War on Terror
…ten years ago, to the minute, when Islamist terrorists lost the initiative in the war they started.From 9:57, the cockpit recorder picks up the sounds of fighting in an aircraft losing control at 30,000 feet – the crash of trolleys, dishes being hurled and smashed. The terrorists scream at each other to hold the door…
As someone who was not touched directly by the killing on September 11, it was American Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon that led, on a personal level, to my most fearful moments of the day. On the radio, John Dennis relayed an unconfirmed report that smoke was rising from the Pentagon. If the report…
For most of the world including myself, it was United Flight 175 hitting the South Tower that made it clear that what was happening was not a “mere” accident. Two planes hitting the World Trade Center could not be a coincidence. From the hour that followed the second crash, I will always remember Gerry Callahan…
In 2001, I was working at a company that had a very liberal flex-time policy, so by the time I woke up on September 11, John Dennis and Gerry Callahan of WEEI radio were already reporting on a plane that had crashed into the upper floors of the World Trade Center. For a few more…
There’s something peculiar about this new focus on lone wolf terrorists: After 9/11, it was the men who went to radicalized mosques or terror boot camps who were seen as the biggest terror threat. Today, that picture’s changed: Authorities are increasingly focusing on the lone wolf living next door, radicalized on the Internet – and…
The opening sentence of an article about events in Libya makes deafening the dog that isn’t barking: Mourners vowed revenge and rattled off heavy gunfire in a Tripoli cemetery on Saturday as they buried nine men they said were Muslim clerics and medics killed in a NATO airstrike in mostly rebel-held eastern Libya. Remember when…
Andrew talked bin Laden and RIGOP House leadership on last night’s Matt Allen Show. Stream by clicking here, or download it. Andrew will also be on WRNI’s Political Roundtable tomorrow, airing somewhere around 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. and streamable online thereafter.
There’s been some conversation in the comment sections suggesting that there’s something contrary to American culture in street celebrations over Osama bin Laden’s death, particularly to the extent that they involved effigies and burning pictures. Acknowledgement that a milestone has been reached and justice meted in an individual case is certainly appropriate, but the attitude…
1. I’ve heard from several people the suggestion that the death of Osama bin Laden will boost troop morale. That may be the case, but I can’t help but see that as a bit of a shame. Over the past decade, our military has toppled governments, routed terrorist networks out of foreign cities, helped oppressed…
Osama bin Laden has been killed. The coward died a coward’s death, hiding behind a woman. Thanks to the dogged determination of our men and women in the armed services and intelligence agencies–in places from the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan to Guantanamo–and thanks to our political leaders who continued the hunt no matter the…
