Al Qaeda

Drone-Banning Bill Passes Florida Senate Unanimously

Good news, everyone! It looks like it's going to be a little harder for the government to vaporize you with a drone, thanks to a 39-0 vote by the Florida Senate for SB 92. Sponsored by Sen. Joe Negron, who is the chamber's appropriations chair, the bill will keep local law enforcement officials fro ... More >>

The Thrilling Manhunt of Zero Dark Thirty

Raees Qazi, Terrorist Genius: "Make A Bomb In The Kitchen Of Your Mom"

Listen close, junior terrorists. How do you, aspiring distributor of chaos and mayhem, orchestrate something that will stir things up -- really get your jihad on -- when you're stuck in the middle of suburbia, without a car, money, and your mom blows? Well, al-Qaeda is here to help. And our two lo ... More >>

Raees Qazi, Oakland Park Terror Suspect, Allegedly Planned to Blow Self Up in New York

Raees Qazi, the younger of two Oakland Park brothers charged by the FBI with conspiring to funnel "material support" to terrorists planning to explode a weapon of mass destruction somewhere in the United States, allegedly planned to either blow himself up or detonate a bomb in New York that would ca ... More >>

David Horowitz Has Made Taunting College Students a Spectator Sport

Allen West Blames Obama for Libya Attack

What's this? An Obama Done Coddled the Terrorists and Apologizes to Them All the Time party? And Allen West wasn't invited? No, wait. There he is. With Mitt Romney leading the way and attacking a statement the president never actually made and Sarah Palin getting in on the Obama is BFFs with terro ... More >>

Allen West: "Total War" Only Kind of Responsible War With Syria

​Congressman Allen West has had enough of these half-assed wars in the Middle East.While West was focused mainly on Obama's spending policies at his town hall meeting in Deerfield Beach Wednesday afternoon, he was also very critical of cuts to military funding and foreign policy interactions that ... More >>

South Florida Muslims Seek a New Way to Get Along in the Wake of Terrorism Charges and Bigotry

Florida Legislators Want to Declare That Osama bin Laden's Death Was a Good Thing

​It hasn't passed either chamber of Florida's Legislature yet -- so it's not official -- but memorial bills filed in the House and Senate suggest that Osama bin Laden's death was a good thing.Ranking somewhere around Sen. Stephen Wise's "Christmas break" bill as far as importance is concerned, the ... More >>

Muslim Nezar Hamze Kept Out of Broward GOP Committee Amid "Pit of Discrimination"

Photo by Mike RiceNezar Hamze (left) across from local radio host "Joe Citizen" in a July protest outside a Margate mosque.​Nezar Hamze -- a Muslim and executive director of Florida's Council on American-Islamic Relations -- is no stranger to taking heat from right-wing politicos in Broward County ... More >>

On 9/11 Anniversary, Allen West Blames "Radical" Islam, Never Mentions Bin Laden

West continues his anti-Islam rhetoric.​Ten years ago, as the Twin Towers fell, there were fears the attacks would bring on a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment in America. Some people worried that every innocent citizen in a headscarf would be blamed for the terrorists' plot and that ethnic and religi ... More >>

Alleged Obama Threatener Reportedly Called Palm Beach Post More Than 1,000 Times

Multnomah County Sheriff's OfficeDarryl James Swanson​Darryl James Swanson -- the Oregon man arrested for allegedly threatening President Barack Obama in a series of phone calls to the U.S. attorney's offices in Portland and Seattle, as well as the Palm Beach County Commissioner's Office -- also e ... More >>

Terrible Packaging Skills Induce Boynton Beach Bomb Scare

Boynton Beach Police DepartmentHere's the nonbomb that showed up at World Savings bank's mail center today.​Apparently a cardboard box semi-sealed by Scotch tape with wires hanging out is all it takes for someone to be pretty sure they just got a bomb in the mail.Boynton Beach police spokeswoman S ... More >>

Coffee Art: Osama Bin Latte

Ron Gunzburger's Facebook PageThis is the fine work of Rob Negron at the Brew Urban Cafe on Himmarshee.​Al Qaeda put out a statement on the internet today about Osama Bin Laden's death: "It [Bin Laden's blood] will remain, with permission from Allah the Almighty, a curse that chases the Ameri ... More >>

Death Photo: Why Obama Is Wrong on This One

​Yes, actually, one more thing ... President Obama made just about all the right moves when it came to killing Bin Laden.Take a huge risk and conduct the operation despite having concrete proof that Bin Laden was even in the compound? Check. Conduct a precise ground raid instead of an ai ... More >>

Top Five Memes in a Post-Osama Bin Laden World

​Osama bin Laden is dead, and America is rejoicing. The al Qaeda leader was shot down by Navy Seals in a mansion near the Pakistani capital of Islamabad late Sunday night. This came almost ten years to the day that the official manhunt began, and many are crediting President Barack Obama with the ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden is Dead! (Dead Body PHOTO?)

​If you haven't yet heard, Osama bin Laden is dead!  President Obama just spoke and confirmed that his body

Osama bin Laden Is Dead: Some Links

​Osama bin Laden is dead and you want to know the whole story? The compound in Attobad​-- U.S. forces shot bin Laden in the head during a raid at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. One of the al Qaeda leader's sons was also killed, as were two other men and a women being used as a human ... More >>

Muslim Group "Welcomes Elimination of Osama Bin Laden"

Flickr/ Bird Eye Muslims protesting terrorism after the attacks in Mumbai. ​The Council on American -Islamic Relations is self-described as "America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization." CAIR positions itself as a peaceful organization that denounces terrorism and seeks to b ... More >>

Bin Laden Is Dead: Remembering al Qaeda's Broward Past

​America is jubilant today with the news of Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of American operatives, and the president's approval ratings are sure to take a leap after the one-two punch of decapitating the birthers and incapacitating the world's most wanted terrorist. Those two things are tota ... More >>

Top Five Other Menial Jobs That May Be Path to al Qaeda Leadership

"By a show of hands, who wants to be my personal assistant?"​If the FBI is to be believed, Adnan El Shukijumah is the terrorist's version of a Cinderella story, having worked his way up from dishwasher to his current rank as director of overseas operations. Granted, this former Miramar resident di ... More >>

Broward College Says Alleged al Qaeda Leader Was Dropout, Used Different Name

Broward.eduBroward College's Pine Center campus, where a future terrorist suspect took chemistry classes.​Seeking to "stem the tide of incorrect information," Broward College has released a statement that clarifies the school's association with Adnan El Shukrijumah, the former Miramar resident who ... More >>

FAU to Open Can o' Worms -- er -- Middle East Institute

(left to right): Manjunath Pendakur, John F. Pritchett, Bob Newmark, Robert Rabil: Yet another peace effort.​Florida Atlantic University just can't leave well enough alone. It's been much too long since the school was accused of harboring terrorists -- but a day without anti-Muslim hysteria is a d ... More >>

The Islamicist in the Room

Kaufman: Setting her sights on Shadowood.Fort Lauderdale's WFTL-AM (850) talk-radio host Joyce Kaufman is smelling conspiracy everywhere lately. She has hooked up with those zany folks over at the Florida Security Council and believes that there's a radical Muslim hiding under every rock. "I am obse ... More >>

We Head to Afghanistan to Find Out What's Been Gained by Eight Years of War

Guantánamo's Final Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms.

Mehkago NT Announces Tour

Pure crusty hardcore aggression, 305-style, hits the eastern seaboard on the heels of a No Idea split with Religious as Fuck. Mehkago NT is an admixture of some of South Florida's best known, most notorious HC/punk/sludge/metal musicians.  The band features members or ex-members of DNME, To ... More >>

The Bin Laden Tapes: Proof of Life?

Global freedom-hating menace Osama bin Laden has released a new album, and this one sounds like the others. Gaza, Jihad, path of God, Jews are mean, et cetera. Nothing you haven't heard before. In fact, how does the most recent tape prove that The Pajama-ed one lives? Maybe I'm just bitter because i ... More >>

Have Terror, Will Travel

How two FBI mercenaries cashed in on the Liberty City Seven terrorism case

The Big Valley

Twin Peaks: The Second Season, The Natural: Director's Cut, Death of a President, The Good Shepherd

Atta's Fork

How Much Would You Pay for the Utensil That Fed the Devil?

About Those Alleged Terrorists

From Gitmo With Love

The elephant in Guantanamo's living room gets 4,200 calories a day and a Koran.

Hotter than Larry the Cable Guy, Too

Baghdad Boy

What was really behind Farris Hassan's trip to Iraq? Ask his father, who has a fascinating and checkered past.

War: What Is It Good For?

In Ridley Scott's latest epic, it's good for one really stunning siege

Pipe It to Me

Hold on a Bahamian Minute

Be Afraid; Be Very Afraid

Screamfest is coming!

No Question

Jadakiss cashes in on controversy

Best Vegetarian Restaurant

Sublime

Paris

Sonic Jihad (Guerrilla Funk/Groove Attack)

You, Spy

Why can't Americans make TV shows as good as Brit import MI-5?

Letters for March 27, 2003

A Hate-Love Relationship

War on War Songs

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

Dirty George and the War Pigs

The president's war, his brother's fib, a black man's past, and Mayor Griffin's demise

Bobbing for War

Florida's senator should get out before he gets in

The Antiwarriors

Riding shotgun with Broward County's tiny but angry peace movement

Letters for September 19, 2002

Caveat voter

Critic's Notebook

What's happening -- and what's not -- at the tip of the peninsula

The War Within

Listen to the leaders of two South Florida mosques tied to terror