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If there is a shining example of just how dangerous it is for America to give foreign-born jihadists the full panoply of American constitutional rights and all the attendant benefits of a civilian trial, it is Lynne Stewart.
I’ve written about her treacherous collaboration with the Muslim terrorist mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman many times over [...]

There are no (non-profane) words for this, via CBS2 Chicago (h/t Andy McCarthy):
The Obama Administration plans to give $400,000 in funding to a Libyan charity run by the Gadhafi family, and U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) wants the grant withdrawn.
The money would be divided between two foundations run by the family of Libyan leader Muammar [...]

“The deciding factor is overtime, not security.”

Yes, al Qaeda’s audio-visual team was overdue for another America-bashing, Israel-hating message from Osama bin Laden.
It’s here: Still photo of bin Laden speaks, taunts Obama as “powerless.”
An audio message purportedly by al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has been released on an Islamist website.
The message, entitled “a statement to the American people”, was about 10 minutes [...]

…by painting a living room.
Yes, really.
Here is the commander-in-chief wielding his mighty paint roller,
via Reuters/Yahoo News Photos:

Notice he’s using whitewash. How appropriate.

The 9/11 jihadi attacks were not a “tragedy.”
They were evil.
Never forget.
Melissa Doi:

Betty Ong:

Kevin Cosgrove:

Lan astaslem: Arabic for “I will not submit/surrender”

Remember: Project 2,996.
Remember: “Let’s roll!”
Remember: The angels on loan from God.
Remember: The 9/11 babies.
Remember: Falling Man.
Remembrance is worthless without resolve. Resolve is useless without action.
God bless our troops for doing what’s necessary to combat jihad on the front lines. Here’s how they are marking 9/11 overseas:
American troops [...]

I am participating in Project 2,996, the blogosphere’s tribute to those murdered on 9/11 eight years ago today.
My honoree is John J. Chada. He was 55 and a civilian employee for the U.S. Army. Chada lived in Manassas, Va., and was killed at the Pentagon. He worked in the Information Management Support Center as Administrative [...]

How Obama cronyism threatens rail security
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
New Delhi. Mumbai. Chechnya. Madrid. London. The question isn’t whether America will suffer a jihadi attack on our passenger rail lines, but when. So, why has President Obama neutered the nation’s most highly-trained post-9/11 counterterrorism rail security team?
All signs point to business-as-usual cronyism and pandering to [...]

Take a look at a new print ad produced by DDB Brazil for the World Wildlife Fund (click for full-size):

The appalling tagline states: “The tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11. The planet is brutally powerful. Respect it. Preserve it.”
Translation: Forget about those puny jihadists. The planet is the real terrorist threat.
According to AdFreak, [...]

Can’t say I’m getting all wee-weed up about the DOJ disclosure today that Bush/CIA interrogators threatened 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s family (info that isn’t even new.)
Nope. No tears.
How about you?
Flashback: 9/11 Children
Flashback: Angels on loan from God
Via Sgt. Tim Sumner, photos of the angel children murdered on 9/11:

Lan astaslem: Arabic for “I will not [...]

Matthew Vadum reports that Obama’s left-wing allies are preparing plans to re-brand 9/11 as a national service/eco-zealot propaganda day.
Really:
The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist [...]

Pushback from GOP Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas on the Obama plans to dump Gitmo detainees at Ft. Leavenworth.
Message: No. Hell. No.
Via The Hill’s Michael O’Brien:
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) threatened to “shut down the Senate” before he allows terrorist suspects to be relocated to Leavenworth, Kansas.
Roberts heatedly pledged to prevent detainees currently housed in Guantanamo [...]

Longtime readers will remember the wonderful 2,996 Project honoring the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The project is gearing up for this year’s event and needs your help.
Katie Favazza is helping spread the word. Please click here to sign up, participate, and spread the word.

Please join Melissa Long, whose fiance was murdered in the 9/11 jihadi attacks, in raising your voices on the closure of Gitmo. She and other 9/11 families met with DOJ. They have much to report and warn their fellow citizens about — so listen up and stay tuned.
Read Melissa’s open letter here and pass it [...]

Funny?

“Goose, it’s time to buzz Lady Liberty…”

The New York Post reports the sad news that actor Ron Silver has died. He succumbed to cancer. The 9/11 jihadi attacks were a pivotal moment in Silver’s political evolution from Hollywood liberal to Hollywood hawk: “‘I think there are September 10 people and there are September 11 people. I’m one of the latter. Everything [...]

Sob.

My friend Debra Burlingame was at last week’s meeting between President Obama and 9/11 and Cole bombing families. 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America reports: “During the meeting, President Obama was wrong on the law, wrong about what Boumediene v. Bush afforded the detainees held at Guantanamo, and stated the public’s perception about [...]

It started long before September 11. It started long before W. Never forget:

Memorial stone at Lockerbie, Scotland

Arlington National Cemetery
The Lockerbie Cairn, through its 270 blocks of red Scottish sandstone, memorializes the 270 lives lost in the terrorist attack on the United States when Pan Am flight 103 was bombed Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie Scotland. [...]

Troof. vs. truth.

LAX bomb plotter Ahmed Ressam reneged on his deal with the feds and continues to play games with prosecutors. They requested that a federal judge double his sentence for terrorism-related convictions.
The judge (more on him in a moment) refused:
Ahmed Ressam was resentenced this morning to 22 years in federal prison for conspiring to bomb the [...]

Remember the Cole.

Patriot vs. Pretender.

I’m watching the livestream of the joint appearance by John McCain and Barack Obama at Ground Zero right now.
Cindy McCain is also there. Michelle Obama is not — as the cable networks are pointing out, not just me.
4:30pm Eastern. Obama looks lost, trying to find someone’s hand to shake.
Fox reports Michelle Obama is home with [...]

Don’t read this tribute to Barbara Olson by Lucianne Goldberg without a full box of tissues.

Sympathy for the devils.

The last moment of silence of the day marks the collapse of the North Tower seven years ago at 10:29am Eastern. Burned into memory:

Seven years ago, the official notification of crash of United 93 into a field at Shanksville, Pa. was received at 10:15am Eastern.
Reader Jeffrey sent me a pic and e-mail this morning: “[The photo is the] license on my Suburban. It has been (for many years) my way of remembering not only the victims of [...]