In the largest terrorist attack in Pakistan in more than a year, a suicide bomber on Sunday detonated his explosives near the border with India following a joint India-Pakistan military ceremony, killing at least 57, including three Pakistani security personnel. The group claiming responsibility for the attack, a faction of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, said it […]
By Douglas V. Gibbs : The attacks against the United States on New York City’s Twin Towers at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon located just outside of Washington DC in Arlington County, Virginia and Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 was not a tragedy, but an act of war against the United States of America. […]
By Alan Caruba : As we close in on the 13th anniversary of the infamous 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, the media is full of predictions about attacks that will occur. A September 2nd Debka File, an Israeli news agency, reported “Credible information has reached Saudi, British and Australian agencies that two […]
Bush, July 2007: “I know some in Washington would like us to start leaving Iraq now. To begin withdrawing before our commanders tell us we are ready would be dangerous for Iraq, for the region, and for the United States. It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to al Qaeda. It would mean that […]
The Obama administration, the CIA, and even some congressional committees—they all said there “was no ‘stand down’ order.” But now five men who helped ward off the terrorists that attacked U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya two years ago say it’s only because they defied such an order that as many as 25 Americans are […]
The Somali Al-Shabaab terrorist group confirmed on Saturday that its leader Ahmed Godane had been killed in a U.S. airstrike this week and named a new leader, Reuters reported. U.S. forces struck Godane’s encampment in south-central Somalia with Hellfire missiles and laser-guided munitions on Monday, but the Pentagon did not confirm his death until Friday. […]
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s video announcement launching an al-Qaeda wing in the Indian Subcontinent is almost certainly part of the organization’s efforts to compete with the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq for recruits, money and ideological supremacy. The recent military gains by the IS—an al-Qaeda breakaway group–in Iraq and its increasing efforts to recruit militants […]
(www.catholic.org) Islamic State terrorists have begun their promised killing of Christians in Mosul, and they have started with the children. According to a report via CNN, a Chaldean-American businessman has said that killings have started in Mosul and children’s heads are being erected on poles in a city park. “There is a park in Mosul,” Mark […]
Les Vegas Metro police have confirmed Muslim leaders inside al-Qaida are encouraging Muslim jihadists to target Las Vegas for terror attack. That information comes from a recent publication which names the city as a top spot to strike for Muslims. “It’s just a suggestive rhetoric to Muslims who subscribe to violent jihadists ideologies,” said Lt. Nichole Splinter with the Southern […]
The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams (ISIS,) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was formerly held by the U.S. military at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq from 2005, he was released the Obama administration in 2009. Why did Obama allow the release of such a dangerous man in 2009? The Telegraph offers the explanation is that […]
