Category: National 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."
"[T]hat paper . . . , Increasing Small Arms Lethality in Afghanistan: Taking Back the Infantry Half-Kilometer, is generating some major heat, particularly down at Special Operations Command (SOCOM) . . . ."
"[C]ountries in places where the United States has strategic interests -- including the Persian Gulf and the Pacific -- are building 'sophisticated, new technologies to deny our forces access to the global commons of sea, air, space and cyberspace.' Those innocuous words spell trouble. While the U.S. Read more »
