Taliban Using Chemical Weapons Against US Troops? 4-5 Troops Reportedly Fall Ill

Jim Hoft GatewayPundit 5/29/2010

Five US troops serving in Afghanistan recently fell ill after a suspected chemical weapons attack. Four or five members fell ill after the attack. One soldier is very sick. They are having trouble breathing.

I am waiting for more information.

In 2009 National Terror Alert reported that Al-Qaeda and the Taliban […]

Did Koh Provide a Defense of Targeting Americans Suspected of Terrorism?

Joe Carter First Thoughts 4/15/2010

Last week, Ryan, Micah, and I discussed the legal and moral implications of targeting Anwar Al-Awlaki, a terrorist who happens to be a U.S. born citizen. Since then Adam Serwer has pointed out a speech that may shed some light on the issue. In a recent lecture to the American […]

Amnesty International is ‘damaged’ by Taliban link

An official at the human rights charity deplores its work with a ‘jihadist’

Richard Kerbaj The Sunday Times 7 February 2010

A SENIOR official at Amnesty International has accused the charity of putting the human rights of Al-Qaeda terror suspects above those of their victims.

Gita Sahgal, head of the gender unit at Amnesty’s international […]

Nuclear engineer from Cern lab arrested for al-Qaeda links

by Adam Sage The Times [UK] 10 October 2009

Fears that al-Qaeda is planning an attack on the nuclear industry in Europe were renewed yesterday after French secret agents arrested a physicist working at an atomic research centre.

The 32-year-old man, who was detained with his brother, 25, is suspected of providing a list of […]

Obama focusing on al-Qaida, not Taliban

By JENNIFER LOVEN Associated Press October 8, 2009

WASHINGTON — A senior administration official says President Barack Obama is prepared to accept some Taliban involvement in Afghanistan’s political future and is inclined to send only as many more U.S. troops to Afghanistan as are needed to keep al-Qaida at bay.

The assessment comes from an […]

The Assassination of Egypt’s Anwar Sadat

[via Pierre Tristam MiddleEast.About.com]

President Ronald Reagan’s Address to the Nation October 6, 1981

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated during a military parade in Cairo on Oct. 6, 1981. At 2:28 p.m. Eastern Standard Time in Washington, D.C., President Reagan addressed the nation, on television and radio, from the North Portico of the White […]

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