"The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms..."
OFF TOPIC...Here's a very small sampler of what I have looked at ON THE INTERNET recently:
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS.com: "NEW U.S. INTEL CHIEF: SUPPORT OF ISRAEL NOT A U.S. INTEREST" by David Lev (SNIPPET: "A flurry of reports over the weekend said that the former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, considered a sharp critic of Israel, is to be named to a top intelligence post in the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama.") (February 22, 2009, 1:26 am) (Read More...)
MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch No. 2254: "Egyptian Cleric Zaghloul Al-Naggar: The Arab World Is Ruled By the Scum of the Earth and the Garbage of All Nations; I Am 'Absolutely' Calling to Wage Jihad Against the Jews, Who Are Devils in Human Form" (February 20, 2009) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org (MIRROR.co.uk): "UK: JIHADIST MURDERER PLOTS POISON TERROR STRIKE FROM PRISON CELL" (SNIPPET: "Bourgass, 33, is already serving life for murdering a police officer.") (February 18, 2009) (Read More...)
TERRORISM-INFO.org.il - INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM INFORMATION CENTER (IICC): "During Operation Cast Lead, improvised grenades probably manufactured by Hamas were found inside drug bottles. The drugs were transported to the Gaza Strip from the Ramallah region within the humanitarian aid. Legally, it undermines the protection afforded to medical supplies and humanitarian relief under the laws of armed conflict.") (February 16, 2009) (Read More...)
THE STAR.com: "WAL-MART's GLOW-IN-THE-DARK MYSTERY Retail giant can't account for 15,800 of its exit signs that contain a potentially dangerous radioactive gas" (SNIPPET: "Last month Wal-Mart disclosed that about 15,800 of its exit signs -- a stunning 20 per cent of its total inventory -- are lost, missing, or otherwise unaccounted for at 4,500 facilities in the United States and Puerto Rico.") (February 15, 2009) (Read More...)
COPENHAGEN POST.dk: "TERRORIST THREAT MAY COME FROM WITHIN" (SNIPPET: "A US report has concluded that Muslim residents in Europe who train as terrorists in Pakistan are the most likely agents of terror for the continent. Al-Qaeda is preparing for a new attack in Europe and Denmark is at the top of its list, according to the head of US National Intelligence, Dennis C. Blair.") (February 13, 2009) (Read More...)
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DNI.gov - Testimonies: "ANNUAL THREAT ASSESSMENT OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY FOR THE SENATE SELECT COMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE Dennis C. Blair Director of National Intelligence UNCLASSIFIED STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD" (February 12, 2009) (pdf) (Read More...)
DALLAS NEWS.com: Dallas - "DRUG CARTEL RUMORS KEEP N. TEXAS AUTHORITIES ON ALERT" (SNIPPET: "The Gulf Cartel in Mexico has now been deemed the biggest terroristic threat in the United States, including in North Texas.") (February 13, 2009, 03:07 am CST) (Read More...)
ABC NEWS.com - The Blotter: "KIDNAPPING CAPITAL OF THE U.S.A." (SNIPPET: "In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone.") (February 11, 2009) (Read More...)
MSNBC.msn.com (AP): Washington - "US SENATE CONFIRMS EX-CLINTON AIDE AS CIA DIRECTOR" (SNIPPET: "Panetta's nomination sailed through the chamber by a voice vote. The former Democratic congressman from California has no direct intelligence-gathering or analysis experience.") (Updated February 12, 2009, 5:34 pm PT) (Read More...)
COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "INTEL COMMITTEE CHAIR: U.S. DRONES 'FLOWN OUT OF A PAKISTANI BASE'" by James Gordon Meek (SNIPPET: "The Senate Intelligence Committee's new chairman, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), raised a few eyebrows on Thursday during a hearing by bringing up the diplomatically sensitive matter of Pakistan's cooperation with U.S. missile strikes on its soil.") (February 13, 2009, 06:29 pm) (Read More...)
FreeRepublic.com - Discussion Forum (AP via YAHOO News): Washington - "69 COMPUTERS MISSING FROM NUCLEAR WEAPONS LAB" (SNIPPET: "The Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory in New Mexico is missing 69 computers, including at least a dozen that were stolen last year, a lab spokesman said.") (February 11, 2009) (Read More...)
FAA.gov - Press Release: Washington, D.C. - "FAA NOTIFIES EMPLOYEES OF PERSONAL IDENTITY BREACH" (SNIPPET: "Two of the 48 files on the breached computer server contained personal information about more than 45,000 FAA employees and retirees who were on the FAA's rolls as of the first week of February 2006.") (February 9, 2009) (Read More...)
English.VietnamNet.vn: "STATUE OF PRESIDENT HO INAUGURATED IN MEXICO" (SNIPPET: "Mexico City's Governor Marcelo Ebrard said that victories of the Vietnamese people in the past not only helped change Vietnam, but also the situation of the mankind. Like Vietnam, Mexico gained victories in struggles against French and US invaders.") (January 18, 2009, 10:37 GMT+7) (Read More...)
SUNDAY MERCURY.net: "BIRMINGHAM IS HOME TO AL QAIDA LINKED TERROR SUSPECTS" by Ben Goldby (SNIPPET: "Abd'rabbah Ghuma, 51, Abdulbaqi Mohammed Khaled, 51, and Mohammed Benhammedi, 42, also appear on a United Nation's list of Al Qaida and Taliban associates.") (February 8, 2009) (Read More...)
YNET NEWS.com: "ISRAELIS RECEIVE THREATENING EMAIL FROM HAMAS" by Erez Ronen (SNIPPET: "This is not the first time Hamas or people on its behalf use electronic means in order to threaten Israelis.") (February 7, 2009, 8:51 pm) (Read More...)
TOWNHALL.com: "WOULD YOU TURN YOUR CHEEK TO A TERRORIST?" by David R. Stokes (SNIPPET: "At a time when this country needs to be vigilant and focused on a very real enemy -- one determined to end our way of life as we know it -- Mr. Obama has blurred the issue. He is moving us away from a war mindset to something more surgical and limited. This should be no surprise to observant Americans. After all, he didn't really have much to say on the issue during his campaign. To minimize or marginalize danger is to ignore it. And to ignore danger is how to quickly become blind and vulnerable.") (February 8, 2009) (Read More...)
DEFENSElink.mil (AMERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE): Washington - "BIDEN CALLS FOR ALLIED COOPERATION TO MEET MUTUAL CHALLENGES" (SNIPPET: "Iran has acted in ways that are not conducive to peace in the region or to the prosperity of its people. Its illicit nuclear program is but one manifestation," he said.") (February 7, 2009) (Read More...)
NEWS.com.au - HERALD SUN: "VICTORIA'S BUSHFIRE ARSONISTS HUNTED BY POLICE" (SNIPPET: "Anyone with any information should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000") (Updated February 12, 2009, 9:22 pm) (Read More...)
NEWS.com.au (Australia): "BRUSHFIRES IN VICTORIA KILL 50, DEATH TOLL WILL RISE" (SNIPPET: "640 houses have been destroyed. While firebugs are being blamed for several blazes ravaging Victoria, the Country Fire Authority has confirmed that several fires are being deliberately relit by arsonists.") (February 8, 2009, 3:35 pm) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org (CNN, February 5, 2009): Washington - "YEMEN ON HIGH ALERT FOR JIHADIST ATTACK" (SNIPPET: "Over the last several weeks a growing number of al Qaeda operatives have entered Yemen from Saudi Arabia and have established a renewed network that potentially threatens U.S. and Saudi targets in the region, both U.S. and Yemeni officials have told CNN.") (February 6, 2009) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org (TELEGRAPH.co.uk): "CIA: "The British Pakistani community is recognised as probably al-Qaeda's best mechanism for launching an attack against North America"" (SNIPPET: "American spy chiefs have told the President that the CIA has launched a vast spying operation in the UK to prevent a repeat of the 9/11 attacks being launched from Britain. They believe that a British-born Pakistani extremist entering the US under the visa waiver programme is the most likely source of another terrorist spectacular on American soil.") (February 7, 2009) (Read More...)
YNET NEWS.com (REUTERS): "PAKISTANI COURT DECLARES NUCLEAR SCIENTIST FREE" (SNIPPET: "Khan, lionised by many Pakistanis as the father of the country's atomic bomb, was pardoned but placed under house arrest in 2004 by the then president, Pervez Musharraf, soon after he made a televised confession to selling nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya.") (Published February 6, 2009, 11:34) (Read More...)
DAILY STAR.co.uk: "'We will kill MPs in their own homes'" (SNIPPET: "The plot was found on a password-protected internet message board on a site which has carried an interview with Osama bin Laden's No 2 Ayman al Zawahiri, 57. A user named Paganslayer asks what the mood is for another round of deadly attacks on the continent. There follows a warped discussion about the 7/7 London bombings, which killed 52 innocent people.") (February 5, 2009) (Read More...)
FOX NEWS.com: Seoul, South Korea - "NORTH KOREA TO 'TEST MISSILE CAPABLE OF STRIKING U.S.'" (SNIPPET: "The sinister object has been identified as a Taepodong-2, an intercontinental missile with a range of more than 4000 miles, capable of crossing the Pacific and striking targets in Hawaii or Alaska.") (February 2, 2009) (Read More...)
FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS.org: "THE SECOND GREATEST THREAT TO AMERICA" by Lee Ellis (SNIPPET: "Decapitation has also become a favorite tactic of warring drug gangs that have contended for control over smuggling routes.") (February 2, 2009) (Read More...)
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org - blog: "SAUDI ARABIA'S MOST-WANTED" by Thomas Joscelyn (SNIPPET: "But, the unclassified files created by the U.S. government at Guantanamo contain dozens of details concerning the al Qaeda network operating inside Iran. The Long War Journal reviewed the files and identified more than 50 current and former Guantanamo detainees who had some association with Iran. Most of these transited al Qaeda's facilitation points in eastern Iran. In addition to Tehran, the eastern Iranian cities of Mashhad, Zahedan and Tayyebat were regularly identified as al Qaeda transit points in the unclassified Guantanamo files.") (February 4, 2009, 7:00 am)
YNET NEWS.com (REUTERS): "SAUDI ISSUES WANTED LIST OF 83 MILITANTS OVERSEAS" (SNIPPET: "Saudi television read the names and showed photographs of the wanted men, all Saudis except for two Yemenis, who it said had "adopted the straying ideology", a reference to al-Qaeda. The announcement followed a move last month by al-Qaeda's wing in neighbouring Yemen to name two Saudis released from the US military prison camp in Guantanamo as commanders.") (Published February 2, 2009, 23:36) (Read More...)
NYPOST.com: "OBAMA: SURE, GITMO DETAINEES COULD ATTACK US" (SNIPPET: ""Can we guarantee that they're not going to try to participate in another attack? No," Obama said in an NBC interview that aired today. "But what I can guarantee is that if we don't uphold our Constitution and our values, that over time that will make us less safe. And that will be a recruitment tool for organizations like al-Qaeda."") (Posted February 2, 2009) (Read More...)
FreeRepublic.com - Discussion Forum (MEMRI: The Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor): "ALERTS, PLANNING & TRAINING" (SNIPPET: "Islamist Forum Member Suggests Using Dogs Instead of Suicide Bombers A recent message on the Islamist forum Ma'arik Al-Salafiyya suggested using dogs instead of suicide bombers to carry out attacks on U.S.... January 28, 2009") (January 28, 2009) (Read More...)
