Archives for the 'GWOT' Category
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:
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Crime and Punishment
Published on 29 Jul 2007 at 9:45 am.
48 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, crime, punishment.
Crime. And punishment.
Quick news quiz, essay question. What exactly is crime? What is punishment? Highly subjective matters, even though matters of law:
News of Waziristan
Published on 29 Jul 2007 at 8:56 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Pakistan.
Times of London, Musharraf risks civil war. Account of operations in North Waziristan:
Good Ideas, Bad Ideas
Published on 26 Jul 2007 at 11:53 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, al qaeda, pols.
WSJ on Guantanamo’s usefulness, and Kondracke on why Dem/GOP should just get along vs. terrorism. WSJ first:
Get Naked for America
Published on 25 Jul 2007 at 11:07 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under America, Britain, GWOT, boobs.
It’s a plan. Here’s how it works.* You must do this.** It’s for America.
IRB Makes UK’s G
Published on 23 Jul 2007 at 12:07 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Islam.
All the rage! Shakeel Bhat in the Guardian:
Usefulness At End
Published on 12 Jul 2007 at 9:58 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Britain, GWOT, Iraq.
The Anglican priest who lived and operated in Baghdad, trying to effect reconciliation between factions there, hung around some pretty nasty people, heard stuff, and apparently was passing it on. No more.
Sensitive Subject
Published on 7 Jul 2007 at 8:07 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
Powerline thinks al-Zawahri is a little defensive about Iraq. I’ll say. Hinderaker:
Mullah Goose
Published on 6 Jul 2007 at 8:04 am.
12 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, literary.
Theo launches a Jihadi nursery rhyme contest. Here’s my entry:
Doctor Evil
Published on 5 Jul 2007 at 9:52 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under Britain, GWOT.
So, the big question is, how much does the United States currently know about the Islamo-docs it is letting into the country? How much scrutiny do medical doctors get when they apply for visas? Might be worth looking at any who came here from the UK, for starters. Among other foreign Muslims, professional and otherwise.
45 Muslim docs [...]
Terrorists Win
Published on 3 Jul 2007 at 2:44 pm.
13 Comments.
Filed under Britain, GWOT.
In the wake of three bungled attacks by Islamic extremists last week, Britain has capitulated. Prime Dhimmi Gordon Brown’s new edict: Don’t say terrorists are Muslims. Daily Mail:
Physician Heal Thyself
Published on 3 Jul 2007 at 10:32 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Britain, GWOT.
Plot hatched in British hospitals. Suspect Islamo-docs must have thought they were taking the “Hypocritic Oath.”
Selective Civil Libertarianism and Your Reprehensible Nationalist Racist Religious Hatred
Published on 2 Jul 2007 at 9:59 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Islam, illegals.
Yeah, you.
I’m reading Victor Davis Hanson on why people who are worked up about the duly enacted Patriot Act don’t seem to give a damn about actual law-breaking and civil rights trampling. Then I look around to see who he’s talking about, and I trip over a Fourth-of-July bashing piece by Howard Zinn, who wants to have a chat with you [...]
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South Asian Wrongfulness Update
Published on 2 Jul 2007 at 9:01 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Britain, GWOT.
Two more arrested in Britain’s Islamo-flambe case. AP doesn’t indicate whether these are more disenfranchised South Asians engaged in international wrongfulness.
Clarification: “Terrorists are criminals.”
But here’s some news. They may not be South Asians after all. Iranian Kurds, linked to Ansar al-Islam? Sounds more Middle Eastern to me. Somebody may owe the disenfranchised South Asians an apology. What’s that [...]
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Jihadi U. Grade Inflation
Published on 1 Jul 2007 at 11:19 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under Britain, GWOT.
The bumbling raises the question of whether we are just lucky in this case. I’d still like to know what the smart ones are up to.
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News of Londonistan
Published on 30 Jun 2007 at 10:37 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under Britain, GWOT.
UPDATE: Flaming Jeep with two flaming, combative Asians in it rams terminal at Glasgow Int’l. BBC. Vid, photos, running updates at LGF.
UPDATE: Two in custody in Glasgow, linked to London bombs, Brown wants Brits to be “united, resolute , strong” and support the cops. Apparently still no word on anything of substance.
Big question: Given the way Gordon Brown has loaded [...]
Londonistan Targeted
Published on 29 Jun 2007 at 10:55 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
UPDATE: Ok, here we go. Cops got a clear shot of the guy exiting the Mercedes. Bears a striking resemblance to a known Islamic extremist. No way!
MORE UPDATES and ROUNDUP at Pajamas.
Car bomb in Piccadilly Circus. Hate to leap to any conclusions about who’s involved in that. There still are half a dozen aging thugs and clueless [...]
News Flashes
Published on 26 Jun 2007 at 10:49 am.
8 Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
When exit is their strategy, why should anyone be surprised they’re strategizing another exit? Long history of shooting themselves in the foot in headlong rush to defeat.
A Mighty Farce
Published on 23 Jun 2007 at 1:09 am.
24 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, moronocy.
UPDATE: A Mighty Shame. “Danny had a cameo in his own murder.”
Haven’t seen this flick. Not sure, based on this astonishing and reprehensible review, that I want to. Apparently, it’s about Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl running around looking for her husband. 800-pound guerrilla in the corner, apparently tastefully understated by filmmaker, equivocated upon by Ebert, Islamic terrorism [...]
Off To The Races
Published on 21 Jun 2007 at 11:00 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under Britain, GWOT, Islam.
Pak clerics knight Sir Osama bin Laden, “Sword of Allah.”
Guantanamo Poetry Contest
Published on 20 Jun 2007 at 12:08 pm.
19 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, literary.
Terrorism detainees find a publisher. This is great. I wonder if al-Qaeda plans to put out any of Daniel Pearl’s haiku, or the sonnets of Nicholas Berg. Think Matt Maupin has penned any doggerel lately?
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Terrorism Works
Published on 20 Jun 2007 at 8:09 am.
No Comments.
Filed under GWOT, history.
Driscoll on how terrorism works. On Piereson’s Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism, with a quick flashforward.
Sir Salman
Published on 19 Jun 2007 at 12:20 am.
10 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, literary.
UPDATE: Pajamas signs on Danish Motoons editor’s blog.
Question No. 1. What did they give him a knighthood for? Pissing off Muslims?
Dadullah High, Class of 2007
Published on 19 Jun 2007 at 12:03 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, al qaeda.
ABC’s Blotter: Teams of suicide bombers on their way. Including 12 year olds. Under the command of Mansoor Dadullah. Could be. I’m more worried about the ones whose graduation ceremony didn’t make the news.
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“Sheer Twaddle”
Published on 18 Jun 2007 at 10:28 am.
14 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, academia, pols.
Bacevich: Those who in the absence of serious strategic analysis reflexively posture about the need for more troops deserve only contempt.
Crittenden, contemptibly: Those who in the absence of more troops reflexively posture about the need for serious strategic analysis are nuts.
Militant Darwinism
Published on 11 Jun 2007 at 8:31 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under GWOT, Israel.
Here’s one for the annals of Stupid Terrorist Tricks:
Other Quarters Heard From
Published on 3 Jun 2007 at 6:53 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, impending doom!, moronocy.
We live in a difficult world. It is important, that we might resolve our differences and work toward greater harmony, to listen to all voices and learn:
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JFK Plot
Published on 2 Jun 2007 at 9:55 pm.
8 Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
The plot to blow up fuel lines at JFK reportedly was not technically feasible, and they never had their hands on the explosives. Four arrested, one sought. Second in the space of a month. Both sound like pretty good ideas. Good thing they bungled it. I’d still like to know where the smart ones are [...]
Bad Airplane
Published on 2 Jun 2007 at 12:31 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, lawyers.
Now, what was that I was saying about hanging lawyers? Let’s start with these ones.*
* Yeah yeah yeah, for the record, I love lawyers, too. Some of my best friends are lawyers, and I don’t believe all of them should be hanged. However, when we start hanging them, we should start with these ones. That’s if me [...]
Lebanon Moves
Published on 1 Jun 2007 at 1:10 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, lebanon.
Against Fatah al-Islam. Blacksmiths of Lebanon has the latest.
Kindergarten Graduation
Published on 1 Jun 2007 at 9:37 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, middle east.
Jihad-style
UPDATE: This one’s kind of like an Iranian Barney episode. Smoking kills! Stoning purifies!
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Meanwhile, in Virginia
Published on 31 May 2007 at 11:35 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, USA.
“The hills are alive, with the sound of Jihad!”
Dry Run
Published on 30 May 2007 at 11:36 am.
12 Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
In the end, you can’t expect your government to save you. You might expect better than this. But in the end, you have to be prepared to identify potential threats. You can report your concerns. They may or may not do something about it. It’s up to you to pay attention to where they are and what [...]
Satan-Lite
Published on 30 May 2007 at 11:29 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
We must be slacking. MEMRI:
“Our No. 1 Enemy is Satan, Then Comes the Greatest Taghout Idol, in the Form of Bush, Blair, and the Zionist Crusaders.”
I thought WE were the Great Satan. See, this is what happens when you vote in a Democratic Congress and Nancy goes to Syria and al-Bush starts up a chinwag with [...]
Truce Up
Published on 25 May 2007 at 12:12 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under GWOT, lebanon.
Blacksmiths of Lebanon has the details on the renewed fighting and attempted breakout at Nahr el Bared, including a roll of honor on Lebanese soldiers killed there.
Lebanon
Published on 22 May 2007 at 9:50 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, lebanon.
The Lebanese government shows resolve, willingness to fight vs. Palestinian terrorists.
Excellent local roundups, updates, vid at Blacksmiths of Lebanon.
Your essential Gateway here.
Michael Totten irregularly posting on it but worth a look, and don’t miss his excellent bio on French FM Kouchner while you’re there.
Captains Quarters wants to know where the UN is: “Nahr el-Bared is a UN refugee [...]
“Adventure of a Lifetime”
Published on 20 May 2007 at 8:14 am.
12 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Oz.
Australian Taliban David Hicks/Muhammad Dawood, waltzing Mathilda once more, ”eight years after he left his Adelaide home for the adventure of a lifetime in Pakistan.” Killing infidels, global jihad … such a grand adventure!
More from the Sydney Morning Herald:
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“A Crusader and a Zionist.”
Published on 17 May 2007 at 7:16 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under France, GWOT.
Sarkozy’s tough talk gets an endorsement. From al-Qaeda. Al-Jazeera:
Read ‘“A Crusader and a Zionist.”’
Assume the Position
Published on 16 May 2007 at 7:07 am.
10 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, pols.
As usual, unfortunately, the Bush administration comes up with a bright idea too late and too light. The three-star designated to oversee operations and give orders to the Pentagon and State Department must first be confirmed before, as ABC puts it, he can “assume the position.”
War Czar
Published on 15 May 2007 at 8:57 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, military.
Meet Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute. The three-star who is to be “assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan policy and implementation, Lute would have the power to direct the Pentagon, State Department and other agencies involved in the two conflicts.”
Good luck with that.
Common Sense vs. PC Sensibility
Published on 14 May 2007 at 10:19 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
as suburban American dude meets the face of Global Jihad:
“Dude, I just saw some really weird s—,” he frantically told his co-worker. “I don’t know what to do. Should I call someone or is that being racist?”
Common sense wins.
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Open-Source Warfare
Published on 11 May 2007 at 11:18 pm.
No Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
Anyone can play. Four Albs and a Turk and a Jordanian in Jersey, for example. Terrorism experts have been saying this for a while. Al-Qaeda has publicly called for it in the never-ending vidfest. And we’ve seen repeatedly examples of it from Bali to London to New Jersey. Bali being more tied in, London apparently somewhat less so, New [...]
Terrorist Death Watch
Published on 11 May 2007 at 2:15 pm.
7 Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
Rapidly approaching 4,000 SASPA*
Look for the Associated Press not to cover this milestone.
Privacy vs. Security Post-9/11
Published on 11 May 2007 at 12:36 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under GWOT.
Debate here. Cousin-in-law Frum appropriately gets top billing.
