connected to GIMF, al Qaeda's propaganda outlet in Europe. Today's arrests may be related.

GIMF is the European propaganda arm in support of al Qaeda and other radical Islamist organizations. They are also longtime 'friends' of The Jawa Report. GIMF operative know who we are. As such can I be the first to say ha-ha!

The video was first released on GIMF's Voice of the Caliphate online television station in March of this year. The station regularly played al Qaeda produced propaganda. It was especially supportive of the Chechen jihad. The "station" still maintains, although no longer updates, a website on Google's blogspot platform here.

In addition to showing and distributing al Qaeda produced videos from al Furqan and as Sahab, GIMF produces it's own documentaries in support of jihad. Recently al Qaeda in Iraq sent a thank you note to GIMF for their supportive propaganda efforts.

The web based TV station is no longer active, but GIMF is. Most GIMF publications are now released through Islamist forums. They still do videos, including the release of the hostage video of Fox News reporters Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, but their mainstay has always been an online print magazine.

The group is also responsible for the release of the terrorist "training" video game, "The Night of Bush Capturing". The climax of the game is one-on-one combat against President George W. Bush.

Until recently, GIMF also maintained a large number of connected websites, most of them running on American servers. Those GIMF websites are now offline thanks to a campaign started by The Jawa Report and with help from LGF readers, Black Flag, and Weasel Zippers.

GIMF complained loudly and publicly about the campaign against their websites and has been busy trying to rebuild and recruit more online jihadis recently. We'll see if these three arrests put a dent in their organization.

These guys aren't that hard to find, and the Europeans could easily round them up if they only tried. Reporters from Germany's Die Zeit and Spiegel TV were able to interview GIMF leaders simply by requesting an interview in the comments at their now defunct website.

Thanks to Aaron at Internet Haganah for the tip and for raising GIMF's ire by diligently chronicling the online presence of their allies. He's an inspiration to us all.

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Mary Katherine Ham and Karol from Alarming News were on the ground in Manhattan at Ground Zero. Mary Kate has the pics (video soon), and Karol has a lengthier description.

Maybe the counter demos should have passed out the latest al Qaeda video in which they admit, once again, that they were responsible for 9/11?

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Q: If Americans are such imperialists, how come there are no Hooters in Fallujah?

Bill Ardalino has another photo essay. Check it out.

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To be honest, I thought all of the accusations that the new bin Laden video was fake were just so much wishful thinking. I actually haven't commented on it because I really thought the notion was just out there. But after seeing this, I dunno. Even a guy as moronic as Adam Gadahn would be able to use this to animate bin Laden's beard.

I may need to rethink my position. Software such as that sure would explain the mysteriously missing gaps in the video.

But as much as I am hopeful that bin Laden is dead, I think the default position has to be changed to bin Laden is alive.

Do we have any more proof skeptics? I think the safer bet is on bin Laden alive, but would loved to be shown the error of my ways.

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A spokesman for the Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees, Muhammad Abdel-Al, has claimed that under Islamic law Britney Spears and Madonna would receive capital punishment. The allegation is made in Aaron Klein's new book Schmoozing With Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land, Jihadists Reveal Their Global Plans to a Jew!

The snippet from the upcoming book was given to TMZ yesterday:

Abdel said, "If these two prostitutes keep doing what they will do, we of course will punish them... We can stone them and even we can kill them."

Madonna is in Israel this week.

The pair are seen as symbols of negative Western influence on traditional Muslim societies. Hell, in my book the two are far more destructive to the youth of America than the youth of Gaza. Even worse, the pair take already pop music to even lower lows.

But it's called freedom, baby!

And that's what separates the tolerant West from the intolerant Islamic world: we allow that which we do not agree with. Because without choice, there can be no morality.

A person who is forced to do good is a slave and therefore amoral because he does not choose to do good.

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Why run the vid? Because if you don't enjoy watching stuff exploding, then you're ghey.

Thanks to Infidels are Cool who has the backstory on the "father of all bombs". more...

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No Stockholm syndrome here as the freed Korean Christian hostages describe the brutality of their Islamist captors. Imagine that, the Taliban tried to force the Korean hostages to convert. BBC:

"We were beaten with a tree branch or kicked around. Some kidnappers threatened us with death at gunpoint to force us to follow them in chanting their Islamic prayer for conversion," said Jae Chang-hee.

"I was beaten many times. They pointed a rifle and bayonet at me and tried to force me to convert." ...

The most difficult moment, when I had a big fear of death, was when the Taleban shot [a] video.

"All 23 of us leaned against a wall and armed Taleban aimed their guns at us, and a pit was before me.

"They said they will save us if we believe in Islam. I almost fainted at the time and I still cannot look at cameras," she said...

"One day, a Taleban called Bae and checked his first and last names and took him out of the room.

"Bae didn't even look at us when he was leaving the room. He only said 'Overcome with faith'," Ms Han said, in tears.

Hat tip: Tom

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Entirely predictable. The Muslim Student Association at George Mason University harassing non-Muslims in 'ecumenical' prayer space.

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As if there was any question whether Ron Paul had the first fucking clue about the Islamic threat we're facing...

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Sixth Anniversary of 9/11 and the only thing al-Qaeda supporters were able to take down was The Jawa Report. And they didn't even do that very well.

Oh, and I almost forgot, they released some more crap videos.

You can email the Jihadi DDOS network here.

Adil W, email is el_fatak@hotmail.com

Loser(s).

Update: Pixi Misa Via Ace:

Sorry about that, folks. We had another little server meltdown there.

I have a shiny new server with 3x the awesomeness ready to go, and we'll be migrating across to it next Sunday. That should mean a lot fewer little accidents.

Alternate theory: It was the boobie post that brought down mu.mu. Therefore, it was Ace Dave that broke the internet.

So now the Jihadis can't even take credit.

Double Loser(s).

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