News And Other Thoughts

In the news today:

ABC Terrorism Drama Stirs Controversy - A five-hour miniseries that dramatizes a decade's worth of events leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, this film is plenty gripping. It doesn't forgo artistry for polemics.

Airing commercial-free on ABC Sunday and Monday at 8 p.m. EDT (with a 9/11-related followup from ABC News at 10 p.m. Monday), the miniseries claims to draw from a number of sources, including the 2004 report of the 9/11 Commission, which was established to investigate government missteps that led to the attacks. (Read the story here.)

It seems the Clinton Adminstration is having a panic attack and trying its best to do damage control over this ABC Docudrama and former President Clinton is demanding that ABC pull the Drama. (Read stories here and here.)

In the mean time, Iranian President is planning a trip to the USA to speak at the UN. (Read about it here.)

Bush Vows to Use All Anti-Terror Tools - A day after President Bush acknowledged for the first time that the CIA runs secret prisons overseas, he told an Atlanta audience that he would continue to use all tools available to combat al-Qaida and terrorists determined to attack the United States.
"I will continue using every element of national power to pursue our enemies and prevent attacks on the United States of America," Bush said Thursday. (Read story here.)

An then President Bush proceeded to outline foiled Terrorist Plots:

- In 2002, officials disrupted a plot by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to crash hijacked airplanes into targets on the U.S. West Coast.

-In mid-2004, officials discovered a plan to bomb urban targets in the United Kingdom.

-Terrorists involved in a well-advanced plot to attack targets in Karachi, Pakistan, were detained in the spring of 2003.

-A plan to use hijacked commercial airplanes to attack London's Heathrow Airport was disrupted in 2003. (Read the rest here.)

And the “No Compulsion” of Islam continues on: Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, editor-in-chief of the private daily Al-Wifaq was kidnapped by masked gunmen and found later beheaded. What was his crime? He spoke out against and questioned the evil things done in the name of Islam. (Read here.)

Yet Muslims continue to tell the world that Islam is Tolerant and Peaceful. I think not!!!

So are we safer today than we were before 9/11? I don’t really know, but we are more informed and we are more alert. That is something that is better than before. But are we making any progress in the War on Terror? And why do we call it a War on Terror anyway? Ninety had it right on his Blog today. It is a War on Islam. But it is not a War we wanted or asked for. Islam has declared War on the West and until we wake up and realize this will we ever defeat this threat to our very existence?