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Further proof that Americans did the right thing on November 4 comes from the most recent Al-Qaida vid.  Master of the Caveman-in-Chief’s privy chamber calls Obama names (and not nice ones):
In al-Qaida’s first response to Obama’s victory, al-Zawahri .,.. called the president-elect—along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice—”house negroes.”
Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri [...]

Will Nick Kristof follow up now that they have a body? We’ll see:
A top government scientist who helped the FBI analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him for the attacks, the Los Angeles Times [...]

Continuing our Shachtman-mania here at BATP, another great article on the Army’s nascent efforts to recruit anthropologists to help understand local culture in Afghanistan and Iraq:
In western Afghanistan, the 4th Brigade of the 82nd Airborne had come under a steady stream of attacks, despite “a very aggressive outreach effort to village elders,” the report notes. [...]

The official U.S. Government definition of “terrorist group” has now been changed to “some people we really don’t like right now.”
Seriously, when a state army can be defined as a terrorist group, does the phrase still have any meaning?

The L.A. Times asks the fundamental question:
The president will ask the nation to pay for the next 11 months in Iraq with billions of dollars and hundreds of lives. We think this sacrifice will be in vain, because only Iraqis can heal their national wounds. And so we ask instead: What else could the United [...]

Josh “Sean Penn” Feit helps Al Qaeda plot their next move. It’s a doozy. I love it.

Believe Bush’s lies (damn lies) or not if you will [I don't], but in truth there are people out there plotting to kill us. Put that in your hookah and smoke it.
Once you’ve accepted this basic truth, it’s time to get a grip on your expectations. Bush and his cronies persist in the [...]

Reading more about that alleged plot at Ft. Dix, a couple of things jump out at me.
First, this description of the six guys’ alleged activities strikes me as remarkably similar to the kind of 1990s Timothy McVeigh-style domestic terrorism:
Dritan Duka, Eljvir Duka and Shain Duka collected weapons including handguns, shotguns and semi-automatic assault weapons, and [...]

Their mistake — a common one, for sure — was assuming that the sketchy guy at the video transfer place couldn’t care less about what you brought in. In fact, he was a concerned and patriotic citizen, and if not for him it’s unclear whether this terror plot would have been unraveled:
Six men from New [...]

Thank god high-level discussion among the highest reaches of government has finally caught up with plot points on this season of 24:
A previously undisclosed meeting last year of President Bush’s most senior national security advisers was the highest level discussion about how to rewrite the cold war rules. The existing approach to deterrence dates from [...]