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Al-Qaeda’s 20-year Plan

For anyone that is interested in the war on terrorism, and article in last week’s issue of The New Yorker is must reading. Lawrence Wright’s, “The Master Plan,” discusses the development of al-Qaeda’s strategy since 9/11, gives an overview of their primary strategists, including Abu Musab al-Suri (who I wrote about here back in July, “The Architect of the New Global Jihad“), Abu Bakir Naji (author of The Management of Savagery, now available in a translation by William McCants at the Counter Terrorism Center at West Point), and a critical analysis by Jordanian author Fouad Hussein, who outlines al-Qaeda’s 7-step 20-year plan in his book, Al-Zarqawi: al-Qaida’s Second Generation. Hussein’s book is based off a number of interviews with al-Qaeda leaders and his time in prison with Zarqawi. (more…)

From Free Republic:

Obama and his paternal 1st cousin Odinga, wanted to bring the whole of Kenya under Sharia law. Obama campaigned for Odinga in August of 2006,just before he filed with the US Federal Elections Commission for his presidential candidacy.

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Q: “Greenhouse gasses” are bad, right?

A: Wrong. Without them we would freeze to death. There are a number of popular misconceptions about the greenhouse effect, notably that it is a bad thing. Greenhouse gases allow much of the Sun’s shortwave radiation to pass through them but absorb or trap the longwave, infrared radiation emitted by the Earth’s surface. Without greenhouse gases in the air, surface air temperatures would be well below freezing. The warming influence of greenhouse gasses is literally a matter of life and death. It keeps the average surface temperature of the planet at 15 degrees Celsius or 59 degrees Fahrenheit. Without this greenhouse effect, the average surface temperature would be -18 degrees Celsius or 0 degrees Fahrenheit; a temperature so low that all water on Earth would freeze, the oceans would turn into ice and life, as we know it, would not exist. (more…)