Update: Well it seems the incident was nothing. The headline of this article still claims there were explosives while the body says the bottles contained nothing special. I guess we are going to be having these false alarms for a while. They are better than missing something. And this points out the futility of trying […]

Update Mac Ranger has details on the calm inside the administration and appeals in process. Michelle has the round up. – End Update Remember the UK Bomb Plot foiled last week? Remember how phone calls and money transfers from Pakistan to the UK helped expose the plot details and the fact we were days away […]

Jed Babbin has joined the ranks of the arm-chair instant experts today by declaring the ME is closer to Syrian and Iranian visions of the future than that of our efforts to forge peaceful democracies. He could not be more wrong: From the latter, Iran’s Amadinejad and Syria’s Assad have both announced the birth of […]

Folks, what do you think? Is this staged – a “made in USA” banner over destroyed building? Nah! And it is just a coincidence that there was another banner elsewhere in Lebanon! Nothing staged there. But could there be three of these banners? Of course – nothing staged about three banners. Update Nothing staged with […]

EU Referendum has found the site of the Qana incident – which is not in Qana at all but a small village outside the city. Now how is it these reporters orginally called this an attack on Qana and a large 4 story apartment building? Did anyone check any facts (let alone photos) in this […]

This is a very important piece of reporting – if accurate. Intelligence reports, telephone intercepts, court documents as well as books and other open sources document a tactical alliance between the Middle East’s two most dangerous terrorist groups, Hezbollah and al Qaeda, which began in the late 1990’s. … The primary link, like in most […]

I predicted here. long before one was in place, that Hezbollah, Syria and Iran had no interest in a real cease fire because Iran needs the diversion of International Community’s attention away from its nuclear weapons. I noted Hezbollah first violation of the proposed agreement here, where Hezbollah refused to stop fightin Isrealis still in […]

After 9-11 America realized it had under estimated the determination simple blood thirst of Al Qaeda. Even after many declarations of taking Jihad to America, and a series of attacks on Americans overseas, we did not fully appreciate the threat. Sadly, even aftyer 9-11, Madrid, Bali, London, Jordan, Egypt, Bombay and the latest UK Airline […]

Anyone still believing Hezbollah (and Syria and Iran) are serious about the UN ceasefire? First Hezbollah says it will not disarm and now it says it will not leave Southern Lebanon. Hopefully the Israelis are getting re-fueled, re-armed and ready to come back in since the UN is possibly months away from being able to […]

Lot’s of talk about Syrian and Iranian declarations of victory for Hezbollah over Irsrael (signs of the victory abound