Cole in Salon: “Bush’s incompetence gives al-Qaida new life” My column is out in Salon.com on Tuesday, “Bush’s incompetence gives al-Qaida new life”: The White House hints at military action as the terror organization regroups in northern Pakistan and the Musharraf government begins to wobble.” Excerpt: ‘ not only has al-Qaida reconstituted itself in the […]
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Terrorism
Giuliani Critiqued By Firefighters
NYC Firefighters Critique Giuliani on 9/11 Was traveling and just saw this. The firefighters are critical of the no-bid contracts for communications equipment let by Giuliani, which ended up not working very well. Also other issues. No bid contracts? Where have I heard that before?. (Scroll down to “Big Success in Iraq”.)
Plame Case Thrown Out National Security
Plame Case Thrown Out; National Security Imperilled A federal judge has thrown out the lawsuit of Valerie Plame Wilson against Bush administration figures Irv Lewis Libby, Karl Rove, Richard Bruce Cheney, and Richard Armitage. She sued them for conducting a campaign to out her in the press as an undercover operative and so ruining her […]
Jordanian Iraqi Physicians Behind Uk
Jordanian & Iraqi Physicians behind UK Bombing A cell made up of 7 medical personnel from Jordan and Iraq appears to have been behind the attempted bombing at Picadilly Circus on Friday and the actual car bombing at the Glasgow airport this weekend. One is a neurologist, Muhammad Asha, from Jordan. Another is an Iraqi […]
Glasgow Attacked British Police Have
Glasgow attacked British police have arrested more suspects in the car-bombing of the Glasgow airport. Recent reports I hear at CNN suggest to me that suicide was more central to this Glasgow operation than usual in such attacks. The perpetrators are said to have doused themselves with gasoline. This was not in fact like Iraq, […]
Lawrence Wrights Play My Trip To Al
Lawrence Wright’s Play “My Trip to Al-Qaeda” Don’t Miss the Special Engagement of Pulitzer Prize-Winner Lawrence Wright’s My Trip To Al-Qaeda ——————————————————————————– May 10, 2007 MY TRIP TO AL-QAEDA ENCORE Following a sold-out seven-week run at our Mercer Street theater and the recent announcement of Mr. Wright’s Pulitzer Prize for The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and […]
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Ft. Dix Plot is Milosevic’s Fault: Postcolonial Wars and Terror The small cell that plotted to attack Ft. Dix was made up of Albanians from Kosovo, along with a Turk and a Jordanian. Note that in the 1980s most Yugoslav Muslims were deracinated and secular. Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian are really the same language, and […]
Saudi Terror Plot Averted State Dept
Saudi Terror Plot Averted State Dept.: Terrorism up 30% Condi Rice wanted to delay the news, but it has broken on two fronts. Warren Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay of McClatchy report that the annual State Department on terrorism will report a nearly 30% rise over the previous year, most of it accounted for by […]
Dadullah Claim On Ubl Unreliable Usg
Dadullah Claim on UBL “Unreliable” The USG Open Source Center has translated the transcript of a Pakistani television interview program that casts doubt on the claim by Mulla Dadullah that Usamah Bin Laden planned out the attack on Bagram, and is also behind the guerrillas in Iraq. Taliban Commander Claim on UBLGeo News TVThursday, April […]