Category: Militant Islamists
"It's hard to see the awkwardness of Biden's visit so far having a broader political impact. But it does contribute to the impression, fair or unfair, that President Obama is presiding over an era of diminished American influence, in which allies and rivals alike feel comfortable thumbing their noses at a White House focused above all else on its domestic priorities."
"President Obama's world apology tour is now the stuff of legend, but even his worst critics probably didn't expect this week's footnote involving Libya's Moammar Gadhafi."
"A Swedish cartoonist whose controversial image of the Prophet Muhammad led to a series of death threats said today that he had secured his property with a homemade panic room and booby-trapped artwork. The latest threat to Lars Vilks emerged yesterday when seven people were arrested in Ireland accused of plotting to kill the 63-year-old artist."
"The former operations chief and second in command of the Afghan Taliban has been 'singing like a male canary' since his arrest last month in Karachi, Pakistan, counterintelligence officials said Wednesday." I don't suppose the Pakistani's told him he had a right to remain silent.
"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."
"Syria has defied Israel's caution that handing over new strategic weapons to the Lebanese Hizballah would compel Israel to strike targets inside Syria. . . . Damascus has just smuggled across the border a number of Russian-made IGLA-S surface-to-air missiles capable of intercepting low-flying F-16 warplanes, drones, helicopters, cruise missiles, transports and surveillance aircraft in all weather conditions, by day or night."
