Via Newsweek’s Nov. 6 edition: Is Osama bin Laden going to weigh in on the midterm elections? A senior counterterrorism official, anonymous, like other officials NEWSWEEK spoke to, because the subject is sensitive, says that based on previous patterns—such as the release of a rare bin Laden tape just before the 2004 presidential vote—a message before Election Day wouldn’t be surprising. Private expert Evan Kohlmann, who consults for the Feds on terror probes, says Al Qaeda has lately released tapes at a rate of two or three per month. This month, he says, they are “short by one or two,”
Read More +Folks, start building your underground bunkers. Muslim terrorists are iconoclasts and each month, there is an anniversary, or a memory of a particular event, or a reminder of a bruised ego. Now the jour du nuclear is September 24, Ramadan. In spite of my contempt, I’m taking these butchers very seriously. Via adnkronosinternational: Osama bin Laden is planning to carry out new, more destructive attacks inside the United States, and there is someone working on this terror plot currently in the US, according to Hamid Mir, the famed Pakistani journalist who obtained the only post-9/11 interviews with Osama bin Laden
Read More +I hope all the terrorist apologists out there are happy now, handing out your little candies, shooting your rifles in the air, writing more about how peaceful Islam is, how Bush should die, you know the usual “the West sucks but everyting out of Arabia is holy” crap. Go on, Daily Kos, take the lead and celebrate – now that you got what you wanted, you should offer up your own children as sacrifices to the moon-god as a sort of thank-you gesture. It’s what leftist Stalinist useless communists should do. After all, you’ve all been wanting to see the
Read More +by David Bedein, Bureau Chief, Israel Resource News Agency, Beit Agron International Press Center, Jerusalem, Israel, www.ibtn.co.il As this is being written, in late August 2006, news wires around the world are running a story that Machmud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority, has launched a new peace initiative with Israel. However, the new school books that this same Machmud Abbas has now introduced in the Palestinian Authority school system – run independently of Hamas – represent a curriculum that prepares a new generation of Palestinians to destroy Israel. Following fervent support given to Hizbullah’s total war on Israel by
Read More +FrontPage magazine.com :: After August 22 by Robert Spencer:—————Iran drew concern worldwide for refusing to respond in a timely fashion to the West’s offer of an incentives package in exchange for Tehran’s abandonment of its nuclear program. Iranian officials brushed aside the June 29 deadline set by the West and said Iran would respond on August 22. Some, including Farid Ghadry of the Reform Party of Syria (as I reported several weeks ago) and Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis, suggested that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the mullahs in Iran’s inner circle may have chosen that date in order to establish
Read More +For those suspicious of nefarious action by Iran on August 22, perhaps the date on the calendar to circle for vigilance is August 31 instead.
Read More +Via WND: MAD, or mutually assured destruction, just won’t work any more, according to one Mideast expert whose forecasts that the night of August 22 may prove to be cataclysmic are fueling worry around the world. Bernard Lewis of Princeton has had opinion pieces circulating for two weeks now about how that night, the anniversary of one of Islam’s holiest events, could be a time Iran would pick to spark a battle Muslims believe forever will resolve the battle between “good” and “evil.” That MAD policy, which prevented nations for decades during the Cold War from pushing the button, isn’t
Read More +Update on August 22, 2006, from DebkaFile (I take Debka with only a bit more than a grain of salt, folks. It’s quite possible that the British discovery of the airplanee plot last week was what was intended for August 22, 2006. What the Muslims who want to wreak havoc will come up with in its place can be anyone’s guess. Assume the worst, from the worst.):—————-Washington is keeping a sharp weather eye out for Tuesday, August 22, which this year corresponds in the Islamic calendar to the date on which many Sunni Muslims commemorate the night flight of the
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