Tag Archives: Al Qaeda

Joseph F. Connor

Eric Holder: Incompetent or Malfeasant Ideologue?

Is Attorney General Eric Holder: a. a liar b. a malfeasant ideologue c. an incompetent stooge d. all of the above What an SAT question that would be. Holder is like the high school kid who doesn’t know the answer so he consistently chooses letter “C”. The Attorney General of the United States of America chooses to be known as an [...]
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Peter R. Huessy

Obama Has No Strategic Vision

The United States does not now have a defense and national security “vision” for the future appropriate to the threats, challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. What we have is a series of sometimes contradictory tactical strategies that are sometimes aimed as much at domestic political constituencies as they at resolving the crises and [...]
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John J.  Xenakis

3-Oct-11 World View — Greece Misses Requirements For Next Bailout Payment

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Greece misses requirements for next bailout payment * Greece’s banks face nationalization * Terrorist groups in Pakistan are splintering into smaller groups * US aids Uzbekistan despite human rights record * Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warns that Israel is too isolated * Venezuela’s Chavez promises China all the oil it needs * China using Tibetan [...]
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Walid Phares

Al Awlaki Is Gone But His Jihadists Are Multiplying

Imam Anwar al Awlaki held two important positions in the cobweb of international Jihadi terror. First, he was one of the emerging younger leaders of al Qaeda after the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Out of Yemen, from which his family originates, he had built a network of recruits capable of performing missions in the [...]
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The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)

Sting Nets Man Plotting Drone Attacks On Pentagon

Another sting operation by federal law enforcement officials has led to the arrest of an American citizen from a Boston suburb who thought he was arming remote controlled planes to bomb the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol. Rezwan Ferdaus, 26, is charged with attempting to blow up government buildings and with conspiring to provide material support to [...]
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El Cid

Give Us Some Credit, Will You? Al-Qaeda Asks Ahmadinejad To Stop 9/11 Conspiracy Talk, Saying ‘Hello? We Did It!’

No, this is not a parody.   So who do you root for in this debate? From the UK’s Guardian: Al Qaeda to Ahmadinejad:  enough already, give us some credit! Al-Qaida has sent a message to the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, asking him to stop spreading conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attacks. Iranian media on Wednesday reported quotes from [...]
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Armstrong Williams

Reliving 9/11 for The First Time

Watching all the network specials and tributes to 9/11 proved something very powerful to me: I’ll never be “over it.” I thought I was. I thought I could look back on the event more objectively and easily critique the errors we made following that awful day. But to even attempt to do so means lying [...]
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Chuck DeVore

Obama At The UN: Misreading History, Revolution, And War

President Obama addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, September 21.  After pleasantries, Obama’s 5,183 word speech began with the customary nod to the UN’s mission “the pursuit of peace in an imperfect world.” The President cited Franklin Roosevelt as the main driver behind creating the UN, but quickly veered hyperbolic with the historically laughable [...]
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John Bernard, 1st Sgt. USMC (ret.),

Legitimizing Cold Blooded Murderers; The New Rave!

For those who can't follow the logic; let me help you: Reaching out to the Haqqani Network, right now, after so brazen an attack in Kabul, against Sovereign US territory, would be akin to reaching out to Al Qaeda one week after the Trade Towers were blown back to the earth.
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El Cid

Let’s Be Honest: We’ve Lost In Both Iraq And Afghanistan

Former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer is never one to be warm and fuzzy.   But he has laid down the gauntlet in his piece over at The National Interest. Scheuer says its time to stop lying to ourselves:  we didn’t win in Iraq and we are not winning in Afghanistan.  Scheuer says that while we [...]
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