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Turkey Pursues Domestic Islamization Agenda with Moves to Church of Hagia Sophia into Mosque
March 25, 2020
The Islamist government of NATO-member Turkey took another step in its aggressive Islamization policies that include converting the historic Byzantine Orthodox Cathedral into a mosque, with the Islamic call to prayer being practiced from the minarets imposed on the church that will be activated as the “Grand Hagia Sophia Mosque.”
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US Military Translator Charged with Passing Defense Intel Secrets to Hezbollah
March 25, 2020
A US military linguist with a top security clearance working with American Special Forces in Iraq has been charged with passing names of human intelligence assets and information to the Shiite Islamist group Hezbollah via a contact in Lebanon, sharing troves of data that compromise national defense and security interests.
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AQ Congratulates Taliban for “Defeat of U.S.” and Pledges Allegiance to Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
March 24, 2020
Al-Qaeda command has heralded the Afghan Islamist extremist Taliban’s Doha Agreement with the United States, presented by Washington as a peace deal to end two decades of war in Afghanistan, as a jihadist victory over the West, and pledged allegiance to Taliban Emir Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada as head of a new sharia state in the South Asian country and as the leader of global jihad.
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Islamism and Geopolitics Fuel Rising Iran-Pakistan Tensions in Volatile South Asia
March 24, 2020
South Asian security trends under the new leader, Ismail Qaani, of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ("IRGC"), indicate a degrading of the volatile regional security environment, due to measurable escalation in tensions at the Iran-Pakistan borders, the consequence of Islamist sectarian competition between Iranian Shiite and Pakistani Sunni militias for jihadist recruits.
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FBI Arrests Pakistani Physician in MN on Charges of Support for IS Terror Attacks in US
March 24, 2020
The U.S. FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force has arrested a Pakistani national working as a physician in Minnesota (MN) for attempted material support for Islamic State ("IS"), including his messages to an FBI informant about wanting to perpetrate lone wolf attacks on the American homeland and his recent moves to travel to fight with jihadists in Syria.
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