In a secret NATO report recently leaked to the British media, Taliban insurgents told their interrogators that they are increasingly confident that the Taliban will retake power once NATO forces depart Afghanistan, and that Pakistan is positioning itself for such an outcome. NATO officials have sought to downplay the report’s contents, emphasizing that it represents […]
The US has agreed in principle to release high-ranking Taliban officials from Guantánamo Bay in return for the Afghan insurgents’ agreement to open a political office for peace negotiations in Qatar, the Guardian has learned. According to sources familiar with the talks in the US and in Afghanistan, the handful of Taliban figures will include […]
You thought you weren’t doing anything wrong, so why should you care about who they call a terrorist? Well, you may not believe it, but you’re likely a terror suspect in America’s new paradigm of the Land of the Fear. The government is casting a wide net over its citizens in its search for potential […]
The Al Qaeda terror group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of a Jewish American man in Pakistan, according to an Internet statement released on Thursday. “Just as the Americans detain all whom they suspect of links to Al Qaeda and the Taliban, even remotely, we detained this man who has had an active part […]
(CNSNews.com) — Three people convicted of crimes as a result of a terrorism-related investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) were later naturalized as U.S. citizens by the Obama administration, according to federal auditors. The March 2011 audit (released on April 21, 2011) by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), entitled Criminal Alien Statistics: Information on […]
Washington (CNSNews.com) – Pentagon documents made public on Wednesday by a government watchdog group show the Bush administration’s concerns that prisoners released from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility would put American lives at risk. The documents, all from the Bush era, come at a time when Obama administration officials have given mixed messages about closing […]
Some of them aren’t even British citizens. But who are the real enemies of the state here? Around a dozen men, who accused British security forces of colluding in their torture overseas, are to get millions in compensation from the UK government. Some of the men, who are all British citizens or residents, were detained […]
A judge barred the star prosecution witness from testifying in the first civilian trial of an ex-Guantanamo inmate, in a blow to US President Barack Obama’s plans to bring terror suspects to justice. The dramatic decision by Judge Lewis Kaplan forced a week’s delay in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who is accused of […]
Jorge Ramos advocates amnesty for illegals, open borders, other liberal positions, via popular nightly newscast By Alana Goodman Culture and Media Institute July 7, 2010 He just might be the most influential journalist you’ve never heard of, and he’s wielding that power to lobby for amnesty for illegal immigrants and other extreme reforms. Meet Jorge […]
Posted by Erick Erickson Updated: As the night goes on speculation has moved to the guy smoking on the plane and being a jerk – joking about lighting his shoe. No explosives residue has been found. ————– Today, the White House leaked that it was ditching the phrase ‘radical Islam’ from government language. Though details […]
