http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/waronterror/ en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:15:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051515/posts Sen. Obama's delivered a crucial speech in Berlin on July 24. Find the missing words. This is the moment when we must defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it. This threat is real and we cannot shrink from our responsibility to combat it. If we could create NATO to face down the Soviet Union, we can join in a new and global partnership to dismantle the networks that have struck in Madrid and Amman; in London and Bali; in Washington and New York. If we could win a battle of ideas against the communists, we... Israel Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051515/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:15:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2051517/posts It is refreshing to see that our British friends are waking up. They are slowly losing their culture and country because of the United Kingdoms open door immigration policy. Which results in mass immigration of a group of people who go there with no intention of assimilating or working. They just head there to suck up welfare, housing and try and impose Islam on the Brits. Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2051517/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:17:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2051312/posts Gitmo Merry-Go-Round by: Emily Miller, July 25, 2008 The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) held a congressional hearing last week to revisit Guantanamo policies in the wake of Boumediene v. Bush, a recent Supreme Court decision that extends habeas corpus rights to detainees in Guantanamo Bay. Co-Chairman Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) says that in light of Boumediene the U.S. should “reopen entirely the question of how we handle terrorism suspects.” Calling Guantanamo a “lightning rod for international human rights criticism of the United States,” he encourages the U.S. to look abroad to see how... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2051312/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:14:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051002/posts     Major gongs for heroic Our Boys   Award ... Captain Paul Britton is congratulated by Major General Gary Robison    By TOM NEWTON DUNN Defence Editor Published: Today     AN Army officer who led a battle despite a lump of burning shrapnel in his shoulder was one of 19 forces heroes awarded the Military Cross yesterday.   Praise ... Lieutenant General Graeme Lamb  Captain Paul Britton, 28, refused morphine so he could control artillery and air strikes to beat off Taliban attackers in Helmand province, Afghanistan. The Royal Artillery officer was wounded by a rocket-propelled grenade... The Sun (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051002/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:21:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050864/posts Barack Obama recently gave an address on the Iraq war. It was a bizarre speech, as if it had been written two years ago, when it would have made more sense. Liberals ought to hate the speech. It will make their side vulnerable to the common conservative charge that they ignore crucial facts in favor of manufacturing their own reality. The crucial facts in this case – absent two years ago – which have been emphasized repeatedly in recent months even by such bibles of the left as The New York Times and the Washington Post, is that the reconstruction... Jewish Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050864/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:50:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050693/posts <p>A fallen soldier returned home to a hero’s welcome Wednesday.</p> <p>The body of Cpl. Matthew Phillips arrived Wednesday morning at 9:35 a.m. at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport in Gainesville aboard a chartered jet from Dover Air Force Base.</p> <p>It was met by an honor guard from the U.S. Army, which placed the casket into a waiting hearse for the trip to a funeral home in Cumming where his body will lie in repose until a funeral on Saturday.</p> Gainesville Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050693/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:45:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050493/posts Two years ago, we wrote about "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against The West." This awarding-winning flim uses images from Arab TV rarely seen in the West to provide an inside view of the hatred Islamic Radicals are teaching, their incitement of global jihad, and their goal of world domination. It also pointed to parallels between the Islamic Radicals and the Nazi movement. The folks who brought us "Obsession" are attempting to revive attention to the film and to the issues it raised. Their efforts are certainly timely. As Gregory Ross of the Clarion Fund, points out, recent events in Lebanon... Power Line Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050493/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:29:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050384/posts Another one of our so called "allies" show us they are just like the rest of the Islamic world. Lets look at this long term. If nothing changes and other religions like Christianity and Judaism are not allowed to flourish in Islamic countries and Muslims are allowed to freely practice Islam in our countries while building an endless number of Mosques in our countries, it is just a matter of time until they dominate the world. Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050384/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:08:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049531/posts The son of Egyptian and Palestinian parents who raised their son on a steady diet of anti-Western mantra, the Holy blessings of the act of martyrdom, and other radical Islamic virtues, Khadr was captured by U.S. troops far from his Toronto home..... The Moderate Separatist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049531/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:42:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048853/posts Welcome to your Monday morning blood-boiler. The NY Post reports that a jihadi group in NYC planning on running a series of subway ads is led by a Muslim imam tied to the terror plot to bomb the city’s landmarks. Submission: Allah board!An Islamic group plans to blitz 1,000 subway cars with advertisements this September in a campaign being promoted by a Brooklyn imam whom federal officials have linked to a plot to blow up city landmarks.The group says its mission is to explain the true nature of Islam to non-Muslims who believe the religion is bent on acts of... michellemalkin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048853/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:54:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048842/posts MUSLIM SUBWAY ADS LINKED TO TERROR PLOTS - New York Post Jul 21, 2008 ... An Islamic group plans to blitz 1000 subway cars with advertisements this September in a campaign being promoted by a Brooklyn imam whom ... nypost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048842/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:39:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048799/posts Coalition special forces teams, likely the terrorist hunter-killer teams of Task Force 88, have captured a Hezbollah Brigades propaganda specialist during a raid in New Baghdad. The propaganda specialist was positively identified by his wife after the raid, and he later admitted to his role in seeding websites with attack videos Long War Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048799/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:14:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048835/posts The Pakistani Stumbling Block by: Rachel Paulk, July 21, 2008 The largest obstacle facing the NATO troops in Afghanistan is Pakistan. Afghanistan’s most volatile area is its porous northeastern border with Pakistan because the mountainous terrain prohibits enforcement of a secure border between the two countries. This terrain also provides safe breeding ground for the terrorist organizations forced to relocate. Osama bin Laden hid in this area following the Taliban’s removal from serious control of the country after the September 11, 2001 attacks. On the other side of the border, Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) contains poor ethnic tribes... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048835/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:23:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048001/posts Nathan Whitling and Dennis Edney, who are representing Omar Khadr, a 16-year old Canadian being held at Guantánamo Bay, released 10-minutes of snippets from videotaped interrogations by Canadian Security Intelligence Services agents “with hopes that public reaction to the footage will prompt Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to lobby for his repatriation” reports The New York Times. “The video was made public under Canadian court orders … after intelligence reports made public last week showed Khadr was abused in detention at the U.S. naval base.” Abused? Puhleeze! The Stiletto has watched more brutal questioning on “Homicide: Life on the Street.”... Blogger News Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048001/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:34:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047968/posts Jerry Boykin had lost 15 pounds in the grueling Delta Force selection process, but he faced one more ordeal: a one-on-one interview with an overweight Army psychologist. “Could you spend several days alone in a sniper position with a homosexual?” the psychologist asked. Boykin had to think about that one. Finally, he replied, “If it was my mission, I could. But he’d better understand that I’m not like that.” The story is from the retired three-star general’s book “Never Surrender: A Soldier’s Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom.” The book’s release date is July 29. Boykin spent most... The Fayetteville Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047968/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:57:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047406/posts There is by now only one constant in the entire sad Iraqi saga since the brilliant three-week victory of 2003, and the subsequent violent reconstruction that followed. In our collective exasperation almost all the bad news from the front is due to someone else’s stupidity; any good reports are always the result of one’s own insight and sobriety. The result is irony, but also amnesia about what was written and said in the recent past. Consider the paradoxes we’ve witnessed. We were paralyzed for a year over Ambassador Joe Wilson’s carnival-like mission, in part due to the prompt of his... NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047406/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:45:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046310/posts A school district near Austin, TX wants to name a new high school there Vandegrift High School after a fallen Marine who graduated in 1999. He was killed in Iraq serving his country, and the local school board voted to name a new high school after him. This is a great gesture of appreciation. But unfortunately some lunatic leftists are protesting this decision. Please contact the Leander ISD to let them know you support their decision, despite what a vocal, anti-American minority of fringe activists think. Call the school district at 512-434-5000. Fax a letter to them at 512-434-5398. Email... The Conservative Revolution http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046310/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:41:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046198/posts I got married last week. Hence my absence from this space for the first time in seven years. It was a beautiful wedding in Acre, Israel, overlooking the ocean at sunset. My father wrote the music for the processional, which brought everyone to tears. My bride looked stunning, of course. We broke the glass, we danced, we ate and we celebrated until deep into the night. Outside the wedding hall stood a guard. Every wedding in Israel requires an armed guard to prevent terrorist attacks. Only the armed guards prevent the infliction of mass casualties at joyous events; only the... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046198/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:29:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046188/posts Omar Khadr, a Canadian detainee accused of killing an American soldier during a firefight in 2002, is seen both sobbing and angry in the seven and a half hours of poor quality video issued by his lawyers. Khadr, 21, describes mistreatment at the hands of American guards. But his main complaint, of damaged eyesight, dates from the shoot out with a US patrol in Afghanistan. In one segment he repeatedly cries: "Help me." Khadr, who played in Osama bin Laden's private compounds as a child, was 15 when he was arrested and 16 when the Canadian agents were granted access... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046188/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:37:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2046162/posts Well, there is a shred of common sense left in the U.K. Now if they would only end all Muslim immigration. Hopefully this is a step in that direction for our British friends. British parliament bans military wing of Hezbollah from UK for supporting militants Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2046162/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:24:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2045963/posts Just a few months after the top judge in the U.K. says that Muslims should be allowed to live under some aspects of Sharia law , a Muslim preacher is calling for full Sharia law within the Kingdom. What people like Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips do not understand is that once even one aspect of Sharia is allowed, Pandora's Box has been opened. Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2045963/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:09:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045762/posts Return to the Article July 15, 2008Memory and the LeftBy J.R. Dunn It's difficult to avoid exasperation over the left's absolute refusal to acknowledge the new realities of the Iraq war. The surge, the Anbar awakening, the collapse of the militias (particularly that belonging to everybody's favorite would-be caliph, Moqtada al-Sadr) -- it's as if none of it ever happened, as if one the most impressive turnabouts in modern military annals never took place. The left, including its Democratic political wing and placeholders in the media, continue on with the same defeatist drone that we've heard since 2003, concentrating... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045762/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:34:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045658/posts A court in Stuttgart has convicted and sentenced three Iraqis for the attempted murder of former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. They had planned to attack him during a trip to Berlin in 2004. After a two-year trial, three Iraqi men accused of plotting to kill former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi during an official Berlin visit were handed hefty sentences by a German court on Tuesday. Spiegel Online International http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045658/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:41:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045235/posts This is an excerpt and link: "In war there is no second prize for the runner-up" General Omar N. Bradley Advertisement During the past several years, the Bush administration has been subjected to a vitriolic assault, from the usual suspects, about the Iraq war and the Global War on Terror. There are a few things worth mentioning about this criticism. First, these critics are only some, not all, of the groups they purport to represent. Second, nearly every one of them has a credibility problem. Finally, and most importantly, is the absolute refusal by the Bush administration to respond to... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045235/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:24:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043956/posts The body of Alex R. Jimenez, a Lawrence-based soldier who was kidnapped more than a year ago, has been found in Iraq in a tragic ending to a family's wrenching hope for his return. Jimenez's father, Ramon "Andy'' Jimenez, was notified by Army servicemen who came to his home yesterday that his son's body was found two days ago by Iraqi authorities, who contacted their American counterparts. The elder Ramirez, who had held out hope that he would one day see his son's return, seemed to come to terms with the news. "It comforts you when you accept something, and... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043956/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:05:22 GMT