Last of the Sports Drink Suicide airline bomb plotters convicted in UK

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 9th at 12:00 PM  | 

The terrorists responsible for the Three-Ounce Liquids and One-Quart Ziploc Baggie rule at US and some international airports have finally been convicted in UK court, after three trials and millions of pounds in investigation and prosecution costs. The last three defendants in “longest and costliest terrorism prosecution in British history,” the Sports Drink Suicide bomb plot case, were convicted yesterday in London of “plotting to | Read More »

Examining Obama’s Afghan Plan, Part III: Growing the Domestic Security Force.

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  April 7th at 10:00 AM  | 

Author’s note: This is the third installment in a seven-part series analyzing the Obama administration’s strategy for the Afghan front in the War on Terror. The administration’s white paper can be seen here, and previous installments in this series can be seen here. THE SMALL NUMBER OF TRAINED, reliable, and effective Afghan National Security Forces presents a serious holdup in the effort to secure Afghanistan | Read More »

Examining Obama’s Afghan Plan, Part II: A ‘Surge’ in Soldiers and Civilians

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  April 6th at 11:19 AM  | 

Author’s note: This is the second installment in a seven-part series analyzing the Obama administration’s strategy for the Afghan front in the War on Terror. The administration’s white paper can be seen here, and part one of this series, “Examining Obama’s Afghan Plan: Introduction,” can be seen here. PRESIDENT OBAMA’S IMPENDING ‘SURGE’ in the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan has been public knowledge for | Read More »

Examining Obama’s Afghan Plan: Introduction

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  April 5th at 01:49 PM  | 

AFTER NEARLY TWO YEARS of campaigning on a platform of hasty withdrawal from Iraq and a refocusing of American efforts on Afghanistan, a country Democrats have spent years referring to as the location of “the real War on Terror,” President Barack Obama has come out with an overview of his administration’s strategy for the region. Unfortunately, as often seems to be the case when Obama | Read More »

An Utter Lack of Testing: Will President Obama Become an Object Lesson in What’s Wrong With Our Presidential Selection Process?

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 9th at 11:16 AM  | 

Though the deepening economic crisis is certainly enough to fulfill most citizens’ worry quota for the year (if not longer), President Obama’s impotent flailing about on the economy shouldn’t be Americans’ only reason to be concerned about their president, a relatively young man who has shown no ability to succeed at any non-campaigning endeavor in his brief but highly publicized career. As noted here on | Read More »

Terrorists Attack Foreign Athletic Team in Pakistan

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 3rd at 09:29 AM  | 

Yesterday in the broad daylight of mid-morning, a dozen masked terrorists carried out an attack on a police-escorted convoy carrying Sri Lanka’s national cricket team to the stadium in Lahore, where they were to compete against Pakistan (Note: Click here for map of region showing Sri Lanka’s location). Six players were wounded, and five members of their police escort, which included “several” vehicles filled with | Read More »

Pakistan’s Ongoing Retreat from the War on Terror

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  February 23rd at 07:47 AM  | 

Faced with a losing battle against strengthening Taliban elements in its Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Agencies (FATA), the Pakistani government officially threw in the towel last week on its already halfhearted efforts to combat terrorism in the key Malakand Division of the country’s northwest, agreeing to a peace treaty with local Taliban leaders that paves the way for terrorist-administered Shari’a law | Read More »