When I saw this story late last night, visions of chaos and disaster immediately started rolling in my mind:
US looks at plan to oust Musharraf
THE US has indicated for the first time that it might be willing to back plans by elite echelons of the military in Islamabad to oust Pervez Musharraf from power, as […]
Reading Christiane Amanpour’s interview with an “unnamed Iranian official”, in which he talks about the U.S. and Iran being “natural allies”, it was hard to resist the lure of his message:
“We are natural allies. Why?” he said. “Because now the major threat for both Iran and the U.S.A. is al Qaeda.”
He said al Qaeda had […]
A NY Times article this morning has everyone doing their best Gomer Pyle imitations:
American officials said there was mounting evidence that Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, had been steadily building an operations hub in the mountainous Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan. Until recently, the Bush administration had described Mr. bin Laden […]
Evidently we’ve decided to pay some serious attention to Afghanistan… and we’re also getting pretty fed up with some of our NATO allies:
The imbalance in Afghanistan has become a sore point among allies.Troops from Canada, Britain, the Netherlands and the United States have been doing most of the fighting and leaders of those countries have […]
Finally, some good news to cheer the day (CNN):
A Saudi wing of al Qaeda called for attacks on U.S. oil sources across the world, saying targets should not be limited to the Middle East and listing Canada, Venezuela and Mexico as U.S. oil suppliers.
The threat appeared in the al Qaeda Organization in the Arabian Peninsula’s […]