Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Aafia Siddiqui in 1993


Siddiqui ranted briefly on Usenet (a largely academic network at that time) that the Ahmadi sect was not really Muslim.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Zakayev and Litvinyenko, 2006

Ahmed Zakayev was the "Foreign Minister" of the Islamist Chechen group headed by Aslan Mashkadov. He and Alexander Litvinyenko lived next door to each other in London. Zakayev is the guy who promoted Shamil Basayev after the Moscow theatre terrorist attack, for which Basayev took responsibility. Basayev, Mashkadov, and Litvinyenko are dead. Zakayev is free in London.

A seal of the Taliban

A visa stamp from the "Embassy of the Islamic State of Afghanistan" in Khartoum, Sudan.

Zarqa, Jordan, 2006.06.08

The photo was taken in the home town of Abu Mus'ab az-Zarqawi (as he called himself) on the day after he was killed. As the banner indicates, the people are there to commemorate their "martyr".

Monday, September 15, 2008

Mr. and Mrs. Mejjati


This is Abdul-Karim al-Mejjati
عبد الكريم المجاطي
who had been wanted in the USA, KSA, and his native Morocco until he was killed in the battle of ar-Raas in 2005. The photo was uploaded to an al-Qa'ida website by The Black Widow, who later showed it to French newsmen when they interviewed her about her threats against France.

from a senior al-Qa'ida website