Jul
07
2006
The investigation has been going on for more than a year. The plan has mostly been thwarted (sounds bad) Number of actions around the world Someone exposed this action too early to the media! Sounds like they may have this person identified. Another Benedict Arnold. The Lebonese suspect was a key Al Qaeda operative with […]
Jul
07
2006
Update: CBS is trying trivialize the threat because the Key players were not in the US – yet. But as I live blogged the press conference, the next stage of the plan was to surveillance the targets and acquire the materials. You do not do that from overseas. That means the FBI or others had […]
Jul
07
2006
update – fixed the link The existence of the Iraqi nuclear program into the 1990’s is not much in dispute since Saddam’s son-in-law Hussein Kamal defected in 1994-5 and finally exposed the program to the UN inspectors who had missed its existence for years since the end of the first Gulf War. But recently publishd […]
Jul
07
2006
In what has to be a stunningly stupid move, Democrats challenged Tom Delay’s efforts to retire by forcing his name to remain on the ballot in his district. The Democrats went so far as to get a judge to eliminate all exit strategies for Delay. If Delay cannot get out of the way of a […]
Jul
07
2006
Welcome Powerline readers. Updates at end – keep checking back Reports are out this morning that the FBI has foiled a terrorist plot to bomb the Holland Tunnel in NY City and send a deluge of water into parts of Manhatten. he FBI has uncovered what officials consider a serious plot by jihadists to bomb […]