Andymatic

Category: War on Terror

  • Analyzing Islamofascism

    Jeff Vail takes a crack: [T]he only value added by the actual articulation of this new “Islamo-Fascism” label is falsity–it is the association in the public perception of attributes and attrocities of Nazi Fascists that are in fact not accurate when attributed to Salafi Jihadists. And it is in that sense that labels such as […]

  • Muslim-Americans Racial Profiling Continues in Nation's Airports

    We arrived in a small blocked-off area, and we looked around and we saw 200 other Arabs, South Asians and Muslims with us. They asked my sister whether she felt that Iraq was better now or under Saddam’s rule, and they were recording everything they asked us. … They didn’t provide us with enough seating. […]

  • American Coup D'etat? Nope. But Erosion…?

    Harper’s got together a quartet of military experts to examine the eternal question: Could it happen here? UTTWAK: What about a situation in which the military was ordered to start a war that it did not believe could be won?… BACEVICH: The military would leak it to the Washington Post, and the war would never […]

  • Jack Cafferty on the NSA/FISA Ruling

    Must watch: Jack Cafferty on The Situation Room (Quicktime video from Crooks and Liars) Or at least must read: Cafferty: You know Wolf, it seems like were having this discussion about this judge’s ruling sort of in the abstract, as if there’s no precedent for what the judge decided. The judge in effect upheld the […]

  • ‘This is Going to Be Big': White House Times PR to Terrorist Plot Revelations

    ‘Weeks before September 11th, this is going to play big.’ A White House official shares his glee that the raid on suspected terrorists in London “would yield political gains. … [Bush’s] remarks came a day after the White House orchestrated an exceptionally aggressive campaign to tar opposition Democrats as weak on terrorism, knowing what Democrats […]

  • Potential Terrorists Arrested in London

    Heathrow shuts down. No liquids or gels on flights. Correction: As carry-ons – you can stow these in checked luggage. “Finally stages of planning this attack.” “This was the real deal.” First time we’ve been at the RED level terrorist alert – for air travel only. Flights from UK to USA. Only to match the […]

  • Dear CNN

    Hey assholes, I see right now you are interviewing a man who had been imprisoned in a Cuban prison and how awful his experience was there. Why don’t you interview another man Moazzam Begg who was kidnapped and pushed through 3 prisons including a Cuban prison – you know our prison.  …included having soldiers sit […]

  • 9/11 NORAD Tapes Released

    Michael Bonner publishes in Vanity Fair after getting full access to the NORAD tapes from  9.11. Contradictions from the investigation reports and testimony: Vice President Cheney was not notified about United 93 until 10:02 – only one minute before the airliner impacted the ground. Yet it was with dark bravado that the vice president and […]

  • Bush Pushes for Indefinite Detention, Barring Civil Course – for US Citizens Suspected of Terrorism

    U.S. citizens suspected of terror ties might be detained indefinitely and barred from access to civilian courts under legislation proposed by the Bush administration, say legal experts reviewing an early version of the bill. A 32-page draft measure is intended to authorize the Pentagon’s tribunal system, established shortly after the 2001 terrorist attacks to detain […]

  • Innocent Civilians Placed on Watchlist to Fulfill Quotas

    Think you’re safer? “Innocent passengers are being entered into an international intelligence database as suspicious persons, acting in a suspicious manner on an aircraft … and they did nothing wrong,” said one federal air marshal. The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they’re required to submit at least one report a […]