Greg Johnson welcomed The Ayatollah (Odysee, Telegram), Morgoth (Substack, Odysee), Pox Populi (Telegram, YouTube), Karl Thorburn (Telegram), and David Zsutty on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio to discuss Elon Musk’s recent tweetstorm, as well as Candace Owens’ conflict with Ben Shapiro, Con Inc.’s response to Zionism, and of course they answered listener questions. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
Tag: Osama Bin Laden
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A letter by Osama bin Laden addressed to the people of the United States was posted in Arabic in 2002 to a Saudi Arabian website that was then being used by bin Laden’s organization, Al Qaeda, to distribute its messages. In November of that year it was translated by Islamists in the United Kingdom and then posted to various English-language websites in that country, and was also sent out to e-mail lists run by opponents of the Saudi regime who were living in Britain, according to The Observer at the time. On November 24 the full text was published at the Guardian as well. (more…)
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You’ll often hear that the masses have no ideology, but I’m here to disabuse you of that notion. As observed by the great Arab political scientist Osama bin Laden, when people see a weak horse and a strong horse, they back the strong one. An appeal to the masses can only succeed when coming from the strong horse. In other words, the masses back a winner. (more…)
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September 8, 2022 Steven Clark
Night of the Chupacabra
This is an excerpt from my memoir The Xena Years, about life in the nineties. It seems relevant today.
I had just climbed out of the pool when the woman bowed towards Mecca. (more…)
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Philip H. Gordon
Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2020Philip H. Gordon is a Deputy National Security Advisor to the Dementia Regime’s Vice President. Previously, he’d served on the staff of President Obama. (more…)
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Barack Obama
A Promised Land
New York: Random House, 2020There were stacks and stacks of Barack Obama’s new memoir at the brick-and-mortar bookstore I went to on Black Friday, 2020. I hadn’t been to a brick-and-mortar store for some time. If possible, I go to the library.
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Ali Soufan
Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of Bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017Ali Soufan is famous, to put it mildly. A fictionalized version of him was played by Tahar Rahim in Hulu’s miniseries, The Looming Tower. He is also a bestselling author. The foundation of Soufan’s fame is the fact that he was an FBI[1] agent investigating Al Qaeda prior to, during, and after 9/11. (more…)
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Zero Dark Thirty, once this year’s favorite to harvest a whole crop of Oscars, was instead dropped down the memory hole at Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony. (more…)
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December 23, 2011 Leo Yankevich
Black Ops
71 words
Black Ops
No, there are no black helicopters
hovering over every breath.
And yet: are there forensic doctors
who can confirm Osama’s death? (more…) -
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According to the US government, on Sunday, May 1, Osama Bin Laden was killed by a team of US commandos near Islamabad, Pakistan.
Three other men were killed in the raid, one of them a son of Bin Laden. A woman was also killed, but we are assured that she was killed only when used as a human shield by the bad guys. Our gallant American soldiers are better than other soldiers. Americans only kill women who get in the way. (more…)