Afghanistan calls off talks with U.S. on security agreement

Typical Obama foreign policy, one step forward, two steps back.

KABUL, June 19 Xinhua — The Afghan government on Wednesday announced that it suspended talks with the United States on the proposed security agreement, saying the United States had contradictory stance over the peace process in Afghanistan, local media reported.

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Edward Snowden speaks to Chinese newspaper

Edward Snowden spoke with the South China Morning Post on Wednesday.

Edward Snowden, the former CIA analyst behind one of the most significant government leaks in U.S. history, has vowed to expose further surveillance secrets as he speaks out again.

The 29-year-old whistleblower remained defiant in an interview with the South China Morning...

Syrian Islamists Executed Mohammed Qatta, 14 in front of his family

A teenager selling coffee in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo was arrested by Islamist rebel fighters for insulting the Prophet Mohammed, beaten and then executed in front of his family, a watchdog group claims.

The boy, Mohammed Qatta, 14, reportedly refused to give a customer coffee, the Syrian Observatory for Human...

NSA, FBI mining data from 9 U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program

You were saying? Oh, never mind. I’ll just ask the NSA, the FBI – or maybe the IRS….

The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to...

“Militant element” Within Occupy: Indicted NJ Dr. Roberto Rivera Was Fired For Stalking

Legal Insurrection has all the particulars on Roberto Rivera’s arrest and indictment: (more…)

It’s come to this: Actor Steven Seagal finds few Boston attack clues through Russia meetings

No, really, it’s come to this. Steven Seagal gets meetings with Russian officials for a U.S. delegation due to his previous meeting with Putin. The U.S. Government, not so much. Does that make him the new Hillary? Ah, the photoshops that could be done with that.

Associated Press/Alexander Zemlianichenko – Rep. Dana Rohrabacher,...

Michael Adebolajo was arrested and deported by Kenya for al Qaeda link in 2010

Seriously, you can’t make this up. Michael Adebolajo was arrested and deported by Kenya for training to fight with al Qaeda in 2010. We also know MI5 tried to recruit Michael Adebolajo.

Forget is there anything wrong with this picture – is there anything right with it? It would...

French manhunt for man in Muslim prayer cap and jellabah

The lone attacker was described as a young man wearing a Muslim prayer cap and a North African-style robe called a jellabah. According to a police account, he was monitored on security cameras and seen shedding his robe and fleeing in European clothes before disappearing into the crowd in a...

French Soldier Was Attacked with Box Cutter

They’re quick to announce no link between this and the UK murder “t this time.” Yeah, well, give it time, eh?

His comment comes after a man armed with a box cutter attacked a French soldier patrolling the business district of Paris on Saturday evening and stabbed him in the neck.

Police sources...

French soldier stabbed by bearded North African man in “Arab-style garment”

A French soldier in uniform patrolling a busy commercial district was stabbed in the throat by what’s reported to have been a bearded North African male wearing “an Arab-style garment under his jacket.” No word as to whether or not he was wearing a tri-corner hat and was one of...

Thousands walk, run final mile of Boston Marathon

Rosy Spraker was only a half-mile from the finish line of her seventh Boston Marathon when the bombs went off. She received her medal later in the mail at her Lorton, Va., home. But she couldn’t bring herself to wear it until Saturday, when she and thousands of other athletes joined...

Abu Nusaybah, Friend of Michael Adebolajo Arrested After BBC Interview

The friend, Abu Nusaybah, was arrested immediately after he gave a BBC Television interview Friday describing how Adebolajo may have become radicalized and alleging that Britain’s security services tried to recruit him. Police said Nusaybah was wanted on suspicion of involvement in unspecified acts of terrorism.

Nusaybah said Adebolajo became withdrawn...