It was reported that there are now more than three quarters of a million names on the U.S. government’s terrorist “watch list,” and a government report raised concerns the list may be becoming too large.
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Archive for the ‘terror’ Category
Report: US terror ‘watch list’ may be getting too long
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Fox News considers terrorist link to California wildfires
Thursday, October 25th, 2007A Fox News anchor speculated that Al-Qaeda might have started the fires in California.
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Think tank: War on Terror sucks
Monday, October 8th, 2007A British think tank concluded that the War on Terror has been a disaster.
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Guiliani: Every day is anniversary of 9/11
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Rudy Giuliani said every day is the anniversary of 9/11. “For me every day is an anniversary of Sept. 11,” he said after reviewing emergency response equipment at the Pinellas Sheriff’s Office.
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Poll: America awaits investigation of Bush Admin. handling of 9/11
Monday, September 10th, 2007A new Zogby International poll finds a majority of Americans still await a Congressional investigation of President Bush’ and Vice President Cheney’s actions before, during and after the 9/11 attacks. Over 30% also believe Bush and/or Cheney should be immediately impeached by the House of Representatives.
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Bin Laden releases first tape in 3 years
Monday, September 10th, 2007Osama Bin Laden urged Americans to embrace Islam.
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N.Korea to be non-terrorist state
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007N. Korea announced it would be taken out of the axis of evil.
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Opium output at record highs in Afghanistan
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007Opium production in Afghanistan is at record levels for the second consecutive year.
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CIA inspector general reccomends accountability for 9/11 intelligence failure
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007The CIA’s inspector general released a report recommending that former CIA director George Tenet and other senior officials be held accountable for failing to prepare for the threat of Al Qaeda before the September 11 attacks.
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Bush: US doesn’t torture
Saturday, August 11th, 2007President Bush said we don’t torture.
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Congress grants Bush broad surveillance powers
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007The Democrat-led Congress handed President Bush a major legislative victory this weekend when it voted to broadly expand the government’s authority to eavesdrop without warrant on the international telephone calls and email messages of American citizens.
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Officials: US has been covertly arming Gulf States since 2004
Friday, August 3rd, 2007According to current and former intelligence officials, the Bush administration has been arming Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states covertly since “at least†2004, a year after the US-led invasion of Iraq in March of 2003. Arming Saudi Arabia in a 10-year, $20 billion dollar arms sale is a “done deal,†officials said.
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Bush to Congress: Loosen wiretapping regulations
Monday, July 30th, 2007President Bush called for Congress to revise a US security law in order to ease restrictions on the government’s secret communications surveillance of terror suspects.
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Pentagon: Hillary Clinton helping the terrorists
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007The Pentagon accused Senator Hillary Clinton of reinforcing “enemy propaganda†when she asked whether the Bush Administration had an exit plan for the Iraq war.
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Executive order again: Secret prisons legal
Monday, July 23rd, 2007President Bush issued an executive order Friday that will allow the Central Intelligence Agency to resume its use of some severe interrogation methods for questioning detainees in secret prisons overseas.
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Language of new executive order “terrorism tool” worries some
Friday, July 20th, 2007President Bush issued an executive order which allows his to confiscate assets of anyone who interferes with his plans in Iraq.
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Study: US failing in Afghanistan
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007A new British parliamentary study says the U.S.-led NATO force is failing to achieve its goals in Afghanistan.
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Bin Laden’s son marries British woman
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007The son of Osama bin Laden confirmed Sunday that he took a 51 year old British woman as his second wife.
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Obama suggests another war
Sunday, July 15th, 2007The U.S. should shift troops from Iraq to pursue al-Qaida along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Saturday.
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Senate votes to double reward for bin Laden
Saturday, July 14th, 2007The Senate voted to double the bounty on Osama bin Laden to $50 million.
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