http://jihadjoe.net | A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column for the New York Daily News on Al Qaeda's increasing shift in emphasis from bomb-based attacks to guns. American terrorist Adam Gadahn -- one of AQ's most prominent public faces -- recently put an exclamation point on the trend in a new video released online and excerpted here. For more on Gadahn read the new book, Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam,http://amzn.to/ahwBqH
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Laura Ingraham was the guest host on "The O'Reilly Factor" on March 8th.
The "Talking Points Memo" focused on Senator Rand Paul's filibuster and the strange bedfellows that emerged from this historic Senate event.
Ingraham spoke to Mark Hannah about Samira Ibrahim who was going to receive an award from the State Department until she made reprehensible remarks against the US and Jews as reported by the Weekly Standard. Foreign aid money for Egypt was also discussed, even as President Morsi makes equally reprehensible remarks.
Ingraham talked to Bob Hemer and Bob Dane about hate groups as deemed by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Dane dubbed them a far left fundraising McCarthy-like group. Heimer said he's seen real hatred from groups such as NAMBLA and the Aryan Brotherhood and said there's a difference between passionate right wing groups and hate groups. Dain said left wing groups blur the differences between passionate and hate groups.
Ingraham talked to Alexandra Brodsky and Gloria Malone about ads critical of teen pregnancy. Malone is a teen mother and feels stigmatized and shamed by the ads. Brodsky thinks it is condescending, bad policy and is unhelpful. Ingraham commended Malone for keeping her baby rather than seeking an abortion which these ads could prompt.
Ingraham discussed economic issues with Lou Dobbs. Both slammed Minority Leader Pelosi and President Obama's spending and their criticism of oil company subsidies. Dobbs said the effective corproate tax rate is 17%. He said the jobs report indicates a real recovery, but that the real unemployment rate is 14.3%. He said it is a time to be in the stock market.
Ingraham asked Chip Saltsman and Tara Dowdell if terror suspects should be tried in the US. Dowdell said we've been trying terror suspects in civiilan courts already. Saltsman said Senator Graham that terror suspects should go to Guantanamo Bay. Dowdell said politicians don't like those who skip in line such as Rand Paul and Barack Obama. Saltsman praised Paul for promoting an issue that was close to his father Ron Paul.
Ingraham talked Sarah Moriarity to whose father, former FBI agent Bob Levinson, has been held in Iran for six years. Moriarity said her father is a hostage and efforts won't be enough until he's home. Ingraham noted that few know about this case.
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Laura Ingraham hosted Bill Gertz of the Washington Free Beacon.
Gertz said there's been a big push for al-Qaeda to move into Northern Africa, especially in Mali which is largely ungoverned. He said a lot of the taxpayer money sent to these countries are in Swiss bank accounts of dictators and other thugs with Hillary Clinton waking up to the fact as she leaves the State Department. He said we aren't leading, but disengaging from Africa for Asia. He stated it's only a matter of time before radical factions regroup for more terror activity. There is concern Egypt will become another Islamic state like Iran.
Gertz said Gitmo parolees who were detained and released are working with the Syrian rebels.
Gertz noted CIA nominee John Brennan was silent on critical issues during his Senate confirmation hearings.
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Laura Ingraham appeared on "Fox and Friends" to talk about President Obama's immigration push.
Ingraham said the immigration push is a done deal with support from the GOP and that the details are murky. She doesn't believe border security is a priority. She pointed to the DREAM Act being enacted by executive action, despite more deportations. Ingraham asked how this actually helps the middle class in the US and cited California as an example of wher it's not working. She noted that while immigrants pay taxes it is outweighed by the benefits they get off the tax system.
Ingraham thinks President Obama may use the staff that works for the NLRB to intimidate businesses to get around the setdown by the courts.
Ingraham commented on "60 Minutes" Steve Kroft acknowledging that Obama knew he wouldn't get tough questions from him during the Obama/Clinton interview.
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Laura Ingraham hosted Dick Wolf, author of "The Intercept" and creator of the "Law and Order" franchise.
Wolf said his great ambition was to write the great American novel and said he's comfortable with thrillers. He'd love to have it made into a movie or mini-series. He described a miniseries about a terror attack on NYC just before 9/11 and the plugged was pulled on the series. He has kept in touch with people connected with the project and contends that we are underestimating people who are willing to die for a cause. He noted that replacements keep popping up for all the terrorists killed.
Wolf said that he plans two more books with the character from "The Intercept".
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"SEAL Team Six", a propaganda made-for-TV film by mega-Obama supporter Harvey Weinsten and debuting two days before the election was panned by the critics.
But the made-for-TV movie, released two days before the elections, was a flop. When it debuted on Sunday, it was panned by TV critics as a 'dim and simple-minded work of fiction' -- incapable of swaying even the most ambivalent voters.
The movie was produced by one of Obama's biggest backers in Hollywood, Harvey Weisntein, who rushed it forward to ensure it debuted before November 6.
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A New York University terrorism class students' have been asked to plan a terrorist attack.
Talk about sympathy for the devil - totally outrageous. What's next, a field trip to al-Qaeda training camps?
The controversial course, taught by former Navy criminal investigator Marie-Helen Maras, asks the pupils to “step into [a terrorist’s] shoes” and write a 10- to 15-page paper on their battle plan.
“Some of the most notorious terrorists, including Anwar al-Awlaki, got their start on American campuses. It looks like after the CIA killed al-Awlaki, NYU is helping to produce successors,” said an outraged law-enforcement expert on terrorism.
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The "Ingraham Angle with Laura Ingraham centered on the investigation into the debacle at the Benghazi consulate where four Americans were killed. Both Ingraham and O'Reilly slammed the handling of the whole incident and Ingraham noted that this could change some voters minds about the Obama administration's incompetence and/or playing politics with this incident. She pointed out that the Democrats made a big deal about Scooter Libby allegedly being involved in compromising the identity of a CIA official when in fact there was no crime committed and some vagueness on the details.
Ingraham emphasized that the voters are hungry for leadershop that seems lacking in this case.
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Laura Ingraham hosted Daris Long, father of William "Andy" Long who was murdered in a domestic terror attack.
Long said that in testimony before Congress that the attack on his son at a recruiting station in Arkansas and that the Fort Hood assassin Nadel Hassan's attacks are treated as workplace violence rather than terror attacks. He includes the Benghazi consulate attacks as attacks on American soil.
Long received a form letter from President Obama a short time after his son's death, but after that it was dropped. He noted that during the recent violence in Middle East all the media focus has been on campaign gaffes.
Long wants his son's killer prosecuted as a terrorist and that his son deserves a Purple Heart. He amassed all sorts of material on his son's killer, but the governmnet said that since the killer was convicted of a crime, that the Purple Heart can't be awarded.
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Laura Ingraham hosted Andrew McCarthy.
McCarthy said Benghazi is one of the most extremely anti-American sites in the world and the lack of security there is shocking. He noted that we kept Kadafi on retainer to give us intelligence on al-Qaeda and other terror groups.
McCarthy said there were rumors that the blind sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman from the first World Trade Center bombing would be released to assuage the protesters in Egypt that appear to be true. McCarthy who prosecutied the blind sheikh said he should never, never be released.
GOP chairmen implore the White House not to release the blind sheikh
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It appears that the Benghazi cosulate attack in which 4 embassy personnel were murdered may have been the work of al-Qaeda - specifically ex-Gitmo detainee Sufyan Ben Qumu who was released in 2007 nad had ties to the terror groups financial arms.
The administration may have some explaining to do - and will hope the story will fade into the next news cycle or be investigated after the election - a travesty.
Read The Department Of Defense File On The Man Who Led The Attack On The Libyan Consulate
"Yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy," Matt Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said during a Senate hearing Wednesday. Olsen echoed administration colleagues in saying U.S. officials have no specific intelligence about "significant advanced planning or coordination" for the attack.
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President Obama continued his campaign schedule, winging to Las Vegas, Nevada (swing state) to stump on the day of crises in Libya, Egypt and with tensions between Israel and the US.
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Laura Ingraham hosted Major Garrett of the National Journal.
Garrett said he heard from the Romney campaign has no regrets about their statement criticizing the Obama administration's reaction to the attacks on US embassies in Cairo and consulate in Benghazi. He said there are concerns about violence against Coptic Christians that the Obama State Department ignores.
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Presidnet Obama apparently has skipped half of his Daily Intelligence Briefings (DIB) - something President Bush never missed.
The Government Accountability Institute, a new conservative investigative research organization, examined President Obama’s schedule from the day he took office until mid-June 2012, to see how often he attended his Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) — the meeting at which he is briefed on the most critical intelligence threats to the country. During his first 1,225 days in office, Obama attended his PDB just 536 times — or 43.8 percent of the time. During 2011 and the first half of 2012, his attendance became even less frequent — falling to just over 38 percent. By contrast, Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush almost never missed his daily intelligence meeting.
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"No Easy Day" author Mark Owen, AKA Mark Bissonette who participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden appeared on "60 Minues". He said his book is apolitical and released on September 11th to make that point. He is donating his earnings to help needy Navy SEALS and said their team was but one small part of the whole effort.
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