My friend Muna Shikaki of al-Arabiya tweet-reports: A plea deal has been reached in the case of the accused war criminal Omar Khadr in Guantanamo that will assure the US government a conviction will ensure Khadr return to Canada to serve the majority of his sentence “soon” sources close to the trial tell Al-Arabiya. Last [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 934-10 October 13, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom Spc. Matthew C. Powell, 20, of Slidell, La., died Oct. 12 at Kandahar Airfield, of wounds suffered at Ghunday Ghar, Afghanistan when insurgents attacked his military vehicle [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 929-10 October 12, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualties The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died Oct. 10 of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. Killed were: Staff Sgt. Dave J. Weigle, 29, of Philadelphia, [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 928-10 October 12, 2010 DOD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Frank R. Zaehringer III, 23, of Reno, Nev., died Oct. 11 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 9th [...]

I gawked a bit at the second issue of al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine over at Danger Room this morning. But to call attention to something outside that post, take a look at Yahya Ibrahim’s advice to aspiring terrorists. (Around page 55 of this 74-page PDF.) Most of it is pretty expected: beware of snitches, take your [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 926-10 October 12, 2010 DOD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Lance Cpl. John T. Sparks, 23, of Chicago, Ill., died Oct. 8 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 5th [...]

I figured it would be more meaningful — and true to the format — to blog my best wishes to Andrew Sullivan on the 10th anniversary of his groundbreaking blog, rather than email them to him. I was a lowly college student trying to avoid studying or school-paper responsibilities when the Dish came out. (And [...]

Now this is how you write a lede: US admiral Bob “Rat” Willard is the most powerful military commander in the world. If you haven’t heard of him, that’s because Australia lives in a peaceful region. If that changes, Willard will become the central figure in our lives. Willard is the commander of the US [...]

I didn’t really have anything valuable to say about Jim Jones leaving the White House, and by the time I thought of something serviceable, I discovered Fred Kaplan put it a lot better than I would’ve. From the perspective of the Afghanistan war, this is a key graph: As for future policy, many officials agree [...]

Via this New York Times profile of Pamela Geller, the quote of the day comes from Anders Gravers: Violent, economic, cultural and stealth Jihad is the knife slicing the salami of freedom. It is time for us to snatch the slicing-knife of jihad, stop mosque building, stop Sharia law and stop Sharia finance, for we [...]