Friday, February 19th, 2010 | Post a comment
‘If in the past missiles and rockets were weapons possessed by States and were thought of as strategic tools, today they are used also by terror organizations.” Brig. Gen. Kuperwasser. Photo: Yissachar Ruas, Jerusalem Conference
Brig. Gen. Yossi Kupperwasser spoke about threats on Israel’s security at the Jerusalem Conference; special honor guest appearance made by the Commander of the IDF delegation to Haiti
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 | One comment
Left, Omar Hammami as a freshman in high school. Right, in a Shabab propaganda video released in March 2009.
ON A WARM, cloudy day in the fall of 1999, the town of Daphne, Ala., stirred to life. The high-school band came pounding down Main Street, past the post office and the library and Christ the King Church. Trumpeters in gold-tasseled coats tipped their horns to the sky, heralding the arrival of teenage demigods. The star quarterback and his teammates came first in the parade, followed by the homecoming queen and her court. Behind them, on a float bearing leaders of the student government, a giddy mop-haired kid tossed candy to the crowd.
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Friday, January 15th, 2010 | Post a comment
Jane Rosenberg
Aafia Siddiqui (left, in veil) protests to Judge Richard Berman during jury selection for her trial in federal court.
Prosecutors argue she screamed, “Allah Akbar” and vowed to kill Americans before she was wrestled to the ground. She allegedly had two pounds of poisonous sodium cyanide and hundreds of pages of notes and documents on how to build chemical and biological weapons.
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