The Sydney Morning Herald reports on the ongoing trial of Bilal Khazal and provides a disturbing insight into the assassination techniques of Western intelligence agencies: A former Qantas baggage handler who compiled a book outlining “short and wise” rules for fighting jihad on his computer in suburban Lakemba dedicated it to the “martyrs of Islam”.... Read More

Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden unit, discusses the American presidential elections and raises ten foreign policy questions for the next president of the United States. Part 1  Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Read More

I’m reading Michael Scheuer’s Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq at the moment; an interesting book by the author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America and former chief of the CIA’s Bin Laden... Read More

Dr Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, passed away a few days ago due to pancreatic cancer.  Here’s his Last Lecture entitled, “Really achieving your childhood dreams”: Transcript available here [pdf]. Read More