According to award-winning novelist and relative of Columbine shooting victim, Daniel Rohrbough, there is a direct link to school shootings and Al-Qaeda. “When I researched school shootings, more and more evidence pointed to how the Internet is being used to infiltrate, deceive, and recruit boys into the dark world of terrorism,” says Linda Rohrbough.

Formerly a computer book author, Rohrbough discovered a link between school shootings and Al-Qaeda while searching for answers after her nephew was gunned down at Columbine. “My first inkling of the connection to Al-Qaeda was when I attended the Columbine memorial service. I recognized General Colin Powell at the center of the platform in full military dress. He was never mentioned or introduced, and he never spoke. He was just there.”

Powell is an expert on the Middle East, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and credited for successful execution of Operation Desert Storm, which expelled the Iraqi army from Kuwait.

Further reports unveiled the Columbine shooters bragged theirs would be the first of many shootings. Also, the teenage shooters low-level formatted the hard disk drives of their computers before heading out to kill. Rohrbough wanted to know, “How could they know other shootings would follow? And why erase their hard disk drives? What were they trying to hide?”

Fortunately, in two cases, the authorities got to computers before the low-level format was complete. First, in a school shooting in Paris, and second, when a teenager in Florida flew his dad’s plane into a building. In both cases, e-mails traced back to Al-Qaeda operatives. Most recently, three teens in Louisiana were caught before shooting and are being held on conspiracy to commit terrorism charges.

Rohrbough’s extensive research resulted in her new novel, The Prophetess One: At Risk, published on April 20th, 2011, the 12th anniversary of the Columbine shooting.

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s book was released this week with promises of “heads exploding” in Washington.  I am not sure that any heads will explode, but I will bet that his book sells pretty well.

One of the heads that Cheney might have thought would explode belongs to former top diplomat inside the Bush administration, Colin Powell. Powell appeared CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday and accused Cheney of taking “cheap shots.”

Cheney writes in his book, “In My Time” that Powell tried to undermine Bush by criticizing administration policy to people outside the government. Powell denies these accusations stating that he routinely gave his opinion and his best advice on issues to the president.

Although Powell stated he has always planned to resign after Bush’s first term, Cheney suggested in his book that Powell somehow was forced to resign. Powell also suggested Cheney is almost condescending in his remarks about Powell’s successor, Condoleezza Rice.

Powell also discussed Cheney’s prediction of head’s exploding. “That’s quite a visual,” Powell said of the former vice president’s choice of words. “[It's] the kind of headline I would expect to come out of a gossip columnist or the kind of headline you might see one of the super market tabloids write.

It’s not the kind of headline I would have expected to come from one of the vice presidents of the United States of America.” He added, “I think Dick overshot the runway.”

Other revelations from Cheney’s book include his secret resignation letter and his lack of regret over waterboarding. Cheney reported that he kept a signed resignation letter in a lock box. “I did it because I was concerned that — for a couple of reasons,” Cheney explains in an interview with NBC’s Jamie Gangel. “One was my own health situation.

The possibility that I might have a heart attack or a stroke that would be incapacitating. And, there is no mechanism for getting rid of a vice-president who can’t function.”

Cheney says he has “no regrets” about his support for waterboarding terror suspects, and that he would “strongly support using it again if we had a high value detainee and that was the only way we could get him to talk.” Cheney feels he is not betraying former President George W. Bush’s trust by revealing their private conversations.

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