Spain Arrests Two Terror Suspects Days Before Madrid Marathon

Patricia Laya Bloomberg 4/23/2013

Spanish police arrested two men they said may have ties to an al-Qaeda terrorist group in North Africa after one of them allegedly praised the recent Boston Marathon bombings.

The suspects, who were detained five days before the Madrid marathon event, are not believed to have possessed explosives or planned attacks [...]

Intelligence Director: ‘Arab Spring’ Has Benefited Islamists

Patrick Goodenough CNS News 3/13/2013

The “Arab spring” has benefited Islamists rather than democracy advocates, while political transitions and unrest in the region have provided opportunities for terrorists to mount attacks against U.S. interests, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told lawmakers Tuesday.

Delivering the intelligence community’s annual report on threats facing the United States, [...]

UN Budget Negotiated by Drunken Third World Delegates

Daniel Greenfield FrontPage Magazine 3/5/2013

Good news. Your UN Budget isn’t just the result of corruption and greed, it’s also the product of huge amounts of alcohol. Word on that comes from Joseph Torsella, the U.S. ambassador for management and reform at the United Nations.

“We make the modest proposal that the negotiating rooms should [...]

John Brennan and the Bin Laden Files

Thomas Joscelyn The Weekly Standard Vol. 18, No. 25 3/11/2013

During a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center on April 30, 2012, John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee to head the CIA, discussed “The Ethics and Efficacy of the U.S. President’s Counterterrorism Strategy.” Brennan explained that President Obama has “pledged to share as much information with [...]

Exposing the UN’s dirty little secrets

A gathering of the tortured in Geneva shames the UN Human Rights Council by giving victims not perpetrators a platform to tell their story

Daniel Schwammenthal The Comentator 24 February 2013

The speakers were never meant to live and tell their stories. Their torturers expected them to either submit or die. But somehow these men [...]

Scotland Yard: parents who send their girls abroad to be ‘cut’ will be prosecuted

‘London is now the capital of Europe where FGM is happening

Martin Bentham London Evening Standard [UK] 18 February 2013

People who book flights to send girls abroad for genital mutilation operations will face prosecution in a new Met attempt to bring offenders to justice.

Scotland Yard chiefs say that parents, relatives and others who [...]

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