In the latest scandal to rock the agency charged with securing aviation from another terrorist attack, high-ranking officials at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are concealing nearly half of the breaches at major airports across the United States. It’s simply one of many shameful lapses for the monstrous federal agency created after 9/11 to protect…
Category Archives: Terrorism
Iran’s Strategic Gamble in Latin America
It is amazing how things don’t seem to change, no matter how we are alerted to the dangers that continue to grow around us. The following article, written in 2008, warned us about the threat to America from Iranian-sponsored jihadists in South and Central America. Alongside the article above, written this week, it makes us…
Jihad on Our Doorstep: Threat from Mexico
As the United States considers the Islamic jihadi threats confronting it from all sides, it would do well to focus on its southern neighbor, Mexico, which has been targeted by Islamists and jihadists, who, through a number of tactics—from engaging in da’wa, converting Mexicans to Islam, to smuggling and the drug cartel, simple extortion, kidnappings…
Nasrallah: Hezbollah can strike targets in Tel Aviv
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Friday that his Lebanon-based terrorist group was capable of striking any target in Israel, declaring that “the days when we fled and they did not are over.” ”Today we are not just able to target Tel Aviv as a city but also with God’s will and strength we are able…
Jihadists Seize Christian Village in Syria, Expel Its Residents
(AINA) — Armed jihadist seized control of Qastal al-Burg village on Thursday, May 10, and ordered its 10 Christian families to leave, according to a report published by UPI on its Arabic language website. A resident of the village, who did not wish to be identified, said “armed jihadist (expiatory) group came to the village…
Afghanistan: Trading Terrorists for Information
On Sunday, the Washington Post reported on a covert diplomatic program through which the U.S. releases high-level insurgents at an Afghanistan military prison in exchange for information, influence, and promises of peace. “We look at detainees who have influence over other insurgents — individuals whose release could have a calming effect in an entire area,”…
US Splits Hairs on “Negotiating with Terrorists”
Last week, al Qaeda released a video of Warren Weinstein, a 70-year-old American who was kidnapped last year by al Qaeda in Pakistan. In the video message, addressed to President Barack Obama, Weinstein told the President, “my life is in your hands. . . . If you accept the demands, I live; if you don’t…
al Qaeda in Syria with Twin Bombs
For several months, GerardDirect has been telling our readers and radio audiences of the presence of al Qaeda inside Syria, joining forces (and preempting) the indigenous opposition (including the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, which initially broke ground by organizing the early groundswell of anti-Assad opposition). The double car bombs in the al Qaza district of Damascus…
Al Qaeda Releases Two New Issues of “Inspire” Magazine
On September 30, 2011, a targeted US drone strike killed Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan in Yemen. They were the masterminds behind the publication of the successful, English-language, al Qaeda recruiting magazine, Inspire, and many experts thought that their deaths would bring to an end this aspect of AQAP (al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula) activities….
120 Americans Killed in Mexico Last Year
CHAPALA, MEXICO – Mexico’s violence came crashing into the retirement dream of Houston’s Lorraine Kulig and hundreds of other Americans last fall when gangsters shot it out and set off a bomb in this usually bucolic town on the shore of the nation’s largest lake. “We all know this is a gang problem. We have…
