April 21, 2007: "Germany Threatened" ( SALAH NASRAWI - Associated Press)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Islamic militants threatened to attack Germany and Austria unless the two European nations break ranks with America and withdraw their personnel from Afghanistan, according to a Web statement. "Germany will face more threats and dangers if it doesn't withdraw its troops from Afghanistan," an unidentified speaker said in a video statement posted Saturday on an Islamic Web site used by Al Qaedda-linked militants.
March 15, 2007: "Iran Backing Gaza Fighters, Israeli Security Chief Says" (Eli Lake, New York Sun)
Israel's internal security service has compiled evidence that it says shows Iran is training a new batch of terrorist leaders to be deployed in Gaza, the territory the Jewish state vacated in 2005. In the last three days, word of the new intelligence confirming the terrorist training has made it to the Israeli press after the chief of the Israeli Security Agency, Yuval Diskin, told the parliamentary committee that oversees national security that he estimated hundreds of Hamas terrorists had gone to Iran for extensive training over several months.
March 11, 2007: "Islamic Extremists Infiltrate Oxbridge" (Telegraph)
Leading [British] universities including Oxford and Cambridge have been targeted by Islamic extremists who remain widely active on campuses, a prominent academic is warning.
Up to 48 British universities have been infiltrated by fundamentalists and the threat posed by radical groups must be "urgently addressed", according to Prof Anthony Glees.
March 2, 2007: "And if America is now living in a dream world in which there is no war unless we choose to declare it, our best hope remains that these regimes - like the former Soviet Union - will collapse from within." (Claudia Rosett, Philadelphia Inquirer) January 27, 2007: "World War III has already begun, says (former) Israeli Spy Chief" (Ynet) January 14, 2007: "Intelligence Chiefs Pessimistic in Assessing Worldwide Threats" (Washington Post) January 2, 2007: "Only Military Action Will Stop Iran" (Jerusalem Post)
The lack of diplomatic progress with the Palestinians combined with Teheran's continuing efforts to obtain nuclear weapons has weakened Israel's strategic standing in the Middle East, according to the book, authored by INSS head Zvi Shtauber and former IAF Intelligence officer Yiftah Shapir. "This year was marked by Israel not finding a solution to the Palestinian issue, not stopping Iran, and the failure of the world's war against terrorism," Shtauber, a retired brigadier general and former ambassador to the United Kingdom, said during a press conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. "The reality did not develop like we had hoped it would," Shtauber said, adding that the United States' failure to stabilize Iraq had also contributed to the dangerous situation brewing in the Middle East.
December 14, 2006: David Foster (from the comments at Neo-Neocon's blog)
Interesting warning sent by Sherman to a southern friend right after South Carolina's secession: "You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth—right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail." David Foster | Homepage | 12.14.06 - 12:23 pm | #
November 25, 2006: "Easy Prey in Paris," (Nidra Poller, Pajamas Media) November 16, 2006: "Iran tried to get uranium by arming Somalia," (Telegraph) November 13, 2006: " Our World: The Second Worst Option," (Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post)
