AP reports:
Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, using a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites.
The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs...
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Al Qaida showed their true colours today by making a racial slur towards president elect Barack Obama. Showing the degree of their intolerance and hate, Zawahiri referred to Obama as a "house negro", quoting Malcolm X.The sooner these bastards are dead, the better. I hope Obama annihilates them al...
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Here’s something you’ll be glad to hear: the Netherlands stands ready to assist with the mooted closure of the prison at Guantánamo Bay that the Obama transition team is reported to be working on. As reported in the Dutch Christian newspaper Nederlands Dagblad (“Help US close cell...
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This morning National Public Progressive Radio carried a news piece on terrorist turned educator William Ayers. It is precisely what we have come to expect from the media: pleasant bromides about wonderful progressive people doing well by doing good.
To hear NPR’s Peter Overby tell it, Ayers...
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President-elect Barack Obama has been warned by intelligence officials, other government officials and experts in general that Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations are likely preparing to strike against the United States at the moment he takes office. The reason is that a shift in administrati...
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Steps In The Right Direction, No.12: This.
*Update* I just read this by Glenn Greenwald (via Andrew Sullivan):
“It’s just a fact that there are all sorts of people close to Obama who have enabled those Bush policies and who are mobilizing now and attempting to ensure that nothing meaning...
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To our Ahmed and Ahmed the terroristswho tend to get arrested in American airports for bloggingrecommendedhilariousfirst time I saw it pissed my pants laughing...
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Just got this from Juan Cole’s blog. Well, US security people say that when Sarah Palin went on the attack against Obama, particularly when she suggested he had been ‘palling around with terrorists’, the effect on some of her constituency was to suggest that he(Obama) posed such a great threat...
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Dear Mr Obama:
Tell me we haven’t been bamboozled. We need the change you promise, but something just doesn’t seem right. After eight years under a Bush administration that engendered misery at home and around the world, the United States had found itself distrusted, scorned and despised. ...
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After first trying to deny that there was a crisis in Russia and then blaming it all on events in the West, the Russian government has taken measures that are exacerbating the situation in ways that threaten to create a revolutionary situation, according to an increasing number of Russian commentato...
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