Category: Terrorism

CNN) — Recent arrests have exposed an intricate web of al Qaeda contacts in which the terror network’s operational information flowed among Pakistan, Britain and the United States:

Militants loyal to top al-Qaeda suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi have released a video which apparently shows a US citizen being beheaded in Iraq. The man in the video – which appeared on an Islamist website – says he is from San Francisco. Zarqawi’s militants have previously released footage of hostage beheadings. But doubts have been…

More goings on in Riyadh, oil prices may never be stable again, so long as this continues.

Also last night Newsnight interviewed the anonymous authour of Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror. Definately worth a look. You can watch it here. (Realplayer)

It appears that one of the Bulgarian hostages has been killed, perhaps beheaded. A video will no doubt become available on the Internet soon, as will graphics pictures, Nick Berg all over again. Here is the BBC report: Arab satellite television channel al-Jazeera said the captors threatened to kill a second Bulgarian within the next…

The BBC reports on the mistaken figures given by President Bush. The US has more than doubled its estimation of the number of people killed by terrorism last year. The state department said 625 people were killed in 2003, compared with the 307 it claimed in April. The Bush administration seized on the original report…

After the tragedies of Nick Berg and Paul Johnson, it appears Kim Sun-il is the latest hostage to be beheaded. His corpse has apparently been found in Iraq. No doubt there will be another deluge of people on the Internet seeking pictures of Kim Sun-il, though it appears his beheading was not recorded.

The deadline has passed, and reports indicate that the US captive has been beheaded in the style of Nick Berg. Shall we also see a video of Johnson’s beheading? Update: My website has been deluged with people looking for a video of Johnson. 2,500 people so far today. Strangely I rank number one on the…

It is reported that Paul Johnson, the US citizen kidnapped in Saudi Arabia, has been shown on video. He appears blindfolded, giving his name. The video has been shown on CNN apparently. Update: Indeed it has. It appears now that demands have been made: A masked man armed with an automatic weapon also spoke on…

Far more than the secular Ba’athist regimes targeted by the Washington neo-cons, the Saudis have turned the face of Islam against the west. The war on Iraq has only provided a rallying cry for al-Qaida supporters. The country that has played by far the greatest role in advancing global Islamist militancy was never listed in…