Bill O’Reilly gets to the heart of the matter of why there’s no end in sight for terrorism in the world today:
This unwillingness to publicly admit the truth about the root cause of most of the world’s current terrorism is the norm amongst:
But until the problem can be openly discussed, how can it ever be solved?
There are some interesting developments in the judicial proceedings against the two alleged terrorists:
A man accused of plotting with al-Qaida members in Iran to derail a train in Canada gave a rambling statement in a Toronto court Wednesday and appeared to be saying he does not recognize its jurisdiction.
“My comment is the following because all of those conclusions were taken out based on criminal code and all of us know that this criminal code is not a holy book,” Esseghaier said at the hearing Wednesday. “We cannot rely on the conclusions taken out from these judgments.”
In related news, Justin Trudeau has released a new advertisement in which he states, “I’m going to work hard to earn your trust.” That’s an interesting statement considering that a review of his Twitter account still has only this to say about the recent terrorism plot. That’s a rather peculiar way for the Shiny Pony to gain the trust of Canadians who are legitimately concerned about harm coming to themselves and their families. Perhaps if he become PM, our nation’s security services will be handed over to the unemployed folks of “Occupy” and all threats to Canada will be warded off by this nightly ritual.
Update: Why was Raed Jaser still here? (podcast discussion on the same)
Canadian Raheel Raza and American Zuhdi Jasser are thoughtful, intelligent, and fearless voices in the Muslim communities of North America. But sadly, they are in the minority. Instead, what is heard much more often are Muslim apologists who have engaged in a marriage of convenience with the Media Party, Academia, and Leftist politicians. Together this trio controls the narrative that the majority of citizens imbibe. As the video herein illustrates, this narrative has infected the highest ranks of Canada’s police forces. One can well imagine that any law enforcement official who deviates from the current narrative would have their career aspirations ended in less than 24 hours.
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Welcome someone into your country, give him a free education, college scholarships & welfare benefits. In TimeSpeak, this is “alienation.”
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 24, 2013
In the country for 20 years, but not a citizen…how does that work?
My own naïve optimism was dashed on the rocks in Lebanon and Iraq and hasn’t recovered. I never even bothered with optimism in Egypt. There’s nothing there to be optimistic about.
And I rarely meet anybody who actually lives over there who isn’t a pessimist. Expecting the best while everyone around you is expecting the worst is a difficult thing to pull off. It probably isn’t advisable even to try.
But I’m finding a bit of homegrown optimism in some quarters of Lebanon now, despite the fact that the economy is on its back and the Syrian war threatens to blow the country to pieces again, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t report it.
Dateline Iraq, 2004: There were no weapons of mass destruction
Dateline Boston, 2013: Marathon bomb suspect charged with using weapon of mass destruction
Canadian police and intelligence agencies will announce later today they have thwarted a plot to carry out a major terrorist attack, arresting suspects in Ontario and Quebec, CBC News has learned.
Highly placed sources tell CBC News the alleged plotters have been under surveillance for more than a year in Quebec and southern Ontario.
Broad Strata Update: Muslim community leaders and imams gathering at Toronto RCMP airport detachment for briefing on terror plot arrests
Update: RCMP news release here.
Ontario RCMP: “This is the first time the #RCMP has laid charges related to an Al-Qaeda supported attack on Canadian soil.”
@StewartBellNP Toronto terror suspects are not Canadians, suspects were getting support from ‘al Qaeda elements in Iran’: RCMP
Because “Bush”: CDN reporter on terrorist plot “this was Iran.. not Iraq?”#via
— katewerk (@katewerk) April 22, 2013
Most recent from @JustinTrudeau:
RT @carolyn_bennett: Why being a camp counsellor is great training for becoming a PM m.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting… #cdnpoli#leadership
— Justin Trudeau, MP (@JustinTrudeau) April 22, 2013
Heh. “Now it may be objected that discussing ideas with Justin Trudeau is like discussing music with someone who can’t hear: pointless and a bit cruel.”
In this new podcast, Victor Davis Hanson talks with Mona Charen and Jay Nordlinger about everything that happened in Boston last week including, but not limited to, the Far Left’s inability to deal with the facts on the ground.
Not deporting BMW-driving immigrants with “Terrorista” plates.
More here and here.
Neighbors say three have been arrested in New Bedford in connection with the Boston Bombing suspect.
Police apprehended suspects from the Hidden Brook Apartments on Carriage Drive in New Bedford. Neighbors say they think that the girlfriend of 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may have lived in the complex and they have seen him in the area as recently as yesterday.
Via Hillel Neuer;
Other background from AP and Reuters.
Obviously, this is all because of Sarah Palin’s facebook map of Chechnya.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) April 19, 2013
And the early morning front-runner for Idiot of the Day:
If bombers r from Caucasus, it shows futility of racial profiling for terrorists. These guys r the original Caucasians. #BostonMarathon
— Cynthia Tucker (@ctuckerprof) April 19, 2013
Salon: “Let’s Hope The Boston Marathon Bomber Is A White American”…
There’s nothing definitive yet but an investigation has definitely begun.
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…it is hard to imagine the Civil War having been won without Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan–or World War II without Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Arnold, LeMay, Nimitz, Halsey, and all the other senior generals and admirals.
Likewise it is hard to imagine the War on Terror having been waged without four-star commanders such as David Petraeus, Stanley McChrystal, John Allen, and James Mattis.
Who knows where they found them.
h/t Adrian