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.
“The attacks showed the wide reach of militant attacks in the Pakistani heartland, far from the troubled and lawless border region with Afghanistan.” Now, how is it that they’re able to have such a wide reach? Could it be because their ideology resonates with that of large numbers of Pakistanis,…
“He was transferred to Saudi Arabia in 2006 where he was placed in a national rehabilitation project.” That’s just worked wonders. Gitmo Recidivism Update. “Former GITMO detainee now al-Qaida brass,” from United Press International, December 4 (thanks to all who sent this in): WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) — A former…
Their loyalties, if this is true, were with Islam, not with the United States. That should not be surprising: it is a staple of Islamic thought that loyalty to one’s fellow Muslims trumps all other loyalties. “Another spying scandal at Gitmo,” by Paul Sperry for the New York Post, December…
OPINION OCTOBER 1, 2009, 10:44 P.M. ET
Intelligence Averts Another Attack
Why do Democrats in Congress want to change key laws that have helped to discover terrorist plots?
By MICHAEL B. MUKASEY
One would think that the arrests last week of Najibullah Zazi, charged with plotting to bomb New York City subways—and of two others charged with planning to [...]
