Terrorism

Sun Tzu

Foreign Minister: Israel ‘Will Not Accept a Palestinian Government that Includes Hamas’

Israel’s foreign minister told the UN Security Council on Thursday that a new Palestinian unity government including Hamas was a setback to peace attempts, diplomats said. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman briefed the 15 Security Council ambassadors on the Middle East peace talks and the growing confrontation with Iran in a meeting at a New York hotel. Lieberman [...]
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Niccolo Machiavelli

Lt-Col Challenges The Official Rosy Version Of Events In Afghanistan: ‘Absence Of Success On….Every Level’

From the Army Times: Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis An Army officer is fed up with “rosy official statements” that paint Afghanistan as a picture of progress, and he is demanding military leaders come clean about the “absence of success on virtually every level.” “How many more men must die in support of a mission that is not succeeding [...]
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Walid Phares

The Lesson of the Past Decade: Ideology Is Al Qaeda’s Power, Not Leaders

Ten years have slipped by since Osama bin Laden’s jihadists massacred thousands of men, women and children in the northeastern United States, prompting the start of what Americans came to know as the War on Terror. The current administration, however, insists on more benign terminology, choosing for political reasons to describe the conflict as an [...]
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Clare M. Lopez

Muslim Brotherhood Trying to Police the NYPD

After forcing the FBI and CIA to purge their counterterrorism training programs of all references to “Islam” in “Islamic terrorism,” the Muslim Brotherhood in America has turned its sights on the New York Police Department (NYPD). Image credit: Reuters Writers from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of [...]
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John Bernard, 1st Sgt. USMC (ret.),

New York Times Laments Income Loss for Afghan Businesses

After ten years of nearly constant derisiveness and complacency toward force protection and convenient ignorance of policies that have caused the severe wounding and killing of thousands of American Servicemen, The New York Times took the time to write about the loss of income for business in Afghanistan...
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John J.  Xenakis

2-Feb-12 World View: Leaked Nato Report Says Pakistan ‘Directly Assisting’ the Taliban

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. The ‘conquistador’ Prince William heads for Falkland Islands mission Deadly riot at Egypt soccer game kills 74 Surge of Afghan troop attacks on U.S., Nato forces raises alarms Leaked Nato report says Pakistan is ‘directly assisting’ the Taliban Panetta announces that Nato will end Afghanistan combat in 2013 Germany to China: Bail us out for [...]
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Sun Tzu

Audio: Congressman Says Releasing Taliban Prisoners From Gitmo ‘Big Mistake’

The Obama administration appeared Wednesday to acknowledge discussions about transferring some Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo Bay as part of U.S. efforts to jumpstart peace talks with the Taliban after 10 years of inconclusive fighting. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said no decision about releasing any Taliban detainees has been made. But in answering a question [...]
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Diana West

Victory for ‘Muslim Outreach’? Retired General Barred from Speaking at West Point

Eight years and three months ago, I wrote a column inspired by the furor over statements by General William Boykin attesting to the religious dimension of the so-called war on terror. The thought that there might be a religious dimension to Islamic terrorism is, absurdly and disastrously, the Big No-No-No of our [...]
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John J.  Xenakis

1-Feb-12 World View: Europe Considers a Huge New 1.5 Trillion Euro Debt Bubble

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Greece’s private investor deal is ‘one step away’ at more than 70%+ haircut Europe considers a huge new 1.5 trillion euro debt bubble Pakistan: more than 60 killed in fighting between military and Taliban President Obama admits to drone strikes in Pakistan Russia says it will veto Arab League resolution on Syria Greece’s private investor [...]
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Sun Tzu

Four British Islamists Pleady Guilty to London Stock Exchange Bomb Plot

From the Telegraph: Four al-Qaeda inspired terrorists have pleaded guilty to plotting a Christmas bomb attack on the London Stock Exchange, the American embassy and the home of London Mayor Boris Johnson. Two of the men conducted a surveillance trip around central London and also talked about launching [...]
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