Google Risks Muslim Backlash By Hosting Fitna
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Google is currently hosting controversial film about Islam Fitma.

The film has made tech headlines after Network Solutions suspended the site the film was to debut on, then Live Leak was forced to pull it following serious threats against the company from Muslims unhappy with the film. Live Leak’s explanation video above.

 

The film, ripped from Live Leak, is now available on Google Video here in full, and can also be found on YouTube.

Warning on the film: there are graphic scenes in it.

What Google does now will be an interesting test for a company that claims “do no evil” as its company mantra. The video is hosted in the US, and we presume with part or full support of the creators of the film negating any copyright considerations, so ultimately it will be up to Google to decide between free speech and global jihad.

Link to Fitna on Google Video

Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia claims role in Anbar suicide bombing

By Alissa J. Rubin Published: June 29, 2008
The insurgent group Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia claimed responsibility over the weekend for a suicide bombing in Anbar Province that killed 20 Iraqis and three U.S. marines on Thursday.
In a communiqué posted on jihadi Web sites and translated by the SITE Institute monitoring group, the insurgents declared "open war" on members of Sunni Awakening groups in Anbar that have been recruited by the United States to fight Islamic extremists.
The statement condemned Awakening members for fighting insurgents and for standing by the "filthy crusaders," a reference to the United States and the Shiite-led Iraqi government.
Local police officers and tribal leaders said the suicide bomber who struck Thursday wore military-style clothing and was mistaken for a member of the security forces attending a meeting of sheiks involved with the Awakening movement in the area.

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Title: Al-Qaeda’s al-Zawahiri Repudiates Dr. Fadl’s “Rationalization of Jihad”

By Abdul Hameed Bakier

Source: The Jamestown Foundation

A previous issue of Terrorism Monitor discussed a document issued by Sayed Imam Abdulaziz al-Sharif, an imprisoned founder of the Egyptian Jihad organization and a prominent jihad theoretician better known as "Doctor Fadl." The work, called Tarshid al-amal al-jihadi fi misr wa al-alam (Rationalizing the Jihadi Action in Egypt and the World), was a critical look at Salafi-jihadist extremism (see Terrorism Monitor, December 10, 2007; Terrorism Focus, January 8). As predicted, al-Qaeda did not open direct dialogue with Dr. Fadl but rather responded with a book of their own refuting the document. In March the second man in al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, published a 188-page document through al-Sahab Islamist media called A Treatise Exonerating the Nation of the Pen and the Sword from the Blemish of the Accusation of Weakness and Fatigue (The Exoneration), refuting the views expressed in Dr. Fadl's document.

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Report: Britain faces danger of 9/11-type attacks

Source:Xinhua

Britain is facing potential dangers of terrorist attacks by private jets and light aircraft in ways similar to the 9/11 attacks on the United States in 2001, local media reported Tuesday.

Senior police officers have "real anxiety" about the possibility of terror missions being launched from small airports amid fears of lax security there, the Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday.

Such attacks would be "relatively simple" to orchestrate, Lord Carlile of Berriew, a government anti-terror expert was quoted as saying.

The thousands of small, rented planes capable of traveling at high speeds between EU countries and Britain should be subjected to far stricter checks, he said.

The warning, contained in a 60-page report on the government's efforts to fight terrorism, could prompt fears that Britain has been left open to a terrorist attack similar to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington DC, said the report.

There are an estimated 8,500 private aircraft and up to 500 "landing sites" in Britain, ranging from farmers' fields to regional airports. These jets are feared to be hijacked and used as "vehicle bombs" to target the public.

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Apocalypse Washington:

This computer generated image posted on terror forums depict what would happen if a nuclear attack took place in Washington D.C

Al-Qaeda's terrifying vision of a devastated America in the wake of a nuclear attack

www.dailymail.co.uk

By Barry Wigmore
Last updated at 11:34 PM on 29th May 2008

Washington is laid to waste. The Capitol is a blackened, smoking ruin. The White House has been razed. Countless thousands are dead.This is the apocalyptic scene terrorists hope to create if they ever get their hands on a nuclear bomb.

The computer-generated image was posted on an Islamic extremists' website yesterday. It appeared as rumours swept the Internet that the FBI was warning that an Al Qaeda video was about to be released urging militants to use weapons of mass destruction to attack the West.

It appeared as rumours swept the Internet that the FBI was warning that an Al Qaeda video was about to be released urging militants to use weapons of mass destruction to attack the West.

The information was said to be coming from 'groups that monitor Islamic militant websites'.

The FBI was quick to point out that it had not issued any warning and that the video was not an official Al Qaeda release through its media arm, Al Sahab, but simply an ' amateur' collection of old footage spliced together and posted on the Internet.

U.S. analysts said a lot of effort had been put into the video - entitled Nuclear Jihad, The Ultimate Terror - with graphics, music, and clips of different leaders and groups.

The same expertise seems to have gone into creating this image of a devastated Washington.

Al Sahab puts out more than 80 'officially sanctioned' videos a year to keep up the propaganda on the West. And the Internet shows how easy it is to stir up militancy. One message with the Washington picture said: 'The next strike's in the heart of America. When? When? When? And How?'

Last night FBI sources said Al Qaeda was desperate to get its hands on a weapon of mass destruction, be it nuclear, chemical, or biological.

So far that is only a dream... or, as this picture suggests, a nightmare.