Yes, people really do believe these things. This comment was just posted (five times, but I deleted four) on an old thread here: peace. bin laden did not cause 911. bush Sr. and former cia subjects fired by Carter did. with help from Jewish Massad. The planes were remote controlled: check www.whatreallyhappened.com. That is why […]
Archives for January 2004
Seven Flights from Europe to U.S. Canceled
Seven more flights have just been grounded. Could this be connected with threats made by terrorists some time ago to mount a major attack around the time of the Hajj? This from Fox News: Just one day after U.S. officials expressed renewed security concerns over flights from London and Paris bound for the U.S., British […]
Pakistan: Christian jailed on dubious blasphemy charge
Since Pakistan’s blasphemy law was drafted by and is enforced by Muslims, virtually every blasphemy charge is dubious: a Christian can be accused of blasphemy simply by affirming his faith, since the Qur’an states that “they do blaspheme who say: ‘Allah is Christ the son of Mary’” (Sura 5:72). Note that this is a tendentious […]
News from the Hajj
It is time for the great Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, which every California public school student well knows is one of the five pillars of Islam. I wrote last year about how the Hajj has frequently been marred by violence, and this year again, pilgrims have some company. This from Straits Times, : […]
“We were asleep. Opportunities were lost”
So says Tom Kean, chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. It seems that not only did the 9/11 highjackers get past immigration. They also made it easily through airport security, despite arousing suspicion. This from AP: It’s long been known that U.S. authorities had opportunities to stop at least […]
Clark appealed to group suspected of terror link
“Retired Gen. Wesley Clark sought the political support of a Muslim group that is under FBI investigation for terror ties, sources told the Daily News.” The Democratic presidential candidate’s videotaped message was played Dec. 27 in Chicago for the annual conference of the Muslim American Society and the Islamic Circle of North America – a […]
U.S. general: Extremists in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan top terror threats
At last it has been said: Even with the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the bigger challenge in the global war on terrorism is the threat posed by extremists in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, the commander of U.S. forces in that region said Thursday. Gen. John Abizaid, commander of U.S. Central Command, told a […]
Speaker overturns “misconceptions” of Islamic jihad
CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush Hussam Ayloush of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) spoke at UCLA Wednesday night about jihad. Last year I debated Ayloush on a similar topic. At UCLA he declared that his intention was to dispel misconceptions. (Thanks to Jean-Luc.) The Muslim Student Association hosted an informational forum — “Operation Jihad: Misconceptions […]
Australian intelligence agencies miss terror suspect
America isn’t the only place with porous visa controls. An accused terror financier arrested in the US last week had only just returned from a trip to Australia where he is believed to have a child. In an embarrassing security blunder, the arrest took Australia’s intelligence agencies – who were unaware the suspect was in […]
France says it foiled Islamic militant plot
“French secret agents foiled a bid by Islamic militants to kidnap contestants in the Paris-Dakar rally earlier this month as they raced across the Sahara desert state of Mali, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.” This from Reuters, with thanks to Nicolei. A spokesman said the DGSE foreign intelligence service had played a key role […]