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Erdoğan's Maryland Mosque
A $100 million mosque under construction outside Washington, D.C. attracted a visit last week from Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Writer Ryan Mauro notes that Maryland Secretary of State John McDonough was on hand, along with -
A Law Enforcement Chill on Free Speech
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of speech to every American. The U.S. Supreme Court has held there are very limited circumstances in which those rights can be restricted. The most significant among those restrictions -
Jihadists Suspected in Shocking Daylight Attack Outside London
A British soldier is dead, and two suspected terrorists were shot in a shocking daylight attack outside London Wednesday. Some accounts say the soldier was shot, while other witnesses described the attack as a "beheading," the London Telegraph reports, -
Army Continues to Pay Alleged Fort Hood Shooter
The Army psychiatrist accused in the Fort Hood shooting rampage has been paid more than $278,000 since the November 5, 2009 shootings that killed 13 people and wounded 32 others, Dallas television station KXAS reports. Maj. Nidal M. Hasan is charged with -
Sunnis Demand Autonomy as Iraq Spirals Toward Civil War
Iraq threatens to split apart amid sectarian tensions and increasing violence. Sunni tribal leaders in the primarily Sunni western provinces of Iraq are demanding the division of the country into a federation amid rising sectarian violence. Their demands -
Hizballah Faces EU Designation, Digs Deeper into Syrian Conflict
The European Union is poised to designate Hizballah as a terrorist group, media reports indicate. The EU has hesitated to make the designation, which the United States did 12 years ago. The Gulf state Bahrain made a similar designation in March. Now, -
MB Leader: Zionist "Filth" Pollutes Holy Places
Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie used anti-Semitic language in a statement commemorating Israel's independence – what Palestinian's call the Nakba (catastrophe). Muslims must liberate Palestine from Israeli control and purge the "holy places of -
Boise Man Arrested on Terrorism and WMD Charges
A 30-year-old Uzbekistan national living in Boise, Idaho, was arrested Thursday morning as part of a wide scale federal terrorism investigation. Fazliddin Kurbanov is charged in separate indictments in Idaho and Utah for conspiring to support the Islamic -
Al-Nusra Executes Syrian Soldiers in the Name of Sharia Law
Eleven shots ring out – plus two more for good measure – leaving 11 Syrian soldiers dead or dying in the sand. Moments earlier, flanked by the black flags of Jhabat al-Nusra, an unidentified man invokes the "name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate" -
IN HIS OWN WORDS: Boston Bomber Ties Attacks to His Faith
One can only begin to imagine the moment; huddled beneath a tarp, severely wounded from a shootout with police, his brother and accomplice dead potentially by his own hand, hiding from one of the largest manhunts in American history, and all but certain -
Article Alleges Hamas Money Laundering
Hamas has several business fronts operating in Saudi Arabia and Sudan which launder money for the terrorist group, the Arab News claimed in a report Wednesday. The report claims "high-level Gulf sources" confirmed a previous story in Kuwait's al Seyassah -
DC Judge Awards Hizballah Victims $8.4 Billion
A District of Columbia federal judge levied $8.4 billion in damages on the Iranian government Thursday, in a case brought by victims of Hizballah's Beirut attacks on the U.S. Embassy and its Annex. Sixty-three people were killed in the April 1983 embassy -
Hearing: Local Law Enforcement Never Informed About Tsarnaev Brothers
Last month's Boston Marathon bombings exposed that federal and local law enforcement agencies still haven't corrected failures in intelligence sharing emphasized after the 9/11 attacks, according to testimony given Wednesday before the House Homeland -
Fresh Palestinian Wishes for Israel's Annihilation
In January, reporter Richard Behar called out the media for ignoring newly uncovered recordings showing Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi referring to Jews as "the descendants of apes and pigs" and saying that Muslims should "nurse our -
Whistleblowers: High-level Bureaucratic Errors Caused Benghazi
Three State Department whistleblowers told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday that bureaucratic wrangling led to the tragedy in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012 that left four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher
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