November 4, 2011

Violent Islamism Has Failed

Richard Dearlove, International Herald Tribune

I am going to make a statement of the obvious, being one of the people heavily involved in the events of 9/11: We didn’t actually know what was going to happen next.

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TAGGED: Terrorism, Islamist

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