Five young Americans detained in eastern Pakistan had developed contacts with al Qaeda operatives through the Internet and were on their way to North Waziristan to join a militant training camp, said a senior Pakistani intelligence official. via Americans Detained in Pakistan Found to Have al Qaeda Links – WSJ.com.
Democracy Now!’s habit of conveniently leaving out key elements of a story, which would, if included, either completely alter or negate entirely the point the network is trying to make is what makes their news program simultaneously amusing and pathetic.
Let’s take as an example a piece that Democracy Now!’s host Amy Goodman—Comrade No. 1 on [...]
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President Obama has ordered sufficient reinforcements to Afghanistan to execute a war strategy that can succeed. We applaud this decision. And we urge everyone to rally round the effort to defeat our enemies and accomplish objectives vital to America’s national security.Obama’s decision, and the speech in which it was announced, were not flawless. The president [...]
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…being waged by native-born jihadists. “U.S. sees homegrown Muslim extremism as rising threat: This may have been the most dangerous year since 9/11, anti-terrorism experts say,” by Sebastian Rotella for the Los Angeles Times, December 7 (thanks to Twostellas): Reporting from Washington – The Obama administration, grappling with a spate…
Dr. Hamid Tawfik explains why he could not continue being a brainwashed victim of radical Islam.
She ascribes it entirely to al-Qaeda, which is inaccurate, but since she has hardly said anything at all about the jihad threat in the U.S. before, and got her job because of her work on the border as Governor of Arizona, this is noteworthy. “Homeland Security chief warns of threat…
Why the conservatives should back the president on Afghanistan.
The goals were narrow, and delivered without regard to America’s moral obligation to Afghanistan. Peter Beinart on Obama’s missed opportunity.The best that can be said about President Obama’s West Point speech is that it was civil. Obama did not accuse opponents of the Afghan surge of appeasement; he did not imply that he has a [...]
