Christie Blatchford: For some, the story of 9/11 never got old, and is not now dug up as an artifact from the recesses of memory just in time for the 10th anniversary of the terror attacks
Showing posts with label Terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terrorism. Show all posts
Thursday, September 08, 2011
A Real Day Of Mourning...
Christie Blatchford: For some, the story of 9/11 never got old, and is not now dug up as an artifact from the recesses of memory just in time for the 10th anniversary of the terror attacks
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
A Valid Question?
...who are these "rebel leaders?" Who do they represent? What are their politics? Have the inmates taken over the zoo?
George Jonas: Could Libya’s next rulers be worse than Gaddafi?
If jihadists fill Libya’s power vacuum, the result may dwarf all of Bush’s foreign policy errors combined.
Even allowing for the uneasy relationship between reporting and reality from both sides in Libya’s civil war, Muammar Gaddafi’s regime seems on its last legs. Feeling jubilant over the downfall of Libya’s tyrant wouldn’t be a hard task as a rule. A particularly loathsome specimen even by Middle East standards, Gaddafi’s departure would have felt like a net gain for humanity as well as for his own country in 1969, when he seized power; in the 1970s, when he was murdering his rivals and opponents; in the 1980s, when he was sponsoring and facilitating terrorism all over the world; and in the 1990s and 2000s, when he was merely assassinating dissidents while pretending to turn over a new leaf.
But, except for token shows of force, no one took him on. He was virtually rehabilitated, even fussed over at the 2009 G8 summit by the very NATO leaders who spent the last few months trying to dethrone and preferably pulverize him. Read More »
George Jonas: Could Libya’s next rulers be worse than Gaddafi?
If jihadists fill Libya’s power vacuum, the result may dwarf all of Bush’s foreign policy errors combined.
Even allowing for the uneasy relationship between reporting and reality from both sides in Libya’s civil war, Muammar Gaddafi’s regime seems on its last legs. Feeling jubilant over the downfall of Libya’s tyrant wouldn’t be a hard task as a rule. A particularly loathsome specimen even by Middle East standards, Gaddafi’s departure would have felt like a net gain for humanity as well as for his own country in 1969, when he seized power; in the 1970s, when he was murdering his rivals and opponents; in the 1980s, when he was sponsoring and facilitating terrorism all over the world; and in the 1990s and 2000s, when he was merely assassinating dissidents while pretending to turn over a new leaf.
But, except for token shows of force, no one took him on. He was virtually rehabilitated, even fussed over at the 2009 G8 summit by the very NATO leaders who spent the last few months trying to dethrone and preferably pulverize him. Read More »
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Osama Who?
Enemy No. 1: Anwar The American
02/08/2010 06:54 PM ET - War On Terror: Upstaging Osama Bin Laden as the most dangerous man in the world may be an American recruiter for al-Qaida: Anwar Awlaki. So why's he talking to Al-Jazeera instead of ... More »
Friday, January 15, 2010
USA Friends In The Middle East
Heather Murdock
Yemeni scholars are urging a global jihad if the West interferes in the country's affairs.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
How Many People Flew Yesterday Without Incident
No-fly concerns growing
Wed Jan 13 2010
Hani Al Telbani, a Montreal university student, is suing Ottawa for stopping him from boarding an aircraft in 2008. He argues it was a breach of his constitutional rights. Toronto cartoonist Shahid Mahmood wants the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to...
Cohn: Fox TV and the politics of profiling
Tue Jan 12 2010 (16)
Terrorism is not just about bombs, bullets or WMDs. It's about mind games and the ability to terrorize – or paralyze – people at every airport in the...
Friday, January 08, 2010
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Bitch, Bitch, Bitch.....
'The terrorists don't have to blow us out of the sky to assume a win' Editors pick readers' most insightful online comments
- Kelly McParland: Thanks mad bomber. Thanks a lot.
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Predictably, the reaction of security authorities to the Nigerian man who attempted to blow up a passenger plan landing in Detroit (we're just going to dispense with the "allegedlys" here, if you don't mind) is to make life as miserable as possible for all the people who didn't try to blow up a plane on Christmas morning.
They missed a guy from Nigeria, who was so radicalized that his own father grew frightened about his intentions and notified U.S. authorities. So everyone else has to suffer: old ladies, mothers with babies, students, families on their way to a holiday. Wailing kids are forced to stand around uselessly in a mob of frustrated travellers in a boring airport just so the security people can make a show of how careful they're being, just in case that grandfather from Bute turns out to be an Al-Qaeda mad bomber in disguise. Folks are needlessly humiliated, forced to pry open their bags on the airport floor, dragging out their carefully packed clothes and toiletries, jamming stuff from one suitcase into another to please the new, arbitrary regulations adopted in a panic by a security apparatus in a high state of embarrassment.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
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- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.