The System “Worked Really Very, Very Smoothly” in Detroit?

by Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com December 28, 2009 The near-success of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, to set off an explosive on Christmas Day should open the American public’s eyes to the sad state of counterterrorism eight years after 9/11. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, is one of the most privileged young men of Nigeria.  The incident involved […]

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Napolitano “The System Worked”

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up the Amsterdam-Detroit flight this week demonstrated that “the system worked.” Asked by CNN’s Candy Crowley on “State of the Union” how that could be possible when the young Nigerian who sought to set off the bomb was able to smuggle explosive […]

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Routine Turned to Mayhem on Terror Flight

Seconds after passengers spotted flames climbing above the back of a window seat midway down the left side of Northwest Flight 253, Friday’s routine descent toward Detroit’s main airport turned into horror, mayhem and instant heroism. Just as the widebody Airbus A330 made a rumbling sound as the landing gear started down, horrified travelers in […]

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Al-Qaeda Denounces Obama, ‘Arab Zionists’

From VirtualJerusalem.com: Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s second top leader, denounced US president Barack Obama’s Middle East policy as “nothing but a new stage in the Crusader and Zionist campaign to subjugate and humiliate us… and our religion” in a statement posted on an Islamist website Monday, Dec. 14. He also slammed Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, […]

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Sheikh Obama and His Two Wars

by Daniel Pipes December 10, 2009 A visibly embarrassed Barack Obama shows off his Nobel Peace Prize. Obama’s Nobel “lecture” offers critics the usual cornucopia of opportunities for criticism but I shall focus on just two statements: “I am the Commander-in-Chief of a nation in the midst of two wars.” And here I thought there […]

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Terrorist Asks Judge to Dismiss Case

BENJAMIN WEISER– Lawyers for a terrorism suspect once held at Guantnamo Bay who is now facing prosecution in Manhattan under Obama plan to try terrorist on U.S. soil. The terrorist attorney asked a judge on Tuesday to dismiss his case on the ground that his nearly five years in detention denied him his constitutional right […]

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Obama Speaks at West Point

Posted by Erick Erickson Barack Obama spoke at West Point tonight on the issue of Afghanistan. In 4608 words, he did not once mention the word “victory” and the closest he came to using the word “win” was those three letters appearing in the word “withdrawing.” True to form, Obama spent most of his speech […]

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From the Inane to the Insane

Posted by Rep. Vito Fosella Every year the New York Police and Fire Departments face off in an annual football game. The good-natured but intense contest has been a New York City tradition since 1973. In 2004, members of both squads visited the Oval Office to present President George W. Bush with a token of […]

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The Terrorists Will Plead Not Guilty

Posted by Erick Erickson It should not be surprising to learn, though it may make your blood pressure go up. The terrorists who orchestrated 9/11 and masterminded the deaths of thousands of Americans will plead not guilty. They will use their case to try American foreign policy. Fox News has the details. Scott Fenstermaker, the […]

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