Some very good news for a change, sorely needed around these parts. From CNN:
0 CommentsMANAMA, Bahrain – U.S. Navy snipers fatally shot three pirates holding an American cargo-ship captain hostage after seeing that one of the pirates “had an AK-47 leveled at the captain’s back,” a military official said Sunday.
The captain, who’d been held in a lifeboat in the Indian Ocean since Wednesday, was rescued uninjured, Navy Vice Adm. Bill Gortney told reporters.
Yes, the testosterone filled pirates of Somalia are full-blooded Muslim males hungry for battle and booty. Here’s a page from the CIA World Fact Book to fill you in: Somalia.
Now, I seem to recall a little thing with Barbary Pirates from 1801-1815 wherein the Marines got put to the test. Now where are the Marines when modern day African-Muslim pirates are at it again? The Middle East soaking up the desert heat?
From allAfrica.com with some spelling edits by me for good measure and better English:
7 CommentsAs Muslims all over the world celebrate Eid-ul-fitr, commonly known as Koriteh, which marks the end of the month of Ramadan, President Yahya Jammeh, has called on the Islamic Ummah to be steadfast, bold and united in the spirit of Islam to condemn any form of attack on the Islamic religion.
I’ve come to fully expect talk on television about the ‘War on Terror’ to end up being less than honest, less than exact, less than educated and less than inspiring. So, I wasn’t holding out much hope for Ted Koppel’s report on the Discovery Channel called ‘Our Children’s Children’s War’. It’s a good thing I’m always prepared to be non-plussed, because the show did almost exactly what I anticipated — it put out a warning but draped it in ambiguities and nebulous talk. Luckily for you, I already knew I was going to write this reaction piece.
Columnist Mark Steyn does an excellent job of summing up some of my feelings about the media bias that continues attempting to pile on President Bush, and in this case, how they and certain Democratic leaders have “pie in the face” syndrome.
0 CommentsDo you remember a year ago when the Democratic National Committee was putting out press releases headlined ”President Bush Deceives The American People”?
Yawn. What’s new? But last summer the Bush Lie Of The Week was all to do with Saddam trying to buy uranium from Niger. CNN and Co. replayed endlessly the critical 16 words from the president’s 2003 State of the Union Address:
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