Abdul Muhammed attacked a recruiting station last year, killing one soldier and wounding another. He now admits he was a jihadist here. The Obama administration is hushing it up. But the American people realize they are less secure under Obama with his disastrous policies toward terrorism.
On Christmas Day, a Nigerian jihadist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tries to blow up Northwest Flight #253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. A quick-thinking Dutchman, the terrorist’s incompetence, and, no doubt, some luck helped too. The West has a serious problem, Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, that our elites want to sweep under the rug. The terrorists are not going …
An interesting report from the Christian Science Monitor (Dec. 15) on a battle between the two major al Qaeda ideologists. Clearly, there is trouble in the al Qaeda paradise: numbers down, no effect attacks, no ability to sustain attacks, leadership and finances under enormous pressure, online presence diminishing. And now an open schism. Let’s hope …
Americans must remember that al Qaeda gets a vote too. Americans should assume that al Qaeda is planning an attack or multiple attacks before the election. This is their modus operandi. Just as the terrorists influenced the Spanish election of 2004, and Usama bin Laden’s message in 2004 hurt Democratic candidate John Kerry, so too …
This month, Hassan Mneimneh of The American Enterprise Institute published an excellent study of al Qaeda. It is well worth your time to read “Seven Years Later: The Jihadist International.” He argues strongly that we must think of al Qaeda as a diffuse network of “franchises” bound by ideology. With this conception of al Qaeda, …
