Uzi Mahnaimi thetimes Mossad spy agency chief Meir Dagan IN early January two black Audi A6 limousines drove up to the main gate of a building on a small hill in the northern suburbs of Tel Aviv: the headquarters of Mossad, the Israeli secret intelligence agency, known as the “midrasha”. Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, stepped out of his car and was greeted by Meir Dagan, the 64-year-old head of the agency. Dagan, who has walked with a stick since he was injured in action as a young man, led Netanyahu and a general to a briefing room. According … Continue reading Meir Dagan: the mastermind behind Mossad’s secret war

The wannabe British jihadist who said no to Al-Qaeda Kasim wanted martyrdom but being urged to attack Britain was a step too far Al-Qaeda recruits undergo training on the Afghan border Peter Taylor thetimes.co.uk It took months to get to the man I must call “Kasim”. I’d heard about a wannabe British jihadist who had been injured in a US drone attack in Waziristan, Pakistan, but he was not easy to find, and, once found, he was clearly uneasy. With good reason. There are probably many people far scarier than me who would like to meet him. We met in … Continue reading Kasim wanted martyrdom but being urged to attack Britain was a step too far

Bill Clinton Early on the morning of August 19, 1946, I was born under a clear sky after a violent summer storm to a widowed mother in the Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, a town of about 6,000 in southwest Arkansas, 33 miles east of the Texas border at Texarkana. My mother named me William Jefferson Blythe III after my father, William Jefferson Blythe Jr. According to his sisters, my father always tried to take care of them, and he grew up to be a handsome, hardworking, fun-loving man. He met my mother at Tri-State Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana, in … Continue reading Father figure

ACPO comes under new fire as £1.6m is used on ‘perks’ for officers By Jason Lewis Britain’s most powerful police body, which is run as a private business, has spent millions of pounds meant for counter-terrorism work on luxury London flats for senior officers. The spending on an undisclosed number of apartments in the Westminster area is understood to be about £1.6million a year. The money is taken directly from taxpayers’ cash given to the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) by the Home Office to tackle the terrorist threat across Britain. Priority: Assistant Commissioner John Yates has ordered a … Continue reading British Police High Preists drain away £1.6m on ‘perks’

Dove World Outreach Center vs Islam Meet Dr. Terry Jones. The good doctor is the pastor at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, FL which, by all appearances, is your run-of-the-mill small, southern fire and brimstone kind of Christian church. Before this week, the only thing “global” about Dove World Outreach Center were their numerous videos posted on YouTube in which Dr. Jones rants about gay marriage, Muslims and evolution. Of course, they posted a sign (pictured here) on their property this week which has caused a bit of a stir among local residents, and when CNN picked up … Continue reading Meet Dr. Terry Jones – Mad Mullah of Florida USA!

Joseph Stack’s views don’t fit neatly into the partisan politics of the US, but central Texas is where conspiracy theories take root Amanda Marcotte guardian.co.uk Yesterday, tragedy hit Austin, Texas, the place where I’d lived for 14 years and only moved away from two months ago. A man tentatively identified as 53-year-old Joseph Stack, flew his small plane into the seven-storey IRS building in North Austin, after setting fire to his own home and leaving a lengthy suicide note on his website. The note was surprisingly lucid for a man committing an act universally seen as crazy, and it spelled … Continue reading Austin, Texas: paranoid politics central