Scenes from an Atrocity

BY JON LEE ANDERSON

MAY 15, 2013

I first heard about the Syrian rebel who was supposed to have eaten a heart on Monday, when a friend who lives in Beirut tweeted something cryptic about abuse videos. Against my better instincts, I…

Revealed, one man's terrifying 'jihad' on U.S. soil: Extremist 'executed four in revenge for American attacks in the Middle East and carried out bank fraud for the Cause'

• Ali Muhammad Brown, 29, confessed he killed because 'all these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government. So a life for a life'
• Brown blasted Brendan Tevlin, 19, a University of Richmond…

Egypt and UAE have been conducting secret air strikes on Libya – report

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The jihadist schoolboy dubbed 'Osama Bin Bieber': Teenager from Coventry 'fighting alongside ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria'

• Mohammed Hadi, 18, believed to have travelled to war-torn region to fight
• The former college student had become radicalised, it is said
• He is known as 'Bin Bieber' because he looks so…

Iraq blocks Twitter, Facebook, YouTube amid growing ISIS threat

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Fleeing the Monster of Mosul: 500,000 escape Iraq's second biggest city after it 'falls like a plane without an engine' to warlord more 'virulent and violent than Bin Laden' 

• Islamist militants effectively took control of Mosul yesterday after four days of heavy fighting
• Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, 43, known as Adu Dua, has emerged as one of the world's most lethal terrorist…

Israel to ‘evict the dead’ in Bedouin village demolished over 60 times

Published time: May 26, 2014 21:01

Israel is trying out a new sort of “flexible evictions” in its quest to root out the “illegal” Bedouin village of Al-Araqib, demolished 63 times to date. Now even those buried in the village cemetery are reportedly receiving eviction orders.…

Shocking images show Syrian thief blindfolded and CRUCIFIED by terrorist group linked to a British suicide bomber

• The execution took place in Syrian city of Raqqa as onlookers took pictures
• It was exacted by terror cell The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria who hold city
• They…

IRAN blew up Lockerbie jet - not Libya, says defector: Ayatollah 'used Syrian-based terror group to bomb Pan Am 103 in revenge attack'

• Ayatollah Khomeini wanted revenge for U.S. strike on Iranian passenger jet
• He wanted 'everything exactly the same, minimum 290 people dead'
• Claims…

'The scum stole our cash': 'Hip hop jihadist' who left £1m London home to fight in Syria complains on Twitter of being kidnapped, tortured and robbed by FELLOW Islamists

• Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary left Maida Vale home last year to go to Syria 
  
  
• 23-year-old's cash, phones and guns allegedly stolen by other jihadists
• Bary is an aspiring rapper whose music has featured on BBC Radio…

Russia threatens to quit START as US deploys Aegis destroyer to Spain

http://rt.com/news/destroyer-us-poland-start-treaty-530/

Father arrested for fitting a PADLOCK to four-year-old son's mouth to stop him screaming as he beat him to death for being 'a child of evil' in Nigeria…

Spraying bullets from an AK-47, the four-year-old Al Qaeda fighter in Syria who should be in infants’ school

• Video shows youngster opening fire twice to shouts of 'Allahu Akbar'
  
  
• He is so small the gun barrel was supported by a section of road block
  
  
• Alarming footage was…

Syrian rebel leader urges truce as infighting Al-Qaeda factions trigger bloodbath

Published time: January 07, 2014 22:47 

Edited time: January 08, 2014 01:02

A leader of an Al-Qaeda affiliated rebel group in Syria has called for a ceasefire with another Al-Qaeda-inspired movement, after internecine clashes between various Islamist anti-government factions resulted in hundreds of deaths in less…

Syria turning into ‘center of global jihad’ – IDF Intel Chief

Published time: July 24, 2013 11:08

Israeli Military Intelligence chief said that Syria is becoming a ‘center of global jihad’ right on Israel’s border, with extremists trying not only to topple President Bashar Assad, but also to create a state governed by the Islamic religious law.

Director of Military Intelligence Maj.…

Israel behind mystery attack on Syrian port – US sources

Published time: July 13, 2013 03:33 

Edited time: July 13, 2013 08:33

US officials have revealed that explosions reported at a key Syrian port on July 5 were likely the result of an Israeli airstrike.

At least 42 killed in Egypt, Islamists call for uprising

(Reuters) - At least 42 people were killed in Cairo on Monday, medical sources said, when Islamist protesters angered by the military overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi said they were fired on at the Cairo…

US to deploy 200 troops to Jordan to curb Syria violence - Hagel

Published time: April 17, 2013 20:50 

Edited time: April 18, 2013 02:37

The US will deploy 200 troops to Jordan in the coming weeks in a bid to support that country’s defenses, Washington says, as the Syrian crisis escalates.

The Wednesday statement came from US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in…

Anonymous launches massive cyber assault on Israel

Hacktivist group Anonymous has launched a second massive cyber-attack against Israel, dubbed #OpIsrael. While the hackers claim to have caused multi-billion dollar damage, Israel declares there haven’t been any major…