More Al Qaeda found in the US, and apparently right near my home, as this Washington Post story highlights: An American student was charged yesterday in an al Qaeda plot to kill President Bush, with prosecutors alleging that Ahmed Omar Abu Ali and his confederates planned to use multiple snipers to shoot Bush or to […]

The flypaper theory of drawing Al Qaeda into a battle royale in Iraq may not be perfect, but it does appear to work quite well at times. Check out this Washington Post story today [hat tip Laura Rozen] BAGHDAD, Sept. 5 — Abu Musab Zarqawi’s foreign-led Al Qaeda in Iraq took open control of a […]

K-Lo at the Corner has this: News Advisory: Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller and Acting Assistant Attorney General John C. Richter of the Criminal Division will hold a press conference on TODAY, AUGUST 31, 2005 at 6 p.m. EDT on a terrorism matter. Folks, given all the tragedy of the […]

I think Americans can rightfully feel like they have been lied to or duped by politicians in Washington trying to cover for the Clinton Administration. One thing the Able Danger issue did cause was a re-examination of events that could be gleaned by bloggers from public records and news items. Then the non-MSM journalists jumped […]

At least according to this Time news article I ran across: It’s hard to separate the man from the mythology, but recent European intelligence reports reviewed by TIME suggest that al-Zarqawi’s al-Qaeda franchise is expanding far beyond Iraq and that he now rivals Osama bin Laden in influence among Middle Eastern and European jihadists. Al-Zarqawi […]

You know, you’d think the leftward fringes in this country would be ecstatic about the Iraqi government. Turn outs the current President (soon to be ex-President it would seem) is against the death penalty: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said in remarks that he would not sign a death sentence against his ousted predecessor Saddam Hussein […]

This is one of those stories that makes you shake your head and say what idiot did this? And then you are thankful that at least someone learned of the idiot’s mistake. AUSTRALIAN nuclear experts working to prevent terrorists launching a regional “dirty bomb” attack have found large, unsecured sources of dangerous radioactive material in […]

I have been so swamped in Able Danger I have not had a chance to keep up on other issues or articles. On person I like to keep track of is Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens is such a refreshing, unabashed, brilliant liberal one wonders why he is not more prominent than the Howard Deans and Michael […]

Another in a series of articles by desparate leftwing liberals hoping we surrender in Iraq before, heaven forbid, we win we have Gary Hart coming out in a nostalgic editorial about the good old days when we left Vietnam to murderous thugs because we did not fight a war to win. My generation of Democrats […]

Anyone who has doubts that the Bush policies regarding the Global War on Terror, including Iraq, are not protecting us needs to check out this story – and seriously contemplate its meaning. I do not mean think of rationalizations to ignore it, I mean think about what it could mean if this is happening day […]