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Not dead yet?

Filed under: New York City, Politics, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 10:33 pm

The White House is still hoping to bring the alleged plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks to trial in New York, President Barack Obama’s top spokesman said today, despite reservations expressed by officials there.

“We are talking with the authorities in New York,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told CNN.

*facepalm*

Does Obama really hate NYC this much? Why?

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Good call

Filed under: New York City, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 10:23 pm

Reports: Obama orders DoJ to move terror trials out of NYC

Ideally the trial wouldn’t have been slated for NYC in the first place. Even then, what took so long?

Hopefully this goes through.

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Simply put

Filed under: Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 10:06 pm

HE GOT through because although the system is working, the people are not. This is America’s greatest strength and also its most perilous weakness. We are brilliant at systems, processes and technology. But in the pursuit of and reliance on technology, the American mind has become fat, lazy and complacent. Any intelligent human could have prevented a man with explosives strapped to his body from boarding a flight only weeks after the man’s father warned US authorities of his son’s growing radicalism. All that was required was someone to ask questions and connect dots; 9/11 could have been prevented in the very same way.

Ben-Gurion Airport is in one of the most targeted countries in the world for acts of terrorism. Yet it has successfully managed to avoid hijacking and bombing attempts, even though security there is usually much quicker than at any US airport of similar size. Perhaps this is because security at Ben-Gurion does not rely only on technology. Security officers there do not mindlessly monitor people taking off shoes and belts as they walk through metal detectors. They are not just looking for bombs. They are looking for stories, connections and intelligence, and they hire and train brilliant people to look for those stories by asking probing questions. –Jerusalem Post

That’s the problem with the US system–I don’t see that there’s the manpower here in the US–of people who are dedicated enough to maintain this type of security.

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Patterson-Obama feud escalates

Filed under: New York City, Politics, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 10:13 pm

Seeming that there’s really no love lost between Obama and Patterson–the accidental governor took a swipe at Obama today.

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Change of venue

Filed under: New York City, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 10:56 pm

Count me in to the chorous of those opposed to bringing 9/11 mastermind KSM and his cronies to NY to stand trial.

They should either be kept down in Gitmo, or better yet, why not hold the trials from the Supermax in Florence, CO?

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The sillyness of the UN

Filed under: Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 9:07 pm

[not keeping count on how many posts have been written with the same subject]

UN: US drone strikes may break international law

My thoughts: to the UN: touch luck!

Need more be said?

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Naievete

Filed under: Middle East, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 11:34 am

President Barack Obama said on Friday he was hopeful the robust debate taking place in Iran’s presidential election would advance his administration’s efforts to engage longtime U.S. rival Tehran in new ways.

“We are excited to see what appears to be a robust debate taking place in Iran,” Obama told reporters when asked about the Iranian election during an event at the White House.

“Whoever ends up winning the election in Iran, the fact there has been a robust debate hopefully will advance our ability to engage them in new ways,” he said.

If a fixed election is considered “robust debate”, then….

Unrelated: Why wasn’t Jimmy Carter over there to supervise the elections?

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Dueling Speeches on Terror

Filed under: Politics, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 9:23 pm

It was Obama vs. Cheney–and guess what?

I didn’t watch either. (*grin*)

On nothing more than a whim, I’m goign to guess that Cheney won the debate.

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Life imitates The Onion

Filed under: Israel, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 11:06 pm

Iran complains to UN about Israeli “threats”

Meanwhile, what has the UN done about threats to Israel from Iran?

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Pirates–WWJD?

Filed under: Politics, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 12:34 pm

Obama Team Mulls Aims Of Somali Extremists.

Here’s an easy idea on how to stop them. Ask What would [Thomas] Jefferson do?

Answer: Think Marines + Navy (and Tripoli)

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Nyet!

Filed under: Politics, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 10:15 pm

Russia to Obama: No deal

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Literary Artists and Reality

Filed under: Israel, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 4:59 pm

THough they are excellent Hebrew literary wordsmiths, the likes of whom include Amos Oz, David Grossman, A.B. Yehoshua, and Meir Shalev–they are often dead wrong when it comes to security and politics.

I like their literary works a lot…but their politics couldn’t be more hopelessly wrong.

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Hot-dog propaganda

Filed under: Israel, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 6:19 pm

Islamic Jihad seizes IDF rocket, hotdogs

Two things that instantly come to mind:

1. The rocket has already been used (looks like a LAW)
2. How does one prepare hot dogs in the field?

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Beating the pirates

Filed under: Random Musings, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 10:10 pm

Just a thought, from what I learned in AP US History.

Remember when President Jefferson deployed the Marines to fight the Barbary pirates (“on the shores of Tripoli”?

Why not deploy some Marines to once again, kick some pirate booty?

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Spy Pigeons

Filed under: Terrorism/War on Terror, Wierd Side — Jaws @ 8:49 pm

I guess if swallows can carry coconuts, pigeons may be able to serve as “spies’ in the Mid East–or so claim the Iranians.

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The infamous alumnas’ thesis

Filed under: Brandeis, New York City, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 9:56 pm

Mind Hack’s takes a look at the MIT and Brandeis alumnas turned terrorist doctoral thesis titled: Separating the components of imitation and a latter paper which she authored.

It’s a shame that Brandeis happened to cross paths with this sociopath.

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Captured

Filed under: Brandeis, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 10:21 pm

The (suspected) Al-Queda member, Aafia Siddiqui. who happened to by coincidence, have studied neuroscience at Brandeis has at long last been captured over in Afghanistan.

Fortunately, she’s been caught and hopefully the Judicial system will throw the book at her and lock her away for her crimes (not the least of which is attempted murder of a Federal agent).

Looks like the (small yet annoying )fringe contingent of the alma matter has their cause du jour for the fall.

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Trans-Fat Torture

Filed under: Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 1:08 pm

(via Don Surber’s blog)

Hot McDonald’s French fries and a call home encouraged Salim Hamdan to cooperate under interrogation but Osama bin Laden’s driver did not like cold fries and isolation upset him, witnesses said at his Guantanamo war crimes trial on Friday.

Now did those McDonalds fries have Trans-Fats in them? If so, that may be torture in a sense.
Nor can you blame the guy for disliking cold fries…

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Tin Foil

Filed under: Moonbats and Wingnuts, Terrorism/War on Terror, Wierd Side — Jaws @ 8:25 pm

Ahmadinejad target of ‘Rome X-ray plot’, diplomat says

Perhaps he’d like to don some tin foil the next time he’s in Rome to avoid the evil radiation waves…

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Syria’s Osirak

Filed under: Israel, Middle East, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 8:31 pm

The raid the Israeli Airforce conducted back in September, appears to have taken out a Syrian nuclear facility:

North Koreans Taped at Syrian Reactor

Will the name Al-Kibar now be synonomous with Osirak (the Iraqi reactor also destroyed by the IAF).

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