Oct 17, 2009 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) - More than 30,000 Pakistani soldiers launched a ground offensive against al-Qaida and the Taliban's main stronghold along the Afghan border Saturday, officials said, in the country's toughest test yet against a strengthening insurgency. The United States has long pushed the government to carry out an assault in South Waziristan, and ...
Continue ReadingOct 16, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: The last few weeks have seen a greater focus on U.S. efforts in Afghanistan -- both in terms of the current status of the conflict and the range of future policy options. President Obama has addressed the issue, as has the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Although support for sending additional troops ...
Continue ReadingOct 16, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: Despite charges that it has tried to "infiltrate" Capitol Hill with interns, the nation's largest Muslim advocacy group appears to have no more leverage than any other group over the internship process in Congress. Four House Republicans on Wednesday called for an investigation into the Council on American Islamic Relations after discovering an internal memo ...
Continue ReadingOct 16, 2009 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
NRO: I try to keep up to speed on Islamic law, but it's more complicated than I'd thought. For example, women are supposed to be "modest" in public. But that's no reason not to make them disrobe in the street and shake their breasts: A hardline Islamist group in Somalia has begun publicly ...
Continue ReadingOct 15, 2009 9 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) - Handing President Barack Obama a partial victory in his effort to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, House Democrats on Thursday repelled a Republican effort to block transfer of any of the detainees to the U.S. Instead, by a 224-193 vote, the House stood by a Democratic plan to allow suspected enemy combatants ...
Continue ReadingOct 15, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
JERUSALEM, Oct 15 (Reuters) - A Turkish television drama which depicts an Israeli soldier shooting dead a Palestinian baby has strained already tense relations between Israel and Turkey, its strategic Muslim ally. Once-close ties between the Jewish state and Turkey, a secular state with a Muslim population, have deteriorated since Israel's offensive earlier this year in ...
Continue ReadingOct 15, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. veterans criticized President Barack Obama's lengthy review of Afghan war strategy, saying on Thursday the drawn-out debate in Washington was a direct threat to troops and the nation's defense. The head of Veterans of Foreign Wars, a group representing 1.5 million former soldiers, issued a tersely worded statement urging Obama to follow ...
Continue ReadingOct 14, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: WASHINGTON -- President Obama said Tuesday he will decide on new troops for Afghanistan in "the coming weeks." He told reporters that decisions on the military front were important but just one aspect of the improvements needed to the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. He said an important element is building up civilian capacity to help ...
Continue ReadingOct 14, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
NEW YORK (AP) — The airport shuttle driver accused of plotting a bombing in New York had contacts with Al Qaeda that went nearly all the way to the top, to an Usama bin Laden confidant believed to be the terrorist group's leader in Afghanistan, U.S. intelligence officials told The Associated Press. Mustafa Abu ...
Continue ReadingOct 14, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
World Net Daily: An explosive new book based on a daring six-month undercover operation exposing the subversive agenda of the Council on American-Islamic Relations reveals the Muslim group spent $160,000 in an unsuccessful effort to run top-rated nationally syndicated radio host Michael Savage off the air. Internal CAIR documents uncovered in "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld ...
Continue ReadingOct 14, 2009 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Hill: Four House Republicans are accusing a Muslim advocacy group of trying to plant spies on Capitol Hill. Republican members of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus said the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) have tried to plant “spies†within key national security committees in order to shape legislative policy. Reps. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.), John Shadegg (R-Ariz.), Paul ...
Continue ReadingOct 13, 2009 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Politico: Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s eldest daughter Liz will launch a new group aimed at rallying opposition to the “radical†foreign policy of the Obama administration which it says has succeeded only in undermining the nation’s security. The new group, Keep America Safe, will make the case against President Barack Obama’s moves to wrench America away ...
Continue ReadingOct 12, 2009 34 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Monday Update: Continued due to weekend site shutdown for server migration. You'll need an Amazon.com account to log-in here, so if you have one, great, if not it's easy to set up, and if you'd rather use a different method, there is the snail mail, and at least one other system which will be set up ...
Continue ReadingOct 12, 2009 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: Preliminary chrages have been filed against a French nuclear scientist described by colleagues as a well-regarded "loner" for "criminal association with a terrorist enterprise," according to French judicial officials. An Algerian-born French citizen, who has been identified by various news outlets as 32-year-old Adlene Hicheur, was arrested last week over suspected links to the North ...
Continue ReadingOct 12, 2009 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Agencie France Presse: A devastating suicide bomb hit northwest Pakistan killing 41 people Monday, as the military geared up for an assault on Taliban rebels blamed for increasingly bloody and brazen attacks. The bomber, reported to be aged about 13, flung himself at a military convoy passing through a busy market in Shangla, a northwest district near ...
Continue ReadingOct 11, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Washington (AP) -- US Republican Senator John McCain warned Sunday that a failure to dispatch more US troops to Afghanistan would be "an error of historic proportions" but Democrats expressed caution about any surge. "I think the great danger now is not an American pullout," McCain told CNN television. "I think the great danger now is a ...
Continue ReadingOct 11, 2009 10 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Examiner: by Anthony G. Martin From the very start of Barack Obama's rather odd, meteoric rise to prominence in American politics, many of us on the conservative side voiced our suspicions that something subversive was under way. Too many strange coincidences, too many troublesome alliances, too much hype in too short a period of time all pointed to ...
Continue ReadingOct 11, 2009 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Washington - - Top Republican senators escalated their call Sunday for President Obama to grant Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for more troops in Afghanistan, and one prominent Democrat warned that a failure to do so could jeopardize U.S. forces. The Obama administration is allegedly in deliberations over whether to build on its counterinsurgency strategy with ...
Continue ReadingOct 11, 2009 14 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
New York Times: WASHINGTON — In late 2001, Mullah Muhammad Omar’s prospects seemed utterly bleak. The ill-educated, one-eyed leader of the Taliban had fled on a motorbike after his fighters were swiftly routed by the Americans invading Afghanistan. Much of the world celebrated his ouster, and Afghans cheered the return of girls’ education, music and ordinary ...
Continue ReadingOct 11, 2009 24 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
From the "disturbing" new History Channel series, "The Day After Disaster"...
Continue ReadingOct 10, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani commandos raided a building inside army headquarters early Sunday and freed 22 people held hostage for more than 18 hours by Islamist militants, a military spokesman said. Three captives and four militants were killed in the operation. Explosions and gunshots rang out as commandos moved into a building in the complex ...
Continue ReadingOct 10, 2009 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Someone needs to tell these folks about this... ABC News: "The Taliban" and "global warming" may not seem to belong in the same sentence. But a number of U.S. intelligence and military studies recently made public describe how man-made climate change plays into the hands of terrorist groups in many countries -- and specifically, aggravates the war in ...
Continue ReadingOct 10, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Christmas, Bethlehem Iran's ambassador to UN demands Security Council take steps against comments made by Ephraim Sneh, who said Israel would attack Iran if sanctions weren't in place by Christmas Y-Net: Iran's ambassador to the UN, Mohammad Khazaee, sent a letter of protest to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moonin which he wrote that "there is no explanation for Israel's ...
Continue ReadingOct 10, 2009 10 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hours after winning a Nobel Peace Prize, President Barack Obama assembled his war council in the White House basement to talk about how many troops might be needed to right the 8-year-old Afghanistan conflict that military commanders are pressing him to escalate. The president and his top national security advisers huddled for three ...
Continue ReadingOct 9, 2009 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Politico: A top Democratic National Committee official reacted furiously to a statement from Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele mocking -- and describing as "unfortunate" -- President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize. "The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists - the Taliban and Hamas this morning - in criticizing the President ...
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