Why some Western men find the lifestyle of the jihadist so captivating.
Holder Defends Handling of Abdulmutallab – CBS News
February 3, 2010 By 1 Comment
Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday he made the decision to charge the Christmas Day terror suspect in civilian court rather than the military system, with no objection from all the other relevant departments of the government.In a letter to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell PDF, the attorney general wrote that the FBI told its [...]
Intelligence Officials Warn Attempted Al Qaeda Attack Months Away – FOXNews.com
February 3, 2010 By 1 Comment
WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda can be expected to attempt an attack on the United States in the next three to six months, senior U.S. intelligence officials told Congress Tuesday. The terrorist organization is deploying operatives to the United States to carry out new attacks from inside the country, including “clean” recruits with a negligible trail [...]
Obama’s Budget Blame Game
February 3, 2010 By 18 Comments
The president blames his predecessor for his own fiscal profligacy.
It’s Groundhog Day in the Terror War
February 3, 2010 By 16 Comments
The same sequence of jihadi terror attack and Western denial, over and over again.
Airline Terror Suspect Provides Key Intelligence – FOXNews.com
February 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON — The Nigerian man accused of trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas has been cooperating with investigators since last week and has provided fresh intelligence in multiple terrorism investigations, officials said Tuesday.Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s cooperation could prove to be a national security victory [...]
Charles Krauthammer Nails Down Ideologue Obama Perfectly
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Appearing on Frank Gaffney’s show on Secure Freedom Radio earlier today, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer delivered the ultimate smackdown of President Barack Obama.
The conservative columnist proved he understands Obama completely. As I argued yesterday, conservatives are making a tragic mistake by mistaking the man for a pragmatist. He is not, he’s a leftist [...]
Andrew C. McCarthy: The Attorney and the General – National Review Online
February 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Michael Hayden, the former CIA director, penned a superb op-ed in the Washington Post on Sunday. Succinctly, he tallies the wages of having Attorney General Eric Holder make national-security decisions. Unlike the attorney general, Hayden is a real general, and very much worth heeding. He shows that these decisions have been premised on left-wing political [...]
An Ex-Islamist Needs U.S. Support – WSJ.com
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Hanevy Ould Dahah, who is now being held in Mauritania’s Dar Naim prison, is an unlikely dissident. Half-Arab and half-African, he was marked as a child to become a cleric, memorizing the Quran by age nine and studying at ultra-conservative academies. Some of his former classmates now lead Mauritania’s Salafist movement; Hanevy might have been [...]
David B. Rivkin Jr. and Marc A. Thiessen: A Tale of Two Terrorists – WSJ.com
February 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Obama administration’s decision to read the Christmas Day bomber his Miranda rights has rightly come under withering criticism. Instead of a lengthy interrogation by officials with al Qaeda expertise, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was questioned for 50 minutes by local FBI agents and then later advised of his “right to remain silent.”It’s well understood that [...]
