The New York Times, doing their best to revive the meme that will not quit, spends an extraordinary 1,770 words describing the trials and tribulations of being a Holy Warrior in Guantanamo Bay: Afghans and Pakistanis who were detained for many months by the American military at Guant
War on Terror aka GSAVE®
A Grunt’s View of Afghanistan
I was checking google news to see if there was anything new in regards to the Asia Times story last week about our government getting in contact with the Taliban to set up a provisional government in Afghanistan (I didn’t blog about it because the report seemed untrustworthy, but Tacitus, Jesse, Oliver, Jim Henley and …
Policy Changes
Good: Federal authorities said today that they planned to use stricter standards for identifying and locking up terrorist suspects in light of concerns raised in a recent report that hundreds of illegal immigrants were mistreated after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Law enforcement officials plan to make at least 12 structural changes that were recommended …
I Apologize
I take back everything bad I have ever said about John McCain: “If anyone came to my hometown in Phoenix, AZ and set off a bomb on a bus and killed 18 people and injured 100 of them, my citizens would expect us to respond,” US Senator John McCain, R-Ariz, told reporters in answer to …
Port Security
Sounds like a good plan: The Bush administration has decided to place teams of American inspectors at major seaports in Muslim nations and other smaller, strategically located foreign ports to prevent terrorists from using cargo containers to smuggle chemical, biological or nuclear weapons into the United States, senior administration officials said. The inspectors, they said, …
Signs of Intelligent Life
This is the first thing I have seen Tom Ridge say in two years that provides hope that he is more than a brain-dead automaton: After raising the terror alert to its second-highest level three times over the past four months because of fears of potential terror attacks, Ridge said the system needs refining. “We …
Saudi Explosions
Apparently the chatter was real and terrorists have struck in Saudi Arabia. I will post more details when I can sift through them and make some sense. This quote from the news story is interesting: On May 7 police said they were hunting 19 suspected militants, mainly Saudis, believed to be hiding in Riyadh after …