Ever since last week's naive summit meeting in Jordan between prime ministers Mahmoud Abbas, Ariel Sharon and President George W. Bush concluded, Arab terrorists have have been doing their best to make peace look impossible to achieve. In other words, reality has reared its ugly head. Over the past few days I've heard talking heads […]
The Washington Post's Richard Cohen takes the Bush administration and, specifically, Attorney General John Ashcroft to task for locking up 762 illegal immigrants post 9/11 who turned out to have no ties to terrorism. Let's have it in Cohen's words. The AG was asked about a report from his own inspector general criticizing the way […]
In a brief reference in this story about education in Turkmenistan, the Associated Press refers to the mythical trans-Afghan pipeline that, according to cartoonist and nut-job Ted Rall, was the reason for our invasion of Afghanistan. The trend worries diplomats and others. Turkmenistan — sitting amid Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan — is in a […]
The Department of Homeland Defense has raised the terror alert level up to orange. I've created the following graphic using images from the government's Web site and an e-mail that's been making the rounds on the Internet. Some of the text descriptions are from the e-mail, others are my own.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's latest screed against the Bush administration demonstrates that the clever use of quotes can give the impression someone's saying something they're not. Krugman today attacks the Bush administration's record on terrorism on the pretext that an attack in Saudi Arabia proves not enough is being done here at home. […]
President Clinton readies troops for invasion of Afghanistan Claims Taliban, Osama bin Laden threat to U.S. Washington, D.C. (AP) -- President Bill Clinton, in a hastily-called address to a joint session of Congress, sought congressional authorization for a war against Afghanistan. The president told Congress the Taliban government is providing aid and comfort to Osama […]
The FBI last week arrested former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian -- finally. Al-Arian got in trouble more than a year ago after appearing on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor." O'Reilly confronted Al-Arian with statements he was videotaped making: "Let us damn America. Let us damn Israel (and) their allies until their […]
The Washington Post is reporting that the Saudi embassy helped the wife of a terror suspect to get out of the country after she was called to testify before a grand jury on possible links to al Qaeda. Jubeir, the Saudi spokesman, bristled at suggestions yesterday that the Saudis had failed to assist law enforcement […]
On Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," last night, with Cal Thomas sitting in for Bill, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) outlined the Democratic strategy for attacking the Bush administration's handling of the War on Terror: They got the Patriot Act. I voted for it. It's going to lapse in 18 months. And some say: "Have we […]
A "conversation on the beach" is an example of some first-person reporting that is sometimes some of the most insightful and informative available. In the article, which was first written as a letter to a friend, an Israeli holocaust survivor describes a conversation he had with a Palestinian who is apparently a college student at […]