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November 20, 2008

Thanks Al-Qaeda!

Aggregated from: Pickled Politics » United States

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...

Al Qaida - Racist and Violent

Aggregated from: The Strong Conservative

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...

November 19, 2008

Help for Guantánamo

Aggregated from: EuroSavant » Barack Obama

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...

A Terrorist by Any Other Name is Still a Terrorist

Aggregated from: PoliGazette

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...

November 17, 2008

Barack Obama is Warned of Major Terrorist Threat

Aggregated from: PoliGazette

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...

November 16, 2008

Obama to investigate Bush’s use of torture

Aggregated from: England for Obama

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...

To our Ahmed and Ahmed the terrorists

Aggregated from: Donkeys, Elephants & Crocs

To our Ahmed and Ahmed the terroristswho tend to get arrested in American airports for bloggingrecommendedhilariousfirst time I saw it pissed my pants laughing...

November 13, 2008

Sticks and Stones, Words do Hurt Us

Aggregated from: Kenya Imagine

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...

Friends of Lebanon - One Week On, a letter to Barack Obama

Aggregated from: Palestine Think Tank

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. ...

In Russia, There Won't Be A Crisis But Something Worse

Aggregated from: Window On Eurasia

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...