The attack on the US Embassy in Yemen. The bombing of the hotel in Pakistan. The increased terrorist chatter, the intercepted directions to sleeper cells. The expert analysis coming fast and furious, warning of an "October Surprise". The indications from terror leaders that it's coming soon.
Here's the latest incident.
German police arrested two terrorist suspects on board a Dutch airliner Friday, minutes before it was due to take off from Cologne-Bonn airport for Amsterdam. A police spokesman said a Somali man aged 23 and a 24-year-old German born in Mogadishu were escorted off the KLM Flight 1804 at 6:55 am (0455 GMT).The two men had been under observation for several months. A search of their apartment had turned up farewell letters in which they declared their readiness to die in a jihad or holy war, the police spokesman said.
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The arrests came a day after police appealed to the public to help track down two missing Islamists, one of them a German convert, who were suspected of membership in a terrorist group called the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), often described as a successor to al-Qaeda.
Police said they were pursuing about 20 leads related to Eric Breininger, a 21-year-old German, and Houssain al-Malla, a 23-year-old Lebanese, were last seen in the zone along the Pakistan-Afghan border. Police suspect they might have secretly returned to Germany.
"Islamic Jihad Union". Guess we'll be hearing more about that. Successor to al-Qaeda, eh? What's the difference? Islamic jihadists, they're all the same, and their common motivation is Islam. I'd say there's no need to worry about affiliation; just worry about whether they demonstrate the jihadist ideology and the intent to carry it out. After all, they're not all affiliated/organized. Some, in fact, are lone jihadists acting according to the ideology, not necessarily on direct orders.
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'Terrorists believe now is time to strike America'The "war on terror" theme has receded during the 2008 election battle as the Wall Street economic crisis is raising alarms across the nation, but author Brigitte Gabriel, an expert on terrorism, is warning that for Americans not to pay attention to the threat – and act now – the future will include a price tag no one wants to pay.
"Some [terrorists] are talking that this is the time to strike, while America is down," she said during an hourlong interview with KSFO's Barbara Simpson that addresses Gabriel's new book, "They Must Be Stopped.
She warned that war with radical Islam is inevitable and, "Things have not gotten any better since Sept. 11, 2001."
"Look across the globe," Gabriel said. "We see the rise of Islamofascism faster than [any time] in the past 30 years. … We are seeing capitulation to Muslim demands. The Western public is at the tipping point. We're heading in the wrong direction. We must wake up very soon and start resisting."
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Hamas is here. ... They have cells in over 40 states. ... We also need to reform our immigration and visa programs. We need to monitor who is coming into our country and why. ... We need to increase human intelligence. … I want everyone who fits the terrorist profile to be profiled. We have men between the ages of 16 and 40 who have committed terrorist acts around the world in the name of Islam. They are not little old ladies from Ohio with blue hair. They are not children going to Disney World on their Easter vacation," she said.
There's also the reminder that the enemy wants the Democrats (and particularly Barack Obama, whose ties to radical Islamists aren't being dug up and reported by the MSM, who has been delighted to find anything and everything, no matter how insignificant or even false, against Sarah Palin) to win the Presidential election. What does the enemy know about Barack Obama's hidden agenda for America that the MSM isn't daring to look into, much less dare to tell the People about?
It's been all good stuff about Obama which the MSM has reported. They're giving this extremist-associated candidate a free ride, unlike their treatment of the anti-enemy Republicans.
Is the MSM aiding and abetting the enemy in its refusal to look for the inconvenient truth about Barack Obama?
Is Obama a "Manchurian Candidate"? Those in the know, those who aren't ignorant leftists, know why I'm asking this question. I've blogged about the many, many disturbing associations of Obama with those who are anti-American, anti-liberty... associations the MSM refuses to even look at, afraid of the inconvenient truth... or covering it up, fully aware and consenting thereabout?
