[Judicial Watch] Washington, DC -- Two days after Benghazi attack, Libyan president sought meeting with Bill Clinton through Clinton Foundation event.
Judicial Watch today released 276 pages of internal State Department documents revealing that within two days of the deadly terrorist attack on Benghazi, Mohamed Yusuf al-Magariaf, the president of Libya’s National Congress, asked to participate in a Clinton Global Initiative function and "meet President Clinton." The meeting between the Libyan president and Bill Clinton had not previously been disclosed. The documents also show Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s staff coordinated with the Clinton Foundation’s staff to have her thank Clinton Global Initiative project sponsors for their "commitments" during a Foundation speech on September 25, 2009.
The Judicial Watch documents were obtained as a result of a federal court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against the State Department on May 28, 2013, (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-00772)).
In September 13, 2012, al-Magariaf advisor Dr. Fathi Nuah wrote to the Clinton Foundation’s Director of Foreign Policy Amitabh Desai: "Dr. Almagariaf will be addressing the United Nations this September in New York as the Libyan Head of State, and he expressed a wish to meet President Clinton and to participate at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting for New York as well."
Four hours later, Desai emailed Hillary Clinton’s Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills asking, "Would USG [U.S. Government] have concerns about Libyan President being invited to CGI [Clinton Global Initiative]? Odd timing, I know." Mills emailed back: "We would not have issues."
Four days later, on September 17, Desai emailed Mills again, saying, The Libyan president is "asking for a meeting with WJC [William Jefferson Clinton] next week." Desai asked, "Would you recommend accepting or declining the WJC meeting request?" No, no problem at all. Our team has constructed a clever diversion using an anti-Mohammed filmmaker by the name of Nakoula. You'll be learning more about him in the Sunday Talks. We're hoping to delay any in-country investigation of the events in Benghazi. Our damage control people are quite adept. The blow-back should be minimal.
The State Department apparently had no objection to the meeting, because on September 26, Desai emailed Mills, "He had a v good meeting with Libya ..." Hillary Clinton and al-Magariaf did not have a meeting until September 24.
An August 2009 email chain including Hillary Clinton’s then- Chief of Staff Huma Abedin, Mills, then-Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Jake Sullivan shows that the State Department coordinated with Clinton Foundation staff on how Mrs. Clinton to thank Foundation supporters/partners for their "commitments." Mills asks Desai for a "list of commitments during whole session so she can reference more than those just around her speech."
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The supporters of Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... and acting provincial governor Ata Mohammad Noor staged protests in Mazar-e-Sharif city, a day after reports emerged regarding the removal of Dostum’s pictures from the city that sparked furor among his supporters.
Hundreds of people erupted into the streets in Mazar-e-Sharif city today amid fears that the rallies could turn violent due to the cause of demonstration.
The protesters are chanting against corruption, use of power, deception, discrimination, and Mafias operating in this province.
This comes as Noor issued a statement late on Monday warning against any provocative moves that would lead to chaos in the city as a result of the removal of Gen. Dostum’s pictures.
Noor, who is leading Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... party, urged the people to refrain from chaos and moves that lead to disorders in the city and prevent destabilizing the stability of the local residents by repeating the bitter memories of the early 90s and 2000s.
The acting provincial governor warned of strict repercussions if his pleas for calmness were ignored, insisting that the leadership believes and respects tolerance.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Bismillah Afghanmal, the newly appointed governor for southern Zabul province has vowed strict fight against corruption. He expressed these comments during his speech at a ceremony organized for his introduction to other local officials and residents of Zabul on Tuesday.
Afghanmal also promised acting against injustice and oppression. He urged locals to assist him during his service period.
Bismillah Afghanmal was recommended for the post by the Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) and approved by 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. .. through a decree.
Hailing from Zabul’s neighboring Kandahar province, Afghanmal has served as a member of parliament representing Kandahar. He was one of the supporters of President Ghani during the presidential election.
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A senior Al-Shabaab commander was arrested on Monday in security operation conducted by the interim south west administration forces in Bay region of southwest Somalia, official said.
Abdullah Sheikh Mohamed, military officer in Bay regional district of Diinsoor, told Radio Shabelle the commander whose name was only released Marorow is being held at the city’s custody.
See -- a #3 isn't too big to fail...
"Marorow?" That's what my cat calls me!
Your kitty owns the first non-skinny Somali yet discovered? Impressive!
“The suspect is an elderly man and was working as an spy agent for the Al shabaab in the town. We captured him previously after renouncing the group, but now he is back to his job,” said Mohamed.
The troops of the South west state of Somalia have been conducting security operations in the southern town of Diinsoor to flush out Al shabaab remnants, according to military source.
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[UKZAMBIANS.CO.UK] Dr. Andrew Pocock, former British high commissioner to Nigeria, says that British and American surveillance found the location of up to 80 of Nigeria’s Chibok girls (276 of whom were kidnapped on April 14, 2014 by 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... ), but that a rescue was not attempted because it would have been too risky. "You might have rescued a few but many would have been killed," Pocock told The Sunday Times of London, adding that the girls were likely to be used by the Lions of Islam as human shields. The discovery of the girls was made a month after the kidnapping, and the information was passed on to the Nigerian government who made no request for help.
Dr. Stephen Davis, who spent months in Nigeria trying to negotiate the schoolgirls’ freedom, said that South African mercenaries working with the Nigerian military had released around 1,000 other girls who had been kidnapped by Boko Haram. Davis says he finds the logic behind the decision not to act questionable: "If [South African mercenaries] could release that many," he says, "that belies the argument that the girls would be killed in the process."
The abduction of the schoolgirls two years ago sparked the #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) campaign, but, apart from 57 girls who escaped early on, the rest are still missing. Campaigners believe the girls have been divided into small groups and taken into Islamic krazed killer-held areas such as the Sambisia forest, which covers an area three times the size of Wales.
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Guess if they're eating their vegetables Michelle doesn't have much to say.
[DAILYPOST.NG] The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has claimed that the rampaging Fulani herdsmen are not ordinary people but members of 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... who are bent on annihilating Ndigbo under the guise of herders.
It, therefore, advised Ndigbo to stop eating meat derived from cows and reared by Fulani in order not to give room for Fulani herdsmen to infiltrate their towns and villages to kill them and rape their women.
The group, in a statement signed by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful rather advised the Igbos to breed their own local cows which were in abundance at Abakaliki, in Ebonyi State, Nsukka in Enugu State and Obudu in Cross River State, stressing that if such is patronized, the Fulani herdsman will leave Igboland without molestation.
The statement reads, "After putting our acts together, IPOB discovered that the Fulani herdsmen are determined to exterminate the lives of Biafrans through their herdsmen.
"We in the IPOB worldwide are calling on all Biafrans to stop eating Fulani cows and stop patronizing them. They will leave our land and stop raping our women and girls and they will stop killing our men because of our wives and girls.
"We discovered that these Fulani herdsmen are not ordinary people but Boko Haram bandidos holy warriors who were trained by their brothers. We are calling on Biafrans to start eating goat meat, chickens and fish.
"Again, all Biafrans should start rearing their local cows. We have them at Abakiliki in Ebonyi State, Nsukka in Enugu State and Obudu Ranch in Calaber, Cross River State in abundance.
"If we Biafrans implement this without patronizing them again, they will leave our land without molestations because they were equipped with guns and we Biafrans don’t have guns and ammunition.
"We also know that Hausa/Fulani don’t eat much of cow meat but have you asked yourselves questions why they don’t eat red meat?
"IPOB reminds you about what the Hausa/Fulani did in Agatu, Benue State and in Delta State where they kidnapped a traditional ruler and killed him and in Enugu and Ebonyi states where they ravaged, killed, maimed and raped our women and girls."
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[PREMIUMTIMESNG] sident Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of a naval command post in the Lake Chad region in a bid to strengthen the fight against insurgency in the North-East.
The Director of Naval Information, Chris Ezekobe, disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
"There is a presidential directive to set up a command post in the Lake Chad Region and that is ongoing," said Mr. Ezekobe, a naval commodore.
According to him, naval personnel for the command post are currently undergoing training in the North East and would be deployed once it becomes operational.
Mr. Ezekobe said the navy already had three categories of forces working in the North-East.
Similarly, the naval front man said that the navy had acquired 30 repellent boats and was expecting 50 more by the end of May to enhance security in the Niger Delta Region.
According to him, this will make it difficult for the criminals to operate in that domain.
"We have improved on our surveillance capability and the regional maritime awareness capability.
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Jeddah- Disputes have aggravated among leaderships in the Republic Guard, which is affiliated with the ousted Ali Saleh and Houthi Militia. The militia refused to pay salaries for a great number of Saleh’s militants, claiming lack of financial resources, thus resorting to using arms between the two parties.
Houthi militia requested its leadership to stop paying wages in order to provide financial sources in the coming period; this includes affiliates to the Republican Guard in some districts who are not engaged in military confrontations with the national army.
This news caused those loyal to Saleh to fidget even more and according to a Yemeni source close to the matter, the news might cause the defection of three fully equipped battalions to join the legitimate army.
Brigadier Abdullah Subaihi, commander of the north-eastern sector in Aden and commander of “Brigade 15-Mika”, told Asharq Al-Awsat that the information collected from Sanaa, Saada, and Dhamar confirmed the disputes between Saleh and Houthis in implementing military orders and using arms by one party against the other, thus creating a state of mistrust between the two parties.
On the other hand, Subaihi affirmed that the national army is dealing carefully with these disputes to make the most benefit from them. He also added that the disputes are growing with the national army winning over the militias on the battlefronts.
“Seven thousand militants and officers affiliated to the Republican Guard have been handed to the Yemeni national army,” Subaihi told Asharq Al-Awsat.
Brigadier Subaihi pointed out that Houthi militia lost the money its militants stole from the country’s treasuries, its citizens and their own properties. He added that the militia is also stealing from the employees and the Republican Guard’s affiliates, who have left the military service in great numbers.
[Indian Express] The man behind a deadly siege at a Sydney cafe fired at some of the hostages as they escaped but missed, possibly because of his limited experience with guns, an inquest heard on Tuesday.
Self-declared Muslim holy man Man Haron Monis took customers and staff at the upmarket Lindt cafe hostage on December 15, 2014, bringing the Martin Place financial district in Australia’s largest city to a standstill.
As the siege dragged on into the early hours of December 16, he became more erratic. When six hostages ran for a door he fired his shotgun, an act which was seen as a warning shot at the time.
"It now appears that although his shot missed, the very strong inference is that Monis was shooting at the hostages," counsel assisting the inquiry, Sophie Callan, told the inquest.
"The fact that he missed by some margin is consistent with him having limited experience with guns and with the difficulty of aiming his sawn-off shotgun, plus the suddenness of the escape."
The inquest was told that police had hoped to "contain and negotiate" with Monis, who was armed with the gun and thought to have a bomb in his backpack. It was later discovered to be fake.
Monis, who had asked police for an 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.... flag but was refused, held the hostages for some 17 hours -- over which time five escaped, including two without his notice.
By the time the six others ran for their lives at 2:03am on December 16, he still had not hurt anyone.
But not long afterwards, he ordered cafe manager Tori Johnson, 34, to get on to his knees and put his hands on his head. Minutes later he shot him dead.
The shooting prompted tactical police to storm the building. Monis and hostage Katrina Dawson, a 38-year-old barrister and mother-of-three, were killed in the firing.
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[ISRAELNATIONALNEWS] Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) on Wednesday morning warned that if Europe hopes to defeat the Islamist terror attacking it, it must change. "All we have to do is make sure the Visigoths have job security..."
Speaking to Army Radio about the lethal 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.... (ISIS) bombings in Brussels the day before in which 34 people were murdered, he said, "if Europe wants to fight terror, and it is not fighting terror, it has to change." "It's easy to fear the Ostrogoths. They have those fur vests and helmets and axes. But they have families, just like us!"
"The terror threatens the entire non-Muslim world, the entire Western world - us, Europe, the United States," he said. "Gauls and Franks can learn to get along..."
Steinitz expressed his disappointment that "Europe didn't wake up. Because what we heard from Europe yesterday is the response: 'we won't change.' We should have heard: 'we will change.' The response of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... was: 'we will not give up on our values,' and that's completely fine, but basically, the subtext is 'we will stay as we were.'" "Terrorism knows no religion!"
"Europe cannot make do with just policing and preventative steps. It must fight terror with active intelligence, to a large extent like we are doing (in Israel), by investing resources with a minimal harm to the freedom of the individual, the right to privacy and the rights of the citizen." "No! Never! All you need is love! Ya-ta-ta-ta-ta! Al you need is love, babe! Love is all you need!"
He suggested that Europe begin by targeting the sources of incitement in the continent, by "closing mosques, arresting imams who incite to terror and hatred against non-Muslims." "Our laws protect the Vandals, whether the Vandals obey our laws or not!"
Secondly, he called for the immediate implementation of a control system for gathering intelligence which "has a certain aspect of intelligence breaching into the domain of the individual." "Of course they don't hate us! That's a very racist comment!"
"They still haven't established in Europe organizations like the FBI and the Shabak (Israeli Security Agency), which monitor the state internally in order to prevent these kinds of groupings and to nip them in the bud," he said regarding the terror cells. "If you're going to have freedom of assembly it's got to include freedom to conspire. We have emergency services to treat the maimed and bury the dead and then we can catch the perpetrators, put them on trial, and give them hefty suspended sentences."
Steinitz said Israel "has a lot to contribute to Europe. Unfortunately we have dozens of years of experience. We don't have absolute success - we did not succeed in wiping out the terror, but we have great success. We succeeded in preventing it from becoming a lot more significant." "Help? From Israel? That shity little state? We'd rather die!"
He said the terror in Europe and the terror attacks plaguing Israel are two sides of the same coin. "Just because they employ the same rhetoric and the same tactics doesn't mean they're the same!"
"This is a stream with different factions. Here they emphasize more the need to 'liberate Paleostine,' there they emphasize attacking the crusaders, the Christians and eventually reaching the Islamization of Europe." "See? Two entirely different goals! Nothing in common!"
"It all stems from the same worldview that posits: Islam is supreme, Islam needs to rule, there is no place for infidels. For radical Islam we, the Europeans and also moderate Muslims are the infidels," he concluded. "Never! It's worth three dozen dead and a couple hundred maimed to remain the Europe we are! We do not need testicles!"
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You can wake the sleeping. You cannot wake the dead.
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As I predicted long ago, It will take some time for the Europeans to understand what The Islamofaschists are trying to do to them. Unfortunately, by the time they understand there will not be many Europeans left to do anything about it. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
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How big an alarm clock do they need??? A nuclear alarm clock?
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Terrific, Rantburg's "Frontline Reporter"!
Take copious photos, videos, verbal annotations and freeform comments/interview opinions from native passersby of both the migrant/terror AND election observation stories.
It'll give you some activity structure other than the tasteless tour. Post the content on the cloud and edit it into a travelogue. Could pay for your trip.
Or enjoy the away time with your wife, which is more valuable.
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A year ago, we were discussing the threat to cruise ships at the 'Burg. I didn't tell Mrs. Bobby and we had a wonderful two-week cruise to Greece, Italy, Santorini and Rhodes, and a few hours at Ephesus. The one in Turkey. That part of Turkey was extremely capitalist!
I trust your journeys will be similarly delightful!
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Keep your head on a swivel, Rambler. And avoid crowds. I went last year, would not go this year. You need to have increased situational awareness. Understand Jeff Cooper's Color Codes of situational awareness. Make good habits. I avoided several potential situations by thinking and looking ahead. This is the new normal for people who want to be healthy.
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Excellent ports of call Bobby. Confirm Ephesus.
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Be situationally aware, stay away from urban clusters. Hire someone to buy the groceries. Catch the bus/train/airplane at the next stop, not the hub. Pay the cab a little more to take the long route. The countryside is beautiful and small dark restaurants off mainstream are better anyway.
[ABCNEWS.GO] An American injured in the Brussels terror attacks has already been impacted previous terror attacks in Boston and Gay Paree, his family said.
Mason Wells, 19, was injured in the bombing at the Brussels airport along with two other American Mormon missionaries who had gone to help check in other missionaries who were traveling to the U.S.
Wells suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon, shrapnel injures, as well as second- and third-degree burns on his face and hands after the bombing, his father Chad Wells told ABC News.
The teen missionary had previously been impacted by other terror attacks in Gay Paree and Boston.
"This is his third terrorist attack," Chad Wells said, noting he was with his son just a block from the Boston Marathon bombing.
"This is the third time that sadly in our society that we have a connection to a kaboom," Wells told ABC News. "We live in a dangerous world and not everyone is kind and loving."
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He is the Mormon Tsutomu Yamaguchi aka Mr. Rucky:
He Was Nuked Twice and Lived
TOKYO – Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person officially recognized as a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings at the end of World War II, has died at age 93.
Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip for his shipbuilding company on Aug. 6, 1945, when a U.S. B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He suffered serious burns to his upper body and spent the night in the city.
He then returned to his hometown of Nagasaki, about 300 kilometers (190 miles) to the southwest, which suffered a second U.S. atomic bomb attack three days later.
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Just found the star for the sequel series to "Murder She Wrote".
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The site the phone calls came from was https://visit.brussels/en but I'm sure they've taken that part of the site down by now. "Hello? Hello? Is this Bruxells? I'm trying to reach Bruxells! Hello? Is anybody there?"
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Poor Brussels. To refresh my memory, I checked the Belgium Wikipedia page, and was rewarded with the following information:
Following the June 2007 elections there was a problem putting together a new coalition to form a new government, so the previous government officially acted as a caretaker from Dec. 2007 - March 2008, charged with handling day to day running of the federal government, but forbidden to make any new decisions.
A new government was sworn in on March 20, 2008. For whatever reason, they offered their resignation on July 15, 2008, which the king refused, then resigned again in December 2008.
A new government was sworn in on Dec. 30, 2008, then resigned in Nov. 2009.
A new government was sworn in on Nov. 25, 2009, then resigned in April 2010, but agreed to stay on as caretaker -- again running the day to day needs of the government but making no new decisions -- until a new government formed following the upcoming elections in June 2010. It took until December 2011 for a new coalition government to be formed, a world record for a country to go without a proper government. The Belgians have much cause to be grateful that they live in a federation with much local self-governance, and not under a unitary national government, like France.
The election in 2014 resulted in a new government forming promptly, but there was a long period when none of the decisions necessary to dealing with the rising jihadi threat could be made.
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See also WORLD NEWS > BRUSSELS ATTACK THREATENS [EU] EUROPEAN UNITY.
Which IMO may had been the intent, or one of them. i.e. splitting or dividing the EU into North-vs-South???
NOTSOMUCH WEST-VS-EAST UNLESS THEY PROCEED TO ATTACK RUSSIA + ASIA.
* Also from WORLD NEWS [Inquisitr] > ISIS HAS "400 FIGHTERS [c. 440?] TRAINED TO ATTACK EUROPE IN DEADLY WAVES [of bloodshed].
* SAME > [Time>com] ISIS HAS NOW BECOME A TRULY GLOBAL THREAT.
What part of Radical Islam's jihad being a
"GLOBAL JIHAD" AKA "GLOBAL/WORLDWIDE MOHAMEDDAN CONQUEST" DID WE ONCE AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN ... NOT UNDERSTAND?
* SAME > [HuffPo] TREATING ISIS LIKE A [de facto] STATE WITH AN ARMY WILL ONLY MAKE IT STRONGER.
Yuuup.
I DON'T HAVE TO BRING UP SEXY SLINKY EMILY BLUNT + 2014'S "EDGE OF TOMORROW", DO I!?
[WASHINGTONPOST] Appearing on Fox News to discuss the attacks in Belgium, Michael Chertoff, who was the secretary of homeland security in the George W. Bush administration, labeled the candidate’s ideas "preposterous."
"First of all, we have a much, much tougher refugee program than the Europeans have," Chertoff said. "The problem the Europeans have is people showed up on their doorstep -- hundreds of thousands, coming directly from the region. That does not happen in the U.S. We check people very carefully before we admit them as refugees."
How about the 11 million refugees from Mexico and Central America?
"The idea that you can identify people who are a risk based upon their religion or the way they look is completely fallacious. It’s like going after cancer with a meat axe instead of a scalpel."
When the scalpel doesn't work, and just as importantly when you're not willing to use a scalpel, someone's going to start thinking that the meat axe is an appropriate tool...
During an appearance on MSNBC, terrorism expert Malcolm Nance said Trump’s "bluster" in the wake of Tuesday’s attacks was hampering U.S. intelligence and the armed forces.
"Donald Trump right now is validating the cartoonish view that they [Islamist turban groups] tell their operatives and that they tell their terrorists," Nance said. "That the United States is a racist nation, xenophobic, anti-Muslim, and that that’s why you must carry out terrorist attacks against them."
Nance said that type of rhetoric is detrimental to global counterterrorism missions.
"There are intelligence officers right now that are going to have to contend with their partners over what’s being said during the U.S. presidential race," he told MSNBC. "It’s irresponsible, and it needs to stop."
Contend? I'll bet there's a fair bit of agreement at the lower levels...
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...We check people very carefully before we admit them as refugees."
"Look at the great job we did with the Tsarnaevs."
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The Fed Executive + Legislative Barnches are now getting in trouble wid the Fed Courts, the latter demanding that illegals have no rights to stay permamently "illegal" while receiving all forms of Fed-controlled or supported public assistance as SEMI/QUASI-LEGAL CITIZENS-RESIDENTS.
EITHER DEPORT 'EM EN MASSE LIKE POTUS IKE EISENHOWER, OR ELSE PUT THEM ON A PATH TOWARDS NEAR-TERM DE FACTO CITIZENSHIP.
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"First of all, we have a much, much tougher refugee program than the Europeans have,"
Not anymore we don't.
"The idea that you can identify people who are a risk based upon their religion or the way they look is completely fallacious. It’s like going after cancer with a meat axe instead of a scalpel."
Obviously BS if you haven't succumbed to PC disease.
"That the United States is a racist nation, xenophobic, anti-Muslim, and that that’s why you must carry out terrorist attacks against them."
Not any more correct than the theory that Benghazi was caused by a movie. They will do it and blame it on the direction of the wind if they have to.
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"There are intelligence officers right now that are going to have to contend with their partners over what’s being said during the U.S. presidential race,"
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Chertoff's mendacity is appalling. Generally, the UN High Commission for Refugees does the paper work and the US goes along with its findings, which are cursory at best.
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Dude, you have a credibility problem and it gets worse every time there is an attack. People don't trust you anymore. It's time for a different approach.
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These experts see the conflict as a popularity contest where the West and the terrorists are the competitors vying for the good will of the general Muslim populace.
The problem is that in order to win this competition the West will have to prove to the Muslims that it is a better servant, and a better tool with which to enforce the will of Muslims than the terrorists would be.
IOW the West must submit to Muslims in order to win.
"As it turns out the people who carried out these massacres all belonged to an Islamic Center in whatever city they were from. This goes along with reports earlier this month that mosques and Islamic Centers in the United States were stockpiling weapons.
But the government would never bother checking because it might offend somebody. And the people who are deciding what's offensive to those who practice Islam are actually part of this jihadi network, as well, and they're also working hand-in-hand with the Obama Administration, and have been a part of our government for much longer."
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Hey, the boss said Global Warming was the most important threat facing America. And all the boot lickers in government followed accordingly. Remember, if you object, you're a racist.
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The Islamic Center movement, which was initiated by the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe in the nineteen sixties, has been since its inception funded by Saudi Arabia. In the USA that included the center in Tucson AZ which was a nexus of AQ operations in the nineteen nineties, along with centers in Brooklyn, Jersey, Orange County, CA., and Falls Church. Almost surely the number of Islamic Centers under surveillance in the USA alone must exceed fifty sites.
[DailyBeast] U.S. counterterrorism officials are frustrated and angry at Belgium's inability to tackle ISIS terror cells that are successfully plotting murderous attacks on the West from inside the country's tiny capital city.
The twin terror attacks in Brussels that left at least 30 dead and 230 injured on Tuesday, despite repeated warnings from Washington, left U.S. officials fuming.
A senior U.S. intelligence officer likened the Belgian security forces to "children." That might leave a mark.
Could the Belgians not assign the 515th Fighting Heavy Barbers to the task?
#1
Looks like the nice French Lady's fear at local McDonald's that Belgium will likely be the first Euro country to be taken over by the ISIS/ISIS, asopposed to the UK or France or Other, is coming true. Belgium wid its huge Muslim expat population was already at risk even before the Syria-Iraq refugee crisis began.
The EU's Security + INTEL forces are being overwhelmed by the sheer numbers + scale of networking.
#2
Two words: San Bernardino. Israel's experience indicates that if they've access, they'll commit acts of terrorism. And if you block access---they start developing qassams.
The problem was the socialists were becoming less and less popular and might lose power. The solution was to let in lots of immigrants and make them citizens after a very short time. The result was a large new voting block of socialists.
Does this immigration policy remind anyone of Obama?
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#4
Seems kind of rude and un-statesmanlike considering the blood hasn't dried yet.
#5
Part of the problem is the long period of alternating caretaker and short-lived governments, when virtually no dcisions could be or were made. To repeat the history I posted in another thread:
Following the June 2007 elections there was a problem putting together a new coalition to form a new government, so the previous government officially acted as a caretaker from Dec. 2007 - March 2008, charged with handling day to day running of the federal government, but forbidden to make any new decisions.
A new government was sworn in on March 20, 2008. For whatever reason, they offered their resignation on July 15, 2008, which the king refused, then resigned again in December 2008.
A new government was sworn in on Dec. 30, 2008, then resigned in Nov. 2009.
A new government was sworn in on Nov. 25, 2009, then resigned in April 2010, but agreed to stay on as caretaker -- again running the day to day needs of the government but making no new decisions -- until a new government formed following the upcoming elections in June 2010. It took until December 2011 for a new coalition government to be formed, a world record for a country to go without a proper government. The Belgians have much cause to be grateful that they live in a federation with much local self-governance, and not under a unitary national government, like France.
The election in 2014 resulted in a new government forming promptly, but there was a long period when none of the decisions necessary to dealing with the rising jihadi threat could be made.
[IsraelTimes] Drills involving 1,000 police, emergency service personnel aren’t ‘announcement of war,’ official in the Strip says
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, staged major military exercises Tuesday to test its readiness in the event of another Israeli offensive on the Gazoo Strip, which has been ravaged by three wars since 2008.
The exercises involving 1,000 police and emergency services personnel were not meant to be seen as an "announcement of war," said a front man for the Islamist movement’s interior ministry.
According to the rules of hudna, there needn't be an announcement when the Muslim party restarts the war. So this makes perfect sense.
For the duration of the exercises, however, a state of emergency was observed in Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya, bordering Israel in the north, and Jabaliya farther to the south.
The media was barred from approaching the area, but loud kabooms could be heard from a distance, with hospitals and schools placed on alert.
[ARA News] QAMISHLI – Since it started to control much swathes of territory in Syria’s north and northeast, the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and its political leadership of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) have been major powers in the region, especially after expelling the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) from key cities and towns. However, many Kurds, Arabs and Assyrians accuse this force of usurping power in Syria’s Kurdish region of Rojava.
Johnny Misso, head of the Assyrian World Council (AWC) on Tuesday accused the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) of monopolizing power in areas under the control of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria.
“We have released an urgent call to the Human Rights Council about the violations committed against Assyrians in Syria,” Misso said in a press statement.
“Thousands of Assyrians living in northern Syria are exposed to attacks by the PYD-linked YPG forces,” he said.
“On January 12, the YPG forces attacked the Assyrian Protection Forces (Suturo) in the city of Qamishli, northeastern Syria, killing one of its members,” Misso stressed.
The Assyrian leader pointed out that the PYD continues to escalate tension in the region, rather than proposing solutions to the crisis, “as it undermines the ongoing peace efforts between the opposition and the Syrian regime, beside threatening the unity of the Syrian territory.”
According to Misso, the PYD monopolizes power and subdues Assyrians in the federal system announced by the group in Syria’s north and northeast.
“PYD ignores the national and international law, threatening the security of the local population, including Assyrians through its separatism aspirations,” he said.
On 17 March, the PYD and its Arab allies announced a Democratic Federal System for Rojava and Norhern Syria in a two-days conference in the oil-rich town of Rumelan, appointing Hediya Yousef, a Kurd, and Mansur Selam, an Arab, as co-leaders, after those parties were excluded from the Geneva talks.
However, speaking to ARA News in Qamishli, Sanharib Barsoum, leader of the Assyrian Union Party (AUP), said: “The recently declared federal democratic system for Rojava and Norhern Syria is a guarantee for the rights of all components of the region, including the Assyrians.”
In March 2015, several Syrian human rights organizations released an urgent call to the international community to intervene and stop the attacks of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) on the Assyrian villages in the countryside of Tel Temir in Hasakah province, in northeastern Syria. The Kurdish YPG forces had played a major role in liberating the Assyrian areas after fierce battles against ISIS.
“Thousands of Assyrian civilians in the Nineveh Plain in Iraq have been displaced, but no one cared about them,” Barsoum said, pointing out that the Assyrian minority in Syria is facing a similar destiny.
In early 2015, ISIS launched major offensive on several Assyrian villages near Tel Temir in the western countryside of Hasakah, abducting hundreds of Assyrian civilians. Months later, the Kurdish YPG forces, with the support of allied Arab and Christian groups, were able to liberate the whole countryside of Hasakah from the radical group.
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[ISRAELNATIONALNEWS] Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) on Wednesday morning warned that if Europe hopes to defeat the Islamist terror attacking it, it must change.
[WASHINGTONPOST] Appearing on Fox News to discuss the attacks in Belgium, Michael Chertoff, who was the secretary of homeland security in the George W. Bush administration, labeled the candidate’s ideas "preposterous."
"As it turns out the people who carried out these massacres all belonged to an Islamic Center in whatever city they were from. This goes along with reports earlier this month that mosques and Islamic Centers in the United States were stockpiling weapons.
[DailyBeast] U.S. counterterrorism officials are frustrated and angry at Belgium's inability to tackle ISIS terror cells that are successfully plotting murderous attacks on the West from inside the country's tiny capital city.
