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Category: Terror War

  • Delays in withdrawal from Iraq

    According to the Guardian, large scale redeployments from iraq may have been put on hold because of the increase in violence there;

    American officials had been prepared for delays in negotiations to form a government, but now appear to have balked after Maliki’s coalition aligned itself with the theocratic Shia bloc to the exclusion of Allawi, who attracted the bulk of the minority Sunni vote. There is also concern over interference from Iraq’s neighbours, Iran, Turkey and Syria.

    Late tonight seven people were killed and 22 wounded when a car bomb planted outside a cafe exploded in Baghdad’s Sadr City, a Shia area, police and a source at the Iraqi interior ministry said.

    The latest bomb highlights how sectarian tensions are rising, as al-Qaida fighters in Iraq and affiliated Sunni extremists have mounted bombing campaigns and assassinations around the country.

    The violence is seen as an attempt to intimidate all sides of the political spectrum and press home the message to the departing US forces that militancy remains a formidable foe.

    The Associated Press reported the other day that the delay may throw the schedule off for a month;

    The first major wave of the pullout is expected to be delayed about a month, until June, the officials told the Associated Press. Waiting longer could endanger President Obama’s goal of reducing the force level from 92,000 to 50,000 servicemembers by Aug. 31.

    Yes, that should be the major concern – making Obama look like he knows what he’s doing. That’s much more important than protecting the force and killing the bad guys who are disrupting the process.

    By the way, is there anyone out there who didn’t see a timetable not working in Iraq? I mean other than the Bush Administration.

  • More Mullah Omar

    In reference to the Mullah Omar Captured? post, Comrade Vinnieovich at The Jawa Report (by way of Ace of Spades) says he has confirmation of Mullah Omar’s capture.

    Jimbo says that if Roggio doesn’t report it, it didn’t happen.

    Do with it what you will.

  • Pakistani held in Chile for traces of explosives in US embassy

    So this Pakistani guy walks into the US Embassy in Santiago and sets off explosives detectors, but I’m sure that’s pretty common. It’s probably not-at-all related to terrorism;

    Embassy detectors were set off by traces of bomb-making substances when Mohammed Saif Ur Rehman went in for an interview, said Mario Schilling, a spokesman for the prosecutor in the case.

    Schilling did not elaborate on what kind of explosives were involved or say whether Rehman, 28, was suspected of any criminal activity.

    U.S. Ambassador Paul Simon told Chile’s radio Cooperativa that it doesn’t seem to have been an attack.

    “It was just traces and they were detected during the interview,” Simon said, referring further questions to police.

    In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the suspect already held a U.S. visa, and had been invited to the Embassy “to clarify the information we had on him.” Crowley declined to say more about that information.

    “Just traces”. See, nothing to worry about. “Just traces” have never been tied to any real explosions. He was probably just building bombs to blow up something not American and forgot to wash his grubby paws. That’s why he was in the Embassy-they have great plumbing.

  • Mullah Omar captured?

    Author Brad Thor is announcing at Big Government that din Laden ally and leader of the Taliban Mullah Omar has been captured.

    Through key intelligence sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan, I have just learned that reclusive Taliban leader and top Osama bin Laden ally, Mullah Omar has been taken into custody.

    On Sunday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on “60 Minutes”;

    “I’m not saying that they’re at the highest levels, but I believe that somewhere in this government are people who know where Usama bin Laden and Al Qaeda is, where Mullah Omar and the leadership of the Afghan Taliban is, and we expect more cooperation to help us bring to justice, capture or kill those who attacked us on 9/11,” she said.

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  • White House finally admits Taliban involvement in Times Square

    We all awake on this Mothers’ Day to discover that the White House finally admits that there was some involvement by the Taliban in the Times Square bombing. From Fox News;

    Despite conflicting claims over the past week from military and law enforcement officials, as well as Taliban leaders, Attorney General Eric Holder and White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said that authorities now believe suspect Faisal Shahzad acted at the direction of the Taliban in Pakistan and was probably funded by them.

    Brennan told “Fox News Sunday” that Shahzad had “extensive interaction” with the group, which he described as virtually “indistinguishable” from Al Qaeda. He said investigators believe the suspect was trained by the militant network.

    The reason that it took so long, is because the administration floated different theories and gauged public opinion on each statement. It took them a week to announce what the whole rest of the world knew from publicly available evidence.

  • Bozell; Shahzad didn’t have a bad hair day

    In a Fox News interview, Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell compares the media’s coverage of the life of the Times Square bomber to Timothy McVeigh;

    Basically, it boils down to the fact that the media did their level best to connect McVeigh to the conservative movement and talk radio while they seem to be trying to distance Shahzad from al Qaeda.

  • “Closing the terror gap”

    I just watched NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg and his Police Chief Ray Kelly lecture Joe Lieberman and the Senate Homeland Security Committee about “closing the terror gap in our gun laws” which, I guess is the new code phrase for “gun control”.

    Apparently, they want the FBI to be able to prevent “potential terrorists” from legally buying guns. How do you identify “potential terrorists” without profiling?

    Since Bloomberg, Kelly and Rep. Peter King were busy profiling white men on Sunday for the failed attack on Saturday, we can be pretty sure they won’t be restricting any real potential terrorists from buying guns.

    Of course, Bloomberg blamed President Bush for not “closing the terror gap”. Yet another thing Bush got right. And oh, how would writing more laws that law enforcement won’t enforce have prevented the failed attack last Saturday?

    It’s like gun control is their answer to everything including unemployment and inflation.

  • “Change our policies”

    Sparky mentioned Rosalyn Carter in the comments below, probably because he saw this interview with her on Fox and Friends. WHile she was hawking her new book, for some reason, Steve Doocy asked her what she thought of the attempted bombing this weekend. When asked why she thought people would want to do this to the US, she responds that people don’t like us for our policies and that we should “change our policies”.

    Yeah, that’s what we’ve done in the last two years and attacks against us have seemed to increase in the number of attempts.

    Doocy says that President Carter didn’t have to worry about terrorism – completely false. Jimmy Carter was the last president to walk down the length of Pennsylvania Avenue for his inauguration – Ronald Reagan had to ride the route in a bulletproof limousine because Jimmy Carter’s policies had been such a failure.