Frank Beckmann
All of us in Metro Detroit are thankful that accused terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was unable to detonate the explosives in his undershorts on the Christmas journey of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit.
But with such a call so close to home, it raises concerns that another effort could succeed if there [...]
By Colbert I. King
Saturday, December 12, 2009
As alumni notices go, it was one of the more opaque:
“There are news reports that a Howard University student was arrested on Wednesday overseas. By law, universities must maintain the privacy of student records, and Howard is committed to that.
“There is no evidence of imminent harm to the University [...]
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: November 28, 2009
What should we make of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who apparently killed 13 innocent people at Fort Hood?
Here’s my take: Major Hasan may have been mentally unbalanced — I assume anyone who shoots up innocent people is. But the more you read about his support for Muslim suicide bombers, [...]
Figuring out what to call the accused Fort Hood shooter.
A Rasmussen poll released on Wednesday found that 60 percent of respondents want the Fort Hood shooting “investigated by military authorities as a terrorist act,” while 27 percent “want the incident investigated by civilian authorities as a criminal act.” Former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey and [...]
By Michael Goodwin
9/11 and other terror freaks here for trial.
We don’t deserve this. Why are we being punished again?
Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to ship Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay prisoners to Manhattan for federal trials is beyond bad judgment.
It is a radical call that puts his leftist legal theories over public [...]
Has he been too conciliatory?
By Jacob Weisberg
When it comes to any issue that involves Islam, President Obama starts with an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage is that he’s seen as sympathetic to Muslims. The disadvantage is also that he’s seen as sympathetic to Muslims.
With a Muslim name, African Muslim ancestry on his father’s side, [...]
Prosecutors say building owners helping to illegally funnel money to Iran….
NEW YORK – Federal prosecutors Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.
In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures [...]
In stirring, eloquent and typically well- delivered remarks, President Obama yesterday paid tribute to the 13 people gunned down in last week’s Fort Hood shooting rampage — and to all the members of the US armed forces.
His comments were especially fitting — spoken, as they were, on the eve of Veterans Day, when the nation [...]
By Ed Koch
The U.S. Army and President Barack Obama are understandably seeking desperately to prevent U.S. public opinion from reaching any conclusion with respect to the motive of Major Nidal Malik Hasan who killed 12 soldiers and one civilian, and wounded 28 soldiers and one civilian last week at Fort Hood in Texas. In the [...]
As officials continue to investigate the alleged Fort Hood killer, it is looking increasingly likely that the Army missed several red flags in Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s behavior. Many observers say it wouldn’t be surprising if such signals had been missed, given that Hasan was a psychiatrist whom the Army desperately needed to help [...]
