Another big blow to al Qaeda occurred over night: A missile fired from an American drone aircraft in Yemen on Friday killed Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical American-born cleric who was a leading figure in Al Qaeda’s affiliate there, according to an official in Washington. Samir Khan was also killed in the attack. We should all […]
The news is full of coverage of the anniversary of 9/11. You can change the channel without being reminded of what happened 10 years ago today. It was one of the most tragic days in American history and one none of us will ever forget. And while we spend the day remembering this anniversary, let’s […]
In 2008 Congress created the bipartisan commission on wartime spending. The commission, set to expire the end of next month, was setup to function as a Truman style commission. They have finally released their report and it shows how much waste there actually has been in Iraq and Afghanistan: As much as $60 billion in […]
We’re already fighting wars in Iraq, Afghanistan/Pakistan and Syria, but now it appears the U.S. has entered a fourth theater: The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials. The […]
It looks like we’ll have a new system of alerting us in case of disasters or terrorist attacks: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said Monday that the Commercial Mobile Alert System will direct emergency messages to cell phones in case of a terrorist attack, natural disaster or other serious emergencies. The alert plan was […]
With the news that the Obama administration won’t release the images of a dead Osama bin Laden, Sarah Palin once again takes to the Twitter to prove she is totally wrong on national security: So why is this the wrong thing to do? Well let’s ask the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, […]
Since the death of Bin Laden, the torture supporters have been in chest thumping mode, saying that it was the harsh interrogation torture of detainees that lead to the intel: Finally, in May 2005, al-Libi was captured. Under CIA interrogation, al-Libi admitted that when he was promoted to succeed Mohammed, he received the word through […]
There is so much spin and rewriting of history this morning that my head is ready to explode. I think it’s time for a quick refresher on what lead us up to this victorious point today, including how the Republican presidential candidate in 2008 went after then candidate Obama when it came of Osama bin […]
Remember back when Bush said Osama was hiding in some cave? Well cave’s sure have evolved over the years! Here’s the “cave” that Bin Laden had been hiding in before his death.
We are waiting for the official word from the White House, but everyone is reporting that we finally killed Osama bin Laden. As an interesting and ironic side note, today marked the 8th anniversary of this: