November 10, 2008 – 8:27 am
Simple wonderful. The Times has a story ripe with anonymous sources who discussed a secret operation allowing strikes against Al Qaeda in countries around the world without permission by those countries, and includes all sorts of “no comments” by people who are named. Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries The United […]
November 5, 2008 – 8:49 am
Sheesh, talk about living in the past. They were called the Dirty 30 — bodyguards for Osama bin Laden captured early in the Afghanistan war — and many of them are still being held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Others still at the much-criticized detention camp there include prisoners who the government says were trained in […]
November 4, 2008 – 7:47 pm
The New Republic asks the question, “why no Bin Laden tape,” and comes to the conclusion that Osama would prefer McCain, but, …in the final week or so before today’s election, Obama appeared to have a pretty insurmountable lead. Even if a bin Laden tape would have narrowed the margin, it probably wouldn’t have made […]
October 29, 2008 – 7:49 am
If you read through the main article from the AP about the latest suicide bombings in Somalia, words such as Islam, Muslim, and even terrorism are missing Suicide bombers struck targets across northern Somalia on Wednesday, including a U.N. compound, officials said. There were deaths and dozens of injuries, but an exact casualty figures were […]
October 28, 2008 – 3:09 pm
It probably won’t cause riots and the burning of McDonald’s, though “The Messenger of Peace“, to be shot around the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, was originally a 1977 Hollywood film made by Moustapha Akkad and starring Anthony Quinn. It is often applauded by Muslims as an example of how commercial Western cinema can […]
October 25, 2008 – 8:47 am
LaborPains.org brings up a good point from the 3rd debate between Mitch McConnell and Bruce Lunsford But when it came time for the candidates to pose questions directly to each other, we learned that Bruce Lunsford is more than willing to fight for the rights of terrorists but not Kentucky workers. It’s hard to believe, […]
October 23, 2008 – 8:33 am
In the comments, Dave points out that the crisis that Joe Biden was referring to will probably be Iran and an attack on Israel, and the “unpopular response” will be Barry ignoring the situation and doing nothing, except, perhaps, some strong words and a complaint to the the United Nations, which has been oh so […]
October 22, 2008 – 8:45 am
You have to wonder what bearing this has on the case itself. Is the LA Times trying to create sympathy for the Fort Dix 6 over the scumbag status of 2 FBI informants? One is a bankrupt convicted felon who spewed venomous hatred about the United States, hooked up an alleged terrorist cell with semiautomatic […]
October 20, 2008 – 6:30 pm
Uh huh, 7 years later, and some sanity might be prevailing A U.S. military “Red Team” charged with challenging conventional thinking says that words like “jihad” and “Islamist” are needed in discussing 21st-century terrorism and that federal agencies that avoid the words soft-pedaled the link between religious extremism and violent acts. “We must reject the […]
October 17, 2008 – 6:28 pm
Check it out, we finally found something Islamists like A link between terrorism plots and hardcore child pornography is becoming clear after a string of police raids in Britain and across the Continent, an investigation by The Times has discovered. Images of child abuse have been found during Scotland Yard antiterrorism swoops and in big […]
