Debra Burlingame, New York Times, Tea Party

NY Times hides NYC Tea Party crowd numbers

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Today’s New York Times fails to mention that NYC had thousands at its event. I understand Atlanta, GA had ten thousand yet they did not mention it at all. Just a hundred here, 500 there. But the New York Post is reporting 5,000 people were at the New York City tea party. It was at least that. The New York City Police Department announced today they estimated the crowd count at 12,500!

I was in the middle of the crowd, with people as far as the eye could see. These are pictures I took as I was arriving — before the crowd grew and spilled over. The police kept having to move the barriers, finally shutting down lanes of traffic as the participants spread across the street.

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al Qaeda, al-Shabab, Gulf of Aden, pirates, Somalia, Yemen

Somalia pirates shuttling al Qaeda terrorists and weapons for al-Shabab, sharing ransoms

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Perhaps purely motivated by profit, Somalian pirates are shuttling weapons and terrorists in and out of the country and sharing up to fifty-percent of the ransoms with al-Shabab, what it reaps from hijacking ships. Formed as the Islamic Courts Union’s (ICU) military wing, al-Shabab announced in March its affiliation with al Qaeda after regaining control of most of southern Somalia earlier this year when Ethiopia withdrew its forces.

Southern Somalia is now under the control of Shabaab and other Islamist groups. Click image to enlarge. Map used with permission. Read the story at The Long War Journal

The Weekly Standard’s Thomas Joscelyn reported last month on DNI Blair’s written testimony to Congress on the US Intelligence Community’s assessment: