Interview: Inclusion the only way to stop radicalisation in Britain, ex-jihadist warns
Nino Orto talks to ex-Islamist fighter Shahid Butt on the importance of community and education in making young British Muslims resilient to creeping radicalisation. (By Nino Orto)"Twenty years ago the goals of the foreign fighters and the deep meaning of what jihad was were totally different compared to nowadays. We never targeted civilians and killed innocent people like these 'new' jihadist groups do, as well as the suicide bombers. There isn't any moral or religious justification for this." Shahid Butt [...]
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The “Green Side” Of Osama Bin Laden
"Osama Bin Laden wrote a letter calling on the American people to help President Barack Obama fight "catastrophic" climate change and "save humanity" (By Osservatorio)Osama Bin Laden wrote [...]
Is Saddam’s Clan Working to Establish an Opposition Party in Iraq?
"Saddam Hussein's family has become the scapegoat of the Iraqi government for their failure to create security and stability in Iraq" Ahmed Watban al-Hassan, son of former Iraqi interior [...]
Turkey’s Risky Gamble in Syria Has Just Begun
(By News Agency) Defying Russia, the US, and Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Turkey’s president is betting on a decisive victory over Syrian Kurd forces. But his risky gamble could quickly [...]
Jihad Watch
Interview: Inclusion the only way to stop radicalisation in Britain, ex-jihadist warns
Nino Orto talks to ex-Islamist fighter Shahid Butt on the importance of community and education in making young British Muslims resilient to creeping radicalisation. (By Nino Orto)"Twenty years [...]
The Secret Book of Islamic State
"What is happening today could be the systematic application of what is written in the 2006 book "Management of Savagery" (By Nino Orto)From the repression of Abdel Nasser [...]
The Children of the Caliphate
"The stories reveal an organised and structured military training which aims to cultivate an army of loyal warriors who are ideologically pure for the future Caliphate." (By Nino [...]
Analysis
Trump’s “Deal Of The Century” Could Shape a New Middle East
"Even though with his rethoric Mahmoud Abbas is trying to fight back in every way against Trump’s Deal he doesn’t have any option but to dissolve the Palestinian Authority [...]
Is Egypt Planning For A Palestinian Resettlment In Sinai?
"In the Sinai the largest military operation since the war of October 1973 against Israel is ongoing, however, so far little has emerged to shed a light on the [...]
The Fall of Mosul: How ISIS Managed to Take the City
"When the jihadists advanced towards Mosul on 6th June 2014 their aim was just to take a neighborhood for a couple of hours. They did not expected that all [...]
Insight
Interview Firas Fayyad: ‘My documentary has evidence of Assad’s war crimes in Syria’
"My position as an artist is to react to this situation and show the world what has happened and what is still happening there from a different perspective." [...]
Will The Golan Heights Became the Next War-Front Between Israel and Iran?
“We are looking to Syria with concern because of the evolution of the conflict and the growing Iranian presence in the country during the last year,” says Avi Zeira, [...]
Uzi Rabi: “Israel Will Never Tolerate An Iran-Hezbollah Alliance on Its Border”
"Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, Professor Uzi Rabi, in exclusive for Osservatorio Mashrek" (By Nino Orto)Professor Uzi [...]
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