Tunisia's ruling Islamist party has "violated" the Quran by accepting a constitution that is not based solely on Islamic law, Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has said in a new message. A 12-minute Al Qaeda audio-tape posted on jihadist websites accused Tunisia's ruling Ennahda party of being a western stooge that "allows nudist beaches
Security researchers said on Monday that they have found a direct link between the Stuxnet worm and the more-recently-discovered Flame espionage malware, indicating that the two teams cooperated and collaborated. “We’re very confident that the Flame team shared some of their source code with the Stuxnet group,” Roel Schouwenberg, a senior researcher with the
New York City principal has pulled the plug on patriotism by preventing students from singing "God Bless the USA" at their graduation. The decision has sparked fireworks at a school filled
Editor’s note: The compilation of materials used in this article are the result of a collaboration between Steve Emerson, of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, Elizabeth Coker, a retired journalist and stay-at-home-mom, Jerry Gordon, former Army Intelligence officer and Editor for New English Review, and Eric Allen Bell, Filmmaker and writer. This article was written
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was defibrillated twice after his heart stopped on Monday, a prison hospital source told AFP. According to the source, Mubarak's “heart stopped twice. Doctors had to use a defibrillator. He has been in and out of consciousness and has been refusing food.” Earlier, an interior ministry source told
Palestinian officials voiced concern about possible concessions by the Vatican ahead of talks on Tuesday between Israel and the Holy See on the status of Catholic Church property in Jerusalem. The Palestinians said a copy of an alleged draft agreement prepared for the talks, which could not be independently verified, reportedly includes an implicit
A gang of robbers invaded two villages in northern Nigeria on Monday in an apparent revenge attack, slitting some residents’ throats and shooting others, leaving 23 dead, police said. “They went door-to-door shooting villagers and in some cases slitting their throats with knives,” the police source said on condition of anonymity because he was
The father of the Al-Qaeda linked terrorist who murdered a rabbi and three Jewish children in Toulouse, France has filed suit against police who killed him. Mohammed Benalal Merah accused police of murdering his son in a standoff 30 hours after Mohamed Merah refused to give himself up and instead was killed when he
Former Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak is in state of coma, a spokesman for Egypt's Interior Ministry said Monday. "Mubarak entered today into full coma. His two sons Gamal and Alaa submitted a request to the prison authority to move beside him and it has been accepted. His health has been deteriorating since the verdict,
The political party of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, which has the biggest bloc in parliament, is proposing changes to the banking law with the goal of boosting the market share of Islamic banks to 35 percent in five years from 5 percent now, a party member said. Ahmed al-Najjar, a member of the Freedom and
