Nov 20, 2009 17 Comments ›› Erik Wong
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 ...
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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 ...
Continue ReadingNov 20, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
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 ...
Continue ReadingNov 19, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
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 ...
Continue ReadingNov 19, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
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 ...
Continue ReadingNov 19, 2009 20 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
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 ...
Continue ReadingNov 18, 2009 11 Comments ›› Erik Wong
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 ...
Continue ReadingNov 18, 2009 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
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 ...
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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 — ...
Continue ReadingNov 16, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
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 ...
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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 ...
Continue ReadingNov 16, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
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 ...
Continue ReadingNov 16, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
Don't tell Obama, less he get an idea for Gitmo and start recruiting terrorists into his administration. LONDON (AP) - Two of Britain's most high-profile Muslim extremists have been given free rein to recruit fellow inmates in prison and are spreading propaganda from behind bars, a think-tank founded by two former Islamic radicals said Monday. London-based Quilliam ...
Continue ReadingNov 13, 2009 32 Comments ›› Erik Wong
CNS News: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that the Obama administration will push for “immigration reform†by giving the estimated 14 million people who are in the United States illegally “fair pathway to earned legal status.†“A tough and fair pathway to earned legal status will mandate that illegal immigrants meet a number of ...
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