[Free Beacon] Retired LTC Ralph Peters chastised President Obama on Wednesday for his handling of Islamic terrorism while discussing the recent terrorist attack at Ohio State University during a Fox News appearance.
Host Martha MacCallum referenced President-elect Donald Trump’s tweet in response to the attack and compared it to the responses President Obama has given to past terrorist acts.
"President Obama can never admit he’s wrong about anything ever, and he’s obviously wrong about ISIS and Islamist terrorism in general," Peters said. "One thing I have high hopes for with the incoming administration is we will put a lot of this political correctness behind us."
Peters then said certain communities of immigrants should have more surveillance because of their inability and unwillingness to integrate into American society.
"They concentrate, they refuse to integrate, and this political correctness has resulted in of all states, Minnesota becoming the per capita greatest exporter of recruits for ISIS in the United States," Peters said in reference to the large Somali immigrant population in Minnesota.
Citing the practice of some Somalis practicing female genital mutilation, Peters told MacCallum that he does not view this as a religious or racial issue but instead as a cultural one.
"One point I want to stress, because I don’t want it to get lost in all this" Not all Muslims are terrorists," Peters said. "So we have to focus on the troublesome groups. We don’t want to pay the same amount of attention to Iranian Americans who serve in our military."
[The Hill] It is "too soon" to determine if the attack at Ohio State University Monday was terrorism, the FBI said Wednesday.
At a press conference, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Cincinnati Division said that 18-year-old Abdul Razak Ali Artan "may have been inspired by ISIS" when he injured 11 people using his car and a butcher knife.
"It's too soon to draw any type of conclusions whether or not this is terrorism," Special Agent Angel Byers said. Byers said it appears that Artan was inspired by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and the late al Qaeda-linked cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
While ISIS's Amaq news agency claimed Artan was a "soldier" of the terrorist group, Byer said it is too early to confirm that.
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'Link to Anwar al-Awlaki' BINGO! Anything connected to this fellow or Nidal Hasan... hands off! Installation of alternate narrative required as quickly as possible.
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Bureaucratic rectal cranial inversion. Needs a strong enema. Spend thousands of dollars on investigating what common sense tells us for free.
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Like saying it was "too soon" to know if 9/11 was Terrorism after the second plane hit.
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#3 Bureaucratic rectal cranial inversion. Needs a strong enema. Spend thousands of dollars on investigating what common sense tells us for free.
Posted by Alaska Paul Perfect comment - could not agree more.
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In defense of the FBI, I am peripherally associated with a govt. agency that performs post-mortems.
Even though common sense (not all that common, I've found) points without debate to the cause of the "issue," it must still be analyzed, sliced/diced and sent through numerous layers of bureaucracy before a report is issued. No stone unturned and all that.
Justifiable derision aside, it's just how the system works (sadly).
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Ref #11: I seem to recall the Commander of Fort Hood saying shortly after MAJ Nidal Hasan's deadly attack that... paraphrasing here, 'there is no terrorist connection assoicated with this deadly attack.' I believe he was not alone in his declaration.
We seem to be moving from 'definately not terrorist related' to.... undecided and needing more evaluation. Or am I missing something.
In the hopper for tomorrow is an article about OSU attacker Abdul Razak Ali Artan recent trip to D.C. Do not miss the graphic contained in the article depicting US Citizen Anwar Al Awlaki connections to terrorist attacks.
[DAWN] POLICE brutality and abuse of authority are problems law-enforcement agencies worldwide have to contend with. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... in Pakistain, it appears that black sheep in uniform can make a mockery of the law with impunity. As documented in this paper’s Tuesday edition, a number of coppers in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... have been involved in kidnappings for ransom in the chaotic metropolis. These include coppers of the rank of SHO and inspector. These crooked cops have kidnapped traders and businessmen, barged into homes and demanded millions of rupees in ransom. In fact, their behaviour has been that of gangland thugs, not officers of the law. One individual even had the gall to use an official police van to collect ransom.
Karachi is certainly not alone when it comes to coppers committing crimes. Despite the sacrifices and efforts of honest officers to fight crime, the image that prevails in Pakistain is of a corrupt, inefficient force that preys on the citizenry and is beholden to its political masters. For many years, officialdom has been talking of police reform, yet few visible changes have been observed in the workings of police departments countrywide. Perhaps the main problem is that the legislative and administrative framework that governs policing here is outdated. Apart from KP, where a new police law was introduced earlier this year, the other provinces and regions of Pakistain either function under the Police Act of 1861, or under a hybrid of this law and the Police Order, 2002. Aping the colonial model has produced dismal results, as today’s challenges are entirely different. Today, rather than worrying about controlling rowdyism or nabbing pickpockets, coppers have to deal with sophisticated and ruthless forces of Evil and criminal syndicates. Unless the legal and administrative structure is changed to respond to the needs of the day, criminality within the force will be difficult to eliminate.
Experts have stressed the need for community policing; instead of the image of the police officer as an ’outsider’, what is needed is the recruitment of bright and service-oriented men and women who are known in their communities and neighbourhoods and are able to build bridges with citizens. Moreover, officers of repute must be given security of tenure and not transferred due to political whims. An independent system of lodging and investigating claims of police abuse must also be instituted. Police officers need to be given competitive service structures, with good pay and benefits; if individuals resort to corrupt practices thereafter, they must be shown the door. The federal, provincial and local governments, and civil society representatives, must all give their input on how to reform the police. Specifically, there are many serving and retired officers of impeccable repute that should be consulted on how to fix the rot. Above all, those who break the law while in uniform must be brought to justice.
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