Intelligence sources say seaborne attack could wreak mayhem, cripple economy, from WND: WASHINGTON — Most of the U.S. civilian population, military bases and nuclear-weapons assembly plants are within range of missile attacks by terrorists or rogue nations using merchant ships as launching platforms, warn counter-terror experts. Both the U.S. military and foreign military forces — […]

From the Timesonline: At least 52 people were killed and dozens injured when suicide bombers blew themselves up inside two mosques in eastern Iraq during Friday prayers. Witnesses described how the men walked into the Shia mosques in the town of Khanaqin, on the border with Iran, and detonated explosive belts. The buildings, packed with […]

From Xinhuanet: CANBERRA — Top officials of Australia and the United States on Friday agreed to boost counter-terrorism efforts in Southeast Asia as well as in Iraq. The annual Australia-US Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) were held in Adelaide, capital city of Australia’s state of South Australia, amid tight security with the attendance of Australian Foreign Minister […]

It’s contest time at Jihad Watch, with our TaqiyyaFest still open for entries, and now a new offer from the Vice President of our Board, Hugh Fitzgerald: The elevation of Juan Cole to the Presidency of MESA Nostra prompts the sudden re-opening of the celebrated MESA Nostra contest, announced here some months ago. Though the […]

Fred is in the running for the correct answer at the Jihad Watch Mesa Nostra contest too. Irfan Khawaja writes in Campus Watch: It can be amazing sometimes to discover the frequency with which appeals to academic expertise end up concealing utter nonsense. For a remarkable example of this, consider a letter from Fred M. […]

Bruce Bawer writes in the Christian Science Monitor, with thanks to Looney Tunes. OSLO — The recent rioting in Paris suburbs and elsewhere in Europe should not have surprised anyone. Europe’s Muslim communities are powder kegs, brimming with an alienation born of both an assiduously inculcated antagonism toward infidel society and an infidel society whose […]

British MP George Galloway at Damascus University: US Army Is Defeated in Iraq. US Will Not Dare to Attack Syria. Bashar Al-Assad Is the Last Arab Leader and Tony Blair Is A Slave of Slaves. From MemriTV, with thanks to Interested. Galloway: Condoleezza Rice has been touring the Arab countries to speak about Syria, so […]

From the Financial Times: Nicolas Sarkozy, French interior minister, will today call for a shake-up of immigration policy and propose tightening rules for granting visas to family members of immigrants living in France. His comments, in an interview published in L’Express magazine today, came after an opinion poll showed that Mr Sarkozy, the early favourite […]

Post Cold War political realignments continue, from the Guardian: SAMSUN, Turkey (AP) – During the Cold War, Turkey’s Black Sea coast was the site of U.S. radar stations that looked across the sea into Russia to snoop on the Soviet fleet and nuclear missile tests. Now, Russian gas warms the Turkish capital, and Moscow is […]

Can the movie be far behind? “The world of bin Laden: no drinks, no gambling, no pictures of women,” from the Telegraph with thanks to Interested. Osama bin Laden wants the United States to convert to Islam, ditch its constitution, abolish banks, jail homosexuals and sign the Kyoto climate change treaty. …in that order? The […]