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You can be forgiven if you don't immediately recognize the name in the title of this posting. The story hasn't received a whole lot of attention. In fact, if the story appeared on the newspaper's front page or as a lead story of a television newscast (as the story should have), in the middle of the media's feeding frenzy over the Iowa caususes, I certainly didn't see it.
Anyway, John Granville was the U.S. Ambassador to Sudan. According to this article, an Al Qaeda-linked group is boasting of their hand in his death:
2008 surely is off to a rocky start. Too much is happening in favor of the worldwide jihad.
- Benghazi Terrorist Planner Met With Osama Bin Laden
From Western Journalism: The terrorist planner of Benghazi, Mohammed al Zahawi, met with Osama bin Laden when the latter was in Sudan, according to a senior official in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). According to Business Insider’s...
- Another Convert To Islam
(with a hat tip to A New Dark Age Is Dawning for the first link below) The United States envoy in Sudan — of all people — has converted to Islam. He has been forced to resign: WORLD BULLETIN: The US charge d’affaires in Khartoum, Joseph D Stafford,...
- Islamic Justice: Muslim Lives Superior To Infidel Lives
From Raymond Ibrahim in the Christian Post: Arguing that Muslim blood is more precious than infidel blood, Muslim clerics in and out of Sudan are outraged because a Sudanese court has condemned a Muslim man to death-simply because he murdered American...
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SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE: MUSLIM SUDAN BLOCKING OIL SHIPMENTS FROM SOUTH SUDAN BBC: Sudan has blocked an oil shipment from the new state of South Sudan, accusing it of failing to pay customs duties. The oil was being held at the northern export...
- Al Qaeda In Fascistine Calls For Purge Of Non-muslims
A group which goes by the name "Jaish al Jihad" (army of jihad) has distributed leaflets in Gaza claiming that an Al-Qaeda leader of Bin Laden's stature will soon make his presense known in the area. The leaflet also demands that all non-Muslims must...
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The Murder Of John Granville
You can be forgiven if you don't immediately recognize the name in the title of this posting. The story hasn't received a whole lot of attention. In fact, if the story appeared on the newspaper's front page or as a lead story of a television newscast (as the story should have), in the middle of the media's feeding frenzy over the Iowa caususes, I certainly didn't see it.Anyway, John Granville was the U.S. Ambassador to Sudan. According to this article, an Al Qaeda-linked group is boasting of their hand in his death:
Saturday, January 5th 2008, 4:00 AMEmpty bragging on the part of "Ansar al-Tawhid"? Or have AQ-like groups sprung up all over Northern Africa? The latter is happening, according to Dr. Walid Phares, whom I heard warn of just such a new terrorist push at America's Truth Forum's First Symposium On Terror in April 2006.
WASHINGTON - U.S. counterterror officials were caught by surprise Friday when an Al Qaeda-linked group in Sudan claimed its goons assassinated U.S. diplomat John Granville this week to "defend their religion."
Despite sending six FBI counterterror agents to Khartoum, Sudan, to probe the murder, the claim of responsibility on a credible jihadist forum was unexpected by many senior U.S. officials.
Most assumed the U.S. Agency for International Development officer died in a burst of random street crime, sources said. "This is now getting a lot of attention" inside the intelligence community, a U.S. official told the Daily News.
Jihadists calling themselves "Ansar al-Tawhid" boasted on a password-protected Internet site, Al-Ekhlaas, that the "global infidels" were slain so they couldn't "raise the cross over the land of Sudan," according to the private SITE Intelligence Group.
Granville, 33, of Buffalo, and his driver were killed in Khartoum on New Year's Day while driving home from a party. The little-known group said it "carried out an operation of killing the American diplomat and his Sudanese driver who sold his religion for few benefits of life."
Osama Bin Laden has urged jihadists to fight the U.S. and UN in Sudan's Darfur region. This week's slaying mirrors the 2002 murder of U.S. diplomat Lawrence Foley in Jordan, whose killers included the late Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi....
2008 surely is off to a rocky start. Too much is happening in favor of the worldwide jihad.
- Benghazi Terrorist Planner Met With Osama Bin Laden
From Western Journalism: The terrorist planner of Benghazi, Mohammed al Zahawi, met with Osama bin Laden when the latter was in Sudan, according to a senior official in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). According to Business Insider’s...
- Another Convert To Islam
(with a hat tip to A New Dark Age Is Dawning for the first link below) The United States envoy in Sudan — of all people — has converted to Islam. He has been forced to resign: WORLD BULLETIN: The US charge d’affaires in Khartoum, Joseph D Stafford,...
- Islamic Justice: Muslim Lives Superior To Infidel Lives
From Raymond Ibrahim in the Christian Post: Arguing that Muslim blood is more precious than infidel blood, Muslim clerics in and out of Sudan are outraged because a Sudanese court has condemned a Muslim man to death-simply because he murdered American...
-
SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE: MUSLIM SUDAN BLOCKING OIL SHIPMENTS FROM SOUTH SUDAN BBC: Sudan has blocked an oil shipment from the new state of South Sudan, accusing it of failing to pay customs duties. The oil was being held at the northern export...
- Al Qaeda In Fascistine Calls For Purge Of Non-muslims
A group which goes by the name "Jaish al Jihad" (army of jihad) has distributed leaflets in Gaza claiming that an Al-Qaeda leader of Bin Laden's stature will soon make his presense known in the area. The leaflet also demands that all non-Muslims must...