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 […]
by David J. Rusin • Dec 31, 2009 at 4:03 pm Over the past year, Americans have heard much about honor killings on U.S. soil, as even the see-no-evil mainstream press could no longer ignore these crimes. A brief review is in order. The United States witnessed two high-profile slayings in 2009 that have been […]
Israel and Iran have traded warnings as the Islamic Republic plans another massive military exercise against a possible attack by Israel. Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said that the United Nations Security Council will impose tougher sanctions on Iran within a month. His prediction coincided with American media reports that the recent renewed unrest in […]
“At the end of the first year of Barack Obama’s administration, there’s something moving in the shadows of Mount Doom. It wasn’t there while George Bush was in charge.
Michelle Malkin– How about kicking off the New Year with a stark reminder that jihadists don’t just hate us because of Iraq and Afghanistan? The Religion of Perpetual Outrage hates all infidels. The targeting of the Danish Mohammed cartoonists is a lingering pretext to demonstrate that centuries-old, Koran-inspired hatred. If it isn’t cartoons, it’s always […]
MASSIVE ATTACK ON U.S. SOIL WILL OCCUR IN 2010 by Paul L. Williams, Ph.D. The planned bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 252 was averted by a stroke of luck and the courage of a Dutchman. But the lesson provided by Umar Abdulmutallab on Christmas Day has been lost to Obama Administration. Yes, we now have […]
Americans must get comfortable with so-called “profiling” if the nation is going to effectively wage war against Islamic terrorism, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday. In an op-ed for the conservative Human Events magazine, the Georgia Republican wrote that the U.S. for years has shied away from profiling for radical Islamic terrorists because of […]
Headlines misrepresent IDF actions against terrorist murderers. On 24 December, Israeli father-of-seven Meir Chai, 45, was murdered in a terror attack in the West Bank. This act of murder received scant coverage in the international media (irrespective of the timing during the holiday season). The Israeli response, however, which saw three terrorists responsible for the fatal attack killed in […]
by David J. Rusin • Dec 30, 2009 at 11:27 am The British government’s history of employing Islamists and placing them in sensitive positions, the subject of the previous IW blog post, is only part of the problem. Equally troubling is the record of UK bureaucrats sending money to Islamists in the form of grants. […]
