FRENCH SOLDIER STABBED IN THE THROAT OUTSIDE OF PARIS *

MILITARY SPOX SAYS THE STABBING OCCURRED ON SAT IN THE FRENCH COMMERCIAL DISTRICT OF LA DEFENSE *

THE SOLDIER'S INJURIES ARE CONSIDERED NON-LIFE THREATENING *

STABBING COMES JUST DAYS AFTER A BRITISH SOLDIER WAS KILLED IN A LONDON STREET DURING A SUSPECTED TERROR ATTACK *

TWO PEOPLE CONFIRMED DEAD IN HEAVY FLOODING THAT HAS PROMPTED HIGH-WATER RESCUES IN THE SAN ANTONIO AREA *

SAN ANTONIO FIRE DEPT SPOX SAYS A 29-YR-OLD WOMAN WAS TRAPPED IN HER CAR AND WAS SWEPT AWAY BY FLOOD WATERS AFTER CLIMBING ONTO THE ROOF... THE OTHER FATALITY WAS WOMAN IN HER 60S WHO WAS ALSO SWEPT AWAY IN HER CAR BY RUSHING WATERS *

THE FIRE DEPT HAS CONDUCTED MORE THAN 235 WATER-RELATED RESCUES *

WATER IS UP TO FOUR FEET HIGH IN SOME HOMES *

SAN ANTONIO AIRPORT RECORDED ALMOST 10 INCHES OF RAIN BY SAT AFTERNOON *

THREE MORE SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN THE KILLING OF AN OFF-DUTY SOLDIER IN LONDON *

SCOTLAND YARD SAYS COUNTERTERRORISM OFFICERS ARRESTED TWO MEN, 24 AND 28, AT A RESIDENCE IN LONDON *

A THIRD 21-YR-OLD MAN WAS ARRESTED SEPARATELY ON A STREET IN THE CITY *

FOUR OTHERS ARE ALREADY DETAINED IN CONNECTION WITH THE MURDER OF 25-YR-OLD SOLDIER LEE RIGBY, WHO WAS STABBED TO DEATH WHILE WALKING OUTSIDE THE ROYAL ARTILLERY BARRACKS IN SOUTH LONDON WED *

17 KILLED, 24 OTHERS WOUNDED IN EASTERN INDIA AFTER SUSPECTED MAOIST REBELS LAUNCH AN ATTACK ON A CONVOY OF CARS CARRYING LOCAL LDRS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE COUNTRY'S RULING CONGRESS *

ASSAILANTS SET OFF A LANDMINE AND THEN OPENED FIRE ON THE LINE OF CARS *

TWO STATE PARTY LEADERS AND FIVE POLICE OFFICERS WERE AMONG THOSE KILLED *

POLICE IDENTIFIED ONE OF THOSE KILLED AS MAHENDRA KARMA, A CONGRESS LEADER WHO FOUNDED A LOCAL MILITIA IN HIS STATE TO COMBAT THE MAOIST REBELS *

GAS PRICES ONLY ABOUT A PENNY HIGHER THAN A YR AGO, PETROLEUM ANALYSTS AT GASBUDDY.COM SAY *

THE WEBSITE PLACES ESTIMATES FOR THE NATL AVG AT $3.66 PER GALLON, 17 CENTS HIGHER THAN A MONTH AGO *

BUT ANALYST GREGG LASKOSKI SAYS A HOLIDAY WKND DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN HIGHER GAS PRICES *

LASKOSKI SAYS PRICES TEND TO RISE IN SPRING, STAGNATE IN SUMMER AND THEN BEGIN TO FALL IN OCT *

FRENCH AUTHORITIES ARE INVESTIGATING WHETHER THERE IS A LINK TO THAT ATTACK *

NTSB INVESTIGATING A CARGO TRAIN COLLISION IN SOUTHEAST MO *

AUTHORITIES SAY A HIGHWAY OVERPASS COLLAPSED WHEN RAIL CARS SLAMMED INTO ONE OF THE BRIDGE'S PILLARS AFTER THE COLLISION *

THE CRASH DERAILED DOZENS OF TRAINS, ALL CARRYING FREIGHT *

SEVEN PEOPLE WERE INJURED, THOUGH NONE SERIOUSLY *

NEWS COMES A LITTLE MORE THAN A WK AFTER A COMMUTER TRAIN IN CT HEADED FOR NYC DERAILED AND HIT A WESTBOUND TRAIN *

RESCUERS CONTINUE SEARCH FOR THE PILOT OF THE ANGEL FLIGHT THAT CRASHED IN UPSTATE NY FRI NIGHT, KILLING TWO PASSENGERS *

INVESTIGATORS SEARCHED A POND SAT WHERE THE PLANE WAS FOUND SUBMERGED IN EPHRATAH, WEST OF ALBANY, AS WELL AS NEARBY WOODS *

FAA SAYS THE PLANE LEFT BEDFORD, MA, AND WAS HEADED TO ROME, NY *

ANGEL FLIGHT IS A NONPROFIT GROUP THAT ARRANGES FREE AIR TRANSPORTATION FOR SICK PATIENTS FROM VOLUNTEER PILOTS *

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Who gets to make this call? The same people (CIA) who got WMD wrong in Iraq (and the politicians rubber stamped?) and who gets to define “imminent?” and how is “imminent” defined?

Just like you, I do not want the US hit by terrorism.  I was there when the plane hit the Pentagon and for months thereafter I covered 9/11 for months.  I have see the heartbreaks.  I have covered many other acts of terrorism since then, before 9/11, and not just here at home but around the world.  Terrorists are evil.

But — is this (below) how America should be fighting terrorism? Read below and tell me what you think:

The Justice Department says the US

- can lawfully kill

- a US citizen

- overseas

- if it (who is “it?” Is “it” the same organization that said – got it wrong – there were WMD’s in Iraq when we went in?) determines that US citizen is a “senior, operational leader of Al Qaeda…” (and what level of proof? suspected? rumor? proof beyond a reasonable doubt? other? and what does it mean to be “senior?”  Who defines this?)

- and poses an imminent (what is imminent? within the hour? day? week? month? year? and who gets to define what is imminent? the “it” above gets to define it? the President?) threat to the United States?

Note that the Washington Post writes this about the Justice Department document authorizing the killings:

 

“…The document defines “imminent threat” expansively, saying it does not have to be based on intelligence about a specific attack because such actions are being “continually” planned by al-Qaeda. “In this context,” it says, “imminence must incorporate considerations of the relevant window of opportunity” as well as possible collateral damage to civilians.

 

 

 

It says that such determinations can be made by an “informed, high-level official of the U.S. government.”  CLICK HERE










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