Nov 20, 2009 20 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Phoenix Examiner: Nidal Hasan, the Muslim U.S. Army Major accused of the mass killings at Fort Hood, is listed as participant in the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute's (HSPI) Presidential Transition Task Force Report. While this is not entirely surprising, given Hasan's former position in the Army, it raises significant questions about White House ...
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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 ...
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The LA Times: Writing From Kabul, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai's inauguration today will be a somber affair. Gray storm clouds are slowly replacing the blue skies, and the sour tang of charcoal smoke hangs in the air. The mood among the internationals here is similarly gloomy. So many conversations end with the scratching ...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – Concerns over the environment and terrorism have not only affected how people lived in the past decade but also their language, with "global warming" and "9/11" topping a list of the most used words of the 2000s. The Global Language Monitor, which uses a math formula to track the frequency of ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Trying to avert another tragedy like the Fort Hood shootings, Defense Secretary Robert Gates named a former Army secretary and former Navy chief to review a broad range of Pentagon programs, ranging from medical and personnel policies to how well military bases are secured. Army Secretary Togo West and former chief of naval ...
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New York Times: Born in U.S., a Radical Cleric Inspires Terror WASHINGTON — In nearly a dozen recent terrorism cases in the United States, Britain and Canada, investigators discovered the suspects had something in common: a devotion to the message of Anwar al-Awlaki, an eloquent Muslim cleric who has turned the Web into a tool for extremist ...
Continue ReadingNov 18, 2009 25 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Big Government: [Note: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans. Click here to read earlier articles.] Top Obama donor and fundraiser Jodie Evans met with the Taliban in Afghanistan on a recent trip there, according to a report by Jane Fonda of a discussion she had ...
Continue ReadingNov 18, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
NPR: The professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is expected to arrive in New York for trial by the end of the year. But it won't be his first trip to America. He has been here before, as a college student in the early 1980s. Mohammed's first real taste of America came ...
Continue ReadingNov 18, 2009 9 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: A top Senate Republican on Wednesday accused Attorney General Eric Holder of "making bad history" in his decision to send professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-conspirators to New York for trial in civilian court, as Holder defended his choice. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., raised concerns that Holder was imperiling national ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama predicted that professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be convicted, as Attorney General Eric Holder defended putting him through the U.S. civilian legal system. In one of a series of TV interviews during his trip to Asia, Obama said those offended by the legal privileges given to Mohammed ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder is defending his decision to put the professed Sept. 11 mastermind on trial in New York—and urging critics of the plan not to cower in the face of terrorists. Holder is set to testify Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where lawmakers are likely to spar over the attorney ...
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China Daily: CHIANG MAI, Thailand: Former US President Jimmy Carter said he was pressed by his advisers to attack Iran during the hostage crisis there more than 30 years ago but resisted because he feared 20,000 Iranians could have died. Islamist militants stormed the US Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, and seized its occupants. Fifty-two ...
Continue ReadingNov 16, 2009 20 Comments ›› Erik Wong
British paper, don't mind the typos. Times Online: British forces should buy off potential Taleban recruits with “bags of goldâ€, according to a new army field manual published yesterday.
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 ...
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 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Wired: The Ft. Hood shootings were so gruesome and inhuman, even Osama Bin Laden’s former spiritual mentor is condemning them — calling the massacre that killed 13 “irrational†and “empty of thought,†according to a translation provided to Danger Room by the NEFA Foundation. Salman Al-Awdah, a Saudi cleric who played an influential role in Bin Laden’s ...
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