http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/terrorists/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:50:51 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417800/posts The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a list of terrorist who have been indicted by Federal Grand Juries. Under the Rewards for Justice program, rewards up to $25 million are offered for information that prevents or favorably resolves acts of international terrorism against U.S. persons or property worldwide. Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417800/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:50:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417697/posts The congressional pork barrel comes before public safety While a terrorist was plotting to kill Americans over the Christmas holidays, what was the Federal Aviation Administration doing? Why, spending $5 million on a three-week-long Christmas party, of course. A series of seminars in Atlanta officially were aimed at training managers on a new air-traffic-controller contract but degenerated into one big bash. According to ABC News, the seminars didn't even cover half of the 100 new provisions in a contract that went into effect two months ago. Wahington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417697/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:27:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417641/posts Hundreds of al-Qaeda militants are planning terror attacks from Yemen, the country’s Foreign Minister said today. Abu Bakr al-Qirbi appealed for more help from the international community to help to train and equip counter-terrorist forces. His plea came after an al-Qaeda group based in Yemen claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Day airliner bomb plot. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, alleged to be behind the attempt to blow up an American-bound aircraft, spent time in Yemen with al-Qaeda and was in the country only days before the failed attack. Dr. al-Qirbi said, "Of course there are a number of al-Qaeda operatives in... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417641/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:16:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417308/posts Security: Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the attempted destruction of Flight 253 were released from Guantanamo two years ago. The case for indefinite detention has been made once again, and not in Illinois. Sometimes America's chickens do come home to roost. In a statement released Monday, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which counts among its leadership two former Guantanamo detainees, claimed responsibility for the attempted destruction of Northwest Airlines Flight 253. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the crotch bomber, told FBI agents he was trained for his Christmas Day mission in Yemen by top leaders of the group who provided... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417308/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:44:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416927/posts Sen. Joe Lieberman, to his credit KNOWS the importance of going after terrorists and terrorism. Senator Joe Lieberman seems to understand the gravity of the situation. Get them before they get us. The terrorists are not suspects and their acts are not alledged, they are intent on killing all of us. Joe knows this not because he is a wicked smahhhht analyst. He knows it because they have told us so. He begins by asking the President to keep GITMO open. Not a bad idea. http://www.radioviceonline.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416927/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:40:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416900/posts The case of the alleged Christmas bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is being called a massive intelligence failure. And the evidence thus far does suggest a possible lapse in the government's management of terrorist watch lists. But if so, the blame doesn't lie wholly with government agencies charged with maintaining the lists. Some share of responsibility lies with civil libertarian extremists who have ceaselessly lambasted the entire no-fly system. The Bush administration was subjected to withering criticism for the way it managed the no-fly list. The American Civil Liberties Union put the system on its own list of the "Top Ten... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416900/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:06:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416822/posts A Yemeni al Qaeda faction -- whose masterminds had been released from Guantanimo Bay -- claimed responsibility yesterday for orchestrating the bungled Christmas Day terror attack aboard a Detroit-bound jet. Said Ali al Shihri and Muhammad al Awfi were captured in Afghanistan in late 2001, ABC News reported. They were freed from Gitmo in November 2007 and promptly took up arms again against the United States after completing a bizarre "art-rehabilitation therapy" program in Saudi Arabia as a condition of their release. "The so-called rehabilitation programs are a joke," a US diplomat told ABC. NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416822/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:23:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416821/posts Call them Jihad Jockeys. These are the explosives-packed underpants worn by Umar Farouk Adbulmutallab (here in a mug shot released yesterday by the US Marshals Service) when he tried to bring down a flight over Detroit - and managed only to set his crotch on fire. The frighty whities came with a special pouch sewn by al Qaeda's finest seamstresses. In it was a condom packed with 80 grams of PETN, a compound that's a key ingredient in the plastic explosive Semtex. The suicide bomber tried to set it off by using a hypodermic needle to inject it with a... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416821/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:10:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416575/posts Somali pirates holding a Chinese cargo ship and its crew of 25 said Sunday they would release the vessel after collecting a ransom of 3.5 million dollars (2.2 million euros) later in the day. The bulk carrier Dexinhai, owned by Qingdao Ocean Shipping, was seized on October 18 northeast of the Seychelles as it was sailing to India from South Africa with a cargo of coal. It was subsequently taken to the Somali coast, between the pirate lairs of Harardere and Hobyo, where it laid at anchor with other captured vessels and negotiations on its fate began. "We have been... Terra Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416575/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:15:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416443/posts (CNSNews.com) – Rep. Don Manzullo (R-Ill.) said last week he was “shocked” to hear a senior Department of Defense official agree with him that the administration’s plan to move detainees of Guantanamo Bay to Thomson, Ill., would pose an increased security risk. At a press conference in the House of Representatives, Manzullo said the official “agreed with me there would be an increased security risk to northwest Illinois, but he had no way of estimating the extent of this threat.” CNSNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416443/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:31:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416159/posts CAIRO — An Al-Qaeda operative in Yemen threatened the United States and said “we are carrying a bomb” in a video posted online four days before the botched Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight. The video does not contain any clear evidence that the speaker was anticipating Friday’s attempt, but it has attracted scrutiny because of reports that the bombing plot may have originated in Yemen. The 23-year-old Nigerian man accused in the attack claimed he received training and instructions from al-Qaida operatives there, U.S. law enforcement officials said, and a key American lawmaker has said... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416159/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:39:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416134/posts VS. WHO: Yeffet Isaac, Former Director of El-Al Airlines Security -VS.- Ibrahim Hooper Executive Director of C.A.I.R.WHAT: A Well Overdue DEBATEWHEN: As Soon As PossibleWHERE: LIVE NATIONWIDE on American TV, CNN, FOX, Major Networks, Radio Stations, NPR, etc., With Studio Audience Able to Ask QuestionsWHY: America dodged a major bullet on Christmas Day in Detroit. Reports are that additional terrorist acts involving US airliners are probably on the way. El-Al has a clean record of never being attacked by Islamist Extremists. C.A.I.R. has stated that the US should not, at all costs, racially and religiously profile passengers in the... AmericanInTokyo proposal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416134/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:30:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416080/posts THE THWARTED Christmas Day airplane bombing raises three causes for alarm. First, it illustrates a screening system that remains porous enough to let a suspect board with the same explosive shoe-bomber Richard Reid attempted to use in 2001. Second, it exposes a terrorism bureaucracy too clumsy to catapult the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, at least to a higher level of preflight scrutiny after his father came forward with warnings that he might pose a danger. Third, if it is true that the suspect received explosives training from al-Qaeda in Yemen, the incident underscores the emergence of that troubled nation as... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416080/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:51:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415909/posts HONOLULU — The United States is strongly condemning the violence in Iran, offering its support to those who seek universal rights. National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer on Sunday denounced Tehran's "unjust suppression of civilians" in a crackdown that has killed at least four people, including the nephew of an opposition leader. Hammer says governing through fear and violence is not just. Hammer quoted President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, saying "it is telling when governments fear the aspirations of their own people more than the power of any other nation."Witnesses and opposition Web sites said Iranian... The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415909/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:39:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415875/posts If you research the lifestyle of a great percentage of the Yemenize people, you will see promptly a normal activity is go chew "qat" (cat) every afternoon enmasse. This has an aphetamine type effect on the chewer and it is known to have a variety of disabling diseases, such as heart disease. Some drink alcohol with it. It's perfectly legal in their country. That may be why the first "terrorist" was so unemotional during the flight. As long as these people have easy access to all kinds of drugs and use them repeatedly, how can we expect to bring any... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415875/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:14:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415609/posts When former President George W. Bush spoke to terrorists his message was simple and clear: We will hunt you down and kill you! Period, end of story. W’s “clenched fist” kept America safe for nearly eight years following the 9.11 attack. Regrettably, since Barack Obama was sworn is at the 44th U.S. President, the message to terrorists is: Unclench your fists and let us talk. Terrorists will be treated with the same dignity and politically correct manners afforded any American citizen... CFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415609/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:41:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415319/posts Father reported him to US Authorities six months ago The young man, who yesterday night attempted to ignite an explosive device aboard a Delta Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan in the United States has been identified as Abdul Farouk Umar Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old son of Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, former First Bank chairman. Mutallab, a former minister and prominent banker recently retired from the bank's board. The older Mutallab, as at the time of filing this report, had just left his Katsina hometown for Abuja to speak with security agencies, family sources say. According to the family members, Mutallab... This Day http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415319/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:45:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415384/posts "Suddenly, we hear a bang. It sounded like a firecracker went off," said Jasper Schuringa, a film director who was traveling to the US to visit friends. "When [it] went off, everybody panicked ... Then someone screamed, ‘Fire! Fire!’" Schuringa, sitting in seat 20J, in the right-most section of the Airbus 330, looked to his left. "I saw smoke rising from a seat ... I didn’t hesitate. I just jumped," he said. Schuringa dove over four passengers to reach Abdul Mutallab’s seat. The suspect had a blanket on his lap. "It was smoking and there were flames coming from beneath... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415384/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:16:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415377/posts ISLAMABAD (AP) ― Police are trying to determine whether five Americans detained in Pakistan had planned to attack a complex that houses nuclear power facilities, authorities said Saturday. The young Muslim men, who are from the Washington, D.C., area, were picked up in Pakistan earlier this month in a case that has spurred fears that Westerners are traveling to the South Asian country to join militant groups. Pakistani police and government officials have made a series of escalating and, at times, seemingly contradictory allegations about the men's intentions, while U.S. officials have been far more cautious, though they, too, are... WCBSTV.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415377/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:06:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414732/posts Radical Islam is on the march inside the United States. At the same time that the U.S. government is spending billions trying to dig Islamic radicals out of basements and caves in Iraq and Afghanistan, radical Islam is making dramatic strides inside the United States and nobody seems to care much at all. Not only has a brand new mosque been constructed just steps from Ground Zero in New York City, but now there are reports of Islamic child weddings in Nashville and of a network of militant Islamic training compounds across the United States that appear to operate with... The End Of The World http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414732/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:24:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413994/posts Quite intentionally, the Obama administration is making so many radical moves on so many different fronts simultaneously that it's difficult to stay on top of them all, much less give them the attention they deserve. But while we argue health care and Iran policy and a civilian trial for KSM and the decision to transfer enemy combatants to a U.S. prison, it's important to notice how dangerously irresponsible the administration's obsession to close Gitmo has become, and how tawdry the Justice Department is allowing itself to appear. Not content with the Friday bad-news dump, the administration announced on the Sunday... NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413994/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:43:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413870/posts Rebuffed this month by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money to replace the Guantánamo Bay prison. As a result, officials now believe that they are unlikely to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and transfer its population of terrorism suspects until 2011 at the earliest — a far slower timeline for achieving one of President Obama’s signature national security policies than they had previously hinted. While Mr. Obama has acknowledged that he would miss the Jan. 22 deadline for closing the... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413870/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:51:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413823/posts WASHINGTON — Rebuffed this month by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money to replace the Guantánamo Bay prison. As a result, officials now believe that they are unlikely to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and transfer its population of terrorism suspects until 2011 at the earliest — a far slower timeline for achieving one of President Obama’s signature national security policies than they had previously hinted. While Mr. Obama has acknowledged that he would miss the Jan. 22 deadline for... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413823/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:00:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413028/posts "Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."--Gustave Flaubert Don't get me wrong. I am not happy, nor ignorant or naive about what is going on in Washington. If not for my Faith I would be a decidedly bitter creature this Christmas. So allow me to illumine a small ray of hope. This drunk-on-power cabal we call our representatives, these men and women so obviously impressed by their own words and grandiosity will be a collective, nameless speck--a sideshow --when our history is written. Our president, on the other hand, will be front and center. Recall: In... Constitutional Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413028/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:27:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412498/posts The U.S. is reaching out to followers of a key Shi'ite cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, whose militia once battled U.S. troops and who remains a powerful leader, particularly among Iraq's urban poor. A top Sadrist political leader in Baghdad, Qusay al-Suhail, told The Washington Times that he and his colleagues have been approached five times in the last five months by emissaries seeking to arrange meetings with senior U.S. military and civilian officials at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. "Yes, the Americans tried to talk to me and other Sadrists several times," Mr. al-Suhail said. "They try to talk to us... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412498/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:47:59 GMT