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March 6, 2007

Take the OFK Statesmanship Quiz

You are a  major political leader of one of the world’s major industrialized democracies.  An actor-turned-author publishes a book in which he photoshops the name of the country’s top newspaper into a picture of the World Trade Center on 9-11.  Just to make sure there’s no room for ambiguity, he says, “I want to become a terrorist ….  The newspaper is the sole monolithic monster remaining in [this] society.” As a statesman, your response is to: a.  Jail the man...

Categories An Alliance?/Democracy/Terrorism (NK)/U.S. & Korea/WTF?
February 27, 2007

Bomb Kills U.S. Soldier, S. Korean Soldier in Afghanistan

Still not  many confirmed details yet, but it was a suicide bomber at Bagram, and he was trying to get Dick Cheney: There were conflicting reports on the death toll. Provincial Gov. Abdul Jabar Taqwa said 20 people were killed, but NATO said initial reports indicated only three were killed, including a U.S. soldier, a South Korean coalition soldier and a U.S. government contractor whose nationality wasn’t immediately known. NATO said 27 people were also wounded…. Associated Press reporters at...

Categories ROK Military/Terrorism (NK)/U.S. Military
February 13, 2007

Definitely Not Gitmo

Chinese authorities in the far-west city of Urumqi today executed an ethnic Uyghur man for allegedly attempting to “split the [Chinese] motherland. “The execution was carried out at 9 a.m.,” Ismail Semed’s widow, Buhejer, told RFA’s Uyghur service. “They gave his body to us at the cemetery. Some of his relatives and friends joined us. When the body was transferred to us at the cemetery I saw only one bullet hole in his heart. Semed, a Uyghur political activist deported...

Categories China/Terrorism (NK)
February 9, 2007

Negotiating With Terror

I normally don’t really give a rat’s ass what al-Qaeda says in its videotapes, but this does seem more than mildly newsworthy: And in yet another gambit that smacks of desperation, [al-Qaeda in Iraq leader  Abu Omar] al-Baghdadi tries to rile up the French and the Chinese against American global hegemony, and addresses those nations as “the freemen of the world.” Not only that, but he adopts a scolding tone with North Korea, essentially invoking the “sharing is caring” line,...

Categories Diplomacy/Media Criticism/Terrorism (NK)/WMD
October 11, 2006

MUST READ: Deterring the Arsenal of Terror

Writing in the Washington Post, David Ignatius squarely confronts what may be the greatest challenge to the security of the United States:  finding a way to deter a mass attack.  Ignatius concludes, correctly, that one must deter the sponsors and suppliers: Allison believes that the world must focus on what he calls “the principle of nuclear accountability.” The biggest danger posed by North Korea isn’t that it would launch a nuclear missile but that this desperately poor country would sell...

Categories Terrorism (NK)/U.S. Military/WMD
September 12, 2006

One Man’s Freedom Fighter…

“Congratulations! You are in a cage, Saddam,” witness Ghafour Hassan Abdullah said as he stared at the ousted president. Saddam listened silently but lost his temper when a lawyer described Iraqi Kurdish rebels as freedom fighters. “You are agents of Iran and Zionism! We will crush your heads!” he shouted. We will crush your heads! Remind you of anyone? Incidentally, none of my trials featured exchanges like that. Meanwhile, Havana, Cuba is hosting a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, the...

Categories North Korea/Terrorism (NK)/Terrorism/Iraq/U.S. Law/Uncategorized/Unintended Humor/WTF?
September 11, 2006

A 9/11 Demurrer

Every year, I have the same debate with myself: whether the ferocity of my thoughts about this day renders them unfit for public consumption. This year, absent the time or desire to write, save, and then delete my true thoughts, there is just one original thought I will add to so many others today — that for me, 9/11 is at least half the reason I began blogging about this topic. Since then, my greatest fear has been that Kim...

Categories Democracy/North Korea/Terrorism (NK)/Uncategorized
August 22, 2006

Maybe They Should Get Out of Iraq…

A LEBANESE student suspected of trying to paralyse the German railway network with a bomb concealed in a suitcase appeared in court yesterday, as a huge police hunt for a second suspect continued. The root cause of this is clearly that unequivocal German support for Israel, and for Bu$h’s war, which of course started this whole terrorism thing: [T]he case has rattled Germans, many of whom have clung to the belief that their government’s opposition to the war in Iraq...

Categories Islam/Terrorism (NK)/Terrorism/Iraq
August 9, 2006

Worst Reporting Ever

[Update: Even more Hezbollah media exploitation. And Matt has a photo where the North Koreans are caught in the act, too. Check out M.C. Escher up on the blue thing, welding away with his Inspector Gadget arms. On a completely unrelated note, but on the same blog, here’s a rather interesting theory, for all six of you who haven’t seen it yet. I must say the silence is probably the most compelling part of the case.] I’ve had plenty of...

Categories Media Criticism/Terrorism (NK)
July 21, 2006

Axis, Schmaxis, Part 3

There is a theory in this city that a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim terrorist group would not dream of establishing an operational relationship with a secular Sunni Muslim terror-supporting tyrant or a fundamentalist Shiite Muslim terror-supporting tyrant. Believers in that theory are going to have real trouble wrapping their heads around the idea that the latter fundamentalist Shiite Muslim terror-supporting tryant’s minions joined a group of pork-eating, soju-swilling aetheist idolator infidels for a night of fireworks on the Fourth of July....

Categories Axis of Evil/Iran/Terrorism (NK)/Uncategorized/WMD
July 18, 2006

Iran, Hezbollah, and 9/11

While I continue to believe that Israel ought to play it smarter by trying to coopt and empower anti-Hezb Lebanese, this seems to be an appropriate time to explain why the eradication of Hezbollah is absolutely in the U.S. national interest, if this were not reason enough. I’m reprinting an unedited excerpt from the 9/11 Commission Report on how Hezbollah and Iran knowingly assisted al-Qaeda prior to the 9/11 attacks. There’s no evidence that they specifically knew about 9/11, but...

Categories Terrorism (NK)
July 15, 2006

Terror By Remote Control?

I have long feared that this would be the future of terrorism. This time, it’s a terrorist organization hitting a military target. Hezbollah’s MO suggests that darker things are ahead. Update: Not a UAV, but a missile, supplied by our “strategic partners” in China to Iran, and then to Hezb. Hopefully, this will put a lid on Israeli proliferation of US technology to China. More on Chinese proliferation to Iran, and what can be done about it, here.

Categories Technology/Terrorism (NK)
July 14, 2006

Killing the Cedar Revolution

When Israel responds to attacks on its soldiers by bombing Hezbollah and Hamas, I say bomb away. God has more than sufficient capacity to sort them out. I understand that in the Middle East, one must acquire a certain retaliatory credibility. But at the risk of provoking the mother of all flame wars in the comments section, I cannot understand why Israel is also bombing bridges and runways that belong to the newly elected government of Lebanon, which had neither...

Categories Terrorism (NK)
July 10, 2006

He Needed Killing, Part 2

Shamil Basayev has gone to hell to live with Zarkawi. Although my feelings about Basaev are not complicated, my feelings on the Chechen war are. My sympathies were entirely with the Chechens when Putin re-invaded Chechyna and overthrew its elected government, led by Aslan Maskhadov (also killed recently). But as the U.S. and EU placed politics above principle and kept silent about Russia’s destruction of a historically sovereign nation, the moderate and Western-oriented resistance was squeezed by a radical wing...

Categories Russia/Terrorism (NK)