Entries from Searchlight Crusade tagged with 'terrorism'

Why I Don't Like the Immigration Bill

I want to make it crystal clear that the United States needs immigrants. Legal immigrants, with skills and willingness to work that know English (or want to learn!) and become taxpayers and citizens and be an asset to our country....

Upon the Politics of Terrorists and Fighting Terrorism

Better Late than never: Bush challenges Democrats to offer plan for Iraq Mind you, by leaving it this long, it has become apparent to anyone of any intelligence whatsoever that the Democrats have no plan on Iraq. "Cut and...

Upon the Prisoners at Guantanamo

Politburo Diktat had a post a few days ago on Habeas Corpus Blogging. It was submitted for RINO Sightings, so I read it again. The comments are also worthwhile. Most folks seem to be unaware of the history and purpose...

Lynne Stewart Gets Slap on Wrist, Claims It's Persecution

Terrorist lawyer who smuggled messages sentenced. She should have gotten life for her flagrant abuse of the civil rights system of this country. Every lawyer who violates the law like her is one more endangerment to the civil rights...

9/11: Five Years On

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I got a call from my wife that there were reports a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I turned the TV on immediately, and I'm not certain to this day whether...

More on the Foiled Terrorist Plot to Explode Airplanes

Officials: Plot suspects met alleged al Qaeda bomber But officials, who say the plot displays signs of al Qaeda participation but who are still investigating that angle, do not know whether Rehman was involved in the plot. On the...

Terrorist Plot To Explode Airplanes Foiled

Airlines on alert after foiled bomb plot The suspects were "homegrown," though it was not immediately clear if they were all British citizens, said a police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case....

Keeping Silent

Via Politburo Diktat, Ace of Spades has a good explanation for the terminally outraged on how the government is sometimes not lying to you, it's lying for you. But I do think one of his examples was weak. Not the...

Links and Minifeatures 06 08 Thursday

Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi Killed in Air Raid Confirmed by face and fingerprint. Al-Qaeda also confirmed the information, while vowing to continue their terrorism. Several aides, including Rahman, his spiritual advisor, also dead. Now this doesn't mean that al-Qaeda in Iraq...

U.S. Hiring Hong Kong Co. to Scan Nukes

I'm a lot more concerned about U.S. Hiring Hong Kong Co. to Scan Nukes than I was about the Dubai Port deal. A company with connections to a rival power who wants to displace the US hired to undertake security...

Critics and the War on Terror

Argghhh! has a wonderful article, including a link to a power point presentation, that indicates the military "gets it" as to what it will require to win the war on terror. Pay particular attention to slide 15. It indicates who...

Links and Minifeatures 01 17 Tuesday

Carnival of Liberty. Recommended: The Picket Line, Different River ********** The ACLU has sued to stop the government from wiretapping. I love the list of co-complainants - may Allah forbid we actually prevent any terrorist assaults! This has officially gone...

Jihad versus Hirabah

Enrevanche sent me an email about a Chapomatic article and his own response on the distinction between Jihad (or "holy war", a name for war in the name of religion), and hirabah, which to quote The term hirabah refers to...

Foreign Prisons in the War on Terror

Something really intelligent from government. The kind of thing that says, "Wow. Somebody actually thought about this!" Of course it's Condoleeza Rice we're talking about, so that explains a lot. Rice Says Intel Thwarted Attacks in Europe. Which is true,...

Links and Minifeatures 10 08 Saturday

Some innovative thinking about what to do with human remains. I like some of these ideas. In the abstract, the diamond idea seems good but I'm not certain I want my family to spend that kind of money. When the...

Recycled Terrorists

Pundit Review had Michael Yon on; they have a audio file of the interview. Go to about twenty minutes in. They talk about the terrorists who were released from Guantanamo Bay who go straight to Iraq and combat with our...

Database Mining

Captain's Quarters notes that Congressional investigators have noticed what I did in this article, and takes the wrong tack: we should instead move to limit its application. For instance, the need for the Internal Revenue Service to conduct data-mining operations...

Able Danger, Databases, and the Right to Privacy.

While I was reading up on the Able Danger controversy this morning, I ran across some side information on a recurring theme of mine. I want to bring this to the attention of my readers: From the CNN interview of...

Links and Minifeatures 08 10 (Wednesday)

Teens urged to be future thinkers. Contest with kind of cool prize. ********** Iraq/War on Terror Jawa Report has some good ideas and good thinking on how we can really win the war on Terror. Wars are won when 1)...

New York Subway Searches, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment

Eric's Grumbles responds to one of my posts responding to one of his. Now, Eric, before I get started on the issues you managed to embed in your attack tirade, let's pull a few quotes from your response: Wow, where...