Category: Al QaedaBy dcmediagirl on Feb 18, 2008 in 9/11, Al Qaeda, Pakistan | 5 Comments
There’s a joke that made the rounds in Egypt in which Jimmy Carter, who’s up for reelection, calls Anwar Sadat to bellyache about his low poll numbers and his fear that he’ll lose to Ronald Reagan. Sadat says: “Don’t worry. I’ll send my finest election observers to help you.”
Upon the observers’ return, Sadat asks: “Well, […]
By SusanUnPC on Feb 11, 2008 in 9/11, Al Qaeda, Education, FISA, Open Thread | 45 Comments
There they are — past, present, and suspended – MSNBC’s sexist pigs, er, journalists (which besmirches the proud tradition of real, objective journalists, so what should these characters be called?). And did you know it’s gotten so bad that Hillary Clinton says she gets more fair treatment from Fox News than from MSNBC? (I’ve […]
By SusanUnPC on Sep 15, 2007 in Al Qaeda, Bush/Cheney, CIA, Iran, Saudi Arabia, counterterrorism | 20 Comments
Imagine the climate adjustment required for that solitary Icelandic soldier stationed in Iraq. The member of the “Icelandic Crisis Response Unit” (Iceland doesn’t have a “formally constituted military”) is actually a media representative in Baghdad, but Bush used him to bolster his B.S. claim of a coalition of 36 countries in Iraq.
Thank you to everyone […]
By SusanUnPC on Sep 7, 2007 in Al Qaeda, Angry Rakkasan, Bush/Cheney, Iraq, Justice | 34 Comments
TGIF, everybody. You may need to hit a bar early after you check out the following:
VoteVet’s Vice Chair Brandon Friedman — who we all know here as “Angry Rakkasan” — has posted a recommended diary at Daily Kos: “Breaking: Petraeus: ‘It has not worked out as we had hoped’.” [UPDATE: Brandon will […]
By SusanUnPC on Jul 25, 2007 in Al Qaeda, Current Affairs, Food Safety/FDA, Intelligence, Iran, NIE, Soldiers/Veterans | 16 Comments
By SusanUnPC
What are the odds the Bush administration … will heed the admonitions of “[c]urrent and former intelligence officials [who] say the Bush Administration’s National Intelligence Estimate regarding terrorist threats to the United States does not provide evidence to support its assertions and may have inflated the domestic threat posed by the Lebanese political and […]
By SusanUnPC on Jul 25, 2007 in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Bush/Cheney, Current Affairs, Pakistan | 26 Comments
By Susanunpc … McClatchy (who else) has a great top story today: “The Bush administration’s strategy for pursuing al-Qaida in Pakistan’s tribal region could stoke support for the Islamic militants who are protecting the terrorist network’s leaders and battling Pakistan’s U.S.-backed military regime, some U.S. diplomatic and defense officials and experts warn.” The White […]
By Larry Johnson on Jul 21, 2007 in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, CIA, Current Affairs, Homeland Security, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia | 30 Comments
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Larry C Johnson
Someone is not telling the truth and it is incumbent on Congress to get to the bottom of this nonsense.
Until recently George Bush insisted that there was steady progress in decimating Al Qaeda:
1 May 2003 the President claimed:
From Pakistan to the Philippines to the Horn of Africa, we are hunting down al Qaeda […]
By Jim Marcinkowski on Jul 20, 2007 in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, CIA, Current Affairs, Pakistan | 20 Comments
By Jim Marcinkowski and Kelly Raskauskas
Without sufficient caffeine, I opened yesterday morning’s NY Times to find my local legislator quoted in the front-page story, Bush Aides See Failure in Fight With Al-Quaeda in Pakistan.
“We have to change policy,” said Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan, a Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee who has long […]
By Larry Johnson on Jul 19, 2007 in Al Qaeda, Current Affairs, Iraq | 68 Comments
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Larry C Johnson
I was interviewed this morning on the Young Turks radio show and predicted that when General David Petraeus submits his progress report in September he will report that the surge is working and that more troops will be required to complete the mission. Keep that in mind.
One of the current talking points […]
By Larry Johnson on Jul 17, 2007 in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, CIA, Current Affairs, DoD, Homeland Security, NIE | 33 Comments
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Larry C Johnson
Today’s release of the unclassified summary of the National Intelligence Estimate, Terrorist Threat to the US Homeland, is a black eye for the Bush Administration propaganda campaign that Iraq is making America safer. Despite White House efforts to persuade the public that we are vanquishing Al Qaeda, the intelligence community sees things […]
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