Iran

• Iran allows 25 senior al-Qaeda members to roam freely, according to Western intelligence sources.

• Ahmadinejad also ridiculed the West's cowardly handling of Iran's developing nuclear program. He even offers an anecdote about Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammed ElBaradei: "...Mohammad ElBaradei, the secretary general of the [International Atomic Energy] Agency [IAEA] recently told us, ‘They don’t want you to have nuclear technology’."

• An Iranian terrorist group has released a list of 210 journalists they say they are going to murder.

The Middle East

• Egyptian Copts fear a repeat - or worse - of the recent Muslim attacks on their churches. The rioters killed four Christians, injured 80 and defaced seven churches. More on their appeal for help here.

• Responding to a United Nations report that Lebanon is not disarming militias, and that militias are still recieving arms from Syria, a Lebanese cabinet minister says it is an internal matter.

• Noted lunatic Omar Bakri has set up a university of jihad in Beirut.

• The U.S. has told the PA to keep Hamas out of the upcoming elections.

• A PLO Executive Committee member outlines how the al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades will be re-made as the thin blue line. According to this, the job is all but done.

• Israel, Egypt, the PA and the EU have agreed to a deal on the Rafah checkpoint from Gaza to Egypt. In the same link, a Knesset committee notes that soon Hamas will have military parity with the PA.

Iraq and the Gulf

• The U.S. has bombed targets near the Syrian border. A senior al-Qaeda leader, Abu Dua, may have been killed. Fingers crossed.

• Donald Sensing: Why did al Qaeda target media's hotel?

• Bill Roggio is going to the Anbar province in Iraq - help him out.

• Anglicans are to build a church in Qatar.

The Americas

• The project to build bunker-busting mini-nukes has been cancelled.

• Iran gets a base in the Gulf of Mexico.

• Federal agents believe that MS-13 have scheduled October 30th to be "Kill A Law Enforcement Officer Day".

• There are more and more volunteer border guards in the U.S.

• Ba'athist-for-hire George Galloway lied to Congress. That's a Class-A felony, George.

• You've probably heard of the Hezbollah bombing of a Jewish community centre in Argentina in July 1994. But, like me, you may not have heard that a small aeroplane carrying 21 people (12 of them Jewish) was blown up the next day, apparently by a suicide bomber. Wikipedia has more.

Europe

• A German court has convicted four members of the Zarqawi group of plotting attacks on a Jewish museum and a Jewish-owned disco. The judge says the cell should never have been formed - but immigration laws were not enforced.

• ETA has detonated bombs at four Spanish courts - no casualties were reported.

• Germany will withdraw a quarter of its troops from Bosnia, and later make further withdrawals from Kosovo.

• The Danish prime minister "will not meet with Muslim ambassadors":http://www.cphpost.dk/get/91710.html to discuss the 'smear campaign' against Islam in the media.

• Turkish authorities have arrested another man for involvement in the plot to blow up Israeli tourists.

Central and Western Asia

• An al-Qaeda terrorist named Mohammed Majoodi is said to be scouting American targets in Delhi, hence the recent warning from the State Department.

• An Indian court has conviced seven LeT terrorists for an attack that killed 3 people.

• In Bangladesh, the JMB has threatened to blow up police stations.

• Jihadis attacked Kabul, killing six civilians and a police officer. Security forces also uncovered a weapons cache in the city.

• Three jihadis have been killed by security forces in Dagestan. Russian media reports that one of the three was a leader in a campaign targeting security forces across the Russian province.

• Aid agencies are working with terrorists to provide relief in the regions hit by the recent earthquake.

Australasia and the Orient

• China's military spending is actually double the declared figure. The International Institute of Strategic Studies estimates the Chinese spent $62.5bn last year, as opposed to the declared total of $25bn.

• JI seems to be getting smarter, hence the lack of breakthroughs on the recent Bali bombing.

• Eight suspected terrorists, including the leader of the Rajah Solaiman Movement, have been arrested in the Phillipines for planning to bomb Christians. The Islamic terrorist group is linked to Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah.

Africa

• Ethiopia and Eritrea are sliding in to war, according to the Financial Times. (Steve Schippert sent me this link last week - since then, the FT have archived the report. However, an Eritrean group called the Oromo Liberation Front have a copy of the story here.)

• The GSPC killed two people during Ramadan.

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