I had not heard this idea before. There are reasons to believe that this effect was al Qaeda’s intended goal of the 9/11 attacks. By provoking America into military action against Muslim targets, al Qaeda hoped to revive the age-old narrative of the crusading West and to drive the Muslim people into the arms of [...]
Archive for the ‘Terror’ Category
The Forgettable September 11th
I used to marvel at the “how the left viewed September 11th(How The Left View September 11th)”:http://www.thirdsuperpower.com/previously/2003/07/30/09/28/. Now it has become paintfully obvious that they no longer remember it. John Kerry does not. bq. I defended this country as a young man and I will defend it as President. Let there be no mistake: I [...]
With Supporters like These…
bq. There was a time in America when if you’d spoken of the Democrat Franklin Roosevelt as a liar, a traitor, and a warmonger during World War II, accused him of engineering the Pearl Harbor attacks, referred to our war over there as “Roosevelt’s war” (as a few dipsh*t Republicans did back then) you might [...]
Oliver Willis, Bill Clinton and Saudi Arabia
Has anyone besides me noticed how much Oliver Willis dislikes Saudi Arabia? I noted it a while back when he was advocating the invasion of Saudi Arabia over Iraq. bq. Al Qaeda’s links to Saudi Arabia are clear, the links with Iraq more opportunistic than cohesive and post-Saddam. Bush essentially said: to defeat Al Qaeda, [...]
Views of Pat Tillman
bq. What would you call Pat Tillman, the former Arizona Cardinal football player killed in Afghanistan? A hero? An inspiring example of American military men and women? A model of principled strength? How about a “dumb jock”? A “baby killer”? A “dumb-a–”? A victim of “brainwashing”? If you were a regular reader of Indymedia.org, odds [...]
The Philippines Connection
I found this “exchange(Transcript: 9/11 Commission Hearing )”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9088-2004Apr13.html interesting. bq. The Oklahoma City case — again, one of the criticisms has been that one of the problems of the case law approach to intelligence is that, once you focus on a convicting particular terrorists, that there has to be a hypothesis of the case and [...]
The Annotated PDB
Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate Bin Ladin since 1997′ has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Ladin implied in US television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and “bring the [...]
Fiction Stranger than Truth
bq. Moments after being sworn in as the 44th president, Dick Cheney said that disgraced former national security adviser Condoleezza Rice would be turned over to the Hague for trial in the International Court of Justice as a war criminal. Cheney said Washington would “firmly resist” international demands that Bush be extradited for prosecution as [...]
The Plan
The question that fascinates “some people(Clarke: Condi corroborates my claims)”:http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2004/04/08/condiclarke/ is whether or not there was a plan to take out al-Qaeda when the Bush Administration took office. bq. RICE: So we were not presented — I just want to be very clear on this, because it’s been a source of controversy — we were [...]
Fiddling while The World Burns
In 1998, Richard Clarke attempted to talk Bill Clinton out of doing anything about terrorism. bq. Clarke said that he and other top national-security officials at the White House went to see Clinton to warn him that he would likely be accused of