Perhaps, at least according to …of course…..Brian (gots me cellphone in the ear) Ross and his crack reporter team at ABC:
“A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror “spectacular” this summer, according to a senior official with access to the document.
“This is [...]

• 0 Comments

This is reposted from my primary blog, Crazy Politico’s Rantings. Normally I don’t do reposts here at Mac’s place, but since he’s such a national security guy, I figured he wouldn’t mind this.
Brigid Schulte of the Washington Post has an interesting, but easy to answer question, as the premise of an article today. “Why Won’t [...]

• 0 Comments

This a bit more confirmed than the previous report.
“An al-Qaida front group that claims it has captured American soldiers warned the United States on Monday to stop searching for them and suggested it attacked the U.S. convoy as revenge for the rape and murder of a local teenager last year.
The U.S. military also said for [...]

• 0 Comments

Quite a catch:
“The United States has taken into custody a top al-Qaeda operative who plotted to assassinate Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf and other officials, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday.
Abd al Hadi al-Iraqi, who was taken to the US navy prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba about a week ago, was intercepted while trying to reach Iraq [...]

• 0 Comments

According to CNN as reported by UPI, General Petraeus has described the progress in Anbar as “breathtaking”. Those are strong words to come from our top field commander in Baghdad but I am seeing other indications he might well be right.
The Anbar Salvation Front is now making noises about the “immanent defeat” of al [...]

• 0 Comments