But who cares? What could go wrong? “Detainees Transferred Or Freed Despite ‘High Risk,’” by Tom Gjelten, Dina Temple-Raston and Margot Williams for NPR, April 25 (thanks to Weasel Zippers): An NPR investigation of secret military documents from the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay details the system used to assess how dangerous the detainees would […]
Archives for April 2011
Useful idiocy at its finest: British aid budget funded key aide to al-Qaeda
Fantasy-based policymaking aids and abets those who will to destroy us. “Wikileaks: British aid budget funded key aide to al-Qaeda,” by Holly Watt in the Telegraph, April 25 (thanks to Alan of England): An Afghan politician identified as a key aide to al-Qaeda terrorists was funded by the British aid budget, according to documents released […]
U.S. military classified Pakistan’s spy service as al-Qaeda associate
This is, mind you, a Pakistani government agency. Pakistani Double Game Update: “Guantanamo documents name Pakistan ISI as al Qaeda associate,” by Chris Allbritton for Reuters, April 25 (thanks to all who sent this in): ISLAMABAD (Reuters) — The U.S. military classified Pakistan’s top spy agency as a terrorist support entity in 2007 and used […]
Palestinian jihadist policeman who opened fire on Jewish worshippers was U.S.-trained
Shameful. An update on this story. “Barak condemns Nablus shooting; orders IDF probe,” by Yaakov Lappin and Tovah Lazaroff for the Jerusalem Post, April 24 (thanks to Pajamas Media): Defense Minister Ehud Barak strongly condemned the murder of Ben Yosef Livnat and the injury of four others in the Nablus shooting attack early Sunday morning […]
“The gates of jihad are open in Libya!”
Democracy on the march. The jihadis are engaging in more wishful thinking than reality, says Meleagrou-Hitchens. But it is an open question right now as to which one is indulging in more wishful thinking: al-Qaeda or Meleagrou-Hitchens. “Libya ripe for jihad’s rallying cries,” by Sally Neighbour for The Australian, April 26: AS the military and […]
Terry Jones to sue over enforcement of Sharia in Dearborn, Michigan
Arrested for something he had not done — not a crime he didn’t commit, mind you, but a crime that no one committed, and something that, if it had been done, isn’t even a crime at all. Except under Islamic law, that is. An update on this story. “Terry Jones says he’ll sue over his […]
Iranian ayatollah: Saudis are as bad as Terry Jones for destroying Shi’ite mosques in Bahrain
“Today Masjids are razed and Qur’ans are burnt by those who claim they respect and defend Islam and Qur’an…the heinous act is not acceptable at all.” Sunni-Shi’ite Jihad Update: “Grand Ayatollah Golpaigani Slams Sacrilegious Acts in Bahrain,” from the Ahlul Bayt News Agency, April 25: (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpaigani […]
“Man from Kazakhstan” overpowered trying to hijack Alitalia flight to Libya
Probably not him Was he trying to join the jihad in Libya? Or was he actually planning to fly the plane into some landmark? Or is he actually a Kazakh Methodist driven by Christian extremism, and this has nothing to do with jihad at all? Time will tell — or at least it will if […]
Egypt: Pro-Israel blogger gets three years in prison
I tried to tell you. “Egypt in Flux: A young pacifist versus the Egyptian army,” by Oren Kessler for the Jerusalem Post, April 22: Hopes that post-Hosni Mubarak Egypt would be a beacon of free speech suffered a blow last week when the country”s ruling military council sentenced a well-known blogger to three years in […]
Kandahar: Senior Taliban, hundreds of jihadists run free in tunnel jailbreak
Jihadists have a knack for a few things. There’s deceit, there’s the beheadings, targeting of civilians, and tunnels. They sure can dig tunnels, those jihadi grunts who have found themselves on the hook for “shovel jihad” rather than to slay and be slain in Allah’s cause for the promise of paradise (Qur’an 9:111) just now. […]