Category Archives: al Qaeda

GOP revives ‘soft on terror’ charge

By: Josh Gerstein A series of recent controversies — capped by Friday’s decision to pull a key 9/11 trial out of Manhattan — is prompting Republicans to turn up the pressure on President Barack Obama, by resurrecting the kind of “soft on terrorism” charge that has dogged Democrats in the past. Obama largely escaped any [...]

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Soft on Terror

By: Charles Krauthammer Islamist terrorism is not a law-enforcement issue. The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane — that can happen to any administration, as it surely did to the Bush administration — but what happened afterward when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab [...]

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Obama faces dwindling options in his effort to close Guantanamo Bay

This story is a classic good news, bad news situation. The good news is that incompetent Presidents who make awful decisions can’t continue to govern against the wishes of the people indefinitely. The bad news is that incompetent Presidents continue to be incompetent and insist that we will try KSM in a civilian court…somewhere. They [...]

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Bloomberg Bails on WTC Bombers

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg guestimates that the Gitmo detainee circus trial/propaganda extravaganza will cost the City upwards of $1Billion…..like they say: billion with a “b.” This is of course utter insanity. A city and a country as broke as NY and the US, needs to stop doing insane stuff like spending a billion dollars [...]

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Terrorists Claim to Be Warriors: Why Can’t We Label Them Combatants?

By: Jeff Beatty HUMAN EVENTS.COM President Obama was right in his recent acknowledgement that we are in a war, but he needs to say more and announce in his state of the Union Address that henceforth we will treat terrorists as enemy combatants. Here’s why. After the mishandling of the Christmas “underwear bomber” and the [...]

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Obfuscation after Obfuscation

NATIONAL REVEIW ONLINE By: Bill Burck & Dana Perino The administration’s statement on Abdulmutallab’s interrogation hides more than it reveals. The Justice Department is in full damage-control mode to quell the growing furor about its decision to treat Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as a criminal defendant with Miranda rights, a decision we now know was made [...]

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Analysis: Cool Obama takes the heat

For the sixth time in 11 days, President Barack Obama was back before the cameras Thursday, talking about airline safety and anti-terrorism. He then left quickly for a second White House room to meet with Senate chairmen and press to have a health care bill on his desk no later than next month. Two very [...]

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Political Cartoons: IBD

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U.S. Suspends Guantanamo Prisoner Transfer to Yemen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Tuesday suspended the transfer of detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay to Yemen as a result of the deteriorating security situation there. President Barack Obama bowed to political pressure from Democratic and Republican lawmakers not to send any more prisoners to Yemen as a result [...]

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Terror 2.0 by Yemen—The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Although I don’t agree with everything Jon Stewart says, you have to give him props for being one of the few libs I know of who actually has a sense of humor. He makes some excellent points about our brain dead approach to airport security. ~~John Cronin~~ The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – [...]

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