20 April 2012 Saajid Badat, a UK born terror convict during the trial of Adis Medunjanin, accused in the 2009 plot to attack New York’s subways with suicide bombs, admitted that he had met al-Qaida leader Usama bin Laden more than once when he travelled to Afghanistan in 1999. At the time, he knew al-Qaida,…
NEW YORK — An admitted al-Qaida recruit testified Wednesday that he and two friends were determined to “weaken America” by strapping on suicide bombs and attacking New York City subways around the eighth anniversary of 9/11, but now hopes for redemption. “I believe my crimes are very bad,” Najibullah Zazi said on cross-examination. “If God…
Federal authorities on Friday arrested a 29-year-old Moroccan man in an alleged plot to carry out a suicide bombing at the U.S. Capitol, the latest in a series of terrorism-related arrests resulting from undercover sting operations. For more than a year, Amine El Khalifi, of Alexandria, considered attacking targets including a synagogue, an Alexandria building…
21 November 2011 Movisie, a Dutch organization for social development, has created a website to support immigrant girls in the Netherlands who are contemplating suicide. The site “You are not alone” has sections for girls of Moroccan, Turkish and Suriname-Hindu background. It was created in affiliation with the youth websites Marokko.nl, Hababam.nl and Indianfeelings.nl, and…
News Agencies – October 31, 2011 The al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab released an audiotape it said was a message from a Somali-American suicide bomber who struck an African Union base in Mogadishu this weekend, killing 10. The English-language message specifically called for terrorist attacks in Canada and said it was a duty for Muslims to fight for…
