(TrendHunter.com) PETA aren’t just pie and paint-throwing, vegan, anti-fur, animal-loving activists-they’re also troop supporters. PETA has sent US troops stationed in Afghanistan these custom-made bin Laden bites chocolates.…
The man refuses to condemn his father for 9/11 and says he wants to work for the UN to promote peace. Nice. New York, 19 Nov. ( AKI ) - The son of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, Omar, has told a British magazine that he would like to promote peace and work for the United Nations. His comments were published on Thursday in New Statesman magazine. "I do not believe that I would be a good politician...
If you want to see why a law-enforcement approach is absolutely the wrong way to defend the US against dangerous terrorists abroad, look no further than this asinine statement from Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT). Lindsey Graham asked Eric Holder how he would go about interrogating any terrorists captured by military ...
Subject: txt 1st gwot nsec - Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to give a federal court trial instead of a military commission hearing to five Guantanamo detainees the government has linked to the 9/11 attacks has led to criticism that the Obama Administration is transforming the war on terror from a military to law-enforcement affair. This has led some critics to wonder if captured terrorist...
The Attorney General has an exchange with Senator Lindsey Graham at last week's Senate Judiciary hearing. We NYCers who experienced 9/11, and will have the fun of experiencing the civilian-court trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his 9/11 co-conspirators, pay attention to this sort of thing. The AG's performance leaves even the cynical reporter from Fox News National Public Radio a bit incredulous...
By Alex Constantine Gary Bekkum is upfront about it in his bio: "Gary S. Bekkum is an independent 'occasional' rogue journalist & web author and researcher of material that blurs the distinction between fiction and reality." There it is. No goat-staring or long-winded explanations required. Bekkum doesn't deny it - he's a shaggy-dog pusher, a natural for the Coast-to-Coast radio psyop....
The person in charge of prosecuting Saddam Hussein says that there are documents proving that his regime and Al-Qaeda had a relationship. From MEMRI: Ja’far al-Musawi , head of the prosecution team in the trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, has told the Iraqi TV channel al-Faihaa of the existence of official documents that prove the involvement of the Saddam regime with the two leaders...
CNN's John King on Thursday claimed Attorney General Eric Holder intentionally avoided Sen. Lindsey Graham's "stumping" question during the previous day's Senate Judiciary Committtee hearing because he didn't want to admit that trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 suspects in a criminal courtroom is indeed precedent setting. As NewsBusters reported Wednesday, Holder appeared stumped...
Osama bin Laden is the goose that lays platinum eggs. If we killed or captured Osama and Zawahiri, the Pakistanis might not be able to milk us for more tribute money. We could draw down our troop presence next door....
Parental Content Advisory: This video has explicit content of one man beating another so brutally, that the latter doesn’t even realize the severity of the beating. Transcript, via NPR —of all sources—of Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (Chameleon-SC) pummeling of Attorney General Eric Holder (ZANU PF) on Wednesday, during the Justice Department oversight hearing held by the Senate Judiciary...
In about two hours, my youngest son will be leaving the safety of a U.S. Army base in Germany and deploying to Afghanistan. He will be serving there for the next year, defending U.S. interests by (hopefully) playing a role in bringing stability to that region of the world. Although I have a far different position regarding our presence in Afghanistan than I do about the war we waged on Iraq, that doesn’t...
With all the hue and cry over KSM, it should be noted that we can actually convict terrorists in court: The ringleader of a group described by prosecutors as plotting terror attacks on Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices in hopes of sparking an anti-government insurrection was sentenced Friday to 13 1/2 years in prison by a federal judge. Narseal Batiste, 35, dabbed at his eyes with a tissue when...
Fiend, er, Friend and Ally Update. "EXCLUSIVE: Taliban chief hides in Pakistan," by Eli Lake, Sara A. Carter, and Barbara Slavin for the Washington Times , November 20 Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, has fled a Pakistani city on the border with Afghanistan and found refuge from potential U.S. attacks in the teeming Pakistani port city of Karachi with the assistance...
By Donna Abu-Nar and Lee Keath, AP RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida's message to Muslims in the West. They translate writings and sermons once largely out of reach of English readers and often feature charismatic clerics like Anwar al-Awlaki, who exchanged dozens of e-mails with the Army psychiatrist accused of the Fort Hood shootings....