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Big Bomb Found Near Indonesia Church; 19 Arrested

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Senior security minister Djoko Suyanto said he believed Islamic militants had been plotting an attack outside of the capital during Good Friday celebrations. "The army and police are under high alert," he told reporters after attending a meeting chaired by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. "We want...

Libya Rebels Raise Concern About Islamic Extremism

AJDABIYA, Libya - Abdel-Moneim Mokhtar was ambushed and killed by Moammar Gadhafi's troops last week on a dusty road in eastern Libya - the end of a journey that saw him fight as a jihadi in Afghanistan and then return home where he died alongside NATO-backed rebels trying to oust the longtime authoritarian leader. In...

Captured Teen Bomber in Pakistan Vows Attacks

MULTAN, Pakistan -- His accomplices brought carnage to a Sufi shrine, but the 14-year-old suicide bomber who was captured after his explosives failed to detonate was unrepentant. "Let me go, I want to be a martyr," he said as he was being led away, according to police officer Khalid Mahmood. "I want to send all you...

Islamist Militants Ambush Pakistani Convoy, 11 Dead

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Islamist militants ambushed a convoy of Pakistani troops traveling close to the Afghan border on Monday, killing 11 of them in an unusually bloody attack, a government official said. The dead included a colonel and a captain in the Frontier Corps, a paramilitary unit that is being trained by a small...

Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari: What We Know So Far About the Saudi Terror Suspect in Texas

FBI officials in Texas have arrested a Saudi Arabian citizen suspected of plotting a terrorist attack using explosive chemicals he purchased over the Internet. Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, a 20-year-old chemical engineering student at South Plains College near Lubbock, Texas, was detained late Tuesday and charged with...

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05/28/12 Egyptians torch Shafiq headquarters as vote triggers... Source: Queens Examiner - Queens NY Demonstrators furious that Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister made it into the run-off for the country's presidential election set ablaze his campaign headquarters on Monday, underscoring the divisive outcome of the nation's historic vote.
05/28/12 'When will Pakistan shut down Frankenstein's monster?' Source: rediff.com The pathetic failure of United States' policy in Pakistan is evident by the fact that more than 10 years after the 9/11 terror strike, terrorist groups based in Pakistan continue to operate with impunity, according to Lisa Curtis, a former Central Intelligence Agency official and currently the head of the South Asia Programme at the Heritage Foundation.
05/28/12 Yemen army tightens grip on militant-held town Source: KNAU - Flagstaff AZ Yemeni troops tightened their grip on Monday on a southern town largely controlled by an al Qaeda-linked group as they fought to dislodge them in a new U.S.-backed offensive against Islamist militants.
05/28/12 Pakistan's top judge urged to act over âCIA doctor' Source: Dawn A policeman walks past Central Jail in Peshawar May 24, 2012.
05/28/12 HRW calls on Pak govt. to prosecute Ahmadi massacre... Source: Sify The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said Pakistan's federal and provincial governments should bring to justice those responsible for the May 2010 attacks on Ahmadiyya mosques.

Background on Islamic fundamentalism

Islamic fundamentalism (Arabic: usul, the "fundamentals") is a term used to describe religious ideologies seen as advocating a return to the "fundamentals" of Islam: the Quran and the Sunnah.

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