Exclusive: My Tryst with 72-Virgins by Osama bin Laden Shortly after 9/11 mastermind and Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s death at the hands of CIA and American Navy Seals in Pakistan, U.S. President Barack Obama addressed the nation from the East Room: Obama Addresses the Nation Here is President Obama’s complete address to the […]
The latest issue of New Yorker (January 17, 2011) has a lengthy piece by Jon Lee Anderson on the Sri Lankan Army’s decisive victory over the LTTE terrorist outfit (remember, these monsters killed Indian leader Rajiv Gandhi). The piece provides an overview of the conflict with emphasis on the final days of the war in […]
Another Pakistani-American has been arrested in connection with a terror plot in the U.S. This time, it’s 34-year-old Farooque Ahmed of Ashburn, Virginia. The U.S. Justice department said Ahmed was arrested today for attempting to assist others whom he believed to be members of al-Qaeda in planning multiple bombings at Metrorail stations in the Washington, […]
Many of us are conditioned or wont to think of terrorists as unschooled baboons or idiots brainwashed into following their leaders’ bidding. Not so. Not so. The New York Times Magazine had an interesting piece yesterday which argues that: [I]n the ranks of captured and confessed terrorists, engineers and engineering students are significantly overrepresented.
* Prabhakaran dead, war on LTTE over: Lanka (Times of India) * Sri Lankans Say Rebels Crushed and Leader Killed (New York Times) * Sri Lankan rebel leader ‘killed’ (BBC) * LTTE chief Prabhakaran dead (Hindu) * Prabhakaran shot dead while trying to break army siege: Army (DNA) * Sri Lanka: Tamil leader has been […]
Barely a few weeks after the Obama administration promised to release the torture photos of detainees by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, the administration has now gone back on its word and is trying to cover up the torture by preventing release of the nasty photos. On April 24, 2009, President Obama felt […]