Thursday, April 25, 2013

4-25-13 National Security Updates



Chechen Bombers Linked to 'Russia's Bin Laden?'

The name of Chechen terrorist Doku Umarov may soon become a household name. In The Third Jihad, former CIA intelligence officer Wayne Simmons warned that the 2004 school massacre in Beslan, Russia by Umarov’s Islamist terrorist group is "a perfect example of exactly what will take place in this country." That prediction was fulfilled with the bombings in Boston. [more...]


Boston Bomber's Mosque Has Muslim Brotherhood Ties

Dzhokar Tsarnaev, arrested for the terrorist bombings in Boston, attended the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) in Cambridge, a mosque with strong Muslim Brotherhood links. The ISB Cultural Center, which is at a separate location, is even run by a group that federal prosecutors said in 2008 “was founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America." An ISB attendee reports last seeing Tsarnaev there during Ramadan last year. It is unclear if his brother, the other bomber, also attended the mosque. The ISB has links to the Muslim Brotherhood, has had radical leadership and promotes anti-Western themes. [more...]


Iran Linked to Al-Qaeda Bomb Plot in Toronto

Two individuals linked to the Al-Qaeda network in Iran have been arrested in Canada, foiling a plot to derail a train from New York to Toronto. Though Canadian officials and media reports emphasize that there’s no evidence tying the Iranian regime to the plot, the Obama Administration confirmed in 2011 that Iran and Al-Qaeda had a "secret deal." [more...]

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