Month: March 2008

ABC News announced that Ron Paul is suspending his presidential campaign.

He issued a video to his supporters.

The new, completely re-designed, and re-named Taki’s Top Drawer — now known as Taki’s Magazine — is looking real good, and reading even better. New editor Richard Spencer, is not only a great writer and a good fellow, he’s as handsome as a movie star.

He’s also turning out to be star-quality editor. You’ll see what I mean when you go check out Tom Piatek’s great piece on the uses and misuses of the “fascist” designation,  W. James Antle III on why I’m wrong on the Ron Paul third party question, and the always interesting Nikolas Gvosdev on “Kosovo, Russia, and the Last Gasps of American Unipolarity.”

And while you’re over there, check out my own recent postings on the upcoming AIPAC espionage trial, Catherine the Great’s reputation as an equestrienne, and more.

For some reason this story has not yet made the news in the U.S.:

On Monday, March 3, the U.S. Navy fired a Tomahawk missile at a house in Somalia where they claimed an al Qaeda member, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, wanted for questioning by the FBI for involvement in the African embassy bombings in 1998, was hiding out.

CNN reported that 6 people, 3 women and 3 children, were killed and another 20 were injured. Two houses were destroyed.

Now the Daily Nation out of Nairobi, Kenya, is reporting that Nabhan was not at the site at the time of the attack:

A US missile strike against the Somali town of Dobley may have missed its target – Kenyan terror suspect Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan. …

The Tomahawk missile fired from the sea may have hit when the suspect, born in 1968 in Mombasa, had already left the location, the sources added.

But the police are not ruling out that Mr Nabhan may be among the 20 people wounded in the attack.

Mr Nabhan is a close ally of another wanted terrorist suspect Harun Fazul, and are believed to be always together.

Other sources close to Mr Nabhan said they did not believe he was killed. “I think it’s just propaganda to try and find out where he actually is,” said one source.

The current war in Somalia, a greater humanitarian catastrophe than even the crisis in the Darfur region of the Sudan, was started by the United States back in December, 2006, in the name of catching 3 al Qaeda suspects.

Today Congress passed a resolution (HR 951) condemning Palestinian rocket attacks that include a strident defense of recent Israeli tactics in the Gaza Strip. The resolution also condemned Iran and Syria for “sponsoring terror attacks,” and demanded that Saudi Arabia publicly condemn Palestinian actions.

The resolution was originally introduced in January, but contains new language including a passage saying that that “those responsible for launching rocket attacks against Israel routinely embed their production facilities and launch sites amongst the Palestinian civilian population, utilizing them as human shields” and “the inadvertent inflicting of civilian casualties as a result of defensive military operations aimed at military targets, while deeply regrettable, is not at all morally equivalent to the deliberate targeting of civilian populations as practiced by Hamas and other Gaza-based terrorist groups.”

Although 23 Congressman abstained or voted “present,” only one bravely voted no: Rep. Ron Paul.

Dennis Kucinich is far ahead in his bid to win re-nomination to his Congressional seat in Cleveland.

He is currently getting 53% in a five-way race, with his nearest opponent getting 31%. Kucinich will have a Republican opponent, but he has not received less than 60% in the general election in the past decade.

Associated Press has declared Ron Paul the winner for reelection to Congress from his Houston-area district.

The votes are still being counted, but Ron Paul is currently winning with 70% of the vote. Paul faces no Democratic opponent in November, so he will be reelected.