An analysis of Mumbai terror tactics and likely suspects, by Bill Roggio at the Long War Journal.

But the most curious kidnapping that occurred in Pakistan’s northwest has gone largely unreported. The Taliban kidnapped a Canadian journalist named Beverly Giesbrecht. CTV described Giesbrecht as “a Web magazine publisher in British Columbia who adopted the name Khadija Abdul Qahaar after converting to Islam after 9/11.”
What magazine does Giesbrecht/Qahaar write for? None other than Jihad Unspun, a pro-al Qaeda, pro-Taliban, pro-jihadi rag that describes terrorists as “Mujahideen” and Western forces as “Occupiers.” Jihad Unspun routinely posts translations of terrorist leaders.

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Ayers actually said: “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Asked whether he would advocate bombing again, he answered: “I don’t want to discount the possibility.” Or as he writes in his memoir: “I can’t imagine entirely dismissing the possibility.”

Ayers snivels here, worth reading for the comments.
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The Australian;

THE Bali bombers Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra have been executed, finally ending days of speculation about the Indonesian government’s willingness to dispatch the country’s most notorious terrorists.”

By firing squad.

“What you did was re-evaluate the treatment of Maher Arar and decide that procedural mistakes along the way had been made. That didn’t vindicate him from the charge that he was involved in fundraising for terror.
“People in Canada have turned the man into some sort of national hero, but if you expect the next administration to join you in sending him laurels, I think you’re going to be mistaken. Even Barack Obama … is not going to go near that with a 10-foot pole” and Mr. Arar will not have his name removed from the U.S. no-fly list “in my lifetime.”

Via reader Harry, who adds – “This confirms RCMP ex-Commissioner Zacadelli’s observation that other security intel officials around the world were “surprised” at the Arar settlement.”

DMB:

So it now stands to reason that anyone who has been throwing their support behind a now convicted terrorist is now a full fledged terrorist supporter (Aly Hindy, the head of Scarborough’s Salaheddin Islamic Centre as an example). For the other ten in waiting it doesn’t bode well for them either.

The survey of 16,063 people in 17 nations found majorities in only nine countries believe al Qaeda was behind the attacks on New York and Washington that killed about 3,000 people in 2001.

Related: World wants Obama as president: poll
Better news – the Pentagon Memorial, not shaped like a crescent.

“…on the run, demoralized and surrounded by enemies.”

Brian Lilley lays out the problems for the hand-wringers who want to bring their child terrorist “home”. First among them – this ain’t home.

Truth be told, Omar Khadr is a Canadian of convenience. Although born in Toronto in 1986, Omar’s parents, both immigrants to Canada, had decided to raise their family elsewhere to escape a culture they viewed as having a corrupting influence on their young and growing family. The family was living overseas in locales such as Bahrain and Pakistan, returning for brief spells in 1985 and 1986 only for Omar and his older brother Ibrahim to be born or receive medical care from Canada’s state medical system. Omar left Canada for Pakistan’s Peshawar district when he was only months old, spending the rest of his life going between Pakistan, Afghanistan and when the family needed medical treatment, Canada.

Read the rest.
You know my position on this – “[Khadr’s] father might have been dispatched by the Pakistanis, which would have spared everyone a great deal of trouble, were it not for the meddling of Chretien. We made that mistake once – we need not make it again.”
Related – Bin Laden’s driver convicted in Guantanamo trial.

After the Kosovo War ended in 1999, well-heeled Gulf Arabs with Saudi money moved in to rebuild mosques destroyed by Slobodan Milosevic’s Yugoslav army and paramilitary forces. They’re still there trying to impose a stern Wahhabi interpretation of Islam on indigenous Europeans, and they’re having an awfully difficult time getting much traction. Almost everyone in Kosovo despises these people. They are known as the Binladensa, the people of Osama bin Laden.
Things are different in next-door Macedonia.

Michael Totten has his second installment up.

Not even the Associated Press can continue to turn a blind eye;

The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost.
Limited, sometimes sharp fighting and periodic terrorist bombings in Iraq are likely to continue, possibly for years. But the Iraqi government and the U.S. now are able to shift focus from mainly combat to mainly building the fragile beginnings of peace — a transition that many found almost unthinkable as recently as one year ago.
Despite the occasional bursts of violence, Iraq has reached the point where the insurgents, who once controlled whole cities, no longer have the clout to threaten the viability of the central government.

If you happen to travel the Canadian leftosphere these days, you may notice a deafening silence from certain “progressives” who celebrated every US military setback, every marketplace explosion, every terrorist strike.
Yes you did, you pathetic wastes of skin – you loved every minute of it. Cloaking your words in faux outrage didn’t make your motives any less transparent. You rejoiced in the prospect that a President you despise and a nation you envy might be humiliated.
It hardly mattered that the consequences of a western power losing to the forces of Islamic fascism would be visited as severely upon you and yours, as they would those who of us who argued for victory. You can’t help yourselves – it’s your nature. But, I truly don’t know how you face yourselves in the mirror.
Related: A must read – Audacity of Hopelessness.

Court told…

I hate to say I told you so, but this has been coming for three years — ever since the McCain amendment. Everybody pooh-poohed it because it sounds too absurd. Alien combatants having constitutional rights used to sound absurd too. So did al Qaeda having Geneva Convention rights. So did the U.S. courts entertaining lawsuits by the enemy against the officials Congress authorized to fight the war. It all sounds crazy … until it happens.

“Hamdan, a Yemeni father of two with a fourth-grade education” – It’s why we call them al-Reuters!

Oddly enough!

During the 10-minute video of his questioning in Guantanamo a year later, he can be seen crying, his face buried in his hands, and pulling at his hair. He can be heard repeatedly chanting: “Help me.”
At one point he lifts his orange shirt to show the foreign ministry official and agents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) wounds on his back and stomach which he says he sustained in Afghanistan.
“I’m not a doctor, but I think you’re getting good medical care,” one of the officials responds.
Mr Khadr says: “No I’m not. You’re not here… I lost my eyes. I lost my feet. Everything!” in reference to how his vision and physical health were affected.
“No, you still have your eyes and your feet are still at the end of your legs, you know,” a man says.
Sobbing uncontrollably, Mr Khadr tells the officials several times: “You don’t care about me.”

Now, may we view any of the thousands of similar videos of vicious and manipulative murderers, rapists, and thugs sobbing their way through other police interrogations?
Spare me.

Don Surber adds the “rest of the story”;

There is a happy ending. [550 metric tonnes of yellowcake] is not in the hands of terrorists, thanks to President Bush’s actions for which he has been hammered by the left for 5+ years.
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There is a reason Bush has not fought back against critics: National security. There are secrets a president cannot divulge in his lifetime. History vindicates the Harry Trumans — and punishes the Bill Clintons. Never equate popularity with quality.

Counterterrorism Blog;

According to Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos in his Bogota news conference, Colombia infiltrated FARC’s 1st Squad and Secretariat. How that infitration contributed to the commando operation was not specified, beyond apparently providing the geographic location of the hostages. Whatever the mechanism — government agents run inside FARC? — Colombian intelligence tricked the FARC into believing that the hostages, who had been divided in three groups by the FARC, should be brought together in a single group to be handed over to FARC leader Alfonso Cano for a possible diplomatic, negotiated solution to the hostage crisis that would achieve FARC political objectives. As a result, FARC’s high command agreed to travel with the hostages as a means of transferring them to Cano on a helicopter that actually belonged to the Colombian military and was actually manned by Colombian intelligence personnel.
According to Minister Santos, not only were all of the hostages safely rescued, but two senior FARC officials and some 15 other FARC soldiers were arrested in the process, also without violence.

And dislikes the question asked by Hillel Neuer of UN Watch;

Mr Bolton said that striking Iran

… would represent a major step towards victory in Iraq. While he acknowledged that the risk of a hostile Iranian response harming American’s overseas interests existed, he said the damage inflicted by Tehran would be “far higher” if Washington took no action.
“This is a case where the use of military force against a training camp to show the Iranians we’re not going to tolerate this is really the most prudent thing to do,” he said. “Then the ball would be in Iran’s court to draw the appropriate lesson to stop harming our troops.”

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It’s an “apartheid” wall.

I’ve noticed that Her Lady of Perpetual Palestinian Distressedness never puts this stuff on the CTV.
h/t

A Jawa Report exclusive;

The British press is under a gag order not to reveal the name of al Qaeda’s main fundraiser and go between in Britain. The man, identified only as “G”, was one of five who had successfully challenged in the British High Court the government’s powers to freeze terrorist suspects assets.
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This will probably come as a shock to no one, but since the British press won’t reveal “G’s” name yet give every possible hint as to his identity, here it is: G is MOHAMMED AL GHABRA.

Much more at the link.