What say you, Philo Beddoe?

After gazing at a crystal ball no doubt funded with the sale of a Jeep Grand Cherokee or two, Clint Eastwood assessed the American landscape last Sunday evening before a captive audience, and prior to Giselle’s “Dirty Harry” like incrimination of Wes Welker.

“Halftime,” was the call from the former mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California (which is seldom confused with Detroit), of not just the game, but of America. Leaving aside Clint’s implied prediction of America’s demise around the year 2250, let’s focus on the prospects of an American turnaround.

Is Al Qaeda Still a Threat?

Submitted by admin on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 11:48

The year 2011 marked several watershed moments in the United States' decade long “hot” war against terrorism, most notably, Osama Bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda network. Bin Laden was finally captured and killed in Pakistan, by the Navy’s elite direct action force, DevGru (more commonly referred to as Seal Team 6). An American military drone strike claimed the life of Anwar Awlaki, an alleged high ranking official in AQAP (Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula), in early October . Continued Special Operations missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen exerted extreme pressure on the terror group in 2011. The successes of 2011 lead us to a central question.

Daily Briefing: 1 October 2010

Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/01/2010 - 08:10
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Europe terror threat still active
European security officials said September 29 a terror plot to wage Mumbai, India-style shooting sprees in Britain, France, and Germany is still active and that sites in Pakistan — where the threat was intercepted 2 weeks ago — are being scoured for al-Qaeda operatives. The plot was still in its early stages and not considered serious enough to raise the current terror threat level, officials said.

Daily Briefing: 30 September 2010

Submitted by admin on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 09:30
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Preparedness Alert for Mid-Atlantic: Weather
A well-defined low pressure system near the North Carolina / South Carolina border will continue northward across North Carolina and Virginia through this morning. A slow-moving front will also move inland across Virginia in advance of the low. This will cause high winds, heavy rain and the possibility of tornados and heavy flooding along most of the Atlantic seaboard from North Carolina to Massachusetts as the front moves north.

Daily Briefing: 29 September 2010

Submitted by admin on Tue, 09/28/2010 - 20:11
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Al Qaeda #2 - Dead
Score one for the good guys. Mohammad Fateh al Masri, believed to be al Qaeda's operational second in command, was killed over the weekend by a drone attack on the North Waziristan section of Pakistan. Al Masri led military operations in Afghanistan for the terrorist organizations.

Al Masri was emir, or leader, for Qaidat al-Jihad fi Khorasan, or the base of the jihad in the Khorasan -- the region that encompasses large areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Iran.

Al Masri's death comes as the CIA stepped up missile strikes in Pakistan against groups like the Haqqanis, al Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistan Taliban, with the majority of strikes hitting targets in North Waziristan.

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