The Underground Conservative

News from Spain today of a potential terrorist attack thwarted:
Islamic radicals may have been plotting attacks in Barcelona, Spain’s Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said on Saturday, after police found bomb-making materials and arrested 14 South Asians.
Rubalcaba told a news conference civil guard police found explosives and other equipment during raids on five […]

The MSM succeeded in getting Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff–the highest ranking military man in the U.S. military (remember, he’s outranked by SECDEF and CINC/POTUS)–to admit that he thinks the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay should be closed.
Asked why he thinks Gitmo should be closed, Admiral Mullen says: […]

Adam Gadahn, the American al-Qaida member, released a video recently. And he sounds a lot like a left-wing blog or website:
“Now we direct an urgent call to our militant brothers in Muslim Palestine and the Arab peninsula … to be ready to receive the Crusader slayer Bush in his visit to Muslim Palestine […]

The commander of a U.S. military prison in Iraq has been arrested for allegedly “aiding the enemy,” the military said.
U.S. Army Lt. Col. William H. Steele, a senior commander of the Camp Cropper detention center west of Baghdad, has been transferred to Kuwait for the military equivalent of a grand jury proceeding, a military spokeswoman […]

Well, they’re making it official now, anyway. At least Harry Reid says so:
The war in Iraq “is lost” and a US troop surge is failing to bring peace to the country, the leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress, Harry Reid, said Thursday.
“I believe … that this war is lost, […]

Yes, at first we were worried and we prayed for the safe return of the 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran. Then we were thrilled when we heard they’d been released. Then we were upset that they had caved in to their captors’ demands too easily and quickly.
But at […]

The only thing missing is a the demand for a troop withdrawal deadline that coincides nicely with the 2008 Presidential election season:
Tens of thousands of Shiites — a sea of women in black abayas and men waving Iraqi flags — rallied Monday to demand that U.S. forces leave their country. Some ripped apart American flags […]

First the good news: the 15 British sailors and marines (including one female) captured by Iran recently are going to be freed.
Now the bad news:

The world has taken its eyes off Iran’s developing nuclear capacity
Ahmadinejad used this entire incident, including the release of the sailors and marines, for propaganda purposes (including a photo-op of him […]