Posts Tagged ‘war on terror’
General Advises Use of Drones to ‘Kill’ Taliban Leaders in Pakistan
MILITARY, NEWSROOM AMERICA A longtime adviser to U.S. military commanders says it is essential the Obama administration change tactics and order wider use of spy drones to target and kill Taliban leaders hiding out in Pakistan. Retired Army Gen. Jack Keane, who just returned from a two-week fact-finding tour of battlefields in Afghanistan, [...]
Pentagon Considering Military Options in Syria
MILITARY, JON E. DOUGHERTY (Newsroom America) -- The Pentagon is weighing potential military options for Syria, as violence spreads throughout the country, though the Obama administration made clear it is leaning first towards diplomacy to resolve the widening humanitarian crisis there. The options are being prepared for President Obama, [...]
Bill Before President Authorizes Spy Drones over U.S.
BIG BROTHER, NEWSROOM AMERICA The use of drones in skies over the United States would increase dramatically if a bill passed by Congress last week is signed into law by President Obama, as expected, giving pause to privacy advocates who say they could be used to spy on Americans. Besides paving the way for more use of unmmaned drones, the [...]
Obama Must Not “Caution”, but Defend Our Most Important Ally
JAY SEKULOW, ACLJ Israel is facing grave danger from Iran, which is expected to have nuclear weapons within a year. The big question: Where does President Obama stand? Will he back Israel and defend our most important ally, if necessary? Don't seem to be getting that feeling from the White House. The Washington Post reports: "President [...]
Obama Administration Plans Turnover of Taliban Leaders
WAR ON TERROR, NEWSROOM AMERICA The Obama administration is taking "operational steps" to move five Taliban leaders from Guantanamo Bay as part of an effort to promote peace talks with the Afghan Taliban, Fox News reported, quoting an unnamed senior congressional official. The move comes ahead of a hearing Thursday where senior intelligence [...]
The American Panopticon
By Dennis Behreandt In 1787, philosopher and economist Jeremy Bentham proposed a new plan for a jail that would allow a very few officials to continuously monitor the inmates. He called his plan the panopticon. "The essence of it consists, then, in the centrality of the inspector's situation, combined with the well-known and most effectual [...]
U.S. Orders Floating Base to Middle East as Tensions Rise
JON E. DOUGHERTY, NEWSROOM AMERICA The Navy is sending a warship it had planned to decommission to the Middle East at the request of U.S. Central Command to serve as a floating base for commandos and other special operations forces. The vessel is the USS Ponce, an amphibious assault ship that can accommodate smaller fast boats and [...]
Who Wants War With Iran?
PAT BUCHANAN, BUCHANAN.ORG On Sept. 21, 1976, as his car rounded Sheridan Circle on Embassy Row, former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier was assassinated by car bomb. Ronni Moffitt, a 25-year-old American women who worked with Letelier at the leftist Institute for Policy Studies, died with him. Michael Townley, an ex-CIA asset in the hire [...]
Bush’s Race to Re-Election Hits a Speed Bump
“Post War” US Death Toll in Iraq Exceeds Combat Deaths During the War By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on the increasing amount of U.S. Casualties in the War on Terror in Iraq, and how Bush had hit a speed bump: August 29, 2003) With the announcement earlier this week of the latest US soldier killed in Iraq, the [...]
Bush Administration’s Post-War Plan for the Middle East is a Recipe for Disaster
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on How Bush's Plan to Invade Iraq, Would be a Recipe for Disaster: March 28, 2003) Earlier this month, the Bush administration unveiled plans to station a force of 200,000 troops in Iraq for an indefinite period of time. Only the day before, Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki [...]
Brutal Attacks Against Principled Opponents of Iraq War Un-American
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on What the Bush Administration Did to Get Public Support for an Invasion: November 28, 2002) As a former US military veteran, this author has been a big supporter of Pres. Bush's war against Islamist terrorists. Fighting the demented fanatics who viciously attacked us and murdered more [...]
Tough Questions About Awlaki, Citizenship, and Treason
By Pat Buchanan Friday morning, Predator drones operated by the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command rendezvoused over Yemen and launched Hellfire missiles that blew to pieces the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. A declared enemy in the war on terror was eliminated. Yet Awlaki was a U.S. citizen. Reps. Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul [...]
Bush Administration Exaggerates Iraqi Threat to Build Support for Invasion
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on What the Bush Administration Did to Get Public Support for an Invasion: November 25th, 2002) Aggravated by administration hype about the growing threat from Iraq, many Americans have expressed near hysterical fears that Saddam is on the verge of developing nuclear weapons to use [...]
Pakistan Conundrum
By Alan Caruba The answer to whether Pakistan is our friend is “It depends.” That’s an apt description of U.S.-Pakistani relations over the years, but one thing is sure, Pakistan believes it is surrounded by enemies in general and fears India in particular. With a mindset like that, friendship is not a priority, but survival—even if [...]
If You Sweat Too Much You Might Be a Terrorist
By Dennis Behreandt The New York Nightlife Association, in cooperation with the New York City Police Department, has issued the second edition of its Best Practices for Nightlife Establishments . The guide covers the normally expected topics for a publication about best practices for nightclubs. Subjects like how to handle age verification and [...]
Ground Zero Cross Gets More Attention and Support
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice Even after the 10th anniversary of 9/11, it remains a powerful symbol that continues to generate more attention and support. The Ground Zero cross - the steel beams fashioned into the shape of a cross on 9/11 - was the focal point for many who took part in Sunday's remembrance of the September [...]
A Decade Later: Now What?
By Dennis Behreandt Everyone who can has been pontificating on the meaning of 9/11 during the last week. Establishment types, led by the likes of John Yoo, have been claiming that the Bush years were amazingly successful. We beat back the barbarian terrorists without sacrificing our open society too much, they claim. “easonable [...]
Prayer Permeates 9/11 Event, Despite Bloomberg Ban
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice If you watched any of the 9/11 coverage from Ground Zero, the Pentagon, and the field in Pennsylvania, you know that this was a solemn day - a day to remember - a day to grieve - and a day to pray. Despite New York City Mayor Bloomberg's stubborn refusal to acknowledge the importance of [...]
Remembering 9/11
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice It may be ten years, but the tragic events of 9/11 are still seared in our nation's collective memory. 9/11 shook America to its core. Who could forget the pain, the suffering and the horror of what became the most deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil? On this anniversary, we remember and [...]
DEAD: Osama bin Laden – Victory for War on Terror
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice This is an important day for America. A U.S. special forces military team - out of Afghanistan - tracked bin Laden to Pakistan. They launched a critical mission and killed the man responsible for spawning a terrorist network, al-Qaida, that was responsible for the terrible tragedy of [...]
FBI Chief Confirms Ties Cut with U.S. Muslim Group
Agency Bans Outreach Due to Terrorist Link Liberty Alerts, WND.com In stunning testimony on Capitol Hill, the head of the FBI explained his agency has cut off ties to the most influential Muslim organization in America due to concerns over its leaders' association with terrorism. Since the Justice Department linked the Washington-based Council [...]
Cannon Fodder — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Time travel is possible; today the clock went back to when U.S. military personnel were coming home from an unpopular war in Vietnam. Some of you might not remember how our servicemen were the focus of public ridicule from those involved in the anti-war movement. “Baby killer!” Those who wore the uniform and did their [...]
TSA Misses Luggage That Explodes After Flight
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Despite a $98 million infusion for state-of-the-art baggage screening machines, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) somehow missed a suitcase filled with explosives that blasted after a three-hour domestic flight. The shameful gaffe is simply the latest of many for the beleaguered Homeland [...]
Why This Gigantic “Intelligence” Apparatus?
Robert Higgs, Mises.org On July 19, 2010, the Washington Post published the first of three large reports by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin on the dimensions of the gigantic US apparatus of "intelligence" activities being undertaken to combat terrorist acts against the United States, such as the 9/11 attacks. To say that this activity [...]
Cover-up: Mid-East Terrorist Entering U.S. Through Mexico
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The U.S. government is covering up the growing threat created by Middle Eastern terrorists entering the country through the porous Mexican border, according to a veteran federal agent who assures the area has never been secure. The U.S. Border Patrol has captured thousands of people who have been [...]
Al Qaeda Sends a Message Again
By Alan Caruba On March 11, 2004, just days before general elections in Spain, bombs went off on trains in a series of coordinated attacks that killed 191 people and wounded 1,800. An investigation determined that they were the work of an al Qaeda “inspired” terrorist cell, though it was said at the time there was no direct [...]
Texas Education Board Adopts Resolution Limiting Islam
School Days Blog, EdNews.org AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas State Board of Education has adopted a resolution seeking to curtail references to Islam in textbooks. Continue >>>
His hand will be against every man… — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Have you ever wondered why Islam is at war with the rest of the world? What else describes the state of constant turmoil wherein jihad has been declared and the only solution is total subjugation or annihilation of its enemies? The answer may surprise you; but not those who’ve been reading the scriptures. A friend of mine [...]
Remembrance Cycle — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, I was trying to put my finger on why some Americans have forgotten, or discounted to a certain degree, that we are at war with radical Islam; more accurately, radical Islam is at war with us. Former President Bush called it a War on Terror and resolved to make those who attacked America accountable regardless of where they hid or [...]
Islam a Religion of Violence and War: Iman Rauf Says So
By Bryan Fischer Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is back in the United States flacking for the Ground Zero mosque, insisting that his Mosque of the Glorious 9/11 Martyrs must be built as close to the site of Allah’s great victory over the infidels as humanly possible. This self-proclaimed bridge-builder apparently believes he can carry out that noble [...]
Islam is a Religion of Violence: Gen. Petraeus Says So
By Bryan Fischer Pastor Terry Jones intends to burn copies of the Qur’an at his church on 9/11. It’s not something I would do were I still in the pastorate, and not something I recommend. So far the ACLU, which will defend anybody, anywhere, at anytime who puts a torch to the American flag, has been conspicuously silent in defending Rev. [...]
No Mosque at Ground Zero? Then Why a Mosque Anywhere?
By Bryan Fischer I agree completely with the 71% of New Yorkers who are vigorously opposed to a mosque at Ground Zero. What opponents of the Ground Zero mosque do not seem to realize is that they are making my case that Americans have the moral right to deny permits to build mosques anywhere. The argument against a Ground Zero mosque is [...]
DIA Report Confirmed 18 Released Gitmo Detainees Returned to Terror Before Obama Ordered Closing of Prison
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com On Jan. 7, 2009, less than two weeks before Barack Obama was sworn in as president, a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report indicated that up until that date there had been 18 confirmed and 43 suspected cases of detainees who had been released from the Guantanamo Bay prison and who had returned [...]
These Are the Moderate Muslims They Said We Don’t Need to Worry About
By Bryan Fischer Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi was the poster child of a “moderate” Muslim. He just came to America, according to friends and relatives, for a better life and to take care of his family. Character references were in abundant supply, as we were told how honest he was and how harmless he was. Why, he worked at a convenience [...]
Despite Record Spending Congress Fails to Fund Detention Space to Hold Captured Illegals From Terror-Sponsoring Countries
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com Even as Congress increased overall federal spending from a then-record $2.6 trillion in fiscal 2006 to $3.6 trillion in fiscal 2010, it only appropriated enough funds for the Department of Homeland Security to provide a fraction of the additional 40,000 detention spaces for illegal aliens that had been authorized by an [...]
A Picture IS Worth a Thousand Words — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, A friend of mine found a political cartoon regarding the building of an Islamic mosque so near Ground Zero and posted it to his Facebook page along with his thoughts, “The debate is not about the law or the Constitution. I don't think it’s even really about tolerance. The real debate is about respect, sensitivity, and [...]
One of Ours for One of Yours
By Bryan Fischer At the end of this column I’ve reproduced a post I wrote back in December of 2009, anticipating Newt Gingrich’s much publicized call for reciprocity in the building of mosques. I suggested then, as the former Speaker did a month ago, a simple formula: one of ours for one of theirs. You let us build a church in Saudi Arabia, [...]
DHS Caught and Released 481 ‘Fugitive’ Illegals from State Sponsors of Terror and ‘Countries of Interest’
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com, Penny Starr In the three fiscal years from 2007-2009, the Department of Homeland Security caught and released 481 illegal aliens from nations designated as state sponsors of terrorism and “countries of interest,” and those 481 aliens are now fugitives, according to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement [...]
ACLJ Calls on US State Dept, to End Sponsorship of Ground Zero Imam For Globe-Trotting Journey
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice (Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which represents a New York City firefighter who survived the 9-11 terrorist attacks, today called on the U.S. State Department to immediately remove Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf from a taxpayer-funded trip to the Muslim world to [...]
U.S. Frees Terrorist Decades Early
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles An unrepentant terrorist who helped orchestrate more than 100 U.S. bombings as a member of a violent Puerto Rican extremist group has been quietly released from prison after serving less than half of his sentence. Mum’s the word from Camp Obama but it’s likely that Attorney General Eric Holder was [...]
ACLJ Poised to File Court Challenge to Proposed Ground Zero Mosque After NYC Declines to Landmark Historic Building
Liberty Alerts, ACLJ (Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which is representing a New York City firefighter who survived the 9-11 terrorist attacks, said today's vote by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission is deeply offensive to many of the victims and families of the 9-11 tragedy. By a vote [...]
If You Don’t Build It, They Won’t Come
By Bryan Fischer The last apparent procedural roadblock to building a monstrosity of a mosque at Ground Zero was cleared yesterday, as a New York city landmark preservation commission voted 9-0 to allow the project to proceed. This mosque will be a 9/11 memorial all right, a memorial to the brave, benighted Islamic martyrs who gave their lives [...]
Trained Somali Terrorists Released in the U.S.!
By Bryan Fischer Just when you thought our government couldn’t be any less serious about fighting the threat of Islamic fundamentalism, word comes that five Minnesotan Somalis, all of whom went to Somalia to engage in jihad and have since returned to the U.S., have been released into society by a federal judge. Two of the five now loose in the [...]
Eric Holder Blowing Smoke About K.S.M. and the Death Penalty — Bryan Fischer
By Bryan Fischer Eric Holder wants us to believe that he supports a civilian trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed because he’s so gung-ho for the death penalty. He argues that a man who pleads guilty - as KSM has done - has a better chance of receiving a death sentence in civilian court than he would in a military tribunal. Therefore, says the [...]
Humanitarian Aid Shipments to Gaza — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The stage is set for yet another assault on Israel’s blockade of Gaza. This time it’s a Libyan “charity” shipment of food and medical supplies which will challenge the embargo intended to keep militants from resupplying Hamas with rockets and mortar rounds under the guise of humanitarian aid. “Israeli Defense Minister [...]
Ishmael or Isaac — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Some of you may have gotten an interesting email recently explaining how the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp honoring Islam. There was a picture of the stamp along with a request to boycott it and notify all your friends to boycott the stamp. I looked up the stamp on Snopes.com history to see if there were any listings to back [...]
The Afghanistan Quagmire — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba The war in Afghanistan has been going on for more than eight years as of this writing. Over that period of time I have been against it, for it, against it, for it, and now I return to what my instincts and experience told me all along. It’s over. That war is lost. Once the Taliban acquired surface-to-air missiles, the [...]
Guantanamo’s $500 Million Renovation
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles As part of its war-on-terror spending, the U.S. government has dished out at least $500 million to transform Guantanamo Bay from a dilapidated Caribbean military base to an upscale resort-like town with professional sports fields, cafes, bars, eateries and fancy [...]
Media Distortions, Errors and Lies: Villifying Israel — Bryan Fischer
By Bryan Fischer What follows is an AP story about the latest seizure of a so-called humanitarian vessel trying to run the Israeli blockade of Gaza. As is typical with the out-of-the-mainstream media, it is rife with distortions, errors and flat-out lies. Commentary interspersed in bold. It cannot be repeated too often that Israel is 100% [...]
Why Wait for Facts, Israel’s Guilty — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, I’d planned to write a Memorial Day piece, something to remind Americans that freedom isn’t free. Liberty comes at a heavy price and many have paid with their lives so you and I could enjoy the blessings of freedom. Perhaps you could read an article I wrote previously ; I had other items on my mind today. One of the top [...]
