http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/terrorists/ en-us Sat, 4 Jul 2009 06:09:14 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285293/posts American engineers who serve as consultants for the Egyptian military have recently informed Israel that Hamas has succeeded in digging 60-meter deep smuggling tunnels to avoid detection and destruction by the IDF, defense officials said on Thursday. The American engineers, deployed as consultants along the Philadelphi Corridor in Egyptian Rafah, have been using technology that can detect seismic movements to uncover tunnels. But it is more difficult to detect them once they have reached the 60-meter depth, the engineers told their Israeli counterparts. According to IDF assessments, Hamas now has several hundred active tunnels under the Philadelphi Corridor, even though... JPost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285293/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 06:09:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284957/posts Two of the District's top law enforcement officials are warning that dozens of federal prisoners with ties to Colombian rebel groups and international drug rings are a threat to security at the D.C. Jail and pose a risk of escape into the surrounding neighborhood. The concerns have led city officials to ask the federal government for more money to provide security for the increasing numbers of prisoners, who are being held at the District's corrections campus in Southeast. Devon Brown, director of the D.C. Department of Corrections (DOC), outlined concerns about such prisoners in a U.S. District Court filing last... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284957/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 17:45:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284739/posts Barack Hussein Obama has the blood of American soldiers on his hands. A fine way to say Happy Fourth of July to our troops. Barack the magic president used the distraction of the troop pullout in Iraq to hide the fact that he traded the murderer of five US soldiers for the bodies of five British troops. He released his brother just because. Happy Independence day. The Cypress Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284739/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:07:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284658/posts On Jan. 20, 2007, five American soldiers were killed and three seriously wounded in Iraq. As Bill Roggio relates at the Long War Journal, it was a daring operation: a twelve-man terrorist team disguised as U.S. servicemen attacked our troops as they held a previously arranged meeting with local officials in Karbala. Four of the soldiers were alive when they were abducted from the scene. They were handcuffed and murdered in a remote location when the coalition forces attempting to rescue them closed in. ... That President Obama has exchanged a terrorist for hostages is now obvious, as should be... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284658/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:18:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283960/posts KABUL, Afghanistan -- The U.S. military said today that insurgents have capture an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan. Spokeswoman Capt. Elizabeth Mathias said the soldier went missing Tuesday. LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283960/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:08:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283544/posts It’s a frequent scene in television crime dramas: Clever police technicians zoom in on a security camera video to read a license plate or capture the face of a hold-up artist. But in real life, enhancing this low-quality video to focus in on important clues hasn’t been an easy task - until now. Tel Aviv University Prof. Leonid Yaroslavsky and his colleagues have developed a new video “perfection tool” to help investigators enhance raw video images and identify suspects. Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283544/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 20:27:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2281334/posts *snip* Bill Ayers is now a distinguished professor of education and a senior university scholar at the University of Illinois, Chicago. *snip* Bernardine Dohrn is an associate professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the director of Northwestern’s Children and Family Justice Center. Well, Democracy Now!’s Juan Gonzalez ((an ADMITTED fellow SDS terrorist)) and I spoke with both of them from a studio in their hometown of Chicago. In a wide-ranging conversation, we discussed the McCain campaign attacks, President-elect Obama, the Weather Underground, their plans for the future and much more. I began by asking Bill Ayers... Democracy Now http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2281334/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:40:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2280718/posts In an an interview with Patt Morrison in the Op-Ed Section of today's edition of the Los Angeles Times, California House Speaker Ms. Karen Bass brands conservative talk-radio as "terrorists" Here's the relevant excerpt. For full interview click on URL. Q: How do you think conservative talk radio has affected the Legislature's work? Speaker Bass: A "The Republicans were essentially threatened and terrorized against voting for revenue. Now [some] are facing recalls. They operate under a terrorist threat: "You vote for revenue and your career is over." I don't know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist. I... LATimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2280718/posts#comment Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:06:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280383/posts First broken a few hours ago by WaPo, now confirmed by the AP, a little Friday evening care package from The One while the media’s busy obsessing over Jacko and cap ‘n trade. Do bear in mind that, contrary to leftist talking points, it’s not just the fact that some of the evidence against these turds was obtained through “torture” that makes them untriable in regular courts. Other evidence is either classified or was obtained from foreign intel — points that WaPo, to its credit, acknowledges but which our nutroots superiors tend to gloss over. "Such an order would embrace... Hotair http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280383/posts#comment Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:46:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280199/posts Terrorists Keep U.S. Aviation Licenses Last Updated: Fri, 06/26/2009 - 3:28pm At least half a dozen men suspected or convicted of terrorism have been allowed by the U.S. government to keep their federal aviation licenses, including two who appear on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List and a Libyan sentenced to nearly three decades in prison by a Scottish court for the 1980s bombing of an American airliner.Reported by a major newspaper this week, the appalling story illustrates the government’s never ending incompetence when it comes to national security. This, despite strict antiterrorism measures enacted after the September 2001... JudicialWatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280199/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:51:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280032/posts The Obama Administration has betrayed this nation’s servicemen and women. They have sold our soldiers lives for a pittance for short term political expediency. Sold so cheaply in fact, that the heinous crimes of kidnapping, torture and murder, are forgotten, its perpetrators set free to appease terrorists and their masters. By their actions the Obama administration has set the stage for the killing of more brave young Americans and countless innocents. A recent article on the National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy entitled “Negotiating with Terrorists” outlines the outrageous actions of this President and his cabinet. It should bring... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280032/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:57:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278229/posts On Jan. 20, 2007, five American soldiers were killed and three seriously wounded in Iraq. As Bill Roggio relates at the Long War Journal, it was a daring operation: a twelve-man terrorist team disguised as U.S. servicemen attacked our troops as they held a previously arranged meeting with local officials in Karbala. Four of the soldiers were alive when they were abducted from the scene. They were handcuffed and murdered in a remote location when the coalition forces attempting to rescue them closed in. ... That President Obama has exchanged a terrorist for hostages is now obvious, as should be... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278229/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:10:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276089/posts WHILE President Obama’s future vision of “a world with no nuclear weapons” is certainly laudable, for the present America still needs to do everything it can to prevent a terrorist from detonating such a bomb on our soil. The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, part of the Department of Homeland Security, is in charge of developing a worldwide nuclear-detection system that, primarily, would use technology to monitor vehicles and shipping containers along the various transportation networks by which nuclear weapons could be smuggled into America. Yet the Government Accountability Office found last year that the detection office “lacks an overarching strategic... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276089/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:17:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275019/posts JERUSALEM -- A new poll shows only 6 percent of Israeli Jews see President Barack Obama's administration as pro-Israel, while 50 percent see it as pro-Palestinian. That is a dramatic change from the previous U.S. administration of George W. Bush, which 88 percent termed "pro-Israel" and just 2 percent labeled pro-Palestinian. Many Israelis reject Obama's call for a total settlement freeze and have come to see him as overly sympathetic to Palestinian claims. Fox News Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275019/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:29:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2274347/posts Today I had the honor and privilege of joining other family members and victims of terrorism in meeting with members of the Guantanamo Review Task Force and the Detention Policy Task Force at the Department of Justice. I learned a lot about what our new President is doing and what he has the members of the task forces working on. After doing my own research and listening to the others present today I do not believe that there is a valid reason to close Guantanamo Bay. We are at WAR with TERRORISTS. OUR CONGRESS enacted the Military Commissions Act of... 911FamiliesForAmerica.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2274347/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:33:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274251/posts The Justice Department confirmed last week that FBI agents in Afghanistan are reading Miranda warnings to suspected terrorists captured there, a practice that Republican congressmen this week branded as "crazy" and "stupid." Miranda warnings were mandated by a U.S. Supreme Court decision that said domestic law enforcement agencies must inform criminal suspects arrested in the United States of their rights under the 5th Amendment. "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law," says the typical Miranda warning. "You have the right to an attorney present during... CNSNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274251/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:46:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273843/posts Relevant Excerpt: On Tuesday two protesters told The Jerusalem Post that Palestinian Hamas members are helping the Iranian authorities crush street protests in support of Mousavi. They made their allegations as rioting on a scale unseen in Iran for nearly a decade continued in the wake of the elections and the allegations that the results were falsified. The protests have now spread from Teheran to other major cities. * * * Hamas formally welcomed incumbent Ahmadinejad's ostensible reelection victory on Saturday. The Palestinian Islamist movement receives arms and funding from Iran, and its members have often received training there, including... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273843/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:51:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273549/posts McCain explicitly included the Fifth Amendment in his legislation because it addresses his target, coercive interrogation. As we’ve seen, in Dickerson, the Supreme Court held that Miranda was now considered part of the Fifth Amendment’s core. In the al-Owhali case, Judge Sand ruled that Miranda imposes daunting burdens on American agents overseas — burdens far more challenging than the rote reading of an advice-of-rights card that typically happens in domestic policing. With the Supreme Court, beginning in 2004, imposing more and more criminal-justice procedure on the battlefield, the McCain Amendment would almost certainly be used by courts or a Democratic... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273549/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:32:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273240/posts Hundreds of demonstrators protesting against the transfer of four Guantanamo Bay inmates to Bermdua branded their prime minister Ewert Brown a "dictator" and demanded he step down after negotiating a secret deal witht he United States. About 600 people gathered outside Parliament in Hamilton, the island's capital, chanting "Brown must go" and waving banners as they marched to the Cabinet office. But Mr Brown was defiant. "As some of you might know, I grew up in the protest era," he shouted at the booing crowd. "This is nothing new to me. I have seen them larger and longer," he said.... The London Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273240/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:06:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273177/posts Very quickly after the Nairobi bombing, FBI agents and their Kenyan counterparts picked up and questioned Mohamed Rasheed Daoud al-Owhali, a Saudi national pretending to be a Yemeni of a different name. Though the lead that had prompted their desire to question al-Owhali was only one of hundreds, agents became increasingly convinced — over two weeks of intermittent questioning — that he was a college-educated al-Qaeda operative, well-schooled in counter-interrogation techniques, who was complicit in the atrocity. In fact, he had been the main bomber, helping drive the explosives-laden truck to the detonation site at the embassy. Finally he confessed,... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273177/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:49:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273040/posts It shouldn't come as a complete surprise that, as Stephen Hayes reported in The Weekly Standard, detainees in Afghanistan are now being advised of their Miranda rights by American interrogators -- that they have a right to be silent, a right to a lawyer, a right to have that lawyer paid for, etc. This is, after all, a logical extension of Bush administration critics' insistence that such detainees -- though unlawful combatants under the Geneva Conventions -- must be given every jot and tittle of the rights civilian Americans enjoy on American soil. It's nonetheless news, if only because Barack... townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273040/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:51:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273029/posts In Washington today and tomorrow, the DOJ's Office of Justice for Victims of Overseas Terrorism (OVT) is briefing American family members of those murdered by terrorists, as well as those injured during terrorist attacks. The stated purpose of the briefing is to: ...[offer] those interested the opportunity to meet task force members, hear an overview of task force work, and express views about the policy questions the Detention Policy Task Force is studying. Please click on the link for the Detention Policy Task Force to see some of the questions that the task force is considering. ... For those unable... 911FamiliesForAmerica.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273029/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:41:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272515/posts YALA, Thailand (AFP) — Suspected Muslim militants decapitated a rubber-tapper and displayed his head on a stick outside his house in the latest violence in Thailand's troubled south, police said Monday. The attack comes amid a recent spike in bloodshed in the restive Muslim-majority region bordering Malaysia, where more than 3,700 people have been killed during a bitter five-year insurgency. Police said the 53-year-old victim's body was found with the head, hands and lower legs removed at his makeshift house on a rubber plantation in volatile Yala province on Monday morning. The attackers stuck his head on a stick and... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272515/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:39:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271168/posts RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was honored by the Palestinian government Saturday and pledged to support the Palestinians' campaign for independence to the end of his days. In his acceptance speech, Carter urged the Palestinians to end their internal divisions and stop persecuting their rivals. Seattle PI/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271168/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:41:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271071/posts Oh. Before we begin today's "Bashing Barack," remember that on Wednesday I invited you to create your own Catchy Caption to the photo of Michelle Obama and France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. I am sad to report that an overwhelming number had the "B" word involved and, therefore, cannot be repeated here. The best usable caption was: "I'm just glad she's not looking at me." On to the really amusing stuff: An article in the Weekly Standard maintains that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is being given a broader role in interrogating prisoners taken during raids on terrorist dens in... cnsnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271071/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:52:50 GMT