Tag: terror

During WWII, as the Imperial Japanese suicide pilots boarded their aircraft, they were told that they were honorable and were to be reward . . . While American service-members provided these pilots with a more realistic title – Baka, Japanese for “fool” or “idiot.”

A tweet threatening Brazil sent in November by Maxime Hauchard, a French national identified as an executioner in Islamic State propaganda videos, was genuine.

The tweet read: ‘Brazil, you are our next target.’

The FALN clemencies provide a disturbing example of how the abuse or misuse of presidential prerogative, under the guise of policy, can be put in service of the personal and private activities of the president’s spouse — and beyond the reach of meaningful congressional oversight.

The CIA considered him a senior al-Queda member, but the Senate report said that was unfounded.

Ambassador Kevin Vickers is also a former member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who stopped the 2014 attack on the Canadian Parliament.

The substance police officers found when they raided terror suspect Samir O.’s home in April, was not explosives, but shwarma seasoning, O.’s lawyer Ed Manders said to the Telegraaf. Footage of O. and three other suspects’ arrests were broadcast on Dutch television program Onder de Radar earlier this week. The program reported that they formed a […]

When Gen. Mark A. Milley, the Army chief of staff, stepped off his jet into the sunshine here on Sunday, it was the first time the Obama administration had sent its top Army officer to Africa for a high-level meeting to get the continent’s fledgling militaries in shape to deal with growing terrorist threats. As General Milley […]

Declassified documents detail 9/11 commission’s inquiry into Saudi Arabia, Chilling story of the Saudi diplomat who, many on the commission’s staff believed, had been a ringleader of a Saudi government spy network inside the US that gave support to at least two of the 9/11 hijackers.   Investigators for the 9/11 commission would later describe […]

I saw photos of this suspicious device or “IED” before it went viral and laughed. I went further and replied to the photos, calling it: “f*cking junk.” A crude device was found cached under a bridge in Central Texas, last Tuesday – 04 May 2016. The good people of the town of Rosebud in McLennan […]

A wave of Islamic State bombings in Baghdad has killed nearly 100 people in two days, exposing lingering gaps in the capital’s defenses, which are manned by an array of security agencies and militias that don’t always cooperate. The attacks also point to the resilience of the extremist group, which has increasingly resorted to bombings […]

Another deal with the devil . . . After splitting with Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra is being presented to the West as a moderate force. It’s nothing of the sort. The jihadist force’s reputation is being cleaned up, to suggest it is deserving of CIA support. So ol‘ Doc Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s chief executive successor, has […]

In Syria, George Haswani sees himself as a patriot. In the West, he is a wanted man. Mr. Haswani acts as a middleman between Islamic State and the Syrian government, the terror group’s largest customer, Western security officials allege. Islamic State controls much of Syria’s energy infrastructure and sells stolen oil and natural gas at […]