As if there was any remaining doubt that the GOP is the party that has recklessly compromised America's safety over the past 30 years in many ways ranging from training and funding al Qaeda in Afghanistan during the 80s, making terrible strategic decisions in the Lebanese Civil war, ignoring the evidence that might have caused the prevention of 9/11, recklessly wasting out military strength, interntional political capital, and soldier's lives on a war of choice against Iraq that has only given our enemies a new generation of recruits, and making the brilliant move of sending literally cruise-ships worth of cash to a war zone which of course, most certainly will not find its way into the hands of terrorists, we now see that America's enemies are smart enough to know that continuing to have the Republican party in power really is the best thing that can happen to them.
GOP Donor Hit With Terror Charges:
A New York man accused of trying to help terrorists in Afghanistan has donated some $15,000 to the House Republicans' campaign committee over three years.
Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari pleaded not guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to charges that include terrorism financing, material support of terrorism and money laundering.
From April 2002 until August 2004, the man also known as ''Michael Mixon'' gave donations ranging from $500 to $5,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee, according to Federal Election Commission reports and two campaign donor tracking Web sites, www.politicalmoneyline.com and www.opensecrets.org.
The NRCC did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment Tuesday about whether it would return the donations...
The resume says that in 2003 Alishtari was named a National Republican Senatorial Committee ''Inner Circle Member for Life'' and was appointed to the NRCC's ''White House Business Advisory Committee.'' The resume also says Alishtari was named the NRCC's New York state businessman of the year in 2002 and 2003.
Let me repeat this: America's enemies know that the Republican party is the best thing that could have happened to them
Terrorists have only George Bush to thank for this little news nugget from yesterday's New York Times:
Terror Officials See Al Qaeda Chiefs Regaining Power
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 — Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up a band of training camps in the tribal regions near the Afghan border, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials...
American intelligence and counterterrorism officials said that most of the men receiving training in Pakistan had been carrying out attacks inside Afghanistan, but that Al Qaeda had also strengthened its ties to groups in Iraq that had sworn allegiance to Mr. bin Laden. They said dozens of seasoned fighters were moving between Pakistan and Iraq, apparently engaging in an “exchange of best practices” for attacking American forces.
Over the past year, insurgent tactics from Iraq have migrated to Afghanistan, where suicide bombings have increased fivefold and roadside bomb attacks have doubled. In testimony to the House Armed Services Committee last week, Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, the departing commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, said the United States could not prevail in Afghanistan and defeat global terrorism without addressing the havens in Pakistan...
Officials said that over the past year, Al Qaeda had also shown an increased international capability, citing as an example its alliance with the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, an Algerian-based group that has carried out a series of attacks in recent months
As most of us supposedly unpatriotic liberals were saying in 2002, the war in Iraq has been the best thing to happen to Osama since the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan over 25 years ago.
Of course terrorists want to finance the GOP. It's called the survival instinct.
[UPDATE: Apparently, I am not the first to cover this story. But since the first time it didnt get too much attention, I'm leaving this diary up because this story deserves more sunlight]