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Home Front: WoT
Obama Regime Alienates Arab Allies
The Saudi newspaper Al-Watan echoed Egypt's concerns about the U.S. government conferring unwarranted legitimacy and prestige on the Muslim Brotherhood, charging that Team Obama "has yet to grasp the scope of the extensive popular opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood movement across the Middle East, particularly in the wake of the June 30, 2012 mass protests, the likes of which had never been seen in Egypt." The protests in question featured banners accusing Obama and his ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson, of being allied with terrorists and fascists.

In stark contrast to the cowardly and irresponsible propaganda we are fed by the MSM, Al-Watan has it right.

How our last remaining allies must despise us for tolerating much less electing Obama.

But then, as Obama's Fundamental Transformation continues to play out, we won't need them, because we will have new allies. Already the list is beginning to grow: the Muslim Brotherhood, the Palestinian Authority, Cuba, Iran..."
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp15048 || 02/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Obama Regime Alienates Arab Former Allies

FIFY, pretty much covers everything
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/22/2015 7:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Standing headline P2k.

Just more evidence that Obastard is a radical (if clueless) Muslim. He likes ISIS and the Iranian Mullahs and the MoBros.

Anyone striving for normality and stability and freedom of any sort is anathema to the tyrant wannabe.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/22/2015 7:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Anybody outside DC likes him?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/22/2015 8:26 Comments || Top||

#4  ...academia, deep blue counties and government subsidized housing (big Venn Diagram overlap on the latter two).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/22/2015 8:42 Comments || Top||

#5  So what does the Nobel Peace Prize committee think of their hero now?
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 02/22/2015 12:32 Comments || Top||

#6  What AlanC said--Obama is a radical Islamist.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/22/2015 18:04 Comments || Top||

#7  AS per FREEREPUBLIC, IRAN is now at the border wid Israel, whilst the ISIS/ISIL is getting ready to formally declare Islamic Emirate in Lebanon.

Has anyone been able to verify Nasrallah's recent comment that Hezbollah has been seriously fighting the ISIS/ISIL, or have "ghost soldiers" hence "ghost victories" have suddenly appeared amongst the Hezzies from Iraq???

["300" XERXES-N-IMMORTALS here].
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/22/2015 23:01 Comments || Top||


State Dept. wants YOUR ideas on how to fight ISIS; blasted for embarrassing new low!
I believe the adjective is "Harfing."
Your views are important to us. Our NSA/IRS/CAIR volunteers are standing by to receive your input.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp15048 || 02/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The answer here is pretty simple: ban polygamy worldwide. Most of these ISIS/Islamic problems would settle out in a few years.
Posted by: rammer || 02/22/2015 0:06 Comments || Top||

#2  FTA: my favorite response/suggestion "Resign, all of you"
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/22/2015 0:58 Comments || Top||

#3  More daycare centers for Afghanistan!
Posted by: Sen. Patty Murray || 02/22/2015 4:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Any clues, tippers, or common threads concerning the 9/11 attackers, Underwear, or Boston Bombers, will be helpful as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/22/2015 4:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Anyone else notice that on the "Summit on Terrorism" graphic that the one community institution NOT represented is religion?

Now why would that be?

As someone said: If this problem wasn't so serious this would be hilarious.

I feel like I'm living through an Elmer Fudd cartoon....shhhhh I'm hunting rabbits.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/22/2015 8:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Its about time - now the DoD and CIA will finally be able to have some input on ISIS with the State Department. /sarc
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/22/2015 8:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Lets start with All USDS employees to retire immediately.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/22/2015 10:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Kill them.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/22/2015 11:43 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: Pappy || 02/22/2015 12:18 Comments || Top||

#10  It would be a good thing if we knew they will listen. They will not.
Posted by: newc || 02/22/2015 14:49 Comments || Top||

#11  Might be surprised. Might be finding out who and how many are calling for war so as to best shout them down. See, Crusaders y'all.

Personally, I think he should call on ISJV to accept homosexuality and allow imams to perform same sex marriages.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/22/2015 17:11 Comments || Top||

#12  These people at State are delusional. Definitely in the nuts category.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/22/2015 18:10 Comments || Top||

#13  How to defeat ISIS; tell obama and the state department that ISIS is really the Tea Party USA.
Posted by: Airandee || 02/22/2015 18:25 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Supreme ineptitude
[DAWN] 'WITH friends like you, who needs enemies?' If our democracy had linguistic abilities, this is all it would say about the politicians of Pakistain. Though the priorities of every political party from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
to Sindh are atrociously misplaced, the party ruling Sindh deserves special mention in this regard. The reason perhaps is the fact that the PPP does not see that its stronghold in the province is waning.

If someone asks you who is the home secretary Sindh, by the time you come up with the answer, the secretary might have been changed. In the last month or so as many as three home secretaries have been changed. It seems as if the chief minister who hardly wields any influence and opinion of his own has almost completely handed over authority to the security forces when it comes to handling Bloody Karachi
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


The madressah factor
[DAWN] PAKISTAN'S madressah sector is increasingly being seen as a critical factor in the pervading insecurity in the country, particularly after the announcement of the National Action Plan. The fact is reflected in the decision taken by the Islamabad administration to close madressahs situated near Parade Avenue for one week on the eve of the March 23 military parade. According to media reports, the decision was taken on the advice of intelligence agencies.

Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings...
the government is making only half-hearted efforts to reform the madressah sector which also lack the required security perspective. It has yet to convene meetings of the two madressah reform committees set up by the federal interior minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan
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Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Confronting extremism
[DAWN] HOW to effectively counter violent extremism is a dilemma that bedevils leaders and policymakers the world over. In this country, as elsewhere, we have seen that military force alone is insufficient to uproot militancy; the battle to counter terrorism must be a multifaceted one. Participants from over 60 countries, as well as the UN, EU and OIC, reached a similar conclusion at a summit to counter violent extremism, organised by the White House, which ended on Friday in Washington.

The point was driven home by none other than Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
. It is indeed welcome that world leaders are adopting a nuanced view of global militancy and taking pains not to link terrorism with "any religion, nationality [or] civilisation". Yet, perhaps there needs to be a greater realisation and acknowledgement in Western capitals, especially Washington, that force, particularly interventions directed at 'unfriendly' regimes, as well as the use of krazed killer proxies, has played a major role in fuelling modern global militancy. For example, removing strongmen in Iraq and Libya through force has resulted in the meltdown of the state, paving the way for murderous Moslems to create space for themselves.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  A start at confronting extremism in the U.S is by voting them all out of office every time you get a chance. We get another chance in 2016.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/22/2015 18:18 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Sorry Obama, Harvard study says poor Muslims are LESS likely to be terrorists!!
"In addition to ignoring the true identity of the enemy, Obama is using his ideology to tell him what their motivations are instead of common sense and evidence. Isn't this guy supposed to be the smartest guy ever?

Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp15048 || 02/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't expect any stray facts to interfere with the narrative.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/22/2015 9:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Obama lies? I'm astounded (sarc).
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/22/2015 11:41 Comments || Top||

#3  It's because they can't afford to be terrorist. It involves travel and weapons, and those cost money.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/22/2015 11:46 Comments || Top||

#4  There was another study in approximately 2004 that said the same thing. There'll be another in 2026 and I'll bet it'll say the same thing.

That's assuming we're still around, of course.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2015 11:54 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
€œA large section of ISIS members suffer from sexual anomalies and brutal instinctive desire for sex€
"Perverted ISIS militants are trying to score Viagra to fuel their lust for "brutal and abnormal" sex, according to a shocking report from activists in the terror group's main Syrian stronghold.

The supposedly ultra-conservative Muslim fundamentalists have been forcing women in city of Raqqa to marry them and engage in savage sex acts that result in hospital treatment, the report says.

The jihadists also buy kinky lingerie -- described in the report as "strange underwear" -- for their reluctant brides, according to the "Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently" activist group."
All in keeping with their Grecian warrior-pederasty ideal.

Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp15048 || 02/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  There is no contradiction between this and Islam, it is in fact o openly condoned by quotes from the lunatic Mohammed.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/22/2015 10:12 Comments || Top||

#2  When humping goats just doesn't do it for you anymore...
Posted by: Raj || 02/22/2015 10:46 Comments || Top||

#3  What? Did they drop Thursdays from the calendars there?
Posted by: Hellfish || 02/22/2015 12:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Apparently there is a plenitude of fancy lingerie shops in Saudi malls as well.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/22/2015 15:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Sure the strange underwear is for the gals? Seems to be a lot of guywithguy stuff with the ISJV.

Fine by me if that is you, just noticing a couple reports and the large number of ballduster facial hair style.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/22/2015 16:45 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2015-02-22
  Hotel staffers arrested after deadly bombing
Sat 2015-02-21
  Dozens Dead in Shebab Attack on Mogadishu Hotel
Fri 2015-02-20
  45 dead in eastern Libya bombings, Islamic extremists claim responsibility
Thu 2015-02-19
  Rebels report death of 195 pro-Assad fighters in Aleppo
Wed 2015-02-18
  IS launches attack to regain Yazidi city of Shingal
Tue 2015-02-17
  Islamic State militants 'burn to death 45 in Iraq'
Mon 2015-02-16
  Egypt launches air strikes against IS militias in Libya
Sun 2015-02-15
  SECOND Copenhagen shooting at synagogue
Sat 2015-02-14
  21 Coptic Christians slaughtered in Libya
Fri 2015-02-13
  Thousands expected at funeral for 3 Muslims killed in US
Thu 2015-02-12
  France says it has dismantled 15 terrorist networks
Wed 2015-02-11
  4 Qaida Suspects Dead in Yemen Drone Strike
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  Obama, Family Confirm Death of IS Hostage Kayla Mueller
Mon 2015-02-09
  Top Pakistani Taliban leader injured in Afghanistan
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