Blog Honor Roll 10/24/07

The Weekly Standard: Jew-Hatred and Jihad – The Nazi roots of the 9/11 attack.

(h/t 1389)The idea of using suicide pilots to obliterate the skyscrapers of Manhattan originated in 1940s Berlin. “In the latter stages of the war, I never saw Hitler so beside himself as when, as if in a delirium, he was picturing to himself and to us the downfall of New York in towers of flame,” wrote Albert Speer in his diary. “He described the skyscrapers turning into huge burning torches and falling hither and thither, and the reflection of the disintegrating city in the dark sky.

NewsMax: Intelligence Chief: New Terror Threat Is Real

(h/t Noisy Room) Charles E. Allen (chief of intelligence at DHS) dismisses claims by some Democrats that the Bush administration is fear-mongering — using such dire warnings simply to acquire intelligence tools.