Archive for the ‘GWOT’ Category
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
For those still poo-pooing "the surge," it is now apparent that the terrorists in Iraq are taking it seriously. From FoxNews:
Death squad leaders have fled Baghdad to evade capture or killing by U.S. and Iraqi forces before the start of the troop "surge" and security crackdown in the capital.
A ...
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
Michael "Double Chocolate Malt" Moore has hit on a plan to win in Iraq. As ludicrous as it sounds, it is a workable plan. There are, however, a few very serious drawbacks. First, is plan is meant as "satire," for whatever that's worth. But, since he ...
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
Looks like Iran is pushing towards nuclear weapons again. This is off of FoxNews:
Iran expects to start installing thousands of centrifuges in an underground facility next month, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Friday. The installation would pave the way to large-scale uranium enrichment, a potential ...
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
It looks as though we are about to play a little more "hard ball" with Iranian agents operating in Iraq. From FoxNews:
The U.S. military have received the OK to kill or capture Iranian operatives found inside Iraq, the Washington Post reported Friday, as part of an effort to destabilize ...
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
FoxNews is reporting that man in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia has been convicted for attempting to sell a small amount of weapons grade Uranium.
The Russian who tried to sell the uranium to an undercover agent was identified as Oleg Khinsagov, who appeared to have connections to organized crime, ...
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's mouthpiece, operating from a spider hole somewhere in the mountains of either Afghanistan or Pakistan, released another propaganda speech, this time in response to the Bush Adminstrations "Surge" plan, sending 20,000 more troops to Iraq (mainly to Baghdad). It consists of much of the same rhetoric as ...
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Interesting editorial from the Red Star Tribune on how Democrats are now being blamed for the "mess" in Iraq.
A new, pernicious line of argument is taking hold in Washington that should be clunked in the head until it dies. It holds that the Democrats in Congress are to blame for ...
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Friday, January 12th, 2007
This is off of
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
President Bush addressed the nation this evening, presenting a new plan for victory in Iraq. The new plan is a welcome change in our policy in Iraq.
In his speech, President Bush acknowledged one of the greatest successes of the Islamic Terrorists operating there, and that was the bombing of ...
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
The Sun Online has this report on the possibility of Prince Harry being deployed to Iraq:
PRINCE Harry's lover Chelsy Davy is to travel the world after telling pals: "Haz is off to war."
Her remark is the strongest hint yet that the 22-year-old Royal WILL see action in Iraq.
Chelsy, 21, hopes ...
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Friday, December 22nd, 2006
FoxNews has a good piece on the holiday cards that prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are receiving.
How do you say "Season's Greetings" to an enemy combatant being held at Guantanamo Bay? It's only a guess, but maybe the cheerful holiday cards go like this:
Dear Avowed Enemy of America: Merry Christmas.
Dear I ...
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Thursday, December 14th, 2006
This is off of FoxNews:
Mohammed Yusef Mullawala wanted a license to transport hazardous materials and to learn how to drive commercial tractor trailers. There was nothing unusual about that, until he told his teacher that he only wanted to learn how to drive forward, and he wanted to learn fast.
Sound ...
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Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Here’s a good one off of FoxNews:
A man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after officials say they found him carrying $78,883 in cash and a laptop computer containing information about nuclear materials and cyanide.
According to reports, a dog (assuming a narcotics dog) found the scent of drugs on cash ...
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Friday, November 10th, 2006
New tape from al-Qaeda states that there will be no peace until they have destroyed the White House. From FoxNews:
"We will not rest from our Jihad until we are under the olive trees of Rumieh and we have destroyed the dirty black house -- which is called the White House," ...
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
Zawahiri, the Egyptian terrorist and No. 2 man in al Qaeda, is spewing out venom again.
"Bush, oh failure and liar, why don't you be courageous for once and confront your people and tell them the truth about your losses in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Last I heard, even the so-called leader of ...
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006
Egads, what an editorial in the Red Star Tribune. Colleen Rowley, the extreme Leftist and anti-liberate Iraq candidate for the Minnesota 2nd Congressional District, and Jerald Albrecht, a former officer of the Army Reserve, are attacking Bush policy on Iraq and the GOP in general.
It starts off simply enough, stating ...
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
FoxNews has a short article quoting Dunsel Kofi Annan that most Middle East leaders believe that the liberation of Iraq is a disaster.
Annan said many leaders believed the United States should stay until Iraq improves, while others, such as Iran, said the United States should leave immediately. That means that ...
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
Today is a solemn day: it is September 11th, 2006, the Fifth Anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Along with the gallant heroes of UA Flight 93, who sacrificed their lives in an attempt to regain control of that aircraft rather than see ...
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
There seem to be a few Republicans that are joining the Party of Cut and Run…this off of FoxNews:
Perhaps no other Republican exemplifies this subtle position shift more than Rep. Chris Shays, R-Conn., who surprised everyone recently by calling for a "timeframe" for U.S withdrawal from Iraq.
"I believe that our ...
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Sunday, September 3rd, 2006
FoxNews is running a piece on an “American” who has changed his allegiance to Al Qaeda and taken sides against his former nation in the Global War on Terror.
An American who allegedly joined Al Qaeda appeared in a videotape along with the terror group's deputy leader on Saturday, calling on ...
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