My friend Dexter Duggan who writes for The Wanderer has an excellent piece on his substack site relating to the attack on Iran.
Another Undeclared War Drops on Our Doorstep
My friend Dexter Duggan who writes for The Wanderer has an excellent piece on his substack site relating to the attack on Iran.
Another Undeclared War Drops on Our Doorstep
It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.
Today is the seventeenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, Muslim terrorist attacks on the New York World Trade Center Towers, the Pentagon and Flight 93, which resulted in the death of almost 3,000 innocent Americans. We also remember the first responders who so selflessly and with no hesitation, answered the call to rescue those who were trapped, many of whom lost their own lives in the collapsing towers....See the interactive timeline here.
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| Is this a scene from Mars Attacks? No, it's the refugees of 9/11 fleeing the city. |
| Omar Mateen: What does a terrorist look like? |
1. The Saudi person of interest almost immediately dropped off the radar screen even after Michelle Obama visited him in his hospital room.
2. Russia had the brothers and their mom on a watch list.
3. The pressure cooker bomb is a type that Al Qaeda has used in Pakistan and Afghanistan and they give assembly instructions for would-be terrorists. The level of sophistication has led some authorities to speculate that the brothers needed more than on-line instruction and had help with the bomb's construction.
4. There is growing concern that the brothers had outside help in other ways and did not act alone. There may be plans for more attacks in the U.S. Authorities believe the brothers planned to explode more devices in New York's Times Square.
5. The mom texted family members in 2011 that her older son had been radicalized and was ready to "die for Islam."
6. Why did Obama's DOJ short-circuit the FBI interrogation? Was this one more example of facilitating Islam which seems to be a policy of this administration even when terrorism is involved?
"We still treat fire as a land management issue and we should be treating it as a national security issue....We are engaged in a brutal economic war by fire.....[We need] fire combat air patrols flying 24/7...[to] spot new fire starts."We are under regular attack by terrorists? The "fire war" carries low risk of capture and is one more reason to secure our southern borders. There is no doubt terrorists are entering the country through Mexico. We are on the edge of the economic cliff and mega fires in the west are one more threat in the terrorist arsenal to destroy us. It's time to fight back and fight smart.