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200 suicide bombers ‘planning attacks in UK’

At least 200 potential terrorists are actively planning suicide attacks while living freely in Britain, intelligence chiefs have warned ministers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8815574/200-suicide-bombers-planning-attacks-in-UK.html
By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent

9:00PM BST 08 Oct 2011
The Sunday Telegraph (London)

A senior intelligence source has revealed that the figure is a “conservative” estimate of the threat facing the country from UK-based Islamist suicide bombers.

The would-be killers are among 2,000 extremists who the security services have said are based in Britain and actively planning terrorist activity of some kind.

The figures are contained within a secret government report on the “enduring terrorist threat” facing the UK from al-Qaeda and affiliated organisations, The Sunday Telegraph has been told.

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-presidential-election/perry-brings-specifics-much-improved-answers-iowa/ ORANGE CITY, Iowa — Rick Perry brought his A-game to Iowa on Saturday, unleashing a new set of specifics, promising a jobs plan next week and giving much-improved answers to questions on immigration and Social Security that have dogged his candidacy. But his audiences weren’t always sold, and applause was sometimes half-hearted. While the […]

New Charge Over Hostile Columbia Classroom
U.S. reportedly probing whether Jewish student was ‘steered’
By Marc Tracy|\
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/79887/new-charge-over-hostile-columbia-classroom/

It’s possible Morningside Heights has found its annual autumn incident. A U.S. Department of Education committee is investigating whether a Columbia University department head “steered” a Jewish student away from taking a class on the Mideast taught by Professor Joseph Massad due to the perception that she would be “uncomfortable” because of the professor’s pro-Palestinian tilt, according to the Institute for Jewish & Community Research’s Kenneth L. Marcus, the complainant in the case. According to Marcus, Judith Jacobson, an epidemiology professor at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health who is also active in campus politics, informed him of the alleged incident. He also said that Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which he headed for a time during the Bush administration, informed him it had granted its request to launch a probe.

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“Soft power at its finest is a slushie machine in which you can put anything on one end and it comes out the other end as a shapeless squishy liquid that tastes like nothing unless you add a lot of corn syrup. The media has been doing double duty pouring sugar on all the soft power, which is why some ABC and NBC viewers still don’t know how bad the situation is, while every BBC, RTV and Al-Jazeera viewer does.

While we kill them softly with violin music and the occasional drone raid, they’re wiping out our economy, doing cartwheels over our foreign policy and fighting over which of them will be the next world power. And they’re not doing it softly.”

No sooner did Anwar Al-Awlaki, former go to guy for mainstream media heads in need of a quote about the peacefulness of Islam, go to his virgins courtesy of a beautiful aerodynamic drone, then the State Department called the family of one of his co-terroriststs offer their condolences and apologize for not calling them sooner. And if they had only called sooner, the nearest and dearest could have been treated to a condolence countdown. You are about to be bereaved in 5-4-3-2-1… our condolences.

The Iconoclast Sunday, 9 October 2011 Brutal Crack Down Against Coptic Protests in Egypt: 24 Dead by Jerry Gordon When we posted on the rising flight of Coptic Christian to their Diaspora, we saw a bleak future and mounting massacres. What happened in Cairo today is a precursor of what could happen to crush the […]

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The U.S. government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Attorney General Eric Holder, top, has said the U.S. is pursuing an ‘active criminal investigation’ of WikiLeaks.
Sonic said it fought the government’s order and lost, and was forced to turn over information. Challenging the order was “rather expensive, but we felt it was the right thing to do,” said Sonic’s chief executive, Dane Jasper. The government’s request included the email addresses of people Mr. Appelbaum corresponded with the past two years, but not the full emails.

Steve Jobs and Me He said my 1971 article inspired him. His iBook obsessed me. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_spectator/2011/10/steve_jobs_and_the_little_blue_box_how_ron_rosenbaum_s_1971_arti.html You may have read about this in the Times obit for Steve Jobs. I’m talking about this passage which dealt with the origin of the Apple partnership between Jobs and Steve Wozniak, and my role in it: The spark […]

DC museum closed after protest; pepper spray used http://news.yahoo.com/dc-museum-closed-protest-pepper-spray-used-022321601.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Air and Space Museum inWashington was closed Saturday after anti-war demonstrators swarmed the building to protest a drone exhibit and security guards used pepper spray to repel them, sickening a number of protesters. Smithsonian spokesman John Gibbons said a large group of demonstrators, estimated at 100 to 200 […]

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ “You’re either one of the 99 percent of one of the 1 percent,” reads a sticker on a lamppost near my house. The implication being that if you’re not one of the 1 percent, you should be packing your class warfare kit of cardboard signs, camping gear and iPods loaded with a copy of […]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-790539,00.html
German General Says NATO Mission Has ‘Failed’

A top German general who was instrumental in planning the Bundeswehr’s mission in Afghanistan has said that the intervention has failed and the Taliban will regain power within months of withdrawal. Ten years after the invasion, he is far from alone with his critique.

It was 10 years ago that the United States, together with its NATO allies, marched into Afghanistan to put an end to Taliban rule and begin the hunt for al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden. A decade later, the terrorist leader is dead. But, says Harald Kujat, former general inspector of the German military, the mission has been a failure.

“The mission fulfilled the political aim of showing solidarity with the United States,” Kujat told the German daily Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. “But if you measure progress against the goal of stabilizing a country and a region, then the mission has failed.”