Update (2nd):  The BBC has pentagon video footage of the air strikes demonstrating the fire was directed at anti-Afghan forces (AAF) firing upon coalition forces inside Afghanistan, supporting the US claims and calling into question the Taliban and what appears to be ISI claims, as discussed below. – end update There appears to be some ‘walking […]

Keep Checking For New Updates Below! Major Update:  Pakistan sources admit the incident began when militants from Pakistani areas crossed into Afghanistan to attack Afghan and NATO forces: The soldiers were killed at a border post in the Mohmand region, opposite Afghanistan’s Kunar province, as US-led forces in Afghanistan clashed with fighters attacking from Pakistan, […]

I posted yesterday on a missile attack (maybe up to four missiles) that hit Pakistan.  There also was some fighting which broke out on the ground in the region between Taliban and Afghan and NATO forces.  That was the impression yesterday. Today there are now reports that give a totally different story.  By these accounts […]

Are we seeing the fictional “The Emperor’s New Clothes” coming to life before our eyes? Barrack Obama seems to be the classic empty suit, he stands for nothing and everything. He claims to have done many things, but there is a nagging lack of a record of accomplishment. His electoral wins in the state of […]

I know others have posted on The New Republic article by Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, which came out May 23rd, but I want to add this assessment on the decline of al-Qaeda to the list of other similar articles I have been highlighting this week. With one important additional angle – how this article […]

Major Update At The End As I noted in the earlier post below, al-Qaeda has been retreating from a range of defeats in Iraq, Lebanon (and I forgot to mention Afghanistan which is over 75% pacified) and is being surrounded by allied forces. This has allowed allied forces to use intelligence to take out 3 […]

Yesterday I posted on many diverse articles that indicate a rapidly declining al-Qaeda as their credibility has been destroyed through their fascist efforts to violently oppress their fellow Muslims, resulting in innumerable stories of atrocities and the creation of Muslim heros in those who fought back against al-Qaeda.  Today we get another report on the […]

overreach |ˌōvÉ™rˈrē ch | verb1 [ intrans. ] reach too far : never lean sideways from a ladder or overreach. • ( overreach oneself) defeat one’s own purpose by trying to do more than is possible : he was an arrogant egotist who overreached himself. The GOP is a very lucky party right now.  By all measures it is supposedly headed towards huge losses this fall in Congress and the […]

OK, did you know that CO2 levels in the atmosphere were so high back in 1874 that there was a risk of run-away Global Warming which threatened the existence of mankind? Me neither. On of the things I love about “record temperatures” is they always break records from a past that could not have been […]

I would not have predicted, in the year or so after 9-11, that we would find ourselves 7 years later without any new terrorist attacks in the US, and al-Qaeda and their ilk fading in popularity across the Muslim community. And (if one wants to skip to the end of this post) who would have […]