President Obama is tolerating the smuggling of high-tech U.S. weapons to a Syrian rebel coalition led by an Al-Qaeda affiliate, as these Islamists — supported by the Saudis and other U.S. allies — mount a new offensive to topple the secular government in Damascus, as Daniel Lazare explains. By Daniel Lazare After years of hemming […]
by RonPaul Institute Today President Obama held an extraordinary event to announce that in January the US had killed two hostages in Pakistan. One was an American, a USAID contractor, the other an Italian aid worker. Presumably these two were killed by a drone strike as the US targeted what it believed was an al-Qaeda […]
A close analysis of Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef timelines creates a compelling, if still circumstantial, case — and offers clues to where the smoking guns may be found In November 1994, Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef both walked on the grounds of the same college campus in the Philippines. Whether their paths crossed is […]
(CNSNews.com) – State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf may be correct in saying that the previous administration spoke of a link between poverty and Islamic terrorism, but a number of studies have challenged the notion, irrespective of who has advanced it. Rather than being driven by lack of economic opportunity, some of the most prominent jihadist […]
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — A Qatari man declared an enemy combatant by the Bush administration following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and imprisoned over links to al-Qaida has returned home to the Gulf nation after quietly being released by U.S. authorities. Ali al-Marri was arrested in December 2001 while attending graduate school in central Illinois. […]
Cherif and Said Kouachi, the two Muslim suspects in the Charlie Hebdo massacre, were killed when French police raided a warehouse where the brothers were holding one person captive. A third suspected Muslim terrorist was killed by police at a Kosher grocery in Paris. Hostages at both locations were freed, but others are reportedly dead. […]
While Western authorities temporize and retreat. Unless things dramatically turn around, and soon, this could herald the end of the freedom of speech. Those cowards shoot unarmed civilians in the head right on the street. And people apologize for offending Muslims. All these terrorists are sick cowards, just like Mohammad the child rapist. There is […]
By Debbie Schlussel The first thing you need to know about the “CIA torture report” put out by liberal Democrats in the U.S. Senate is that it cost $40 million of your money to produce. The second thing you need to know is that Barack Obama’s CIA Director Leon Panetta–a big liberal–disagreed long ago with […]
By Dan Calabrese No one should be surprised by the content of a report written by Senate Democrats on the “torture” of terrorist detainees. It reflects the assumptions Democrats have made (or at least given voice to) for years, namely that by torturning detainees, we squandered our international esteem and got no useful information as […]
Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen has threatened to execute a British-born American journalist if its demands are not met within three days. 33-year-old Luke Somers was kidnapped by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in September 2013 in the Yemeni capital Sana’a. US special forces reportedly attempted to free him as recently as November […]
