An update on this story — the raids involved not only Massachusetts, but also New York and New Jersey. “Cash couriers target of Northeast raids, source says,” from CNN, May 13: (CNN) — Raids by federal agents in Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey on Thursday are focused on a…
As well as in service of a supremacist agenda. “Polygamists ‘breeding for cash,’” from AP, May 2 (thanks to all who sent this in): The burqa, or face-covering veil, is getting all the attention in the debate over Muslim immigrants in France. But another controversial tradition among some immigrants is…
An update on this story. “Briton is duped into carrying terror cash,” by David Jarvis for the Sunday Express, March 28: A plot by Al Qaeda to blow up a sports stadium was foiled when a British-based courier was arrested. The man was held in Chicago as he prepared…
I said it at the Wilders event at CPAC 2009, and it is still an accurate observation: we live in such a cheap and tawdry age that all one needs to do to be a hero is tell the truth — and yet there are so few heroes. That…
Obama’s speech in New Hampshire this week sums everything that’s wrong with the administration.
For the past several days, I have found myself unable to look at the photographs from Haiti. I have also found that when I start reading an article datelined Port-au-Prince, I have to force myself to read to the end of it. I have donated money to Doctors Without Borders, on the grounds that it [...]
The catastrophe of Abdulmutallab’s attempted Christmas present was only the beginning.
ntelligence about terror threats rarely comes on such a silver platter: A Nigerian banker went to the U.S. Embassy in Lagos to warn that his son had fallen under “the influence of religious extremists based in Yemen” and was a security risk. This came after months of U.S. intelligence intercepts about al Qaeda plans for [...]
WASHINGTON — Janet Napolitano — former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security — will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit: “The system worked.” The attacker’s concerned father had warned U.S. authorities about his son’s jihadist tendencies. The would-be bomber paid cash and checked [...]
