Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has confirmed that a global Jihad militant was killed in the Gaza airstrike, Haaretz reported.DETAILS TO FOLLOW … Read More
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev scrubbed online presence before bombings
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had an Instagram account he deleted before the attacks took place two weeks ago, according to friends.Tsarnaev apparently used the account, @jmaister1, to like a photo of a deceased Chechen warlord. He also liked photos that used hashtags such as #FreeChechenia, #Jihad, #Jannah, #ALLAH, #Jesus, and #God.While the account is gone, CNN was able to find some of the content posted to it using archiving tools like Google’s Web cache.In its Terms of Service, Instagram says that if subpoenaed, it will turn over users’ information. However, it notes that the information might only be stored for a short time due to the volume of content that floods the service.Continue Reading… … Read More
Boston bombing suspects’ mother talked about jihad
Russian authorities secretly wiretapped the mother of the Boston bombing suspects and recorded her discussing jihad in vague terms during a 2011 telephone conversation, CNN reported. The Russians only turned over the information to their US counterparts in recent days, according to the report. A US…
Tsarnaevs follow familiar terror pattern
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sought to embrace American lives after emigrating from Russia — joining a boxing club, winning a scholarship and even seeking U.S. citizenship. But their uncle last week angrily called them “losers” who failed to feel settled even after a decade of living in the United States.The disparity between the brothers’ struggle to assimilate in the U.S. and their alleged bombing of the Boston Marathon reflects what counterterror experts describe as a classic pattern of young first- or second-generation immigrants striking out after struggling to fit in. The U.S. has long been worried about people in America who are not tied to any designated terrorist group but who are motivated by ideologies that lead them to commit violent acts. Some are motivated by radical religious interpretations; others feel ostracized by their communities.Three U.S. officials involved in the investigation said the brothers had no links to any terrorist groups. After interrogating Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Monday, U.S. officials believe they were motivated by their faith, apparently an anti-American, radical version of Islam. Another official called them aspiring jihadists. All three officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly.Continue Reading… … Read More
Chechens: Legendary tough guys
At this point we still don’t know how much time Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the two brothers suspected of committing the Boston Marathon bombing, spent in Chechnya. Dzhokhar, who emigrated with his family to the U.S. in 2002, when he was 9 years old, may have no memory of the place. But we do know that both brothers identified as Chechens: Tamerlan told a photographer his family had been driven from their homeland by “war” and that he wanted to wrestle for the Chechen Olympics team if the country ever won its independence from Russia. He put a Chechen dictionary and works of Chechen history on his Amazon wish list. Both brothers also described themselves as Muslims, and since the Chechen insurgency is overwhelmingly Islamist, it’s very possible they viewed the bombing as a blow struck on behalf of a Chechen jihad.But is it? To find out more about the history of Chechnya and how its troubles may or may not have migrated to our shores, I spoke with Robert W. Schaefer, a U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret with many years experience planning and executing counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations in the Caucasus region. He is the author of the highly-regarded 2011 book “The Insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus: From Gazavat to Jihad.”Continue Reading… … Read More
Pamela Geller blames a “Jihadi”
Seizing on a thinly sourced New York Post report that police have ID’d a Saudi national as a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings this afternoon, Islamophohbic blogger and activist Pamela Geller is ready to lay the blame. In her take, the alleged suspect becomes a “Jihadi” and there isn’t any doubt in Geller’s mind that he did it. She wrote on her blog Atlas Shrugs under the headline, “Jihadi Arrested in Horrific Boston Marathon Bombing”:Jihad in America. 12 dead, 50 injured. My deepest condolences to their loved ones. Monstrous.Continue Reading… … Read More
Court acquits French mother who put ‘I am a bomb’ T-shirt on son
A court in southern France on Wednesday acquitted a mother on trial for dressing her three-year-old son in a T-shirt reading “I am a bomb” and “Jihad, Born on September 11.” Bouchra Bagour, 35, was on trial in Avignon on charges of defending terrorism after sending her boy,…
