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Suicide Bomber Kills 37 In Western Iraq
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Britain
When will Britain learn to protect children?
[Iran Press TV] "Nobody could say, 'We didn't know.'" This was the devastatingly simple verdict of the independent inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham last week.

Yet even as hundreds of victims of sexual abuse have been denied the justice of seeing their rapists convicted for their crimes, police and council leaders have pleaded: "We didn't know."

The inquiry found there were ample opportunities for people who were in a position to prevent these vile crimes to grasp the extent of what was going on -- and to act. Whether they knew or they didn't (and the report suggests they should have done), they must acknowledge how seriously they failed the children of Rotherham and take appropriate responsibility.
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Posted by: Fred || 09/01/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Perfidious Albion, even at home.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/01/2014 1:20 Comments || Top||

#2  But it didn't happen in England, it happened in the islamic metastasis that sprung up.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/01/2014 3:16 Comments || Top||

#3  BTW the same happened in Oxford (and a few other islam-infested areas).

The number of victims could be in the 10,000s!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/01/2014 3:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Interesting that this, the most morally-outraged critique, is coming out of Iran.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/01/2014 3:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Dr. Kermit Gosnell was not available for comment.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/01/2014 5:18 Comments || Top||

#6  For the Left, there is no Britain*. So suck it up proles.

*or America, or Canada, etc. 1984 was suppose to be a warning, not a how-to manual.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2014 8:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Its not "We didnt know" that's the issue, its the officials wayof thinking about Islam that matters: "We didnt want to know" is killing them - they are so blinded by leftists/prog mindset of treating people as victims groups that it would have shattered their world view to admit that evil exists, Islam is a major source of it, and it must be confronted and defeated.
Posted by: OldSpook || 09/01/2014 10:50 Comments || Top||

#8  One learns that which one takes seriously.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 09/01/2014 20:58 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
When failure is victory
[DAWN] TO understand them, there's just two dates you need to know: 1971 and 1977.

In 1971, the Pakistain Army contrived to lose half of Pakistain. In 1977, the Pakistain Army was back running Pakistain.

Six years was all it took. And if 1971-1977 happened, what's 2008-2014? Nawaz didn't stand a chance.
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Posted by: Fred || 09/01/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  can you just imagine if the Mighty Pak Army was actually effective?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/01/2014 10:07 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
The Deadly Israeli House Strikes Again
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/01/2014 14:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Is it too risky for the U.S. to bomb ISIS inside Syria right now?
[CBSNEWS] As President B.O. contemplates the use of military force to defeat Islamic murderous Moslems in Syria, Congress is still divided on the question.

Two Republican politicians said Sunday on "Face the Nation" that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, also known as ISIL) requires a quick and forceful U.S. response - including possible Arclight airstrikes - the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee warned that the region's geopolitics mean the first step must be to build support for defeating the group.

"We do not want to come into Syria now on the side of [President Bashar] Assad. We have got to find other folks, the Free Syria Movement, to work with," said Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation." "If we go in and appear to be choosing whether Assad's side or the Shia side in a civil war (should win), then we simply drive more Sunnis into the arms of ISIS."

Smith said the U.S. first needs to make sure that moderate Sunnis oppose ISIS, which represents a much more radical strain of Sunni Islam. That will require building a coalition in the Middle East, he said, including potential allies like Turkey and 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...
that had been funding bully boy groups like ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra but now see what a threat it is to the region. It also means the U.S. must insist that the new Shia government in Iraq brings marginalized Sunnis into the fold.
Posted by: Fred || 09/01/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  You need to choose your friends very carefully because you do not get to choose your enemies.

That being said, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, particularly when my enemy is a ghastly horde of sadists bent on creating mass casualties in the US.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 09/01/2014 0:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Is it too risky for the U.S. to bomb ISIS inside Syria right now?

Depends. Do we have any balls left?
Posted by: gorb || 09/01/2014 2:04 Comments || Top||

#3  question is, isis working for saudi/turkey or syria?
Posted by: Paul D || 09/01/2014 3:15 Comments || Top||

#4  There can be a ground component to precision bombing. If you're unwilling to commit the ground component, your potential default is dumb bombs which entail a much larger footprint and commitment. Don't want to chance hitting any of those.... "moderates."

The other possibility is Vlad simply waved him off by threatening other mischief.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/01/2014 3:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Long as they [US bombers] keep their distance from the Golan heights...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/01/2014 4:15 Comments || Top||

#6  It should never be considered too risky to kill bad guys. There is another option: kill all factions in Syria. And then kill them when they scatter.
Posted by: Airandee || 09/01/2014 6:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Barak Hussein Obama has plans and friends already formed in his post-Presidency plans of worldwide fame and prestige. Anything that keeps him from the planed UN leadership role and the large living he sees as his due is unacceptable. He will blather and pontificate and drive domestic politics to enable a permanent one-party rule, and reward his friends with acts of deferred compensation graft, as long as it help "his" people, not the American people. What a disaster this man has been! But act decisively as a "colonial" power, never....
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/01/2014 12:54 Comments || Top||

#8  particularly when my enemy is a ghastly horde of sadists bent on creating mass casualties in the US.

But enough about the Democratic Party and their love-affair with Abortion. I thought this was about Isis.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/01/2014 13:40 Comments || Top||

#9  CrazyFool...LMAOROFL

I can remember a story about a US Company Commander whose forces became "Comingled" with the NVA forces attacking...sort of a eyegouging, e-tool. fist, and K-Bar brawl...and he called in close air support.

The LOAC asked where he wanted them put and the Commander replied...just drop them anywhere, God will have to sort out the body count on this one...
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 09/01/2014 17:23 Comments || Top||

#10  The last thing we want to do is bomb the wrong flavor of bad guys.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/01/2014 21:34 Comments || Top||

#11  HHHMMMM, HHHHMMMMM, wehell, lets see now ....

As per CNN AM, DIANE FEINSTEIN argues that the Bammer's cautious foreign policy is perhaps TOO CAUTIOUS???

* FREEREPUBLIC, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SAUDI KING WARNS [ISIS/ISIL] JIHADISTS COULD ATTACK US, EUROPE WIDIN MONTHS.

ONE MONTH to attack EUROPE, TWO MONTHS for the USA.

* WORLD NEWS > [Times of India] ISIS RECRUITS PLANNING 26/11 [Mumbai] ATTACK IN UK.

VERSUS

* TOPIX > [Arab Times] ISLAMIC STATE FIGHTERS BEGIN TO BLEND IN, DEFEATING THEM IS NO EASY MATTER.

ISIS responds to US airstrikes wid more decntralized flexibility + discretion.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/01/2014 22:48 Comments || Top||


Government
Champ, outed: If only - If he's bored, we'd be more than happy to let him leave.
[National Review] Just resign already. Go. Be gone. Vamoose. Get out of our lives. More important: Stop endangering all of us with your self-indulgent vacations and self-absorbed dithering, along with unconstitutional domestic power plays while the whole world burns.
A lengthy and damning summation of failed leadership.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/01/2014 10:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...Oh, no. He's staying till the bitter end.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/01/2014 13:31 Comments || Top||

#2  ...and Michelle will make sure he does. Ain't giving up the imperial lavish perks.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2014 13:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Well those that fear he'll stay on as dictator should be in good cheer because he clearly wouldn't want to deal with the messy world longer than he has to.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/01/2014 14:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Quin Hillyer excoriates this dangerous empty suit.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/01/2014 18:57 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2014-09-01
  Suicide Bomber Kills 37 In Western Iraq
Sun 2014-08-31
  Suicide Bomber Targets Iraqi Forces, Killing Seven
Sat 2014-08-30
  Obama under fire for admitting he has no ISIL strategy
Fri 2014-08-29
  Sinai Group Says It Beheaded 4 Egyptian 'Mossad Agents'
Thu 2014-08-28
  Online photos show ISIL executing Syrian soldiers
Wed 2014-08-27
  TTP commanders form new splinter group 'Jamatul Ahrar'
Tue 2014-08-26
  Thousands flee to Cameroon after Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
Mon 2014-08-25
  Boko Haram leader declares Islamic caliphate in Nigeria
Sun 2014-08-24
  Boko Haram Executes Two People For Smoking Cigarettes
Sat 2014-08-23
  Syrian army ambushes 140 IS fighters in al-Raqqa
Fri 2014-08-22
  Boko Haram Takfiris seize town in NE Nigeria
Thu 2014-08-21
  Israeli Fire Kills 31 in Gaza as Hamas Warns Foreign Airlines, Declares Truce Talks Over
Wed 2014-08-20
  Geelani, Yasin Malik meet Pak envoy after India calls off talks
Tue 2014-08-19
  Kurdish PKK trains Yazidis to fight back against Islamic State.
Mon 2014-08-18
  Apple employee took assassin's bullets for British colonel

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