Cheney speaks.

Dick Cheney, that is. Former Vice President of the United States of America. He had this to say about current US President Barack Obama’s decision to launch a criminal investigation into the tactics used by CIA officials to prevent terrorist attacks during the Bush administration:
The documents released Monday clearly demonstrate that the individuals subjected to [...]

Death cult.

A WOMAN suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame.
Samira Jassam, 51, was arrested by Iraqi police and confessed to recruiting the women and orchestrating dozens of attacks.
via ‘Mum’ had 80 women [...]

Too comfortable. Too numb.

In 2002, seven years ago this past Sunday, a Jewish American journalist named Daniel Pearl was abducted in Pakistan, held captive, and beheaded. Here’s an op-ed in today’s WSJ written by his father.
Neither he, nor the millions who were shocked by his murder, could have possibly predicted that seven years later his abductor, Omar Saeed [...]

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.

What’s the President smoking?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on Monday he worried that detainees freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo, Cuba, might resume attacks on the United States.
But he told NBC News that closure of the prison was a matter of upholding U.S. values and law, and [...]

Afghan strategy.

Check this out:
Strategic Divergence: The War Against the Taliban and the War Against Al Qaeda | Stratfor.
It’s a nice piece describing our objectives and likelihood for success in Afghanistan. As President Obama turns our focus there from Iraq in the coming months, what should we expect? What does the President expect? How will we know [...]

September 20, 2001.

President George W. Bush said this to the American people during his State of the Union address on 9/20/01:
It is my hope that in the months and years ahead life will return almost to normal. We’ll go back to our lives and routines and that is good.
Even grief recedes with time and grace.
But our resolve [...]

An endless stream of cigarettes and magazines…

Guess who’s going home to plot the murder of our children?
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – A Saudi man who was released from Guantanamo after spending six years inside the U.S. prison camp has joined al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen and is now the terror group’s No. 2 in the country, according to a purported Internet statement from [...]

What, he couldn’t blame global warming?

Report: Al-Qaida No. 2 blames Obama for Gaza fight – Yahoo! News.
In the comments, which were posted on a militant Web site and obtained by the SITE Monitoring Service, al-Zawahiri described Israel’s actions in Gaza as a “crusade against Islam and Muslims” and called it “Obama’s gift to Israel” before he takes office later this [...]