U.S. Headed for ‘Heightened Alert’ Stage: ABC News
Posted: 28 Jul 2008 05:16 PM CDT
comment by jerry Gordon A tip of the chapeau to Catherine M for this story. It’s the height of Presidential campaign season and both the FBI and DHS are raising the terrorism alert levels. The Period of Heightened Alert (POHA) will extend [...]

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A Third of British Muslim Students Justify Killing for Religion
Posted: 28 Jul 2008 04:50 PM CDT
comment by Jerry Gordon Here’s is a U.K. poll of British students that confirms what the Pew Trust survey of Muslim Americans found last year. In the Pew Trust survey, fully 26% of young American Muslims aged 18 to 30, [...]

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Iran Mullahs’ Reign of Terror
By: Amil Imani
The Islamic Republic terror machine once again has taken off at the speed of light in Iran and exemplifies a depraved, clerical system of government, which legitimizes its depravity through a series of terror, fear and intimidation of Iranian people. With the additional handpicking of the newly selected members [...]

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by Jerry Gordon (July-Aug. 2008)
The mainstream media has copped out on an important story that, post 9/11, is a threat to the counterterrorism effort. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Muslim Brotherhood (MB) front groups, cited by the U.S. Justice Department as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation case to be retried in [...]

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Allied combat deaths in Afghanistan surpassed those in Iraq for a second straight month in June. Meanwhile, New Yorker reporter Sy Hersh writes that

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The dramatic rescue of the FARC hostages raises a host of important questions, here are a few, with short answers following and lengthy answers below:
Was the rescue the cover for an arrangement with the FARC?
Probably not.
What effect will this have on future hostage releases?
It will probably lead to more units dissolving and possibly releasing [...]

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The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) appears to have responded to a published report of a potential gap in the pursuit of critical information needed for terrorist financing investigations. On June 13, Moneylaundering.Com reported that FinCEN has never forwarded special information requests, authorized under Section 314(a) of the Patriot ACT, to money [...]

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As my colleagues Jonathan Winer and Aaron Mannes have written on the Counterterrorism Blog, the spectacular operation by the Colombian military to rescue 15 high-profile hostages was a tremendous blow to the FARC in Colombia.
In the interest of full disclosure, Ingrid Bentancourt is a friend of mine, and I have written about her in the [...]

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Over the past three days, the Indonesian police counter-terrorist formation, Detachment 88, has conducted a series of raids in and around the city of Palembang in South Sumatra province. On 28 June, a Singaporean national named Alim (alias Omar, alias Taslim, alias Abu Hazam) was the first to be detained. According to the Indonesian media, [...]

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First accounts on the rescue operation, now being provided by Colombian military officials, while still veiled on some key points, suggest that Colombia carried out a spectacularly successful sting operation in which Colombian commandos pretended to be FARC officials come to take the hostages to a new location for a possible diplomatic negotiated exchange.
According to [...]

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The first reports about the Colombian military’s rescue of the 15 hostages held by FARC (in Spanish) indicate an impressive intelligence operation. The hostages were held in three separate locations. Colombian intelligence had infiltrated one of the FARC fronts holding the hostages as well as the FARC Secretariat. They told the front [...]

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The dramatic news that Colombia had successfully rescued Ingrid Betancourt and three Americans held hostage for years by FARC terrorists represents a further break-through by the Uribe government in what has been an extraordinary year of successes against FARC.
We still don’t have the details, but what is by now clear is that Colombia’s decision [...]

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By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Correspondent
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/50071
Police sniffer dogs trained to spot terrorists at railway stations may no longer come into contact with Muslim passengers – after complaints that it is against the suspects’ religion.
A report for the Transport Department has raised the prospect that the animals should only touch passengers’ luggage [...]

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