TagsTagsHere’s crypto-fascist Pat “Hitler Wasn’t So Bad” Buchanan on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show, advocating torturing the NW 253 bomber by withholding pain medicine for his burns — despite the fact that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is apparently already talking to investigators very freely about his plans and training in Yemen. [Video]
Again, Christopher Hitchens cuts through the nonsense: The truth about airplane security measures. Why do we fail to detect or defeat the guilty, and why do we do so well at collective punishment of the innocent? The answer to the first question is: Because we can’t—or won’t. The answer to ...
Christopher Hitchens, Terrorism, Security, Airline Safety, TSA
All of the wingnut blogs are screaming that in his statement about the Northwest 253 terror attack, President Obama called the alleged terrorist an “isolated extremist.” This one comes straight from Karl Rove and Fox News, and it’s already everywhere on the right wing: ‘isolated extremist’ - Google Search. They’re trying to ...
Terrorism, Airplane, Detroit, Nigeria, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda
ABC News has a report that two of the Al Qaeda leaders behind the Christmas Day attack plot were released from Guantanamo Bay in 2007, and handed over to Saudi Arabia. Where they underwent “art therapy,” and then were set free. Our friends, the Saudis. Two of the four leaders allegedly behind ...
Terrorism, Airplane, Detroit, Nigeria, George W. Bush, Saudi Arabia
[Video] UPDATE at 12/28/09 4:35:35 pm: ABC News has pictures of the explosive device sewn into accused bomber Abdulmutallab’s underwear: Northwest Airlines Bomb Photos - ABC News.
Reuters is reporting that the Transportation Security Administration has now eased their silly new rules. The TSA will now let pilots decide whether to allow passengers to keep items in their laps or require them to remain seated during portions of the flight, said the source who spoke on condition ...
In the latest nontroversy sweeping the wingnut blogosphere, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano was interviewed on CNN yesterday, and said, “The system worked.” The usual blogs are yelling and screaming and running around in faux outrage, claiming that Napolitano said the system worked because passengers tackled the would-be terrorist. Some are even ...
DHS, Janet Napolitano, Terrorism, Nontroversy, Outrageous Outrage
Remember how the left would hyperventilate and complain about President Bush playing golf instead of [fill in the blank]? And remember how the right would rush to Bush’s defense, pointing out that a President is never actually out of touch “on vacation,” but is constantly kept informed about breaking developments? Well, ...
Barack Obama, Golf, Vacation, Terrorism, Moronic Convergence
Bruce Schneier is exactly right — the new TSA rule about staying seated for the last hour of flight is completely silly. And what sort of magical thinking is behind the rumored TSA rule about keeping passengers seated during the last hour of flight? Do we really think the terrorist ...
Another Nigerian man was taken into custody today aboard the same Northwest Airlines flight that was attacked on Christmas. DETROIT — A passenger onboard the same Northwest Airlines flight that was attacked on Christmas Day was taken into custody in Detroit on Sunday after becoming verbally disruptive upon landing, officials ...
At Hot Air, the site where hundreds of commenters regularly call for violent revolution against the elected government of the United States, Ed Morrissey posts video instructions for creating a bomb like the one that almost blew up Northwest Airlines flight 253, and hiding it in a common everyday item. Also ...
Hot Air, Ugliness, wingnuts, Hate Speech, Bad Craziness, Terrorism
New details on the attempted Christmas Day terror attack: The plot to blow up an American passenger jet over Detroit was organized and launched by al Qaeda leaders in Yemen who apparently sewed bomb materials into the suspect’s underwear before sending him on his mission, federal authorities tell ABC News. Investigators ...
The New York Times has a story on the scene aboard Northwest flight 253, as passengers acted quickly to avert disaster. During 19 hours of travel, aboard two flights across three continents, law enforcement officials said, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab bided his time. Then, just as Northwest Flight 253 finally began ...
There was apparently an attempt to blow up a passenger jet today, but the bomb failed to detonate. Details are still sketchy. WASHINGTON — A Northwest Airlines passenger landing in Detroit on Friday tried to blow up the flight but the explosive device failed, two U.S. national security officials said. The ...
Five Muslims apparently from the Washington DC area have been arrested in Pakistan: Breaking News: Pakistan Reportedly Detains Five D.C.-Area Muslims on Suspicion of Terror. A Pakistani newspaper reports the arrest of five foreign nationals after a raid in a town called Sargodha. The raid took place at the home ...
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Eric Holder, Attorney General, 9/11, New York, Terrorism, Khalid Sheik Mohammed
At a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric Holder defended his decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 suspects in civilian court in New York. Holder said he knows “we are at war with a vicious enemy who targets our soldiers on the battlefield ...
Eric Holder, Attorney General, 9/11, New York, Terrorism, Khalid Sheik Mohammed
The big news of the morning is that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terrorism suspects currently held at Guantanamo Bay will be tried in New York in civilian court. “I am absolutely convinced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice. The American ...
The DC sniper was executed tonight. Jarratt, VIRGINIA (Reuters) - John Allen Muhammad was executed on Tuesday for masterminding and carrying out with his teenage accomplice the 2002 sniper shootings that killed 10 people and terrified the Washington, D.C. region a year after the September 11 and the deadly anthrax ...
DC Snipers, John Allen Muhammad, Lee Boyd Malvo, Terrorism, Death Penalty
DC sniper John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to die by lethal injection tonight at 9 pm in Virginia. ABC News’ Russell Goldman interviewed one of Muhammad’s (and teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo’s) victims, Paul LaRuffa, who amazingly survived five gunshots at close range: Survivor of Beltway Sniper Wants Justice, Gov. ...
DC Snipers, John Allen Muhammad, Lee Boyd Malvo, Terrorism, Death Penalty
The IDF has uploaded a video presentation showing the huge shipment of weaponry from Iran, intended for Hezbollah, that was intercepted this week by an Israel Navy commando force aboard the civilian ship Francop. [Video]
Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Smuggling, Weapons Smuggling, Hezbollah, Terrorism
There’s been another terror-related arrest today, in Sudbury, Massachusetts, where a man was allegedly planning attacks on politicians and a shopping mall. As with all the recent terror-related arrests, Tarek Mehanna apparently never even got close to carrying out any attacks; the FBI was on to him every step of the ...
Here’s an amazing speech at the United Nations by the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp, about the UN’s latest attempt to demonize Israel, the Goldstone Report. [Video] UN Watch has more information, and a complete transcript of Col. Kemp’s speech.
United Nations, Colonel Richard Kemp, Israel, Terrorism, UN Watch, Gaza, Goldstone Report
Afghan immigrant Najibullah Zazi, accused of planning a series of bombings in New York, may have been in contact with the head of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. NEW YORK – The airport shuttle driver accused of plotting a bombing in New York had contacts with al-Qaida that went nearly all ...
Just posted at the IDF’s YouTube page: On October 12, 2009, there was an explosion at a Hezbollah weapons storehouse in Tayr Filsay, in southern Lebanon. This aerial footage, taken shortly after the explosion, shows Hezbollah operatives closing down the area around the warehouse, driving in two trucks and removing ...
Lebanon, Hezbollah, Weapons, Smuggling, Terrorism, Israel, Video