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Barack Obama is reopening the US’s diplomatic mission in Damascus: U.S. to Return Ambassador to Syria After 4-Year Absence. President Obama has decided to return a U.S. ambassador to Syria after an absence of more than four years, marking a significant step toward engaging an influential Arab nation long ...
Syria, Iran, Terrorism, Nuclear Proliferation, Bashar Assad, Barack Obama
The New York Times has an article on the extensive ties between top members of the Saudi ruling family and terrorist groups, as new evidence is revealed by the families of 9/11 victims — evidence that is being ignored and suppressed by the US government: Documents Back Saudi Link to ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Jihad, Militant Islam, Terrorism, Taliban, Al Qaeda, Law, 9/11
In case you had any doubt: Al Qaeda says would use Pakistani nuclear weapons. DUBAI (Reuters) - If it were in a position to do so, Al Qaeda would use Pakistan’s nuclear weapons in its fight against the United States, a top leader of the group said in remarks ...
Pakistan, Taliban, Militant Islam, Terrorism, Nuclear Weapons, Al Qaeda
It’s not a good sign when your national security ministers keep getting murdered: Somali security minister killed in explosion. NAIROBI, Kenya – Somalia’s national security minister and at least 24 other people were killed in a suicide attack Thursday, and an extremist Islamic group with alleged links to al-Qaida ...
Does anti-abortion terrorism actually work in America? Slain Kansas abortion provider’s clinic to close. WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The family of slain abortion provider George Tiller said Tuesday that his Wichita clinic will be “permanently closed,” effective immediately. In a statement released by Tiller’s attorneys, his family said it ...
George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Randall Terry, Terrorism, Operation Rescue
A five-star hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan, that caters to Westerners has been the target of an apparent jihad attack: Pakistani officials: Huge bomb at Peshawar hotel. PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials says a huge bomb has exploded at a luxury hotel in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at ...
Pakistan, Taliban, Militant Islam, Al Qaeda, Terrorism, Peshawar
British police say they’ve uncovered a “global plot” by white supremacists, involving the deadly toxin ricin: Police smash global plot to poison non-whites. Police have smashed a global terror plot by white supremacists aimed at poisoning ethnic minorities with the deadly poison ricin. They discovered the lethal toxin in ...
Britain, BNP, British National Party, Fascism, Eurofascism, White supremacism, Ricin, Terrorism
Yet another “Osama bin Laden” audiotape appears, ranting about Barack Obama. Why doesn’t anyone ever ask: if this is really bin Laden, why doesn’t he ever appear on video like every other Al Qaeda freakazoid? A new audio tape from Osama bin Laden criticizes President Barack Obama for planting ...
Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Militant Islam, Terrorism, Barack Obama
Another sign that the Obama administration may not be entirely clueless about national security, as they continue to insist that the government has the right to withhold classified information in terrorism cases: U.S. vows to keep using ‘state secrets’ defense. WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Obama administration has informed a ...
Barack Obama, Wiretap, George W. Bush, Al Haramain, Islamic Charities, Terrorism
One of the ringleaders of the Hamas-linked Muslim “charity” called the Holy Land Foundation has been sentenced to 65 years in prison. DALLAS (AP) — A founding member of what was once the nation’s largest Muslim charity was sentenced to 65 years in prison Wednesday for funneling millions of ...
Holy Land Foundation, Hamas, CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations, Terrorism, Trial
I hope you’re sitting down, because one in 7 who leave Guantanamo are involved in terrorism. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Seventy-four, or one out of every seven, terrorism suspects formerly held at the U.S. detention site at Guantanamo Bay are confirmed or suspected of having returned to terrorism, the Pentagon ...
An excellent piece at Commentary by Arthur Herman on the history and purpose of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, and the unceasing distortions and falsehoods promoted by far-left groups: The Gitmo Myth and the Torture Canard. The standard argument is that the public shift in attitude toward Gitmo was ...
Guantanamo Bay, Terrorism, Military Tribunals, Torture, Barack Obama
The Associated Press has more details (including the militant Islam angle they were shying away from yesterday) on the suspects arrested in New York for plotting to bomb a synagogue and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft: NYC police: Terror suspects wanted to commit jihad. NEW YORK — Four ...
New York, Terrorism, FBI, Bombing, Antisemitism, Militant Islam
Four US citizens have been arrested in upstate New York after an FBI sting operation; I had to search Google News for information on the suspects because most US media are concealing the fact that they’re Muslims connected to a mosque in Newburgh: Four Arrested Over ‘Plot To Bomb Synagogue’. ...
New York, Terrorism, FBI, Bombing, Antisemitism, Militant Islam
Wow. Ninety to six. The honeymoon is over for Barack Obama and Congress: Senate votes to block funds for Guantanamo closure. WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major rebuke to President Barack Obama, the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to block the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the United States ...
Guantanamo Bay, Terrorism, Military Tribunals, Barack Obama, Congress
After decades of suicide bombings and terrorist attacks, the Sri Lankan military has dealt a decisive blow to the Tamil Tigers. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Tamil Tigers admitted defeat Sunday in their fierce quarter-century war for a separate homeland as government forces raced to clear the last ...
Another flip-flop from the Obama administration, and another case where we have to give him a thumbs-up for doing the right thing even though you can already hear the shrieking from the left: Obama revives tribunals for Gitmo detainees. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he is restarting ...
Leave it to the Palestinians to try to turn a visit from Pope Benedict into a propaganda show: IDF bans Palestinians from hosting pope next to West Bank fence. A Palestinian official says the Palestinian Authority has scrapped plans to host Pope Benedict XVI next week on a stage ...
Palestinians, Terrorism, Propaganda, Security Barrier, Pope Benedict
Here’s our warm, fuzzy news of the day: Pakistan’s Nukes Within Terrorists’ Reach? (CBS) While calling the rising tide of Taliban violence in Pakistan cause for grave concern, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs played down the nightmare scenario of terrorists taking control of that country’s nuclear weapons. “I ...
Pakistan, Taliban, Militant Islam, Terrorism, Nuclear Weapons
Another excellent column from Charles Krauthammer: The Use of Torture and What Nancy Pelosi Knew. Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent’s life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this ...
Since people continue to rant about the Department of Homeland Security’s report on “right wing extremism,” saying things like: I won’t hold my breath waiting for a “left wing extremist” report. ... here are two more DHS reports on “left wing extremism,” available through Wikileaks, and just like ...
What I’ve believed for a long time about Osama bin Laden — that he’s the world’s most talkative corpse — is starting to leak out from sources in Pakistan: Bin Laden could be dead, whereabouts unknown: Zardari. ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday that ...
As delusional diplomats continue pushing for a Palestinian state living in peace next to Israel (a state that might be named “Fantasyland,” with apologies to Walt Disney), “moderate” Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas rejects calling Israel a Jewish state. JERUSALEM — The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, on Monday dismissed ...
Palestinians, Terrorism, Israel, Statehood, Mahmoud Abbas, Benjamin Netanyahu
Here’s a very good video presentation created by the IDF, showing the tactics used in the Gaza Strip by the terror gang Hamas. [Video]
Former CIA director Porter J. Goss has a column in the Saturday Washington Post on the sudden “epidemic of amnesia” among House Democrats about harsh interrogation techniques: Security Before Politics. A disturbing epidemic of amnesia seems to be plaguing my former colleagues on Capitol Hill. After the Sept. 11, ...