The Drone War: Terrorizing Terrorists | NYPOST.com

Posted by Matt in February 5th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Terrorism, Al-Qaeda, Drone, Drones, Fiddles, Franchises, Fumbles, Militants, Missiles, Nypost, Stronghold, terror, terrorists

As the administration fiddles and fumbles with its soft- on-terror policies at home, one Obama-blessed campaign abroad is hitting al Qaeda and its franchises hard: the drone war.
On Tuesday, an up-the-ante wave of attacks fired 18 missiles from Unmanned Aerial Systems. (UAS is our term of the week for drones.) The strike hit a terrorist [...]

DEBKAfile – Rush of terror alerts on three continents plus Middle East

Posted by Matt in January 24th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Terrorism, Countries, Fanfare, Governments, Middle East, Preparedness Levels, Rush, Stringent Security, terror, Three Continents

In the last three days, the governments of eleven countries have scrambled to elevate their preparedness levels for Islamist terror, or enforced extraordinarily stringent security measures. Another six governments have pursued these steps without fanfare.
DEBKAfile – Rush of terror alerts on three continents plus Middle East

DEBKAfile – A Tardy Wake-up Call for Spreading al Qaeda Menace

Posted by Matt in December 29th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Terrorism, Al-Qaeda, Arabian Peninsula, Baluchistan, Deaf, Debkafile, Flood, Gulf Of Aden, Osama Bin Laden, Security Agencies, terror, Wake Up Call, Yemen, Yemeni

DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources note that in the past year, Washington was strangely deaf to a flood of notices from Saudi, Egyptian and Yemeni security agencies warning that al Qaeda networks had established themselves in Yemen and so gained a jumping-off base into the Arabian peninsula and across the strategic Gulf of Aden. The network was [...]

Movie Review – ‘The Road’ – From Cormac McCarthy, Father and Son Bond After Disaster – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in November 24th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Off-Topic, Adult Guardian, Cataclysm, Charlize Theron, civilization, Cormac Mccarthy, Despair, Drift, Father And Son, Flashbacks, Movie Review, Multiplex, Nationwide, Nuclear Disaster, Nuclear War, Nytimes, Sunlight, terror, Viggo Mortensen, Violence, Young Actor

The father and son, played by Viggo Mortensen and a wonderfully sensitive young actor named Kodi Smit-McPhee, drift through a world ruined by an unspecified cataclysm. A few flashbacks of ease and sunlight conjure the time before, when there was a mother on the scene, glowingly incarnated by Charlize Theron. Then something happened — Nuclear [...]

Israel’s enemies are wrong – Israel Opinion, Ynetnews

Posted by Matt in October 26th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Israel, Circumstances, Commit Suicide, Enemies, Infrastructures, Israel, Launching Site, Military Targets, terror, Ynetnews

And here the formula is cruel and simple: The more effective the rocket terror war will be, the less “proportional” the response would be.
Under such circumstances, we will see a massive retaliatory blow, from the air and from the ground, targeting various infrastructures and sites and being painful enough to prompt the enemy to hold [...]

Negotiations versus the Goldstone Report | Jerusalem Post

Posted by Matt in October 19th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Israel, Goldstone, Hamas, Hrc, Human Rights Council, Iran, Israel, Israeli Civilians, Jerusalem Post, Justice Richard, LOST, Members, Mexican American War, Mexican War, Mexico, Missiles, Negotiations, Patrons, rockets, terror

How long do you think America would have waited if Mexico had been lobbing missiles into some of its towns? Please remember that America took about half of Mexico after Mexico lost the Mexican-American War.
For eight years, while Hamas indiscriminately shelled Israeli civilians with rockets provided by its patrons in Iran, the UN stood [...]

DEBKAfile – Iran threatens to invade Pakistan, “crushing response” for US, UK

Posted by Matt in October 19th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Al Qods, Baluchistan, British Intelligence, Debkafile, Eastern Neighbor, Gaza Strip, invasion, Iran, Jafari, Lebanon, Mohammad Ali, Nur Ali, Pakistan, Retaliation, Retaliatory Measures, Revolutionary Guards, Sistan, Suicide Bombing, tehran, terror

The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafary, Monday, Oct. 19, threatened “crushing” retaliation against the US, UK and Pakistan including the invasion of its eastern neighbor. Tehran links all three to the suicide bombing attack in Sistan-Baluchistan Sunday, Oct. 18, which killed 42 people including seven senior Guards officers. One [...]

India’s China Problem – Forbes.com

Posted by Matt in August 15th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in China, India, 1970s, Arch Rival, Asian Nations, beijing, China Problem, Chini, Delusions, Forbes, Former Prime Minister, Game, Notion, Nuclear Weapon, Pakistan, Prime Minister Nehru, Rival India, Slogan, terror, Ties

India, generally acknowledged as the weaker of the two, has tried to maintain cordial ties, often following former Prime Minister Nehru’s “Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai” slogan, promoting the notion that the two Asian nations are brothers. Beijing, for its part, has been under no such delusions, playing a hard game. In the middle of the 1970s, it [...]

Will Obama Scrap Bush’s Color-Coded Terror Alerts? | Newsweek National News | Newsweek.com

Posted by Matt in July 10th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Terrorism, 9 11 Attacks, Blogged, Bush Administration, Flock Browser, Newsweek, Newsweek National News, terror, Terrorism, Terrorism Alert

The Obama administration next week is expected to create an official committee to consider modifying or even abolishing the widely ridiculed color-coded terrorism alert system introduced by the Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks.
Will Obama Scrap Bush’s Color-Coded Terror Alerts? | Newsweek National News | Newsweek.com
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