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POPSNidal Hasan Terrorist Threat 'Not That Big a Deal'....Matthew Yglesias
I think a pretty good case can be made that this kind of situation actually is the main face of the terrorist threat. Not a big well-thought-out plot centrally directed from a “safe haven” in South Asia and undertaken by brilliant covert operatives, but the desperate violent act of a clearly disturbed individual. It’s going to be very hard to prevent this sort of thing. As long as the United States remains a country in which firearms are widely available"for the foreseeable future, in other words"we’re going to be unusually vulnerable to mentally ill spree killers of various kinds, including spree killers who nod in the direction of Islamist thinking. But the larger point is that while these incidents are serious crimes and major tragedies for the victims, they hardly rise to the level of a major macro-level social crisis. They’re certainly not a first-order national security threat. And even put in the lower-stakes context of violent crime in America
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POPSDeadly denia' Ralph Peters always goes to the heart of a matter. He and Bolton are Americans' friends. We need people to clear the cob-webs from our brains and from the PC that we've been guilted into accepting. See the realities or succumb and speed up the decline of America.
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POPSNidal Hasan Bought A Para-Military Automatic Pistol With Armor-Piercing Capabilities The FBI dispatched agents from Austin, San Antonio and Waco to the scene, and pressed into service a 15-member forensic unit to help military police collect evidence. Agents from the bureau's Washington field office interviewed relatives, neighbors and friends who knew Hasan during his years in the Washington area. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also are on hand to help with weapons analysis. Investigators also focused on Guns Galore, a firearms store just down the highway from the mosque. Store owner David Cheadle said federal agents interviewed him about the sale of a FN Herstal Five-Seven pistol that was used in the shootings. "It is a popular choice for personal defense," Cheadle said, pulling one from his case, "but it's expensive" -- more than $1,100 at his store. The officials said a continuing search of Major Hasan’s computer indicates that he had logged on to Web sites that celebrated radical Islamic ideologies and that he had....
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POPS'Now We Have Proof' Jihadis Infiltrating D.C. Noting that CAIR has tried to hide its strategy, finances, membership, internal disputes and much more from public view since its founding in 1994, Islam expert Daniel Pipes lauded "Muslim Mafia" for definitively exposing the "tawdry and often illegal inner workings of radical Islam's most aggressive organization in North America." "The revelations in this book should both put CAIR out of business and permanently discredit the Islamist cause," Pipes said. Undercover Along with declassified government documents, the book unveils thousands of e-mails, faxes and internal memos that were never meant for public viewing. "Muslim Mafia" also exposes the inner workings of the mob-like Brotherhood and explains its broader conspiracy of infiltrating the American government and "destroying Western civilization from within." "The evidence found in the investigation is incontrovertible," said co-author Sperry, noting that the book has more than 40 pages of footnotes and an
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POPSGermany Hit With "al-Qaida" Pre-election Propaganda Watch for a false-flag event in Germany if Merkel loses ( remember Spain's 3-11 here for backing out of Iraq), which this propaganda is actually designed to help by inciting fear of terrorism and pushing necessary war , by manufacturing an Islamist enemy (beardless youth in suit and tie for the first time) with a domestic terrorism threat in a timely presentation-- all pushed by the government and media , instead of censored! Just who does this propaganda benefit the most? In fact, the "powers that be" do want people to remember Madrid's 3/11, "vote for Merkel, or else". Note the issue is AFGHANISTAN, German people now largely opposing their war presence there (just as a majority in the U.S. and UK does). This is typical FEAR propaganda that always preceded Bush and Congressional elections, allegedly from Bin Laden or Al Qaeda, but always stoking war fever for the neoconservative-Israeli agenda.
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POPSSuicide blasts at Jakarta Ritz, Marriott kill 8 see images of the aftermath: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/17/indonesia.hotels.explosions/index.html#cnnSTCPhoto Suspicion will fall on the Southeast Asian Islamist militant group Jemaah Islamiyah or its allies. The network is blamed for past attacks in Indonesia, including a 2003 bombing at the Marriott when 12 people died. The blasts at the J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, located side-by-side in an upscale business district in Jakarta, blew out windows and scattered debris and glass across the street, kicking up a thick plume of smoke. Facades of both hotels were reduced to twisted metal. An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw bodies being shuttled away in police trucks. Alex Asmasubrata, who was jogging nearby, said he walked into the Marriott before emergency services arrived and "there were bodies on the ground, one of them had no stomach," he said. "It was terrible."
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POPSPhotos: Bomb Blast Hits Peshawar Hotel " Nobody seems to learn. Again and again, states imagine that they can use and control Islamist extremists. Then the terrorists turn against their "masters." "That's what happened Monday in Pakistan, when Muslim militants brazenly struck a police academy near the Indian border -- far from the lawless tribal regions. The terrorists killed seven cops and two civilians. Nearly a hundred officers suffered wounds during the siege." "The terrorists blew themselves up, rather than be captured. They knew Allah would welcome them. The one captured fanatic meant to die. "
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POPSObama's plan to destroy Isreal "If Iran is to be our new best friend under this arrangement, Israel is to be our new best enemy" http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2009/05/obamas-plan-to-destroy-israel.html
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POPSDomestic terror threat growing The hearing highlighted the case of Shirwa Ahmed, a 27-year-old Somali-American who had been radicalized by al-Shabaab in his adopted home state of Minnesota before traveling to Somalia and blowing up himself and 29 others in October. The idea that Ahmed was radicalized in the United States raised red flags throughout the U.S. intelligence community. The incident -- the first suicide bombing by a naturalized U.S. citizen -- was the "most significant case of homegrown American terrorism recruiting based on violent Islamist ideology," Lieberman said. "The dangers brought to light by these revelations is clear: radicalized individuals trained in terrorist tactics and in possession of American passports can clearly pose a threat to the security of our country," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
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POPSDon't Say Terrorism Former president Bush, savagely attacked on every front by the lamestream media, may well be remembered in history as an exceptional commander-in-chief for his strategies that infallibly prevented attacks in the U.S., while Muslim fanatics elsewhere rampaged, exploded, beheaded, tortured (real torture with maiming and amputations, not the get-wet interrogations used by U.S. forces), abducted, stole and sabotaged worldwide in pursuit of their goal of global Islamic domination, a term not used in the "news," because it is seen as insensitive. AND, IF, the country survives this far-left President & Congress, we will most likely see just how successful GWB was on the war on terror. Simply ignoring it or calling it some PC name does not make it go away. But appeasement and shoving your head in the sand is the liberal way.
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POPSCAIR Honored Moderate Islamist Who Later Beheaded His Wife Has anyone noticed that CAIR, despite claiming to be a muslim civil rights group, ALWAYS seems to pal around with scumbags like this, or pay for lawyers of jihadis caught RED HANDED with tools for terror? Yet when someone points out an honor killing in America, they cry foul? When will We The People collectively awaken and say “ENOUGH!”, and start sending these pieces of trash back where they belong?
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POPSIslamist Group Urges "Forest Fire Jihad" Has anyone noticed the Islamofascists favorite targets are strongholds of liberals? Has anyone noticed that weak, liberal leaders attract attacks? Setting off forest fires are acts of war perpetrated by murderous foreign agents. Anyone found lighting off a fire should be SHOT. No Miranda rights. No due process. The the stupid liberals won't do this, so they bring on more attacks.
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POPSCondi's Three Strikes Among the many problems Hillary Clinton inherits next week is Condoleezza Rice’s short-sighted and failed policy toward Hamas, which has left Israel vulnerable to ceaseless terror.
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POPSMumbai: Islamist Terror's New Modus Operandi over 4,100 people have died as a result of terrorist attacks in India. The new modus operandi was to attack soft targets, including major landmarks and also kill foreign nationals. Unmasked assailers walking into public places indiscriminately shooting with machine guns, throwing grenades and also taking hostages - and this for 60 hours, all while it is being documented on world TV. Compared to a classical car bomb or suicide attack, this tactic has the advantage for the terrorists of remaining in the news for a much longer time. It has also a much higher psychological value on the population: it kills the feeling of security since terrorists can hit anywhere. Also, by attacking foreigners, the terrorists want to create panic in the Western community and project a negative image of India. Thus by shaking confidence, they want to cripple the Indian economy and dry up foreign investment.
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POPSTimeline of Terror in India I had no idea. Here I thought it was mostly about us....and maybe it is; though these people don't seem to mind blowing up fellow Muslims. More events listed in the article.
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POPS"I'm The One They've Been Waiting For" Obama Added To Mt Rushmore video http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNoseOnYourFace?ob=1 The Top Ten Reasons Conservatives Should Vote For Obama ~ Hard-core Obama Convert & propaganda minister or whatever andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 27 Oct 2008 09:33 pm Here's "the daily dish" nine months since that previous post: Those conservatives who remain convinced, as I do, that Islamist terror remains the greatest threat to the West cannot risk a perpetuation of the failed Manichean worldview of the past eight years, and cannot risk the possibility of McCain making rash decisions in the middle of a potentially catastrophic global conflict. If you are serious about the war on terror and believe it is a war we have to win, the only serious candidate is Barack Obama. And last but not least, number three on that list 3. Two words: President Palin.
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POPSThe Endorsement From Hell Yet the endorsement of Mr. McCain by a Qaeda-affiliated Web site isn’t a surprise to security specialists. Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism director, and Joseph Nye, the former chairman of the National Intelligence Council, have both suggested that Al Qaeda prefers Mr. McCain and might even try to use terror attacks in the coming days to tip the election to him.
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POPSTaliban in secret peace talks with Afghan government Last week, the French Prime Minister, Franois Fillon, referred indirectly to the talks during a parliamentary debate on Afghanistan. “We must explore ways of separating the international Jihadists from those who are acting more for nationalist or tribal motives. Efforts in this direction are being led by Sunni countries such as Saudi Arabia,î he said. Late last year Karzai said he would welcome the chance to speak directly to Hikmatyar and to Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban’s leader and one of the most wanted men in the world, promising that if the Taliban demanded a ìdepartment in this or in that ministry or a position as deputy ministerî in exchange for ending violence, he would give them the posts. Previously, Taliban spokesmen have said that only the departure of foreign troops, the institution of a fiercely rigorous interpretation of Sharia law and a share of government would be acceptable to them as the basis for any deal.
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POPSYemen a refuge for Al-Qaeda? Hmmmm. How can we invade Yemen plus have enough forces left to fight our Iraq and Afghanistan wars as well as invade Iran? And what about all those other countries that harbor terrorists? (I'm just talking of course of the terrorists we currently disapprove of and are not supporting of course.) I guess the problem we have in this country is we don't spend enough on our military to be able to be attacking all these places at once. Ooops, I forgot, we are many trillions in debt. But no big deal, Congress are experts at spending money they don't have. They even spend money our grand kids of the future don't have!
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POPSWake up America! Your destruction is near! No, I’m not an islamist, but I know how god hates you, America. Your judgement is daily, today you might celebrate the the memorial of Sept 11 terror attack and you gather together in minute of deep silence then you continue with your beer that you had in hand. Christians all around the world wake up!
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POPSAfghans Increasingly Caught in Crossfire--more to come from USA Afghanistan has been mired in a vicious cycle of violence since 1979 when local communist groups formed a government in Kabul with the help of the former Soviet army. They were overthrown by Islamist militants backed by the United States in the early 1990s. U.S. officials largely ignored the country and the plight of its people from then until 2001, when Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda group launched its attacks on the United States.
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