Major Update: It is Bin Laden The CIA has authenticated the voice on a tape played by al-Jazeera as Osama bin Laden, an agency official said. White House Response: “We do not negotiate with terrorists,” McClellan said. “We put them out of business.” Don’t forget there are updates at the end of this post. UPDATE: […]

Let’s just agree that many men at some point dream of being 007. James Bond is a seriously dangerous ladies’ man who protects the free world from the forces of evil. Of course, if you scratch deeply, too many real life men are more interested in the ladies than risking life and limb. In fact, […]

Jack Kelly does a great job of connecting dots on two stories discussed in the ConBlogSphere: the recent arrest of terrorists in Italy planning attacks on stadiums and other public arenas the MSM has ignored; and the case of Joel Hinrichs who was a Muslim convert and who blew himself up outside a Oklahoma football […]

Turns out we did get at least one high valued prize in that air strike in Pakistan: ABC News has learned that al Qaeda’s master bomb maker and chemical weapons expert was one of the men killed in last week’s U.S. missile attack in eastern Pakistan. Midhat Mursi, 52, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri, […]

Iran is heading towards full confrontation with the World. The Foreign Office said all five veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council _ the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China _ and Germany had shown “serious concern over Iranian moves to restart uranium enrichment activities.” They agreed on the need for Iran to “return to […]

Dana Priest of the Washington Post was the person who helped leaked the story about the CIA’s supposed secret prisons in Europe being used to house and transit terrorists captured all over the world. She is now a confirmed member of the BDS crowd, peddling her wild speculations about black helicopters and Bush’s efforts to […]

I first saw the story at Ed Morrissey’s on how the local Iraqi insurgents are beginning to fight the foreign Al Qaeda elements in a positive sign that we truly are making progress in Iraq The German magazine Der Spiegel reports today on the developing factional rift between the different insurgent groups in Iraq. Increasingly, […]

Just like Bin Laden did in the late 1990’s, apparently Syria’s Bashir Assad declared a Holy War on the US and our presence in Iraq in 2003, according to a Telegraph article covering Paul Bremer’s new book (hat tip WorldNetDaily]: President Bashar al-Assad of Syria secretly incited Iraq’s top Shia leader to declare holy war […]

Pakistan has had a sustained house cleaning effort going on in the region near their northern border with Afghanistan to clear out Taliban and Al Qaeda: Militants clashed with Pakistani forces in a troubled tribal zone bordering Afghanistan early Tuesday, leaving seven paramilitary troops and 14 suspected insurgents dead, officials said. The firefight was one […]

Via Clarice Feldman at American Thinker I saw this Michael Ledeen story And, according to Iranians I trust, Osama bin Laden finally departed this world in mid-December. The al Qaeda leader died of kidney failure and was buried in Iran, where he had spent most of his time since the destruction of al Qaeda in […]