Jonathon Weisman at the WSJ echoes something I have been saying all along: Islamic radicals are seizing on protests against a planned Islamic community center near Manhattan’s Ground Zero and anti-Muslim rhetoric elsewhere as a propaganda opportunity and are stepping up anti-U.S. chatter and threats on their websites. One jihadist site vowed to conduct suicide […]
It turns out an Islamic extremist website was actually being hosted right here in the Untied States: On March 25, a Taliban Web site claiming to be the voice of the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” boasted of a deadly new attack on coalition forces in that country. Four soldiers were killed in an ambush, the […]
That is something the wingnuts have been bolstering lately; “the insurgency is standing up to al Qaeda”. While it is true, they fail to mention the other part of that equation. The Guardian has published an article explaining this (and repeating what the left has been saying): Seven of the most important Sunni-led insurgent organisations […]
This is a very dangerous tactic: With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy that they acknowledge is fraught with risk: arming Sunni Arab groups that have promised to fight militants linked with Al Qaeda who have been their allies in […]
With the death of Zarqawi brings a new and interesting question – could we have helped out al Qaeda? To help you understand this line of thinking, let’s go back in the near past (h/t to Think Progress on this one): Jordanian-born al Qaeda militant Abu Musab Zarqawi has been replaced as head of the […]
The White House is now expressing “concern” over the story that our military is paying Iraqi newspapers to print stories written by U.S. soldiers. “We’re very concerned about the reports. We are seeking more information from the Pentagon,” said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. He said Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of […]
Prime Minister Tony Blair said the world has been ignoring the threats of terrorism since the “wake-up call†of 9/11. “September 11 for me was a wake up call. Do you know what I think the problem is? That a lot of the world woke up for a short time and then turned over and […]