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Posted at 8:01pm on May 13, 2008 Deadly bombings in India have "hallmarks of an al Qaeda operation"

It truly is a *global* war on terror

By Jeff Emanuel

Eight bombs were detonated today in Jaipur, India, killing at least 60 people and injuring at least 200. A ninth bomb was found and disarmed by Indian authorities.

The blasts occurred within a dozen minutes of each other, according to the Times of India. Indian authorities have said that early evidence points to the terrorist attacks being the work of the Bangladesh-based al Qaeda affiliate Harkat ul Jihad al Islami, or "HuJI-B."

The Long War Journal is reporting that "some officials believe the Pakistani-based Jaish-e-Mohammed terror group assisted in the attacks," as well.

Read on.

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Posted at 8:10am on Apr. 18, 2008 Bill Ayers, the Weather Underground, and the Democratic Party

Obama campaign says terrorist is "respectable" in "mainstream liberal Chicago"

By Soren Dayton

Let me get this straight. At last night's Democratic debate, one candidate, Hillary Clinton, attacks the other, Barack Obama, with something to the effect of "you announced your candidacy for public office at the house of two known and unrepentant terrorists".

The candidate responds with "but your husband pardoned other unrepentant and known terrorists."

Why don't they distance themselves from the Weather Underground rather than apologize for them?

These terrorists are, to quote a release from the Obama campaign "respectable fixtures in mainstream liberal Chicago." (having lived in the Hyde Park of Barack Obama and Bill Ayers for 8 years, I understand the rationale of the hyperbole)

Excuse me, but WTF? Why is Obama defending this? Read on.

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Posted at 9:32am on Apr. 17, 2008 At the debate, Obama on the ropes with Ayers

Barry compares Weather Underground terrorist to Senator Tom Coburn

By Mark Kilmer

I missed last night's Dem debate, but host George Stephanopoulos asked candidate Barack Obama about his tawdry relationship with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground, who conspired to destroy federal buildings in the 1970s then, decades later, expressed regret that he did not succeed.

The unexpected came when Stephanopoulos, under what he termed "the general theme of patriotism," asked Obama about "a gentleman named William Ayers. He was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol, and other buildings. He's never apologized for that."

According to the account given by Scott Whitlock at NewsBusters.org, Obama responded by comparing Ayers to Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma):

Obama’s response included stating that Ayers's actions happened when he was very young and asserted they weren’t relevant. Oddly, he went on to compare a man who was involved in bombings that killed people to his colleague, Republican Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma. Obama stated, “The fact is that I’m also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who during his campaign once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions.”

Read More below the fold. …

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Posted at 2:01am on Mar. 29, 2008 Fitna, Hosted by Pat Dollard

By Neil Stevens

'Bash' at Pat Dollard says that he will never bow to threats and take down his copy of Geert Wilders' Fitna, and it sounds like he has the guns to back that up.

Link via Ace of Spades.

Posted at 2:59pm on Mar. 27, 2008 Fitna, in English

By Neil Stevens

Here it is: Geert Wilders's work on our enemy in the War on Terror, uncut and holding nothing back. Be warned: This movie graphically depicts the death and destruction of terrorism, including the 9/11 attacks and beheadings.

Comments enabled. Movie embedded below the fold via Live Leak where Wilders posted it himself.

Posted at 6:14pm on Mar. 7, 2008 Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela Crisis Over

By California Yankee

The crisis over Columbian forces killing FARC leader and terrorist Raul Reyes, near the Ecuadorean border, is over.

The leaders of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela shook hands at the Rio Group meeting in the Dominican Republic:

"And with this ... this incident that has caused so much damage would be resolved," leftist Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said before standing up and shaking hands with his U.S.-backed Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe. [Read on.]

Posted at 4:55pm on Mar. 7, 2008 Another FARC Leader Killed

By California Yankee

Colombian security forces trying to arrest Ivan Rios, a top rebel leader of the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), killed a man in a shootout. If the body is identified as Rios, it would be the second member of the ruling secretariat of FARC, to be killed in a week.

Rios "was the youngest member of the secretariat. He was very important to the rebels," said Alfredo Rangel of the Bogota-based think tank Security and Democracy. "This shows the army is capable of taking down the rebels' most important pillars and that any of the leaders can fall at any time." [Read on.]

Posted at 2:53am on Mar. 7, 2008 The Horror

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

I've ceased being surprised. I'll never cease being shocked.

Posted at 6:39pm on Feb. 25, 2008 Muslim Scholars Denounce Terrorism

Where's The Outrage?

By California Yankee

Seems Muslim scholars are unhappy that terrorism is equated with Islam:

Opening the conclave the head of the Deoband school, Maulana Marghoobur Rahman, described terrorism as a thoughtless act which is against the teachings of Islam.

He said that the killing of innocent people of any religion was prohibited by the Koran, the Muslim Holy Book.

Many participants said they want to change popular perceptions in which, they say, terrorism is being equated with Islam.

Others said that while Muslims should not be harassed because of anti-terrorism operations, the community also needed to be more introspective.

Perhaps if the "scholars" had expressed a little outage and condemnation when terrorist acts are committed, there wouldn't be such a perception.

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Posted at 2:24pm on Feb. 22, 2008 Obama's Desolation Homesick Blues.

By Paul J Cella

You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows — Bob Dylan, “Subterranean Homesick Blues”

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the wind blew rumors of sedition, revolution and terrorism from the Left. It disclosed the falsity of the association of the anti-war movement with noble pacifism. In truth this falsity should have been evident to anyone still possessed of his critical intellect. The Jacobins were very far from being pacifists; and virtually every subsequent revolutionary movement, from anarchism to syndicalism, from Fascism to Communism, included some notion of sacred violence or justified terrorism. The quasi-revolution of the Sixties never accomplished much in the way of violence, at least in the sense of violence sufficient to threaten the regime; but it was not for lack of intent.

With that context, consider this article from the Politico:

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Posted at 3:39pm on Feb. 12, 2008 The Clintons' Terror Pardons

By Kevin Holtsberry

If you haven't already, you will want to be sure and read Debra Burlingame's excellent piece in the Wall Street Journal on Bill Clinton's outrageous granting of clemency to 16 imprisoned members of the FALN terrorist group. Read the whole thing, but here is a question that bears repeating far and wide (maybe an aspiring journalist might even ask Hillary about it):

It would be a mistake to dismiss as "old news" the story of how and why these terrorists were released in light of the fact that it took place during the precise period when Bill Clinton now claims he was avidly engaged, even "obsessed," with efforts to protect the public from clandestine terrorist attacks. If Bill and Hillary Clinton were willing to pander to the demands of local Hispanic politicians and leftist human-rights activists defending bomb-makers convicted of seditious conspiracy, how might they stand up to pressure from other interest groups working in less obvious ways against U.S. interests in a post-9/11 world?

Posted at 7:15pm on Jan. 24, 2008 Kosovo: Who are the good guys here? (Comments enabled)

By Neil Stevens

The word is that Kosovars are on the verge of declaring formal independence from Serbia with the support of the EU and, apparently, the United States.

Should I cheer? I can't tell which parties are trustworthy here. On one hand you have Serbia, a country that not too long ago was a party to genocidal activity in Bosnia, and probably has folk who wouldn't mind some 'ethnic cleansing' in Kosovo. On the other hand, Christians in Kosovo and their churches have been under attack since the region fell under NATO protection, and there's the suggestion of Islamic terrorists getting their way here.

Is it even possible for us to come up with a resolution here that one could cheer? I'm open to corrections here on any of my impressions above.

Posted at 4:14pm on Dec. 27, 2007 And Pakistan Goes Insane

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Anyone who thinks that foreign policy is not going to be a big issue in the upcoming Presidential campaign has likely had his/her world rocked by the assassination of Benazir Bhutto today:

Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, aides said.

Bhutto's supporters erupted in anger and grief after her death, attacking police and burning tires and election campaign posters in several cities. At the hospital where she died, some smashed glass and wailed, chanting slogans against President Pervez Musharraf.

The death of the 54-year-old charismatic former prime minister threw the campaign for the Jan. 8 parliamentary elections into chaos and created fears of mass protests and violence across the nuclear-armed nation, an important U.S. ally in the war on terrorism.

Musharraf convened an emergency meeting with his senior staff where they were expected to discuss whether to postpone the election, an official at the Interior Ministry said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 2:23pm on Dec. 21, 2007 There's Still A War On. But For Now, It's Going Pretty Well.

This Should Be Good News.

By Dan McLaughlin

The good guys aren't the only ones who have problems with former supporters turning on them:

One of Al Qaeda's senior theologians is calling on his followers to end their military jihad and saying the attacks of September 11, 2001, were a "catastrophe for all Muslims."

In a serialized manifesto written from prison in Egypt, Sayyed Imam al-Sharif is blasting Osama bin Laden for deceiving the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, and for insulting the Prophet Muhammad by comparing the September 11 attacks to the early raids of the Ansar warriors. The lapsed jihadist even calls for the formation of a special Islamic court to try Osama bin Laden and his old comrade Ayman al-Zawahri.

The disclosures from Mr. Sharif, also known as Dr. Fadl and Abd al-Qadir ibn Abd al-Aziz, have already opened a rift at the highest levels of Al Qaeda. The group's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, a former associate of the defecting theologian in Egypt, personally mocked him last month in a video, remarking that he was unaware Egyptian prisons had fax machines. Meanwhile, leading Western analysts are saying the defection of Mr. Sharif indicates the beginning of the end for Al Qaeda.

Read On...

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