Jul
22
2005
UPDATE 4:30 PM Eastern: Looks like the death toll is rising in the Egypt bombings. At least 83 people were killed and 200 injured when car bombs ripped through shopping and hotel areas in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday in the worst attack in Egypt since 1981. Shaken European tourists spoke […]
Jul
22
2005
There are those on the leftward fringes who demand we try and understand the grievances of the terrorists. To determine what it is we do that makes them want to kill us (see here in update section). But I think we can see what it is that bothers the terrorists quite clearly[hat tip Gay Orbit] […]
Jul
22
2005
After taking a pounding in 3 election cycles since 2000 on their national security credentials you would think the message was clear to the left – straighten up or wilt politically. But no, they seem bent on political suicide. While people die in rampant bombings in London the MSM and leftward fringes are fixated on […]
Jul
22
2005
More breaking news out of London. We posted earlier on the shooting, hoping it was truly a bad guy. Apparently it was. Eyewitnesses described mayhem at Stockwell Tube station today after a suspected suicide bomber was shot dead fleeing from armed police. One said the man was shot five times as he ran on to […]
Jul
21
2005
Tube lines have been evacuated, too eary to tell what is happening; LONDON – Two weeks after suicide attacks on subway stations and a bus, police evacuated three subway stations and a bus after reports of smoke and an explosion Thursday. Police said one person was hurt but it was not a “major incident.” Worth […]
Jul
21
2005
The Commissar at Politburo Diktat has some great news out of Iraq on their constitution (despite recent statements by the Sunni contigent). Lots of information there for your perusal.
Jul
21
2005
Drudge had an alert notice on his site, but the British papers are just now getting this out, but it appears the mastermind behind the 7/7 bombings in London was arrested in Pakistan and has ties to Bin Laden: A Briton said to have been held in Pakistan over the London terror attacks had telephone […]
Jul
19
2005
Seven people possibly associated with the London bombings were arrested in Pakistan. LONDON – Police rounded up seven Islamic militants in Pakistan to determine whether the London bombing plot stretched to South Asia and Prime Minister Tony Blair asked British Muslim leaders Tuesday to weed out extremists blamed for radicalizing their young followers. Investigators are […]
Jul
19
2005
John O’Sullivan reports on a theory about the London bombers being dupes and not kamikazee-type martyrs. [Hat tip: RealClearPolitics}. Interesting angles if true, but here are some of the arguments Here is the evidence: They bought return railway tickets. Their bombs were not strapped to their bodies but carried in knapsacks as if to be […]
Jul
18
2005
First off there are all the increased bombings and attacks from London to Turkey. That is on the terrorists side. And on the good guys/gals side is the actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. And now Pakistan nabs 5 AQ leaders. Pakistani intelligence agents have arrested five senior Taliban leaders, including a deputy to fugitive Taliban […]