Doha’s office district TEHRAN (FNA) — Iranian Envoy to Kabul Fada Hossein Maleki underlined the US and its allies’ continued failures in the region, and said they have lost their reputation among the regional states. Maleki pointed to the complication of the security situation in the region and the failure of the US policies, and [...]
(JPost) — Israel launched attacks against its own embassies in New Dehli and Tbilisi in order to “tarnish Iran’s friendly ties with the host countries,” Iran said on Monday, after denying Israeli accusations that Tehran and its ally in Hezbollah were involved in the plots. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that “Israel perpetrated [...]
Associated Press: Beirut (AP) – Al-Qaeda’s leader has called for the ouster of Syria’s “pernicious, cancerous regime,” raising fears that Islamic extremists will try to exploit an uprising against President Bashar Assad that began with peaceful calls for democratic change but is morphing into a bloody, armed insurgency. The regime has long blamed terrorists for [...]
CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – A top Muslim Brotherhood official has warned that any cuts in U.S. aid to Egypt could affect Cairo’s peace treaty with Israel – the latest sign that Egypt’s emerging political forces intend to call Washington’s bluff over the diplomatic dispute triggered by a crackdown on non-governmental organizations. Egyptian judges have referred [...]
WTAE – Pittsburgh: PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police said they have identified the man who drove an SUV up the front steps of the downtown PNC Firstside Center and hit the entrance of the building during work hours. Channel 4 Action News’ Shannon Perrine reported that four traffic offenses will be filed against 67-year-old Richard McGee, [...]
Flashback NY Times Article – New York Times: COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — To many Americans, Maya Arulpragasam, known as M.I.A., is the very pregnant rapper who gyrated across the stage at Sunday’s Grammy Awards. Yet in Sri Lanka, where she spent her childhood years, M.I.A. remains virtually unknown. And some who do know her work [...]
CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – The Iranian-supported Shi’ite terrorist group Hezbollah has spread its influence all the way to the U.S. border with Mexico, a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Iran’s influence in the Western Hemisphere heard on Thursday. Michael Braun, a former chief of operations at the Drug Enforcement Agency, said Hezbollah had developed [...]
Translated from El Nuevo Herald: The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) evaluated the possibility of selling uranium to the government of President Hugo Chavez, for what it offered to “friends in distant lands,” according to emails found on computers in the killed rebel leader Raul Reyes, that mention the availability of up to 50 [...]
Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Beverly Hills ABC News: Jewish facilities in North America — and around the world — are on high alert, according to an internal security document obtained by ABC News that predicted the threat from Iran against Jewish targets will increase. “We predict that the threat on our sites around the world will increase [...]
Associated Press: WASHINGTON—It’s one of the enduring mysteries of the war on terrorism: What will become of the al-Qaida leaders and operatives who fled into Iran after 9/11 and have been detained there for years? Their fate has long been a blindspot for U.S. intelligence. Recently, however, some al-Qaida figures have quietly made their way [...]
Reno, Nev (KRNV & MyNews4.com) — There is a young man on the UNR campus who some are calling a genius. He’s getting ready to meet President Obama in a few days, for his invention which the government believes, could improve our national security. Seventeen-year-old Taylor Wilson’s physicist-mentor can keep up with Taylor walking down [...]
(Judicial Watch) — A new Homeland Security report compares terrorism to “ordinary crime” in metropolitan U.S. cities and omits the radical Islamic factor, instead finding “significant variability in the ideologies motivating terrorist attacks across decades.” This appears to be part of the Obama Administration’s Muslim outreach effort, which includes hiring a special Homeland Security adviser [...]
CNN: Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Pakistan continues to support the Taliban in Afghanistan, a secret NATO report says, according to a journalist who has read it, despite years of Pakistani denials and American pressure to stop backing the insurgency The Taliban depend on Pakistan for support, even though they do not necessarily welcome it, Times [...]
Washington Post: U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks inside the United States in response to perceived threats from America and its allies, the U.S. spy chief said Tuesday. Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. said in prepared testimony that an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi [...]
Associated Press: KINGSTON, Ontario (AP) — A jury on Sunday found three members of an Afghan family guilty of killing three teenage sisters and another woman in what the judge described as “cold-blooded, shameful murders” resulting from a “twisted concept of honor,” ending a case that shocked and riveted Canadians. Prosecutors said the defendants allegedly [...]
I am personally torn on this issue. I am one of those peace through superior firepower we need a KICK ASS military types. But I have said for years Afghanistan should have stayed a Special Ops war. However I also see that Iraq needed to be a boots on the ground war. We need to [...]
Josh White of the Washington Post has the gall to make this comment: Yonathan Melaku was sneaking through Fort Myer and Arlington National Cemetery, his backpack filled with plastic bags of ammonium nitrate, a notebook containing jihadist messages, and a can of black spray paint. The 23-year-old former Marine was heading to the graves of [...]
United States Institute of Peace – Iran Primer: -Iran has aggressively pursued diplomatic, economic and strategic relations with an eclectic array of non-Western states. It also expanded activity within regional and international organizations for developing countries. -Iran’s alliance strategy is intended to undermine international sanctions, sustain its nuclear program and thwart Western efforts to isolate [...]
(Politico) — A former CIA officer was charged Monday with disclosing the identity of a covert CIA officer and with telling journalists the name an agency officer involved with the interrogation of alleged Al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah. The Justice Department charged that John Kiriakou, 47, who worked as a CIA officer from 1990 to [...]
