http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/gwot/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:33:14 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418962/posts At the above link is the PDF of the 90-page opinion, which dismisses all charges against all Blackwater defendants. The crucial issue, I think, is that the 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination bars the State not merely from using compelled statements as admissions of wrongdoing, but from using such statements in any manner whatever to shape its case. Judge Urbina: The government used the defendants’ compelled statements to guide its charging decisions, to formulate its theory of the case, to develop investigatory leads and, ultimately, to obtain the indictment in this case. The government’s key witnesses immersed themselves in the... US District Court for the District of Columbia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418962/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:33:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418920/posts Had he not proven incompetent to detonate his lap bomb, Umar Farouk Abdulmullatab would have carried off an air massacre to rival Lockerbie. We would all have ended Christmas day watching TV footage of 300 mangled bodies being picked up around Detroit. The system breakdown was total. His father had reported to the U.S. embassy that Umar had gone extremist, disowned his family and vanished in Yemen. Though the 23-year-old Nigerian had been put on a U.S. terrorist watch list and denied a visa to enter Britain, his U.S. visa was not revoked. Though he had been in Yemen for... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418920/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 14:08:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418831/posts The bombing, just as President Barack Obama's surge is gathering pace, represented the biggest loss of life suffered by the US intelligence agency since an attack in Beirut in 1983. The CIA said on Thursday a further six agents had been injured in the attack. Claiming credit for the attack, a Taliban spokesman said the bomber was "an Afghan national army officer wearing a suicide vest". UK Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418831/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 06:05:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418573/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - The Associated Press has learned that the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and was not searched. A former senior intelligence official says the man was being courted as an informant and that it was the first time he had been brought inside the camp. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418573/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:18:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418288/posts A suicide bomber penetrated a foreign army base in Afghanistan to kill eight U.S. CIA employees on Wednesday, one of the spy agency's largest death tolls, and a separate attack killed four Canadian troops and a journalist. WTAM Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418288/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:35:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417835/posts US Citizens Killed In Afghanistan Eight Americans have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in south-eastern Afghanistan, US officials say. The suicide bomber was wearing an explosive vest as he carried out the attack at a forward operating base in Khost province, CNN reported. Details about the attack are still emerging and it was not clear how many people had been injured. One unnamed US official was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying that all of those killed were civilians. BBCNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417835/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:42:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417493/posts Yemen has said it is not getting enough support from the West to tackle al-Qaeda, as details emerge of the suspected US jet bomber's time there. Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi told the BBC that Yemen had the will and ability to deal with al-Qaeda, but was undermined by a lack of support. He estimated that several hundred al-Qaeda members were operating in Yemen and could be planning more attacks. A Yemen-based branch of the network has claimed it planned the failed attack. BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417493/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:19:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417486/posts The 23-year-old London-educated Nigerian was charged on Saturday in the United States with trying to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 as it approached Detroit from Amsterdam on Christmas Day with almost 300 people on board. The son of a highly respected banker, Abdulmutallab's actions shocked Nigeria's wealthy elite and residents in his family's predominantly Muslim northern hometown of Funtua. "Everyone knew the Mutallabs and the father is honest, generous, helpful and above all a prominent banker. I cannot see why his son should be involved in this act," Funtua resident Ibrahim Bello, 65, said, close to the Mutallab family... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417486/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:29:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417357/posts Date / Time: 12/29/2009 10:00 PM at Jihadi Killer Hour radio. LT Behenna is the US Army officer imprisoned for shooting and killing an AQ terrorist that attacked him. Get the story on Michael, his life, and his current, tragic and unjust imprisonment at the hands of the same system and mentality that brought you Ft. Hood. Keep in mind that Vicki Behenna successfully prosecuted Tim McVeigh for the Oklahoma city bombing, a bombing which killed one of Michael's mentors, when Michael was 11 years old. Call in to speak with her. Get the background, here: http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/12/army-officer-kills-al-qaeda-operative-imprisoned-after-prosecutors-ignore-own-expert-witness/ PatDollard.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417357/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:01:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416824/posts President Obama vowed to track down and destroy terror cells all over the world last night as he finally ended his silence over a failed Christmas Day plot to blow up an American passenger jet. The White House said Mr Obama’s reticence to speak out was designed to reduce the attention focused on an extremist group based in Yemen calling itself al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The Islamist organisation led by a former personal secretary to Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the botched attack in a statement yesterday. The President took a few minutes out of his holiday in... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416824/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:32:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416118/posts PARIS - By claiming to have been equipped and trained in Yemen, the apprentice Nigerian terrorist who tried to blow up an Airbus over the United States last Friday, illustrates the importance of this country for Al-Qaeda, experts say. According to a U.S. federal quoted by CNN, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab (or Oumar Farouk Abdulmutallab), 23, would immediately after his arrest, say acting on behalf of Osama bin Laden and that he had gone for equipment and instruction in Yemen. For Bernard Haykel, a specialist in the Arabian Peninsula at the American University of Princeton, "it is indisputable that Yemen has... ennaharonline (english) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416118/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:50:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416016/posts WASHINGTON — In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against Al Qaeda in Yemen. A year ago, the Central Intelligence Agency sent many field operatives with counterterrorism experience to the country, according a former top agency official. At the same time, some the most secretive Special Operations commandos have begun training Yemeni security forces in counterterrorism tactics, senior military officers said. The Pentagon is spending more than $70 million over the next 18 months, and using teams of Special Forces, to train and equip Yemeni military, Interior Ministry... NYTimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416016/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:27:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415638/posts Senior Obama administration officials have requested that National Security Adviser Uzi Arad explain an Israel Defense Forces raid in Nablus on Saturday during which undercover troops killed three Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorists. Arad shared intelligence with the officials that Israel had received about the militants, who belonged to the military wing of the Western-backed Fatah movement and the details of the operation that led to their deaths. The national security advisor, a key aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stressed that this was a case of self-defense, since the three were behind a terror attack on Thursday in which... Haaretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415638/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:42:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415492/posts WASHINGTON—A 23-year-old Nigerian man was charged in a federal criminal complaint today with attempting to destroy a Northwest Airlines aircraft on its final approach to Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Christmas Day and with placing a destructive device on the aircraft. According to an affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, a Nigerian national, boarded Northwest Flight 253 in Amsterdam, Netherlands on December 24, 2009 and had a device attached to his body. As the flight was approaching Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Abdulmutallab set off the device, which resulted in a fire and what appears to have... detroit.fbi.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415492/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:48:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415449/posts HEADLINE ONLY. Article will be posted when available. The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415449/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:07:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415126/posts Private Bergdahl - assuming he's still alive - is spending Christmas as a captive of the Taliban. His captors spent the last day or two uploading a video showing Private Bergdahl reading a statement. The video was divided into four segments and uploaded to YouTube on 25 December 2009. The YouTube account is: INTERNET HAGANAH.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415126/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:16:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415112/posts Romulus, Mich. - A senior U.S. counterterror official says a passenger aboard a Delta Air Lines flight in Detroit was planning to blow up the plane but the explosive device failed. The official said the passenger was being questioned Friday evening. It was not immediately clear why the passenger wanted to attack the flight that was arriving from Amsterdam Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415112/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:15:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414881/posts SNIPPET: "From Cilacap, Baridin apparently took shelter in Garut district, West Java province, where he acted as a traveling sugar salesman. When he was captured he had a pair of identity cards under aliases." SNIPPET: "Earlier this week, in fact, the newly-promoted head of Special Detachment 88, General Tito Karnavian, stated that there was evidence that the remnants of Jemaah Islamiyah are still attempting to recruit new members despite some of their most aggressive leaders getting killed over the past quarter." December 24, 2009 09:59 AM Print COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414881/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:45:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414836/posts Instead of slogging through everything on my own as usual, Big Hollywood has picked up all 10 episodes of the series for wider distribution, and have assigned their “tech genius” Darren Rush, to get these converted and in shape in full glorious hi-definition so you don’t have to watch the shit version like the one here (though Episode One doesn’t look so bad). We start work today. Thank you Andrew Breitbart and John Nolte. PatDollard.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414836/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:10:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414818/posts SAN'A, Yemen – Yemen's military hit suspected al-Qaida hideouts Thursday and targeted a gathering of top militant leaders, possibly killing a radical cleric linked to the U.S. Army major accused of the Fort Hood mass shooting, in strikes carried out with U.S. intelligence help, officials said. At least 30 militants were believed to be killed in the second such strike in a week. Pentagon officials could not confirm Thursday whether U.S.-born radical cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki was killed in the strike. Al-Awlaki was born in New Mexico and attended Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, before moving in 2002 to... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414818/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:52:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414700/posts SANAA, Yemen -- Yemeni forces, backed by the United States, launched an attack Thursday on a meeting of al-Qaeda operatives where a Yemeni American preacher linked to the suspected gunman in the Fort Hood attacks might have been present, U.S. and Yemeni officials said. The strike on an alleged al-Qaeda hideout in southeastern Yemen killed at least 30 suspected militants and was the second such assault in the past week, according to Yemeni security and government sources. One of the possible meeting participants was Anwar al-Aulaqi, a U.S. citizen and extremist preacher who exchanged e-mails with the Army psychiatrist suspected... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414700/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:19:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414623/posts Yemeni authorities announced an air strike against a meeting of senior Qaeda officials on Thursday morning and raised the possibility that a radical cleric tied to the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings was among those killed. A statement by the Yemeni Embassy in Washington said the strike targeted a gathering of “scores” of Qaeda operatives from Yemen and other countries held in a remote corner southern Yemen, and said the cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, was “presumed” to have been present. It could take days for investigators to sift through the rubble to identify the dead, and intelligence officials in the... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414623/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:27:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414397/posts The radical Muslim imam linked to the rampage at Fort Hood is believed to have been killed in a Yemen airstrike that may have also taken out the region's top Al Qaeda leader and 30 other militants, a security official told Reuters on Thursday. The raid in Yemen's east targeted an Al Qaeda leadership meeting held to organize terror attacks. It is believed to have killed Anwar al-Awlaki and at least two senior members in the organization, including the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414397/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:50:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414450/posts mam tied to Fort Hood shooter "killed" in Yemen raid Thu Dec 24, 3:39 am ET SANAA (Reuters) – A radical Muslim preacher linked by U.S. intelligence to a gunman who killed 13 people at a U.S. Army base is believed to have died in a Yemen airstrike on al Qaeda militants, a security official said on Thursday. "Anwar al Awlaki is suspected to be dead (in the air raid)," said the Yemeni official, who asked not to be identified. Yemen said 30 militants were killed in the strike in the eastern province of Shabwa. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414450/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:36:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414350/posts SNIPPET: "...let's get back to the woeful tale of Bro. Ismail Royer, as presented at the Umar Lee blog:" SNIPPET: "Mr. Royer, formerly associated with CAIR, is currently serving a 20 year sentence for his work on behalf of designated Terrorist group Lashkar e Taiba. Lashkar e Taiba is notable among other things for having killed 171 people in Mumbai in 2008, among many other atrocities." INTERNET HAGANAH.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414350/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:16:03 GMT