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Information Gaps on US Visa Overstays Stoke Security Concerns
January 04, 2016
US legislators have raised concerns over the admission by government security officials that they have little information on the number of people who have overstayed their visas in the US, despite a nearly 20-year-old federal law requiring the development of a system that tracks visa overstays and calls from security experts after the 9/11 attacks to implement such a system.
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IS Chief Mocks Enemies and Promises Revenge for Global Islamic Nation
January 04, 2016
The leader of the Islamic State's ("IS") caliphate, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, recently released a new message mocking both the US-led military coalition and Saudi-led Islamic military coalition against IS, promising unrelenting revenge attacks against all states that threaten the global Islamic nation (umma).
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IS Focuses on Cyber Capabilities to Attack US Infrastructure
January 04, 2016
Intelligence experts confirm that the Islamic State ("IS") is working aggressively to upgrade its cyber capabilities for launching mass-casualty terrorist attacks against primary US infrastructure, including the nation's electricity grid, nuclear power plants, and air traffic controls.
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Members Raise Questions about Intentions of "Islamic Military Coalition"
January 04, 2016
Saudi Arabia's announcement of its lead in forming an Islamic Military Alliance to "fight against terrorism" perpetrated by the Islamic State ("IS") has met intense skepticism by some Nigerian political analysts, who critique the alliance as cover to ensure the dominance of Saudi extremist Wahhabism among the world's Muslim populations, to perpetrate a Sunni war on Shia-majority countries, which are not invited to join the alliance, and for potentially aggravating Muslim-Christian tensions in demographically mixed countries.
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Radical Islamists Use Terror Against Bloggers to Suffocate Secularism
January 04, 2016
The sustained attacks against secular bloggers in Bangladesh by radical Islamist groups signals a broader effort by the Islamic State ("IS") to consolidate its hegemony over Bangladesh's Islamist groups, as well as use terror to suffocate the pluralist speech and media freedoms that have been the hallmark of the country's secular politics.
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