Somalia’s al-Qaeda linked Shabaab threatened Monday to kill all the country’s new lawmakers, saying that an MP killed at the weekend in Mogadishu was just the first to be targeted. “The successful elimination of Mustafa Haji Mohamed was the action of the mujahedeen who are committed to killing all MPs,” a Shabaab official who
Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court on Sunday ruled that members of ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s dissolved party can stand in future parliamentary elections. The court found that any Egyptian citizen should not be deprived of political rights, “including the right to run in legislative bodies,” as long as that person meets the candidacy requirements, judicial
U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday likened Israeli pressure on him to draw a clear “red line” over Iran's nuclear ambitions to "noise" he tries to ignore, AFP reports. Interviewed for Sunday's edition of "60 Minutes" on broadcaster CBS, Obama said he understands and agrees with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's insistence that Iran not
Pro-Israel posters will go up in 10 New York City subway stations Monday, after a federal judge ruled that the city must put them up. The ads read: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad." New York's MTA transportation agency barred the
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reiterated that should Israel attack his country, the Islamic Republic will retaliate. Ahmadinejad made the comments in an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan. The full interview will air on Monday, but excerpts were released on Sunday. Asked by Morgan what his country’s response will be if it is
A New Jersey Imam has come out in support of disregarding the U.S. Constitution in favor of instituting Sharia law. Mohammad Qatanani, an Imam of one of the largest New Jersey mosques, said that anyone that criticize Islam was a direct threat on our national security. He believes this so strongly that he thinks anyone
Rep. Joe Walsh, an incumbent Republican congressmen running for reelection in Illinois, issued a statement Saturday vowing to "pursue and expose" the radical Islamic threat, following the arrest of a terror suspect from Hillside, Illinois. Prosecutors announced Saturday that the terror suspect had been arrested on the previous night, in Chicago. The suspected left
Egypt’s new president, Mohammed Mursi, urged the United States late Saturday to change its approach to the Arab world to be able to repair relations and revitalize an alliance with Egypt. Mursi will travel to New York on Sunday to take part in a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly. “Successive American administrations
A spy device camouflaged as a rock exploded when it came into contact with Iranian troops near an underground nuclear enrichment plant, The Sunday Times reported this week. Last month, Revolutionary Guards at the Fordo nuclear facility, near the northern city of Qom, came across the rock and attempted to move it, according to
An Islamist militant group based in Sinai, Egypt, claimed on Sunday a deadly cross-border attack that killed an Israeli soldier in the restive peninsula where jihadi groups have gained a foothold. Three gunmen were also killed in Friday’s attack, which Ansar Bait al-Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem) termed as a “Disciplinary Invasion Against those who
