The threat of terrorism in the U.S. today is “less severe” but “more complex and more diverse than at any time over the past nine years,” according to a new report by the Bipartisan Policy Center’s National Security…
The enhanced screening of airline passengers from the Muslim world in the aftermath of the failed terrorist attack on Flight 253 has set off a shockwave of disappointment from supporters of President Obama and surprise from security experts. Few believe, based on experience, that de facto profiling is an effective anti-terrorism tactic. But they do view it as playing into al-Qaeda propaganda that the United States is at war with Islam.
“Unfortunately I was not surprised there was a Yemen connection, given what we were told,” U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen told the Star Tribune. Paulsen is the second member of a bipartisan congressional delegation that visited Yemen last year…
Newsweek has a piece about the recent rash of Somali-American teenagers suddenly disappearing from their Minneapolis homes. The fear is that they are being recruited by radical Islamic groups to fight in their war-torn homeland. As many as 20…
Via Steve Benen at Salon’s War Room blog, John McCain slipped up yet again on the pesky Sunni/Shia distinction earlier today — this time while questioning Gen. David Petraeus in a Senate hearing on the…
Yesterday on Fox News, John McCain once again put his foot where his military and foreign policy expertise are supposed to be, flubbing a discussion of the ceasefire in Basra last week by asserting it was insurgent chieftain…
According to a report from McClatchy, a Pentagon review of over 600,000 documents seized in Iraq shows no link whatsoever between the regime of Saddam Hussein and the terrorist group al Qaeda.
The documents do show some links…
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