America Rides Off into the Sunset

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Feb 042010
 

The only people excited about the “change” in America’s foreign policy are the world’s bad actors.

by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online, February 4, 2010

Ride into sunsetThousands in Tokyo have been echoing Barack Obama’s signature call for “change” — as in “Change Japanese-U.S. relations!”

Our military is rushing anti-missile batteries to Iran’s Arab neighbors in anticipation of new Iranian military escalation.

As in the case of the 2004 Indonesian tsunami, the U.S. both gives the most aid to a devastated Haiti and still seems to receive the most criticism. Continue reading »

The Great Game in the 21st Century

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Jan 302010
 

By Ed Timperlake
American Thinker, January 30, 2010

chinese_militaryIn typical British understatement, Arthur Conolly, an intelligence officer with the Sixth Bengal Light Cavalry in the early part of the nineteenth century, called the fighting along with military and diplomatic maneuvering between England and Russia for supremacy in Afghanistan “the great game.” The Nobel Laureate Rudyard Kipling made the phrase popular, but also left a warning about the cost. Continue reading »

Merry Christmas from the World of Islam

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Jan 112010
 

St Thomas, Iraq dates prior to 770 AD

By Joel J. Sprayregen
January 11, 2010
American Thinker

With attention focused on the flagrant security breaches around Flight 253 on Christmas Day, too little has been made of the timing of the attack. Most readers will be surprised to learn that this was not the only Christmas attack on Christians. Here is a list of other holiday attacks which I found without extensive research: Continue reading »

Americans accused of plotting attacks return to Pakistan prison

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Jan 042010
 

Americans arrested in Pakistan

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By Pamela Constable and Shaiq Hussein
January 4, 2010
The Washington Post

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Five Northern Virginia men accused of possible terrorist ties told a Pakistani court Monday that they had neither sought nor established any contact with Islamic extremist groups, according to their Pakistani attorney, and had traveled to the region only “to help the helpless Muslims.” Continue reading »

Exclusive: CIA Attacker Driven in From Pakistan

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Jan 032010
 

CIA Attacked

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Suicide Bomber Was a Regular CIA Informant, Had Been to Chapman Base Multiple Times

By ALEEM AGHA and NICK SCHIFRIN
January 2, 2010
ABCNews

The suicide bomber who killed at least six Central Intelligence Agency officers in a base along the Afghan-Pakistan border on Wednesday was a regular CIA informant who had visited the same base multiple times in the past, according to someone close to the base’s security director.

The informant was a Pakistani and a member of the Wazir tribe from the Pakistani tribal area North Waziristan, according to the same source. The base security director, an Afghan named Arghawan, would pick up the informant at the Ghulam Khan border crossing and drive him about two hours into Forward Operating Base Chapman, from where the CIA operates. Continue reading »

5 U.S. Men Arrested in Pakistan Said to Plan Jihad

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Dec 112009
 

By JANE PERLEZ, SALMAN MASOOD and WAQAR GILLANI, 12/11/09
New York Times

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Investigators from the F.B.I. continued Friday to question five Muslim American men who were arrested in Pakistan earlier this week, but it remained unclear whether the men would be deported to the United States, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said.

“It all depends on the investigations, and things will be clear in a day or two,” said the spokesman, Rashid Mazari.
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Five American Jihadists Arrested in Pakistan/One Went to Major Hasan’s Mosque

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Dec 102009
 

Yid with Lid blog
December 10. 2009

Yesterday, the Investigative Project on Terrorism led with the story of five DC Area students who disappeared and were believed  to be heading for terrorist training.

December 8: Federal investigators are searching for a Howard University dental student and four other missing Muslim men reported missing from the Washington, D.C. area, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has learned. There is concern they may have been sent abroad to train for jihad. The five were last seen November 29.The identities of two of the missing men, Howard student Ramy Zamzam and Waqar Khan, have been mentioned in online postings, including a Facebook page that was set up Monday for friends to offer their support. Some of those pages, however, appear restricted to friends and associates. Continue reading »

Dozens die in wave of Pakistan attacks

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Oct 152009
 

Taliban believed behind series of coordinated strikes in nation’s heartland
The Associated Press

LAHORE, Pakistan – Teams of gunmen launched coordinated attacks on three law enforcement facilities in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore and car bombs hit two other cities Thursday, killing a total of 39 people in an escalating wave of anti-government violence.
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