Posts Tagged ‘war on terror’
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 [...]
