The FBI’s list of “Ten Most Wanted” fugitives dates back to 1950 but the list of “Most Wanted Terrorists” dates back to just after 9/11 and a sense that terrorism had become a strategic threat. Today, the list includes 31 individuals, all of them male and with a single exception (Daniel Andreas San Diego, an animal rights extremist), all of them Muslim:
Category Archives: Terrorism
Lessons from the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List :: Daniel Pipes
Imad Mughniyeh: Inside the mysterious death and life of the world’s most dangerous terrorist
On this night, he was in a hurry. He exited his apartment building and walked quickly to his SUV, crossing behind the tailgate to the driver’s side door. He never made it. Instead, a remotely detonated explosive, containing hundreds of deadly, cube-shaped metal shards, ripped his body to shreds, lifting it into the air and depositing his burning torso 15 feet away on the apartment building’s lawn.
Just like that, the most dangerous man you never heard of was dead, his whole career proof that one person really can reshape politics in the Middle East — and far beyond it. “Both bin Laden and Mughniyeh were pathological killers,” 30-year veteran CIA officer Milton Bearden told me. “But there was always a nagging amateurishness about bin Laden — his wildly hyped background, his bogus claims.… Bin Laden cowered and hid. Mughniyeh spent his life giving us the finger.”
Refusing to be Terrorized
If America had refused to be terrorized, the Tsarnaevs would not have been admitted to this country or would have been shown the door once they started adding terrorist videos to their playlist. Instead Tamerlan Tsarnaev was free to slap around his girlfriend while his brother Dzhokhar was adding classic hits to his YouTube playlist like “We Will Dedicate Our Lives to the Jihad.”
That ditty, from the hit-master behind “Hey, Shahid”, “The Holy Jihad (Rise Muslim)” and “Insallah, We are Waiting for Paradise” contains lyrics like “Paradise’s rivers softly chime/The 72 virgins lovingly whisper” and “Infidels rule the earth/for the faithful life is torture”.
But while infidels might still rule the United States, though there are serious questions to be raised about who is ruling Michigan or New Jersey, life was hardly torture for the Tsarnaevs who drove luxury cars, attended good schools and got good media coverage. The good media coverage continued even after their bout of mass murder as the New York Times feature story on them was headlined, “Far From War-Torn Homeland, Trying to Fit In.” And who can blame them for trying to fit by practicing some of their native customs of mass murder.
At some point refusing to be terrorized looks a lot like refusing to pay attention to what terrorism is. After September 11 the government encouraged everyone to get back out there and shop. The message now is take in an interfaith service and then visit your local mosque for a sanitized tour that explains how peaceful Islam really is. There’s a lot of talk about finishing the marathon and MoveOn.orging on our way past the unpleasantness.
Islamic Totalitarianism: FBI policies toward political Islam hampered Boston bombers probe
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s failure to recognize political Islam as a driver of jihadist terrorism is partly to blame for the FBI not identifying one of the Boston Marathon bombers in 2011 as a security risk, according to U.S. officials and private counterterrorism analysts.
The FBI revealed last week that it was warned by a foreign government in 2011 that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed Friday, was tied to “radical Islam” but the FBI was unable to confirm the links.
“The fact is religion has been expunged from counterterrorism training,” said Sebastian Gorka, a counterterrorism specialist with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “The FBI can’t talk about Islam and they can’t talk about jihad.”
FBI policies toward Islamism hampered Boston bombers probe | Washington Free Beacon
The real problem is Islam, not just radical Islamists. If radical Islamists are the foot solders in the Islamic army, then regular Muslims are the civilians funding and aiding this army. Both are a problem. And failure to recognize this means more terrorist attacks will be successful.
Boston Bombing Lesson: Ban Niqabs and Burqas :: Daniel Pipes
One must expect future non-suicide bombers to turn to niqabs or burqas. (As many terrorists and criminals repeatedly have done so: see my 16,000-word blog on this topic.)
But why wait for them to engage in more murders? Why close the barn door only after the horse has run away? Far smarter would be to ban the niqab and burqa in public places now, before tragedy occurs.
Boston Bombing Lesson: Ban Niqabs and Burqas :: Daniel Pipes
Saudi national ‘person of interest’ in Boston’s terrorist attack, is being deported on Tuesday [Video]
Tonight Mark Emerson told Sean Hannity that the non-suspect Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi is being deported back to the Saudi Kingdom [on national security grounds].
Saudi National and Boston Student Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi Is Being Deported – YouTube
Boston Marathon Eyewitness Gives FBI Photo of Man Fleeing Scene – ABC News
A series of photos showing a man in burned and shredded clothing fleeing from the site of the Boston Marathon finish line Monday is one of the more than 2,000 images the FBI is analyzing as it searches for clues.
The photos, taken by Boston businessman Ben Thornike from his office building nearby, show a man in tattered, seemingly burned clothes sprinting from the scene immediately after the two blasts that killed three people and injured more than 170 people erupted.
“I was struck by this individual,” Thornike told ABC News. “Everyone else in the photo is on the ground, bent over, holding their ears, appearing to be in shock, immobile, but this one individual is exactly the opposite.”
Boston Marathon Eyewitness Gives FBI Photo of Man Fleeing Scene – ABC News
Check out the video. You can clearly see the guy in shredded clothing acting differently than everybody else. Everybody else is in shock, but this guy is just trying to get out of there as fast as he can.
Why was this dummy blown up with everybody else? Is he stupid? Aren’t stupidity and terrorism part of the hallmark for al Qaeda? They’re the gang that can’t shoot straight. However, even a broken clock is right twice a day, so the idiots from al Qaeda eventually find something that works. I don’t know if it is al Qaeda or not, but I would be surprised if this incident is not al Qaeda.

