Pirates are not terrorists?

November 24, 1:14 PM

Baltimore Political Buzz ExaminerJohn Stratemeyer

Got some interesting feedback on my previous article “Kudos to the Maersk Alabama.” One inferred that my knowledge of world affairs and the shipping industry in general is somewhat lacking. That may be, but no less than the limited scope of any other finite human being. Another said that the pirates are not to be classified as “terrorists” because they are plying one of the oldest businesses in the world, and also because they do not intend to sink ships. Isn’t that nice of them? One guy classified the pirates as “unfortunates.” Must be a “root causes” guy. Piracy is a legitimate business? Hmmm…

Islamic Jihad, PFLIslamic Jihad, PFLP against holding fireP against holding fire

Nov 23, 2009

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Gaza terrorists prepare to fire Kassam rockets [file]Photo: AP

“We will defend, with our utmost force, any new Zionist aggression against the Gaza Strip,” the group said in a statement on Sunday announcing that it had reached agreement with other Palestinian groups to stop firing rockets and missiles at Israel, “to preserve the internal front.”

The armed wing of Hamas, Izzadin Kassam, said that the decision “was not taken out of weakness, but out of a keenness to preserve the internal front and national interests of the Palestinians.”

Suspects in Dallas plot, Fort Hood attack were on FBI’s radar, but only one was taken down

DALLAS — Both Hosam “Sam” Smadi and Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan attracted attention from federal agents long before their high-profile arrests.

But the two Texas cases, just six weeks apart, resulted in spectacularly different outcomes — one in the prevention of a large-scale terrorist attack in Dallas, the other in a deadly shooting rampage of soldiers and civilians at Fort Hood.

Just as his nephew did before him in NYC, Khalid Sheik Mohammed claims terrorism equals war

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

NEW YORK – Khalid Sheik Mohammed has acknowledged doing what his nephew Ramzi Yousef couldn’t: toppling the World Trade Center towers.

He will soon be given a chance to repeat another of his nephew’s endeavours: using a Manhattan federal courtroom as a pulpit to argue that he is a political prisoner in a war between the West and Islam.

Yousef was convicted of trying to destroy the World Trade Center in 1993 with a powerful bomb packed into a rental van. Mohammed is accused of fulfilling their shared dream in 2001, this time with hijacked airliners.