Pakistan’s Taliban claimed responsibility for a bomb on Wednesday that killed three U.S. soldiers outside a girls school in the northwest of the country and threatened more attacks on Americans.
In scenes that have become familiar in the struggle between Taliban insurgents and the state, a young girl trapped below the stones of a collapsed wall cried out for help after the blast.
Three children and a Pakistani paramilitary soldier were also killed and 45 people were wounded in the blast near Swat Valley, where the government mounted a crackdown nearly a year ago it said had cleared out Taliban militants.
“We will continue such attacks on Americans,” Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.
The blast, triggered by a remote-controlled device, was a grim reminder of the resilience of Taliban militants determined to topple the government of President Asif Ali Zardari, a deeply unpopular pro-American leader.
When a man is apprehended with a cache of weapons, body armor, a map of a military installation and jihadist personal effects, the natural response of most Americans is to assume the situation is terrorist-related. The Obama administration says otherwise.
Lloyd R. Woodson was arrested Jan. 25 in rural New Jersey. He had been observed behaving strangely, wearing military-style fatigues and a bullet roof vest. He had a weapon modified to fire .50-caliber rounds from beneath his jacket. He had a hotel room full of weapons and ammunition. Despite all these warning signs, the immediate response from the government was that this was “not a terrorism thing.”
Bureaucratic lack of concern raises a critical question: If this is not the behavior of a terrorist, what is?
It’s not clear what the Obama administration thinks terrorism is, if it thinks it exists at all.
I always thought Osama Bin Laden was a very intelligent man. After all, he’s the head of a global terror organization; was the mastermind behind the 9-11 attacks on America; is constantly training for jihad against the West and even finds the spare time to practice animal husbandry on his fleet of camels.
So I was real surprised to hear from a new audiotape that the Al-Qaida leader has called for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming. Excuse me? WTF??
In the tape, aired in part on Al-Jazeera television Friday, Bin Laden warns of the dangers of climate change and says that the way to stop it is to bring “the wheels of the American economy” to a halt and that people should “stop consuming American products” and “refrain from using the dollar“.
Well Osama, we’ve already brought the wheels of the American economy to a halt. We elected Barack Obama as president. The dollar’s dead and we don’t make anything in the United States anymore. So when you say “boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar“, I think China is what you probably meant to say.
And if you haven’t heard yet, global warming is a fraud. Actual proof has been around for several years now. You should come out of your rat hole a little more often.
Thanks to a member of John Q. Public, this home grown terrorist was intercepted by police before he could carry out his plan to kill who knows how many innocent people.
Lloyd R.Woodson of Reston, VA was arrested on a variety of charges.
This is what we have to do people. We need to be vigilant. These rats will continue to come out of the woodwork in ever increasing numbers. Our authorities across the nation have been doing an unbelievable job in preventing these type of attacks. But they just can’t stop them all without our help.
The only way we can stop this growing “homeland insurgency” is to keep our eyes wide open. We need to watch each others backs. If you see something suspicious, don’t hesitate to alert authorities. Human life may be at stake.
We always think that it “can’t happen in my neighborhood”, but that’s just no longer true. A terrorist attack can happen anywhere, at any time. You need to be aware of your surroundings.
In recent weeks, Light has published virtually identical “Letters to the Editor” in support of President Barack Obama in more than a dozen newspapers. Every letter claimed a different residence for Light that happened to be in the newspaper’s circulation area.
I kept telling Michelle: "You've gotta use more than one name!"
“It’s time for Americans to realize that governing is hard work, and that a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything,” said a letter from alleged Philadelphian Ellie Light, that was published in the Jan. 19 edition of The Philadelphia Daily News.
A letter from Light in the Jan. 20 edition of the San Francisco Examiner concluded with an identical sentence, but with an address for Light all the way across the country in Daly City, California.
Variations of Light’s letter ran in Ohio’s Mansfield News Journal on Jan. 13, with Light claiming an address in Mansfield; in New Mexico’s Ruidoso News on Jan. 12, claiming an address in Three Rivers; in South Carolina’s The Sun News on Jan. 18, claiming an address in Myrtle Beach; and in the Daily News Leader of Staunton, Virginia on Jan. 15, claiming an address in Waynesboro. Her publications list includes other papers in Ohio, West Virginia, Maine, Michigan, Iowa, Pennsylvania and California, all claiming separate addresses.
I going to have to create a new category to put this unbelievable bull shit story into. This is just too hard to comprehend.
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The U.S. military’s just-released report into the Fort Hood shootings spends 86 pages detailing various slip ups by Army officers but not once mentions Major Nidal Hasan by name or even discusses whether the killings may have had anything to do with the suspect’s view of his Muslim faith. And as Congress opens two days of hearings on Wednesday into the Pentagon probe of the Nov. 5 attack that left 13 dead, lawmakers want explanations for that omission.
John Lehman, a member of the 9/11 commission and Navy Secretary during the Reagan Administration, says a reluctance to cause offense by citing Hasan’s view of his Muslim faith and the U.S. military’s activities in Muslim countries as a possible trigger for his alleged rampage reflects a problem that has gotten worse in the 40 years that Lehman has spent in and around the U.S. military. The Pentagon report’s silence on Islamic extremism “shows you how deeply entrenched the values of political correctness have become,” he told TIME on Tuesday. “It’s definitely getting worse, and is now so ingrained that people no longer smirk when it happens.”
In the beginning of a change,
the Patriot is a scarce man,
brave, hated and scorned.
When his cause succeeds
however, the timid join him,
for then it costs nothing to
be a Patriot. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxMark Twain
When the government fears
the people, it is liberty.
When the people fear the
government, it is tyranny. xxxxxxxxxxxxThomas Paine
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. “
xxxRonald Reagan June 6, 1984
The Next American Leader
Is life so dear, or peace so
sweet, as to be purchased at
the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know
not what course others may
take; but as for me, give me
liberty or give me death! xxxxxxxxxxxxxPatrick Henry
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
