The charges against Cole bombing suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri have been dropped—for now. It’s certainly not for lack of evidence. It’s due to the fact that President Obama isn’t keen on the way the Bush administration handled those captured in … Continue reading →
It should come as no surprise that one of the released Guantanamo prisoners has set up camp as deputy head of al Qaeda operations in Yemen. How these people must laugh at our delicate—and self-destructive—sensibilities! One of the things in … Continue reading →
Barack Obama has wasted no time reversing some of President Bush’s most controversial policies concerning the interrogation, imprisonment, and trials of foreign terrorist detainees. Or has he? If you read the linked article carefully, you’ll see that the thrust of … Continue reading →
For a supposedly intelligent man, Obama has made an especially poor choice in his reported choice of Leon Panetta as CIA chief. To say Panetta is inexperienced in intelligence would be an understatement. He is profoundly inexperienced, even more so … Continue reading →
The US says it warned Indian authorities that terrorists from Pakistan would be arriving by water and targeting Mumbai. This sounds like a “good news/bad news” story: it’s reassuring the US knew that much, distressing that India chose to ignore … Continue reading →
Blogger Yaacov Ben Moshe is an essayist whose thoughts are well worth reading. In this post, he ruminates on Mumbai and its significance, as well as his rage at the following bumper sticker, which he saw recently on a car … Continue reading →
For those who requested a timeline of the Mumbai attack, this is the best I’ve been able to find so far.
Continue reading →Photographer Sebastian D’Souza, who was able to take a photo of one of the armed terrorists in the train station in Mumbai, also described the events he witnessed there. One puzzling—not to mention profoundly troubling—aspect of his report was the … Continue reading →
Rule of thumb in fighting terrorist attacks: if the Israelis offer advice, take it. Israeli spokesmen say that in Mumbai, Indian troops stormed the hotels too soon, without gathering enough intelligence first. There is no country on earth with the … Continue reading →
The terror in Mumbai angers me, but it doesn’t surprise. Any shock that this sort of thing can be planned and executed with such vicious intent went away long ago, on 9/11. Perhaps even before that. We don’t have many … Continue reading →
I found the following tangential nugget about the long-term consequences of one of Bill Clinton’s Presidential moves buried in an article on the surprising amount of cooperation that seems to be developing between the outgoing Bush Administration and the incoming … Continue reading →
One of the saddest effects of this sorry campaign season is that Bill Ayers is a hot commodity again, and the MSM gives him a forum to recast himself as a nice ole pussy cat. Does anyone for a moment … Continue reading →