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The day after the 5th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, radicals associated with al Qaeda (Jund al-Sham) attack a US Embassy, in a country that supports Hezbollah.

3 Killed Outside U.S. Embassy in Syria

DAMASCUS, Syria — Islamic militants…

I first saw Michelle Malkin’s coverage of this, but she refers readers to far more thorough and frequent updates at Mere Rhetoric.

The latter has a comment on this business worth repeating:

Which got us thinking: the US has an embassy in Dam…

The key to keep in mind here is that this was yet another attempt by Islamic militants to do harm to American citizens. It is a pretty sad day when our very own state department can’t bring itself to say the words that all American’s need to hear.
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The Damascus attack failed, it wasn’t the soft or easy target the militants hoped it would be. More attacks are certain to come, and TFM still believes the targets may not necessarily be the ones you most expect.

Pretty clumsy effort, if you ask me. Definitely not up to al-Qaeda’s usual sophistication. But goes to show that the supply of top-drawer jihadi talent is not infinite. When your preferred method of attack involves blowing yourself to smithereens, decl…

Via Yahoo! News/AP: Islamic militants attempted to storm the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Tuesday using automatic rifles, hand grenades and at least one van rigged with explosives, the government said. Four people were killed in the brazen attack, inclu…

Update II (9/12): And bringing up the rear are Literal Barrage, Tel-Chai Nation, Flopping Aces, and League of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Everyday, sometimes several times a day, there’s another story about Muslims blowing up something or somebod…

The US Embassy was attacked early this morning by Islamic militants shouting “Allah akbar!”
AP:
Islamic militants attempted to storm the U.S. Embassy in a brazen attack Tuesday using automatic rifles, hand grenades and at least one van rig…

Via Fox:
“Islamic militants attempted to storm the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Tuesday using automatic rifles, hand grenades and at least one van rigged with explosives, the government said. Four people were killed in the brazen attack, including…

Then I read this:

The phrase is repeated constantly by those who practice the “religion of peace.” The phrase itself is benign in that it simply means “God is Great.”

Syrian security forces and firefighters are seen in front of the US embassy in Damascus on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2006. Syrian security forces killed three attackers, the government said, after gunmen apparently blew up a car outside the U.S. Embassy and …