Islam and cartoons
Lots of complaints from Islamic Jihad supporters about cartoons published by a Danish newspaper a few months ago. Background: Info and the cartoons which caused the ruckus (are these really offensive… how about these cartoons from Arab newspapers?) Fight the bullies Michelle Malkin’s latest column about this Papers worldwide publish offending Danish cartoons. American MSM? [...]
Blogger helps put a wanna-be terrorist out of business
Rusty Shackleford of the Jawa Report has a post today about his role in helping the FBI nab a potential terrorist. Quite an accomplishment, and there’s also insight into how the Patriot Act provided the FBI with the ability to close the deal, so to speak.
Shining the light on Saddam’s links to terror
A few weeks ago, I wrote about emerging evidence about Saddam Hussein’s links to terror training camps. New information about the impact of these links is discussed in an article by Thomas Joscelyn. THE REVELATION that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq trained thousands of Islamic terrorists has important ramifications for European counterterrorism efforts. According to officials, one [...]
Today’s Anagram – Celebrating an al Qaeda death
Potentially great news today – Abu Khabab al-Masri Killed in Pakistan Strike . That’s right, the supposed failure may have been a huge success. Hopefully confirmation will come soon. So, to celebrate, here’s today’s anagram. By the way, Salaam is a common greeting in many Arabic-speaking and Muslim countries.
Is Iran the End-Game?
Have our efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq been a prelude to a final solution with Iran? Post-9/11, many people recognized Iran as a greater long term threat than Iraq, but numerous constraints, internationally and at home, made a direct response to Iran an impossibility. I firmly believe that the strategic decision was made to encircle [...]
What can we learn from history?
Bruce Thornton’s essay, Reflection on 1862, is a thought-provoking and well-written article. Unfortunately, historical perspective seems to be lacking in much of the critical coverage of the war on terror; rather, we seem to be fed a lot of hysterical perspective. Thornton shows that was also true for Lincoln and the US Civil War. History [...]
Is Osama bin Laden dead?
Michael Ledeen writes in National Review Online that Osama bin Laden died in mid-December and was buried in Iran. This will be great news if it can be confirmed.
Heroes
Bravery. Sacrifice. Courage. American heroes in 2005.
Speaking Truth to Power
Representative John Murtha has become the darling of the press and the Democratic Party for his continued criticism of the Iraq war and claims that our troops should be pulled out. Some have complimented him for “speaking truth to power” (see Speak Truth to Power, John Kerry’s Online Office, MyDD, and News Hounds). Representative Murtha [...]
Albright, Kennedy, Gore and Kerry, Liars?
The news I discussed below on the latest evidence of Saddam’s terrorist training camps provides an opportunity to ask if the leading critics of the Administration’s Iraq policy have been lying: “I never believed in the link between Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and Islamist terrorism,†former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright flatly declared [...]
Saddam’s Terror Training Camps
Stephen Hayes writes in the Weekly Standard on new information being gleaned from documents of Saddam Hussein’s regime seized in Iraq over the past few years. THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, [...]
A detailed and devastating case for the Patriot Act
The Power Line blog is one of my favorites. Today John Hinderaker responds to an editorial in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The editorial recycles the MSM trope about the horrors of the Patriot Act, and John’s rebuttal is wonderful. Read the whole thing: Power Line: Getting Specific About the Patriot Act