BBC — Kismayo attack: At least 26 dead as gunmen storm Somali hotel: A suicide bomber rammed a car containing explosives into the Asasey hotel in the port of Kismayo, and gunmen then stormed t...
https://patterico.com/2019/07/13/terror-attack-in-somalia-kills-26-including-2-americans/
REUTERS: ‘American Taliban’ to be released from prison Thursday John Walker Lindh, the American captured in Afghanistan in 2001 fighting for the Taliban and vilified as a national traitor, i...
https://patterico.com/2019/05/22/american-taliban-to-be-released-from-prison-thursday/
. . . before conducting an autopsy or giving journalists a chance to take independent photos or footage. Because otherwise, Al Qaeda might have gotten upset at us.
https://patterico.com/2011/05/06/good-thing-we-dumped-that-body-right-away/
Slate asks who should get that $25 million reward for the capture of Osama. Maybe it should be the man behind the intelligence techniques that led us to him: George W. Bush. Aaron has already lin...
Major Nidal Hasan has banking problems because he can’t find a bank to take his money via direct deposit. Fort Hood officials are reportedly working with Hasan’s attorney to waive the direct...
France has declared war on Al Qaeda in North Africa following the murder of a French hostage: “We are at war with al-Qaida,” Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday, a day after Presiden...
https://patterico.com/2010/07/27/france-declares-war-on-al-qaeda/
The Washington Post series “Top Secret America” exposes the “hidden world” of U.S. intelligence: “The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Se...
https://patterico.com/2010/07/19/washington-post-intelligence-series/
Quin Hillyer at the Washington Times passes along a notice from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that the Washington Post plans to publish a “compendium of government agenci...
https://patterico.com/2010/07/16/wapo-to-publish-leaked-national-intelligence-information/
Gaza’s summer day camps for children are really, really competitive: “Rival day camps by the United Nations and Gaza’s Islamic militant Hamas rulers compete for the hearts of the next gene...
The 17 Afghans who had gone AWOL from a Texas air force base have almost been located with help from Facebook. Rusty at the JAWA Report has good news and bad news: “Heh. Some of them seemed to...
The Colorado man who was detained in Pakistan trying to hunt down Osama Bin Laden will be released and allowed to return to the U.S. His brother says he wasn’t crazy to travel to Pakistan to t...
https://patterico.com/2010/06/22/pakistan-will-release-bin-laden-hunter/
The Supreme Court today approved a Bush era policy supported by the Obama Administration that criminalizes providing material support to foreign terror groups: “The Supreme Court has upheld a ...
https://patterico.com/2010/06/21/supreme-court-approves-material-support-law/
Politico reports the Obama DOJ may put off a decision on the 9/11 trials until after the November elections. The article points out that, unless the Obama Administration decides to try the 9/11 ...
https://patterico.com/2010/06/20/decision-on-911-trials-may-be-postponed/
Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad was indicted on 10 counts of terrorism, conspiracy and weapons counts. The article states Shahzad cooperated for 2 weeks before he asked for a lawyer. The auth...
https://patterico.com/2010/06/17/times-square-bomber-indicted/
The Pakistanis have arrested American Gary Brooks Faulker, a 50-year-old Greeley, Colorado, man who needs dialysis three times a week and may have traveled overseas to kill Osama Bin Laden. Frie...
https://patterico.com/2010/06/15/american-arrested-in-pakistan/
Fox News reports there has been an incident at McDill MacDill AFB in Florida: “Base public affairs officer Senior Airman Katherine B. Holt reports a man and woman were unable to show proper id...
The Sun reports on the despicable Taliban tactics in Afghanistan: “TALIBAN fighters are burying dirty needles with their bombs in a bid to infect British troops with HIV, The Sun can reveal. H...
https://patterico.com/2010/06/09/the-definition-of-a-dirty-war/
One of the side effects of President Obama’s nomination of General James Clapper to be his Director of National Intelligence is that it has revived discussion of whether Saddam Hussein had Wea...
Ed Morrissey has some thoughts about James Clapper, President Obama’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence: “If anything, Clapper’s nomination to the post highlights both the lack...
The Bush Doctrine expressly authorized preemptive military action against America’s enemies and potential enemies, and President Bush was relentlessly pilloried by Democrats for his public sta...
President Obama has named retired Air Force General and current Pentagon intelligence official James Clapper to be director of national intelligence. The report says there is bipartisan oppositi...
A Houston man has been charged with trying to provide aid to al Qaeda. The details are sketchy and these are only charges, not proof. But in general, doesn’t it seem like there could be a lot ...
https://patterico.com/2010/06/03/houston-man-indicted-on-terror-charges/
Michael Walsh of BigJournalism has 10 questions for author Andy McCarthy regarding his new book, The Grand Jihad. Here’s the first question: “Q. Why did you write this book? Surely, you’re...
Last week the federal government issued a Terror Watch for a Somali who might try to enter Texas via Mexico: “The Department of Homeland Security is alerting Texas authorities to be on the loo...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/31/mexico-bound-passenger-detained/
After his Inauguration, President Obama called for the closing of the detention center at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base — a decision that he has not been able to implement — as well as a com...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/30/gitmo-detainee-report-released/
Counterterrorism czar John Brennan is pumped about all the terrorists that have been captured on the Obama Administration’s watch: “White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan was aske...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/27/many-many-captured-terrorists/
Five months after Obama’s deadline to close Guantanamo, the LA Times‘ Andrew Malcolm points out a new problem: “The controversial alternate plan was to transfer these bad guys onto the U.S...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/23/closing-guantanamo-one-year-and-counting/
In response to the Obama Administration’s decision to put Yemeni clerk Anwar al-Awlaki on a priority list for capture or assassination, al-Awlaki has called on Muslims to kill American citizen...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/23/al-awlaki-responds-kill-americans/
The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee claim the Obama Administration has failed to provide intelligence information as required by law: “The Obama administ...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/22/is-obama-keeping-congress-out-of-the-loop/
Via Free Republic, Judicial Watch reports Massachusetts authorities knew an accomplice of the Times Square bomber was in the U.S. illegally but did nothing because of sanctuary policies: “Khan...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/22/sanctuary-policies-may-shield-terrorists/
For years, experts have warned of the myth that Al Qaeda terrorists are “poor, desperate, single young men from Third World countries, vulnerable to brainwashing.” Instead, as Dr. Marc Sagem...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/22/profiling-terrorists-in-the-u-s/
The DC Circuit court today upheld the Obama Administration’s argument that, unlike Guantanamo detainees, foreign nationals being held by the American military in Bagram, Afghanistan, cannot as...
Obama Administration National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair has resigned, apparently under pressure: “One official tells ABC News that President Obama sought Blair’s resignation earlier...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/20/obamas-national-intelligence-director-resigns/
Andy McCarthy: “This YouTube clip from the Attorney General’s testimony today will be the most painful two minutes of video you will ever watch. Mr. Holder would obviously rather get a root-...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/13/eric-holder-on-radical-islam/
Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., believes Congress should consider legislating a terrorism exception to Miranda: “Attorney General Eric Holder said that Congress should “give serious co...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/09/holder-suggests-terrorism-exception-to-miranda/
Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., has acknowledged the New York City car bomber was a terrorist directed and funded by the Taliban and was not a lone wolf: “The Pakistani Taliban directed ...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/09/holder-taliban-directed-car-bomber/
The New York Times profiles Anwar al-Awlaki, the American Muslim living in Yemen who reportedly counseled the Fort Hood shooter and Northwest Flight 253’s underwear bomber, as well as inspired...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/08/ny-times-profiles-anwar-al-awlaki/
Andy McCarthy links an NPR report in the New York car bomb case that indicates possible law enforcement leaks and the media response determined how law enforcement tracked Shahzad: “Tipping of...
A bill filed in the Senate would allow the government to revoke the citizenship of Americans who support terrorism: “Lieberman offered the legislation today along with Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/06/terror-bill-would-expatriate-u-s-citizens/
CNN reports on what motivated Faisal Shahzad: “Efforts also continued Wednesday to determine what may have motivated Shahzad. An official familiar with the investigation said Wednesday that Sh...
Allahpundit at Hot Air discusses a Wall Street Journal report that Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square car bomber, may well have been trained by the Taliban in Pakistan. From the Wall Street Journa...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/05/ny-car-bomber-may-be-taliban-trained/
A report says that Fasial Shahzad, the New York car bomber, is from a wealthy family and “the son of a former high-ranking air force officer.” Another privileged terrorist, like the underwea...
AP asks How did the bomb suspect board airliner? “The no-fly list failed to keep the Times Square suspect off the plane. Faisal Shahzad had boarded a jetliner bound for the United Arab Emirate...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/04/how-did-bomb-suspect-board-airliner/
Mary Katharine Ham posts the “Dumbest Theories about the Times Square Bomber,” including such luminaries as Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an uncredited appearance by Homeland Security Secretary J...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/04/media-responds-to-car-bombers-religion-nationality/
Time’s Swampland reports New York City car bomber Faisal Shahzad was questioned before being given his Miranda warnings under the Public Safety Exception to Miranda: “At a press conference T...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/04/mirandizing-the-car-bomber/
The AP reports a suspect in the New York car bombing has been arrested trying to leave the country: “A suspect in last weekend’s failed car bomb attack on Times Square was taken into custody...
Huffington Post has two videos of the car bomb. — DRJ
CBS reports the NYPD has a person of interest in yesterday’s car bomb: “A source told CBS News that investigators are looking at a possible suspect, a Pakistani American, in the botched car ...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/03/car-bomb-person-of-interest/
The Washington Post is running the following banner: “Failed car bomb in Times Square increasingly appears to have been coordinated by several people in a plot with international ties, Obama a...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/03/ny-bomb-terrorism-with-international-ties/
An editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) calls for more aggressive tactics in interdicting terrorists plots, the most recent of which came up short of its lethal aim...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/03/times-square-car-bomb-could-los-angeles-be-next/
Janet Napolitano is President Obama’s Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS and Secretary Napolitano are responsible for protecting America from terrorism, illegal immigr...
But don’t worry. The feds tell us it’s not terrorism: The police discovered a car bomb in a smoking Nissan Pathfinder in the heart of Times Square Saturday evening, prompting the evacuation o...
https://patterico.com/2010/05/01/car-bomb-found-in-times-square/
A.W. has a new blog on a topic of public interest, especially if you watch South Park. Don’t miss one of the first cartoon submissions. — DRJ
Noted FBI Most Wanted listee and revisionist historian Bill Ayers spoke last night at a Fresno, California, church: “We were never a terrorist organization and that is because we never threate...
https://patterico.com/2010/04/25/we-were-never-a-terrorist-organization/
One of three Navy SEALS charged in connection with the alleged beating of an Iraqi prisoner was found not guilty today by a Navy jury: “On Thursday, a six-man Navy jury found Petty Officer 1st...
https://patterico.com/2010/04/22/navy-seal-not-guilty-in-iraqi-abuse-case/
Today marks the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The attack killed 168 innocent victims, including 19 children, and i...
Last week, Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman and ranking minority member Senator Susan Collins threatened to issue a subpoena unless the Obama Administration released inf...
https://patterico.com/2010/04/19/congress-issues-first-obama-administration-subpoena/
Hot Air posts on the New York Times‘ Saturday night bombshell — Secret Gates memo warns that U.S. has no strategy for dealing with a nuclear Iran. Here’s Allahpundit’s summary: “Of cou...
https://patterico.com/2010/04/17/obama-administration-no-response-to-a-nuclear-iran/
Is Iran poised to join the world’s nuclear club … next month? — DRJ
New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer’s advice for Attorney General Eric Holder: “Holder testified on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He said, “This administration i...
https://patterico.com/2010/04/14/schumer-to-holder-just-say-it-already/
At his nuclear summit today, President Obama warned of the threats posed by terrorists who get their hands on nuclear weapons: “The risk of nuclear attack has gone up,” Obama said Tuesday at...
One of two American women accused of terror-related charges entered a silent plea to avoid the possibility of incriminating herself: “With a shake of the head, a pregnant Colorado woman pleade...
https://patterico.com/2010/04/08/the-privilege-against-self-incrimination/
Barack Obama objected when the Bush Administration locked up suspected terrorists without due process. Now Obama is willing to kill a suspected American terrorist: “The Obama Administration ha...
https://patterico.com/2010/04/08/obama-puts-american-on-terrorist-hit-list/
Via Ace’s Gabriel Malor, Malkin and the Daily Beast: “Federal air marshals restrained a man who attempted to light his shoes on fire aboard a United Airlines plane headed from Washington, D....
https://patterico.com/2010/04/07/possible-shoe-bomber-on-dc-denver-flight/
Amnesty International’s Secretary-General has endorsed “Jihad in self-defence”: “Amnesty International (AI) Secretary-General Claudio Cordone has come under fire for defending jihad when...
https://patterico.com/2010/04/03/amnesty-international-sides-with-jihad/
An anti-government group has written letters to most and possibly all State Governors asking them to resign in three days. In response, the federal government is warning about the dangers of ext...
https://patterico.com/2010/04/02/fbi-issues-warnings-about-anti-government-groups/
Two female homicide bombers carried out separate attacks in the Moscow subway, killing dozens: “Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up aboard packed underground trains at the height of ...
Attorney General Eric Holder says Osama Bin Laden will never be captured alive: “Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United ...
https://patterico.com/2010/03/16/holder-obl-wanted-dead-or-alive/
The latest news about Maj. Nidal Hasan involves Army emails suggesting he was “too fat and ‘chronically’ unprofessional during his psychiatric training,” and that raised serious question...
It appears Attorney General Eric Holder wasn’t truthful and forthcoming in his Senate confirmation hearings: “Attorney General Eric Holder failed to tell the Senate about seven legal briefs ...
Andrew McCarthy on lawyers who volunteer to represent jihadists: “There is something wrong with a legal profession that insists we not only let American lawyers take up the enemy’s cause but...
https://patterico.com/2010/03/07/americas-misguided-lawyers/
Updates have called into question earlier reports that Adam Gadahn was captured in Pakistan: “We are checking with Pakistani authorities to confirm one way or the other,” said FBI spokesman ...
Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan is moving from a San Antonio hospital to a Fort Hood-area jail: “The Army psychiatrist charged in the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military base will so...
https://patterico.com/2010/03/01/hasan-returning-to-fort-hood/
Today the Supreme Court considered whether a Patriot Act provision designed to isolate terrorists violates Americans’ rights to freedom of speech and association: “The law makes it a crime t...
https://patterico.com/2010/02/23/speech-money-and-terrorism/
Are you as curious as I was why there weren’t more people killed or injured in Joe Stack’s plane attack on the Austin IRS office? Depending on how you look at it, it was sheer luck or by the...
https://patterico.com/2010/02/21/casualties-and-the-austin-plane-attack/
Erick Stakelbeck has more on the Fort Jackson story Patterico introduced earlier today: “According to Gray, the Army is investigating allegations that a group of soldiers from the 09 Lima pro...
https://patterico.com/2010/02/19/more-on-the-fort-jackson-story/
The Department of State recently participated in a conversation about counterterrorism with a Kentucky college class as part of the students’ Terrorism and Political Violence course: “Studen...
A small airplane crashed today into a Northwest Austin, Texas, office building — home to offices of the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies — in what appears to be a delibera...
https://patterico.com/2010/02/18/plane-crashes-into-austin-building/
Amid reports that American military forces in Afghanistan are hampered by the rules of engagement, the AP reports the Taliban is using Afghan women and children as human shields: “This is the ...
Hamas founder and member Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh was assassinated in his Dubai hotel room last month, and Hamas believes it was a Mossad operation: “Mabhouh was a senior member of Hamas and one of ...
https://patterico.com/2010/02/17/the-assassination-of-assasination-of-mahmoud-al-mabhouh/
So, Mullah Barador is being tortured now? It’s okay. President Obama’s ban on torture doesn’t apply to rendition programs or to CIA detention “facilities used only to hold people on a sh...
https://patterico.com/2010/02/16/torture-and-mullah-barador/
An AP report from the Badula Qulp area, West of Lashkar Gah in the Helmand province of Southern Afghanistan: “Close to the road and relative safety, soldiers saw a man in black walking. He was...
As Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion predicted, more civil rights for terrorists means more dead terrorists: “I predicted that once we lost the ability to effectively interrogate detainees, more terroris...
https://patterico.com/2010/02/14/obamas-moral-war-on-terror/
The Obama Administration continues to criminalize the War on Terror as John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, said yesterday that 20% recidivism rat...
https://patterico.com/2010/02/14/the-obama-administration-fights-the-war-on-terror/
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to appear on ABC’s “This Week” and the White House is responding: “Former Vice President Cheney will appear on ABC’s “This Week” on S...
https://patterico.com/2010/02/14/cheney-to-appear-on-abcs-this-week/
Over the years, both the Bush and Obama Administrations have pointed out that the government has successfully tried terrorism cases in civilian courts. Last week during a CBS interview, Presiden...
https://patterico.com/2010/02/13/politifact-rates-obamas-terrorist-prosecution-claim-as-barely-true/
The Washington Post reports President Obama will get more involved in decisions regarding the 9/11 terror trials, and military tribunals may still be an option: “Administration officials said ...
https://patterico.com/2010/02/12/terror-trials-back-on-the-radar/
David Axelrod in a C-SPAN interview taped yesterday: —On the administration’s handling of accused terrorists: “This isn’t new. We haven’t invested anybody with one more right than they...
Senator Kit Bond and the White House are in a tiff over the Administration’s handling of the Christmas Day bomber: “The ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Kit Bond...
https://patterico.com/2010/02/05/bond-vs-the-white-house-on-the-christmas-day-bomber/
Tom Maguire fisks Matt Yglesias’ support for the Obama Administration’s handling of the Underwear Bomber. Here’s my favorite part, and note that Maguire’s comments are in regular type an...
https://patterico.com/2010/02/03/maguire-on-yglesias-on-the-underwear-bomber/
Don’t miss Patterico’s post today at Hot Air. Here’s a teaser: “By twisting the criminal justice system to accommodate cases that don’t belong there, Obama’s approach also threatens ...
M. Zuhdi Jasser narrates an excerpt from The Third Jihad on the war between civilization and barbarism: “We all know about terrorism. This is the war you don’t know about.” Wake up, Americ...
https://patterico.com/2010/01/30/excerpt-from-the-third-jihad/
Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman report the Justice Department has concluded its review of the Bush lawyers who authored the terror memos: “While the probe is sharply critical ...
https://patterico.com/2010/01/30/justice-issuesreport-on-torture-memo-authors/
Senators Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins, Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, sent a letter to Obama Administration Attorney Gene...
https://patterico.com/2010/01/25/senators-move-abdulmutallab-to-military-custody/
ABC News reports American law enforcement has warned that Al Qaeda in Yemen has at least two female suicide bombers with Western passports and non-Arab appearance: “They have trained women,”...
https://patterico.com/2010/01/23/authorities-warn-of-female-suicide-bombers/
The bad news is they stopped the Christmas Day bomber from talking: “In interviews with The Associated Press, U.S. officials described for the first time the details of Umar Farouk Abdulmutall...
https://patterico.com/2010/01/23/good-news-miranda-rights-work/
The Obama Administration has determined that some detainees really are too dangerous to be released: “Administration officials tell ABC News that the Guantanamo Detainee Review Task Force has ...
https://patterico.com/2010/01/22/change-obama-to-continue-indefinite-detention/
The Obama Administration’s Director of National Intelligence testifed today that no one contacted him about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day bomber on Northwest Flight 253. He also...
The Pantex nuclear weapons facility near Amarillo, Texas, was shut down briefly Friday morning due to a security incident: “Reports of armed men near the Pantex Plant sparked a plantwide lockd...
https://patterico.com/2010/01/17/pantex-plant-on-brief-lockdown/
Northwest Flight 253 bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was indicted today in Detroit on 6 charges: “A six-count indictment handed down Wednesday charges Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab with attempted...