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[31 Aug 2010 | 6 Comments | ]
VIDEO: Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally: Crowd Size and Security

How many people attended Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Saturday? That question appears to have the media perplexed.
Here is what I know and saw.
The crowd that gathered on August 28, 2010, 47 years to the day of the great civil rights march where Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech advocating racial harmony, actually began arriving the evening before.
Throngs of Americans from across the nation camped out and slept by the reflective pool to ensure their …

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[9 Aug 2010 | 4 Comments | ]
NYPD 2007 Report: Radicalization in the West. New al-Qaida Leader Lived in the U.S. for 15 Years

Last week, Associated Press reported Adnan Shukrijumah has taken over the position in al-Qaida once held by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was captured in 2003, and is currently in Guantanamo Bay. According to the FBI, Shukrijumah, lived in the United States for fifteen years, “marking the first time a leader so intimately familiar with American society has been placed in charge of planning attacks.”
Before turning to radical strains of Islam, Shukrijumah lived in Miramar with his mother and five siblings, excelling at computer science and chemistry courses while …