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Italy: Gov't worried about al-Qaeda linked terror cells Italy was susceptible to terror attacks by allies of the Al-Qaeda network, the interior minister Roberto Maroni said on Friday. Maroni warned there were terror cells that identified with Al-Qaeda and they had "authorisation" to carry out attacks in Italy. "Al-Qaeda is not present in Italy, however we are investigating terror cells...
Giving a new dimension to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba plot to attack Indian facilities, Federal Bureau of Investigation's sleuths have recovered two inflammatory Al Qaeda videos, containing speeches by Osama bin Laden and other terrorists, from the house of Pakistan-born Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who was arrested in October. Produced by 'As Sahab Media', commonly acknowledged to be the media wing of...
How severe a threat does the Taliban pose to America? Blithely assuming that they would never again play host to America's sworn enemies is not a risk progressives should be prepared to take.
Former French investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere said that Japan is among Al-Qaeda's prime targets for attack, while promoting a book about his 25 years fighting terrorism.
David W. Glazier (Loyola Law School Los Angeles) has posted Playing by the Rules: Combating Al Qaeda within the Law of War (William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 51, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Although the so-called "war...
I just finished an essay critical of President Obama's response to the Fort Hood attacks, " Obama Dishonors Commander-in-Chief Role ." I feel even more strongly about this after clicking on the London's Telegraph , " Fort Hood Shooting: Texas Army Killer Linked to September 11 Terrorists " (via Memeorandum ): Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said...
Mark Steyn: In the New York Times , Maria Newman touched on Hasan’s faith only obliquely: “He was single, according to the records, and he listed no religious preference.” Thank goodness for that, eh? A neighbor in Texas says the major had “Allah” and “another word” pinned up in Arabic on his door. “Akbar” maybe? On Thursday morning he is said to...
U.S. Marines conduct a security patrol through the Nawa district in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Oct. 18, 2009. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Artur Shvartsberg From Antiwar.com: So this platoon comes back to an Afghan village it hasn’t visited in three months. One of the village elders tells the platoon commander, "We ask you not to come here. It is better for us, and better for you."...
From personal experience , I can tell you that a blind one legged narcoleptic could attack any number of Canadian Forces Bases with ease. Access to Canadian bases is so poorly monitored, that in one case I know of a major highway passes through the base and anybody can simply drive in and walk around without so much as having to go through a checkpoint. In most cases, anybody can get on base and commence...
How do we motivate the American public to action on climate change and our transition to a clean energy economy? Appeal to patriotism, says this piece in the C.S. Monitor : The way to get Americans to take action? Appeal to their patriotism. Historically in times of war, the US government has successfully gotten citizens to join the armed forces, to buy war bonds, and to accept rationing by appealing...
Or so many seem to think. Denial is the way to edit reality. If we all agree that something unpleasant isn't true, then by God, it isn't. If we all agree that Nadal Malik Hasan's religion had nothing to do with 13 dead and 30 wounded at Fort Hood, then by gum it didn't. For those who say that Islam is inherently violent and seditious, we can just put our hands over our ears and say "LA LA LA LA...
In fact, in the same decade, three of the other most charismatic and effective leaders opposed to the US establishment also met violent deaths in suspicious circumstances that were never properly investigated - Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Robert F Kennedy. In all cases, Noam Chomsky insisted that there was nothing suspicious. Almost certainly, because of the influence he wielded amongst progressive...
Washington Post: When terrorists last week blew up the Mina Bazaar, a market for women and children, they detonated a car bomb so powerful it left more than 100 people dead and 15 missing in a nightmarish scene of scattered limbs, charred corpses and victims trapped alive under mounds of debris. The bombing crossed a new line of callousness, uniting Peshawar in grief and fear and unleashing a tide...
While the Pakistan government has blamed the banned terror outfits such as the Taliban and Al-Qaeda for the devastating car bomb blast in Peshawar's Meena Bazaar, in which over 100 people were
Having given my account of why we should get out of the war in my last post, here is my version of the arguments why we should stay. 1. Nuclear threat: if the west withdraws it will give the Taliban a golden chance to win not just Afghanistan but Pakistan too and access their nuclear weapons. Al-Qaeda did terrible things with commercial aircraft- imagine what they might do with nuclear weapons. Possibly...
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