Tag: Al Qaeda

A profile of a medical student who turned into an Islamic militant.  “Frustrated strivers” with strong educational backgrounds are making Islamic militant groups even more potent enemies of the West.

Many imams are using the internet to recruit young Muslims and potentially indoctrinate and radicalize them.  One imam, Anwar al-Awlaki, seems to be linked to both the Fort Hood shooter and the Nigerian underwear bomber.

The man who tried to ignite an explosive device on the Delta flight to Detroit grew up privileged but later became a religious extremist.

The preaching of Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni imam born in the U.S., may have played a role in motivating the Fort Hood killer and a group of Canadian Muslims who planned to attack the Canadian parliament and behead the prime minister.

A physicist at the lab that houses the Swiss Large Hadron Collider, built to replicate the conditions of the ‘Big Bang’, has been arrested on suspicion of terror links.  Suspects are innocent until proven guilty, but if the police are correct, here’s another example of Sam Harris’s worry about people who are intelligent enough to be nuclear physicists, but still believe in 42 virgins in the afterlife.

A far-flung jihadist movement has found a foothold in America’s heartland.

Al Qaeda’s north African wing threatened revenge against France for launching a “war” against Muslim women who wear full burqas that cover them from head to toe, according to a Web statement posted in the group’s name.