2002 January - February

Islamic Terrorism Timeline

10/5/2006

- January 1, 2002: In Israel, a bus came under fire near the West Bank settlement of Homesh. Throughout the Islamic world passenger busses filled with innocent civilians, men, women, and children, young and old, were prime targets. There is something very disturbing about a religion that promotes terror.

- January 1, 2002: In Indonesia, a grenade exploded inside an America restaurant. Police believed it was detonated prematurely - killing the Muslim man who planned to plant it in the establishment. In addition to killing himself he wounded his accomplice. Police say the attackers were associated with the Islamic Free Aceh Movement (GAM). The same day a Jakarta restaurant bomb killed another person.

- January 1, 2002: In Kashmir, Lashkar-e-Tayyba Muslim militants massacred a Hindu family in Poonch, Jammu. The head of the household was an ex-serviceman. The fundamentalist Islamic Lashkar-e-Taiba led an attack that killed four people five days earlier.

The radical increase in Islamic terrorism being perpetrated on Indian Kashmir is a direct result of the American invasion of Afghanistan. The terrorist training bases the United States bombed out of existence were being used to equip Pakistanis to terrorize Kashmir into an Islamic union with Pakistan. An understanding of this reality is essential as we progress because there is a direct connection between al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Pakistan, and Islamic terrorism.

Lashkar-e-Tayyba is the militant wing of the Pakistan-based religious organization, Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad (MDI). MDI is an anti-Christian missionary group formed in 1989. The LT is one of the three largest and best-trained Islamic terrorist operations in Kashmir. Their targets are Hindus and Christians.

In 1994, Lashkar-e-Tayyba became a more substantial recipient of funds from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, the Islamic country's external intelligence agency. Pakistan's largest political party, Jamaat-e-Islami and their terrorist wing Hezb-ul-Mujahideen, refused to accept new conditions attached to ISI money - which included a focus on using al-Qaeda and Taliban trained jihadists to terrorize Kashmir into surrendering to Islam and to Pakistan. This was the primary catalyst for General Musharraf's coup - meaning that he was more prone to terror than his Jamaat-e-Islami political rival.

The LT agreed wholeheartedly to support Pakistan's use of terror to force Kashmir into parting with India and merging into the Land of Pure Islam - Pakistan. Lashkar-e-Tayyba also agreed with the ISI mandate to attack Hindus in the Jammu Division, and to assist in training alienated Muslim youth in the rest of India, motivating them to become Islamic jihadists.

The Lashkar-e-Tayyba agenda includes the imposition of Islamic rule over all parts of India, the imposition of Wahhabi Islamic fundamentalism and Sharia law in Pakistan, forced incorporation of Jammu and Kashmir into Pakistan, and a union of all countries in the region into a pan-Islamic state. Lashkar-e-Tayyba is a member of Osama bin Laden's International Islamic Front for Jihad against the U.S. and Israel, and they are a member of Pakistan's United Jihad Council. Their logo is an open Qur'an with an upraised assault rifle superimposed against a rising sun.

Zafar Iqbal founded Lashkar-e-Taiba along with Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and Zaki ur Rahman Lakhwi. Iqbal left the organization with Saeed in late 2001 to work for Jamaat-al-Dawat, Saeed's Islamic preaching organization. Jamaat-al-Dawat operates several Islamic schools, or madrassas, in Pakistan, educating thousands of students and turning them into jihadists. Iqbal is the director of education for the terrorist manufacturing facilities. Knowing that Islam authorizes lying to Infidels for the advancement of the religion, Iqbal denies all links with Lashkar-e-Taiba, the terrorist organization he founded, and with al-Qaeda, the organization that he publicly allied his terrorist group with. It is like President Musharraf telling the American people he is against terrorism when in fact, his coup was predicated on his support for terror.

Today, Maulana Abdul Wahid Kashmiri is the leader of Lashkar-e-Tayyba, though some assert that it is still led by the Qur'anic teachings of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. Saeed publicly relinquished control to Abdul Wahid after he was arrested in December 2001. The arrest prompted Saeed to split his organization into an armed wing and a division devoted to Islamic preaching - although the two act as if they were one. Saeed was been arrested by Pakistani authorities several times, most recently in February 2006 after leading a violent demonstration against the publication of cartoons accurately depicting the wannabe Prophet Muhammad inspiring terrorism. He was immediately released and currently lives in Lahore.

- January 1, 2002: In Islamic Indonesia, four Christian churches in Palu, Sulawesi, were bombed by Muslim militants. Two policemen were injured while attempting to defuse one of the bombs.

- January 2, 2002: A roadside bomb was detonated under an Israeli vehicle near Nablus. These IEDs, or Improvised Explosive Devices, will menace untold Americans in Iraq.

- January 2, 2002: In Lebanon, an explosive charge was detonated in a shop in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh. The store was owned by the head of the Al-Ahbash (Islamic Charitable Projects Society) so the violence was the result of sectarian infighting between Sunnis and Shia.

- January 3, 2002: Two Israeli men were seriously injured by shots a Palestinian Muslim fired into a Be'er Sheva grocery store. On average, Palestinian Muslims use assault rifle barrages multiple times a day to terrorize Jews. They usually miss their mark which is why I don't report most of them.

- January 3, 2002: Israelis intercepted the Karine-A, a ship loaded with 50 tons of mortars, rocket launchers, anti-tank mines and other weapons intended for Palestinian Islamic terrorists in their brutal campaign against the Israelis. The captain admitted he was under the command of the Palestinian Authority and that he had received his deadly cargo from the Iranian government. Had world leaders been moral in their deliberations, all benefits afforded the Palestinians by way of the Oslo Accords would have been rescinded for this egregious violation.

Once the manifests were checked, the navigation was confirmed, and the interrogations conducted, the 100,000 pounds of death aboard this Palestinian ship demonstrated a collaborative effort between OPEC crude, Iraq's Sunnis, and Iran's Hizballah Shiites. They were of one mind when it came to hating and killing Jews.

This incident does not stand alone. Seven month earlier, the Israelis had seized a smaller ship, the Santorini, loaded with 2,000 pounds of weapons. And a year later, in May 2003, they would intercept a "fishing boat" loaded with electronics and detonators for making suicide bombs. Riding along with his deadly Islamic cargo was Hizballah bomb maker, Hamu Abu Amar.

- January 4, 2002: Nathan Chapman, 31, from San Antonio, Texas was the first American soldier killed by the enemy in Afghanistan. Of the first 11 fatalities, four came by way of friendly fire and seven were the result of mishaps. Chapman was shot and killed when Muslims ambushed his Special Forces unit in the vicinity of Khost, near the Pakistan boarder.

In that this war was being prosecuted by the CIA and Special Forces, very little is known about who America was fighting. The one thing we know for sure is that there was no Afghani Army. Militant Muslims fell into four broad groups. The largest and best armed were members of the Taliban. They were mostly Pakistanis and were directed, funded, and armed by the Pakistan government. The second largest group of Muslim militias belonged to local tribal warlords. They often allied with whatever group paid the highest price for their services. Marxist Muslims funded by the Shia clerics in Iran composed the Northern Alliance. While they were anti-Taliban, they were still Islamic terrorists. Lastly, al-Qaeda had a fairly significant pretense in Afghanistan. But while the leadership of al-Qaeda was Saudi, Egyptian, and Palestinian, their ranks were mostly composed of Pakistanis being trained to wage terror in Kashmir.

In America's prosecution of this war, the CIA under the direction of the Bush administration, asked the Special Forces teams to bribe local warlords to do their dirty work. But while the tribal warlords accepted American weapons and funds, they also accepted bribes from the Taliban and al-Qaeda so much of what happened was an expensive charade. Warlord militias were deployed to force the Taliban out of its hiding places while other warlord militias were positioned to block their escape into Pakistan. After agreeing to these terms, the militias would actually escort the Taliban safely into Pakistan.

While there are many confirmations of these observations in the "Pipeline to 9/11" appendix to the Islamic Terror Timeline, the results serve as proof. America has sacrificed 3,000 lives and squandered $500 billion in the aftermath of 9/11 in its war against terrorism and yet the Taliban's and al-Qaeda's leadership all got away.

- January 6, 2002: Islamic gunmen broke in to the home of the Chechen regional agriculture minister and shot him to death. In the same area, the chief of a local communications center was injured in a similar attack. The news reports that the Chechens are freedom fighters, but that is not true. They are Muslims and thus they terrorized to force the religion of submission on all mankind.

- January 7, 2002: In Burma, two rocket-propelled grenades attached to a timing device and aimed at Rangoon Airport were discovered and deactivated. Authorities said that the Kayin National Union deployed these weapons.

- January 9, 2002: Jeannette Winters, 25, of Chicago, Illinois, Dan McCollum, 29, of Columbia, South Carolina, Nathan hays, 21, of Wilbur, Washington, Scott Germosen, 37, of Coram, New York, Steve Bryson, 36, of Montgomery, Alabama, and Bryan, Bertrand, 23, of Coos Bay, Oregon, and Matthew Bancroft, 29, of Burney, California became the 13th through 19th American fatalities attributable to the invasion of Afghanistan. They were all killed when a KD-130/R Hercules refueling aircraft crashed into a mountain as it approached an airfield in southwestern Pakistan. Accidents are a part of waging war which is why the premise for the war must justify the risk. It did not in Afghanistan, which makes this accidental loss of life so devastating. Radio operator Sergeant Jeannette Winters was the first servicewoman to die in the "War on Terror.".

- January 10, 2002: In Iraq, an explosive device detonated near a sports facility in the city of Arbil, the regional capital of Iraq's Kurdish north. No one was hurt, and no damage was caused.

Six months before America invaded Iraq I predicted that the war on terrorism would manufacture far more terrorists than it put out of business. A survey of terrorism published this week, four years after my prediction, by the United States Congress, confirms that I was right. Frankly, I was stunned that it took this long for them to figure it out. Prior to America's invasion of Iraq, there were a handful of terrorist acts per year in Iraq, and most were not lethal. After the invasion, on average each day brought a score of terrorist assaults, most of which were lethal. Terrorism increased 150,000%.

- January 11, 2002: In the Balkans, America went to war on behalf of the Muslim population and against the secular government. A rise in Islamic terrorism has been the legacy of that misadventure. In Montenegro today, the police chief of Berane had his home destroyed by explosives. The bombing coincided with a referendum on Montenegrin independence.

- January 11, 2002: Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) Islamic terrorists attacked a passenger car on Basilan Island, Philippines, killing three people, including a mother and her child.

Muslims justify their terrorist campaign against the world by saying that Infidels are killing Muslim women and children. But like most things Islam, the opposite is true.

The Abu Sayyaf Group (Sword Bearers) was formed in 1991 during the peace process between the Philippine government and the Islamic terrorist group known as the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). Since the MNLF pledged to stop terrorizing the Philippines, they simply created a new name for their militant wing.

The Abu Sayyaf Group's founder, Abdulrajik Abubakar Janjalani, was also the gang's leader from its inception until his death in 1998. Janjalani, like most terrorist leaders, was an Islamic scholar before he became a jihadist. One thing simply led to the other. Janjalani participated in the Afghan-Soviet mujahideen war and rubbed assault weapons with al-Qaeda and the Taliban. He purportedly met with Osama bin Laden.

In December 1998, Janjalani was killed during a clash with the Philippine military. Anih Sailani took over. He was a co-founder of the Abdurajak Janjalani Brigade, an affiliated faction of the Abu Sayyaf Group, of which Sailani was also an original member. Sailani was arrested on kidnapping charges by the Philippine military in September 2001. But in 2002, Sailani and his brother Itin escaped prison by disguising themselves as Muslim women. They just walked out of the facility following prisoner visitation hours. It was suspected that a Muslim prison guard aided in the escape.

The Abu Sayyaf Group remains nominally committed to the formation of a Muslim state in the southern Philippines. However, corrupted by Islam their militants have shifted toward predominantly criminal enterprises. Some intelligence experts (who are not experts on Islam) have viewed recent ASG bombings as a possible sign that the group is returning to its fundamentalist roots.

The Philippine government has struggled for over three decades against the terrorist movement that began with MNLF's founding in 1972. The Abu Sayyaf Group is the most violent wing of that enterprise. Known by the alias, Al-Harakat Al-Islamiyyah, or Bearer of the Islamic Sword, Abu Sayyaf is closely allied with Jemaah Islamiyah, Laskar Jihad, the Moro National Liberation Front, and al-Qaeda. They were directly involved in the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing, providing expertise, funding and personnel.

- January 11, 2002: An Israeli was stabbed in the Armon Hanatzir promenade in Jerusalem by several masked Muslim militants who fled immediately after the attack.

- January 12, 2002: In Chechnya, an explosive device was discovered and rendered safe on a railway connecting the towns of Dzhalka and Argun. The bomb was found under the rails. The Muslim militants planned to initiate the device using a telephone wire.

- January 14, 2002: Two Israelis were shot near Qusin in the West Bank. One died of the wounds Islam had inflicted. Muhammad told Muslims to: "Kill every Jew." Later that day, no one was hurt in a shooting attack on the Abud bypass road north of Ramallah.

- January 15, 2002: Yoela Chen, 45, was shot and killed by an al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades Islamic terrorist. Her crime was being a Jew.

Palestinian gunmen fired on the two Israeli women at the entrance to the community of Giv'at Ze'ev, just north of Jerusalem. Yoela was killed and her friend was injured. Israeli TV Channel One reported that the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was behind the attack.

- January 15, 2002: Palestinian militants ambushed an Israeli vehicle in Beit Sahur. A Jewish man who also held U.S. citizenship was pulled from his car and shot to death at pointblank range. His passenger was badly wounded and left for dead. Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.

- January 15, 2002: Avi Boaz, 71, an American citizen, was kidnapped at a Palestinian Authority security checkpoint in Beit Jala. His bullet-riddled body was found in a car near Bethlehem. Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the murder.

- January 15, 2002: In Montenegro, an imam claimed a bomb threat was delivered to him via cell phone. No evidence of a bomb was found.

- January 16, 2002: An East Jerusalem Muslim was found shot to death in his car near the West Bank settlement of Sanur. The Palestinian attackers either mistook him for a Jew, as his car had Israeli plates, or they saw him as a collaborator.

- January 17, 2002: In Kabul, Afghanistan, a bomb exploded outside the newly reopened U.S. Embassy in the first reported attack on the growing infidel presence in the city. No one was hurt in the evening explosion. Several more booby-trap style bombs were found outside the building but were safely defused.

- January 17, 2002: A Palestinian gunman killed six teenage Jews and wounded 35 Jewish children in Hadera, Israel, before being killed by Israeli police. The Muslim mass murderer broke into a bat mitzvah reception in a banquet hall and opened fire with an American M-16 rifle - one the American taxpayers had provided in accordance with Bill Clinton's Oslo Accords. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Yasser Arafat's personal terrorist group, and thus the PA's and PLO's death squad, confessed to the crime.

After the police had shot and killed him, they found an explosive belt and grenades on his corpse. He was a thoroughly indoctrinated and amply equipped religious terrorist - a living and now dead witness of Islam's corruption.

- January 17, 2002: Two Palestinian gunmen shot at an Israeli man driving near the Dotan junction in the West Bank. He was uninjured and fired back.

- January 17, 2002: Islamic gunmen with automatic weapons shot at Ali Alavdinov, Chechnya's Deputy Prime Minister. His chauffeur was critically wounded.

- January 17, 2002: In Jammu, Kashmir, an improvised explosive device was detonated at a busy intersection, killing one and injuring nine.

- January 17, 2002: In Kosovo, gunmen killed Kosovo MP Ismail Hajdaraj outside his home in Pec. Hajdaraj was a member of Rugova's political party, the LDK. Sectarian violence had been on the increase recently.

- January 18, 2002: Palestinians participated in several shooting incidents in the Gaza Strip.

- January 18, 2002: Two Russian government workers in the Federal Communications office were shot, one killed. It was related to upcoming presidential elections in Ingushetia where Muslims were fighting against the popular will of the people.

- January 19, 2002: A Filipina journalist was abducted by Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) members on Jolo. She was held on Sulu and released three month later following a ransom payment. Arlyn De la Cruz became famous for exclusive stories on Abu Sayyaf (ASG) kidnappings. The Philippine authorities disputed De la Cruz's claim that her captors were Moro National Liberation Front terrorist who had been integrated into the armed forces of the Philippines and claimed that she was being held by the Abu Sayyaf Group. The truth made the Philippine alliance and treaty with the MNLF appear foolish.

- January 20, 2002: An officer in the Kosovo Protection Corps was badly injured along with his family by an IED.

- January 20, 2002: Two more American died accidentally prosecuting George Bush's folly in Afghanistan. Dwight Morgan, 24, of Wilits, California, amd Walter Cohee, 26, of Mardela Springs, Maryland were killed when their CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter crashed while on a resupply mission. Therefore, in the first four months of the Afghanistan war Muslims had claimed one American life and mishaps had claimed twenty. The great American military with all of its braggadocio and might had lost 20 times more men to accidents than to adversaries.

- January 21, 2002: In Kashmir, Islamic terrorists trained by al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Pakistan, attacked a family in their home in a remote village in the Poonch district. Eight children, two men, and two women were murdered. Police blamed the Pakistanis for training and equipping the Muslim militant group.

- January 22, 2002: Four Muslims on motorcycles opened fire on the American Center in Calcutta, India. The American Consulate housed the U.S. Information Service, the Embassy's Public Affairs and Press Offices and a Cultural Center. Five Hindu security officers were killed and twenty people were wounded.

Two Islamic groups, Harakat-ul-Jihad Islami and the Asif Raza Mujahideen, claimed responsibility. Indian police later killed two suspects, one of whom confessed to belonging to Lashkar-e-Tayyba as he died.

- January 22, 2002: A Palestinian gunman opened fire on downtown Jerusalem's Jaffa Street near a bus station. Forty-six Jews were shot, two of whom later died from the wounds inflicted by the religion of Islam.

Security forces shot and killed the attacker, a member of al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, al-Fatah's terrorist wing. But because killing Jews is so popular in the Muslim world, HAMAS also claimed credit for the murders and mutilations. The weapon of choice was an American M-16. The United States had equipped the PA with guns under the premise that they would be used to restrain terrorists. So the moral of the story is: never trust a Muslim. And that's a problem since America has now armed 300,000 Muslims in Iraq. What do you suppose they will do with their M-16s?

- January 22, 2002: A bomb exploded in a crowded retail district in Jammu, Kashmir, killing one person and injuring nine. Second only to Israel, Kashmir had become ground zero for Islam in Action.

- January 22, 2002: In Russia, the first deputy mayor of Makhachkala, Akhmed Aliyev, and his wife were found shot to death in their home. Makhachkala is the capital of the southern Russian republic of Dagestan - a place riddled by Islamic fundamentalism. The Russian authorities blamed the "Wahhabite mafia," better known as Islam.

- January 22, 2002: Several homemade bombs were discovered in Zamboanga in the Philippines. The bombs may have been related to the arrival of U.S. troops for a Balikitan exercise. According to police, the bombs may have been left by the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) during a kidnapping incident.

- January 23, 2002: Armed Muslim militants kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistani authorities received a videotape on February 20th depicting Pearl's brutal beheading. In the video, his murderers read from the Qur'an and shouted "Allahu Akbar" as they sliced Pearl's head from his body.

Daniel Pearl, South Asia Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped in Karachi on January 23rd while investigating links between shoe-bomber Richard Reid and fundamentalist Sunni terrorist groups in Southwest Asia. A previously unknown group calling itself "The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty" claimed responsibility and demanded the release of the former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, better treatment for the detainees in Cuba, and the release of the Pakistani prisoners there.

Sheikh Omar Saeed, one of the leaders of Jaish-e-Muhammad (Army of Muhammad) was arrested on February 12th and confessed to the kidnapping. The Army of Muhammad and its parent group, the Islamic religious political party, Harakat-ul-Mujahideen were therefore believed to have been behind the kidnapping and murder.

Islam corrupts men's minds to the point they think it is good to decapitate those who do not surrender to them. Muslims are convinced that they are following Allah's orders when they murder and mutilate non-Muslims. That is why these Islamic terrorists videotaped their gruesome spectacle while reciting the Qur'an, and then distributed their confession to audiences around the world. There is something deeply disturbing about this, something that lies at the root of Islamic terrorism, something that most are unwilling to acknowledge. The problem of terrorism starts and stops with Islam.

Daniel Pearl's body and head were found in a makeshift grave near Karachi on May 16^th. Pakistani authorities arrested four suspects. Ringleader Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh claimed to have organized Pearl's kidnapping to protest Pakistan's subservience to the United States. He belonged to the Jaish-e-Muhammad Islamic terrorist group trained by the Pakistani government, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda and operating in Kashmir. All four suspects were convicted on July 15. Saeed Sheikh was sentenced to death, the others to life imprisonment. But since the Qur'anic scholar and Islamic terrorist was so popular in Pakistan, Saeed Sheikh was released.

So that you understand that the inspiration for Daniel Pearl's murder, even his beheading, came directly from Muhammad, Islam's lone prophet and religious example, consider this account from the earliest Islamic sources. The Sira, Ta'rikh, and Hadith reveal that Muhammad became so afraid of being exposed, he ordered his followers to assassinate anyone who criticized him. The first was a Jewish poet named Ashraf. In an illiterate society, poets were the journalists of their day. Their words swayed public opinion. Ashraf recognized that pirate and prophet were divergent career paths, and he had the courage to say so. This Hadith is from Bukhari's Collection, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 270:"Allah's Messenger said, 'Who is ready to kill Ashraf? He has said injurious things about Allah and His Apostle.' Maslama got up saying, 'Would you like me to kill him?' The Prophet proclaimed, 'Yes.' Maslama said, 'Then allow me to lie so that I will be able to deceive him.' Muhammad said, 'You may do so.'" (Bukhari:V4B52N270) Islam gives Muslims a license to lie and kill.

We pick up the story on page 94 of the History of al-Tabari, Volume VII. My shorthand for this passage is: (Tabari VII:94) "Ashraf suspected no evil when Maslama cried, 'Smite the enemy of Allah!' So they smote him, and their swords clashed over him. Maslama said, 'I remembered my dagger and I seized it. I thrust it into the lower part of his body. I bore down upon it until I reached his genitals. Allah's enemy fell to the ground.'".

Ishaq revealed this in the Sira, or biography, of Muhammad. It is a foreshadowing of what would happen to Daniel Pearl. "We carried his head back to Muhammad during the night, saluted the Prophet as he stood praying, and cast Ashraf's head before his feet. The Prophet praised Allah that the poet had been slain, and complimented us on the good work we had done in Allah's Cause. Our attack upon Allah's enemy cast terror among the Jews, and there was no Jew in Medina who did not fear for his life.'" (Ishaq:368) Murder and terror are Islam's "good works.".

"Ashraf's body was left prostrate. After his fall, all of the Jews were brought low. Sword in hand we cut him down. By Muhammad's order we were sent secretly to his home by night. Brother killing brother. We lured him to his demise with deviousness. We made him taste death with our deadly swords. We sought victory for the religion of the Prophet." (Ishaq:368) "The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared, 'Kill any Jew who falls under your power.'" (Tabari VII:97).

"Thereupon Mas'ud leapt upon Sunayna, one of the Jewish merchants with whom his family had social and commercial relations and killed him. The Muslim's brother complained, saying, 'Why did you kill him? You have much fat in you belly from his charity.' Mas'ud answered, 'By Allah, had Muhammad ordered me to murder you, my brother, I would have cut off your head.' Wherein the brother said, 'Any religion that can bring you to this is indeed wonderful!'" (Ishaq:369).

This man was crediting the religion of Islam for transforming his brother into an unthinking killing machine. The motivation was purely racist: "Just issue orders to kill every Jew in the country." (Bukhari:V1B1N6) Innocent blood still dripping from his hands, Mas'ud proclaimed for all the world to hear: "Muhammad ordered me to murder." Today's terrorists haven't corrupted their religion; their religion has corrupted them.

While hideous, this act does not stand alone. Soon thereafter, Muhammad ordered Muslims to assassinate Sallam. Tabari, Islam's earliest historian, explains: "They asked the Prophet for permission to kill Sallam. He granted it." (Tabari VII:101) "When they got to Khaybar they went to Sallam's house by night, having locked every door in the settlement on the inhabitants. He was in an upper chamber. His wife came out and asked who we were. We told her that we were Arabs in search of supplies. She told us that her husband was in bed. We entered and bolted his door. His wife shrieked and warned him of us, so we ran at him with our swords as he lay on his bed. When we had smitten him Abdallah bore down his sword into his belly until it went right through him. 'By the God of the Jews, he is dead!' Never have I heard sweeter words than those. We returned to Allah's Apostle and told him that we had killed his enemy. We disputed before him as to who had killed him, each of us laying claim to the deed. Muhammad demanded to see our swords and when he looked at them he said, 'It is the sword of Abdallah that killed him; I can see traces of food on it.'" (Tabari VII:99).

Deceiving victims is still standard operating procedure for Muslim militants. Attacking defenseless civilians is the very definition of terror. And so is gloating. Today's Islamic terrorists are as eager as Muhammad's original henchmen to claim "credit" for their deeds.

Ishaq's Sira recounts a third Muhammad-inspired execution: "Halfway to Medina, Ocba was called out to be executed." (Ishaq:308) Since the other prisoners were being held for ransom, Ocba asked Muhammad why he was being treated more harshly than the other captives "The Prophet said, 'Because of your enmity to Allah and to his Prophet.' 'And my little girl,' cried Ocba in bitterness, 'who will take care of her?' 'Hell Fire,' Muhammad responded. At that moment he was decapitated. 'Wretch that you were, [Muhammad eulogized] you scoffed at me and claimed that your stories were better than mine. I give thanks that Allah has slain you and comforted me.'" Allah condoned the murder in the 8th surah of the Qur'an, "It has not been for any prophet to take captives until he has slaughtered in the land.".

Allah approved kidnapping for ransom so long as his prophet slaughtered first. Ocba said something Muslims didn't like, so they murdered him. No wonder authors, journalists, and politicians are afraid to critique Islam.

Looking to rob a Jewish community for a second time, Muhammad had one of his militants torture an innocent man. The tale is recounted by Ishaq and Tabari. "The Prophet gave orders concerning Kinanah to Zubayr, saying, 'Torture him until you root out and extract what he has. So Zubayr kindled a fire on Kinanah's chest, twirling it with his firestick until Kinanah was near death. Then the Messenger gave him to Maslamah, who beheaded him." (Tabari VIII:122 & Ishaq:515) span class=Koran>"The Prophet said, 'The Hell Fire is 69 times hotter than ordinary worldly fires.' So someone said, 'Allah's Apostle, wouldn't this ordinary fire have been sufficient to torture non-Muslims?'" (Bukhari:V4B54N487).

If you read Prophet of Doom you will discover that the Nazi fuhrer and the Islamic prophet had more in common than just using fire to eradicate Jews. Beginning in the "Mein Kampf" chapter I compare Hitler's Manifesto with Muhammad's so that you might know how stunningly similar they are. By so doing, you'll come to appreciate the consequence of tolerating Islam.

Let's look at one more example. Ishaq's Sira speaks of the murder of another journalist, Asma bint Marwan. She spoke critically of Muhammad, telling her tribe to be wary of him. "'You obey a stranger who encourages you to murder for booty. You are greedy men. Is there no honor among you?' Upon hearing those lines Muhammad said, 'Will no one rid me of this woman?' Umayr, a zealous Muslim, decided to execute the Prophet's wishes. That very night he crept into the writer's home while she lay sleeping surrounded by her young children. There was one at her breast. Umayr removed the suckling babe and then plunged his sword into the poet. The next morning in the mosque, Muhammad, who was aware of the assassination, said, 'You have helped Allah and His Apostle.' Umayr said, 'She had five sons; should I feel guilty?' 'No,' the Prophet answered. 'Killing her was as meaningless as two goats butting heads.'" (Ishaq: 676).

These events are but a handful among hundreds of horrific tales of barbarism described in the Islamic Hadith. They explain why Daniel Pearl was murdered.

- January 24, 2002: Two Muslim suicide bombers were killed when their explosives detonated prematurely as the two were on their way to Allah's Brothel by way of the Israeli settlement of Kfar Darom. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) military wing Martyr Abu-Ali Mustafa Battalions - the Palestinian People's Resistance Battalions, claimed credit for the failure.

- January 25, 2002: Twenty-six Jewish civilians were injured when a successful Islamic suicide bomber blew himself up on the corner of Neve Sha'aran and Bnei Brak streets in south Tel Aviv near the old central bus station.

- January 26, 2002: An Israeli was wounded in a shooting attack on his car while he was traveling on the road between Aley Zahav and Pedu'el in the West Bank.

- January 26, 2002: In Turkey, a bomb planted in a restaurant toilet at Istanbul's Haydarpasa Train Station exploded but caused no casualties.

- January 27, 2002: - January 27, 2002: A female Muslim suicide bomber detonated a backpack filled with 22 pounds of explosives in downtown Jerusalem, killing one person (an 81-year-old man) in addition to herself. Her bomb wounded 100 to 150 Israelis. This was the second suicide bombing in Israel in as many days but the first ever suicide bombing carried out by a female Palestinian Muslim. The attack was claimed by the terrorist wing of the Fatah, the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a movement which was led by Yasser Arafat. The murderer's three brothers were all members of Fatah.

Four of those injured by this repulsive Muslim suicide bomber were American Mark Sokolow, his wife and two daughters. Mark had escaped safely from the 38th floor of the World Trade Center South Tower before it collapsed following another Islamic suicide bombing. Lightning may not strike the same place twice, but Muslims are more relentless.

The bomber was identified as a student at Nablus's A-Najah University, Shinaz Amuri (Shahanaz al-Amouri), but she is best known by her terrorist alias Wafa Idris (Wafa Idrees). All of the schools and terrorist wings named in her honor, and tributes made to her, pontificate her alias.

At the time of her suicide, she was about 28-years-old. She was a divorced, Red Crescent paramedic, living in the Am-Ari refugee camp in Ramallah. She had moved there in shame after her first cousin, who was also her husband, had gone to a local Islamic imam who decided Wafa was a disobedient wife. The fact that she couldn't give her cousin children was not only grounds for divorce, but also disgraced Wafa forever in the Palestinian Islamic society. As surprising as this may seem to many, women are little more than a vagina and uterus in the world polluted by Islam. Blowing herself up became the only way for the infertile Wafa to be seen as having any value in the eyes of her Muslim friends and family. Her mother said, "My daughter's husband divorced her because she couldn't have children. Wafa knew she could never marry again, because a divorced woman is tainted... She was young, intelligent and beautiful, and had nothing to live for." The religious culture responsible for this kind of despair should not be tolerated.

A complete and ignorant hypocrite, this violent murderer, claimed that she was attacking Jews because they were violent. But she wasn't the only ignorant fool whose morals were turned upside down. In April 2002, the Saudi Ambassador to London, Ghazi al-Qusseibi (also transliterated, Qusaibi) published a poem glorifying Wafa Indris' killing and maiming Israeli civilians. Saddam Hussein called for a memorial to be built in her honor in one of Baghdad's central squares.

In an editorial published on February 1, 2002 in Egypt, al-Sha'ab Newspaper, Idris was lauded as a heroine and used to encourage other women, and challenge men who may have been reluctant to participate in suicide missions. "A woman who teaches you today a lesson in heroism, who teaches you the meaning of Jihad, and the way to die a martyr's death...with her thin, meager, and weak body...it is a woman who blew herself up."

Salah Muntasir wrote in the leading Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram: "Wafa Idris has not faded from my mind since I saw her picture for the first time... Her dreamy eyes and the mysterious smile on her lips, that competes with the famous smile some artist drew on the lips of Mona Lisa - Wafa's smile is more beautiful. All of her is more beautiful than any picture of a woman painted by any artist..."

Jordanian Islamist, Yasser Za'atrah, wrote in the Jordanian daily Al-Dustour: "Wafa carried her suitcase [of explosives], which is... the most beautiful prize any woman can possibly win. Her spirit was raging, her heart filled with anger and her mind unconvinced by the calls for peace and coexistence... Peace be upon Wafa and the martyrs, men and women, before and after her."

In another important Egyptian government-controlled daily, Al-Ahram columnist Ahmad Bahgat, wrote: "Wafa revealed the meaning of the Palestinian personality. She revealed the heroism of the Palestinian woman and turned from a living creature walking on the Earth to a symbol that went down in history, the trace of which cannot be eradicated. As a nurse, her work was like that of the merciful angels. She cared for the sick and injured, and rescued the wounded. And behold, she expanded the sphere of her work from saving individuals to saving the Palestinian nation." Al-Ahram columnist Zakariya Nil called Wafa "the Palestinian Joan of Arc.

Ibrahim Nafi', editor-in-chief of Al-Ahram eulogized in his editorial: "She decided to end her fresh young life at a moment of a profound sense of oppression such as no people had suffered as the Palestinians do. But before that, she decided that her death would reverberate so as to draw attention to the tragedy created by the Israelis, with their airplanes and tanks against a defenseless people. She blew herself up on Haifa Road [sic], bustling with innocent people - like Wafa herself.... She left on a morning like every other morning. No one noticed signs of tension. She smiled at the children in the family, and continued on the path set for her to blow herself up on Haifa Street so as to tell the world that the body itself would turn into a time bomb at any moment and that the idea that one organization was a terrorist organization and another was a peaceful organization had no meaning. The inhuman Israeli policy has made the entire [Palestinian] people into human bombs."

Dr. Adel Sadeq, head of the Department of Psychiatry at Cairo's Ein Shams University, provided a window into the insanity of Islam. This man, who was one of the Islamic world's highest-ranking intellectuals in the field of Islamic mentality and psychology, said that the murder and mass maiming was inspired by the "Holy Spirit." He suggested that Wafa was a modern incarnation of the Messiah Yahshua. "Perhaps you were born in the same city; perhaps even in the same neighborhood and in the same house. Perhaps you ate from the same date palm and drank from the same pure water flowing through the veins of the holy city.... If it was the Holy Spirit that placed a child in Mary's womb, perhaps that same holy spirit placed the bomb in the heart of Wafa, and enveloped her pure body with dynamite. From Mary's womb issued a child who eliminated oppression, while the body of Wafa became shrapnel that eliminated despair and aroused hope. It is not surprising that the enemy in both cases was the same [read the Jews]."

Abd Al-Halim Qandil, acting editor of the Nasserities' weekly Al-Arab wrote: "A nation that has in it Wafa Idris will never be defeated, will never be humiliated... Wafa Idris looks beautiful in the archive photos, but she became the most beautiful of the women in this world and in the world to come the day she rose to Heaven. What is more beautiful than someone who chooses his fate? What is more beautiful than someone who turns the event of his death into the day of his return to life? What is more beautiful than this death that instills life? What is more beautiful than the transformation of a person from a chunk of flesh and blood to illuminating purity and a spirit that cuts across generations? How beautiful you were, oh Wafa Idris, the day you returned to life, with your noble and voluntary death in the bosom of Jerusalem. How beautiful you were, oh Wafa Idris, on the day of your martyrdom. How beautiful you were when you freed us from our sins. How beautiful you were when you elevated the humiliated nation to Paradise."

Egyptian state-owned television producer Dr. Amira Abu-Fatuh wrote a review of the documentary depicting Wafa's glorious sacrifice. Her article entitled "An Oscar-Winning Film" appeared in the Egyptian paper Al-Wafd. "This is not a film like all other films. The heroine...is the beautiful, pure Palestinian woman, Wafa Idris, full of faith and willpower. I could find no one better than she, and I could find no film more wonderful than this, that shocked Israel's heart.... From Paradise where she is now, she shouts with all her strength: Enough glorification of the dead; enough glorification of the victories of your forefathers. They have played their part, and now it is your turn."

Sa'id Sadeq, another Al-Wafd columnist, wrote: "Suddenly, out of the darkness, came a spark of light and hope, in the person of a Palestinian girl, courageous in deeds, not words."

Wagdi Zein Al-Din in the same paper stressed Idris' unique exemplar: "The most beautiful of the Palestinian beauties, a wonderful model of sacrifice, did what the strong, proud men do. Wafa Idris, who had just finished university, did not think like other members of her sex; she donned the garments of the martyrs and carried out an operation that was a response to the blood-shedder Sharon. Like her name [‘loyalty' in Arabic], in her sacrifice she was loyal to the Palestinian nation. The bride of Heaven preferred death to the pleasures of life, so as to convey a powerful message to the Arab nation."

Nagwa Tantawi in the Egyptian opposition weekly Al-Usbu', put the moral question in perspective while also getting in a shot at President George W. Bush's daughters: "Bush, who leads an oppressive campaign to educate the world, cannot even educate his own daughters!! Note the difference between Wafa, the daughter of Arabism and Islam, and Bush's daughters. The difference is the same as the difference between our culture, based on beautiful and noble values and on the values of homeland and martyrdom, and the materialistic [Western] culture. This proves that whatever developments may be, victory will be ours because we have culture and values." Yes they do, and they are all bad.

Over 2,000 people, abound with wailing women and masked men firing guns into the air, marched an empty coffin in a symbolic funeral for this outcast of Islam turned into one of its most praised heroines. It's common practice to have empty casket marches, especially in "Palestine." Israel does not release the remains of suicide terrorists to their families if they commit the crime in Israel proper. Regardless, most Palestinian corpses are little more than goo scraped up from sidewalks, mingled with explosives, nails, rat poison, and the mutilated bodies of their victims. This empty casket precedent has led to many funerals for imaginary Palestinians, because empty caskets are less likely to produce repeats of embarrassing scenes where the "corpse" is caught on film sitting or standing up in the middle of the funeral procession.

Idris' friends said they understood what she did and why. "Wafa was one of the most dedicated volunteers over the past two and a half years," said Red Crescent co-worker Hossam Sharkawi. "She came every Friday, which is our peak time during the intifada because of the riots after prayer." So, she and her fellow Muslims knew that violence after Muslim prayers were as predictable on Fridays as people leaving early from work before a holiday weekend.

Relative Manal Shaheen said, "She was happy when martyrdom attacks were carried out against the Israelis and told me she wished she would one day carry out such an attack." Her brother stated, "Wafa has honored the family."

Her mother, face glowing with pride, said, "She is a hero. Thank Allah. I am proud that my daughter died for Palestine; proud that she gave her life for us all. Thank Allah, thank Allah."

One woman from the Amari camp, a mother of three and pregnant again, told the press that she would carry out a similar operation if she was given the opportunity. This serves as an excellent confirmation of our position that the only thing that stands between potential jihadists and actual terrorists is opportunity. However, it does call into question our estimate of the number of potential jihadists in the world. If Islamic women become active in perpetrating Islamic terror, our estimate of 180,000,000 potential Jihadists may prove to be conservative.

This suicide bomber became an instant hero in the Islamic world because death is celebrated in Islam. Pictures of suicide bombers are placed around the walls of Palestinian classrooms. Pictures of suicide bombers become bigger than life as they are plastered on the side of Palestinian buildings, replete with supportive Qur'an quotations. But most popular of all are the suicide bomber trading cards, similar to American baseball cards. Rather than RBIs and batting averages, however, these cards feature the number of Jews murdered and mutilated by the bombers. Wafa Indris' trading cards are among the most cherished.

- January 29, 2002: An Israeli was wounded when the Gilo neighborhood came under fire from the Palestinian town of Beit Jala. Israel Defense Forces returned fire, wounding four Palestinians.

- January 30, 2002: Two Shin Bet (Israeli FBI) agents were injured when a Palestinian who worked with them blew himself up near the town of Taibeh. The suicide bomber was a Fatah member from the West Bank village of Anabta.

- January 31, 2002: In Kashmir, Muslims acting badly exploded a bomb in a market in the district of Udhampur, injuring six people and killing four.

- January 31, 2002: A Palestinian girl tried to stab officers stationed at the French Hill junction. The same day, a Palestinian man fired a pistol at Border Police officers next to a Bethlehem roadblock but missed.

- February 3, 2002: Two firebombs were thrown at an Israeli bus north of Hebron. Also on this day, shots were fired at an Israeli bus east of Nablus.

- February 4, 2002: An Israeli Arab was wounded in a shooting attack near the West Bank settlement of Mevo Dotan in the Jenin area. Initial reports suggested he was mistaken for a Jew. Later in the day, shots were fired from the direction of Isawiyah at an Egged passenger bus traveling on the Ma'ale-Jerusalem road.

- February 5, 2002: In Bangladesh, a rickshaw puller was killed by a bomb thrown from a moving vehicle. The incident occurred near the Chittagong Press Club where a prominent journalist was scheduled to appear. The journalist, Shahriar Kabir, had been imprisoned for sedition and released in January.

- February 5, 2002: Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades fired missiles called Aqsa Is and Aqsa IIs as well as mortar shells on the Israeli Gush Qatif settlement.

- February 5, 2002: An Israeli was injured in a shooting attack near the West Bank village of Huwwarah in the Nablus area. It was one of five ambushes perpetrated by Palestinian Muslims on this day.

- February 6, 2002: A mother and her eleven-year-old daughter were murdered in their home by a Palestinian terrorist disguised in an IDF uniform. Showing that Muslims can work together, at least when it comes to heinous behavior, both Fatah and HAMAS claimed responsibility.

- February 6, 2002: Three Israelis were killed when a HAMAS activist fired on the Hamra community in the Jenin area. Three other Israelis were wounded, and the attacker was killed by an Israel Police SWAT team. Martyr Wafa Idris Battalions (named for a Palestinian suicide bomber) claimed credit for the attack.

- February 6, 2002: After an Egged bus driver alerted Israeli Border Police at a roadblock between Ma'ale Adumim and Jerusalem's French Hill section of a suspicious passenger, they apprehended the Palestinian Muslim who was in fact wearing a suicide belt.

- February 7, 2002: In Kashmir, Muslim gunmen entered some houses in Shiva and forced the inhabitants out. The gunmen then opened fire on them, wounding three people.

- February 7, 2002: An Israeli was wounded in a shooting attack near Bet El.

- February 8, 2002: An Israeli couple was attacked by five masked teenaged Palestinians in south Jerusalem near the Armon Hanatziv promenade. The woman later died of her wounds while one of the Palestinian boys collapsed and died trying to escape arrest.

- February 9, 2002: An Israeli was killed and another was injured in an ambush on their car near Ariel.

- February 10, 2002: A Macedonian was killed and another was wounded as they attempted to return to a house in a Albanian village. They had deserted the house after fighting between the Macedonian authorities and Albanian Islamic terrorists the previous June. There was a booby trap apparently aimed at a member of Macedonia's special police unit, the Tigers. They perform anti-terrorist activities, and some believe Albanian Muslims set the trap.

- February 10, 2002: Palestinians fired at Border Police and at the workers building the Trans-Israel Highway near Tulkarm.

- February 11, 2002: In Indonesia, a grenade attack perpetrated by Islamic terrorists on a busy street injured 17 people in the provincial capital of Aceh.

- February 12, 2002: In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a man was injured when an explosive device detonated in an apartment in the southern town of Mostar.

- February 12, 2002: In India, Islamic gunmen fired on the homes of two rival Assembly candidates in Manipur. This was the third consecutive day of attacks on the homes of politicians.

- February 13, 2002: In India, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LT) militants in search of a police officer killed the officer's father instead. The victim was kidnapped and mutilated before being thrown from a hilltop.

- February 13, 2002: Jason Disney, 21, of Fallon, Nevada, died in Afghanistan as a result of a heavy equipment accident at the Kabul Airport.

- February 14, 2002: Two explosive charges were hurled into the Jewish area of Hebron within an hour of each other.

- February 14, 2002: In Indonesia, two bombs exploded in Ambon two days after a peace agreement was signed by representatives of Christians and Muslims in the Moluccas. The islands had been wracked by Islamic violence for many years.

- February 14, 2002: The head of Grozny's countryside district administration, Shaid Dzhamaldayev, was attacked in Leninski. An improvised explosive device went off when Dzhamaldayev's vehicle was on its way from the hospital to Tolstoy-Yurt.

- February 14, 2002: Abdul Rahman, Afghanistan's minister of aviation and tourism was beaten to death at the Kabul airport by fundamentalist Muslims.

- February 15, 2002: In Israel, American Lee Akunis was shot to death by a Palestinian Muslim.

- February 16, 2002: Australian, Andy Russell was killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb.

- February 16, 2002: Palestinians fired a homemade Qassem-2 rocket from the Northern Gaza Strip at Kfar Azza in Israel. HAMAS's militant arm, the Izz-al-Din al-Qassem Battalions, claimed credit.

- February 16, 2002: Two bombs placed in garbage cans exploded in a Philippine market in Jolo. Police suspected that either the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) or the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) were responsible for killing five people and wounding 50.

- February 16, 2002: A suicide bombing in Israel at an outdoor food court in Karmei Shomron killed four and wounded 27. Two of the dead and two of the wounded were U.S. citizens. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) claimed responsibility for the multiple murders.

The PFLP is a Marxist-Muslim Palestinian terrorist organization. They were founded in 1967 by George Habash after the crushing defeat of Muslims in the 1967 Islamic-Israeli War. This defeat largely discredited Islam. The PFLP joined the PLO in 1968 and quickly became the organization's second-largest faction (behind Arafat's Fatah party). Though the PFLP is committed to destroying Israel, it, like Fatah and the PLO is less fundamentalist Muslim than HAMAS, Hizballah, and Islamic Jihad.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the PFLP conducted a series of high-profile terrorist attacks around the world, pioneering the use of airplane hijackings. In 1970, the group hijacked four commercial airliners, forcing them to land in Jordan, and eventually blowing them up after evacuating the hostages. This attack led to the Black_September of 1970 in which Jordanian King Hussein expelled all Palestinian organizations after murdering tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees. In 1976, despite a PLO agreement to end terrorism outside of Israel, PFLP operatives and German Baader-Meinhof terrorists hijacked an airliner that was rescued by Israeli commandos in Entebbe, Uganda. That story, tied as it is to the ruthlessness of Idi Amin, is presented earlier in this timeline.

The PFLP vehemently opposes the peace process with Israel and continues to espouse the use of violence against Jewish targets. It believes that Fatah, the PLO, and the Palestinian Authority effectively sold out the cause by agreeing to negotiate with Israel. But in 1999, the PFLP leadership reconciled with Arafat and his Fatah faction in an effort to increase the group's role and visibility among the "Palestinian people" who were growing increasingly more fundamentalist in their Islam - strengthening HAMAS over the PLO/PFLP.

The PFLP has continued to conduct limited operations against Israel, including the assassination of Israel's tourism minister in 2001. Despite these operations, the PFLP continued to be a marginal player in the region, losing ground to both Islamist HAMAS and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and somewhat secular Fatah rivals.

- February 17, 2002: Israeli policemen forced a car to stop near a base east of Hadera. Mismatched front and rear license plates suggested the car may have been stolen. One of the Palestinians inside began firing, wounding three policemen. He was shot and killed, while the other Palestinian died when the car exploded. Explosive belts were found. Later, Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed credit for the failed suicide bombing.

- February 18, 2002: An explosive device blew up next to a bus in the Sanu area of the West Bank, damaging the bus but injuring no one.

- February 18, 2002: Three Israelis were killed and three more were wounded when gunmen opened fire on a car near the Kissufim junction. One of the gunmen was shot dead. He had been a member of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades who claimed credit for the murders.

- February 18, 2002: Ahuva Amergi, 30, was killed and a 60-year old man was injured when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on her car. Mor Elraz, 25, and Amir Mansouri, 21, who came to their assistance, were murdered in cold blood while trying to stop the terrorist. The Muslim was finally killed when the explosives he was carrying were detonated prematurely. Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Unfortunately, Israel didn't feed what was left of his body to swine, something a Muslim would think would keep them out of Allah's brothel.

- February 18, 2002: According to an Associated Press, also known as the Arab Press in that it is owned by OPECers, during the current intifada, or Palestinian uprising, 273 Jews had been killed, many by way of Islamic suicide bombers.

- February 18, 2002: In Pakistan, four rockets with timing devices were found aimed at the airport in Karachi. Bomb experts safely defused them.

- February 18, 2002: Police stopped a car on a road into Jerusalem after learning the vehicle was stolen. The driver, already out of the car, reached into his pocket and the car exploded, killing himself, the approaching policeman, and injuring one other.

- February 19, 2002: Mortar shells were fired at the Dugit settlement in the northern Gaza Strip. No one was hurt. HAMAS's military wing, the Izad-Din al-Qassem Brigades, claimed credit.

- February 19, 2002: One boy was killed, and at least 16 people were wounded in an Islamic grenade attack in the town of Doda in Kashmir.

- February 19, 2002: In Dushanbe, Tajikistan, disgruntled but fortunately inept Muslims managed to trigger the detonator for a bomb but not the attached TNT cartridges. The bomb was placed in the café of an administrative building.

- February 19, 2002: A suicide bombing was attempted at the entrance to the settlement of Mehola in the northern Jordan Valley. The attacker tried to board a bus to Tiberias, but the bus driver, considering him suspicious, forced him off the bus. The man then ran into a nearby field and blew himself up not far from the settlement's gate.

- February 19, 2002: A Jewish husband and wife from Avnei Hefetz were wounded when Palestinians opened fire on their car near the Green Line. The same day, a bomb exploded in the road to Mount Eval near Nablus.

- February 21, 2002: Ten American soldiers lost their lives in the prosecution of George Bush's War on Terrorism when their MH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed into the sea.

- February 20, 2002: It was politics as usual in Kashmir when Islamic gunmen barged into the house of a suspected informer in Goshabugh and shot him to death. The same day they blew up four polling stations. Then, one woman was injured as militants fired on a road opening party in the Gursai area of Poonch.

- February 22, 2002: An Israeli was wounded when his car came under fire near Bet El. A Jewish man shot and wounded two Palestinians after they had attacked him. The altercation took place north of Hebron. The settler's wife and child were also wounded.

- February 22, 2002: Valerie Ahmir, 59, was killed by terrorists in a Fatah drive-by shooting north of Jerusalem as he returned home from work.

- February 22, 2002: The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed credit for a suicide bombing attempt at a supermarket in the West Bank settlement of Efrat. There was a small explosion, wounding one, but the attacker's explosive belt did not fully detonate. An armed customer shot and killed the Muslim.

- February 22, 2002: An Israeli was killed when his car was attacked from a passing vehicle on the road between Atarot and Giv'at Ze'ev, north of Jerusalem. The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed credit.

- February 22, 2002: In Hebron, shots were fired at the Jewish quarter from the Abu-Sunayah neighborhood.

- February 23, 2002: Palestinians fired at an Israeli vehicle north of Ramallah, injuring two people in the car.

- February 23, 2002: Three explosive charges were thrown at a Border Police patrol in Hebron's casbah. The Popular Army Vanguards Group, the Battalions of the Return, claimed credit for the failed attack.

- February 23, 2002: Two Israelis were wounded in a shooting assault near the settlement of Ateret north of Ramallah when Palestinians ambushed their car.

- February 23, 2002: A Kashmir fireman was injured in a shooting attack in Srinagar. He died of his wounds three days later.

- February 24, 2002: Three police officers were wounded by masked men throwing stones and other objects in the market of Hebron. Israelis are barred from entry just as they are barred from entering their own Temple Mount.

- February 25, 2002: Avraham Fish, 65, and Aharon Gorov, 46, were killed in a Fatah terrorist shooting attack south of Bethlehem. Fish's daughter, who was nine-months pregnant, was seriously injured.

- February 25, 2002: Palestinian gunman opened fire on the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Neveh Ya'akov injuring eight people. The attacker struck at the final stop on Egged bus line 25. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade claimed credit for the attack. One of the wounded Jews, police officer Galit Arbiv, 21, died the next day of her injuries.

- February 25, 2002: In Israel, Morgan Abit was stabbed to death in the Abu Tor Peace Forest in Jerusalem. The same day, an Israeli was wounded when shots were fired at his car near Har Hevron.

- February 25, 2002: Two Israelis were killed and two others wounded when shots were fired on their car as they were traveling between Noqdim and Teqon. The al-Aqsa Martyrs Battalions claimed credit.

The same day, a bomb exploded near a bus in the Hebron Hills.

- February 25, 2002: In Kosovo, assailants shot at an elderly Serbian couple walking down the street in Lipljan, killing the woman.

- February 26, 2002: An explosive device blew up next to an Israeli bus driving on the Tunnel Road near Jerusalem. The same day, an Israeli was injured next to the Perot Junction by bullets fired at his car. The al-Aqsa Martyrs Battalions claimed credit for both attacks. Later, HAMAS Palestinians fired a Qassem-2 rocket from the Gaza Strip into Israel.

- February 26, 2002: In Kashmir, Muslim militants shot and killed two people and wounded two others in the Bandipore area. Later that day, Islamic terrorists shot and killed a civilian in the Kokernag area of Islamabad.

- February 26, 2002: In Pakistan, ten Shia worshippers were killed by Sunnis and another 21 were injured in a shooting attack on a mosque in Rawalpindi. This was the first sectarian attack since General Musharraf's mid January speech against terrorism.

Three young men rode up to the mosque on motorcycles and fired indiscriminately for about 30 seconds. Sipah-e-Szhaba Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Jangri were suspected of inspiring the attack.

- February 26, 2002: An Islamic terrorist who had been trained in Afghanistan and had been a member of Pakistani Jihad groups slit the throat of a Shi'ite neighbor, citing religious differences. The attack took place in Kashmir Park, Shahdara, near the city of Lahore.

- February 27, 2002: Gad Rejwan, 34, of Jerusalem, was shot and killed by one of his Palestinian employees in a factory north of Jerusalem. Two Fatah groups issued a joint statement taking responsibility for the murder. The same day, a Palestinian worker shot and killed an Israeli employee in an industrial plant in Atarot north of Jerusalem. The Popular Army Vanguards-Battalions of Return claimed responsibility.

- February 27, 2002: An Israeli was wounded when shrapnel hit his car next to the roadblock near Qalandiyah north of Jerusalem. Shots were fired by Palestinians in the direction of Bet Hadasa in Hebron's town center. Two mortars were fired by the Palestinian Authority into the center of the Qatif Bloc settlements in Gaza.

- February 27, 2002: A roadside bomb exploded near a Border Jeep at the Jatt Junction. A vehicle traveling behind the Jeep was hit, and its driver was injured.

- February 27, 2002: A Palestinian woman detonated her explosive belt at an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank, killing herself and injuring two Israeli policemen. Security forces shot two passengers who were riding with the suicide bomber after they had been asked to get out of their car. This was the second suicide bombing by a Palestinian woman.

- February 27, 2002: In Afghanistan, a child was killed and another 30 children were injured in an explosion at a primary school east of Kabul. The Interior Ministry blamed Taliban and al-Qaeda supporters for attempting to destabilize the new government. The area has been a base for armed Muslim militants. This would be the first of countless schools bombed by fundamentalist Muslims following the American invasion.

- February 27, 2002: In Kuwait today, Curtis Carter, 25, of Lafayette, Louisiana died of a non-hostile gunshot wound. He was awaiting deployment in Afghanistan. Through the first five months of the Afghanistan war, 32 Americans had been killed accidentally. The enemy had claimed the life of one U.S. soldier.

- February 27, 2002: In Serbia, militants threw two grenades into the offices of the FRY President's party in Belgrade. During this time Milosevic was on trail in the Hague. While he may have been a bad fellow, why is the West engaged in trying secular government leaders when Muslim dictators out terrorize and murder them a thousand to one?

- February 28, 2002: In Amman, Jordan, an explosion near the home of the head of the department responsible for combating terrorism in the General Intelligence Directorate. The bomb killed two passers-by, an Egyptian and an Iraqi.

- February 28, 2002: In Pakistan, two people were killed, and another eight were wounded when Lashkar-e-Jhangvi gunmen ambushed a prison van carrying terrorists from several Sunni groups including Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.

- February 28, 2002: In Bosnia and Herzegovina, shots were fired at a UN building.

- February 28, 2002: Palestinian Muslims assaulted the outlying Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo for most of the day. They also used six mortar shells to terrorize Jewish settlements in the Neve Dekalim area over the course of the evening.

- February 28, 2002: A bomb was found before Albanian Muslims detonated it.

- February 28, 2002: In Afghanistan, Muslim militants shot and killed seven Afghan tribal elders in eastern Kunar province who had attended a meeting of a commission planning to hold a Loya Jirga - or political assembly.