Austrian Returns, Unrepentant, to Online Jihad

VIENNA — Mohamed Mahmoud, a 26-year-old Austrian, wears a traditional white tunic and a light-brown hat and keeps his hair long, as is the tradition in the Pashtun tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Only his camouflage vest and dark-blue sneakers place him in the modern world here in Europe, which he re-entered Sept. 12 after serving a four-year prison sentence for joining and actively supporting Al Qaeda and its affiliates.

After helping to kill Qaddafi, NATO prepares to end Libya mission

DEBKAfile Special Report October 21, 2011, 9:33 AM (GMT+02:00)

Muammar Qaddafi is dead

Once the fact of Muammar Qaddafi's abrupt demise on Thursday, Oct. 20, is absorbed, Libya will be left with the same power struggle between pro- and anti-Qaddafi loyalists as before - with the added horror of blood revenge pursued by his clan and tribal allies.  

Until proved otherwise, Saif al Islam and his siblings are still around. Their own Qadhafah tribe and its allies, the Warfalla, Al-Awaqir and Magariha, will not rest until they avenge their leader's death. Furthermore, those tribes remain as hostile as ever to rule over their territory by the National Transitional Council and the tribes of Cyrenaica in eastern Libya which the NTC represents.  

Israeli embassy break-in led by Jam'a al-Islamiya of NY 1993 bombing

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 10, 2011, 7:41 PM (GMT+02:00)

Some 40,000 rioters sack Israeli embassy

In first new disclosures on the storming of Israel's Cairo embassy which started Friday night, Sept. 9, DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources reveal that the mob was led by the terrorist Jama'a al-Islamiya, the Egyptian founding branch of Al Qaeda, and two other radical Egyptian Islamist groups.
The February 1993 car bombing of the World Trade Center of New York, which was the forerunner of the Sept. 11, 2001 atrocities, was an early Jama'a operation under the al Qaeda label.

Suicide bomber kills 11 outside Pakistani mosque

By BILL ROGGIOAugust 31, 2011

A suicide bomber killed 11 people in a parking lot outside a Shia mosque in Quetta, the provincial capital of Pakistan's Baluchistan province. The attack is the latest to take place at a mosque in Pakistan.

Abbas Wants Lebanese Flag Flying over Jerusalem

Abbas ties the knot with Lebanon, raising the Palestinian Authority flag on its embassy. Hizbullah lauds terrorist attacks on Israel.

Militant makes death threat against David Letterman

Late night television host David Letterman waves to the crowd as he accepts The Johnny Carson Award for Comedic Excellence at ''The Comedy Awards'' in New York City March 26, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi

LOS ANGELES | Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:18pm EDT

(Reuters) - A Muslim militant has urged American followers to assassinate talk show host David Letterman, saying his tongue deserved to be cut out, a U.S. intelligence monitoring group said on Wednesday.