Archives for the 'GWOT' Category
Pak Press
Published on 28 Dec 2007 at 8:31 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Pakistan.
Dawn: Dream snuffed out, bitter ironies, questions unlikely to be answered:
Bhutto Assassinated
Published on 27 Dec 2007 at 9:04 am.
30 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Pakistan.
Suicide bomb kills Benazir Bhutto.
In Defense of Waterboarding
Published on 23 Dec 2007 at 10:49 pm.
6 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Intel.
Mark Bowden makes the case. Philadelphia Inquirer:
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Annihilation Soon
Published on 21 Dec 2007 at 3:11 pm.
7 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, al qaeda, money.
Head of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan promises, via MEMRI:
“Allah willing, America will soon be annihilated, just like the USSR was annihilated. We are convinced of this.
Ix-nay on the Ihad-Jay
Published on 15 Dec 2007 at 10:31 am.
12 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Islam.
MEMRI reports on a top jihad thinker’s second thoughts:
Digging Out
Published on 14 Dec 2007 at 9:57 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under Afghanistan, Boston, GWOT, pols.
Foot of snow, which managed to entirely immobilize the eastern half of snow-savvy Massachusetts for about 8 hours yesterday. While I’m digging, you can read about Afghanistan and other matters:
Post-War Election
Published on 11 Dec 2007 at 11:01 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, pols.
According to NYT’s David Brooks, who notes in passing that the war isn’t, in fact, over yet:
Waterboarding
Published on 10 Dec 2007 at 10:45 pm.
10 Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
Gets Allah’s vote. ABC:
Waterboarding OK
Published on 9 Dec 2007 at 8:45 am.
27 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, pols.
Guess who had no problem with it? Washington Post:
You Gotta Believe!
Published on 25 Nov 2007 at 7:46 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under America, GWOT.
Whether you’re going to the mall, church or the coffee shop this morning, look at the people on either side of you. Chances are they believe our government knew about 9/11 in advance and decided to ignore the threat, and is concealing the truth about UFOs and the JFK assassination. Or if they don’t exactly believe those [...]
Stockholm Syndrome?
Published on 24 Nov 2007 at 10:27 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Islam.
I don’t think so. They need a new name for this. Mecca Syndrome, maybe. You’ll want to watch the ex-Dhimmi vid and follow the link.
Sleepwalking Through History
Published on 18 Nov 2007 at 10:46 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under Bush, GWOT, pols.
Michael Goodwin at NYDN:
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Petraegon
Published on 17 Nov 2007 at 9:47 am.
11 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, military.
Counter-insurgency to be institutionalized? Only about four decades later than it should have been. Pentagon taps Petraeus to head promotion board. WaPo:
Saud News
Published on 4 Nov 2007 at 11:24 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, saudi arabia.
More Sunday thumbsuckers like this, please. Times of London, again bringing some clarity to the table, looks at the Saudi problem:
Meet Glubb
Published on 3 Nov 2007 at 11:38 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, history.
In keeping with today’s themes of foreign service officers, British views and the Middle East, here’s the adventurous, insightful Brit Glubb, compliments of a U.S. State Department employee who doesn’t mind being assigned to bad neighborhoods:
Democracy
Published on 3 Nov 2007 at 10:29 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
When did it become so unpopular? Liz Cheney, formerly of State, wants to know, thinks its still worth it. NYPost:
Saudi Yuks
Published on 30 Oct 2007 at 9:31 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, saudi arabia.
Gotta love a fabulously wealthy medieval monarch with a sense of irony. King Abdullah chides Britain on its poor record vs terrorism.
I’m a little busy this morning, don’t have time to document Saudi Arabia’s record vs. terrorism, but invite readers to have at it. Links to reputable sources encouraged, one per comment please, multiple links [...]
Good vs. Bad
Published on 30 Oct 2007 at 12:26 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Iran.
Back in the Good War, they called them kamikazes. In today’s war, which is Bad, they are called martyrs. Fars:
Evil FDR Admin
Published on 6 Oct 2007 at 10:06 am.
12 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, history.
FDR admin engaged in black site detentions.
Climbing Ladder Creates Risk of Falling
Published on 4 Oct 2007 at 9:57 am.
19 Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
NYT gotcha on Bush admin’s efforts to avoid fighting GWOT with one hand tied behind back closes with this money quote. It’s meant to be probing and ironic, but ironically, not in exactly the way it is:
“The problem is, once you’ve got a legal opinion that says such a technique is O.K., what happens when one of [...]
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Self-Regulating Stupid
Published on 2 Oct 2007 at 6:57 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Boston, GWOT.
”I’m al-Qaeda and I’m here to blow things up.”
Nation of Stupid
Published on 30 Sep 2007 at 8:19 am.
17 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, media.
Tom Friedman: “9/11 has made us stupid.”
Jihadhi Is as Jihadi Does
Published on 29 Sep 2007 at 12:31 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
I seem to recall these two Goose Creek guys were another one of those trumped-up bumbler breathing-while-Islamic cases that proves Bush has been fear-mongering at home while encouraging the spread of terrorism abroad and trampling civil rights everywhere, or something like that. So what’s up with this?
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Worm Bites Apple
Published on 20 Sep 2007 at 12:44 am.
12 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Iran.
Apple spits out worm. No Ahmadinejad circus at Ground Zero:
Murdered, Defiled
Published on 18 Sep 2007 at 8:19 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under Europe, GWOT.
Someone vandalized a memorial to Theo van Gogh. Michael van der Galien doesn’t know who, though he has some ideas.
9/11 Revenge Fantasies
Published on 14 Sep 2007 at 8:23 am.
16 Comments.
Filed under Europe, GWOT.
No, not the kind that 9/11 survivors, their families and fellow citizens might have. The kind some Euros and other ostensibly civilized people had when we were attacked.
Jens Blauenfeldt of Danmarks Radio, remembering his 9/11 reaction:
“Hey, it’s the Americans; now they are getting spanked. That serves them right … finally someone is striking back.”
Talk about something [...]
Put a Lid On It
Published on 12 Sep 2007 at 1:42 am.
13 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, pols.
Another great 9/11 speech, this one from Deval Patrick, governor of our own great Commonwealth of Massachusetts:
“Among many other things, 9/11 was a failure of human understanding,” Patrick said. “It was a mean and nasty and bitter attack on the United States. But it was also a failure of human beings to understand each other, [...]
Why They Hate Us
Published on 12 Sep 2007 at 12:57 am.
29 Comments.
Filed under Canada, GWOT.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, addressing the Australian parliament yesterday, explains:
Sept. 11
Published on 11 Sep 2007 at 8:55 am.
22 Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
My wife and I have been married for 14 years today. On Sept. 10, 2001, because back then I had Sundays and Mondays off, we went out to dinner on the deck at Siro’s at Marina Bay, and watched a beautiful sunset over Dorchester. That was the last night things were normal. In the morning before [...]
The Wind In The Heights
Published on 6 Sep 2007 at 10:44 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, history.
Gerard van der Leun takes us from Washington falling back in the Battle of Long Island to Sept. 11 in his old neighborhood, Brooklyn Heights:
And I knew that all they had become had fallen upon us as we ran in the smoke; that we had breathed them in when the wind reached us; that they [...]
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“New Means of Defense” Decried
Published on 1 Sep 2007 at 11:30 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Islam.
Al-Azhar Sheikhs: Islam Forbids Taking Civilians Hostage
UPDATE: link screwed up by MEMRI today. original text follows below)
At first blush this from Jihad U. sounds pretty good. However, devil’s in the details, and you could drive a truck bomb through this:
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Deceivers!!!
Published on 30 Aug 2007 at 8:47 am.
27 Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
By the Beard of the Prophet, I will smite you all for your insolence!
This lying son of a camel is obviously in the pay of your criminal imposter president, may he choke on a pretzel!
Even now the words of your great Prophet HariReid are coming to pass - your so-called “Surge” has failed. Your U.S. [...]
Fear, Loathing, and the Presence of Absence
Published on 28 Aug 2007 at 11:21 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Iraq, illegals, impending doom!.
Today’s Miserable Failure Alert, (Via Carrie) highlights this un-funny news item from Frank Gaffney, Jr.:
Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell revealed to the El Paso Times that the United States had caught Iraqi terrorists trying to get into the country across its still-unfenced southern border. According to a report subsequently published in WorldNetDaily, Adm. McConnell’s [...]
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Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. George W. Bush: Surveilling a surveillance case
Published on 28 Aug 2007 at 7:54 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under GWOT, media.
Zombie dropped by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to watch the oral argument in the case of Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. George W. Bush. His post is a fascinating journey into the heart of radical politics, the bizarre alliance of activist left and Islamic radicalism, and mainstream media coverage [...]
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Fatwas Upon You All!!!
Published on 26 Aug 2007 at 3:28 pm.
11 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Islam, al qaeda, impending doom!.
By the Beard of the Prophet!
Infidels! Blasphemers! May your Stomachs roast in Hell for all eternity! How long must the Anointed Ones suffer the infernal blathering of Lying Liars Who Lie, like this monstrous Badger-person, who possesses the head of a monkey and snorts entire cattle like crack cocaine!
Throw down your diabolically stupid [...]
Little Saddam
Published on 26 Aug 2007 at 2:19 pm.
10 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Iraq, Uncategorized, blogs, middle east.
From a Michael Totten report:
“When you came and liberated this country,” he continued, “Iraq had 25 million Saddams. America is turning us back into human beings.
The quote makes me think, in rabbit-trail fashion, of an evening I enjoyed with a few Iraqi Army soldiers a few months ago. All three were officers- drawn from [...]
No Military Solution
Published on 25 Aug 2007 at 2:28 pm.
6 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Iraq, al qaeda.
Even as the “surge” progresses across Iraq and it becomes more difficult for those counting on defeat to deny that military progress is being made, we are sagely advised by those same people that even as we are being successful in establishing security and killing the enemy that there is no “military solution” to the [...]
Suffer The Little Children
Published on 25 Aug 2007 at 12:22 pm.
18 Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
There’s been a lot of talk lately on Capitol Hill about what will happen when we bring the troops home. Little of it focuses on the most vulnerable citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan: the children. From the fighting 6th Marines, a photo essay speaks volumes about the changes in war torn Fallujah:
Recently, while at a [...]
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Up Creek With Padilla
Published on 17 Aug 2007 at 12:37 am.
29 Comments.
Filed under America, GWOT, blogs.
A terrorism conviction by a jury of his peers should shut up the Padillista cheering section. Don’t you think?
It Wasn’t Already?
Published on 15 Aug 2007 at 8:35 am.
18 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Iran, pols.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to classed as a “specially designated global terrorist” organization. Specially designated for missile strikes, air raids and spec ops assaults, I hope. WaPo:
Do The Math
Published on 8 Aug 2007 at 8:03 am.
12 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Islam.
Alec Rawls calls the “Crescent of Embrace” planned for a Pennsylvania field the world’s biggest mosque.
Al-Goose Creek, South Caroliniyah
Published on 6 Aug 2007 at 9:51 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under America, GWOT.
Riehl rounds it all up, with mugshots: “They ain’t Irish Catholics.”
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Constitutional Reform Now!*
Published on 6 Aug 2007 at 8:20 am.
8 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, pols.
Forward-thinking reform-minded Dems already have striven mightily to reconfigure the president’s executive powers as commander-in-chief, his ability to hire and fire U.S. attorneys, his ability to appoint ambassadors and judges. This hasn’t always worked out for Congress. Now Congress, having voted to allow our intelligence agencies to spy on our enemies, vows give authority back that [...]
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Howbout That
Published on 5 Aug 2007 at 9:01 am.
12 Comments.
Filed under America, GWOT, middle east.
Gentlemen of “Middle Eastern descent” out on a Saturday night with a carload of “explosive devices” when pulled over in Goose Creek, S.C., home to the Naval Weapons Station and U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig, home to enemy combatants:
Como Se Dice Angst?
Published on 4 Aug 2007 at 11:17 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, pols.
Dems sweat:
Warrantless Taps OK
Published on 4 Aug 2007 at 9:17 am.
8 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, pols.
Losers fail to stop winners in vote vs. enemy, that’s a loss therefore a win, right? Senate backs White House on eavesdropping vs. foreign terror suspects:
Virgins for Loser?
Published on 2 Aug 2007 at 10:52 pm.
6 Comments.
Filed under Britain, GWOT.
Suffering over for hapless loser jihadi. Good thing he didn’t manage to do this to anyone else. You know, if anyone has any good hapless loser jihadi suffering vid, get it up on YouTube or mail it off to al-Jazeera. Maybe some other hapless loser jihadis will think twice. But I doubt it.
Hasta La Vista!
Published on 2 Aug 2007 at 12:46 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under America, Canada, GWOT.
Don’t let the customs post barrier bonk your head on the way out! More Americans heading north:
Great News
Published on 1 Aug 2007 at 8:42 am.
21 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Intel, media.
Now shut up about it already. WaPo on NSA spying:
Praise Allah and Pass the AmmuNikes
Published on 1 Aug 2007 at 7:57 am.
8 Comments.
Filed under Boston, GWOT, Islam.
Allah never did much for Richard Reid. Transformed him from a two-bit British punk to an international laughingstock, I guess that’s something. But in his Colorado supermax cell, Shoe Bomber Dick’s faith is strong:
