June 24, 2007 – 8:10 am
I question the timing. I’m sure this deflects from something, not sure what BAQOUBA, Iraq – U.S. and Iraqi troops captured two senior al-Qaida militants and seven other operatives Saturday in Diyala province, an Iraqi commander said, as an offensive to clear the volatile area of insurgents entered its fifth day. Jeez, I thought al […]
June 23, 2007 – 8:01 am
Here’s how it goes WASHINGTON – Closing the Guantanamo Bay prison is only a matter of time now, the White House says. Under intense criticism at home and abroad, the Bush administration is working on plans to shut down the detainee facility for terror suspects in Cuba as soon as possible, and a consensus is […]
June 19, 2007 – 4:23 pm
Their dirty little secret is that they are all pyromaniacs. Everything they do involves some sort of fire. And they will use any excuse to burn something. Consider Outrage over Salman Rushdie’s knighthood threatened to ignite across the Muslim world yesterday. Security around the writer was reviewed by Scotland Yard as an Iranian group placed […]
June 18, 2007 – 2:30 am
That is what the Times Online is reporting (via Power Line) ISRAEL’s new defence minister Ehud Barak is planning an attack on Gaza within weeks to crush the Hamas militants who have seized power there. According to senior Israeli military sources, the plan calls for 20,000 troops to destroy much of Hamas’s military capability in […]
June 15, 2007 – 2:01 pm
It really is a good thing Democrats are not in charge of Operation Iraqi Freedom, or any other aspect of the GWoT. They are out there saying Iraq is lost, that the surge is failing before it is even completed, and we should just take our ball and go home like a petualent child. Dingy […]
June 15, 2007 – 11:07 am
Seriously, how else can one read this? JERUSALEM — Gaza was quiet Friday after five days of fighting in which Hamas completed its conquest of the Gaza Strip from its Fatah rivals. The West Bank and Gaza territories that President Bush said he wanted to see become an independent Palestinian state before he left office […]
June 14, 2007 – 7:32 am
This story really should be shocking, however, it seems business as usual for Muslim extremists (Daily Record) A PREGNANT Palestinian mother-of-eight has been stopped by security forces in Israel as she was preparing to carry out a suicide bomb attack. The Shin Bet security agency said Fatima Zak, 39, and her niece, mum-of four Rawda […]
June 13, 2007 – 7:12 pm
I’m just oh-so-glad that Nance Pelosi got that region settled down (BBC) An anti-Syrian MP is among at least 10 people killed in an explosion in Beirut’s waterfront area. Walid Eido died in the blast, in the mainly Muslim Manara neighbourhood, his party’s television station and officials said. Guess her little scarf wearing episode didn’t […]
June 10, 2007 – 12:45 pm
Or were the editors drunker then Ted Kennedy on a day ending with a "Y", and miss this in the publishing que? (New York Times) We were in a small house in Zarqa, Jordan, trying to interview two heavily bearded Islamic militants about their distribution of recruitment videos when one of us asked one too […]
June 7, 2007 – 1:52 pm
No, no, don’t worry, Al Qaeda isn’t dangerous or anything WASHINGTON, June 6, 2007 – Anyone who doubts that al Qaeda would use chemical, nuclear or biological weapons need only look at the terror group’s attacks in Iraq, Defense officials said. Al Qaeda and affiliated groups have used chlorine gas in attacks against civilians, Iraqi […]
