In the wake of the Egyptian embassy attack on 9/11, Republican lawmakers are pressuring Obama to do retaliate. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) believes Obama should be putting heavy pressure on Egypt and its president, Mohamed Morsi. King says such pressure should continue
White House Spokesman Jay Carney says recent violence in the Middle East and uprisings against US Embassies were a reaction to a video “many Muslims find offensive,” and not connected to the 9/11 anniversary or to US policies.
(AINA) — During the demonstration which was held in front of the American Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday, 9/11, a Muslim cleric named Abu Islam tore and burned the Holy Bible in front of thousands of Muslims. His action was
The Pentagon deployed two warships, the USS Laboon and the USS McFaul, to Libya Wednesday evening after radical Islamists attacked the U.S. consulate on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, killing the U.S. Ambassador to Libya. According to reports from the Associated
The murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens has raised questions as to why he was in Benghazi to begin with and who in the Libyan government knew he was there. Stevens’ home base was not in Benghazi, but Tripoli. What was
The Cairo Embassy’s controversial statement about “abuse” of free speech was written by a senior public affairs officer and approved by the Chargé d’affaires. A draft of the statement was sent to the State Department; officials there recommended against it
Israeli sources have revealed that Egypt’s General Intelligence warned jihadists were planning attacks on U.S. and Israeli embassies as early as a week before they occurred on the anniversary of Al Qaeda’s 9/11 terror attacks. The report indicated that the group
Aside from the 11th anniversary of 9/11, there was no bigger story on Sept. 11, 2012 than the attack made upon the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt. But for half the day on Tuesday, MSNBC didn’t mention the incident. A
Let’s recap. Yesterday, riots broke out at American embassies in Egypt and Libya. The American ambassador and three other American officials were murdered. Their bodies were dragged through the streets to a cheering mob. This all happened on the anniversary
Yesterday, on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, former President Bill Clinton hit the stump for President Barack Obama–breaking a campaign pledge not to launch political attacks on 9/11, and flat-out lying about Romney/Ryan and Medicare. Clinton’s lies expanded upon of
NPR’s Morning Edition gave a very warm welcome Tuesday to Michael Lewis, whose interviews of Barack Obama are soon to debut in the October issue of Vanity Fair. On NPR, Lewis’ interviews were called “compelling narratives” and his every utterance
The New York Times‘ coverage of the radical Islamist attacks on 9/11 on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and the U.S. consulate in Benghazi begins–like the Obama administration–with acknowledging “anger” over an anti-Islamic film, not with the attacks themselves–and criticizes
On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Mitt Romney addressed the National Guard Association Conference in Reno, Nevada. He recalled the “smell of war” on 9/11, spoke about an “American century,” paid tribute to member of the National Guard,
Faced with increasing criticism over an apology issued by the U.S. Embassy in Egypt for the alleged “abuse” of free speech by Americans critical of Islam–even as Islamist radicals raided the building on the 11th anniversary of 9/11–the Obama administration
On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on American soil, news of attacks against Americans overseas created a social media firestorm — except on a site dedicated to trendsetting in social media. Ben Smith’s BuzzFeed Politics has written
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney agreed to a truce on the airwaves on Tuesday to mark the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But the Obama campaign broke that truce, posting a commercial online Tuesday that accused Romney
An American has been killed on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 as Islamist mobs attacked and burned the U.S. consulate in Libya. A US official was killed and another wounded on Tuesday as an armed mob protesting over a film
While angry mobs raged against the U.S. embassy in Cairo and set fire to our consulate in Libya, President Obama spent time talking with the “Pimp with the Limp”: The President spent the somber 11th anniversary of 9/11 with his
The Obama Administration is letting Israel twist slowly in the wind. The Israeli government, desperately trying to convince the U.S. government to draw a line in the sand that Iran must not cross, is pleading to a president deaf, unconcerned,
On the day that radical protestors storm the U.S. embassy in Egypt, the White House turns down a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and President Barack Obama violates his campaign pledge not to campaign on 9/11 by dissing
Obama couldn’t even wait a day — and can’t find the time for our most important ally in the Middle East. But The “Pimp with the Limp” Obama has all kinds of time for. That, despite the fact that there
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney spoke in Reno, Nev. to a gathering of the National Guard on a day when both presidential campaigns halted their overt politics in deference to one of the most unifying days in U.S. history.
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Let’s all have a moment of silence for NBC News’ journalistic integrity. “The Today Show,” an integral part of NBC News’ broadcasting empire, decided to air an interview with Kris Jenner at 8:46 a.m. this morning. At that same time
Last year, I wrote an essay asking whether anyone could ever truly make a film about 9/11. As with the Holocaust, some occurrences are so overwhelming that while it is essential that we be able to contextualize them in film, it may
Here on the 11th Anniversary of the attacks that took some 3,000 American lives on September 11th, 2001, a pair of Maryland State Democrats are throwing fundraisers. If that isn’t bad enough, one of them even said it is “patriotic”
