http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/waronterrorism/ en-us Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:49:09 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417009/posts In the wake of the miraculously failed Christmas day Jihadi attack over the skies of Detroit, we are starting to see our governmental mechanisms crank into gear to institute policies to prevent terrorists from attacking us successfully. Never mind that it was that very governmental bureaucracy which enabled the Jihadists to penetrate secure areas with explosives and come close to killing 270 people on Christmas day. It was our incompetent governmental bureaucracies which granted a known Jihadi a visa to enter the United States. It was our governmental bureaucracies which let him get on an airliner without a passport. It... Terror Trends Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417009/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:49:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416278/posts (24/3/09) The Obama administration appears to be backing away from the phrase "global war on terror," a signature rhetorical legacy of its predecessor. In a memo e-mailed this week to Pentagon staff members, the Defense Department's office of security review noted that "this administration prefers to avoid using the term 'Long War' or 'Global War on Terror' [GWOT.] Please use 'Overseas Contingency Operation.' ..." The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416278/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:39:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414788/posts Raw video of scene on the ground inside al-Qaeda operational and training center in Yemen, blasted to smithereens by US and Yemeni forces in the last number of hours. (LINK)al-Jazeera video of al-Qaeda leader (unmasked) giving a rabid speech in response regarding the ramping up of the obliteration of a number of key al-Qaeda in Yemen, including the former Northern Virginia radical Islamist cleric "spiritual" handler of Major Nidal Hasan, Anwar al-Alauqi (apparantly)(LINK) Russia Today and al-Jazeera sites http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414788/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:06:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2393406/posts On September 12, 2001, Americans were nearly unanimous in their belief that terrorism was a very real and serious threat to our country. September 11, 2009, eight years later, after not only no new terrorist attacks on the United States, but some thwarted terrorist activities, we have grown complacent on terrorism, and we have adopted attitudes along the way that are so soft on terrorism that the likelihood of an attack inside the United States is as great today as it was in 2001. Since the eighth anniversary of 9-11 two months ago we may, in fact, have already experienced... Annuit Coeptis http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2393406/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:37:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359913/posts The “Overseas Contingency Program” – more commonly known as the “war on terror” – is back at the center of the political world, thanks to the uncertain prosecution of the war in Afghanistan. As President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Congress and the generals in the field contemplate the damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t consequences of Afghanistan, terror has reappeared in the American vernacular. “America is still a salient target and attractive target for terrorists,” said Paul Pillar, a former senior CIA counter-terrorism official. And while words like “Islamic terrorist,” “jihad” and “Muslim extremist” have been scrubbed from administration chatter, we remain... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359913/posts#comment Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:03:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2330462/posts Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. --George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four It all started earlier this year, when the Director of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, told a German Magazine during an interview: I presume there is always a threat from terrorism. In my speech, although I did not use the word ‘terrorism,’ I referred to ‘man-caused’ disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want... NewsReal Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2330462/posts#comment Wed, 2 Sep 2009 16:48:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2250902/posts “This is not so much a matter of “the people’s right to know” as it is a matter of needlessly endangering the lives of our brave troops — 99% of whom have had no role in any interrogations or allegations of detainee abuse.” See more Obama reversals below Obama - Against the VETS before he was For the VETS! The Daily Change http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2250902/posts#comment Thu, 14 May 2009 16:51:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2227953/posts WASHINGTON – A newly unclassified Department of Homeland Security report warns against the possibility of violence by unnamed "right-wing extremists" concerned about illegal immigration, increasing federal power, restrictions on firearms, abortion and the loss of U.S. sovereignty and singles out returning war veterans as particular threats. The report, titled "Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment," dated April 7, states that "threats from white supremacist and violent anti-government groups during 2009 have been largely rhetorical and have not indicated plans to carry out violent acts." However, the report goes on to suggest worsening economic... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2227953/posts#comment Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:29:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2202285/posts Recent arrests in a mistaken killing point to the perilous presence of gangs The order was clear: Kill the guy in the Astros jersey. But in a case of mistaken identity, Jose Perez ended up dead. The intended target — the Houston-based head of a Mexican drug cartel cell pumping millions of dollars of cocaine into the city — walked away. Perez, 27, was just a working guy, out getting dinner late on a Friday with his wife and young children at Chilos, a seafood restaurant on the Gulf Freeway. His murder and the assassination gone awry point to the... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2202285/posts#comment Mon, 9 Mar 2009 06:30:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179497/posts NEW DELHI (AFP) – India has for the first time directly accused Pakistan's powerful military intelligence agency -- the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) -- of involvement in last year's Mumbai attacks. "The perpetrators planned, trained and launched their attacks from Pakistan, and the organisers were and remain clients and creations of the ISI," Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said in a speech in Paris on Thursday that was picked up by the Indian media. In January, India handed Pakistan what it said was evidence linking "elements" in Pakistan to the November attacks on India's financial capital, in which 10 gunmen killed 165... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179497/posts#comment Fri, 6 Feb 2009 05:35:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163922/posts Reporting from Tyre, Lebanon -- Hiba Qassir dreams of making movies. She's ambitious and precocious enough. At 18, she's taught herself how to edit video and sound on a computer, and has her sights set on directing gripping social and psychological dramas. But if the movie business doesn't work out, that's OK. She has other dreams: perhaps to become a cop or a pilot. Or maybe a suicide bomber. "Martyrdom is the shortest way to heaven, and the history of martyrdom is not like any history," Hiba says. "It made victory. We wouldn't have achieved victory without these martyrdoms." LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163922/posts#comment Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:15:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162104/posts Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2009/01/20090107-4.html For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary January 7, 2009 Remarks by National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley at the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS Washington, D.C. White House News National Security Council In Focus: National Security 10:40 A.M. EST MR. HADLEY: Thank you, John, very much for those kind words. I'm honored to be here at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. I thank you for the research you conduct, the analysis you provide, and the policy ideas that you develop. In less than two weeks, a new... WHITEHOUSE.GOV NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162104/posts#comment Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:59:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154686/posts National Security: If you wonder why the U.S. hasn't had a serious terrorist attack since 9/11, two words should suffice: President Bush. But will his success continue? An alarming new report raises some concerns.Even Bush-bashers, whose numbers these days are legion, must agree that his aggressive vigilance against the terrorist threat has worked. Despite large-scale attacks by fundamentalist Muslim fanatics against London, Mumbai, Bali and other cities, the U.S. has been spared further civilian atrocities. Bush's push for the Patriot Act, his move to try terrorists under military tribunals, and his brave decision to let Gen. David Petraeus pursue the... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154686/posts#comment Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:06:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149195/posts An article in yesterday’s New York Times by Public Editor Clark Hoyt, “Separating the Terror and the Terrorists,” is a nauseating example of the paper’s moral relativism applied to the war on terrorism. Hoyt tries to rationalize The Times’ reluctance to apply the “terrorist” label to people who take hostages, blow up bystanders and shoot 5-year-old girls in their beds. Hoyt admits “The Times is sparing in its use of ‘terrorist’” when reporting on Palestinian atrocities. In an effort to be even-handed, the paper has decided to call the murder of Jews inside the 1948 boundaries of Israel “terrorist,” but... Boycott The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149195/posts#comment Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:45:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147945/posts Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=52311 Emergency Response Units Won’t Perform Law Enforcement, Official Says By Gerry J. Gilmore American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2008 – The Pentagon’s three new rapid-response task forces will assist civil authorities during possible terrorist attacks or natural disasters, but they won’t perform law-enforcement missions, a senior Defense Department official said here yesterday. Some people have surfaced concerns that active-duty soldiers, who make up the core of the first 4,700-member joint task force established in early October, could be used to perform police functions, which would be in violation of the... AMERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147945/posts#comment Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:37:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140365/posts An increasing number of counterterrorism specialists say the nature of the attack is clearly different from the South Asian norm and possibly even by any global measure. And because it is was so successful — a score of armed men holding an entire country to ransom for three days — it may become a model for the next wave of jihadi fighters. Colonel Jonathan Fighel of Israel’s International Institute for Counter-Terrorism is among those who has pointed out that the Mumbai attacks are “unusual not only for India, but also on the international scale.” The subcontinental norm has been a... Hindustan Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140365/posts#comment Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:38:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2085803/posts SAN'A, Yemen — Authorities arrested at least 25 militants with suspected links to Al Qaeda in connection with the deadly attack on the U.S. Embassy in the Yemeni capital, a senior security official said Thursday. FOX NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2085803/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:43:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064520/posts A former Italian president says his country had allowed Palestinian terror groups to roam free in exchange for not attacking Italian targets. Francesco Cossiga's admission confirmed claims of such a deal revealed last week in an interview in the Corriere della Sera newspaper with Bassam Abu Sharif, the former chief of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In a letter published Aug. 15 in Corriere della Sera, Cossiga described a "secret 'non-belligerence pact' between the Italian state and Palestinian resistance organizations, including terrorist groups" such as the PFLP. The deal, he said, had been devised by Prime Minister... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064520/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:44:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052217/posts Iraq's Christians have taken up arms and formed new militias in a desperate effort to defend their beleaguered communities from an onslaught by Islamic extremists. In the five years since the Anglo-American invasion of 2003, murders and abductions have driven about half of the 800,000 Christians who once lived in Iraq to flee the country. Checkpoints manned by civilians armed with heavy machine guns and assault rifles have received official backing in Christian villages on the Ninevah plain in northern Iraq, where their presence dates back to the missions of St Thomas the apostle. Father Yusuf Yohannes combines the duties... Telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052217/posts#comment Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:30:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051512/posts Homeland Security: Forced to defend its growing terrorist watch list, the FBI let slip a chilling fact that should silence ACLU grumblers: America is teeming with 20,000 terrorists.After 9/11, federal authorities estimated that as many as 5,000 terrorists were living in the U.S. The new figure is jarring not only because it's four times as large but because it's based on real persons, not estimates. It's not something headquarters wanted to publicize. Officials had downplayed the threat so as not to spook the public. The spin had been that Britain has the homegrown problem, not us. But that was before... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051512/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:12:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041888/posts John Murtha grudgingly admits the surge is working in an interview in Pittsburgh but misrepresents facts about the Iraqi war. What follows is what was left on the cutting room floor. (Video Included) Stuck On Stupid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041888/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:25:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028187/posts Osama Bin LadenNew Yorkers last week were reminded yet again of the horrors of the 9/11 attacks, when their unrepentant mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was arraigned in Guantanamo Bay. But few are aware a tectonic shift has taken place beneath the headlines in the wider war on terrorism - one that could within a few years significantly lower the likelihood of terror returning to New York's streets. This is because Al Qaeda has gotten itself into hot water with the one constituency that it cannot afford to alienate: its fellow jihadists.Over the past year, a growing number of very consequential... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028187/posts#comment Mon, 9 Jun 2008 05:48:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023397/posts Iraq is making “notable progress” in the security, political and economic fields, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the annual review conference of the International Compact with Iraq today. “If I were asked to use one word to describe the situation in Iraq today, I would choose the word ‘hope,’” Mr. Ban said, speaking in Stockholm to the meeting on the Compact, the five-year plan to promote peace and development in the strife-torn country http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=26836&Cr=iraq&Cr1= www.un.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023397/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 06:02:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992683/posts Law enforcement officials and security experts are warning against the threat of homegrown terrorism as several cases involving alleged American jihadists enter the courts. "The public is getting complacent," New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly tells FOX News. Full article Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992683/posts#comment Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:21:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971588/posts WASHINGTON, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Democrats accused U.S. President Bush on Saturday of fanning terrorism fears shamelessly as he was about to lose certain authority to wiretap foreign suspects without a court warrant. Bush, for his part, flailed the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives for what he called putting U.S. security at risk for political motives in an election year. The Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, responding to a Republican blitz on the issue, said there should be no question in anyone's mind that U.S. intelligence agencies retained the right to take "all actions necessary to protect" U.S. security.... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971588/posts#comment Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:05:42 GMT