By Bill Roggio The Taliban have occupied a combat outpost abandoned by US troops in the eastern province of Kunar, and claim they will set up a headquarters there. In a video taken by Al Jazeera, a heavily armed group of Taliban fighters is seen marching up a road in the Pech River Valley. The [...]
Texas Sheriff Tomas Herrera said he does not agree with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s assessment of security at the U.S.-Mexico border as being “better than it has ever been.” Herrera, in a telephone interview with CNSNews.com, said that not “a mile” of the 85-mile stretch of border in Maverick County, Texas, which is separated [...]
Ihatethemedia The words “Muslim” and “outraged” just go together, don’t they? It’s just as natural as “peaches and cream” or “mom and apple pie” or “suicide and bomber.” The Oakland A’s baseball team is staging Jewish Heritage Night at the ballpark and CAIR, the overly-sensitive Muslim organization that gets outraged at damn near everything, is [...]
AFP – Arab League chief Amr Mussa said on Sunday the organisation will ask the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly zone over Gaza, which Israel has pounded with air strikes in response to rocket fire. Mussa told an emergency meeting of Arab League ambassadors that “the Arab bloc in the United Nations has [...]
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Actor Gary Sinise, perhaps best-known for his Oscar-nominated role as a badly wounded Vietnam vet in the movie “Forrest Gump”, was in St. Louis Monday morning. He made the official announcement that his band, named the “Lt. Dan Band” after his character in that 1994 film, will play a Memorial Day [...]
WSJ More New Yorkers were homeless during the last fiscal year than at any time since the Great Depression, according to a report Monday from advocates seeking to end homelessness. The report blasted the Bloomberg administration for policies that it said contributed to the number of homeless people, while the mayor’s office faulted how the [...]
NHK The Japanese government’s nuclear safety agency has decided to raise the crisis level of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant accident from 5 to 7, the worst on the international scale. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency made the decision on Monday. It says the damaged facilities have been releasing a massive amount of radioactive [...]
Borderland Beat: The emergence of a new cell from La Familia Michoacana calling themselves “Los Caballeros Templarios,” The Knights Templar. Not known by most US authorities. A picture of the arsenal and propaganda seized by Mexican police. Mexico’s cartel members, their families and their associates have been moving to various cities in the United States [...]
BENGHAZI: Libyan rebel leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil on Monday rejected an African Union initiative for a ceasefire with the forces of Muammar Gaddafi and demanded the ouster of the veteran strongman. “This (African Union) initiative has now been surpassed. From the first day the demand of our people has been the ouster of Gaddafi and [...]
Washington Post An Ashburn man who federal prosecutors said plotted to “kill as many Americans as possible” by bombing Washington Metro stations was sentenced Monday to 23 years in prison. Farooque Ahmed, 35, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, pleaded guilty to two terrorism-related charges in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. Federal authorities said [...]
jihadwatch Wellington Menezes de Oliveira murdered twelve children in a school in Realengo, a poor suburb of Rio de Janeiro, last Thursday. Here is more indication that the shooting was jihad-related, rather like the attempted murders that Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar committed in North Carolina after making his own close study of the Koran. More on [...]
The Hill: Capitol Police have detained protesters conducting a rally on Capitol Hill against Washington, D.C.-related riders in the new 2011 budget deal. Washington Mayor Vincent Gray, Council Chairman Kwame Brown, Ward 4 Councilwoman Muriel Bowser and Ward 6 Councilman Tommy Wells were among the dozens of people who were arrested after protesters blocked Constitution [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the closest to a front-runner in a wide-open Republican field, took a major step toward a second White House candidacy Monday, formally announcing a campaign exploratory committee. He declared that “with able leadership, America’s best days are still ahead,” vigorously asserting that President Barack Obama had failed [...]
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — While Washington averted a government shutdown this week, California Governor Jerry Brown continues with his budget battles. The governor may feel like he’s in a recurring nightmare these days. Everywhere he turns with a proposed budget fix it gets shot down. Part One: “If we don’t get taxes, if we don’t [...]
