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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, 2006Numbers (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, 2006War 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, 2006The 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, 2007Hugh Hewitt is an Idiot (Part One Billion)
Orange County's most prominent talk-show host (take a seat, Joe Escalante) frequently proclaims himself independent of the Republican Party, but everyone knows that's a damn lie. Hugh Hewitt's latest example, however, is particularly egregious not only because he spins for the GOP, but he also skewers his old boss in the process. In his post, Hewitt blames the Democratic Party of the 1970s for the Cambodian genocide and Vietnamese re-education camps and warns the Democrats of today that, simila
August 23, 2007Goat 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, 2008Dead 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, 2008Under Suspicion
September 27, 2001Winged Monkeys!
October 18, 2001Political Soup
March 14, 2002Local Armenian Genocide Deniers Trying to Influence Congressional Race
*Moved up, because the conversation is fun. Non-Armenians and non-Turks encouraged to comment! The Los Angeles Times had a fascinating story yesterday about how Turkish businessmen held a fundraiser last month in Orange County for the opponent of Glendale-area Congressman Adam Schiff. They don't like Schiff because he dared tried to pass a House resolution that would acknowledge the Armenian genocide, a historical fact that only Turkish nationalists and their apologists deny. Leading the charge
November 4, 2008Turkey People the New Holocausted Jews?*
What is it about Orange County that creates fools who make ridiculous comparisons of their causes to the suffering Jews experienced during the Holocaust? A couple of years ago, it was the Minuteman mexicana, Lupe Moreno, rambling about how Mexican immigrants were the new Nazis, while American whites were the Jews. "I would wonder how was it possible that a whole nation of people, millions and millions, would let something as evil as the Holocaust happen?" Moreno wrote in 2003. "How could they be
November 28, 2008Separate and Unequal
October 3, 2002Cambodia
May 10, 2001That Other Quagmire
May 17, 2007So I Married a Terrorist . . .
Saraah Olsons strange trip through the U.S. war on terror
April 19, 2007A Controlled Performance
United 93s Ben Sliney, as played by an actor who understood the role
February 22, 2007Just Another Bloody Sequel
Filmmakers of Vietnam-era DISSENT documentaries see parallels to Iraq War
January 18, 2007Something to Scream About
Screamers director and System of a Down join forces to decry Armenian genocide
December 7, 2006Money for Nothing
October 5, 2006'I've Never Been to America. America Came to Me'
September 21, 2006Ending War 101
September 7, 2006For What, George?
March 16, 2006Mind Your Own Fatwas!
August 11, 2005Memorial Day 2005
May 26, 2005F. Yoo!
February 10, 2005Homage to Babylonia
October 7, 200459 Reasons Why Bush Sucks
Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy
October 7, 2004Terror-Fied
July 8, 2004Hide & Go Deek
June 17, 2004Who's Your Daddy
May 13, 2004Burning Bush
April 1, 2004Mr. Taliban
December 25, 2003Where Have All the Blowhards Gone?
November 20, 2003Good News!
November 20, 2003Peace in Iraq
July 3, 2003Graham Drubs Dubya
June 5, 2003We Must Be Butter Cause Were on a Roll
March 13, 2003War College
March 6, 2003Troubles Every Day
October 17, 2002The Partially Informed Alarmist
July 4, 2002Khmer Rap
June 27, 2002Couched in Ignorance
April 25, 2002Victims of the Dragnet
April 25, 2002New Music
February 21, 2002One Degree of Separation
October 11, 2001Dr. Frankenbacher
October 4, 2001The FBI, the Islamic Center of Irvine and Craig Monteilh: Who Was Conning Whom?
April 30, 2009How 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, 2009Local Armenian Genocide Denier Issues Lamest Legal Threat Ever!
We hadn't heard anything particularly wacky from Orange County's own obsessive Ottoman, the racist Ergun Kirlikovali of Coto de Caza, for quite some time--that is, anything other than the same tired slanders he spews of Armenians as treasonous ingrates and those who know the Ottoman Empire genocided Armenians around World War I as anti-Turkish. I actually stopped regularly checking Turkla.com, a Turkish-American website where he is the featured columnist, to see if Kirlikovali had published anyt
July 9, 2009
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