In the days following the killing of arch-terrorist Osama Bin Laden, a number of things have come sharply into focus. One of them, the duplicity of our supposed ally “Pakistan,” which claims to have been blissfully unaware of Bin Laden’s immense residence and safe house, located smack dab in the middle of Abbottabad, one...
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Tags: Al Qaeda, Egypt, Gaza, Islamism, Muslim Brotherhood, Pakistan, Sharia, Stealth Jihad, Terrorism
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Four African-American Muslim converts were arrested by the FBI in a foiled plot to plant explosives at a synagogue and Jewish Community Center, and to bring down an airplane with a stinger missile (h/t Atlas Shrugs and Israpundit): James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen, all of Newburgh, were charged with conspiracy...
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Terrorism Expert, Walid Phares goes inside the mind of the Jihadis to lay out how Jihadist strategies have evolved Post-9/11 to today. It’s hard to pick an excerpt, because Walid tends to pack alot of information into every sentence, but I’ve settled on this section, where...
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Tags: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Pakistan, Speaker of the Truth, Taliban
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I’m a bit slow on getting this Bolton piece on Pakistan up, but if you haven’t seen it yet, it’s worth giving your undivided attention: Often known as Pakistan’s “steel skeleton” for holding the country together after successive corrupt or incompetent civilian governments, the military itself is now gravely threatened from within by rising...
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Tags: Islamism, Nuclear Weapons, Pakistan, Taliban, U.S Policy
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The Telegraph tells us that the Sharia law peace deal in the Pakistani Northwest is threatening to break(H/T Ace of Spades): The fragile agreement, in which the government said it would allow Islamic law in the region in exchange for militants laying down their arms, was left in tatters when a soldier was killed...
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Article from Islamist Watch about Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan, who, when he’s not giving interviews to CNN about extending Sharia law to all of Pakistan, is a painter, who lived for a time in Boston: All of a sudden, what has been depicted in the media as the cancer of Taliban extremism half way...
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An article from Pakistani columnist Irfan Husain, where he takes the Pakistani army and political leadership to task for failing to successfully fight the Taliban insurgency. (h/t israpundit): One positive outcome of this atrocity coming to public knowledge is that it has opened many eyes to the reality of the Taliban, and what they...
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An excellent piece by Walid Phares over at Counter Terrorism Bog. Dr. Phares is one of our Speaker of the Truth Award recipients for this year’s Rays of Light in the Darkness Dinner. The piece is regarding the Taliban’s operations in Pakistan: As the U.S. administration and its allies are devising a new strategy...
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Tags: Islamism, Nuclear Weapons, Pakistan, Speaker of the Truth, U.S Policy
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In the current era of ideological polarization, throughout the West, the Right and the Left diverge on almost every issue. One of the few convictions that still unifies national security strategists across the ideological spectrum is that it would be a global calamity of the first order if al-Qaida gets its hands on nuclear...
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Tags: Islamism, Nuclear Weapons, Pakistan, U.S Policy
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