By Jeffrey T. Kuhner Did the Obama administration put a target on the backs of members of Navy SEAL Team 6? This is the question that parents of slain SEALs are now asking — and rightly so. Forget Benghazi, the IRS, Eric H. Holder Jr. and the National Security Agency spying on U.S. citizens. Important as these […]
(CNSNews.com) – U.S. envoy for Afghanistan peace efforts Zalmay Khalilzad said Monday the U.S. and the Taliban have reached an agreement in principle on a draft deal that will see 5,000 U.S. troops leave within about five months if the Taliban meets its commitments. Khalilzad told the TOLO News television station in Kabul that under […]
(CNSNews.com) – The Taliban claimed responsibility for a massive suicide bombing in Kabul Wednesday, two days after the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, reported having made “excellent progress” in his talks with the terrorist group. Fourteen people were killed and 145 were injured in the car bombing at a police complex in […]
By Jim Kouri At just about the same time the news media swooned over President Barack Obama’s speech at the United Nations on Monday, hundreds of Islamist terrorists from the group the President boasted about was on the decline during a bloody ambush that recaptured the city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan. The members of […]
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was captured by the Taliban after abandoning his post in Afghanistan and then freed five years later in a controversial trade for five Guantanamo detainees, was charged Wednesday with desertion. U.S. Army Forces Command announced the decision at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. He was charged with misbehavior before the […]
(CNSNews.com) – President Obama won’t use the term “radical Islam,” and his spokesman won’t call the Taliban terrorists. At Wednesday’s White House briefing, deputy spokesman Eric Schultz said, “The Taliban is an armed insurgency. ISIL is a terrorist group. So we don’t make concessions to terrorist groups.” The comment came after a reporter asked Schultz […]
For months Americans have railed against Obama’s release of the very worst Islamic terrorists (including many senior commanders) from Gitmo. Obama traded a deserter, a US soldier who went AWOL to join the jihad, for five senior Taliban commanders. So it comes as little surprise that it may very well be one of Obama’s pardons […]
Taliban gunmen have killed 141 people, including at least 132 children, in a school attack in Peshawar, Pakistan. Nine Muslims stormed the army-run school while around 500 children and teachers were believed to be inside, with many students taking exams at the time. At least 122 people are thought to have been injured in the […]
by Daniel Pipes and Teri Blumenfeld The Washington Times October 24, 2014 Defining terrorism has practical implications because formally certifying an act of violence as terrorist has important consequences in U.S. law. Terrorism suspects can be held longer than criminal suspects after arrest without an indictment They can be interrogated without a lawyer present. They […]
The Government Accountability Office issued an opinion today that found the Obama Administration “violated” two laws when it ordered the transfer of five high profile Taliban commanders in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s release from captivity. The GAO finding came at the request of several Republican senators on June 13, 2014. Released today, the report […]
