May 1, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from AFP: The United States has deployed sophisticated F-22 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates amid deepening tensions between Iran and its pro-US neighbors, officials said Monday. The US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, would not say how many F-22s would be sent to the Al-Dhafra air base in the United Arab Emirates. Military ...
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May 1, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
CBS News: (CBS News) Five alleged anarchists have been arrested after a months-long sting operation, charged with plotting to blow up a bridge in the Cleveland area, the FBI announced Tuesday. CBS News senior correspondent John Miller reports the group had been involved in a series of escalating plots that ended with their arrest last night by ...
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Apr 30, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from ABC News: With the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death looming, American and European authorities told ABC News today that they fear al Qaeda may soon try to explode U.S.-bound aircraft with explosives hidden inside the bodies of terrorists. As a result, security at several airports in the U.K. and ...
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Apr 30, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from Council on American-Islamic Relations: — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcomed the release of the Sikh Coalition’s new “FlyRights” smart phone application that allows airline passengers to report alleged instances of racial or religious profiling by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The Department of Homeland Security has agreed to accept ...
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Apr 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Biden opposed Bin Laden raid Obama stalled approval of raid for several weeks All decisions and responsibilities of Bin Laden raid were transferred to military and intelligence officials Military and Intelligence officials planned to overrule Obama - contingency plans to take out Bin Laden already in place.
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Apr 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from CBS News: PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- Mitt Romney said on Monday that "of course" he would have ordered military forces to make the 2011 raid that ended with the death of Osama bin Laden. Asked by a reporter during an appearance here whether he would have gone after the al-Qaida leader, Romney responded: "Of ...
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Apr 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Lookout: One World Trade Center, the so-called "Freedom Tower" currently under construction in Lower Manhattan, technically became New York City's tallest building on Monday, as workers erected steel columns on the 100th floor, 1,271 feet above the street, to make it stand 21 feet higher than the Empire State Building's observation deck. The ...
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Apr 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The New York Times: THE United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in ...
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Apr 29, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from WND: The official Twitter account for the English website of the Muslim Brotherhood today endorsed a Twitter post by Dalia Mogahed, a member of Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Referring to Obama’s White House Correspondents Dinner speech yesterday, Mogahed tweeted: “Was great President Obama recognized Anthony Shadid ...
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Apr 29, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from Breitbart: WASHINGTON, April 29 (UPI) -- A top U.S. counter-terrorism official said Sunday al-Qaida apparently still is open to a plot to attack commercial aviation as it did on Sept. 11, 2001. John Brennan, chief counter-terrorism adviser to President Obama, said Sunday while al-Qaida has been significantly weakened, a high ...
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Apr 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(AP) WASHINGTON - A year after the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks is essentially gone but its affiliates remain a threat to America, U.S. intelligence officials say. Core al Qaeda's new leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, still aspires to attack the U.S., but his Pakistan-based ...
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Apr 27, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from Foreign Policy: In "Distant View of a Minaret," the late and much-neglected Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat begins her short story with a woman so unmoved by sex with her husband that as he focuses solely on his pleasure, she notices a spider web she must sweep off the ceiling and has time ...
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Apr 27, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from Times Of Israel: US President Barack Obama has lifted a ban on financial aid to the Palestinian Authority. Obama stated that the aid was “important to the security interests of the United States.” The US Congress froze a $192 million aid package to the Palestinian Authority after its president, Mahmoud Abbas, defied US pressure ...
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Apr 27, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from The Hill: President Obama's campaign is using Bill Clinton to argue Mitt Romney would not have launched the raid to capture Osama bin Laden last year. The argument is being made to coincide with the one-year anniversary of bin Laden's death. In extended, previously unreleased footage taken from an interview with the former president for ...
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Apr 27, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Washington (CNN) -- A federal judge has turned aside calls to publicly release video and photographs of the U.S. military raid and aftermath that left al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden dead. Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, had asked the Department of Defense to comply with a Freedom of Information request for the material, especially ...
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Apr 26, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from CNN: -- A man wearing an Afghan National Army uniform killed a U.S. coalition service member, the U.S. military said Thursday. It was the latest in a string of such attacks. The incident took place late Wednesday when the person "turned his weapon against coalition service members," the U.S. military said. The person ...
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Apr 26, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Hill: No credible information has emerged that terrorist networks are plotting an attack to coincide with the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, the White House said Thursday. President Obama discussed the possibility of attacks on U.S. interests at a meeting with his national security team, White House press secretary Jay Carney told ...
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Apr 26, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from The Blaze: On Wednesday evening GBTV unveiled the highly anticipated special, “Rumors of War III, Target U.S.” The documentary examined how radical Islamist groups including Hamas, Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood, are gaining a foothold in America, be it via the growing threat of Mexican drug cartels or the infiltration of Muslim ...
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Apr 25, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
You can thank the Anti-American scunmbags at wired for the next terror attack on the U.S. When you hear about the bomb going off, remember they facilitated it. Excerpted from Wired's Danger Room: The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Tuesday ordered the entire U.S. military to scour its training material to ensure it ...
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Apr 25, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from WND: Despite the recent declaration by Iran that it does not want a nuclear bomb and statements by regime officials that they are willing to negotiate over the nuclear issue, indications from within Iran signal massive preparation for an all-out war as part of its destiny. Nine years ago a Revolutionary ...
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Apr 23, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Out of the mouths of babes comes "goo goo, ga ga". The Weekly Standard: In the wake of the Arab Spring, the Obama administration is grappling with how to handle Islamists, radical adherents to Islam. Particularly, the issue has come to the fore in regards to Egypt, which, as Reuel Marc Gerecht notes, "is now certain" ...
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Apr 20, 2012 Comments Off American Infidel
Excerpted from The Washington Post: JERUSALEM — A Hamas leader said Thursday that if his militant group came to power in a future Palestinian state, it would not abide by any previous Palestinian peace deals with Israel. Moussa Abu Marzouk, the Islamic militant group’s number two figure, said any potential deal between Israel and ...
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