Month: January 2008
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News and Analysis (1/22/08)
Federal prosecutors seek to put Padilla and co-defendants behind bars for life for their dangerous intentions, not violent actions, but all get no more than 17 years: Padilla Sentence: Does Terror Training Merit Life? (Christian Science Monitor) Padilla Gets 17 Years, 4 Months (Miami Herald) Failure of Ahmedinejad’s policies forces Supreme Leader Khamenei to side…
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News and Analysis (1/21/08)
Times of London confirms national security whistleblower Sibel Edmonds’ recent allegation that the FBI covered up Israeli and Turkish theft of US nuclear secrets: FBI Denies File Exposing Nuclear Secrets Theft (The Times) US-led economic sanctions against Iran hurt small businesses and lower income consumers, but fail to affect hardliners in power: Iran Sanctions Ripple…
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News and Analysis (1/19-20/08)
Canada backtracks on its who’s who list of torturers after coming under pressure from the US and Israel: Canada FM Regrets ‘Torture List’ (BBC News) Israeli blockade of Gaza may force its only power plant to shut down during a peak winter demand for electricity: Israeli Closure ‘Hits Gaza Power’ (BBC News) Building projects like…
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News and Analysis (1/18/08)
SecDef Gates begins seeking input from top military brass on the best way to exit Iraq: Gates Seeks Troop Estimates (New York Times) DHS gets slammed for wasting $90m on a redundant and ineffective counterterrorism information-sharing network: DHS to Replace ‘Duplicative’ Anti-Terrorism Data Network (Washington Post) Mistreatment of Gitmo detainees earns the US a spot…
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News and Analysis (1/17/08)
The feds go after a Christian former Congressman in order to take down another Islamic charity: Ex-Congressman Indicted In Terrorism-Funding Case (Washington Post) Independent government report finds sanctions against Iran are not working: GAO Report Challenges Effect of Longtime U.S. Sanctions on Iran (Washington Post) In a sign of weakening morale, Pakistani soldiers abandon a…
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News and Analysis (1/16/08)
CIA spy ops chief Jose Rodriguez says he made the order to destroy the torture tapes because the White House’s silence on the matter gave him tacit consent: Station Chief Made Appeal To Destroy CIA Tapes (Washington Post) Human Rights First alleges “…unwillingness or inability to systematically investigate or prosecute†possible crimes hold back the…
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News and Analysis (1/15/08)
Judge expresses concern that federal prosecutors now try to focus on motive in order to get life sentences after “great pains to not have motive in the trial“: Life in Prison for Padilla? (Christian Science Monitor) Like Dr. Frankenstein, who suffered the consequences of creating a monster, Pakistan and its intelligence service suffer the consequences…
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Is This the Shariah?
Someone is smearing Islam. This time, however, Muslims can’t blame the Zionists, Christian Fundamentalists, or neoconservatives. This time they can find the culprits in the mirror. In the past Muslims have been indignant about claims made by non-Muslims that Islamic law calls for the murder of non-Muslims or for female genital mutilation, and they have…
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News and Analysis (1/14/08)
JC Chairman Mike Mullen believes Guantanamo needs to closed because its prisoner abuses harmed America’s image: Joint Chiefs Chairman: Close Guantanamo (Associated Press/The Guardian) Bush continues his tour of the Middle East and revives his rhetoric of regional democracy promotion, but is likely to contradict himself by reaffirming his close relationship with Saudi Arabia despite…
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Pentagon Removes Incompetent Ideologue on Muslim Affairs
On January 4, Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz reported that Stephen Coughlin, a so-called “specialist on Islamic law and Islamist extremism†had been “fired†from his job at the Department of Defense (DoD). Supposedly, the reason he was terminated from his position was because he was accused of being a “Christian zealot with a pen 
