Category: Homeland Security
"The labor group is pushing for new rules to strengthen in-cabin security, including hand-to-hand combat instruction, personal radios and standardized size limits for carry-on luggage."
"A Pennsylvania woman known to authorities as 'JihadJane' has been charged in federal court with using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters to carry out murders and violent attacks overseas."
"The policies of Holder's DOJ have become a political nightmare for the Obama administration. Who says so? Democrats James Carville and Stanley Greenberg. A new poll out from their Democracy Corps (along with another liberal group, Third Way), The Politics of National Security: A Wake-up Call, shows, as they put it, 'Erosion in Public's Trust of Democrats on National Security.'"
"Consider the following remarks from one of Britain’s leading 'moderate' Muslim journalists, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, writing about Israeli actions in Gaza: . . . "
"Top advisers to President Obama reportedly are close to a decision recommending that the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks be prosecuted in a military tribunal."
"Brazil vowed Wednesday not to 'bow down' to gathering international pressure to impose new economic penalties on Iran over its nuclear program if further negotiations might be fruitful."
"A man freed from Guantanamo more than two years ago after he claimed he only wanted to go home and help his family is now a senior commander running Taliban resistance to the U.S.-led offensive in southern Afghanistan, two senior Afghan intelligence officials say."
"A Fox News poll released Tuesday finds that 60 percent of voters think force will be required to stop Iran, while 25 percent think diplomacy and sanctions alone will work."
From a London Muslim Cleric: "'You can't say that Islam is a religion of peace,' Choudary told CBN News. 'Because Islam does not mean peace. Islam means submission. So the Muslim is one who submits. There is a place for violence in Islam. There is a place for jihad in Islam.'"
"The leader of a global Muslim movement Tuesday issued a rare religious edict condemning terrorism and denouncing suicide bombers as 'heroes of hellfire' in an effort to help prevent the radicalization of young British Muslims."
"Pakistani forces have taken control of a warren of caves that served until recently as the nerve centre of the Taleban and al-Qaeda and sheltered Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second-in-command to Osama bin Laden."
