Category Archives: Middle East

Somali pirate hostage Captain Richard Phillips is a free man

Thank the Lord, on Easter Day no less.
Captain Richard Phillips, who had been held hostage several days by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean, was freed today. As Michelle Malkin notes, it appears that Captain Phillips escaped a second time and this time, the US Navy moved in and killed at least [...]

Because OUR money’s burning a hole in Obama’s wallet…

Let’s just give it to the Palestinians:
The United States plans to offer more than $900 million to help rebuild Gaza after Israel’s invasion and to strengthen the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, U.S. officials said on Monday.
The money, which needs U.S. congressional approval, will be distributed through U.N. and other bodies and not via the militant [...]

Plague killing Al Qaeda terrorists

The Sun (UK) is reporting the plague (yes, THE plague, AKA the Black Death) has killed 40 Al Qaeda terrorists in Algeria.
Now, my question is, how’d it get to their training camps? Was it they themselves who were experimenting with it and it went bad (thankfully)? Or… something else?
Who [...]

Support the troops

One at a time:
I know a young man who is in desperate need of help. His name is PFC Hunter Levine. He is 20 years old and hails from Houston, TX.
He was in my company and was wounded on 9 May, 2008 while conducting combat operations in East Baghdad. He received a very serious [...]

Why our troops serve

This is awesome.
Army Specialist Stephen Fortunato gave his life a few weeks ago fighting the bad guys in Afghanistan. He blogged when he had some spare time and his mother released his August 30, 2008 entry to the Boston Globe (I know, I was shocked too that they’d actually publish it). [...]