Middle East Update

by Hillel Fendel A new audio cassette, the fifth one issued by the Al-Qaeda international terrorist organization this year, tells the Arabs of Judea, Samaria and Gaza that they need not be concerned.

“I have not forgotten your struggle,” the reviled terrorist chieftain Osama Bin-Laden is heard saying, “and we plan to expand our Jihad [...]

Arab terrorists threw Molotov cocktails at an Israeli driver on Saturday September 29. The attack took place near an Arab village northeast of Ramallah. The driver was not injured. IDF soldiers arrived at the scene and apprehended four of the attackers.

by Ezra HaLevi and Hillel Fendel
Gaza-based terrorists fired four Kassam rockets and some 25 mortar shells at Israeli towns in the western Negev Wednesday morning September 26. A military committee set up by Defense Minister Ehud Barak recommends, among other things, that Israel reduce the electricity it supplies to Gaza by seven megawatt-hours following every [...]

Youssef IbrahimSaudi Arabia has become a world-class exporter of Islamist violence. Well over 3,000 Saudi citizens roaming the world - and just as many schemers actively involved at home - are managing terrorist networks and planning and executing suicide bombings and jihadist attacks that span the globe. More than 1,000 Saudis are currently training in [...]

by Ezra HaLevi
A teenage Arab was intercepted at an IDF checkpoint 30 miles northeast of Tel Aviv Sunday afternoon September 9, transporting 3 bombs to be used in a suicide attack in Tel Aviv in the next 24 hours. The bombs were supposed to be transferred to a terrorist on the [...]

by Hillel Fendel and Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
A joint Fatah-Islamic Jihad attack against an IDF outpost, apparently an attempted kidnapping, ended with six terrorists dead. No Israelis were wounded.

“I estimate that the terrorists attempted to capture the army position, and possibly to kidnap soldiers and carry out an attack in Kibbutz Kissufim as well.”

Theodore Dalrymple
One of the most sinister effects of the efforts of the UK bombers is that they have undermined trust completely between Muslims and non-Muslims. This is because those under investigation turn out not to be cranks or marginals but people well-integrated into society; they are not the ignorant and uneducated. The perpetrators do not [...]

John Steele (Telegraph-UK)
A group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened to use car bombs and rocket grenades in terrorist attacks in the U.S. during discussions on an extremist Internet chat site. Police found details of the discussions on a site run by Younis Tsouli, 23, of London, who along with two other [...]

In a newly released videotaped message similar to a “fireside chat,” al Qaeda’s second-in-command issues advice and directives for the Muslim world, terrorism expert Laura Mansfield said Wednesday July 4.

Yoram SchweitzerThe establishment of global Jihad elements in Iraq may also present a threat to Israel. The possibility of coalition forces - headed
by the U.S. - leaving Iraq will provide global Jihad members with a sense of victory and power. This may put all the enemies of global Jihad- including [...]