Pat Dollard

AJDABIYA, Libya (AP) – Moammar Gadhafi’s ground forces recaptured a strategic oil town Wednesday and moved within striking distance of another major eastern city, nearly reversing the gains rebels made since international airstrikes began. Rebels pleaded for more help, while a U.S. official said government forces are making themselves harder to target by using civilian [...]

Fox News: The note begins, “Grandpa, I just wanted to give you my thanks for being a great influence in my life.” Former Marine Sgt. Dana O’Brien can barely make it through the first line before tears begin streaming down his face. It was sent from his grandson, Marine Cpl. Daniel O’Brien during one of [...]

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Radar Online: An incoherent Judge Judy told shocked audience members she “needed to stop” one of her made-for-TV cases because she was “not feeling well,” RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting. Judge Sheindlin was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital Wednesday morning after she suddenly started saying things that didn’t make sense, a studio insider revealed. “She [...]

Muammar Gaddafi’s authority inside Libya suffered a significant blow when his foreign minister quit and fled to the UK in a specially arranged flight organised by the British intelligence services. pp Multisource political news, world news, and entertainment news analysis by Newsy.com Mousa Kousa, who was one of the Libyan leader’s closest allies, arrived on [...]

Intelwire.com Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has released the latest issue of Inspire, and it’s a 70-page behemoth devoted to the Middle East uprisings. There are two important dimensions to this issue’s theme. First, it seeks to refute a wave of media coverage that deemed Al Qaeda irrelevant to the Middle Eastern protests. Second, [...]

CBSnews Defenders of Muslim civil rights went to Capitol Hill today to ask the federal government to stem what they say is a rising tide of anti-Muslim discrimination. Yet for one Republican senator, the real question was whether Muslim advocacy groups are doing enough to help the government curb Islamic extremism. Today’s Senate hearing, led [...]

Cnet.com The average American uses GPS to navigate a road trip or find cheap gas on the way home from work. Meanwhile, the U.S. Army has long been busy coming up with ways to harness GPS for warfare. Soldiers in Afghanistan have a new, very dangerous GPS gadget in their arsenal: 120mm GPS-guided mortars. The [...]

We hear about test runs on airplanes.. could this be a test run of our Military Bases’ security? ~Knottie~ 10News.com SAN DIEGO — One of the nation’s largest military bases is reportedly under tighter security after three Middle Eastern men tried to enter without proper authorization. 10News learned the three men — 40-year-old Afghani Ahmad [...]

reuters President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing covert U.S. government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, government officials told Reuters on Wednesday. Obama signed the order, known as a presidential “finding”, within the last two or three weeks, according to government sources familiar with the matter. Such [...]

Related: Rebels In Defeat, Retreat

New York Times: WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is engaged in a fierce debate over whether to supply weapons to the rebels in Libya, senior officials said on Tuesday, with some fearful that providing arms would deepen American involvement in a civil war and that some fighters may have links to Al Qaeda. The debate [...]

I know many are false flagging this threat but its that exact attitude of ” It can never happen here” is why it will happen here. Who knows maybe this is someone’s sick joke but the fact is there are people in this world who want to blow us up. Wake up America ~ Knottie~ [...]

Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Cairo — On a stage once commanded by his brutal father, President Bashar Assad blamed foreign conspiracies for Syria’s unrest in a national speech Wednesday that sought to steel his family dynasty against a rebellion similar to those that have toppled regimes across the region. It was to have been [...]

Zee News: London: Muslims have threatened to disrupt the wedding of Prince William, saying “the day the nation has been dreaming of will become a nightmare”. William, 28, will marry Kate Middleton, 29, at Westminster Abbey April 29. A Muslim group – named Muslims Against Crusades – vowed to disrupt the royal wedding and even [...]