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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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06/01/12 Al Qaeda in Yemen releases 27 captured soldiers Source: Zee News An al Qaeda-linked group in Yemen says it has released 27 government troops captured in a surprise attack last month on an Army base in the south.
06/01/12 O's assassinations Source: New York Post - New York NY Killing has never been so discriminating, so urbane, so cool.
06/01/12 As Violence Rises, US and Allies Pulled Into Yemen Source: Antiwar.com U.S. policymakers might talk down "boots on the ground" in Yemen but with an estimated several hundred military advisers already deployed, Washington and its allies are already being drawn ever deeper into the country.
06/01/12 Al-Qaeda Claims Suicide Bombings Against Yemen Shi'ites Source: Antiwar.com Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings on May 25 against Shiite Zaidi rebels in northern Yemen, in a statement posted Friday on jihadist websites.
06/01/12 Tonight on AC360: "We should be ashamed" of treatment... Source: Anderson Cooper 360 Blog Today lawyers representing the Pakistani doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden appealed his conviction.

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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