Thursday, August 04, 2005

Secretary Rumsfeld............

"Terrorists do not seek a negotiated settlement with the West or with the moderate Muslim nations, and they're not appeased by concessions," Rumsfeld told a gathering of about 900 members and guests of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council during a luncheon meeting.

As examples, the secretary pointed out that a car bomb in Saudi Arabia killed 17 troops and wounded 80 more as the United States military was leaving Saudi Arabia, and that al Qaeda members are likely to have begun planning their deadly Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the United States during the 1990s at the height of the Middle East peace process.

Security review? a buck short and 1423 days late

Reviews and studies they have aplenty. These things and more should have been in place years ago and they want to have a review now? What have they been doing since 9/11-sleeping? The first duty of a government is to protect its citizens and they are only getting around to this? For a start why haven't they provided the staffing levels they had 12 years ago for the security agencies? CSIS was downsized by 800 people and they plan -plan ,on adding about 80 people /year for the next 10 years.So in 10 years they will be at the level they were 20 years ago. That's their idea of security being a priority? How many potential terrorists got through their top notch entry screening process in the past 10 years?Smoke and mirrors won't protect Canadians.

Islamist extremism in Europe

New guidelines for suspected suicide bombers- aim for the head

NYT stoops pretty low if Drudge is accurate

DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU AUG 04, 2005 11:35:09 ET XXXXX

NY TIMES INVESTIGATES ADOPTION RECORDS OF SUPREME COURT NOMINEE'S CHILDREN

**Exclusive**

The NEW YORK TIMES is looking into the adoption records of the children of Supreme Court Nominee John G. Roberts, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

The TIMES has investigative reporter Glen Justice hot on the case to investigate the status of adoption records of Judge Roberts’ two young children, Josie age 5 and Jack age 4, a top source reveals.

Judge Roberts and his wife Jane adopted the children when they each were infants.

Both children were adopted from Latin America.

A TIMES insider claims the look into the adoption papers are part of the paper's "standard background check."

Roberts’ young son Jack delighted millions of Americans during his father’s Supreme Court nomination announcement ceremony when he wouldn’t stop dancing while the President and his father spoke to a national television audience.

Previously the WASHINGTON POST Style section had published a story criticizing the outfits Mrs. Roberts had them wear at the announcement ceremony.

One top Washington official with knowledge of the NEW YORK TIMES action declared: “Trying to pry into the lives of the Roberts’ family like this is despicable. Children’s lives should be off limits. The TIMES is putting politics over fundamental decency.”

One top Republican official when told of the situation was incredulous. “This can’t possibly be true?”

Developing...

The gun registry is working real well- for the crooks

Michael Yon reporting from Mosul, Iraq

Why Robert Morgenthau makes us feel safer.......................

Militant Islam's desert HQ

"Likewise, the Saudis have funded nearly 80% of British mosques, two-thirds of those in continental Europe and somewhere under half of those in North America -- many of them radical. And they often pay for Wahhabi imams from the Arabian peninsula to emigrate to Western mosques, where they preach their anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, anti-Western theories to a generation of young Muslims."

Smokey Smith- V.C. recipient

Steven Vincent.........

Ralph Peters.........