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• Philip Giraldi

  Published: July 24, 2007, 10:30 pm

  Tags: News, War Party, War On Terror, Iran, Nukes, Antiwar Radio, Al Qaeda, Covert Action

  Former CIA counter-terrorism officer and Antiwar.com columnist Philip Giraldi debunks the War Party’s claims that Iran backs al Qaeda, explains U.S. support for the terrorist groups Mujahadeen-e-Khalq and Jundullah against Iran, and the two most likely circumstances in which Cheney will use or threaten

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• Asharq Alawsat, Saudi Arabia: Official Translation...

  Published: July 25, 2007, 12:28 pm

  Tags: Qur An Online, Malaysian Internet, Gulf Internet, Al Qaeda, Turkey Internet

  Alawsat, Saudi Arabia: Official Translation of the Holy Quran into Hebrew to Take Over a Year, 25 July 2007 "The translation of the Holy Quran into Hebrew will take over one full year, according to Dr. Mohammed bin Salim al Awfi, the secretary general of the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran, the Saudi Arabian body

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• AP/IHT, Iran executes 12 criminals, 22 July 2007 ,...

  Published: July 22, 2007, 3:23 pm

  Tags: Internet Imams, Al Qaeda

  Iran executes 12 criminals, 22 July 2007 , Iran hanged 12 criminals Sunday who had been convicted of various charges, including rape, kidnapping and drug trafficking, the Web site of the state broadcasting company reported." AP/Forbes, Italy: Mosque Used As 'Terror School', 21 July 2007 "The cell held courses on hand-to-hand combat and

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• Fascinating article in Saudi Aramco World: Saudi A...

  Published: July 20, 2007, 7:18 am

  Tags: Osama Bin Laden, Fatwas, Gulf Internet, Al Qaeda, Arabic Software

  Aramco World, Keyboard Calligraphy, July/August 2007, "That reconstruction is at the heart of the new Tasmeem computer typesetting system, which makes it possible for the first time to set Arabic text in its full calligraphic glory. (Tasmeem means design in Arabic.) An example was in the Nieuwe Kerk exhibition, where a mock-up of a

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• About time we had some humour in this blog, at lea...

  Published: July 19, 2007, 9:11 am

  Tags: Pakistani Cyberspace, Comedy, Al Qaeda, Arabic Internet, Turkey Internet

  About time we had some humour in this blog, at least for one headline: washingtonpost.com, A Young Saudi's Online Gambit - Comedy Writer Launches Site for 20-Something Arabs Starved for Entertainment "In February, Sikhan, 27, launched the Arab Internet Channel with two comedy shows he wrote, directed and produced. Since then, more than 2 million

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• thestar.com, Anarchy on the Bosporus? Punk rock ly...

  Published: July 18, 2007, 5:50 am

  Tags: Al Qaeda, Singapore Cyberspace, Turkey Internet

  July 2007 "The song is several years old and may have gone unnoticed were this not the Internet age. It came to prosecutors' notice only after a teen lip-synched the song and posted it on youtube.com last year." Wired, There's No Such Thing as the Homeland, 17 July 2007 "An advanced class of 7th graders with

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• BBC News, Translation tool may aid troops, 13 July...

  Published: July 13, 2007, 1:12 pm

  Tags: Technology, Al Qaeda, Iranian Cyberspace

  BBC News, Translation tool may aid troops, 13 July 2007 "A wristwatch-based translation device, designed to help British soldiers overcome language barriers, could be in production by the end of the year." This refers to Ahky, developed by Amin Ismail. It'll be interesting learning which phrases will be integrated into this technology

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• Economist, A world wide web of terror, 13 July 200...

  Published: July 13, 2007, 5:47 am

  Tags: Hizb Ut Tahrir, Al Qaeda, Palestinian Cyberspace, Hamas

  [previously blogged]. Al-Ahram Weekly, Hamas versus Al-Qaeda, To compare Hamas with Al-Qaeda is both illogical and baseless, writes Saleh Al-Naami from Gaza, 13 July 2007 "Islam Shahwan, police spokesman at the Foreign Ministry, told Al-Ahram Weekly that the attacks

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• WSJ, The Blogosphere for Killers, Tech-savvy terro...

  Published: July 12, 2007, 5:54 am

  Tags: Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda In Iraq, Iranian Cyberspace

  document, in which substantial resources have been invested; I obtained a print version the other day, but it is

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• Times of India, Nikah online? Acceptable, says Dar...

  Published: July 11, 2007, 7:28 am

  Tags: Al Qaeda, Iranian Cyberspace, Indian Cyberspace, Dubai Internet, Ayman Al Zawahiri

  received a stamp of approval from the Darul Uloom, Deoband. "Last week, Darul-ifta, the fatwa department of the famous Islamic seminary, pronounced that "a marriage solemnised in the bodily absence of a party with the help of the Internet, is acceptable if

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• PTI/financialexpress.com (India), Investigators se...

  Published: July 9, 2007, 6:29 am

  Tags: Al Qaeda

  (India), Investigators seize jehadi CDs from homes of suspects, 8 July 2007 "Sleuths probing the alleged involvement of three cities residents in a terror plot in Britain have seized CDs with jehadi' material from the home of suspects Kafeel and Sabeel Ahmed, a top police official said on Sunday." The Observer, Terror

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• EuroNews,Al Qaeda leader posts new internet warnin...

  Published: July 7, 2007, 4:31 pm

  Tags: Al Qaeda

  Qaeda leader posts new internet warning, 5 July 2007 "In a new video posted on the internet, Ayman al-Zawahri, urges unity in jihad." Canada Free Press, "Cyber Jihadists" operating freely from Canada's Eastern Seaboard, 6 July 2007, Operating from pastoral Yarmouth, N.S., the Global Islamic Media Website is touted as an "al Qaeda

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• Spiegel Online, Bin Laden's Deputy Calls for Musli...

  Published: July 6, 2007, 7:01 am

  Tags: Al Qaeda

  Online, Bin Laden's Deputy Calls for Muslims to Unite in Jihad, 5 July 2007 Detailed report: "In a new al-Qaida video, the terror network's No. 2 calls for Muslims to unite in jihad and talks of plans to set up new camps in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. Meanwhile, Islamists in Germany say that al-Qaida are no longer radical enough and call

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• Daily Times, The Other Malaysia: Malaysia an Islam...

  Published: July 27, 2007, 6:00 am

  Tags: Osama Bin Laden, Malaysian Internet, Al Qaeda, Taliban Websites, Saudi Internet

  Times, The Other Malaysia: Malaysia an Islamic state? - Farish A Noor "Notwithstanding the overt ban on media discussion of the Islamic state issue, Malaysia's internet community has been active in keeping the question alive and well on dozens of websites and blogs all over the country." Asharq Alawsat, Saudi Arabia: Online Marriage

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• Hamasteopaths? Medical-Qaeda?

  Published: July 9, 2007, 5:38 pm

  Tags: Comedy, Al Qaeda, Doctors, Muslim, Terrorism, Islam, Christianity, Politics, Wars, News

  go to Glasgow airport and call me in the morning. Allahu Achbar!' (Two tents, geddit?) And that is, I think you will agree, less funny than the original. What is kinda funny is a BUPA study that last week showed NHS consultants get private treatment themselves and that was before we started worrying that all our nice young foreign doctors are

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