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The EMP Threat August 9, 2008; Page A10 Wall Street Journal <Excerpt> Imagine you're a terrorist with a single nuclear weapon. You could wipe out the U.S. city of your choice, or you could decide to destroy the infrastructure of the entire U.S. economy and leave millions of Americans to die of starvation or want of medical care. The latter scenario is the one ...

Explosions kill two in northwestern China CNN 9 August 2008 <LINK> Excerpt: Several explosions rocked a county in northwestern China early Sunday, killing at least two people, state-run media reported. The explosions, which occurred between 3:20 and 4 a.m., blasted the 400-population Kuqa County in China's remote Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, which borders Tibet ...

The contrast between Jewish and Muslim observances of military tragedies, discussed below, illustrate the reasons for my growing admiration for Islam which, but for multiculturalism, I'd be kept in suppressed ignorance about. Shortly after this weekend is the most solemn holiday of the Jewish year, one that mourns the destruction by Babylonia of the First Temple and the ...

U.S. Lawmakers Take Aim at Homegrown Terrorist Threat August 07, 2008 By Catherine Herridge Excerpt... WASHINGTON — Many Americans believe that the threat of homegrown terrorism is gravest in Europe, but according to the U.S. government, in the last 18 months more than a half-dozen plots were thwarted right here at home. Sen. Joe Lieberman says the threat is growing. "...

Foreign Policy Lessons From Fighting Muslim Pirates by Michael Medved, Townhall.com August 6, 2008 (Excerpt) 1. The U.S. often goes to war when it is not directly attacked. One of the dumbest lines about the Iraq War claims that “this was the first time we ever attacked a nation that hadn’t attacked us.” Obviously, Barbary raids against private shipping hardly constituted a ...

Iraq: Why We Are Winning Gen. Jack Keane American Enterprise Institute 8/6/08 EXCERPT: In June, General Jack Keane spoke at an AEI conference, stating flatly that we are winning in Iraq and that the momentum is irreversible. He spoke in detail about the four factors that allowed him to make this claim: the defeat of al Qaeda, the capitulation of the mainstream Sunni insurgency, ...

Al-Qaeda faces Islamist backlash Frank Gardner BBC 8/7/08 EXCERPT: One by one they have been coming out in public to denounce the organisation's actions as being counterproductive. But at the same time, a leading British de-radicaliser says the number of young British Muslims attracted to violent extremism is growing - and, he claims, the UK government is partly to blame. In ...

Moqtada Packs It In The Wall Street Journal August 6, 2008; Page A14 <excerpt> Good news out of Iraq is becoming almost a daily event: In just the past week, we learned that U.S. combat fatalities (five) dropped in July to a low for the war, that key leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq have fled to the Pakistani hinterland, that troop deployments will soon be cut to 12 months from 15, ...

I would appreciate help from resident Iran and foreign policy experts to give a good rebuttal to this ..... Have a drink and take a xanacs before you read it....lol To the following reply....... They execute gays in Iran, women cannot hold positions of power, they funnel weapons to Al Qeada in Iraq, and abduct British soldiers; and you respect them more than Bush?!?!? Sad. Very sad....

.............story coming in now.........................on Fox..................... The Jury has reached a verdict in the case agains Salim Hamdan, Bin Laden's driver. ................... This is a historic moment seeing that it's the first Guantanamo war crimes trial. It was a Jury trial. ................he's facing Life Imprisonment. He was found "guilty" of some charges...