I am not in favor of human suffering, but I am finding it difficult to muster sympathy for this crowd: The 1,500 Palestinian refugees stranded inside the Haifa Sports Club were once part of former president Saddam Hussein’s favorite foreign cause. He welcomed them after other Arab countries shut their doors, provided them with free …
War on Terror aka GSAVE®
WMD?
I’ll take this report of WMD finds with the usual hockey-puck sized grain o’ salt: group of Swedish researchers, travelling to Iraq without the knowledge of the Swedish government, is announcing that they have found missiles for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in a house in Baghdad. The finds will be presented in a forthcoming …
The Noose is Tightening
Good news from Tikrit: American soldiers overpowered and arrested one of Saddam Hussein’s bodyguards today and said they had obtained documents and information that could help them close in on the former dictator. We’re coming to get ya…
Excellent News
Common sense in the House: The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to roll back a key provision, which allows the government to conduct secret “sneak and peek” searches of private property, of a sweeping anti-terrorism law passed soon after the Sept. 11 attacks. The House voted 309-118 to attach the provision to …
9/11 Report
This should be interesting: A long-awaited final report on the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks will be released in the next two weeks, containing new information about U.S. government mistakes and Saudi financing of terrorists. Former Rep. Tim Roemer, who served on the House Intelligence Committee and who has read the report, said it will be …
War on Terror Updates
Some interesting developments. First this: suburban Chicago man was arrested Wednesday on charges of secretly gathering information on Iraqi opposition figures as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein’s intelligence service. Khaled Abdel-Latif Dumeisi, 60, was charged based on a dossier seized in a Baghdad safehouse allegedly run by Iraqi intelligence in April as U.S. troops …
Another One Bites the Dust
Another one down: Federal authorities said today that they had uncovered a plot by Al Qaeda, working with a truck driver in Ohio, to bomb a bridge in New York City, trains in Washington and other targets. The truck driver, Iyman Faris, a 34-year-old American citizen from Kashmir, was secretly taken into custody about three …