Denver – Military jets scrambled to intercept a San Francisco-bound jetliner reporting a problem aboard — one of two commercial airplanes diverted because of disruptive passengers. Two F-16s were launched at 11:44 a.m. to catch up with AirTran Airways Flight 39 from Atlanta to San Francisco after a report that an intoxicated passenger had locked […]
DESECRATION OF SACRED SITE PROMPTS LITTLE ATTENTION Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.- The Iraqi government plans to convert the Tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel, one of the most sacred sites for Christians and Jews, into a massive new mosque. What’s more, the Iraqis intend to erase all Jewish markings from the tomb so that no indication […]
Women who wear Islamic veils in public in France face a $1,115 fine under strict new laws being proposed. The amount could be doubled for Muslim men who force female members of their family to cover their faces. Jean-Francois Cope, president of Nicolas Sarkozy’s ruling UMP Party, said the legislation was intended to protect the […]
From HonestReporting: Certain articles, blog posts, cartoons and videos from the past decade continue to stick out in mind. I haven’t forgotten them, because they say a lot about the media and the kinds of issues HonestReporting dealt with during the “noughties.” Ranking their importance is useless; each had its own kind significance for better […]
by Daniel Pipes Jerusalem Post January 6, 2010 As hands are wrung in the aftermath of the near-tragedy on a Northwest Airlines flight approaching Detroit, a conversation from London’s Heathrow airport in 1986 comes to mind. Nizar al-Hindawi and Ann-Marie Murphy. It consisted of an El Al security agent quizzing one Ann-Marie Doreen Murphy, a […]
Posted by Erick Erickson I missed the implications of this up front and I bet you all did too, but I am hearing from members of the American intelligence community and some on the outside closely connected to those on the inside who are raising a huge red flag right now. It appears Barack Obama […]
By Douglass K. Daniel, Associated Press Washington (AP) – Some Democratic lawmakers who support closing Guantanamo Bay say the U.S. should reconsider whether to repatriate suspected terrorists from Yemen, given the al-Qaida activity in the poor Arab nation. President Barack Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, said Sunday the transfers will continue if the […]
By Douglass K. Daniel, Associated Press Washington (AP) – Some Democratic lawmakers who support closing Guantanamo Bay say the U.S. should reconsider whether to repatriate suspected terrorists from Yemen, given the al-Qaida activity in the poor Arab nation. President Barack Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, said Sunday the transfers will continue if the […]
International jihadist elements have called for abducting Israelis and Americans in the Middle East in order to hold them hostage until the isolation of Hamas-controlled Gaza is ended. Researchers from the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response (ITRR) said last week that continuing electronic Islamist chatter included a new call for jihad fighters worldwide […]
Posted by Erick Erickson You remember Tom Kean, don’t you? He’s the former chairman of the 9/11 Commission — that same commission whose policies in its massive report Barack Obama guaranteed to implement. Obama has not. In fact, one of the chief priorities of the 9/11 commission was the ability to effectively cross reference people […]
