Category Archives: War and Terrorism

Holder: “imminent threat” averted in Zazi case; bombs mixed at Aurora hotel

ABC News reports that authorities believe they have successfully disrupted a Denver-based terrorism plot that “is shaping up as the most serious attempt by al Qaeda to strike at the United States since the September 11 attacks”: The accused al Qaeda bomb maker from Denver planned to use chemicals and hair care products he bought at beauty parlor supply stores… Read more »

NYC terror plot “still alive”?

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Sounds like the authorities are pretty damn concerned about the alleged terrorism plot supposedly masterminded by a Denver-area airport shuttle driver: Law enforcement officials say the alleged terror plot against New York City may be “still alive” despite the arrest of its alleged ringleader, 24-year-old Najibullah Zazi of Denver, Colorado. “I have never been so worried,” said one senior law… Read more »

Sources say Colorado terrorism suspect may be part of 8-person, multi-city cell

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There are some reports suggesting that authorities may have just scratched the surface of the alleged Denver-based NYC terrorism plot: ABC News reported Sunday that federal investigators are looking at the possibility eight more people may be involved in the ongoing terror investigation centering on Aurora and New York City. Four may have ties to Colorado, the other four to… Read more »

I remember

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I remember waking up at 6:50 AM Pacific Time, eight years ago today, to the sound of Becky’s voice talking frantically into my answering machine (my phone’s ringer had been turned off), saying something about how we were under attack by terrorists. I didn’t catch all the details because I was too groggy, having gone to bed around 3:00 AM… Read more »

Thought for the day

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Many years from now, when historians look back on this decade, which day will they say “changed the world” more: 9/11/01, or 9/15/08? Perhaps the answer is 9/11 simply because it was more of a self-contained event, which, all by itself, set enormous changes into motion — whereas the collapse of Lehman Brothers was merely one catastrophic event among many… Read more »

Your daily dose of panic & alarmism…

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…is brought to you by William R. Forstchen, author of One Second After — a novel about an electromagnetic pulse that plunges America into third-world chaos (with a foreward by Newt Gingrich!) — who offers this helpful step-by-step guide to how we’re all completely screwed if (nay, when!) terrorists unleash E.M.P. hell. And you were worried about swine flu? (Hat… Read more »