Subject: Terrorism

• Wanted (sort of)

  Remember President Bush's steely determination to get Osama bin Laden Dead or Alive? Turns out he meant we'll get him, if we happen to bump into him. The New York Times reports this morning that "The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants". The unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned within the C.I.A. Counterterrorist Center, the officials said. The decisio

  July 4, 2006

• Numbers (Five Years Later)

  From a list compiled by the UK newspaper, The Independent: 2,973 Total number of people killed (excluding the 19 hijackers) in the September 11, 2001 attacks 72,000 Estimated number of civilians killed worldwide since September 11, 2001 as a result of the war on terror 2 Number of years since US intelligence had any credible lead to Osama bin Laden's whereabouts 2,932 Total number of US servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since September 2001 0 Hours of intelligence training

  September 11, 2006

• War Games

  Meant to blog this yesterday, based on something we saw on ABC's Nightline, but it's also reported on by InfoWorld. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a hearing on May 4. Among the speakers was a specialist whose company we taxpayers are paying more than $7 million a year. Their job: to scour the Internet for instances where al Qaeda and other terrorist groups are recruiting new members online. So this specialist tells the committee that his group had recently discovered t

  June 23, 2006

• The Continuing Story of Goat Boy, the Pesky Terrorist

  If there's anything funny about the U.S. War on Terror and its hunt for al-Qaeda, it's the fact that nearly six years after 9/11, we still haven't been able to capture or kill Adam Yahiye Gadahn, a.k.a. Azzam the American, a.k.a. Goat Boy. At least that's what we've come to call Gadahn around the newsroom, ever since ABC reported in late 2004 that the masked al-Qaeda terrorist who'd appeared on videos that summer—in which he babbled about infidels and threatened America with a second 9/11—wa

  August 7, 2007

• Rohrabacher makes the Code Pink "Hall of Shame"

  On Sept. 17, the anti-war ladies from Code Pink visited the D.C. office of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Skipped Vietnam Combat Duty) to present him with a certificate inducting the congressman into their "Hall of Shame." The back of the pink piece of paper detailed an exit strategy for the war for politicians like Rohrabacher, who the activists believe could use some direction. From the Code Pink website: Congressman Rohrabacher has earned induction into the Hall of Shame for: His blind support o

  September 26, 2007

• Truthiness About Carona Revealed!

  Turns out our Scott Moxley had everything wrong about Sheriff Carona, according to the DC-based news source Prime Legitimate News. The pictures between Carona and Las Vegas mobster Rick Rizzolo? Carona "went undercover as a corrupt cop" in "an undercover police uniform pretending to party, accept large cash contributions, even going so far as to sample strippers in Rizzolo's presence to make the criminals believe that he would be the kind of man who might throw his Christian values out the door

  November 2, 2007

• Goat Boy Gone?

  NB_C News is reporting that Goat Boy, Orange County's favorite terrorist nutball, seems to have disappeared. Goat Boy would bed Adam Yahiye Gadahn, the former death-metal fan turned Muslim convert who grew up on a goat farm in Riverside County be fore moving to Garden Grove, where he became a radical M%uslim before heading to Pakistan in the late 1990s. He unveiled himse#lf in a 2004 videotape distributed by al-Qaeda as Azzam the American. Ever since, he has pestered the western world with dire

  February 14, 2008

• Pentagon Flyover Hysteria Rocks the Internets

  Ever since my cover story last Thursday hit the online conspiracy websites, my inbox has been bombarded with emails from folks obsessed with the events of Sept. 11, 2001 as they pertain to the U.S. Pentagon and an American Airlines jet that either did or didn't hit the building, depending on what theory you happen to believe. My story dealt with a pair of local 9/11 researchers--or "truthers," as they often call themselves--who have produced a DVD called "The PentaCon" alleging that a) the Amer

  August 19, 2008

• Dead Again!

  For the second time in a year, a terrified American public has received the reassuring news that Adam Gadahn, a.k.a. "Goat Boy," is dead. Probably. As far as we know. Seeing as how we haven't heard much from him lately and he likes to harangue his former countrymen with annoying lectures about U.S. imperialism and the merits of al-Qaeda's feudal interpretation of Islam. Yesterday, England's Daily Telegraph added a few more mysterious details to a story that first appeared earlier this year sug

  September 9, 2008

• Goat Boy: Not So Dead Edition

  With the global economy teetering on the brink of self-destruction, America still fighting a two-front war in Iraq and Pakistan, the LA Times about to fire the 75 people who somehow haven't been fired yet, and the Angels out of the race for the pennant, it's about time for a feel-good human interest story to raise our spirits, isn't it? Good news, folks: according to CNN, Adam Gadahn, the goat farm-bred, Orange County-raised American face of Al Qaeda is still alive and well, despite rumors

  October 7, 2008

• Under Suspicion

  September 27, 2001

• Winged Monkeys!

  October 18, 2001

• Political Soup

  March 14, 2002

• Multiperspective, Mega-Annoying Vantage Point

  February 21, 2008

• Separate and Unequal

  October 3, 2002

• Rogue Statesman

  September 12, 2002

• So I Married a Terrorist . . .

  Saraah Olsons strange trip through the U.S. war on terror

  April 19, 2007

• A Terrorist Tool?

  September 8, 2005

• A Controlled Performance

  United 93s Ben Sliney, as played by an actor who understood the role
  

  February 22, 2007

• 'I've Never Been to America. America Came to Me'

  September 21, 2006

• Fakes On a Plane

  August 17, 2006

• Let's Roll Film

  July 27, 2006

• For What, George?

  March 16, 2006

• No Future

  November 3, 2005

• Mind Your Own Fatwas!

  August 11, 2005

• F. Yoo!

  February 10, 2005

• 59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks

  Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy

  October 7, 2004

• Burning Bush

  September 30, 2004

• Terror-Fied

  July 8, 2004

• Hide & Go Deek

  June 17, 2004

• Who's Your Daddy

  May 13, 2004

• Burning Bush

  April 1, 2004

• The Vegas Line

  February 12, 2004

• Terrorist Blackout

  January 29, 2004

• Mr. Taliban

  December 25, 2003

• Graham Drubs Dubya

  June 5, 2003

• The Partially Informed Alarmist

  July 4, 2002

• Couched in Ignorance

  April 25, 2002

• Victims of the Dragnet

  April 25, 2002

• Oy, No! We Won't Go!

  April 18, 2002

• Terror Town, USA

  December 27, 2001

• Islam-o-phobia

  December 6, 2001

• Ollie North: Not All Muslims Evil

  November 22, 2001

• OC Mans Ties to Terrorism Only Skin Deep

  November 8, 2001

• One Degree of Separation

  October 11, 2001

• Letters

  September 27, 2001

• It Slices, It Dices, It Hijacks

  September 27, 2001

• The Terrorist Next Door

  July 20, 2000

• The FBI, the Islamic Center of Irvine and Craig Monteilh: Who Was Conning Whom?

  April 30, 2009

• How Do You Stop Terrorists? Ask A Con-Artist!

  Craig Monteilh, everybody's favorite convicted con artist and FBI mole, hit the airwaves last night in an in-depth interview with KFI AM 640 talk show host Bryan Suits. The topic of the conversation: an FBI sting operation that led to the arrest of four Muslim converts in upstate New York on Wednesday. None of the suspects were from the Middle East nor did any have any connection to Al Qaeda--there is even doubt about whether they were really Muslims-- although one has widely been described as m

  May 22, 2009