Entries by AIFD

7/16/13 Syria pro-regime militia kills reconciliation team: NGO

Source: Fox News BEIRUT (AFP) –  Members of a Syrian pro-regime militia gunned down seven Sunni men working on reconciliation in the central province of Homs overnight, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. Clashes broke out, meanwhile, between Kurdish fighters and the radical Islamist Al-Nusra Front in northern Syria’s Ras al-Ain, said […]

9/10/13 Eyewitness Places ICNA Official at Bangladesh Mass Killings

Source: The Investigative Project on Terrorism A survivor of a 1971 Islamist killing spree in Bangladesh tearfully told a war crimes tribunal Monday that he saw a man who would go on to lead the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) giving orders during the kidnapping, torture and murder of intellectuals. Delwar Hossain, 70, provided a dramatic […]

8/5/13 WSJ: Tamerlan Tsarnaev Influenced by Conspiracy Theories

Source: Newsmax.com Extremist publications found in the apartment of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev have suggested that he was deeply involved in conspiracy theories that went beyond radical Islam. Tsarnaev discovered some of the radical publications while working as a caregiver for a 67-year-old man who passed them on, along with his beliefs, reports The […]

Hostile Takeover

Islamists enter military in Egypt as part of Muslim Brotherhood effort to take control, US says Freebeacon.com, BY: Bill Gertz March 29, 2013 5:00 am Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated government recently allowed members of the Brotherhood and hardline jihadists to join Egypt’s military academy for the first time as part of what U.S. officials say is a […]