Tuesday, April 12, 2022
From Russia to the U.S., from Al Qaeda to the Taliban and
more… the stories you are about to hear, from around the
world, could qualify for Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Russians – spurred on by Putin – are turning against each
other and reporting their fellow citizens for being against
the war in Ukraine. You’ll hear about students reporting
their teachers and a customer reporting a shop owner. But,
when these ’scofflaws’ were fined, other Russians donated
rubles to pay for it.
Though it was not widely publicized, newly confirmed
Supreme Court Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, got
hardened jihadis released from Guantanamo, despite
statistics on previously released jihadis showing they
returned to attacking Americans.
Al Qaeda and the Taliban are getting headlines again. The
death of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has been
greatly exaggerated. He’s reared his ugly head in a new
video. Meanwhile, the Taliban has just banned the original
black, red and green Afghanistan flag and replaced it with
a white flag that says, “There is no God but Allah, and
Muhammad is His prophet.”
You will also hear about how Amtrak has begun a
controversial program – working with TSA to screen
passengers using the Terrorist Watch List. And finally,
some positive news: it’s no longer ‘glamorous’ to become
a terrorist (at least not in Jammu and Kashmir).