On October 21, we told you that a DoD official had leaked the findings of a confidential investigation into Michael Furlong and his highly successful Force Protection program to the New York Times. The leak was authorized in an effort
On Saturday, Yemeni police arrested a college girl and her mother in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, a day after parcels containing bombs sparked a global security alert, according to Al-Jazeera. Printer plot bomb: Explosives were hidden in toner cartridge
Britain’s leadership has mismanaged and misinterpreted multiculturalism, leading to a fracturing of British society and mutual distrust between the Muslim community and the rest of the country, the U.K.’s minister of state for security and counterterrorism said Oct. 28. “Multiculturalism
Federal agents arrested a man Wednesday for plotting to bomb the Washington, D.C., subway system, the Justice Department announced. It was the second arrest in as many days involving Americans hoping to wage violence for al-Qaida or the Taliban, and
My investigation into anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying professor Kaukab Siddique has brought Siddique and his employer, Lincoln University, under the spotlight of both the national media and Pennsylvania state lawmakers. My exclusive report, which originally aired on CBN News on October 18th
Am I the only one who feels like yanking my teeth out with needle nose pliers when he hears questions about what the ‘Tea Party’ is up to? What candidate they’ll promote, which direction they’ll move next, and how the
Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reports: “WASHINGTON: The United States said on Monday that it had no problem with Iran sending bags of cash to President Hamid Karzai but hoped that this assistance would not have a ‘negative’ influence on Afghanistan.” There,
As President Obama delivers some “Tough Love” to visiting Pakistani officials, including Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, one has to imagine Mullah Omar’s name has come up multiple times. As regular readers of the BIG sites know, we
I’ve been sifting through hundreds of emails, stories, reactions to Juan Williams’ sensational firing by NPR over his remarks on Bill O’Reilly’s show, covered on Big Journalism for the past 24 hours. I’ve also read Slate’s ridiculous comparison of Williams
Pakistan’s military intelligence agency, the ISI, was heavily involved in 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, a 109-page classified Indian government report obtained by the British newspaper The Guardian alleges. The report is based on confessions of American Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) operative David
Kaukab Siddique is a naturalized American citizen born in Pakistan who is an associate professor of literature at Pennsylvania’s Lincoln University. He recently attended a Labor Day weekend event to address radical Muslims and leftists at an anti-Israel rally in
When the Bush administration took office a decade ago, the specter of proliferating nuclear weapons was high on its agenda. During the previous decade, six key nations acquired, tested or had sought or had come close to acquiring nuclear weapons,
Our long-ago-lost war on drugs has been interfering with our national security and international relations for decades. The puritanical drive to eradicate the evil plants and substances that ensnare our innocent children would be comical if the costs weren’t so
Lewis Lionized and Wilders Demonized for Expressing Identical Views on the Totalitarian Nature of Islam Our uninformed chattering classes across the political spectrum need to know that their eminence grise on Islamic civilization, Professor Bernard Lewis, and outspoken Dutch Parliamentarian
The demographic sophisticates who read this column know that the population bomb has fizzled, that the world’s population will never double again, and that birthrates are falling faster and farther than anyone imagined a half century ago. But they also
An international row was triggered on Saturday by a leading German politician who said that Turkish and Arab immigrants were unable to integrate into German society and should no longer be accepted, according to the Guardian. Horst Seehofer, the premier
Green Beret Staff Sgt. Robert Miller, RIP, will receive the Medal of Honor shortly (1:45 EST) in the White House. His parents are accepting the award on his behalf. We all need to take a few moments to honor this
This really shouldn’t be all that surprising. The bad guys we have been turning into stains all over the Pakistani border areas have passports from just about every breeding swamp filled with the foul miasma of Wahabbist hate preaching. Wow,
Reciprocal death sentences raging between Yemen and the United States offer a glimpse of warfare in the internet age. The topic opens with South Park, an iconoclastic adult cartoon program on Comedy Central, which in April mocked the prohibition on
In January 2009. Adm. Mike Mullen — he who failed to present and then sabotaged a non-COIN Afghan war plan for the POTUS, says Woodward — wrote that our problem in Afghanistan (after then-seven years of American sacifice to ward
The New York Post is reporting (9/30/10) that Faisal Abbasi, an employee at Pakistan’s state-run Council of Islamic Ideology, which advises on Islamic affairs, has been detained for playing an allegedly significant role in assisting the failed New York Times
There’s a new cyber-weapon on the block. And it’s a doozy. Stuxnet, a malicious software, or malware, program was apparently first discovered in June. Although it has appeared in India, Pakistan and Indonesia, Iran’s industrial complexes – including its nuclear
We have been covering reports of a computer worm that is disrupting computers in Iran. The New York Times is now reporting: “Stuxnet, which was first publicly identified several months ago, is aimed solely at industrial equipment made by Siemens
Last night I read the front-page Washington Post story on Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama’s Wars. Frankly the article gave me nightmares. The revelations about Obama’s naive views on terrorism and his lack of a firm commitment to the Afghan
In her latest Hail Mary effort to replace the flag of conservative Reason with the flag of liberal Emotion, Maureen Dowd goes talons-out for Newt Gingrich, for “making outrageous, unsubstantiated comments to appeal to the wing nuts among us. ”
Back in 2005, Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set the gold standard on defending free speech when, on being approached by perpetually aggrieved Islamic ambassadors hoping for official redress against Jyllands Posten (Cartoon Rage was just kicking in), he
[Editors’ Note: Two months ago Jim Hanson reported on BigGovernment.com that Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta was likely to become the first living Medal of Honor recipient since the Vietnam War. Today, Mr. Hanson’s report was confirmed. To honor SSG Giunta,
[youtube UTEHm0p0a7I nolink] Team Rubicon is an intrepid group of military vets, doctors, and first responders who march to the sound of suffering. They formed in the days immediately following the earthquake in Haiti and basically grabbed their gear and
Writing in Forbes Magazine, Dinesh D’Souza takes a long hard look at the enigma in the White House: Theories abound to explain the President’s goals and actions. Critics in the business community–including some Obama voters who now have buyer’s remorse–tend
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie urged people on Wednesday to put aside corruption fears and donate cash to help Pakistan’s 21 million flood victims, as she ended a tour of areas devastated by deluges.
Since 1941, there is one question that was asked by an American president when a crisis broke out: “Where are the carriers?” Strike Group Reagan is intended to tell the story of one such potential conflict – with the challenges
News reports indicating that the Chinese are heavily involving themselves in the business of India and Pakistan have become overwhelming during this administration. Obama’s commitment to India is clearly weaker than his predecessor’s, who in his White House was known
Obama administration officials are calling for an escalation of U.S. military operations in Yemen, the home of Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). There are no plans to scale back operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Washington Post reported two
“Look, we support the troops, we just don’t want them to kill anyone.” -Rosie Connell in response to Bill O’Reilly in An American Carol As a screenwriter, I was able to put those words in the mouth of a loony
Authorities in Pakistan said dozens were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a Shiite procession in the southwestern city of Quetta Friday. The Pakistani Taliban told The Associated Press it was “proudly” responsible for the blast. The attack targeted hundreds
Contrary to its mission to provide “reliable scientific information,” the United States Geological Survey is perpetrating a climate science fraud, with a little assist from USA Today. On August 25, the USGS issued a press release titled, “Glaciers Retreating in
U.S. officials believe al Qaeda in Yemen is now collaborating more closely with allies in Pakistan and Somalia to plot attacks against the U.S., spurring the prospect that the administration will mount a more intense targeted killing program in Yemen.
Just when you think Wikileaks couldn’t stoop any lower, or the CIA get any worse, this just in from the Washington Post: A little-known fact, according to a once-secret CIA analysis, is that America has long been an exporter of
The word “Islamophobia” has been in the news a lot this week, after TIME magazine ran a cover article wondering when America had become Islamophobic. So, is America Islamophobic? The question arises from the debate over the “Ground Zero” mosque
On July 1, 2010, The Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (CISADA), which passed by a large majority in the Congress, was signed into law. This Act puts the onus on American banks to audit and certify