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--trailing wife at 3:00 pm EDT
Reality Leigh Winner, the 25-year-old federal contractor who was arrested on Saturday for leaking classified information to the media, is a #Resistance activist who believes "being white is terrorism."
Winner reportedly confessed to leaking a top secret NSA document on purported Russian hacking to an unnamed news organization, believed to be The Intercept.
Her social media profiles show she's a thoroughly brainwashed, far-left #Resistance activist who said Donald Trump is an "orange fascist" and "the most dangerous" person in the country.
She's an ethnomasochist Word of the day!
who believes "being white is terrorism." For her futures sake, hope she's "Dutch." I'm sure her cellie and laptop have been confiscated, But just out of idle curiosity, could we possibly have someone check her bank account ?
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What kind of name is Reality Winner? I would think just the name would cause a deep background check.
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Why would there be red flags? She was hired by Obama holdovers specifically because she was expected to do what she was doing. Unfortunately, She's just one of thousands, and Obama's weaponized Fed continues its work to bring down Trump
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If "being white is terrorism.", does it make blond people terrorism masterminds?
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OK, so if it now a crime to pass classified info along, why has nobody pointed the various LEOs in the direction of Hillary?
or Huma.
or any number of Clintonistas.....
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Who's gonna report it? The press, the deep state, the Dems/GOP, the FBI or DOJ? NSA? ..anyone in IC? ....Buehler? Anyone in DC? ahhhh problem ID'd.
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Maybe they will put her in the same cell with Sally the Slammer and her favorite Coke bottle. If and when she gets out, she ll find her cats will have been "put down" because no friend or relative would have them.
[The Hill] WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says that a 25-year-old government contracter accused of sharing National Security Agency (NSA) documents with a media outlet "must be supported."
"Alleged NSA whistleblower Reality Leigh Winner must be supported," he tweeted Monday alongside a picture of Winner. "She is a young woman accused of courage in trying to help us know."
"It doesn’t matter why she did it or the quality [of] the report," Assange added in a separate tweet. "Acts of non-elite sources communicating knowledge should be strongly encouraged."
Prosecutors earlier Monday announced that the Department of Justice had charged Winner with sharing top secret material with a media outlet.
Court documents filed by the government did not specify which outlet received the materials, but NBC News reported Monday that the information went to The Intercept online news outlet.
The Intercept published a top secret NSA report Monday that alleged Russian military intelligence launched a 2016 cyberattack on a voting software company.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A 25-year-old federal contractor is facing charges she leaked a classified National Security Agency document to a news outlet in May. Lots more gym time coming her way.
The charges against Reality Leigh Winner came about an hour after the publication of a story based on an NSA document detailing Russian attempts to hack American voting systems in 2016. Charges against Reality came after only an hour? Bad smell here. Further investigation into 'discovery' warranted.
President Trump has been pushing Justice to go after leakers inside the federal government, which he has identified as "the big story" when it comes to Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election. Winner's arrest could signal the federal government is going to aggressively investigate and prosecute individuals who send classified intelligence to news organizations.
Trump and other Republican allies in Washington have made pursuing leakers one of their top priorities, but Winner is the first to face charges for releasing classified intelligence.
Winner, of Augusta, Ga., is facing charges that she removed classified material from a government facility and mailed it to a news outlet. She was placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! on Saturday and appeared on the charge Monday.
The announcement came shortly after The Intercept published a report based on a classified intelligence document showing Russian government hackers attempted to hack more than 100 local election officials before the November election.
According to the report, Russian military intelligence sent the emails to local elections officials. They also attempted a cyberattack on at least one American voting software supplier.
The Justice Department didn't confirm that Winner leaked the document to The Intercept, but the report stated the report received by the news outlet was dated May 5. The affidavit confirms the intelligence document was also dated on May 5.
Winner's social media posts appeared to show her repeatedly express her frustration with the Trump administration, while she also appears to have supported Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... during the election.
Another one? She's lucky to be facing President Trump instead of Candidate Hillary Clinton -- she's likely to live much longer, even if it is in a federal prison.
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'The Intercept' article mentioned here (still apparently classified) discusses in detail the Russian Spear-Phishing effort. I suspect a return to paper ballots would put an end to this type of activity directed at our election system.
Appears to be a seriously failed language school investment by the USAF. I'll wager some folks and activities at Fort Gordon have been tightened up considerably in the past few days.
Interesting timing. Putin issues categoric denials, Reality hits the mail box. I'm going with politically motivated, deranged Millennial vs spy. The damage is much the same however.
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Busted. That's what you get for not setting up a unsecured server in your bathroom closet at home. Maybe she can get a former FBI director to speak on her behalf about 'intent'. "I thought I hit delete" not send.
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seriously failed language school investment by the USAF.
The Daily Mail article I added to the post has updated since midnight. They now report Ms Winner served as a linguist in the US Air Force since 2013, speaking Farsi, Pashto, and Dari. The charge carries a ten year sentence.
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I recall that in January, there was news of an investigation into a DHS hack of Georgia's election. hmmmm DHS hack and Russian hack aimed at same target. Nothing to see here, I'm sure [walks away whistling]
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If Republicans are smart they'd put together a 50 state push towards paper ballots and replacing absentee voting with absentee drop-off day of the election.
Use the Russian fears, fraud, etc, If they push now they might clean up some of the mess by 2020.
[TUKO] Kenyans have questioned the quality of the newly acquired armoured police vehicles after one of them was extensively destroyed leaving seven police officers dead.
The photos of the armoured vehicle which have emerged online show it was badly damaged by the explosive.
This left many wondering how such a machine could take such impact which it is meant to withstand.
Photos shows a badly ripped APC which lay upside down following the blast with some of its parts strewn on the ground.
Kenya bought at least 30 VN-4 APCs from China in January 2016 at billions of shillings with President Uhuru saying they will be used to fight terror. Click through for photos
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The armor is welded shut and primarily provides protection from small arms fire and splinters from explosives.
This thing is basically a Jeep with wraparound protection against small arms. The article claims billions of shillings were paid for 30 vehicles. Assuming (conservatively) 1b shillings, at the exchange rate of 100 shillings to a dollar, that's over $300,000 per vehicle. Uncle Sam was paying $500K for actual mine-resistant MRAP's from First World manufacturers. Some Kenyan official's bank account was fattened, especially if the contract value was 2 or 3 billion shillings.
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I'm surprised Kenya didn't buy south african armour which I'm pretty sure is specifically designed for African terrain and surviving mines. Not a place to get cheap.
Or did the blokes that made that vehicle pack up and move on when the governments changed?
Zero Hedge - apply salt accordingly.
In what has emerged as the most significant escalation to result from the Qatar diplomatic crisis - which pits two of OPEC’s largest oil producers, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, against the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas and further disrupts stability in the region - the biggest Middle East oil and container ports banned all vessels sailing to and from Qatar from using their facilities.
According to a notice posted on the website of Inchcape Shipping, Saudi Arabian and Bahraini authorities closed off all of their ports to Qatari-flagged vessels or ships traveling to or coming from the Persian Gulf state, in what has been described as a naval blockade.
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*sigh* Not a true blockade in the naval sense of the word. Still, if people think this is a blockade, it may cause oil prices to spike briefly.
[IsraelTimes] Saleh al-Arouri now reportedly in Malaysia after being told to leave Doha along with several other Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror chiefs.
A Paleostinian terrorist believed by Israeli intelligence officials to have planned the kidnap and murder of three Jewish teens in the West Bank in the summer of 2014 has been expelled from Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... Paleostinian sources confirmed Monday that the kingdom -- now embroiled in a boycott by 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... and four other Arab states -- asked several top Hamas officials to leave for Leb, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Malaysia.
The sources contradicted Hamas’s denial of the expulsion orders, which were first reported over the weekend by the Lebanese-based Al Mayadeen news channel.
On Sunday, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and Egypt decided to cut ties with Qatar and boot it out of an Arab coalition fighting in Yemen, claiming that it supported Iran and Islamist terrorism. 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... joined the boycott on Monday.
The list of Hamas officials Qatar has asked to leave its territory -- reportedly gleaned from interrogations of Paleostinian security prisoners in Israel -- included Saleh al-Arouri, said to be the group’s military commander in the West Bank and the founder of the West Bank branch of Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
According to Army Radio, Arouri is now in Malaysia following his expulsion from Qatar.
Arouri served several terms in Israeli jails, and was released in March 2010, apparently within the framework of talks to free Gilad Shalit, the IDF corporal kidnapped by Hamas in 2006.
According to the Ynet news site, Arouri went on to be involved in sewing up the deal that provided for the release of more than 1,000 Paleostinian prisoners from Israeli jails in return for the freeing of Shalit.
Israeli intelligence officials believe that Arouri helped plan the June 2014 kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens -- Gil-ad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach and Naftali Fraenkel.
That event was followed by a sharp crackdown on Hamas operatives in the West Bank by Israel, to which Hamas responded with heavy rocket fire into Israel. The rocket fire was answered, in turn, by Israel’s launching of a major operation against Gazoo, which turned into all-out war between Hamas and the Jewish state during the summer of 2014.
In addition to Arouri, Hamas terrorist Musa Dudin, who was released from an Israeli prison under the Shalit deal, was also expelled from Qatar, according to Army Radio. The report did not say which country he was expelled to.
Qatari officials have reportedly apologized for having to expel Hamas officials, but said it came as a result of "external pressures" on Doha, without giving details.
[MOBILE.REUTERS] The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... while Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... was U.S. secretary of state without informing the State Department, even though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments.
Qatari officials pledged the money in 2011 to mark the 65th birthday of Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... , Hillary Clinton's husband, and sought to meet the former U.S. president in person the following year to present him the check, according to an email from a foundation official to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta. The email, among thousands hacked from Podesta's account, was published last month by WikiLeaks.
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[Al Jazeera] Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... has expressed surprise over the "unjustified" decision by 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... , Egypt, UAE, Bahrain, 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... and the Maldives to suspend relations with Doha, saying that the decision was in "violation of its illusory sovereignty".
"It was clear from the outset that the aim of the media campaign and the decision to cut off diplomatic and consular relations and close the borders is to pressure Qatar to abandon its national decision-making and illusory sovereignty," the Qatari Cabinet said in a statement on Monday.
"The measures are unjustified and are based on claims and allegations that have no basis in fact," the foreign ministry said in another statement, adding that the decisions would not affect the normal lives of citizens and residents.
"The aim is clear, and it is to impose guardianship on the state. This by itself is a violation of its [Qatar's] illusory sovereignty as a state," it added.
Qatar has taken all necessary measures to ensure normal life and there is no need to panic or stock up essential items, according to a cabinet statement.
Import of goods and movement of people will not be affected as all channels of import other than those from the Gulf states, which severed ties with Qatar, will continue to work as before, it said.
"Marine and air spaces will remain open for import and movement. We have taken all necessary precautions to ensure normal life," the statement said.
Push for isolation
The Saudi kingdom made the announcement to cut ties via its state-run Saudi Press Agency early on Monday, saying it was taking action for what it called the protection of national security.
The news agency released a statement in which it accused Qatar of "harbouring a multitude of terrorist and sectarian groups that aim to create instability in the region".
As part of the measures, Saudi Arabia said it would pull Qatari support from the Yemen war.
The UAE said in a statement it was cutting off all ties with Qatar. It also ordered Qatari citizens to leave the country within 14 days and banned its citizens from travelling to Qatar.
Bahrain's foreign ministry issued a statement saying it would withdraw its diplomatic mission from Doha within 48 hours and that all Qatari diplomats should leave Bahrain within the same period.
Egypt also announced the closure of its airspace and seaports for all Qatari transportation "to protect its national security", the foreign ministry said in a statement.
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[RT] 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... 's King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... has appointed his son, Prince Khaled bin Salman, as the country’s ambassador to the US, in a move said to point to strengthening ties to President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... Prince Khaled is an Air Force pilot who has taken part in operations in 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... and against ISIS, AP reports. The prince, who studied military aviation in the US and briefly attended both Harvard University and Georgetown, has been working as an adviser at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington since last year.
Khaled’s position will allow Trump a direct line to the Saudi monarchy, further signalling warmer relations between the two powers after a cooling following the B.O. regime’s nuclear agreement with regional rival Iran.
Saudi Arabia’s defense minister, and another of King Salman’s sons, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, met with Trump in the White House in March.
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[Breitbart London] London Mayor Sadiq Khan -- who has seen two terror attacks in the city since he took office in May 2016 -- has called for the state visit of U.S. President Donald Trump to be cancelled after the president slammed Khan for telling Londoners there is "no reason to be alarmed" following Saturday’s terror attack.
Mr. Khan made the comments on Channel 4 News, saying the president’s policies -- his proposed temporary travel ban on immigration from six Middle Eastern nations on grounds of securing the safety of American citizens -- "go[es] against everything we stand for".
"I don’t think we should roll out the red carpet to the president of the USA in the circumstances where his policies go against everything we stand for," he said.
"When you have a special relationship it is no different from when you have got a close mate. You stand with them in times of adversity but you call them out when they are wrong. There are many things about which Donald Trump is wrong."
This is not the first time the London mayor has called for the offer of a state visit to be rescinded.
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It's clear Khan's "don't be alarmed" comments were in regards to an increased police presence. Yet Breitbart still plays their usual contextual circle jerk. What a god awful publication.
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Was he elected by Muslims or by Liberals desperate to prove they aren't racist.
Both. Another example of the power of and. Also, he was the Labour candidate, and positioned himself as a proper modern Progressive. Everyone had forgotten about his various defense attorney projects -- the soft jihad of the law.
[Telegraph] The brother of Manchester jacket wallah Salman Abedi has been released without charge by police.
Ismail Abedi was tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in Whalley Range, Manchester, on May 23, a day after the terror attack on Manchester Arena which killed 22 people including children.
Ten men remain in jug in connection with the attack.
Another eight people have been released without charge.
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Because he was only arrested to show the public that "we're doing something'?
What moron(s) is trying to get these terrorists an Islamic funeral? Bury them sewed up in a pig skin.
More than 130 imams and Muslim religious leaders in the United Kingdom have said they will refuse to perform funeral prayers for the Manchester and London terrorists as a rebuke to the "dastardly cowardice" of the "vile murderers."
The Muslim Council of Britain released a letter Monday with 132 signatories including imams, scholars and leaders of various Islamic organizations. The MCB describes itself as an institution established to "promote consultation, cooperation and coordination on Muslim affairs in the United Kingdom," working together with Islamic schools and mosques.
There are approximately 3 million Muslims, and 1,750 mosques, in the U.K.
The letter decried the May 22 Manchester Arena bombing and Saturday’s dual attacks at London Bridge and Borough Market.
"We are deeply hurt that a spate of terror attacks have been committed in our country once more by murderers who seek to gain religious legitimacy for their actions," the letter read. "We seek to clarify that their reprehensible actions have neither legitimacy nor our sympathy."
"Though at no time is it acceptable, that such ruthless violence was perpetrated during the season of Ramadan, in which Muslims worldwide focus on pious devotion, prayer, charity and the cultivation of good character, demonstrates how utterly misguided and distant the terrorists are from our faith and the contempt which they hold for its values," it continued.
The letter also praised U.K. law enforcement and encouraged other imams and religious leaders to "withdraw such a privilege" of performing funeral rites for the attackers. ISIS has taken credit for both the Manchester and London attacks.
"We pray to God that the perpetrators be judged in accordance with the gravity of their crimes in the hereafter," the letter read. "Their acts and willful dismissal of our religious principles alienates them from any association with our community for whom the inviolability of every human life is the founding principle."
One of the signatories, Imam Yunus Dudhwala, Head of Chaplaincy & Bereavement at Barts Health NHS Trust, told Yahoo News the letter was a "grassroots effort," and called on the U.K. government to reach out to the Muslim community for help combatting terror.
"When the government doesn’t talk to Muslim leaders, then they are going to get their strategy wrong," he said, while at the same time denying that U.K. Islamic institutions facilitate radicalization.
"To my knowledge, there is not a single mosque in the country that preaches hate, violence, or extremism," he said. "It’s the Internet. It’s foreign policy, identity, and previous criminal behavior that we need to address."
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I recommend oiling their body with liquid lard and possibly even embalm them with nitrate preserved warm lard. Make it clear that this will be standard practice for all terrorists.
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I'm wondering if Wahhabi funded Mosques didn't get word from their Saudi Masters recently. Or they are catching the way the wind is blowing and realizing they've pushed too far already.
[BirminghamMail] West Midlands Police has launched an urgent investigation after confidential and highly classified documents were stolen from a car used by its head of counter terrorism.
An unmarked vehicle used by Assistant Chief Constable Marcus Beale was targeted by thieves who took a locked box containing the secret papers. The box was locked in the boot.
West Midlands Police has now launched an investigation after the theft of the classified documents on May 15.
Mr Beale remains at work.
Mr Beale holds the security portfolio with responsibility for West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit (WMCTU) and local policing in Birmingham.
He is also the force's lead for equality, diversity, and human rights, and health and safety.
Mr Beale joined the West Midlands force in June 2011 as an experienced ACC, having served at that rank for the previous four years with Staffordshire Police.
According to the West Midlands Police website, he has had significant command responsibilities for WMCTU operations. It states: "These operations have disrupted some of the most significant UK mainland terrorist plots in recent years, including the 'London Stock Exchange' plot in 2010, the foiled suicide attack plan in 2011, and the failed attack on the Dewsbury EDL in 2012."
Last year Mr Beale was one of four former Staffordshire Police officers told they would face no action over a investigation into the murder of Kevin Nunes,
[RT] People in Britain may start to call for terrorist suspects to be put into internment camps if something is not done to prevent further attacks after three major incidents in three months, former UKIP leader Nigel Farage says. Whoa! Think of all the opportunities for pix of pathetic-looking Moslem kids grasping the wire and staring at the photographer!
In a debate on the right-wing Murdoch-owned Fox News, Farage discussed the idea of suspects being rounded up and detained without trial. Internment has rarely been used in the UK.
It was last used during the Troubles, in which hundreds of Irish people suspected of being involved with the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in the 1970s were rounded up.
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[RT] Khuram Shazad Butt, Notice that the name is Pakistained.
one the London Bridge attackers recently identified by police, appeared in a Channel 4 documentary called ‘The Jihadist Next Door’ last year. Police were reportedly alerted after he was filmed praying behind a jihadist Black Standard and attempting to recruit children at a local park.
Butt, 27, from Barking, East London was part of a “group of British extremists intent on spreading their message of global jihad” who appeared in the program.
In the documentary, Butt (wearing all beige) is filmed praying with the Black Standard with white shahada (Islamic creed) flag in the forefront, along with a group of other radical Muslims in the middle of London’s Regent’s Park. The variations of the Black Standard with white shahada has been used by numerous jihadist groups including al-Qaeda and Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
A police statement released Monday said Butt was known to police and the domestic intelligence agency MI5, but was not thought to have been planning an attack.
Neighbors have identified one of the London Bridge attack suspects as a man known by the nickname "ABZ" or "Abs" who was featured in a recent documentary on the British Channel 4 from 2016 called "The Jihadist Next Door."
Neighbors say he was the attacker who wore the fake suicide vest during the vehicle and stabbing attack that killed seven people in London on Saturday night.
He was a member of Al Muhajiroun, a small group of men led by Anjem Choudary and Siddartha Dhar who openly preached for the need for Sharia law.
The group was closely monitored by authorities.
According to Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, research director of George Washington University's Program on Extremism, Choudary's network of extremist followers has numbered in the hundreds, and many have been charged with terrorism offenses in the U.K. or fought and died in Syria with ISIS.
"So the potential for more of them to mobilize is still there," said Meleagrou-Hitchens, who has interviewed several members of the group. "Almost all would be known to authorities though ... There are hundreds of members but only small fraction will act. Knowing which ones will is hard and not an exact science."
Another British expert said Al-Muhajiroun has proven time and again that many of those involved with it are truly "dangerous individuals," justifying the British government's 2010 ban on Choudary's group.
"Thwarting plots relies on an element of luck," said Robin Simcox, a terrorism expert at the Heritage Foundation. "And with 23,000 suspects on the radar, the British Security Services simply don't have the capacity to track everyone that is a potential terror threat."
What else was known as of midnight, and a place to add updates as the day progresses. Yesterday's report is here. Previous reports are linked there. From the BBC:
Two of the attackers named by police as Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane
Butt was known to police and MI5 but there was no intelligence to suggest an attack, Scotland Yard says
Police searched an address in Newham and another in Barking, east London - 12 people were arrested, all are released without charge
NHS England says 36 injured remain in hospital, 18 are still in a critical condition
General election campaigning has resumed with PM Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn focusing on security
Pakistan-born Khuram Butt, 27, from Barking, east London, who was known to police, had previously worked for London Underground, Transport for London said.
The other was Rachid Redouane, 30, from Barking, who police said claimed to be Moroccan-Libyan. Redouane, who was a chef, also used the name Rachid Elkhdar and a different birth date. He was not known to police.
He had also lived for a time in Dublin, Ireland's RTE reports.
Redouane married a British woman in Ireland in 2011 before moving back to the UK, it added. They both returned to Ireland in 2016 for a short time before separating.
Documentation, believed to be an identity card, was found after he was shot dead, the broadcaster says.
Barriers are being built on a number of bridges in London following Saturday's attack. They have been described by the Metropolitan Police as "increased security measures".
Westminster Bridge, where a man ploughed a car into pedestrians in March, was the the first to have them installed, the Met said.
Sky News reports that police found Molotov cocktails in the back of the hired van used in the London Bridge attack. At least a dozen bottles filled with clear liquid, which had rags stuffed in their tops, were found in the back of the hired van, and police had treated them as though they were petrol bombs, Sky News said citing unnamed sources.
The third dead attacker is not a UK citizen.
Barriers have been installed on three central London bridges following the latest terror attack to hit the capital. The structures have been introduced to stop traffic from mounting the pavement on Westminster, Lambeth and Waterloo bridges.
Jeremy Corbyn said Isil supporters should not be prosecuted for 'expressing a political point of view'
[FOXNEWS] After yet another deadly terrorist attack swept through the streets of Britannia late Saturday, politicians and leaders were scrambling to take back the reins and foil any further tragedies.
British Prime Minister Theresa May, speaking Sunday after a meeting of the government’s COBRA emergency committee, claimed there was "too much tolerance" of Islamist extremism in the U.K. and insisted that the country’s counterterrorism strategy would be reviewed.
While such reviews remain in preliminary stages, a British intelligence source told Fox News that it is an "all hands at the pump" approach, with Joint Intelligence Operations to be carried out collaboratively with M15, Scotland Yard and the Army’s Special Air Service (SAS) all involved.
The points of focus include: recruiting and deploying even more counterterrorism officers, and pushing through new laws to "round up" suspected snuffies and, if convicted, stripping them of their citizenship as a deterrent.
"There is also early talk that things could go as far as banning the burka," the source said.
The burka debate has, for more than a decade, divided much of the British community. In 2006, MP and government minister Jack Straw first advocated support for such a prohibition in the media, but several years later apologized following the backlash. Nearby European countries such as La Belle France, Austria, Germany and Belgium have, over the years, implemented different degrees of legislation to restrict the wearing of full-face veils.
"It is just whispers at the moment, but if that goes live, one would guess that it will be enforced across the U.K.," the source noted.
Furthermore, the U.K. government is said to be planning how to dismantle the pockets of extremism and enforce better mechanism for community integration.
"There are a lot of Moslem strongholds in the U.K. from London and Luton to Birmingham, Burnley and Blackburn," added the intel source. "Right now, through weak policies, we have allowed the fundamentalists to spoil it for the majority."
British authorities also are said to be looking at ways to "force large Internet companies to ban krazed killer material on their search engines and additionally report any content that they find."
In her address Sunday, May vowed that the Internet could no longer function as a "safe space" for jihadism. Another intelligence source confirmed that May’s focus is very much on the role of the Internet ‐ restricting and monitoring ‐ in the quest to infiltrate where cells congregate and how they communicate.
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stripping them of their citizenship as a deterrent
[Hurriyet Daily News] There is currently an argument happening over the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). In order to get the head of Diyanet, Mehmet Görmez, to forcefully resign, he has been accused of being a member of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ).
This fight is significant because the stance of Diyanet is very important regarding religion, which is a delicate matter concerning wide segments of the society.
The academic-based understanding of religion by the theology community in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has always been different from an understanding based on mysticism and the anecdotes of certain communities; they have even been conflicting.
In line with its founding principle, Diyanet is a religious institution where more and more theology academics are employed. As opposed to the old madrasa, Diyanet represents a religious understanding that is more open to scientific methods such as history and sociology and thus capable of reconsidering religious sciences such as interpretation, hadith and kalam in terms of "methodology."
Diyanet encourages reaching a religious knowledge through reading and reviewing books and researching, instead of relying on popular mystic authorities such as the sheikh - "his highness effendi."
These two functions of Diyanet will of course advance further in time. Considering what the religious understandings of other Moslem countries have caused, the significance and the positive role of Diyanet can easily be acknowledged.
Professor Görmez started his academic career studying Musa Jarullah Bigeev, who was a much respected philosopher and theologian from the Kazan Turks; he was an innovative thinker.
His academic focus is on hadith, which are the words and actions of Prophet Muhammad. This is a field where endless debates have been held in the past and today. In history, there have been severe discussions between the traditionalist hadith interpreters and theologians who bring new interpretations.
In one of his books, Görmez wrote that a great scholar in the 8th century Abu Yusuf has said: "The rumors of hadith are constantly increasing."
Several hadiths have been made up later for certain reasons such as to excite the masses, feed the mystic sentiment, to collect supporters and to get in someone’s good books. This was fed by legends and rumors in different cultures.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu once again highlighted on June 5 Ankara’s demand from Berlin to extradite the followers of Fethullah Gülen, the main suspect in the probes into the July 15, 2016 coup attempt.
“Our friend Germany should not be the harbor of our enemies. It’s our natural right to expect our friend and ally to take more serious steps on this issue,” Çavuşoğlu said during a joint press meeting with his visiting German counterpart, Sigmar Gabriel.
Turkey wants Germany to hand over 450 former military personnel and diplomats, as well as senior bureaucrats believed to have links with the coup plotters.
Gabriel, for his part, recalled that asylum requests are being handled by an independent body and relevant judicial institutions and said the German government has no authority in this process.
“Germany is a country of the rule of law,” Gabriel stressed, noting the necessity for the Turkish state to provide strong evidence that the individuals cited were involved in the coup attempt.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen was planning to come to Turkey himself to lead the July 2016 coup attempt but could not do so due to health problems, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on June 4, basing its report on information from the Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office.
According to a new indictment as a part of the probe into what the government and prosecutors call the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), the Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office has reportedly reached newly decoded emails sent through the Bylock smartphone app, an encrypted messaging application said to have been used by members of FETÖ.
“If my health lets me, I could also take part [in the coup attempt]. But it takes 10 hours to go to Turkey by plane and my heath may not allow it,” one of the members of the organization residing in Africa quoted Gülen as saying in one of the encrypted emails included in the recently prepared indictment.
According to the indictment, another FETÖ member, with the nickname “saliha86,” is reported to have written the following in an email dated Jan. 21, 2016 to a number of members of the organization: “The sermon on Friday was emotional and full of excitement. The whole camp cried very much. ‘Let all of you unite and walk. If we step back from our path, it means we are fickle,’ [Gülen] said. He cried a lot and when he cried we all cried too. ‘There is not long to go. This era will come to an end,’ he said. ‘This is not my own evaluation, the U.S., Russia, and ‘internal dynamics’ have agreed on this [the Turkish government] going,’ he said.”
The indictment also quotes another email again sent to other FETÖ members by the same user, reportedly quoting another of Gülen’s messages: “What goes around comes around in this world. You will see that how those spoiled and arrogant ones, who today seem to be flying in the sky with their vanity, will crash to the ground.”
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[Hurriyet Daily News] A denaturalization process for U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, two lawmakers of the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and 127 others has officially come into effect, according to a notice by the Interior Ministry published in the Official Gazette on June 5.
The ministry’s notice stated that a total of 130 people abroad, who had been probed over terror charges and crimes against the constitutional order, will be denaturalized unless they return and apply to the relevant institutions in the country within a three-month period starting from June 5.
Gülen, who lives in Pennsylvania, is accused of masterminding the failed July 2016 coup attempt and is in 91st place in the list.
Ankara has accused the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETO) of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police and judiciary.
According to state-run Anadolu Agency, the list also included Osman Hilmi Özdil, the alleged “police imam” of the Gülen network codenamed Kozanlı Ömer, and he is reported to be in Thailand. An extradition request had previously been filed on him.
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[DAWN] Mashal Khan's father in a presser on Monday requested that his son's case be transferred to a court outside Mardan alleging that 'influential adversaries' may pose possible hurdles to proceedings.
"I told the Supreme Court (SC) that my lawyer and I cannot afford to fight the case in Mardan because our adversaries are very influential and powerful. Therefore, the case should be transferred to a different court," Muhammad Iqbal Khan told news hounds.
When asked about demands that Mashal’s case be tried in military court, his father said he would stick to his statements if his legal team advises him to.
"Military courts are endorsed by the Parliament and democratic system. That is why I demanded that Mashal Khan’s case be tried in an army court," he clarified.
He admitted to asking the SC to provide protection for his daughters as well, who he claimed were scared of going to school after Mashal Khan’s murder on April 13.
"My kids have never missed school or college. But since Mashal Khan’s incident, my daughters have not been to school or university. So I have asked the court to provide protection for my daughters."
"My son went to university to get an education. We thought he would bring home a degree but his dead body was handed over to us. We demand that boys and girls who are studying in any university must be protected. Their lives come before their education," he added.
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If you are interested in having more tools for your discussions, dear Reader, Israel is now ready to lend a hand. Excerpted from a much longer article about something not terribly interesting.
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[DAWN] The United States (US) on Monday gave the Philippines hundreds of machine guns, pistols and grenade launchers, which a local commander said would be used against 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.... (IS) forces of Evil battling troops in the southern city of Marawi.
The weapons, including machine guns capable of firing thousands of rounds a minute, were handed over at a ceremony in Manila that highlighted a decade-old American counter-terrorism assistance programme to the Philippines worth about $150 million.
"This equipment will enhance the (Philippine Marines') counter-terrorism capabilities, and help protect (troops) actively engaged in counter-terrorism operations in the southern Philippines," a US embassy statement said.
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Maybe under this El Presidente they might actually be used against ISIS.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] There is currently an argument happening over the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). In order to get the head of Diyanet, Mehmet Görmez, to forcefully resign, he has been accused of being a member of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ). 
[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu once again highlighted on June 5 Ankara’s demand from Berlin to extradite the followers of Fethullah Gülen, the main suspect in the probes into the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. 
[Hurriyet Daily News] U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen was planning to come to Turkey himself to lead the July 2016 coup attempt but could not do so due to health problems, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on June 4, basing its report on information from the Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office.
[Hurriyet Daily News] A denaturalization process for U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, two lawmakers of the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and 127 others has officially come into effect, according to a notice by the Interior Ministry published in the Official Gazette on June 5.
[DAWN] Mashal Khan's father in a 
