GOP intel chairman to battle Obama

Obama's Cuba problem
As 2010 rapidly closes, I can’t help but notice how the Obama Administration tried to quietly slip past the media and the general public a recent declassified report on the current status of Detainees formerly held at Guantanamo Bay. You’ll recall then-candidate Obama made it a top priority of his campaign that he would seek to close Gitmo. Then, once assuming the office of commander in chief, someone in the White House had the boneheaded idea that maybe we should charter a plane for these...

Intresting take on terrorist attacks
This article was in American Press By Paul Craig Roberts. I found it disturbing, posibly true, and a different look at Terrorism in America. I sure hope this is not true.I never heard anything like this before, so it really made me think. Why does the FBI orchestrate fake “terror plots”? The latest one snared Osman Mohamud, a Somali-American teenager in Portland, Ore. The Associated Press report is headlined: “Somali-born teen plotted car-bombing in Oregon.” This is a mis...

1 tip now enough to get someone on terror watch list
WASHINGTON - A year after a Nigerian man allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, officials say they have made it easier to add individuals' names to a Terrorist watch list and improved the government's ability to thwart an attack in the United States. The failure to put Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on the watch list last year renewed concerns that the government's system to screen out potential terrorists was flawed. Even though Abdulmutallab's father had told U.S. officials of his ...

5 Arrested in Danish Terror Plot
Things are less rotten in Denmark thanks to police arresting five men suspected of plotting a terror attack. This is just the latest in a series of arrests that is sweeping through parts of Western Europe and Scandinavia. The five men taken into Custody were in possession of a variety of weapons, including submachine guns equipped with silencers. Authorities say they were planning a Mumbai-style attack on the offices of the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, noted for their publishing a cartoon...

Securing New Years Eve In Times Square
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s the biggest public party in the country. Nearly a million revelers will cram into the streets of Times Square to watch the ball drop on New Year’s Eve. It’s also remarkably crime-free, safe and orderly. In the past decade, there have been few arrests and virtually no major problems funneling people in and out of the confetti-filled streets to ring in the New Year. That’s due mostly to what the partygoers don’t notice: Throngs of police and...

Times Square Security High on Holiday Eve
Like this Story? Share it: (AP) It's the biggest public party in the country. Nearly a million revelers will cram into the streets of Times Square to watch the ball drop on New Year's Eve. It's also remarkably crime-free, safe and orderly. In the past decade, there have been few arrests and virtually no major problems funneling people in and out of the confetti-filled streets to ring in the New Year. That's due mostly to what the partygoers don't notice: Throngs of police and Counterterrorism ...

Ex-Taliban Trainee, 12, Reportedly Warns of Army of Female Suicide Bombers
Dec. 25, 2010: Men injured in a Suicide Bomb Attack in Pakistan's northwest Bajaur region are brought to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar for treatment. A Burqa-clad bomber attacked a crowd of people waiting for aid in Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 40 of them, officials said, showing Militants' ability to strike despite army offensives. A 12-year-old girl who escaped the Taliban in Pakistan says the group is assembling an army of female Suicide Bombers to carry out attacks across the ...

Why Israelis leave ... (any reason is good)
"... AGAINST this intellectual backdrop, the US Census Bureau has just released new figures on the number of Israelis living in the US at the end of 2009. According to the data, the number of individuals born in Israel now living in the US grew by about 30 percent since 2000. Some 140,323 people living in the States at the end of 2009 were born in Israel, up from 109,720 in 2000. Of the Israelis living there, 90,179 had US Citizenship; 50,144 did not. Some observers will doubtless be tempted to...

Report: 10 al-Qaida suspects detained in Turkey
Police have detained 10 people suspected of links to the al-Qaida terror network and accused of preparing to stage an attack before New Year's Eve, the state-run Anatolia news agency said Thursday. The agency, citing police, said that the suspects were rounded up for questioning in simultaneous Raids in the cities of Bursa and Istanbul earlier this week and on Thursday. It did not elaborate. It was the latest in a string of Raids against people described as al-Qaida suspects. The suspects were e...

Turkey: 10 Al-Qaeda Suspects Detained
Ankara, Turkey — Police have detained 10 people suspected of links to the al-Qaida terror network and accused of preparing to stage an attack before New Year's Eve, the state-run Anatolia news agency said Thursday. The agency, citing police, said that the suspects were rounded up for questioning in simultaneous Raids in the cities of Bursa and Istanbul earlier this week and on Thursday. It did not elaborate. It was the latest in a string of Raids against people described as al-Qaida susp...

12 Year-Old Girl Bomber Warns of Army of Taliban-Trained Female Suicide Bombers
‘You will go to heaven before any of us, if you blow up yourself the way I tell you.’ Pakistani security personnel shift bodies after a Suicide Attack at a Hospital in Khar on January 30, 2010. At least 41 people were killed in a Suicide bombing Saturday in a northwestern Pakistani Tribal Area bordering Afghanistan, officials said. A female bomber was responsible for the attack. (AFP/Anwar Ullah) A 12 year-old girl bomber warned authorities of an army of Taliban-trained female suici...

Report: 10 al-Qaida suspects detained in Turkey
Ankara, Turkey — Police have detained 10 people suspected of links to the al-Qaida terror network and accused of preparing to stage an attack before New Year’s Eve, the state-run Anatolia news agency said Thursday. The agency, citing police, said that the suspects were rounded up for questioning in simultaneous Raids in the cities of Bursa and Istanbul earlier this week and on Thursday. It did not elaborate. It was the latest in a string of Raids against people described as al-Qaida...

British PM fires 2011 terror warning
In his New Year message, released on Friday, Cameron said 2011 would likewise be a "crucial year" in Afghanistan, where British Troops are fighting Taliban Insurgents, as the country deals with fighting terror on two fronts. "For many years now we have been aware of the threat we face from international Terrorism," he said. "That threat is still very much with us. And it is as serious today as it ever has been." He said that going into 2011 the authorities were working "round the clock to foil p...

Munir Awad's luck might just have run out
Long championed by the Cageprisoner organization (associated with former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg), Munir Awad was first arrested - along with his wife - in East Africa, as they attempted to flee the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia. The happy couple were well-enough acquainted with convicted American Terrorist Daniel Maldonado that when Awad's wife was captured, she was holding Maldonado's dying wife in her arms. Awad's wife, incidentally, is Safia Benaouda, the daughter of Helena Benaou...

Al-Qaeda publishes explosives course in English
Al-Qaeda has published a bomb-making manual in English and has made it available on the Internet on Jihadi websites. The manual is called The Explosives Course. On December 29, 2010, the Al-Qaeda-affiliated media center Global Islamic Media Front and the Dar Al-Jabha publishing house electronically published an English-language book titled The Explosives Course. Links to download the book were posted on Jihadi forums such as Shumukh Al-Islam and the Ansar Al-Mujahideen English forum, with jiha...

GAZAN YOUTHS MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE
Fuck Hamas. Fuck Israel. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA! We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of Human Rights and the indifference of the international community! We want to scream and break this wall of silence, injustice and indifference like the Israeli F16’s breaking the wall of sound; scream with all the power in our souls in order to release this immense frustration that consumes us because of this fucking situation we liv...

Is Pakistan Losing Ground in Its Taliban War?
For Pakistan's Military commanders, it was a brutal warning that the gains they had made against Militants over the past two years risk erosion. On Christmas Day, Pakistan's first female Suicide Bomber killed 47 Refugees near a World Food Program (WFP) distribution point in Bajaur, the northernmost of Pakistan's seven Tribal Areas along the Afghan border. The WFP operations were forced to shut down. On Wednesday, Bajaur was hit again, as Militants carried out their 100th bombing of a school in...

Obama marks anniversary of deadly attack on CIA (AP)
Honolulu – President Barack Obama is marking the anniversary of last year's deadly attack at a remote outpost in Afghanistan, saying the seven CIA employees who were killed showed the true meaning of honor and selfless sacrifice. In a statement, Obama says the U.S. is more secure because of the work of those in the intelligence community. He says he will ensure that dedicated intelligence professionals have the training and tools they need to complete their missions. The CIA employees we...

Obama marks anniversary of deadly attack on CIA
HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama is marking the anniversary of last year’s deadly attack at a remote outpost in Afghanistan, saying the seven CIA employees who were killed showed the true meaning of honor and selfless sacrifice. In a statement, Obama says the U.S. is more secure because of the work of those in the intelligence community. He says he will ensure that dedicated intelligence professionals have the training and tools they need to complete their missions. The CIA emp...

Surprise! London arrests did have US connection after all
When Director of National Intelligence James Clapper got stumped on national TV by a Diane Sawyer question regarding the arrest of a dozen Terrorist suspects in the UK, the Obama Administration attempted damage control by claiming that the arrests had nothing to do with “the homeland.” Janet Napolitano made the same argument on Sunday, trying to downplay Clapper’s lack of data (via Weasel Zippers): NAPOLITANO: Well, let’s — let’s be fair. It — I knew. John Brennan

GOP intel chairman to battle Obama
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Ezra Klein on How the Obama Administration Needs to Become More Partisan
Ezra Klein Ezra Klein - What sort of loser should Obama be?: Recently, Jonathan Bernstein asked liberals, “As the 111th Congress winds down, what’s your biggest disappointment of the things you expected to happen?” Mike Konczal gives his answer: I expected Obama to be a better loser, specifically to be better at losing. There were a lot of items on the table, a lot of them weren’t going to happen, but it was important for the new future of Liberalism that the Obama team...

Forget the liberal hype about a comeback: 2010 was a stunningly bad year for Barack Obama, and 2011 could be even worse
Ignore the revisionist hype in sections of the liberal media about President Obama staging a (mythical) political comeback - this is a presidency with an Approval Rating of 45 percent (according to the RealClear Politics poll of polls), that presides over a nation where just 27 percent of voters think the country is moving in the right direction, and which just 29 percent of Americans think will be re-elected in 2012. The White House may be claiming a couple of political wins in the dying em...

Matt Taibbi on Wall Street's Weeps and Whines
Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi discusses Wall Street's recent whining about how terribly the Obama Administration is supposedly treating them that John wrote about here -- Wall Street Masters still Whining about Obama's words even after the bail out. It's all GOP for them now. Since the story is as mutually beneficial to the administration as it is to the thieves on Wall Street, Taibbi thinks it easily could have been either of them that decided to plant the story with the hacks at Politico....

Holder arrogance to be tested in Congress
Image via Wikipedia NY Times: When the Obama Administration wakes up next month to a divided capital, no cabinet member will be facing a more miserable prospect of Oversight hearings and Subpoenas than Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. Mr. Holder is a particularly juicy target because he presides over issues that have served as recurrent fodder for political Controversy — including using the Criminal Justice system for Terrorism cases, and federal enforcement of civil-rights and immigr...