Monday, November 30, 2009
Russian Convert to Islam Main Suspect in Bombing
A former Russian army officer, Pavel Kosolapov, who has embraced Islam and was a close associate of the slain Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, is the main suspect in Friday's bombing of the Nevsky Express luxury passenger train.
At least 26 people, including two top federal officials, were killed and 96 injured when the super-fast train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St Petersburg derailed due to the terrorist attack.
Kosolapov, aged 29, is said to be the brain behind Moscow metro's deadly blast in February 2004 and a similar attack on the Neva Express in August 2007.Faced with Iranian Defiance, Obama Bends Again
It's Official: US Allowed Bin Laden to Escape
A U.S. Senate report blames U.S. military leaders for allowing Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and Talbian leader Mullah Omar to escape from Afghanistan in 2001 following the September 11 Al Qaeda attack on the United States.
The report says former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the top U.S. military commander General Tommy Franks rejected requests for a massive contingent of American troops to attack Tora Bora mountains, where the Islamist chiefs and their most senior commanders were hiding.
The report says Bush's top military leaders had an opportunity to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden in December 2001 in Afghanistan, but they failed to send enough American troops to attack his hideout. Only 100 commandos, working with (notoriously unreliable warlords) were actually on the ground. As a result, the report says, Bin Laden and Omar were able to walk into Pakistan, unmolested, with a mere handful of bodyguards.
The report, by staff of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, concludes that U.S. special forces, CIA officers and Afghan troops had chased the Al Qaeda leader and his deputy, Ayman al Zawahri, to the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan, but former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the top U.S. military commander, General Tommy Franks, rejected requests for a massive contingent of American troops to attack the area.
At the time, top officials said there was not conclusive evidence bin Laden was in the cave complex and there were fears that a large U.S. troop presence could spark a backlash among locals.
The report ignores the obvious: the U.S. could have obliterated Al Qaeda and the Taliban after 9/11 by adopting World War II rules of engagement, including use of nuclear weapons.
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
The appeaser-in-chief again bends in the face of Iranian defiance. Click here for the story. Obama is bent on appeasing and aligning with Islamism, including Islamist Iran. He clearly believes he can divide and rule the "Muslim world."
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