“Last week [early May 2010], following the attempted bombing in Times Square, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) proposed that those aiding foreign terrorist activity should be stripped of their citizenship. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton quickly agreed, with a few reservations, that the idea had merits.” [The 5th […]
5/3/2010
“Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan, Dean of the Academic Board at West Point, wrote in a letter to the Editor of The New Yorker magazine [on May 3, 2010]: ‘…the pictures from Abu Ghraib [prison in Iraq] and the publicity surrounding Guantanamo, waterboarding, and other ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ have created far more terrorists than most people […]
5/1/2010
On May 1, 2010, “A naturalized American citizen of Pakistani origin, Faisal Shahzad, had constructed a primitive car bomb and left it on a street corner in the middle of New York’s most congested area [Times Square]. Fortunately, an alert hot dog vendor saw smoke coming from the car and contacted the police. Shahzad was […]
5/1/2010
Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad “traveled to Pakistan where he received bomb-making training from the Taliban. Armed with that training, Shahzad returned to Connecticut, where he purchased an SUV, placed a bomb in it and detonated it in Times Square on May 1, 2010 when the sidewalks were thick with tourists and theatergoers. The bomb, which was […]
5/1/2010
Faisal Shahzad made an unsuccessful attempt to detonate a SUV bomb in Times Square, New York, on May 1, 2010. “…Shahzad, a 30-year-old U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, had been trained by the Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP), the Taliban branch fighting against the Pakistani government.” – Bob Woodward, Obama’s Wars, Page 363 […]
5/1/2010
“Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad… had attempted to set off a makeshift bomb in his SUV, which he had parked by the crowded Midtown Manhattan tourist area on the evening of May 1 [2010]. The bomb smoked but failed to explode.” – Bob Woodward, Obama’s Wars, Page 361 […]
4/18/2010
On April 18, 2010, “U.S. and Iraqi forces killed [al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) leaders Abu Umar] al-Baghdadi and [Abu Hamza] al-Muhajir near Tikrit, disrupting the recovery of AQI and the ISI [Islamic State of Iraq] of which it is part.” – Michael Scheuer, Osama Bin Laden, Page 153 […]
4/15/2010
“On April 15, 2010, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution which unequivocally states that the prohibition against torture is non-derogable, that it must be protected under all circumstances, and that no states of emergency or claim relating to a war-like condition can ever be advanced as justification. The Resolution explicitly states in […]
4/12/2010
On April 12, 2010, President Barack Obama said: ” ‘The single biggest threat to U.S. security, both short-term, medium-term, and long-term, would be the possibility of a terrorist organization obtaining a nuclear weapon.’ “ – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 214 […]
3/25/2010
“Osama bin Laden threatened al Qaeda would kill any Americans it takes prisoner if accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is put to death, according to an audiotape aired on al Jazeera on Thursday [March 25, 2010]. …’This message is about our prisoners who you are holding,’ bin Laden said in the tape, complaining […]