Terrorism

WASHINGTON - After nearly seven years of war in Afghanistan, the Taliban-led insurgency is flourishing, the Defense Department indicated in a gloomy new report yesterday, saying the insurgents are likely to accelerate their attacks and expand into new regions in northern and western regions of the country.

WASHINGTON - Top intelligence leaders boasted that a new
wiretap law helped foil a terror plot in Germany, as Al Qaeda
threatened another video from Osama Bin Laden for today's 9/11
anniversary.

Al Qaeda's media wing, As-Sahab, posted a banner ad on jihadi Web sites promoting a second clip of Bin Laden in five days.

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You're walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children. Suddenly, an Islamic terrorist with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, praises Allah, raises the knife, and charges at you.

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An article in the SF Chronicle...

The events of the last decade have changed our American way of life. But have things gone too far?

Laws and Gun Laws are only for law abiding people. Criminals don’t care about laws. And Ohio’s gun laws are just about stupid! Lets face it. In Ohio if a law abiding person takes all the classes and training and passes all. He or she can get a permit to carry a concealed hand gun.

After seeing shootings at VA Tech and at N. Illinois, one wonders if concealed carry is permitted on any college campus - particularly UT. The campus is rather spread out and it would be hard for campus security to respond in a timely manner if some nut job walked in some classroom, ready to take some lives.

"WASHINGTON — The plan announced by the Pentagon on Monday to seek
the death penalty against six suspects accused of planning and
organizing the Sept. 11 attacks could be complicated by the recent
acknowledgment that one of the men was the subject of waterboarding.

Are they serious? Apparently so. Now we know the real cause of global warming. The most hilarious part of this story, though, is that the name of the school newsletter is the Fire Cracker. Don't you just love irony? (Or is it just me?)

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By Holly S. Anderson
VillageSoup/Knox County Times Senior Reporter

"It was malice in wonderland at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
on Thursday as Bush Administration envoys insisted things are getting
better in Afghanistan, while angry lawmakers from both parties cited
facts and figures showing just the opposite. Even the senior Republican

"WASHINGTON - In a shift with profound implications, the Bush
administration is attempting to re-energize its terrorism-fighting war

President Bush wants Congress to broaden
the government's powers to eavesdrop on private conversations without
court approval. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, a
controversial public surveillance law is set to expire February 1.

"He believes his article Next-Gen Taleban - published in
the New York Times magazine on 6 January - may have angered Pakistani
officials.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Huckabee_Amend_Constitution_to_meet_Gods_0...

The United States Constitution never uses the word "God" or makes mention of any religion, drawing its sole authority from "We the People." However, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee thinks it's time to put an end to that.

Some of the very people campaigning had supported the sales of arms and technology to Pakistan and now the very same are now saying, we, must do something about Pakistan.

Who's on first?

In light of the subsequent history of Iraq, it seems
almost unthinkable that 30 years ago Britain sold millions of pounds of
military equipment to the country's Baathist government.

"Foreign Office papers, just released by the National
Archives in London, show that defence sales to Iraq in 1976 amounted to

Toledo, Ohio native Zak Reed is tired of being stopped and detained at the Canadian border every time he tries to drive home.

"I don't feel very welcome in my home at all," Reed tells CBS News. "In fact, I feel like I am not wanted in my country any more."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/08/eveningnews/main3595024.shtml

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says official US calls for "clarifying" the Geneva Conventions are part of a ploy to limit their application and enable prisoners to be treated outside the law without inviting culpability for war crimes and torture...

The first change that must be grasped is America's diminished ability to influence people. Global access to information now amounts to an immense

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 4,

WASHINGTON - President Bush compared Congress' Democratic leaders Thursday to people who ignored the rise of Lenin and Hitler early in the last century, saying "the world paid a terrible price" then and risks similar consequences for inaction today.

According to a story in the Toledo Blade:

Four students were arrested yesterday after they were accused of detonating a chemical bomb in the basement of the field house at Libbey High School in South Toledo, authorities said