As they move to conquer a new homeland in Pakistan, al Qaeda is busily rounding up satellites into its regional orbit (via Newsmax Insider):

Although hobbled by the killings or arrests of its senior leaders, al-Qaida is actively seeking to establish new bases in Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria, and Somalia.

Germany’s head of intelligence, Ernst Uhrlau, said the group has entered a new, decentralized phase, with a strategy of exploiting regional conflicts.

He warned that al-Qaida posed a particular threat in North Africa, due in part to its geographic proximity to Europe.

In September, al-Qaida operatives kidnapped and beheaded eleven soldiers and a civilian in Mauritania. Last December, it claimed responsibility for bombings at the U.N. headquarters and a court in Algeria, according to the Center for Strategic & International Studies’ Transnational Threats Update.

As Newsmax reported earlier, al-Qaida, which gets its money from the drug trade in Afghanistan and supporters in the oil-rich Gulf states, is likely to escape the effects of the global financial crisis, largely because the organization has been forced to avoid using banks.

But then we know that the Democrat Financial Logic Bomb was aimed at John McCain and the GOP, not al Qaeda.  You know, the REAL threats to American security.

But AQ, along with the Donk-sabotaged economy, nuclear Iran and nuclear North Korea, neo-Soviet Russia, and burgeoning military superpower Red China, are all Red Barry's problems now.  And here's yet another indicator of it:

The Update also disclosed that the American embassy in London will be relocated due to security concerns. Ambassador to Britain Robert Tuttle said the embassy’s central location in Grosvenor Square cannot reasonably accommodate required security upgrades.

Just another comforting thought to take into the long good night as President Lucifer prepares to empty Gitmo, quit Iraq, embrace Iran, and otherwise abandon the "war on terror" and reclassify it back to realm of lawyers and judges....

Guess who's coming to Red Barry's White House-warming party to "turn up the heat":

Fugitive terrorist Osama bin Laden is planning new attacks against the U.S. that will "outdo by far" the attacks of 9/11, according to a report in a London-based Arabic newspaper.

The paper, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, quotes a former senior Yemeni al-Qaida official saying the terror group is now in a “positive phase,” of staffing and rebuilding training camps around the globe. The action will lead to the next “wave of action” against the U.S., the paper reported.“This will be shown by the fact that we now control a major part of the south of Somalia," the Yemeni source told the paper.

According to the report, bin Laden is personally involved in the preparations and is looking to "change the face of world politics and economics.”

The paper is edited by Abdel al-Bari Atwan, the last journalist to interview bin Laden in 1996....

More signs of al-Qaida’s violent intentions are expected over the next few days, the paper reported.

Yes, such reports have been a dime a dozen over the past seven years.  Yes, President Bush's military campaigns against al Qaeda have devastated the Sunni Islamist terror network and utterly eradicated their ability to resume their North American offensive.  And yes, bin Laden's efforts would be better focused on conquering Pakistan and getting his hands on a nuclear weapons arsenal all his own.

But can't you just see the look on Lucifer's face, say, next summer if, after having withdrawn U.S. forces from the Middle East, abandoned Israel, and closed down Gitmo, OBL rewards all his good-will efforts at "presidential diplomacy" and "peace-making" by wiping, say, Chicago off the map?  And the look on (most) everybody else's face outside the Black White House when he tries to blame it on "George Bush's war in Iraq"?

The soon to be worst vice president in American history saw it coming.  And the gift of prophecy is not given to cretins, so this one isn't exactly a difficult prognostication.  For those of us who waged the desperate rear-guard action on behalf of a RINO we couldn't stomach, the bitter vindication of saying, "WE !#$%ING TOLD YOU SO!!!!!" will be a cold dish, indeed.

Thank God - for now, anyway:

A group of Chinese Muslims set to be freed into the U.S. this week from Guantanamo Bay found their freedom stymied yet again after a simple government plea: What’s a couple more weeks or so in jail after nearly seven years?

That in essence was the Bush Administration’s argument to a federal appeals court in a nineteen-page emergency request that maintained there would be only “minimal harms” if the detainees were to stay at Guantanamo a while longer.

Late Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed, halting the seventeen men’s release for at least another week to give the government more time to make arguments in the case.

The appeals court set a deadline of next Thursday for additional filings, when it will be left up to the judges to decide how quickly to act — and in whose favor.

Note the orientation of this USA Today report - all about the "stymied freedom" of the Islamist terrorist illegal combatants and the "harms" that would be dealt to them by keeping them locked up in Gitmo where the belong for only an additional couple of weeks.  Gee, if you didn't know better, you'd get the idea that "the nation's newspaper" is in the same insane, treasonous dhimmi tank with Judge Urbina.  Is it any wonder that this was phrased as an "emergency appeal"?

Ensign Ed compiles a good summation:

Our armed forces capture seventeen Uighers in terrorist training camps far from home in Afghanistan.  They have received training in al-Qaeda tactics — exactly the kind of people we want to keep out of our country while AQ wages war on the West.  We’d like to get them out of Gitmo after having derived what intelligence we can from them, but no one seems terribly interested in taking al-Qaeda terrorists into their countr, either.  The Chinese want them, but we’re afraid the terrorists will be mistreated by Beijing, which is suppressing a Uigher insurgency at the moment.

What solution does our brilliant judiciary reach?  Let them live in the nation’s capital, the very place al-Qaeda trains its recruits to destroy!  What a great idea!

I'd ask why we should give a frog's fat leg what the ChiComms end up doing to these animals, but then I know the response I'd get, and I'm hypertensive enough as it is.

And just think: Barack Hoover Obama will have at least four years to make the federal judiciary more like Judge Urbina.  Unless the Islamists, whether al Qaeda or the Iranian mullahgarchy, manage to shatter our country first sufficiently that judges will no longer be relevant.

Does irony get any bitterer than that?

What's next from our Imperial Judicial overlords?  A decree that we have to house released jihadis in our own homes?:

A federal judge today ordered that seventeen Chinese Muslims held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison be released into the United States by Friday, agreeing with the detainees’ attorneys that the Constitution bars holding the men indefinitely without cause. …

Justice Department lawyer John O’Quinn asked Urbina to stay the order for a week, giving the government time to evaluate its options and file an appeal. Urbina rejected that request and ordered the Uighurs to appear in his courtroom for a hearing on Friday. He said he would then release them into the custody of seventeen Uighur families living in the Washington area.

O’Quinn said the legal ramifications from the order are complex and that he wants time to consult with officials from the Department of Homeland Security. Under existing U.S. law, immigration authorities may be forced to take the Uighurs into custody shortly after they arrive in the United States, O’Quinn said. The Justice Department alleges they have ties to a group that has been designated a terrorist organization by the government.

Urbina chastised O’Quinn for suggesting that the government might take the Uighurs into custody for a second time.

Well of COURSE he did.  Hey, I know, maybe Mr. O'Quinn could offer to put them up at the Pentagon instead!  Or maybe at the White House - yeah, that's the ticket!  They can take turns trying to assassinate President and Mrs. Bush from the Lincoln bedroom, to which Judge Urbina will deny the Secret Service access.  Maybe that'll compensate them for their unconscionable six years at Gitmo for the inconsequential infraction of fighting on the side of al Qaeda and the Taliban against U.S. forces during Operation Enduring Freedom.

The War Against Islamic Fundamentalism will be effectively lost on November 4th, officially lost next January 20th, and lost for every American to see when that big Iranian nuclear flash goes off three hundred miles above Kansas, or maybe just in an Ameican city near you if we're lucky.  Judicial pronouncements like those of Judge Urbina serve as a depressing reminder that we were beaten long before We, The People, voted to defeat ourselves.