Al-Qaeda’s 007

The extraordinary story of the solitary computer geek in a Shepherds Bush bedsit who became the world’s most wanted cyber-jihadist

Not so cocky now, eh...Irhabi-double-OH!-seven?

Kudos to Aaron Weisburd, Evan Kohlman and the un-named 'others'.

Blank bullets sent to Berlusconi with 'Islamist death threat'

Blank bullets sent to Berlusconi with 'Islamist death threat'

An Italian newspaper said Friday it had received a letter containing two
blank bullets and threats against former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi,
warning he faced a fate similar to slain Pakistani political leader Benazir
Bhutto. The letter - the bullets attached to it with adhesive tape - was posted
to the Milanese daily Il Giornale, owned by Berlusconi's brother, Paolo, who
also received "threats of an Islamic character" in the letter, the newspaper
said. The bullets, the letter and a yellow envelope in which it had been sent
were handed over to anti-terrorism police, Il Giornale said. The apparently
unsigned letter said it was a "preliminary" warning to the "Berlusconi brothers
... responsible for the rubbish written in the newspaper and their anti-Islamic
policies.""On the first possible occasion we will act as was done with Bhutto,"
the letter said referring to the Pakistani opposition politician whose
assassination last month has been blamed on Al Qaeda.The letter written in
Italian ended with the words "Allah is great".Italian Prime Minister Romano
Prodi sent a message of "solidarity" to Berlusconi on behalf of the centre-left
government, news reports said.Berlusconi, whose centre-right government
supported the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq, has been singled out as an enemy of
Islam in several Islamist messages including those issued by Al Qaeda
leaders.

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Berlusconi receives mailed death threat

Published: Saturday, 12 January, 2008, 01:34 AM Doha Time
ROME: Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s richest man and leader of the conservative opposition, received an Islamist death threat in a letter containing two bullets, the Milan daily Il Giornale reported yesterday.The letter, which also threatens Berlusconi’s brother Paolo, was left at Il Giornale’s offices, the paper, owned by the Berlusconi family’s media empire, said on its website.Written in capital letters on a computer, the letter ends with the slogan, “Allah O Akbar” (God is great).“These two blank bullets are a warning for the Berlusconi brothers: one is for Silvio and the other for his brother, responsible for the rubbish they write in the newspaper and their anti-Islam policy,” the letter says.“At the first opportunity ... we will do as they did in Pakistan with (slain opposition leader Benazir) Bhutto: fire real bullets to the head, then an Italian-style suicide bomber to be sure of their disappearance from this world,” it reads, according to Il Giornale.“Bodyguards and security details will not be able to stop us because we are unpredictable,” the letter warns, ending with “Allah O Akbar”.Berlusconi, while prime minister in 2001, infuriated Muslims and appalled Western diplomats with remarks asserting “the superiority of our civilisation ... in contrast with Islamic countries”.Anti-terrorist police are examining the letter, Il Giornale said. – AFP

Terror Threat to Eiffel Tower

Portugal intercepts threat message against France's Eiffel Tower

LISBON, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Portuguese aviation authorities
intercepted a conversation Thursday on a possible attack against the Eiffel
Tower in Paris, France, local media reported Friday.
The Santa Maria aerial center intercepted the
conversation early Thursday on an attack against the Eiffel Tower through
short-wave radio, according to police sources.
Portuguese officials were immediately wary of the
situation and alerted their French counterparts, who are trying to identify the
suspects involved in the telephone conversation by the territory surveillance
services.
It was a "vague and confused" conversation
that have put Portuguese and French officials on alert because other similar
messages have been also intercepted on Internet in recent days on possible
terrorist attacks against Paris, the reports added.

Ohio Man Claims to Have Bomb Strapped to Body

AP reports

MERCER, Pa. (AP) — An Ohio man led police on a 20-mile chase in two states and, when officers finally caught up to him in a cornfield, claimed to have a bomb strapped to his body, authorities said.
Authorities said they found no explosives on Yousef Abdel Adhami or in his car after Monday's events.
Adhami, 38, of Youngstown, was arraigned Tuesday on charges of fleeing and eluding police, threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction and other crimes.
The district judge who arraigned Adhami had no record of an attorney in the case. No listed phone number could be found for Adhami.
Police in Hubbard Township, Ohio, began pursuing Adhami on Monday night after they said radar showed he was driving 69 mph in a 35 mph zone. Pennsylvania State Police said they joined the chase shortly before 11 p.m. and followed Adhami for about eight miles before he drove into a cornfield.

Friend of ‘Lyrical Terrorist’ caught at airport with military equipment

A dentist who was stopped as he tried to board a flight to Pakistan with military equipment and £9,000 cash was jailed yesterday for 4½years for terror offences.
Sohail Qureshi, 30, is believed to have been travelling to Afghanistan to join Mujahidin forces linked to al-Qaeda to fight against British and American troops in the region.
Several pictures from computers and discs that were recovered by police showed Qureshi on previous trips to the region posing with assault rifles, including an American M16.
In an e-mail to a fellow Islamist radical, sent shortly before his planned departure, he wrote: “Make dua [prayers] that I will kill many. Revenge, revenge, revenge.” LINK

Is that a photoshopped beard??? How weird.

Adam Gadahn, Al-Qaeda Vid Coming Soon

Adam Goatboy with-the-fake-accent Gadahn Perlman's upcoming boring tape.

The militant group Al Qaeda announced Thursday the imminent arrival of a new video message from American-born Islamist Adam Gadahn, making it the first message from the organization in 2008.

"Coming soon by the will of God, an invitation to reflection and repentance," read the banner produced by al-Sahab, Al Qaeda's media wing, and displayed on a militant Web site.

Yawn.

Al-Qaeda - No Men Left for Suicide Missions - Send Women

AP reports

In November and December, women carried out three suicide bombings in Diyala province, one of Iraq's most violent areas, where al-Qaida in Iraq has a stronghold. The last female suicide bombing had been in July.

On Nov. 4, a woman detonated an explosives vest next to a U.S. patrol in Diyala's regional capital, Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, wounding seven U.S. troops and five Iraqis. On Dec. 7, a woman attacked the offices of a Diyala-based Sunni group fighting al-Qaida in Iraq, killing 15 people and wounding 35. Then, on Dec. 31, a bomber in Baqouba detonated her suicide vest close to a police patrol, wounding five policemen and four civilians.

Jihad in Utah

Trolley Square gunman's name released

Salt Lake Police released the name of the man who walked into Trolley Square Mall Monday night, killing 5 people and injuring several others. Police say they don't know what motivated 18-year-old Sulejmen Talovic to perform this senseless act of violence.