A rocket attack damaged a warehouse in the vicinity of U.S. ships Ashland and the USS Kearsage in the Red Sea port of Aqaba, Jordan today, killing one Jordanian soldier and wounding another. Fortunately, no U.S. Marines or sailors were injured in the attack. The rocket was reportedly fired from a warehouse near the port, [...]

Army General George W. Casey Jr stated that the delay in writing the Iraqi constitution won’t affect operations, noting the Iraqi National Assembly “needed more time to get it done better than they had it.” Casey added that he hasn’t requested more troops for Iraq’s upcoming elections as he did for the January 30th election, [...]

The Army’s Criminal Investigation Command is looking into the suspicious death of an Abu Grahib prisoner who was found unconscious by other inmates on August 15th. He was pronounced dead at the 344th Field Hospital in Baghdad, and his remains will be given to his family following an autopsy. His name and nationality weren’t revealed.
Meanwhile, [...]

Officials reported yesterday that terrorist Abu Zubair, a wanted member of al-Qaeda, was killed by Iraqi security forces in Mosul. Zubair, also known as Mohammed Salah Sultan, was a leader in the operations of known terrorist Abu Masub Zarqawi in the northern Iraqi city, where he was wanted in connection with a suicide bombing that [...]

Troops detained several terrorists and seized weapon caches during an operation west of Balad yesterday, according to officials in Iraq. Task Force Liberty soldiers captured one terrorist and seized three RPGs, nine RPG rounds, a mortar tripod, several rifles and two hand grenades while raiding suspected terrorist safe houses in Salah Ah Din province, and [...]

Jason van Steenwyck catches CNN’s Wolf Blitzer making an absurd comment regarding the road-side bombing that killed 14 Marines.

Michael Yon reports from an anti-terrorist operation in Mosul.
The Iraqi Police are a main target for local terrorists who wish to squash freedom. But intelligence is the primary means to disrupting terrorists, and we knew they were planning to attack key police officers early Monday morning. So we planned to ambush the ambushers. Rolling out [...]

Andy McCarthy at National Review Online has unkind but entirely accurate things to say about the renaming of the “Global War On Terror” to “Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism”:
So, the folks who brought you “compassionate conservatism” now offer “The Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism.” Perfect: A war that’s not called a war for fear of [...]

Los Angeles Times has an article today on how American Muslims are working to combat terrorist supporters in their midst. An Akbar Ahmed, former High Commissioner of Pakistan to Great Britain, now a professor of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, comes across as particularly sensible:
“Today in America we are at a very dangerous [...]

A Boston Herald article on Muslims dealing with Muslim terrorism quotes Kamal Nawash at some length. Nawash is the founder of Free Muslims Coalition, an organization that works mobilize American Muslims against Muslim terrorism. Nawash has taken the in my eyes intuitive route: He came to America as a Palestianian refugee in 1979, has taken [...]