This is scary news from McClatchy newspapers: A growing al Qaida-backed insurgency, combined with the Pakistani army’s reluctance to launch an all-out crackdown, political infighting and energy and food shortages are plunging America’s key ally in the war on terror deeper into turmoil and violence, says a soon-to-be completed U.S. intelligence assessment. Yep, a nuclear [...]
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: “I [...]
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 and [...]
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 [...]
