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700 rounds a minute? My daughter (the USMC veteran) is still laughing over that one.
The usual pols and commentariat have so much contempt for ordinary Americans that they aren't even trying to make their lies remotely credible any more.
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Alan Grayson is one of the dumbest sonsabitches in Congress, exceeded only by that ignorant idiot who wondered, a few years back, if sending too many more troops to Guam might cause the island to capsize and sink. I forget the dimwit's name, but no matter.
I swear, one of the very first things I'd do if I were made King (probably right after shutting down the Snowflake Indoctrination Centers universities and the Democratic Party Propaganda Ministry MSM is make gun education mandatory in the public schools. If you haven't earned a Firearm Competency Certificate, you don't vote. Period.
Goddam stupid bastards...
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Tac-Con has a 'Positive Reset' replacement trigger system that supposedly will do that.
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"Fire twenty-three mags in a minute?
I doubt you, sir, till I have seen it!"
"My triggering finger
Is truly a zinger --
Come close and I'll show you, Miss Bennett!"
#9
A reporter with any sense would have followed up with "Mr Grayson, are you familiar with google? Because you can find out how many bullets an AR-15 fires in a minute in roughly 6 seconds and look less foolish. If you wanted to that is."
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former top Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef has slammed Pakistain for the deadly issued in Torkham, warning that Islamabad is responsible for those killed in the clash in the past three days.
Zaeef who served as Taliban’s ambassador to Pakistain has in the meantime called on the Afghans to unite in a bid to protect the national illusory sovereignty and interests.
He has criticized Pakistain for the misuse of the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan and said Pakistain would be responsible for each drop of spilled due to Torkham clash.
In the meantime, the observers believe Pakistain has raised the issue Torkham to deviate attention from the growing international pressure on Islamabad mainly due to supporting the Afghan holy warrior groups.
The observers are saying that Islamabad is fearing isolation due to the latest upheavals, mainly due to the killing of the Taliban group leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor in Pak soil, restriction of military aid by US, and the conclusion of Chabahar port.
In the meantime, Pakistain claims that the construction of the gate would help improve situation in Afghanistan as well as Pakistain by scanning those commuting between the two countries.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... Pakistain has been harshly criticized by the leaders of the former and the present government for allowing the Afghan holy warrior groups, specifically the Taliban and the notorious Haqqani terrorist network to use the Pak soil to plan and coordinate attacks in Afghanistan.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs attempted to shift the Quetta Council to southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan (MoD) said Thursday.
Dawlat Waziri, front man for the Ministry of Afghanistan (MoD), said the attempts by the enemies of Afghanistan (Taliban) was thwarted by the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.
The leadership councils of the Taliban group and the notorious Haqqani terrorist are believed to be based in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and Quetta cities of Pakistain as the Afghan officials have long been demanding from Pakistain to take actions against the sanctuaries of the terror groups acting against Afghanistan.
The observers believe the latest upheavals have forced the Death Eater to rethink about shifting their leadership councils to Afghanistan amid growing international pressure on Pakistain, specifically following the death of top terror leaders, including the Al Qaeda network leader Osama Bin Bin Laden, Mullah Mohammad Omar and Mullah Akhtar Mansoor who was recently killed in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province of Pakistain.
President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. asked Pakistain to take actions against the leadership councils of the Afghan bully boyz in Peshawar and Quetta cities late in the month of April.
The demand by President Ghani was made following a deadly attack in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... city which left at least 64 people dead and 347 others maimed.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... claimed Thursday to have killed "more than 200" Æthiopians in a battle last week, the fiercest border festivities since a 1998-2000 war, while giving no mention of its own casualties.
Each side blames the other for starting the two-day battle which broke out on Sunday, saying also that their rival suffered the most losses.
There was no immediate response from Æthiopia, which has not released numbers killed.
"More than 200 TPLF (Æthiopian) troops have been killed and more than 300 maimed," Eritrea’s Ministry of Information said in a statement, calling it a "conservative estimate".
There was no mention of any prisoners of war.
Æthiopian government front man Getachew Reda on Tuesday said "there were significant casualties on both sides, but more on the Eritrean side."
Eritrea won independence from Æthiopia in 1991 after three decades of war, but returned to battle in 1998-2000, when nearly 80,000 died.
The neighbours are bitter enemies, with tens of thousands of troops dug into trenches eyeing each other along the heavily fortified frontier.
Open-ended, compulsory national service makes Eritrea one of the world’s most militarised nations, but with just five million citizens it is dwarfed by Æthiopia, Africa’s second most populous nation with some 96 million people.
UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged both governments to exercise "maximum restraint," and resolve differences through peaceful means. The United States has voiced similar "grave" concerns.
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[FOXNEWS] Egypt's investigation committee said a doomed plane's cockpit voice recorder was found and pulled from the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday.
Egypt on Wednesday said that it spotted and obtained images from the wreckage of the EgyptAir plane flying from Gay Paree to Cairo that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, killing all 66 people on board, according to a statement by the country's investigation committee.
The committee said in a statement that a vessel, the John Lethbridge, contracted by the Egyptian government to join search efforts for the data recorders and the wreckage "had identified several main locations of the wreckage." It added that it obtained images of the wreckage.
The next step, the committee said, will be drawing a map showing the wreckage location.
The vessel is equipped with sonar and other equipment capable of detecting wreckage at depths up to 6,000 feet (1,830 meters).
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They got the flight data recorder today as well.
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How long before some news leaks out? When Air France 447 went down in 2009, Popular Mechanics had the story months before the official version was released.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi’s envoy to the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... said on Thursday that the Arab-led coalition "does not care" to know the sources of information cited their report, which claimed children had been targeted in war-torn Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... last year.
Abdullah al-Mouallimi insisted in an interview with Al Arabiya News Channel that instead, the coalition cares about accuracy of the information contained in the report.
The envoy added that he is confident that the dispute with the UN "is just a summer cloud that will quickly pass and it will end in reaching a solution that ends with a convincing solution for all."
On Wednesday, the UN said it will not give the Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... -led coalition in Yemen the sources of information that briefly led the coalition to be put on a blacklist, before it was withdrawn.
No threats
UN front man Stephane Dujarric said Wednesday that it is "paramount" to protect sources of information used in any UN report, especially in a conflict area.
Last Thursday, UN Secretary -General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon said he removed the US-backed coalition from the pending joint review of cases. He accused some unnamed countries of exerting unacceptable and "undue pressure."
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... Mouallimi rubbished these comments, saying "we don’t use threats or intimidation," and that Riyadh was "very committed to the United Nations."
On Wednesday, Mouallimi sent a letter thanking the secretary-general for removing the coalition from the blacklist and said it "deeply regrets every human casualty in Yemen and reaffirms its commitment to taking every possible measure to protect all civilians."
It notes that the monitoring of violations against children is to be done in cooperation "with national governments and relevant UN and civil society actors" and has to include an overview of the methodology and modality that were used to create the numbers in the report."
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From the many remarks it would seem that we don't care either.
Turkey is set to install new air defense systems at the Elbeyli border crossing in Turkey’s southeastern province of Kilis, as rocket attacks originating from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-held regions across the border in Syria have taken the lives of 21 civilians in the province this year.
Developed by Aselsan, the country’s leading defense manufacturer, the counter-mortar “Serhat” radar system and self-propelled “Korkut” air defense gun system were recently installed at the Öncüpınar border crossing in Kilis, as part of plans by the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) to upgrade border security. According to reports by Turkish daily Habertürk, the systems will now be installed at the Elbeyli border crossing in Kilis.
Korkut, which has a rate of fire of 1100 rounds per minute, is expected to destroy rockets some four kilometers before they hit the ground, in cases where they are unnoticed by unmanned aerial vehicles, otherwise known as drones.
Moreover, two batteries of Aselsan’s High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) will also be brought to Kilis alongside armed drones.
Meanwhile, efforts to seal off a 70-kilometer strip of Turkey’s border that stretches from just east of the Turkish town of Kilis to Karkamış were nearing an end, while a physical security system will soon be installed. According to reports, the wall’s construction continues in the southeastern provinces of Kilis, Gaziantep, Hatay, Şanlıurfa and Mardin.
The structure, 70 percent of which is now complete, will be five meters high – including four meters of concrete and a meter of razor wire. The border will be monitored 24/7 with unmanned bubbled surveillance systems dubbed “mini zeppelins,” also developed by Aselsan.
The surveillance system enables immobile facilities such as small units and posts to monitor local security and give early warnings. Coming in two different models, the surveillance system can convey images over a 360-degree area in real-time to the control station, with day and night cameras.
ISIL rocket attacks have claimed the lives of 21 since Jan. 18, including eight Syrians, in Kilis, while more than 80 people have been wounded.
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Buildup of a southernmost launchpoint with associated infrastructure for operations and security personnel to protect the Korkhole?
[PJ] While testifying in an open session of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CIA director John Brennan admitted Thursday:
Despite all our progress against ISIL on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the group’s terrorism capability and global reach.
He added that a significant element of that global reach is because the Islamic State:
... has a large cadre of Western fighters who could potentially serve as operatives for attacks in the West ... [ISIS is] probably exploring a variety of means for infiltrating operatives into the West, including refugee flows, smuggling routes, and legitimate methods of travel.
What Brennan did not say -- and what no one in the committee or media challenged him about -- was that he himself is largely responsible for this state of affairs.
As I reported earlier this week, John Brennan is the person who -- after U.S. Muslim groups demanded he do so - "purged" all mention of Islam and jihad from law enforcement counter-terror training materials in 2011.
A chief reason that the Islamic Stat's "global reach" has not been reduced is because the U.S. has failed to identify, confront, and oppose the ideology that has enabled it to amass "a large cadre of Western fighters." That ideology has spread unchecked in the U.S. in large part because Brennan didn't think it was worth teaching law enforcement about it.
Follow-up to this story from yesterday. Good find, Procopius2k.
[KRQENews] ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — A sensational report of a New Mexico sheriff’s deputy arresting an undocumented “Islamic refugee” who had gas pipeline plans with her as she crossed the desert near the border appears to be unfounded.
The report cited involvement by the FBI, U.S. Border Patrol and the Luna County Sheriff. Each of those law enforcement agencies told KRQE News 13 that there’s no evidence the incident ever happened.
Still, the article has been widely shared across social media since it was published Wednesday on the website of the conservative group Judicial Watch. The organization says it “promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law.” After repeated calls and emails asking for comment, a spokesman for Judicial Watch said the group stands by its story.
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Well, I was going to ask that my erroneous comment be removed, but after review perhaps it is appropriately allegorical.
What's the record on J-watch for accuracy? I can easily imagine coordinated denials of involvement by the FBI, U.S. Border Patrol and the Luna County Sheriff
[DAWN] Since the Orlando massacre, the small Moslem community of Fort Pierce, Florida -- the killer's hometown -- has found itself the target of hate-filled insults and abuse. Those are way worse than being slaughtered by the dozen.
"Scumbags!" -- the phrase is hurled from a pickup truck rolling by the Fort Pierce Islamic Center, housed in what was once a church.
As the faithful arrive at the center, passing cars honk and their occupants fling out profanity-laced slurs against Islam -- including not-so-veiled death threats.
Fort Pierce's only other mosque, located along a highway, is in a totally anonymous building behind an auto dealership.
But anyone who didn't know of the Islamic Center's existence before Sunday's bloodbath at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, can't miss it now.
Journalists and TV crews are camped outside for several hours a day, drawing attention to the centre where the killer, Omar Mateen, attended mosque as recently as last Friday.
"We're scared," said Bedar Bakht, a taciturn Pak in his 50s who prepares the evening Iftar dinner at which the faithful break their daylong fast during this Moslem holy month of Ramazan.
Many stay until nearly midnight for what is normally a time of celebration, but now they leave the building in groups when it is time to go home -- as a precaution, Bakht said.
"A couple of weeks down the line, things will be back to normal. But right now it's new. People are calling, leaving stupid messages," he said.
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Drop a few dimes, guys. You'll be accused of islamophobia--it's a reflex--but that's not the end of the world.
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Don't worry. The president has your back.
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Funny how stories of islamaphobia always turn on the sort of thing that this will create more terrorists. Never that they might reform their ways, try to better prevent terrorists in their midst, join the military in droves to prove their love of their new country (the way most other immigrant groups in America work).
But then Islam isn't a race like other immigrants its an ideal just as America isn't a ethnic based nation state like other countries, it's an ideal. Those two sets of ideals seem incompatible.
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"Victim Playing" is one of their rules. Kinda like a new 13th rule in the rules for radicals.
Defined as the fabrication of victimhood to justify abuse of others and to manipulate others, attention seeking. Play this card immediately and as often as necessary.
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"Defined as the fabrication of victimhood to justify abuse of others and to manipulate others, attention seeking. Play this card immediately and as often as necessary."
Thomas Sowell once commented, I think in one of his "Random Thoughts" columns, that "there is no scam more lucrative than convincing parasites that they are victims."
Word.
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Most scam artists get by by telling their victims lies that are parallel (for lack of a better word) to the sorts of things they want to hear.
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Muslims fear backlash from next attack by Muslims radicalized by islamophobia
"Oh, Muslims, we're really so over ya --
Your crazy controlling, your '-phobia.'
We knew when we dumped ya
We might have to Trump ya...
Enjoy your Islamic utopia!"
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It is time to consider that being phobic about islam isn't a bad idea. Essentially, we are expected to somehow discern the passive adherent from those that through taqqiya and kitman appear peaceful. That somehow, we need precise diagnostic tools that work in a screening interview so that we can admit the one and not the other, not mentioning those who blossom into jihadi's here due to the bile in their Mosques or online. Gee, perhaps a little bias against a potential threat seems reasonable. As for that "diversity makes us stronger" crap, utter pablum for those who haven't had a critical thinking decision required of them since deciding which gender they are.
How many of the Muslims of Ft. Pierce -- not including the killer's father, who made his opinions clear in his YouTube Dari broadcasts for his Afghan audience, quite unlike the things he said after events in English -- would fall into that 51%?
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The number of Muslims wanting Islam is all about the strong horse theory exposed by Bin Laden. We've been the weak horse for 8 years and they smell the blood in the water.
[FRANCE24] The FBI's facial recognition database has more than 400 million pictures to help its criminal investigations, but lacks adequate safeguards for accuracy and privacy protection, a congressional audit shows.
The huge database -- which enables Sherlocks to automatically search images for criminal suspects -- "is far greater than had previously been understood" and raises concerns "about the risk of innocent Americans being inadvertently swept up in criminal investigations," said Senator Al Franken, who requested the study.
"I will be asking tough questions about the FBI's use of facial recognition technology and its plans to improve the testing, transparency, and privacy protections of its system," the Minnesota senator said as he released the Government Accountability Office report on Wednesday.
The FBI's database includes some 30 million criminal mugshots and 140 million images from visa applications by foreign nationals, the GAO found.
It also contains drivers' license pictures from 16 US states and 6.7 million photos from the Defense Department's biometric identification system of individuals detained by US forces abroad, among others.
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"I will be asking tough questions about the FBI's use of facial recognition technology and its plans to improve the testing, transparency, and privacy protections of its system"
AHAHahahaha...
What?
He's not a comedian any more...huh?
[CNSNEWS] Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... on Wednesday cited "reasons having to do with religion or politics" in a list of "root causes" of terrorism in which he also included factors ranging from tribalism to frustration and the desire for a sense of identity and purpose. Goddam Lutherans. And Navajos. And teenagers.
Addressing the Oslo Forum in the Norwegian capital, Kerry disputed the notion that a "clash of civilizations" is underway, arguing that "there is nothing remotely civilized about the holy warriors that we confront in the world today" such as those in Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIS), Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... or Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... .
"So no, this is not a clash of civilizations, this is a struggle between civilization itself and barbarism, between fundamental raw political exploitation and a mix of medieval and modern fascism ...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... , together at the same time," he said.
Calling for a need to have a comprehensive approach to counter the "root causes of violent extremism," Kerry advanced some factors contributing to radicalization. Among them:
--tribal or sectarian allegiances
--"reasons having to do with religion or politics"
--frustration over an inability to find meaning or economic opportunity
--hopes that a group like ISIS can provide "a sense of identity, a sense of purpose, a sense of power"
--"indignity and marginalization and inequality and corruption" which are used by terrorist groups as recruitment tools
--"a dangerous clash which we haven’t yet fully defined sufficiently between culture, religion, exploitation, and modernity." It's only been fifteen years. Where the hell's JFK been? Upriver in Cambodia?
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The Obama administration believes it will be able to process many more Syrian refugees in the last half of fiscal 2016 than in the first six months, allowing it to meet its goal of admitting at least 10,000 by Sept. 30.
If one, just one, of these folks commits an Orlando-style massacre the blowback will be something the likes of which we haven't seen in this country.
In a letter to Democratic Senator Richard Durbin seen by Reuters on Thursday, the White House said it has allocated additional staff and added more processing locations in the Middle East to expedite the screening process without compromising U.S. security.
No extra staff to secure the border. No extra staff for the VA hospitals. No extra staff to get the interpreters who helped our troops. But for this we have extra staff...
"Therefore, we expect to admit more Syrians in the third and fourth quarters of fiscal year 2016 than we did in the first and second quarters to meet our goal of admitting at least 10,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year," the letter said.
The administration's move is in sharp contrast to recent anti-refugee rhetoric by many Republicans, especially since the killings in Orlando on Sunday raised fears of attacks.
Donald Trump, the presumptive 2016 Republican presidential nominee, has called for the refugee resettlement program to be suspended, saying "We don't know who they are. They have no documentation, and we don't know what they're planning."
Backers of the administration's plan dispute such statements, citing the extensive screening process the Syrian refugees undergo.
Really? Like the one the cleared Omar Mateen? Twice?
So far, the United States has offered refuge to far fewer of the millions fleeing the war in Syria than many of its closest allies. Germany has taken in hundreds of thousands and Canada admitted nearly 30,000 between November 2015 and May 1, 2016.
The letter said the administration had set up a temporary processing center in Jordan and expanded operations in Turkey. It also has restarted interviews in neighboring Lebanon, and begun limited processing in Erbil, Iraq.
Durbin was a lead author of a letter to President Barack Obama in May, which was signed by more than half the Democrats in the Senate and urged the president to move more quickly to admit Syrians.
So that they can vote in November...
By mid-May, only 1,736 Syrians had been allowed into the country, a pace that would have fallen far short of the 10,000 goal for the full year.
The letter seen on Thursday was the administration's response to the one sent in May.
Obama's plan to admit 10,000 Syrians was met with a firestorm of criticism in the United States, mostly from Republicans who say that violent militants could enter the country by posing as refugees. More than 30 governors, most of them Republicans, have tried to keep refugees out of their states.
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I read the entire article and not once did the reporter ask, nor did anyone interviewed answer, "Why are these countries not sharing data?"
More than a dozen countries participating in a program that allows visitors into the U.S. without a visa are not sharing terrorists’ identities and other vital information as required by law, according to a watchdog report raising concerns on Capitol Hill about yet another major security gap.
“This is very dangerous because for the most part, these are allies, some of which have pockets of Islamic radicalism,” Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., chairman of the House national security subcommittee, told FoxNews.com.
The Visa Waiver Program lets business travelers and tourists with passports from 38 countries fill out a basic online form to enter the U.S. The biographical questionnaire can be filled out at the airport.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] CIA Director John Brennan will tell Congress on Thursday that ISIS forces of Evil are training and attempting to deploy operatives for further attacks on the West and will rely more on guerrilla-style tactics to compensate for their territorial losses.
In remarks prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee, Brennan says ISIS has been working to build an apparatus to direct and inspire attacks against its foreign enemies, as in the recent attacks in Gay Paree and Brussels ‐ ones the CIA believes were directed by ISIS leaders.
"ISIS (ISIS) has a large cadre of Western fighters who could potentially serve as operatives for attacks in the West," Brennan said, using another acronym for the group. He said ISIS probably is working to smuggle them into countries, perhaps among refugee flows or through legitimate means of travel.
Brennan also noted the group’s call for followers to conduct so-called lone-wolf attacks in their home countries. He called last week’s attack in Orlando a "heinous act of wanton violence" and an "assault on the values of openness and tolerance" that define the United States as a nation.
He said ISIS is gradually cultivating its various branches into an interconnected network. The branch in Libya is likely the most advanced and most dangerous, but ISIS is trying to increase its influence in Africa, he said. The IS branch in the Sinai has become the "most active and capable terrorist group in Egypt," attacking the Egyptian military and government targets in addition to foreigners and tourists, such as the downing of a Russian passenger jet last October.
Other branches have struggled to gain traction, he says. "The Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... branch, for instance, has been riven with factionalism. And the Afghanistan-Pakistain branch has struggled to maintain its cohesion, in part because of competition with the Taliban."
He called ISIS a "formidable adversary," but said the US-led coalition has made progress combatting the group, which has had to surrender large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and has lost some of its leaders in Arclight airstrikes. ISIS has struggled to replenish its ranks of fighters, Brennan said, because fewer of them are traveling to Syria and others have defected.
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Wow! We actually pay someone to assert this as intel. Can I get a contract to predict sunrise?
[DAWN] Hundreds of local residents clashed with members of Kalash tribe in Chitral on Thursday after a teenager claimed she was forced to convert to Islam, police and residents said.
Police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd attacking a house in the Kalash tribe's valley of Bumburate in Chitral district, where the girl had gone to give a police statement about her conversion, said Kalash activist Luke Rehmat.
The Kalash are only around 4,000 in number, according to Rehmat
Increasingly their youth are converting to Islam, prompting activists to campaign to preserve the traditions of the ancient, diminishing tribe.
The teenager went to a neighbour's house to speak to police, the home's owner told AFP, but hundreds of people began to gather outside as word spread through the close-knit community.
"The Kalash community had also gathered to save the family and when the Moslems chanting slogans attacked the house with sticks and pelted stones everybody was running for their lives," Rehmat, who was out of breath from fleeing the scene, told AFP by telephone.
"Dozens" were maimed, he said, though apparently none seriously.
"Law enforcement agencies reached here on time otherwise they would have killed all of us," said local Kalash politician Imran Kabeer.
It was not clear what happened to the teenager.
Police in the city of Chitral said the district police chief had gone to Bumburate with other senior officers, adding that the situation was under control.
The owner of the house that was attacked was also in Chitral, where he said police were refusing to let him return home.
"They came out in a mob to attack my house and to kill my wife and my children," he said, asking to remain anonymous.
"They threw stones at the roof and at the windows. Police were firing in the air."
Chitral, a northern district of Khyber-Pukhtunkwa province, has long attracted tourists for its beauty.
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[DAWN] Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... on Thursday told the National Assembly that Pakistain is not breaching any agreement by constructing a gate on Torkham border and will go on with the project to make effective border management possible.
In his policy statement, Aziz claimed that Pakistain had informed the Afghan authorities about its intention to build the gate and the construction work had started back in November 2014.
"When Afghan authorities expressed their reservations, we took them into confidence and told them that the gate is constructed inside Pak territory," said the Adviser.
He said such border management steps will also help both countries in their combined efforts to combat terrorism as "unregulated movement allows infiltration of bully boyz and smugglers", adding that all the other border crossings with Afghanistan will also be regulated in near future.
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[DAWN] Former Afghan president Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... said Pakistain does not want good relations between India and Afghanistan and wants "no bilateral trade and no access to Central Asia for India" which is unacceptable for Afghanistan.
In an interview with BBC Urdu on Thursday, Karzai claimed that India is helping Afghanistan build its infrastructure and health facilities and has "filled Afghanistan with money despite being a poor country".
"India wants to truly befriend Afghanistan and we want Pakistain to do the same," said the former Afghan president.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Once ISIS is defeated, Iraq should be divided into three separate entities to prevent further sectarian bloodshed, with a state each given to Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds, a top Kurdish official said on Thursday.
Iraqi troops have expelled ISIS from some key cities the murderous Moslems seized in 2014, and are advancing on djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the largest city under IS control. Its fall would likely mean the end of the group's self-proclaimed caliphate.
But even if ISIS was eliminated, Iraq would still be deeply divided. Sectarian violence has continued for years and a power-sharing agreement in Baghdad has only led to discontent, deadlock and corruption.
Masrour Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Security Council and son of KRG President Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... , said the level of mistrust was such that they should not remain "under one roof".
"Federation hasn't worked, so it has to be either confederation or full separation," Barzani told Rooters in an interview on Wednesday in the Kurdish capital Erbil. "If we have three confederated states, we will have equal three capitals, so one is not above the other."
The Kurds have already taken steps towards realizing their long-held dream of independence from Iraq, which has been led by the Shi'ite majority since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, a Sunni, in 2003, following a US-led invasion.
They run their own affairs in the north and have their own armed forces, the Peshmerga, which have been fighting ISIS murderous Moslems with help from a US-led coalition. Sunnis should be given the option of doing the same in the provinces where they are in the majority in the north and the west of Iraq, said Barzani.
"What we are offering is a solution," he said. "This doesn't mean they live under one roof but they can be good neighbors. Once they feel comfortable that they have a bright and secure future, they can start cooperating with each other."
His father has called for a referendum on Kurdish independence this year as the region is locked in territorial and financial disputes with the central government.
Baghdad has cut off payments from the federal budget to the KRG to try to force the Kurds to sell crude produced on their territory through the state oil marketing company and not independently. The Kurds also claim the oil region of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... in northern Iraq, as part of their territory.
Barzani said that the Sunnis' feeling of marginalization by the Shi'ite leadership had facilitated the takeover of their regions by ISIS Death Eaters.
In addition, Iraq endured months of wrangling and chaos over a government reshuffle that was to curb corruption. In May, frustration over the delays culminated in the unprecedented breach by protesters of the Green Zone, which houses parliament, government offices and many foreign embassies.
Ahead of the battle for Mosul, Barzani said the city's different communities should agree in advance on how to handle the aftermath. Mosul's pre-war population of 2 million was mostly Sunni, but included religious and ethnic minorities including Christians, Shi'ites, Yazidis, Kurds and Turkmen.
"I think the most important part is how you manage Mosul after Da’esh is defeated," he said, referring to an Arabic name of ISIS. "We don't want to see the gap of liberation and then a vacuum, which probably will turn into chaos."
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi at the end of last year expressed hope that 2016 would be the year of "final victory" over ISIS with the capture of Mosul.
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But-t-t, the Bammer has historically argued for Iraqi federalism to remain intact, + NOT for the country to be divided.
Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz, who is also transportation minister, presented his vision for Israel to become a trade bridge between the Mediterranean Sea and countries to its east by revving up the historic Jezreel Valley Railway line, part of an train network in the region active during the first half of the twentieth century, under Ottoman and British rule. He revealed that Turkish trucks are already making use of Israel’s strategic position, which offers a detour around war-torn Syria.
“Turkish trucks are already bringing goods to the east via Haifa port. They are using the Israeli route as an alternative to the Syrian route, which can’t be used due to the situation there,” he said.
Katz also took the opportunity to raise the subject of creating an international island in the sea opposite the Gaza Strip to act as a port with a bridge to the land for the transfer of people and goods.
“This plan could contribute much to easing the pressure on the residents of the Strip, while further advancing the separation from Israel,” he explained, and noted that Israel’s security leadership is very interested in the idea.
“I hope that the highest political leadership will have the courage and determination to make a decision,” he said.
In February the Hebrew-language Haaretz daily reported that senior IDF officials support the idea of easing the pressure on Hamas, the de facto ruler of Gaza, amid a worsening economic situation in Gaza that could lead to new conflict, by giving the territory access to a seaport. It said a range of possible port arrangements — including an artificial offshore island — are being discussed at senior military and political levels.
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Better off digging a moat around Gaza so deep and wide that it is in effect an island.
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A subtle way to screw with Hamas. An offshore island would be where gas extraction is located and as the gas legally belongs to the PA, Hamas won't get any money as the gas won't need to go thru Gaza itself.
Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz launched a scathing attack on the Hezbollah terror group’s leader, calling Hassan Nasrallah a “megalomaniac” with no concept of reality and warning that Lebanon would be “ruined” in a future conflict between the IDF and Hezbollah.
“Hezbollah continues to be the primary non-state threat, not only to Israel but also to Lebanon,” he told the Herzliya Conference, an annual seminar reviewing Israel’s security.
He added that a conflict with the Lebanon-based Shiite group could be triggered by a minor incident due to “the megalomaniac character of the organization’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, a fanatical personality who lacks any conception of reality except, perhaps, anything to do with protecting his personal security.”
Plus, Nasty's afraid of his own shadow and is allergic to sunlight...
His words came a day after IDF Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevy, speaking at the same conference, put particular emphasis on the threat from Hezbollah in Lebanon, as Israel prepares to mark 10 years since the Second Lebanon War next month.
Hezbollah is believed to have an arsenal of more than 100,000 missiles and rockets, along with weapons systems “that they never had before,” Halevy said.
But Katz said that it is Israel’s northern neighbor and the Hezbollah leader who had the most to lose in a conflict with Israel.
“A war in Lebanon and an attack on the Israeli home front will bring about the ousting of Nasrallah and will bring ruin to Lebanon,” he predicted.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israel’s ex-defense minister Moshe Yaalon on Thursday said he will run for premier accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of scaring citizens in order to hold on to power.
Yaalon, forced out in May to allow Netanyahu to expand his coalition by bringing in a hardline nationalist party, has repeatedly criticized the current government since leaving office.
"The current leadership must stop scaring citizens as if we are on the verge of a second Holocaust," Yaalon told a conference in Herzliya, Israel, saying security threats were being exaggerated.
Israel "deserves a leadership that stops zigzagging and encouraging hate between different groups in Israeli society to remain in power at any price," he added.
In the remarks broadcast online Yaalon added: "My intent is to run for the leadership of Israel in the next elections" which are due to take place in 2019 at the latest.
There has been speculation that a new center-right party could be formed, with polls showing that one including Yaalon could pose a challenge to the Likud party, to which he and Netanyahu belong.
Israeli politics is a full contact sport full of posturing drama queens, very little of which matters outside the country. The only thing I take from this is that Israeli voters are continuing to shift to the right on national security issues, away from the labour socialists.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russia’s defense ministry announced late Wednesday that a 48-hour ceasefire had been introduced, starting from Thursday, to help stabilize the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo.
"On Russia’s initiative, a ’regime of silence’ has been introduced in Aleppo for 48 hours from 00:01 16 June (2100 GMT Wednesday) with the goal of lowering the level of armed violence and stabilizing the situation," a ministry statement said.
The statement did not specify who Russia has discussed the two-day ceasefire with.
It accused al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... front of attacking various Aleppo neighborhoods with multiple rocket launchers, as well as mounting a tank attack southwest of the city.
The last-minute announcement, made just an hour before the ceasefire was to go into effect, came as US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... warned Russia and the Syrian regime to respect a frayed ceasefire that has been severely tested around divided Aleppo.
Russia provides air support to troops loyal to the Syrian regime as they fight the Syrian rebels and Lion of Islams.
Since fighting erupted Tuesday south of Aleppo, some 70 fighters in total have been killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
A hospital in eastern Aleppo was heavily damaged by bombing Tuesday, the Medecins du Monde charity said.
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[Iran Press TV] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the United States is likely seeking to preserve the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front terrorist group as a tool to unseat Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... Lavrov made the remarks at the meeting of a panel discussion on the sidelines of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum 2016 (SPIEF 2016) on Thursday.
Russia has long insisted that the so-called moderate opposition groups in Syria, supported by the US, should leave the areas held by Nusra Lion of Islams. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... Washington has asked Moscow not to conduct Arclight airstrikes against the Nusra Front.
Lavrov said the US claims to be unable to pull the opposition groups out of the territories controlled by terrorists.
"I have the impression that some game is being played here and they want perhaps to preserve al-Nusra in some form and then use it to overthrow" the government of Assad, he added.
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[Iran Press TV] A United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... investigative panel has urged action against crimes committed by the ISIS terrorist group against the Izadi minority in Iraq and Syria, stressing that the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... snuffies are still committing genocide against the Kurdish-speaking community.
Paulo Pinheiro, head of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, issued the warning in a Thursday report, which was based on interviews with dozens of survivors.
ISIS has been systematically capturing Izadis in Iraq and Syria since August 2014 in an attempt to "erase" the minority group "through killings, sexual slavery, enslavement, torture and inhuman and degrading treatment and forceful transfer," which have all inflicted "serious bodily and mental harm" on the people, Pinheiro told a news briefing in the Swiss city of Geneva.
"Genocide has occurred and is ongoing," the UN official said, adding, "ISIS (ISIS) has subjected every Yazidi (Izadi) woman, child or man that it has captured to the most horrific of atrocities."
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[Iran Press TV] The recent warnings by American officials about the surge in threats posed by the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group amount to nothing but "fear-mongering" as ISIS is a Western creation, says an American political analyst in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... Stephen Lendman, an author and radio host, made the remarks after US Department of Homeland Security urged citizens in America to exercise more vigilance following the deadly attack in Orlando, Florida.
Last Sunday, an alleged ISIS sympathizer identified as Omar Mateen, killed 49 people in Orlando’s Pulse Club being bumped off by specialized SWAT units.
CIA Director John Brennan was also set to appear before Congress on Thursday, warning the politicians about attempts by ISIS to send hard boyz to Western countries.
Lendman said Western officials were engaged in a widespread fear-mongering campaign by using ISIS as an excuse to expand their imperial grip on the world.
They are "hyping fear, scaring the public into believing something, a threat that simply doesn’t exist," he told Press TV on Thursday.
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U.S. lawmakers want to cut off funds to United Nations-run schools where a new documentary shows kids as young as 13 declaring they want to kill Jews and join ISIS.
The documentary, "The UNRWA Road to Terror: Palestinian Classroom Incitement," shows children as young as 7 in schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) expressing support for terrorism. One clip shows a 13-year-old Palestinian student chanting "With Allah's help I will fight for ISIS, the Islamic State."
Members of Congress and sources with knowledge of pending legislation told FoxNews.com that lawmakers are looking to introduce bills cutting off funding from such schools before Congress adjourns this summer.
Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., said major reform is needed to UN schools.
"It is a crime against humanity, an outrage, and does not in any way prepare the Palestinian population or future generations of Palestinians for peace with Israelis," Lamborn told FoxNews.com. "It is unacceptable that the international community, including the United States, is funding UNRWA without demanding change." I like Lamborn. He is one of the few good ones left and is also leading the charge to impeach the IRS commissioner.
According to State Department figures, the U.S. provided $390 million to help fund UNRWA in 2015.
The Congressional push comes as Israelis mourn four civilians killed in a Tel Aviv restaurant last week by two young Palestinians from the West Bank.
Israeli officials have pointed to links between Palestinian calls for violence and the murders. "That's Racist!!" - UN
The documentary shows incitement across several schools.
"We have to make war to prove we are stronger than the Jews," said a 7-year-old girl who is shown in the film saying the line in the classroom of a UN school in Jerusalem.
"Right now I am prepared to be a suicide bomber," says a 13-year-old shown in the film at another UN school.
Another student, who is identified in the film as a 10-year-old who goes to a UN school in Bethlehem, is shown saying, "We need to take steps to kill them, and they will retreat and we will advance."
Documentary producer David Bedein told Fox News that he and his organization, Center for Near East Research have been researching UNRWA for nearly 30 years. He linked the content of the film to the potential Congressional push.
"The U.S. government sponsored the peace process, yet the same U.S. government undermines any hope of peace" by funding problematic UN schools, he said.
A leading Palestinian human rights expert told FoxNews.com that the film was accurate.
"The film accurately portrays UNRWA schools⌠advocacy of violence remains rampant dictated by teachers who run the U.S.-funded UNRWA schools," said Palestinian human rights activist and political analyst Bassam Eid.
UN officials attacked Bedein and other critics. UNRWA spokesperson Christopher Gunness said "Fox News is again being duped by David Bedein."
Gunness said that Bedein had mixed up UN schools with other Palestinian schools where incitement may occur, but which are not run by the UN. Uh...huh...
Considering the UN is leading anti-Israel efforts and has been for decades this really isn't all that surprise to those that pay attention. Long past time for the US to defund and kick out the UN.
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They've had textbooks and cartoons that promulgate fear and loathing of Jews for years. It's well known, we've had copies of these books in our hands, and videotape of the materials being "taught". What suddenly changed?
Orlando gunman Omar Mateen tried to buy heavy-duty body armor and bulk ammunition from a Florida gun shop several weeks ago, but a suspicious employee refused to sell him anything - and even called the FBI, according to one of the store's owners Thursday. Too many tips; not enough agents. And budget. We need more budget.
Mateen came into the shop alone and asked for a "Level 3" bulletproof vest and then walked away for a second, speaking in Arabic on his cell phone, the store's owner said. When he came back, Mateen told the employee he also wanted bulk ammo, which usually comes in 1,000 rounds. Note to bad guyz: Remember the Oklahoma City lesson - buy your bomb materials and ammo in small quantities from different stores - be patient! Your virgins can wait!
Their interaction only lasted 5 minutes, but it triggered enough concern in the employee decided to call the FBI as soon as Mateen walked out. Abell said no one came to investigate. Note to good gu FBI - who did he call from the gun store? The NSA will tell you, if Champ will permit it.
Note: we had this story yesterday. Not snipped because of the in-lines, but please check not only the same day, but the previous few, particularly on quickly developing investigations following big attacks. This is not the only duplicate submitted today.
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The FBI is good at overlooking the obvious. Remember the agent who was censured because she kept warning that Muslims were taking a curious flight training that only called for learning how to take off and fly but seemed to have no interest in landing? Remember the FBI disinterest in Mullah Omar's Faruq Mosque in Brooklyn? In the growth of the Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood operation in Virginia/Maryland? In the growth of Gelani's "warrior" operation in mid-America? Etc., etc., etc. If one were to investigate who has done more to help reduce the terrorist threat, the FBI or US Treasury, the UST would win in a walk.
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You know, if I was a tin-hat type of person I would wonder if the FBI / ATF / etc... were deliberately overlooking these items - in order to allow events like Pulse to push Gun-Control.
Nah! Nobody would want people killed to push their agenda would they? (Fast & Furious)
[Ynet] Texas suffered another loss in its attempts to block Syrian refugees from entering the state when a federal judge in Dallas on Thursday dismissed motions filed by the state to halt resettlement of refugees by a private relief agency.
US District Judge David Godbey ruled the US government, not individual states, has the authority to set immigration policy, and found that Texas brought no plausible argument to back its claims that the International Rescue Committee relief agency was unlawful in bringing Syrian refugees into the state.
Texas has been trying to stop the organization from bringing refugees into the state since December, when it filed its first suit in federal court in response to the group's plan to resettle six refugees fleeing Syria's civil war.
[CVT] ORLANDO, Fla. -- Embracing grieving Orlando families and appealing anew for national action, President Barack Obama claimed a threat to all Americans' security Thursday as a strong reason to tighten U.S. gun laws.
Counterterror campaigns overseas, he declared, can never prevent all "lone wolf" attacks like the one that killed 49 people in Orlando.
Speaking at a makeshift memorial to the victims, Obama said the massacre at a gay nightclub was evidence that "different steps" are needed to limit the damage a "deranged" person set on committing violence can do. He cheered on Democrats' push for new gun control measures, including a new ban on assault weapons and stricter background checks.
Although he showed little hope the measures would find much support among most opponents, Obama seemed to be aiming for other lawmakers, perhaps Republican hawks eager to get behind counterterror campaigns but steadfastly opposed to gun restrictions.
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The TV visit of Obama and Biden in Orlando showed a long line of black cars and Obama and Biden carrying flowers somewhere, but what it didn't show was ANY people attending the event. Just empty streets for what looked like two blocks all around the event..and the flowers, and stuff ( and Biden doing the carrying ). And Obama and Biden standing out of the sun near a podium inside an open tent with NOBODY else in camera range... the whole place EMPTY of citizens.
Who're they actually speaking TO ? The speech by Obama was read in a monotone and turn the page ( no teleprompter) but no actual people anywhere either. Just empty for two blocks in every direction....wherever the cameras actually focused.
No attendance by anybody. WAS anybody actually THERE? Nobody even came down to see and hear the President of the United States ? Just a dead speech ( what did Obama actually SAY ? (Anybody remember what the greatest speaker since Cairo or Lincoln, said in such a touching moment ? )
Nobody there. Obama talking to an empty tent...not even any chairs. And a view of two blocks and way out of pistol range ...Orlando beyond a circle of Black Cars.
And he was consoling the dead relatives? I must have missed that. Actually getting close enough to the President to maybe touch him...or have him touch you back...how would you like to have Obama "touch" you? Any social media pictures of anybody close enough to the President during this event / No? I wonder why.
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Did anyone from the media yell "cut! Joe your ruining the scene. Carry the flowers higher and instead of looking stupid try and look sad. Now one more time from the third lie from the opening". Scene 2 Take 3 -- Goofy lies about Orlando
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Clearly the attendees were screened and potential threats were identified and relocated under duress.
Or, of course, this was an abandoned HUD neighborhood.
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President Hussien, aka Barry before converting to Islam, and DHS Jeh, also a Mohammedan are now doubling down on making Americans more defenseless as he imports the ancient barbarion Muslim Syrians.
The photo op was to satisfy his gullible useless idiot supporters on the American left.
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[FOX] A former CIA officer and diplomat who has repeatedly denied playing a role in one of the most notorious U.S. counterterrorism programs is set to become the only American held accountable for it -- and claims the Obama administration has abandoned her.
Sabrina De Sousa, who is stuck in Portugal and awaiting extradition to Italy over her alleged role in the rendition of a terror suspect years ago, claims the State Department has ignored repeated requests to intervene on her behalf. She and her lawyers are particularly critical of Hillary Clinton, who still has not commented on the case.
Shouldn't have stayed in Portugal...
Mark S. Zaid, an attorney who previously worked with De Sousa, told FoxNews.com his firm made "multiple efforts" to reach out to the State Department -- specifically then-Secretary of State Clinton -- and that "every time we were completely rebuffed with silence."
He said one of his letters was even "deceptively" classified "to limit my ability to create a public furor over how Sabrina had been and continues to be mistreated."
De Sousa, a naturalized American from India, was arrested in Portugal last October and earlier this month lost her latest court bid to halt her extradition to Italy. She faces four years in prison there over her alleged role in the rendition of a suspected terrorist 13 years ago. Skipping down a few paras
De Sousa believes Clinton could still do the right thing. If she were working out of the U.S. Embassy as an intelligence officer she would have been working in "Official Cover" and as such she would have enjoyed "Diplomatic immunity" and exemption from legal charges or prosecution of alleged host nation crimes. Not sure what exactly is taking place here.
Sacrificial goats must be sacrificed. Theirs is not to quesiton why, etc.
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The Prime Minister of Italy is deeply involved with the Clinton Foundation. Influence pedaling for a price ranks higher than the State Department which Hillary used as a front.
Just like in Benghazi, State Department staff are expendable. Clinton cash is priority with dirty Hillary.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
[PJ] While testifying in an open session of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CIA director John Brennan admitted Thursday:
[FRANCE24] The FBI's facial recognition database has more than 400 million pictures to help its criminal investigations, but lacks adequate safeguards for accuracy and privacy protection, a congressional audit shows.
[CNSNEWS] Secretary of State 
The Obama administration believes it will be able to process many more Syrian refugees in the last half of fiscal 2016 than in the first six months, allowing it to meet its goal of admitting at least 10,000 by Sept. 30.
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
[DAWN] Former Afghan president 
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[Iran Press TV] The recent warnings by American officials about the surge in threats posed by the 
U.S. lawmakers want to cut off funds to United Nations-run schools where a new documentary shows kids as young as 13 declaring they want to kill Jews and join ISIS.
Orlando gunman Omar Mateen tried to buy heavy-duty body armor and bulk ammunition from a Florida gun shop several weeks ago, but a suspicious employee refused to sell him anything - and even called the FBI, according to one of the store's owners Thursday.
