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Dear President Obama: no, no, no, NO!!!

Posted by: Phineas on September 18, 2012 at 1:01 pm » 10 Comments

**Posted by Phineas This had better just be a rumor: The U.S. State Department is actively considering negotiations with the Egyptian government for the transfer of custody of Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as “the Blind Sheikh,” for humanitarian and health reasons, a source close to the the Obama administration told TheBlaze. “Humanitarian reasons” my rear [...]

 

Arguments against the President “Valerie, may I?” story

Posted by: Phineas on July 31, 2012 at 2:01 pm » 4 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Yesterday I posted an article about the assertion in a forthcoming book by journalist Richard Miniter that President Obama let himself be talked out of the bin Laden assassination mission three times, before finally okaying it, by long-time close adviser Valerie Jarrett, a corrupt slum-lord. Now that I’ve had 24 hours to [...]

 

Secrets? We don’t need no steeenking secrets!

Posted by: Phineas on June 14, 2012 at 1:01 pm » 2 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Oh, what the heck? Why not tell al-Qaeda just what we’re doing in North Africa, where we’re doing it from, and what kinds of planes we’re flying? And while we’re at it, let’s give them the nuclear launch codes, too: U.S. expands secret intelligence operations in Africa Note that word “secret” Shh! [...]

 

Yemen underwear-bomb plot: I was right

Posted by: Phineas on May 13, 2012 at 5:06 pm » 5 Comments

**Posted by Phineas A few days ago, when writing about the revelation of a Al Qaeda plot to blow up a commercial flight with a new and improved underwear bomb and our penetration of said plot, I speculated as to why we were hearing about what should have been a top-secret operation: With the economy [...]

 

The foiled bomb plot: great news, but…

Posted by: Phineas on May 9, 2012 at 1:11 pm » 4 Comments

**Posted by Phineas On the one hand, this is great news: We infiltrated Al Qaeda’s Arabian subsidiary [AQAP] and kept a lot of people from being killed, while at the same time delivering flaming justice to one of the masterminds of the attack on the USS Cole: The CIA takedown of an Al Qaeda plot [...]

 

(Video) “Heroes don’t spike the football.”

Posted by: Phineas on May 2, 2012 at 1:01 pm » 6 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Whoa. That sound you heard was Obama getting slapped in the face by this: That’ll leave a mark. Since we’re using football analogies, what this reminds me of is Terrell Owens’ classless celebration on the Cowboys’ midfield star, and Emmitt Smith’s lesson to him why that was a bad idea. PS: Ever [...]

 

How we tracked Awlaki

Posted by: Phineas on October 1, 2011 at 9:20 pm » 5 Comments

**Posted by Phineas At Big Peace, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (1) provides the inside story of how we tracked down Al Qaeda’s rising star, Anwar al-Awlaki: Awlaki lived in the southern Yemen province of Shabwa, an area beyond the reach of Yemen’s military and central government. Much of Yemen is like the Wild West, [...]

 

The Traitor Anwar al Awlaki is dead. This is war, not a police matter.

Posted by: Phineas on September 30, 2011 at 9:45 pm » 8 Comments

**Posted by Phineas And, we sincerely hope, he is in a place decorated in fire and brimstone. I’ve waited most of the day to post the good news, because it’s happened many times over the years since 9/11 that we’ve announced a major kill, only to have the target show up in another video thumbing [...]

 

Bill Whittle: What we did right in Afghanistan and Iraq, and my qualified disagreement

Posted by: Phineas on September 16, 2011 at 2:01 pm » 2 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Bill Whittle returns with another episode of Afterburner, this time with his own retrospective on the ten years since the attacks of September 11th, 2001. In it, he looks at what has happened since in Afghanistan, Iraq, and America and looks at the things we got right, a needed corrective to the [...]

 

9/11 ten years later: they’re still trying to kill us

Posted by: Phineas on September 10, 2011 at 5:16 pm » 6 Comments

**Posted by Phineas With the tenth anniversary of the September 11th atrocities coming tomorrow, there’s reasonable fear that Al Qaeda could attempt an attack in New York or elsewhere in the US for their own “celebrations.” But don’t think they or other jihadist groups have been quiet in the meantime, just waiting for an anniversary [...]