terrorism
25/04/2008 > UNITED KINGDOM
The farewell video of a terrorist
Mohammad Siddique Khan is one of the terrorists responsible for the July 2005 London train bombings. A few months before the attacks, while in training in Pakistan, the young man made this video to explain to his six-year-old daughter why he had to go fight. See the video…
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03/04/2008 > ISRAEL
"Anonymous" Israeli propaganda on YouTube
Just under
a month ago we published a post about a terrorist shooting in a Talmudic school
in Jerusalem.
Now, daily Israeli newspaper Haaretz has revealed that the government used
YouTube, under an anonymous guise, to broadcast this video as a provocative
reminder of the event. Warning, you may find some of the images upsetting. Read more...
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20/03/2008 > EUROPE
Bin Laden video: threats against Europe are serious
Osama bin Laden released a new video Wednesday in which he threatened the European Union with a "reckoning" and reignited the Danish cartoon affair. One of our Observers, an al Qaeda specialist, explains why this message could see a new wave of terrorist action in Europe. Watch Bin Laden's message and read the comment from our Observer.
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07/03/2008 > ISRAEL / PALESTINE
"We’re waiting anxiously for the Israeli backlash"
The school after the shooting, 6 March 08. Photo: S. Meshi – ZAKA.
An armed man walked into a religious school on Thursday evening and opened fire leaving eight dead and several injured. Our Observers in the region young Palestinian Rafe Jabari and Israeli Talmudic teacher Ariel Woolf react to the killing. Read more…
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28/12/2007 > PAKISTAN
What killed Benazir Bhutto?
The Pakistani Home Minister has just concluded a press conference in which he insisted that Benazir Bhutto was not killed by a bullet. He said that her skull was smashed when she tried to duck back into the vehicle to protect herself. The minister also said that he has evidence to prove that the attack was carried out by Al Qaida. Our Observer in Karachi, Zaheer Alam Kidvai, gives his reaction to the news. Read more...
Video of the attack broadcast this afternoon on Dawn TV
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14/12/2007 >
Exclusive: al Qaeda’s Number Two dispatches a new message to the world
Al Qaida's second most important figure Ayman al Zawahiri has just transmitted a recorded message in which he calls the Annapolis conference ‘treacherous'. The video has so far only been shown on CNN. Here is the unedited version, with excerpts. Read more...
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