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9.11.01

2:47 am EST September 11th, 2010 | History, Terrorism | 57 Comments

Never Forget.

I can’t believe its been 9 years.

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Senior U.S. Commander: Afghanistan Forces At Least A Year Away From Takeover

1:08 am EST August 24th, 2010 | National Security, Terrorism | Comments Off

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A senior U.S. commander on Monday wouldn’t predict when Afghanistan might take control of its own security and warned that NATO needs at least another year to recruit and train enough soldiers and police officers.

The assessment by Lt. Gen. Bill Caldwell, the head of NATO’s training mission in Afghanistan, further dims U.S. hopes that the planned U.S. withdrawal next year will be significant in size.

President Barack Obama has said that troops will begin pulling out in July 2011, the size and pace of withdrawal depending on security conditions. Defense officials, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates, have said they believe next summer’s pullout would be modest.

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VIDEO: Times Square Bomber Faisal Shahzad’s Suicide Tape

4:47 pm EST July 14th, 2010 | Terrorism | 1 Comment

Video from Al-Arabiya shows Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber, vowing “revenge for all the mujahadeen and oppressed Muslims”.

 

Drone Strike Kills Al Qaeda Commander Hussein al-Yemeni

8:53 pm EST March 17th, 2010 | Terrorism | 26 Comments

Predator Drone

Barack Obama appears to be really bad news for Al Qaeda.

A strike by an unmanned drone last week killed a senior Qaeda commander who had played a significant role in planning the killing of Central Intelligence Agency operatives in late December at a base in Afghanistan, according to American officials.

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The official described Mr. Yemeni as an “al Qaeda planner and facilitator” in his late 20s or early 30s, who had established ties with the Haqqani network, which has planned many Taliban attacks in Afghanistan, and with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. His role was described by one American official as a “conduit in Pakistan for funds, messages, and recruits, but his real specialty was bombs and suicide operations.”

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Al-Qaeda “On The Run” Says CIA Chief

4:43 pm EST March 17th, 2010 | Terrorism | 21 Comments

Wait, so Obama’s strategy to hit them in Pakistan and wherever they are seems to be working?

Relentless attacks against al-Qaeda in the Pakistan tribal region appear to have driven Osama bin Laden and other top leaders deeper into hiding, leaving the organization rudderless and incapable of planning sophisticated operations, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Wednesday.

So profound is al-Qaeda’s disarray that one of its lieutenants, in a recently intercepted message, pleaded to bin Laden to come to the group’s rescue and provide some leadership, Panetta told The Washington Post in an interview.

Panetta credited an increasingly aggressive campaign against al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies, including more frequent strikes and better coordination with Pakistan. He called it ‘the most aggressive operation that CIA has been involved in in our history.’

So. A president actually interested in disrupting and fighting Al Qaeda is having some effect? Who would have known?

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Colleen Larose – “Jihad Jane” – Charged With Aiding Terrorists

3:29 pm EST March 9th, 2010 | Terrorism | 11 Comments

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Fox News reporting that a Pennsylvania woman, Colleen Larose, has been charged with aiding terrorists by the Feds…

Authorities are apparently calling Colleen Larose “Jihad Jane”.

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Gadahn NOT Captured

12:11 pm EST March 8th, 2010 | Terrorism | 5 Comments

So that story was totally wrong. Adam Gadahn wasn’t captured, and though the Pakistanis are saying it’s an American, even that’s in question.

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Adam Gadahn, American Al Qaeda, Captured

1:19 pm EST March 7th, 2010 | Terrorism | 10 Comments

Adam Gadahn

According to AP. Apparently he’s under arrest by the Pakistanis. The hits just keep on coming now. It’s like the commander in chief is focused on fighting terrorism or something, and our allies know it.

Adam Gadahn background:

Adam Yahiye Gadahn (Arabic: آدم يحيى غدن‎, Ādam Yaḥyā Ghadan; born Adam Pearlman, September 1, 1978) is an American-born senior operative, cultural interpreter, spokesman and media advisor for the terrorist group Al-Qaeda.

Since 2004, he appeared in a number of videos produced by Al-Qaeda as “Azzam the American” (‘Azzām al-Amrīki, عزام الأمريكي, sometimes transcribed as Ezzam Al-Amerikee). He is believed to have inspired bin Laden’s September 2007 video.

In 2004, he was added to the FBI Seeking Information – War on Terrorism list. On October 11, 2006 he was removed from that list, and placed on the Bureau of Diplomatic Security Rewards for Justice Program list of wanted criminals. On the same day, Gadahn was indicted based on the testimony of the FBI case agent E.J. Hilbert II, in the Southern Division of the United States District Court for the Central District of California by a federal grand jury for the capital crime of treason for aiding an enemy of the United States (i.e. Al-Qaeda). Gadahn is the first American charged with treason since Tomoya Kawakita in 1952.

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The KSM Cave

10:42 am EST March 5th, 2010 | Terrorism | 47 Comments

I don’t know what to think of the idea to retreat to the right on trying Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, other than to say: Stupid. The courts can handle these guys, have handled worse, and we ought to be able to do so without conceding to conservative bed wetting.

Once again Democrats punt on being strong and right.

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The Taliban: Amazingly Incompetent

1:11 pm EST February 26th, 2010 | Terrorism | 13 Comments

That’s all I could think in watching this video from Frontline. A filmmaker went along with a Taliban unit for 10 days in Afghanistan, watching them prep bombs and set up IED attacks versus US and Afghan security forces. Clearly they can occasionally hit their targets, but I think the video shows that the big task we face is finding a way to discredit the concept of jihad.

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