Real Clear Politics:
Attorney General Eric Holder adopted a tough guy pose when he announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be tried in federal court for the most heinous terror attack on Americans in history. “After eight years of delay,” he intoned, “those allegedly responsible for the attacks of September 11 will finally [...]
National Review Online:
For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the “propaganda of the deed.” And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 — not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic.
And now its self-proclaimed architect, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has been given by the Obama administration a civilian trial in New York. Just [...]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An 18-year-old is in police custody after he warmed up a bottle for a crying baby inside the house he was allegedly robbing. Indianapolis police arrested the suspect at Arlington High School on Tuesday after receiving a tip from a television viewer saw surveillance video on a newscast.
Detectives said two suspects forced [...]
ABC News:
United States Army Major Nidal Hasan told a radical cleric considered by authorities to be an al-Qaeda recruiter, “I can’t wait to join you” in the afterlife, according to an American official with top secret access to 18 e-mails exchanged between Hasan and the cleric, Anwar al Awlaki, over a six month period between [...]
CNS News:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) declined to say Thursday whether Osama bin Laden, when captured by the United States, should be told he has the right to remain silent and be given a lawyer. Pelosi indicated that is not a question Americans should worry about now.
CNSNews.com asked Pelosi at her regular press briefing on [...]
Family Security Matters:
Marine Corporal Brian Mathews was home on a three-day leave for the 2006 Thanksgiving holiday. He had finished an eight-month tour of duty in Iraq and was planning to leave the military in June, 2007. Corporal Mathews, 21 years old, had enlisted in the Marines on his 17th birthday.
Brian’s mom, Trudy, had been [...]
MILAN (AP) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger won’t say what his plans are when his term expires next year, but he won’t be running for another office.
“I have never labeled myself as a politician, so I am not going to run for anything else,” Schwarzenegger told reporters in Milan on Tuesday.
Schwarzenegger, a Republican, is [...]
MYFOXNY.COM:
Two NYPD officers assigned to Vice President Joe Biden’s advance security team were hurt in a crash on Tuesday evening in Manhattan.
It happened at at about 5:30 p.m.
One other person was also hurt in the accident.
Three police cars were headed west bound on 49th street and crossing 10th Avenue.. The vehicles included a marked [...]
Herald Tribune:
VENICE - Two men armed with guns and wearing ski masks entered the T.J. Maxx store in Venice Tuesday night and held eight employees hostage for more than three hours.
Seven of the hostages eventually left the store unharmed, but the final hostage — a 16-year-old girl who had been hiding from the gunmen — [...]
Fox News:
House Republicans on Monday disputed claims that moving Guantanamo Bay detainees to rural Illinois would bring thousands of local jobs to the community, saying a proposed detention facility in Thomson would amount to little more than “the new Gitmo.”
Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., released a statement claiming that a Republican colleague was told in [...]
Fox News:
Criminal gangs are making millions of dollars out of the H1N1 flu pandemic by selling fake flu drugs over the internet, a web security firm said on Monday.
Sophos, a British security software firm said it had intercepted hundreds of millions of fake pharmaceutical spam adverts and websites this year, many of them trying to [...]
CBS:
Gov. David Paterson openly criticized the White House on Monday, saying he thought it was a terrible idea to move alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspected terrorists to New York for trial.
“This is not a decision that I would have made. I think terrorism isn’t just attack, it’s anxiety and I [...]
