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Posted by Anne Segal on May 24, 2012 38 Comments
Hillary’s hair color–and length–have been changing over time. Is it splitting hairs to ask what this might mean? With the news that Biden’s not polling so well in several swing states, it’s tempting to take a look at any signals we can glean from Secretary...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2012 25 Comments
From The Guardian in Britain: Detailed leaks of operational information about the foiled underwear bomb plot are causing growing anger in the US intelligence community, with former agents blaming the Obama administration for undermining national security and compromising the British services, MI6 and MI5. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 12, 2012 36 Comments
anti-Israeli liar and agitator capable of? Maybe almost setting off violence by deliberately spreading false rumors regarding a pending Jewish destruction of the Al-aqsa Mosque.  He’s not in Egypt, or Saudi Arabia, or Yemen.  He’s right here, and he runs the nasty Electronic Intifada blog, and was active...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 01, 2012 20 Comments
There are two important columns each of which addresses the surge of Islamists throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. The first column, by Andy McCarthy, focuses on reports that the Obama administration is using Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi as a conduit for contact with the Taliban: The surrender...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 25, 2011 10 Comments
On Christmas Day 2009, Abdul Farouk Umar Abdulmutallab attempted to detonate exposives contained in his underwear on a flight arriving in Detroit.  Abdulmutallab unexpectedly pleaded guilty in November 2011. As reported by ABC News on December 26, 2009: The plot to blow up an American passenger jet over Detroit...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2011 39 Comments
From David Dayen at Firedoglake: We’ll hear this was necessary because of Awlaki’s operational role, and his part played in the Fort Hood massacre and the Christmas Day bombing attempt.  In reality, many experts saw Awlaki as a public figurehead, a man who could speak...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 15, 2011 3 Comments
This is not very surprising, in fact it was predicted days ago. The Syrian government, with the encouragement of anti-Israel Palestinian groups, Hezbollah and the Iranians, has sent hundreds of supposed “Palestinian refugess” surging across the Israeli border in the Golan in an attempt to...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 01, 2011 9 Comments
(K. McCaffrey) — As a partner in a firm that deals mostly with web promotion on social media, the Egyptian affair has been fascinating to watch. As Mohamed Haykal, a Nasser confidante, said in a British interview, “The effect of mobiles, computers, satellites—there is a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2010 11 Comments
Barack Obama has given the go ahead for the “targeted killing” of al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki, who happens to be a U.S. citizen. I don’t have a problem with it. The fight with al-Qaeda is war. Al-Awlaki is trying to kill Americans, and if the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2010 25 Comments
I thank Yale Graduate School student Eric Robinson for his service to the country in Iraq and Afghanistan. But Robinson’s hit piece on Sarah Palin, Palin’s bigger blunder, leads me to believe Robinson has succumbed to the New Haven funny water, either that, or he...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2010 0 Comments
Nothing to worry about in Yemen: Because al-Qaeda is just a joke: Apparently, al-Qaeda doesn’t have a Twitter account, so it never got the message. ——————————————–Related Posts:About That “Firecracker”Not So Scary Terror?Terrorist Attacks Plane, Think Progress Attacks Pete Hoekstra Follow me on Twitter and Facebook

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 03, 2010 1 Comment
Headline yesterday: Yemen’s Chaos Aids the Evolution of a Qaeda Cell Headline this morning: US, UK close Yemen embassies over al-Qaida threats Headline this morning: Brennan: Some Guantanamo detainees will go to Yemen Headline six months from now when another detainee released to Yemen tries...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 02, 2010 11 Comments
Unlike the plurality of Democrats who as recently as 2007 believed George W. Bush knew of the 9/11 attacks in advance, there is no traction among conservatives for the theory that Barack Obama or his administration had actual knowledge of the Undie-bomber plot beforehand. But...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2009 8 Comments
Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) commented soon after the attempted bombing of an airplane over Detroit that the Obama administration needed to do a better job at connecting the dots regarding terror threats from Yemen: “People have got to start connecting the dots here and maybe this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2009 10 Comments
During the June 2009 protests that rocked Iran over election fraud, the Obama administration was silent for days, then came out and embraced improved relations with the regime in the hope of improving the chances for a negotiated end to Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The...
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