A wave of protests is spreading across the Middle East, targeted at US Embassy buildings, apparently triggered by an anti-Islam film posted on the Internet and produced in America. The unrest began in Egypt on Tuesday night when hundreds of people stormed the US...
Obama Sends Drones, Marines, and Warships to Libya Following Consulate Attack
In response to the attack on the US consulate building in Libya on Tuesday night, now widely considered to have been planned by al-Qaeda, the Obama administration has ordered drones to fly over the country, additional US Marines to guard diplomatic buildings, and...
Al-Qaeda Groups Believed to Be Behind Libya Consulate Attack
The attack on an American consulate building in Libya that killed the ambassador and three other Americans may have been a planned operation by an al-Qaeda affiliate timed to coincide with the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. On Tuesday night, armed mobs shot...
Obama Sends Drones Over Libya Following Consulate Attack
The Obama administration is sending drones to fly over Benghazi and other locations in eastern Libya in search of jihadi encampments that may have been involved in the attack on the US consulate, which killed four Americans. On Tuesday night, armed mobs shot at,...
Libyans Kill US Ambassador, 3 Others at US Embassy
The US ambassador to Libya is one of four Americans killed in an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, puncturing the Obama administration's propaganda about bringing a new democratic ally to power in Libya. Armed men stormed the US diplomatic building overnight,...
Pre-9/11, Haqqani Group Urged Alliance With US
Less than a week after the US officially designated the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network a terrorist organization, declassified documents reveal the founder of the group advocated cooperation with the US in meetings with American diplomats two years before the 9/11...
Obama Admin. Urges Congress to Renew Broad Surveillance Powers
The Obama administration still refuses to say how many times the government's controversial surveillance program, up for renewal this week in Congress, has gathered intelligence about US citizens. The program is the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which authorizes broad,...
Obama Misleadingly Claims 9/11 Revived American ‘Values’
President Barack Obama marked the 11th anniversary of the September 11th attacks by claiming the legacy of that day was a safer American people and a stronger country, in a deluded, nationalistic speech in front of the Pentagon. "As painful as this day is - and always...
Israeli Official Cites 2007 Syria Strike to Justify Attacking Iran
An Israeli official on Monday cited a 2007 airstrike on a Syrian nuclear reactor to justify another unilateral attack on Iran’s nuclear program if the US maintains its position of not backing action now. “President [George W.] Bush did not agree to the United States...
Obama Rejects Netanyahu Request to Meet Later This Month
The White House has rejected a request by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet President Barak Obama in the United States later this month, in what has to be the biggest snub yet in a tense relationship between the two leaders. According to an Israeli...