“Inside the Beltway” |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:58 PM PST AND IN SUMMATION Arnaud de Borchgrave, editor-at-large for The Washington Times and a senior adviser for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, provides a terse prediction for the future of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, now confronting the possible end of his 41-year rule. "Assassination or suicide. Or dying in a blaze of gunfire as the good guys overwhelm his last strong point. A nightmare would be his capture and transfer to war-crimes tribunal in The Hague. Imagine the daily spectacle and torrent of lies that would be a blend of truth, half-truth, disinformation, coupled with embarrassing information," Mr. de Borchgrave tells the Beltway. AQAP IQ Get out the lexicon. A House Homeland Security counterterrorism and intelligence subcommittee hearing addresses the "Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)" on Wednesday. Those not privy to the acronym "AQAP" and maybe "AQIM" — Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb — can consult the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) guide to the State Department's designated terrorist organizations (www.nctc.gov/site/groups). Meanwhile, Rep. Patrick Meehan, Pennsylvania Republican and the subcommittee chairman, is keenly interested in two things: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's recent declaration that the terrorist threat to the U.S. is at its most "heightened state since 9/11" and NCTC Director Michael Leiter, who deemed AQAP "probably be the most significant risk to the U.S. homeland." The hearing will track AQAP, its "known leader" Islamist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and the U.S. response to both. The big finale comes Thursday when Ms. Napolitano herself appears before the full Homeland Security Committee hearing to parse out President Obama's 2012 budget, among other things. "There will definitely be a number of questions directed to the secretary about the arrest of Khalid Aldawsari, the Saudi national arrested in Texas on terror charges," says chairman Rep. Peter King, New York Republican. "In this case, you have a student from Saudi Arabia, home of 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers, on a student visa studying chemistry, with an interest in explosives. I believe we need to better screen student-visa applicants." COMING OF RAGE "Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!" Yes, an exclamation point is not a bad idea for Andrew Breitbart's new book, to be published April 15. It has won accolades from Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh; media master Mr. Breitbart, founder of BigHollywood.com and much more, describes the 272-page volume as a "coming of rage" kind of book, and one indeed aimed at a very big tent of readers. © Copyright 2011 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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