A new species of blood fluke was found infecting the lungs of turtles in Malaysia. This parasitic flatworm has been dubbed Baracktrema obamai, in honor of the President of the United States (who is the fifth cousin twice removed of one of the discovering scientists).
B. obamai is described in the August issue of the Journal of Parasitology as having a long, thread-like body.
It's a blood-sucking parasite, of course...
So far, it’s shown up in two freshwater turtles, the black marsh turtle (Siebenrockiella crassicollis) and southeast Asian box turtle (Cuora amboinensis).
The scientists found clusters of tens to hundreds of fluke eggs in the turtles’ lung alveoli, the tiny sacs where blood receives oxygen and gets rid of carbon dioxide. How these eggs get outside to hatch and infect new hosts isn’t clear, although making the turtles cough is probably involved.
Another crap remake? What a surprise.
Steven Spielberg's 'The BFG' and fellow Disney release 'Alice Through the Looking Glass" are other giant-sized summer tentpoles racking up major losses.
Ben-Hur? More like Ben-Horrendous.
The ancient tale directed by Timur Bekmambetov is officially the biggest bust of summer 2016 and is on track to lose an epic $120 million or more, according to sources close to the film and multiple box-office analysts consulted by The Hollywood Reporter. The Paramount/MGM release has grossed just $53.9 million to date at the global box office since its mid-August debut, including a dismal $25 million domestically. While it has several major foreign markets yet to open, the film is fading fast and will have a hard time getting past $75 million globally, say knowledgeable sources.
Ben-Hur cost nearly $100 million to make before a major marketing spend. The loss is calculated when comparing box office and marketing costs against box-office film rental and revenue from ancillary revenue (home entertainment and television).
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Well to me, there are just some movies that are so complete and classic in their script, acting, and cinematography that doing a remake is just stupid and futile.
The Ben Hur with Carlton Heston is so classic and so well put together that I just don't understand the decision to redo it. And it stuck much more closely to the Lew Wallace book than the new one.
The canonical definition of the Yiddish word chutzpah involves a man who murders his parents and then asks for clemency because he is an orphan. An unprecedented degree of chutzpah informs the machinations of radical Muslims, who engineer humanitarian disasters and then demand that the West intervene to save them.
Most of Clinton’s cabinet didn’t want to support the KLA, which made its money in narcotics and human trafficking, and they didn’t want to divide the sovereign state of Serbia--a precedent that Russia later used to justify its seizure of the Crimea. Nonetheless the moral blackmail succeeded, and Muslim radicals learned how to push the guilt button of the West.
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Do you remember the subprime mortgage meltdown from the last financial crisis? Well, this time around we are facing a subprime auto loan meltdown. In recent years, auto lenders have become more and more aggressive, and they have been increasingly willing to lend money to people that should not be borrowing money to buy a new vehicle under any circumstances. Just like with subprime mortgages, this strategy seemed to pay off at first, but now economic reality is beginning to be felt in a major way. Delinquency rates are up by double digit percentages, and major auto lenders are bracing for hundreds of millions of dollars of losses. We are a nation that is absolutely drowning in debt, and we are most definitely going to reap what we have sown.
The size of this market is larger than you may imagine. Earlier this year, the auto loan bubble surpassed the one trillion dollar mark for the first time ever...
...And it is undeniable that the stage is set for a crisis that will absolutely dwarf 2008. Our national debt has nearly doubled since the beginning of the last crisis, corporate debt has doubled, student loan debt has crossed the trillion dollar mark, auto loan debt has crossed the trillion dollar mark, and total household debt has crossed the 12 trillion dollar mark.
We are living in the greatest debt bubble in world history, and there are signs that this giant bubble is now starting to burst. And when it does, the pain is going to be greater than most people would dare to imagine.
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...When I briefly sold
Chryslers after retiring from the USAF (1998), the FIRST thing I discovered is that even then, roughly two thirds of the people who walked in the door didn't qualify for manufacturer or local bank financing. Our Finance guy would then make phone calls all over the US and it's possessions to find loans (we had some in Hawaii) for these folks.
Looks like they found a way around that little problem.
Mike
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Bought a truck last winter. Used, because I couldn't see going into hock with an auto loan bigger than my mortgage. So - no auto loan at all. In 45 years of participation in the auto market I have bought two new vehicles, and only took a loan on one (which was wrecked & totaled a couple of months after the last payment.)
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I thought the housing bubble was driven by Congress' desire to get more minorities into 'affordable housing'. Since interest rates are so low, more housing is affordable!
Is there a similar parallel for auto-mobiles? Who is squeezing the car manufacturers to sell more cars to people who can't afford them?
The housing bubble was government stupidity; this looks like private-sector greed.
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"private sector" = Wall Street
Anything to make a couple of points...they really don't care about anything. That's why they give zillions to the Dems...
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There's a lot of churn in the auto-loan/sales business. Dealers sell a car, then repossess the car, then re-sell the car, usually to someone else who also cannot or does not pay on the loan.
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It's another bubble bath on the taxpayers dime. Another student loan bubble has burst and more to come. 8,000 jobs lost, with some irate students pacified only by student debt erased, dumping the debt on taxpayers, and teachers on the unemployment rolls unable to pay mortgages and car loans thanks to a renegade Education secretary. Vets lost their benefits when they shuttered the door, too. University of Phoenix was resurrected by Obama buddy, Marty Nesbitt, and Devry Institute is probably next.
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You have to know the whole industry is skanky when Hyundai pushes 72 month loans to sell their cheapest cars.
That's a six year loan for a car that has a fair chance of not being around as a car in six years.
One of the reasons why the self-driving car is interesting to some people is that when you're not using it someone else can. Over time we'll get away from the idea of "owning" a car to just "using" a car.
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I have to blame Hank Paulson for the last eight years. Had he left the orderly disposition of assets under the supervision of FDIC Chair Sheila Bair--instead of the massive intrusion and arm twisting of TARP--we would have avoided the expenditures of $700-billion that instead of being returned to Treasury were blown on "shovel ready projects."
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The bubble may burst but there will less issues with repos versus foreclosures. Sub prime lenders are low jacking cars so they can track, shut down remotely and pick up vehicles much easier than ever before.
h/t Instapundit
What are we to make of the fact that all nine #blacklivesmatter protesters who have been charged with aggravated trespass yesterday at London City Airport are white?
This is only a theory, mind, but my deep concern is that this may have been a false flag operation by white racists on a sinister mission to make black people look lazy and stupid.
The frontrunner has outspent Trump almost 5-to-1 but still watched her lead evaporate. Big bucks against the people's will? Or just "we can't vote for this mad old hag."?
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton ended last week in a downward spiral--and based on a new CNN/ORC poll, that isn’t likely to change soon.
The latest poll--and again, it’s the CNN poll, so it cannot be easily dismissed by Clinton backers as a right-wing outlier--finds that Clinton’s lead over GOP nominee Donald Trump has evaporated. Now Trump leads Clinton by 2 points (with a margin-of-error of 3.5 percentage points). Just a couple weeks ago, Clinton led Trump by 8 points and appeared to be pulling away--making November look like it might be a landslide for a woman whose actions have been investigated by the FBI.
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Electoral college is all that counts. I've seen nothing to indicate she's losing there yet.
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I believe there are still some good people in key places of the government. If Jeh Johnson is planning to have people throw the election to Hillary, it is important that at the least these people have a way to report what they see from inside to the outside world before the election.
#3
I've been pondering the mechanics of a preference cascade.
This may be the sign that voting for Trump is not the waste that it's been portrayed. People that hate Hillary may be starting to see that they're not alone.
It's still early and a lot of folk may not tell the truth to pollsters that they know are Demo shills.
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At this point, I want Trump to win if only so I can watch all the liberal Democrats heads explode. They are so convinced that he is unelectable and she is going to win in convincing fashion that the cognitive dissonance would reach historic proportions. If that's not fun to watch, I don't know what is.
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The polls are rigged too. I'm thinking the vote is swinging more towards Trump than anyone wants to admit. Just look at the pre-election Brexit polls if anyone thinks polls can't be bought. Hang in there no matter what the polls say. Personally, I refuse to take part in polls. I think there are many others like me in that regard. Trump is doing the heavy lifting and showing up everywhere to talk to groups--he is a serious candidate and willing to work to be POTUS--seems to have the energy to do the job. In his travels he sees the rot that has been going on. He seems to have the honesty to do the job--something we haven't seen in a long, long time.
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To add to John's #5, take a look at who Trump has surrounded himself with, and the notables who support him. Pence, Giuliani, Sessions, Christie, Conway, Carson, Huckabee, General Mike Flynn, Bobby Knight, Pete Rose, Jon Voight, Ted Nugent, Sara Palin..... the list goes on.
Well, there's Huma. And Bill. And that doctor with the diazepam pen.
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"And that doctor with the diazepam pen"
I don't think he's a doctor. He's got USSS written all over him. The way he reacted at the speech when he told Wildebeest to keep talking by focusing on the crowd convinced me he's on her detail. I've seen doctors on details before and they are usually way in the back and don't jump up on stage.
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re #10, not SS the mystery man seems to be....
Dr Okanola of Morristown NJ, a board certified neurologist
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Dr Okanola of Morristown NJ, a board certified neurologist
Really ?? Did you at least compare the photos?? Not even close.
"He watches the Beest, not the crowd."
Not in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlHLYR6kX0k
He does EXACTLY what an agent would do. The way he places his hands on her is textbook. He continues to look at the crowd/threat area while preparing to cover/evacuate her. Doctors don't do that and the detail wouldn't let them.
Doctors don't give instructions to detail agents. I've been doing this for 20 years. He's a USSS agent. He might be trained EMT/paramedic which would not surprise me but he's an agent.
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The lapel pin, the badging, and the physical appearance of the black individual makes it clear to me he is a medical professional, not USSS, although clearly integrated into her detail. The YouTube video yesterday convinced me on the Parkinson's and his role and her increasing symptoms. Equally interesting was this morning's note of the earbud during the Commander-in-Chief
interview that provided her with answers and coaching. Masking the symptoms of her illness is increasingly difficult for them to do, but its too late to stop, for so many reasons, so they are trying to brazen it out. Watch the video:
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If she's wearing an earbud so someone can coach her onstage, NMBS, it would be fun if some hacker could block the frequency - or better yet, take it over and feed her BS to repeat to the crowd.
But then I'm not a nice person. :-D
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Wearing an earbud during the debates should result in instant disqualification.
I wonder if Bill Clinton was on the other end of that earbud ?
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She's a DemoncRat, Pappy - no rules apply to her.
Try to keep up. ;-p
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I think both candidates should get an ear but with experts on the line. Its not as if they won't have others to bounce their opinions off of if they get the job.
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At peril of sounding impious,
Be wary of those who would ply us
With moonshine, with witches,
Flourescent green switches,
And sly confirmational bias.
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#17 If she's wearing an earbud so someone can coach her onstage, NMBS, it would be fun if some hacker could block the frequency - or better yet, take it over and feed her BS to repeat to the crowd.
Barbara, With or without the earbud, all she's done for 30 or more years is feed the crowds with bullshit.
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Lapel pin - I wear one on every detail as does every USSS agent.
Badging - I assume you mean the neck chain ID badge. I have about 50 of them from different events.
Size - you because he's big and black? I personally know of 3 USSS agents that played or were drafted in the NFL. A bunch played D1 football.
Agents routinely carry medical devices/gear. I carry a tourniquet and a trauma bandage. Does that make me an ER doc?
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[Jpost] The report stated that Hezbollah continues to maintain a presence in South America and the Caribbean, "with members, controllers, and supporters engaging in activity in support of the organization."
Israel is helping Paraguay take actions against Hezbollah in the Tri-Border area with Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... and Brazil, the Foreign Ministry acknowledged on Wednesday while announcing the opening of the new embassy in Asuncion.
"Israel cooperates with Paraguay in the battle against terrorism and maintains a supportive role in actions against Hezbollah at the tri-border region," the ministry said in a background statement on relations with Paraguay.
One official explained that this cooperation has been taking place for years in the area, where there is a high concentration of Shi’ites of Lebanese descent who have set up a up a logistical base that assists the terrorist organization. Israel’s support for Paraguay in the area takes the form of intelligence cooperation, the official said, without elaborating.
According to the US State Department’s country report on terrorism for 2016, "Paraguay continued to face challenges of ineffective immigration, customs, and law enforcement controls along its mostly non-existent borders, particularly the Tri-Border Area (TBA) with Argentina and Brazil. Illicit activities within the TBA remained potential funding sources for terrorist organizations, most notably Hezbollah."
The report stated that Hezbollah continues to maintain a presence in South America and the Caribbean, "with members, controllers, and supporters engaging in activity in support of the organization. This included efforts to build Hezbollah’s infrastructure in South America and fund-raising, both through licit and illicit means."
The official opening of the embassy came some two months after Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes visited Israel. The ceremony at the new embassy was attended by a number of senior Paraguayan officials, such as the Supreme Court president, president of the House of Representatives, and labor minister.
After Colombia, Paraguay is considered Israel’s closest friend in South America, with the Paraguayan government, according to the ministry statement, "having stood by Israel during Operation Protective Edge, a time when Israel was criticized by many countries. More recently, Paraguay supported Israel at major international forums."
Cartes won the election in 2013, and soon afterward told then-deputy foreign minister Ze’ev Elkin, who attended his inauguration, that he was interested in strengthening bilateral relations with Israel as well as pursuing an "independent" policy of supporting Israel in international forums, as opposed to the voting patterns of the vast majority of Latin American states.
In 2012, even before the election, Paraguay and Colombia were the only South American countries that did not vote for granting the Paleostinians non-member statehood status in the UN General Assembly.
And since the election, Paraguay has noted against Israel on significant issues.
For instance, in the UNESCO vote in April that effectively denied any Jewish connection to Jerusalem, Paraguay was one of 17 countries that abstained. It also voted for Israel at a very significant vote in the IAEA last September that would have forced Israel to open its nuclear facilities to international inspectors. And in 2015 it was not present for a vote on a UN resolution that mandated raising of the Paleostinian flag at the world body.
The two nations maintain a bilateral free trade agreement within the framework of Mercosur ‐ the South American Common Market, with annual Israel-Paraguay trade at some $200 million. Meat is a major component of Israel’s imports, while technology is one of its major exports. For instance, sophisticated Israeli risk-prevention systems have been installed at the Itaipú hydroelectric power plant, one of the largest hydroelectric power plants in the world.
According to the Foreign Ministry, the embassy reopening in Asuncion "represents a full historic circle after the embassy was closed in 2002, along with 15 other embassies around the world, due to budgetary constraints."
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The foundation of the Hizbollah Tri-border colony was first noted in 1988 when the daughter of the Paraguay Foreign Minister was involved in the sale of Paraguay passports and travel documents at the Paraguay consulate in Beirut. More than 1,000 instruments were sold in little more than a year before the practice was stopped.
[IsraelTimes] Jordan says it has seized a "record" haul of more than 13 million Captagon pills, one of the most commonly used drugs among fighters in neighboring Syria.
The interior ministry says three alleged traffickers, including a foreigner, were placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in what it called "the most important seizure of drug tablets in the kingdom’s history."
A ministry statement says the pills were discovered hidden inside tumble dryers in the house of one of those arrested, near Amman.
Captagon is classified by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime as an "amphetamine-type stimulant" and usually blends amphetamines, caffeine and other substances.
There have been numerous reports of Captagon use among groups waging Syria’s war.
...and also numerous reports of jihadi groups, including ISIS, manufacturing and selling the stuff for fun and profit. The hangover throughout the region when the war peters out is going to be a doozy...
Jordan’s interior ministry says the haul of tablets was bound for "another country" without providing details.
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Flood the area with Captagon look alikes that are actually nasty doses of Chinese fentanyl analogs. Only a few problems:
People who thing CIA "invented" crack will freak.
"Human rights" organizations will call it war crime.
UN sill announce access to Captagon is a human right...
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If I ran the CIA, I might flood the ISIS guys with Captagon look-alike pills, but they'd contain something far nastier than fentanyl...
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[IsraelTimes] Two police officers have been stabbed by a knife-wielding assailant in Brussels, Belgian media says.
The attack occurred in the heavily Muslim neighborhood of Molenbeek.
The two officers, both of whom were wearing bulletproof vests, were unharmed, according to Flandersnews.be.
The officers had approached the assailant to speak to him when they were attacked. One was stabbed in the stomach seven times, and another one stabbed once.
The attacker was apprehended after a short chase.
Molenbeek has been described by some as a hotbed of Islamism. Several terrorists from the March bombings in Brussels and the November attacks in Paris had been linked to the neighborhood.
A man attacked two police officers with a knife in a Brussels park on Wednesday but neither officer was hurt and there was no immediate indication that the assailant had a political motive, Belgian officials said.
A spokeswoman for the Brussels prosecutors office said the assailant had said nothing and the case had not been transferred to federal counter-terrorism specialists.
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jeez i am just not getting the multiculti, pomo, pc rules at all; here was me thinking we had to respect and comply with, yea even celebrate how someone self identifies, but according to Flandersnews Flimbersnews (sorry - irresistible) they just self identify as mentally ill, or more likely should be self identifying as nothing to do wit Islam
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[Gateway Pundit] On Monday Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte called Barack Obama a "son of a whore" as he vowed not to be lectured by the US leader on human rights when they meet in Laos.
Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his pre-departure message before leaving for the ASEAN Summit in Laos. (TimesLive)
On Tuesday Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe weighed in on the controversy. Mugabe told reporters Obama should prove he is not the son of a whore.
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How does one prove/disprove a negative? However, my lying eyes have also seen things on the net. Might be one of the reasons our dear leader is so screwed up in the head.
BLUF: [Daily Caller] The foundation’s revenues during the years up to 2004 exploded from $6.1 million in 2000 to $80 million.
The Clinton Presidential Library and Museum was dedicated in Little Rock Nov. 18, 2004.
The Clinton Foundation has raised an estimated $1.5 billion in the years since 2004.
Charles Ortel, an expert in non-profit governance and a determined critic of the Clinton Foundation, argues that "to informed analysts, the Clinton Foundation appears to be a rogue charity that has neither been organized nor operated lawfully from inception in October 1997 to date."
Ortel claims the foundation "has never been validly authorized to pursue tax-exempt purposes other than as a presidential archive and research facility based in Little Rock, Arkansas."
"The Russian Foreign Ministry has voiced profound concern over the Turkish troops' movement into Syrian territory.
"Russia's Foreign Ministry expresses serious concern in connection with the movement of the Syrian troops and paramilitary formations of the Syrian opposition, supported by them, inside Syrian territory," the ministry said in a statement Wednesday.
"We are paying attention to the fact that these actions are being conducted without coordination with the legitimate Syrian authorities and without approval on the part of the UN Security Council," it said.
"This puts in question the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic," the statement said.
"With account for that, the position of Damascus appears fair and justified from the international-legal viewpoint," it said.
"We are proceeding from the fact that Turkey's actions may additionally complicate the already difficult military-political situation in Syria, negatively affect the international efforts to develop a platform of settlement ensuring a more stable nature of the regime of cessation of hostilities, uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid laying the foundation for a solid peace and helping overcome the crisis in that country," the ministry said.
Moscow called on Ankara to "place these tasks higher that the immediate military tactical goals and abstain from steps fraught with further destabilization of the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic."
Turkey's Armed Forces and the FSA currently control the 90-kilometer line along the border between the cities of Azaz and Jarabulus up to 4-5 kilometers deep. But the operation command's plans include expansion of the zone liberated from the IS further to the south. "
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Dateline 1914: The Tsar of Russia views the movement of Austro-Hungarian troops on Serbia with alarm.
[THEFEDERALIST] During a townhall meeting in Laos, President Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... called Americans "lazy" multiple times.
For one, Obama said Americans’ reluctance to embrace his favored environmental policies is a sign of laziness.
"Usually when you see the environment destroyed, it’s not because it’s necessary for development," Obama said. "It’s usually because we’re being lazy and we’re not being as creative as we could be about how to do it in a smarter, more sustainable way."
He also accused Americans of being isolated and ignorant because the United States is such a big country.
"The United States is and can be a great force for good in the world. But because we’re such a big country, we haven’t always had to know about other parts of the world," he said. "If you’re in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we’re so big we don’t have to really know anything about other people."
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Have you noticed that when he speaks, he is always speaking about himself?
Lazy is believing in marxist fairy tails and proving to yourself it's true with your time in a madrassa, which is also lazy.
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Only 134 more days of putting up with this self-absorbed, stupid, incompetent, destructive bastard in the White House.
When he leaves, one or the other of two things will happen: Hillary Clinton will take the oath of office, and proceed to finish what Obumble started-- and finish us off. Or Donald Trump will be sworn in, and who the heck knows what will result.
I'll take the "who the heck knows," thankyouverymuch.
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A lot of Louisianans who were trying to save their homes while the commander in chief refused to leave the golf course would consider this dead beat president a lying bastard, too.
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Besoeker is right. Half of the United States spits on the military and wants "free stuff". The Churches are empty, and the Nation is an ass crack at Walmart. The Colleges have" safe spaces" for the wussys.
The country elected THE Messiah, the smartest man in the Room, Hope and changy...twice. And he is a NO LEGACY suit.
The man's got a point. I haven't played a single round of golf this year. That little white ball is not going to put itself in the hole, you know.
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He went to a class and caste ridden feudalistic society where everything is owned by the party apparatus and their family members to call us lazy because we don't want to be put out of work by his creeping mandarinism.
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#8 Yes, but we might do well to remember, evil as he is, he (elected not once but twice) is little more than a symptom of the greater problem.
If a third term were permitted, I have little doubt Obama would handily defeat Donald Trump. Who then would we blame ?
Agreed, 1000%.
In my opinion, much of the blame falls squarely on that portion of our population too lazy and gullible to realize-- or accept-- that the crap they watch every night on CNN/NBC/CBS/ABC/MSNBC is anything but crude Leftist propaganda concocted to con them into vote Democrat.
But a far larger share of the blame belongs to those doing the conning. They must go.
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It has been said: "Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished."
In this case maybe he'll know when he is tossed out of the WH. Let's hope.
[Libya Observer] While the radical group of ISIS is losing in Sirte, new documents have been found showing the group's funding to its bully boyz to get married and keep women as slaves.
The media office of al-Bunyan al-Marsoos released Tuesday receipts, found inside the financial administration of so-called Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... tania Province of IS, showing the preferential treatment given to the group's foreign bully boyz over the city's local residents.
One of the receipts dated back to January 2016, showed that a Sudanese citizen, nicknamed Abu Saad al-Sudani, had been granted a monthly bonus of LYD 300 dinars for keeping 3 women as slaves.
Money was also paid to other members of the group to help them get married. According to receipts dated back to March and April 2016, LYD 2500 dinars were paid to Tunisian national Abu Noor al-Tunisi, LYD 1000 dinars to Egyptian Abu Wakkas al-Masri and LYD 1000 dinars to Sudanese Abu Zainb al-Sudani.
A Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... ese national, nicknamed Abu Khobaib al-Senegali, had also received LYD 2320 as previous dues. Another receipt has shown that LYD 18450 dinars were paid to a foreign Death Eater nicknamed Abu Hamza al-Kinani as a monthly bonus for Rajab, the seventh month of the Islamic calendar, which could be the highest monthly amount ever paid.
The obtained receipts prove that all payments were only given to the group's foreign members.
The large amount of the group's money came from Zakat (alms-giving) collection, which is taken from wealthy people and paid to the group's Death Eaters. Failure to pay Zakat means death sentence.
In Islam, there are eight categories of people to be the proper recipients of Zakat. ISIS has only used the seventh category, which is giving Zakat to those fighting for a religious cause or for Jihad.
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....eighth category prolly being donation to the B,H and C Clinton Foundation
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The jihadist rebels posted a brutal video via their social media accounts on Wednesday, showing a captured soldier being ruthlessly beheaded by two bad boys.
During the minute and a half long video, the jihadist rebels ask the captured soldier if he has any "last words," he replies that he would like a drink of water.
The jihadist replies "there is no water for you, you are an infidel," and then proceeds to behead the maimed soldier.
The soldier’s name, per the video, was Bassel al-Issa Marouf of Latakia City ‐ his age and rank are unknown.
This is the second beheading video to be posted by the jihadist rebels from the northern Hama front in a matter of 5 days.
US-backed rebel groups like the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) are fighting alongside these jihadists, using US-manufactured weapons to aid them in their fight against the government.
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Verily, Allah is Merciful and Bountiful....Compassionate and Kind...maybe on Tuesday.
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...on a lesp year when Feb 29th falls on a Tuesday.....and it's 92 degrees in Maine that day... and the Buccaneers have won their 6th straight superbowl....(insert improbables to your taste)
Am I not merciful?
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Srinagar: In occupied Kashmir, Indian troops killed two more students including a teenager in Baramulla districts raising the death toll to 91 in the uprising triggered by the killing of mujahid commander, Burhan Muzaffar Wani by Indian troops on July 8 in the territory.
20 year-old Naseer Ahmad Dar was killed and over 150 people injured after Indian paramilitary personnel fired bullets and pellets on protesters at Seer Hamdan in Islamabad district.
A 35-year old woman, Tasleema was critically injured when she was hit by a teargas shell while a 17-year boy, Musaib Majeed Nagoo succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Srinagar. He was brutally injured by the Indian forces in Wadoora area of Baramulla district on Sunday.
More than 11,000 people have been injured in the Indian forces’ violent actions during the past two-month period.
The people however, have defied the restrictions and staged anti-India and pro-freedom rallies and protests in many areas of the occupied territory.
Meanwhile, the All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik in their statements have rejected Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s remarks about Jammu and Kashmir and the Hurriyet leadership. They added that India was scared of any meaningful dialogue with Hurriyet leadership and Pakistan, as New Delhi had occupied Jammu and Kashmir illegally and forcibly
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Kashmiris would accept Pakistan up to the borders with India. It is hardly in Indian National Interests to allow the friendly Moslem peaceful access to an advance on the Indian Border. I seem to remember what the friendly peaceful Moslems did in Mumbai recently. After all there has been a WAR between both sides about every six or seven years.
Kashmiri Moslems are lucky they get off so easily. India could send some ethnic cleansing squads out ofter dark and deny it ever happened. And more of the same where that came from....sort of what Moslems ALREADY do with al-Badr brigades.
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Article 370 of the Indian Constitution gives special rights to Kashmiris (Nehru was from Kashmir). No law passed by the Indian parliament is law in Kashmir unless the state legislature approves. No non kashmiri Indian can reside in Kashmir. They cannot purchase land in Kashmir. If a female kashmiri marries a non kashmiri, she will lose her residency rights.
India could have easily swamped the state with migrants and erased the muslim demographic majority. It chose not to.
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Kashmir is the high ground. Without it the Gangetic plains and the heartland of India are vulnerable. India will never cede it to Pakistan or allow a proxy state.
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I've met more than a few Kashmiri, arrogant turd heads every last one of them.
No DIP orders today
[Al-Mana] ISIL terrorist group started withdrawing from al-Bab city in Aleppo northern countryside and heading into Tabaq and before moving into Raqa province, according to media reports.
ISIL’s move came after the pro-Turkish militant groups, including the so-called “Free Syrian Army” had controlled Jarablus city in Aleppo northern countryside.
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KARACHI: Two police officials were shot dead in the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) area of the metropolis on Wednesday night, it has been learnt.
"Suspects traveling in a car opened fire on two policemen," said SSP Karachi South Saqib Ismail Memon.
The armed assailants managed to escape from the crime scene immediately after the attack, he said.
The senior official said the policemen were shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors pronounced them dead on arrival.
The policemen were on security duty with Dr Abdul Aziz, revealed Memon. "Dr Aziz has property dispute with his brother, in which one of his brother had already been killed," he added.
Dr Aziz told police that his younger brother, Abdul Wahab, allegedly orchestrated attack on him outside his house in which both his police guards were killed.
Police sources told Dawn that the doctor was provided guards as he was very close relative to a senior police officer.
The deceased were identified as Majid, 28, and Ishtiaq, 50.
"Policemen sustained critical bullet injuries which proved fatal," said Dr Seemin Jamali adding that both the constables were shot on their heads.
[Claremont.org] 2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die anyway. You--or the leader of your party--may make it into the cockpit and not know how to fly or land the plane. There are no guarantees.
More to the point, what has conservatism achieved lately? In the last 20 years? The answer--which appears to be "nothing"--might seem to lend credence to the plea that "our ideas haven’t been tried." Except that the same conservatives who generate those ideas are in charge of selling them to the broader public. If their ideas "haven’t been tried," who is ultimately at fault? The whole enterprise of Conservatism, Inc., reeks of failure. Its sole recent and ongoing success is its own self-preservation. Conservative intellectuals never tire of praising "entrepreneurs" and "creative destruction." Dare to fail! they exhort businessmen. Let the market decide! Except, um, not with respect to us. Or is their true market not the political arena, but the fundraising circuit?
Only three questions matter. First, how bad are things really? Second, what do we do right now? Third, what should we do for the long term?
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...conservatism’s typical combination of the useless and inapt with the utopian and unrealizable
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You could have voted for another Jim Bob Bush....or Ted Cruz and beady eyes.
So its down to Trump and you better Vote.... or Hillary DOES her thingy. Not a lot of choices left now, are there? And can Trump OR Hillary hold onto what they win? WHAT do they win?
And you still lock your doors nowadays cause its DARK out there... and you just aren't the kind to go to Church.
( You can't fly the plane anyway, even if you do get to the controls. )
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Yup, 8 more years of rot and corruption or worse or a possibility that Flight 93 or the target the terrorists had in mind might be saved is where we are at this time.
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Yes, yes, Flight 93. The memorial that looks like a crescent moon and counts the hijackers as "victims." Good times...
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Best thing I've read in a long time (RTWT). A pox on conservative pundits, apparatchiks, and funders. We will not be able to recover from Hillary - we might not be able to recover regardless.
"While serving as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton bought her BlackBerrys off eBay -- since she preferred older models that the smartphone company had long retired -- a top Republican on Capitol Hill revealed.
"I don't want to get into this too much, but part of what was happening with the secretary of state was, she was acquiring technology that wasn't even supported by BlackBerry," House Oversight Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz told a forum in DC on Wednesday, according to the Washington Examiner.
"You couldn't buy it. She was actually buying this stuff off of eBay because somebody was selling their old machine. That's what she liked, so she did. It creates this huge vulnerability. And it’s unnecessary," Chaffetz added in an appearance at the American Enterprise Institute.
Chaffetz's remarks come a week after the FBI released notes from its interview of Clinton, part of its investigation into her private email server.
The FBI notes revealed Clinton had 13 BlackBerry devices over the course of her four years as America's top diplomat. Clinton frequently lost or misplaced her smartphone, the notes said. And Bill Clinton aide Justin Cooper destroyed two old devices with a hammer."
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By buying 'seconds' the number of units lost and left behind didn't get recorded through acquisition channels. Probably filed under 'incidental office supplies' by her IT support team.
Maybe because the Iranian was maintaining an old exploit?
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So any security vulnerabilities that BlackBerry fixed in later models were still there on the older models. Felony stupid.
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I mean, she admitted she made a mistake with the email server. She tries to make light of it but it was an extremely serious blunder. It's bad enough that she's so damn crooked but she's really, really stupid too.
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it would be even more amusing if she sold her used blackberries on eBay (or even better on Craig's List)
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A women with 150 million $ in the bank buys blackberry on eBay?
The UK is to expand its contribution to the United Nations peacekeeping force in South Sudan, raising the planned total from 300 to 400.
Although still small, the troop number marks a significant change on the part of the British. While contributing financially to UN peacekeeping operations, the UK has until recently limited its troop commitments to the 250 personnel in Cyprus.
The British troops heading to the world’s newest country will join a 12,000-strong UN force from 50 nations. The UK is also deploying about 40 troops to the UN force in Somalia combating the jihadi fighters of the al-Shabaab group.
The UK deployment will be formally announced by the defence secretary, Michael Fallon, in London on Thursday, at an international conference aimed at improving UN peacekeeping efforts.
South Sudan, which came into being in 2011, has for the last three years collapsed into a conflict which has left thousands dead and displaced an estimated 1.7 million people.
The British commitment comes against a background of tentative peace talks involving UN and African diplomats.
A small number of British troops arrived in the country over the summer, with the rest to be deployed later this year and next. They will mainly be engaged in engineering projects, while the extra 100 troops are due to help set up a field hospital. Others are attached to the UN peacekeeping headquarters in South Sudan.
Although the UK defence force has shrunk dramatically over the last decade and has scaled back on overseas deployment, ministers frequently talk up the involvement of British forces abroad.
Fallon will say on Thursday: “This large-scale deployment underlines how we are stepping up our global commitments. Backed by a rising defence budget, it’s part of our effort to tackle the instability that leads to mass migration and terrorism. It will help keep Britain safe while improving lives abroad.”
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The commander of Anbar 2nd regions’ border guards, Maj. Gen. Ammar al-Kubaisi, announced arresting a executioner belonging to ISIS in Ramadi, west of the city of Rutba.
Kubaisi said in a statement issued for Iraqi News, “Forces from the border guards’ Intelligence Command in Anbar, in cooperation with the people of Rutba, was able to arrest an ISIS executioner who is called Kaddouri Sahab.”
Kubaisi added, “The forces handed over the terrorist executioner to the Federal Police forces in Rutba city.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Wednesday, Mayor of Rutba district in Anbar province, Imad al-Dulaimi announced the arrival of reinforcements from the Iraqi army and police to the district.
Dulaimi said in a press statement, “Military reinforcements from the army and federal police arrived, today, to Rutba city (310 km west of Ramadi).”
Dulaimi added, “These troops are intended to protect Rutba city from the ISIS threat.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A military source in Anbar informed on Wednesday that dozens of ISIS members were killed in an aerial bombardment west of Anbar.
The source said, “Warplanes bombed ISIS sites in the areas of al-Hadala and al-Sikak north of al-Rutba City (310 km west of Ramadi), destructing the sites completely.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “The bombing resulted in the killing of dozens of ISIS terrorists, as well as causing considerable material and human losses in those locations.”
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[Libya Observer] The UN envoy to Libya, Martin Kobler, said the UN ordered a probe into the arms sneaking into Libya and is investigating the entities behind the arrival of those arms in the country, whether they arrived by sea or land.
"Transparency will be the key of the investigation whose results will be sent to the UN Security Council." Kobler added in a joint presser on Sunday with the Algerian Minister of Maghreb Affairs and African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... , Abdelkader Messahel.
Kobler also indicated that there are 26 million pieces of weapons in the hands of 6 million people, therefore hindering the grinding of the peace processor in Libya, questioning, "Where are they coming from?"
"We welcome the limited US military action in Libya to support the forces of al-Bunyan al-Marsoos in the Libyan war against IS diehards in Sirte, yet we condition this support with its assistance and usefulness as regards establishing peace in Libya." Kobler remarked.
Messahel, on the other hand, urged the UN to take a stand and stop the international parties that are impeding the political process in Libya, saying that all Libyan parties should take part in the political dialogue and in forming a national unity government.
"Foreign intervention in Libya is totally rejected here in Algeria because we believe such an intervention will complicate the issue and will do more harm than good." Messahel added.
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What are they going to do? Censure the government of Qatar?
[Breitbart] Director Oliver Stone opened up about his forthcoming Edward Snowden biopic Snowden in a recent interview, and called most Hollywood war movies "bullsh*t" -- thanks to the CIA.
"What you’re seeing is bullsh*t. And a lot of the war pictures you see, you don’t get, you know, you get it after the Pentagon has sanitized it. And they lie. They lie. As long as it is pro-American, that’s all that matters," the three-time Oscar-winner said during an August 26 interview at Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television.
Stone says "the Pentagon has taken over. CIA has taken over Hollywood in that sense." Only Hollywood ?
Moving to closing paras:
During the Q&A, Stone also praised GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, who filmed scenes for the director’s 1987 classic Wall Street that were ultimately cut out of the finished film.
"He was good," Stone said of the real estate magnate. "I have no complaint. . . I talked to him, and he’s a charming man in person. As an actor, he was stunning."
Last month, Breitbart News reported that Edward Snowden plans to appear live in U.S. theaters via satellite alongside Stone for a special one-night event ahead of the highly anticipated biopic premiere.
Snowden hits theaters on September 16, and also stars Shailene Woodley, Zachary Quinto, Scott Eastwood and Nicolas Cage. The film makes its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9.
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As long as it is pro-American, that’s all that matters
As opposed to your list of Anti-American films?
How'd all those Anti-War Anti-American films do during the Bush administration? How well did American Sniper do? Even for the American hating Hollyweird, they can read the bottom line. Why don't you go to Chinese financing for your movies. Cause if you're going to make a movie rather than art, it has to sell to the rubes.
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He's a marxist blinded by ideology. Some war movies lean pro-American and do well at the box office as a result. Others lean anti-American and sink at the box office. CIA has nothing to do with supply and demand.
In fact a smart person without ideology could have made a fortune churning out low budget pro-American war movies the last 15 years.
[Wash Times] Last Friday was getaway day for a three-day holiday weekend as a Gulf hurricane was making landfall in Florida. So we had every right to expect a significant dump of controversial documents by the federal government while we were so distracted.
We were not disappointed. On Friday afternoon the FBI released a detailed report of its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, including a summary of her interview with FBI agents (the so-called "302").
I have previously said that the real "sin" in the email/private server debacle was the "original sin." Once you set it up this way, it would inevitably break bad. No one needed to be stupid, weak or corrupt (to use a few of Donald Trump’s favorite words) for this to end up in a bad place.
The press of business, the pace of events, the demands of travel would lead to hasty decisions, sloppy composition and bad judgments. Things would show up in the emails that just shouldn't be there.
I know of no government official who would welcome an army of inspectors general combing through four years of emails on their unclassified accounts. That’s why they use government accounts, where the government remains responsible for security, and they don’t mingle personal correspondence with official. That’s also why anyone with experience in these matters would label the Clinton setup as downright inconceivable. And that was it as far as I was concerned. Really bad decision, predictable results the end.
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Her incessant lying about everything should be enough to disqualify her. She is criminal or incompetent and stupid--or both. The truth is the American people just can't trust her or anything she says. How can she be working for the American people and be qualified to be POTUS when her sole motivation is money? After Benghazi, does anyone think she has the nation's and the people's backs? She even claims that no one died in Libya--she can't even tell the truth about Benghazi.
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Why would anyone vote for a doddering old sputtering windbag with a sordid past, who can't remember key facts, and must keep a physician at arm's length ?
[Libya Observer] The front man of al-Bunyan al-Marsoos military operation, Mohammed al-Ghasri, said the end of the war on IS bully boyz in Sirte is looming as the Misrata-led forces are now battling IS in a 2 km area, pinpointing that they seized the entire residential area (1) on Monday.
Al-Ghasri added in a statement on Tuesday that all the festivities are now taking place in some parts of the residential area (3) and the military-sea district, Jiza, which lies to the north of the residential area (1) and next to the residential area (3).
"War will come to an end once this battle ended." al-Ghasri remarked.
"We’re still investigating the validity of the news that IS bully boyz have their families with them inside the area, where they are trapped." He indicated, pointing out that although the gunnies are of different nationalities and despite all the crimes they have committed so far, they have held Libyan girls as captives and are now dealing with them as "something" they own.
Al-Ghasri also added that Saturday’s battle against IS turbans was a great motivation for the fighters, who were so enthusiastically eager to battle the terrorists, leading to the death of 38 fighters, while on Sunday, only 9 fighters were also killed, he concluded.
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The United States killed 13 al-Qaeda operatives in three counterterrorism strikes in Yemen from Aug. 24 to Sept. 4, the US military said on Tuesday.
All three of the strikes against the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula targets were conducted in central Yemen’s Shabwah Governorate, US Central Command said in a statement. It did not specify how the strikes were carried out or the identities of those killed.
Late last month, a presumed US drone strike in southern Yemen killed three al-Qaeda suspects, a security official and a tribal source said. The strike hit a vehicle carrying the three alleged militants in the eastern suburbs of Ataq, the capital of Shabwa province, the official said.
Two of the suspects who were injured in the attack later succumbed to their wounds, a tribal source said, raising an earlier toll of one killed.
"Rosebud!"
The United States has carried out numerous drone strikes against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) operatives in Yemen.
American officials said this month that the US military had killed three AQAP fighters in a strike, also in Shabwa.
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"After two years of embarrassing breakdowns in both variants of the embattled Navy Littoral Combat Ship, there are worrying signs that a reliability problem is built into the design. At issue: the unhappy combination of an unusually small crew struggling with a uniquely complex propulsion system, one that yokes gas turbines and diesel engines together.
That implies Vice Adm. Thomas Rowden's current stand-down to retrain LCS engineers -- and it's unprecedented to stand down an entire warship class -- will only solve part of the problem. A complete cure could require redesigning the engines. That's the kind of fundamental fix that would have to wait for the upgraded "frigate" model of the LCS and which couldn't be retrofitted to existing ships.
"The Navy may want to...in the frigate design, for example...come up with ways to simplify the propulsion architecture," said Bryan Clark of the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments, a former top aide to the Chief of Naval Operations.
"It's not really fundamentally flawed so much as the architecture is hard to support," Clark said, which is particularly problematic for LCS's chronically overworked crew. Using a smaller gas turbine would reduce the ships' top speed, he said, but it would also make maintaining and operating it easier.
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A ship designed NOT to survive or continue to operate once hit? I am ignorant of a great many things, greatest of which, all things seagoing. Someone must explain this to me.
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A complete cure could require redesigning the engines would be to scrap the LCS program in it's entirety, and get rid of the procurement command that foisted this POS onto our Navy. (There, fixed it for you.)
The Engineering divisions are not the problem. Everything else is.
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CODAG (combined diesel and gas turbine) and CODOG (combined diesel or gas turbine) have been around for a relatively long time.
The issue is the treating the LCS like it's an aircraft. Hence the high reliance on automation, on-shore maintenance, and small crews that rotate on and off the vessels (and thus don't learn the idiosyncrasies of their assigned ship). The issue is, to be basic, is that a seagoing vessel is not an aircraft.
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Another issue is the surface warfare union's tendency to "make every ship a dreadnought." The LCS concept is fine, if one is looking for a vessel for low intensity, low profile missions. The ship-driver mafia isn't too keen on that.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior revealed that five policemen were either killed or wounded in the explosion of an improvised explosive device that targeted their patrol in southern Baghdad.
Sharing more details with Iraqi News, the source informed, “This morning, an improvised explosive device exploded targeting a police patrol while it was passing in al-Dawra area in southern Baghdad, killing one of its members and wounding four others.”
“Security forces rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital and the body to the forensic medicine department,” the source added.
[EN.TREND.AZ] A Daesh car bomb attack has killed at least nine people and injured 20 more in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Press TV reported.
The late Monday blast went off near a hospital in the city’s Karradah district. According to reports the target of the attack was a Shia gathering in the neighborhood. The Takfiri terrorists claimed responsibility for the attack via a statement posted by the Amaq news agency, an affiliate of the group.
Police and medical officials say that the death toll from the incident is expected to rise.
The latest bomb attack took place in an area not far from the July attacks, which claimed the lives of over 300 people. The deadly blast took place when a vehicle packed with explosives was detonated in Karradah area while families were shopping for Eid al-Fitr which marks the end of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
[Dhaka Tribune] Aminul and Nahid, one of the couples who have been detained for their suspected involvement with New JMB, are among those who assigned jobs for different squads of the banned outfit, according to Rapid Action Battalion.
RAB Legal and Media Wing chief Mufti Mahmud Khan shared the information at a presser in Dhaka Wednesday afternoon.
He said the couple would also handle the paper works for those within the outfit needed to go abroad for training. When the recruits returned the duo was among those who would assign them jobs.
"If any member of the newly formed faction needed to go abroad then they [Nahid and Aminul] were the ones who made arrangements for it. They also handled the passport works."
Earlier in the day, two couples ‐ Md Aminul Islam and his wife Nahid Sultana, and Md Shariful Islam alias Mahmud, his wife Marjiya Akter Sumi ‐ were detained from Narayanganj and Dhaka.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Video footage emerged of soldiers from the Yemeni Republican Guard supported by Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias ambushing Saudi troops in one of the 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 southern provinces.
Reportedly, Saudi troops were led to al-Shibwani hills before being mowed down by the Yemeni forces who killed no less than 10 soldiers.
Fighting has become so intense in southern Saudi Arabia that the Saudi government had begun relocating "Southern Resistence" militias from Aden to the southern border as Yemeni fighters advance on the bustling provincial capital of Najran.
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At least 8 loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed during an airstrike in eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the airstrike was carried out in Shegal district, leaving 8 dead, 15 wounded, and an accommodation of the terrorist group destroyed.
The loyalists of the terror group have not commented regarding the report so far.
Kunar is among the relatively volatile provinces in eastern Afghanistan where anti-government armed militant groups including the Taliban insurgents are actively operating.
However, the ISIS loyalists have also increased their presence in the province as they attempt to expand foothold in the country despite major crackdowns against the group in eastern Nangarhar province.
The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) launched a major operation in Nangarhar to suppress the activities of ISIS loyalists in mid-July this year.
The US forces also provided support to the Afghan forces during the operation conducted in Kot, Achin and parts of the province where ISIS loyalists were conducting insurgency.
The US forces resumed operations against ISIS loyalists after the Obama administration granted them broader role to combat the terror groups in Afghanistan.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday suggested Turkey and the US are ready to drive Daesh from its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa.
Who's the "we" in this?
Erdogan said his US counterpart Barack Obama floated the idea of joint action against the militants when they met at the G20 summit in China. BBC reported, quoting Erdogan as saying, Turkey would have "no problem" with such action.
Last month Turkey launched an operation inside Syria, targeting both the Daesh and Kurdish rebels. Turkish-backed militia drove Daesh from the border town of Jarablus, but Turkey has also been concerned with checking the advance of Kurdish forces whom it regards as terrorists.
Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli said Turkish forces might push deeper into Syria after securing a stretch of land along the border. Canikli also said 110 Daesh and Kurdish militia fighters had been killed since the operation began.
Russia, which is allied to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, said it was "deeply concerned" by the Turkish advance.
Erdogan's comments on Raqqa were published in Turkish media. There has been no confirmation from the US.
"Obama wants to do some things jointly concerning Raqqa," Erdogan said. "We said this would not be a problem from our perspective."
"I said: 'Our soldiers should come together and discuss, then what is necessary will be done,'" Erdogan added.
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And if the American changes his mind... well, it's too late; we are already on the march!
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Israeli Air Force carried out an Arclight airstrike in the Golan Heights on Wednesday night, targeting the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) positions at the predominately Druze town of Hader.
According to a military source in al-Quneitra, an Israeli attack drone struck the 1st Regiment’s headquarters in the town of Hader, causing significant damage to their equipment.
The source added that no casualties were reported by the Syrian Arab Army at the 1st Regiment headquarters, just material damage to the base.
Israel’s attack on Wednesday night is their second assault on the Syrian Arab Army in the last 5 days.
The previous Israeli attack was conducted in response to a rogue mortar shell that landed in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
The Israeli Air Force overnight Wednesday-Thursday hit a number of positions belonging to the Syrian army after a projectile from the neighboring country struck an open area on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights earlier Wednesday evening.
Israel has said it holds the Syrian regime responsible for all errant fire, regardless of the source, and frequently retaliates against stray missile strikes inside its territory.
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The Democrats have tried to bill themselves as a party of inclusion, and fierce defenders of LGBT rights. But apparently none of that applies to gay Republicans -- something one Congressional candidate is learning the hard way.
The LGBT community is furious after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee began airing on Arizona television attack ads against Sheriff Paul Babeu, an openly gay Republican running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Fifteen years ago, Babeu served as headmaster of a private school in Massachusetts, which became the subject of thoroughly debunked rumors about student abuse.
But it looks like the Democrats aren’t going to let the truth get in the way of some good hate speech. Throughout the commercial, words like "sexual abuse" and "strip" flash across the screen. The ad ends with the ominous warning, "We can’t trust him with our kids."
Meanwhile, Babeau has served as a member of the National Guard, as a police patrolman, and as Pinal County sheriff, where hundreds of thousands of people (including children) have trusted him with their lives.
The ad is designed to make voters fearful of Babeu’s sexuality, nothing more, and points out longstanding hypocrisy within the Democratic Party toward LGBT issues."
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Turkey can arrest three MPs from ruling Justice and Development Party as part of the operation against the Fethullah Gulen movement, the Hurriyet newspaper reported Sept. 7.
Hillary is watching closely...
The names of the MPs, suspected of having ties with the Gulen movement, haven’t been disclosed.
Reportedly, 48 more MPs from the ruling party are also suspected of having ties with the Gulen movement. However, the country’s authorities haven’t yet confirmed this. Currently, 317 MPs are representing the Justice and Development Party in Turkey’s parliament.
According to Turkey’s law, before being arrested, MPs should be deprived of parliamentary immunity. Under Turkey’s Criminal Code, in order to initiate a criminal case, the prosecutor’s office should make an official request to the parliament, after which the parliament’s law commission deprives the MP from the parliamentary immunity.
[AnNahar] Lebanese authorities have arrested in Beirut an opponent of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rule, a media report said on Wednesday.
“The Criminal Investigations Department arrested in Beirut a Turkish anti-Erdogan dissident who is wanted by the Turkish authorities on multiple arrest warrants,” LBCI television reported.
[DeutscheWelle] On Wednesday, the chief prosecutor's office in Ankara launched an investigation into 105 leaders suspected to belonging to the Gulen-linked terror organization FETO, Anadolu Agency said.
Three journalists working for the "Yenicag" newspaper were arrested and held in a sports hall in Ankara, the nationalist daily reported. A former lawmaker from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Turan Yaldir, was also detained in Ankara. He and the three reporters were critics of the Gulen movement, "Yenicag" reported on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, a lack of space in the country's overflowing prisons has prompted authorities to release more than 35,000 convicts, excluding those imprisoned for crimes such as rape and murder.
Tens of thousands of people - including teachers, journalists, civil servants, soldiers and bureaucrats - have been arrested since a July 15 coup. Hundreds of thousands more have lost their jobs for alleged links with Fethullah Gulen, a US-based cleric accused of spearheading a spiritual movement among Turkish academics and businesses.
[AnNahar] Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for almost 150 teachers who allegedly used an encrypted messaging app employed by followers of the U.S.-based Muslim preacher authorities blame for the botched coup bid, state media said.
Police in the central Anatolian city of Kayseri launched an operation with 400 officers in a bid to detain 147 teachers accused of using the app ByLock, the Anadolu news agency said.
The teachers, who had already been suspended in the wake of the July 15 coup attempt, are accused of "breaching the constitution", "attempting to bring down the Turkish government", and "membership of an armed terrorist organization," according to the report.
Some of the suspects were detained, it said, without providing any exact number. The report did not give further details on what messages were exchanged via the app.
Turkish officials have said that the coup plotters used ByLock, a little-known messaging app, to coordinate the conspiracy.
However Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) began decrypting messages sent on ByLock from May last year, the officials have said. This enabled authorities in the wake of the coup to identify tens of thousands of Gulen followers, including top-ranking military personnel.
Officials say education was a key sector used by Gulen to spread his influence in Turkey, using loyal teachers and seeking to create a new generation of pupils sympathetic to his ideas.
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The Free Syrian Army has liberated six more settlements from the militants of the “Islamic State” (IS, aka ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) terrorist group with support of the Turkish armed forces as part of the “Shield of the Euphrates” operation, the Haber 7 newspaper reported Sept.7.
Reportedly, the Free Syrian Army and Turkish armed forces continue the offensive operation in the direction of Al-Bab city.
The Free Syrian Army and Turkish armed forces have liberated around 100 villages and 620 square kilometers of territories from the IS since the beginning of the “Shield of the Euphrates” operation. A total of five Turkish servicemen were killed and seven more were injured during the “Shield of the Euphrates” operation.
Turkish Air Force launched an operation Aug. 24 with support of the coalition aircraft to liberate Syria’s Jarabulus from the IS militants. The operation was dubbed the “Shield of the Euphrates”.
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(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – A security source in Salahuddin province reported on Tuesday that 12 displaced persons have been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast north of the province.
Sharing further details with Iraqi News, the source revealed, “An explosive device emplaced by ISIS members in an area located between al-Zawiya and Sharqat (50 km north of Salahuddin), exploded, targeting families while they were fleeing from the areas controlled by ISIS in Sharqat and surrounding villages,” pointing out that, “Four civilians were killed and eight others were injured due to the explosion.”
“The ISIS is planting bombs in the path of the displaced families to hinder their escape attempts,” the source added.
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[IsraelTimes] Israeli researchers: Notes from USSR archivist who defected indicate PA president was ’handled’ in 1980s
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... was a Soviet spy in Damascus in the 1980s, Israel’s Channel 1 television reported Wednesday, citing information it said was included in an archive smuggled out of the USSR.!
According to Channel 1’s foreign news editor Oren Nahari, the famed Mitrokhin archive, kept by KGB defector Vasily Mitrokhin, revealed that Abbas was a Soviet mole in Damascus in 1983.
The documents -- obtained by Israeli researchers Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez -- purportedly show that Abbas, code-named Krotov (mole), worked under Mikhail Bogdanov, who was then stationed in Damascus and is today Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... ’s envoy to the Middle East.
Bogdanov was caught in a diplomatic tussle earlier this week after trying to broker a summit between Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow, who both claimed a willingness to meet while decrying the other for allegedly refusing.
Mitrokhin was a senior KGB archivist who defected to the UK in 1992, and his edited notes on various KGB operations were released in 2014. His handwritten notes remain classified by MI5.
The archivist’s notes on the KGB are considered among the most complete information available on Soviet intelligence operations. He claimed that the KGB recruited the then head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, Wadi Haddad, as an agent in the 1970s.
His writings also revealed that Haddad, operating under the code name NATSIONALIST, was given Soviet assistance in funding and arming the PFLP.
According to an Eastern Soviet bloc intelligence agent who defected to the US in the 1970s, the PLO, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine ... a breakaway faction of the Pöpular Frönt för the Liberation of Paleostine. The are regarded as the most intellectual of Paleostinian fedayeen groups, smoking cheap cigarettes and drawing heavily on Marxist-Leninist theory to explain their crappy lives. They can occasionally be seen strutting through the streets of Paleostine, dressed up like soldiers and lugging firearms, though they seldom manage to hit anything and then usually by accident. This may be because of their habit of wearing black masks that cut off most of their vision. That would also explain their habit of occasionally walking into walls, which is a well-known attribute of those immersed in true understanding of the dialectic... and the PFLP all received help from the KGB.
Romanian Lt. General Pacepa told US officials that in 1972 that then-PLO leader Yasser Arafat closely collaborated with the KGB and the Romanian Securitate service, and PLO guerrilla fighters were secretly trained by Soviet intelligence agents.
In response to the Channel 1 report, Fatah official Nabil Shaath denied that Abbas was ever a KGB operative, calling the claim a "smear campaign" that attempted to distract from potentially Russian-led peace talks in Moscow.
Throughout his early life, Abbas developed a network of Paleostinian political activists from across the Arab world that would eventually become Fatah and the Paleostine Liberation Organization (PLO).
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abbas studied at the People’s Friendship University of Russia, where he wrote his doctoral thesis, "The Secret Relationship between German Nazis and Zionists," which has been accused of denying the scope of the Holocaust.
After earning his doctorate, Abbas moved to Tunisia where he took a more active role in PLO leadership, and worked his way up to chairman of the organization. He became PA president following Arafat’s death in 2004.
Long before 1967, Russia had planned to make Israel the site of an initial conflict with the West. Drawing from the Mitrokhin archive, it is clear that the Soviet Union had, in 1964-66, stashed war materiel in Israel.
May 13, 1967: The KGB, having planted agents among the Egyptian President's closest advisers, warns Egypt to expect "an Israeli invasion of Syria immediately after Independence Day, with the aim of overthrowing the Damascus regime." No invasion took place. Simultaneously, Russia supported terrorist organizations in the area, as witnessed by Abba Eban.
The Six-Day War in 1967: Russia officially cuts ties with Israel. According to the testimony of former Soviet personnel, there had been a plan to strike Israel and the Dimona reactor a year in advance. Fearing a nuclear Israel, the Soviet Union flew reconnaissance flights over Dimona, correctly predicting this would provoke Israel to strike first.
Following cues from the Soviet Union, Egypt's second in command insisted on Egypt's military destruction of the Dimona facility but never had the opportunity due to Israel quickly routing Egyptian forces.
The US Embassy in Cairo, along with Israeli Intelligence, believed that Egypt and Syria had the full backing of the USSR. A KGB officer and second secretary of the Soviet Embassy left Deputy Undersecretary of State Raymond L. Garthoff with the impression that US involvement in the Six Day War would draw the Soviet Union into the conflict. Egypt Embassy's political counselor warned that, “[The] Soviet objective is to transform Arab-Israeli struggle into showdown between Communists and anti-Communists for control of Middle East, and Soviets are succeeding.”
The Soviet premier himself would warn in a cable to the President, “A very crucial moment has now arrived which forces us, if military actions are not stopped in the next few hours, to adopt an independent decision. We are ready to do this. However, these actions may bring us into a clash which will lead to a grave catastrophe….We propose that you demand from Israel that it unconditionally cease military action.…We purpose to warn Israel that if this is not fulfilled, necessary actions will be taken, including military.”
On June 5, orders came for a detachment of Soviet volunteers for a landing, later aborted, on the Israeli coast. At the same time, the bomber and fighter/reconnaissance units, including MiG-21s, were put on full combat alert.
The Commander of the Soviet Navy had given standing orders that, “If the Israelis try to blockade the Egyptian or Syrian coast, or to hamper the activity of Soviet vessels bringing arms and materiel to these countries, steps should be taken and arms used if necessary.” There are also unconfirmed reports of minor skirmishes between Soviet and Israeli ships, that fortunately ended without escalation.
As a result of the conflict, Israel lost 779 soldiers. Egypt lost 80% of its military equipment, new and Russian built, 11,500 soldiers and officers killed, 5,000 soldiers and 500 officers captured, and 20,000 troops wounded. Jordan suffered 23,000 killed and wounded. Syria suffered 7,500 dead and wounded. The Syrians lost half of their tanks and almost all the artillery they had positioned on the Golan Heights.
At the end of the Six Day War, the USSR threatened a naval landing on Israeli shores, complete with air support. Evidence from intelligence agencies indicates the threat was not empty.
Paradoxically, the military failure of the Soviet Union's allies served to strengthen the USSR's position, as those states were now dependent on the Soviet Union for military and diplomatic support.
July 1967: Moscow launched a propaganda campaign against Zionism as a "world threat" and "all-powerful international force.”
February, 1968: According to a CIA memo, “the first information received regarding Soviet plans to participate in a limited Arab offensive against Israel.…The Soviets will actively aid the Arabs in gaining back the territory lost in the June 1967 war.”
July 1968: Yasser Arafat travels to Moscow, and is seen as “their man.”
The War of Attrition in 1968-70: Over 3,367 Israeli soldiers were killed and wounded, an estimated 10,000 Egyptian Fedayeen jihadists died. During this time, the Egyptians used large amounts of Soviet military hardware, and received advice from Soviet high within the Soviet Union's military.
February 4, 1969: Yasser Arafat is made Chairman of the PLO, which subsequently establishes a firm relationship with Russia. As Russia's support of Egypt waned, the PLO saw more support in the form of arms and training from the KGB. From this point on, most Palestinian militants would receive their arms and training from the Soviet Union.
December 12, 1969: Islamic terrorists bombed the West Berlin office of El Al Airlines.
1970s: Many Jews in the Soviet Union would attempt to leave for Israel during the period, but those leaving required the approval of Soviet Intelligence.
January 24, 1970: An ammunition truck exploded while being unloaded. Al-Fatah and the PFLP claimed credit.
February 10, 1970: Militants used guns and grenades in an assault an El Al airport shuttle in Munich.
May 4, 1970: Members of Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah murdered the wife of an Israeli diplomat.
May 8, 1970: The PLO attacked an Israeli school bus with bazooka fire.
May 22, 1970: Muslim militants fired three bazooka shells into a school bus in Israel.
June 30, 1970: The Soviet presence was to increase from 2,500–4,000 in January to 10,600–12,150 (plus 100–150 Soviet pilots) by this point.
September 6, 1970: Three flights, including an El Al flight, were hijacked by the PFLP.
November 6, 1970: A bomb attribued to al-Fatah exploded in the central bus station in Tel Aviv.
May 17, 1971: The Turkish Liberation Army kidnapped the Israeli Consul General in Istanbul.
June 4, 1971: PFLP terrorists carried out an assault on an oil tanker in the Strait of Bab el Mandeb at the entrance to the Red Sea, hoping to deter tankers from using the Israeli port of Eilat.
July 7, 1971: al-Fatah fired rockets at Tel Aviv
September 16, 1971: PLO terrorists threw a grenade into a crowd of tourists in Jerusalem.
January 16, 1972: Palestinian Muslims committed a terrorist attack in Gaza.
February 6, 1972: Five Jordanian workers allegedly assisting Israel were murdered near Cologne by Black September.
February 22, 1972: Black September sabotaged the Esso oil pipeline because the company had allegedly aided the Israelis.
May 8, 1972: Black September hijacked a plane en route from Vienna to Tel Aviv.
June 20, 1972: Members of the PFLP-General Command fired rockets at an Israeli bus.
August 5, 1972: The PFLP/PLO/BSO attacked an oil refinery in Italy because Germany and Austria allegedly supplied oil to Israel.
August 16, 1972: An El Al flight was damaged by a bomb in its luggage compartment. Claimed by the Nationalist Group for the Liberation of Palestine. Awel Abdel Zwaiter was thought to be the bomber and head of Black September.
September 5, 1972: The Munich Olympic Massacre. Eight Palestinian Muslims, working for Yasser Arafat, Fatah, and the PLO broke into the Israeli quarters of the Olympic Village during the Munich Olympic Games at dawn, aided by a neo-nazi born in the former Soviet Union. The assault would end with 17 dead, including the 11 hostages from the Israeli Olympic.
September 9, 1972: An Israeli diplomat was killed by a letter bomb mailed by Black September.
September 11, 1972: An al-Fatah member affiliated with the BSO lured an Israeli official to a Brussels cafe where he was shot and seriously wounded.
September 19, 1972: The Israeli Embassy in Paris discovered two envelopes containing explosives. They were the first in a series of letter bombs mailed by Black September.
September 19, 1972: A letter-bomb mailed by Arab terrorists killed a diplomat in the Israeli embassy in London.
September 20, 1972: A letter bomb addressed to an Israeli official was intercepted in Brussels.
September 20, 1972: Two letter bombs addressed to Israeli officials were found in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
September 20, 1972: Six letter bombs addressed to Israeli officials were intercepted in Ottawa, and another in Montreal.
September 20, 1972: Five letter bombs addressed to Israeli officials were intercepted in Geneva, eight in London, and one in Brussels.
September 21, 1972: Ten letter bombs addressed to Israeli officials are found in Israel, one in Argentina, one in Zaire and one at the Israeli embassy in Phnom Penh.
October 6, 1972: Palestinian students entered the West German Consulate in Algiers and held several hostages, demanding release of three terrorists held for participation in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
October 25, 1972: Police intercepted letter-bombs mailed in Israel and addressed to President Richard Nixon, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, and Secretary of State William Rogers. The letters were mailed by Black September from Kiryat Shmona.
December 28, 1972: In Thailand, four members of Black September took over the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok and held 12 hostages, one of whom was the Israeli Ambassador to Cambodia.
They demanded the release of 36 Islamic terrorists imprisoned in Israel, including the two surviving hijackers of the Sabena plane who were captured at Lod Airport in Tel Aviv on May 8, 1972, and the lone survivor of the May 31, 1972 Lod Airport attack. The Islamic terrorists threatened to blow up the embassy if Thai security forces attempted an assault.
January 8, 1973: Black September bombed and destroyed offices in Paris, because the agency facilited the emigration to Israel.
January 24, 1973: In Cyprus, a representative of Arafat's al-Fatah and Black September's KGB contact, Hussein Abad al-Khair was killed by a bomb that was detonated by a radio transmitter from across the street. Police later found a $5,000 check drawn by a Cypriot known to be an agent of the KGB.
January 26, 1973: Black September claimed responsibility for the assassination in Madrid of an Israeli tourist and alleged Israeli intelligence officer.
March 4, 1973: A ship carrying 250 U.S. tourists bound for Haifa, Israel, sank in Beirut harbor following an explosion. Black September claimed credit for the destruction of the vessel.
March 6, 1973: Explosives were found in cars parked outside El Al Airlines offices, the First Israel Bank and Trust Company and the Israel Discount Bank in New York City.
The FBI reported that three bombs were set to go off on March 4 during Israeli Premier Golda Meir's New York visit, but an error in their circuits caused them to fail. An Iraqi PLO official was charged with placing the bombs.
March 12, 1973: Black September terrorists murdered an Israeli businessman who was subsequently branded by Cairo's Fedayeen radio as a "Zionist intelligence officer." Black September claimed responsibility.
March 15, 1973: A Palestinian attack on Jordanian and Israeli embassies in Paris was foiled.
April 9, 1973: Four Islamic terrorists blew out the entrance to the apartment building in Nicosia where the Israeli ambassador resided.
Thirty minutes later, two cars burst through the gates of the Nicosia airport. One was stopped, while the other assaulted an Israeli plane about to leave for Tel Aviv, tossing grenades and dynamite at the plane. A group calling itself the Arab Nationalist Youth for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility. The group was created by Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi as a method of secretly fighting against Americans and Jews.
April 27, 1973: An El Al Airlines clerk was murdered. Police arrested Lebanese citizen who said that he was a member of Black September and had killed the Italian because he was an Israeli spy responsible for the killing of an al-Fatah official.
June 9, 1973: In Germany, a Black September unit partially destroyed the Fritz Werner arms plant in West Berlin. The BSO claimed responsibility, alleged ties between the company and Israel.
July 1, 1973: An Israeli military attaché in Washington, D.C., was assassinated by Muslim Arabs.
July 19, 1973: In Greece, a lone Palestinian terrorist armed with a machine gun and hand grenades attempted to attack the El Al Israel Airlines office in Athens. When the attempt failed, the terrorist fled and took hostages at a hotel. The man said he was a member of the Organization of Victims of Occupied Territories.
August 5, 1973: Two Muslims used machine guns to attack passengers in the Israeli El Al lounge in Athens, Greece. They claimed to be members of Black September, but after shooting the wrong people, an anonymous BSO spokesman denied it. On August 8, a new group calling itself the Seventh Suicide Squad claimed responsibility for the attack.
September 7, 1973: The Israeli exhibit at the West Berlin International Radio and Television Fair was destroyed by a bomb. Black September claimed responsibility.
September 28, 1973: In Austria, three Jewish emigrants en route from the Soviet Union to Israel, and an Austrian customs official, were taken hostage by Muslims claiming to be members of the Eagles of the Palestinian Revolution, an of al-Fatah.
The jihadists commandeered a car and drove to the Vienna airport, where they demand and were granted the closure of a transit camp for Russian Jewish immigrants. The Muslim terrorists released their hostages and the kidnappers were flown to Libya where they were freed.
October 9, 1973: The Soviets airlifted 12,500–15,000 tons of supplies, of which 6,000 tons went to Egypt, 3,750 tons went to Syria and 575 tons went to Iraq.
Yom Kippur War of 1973: Muslims, lead by Egypt and Syria, and backed and financed by Iraqi, Iranian, and Saudi Arabian OPEC petro-dollars, launched a joint surprise attack on Israel on their most important religious day, Yom Kippur, simultaneously invading the Sinai and Golan Heights with Soviet planes, tanks, and armor.
At the start of the war, there were an estimated 2,000 Soviet personnel in Syria, of whom 1,000 were serving in Syrian air defense units. Soviet advisors were reportedly present in Syrian command posts "at every echelon, from battalion up, including supreme headquarters.” During and immediately after the conflict, the Soviets supplied 63,000 tons, mainly to Syria.
The Soviet Union moved two Destroyers off the Syrian coast, and Soviet warships (with over 40,000 naval infantry) in the Mediterranean were authorized to open fire on Israeli combatants approaching Soviet convoys and transports. On several occasions, Israeli and Soviet ships exchanged fire, such as with the Soviet ships Rulevoi and SDK-137.
The Soviet Union later threatened to intervene on behalf of Egypt if an agreeable cease fire could not be reached, put airbases on alert and setup and airborne command post in the Southern Soviet Union.
January 24, 1974: A Muslim man associated with the PLO hurled a bomb into the Bank of Hapoalim, Israel's third largest bank.
February 2, 1974: The Greek freighter Vory was hijacked at the port of Karachi, Pakistan. The three Pakistani gunmen said that they were members of a group called the Muslim International Mujahideen. They threatened to blow up the ship and kill two hostages unless the Greek government freed two Arab Muslim terrorists.
April 11, 1974: In Israel, three Muslim terrorists said to belong to the PFLP-GC crossed the Lebanese border and entered an apartment building in Qiryat Shemona (Kiryat Shmona), killing 18 people and wounding 16 more.
May 15, 1974: In Israel, three Arab Muslims from the PFLP crossed the border from Lebanon into Israel and assaulted a bus of Israeli women before entering the village of Ma'alot and seizing a school filled with 90 teenagers.
June 24, 1974: Three Muslim terrorists entered Israel and seized hostages in Nahariyya.
1974: A PLO embassy is established in Moscow, and the PLO is granted observer status at the United Nations.
August 25, 1974: In West Germany, a terrorist group calling itself the Commando Muhammad Boudia (an Algerian member of the PFLP and BSO) claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a factory which was owned by the Korf group, because Korf had invested in an Israeli steelworks.
September 8, 1974: A flight from Tel Aviv to New York crashed when a bomb placed in the luggage compartment exploded. A group in association with Abu Nidal claimed responsibility for the bombing.
November 18, 1974: In Israel, three Muslim terrorists slipped into an apartment house in Beit Shean and killed four unarmed civilians before they themselves were killed by an Israeli assault team. Five civilians were killed during the battle and nearly another 20 were injured jumping from windows to escape the jihadists.
Evidence indicated that the terrorists had intended to trade their hostages for 20 terrorists being held in Israeli jails and for Archbishop Hilarion Capucci, the spiritual leader of Greek Catholics in Jerusalem, who had played an active role in smuggling arms to Islamic terrorists. DFLP claimed credit for the attack.
November 30, 1974: In Israel, two al-Fatah members entered a shot an Israeli Muslim to death, mistaking him for a Jew and wounding his wife.
December 6, 1974: PLO Muslims raided the Rosh Hanikra kibbutz and wounded two Israelis.
December 20, 1974: A DFLP bomb injured 13 Israelis in central Jerusalem.
December 22, 1974: In Israel, PLO terrorists threw a hand grenade at a busload of Christmas pilgrims touring Jerusalem.
March 5, 1975: Two boats filled with al-Fatah militants landed on the coast of Israel, and stormed the Savoy Hotel. The attack occurred on the eve of a visit by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to the Middle East to assist in peace negotiations. The terrorists stated that the attack was intended to serve as notice to the Israeli government and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that there could be no Middle East peace settlement with the Palestinians.
July 4, 1975: A Palestinian terrorist bomb exploded among a crowd of Israeli shoppers in Jerusalem. Attributed by the General Command of the Palestinian Revolution to the Martyr Farid al Boubaly Brigade.
July 9, 1975: Palestinians bombed an Israeli oil pipeline near Eilat.
September 15, 1975: Five armed terrorists from the PFLP forced their way into the Egyptian embassy in Madrid. They threatened to blow up the embassy and kill the ambassador and his aides, unless Egypt refrained from signing documents for an accord with Israel, that Egyptian officials proclaim that their Sinai pact with Israel was a betrayal to the Egyptian and Arab peoples, and that Egypt leave the accord negotiations in Geneva, The terrorists fled with their hostages to Algeria where Algerian authorities handed them over to the PLO.
October 4, 1975: Muslim terrorists attacked the Beirut airport in an attempt to hijack an airplane and take Egyptian passengers hostage in protest of the Egyptian-Israeli Sinai accord. The driver of the car that carried the group to the airport was turned over to the police by the PLO. The Palestinian Revolutionary Command tried to cover their tracks by pinning the attacks on the "Rejectionist Front."
November 10, 1975: United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 passes, labeling Zionism “a form of racism and racial discrimination.” This would be revoked on December 16, 1991, at the same time the Soviet Union was collapsing.
January 9, 1976: A bomb exploded in a Jerusalem market. The PFLP claimed credit.
July 30, 1976: Two French tourists were injured in Jerusalem, Israel when a package exploded.
August 11, 1976: Two members of the "Dr. George Habash Organization" (PFLP) threw a hand grenade and fired a submachine at passengers waiting to board an Israeli El Al jetliner. Twenty people were injured and four were killed, including Harold Rosenthal, an aide to U.S. Senator Jacob Javits.
September 5, 1976: Three Palestinians took 80 hostages when they hijacked a KLM Royal Dutch jetliner, commandeering it to fly toward Israel and demanded the release of eight Palestinians, a member of the PFLP partner Japanese Red Army terrorist group, and Hilarion Capucci, caught smuggling arms to Muslim Palestinian terrorists. The hijackers indicated that they had operated under orders from a Libyan-based unit of the Popular Front.
September 25, 1976: The Ghassan Kanafani Commandos (GKC), a group named after a famous Palestinian novelist, spokesperson for the PFLP, and editor-in-chief of its weekly Al-Hadaf. who was said to have been assassinated by Israeli agents. They threw molotov cocktails at the Rome office of the United Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and at a synagogue. They also bombed banks, the warehouse of an Israeli-Italian copmany, and an Avis car rental office to protest Syria's involvement in Lebanon.
April 24, 1977: A bomb exploded on an Israeli bus. Accounts from the victims recalled that a group of Arab workers had left the bus just before the explosion.
July 6, 1977: A pipe bomb planted underneath a vegetable stand in a crowded open-air market in a suburb in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP / PDFLP) claimed credit.
July 20, 1977: A bomb injured five people in Nahariya,Israel.
July 25, 1977: Morris J. Amitay, the executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee survived a dynamite attack on his Rockville, Maryland home.
January 8, 1978: A grenade exploded in the East Jerusalem bus station to dissuade peaceful Palestinians from using these buses to go to work in Israel.
January 10, 1978: Two U.S.-made armor-piercing anti-tank rockets were found aimed at the Israeli Embassy in Brussels. Black September was suspected.
February 1, 1978: The Palestinian Arab Revolutionary Army announced that they injected exported Israel oranges with mercury, saying "We do not intend to kill people in nations that import the oranges but to sabotage the Israel economy." Mercury-tainted oranges were found in Holland, West Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
February 18, 1978: Yusuf el Sebai, former Egyptian Cultural Minister, was assassinated by Muslim terrorists "because he published good things about Israel and because he had accompanied President Sadat on his November ‘77 trip to Israel.".
March 11, 1978: al-Fatah terrorists, led by Dalal Mughrabi left PLO bases in Lebanon snuck ashore in Zodiac inflatable boats near Haifa and killed 35 Israelis and an America, with 72 others wounded.
April 26, 1978: An Islamic terrorist threw a grenade through an open window into a crowded tour bus on its way back to Jerusalem from Galilee.
May 21, 1978: Three gunmen attacked passengers in the departure lounge of El Al at Orly Airport near Paris, carrying submachine guns as well as grenades and plastic explosives. The Organization of the Sons of Southern Lebanon claimed responsibility.
June 2, 1978: In Israel, five people were murdered and 20 were severely injured in an explosion on a bus in Jerusalem. Mayor Teddy Kollek said he thought that the explosion was linked to plans for the forthcoming celebrations of the 11th anniversary of the unification of Jerusalem following Israel's victory during the Six Day War. A news agency in Beirut reported that Palestinian jihadists calling themselves the General Command of the Palestinian Revolution's Forces had claimed credit.
June 20, 1978: The Revolutionary Cell claimed responsibility for a bombing of an Israeli fruit importer.
June 30, 1978: A bomb planted by the Palestine Liberation Organization blasted a crowded marketplace in Jerusalem, simultaneous to the visits of West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale.
August 3, 1978: An Muslim bombed a children's clothing store in Tel Aviv's Carmel Market. The Palestine Liberation Organization issued a statement saying its special units were responsible.
August 25, 1978: In Israel, two Islamic terrorists were captured by an IDF navy patrol while on their way to attack Israeli civilians. Yasser Arafat's Fatah had sent the jihadists from his bases in Lebanon.
October 3, 1978: The sinking by the Israeli Navy of a bomb-laden freighter off the Sinai coast foiled al-Fatah terrorists who were launching a seaborne assault on Israeli oil interests in the Red Sea port of Eilat.
November 1, 1978: Soviet authorities recognized the PLO as the “sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.”
December 10, 1978: A Katyusha rocket and launcher were found, having been readied to fire on Israelis and foreign dignitaries in Jerusalem for the funeral of Golda Meir.
December 12, 1978: The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) claimed to have killed five Israelis in a bombing of the Qiryat Arbaa settlement in the Hebron area.
January 14, 1979: In Maalot, Israel, three Palestinian terrorists crossed over from Lebanon through a border fence and were killed in a Sabbath a raid on a hotel housing 230 civilians.
January 18, 1979: A bomb exploded in the Jewish sector of Jerusalem. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said that "one of its underground units in Israel,” namely Abu Hassan's Fatah Special Operations Unit, was responsible.
January 29, 1979: In Israel, two Jews were killed and 34 wounded when a time bomb planted by Palestinian terrorists exploded.
February 28, 1979: In Israel, a bomb exploded wounding six Jews. The Palestine news agency WAFA reported that the PLO had claimed responsibility.
March 4, 1979: Rail service between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv was suspended following an explosion and a train being derailed. A second bomb was dismantled. A Palestinian Fatah spokesman claimed responsibility.
March 8, 1979: Palestinian terrorists planted three bombs on Israeli tourist buses to protest President Carter's Middle East peace mission. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility.
March 10, 1979: Israeli troops killed four Palestinian infiltrators who planned on taking hostages in Israel during President Carter's visit.
March 26, 1979: A grenade was thrown into the Israeli embassy in Ankara. The Turkish Revolutionaries claimed responsibility, protesting the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.
March 26, 1979: An explosion rocked the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on the eve of the signing of the peace accord between Egypt and Israel.
March 27, 1979: A Jewish-owned perfume shop was bombed, apparently by terrorists protesting the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
March 27, 1979: In Israel, one Jew was killed and 14 were wounded when a bomb exploded in downtown Jerusalem. The PLO claimed responsibility.
April 6, 1979: Islamic terrorists bombed a crowd of people waiting at a bus stop in Jerusalem.
April 10, 1979: A bomb in Tel Aviv killed one Israeli and wounded 36 others. The PLO claimed responsibility.
May 23, 1979: In Israel, a bomb exploded at a crowded bus stop in Petach Tikva, killing three Jews and wounding 13 more. The PLO claimed responsibility, incorrectlystating that "the target had been an Israeli Army food store."
January 2, 1980: Marxist Muslim Turkish terrorists calling themselves the Armed Propaganda Unit claimed responsibility for assassinating the manager of an El Al airlines office in Istanbul.
February 11, 1980: In Israel, a bomb planted in a trashcan by Palestinian terrorists exploded in Petah Tikva.
April 22, 1980: In Israel, a grenade was thrown at a bus outside Jerusalem, al-Fatah was responsible.
June 14, 1980: An IDF navy patrol intercepted a terrorist boat south of Rosh Hanikra.
March 6, 1981: Two Palestinian terrorists attempted to cross into Israel from Lebanon planning to bomb an oil refinery in Haifa.
March 15, 1981: Palestinian terrorists fired a machine gun into a bus filled with Israelis.
July 22, 1981: In Greece, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for an armed assault on a Piraeus shipping, saying the target was a front organization for Israeli intelligence.
August 9, 1981: The PLO claimed responsibility for planting of several bombs near the entrance to the Wailing Wall.
August 10, 1981: Two bombs exploded adjacent to the Israeli Embassy in Vienna. The May 15 Arab Organization for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility.
January 9, 1982: The Arab May 15 Organization for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on an Israeli airline office in Istanbul.
January 18, 1982: Two months after the attempted shooting of the charge d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Ray was assassinated. The Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction claimed responsibility .
When Georges Ibahim Abdallah was found guilty of orchestrating the assassination of Lt. Col. Ray, the assassination of an Israeli diplomat and the attempted murder of U.S. Consul Homme, the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction conducted several bombing campaigns to secure Abdallah's release.
March 29, 1982: A few minutes after a nearby Jewish-owned clothing store was destroyed, police found defused a plastic explosive device placed outside the office of El Al Israel Airlines in Rome.
May 18, 1982: A day after the Israeli Cabinet decided to avoid confrontation with Palestinian terrorists , two incendiary devices were tossed at an Isareli military vehicle on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem.
June 26, 1982: A bomb exploded at the home of Alexander Giese, a member of the Austria-Israeli society.
June 27, 1982: General Mobutu, head of Zaire, escaped an attempt on his life as he landed in Bombay. The attack was believed to be due to Arab discontent with Zaire's diplomatic relationship with Israel.
August 1, 1982: The Marxist Direct Action took responsibility for firing a machine gun on a car owned by an employee of the Israeli embassy.
August 12, 1982: A bomb exploded in a U.S. military barracks in Frankfurt, Germany. Letters sympathetic to the PLO were found outside.
August 12, 1982: Marxists tossed bombs at the Israeli Embassy in Guatemala and at the nation's only synagogue.
September 17, 1982: Islamic terrorists in France booby-trapped a car with Israeli diplomatic license plates.
September 18, 1982: An organization calling itself "Black Lebanon" claimed responsibility for an assault on an Israeli mission in Brussels.
September 23, 1982: Marxist drug lords in Columbia used dynamite to attack the Israeli Embassy in Bogota. M-19, the Colombian 19 April Movement, claimed credit for the blast. M-19 stated the bombing was an act of solidarity with the Palestinians killed in Beirut.
September 27, 1982: The offices of Pan American Airlines and two West German travel agencies were bombed for arranging flights to Israel.
September 28, 1982: In Israel, two Islamic terrorists were apprehended with AK-47s, hand grenades, TNT, demolition bricks, mines, and Katyusha rockets.
October 18, 1982: An Israeli club in Bolivia was bombed.
December 3, 1982: A synagogue in Medellin, Columbia was attacked by twelve armed militants. The terrorists wore masks with the letters PLO.
1982: Material captured in Lebanon proves that the USSR is in frequent contact with the PLO, and provided both arms and training.
January 11, 1983: The PLO claimed responsibility for a grenade attack on a Tel Aviv bus, claiming there were Israeli soldiers aboard.
January 24, 1983: Muslims assaulted the hotel where Lebanese-Israeli-U.S. negotiations were taking place.
July 4, 1983: A Katyusha rocket was fired from Jordanian territory into Israel.
November 4, 1983: A suicide bomber destroyed an Israeli intelligence facility in Tyre, Lebanon. Shiite Muslims associated with AMAL claimed responsibility.
December 12, 1983: In Israel, a bomb devastated a Jerusalem bus. Both Yasser Arafat's PLO and by anti-Arafat Palestinians claimed responsibility.
December 25, 1983: In Malta, an Israeli diplomat said that an Arab gunman fired at her five times.
January 14, 1985: Two French military observers were killed in an ambush in Beirut. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility and the soldiers were "spying for NATO, Israel, and the Lebanese Phalangists.".
January 16, 1985: An Iranian rocket was fired into Israel from Jordan.
January 31, 1985: A bus en route to Hebron, Israel was fired on by Islamic jihadists.
February 19, 1985: In Lebanon, an Israeli major was killed by a roadside bomb.
March 10, 1985: A Lebanese Muslim suicide car bomber killed 12 Israeli soldiers and wounded 14 others in a convoy. The Lebanese National Resistance Front, an affiliate of the Syrian National Resistance Party, Islamic Jihad, and Hizballah all claimed credit.
April, 1985: Gorbachev declares perestroika
April 13, 1985: The Muslim Islamic Jihad paid to have an Israeli-owned bank bombed.
April 20, 1985: Al Fatah militants were intercepted by Israeli units before they reached the Israel.
April 23, 1985: A bomb was found on an Israeli bus in Tel Aviv when the Islamic OPEC regime in Algiers was meeting with the Palestine National Council with regard to funding the PLO.
April 30, 1985: Palestinian Muslims threw a hand grenade into an Israeli office in Bat Yam.
May 28, 1985: Muslims detonated a bomb in the center of Afula.
June 17, 1985: The PLO claimed responsibility for a bomb attack in Jerusalem.
July 8, 1985: A bomb was set off by Islamic militants inside Holon's bus station in Israel.
July 10, 1985: In Israel, a bomb exploded outside the Haifa district courthouse.
July 31, 1985: In Israel, the PFLP-GC claimed responsibility for planting bombs in factories.
August 12, 1985: Islamic terrorists set off a bomb outside the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok.
August 20, 1985: A car full of explosives was discovered in Netanya, Israel. The PLO claimed responsibility.
August 20, 1985: In Cairo, Islamic jihadists assassinated an Israeli Embassy diplomat. Egypt's Revolution claimed responsibility.
September 9, 1985: A bomb was safely defused in Gilo, Israel. The PLO claimed credit. Later that day, a firebomb was tossed at a bus in Jerusalem.
September 10, 1985: Muslims in the West Bank threw a Molotov cocktail into an Israeli car outside a hospital.
September 19, 1985: In Israel, an incendiary device was thrown into a crowd of Jewish civilians.
September 22, 1985: Israeli police defused a car bomb in a Jewish orthodox neighborhood. The PLO's Force 17 claimed responsibility.
September 25, 1985: Three members of the PLO's Force-17 seized an Israeli yacht on Yom Kippur and accused their hostages of being Israeli spies.
September 29, 1985: Two bombs exploded in Haifa, Israel. The PLO claimed responsibility.
October 2, 1985: A bomb exploded in front of a Jewish kindergarten in Argentina.
October 6, 1985: The bodies of a young Israeli couple were found a few miles southwest of Jerusalem. The PLO's Force 17 claimed responsibility.
October 7, 1985: Abu Nidal claimed responsibility for a bomb which wounded 11 Israelis.
November 11, 1985: The Palestinian Revolution Forces-General Command claimed responsibility for stabbing an Israeli youth in Jerusalem.
December 10, 1985: Five Islamic terrorists were apprehended as they planted an explosive device near the Kings Hotel in Jerusalem. The PLO claimed responsibility.
January 17, 1986: Three Spanish Embassy employees were kidnapped at gunpoint near the Beirut Airport. The seizure came only hours after Spain established full diplomatic relations with Israel.
February 14, 1986: A civilian bus in Jerusalem was bombed. Force-17 claimed responsibility.
March 19, 1986: Four Israeli Embassy staffers who were leaving an international trade fair in Cairo, Egypt were shot by Islamic gunmen. Egypt's Revolution claimed responsibility.
March 19, 1986: Force-17 deployed a car bomb in Jerusalem.
March 20, 1986: The PLO claimed responsibility for a second car bomb in Jerusalem.
May 20, 1986: The Palestinian Revolutionary Forces-General Command claimed responsibility for attacking Israelis in Jerusalem.
July 25, 1986: Two days before the scheduled visit to Israel by Vice President George Bush, a bomb was dismantled outside the U.S. Consulate in East Jerusalem.
July 26, 1986: Islamic jihadists organized by Hizballah attacked the Moroccan Embassy in West Beirut to protest King Hussein's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Peres.
October 24, 1986: Britain expelled the Syrian Ambassador who had assisted Muslim militants as they had tried to blow up an Israeli El Al aircraft.
October 26, 1986: In Israel, a young Palestinian Muslim hijacked a bus carrying schoolgirls.
November 5, 1986: In Bahrain, two rockets were fired into the Romanian Embassy. The Fatah Revolutionary Council led by Abu Nidal condemned a meeting in Romania between Israeli pacifists and members of Fatah.
November 14, 1986: In Israel, a Yeshiva student was murdered in Jerusalem by three Arab-Muslim youths. The PLO's Force 17 claimed responsibility, while other evidence suggests the PFLP.
February 22, 1987: A grenade was detonated outside the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City. A PLO spokesman said a group called the Ali Abu Taouk unit was responsible.
May 19, 1987: The PLO claimed responsibility for an Israeli being stabbed to death in Tel Aviv.
June 16, 1987: In Tel Aviv a Muslim man was killed when the bomb he was trying to plant in car prematurely detonated. Another device was later found nearby.
June 28, 1987: In Haifa, Israel a bomb exploded near a popular beach. Force 17 claimed responsibility
July 3, 1987: A bomb was detonated on an Israeli bus in Jerusalem.
August 27, 1987: The Palestinian Revolutionary Forces-General Command claimed credit for having placed a time bomb in an Israeli bus in Tel Aviv.
September 22, 1987: The Palestinian Revolutionary Forces-General Command claimed responsibility for fatally stabbing two Israelis in Tel Aviv.
October 10, 1987: Force-17 claimed credit for the murder of an Israeli civilian in Jerusalem.
October 25, 1987: The Palestinian Revolutionary Forces-General Command bombed an Israeli building in Tel Aviv.
November 8, 1987: Members of the Abu Nidal Group captured a yacht off the coast of the Gaza Strip. The victims were said to hold dual Israeli citizenship.
November 18, 1987: An Israeli Druze, mistaken for a Jew, was kidnapped and tortured. The Israeli was detained at an office belonging to the PLO.
November 25, 1987: A Muslim, armed with grenades and an automatic rifle, used a motorized hang glider to infiltrate Israel. The PFLP claimed responsibility.
November 27, 1987: Fatah terrorists slit the throats of two Israeli Shin Bet officers. Force-17 claimed credit.
December 1, 1987: Islamic jihadists crossed the Egyptian-Israeli border and fired on Israelis.
December 14, 1987: In Israel, a spokesman for the Palestinian Revolutionary Forces-General Command claimed responsibility for tossing grenades into a bus in Jerusalem.
December 30, 1987: Two people were injured in Israel when a letter bomb exploded in Or Yehuda. Ten more letter bombs were found within 24 hours, all from Turkey.
January 21, 1988: Members of the PLO's Fatah attempted to infiltrate Israeli south of Kibbutz Manara, on the Lebanese border.
February 14, 1988: In Cypress, a ferryboat which was scheduled to symbolically transport Palestinian refugees to Israel, was damaged by an explosion in Limassol. .
February 16, 1988: A bomb went off in front of the Israeli Embassy in Manila. The Moro Islamic Liberation Organization was responsible.
February 28, 1988: Two Fatah terrorists, carrying assault rifles, grenades, and explosives, were killed when their kayak was intercepted by an Israeli patrol.
March 7, 1988: Three Al Fatah terrorists crossed into Israel from Egypt and hijacked a bus.
March 7, 1988: A bomb with a malfunctioning timer exploded in an Israeli grammar school just after the students had been dismissed.
March 11, 1988: The Organization for Struggle Against Zionist Infiltration into Egypt claimed responsibility for firing assault rifles at the Israeli Embassy in Cairo.
April 13, 1988: Three Palestinian terrorists. Armed with M-16s, grenades and Iranian rockets, were killed when they tried to enter Israel from Lebanon.
April 25, 1988: The Organization of Metropolitan Proletariat and Oppressed Peoples alerted authorities that they poisoned citrus imported from Israel.
April 26, 1988: Three Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists, armed with automatic weapons, hand grenades, and anti-tank missiles, killed two Israelis before being killed themselves.
April 27, 1988: Two members of the Palestine Liberation Front attacked an Israeli truck driver with automatic weapons and grenades.
May 11, 1988: A bomb exploded near the Israeli Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus. Abu Nidal claimed responsibility.
June 22, 1988: Four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, armed with explosives, automatic weapons, and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, were captured as they tried to infiltrate into Israel.
August 20, 1988: Abu Nidal terrorists threw a hand grenades into a shopping center in Haifa, Israel.
October 17, 1988: A bomb destroyed the home of former Israeli Defense Minister and future Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon.
October 19, 1988: A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into an Israeli convoy near the border town of Metulla. Hizballah claimed responsibility.
November 15, 1988: The Palestine National Congress declared a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza Strip of Israel.
November 18, 1988: The Soviet Union is among the first to recognize the State of Palestine.
December 27, 1988: Abu Nidal claimed responsibility for a bomb in Jerusalem.
January 16, 1989: An explosive package sent to the Israeli Embassy in London. The January 15 Organization, affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility.
February 15, 1989: Two weeks after the disappearance of an Israeli paratrooper, a group calling itself the "Arab Palestinian Army" claimed responsibility.
February 18, 1989: An Israeli youth was killed by Palestinian terrorists.
February 22, 1989: In Israel, the Fatah Intifada claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on Israeli police in Jerusalem.
March 9, 1989: Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb in Lebanon's "security zone."
April 8, 1989: The Israeli navy sank a rubber dinghy full of Palestinian terrorists on their way to carry out a terrorist operation. The Palestinian Popular Struggle Front boasted of holding off the Israelis.
April 16, 1989: In Israel, dynamite bomb was discovered at a water pumping station near Moshav Ramon.
May 5, 1989: An Israeli hitchhiker was kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists.
July 6, 1989: A bus traveling between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem was forced into a ravine by Islamic terrorists.
August 8, 1989: A Jordanian soldier infiltrated southern Israel where he killed an American and took a hostage.
August 9, 1989: Two Shia suicide bombers attacked an Israeli convoy in southern Lebanon. The Islamic Resistance Movement said it was a "down payment for Israel's abduction of Sheik Obeid."
August 23, 1989: A bomb was detonated inside the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. The "Armed People's Unit," a derivative of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), claimed responsibility.
September 1, 1989: Hizballah terrorists fired Katyusha rockets into Israel from southern Lebanon.
September 7, 1989: More rockets were fired into Israel. The PFLP claimed responsibility.
October 4, 1989: Dr. Joseph Wybran, an advocate of Israeli-Palestinian dialogue, was assassinated. The Abu Nidal Group was responsible.
October 31, 1989: The PFLP claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing off the Lebanese coast.
November 9, 1989: Two Israelis were injured by an Islamic suicide bomber. The Revolutionary Movement of Lebanon's Hizballah claimed responsibility.
November 9, 1989: Rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanon.
December 5, 1989: Five Muslims infiltrated Israel armed with assault rifles and grenades, to commemorate the second anniversary of the Palestinian intifada against Jews.
December 13, 1989: Palestinian terrorists detonated anexplosive device in Israel.
February 4, 1990: In Egypt, Islamic terrorists wielding automatic weapons and grenades assaulted an
The PFLP-GC delivered a statement claiming that the Islamic Jihad had carried out the attack.
March 29, 1990: Two rockets were fired into Israel. The Islamic Jihad of Jerusalem claimed responsibility.
March 30, 1990: A Polish diplomat and his wife were wounded in Lebanon when Iranian Shia terrorists opened fire on them. The Polish government had recently offered to help transport Soviet Jews to Israel which was the reason they were attacked. The Revolutionary Action Organization of the Arab Resistance Front claimed credit.
April 28, 1990: The Islamic Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed credit for bombing the Jordanian-Soviet Friendship Society in Amman, Jordan. The attack was in response to increased Soviet Jewish immigration to Israel.
May 30, 1990: Twelve heavily armed members of Abu Abas' Palestinian Liberation Front disembarked from a Libyan warship and set out in six speedboats. They were apprehended when they landed on Israeli beaches.
June 6, 1990: The PLO firebombed the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem.
June 7, 1990: Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for bombing a Jerusalem shopping center.
June 23, 1990: The Israeli Navy intercepted Lebanese Muslim terrorists before they reached their targets.
September 30, 1990: Gorbachev approves direct flights between Israel and the USSR, setting the stage for the mass Israeli exodus. Israel was already struggling to accept the 100,000 new arrivals from the previous year. Over the next decade, over 1,000,000 would emigrate from the former Soviet Union. Estimates at the time said over one million might emigrate by the end of 1992.
October 3, 1990: A grenade was thrown at an Israeli in East Jerusalem. The Islamic Jihad in Palestine claimed responsibility.
October 13, 1990: An Israeli firm was bombed in Italy by Middle Eastern Muslims.
October 21, 1990: A Muslim killed three Israelis and wounded a third. The Islamic Jihad and Force 17 both claimed credit
November 24, 1990: A boat of Jibril's PFLP-GC members from Egypt was intercepted by an Israeli patrol.
November 25, 1990: A female suicide bomber of the Syrian Nationalist Party attacked Israelis in southern Lebanon.
November 25, 1990: An Egyptian Muslim crossed into Israeli territory and opened fire on civilian vehicles. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
1990s: Over 1,000,000 Jews emigrate to Israel from the former Soviet Union.
January 17, 1991: Iraqi Scud missiles were fired into Israel.
February 8, 1991: Islamic terrorists entered Israel from Jordan and attacked a bus on the Arava highway.
March 10, 1991: In a "message to Secretary of State James Baker," a Palestinian stabbed four Israeli women in Jerusalem . Secretary of State James A. Baker III was to come the next day on a peace-seeking mission.
March 21, 1991: Six heavily-armed Muslim terrorists were killed after crossing the Jordan River and ambushing a Israelis driving in the area.
April 8, 1991: The Israeli Consulate in Mendoza, Argentina was attacked by an angry mob of Marxist Muslims.
April 17, 1991: Armed Palestinian terrorists infiltrated Israel from Jordan and entered a kibbutz.
May 17, 1991: A Palestinian terrorist stabbed three Israeli civilians as they walked along a crowded street in Jerusalem. The Muslim was captured and beaten by bystanders.
October 29, 1991: A rocket was fired into the United States Embassy compound in East Beirut, Lebanon. The attack occurred on the eve of the Arab-Israeli Peace Conference in Madrid. The Arab Revolutionary Cells claimed responsibility.
August 19-21, 1991: The attempted coup d'etat of the Soviet Union sets the stage for its dissolution a the end of 1991.
October 30, 1991: The Madrid Conference takes place, and talks between Israel and the PLO begin.
December 8, 1991: Presidents of the Soviet republics of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus met secretly and agreed to dissolve the Soviet Union.
December 16, 1991: United Nations General Assembly Resolution 46/86 was adopted, revoking Resolution 3379 which labeled Zionism “a form of racism and racial discrimination.”
December 25, 1991: The Soviet Union formally dissolves. As a result, the PLO begins peace talks with Israel.
February 16, 1992: Hizballah General Secretary Abbas Musawi was killed in an Israeli helicopter ambush. In addition to being a terrorist thug, Sheikh Abbas Mousawi was also an Islamic imam and religious leader. The message is clear: all the best Muslims are terrorists.
March 17, 1992: In Argentina, the Israeli Embassy was destroyed by a car bomb. Hizballah claimed responsibility
May 12, 1992: The PFLP detonated a bomb in an Israeli bus station.
May 30, 1992: Four heavily armed Muslims attempted to swim to Eilat from the Jordanian city of Aqaba.
July 17, 1992: The offices of El Al airlines in Istanbul were assaulted by Muslim militants.
October 16, 1992: In Israel, an orthodox Jewish student in Jerusalem was stabbed by HAMAS.
October 23, 1992: Israeli customs warehouses were set on fire in East Jerusalem. The DFLP claimed responsibility.
December 15, 1992: An Israeli policeman was found dead after being kidnapped by HAMAS members.
January 3, 1993: A Shin Bet agent was stabbed and bludgeoned to death with a hammer in West Jerusalem. AHAMAS contact for the agent, pleaded guilty to the murder.
January 3, 1993: In Israel, HAMAS was responsible for planting a bomb on a civilian bus.
January 15, 1993: Four Israelis were stabbed by a Muslim from the Gaza Strip. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
January 1993: Sunni Muslims, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, held an international Islamic summit to encourage Shia Muslims, especially the terrorist organization, Hizballah, to work with them (as opposed to independently) in the pursuit of their common objective of killing Atheists, Christians, and Jews. The goal was to focus on Americans and Israelis stationed in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
March 1, 1993: Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for death of two Jews in Tel Aviv.
April 13, 1993: An IED exploded in an ambush by terrorists in southern Lebanon. Hizballah claimed responsibility.
May 1, 1993: Hizballah terrorists ambushed and remotely detonated a roadside bomb to kill an Israeli.
July 1, 1993: Three Palestinians boarded a bus in Jerusalem and started shooting.
September 12, 1993: The al-Huqban Operation Martyrs Group of the Islamic Resistance claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb attack on an Israeli patrol in Lebanon.
September 13, 1993: A bomb exploded at the United Arab Emirates Embassy in Moscow, Russia. It was designed to protest the signing of the "peace accord" in Washington between Israel and the PLO.
September 24, 1993: The body of an Israeli was found just before the start of Yom Kippur in a field north of Tel Aviv. A note from HAMAS was found with his body.
December 25, 1993: An Israeli ship was bombed by the Palestine National Liberation Movement.
January, 1994: Islamic Jihad and HAMAS adopted a combined strategy to destroy Israel through the use of suicide bombers.
February 10, 1994: Palestine Islamic Jihad claimed credit for murdering an Israeli taxi driver.
March 11, 1994: A plot coordinated between the Islamic Group and the Abu Sayyaf terrorist organization to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok was foiled.
March 23, 1994: An Israeli on his way to work was shot and killed. The PFLP claimed responsibility.
March 23, 1994: A bomb was thrown at the Israeli court building in Bethlehem.
March 31, 1994: An Israeli was strangled and stabbed to death by DFLP assassins in Tel Aviv.
April 6, 1994: A HAMAS suicide bomber blew up a public bus in the town of Afula in northern Israel.
April 13, 1994: A bomb exploded on a bus in the Hadera Central Bus Station.
April 18, 1994: A HAMAS member attacked passengers on a Jerusalem bus.
July 7, 1994: An Israeli was kidnapped and killed by the Palestinian Ahmad Qasir Martyr Group.
July 26, 1994: Islamic terrorists placed a bomb aboard a train going to Tel Aviv.
July 26, 1994: A car bomb destroyed part of the Israeli Embassy in London. Responsibility was claimed by HAMAS, the Islamic Movement of the Oppressed, and the Palestinian Resistance.
August 1, 1994: Muslims sent a bomb to the Israeli Consulate in Barcelona.
August 13, 1994: HAMAS terrorists stormed the home of former Israeli Defense Minister and future Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
October 21, 1994: A bomb was set off in the center of the Hague, outside the Israeli Embassy so Muslim militants were suspected.
December 25, 1994: A HAMAS suicide bomber blew himself up at a Jerusalem bus stop.
January 13, 1995: An Israeli student was killed in a drive-by shooting near Beit El. The PFLP claimed responsibility.
January 22, 1995: In Israel, two bombs were exploded at a bus stop.
March 20, 1995: A truck loaded with 400 pounds of explosives was found in southern Israel. Six HAMAS members were arrested in connection with the attempt.
March 31, 1995: Hizballah launched up to ten Katyusha rockets into Israel from southern Lebanon.
April 25, 1995: A Hizballah suicide bomber wounded 22 Jews in an attack.
May 5, 1995: Five Katyusha rockets were fired into Israel from southern Lebanon by Hizballah.
June 23, 1995: A Club Med resort in Nahariya in northern Israel was assaulted by Katyusha rockets fired by Hezbollah.
July 24, 1995: A Palestinian suicide bomber attacked a bus in Tel Aviv, Israel.
August 21, 1995: A HAMAS suicide bomber attacked Jerusalem.
November 27, 1995: Hizballah terrorists fired several volleys of Katyusha rockets into the Kiyat Shmona and Ezba Hagalil region of northern Israel.
March 4, 1996: An Islamic suicide bomber in Tel Aviv killed 20 Jews. HAMAS and Islamic Jihad both claimed responsibility.
March 30, 1996: Hizballah fired rockets into Israel from southern Lebanon.
April 9, 1996: Hizballah terrorists fired Katyusha rockets into Israel from Lebanon.
May 13, 1996: Muslims in the West Bank opened fire on a bus of Yeshiva students near the Bet El settlement. HAMAS claimed responsibility.
June 8, 1996: Palestinians claiming to represent the PFLP ambushed a car near Zekharya.
October 25, 1996: A taxi transporting anti-tank and anti-personnel mines was intercepted in Jordan en route to Israel.
October 27, 1996: A Muslim was arrested trying to enter Israel from the Gaza Strip with an explosive-packed mobile telephone. The HAMAS bomb maker Yehiya Ayash had been killed by a similar device.
July 30, 1997: Double suicide bombers attacked in Israel. HAMAS claimed responsibility.
September 4, 1997: In Israel, a triple suicide bombing in the Ben Yehuda shopping mall in Jerusalem was committed by HAMAS.
April 19, 1998: A member of Fatah murdered one American and one Israeli in the West Bank.
October 19, 1998: In Israel, HAMAS launched a grenade attack on the Beersheba bus terminal.
November 6, 1998: Asuicide car bomb exploded in a Jerusalem market. Palestine Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
August 30, 1999: HAMAS bludgeoned 2 Israeli hikers to death.
September 21, 1999: A Muslim confessed to plotting the recent HAMAS bus bombings.
December 15, 1999: Jordan arrested 13 Muslim militants who were planning attacks against tourist sites frequented by Israelis. The plot was linked to bin Laden aide, Abu Zubaydah.
December 30, 1999: A Hizballah suicide bomb attack wounded 12 civilians and 2 soldiers in Israel.
February 10, 2000: In Israel, Muslims detonated their car bomb en route to their planned target.
July 28, 2000: Arafat rejected a Camp David peace settlement offered by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and brokered by Bill Clinton, which would have led to the creation of a Palestinian state out of Israel. The offer gave the Muslim Marxist terrorist 98% of what he had demanded.
September 1, 2000: A new intifada (uprising) was launched against Israel by Fatah and the PLO. Arafat continued to incite, support, and fund terrorism.
September 28, 2000: Continuing to violate the Oslo accords in the most defiant way possible, Yasser Arafat declared the third Intifada, or Palestinian uprising, against Jews in Israel.
October 13, 2000: In Yemen, the British Embassy in Sana was hit by a bomb less than 24 hours after the suicide attack against the USS Cole. A group identified as Mohammed's Army claimed the attack, citing Israeli actions against the Palestinians.
October 30, 2000: A gunman belonging to Yasser Arafat's Fatah Party killed an American in Jerusalem.
November 8, 2000: Two Israelis were killed in an attack near Rafah near the Egyptian border. Al-Aqsa Intifada Martyrs Group and the Umar al-Mukhtar Forces both claimed responsibility.
November 13, 2000: Palestinian gunmen opened fire on an Israeli car and bus. The Salah-al-Din Battalions claimed responsibility.
November 15, 2000: Palestinians blasted away at Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood.
November 29, 2000: Palestinians ambushed an Israeli car in the West Bank.
December 5, 2000: An Israeli diplomat was shot in the Jordanian capital. A group called the Movement for the Struggle of the Jordanian Islamic Resistance claimed responsibility for the attack.
December 20, 2000: Palestinians murdered a Palestinian from Askar's refugee camp for suspicion of Israeli collaboration.
December 24, 2000: A pipe bomb exploded in Netanya, presumably to derail the peace process.
December 31, 2000: Palestinians ambushed an Israeli car carrying Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane and his family.
January 4, 2001: Palestinians opened fire on an Israeli bus in Ma'ale Levona.
January 8, 2001: Shots were fired from the Palestinian al-A'idah refugee camp into Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood. Muslims also attacked the Israeli settlement of Kadim and fired into an Israeli bus near Ofra.
January 14, 2001: Palestinians kidnapped and killed an Israeli from Kefar Yam. Salah Khalef, an al-Fatah group, claimed responsibility.
January 15, 2001: An IED was detonated near a convoy of Israeli cars on the Qarni-Netzarim road.
January 17, 2001: Two explosive devices were set off on the Netzarim road in Gaza. Palestinians in Khan Yunus opened fire into Israeli greenhouses in Gaza.
January 22, 2001: An IED was detonated under an Israeli convoy near the Netzarim junction.
January 23, 2001: Two Israelis were killed in the Tulkarm area by Muslim Palestinians. al-Qassem Brigades, part of HAMAS, claimed responsibility.
February 4, 2001: Militant Muslims in Israel fired at a bus near the West Bank village of Burqa attacked an Israeli car near Bet El.
February 11, 2001: An Israeli was killed on the Tunnels Road outside of Jerusalem. The Badr Forces claimed responsibility.
February 15, 2001: Palestinians fired a mortar shell into the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim.
February 22, 2001: Mortar shells were fired at the Gaza Strip settlement of Elei Sinai and lobbed into the Gaza Strip settlement of Dugit.
February 27, 2001: Palestinians opened fire the West Bank settlement of Pesagot.
March 4, 2001: A suicide bomb attack in Netanya, Israel was claimed by HAMAS.
March 8, 2001: Two mortars were fired into the settlement of Netzarim.
March 19, 2001: Palestinians fired at civilian buses near the settlement of Ofra and one near Bet El.
March 25, 2001: Israeli bomb disposal experts discovered an explosive charge that was planted near Petah Tikya's municipal building.
April 16, 2001: Five mortars were launched into the Israeli town of Sederot.
April 22, 2001: A HAMAS suicide bomber detonated the explosive device he was carrying near a bus stop north of Tel Aviv.
April 23, 2001: A car exploded in an Israeli market. The trunk of the car had been filled with nails as well as explosives. HAMAS and the PFLP claimed credit.
May 9, 2001: An American and his Israeli friend were found stoned to death in a cave in the West Bank. Islamic Jihad and Hizballah-Palestine claimed responsibility
May 25, 2001: On the anniversary of Israel's unilateral troop withdrawal from South Lebanon, a car bomb exploded outside a bus station in Hadera. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
May 25, 2001: A HAMAS suicidal car bomber blew himself up in Netzarim.
May 28, 2001: Al-Fatah's Battalions of Return claimed responsibility for an ambush on an Israeli car traveling from the Neve Daniel settlement near Bethlehem in the West Bank.
May 29, 2001: An Israel resident, was shot and killed in a terrorist ambush by Fatah.
May 30, 2001: A car bomb exploded near the Ort high school. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad was responsible.
May 30, 2001: An Israeli settler, was killed in a drive-by shooting directed by the Palestinian Authority.
June 14, 2001: The day after the declaration of a ceasefire, HAMAS militants launched two mortars into Israeli communities.
June 18, 2001: An Israeli citizen was shot and killed in his car by a Fatah sniper.
July 2, 2001: In Israel, two car bombs exploded simultaneously in parking lots 500 yards apart. The PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 11, 2001: Israeli police tackled a suicide bomber just before he detonated himself.
July 11, 2001: Palestinian gunmen dressed as Israel Defense Forces fired on an Israeli car.
July 18, 2001: Israeli police discovered a bomb in a plastic bag in Tel Aviv while Palestinians fired mortars into Jewish neighborhoods.
July 22, 2001: Palestinians detonated and IED as an Israeli bus drove by.
August 9, 2001: A HAMAS suicide bomber detonated himself in a Jerusalem pizza restaurant.
September 3, 2001: Five bombs were found throughout in Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem.
September 9, 2001: A suicide bombing was carried out by a Muslim was working for HAMAS.
September 24, 2001: In Palestinian gunmen shot and killed an Israeli woman in the West Bank. The Jerusalem Brigades of Islamic Jihad in Palestine claimed responsibility.
September 29, 2001: Palestinians fired six mortars into Israel and a car bomb exploded in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
October 2, 2001: Two members of the militant Islamic group HAMAS burst into a Jewish settlement on the northern border of the Gaza Strip.
October 4, 2001: A Palestinian Fatah terrorist, dressed as an Israeli paratrooper, opened fire on a crowd of civilians waiting at the central bus station in Afula.
October 17, 2001: A Palestinian gunman assassinated Israeli Minister of Tourism Rehavam Zeevi. The PFLP claimed responsibility.
October 26, 2001: Mortar rounds were fired from the Gaza strip into Israel.
November 4, 2001: A Palestinian Islamic Jihad gunman opened fire on a bus in the French Hill section of Jerusalem. Both HAMAS and PIJ claimed responsibility.
November 4, 2001: In Israel, a New York teenager was killed and his friend wounded by a Palestinian sniper.
November 5, 2001: Three Israelis were injured when an explosive device was detonated in the Profiline factory. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
November 6, 2001: A mortar shell was fired from the northern Gaza Strip and exploded inside Israeli territory near the border fence. Two al-Fatah members were killed after a bomb exploded prematurely.
November 8, 2001: Two masked Palestinians shot and killed a man accused of being a collaborator with Israel during the first intifada.
November 9, 2001: Four mortars were fired from inside the Gaza Strip and exploded in Israeli territory.
2002: Russia forgives Syria 73% of its $13 Billion debt, while supporting Iran's nuclear programs.
January 3, 2002: Israelis intercepted a ship loaded with tons of mortars, rocket launchers, anti-tank mines and other weapons. The ship was under the command of the Palestinian Authority and the cargo came from the Iranian government.
January 17, 2002: A Palestinian gunman killed six Jews and wounded 35 children in Hadera, Israel. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
February 5, 2002: The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades fired missiles and mortars on an Israeli settlement.
February 6, 2002: A HAMAS activist fired on the Hamra community in the Jenin area.
February 16, 2002: HAMAS fired a homemade Qassem-2 rocket at Kfar Azza in Israel.
February 16, 2002: A suicide bombing in Israel at an outdoor food court in Karmei Shomron was claimed by the PFLP.
February 22, 2002: An Israeli car was attacked by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
February 25, 2002: Two Israelis were killed and two wounded when shots were fired on their car by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Battalions.
February 26, 2002: An explosive device placed by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Battalions blew up next to an Israeli bus driving on the Tunnel Road near Jerusalem. HAMAS Palestinians fired a Qassem-2 rocket from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
February 27, 2002: A Palestinian woman detonated herself at an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank.
March 2, 2002: The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades announced the execution of a Palestinian collaborator in the Nablus area due to his connection with Israeli intelligence.
March 2, 2002: An Israeli police officer was shot to death. The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility.
March 3, 2002: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade members fired Qassem rockets toward an Israeli settlement.
March 5, 2002: Two Qassem rockets exploded in the backyard of a house in Sederot in southern Israel.
March 7, 2002: An Islamic suicide bombing in a supermarket in Israel wounded 10 people. The PFLP claimed responsibility.
March 8, 2002:HAMAS's Izz-al-Din al-Qassem Brigades claimed credit for a Palestinian gunman shooting and firing grenades at residents.
March 8, 2002: Israeli Border Police shot and killed a Palestinian carrying a bomb in north Jerusalem.
March 9, 2002: Two Islamic Fatah terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at cars and pedestrians in the city of Netanya.
March 9, 2002: A suicide bombing by the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. HAMAS's Izz-al-Din al-Qassem Brigades also claimed responsibility.
March 10, 2002: Two Qassem-2 missiles landed in Israeli territory north of the Gaza Strip.
March 11, 2002: Palestinians launched mortars on a settlement in the northern Gaza Strip.
March 12, 2002: Two Muslim militants dressed in Israel Defense Forces uniforms staged an assault with automatic rifles and grenades near the Lebanese border between Shlomi and Kabri. Al-Fatah's al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility.
March 16, 2002: A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device between a bus and a taxi cab in North Jerusalem. The al-Quds Squads of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad PIJ claimed responsibility, but security officials suspect that al-Fatah was responsible.
March 16, 2002: An Islamic gunman opened fire at the western entrance to Kfar Sava. The PLO's, PA's and al-Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
March 17, 2002: A Molotov cocktail was thrown at an Israeli car near the National Police headquarters in Jerusalem.
March 18, 2002: Two Qassem-2 rockets landed five kilometers inside Israel. HAMAS claimed responsibility.
March 18, 2002: Palestinian gunmen opened fire on Israelis in the Jordan River Valley.
March 20, 2002: The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) al-Quds Squads claimed responsibility for seven Israelis deaths, including four IDF soldiers, and another 27 wounded when a suicide bomber attacked.
March 21, 2002: Two bombs exploded near a bus belonging to the Society for the Development of Samaria on its way to Homesh.
March 27, 2002: A suicide bombing in Israel killed 28 and wounded 140 more. HAMAS claimed responsibility.
March 28, 2002: The Izz-al-Din al-Qassem Brigades of HAMAS claimed credit for five dead Israelis and another one wounded.
March 29, 2002: Two Jews were murdered and 28 more Israelis wounded when a female Fatah suicide bomber blew herself up. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades were responsible.
March 29, 2002: Two Jews were stabbed and killed by a Palestinian in a synagogue. The militant wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
March 30, 2002: Fatah claimed responsibility for two Palestinian gunmen opening fire on an Israeli police patrol.
March 30, 2002: The Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades took credit for a suicide bomber who blew himself up in Tel Aviv's entertainment district.
March 31, 2002: A suicide bombing near an ambulance station in Israel.
March 31, 2002: HAMAS claimed credit for Palestinian suicide bombers attacking Israel.
April 1, 2002: A Katyusha rocket was fired from southern Lebanon at Qiryat Shemona.
April 1, 2002: A car bomb in Jerusalem killed the Islamic driver of the car and an Israeli policeman. The blast injured two more Israelis. The bomb was detonated when the policeman stopped the car. It is unclear whether the car itself was rigged or whether the Muslim was himself the bomb. The jihadist was a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. In a separate, but related incident, another Israeli policeman stopped another Palestinian car on its way into the center of Jerusalem. It also exploded, killing the Palestinian and wounding the officer. This time, Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
April , 2002: The Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for a Palestinian gunman opening fire with an assault rifle and threw grenades into a crowd of people.
April 12, 2002: Six Jews were killed and 104 wounded when a suicide bomber blew herself up. Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility.
April 19, 2002: A bomb weighing 230 pounds was found on the road leading to Netzarim.
April 23, 2002: In Israel, three suspected Palestinian collaborators were shot and killed by al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades members in the same spot where an Israeli had assassinated a Force 17 terrorist leader several hours before.
April 27, 2002: Palestinians opened fire on residents of Adora west of Hebron. The PFLP and HAMAS claimed responsibility.
April 28, 2002: Two bombs were thrown into the parking lot of Hadassah Mount Scopus in Jerusalem.
May 7, 2002: A suicide bomber blew attacked a Spiel pool hall in Rishon Letzion.
May 8, 2002: an Islamic suicide bomber's case of explosives blew up prematurely at the Megiddo Junction in Israel.
May 14, 2002: Two mortars were fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
May 19, 2002: An Islamic suicide bomber blew himself up in Netanya's open-air market. Both the PFLP and HAMAS claimed credit
May 20, 2002: An Islamic suicide bomber blew himself up at the Ta'anakhim junction just west of the West Bank.
May 22, 2002: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for a suicide bomber blew himself up in Rishon le Zion near Tel Aviv. Hours earlier, Israel assassinated a well-known Palestinian terrorist.
May 22, 2002: A suicide bomber blew himself up near a group of Border Policemen in the West Bank. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
May 27, 2002: Two were killed and 37 Israelis were injured when a Fatah Muslim suicide bomber attacked an ice cream parlor outside in Israel.
May 27, 2002: An Islamic suicide bomber blew up the entrance to Bravissimo café north of Tel Aviv. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
June 2, 2002: Three mortar shells were fired at Qatif Bloc junction, and a bomb was safely disabled.
June 5, 2002: A car full of explosives was blown up at the Megiddo junction in northern Israel. Palestinian Islamic Jihad's al-Quds Squads claimed responsibility.
June 11, 2002: Three Israelis were wounded in a Palestinian bombing attack on a Yeshiva school bus.
June 11, 2002: An Islamic suicide bomber blew himself up at a Herzliya restaurant. The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.
June 14, 2002: A 70-pound explosive charge was found in Israel and safely defused. The al-Qassem Brigades claimed responsibility.
June 17, 2002: The Al-Qassem Brigades of HAMAS fired a mortar shell at an Israeli truck.
June 18, 2002: An Islamic suicide bomber blew himself up on an bus traveling into Jerusalem. HAMAS claimed responsibility.
July 3, 2002: An Egyptian-born Muslim opened fired at the El Al Israeli Airlines ticket.
July 16, 2002: HAMAS, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and the DFLP all claimed responsibility for Palestinians dressed in IDF uniforms ambushed a bus.
July 17, 2002: The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for Islamic suicide bombers attacking the old bus station in Tel Aviv.
July 23, 2002: Several mortars were fired at an Israeli settlement in the northern Gaza Strip.
July 25, 2002: A Qassem-2 rocket was fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip.
July 26, 2002: Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for Palestinian gunmen assaulting Israeli cars in the southern West Bank.
July 30, 2002: A Muslim suicide bomber blew himself up in downtown Jerusalem. The Fatah-linked al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
August 4, 2002: An Islamic suicide bomber attacked a bus in Israel. HAMAS claimed responsibility.
August 5, 2002: The Martyrs of the Palestinian Popular Army claimed responsibility for an assault on an Israeli car.
August 8, 2002: In Israel, two mortar shells were lobbed into an Israeli settlement. A LAN missile was fired at a popular shopping mall near the northeast of Tel Aviv.
August 10, 2002: Firebombs were thrown at Israeli cars near Jaljuluyah and Kefar Saba.
August 11, 2002: Palestinians opened fire on a group working in the northern Gaza Strip. HAMAS announced one of it's men was involved.
August 18, 2002: Border Police in Israel safely detonated a 25-pound bomb. A barrage of mortar shells were lobbed into settlements in the northern Gaza Strip.
August 20, 2002: The IDF discovered an explosive device in the Nablus area.
August 24, 2002: Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades said a woman was killed after having admitted to supplying Israel with information that helped the IDF assassinate of two senior Fatah members.
August 30, 2002: Members of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades shot and killed a Palestinian woman for collaborating with Israel.
August 31, 2002: Gunmen from the Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades killed a man accused of collaborating with Israel.
August 31, 2002: The PFLP claimed responsibility for a shooting attack on the West Bank settlement of Bracha near Nablus.
September 11, 2002: A sixty-five-year-old Palestinian man was shot to death on suspicion of having collaborated with Israel. Members of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in the Qalqilyah area were responsible.
September 11, 2002: A thirty-five year old Palestinian man suspected of Israeli collaboration was killed by members of the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades.
September 12, 2002: Two mortar shells were fired into Israeli towns and two Qassem rockets were shot into an Israeli community..
September 13, 2002: The IDF found a bomb near the Jenin refugee camp and another 75-pound explosive was found near the Morag settlement. HAMAS also launched a mortar into an Israeli settlement.
September 18, 2002: The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for Islamic gunmen ambushing a vehicle, killing an Israeli and wounding a Romanian worker.
September 18, 2002: A suicide bomber attacked a bus station near the Israeli-Arab town of Umm al-Fahm. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades both claimed responsibility.
September 18, 2002: An Israeli contractor was killed when shots were fired at his car. al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade claimed responsibility.
September 19, 2002: HAMAS claimed responsibility for an Islamic suicide bomb attack on a bus in Tel Aviv.
September 19, 2002: The IDF discovered a powerful explosive charge in the Jenin refugee camp and HAMAS fired a mortar at a Qatif Bloc.
October 1, 2002: Three explosive devices were found near the Israeli settlement of Morag.
October 3, 2002: Palestinians fired a mortar shell at a settlement in the central Gaza Strip.
October 7, 2002: Three mortar shells were fired at a settlement in the Qatif Bloc of Israel.
October 8, 2002: Fatah's al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and HAMAS claimed credit for a shooting attack south of the West Bank city of Hebron.
October 10, 2002: HAMAS claimed responsibility for an Islamic suicide bomber attacking a bus in the greater Tel Aviv area.
October 14, 2002: In Israel, Muslims hurled a bomb and fired into the home of Bethlehem's mayor, Hanna Nasir.
October 18, 2002: HAMAS claimed responsibility for a bomb near the settlement of Dugit.
October 22, 2002: The IDF discovered a 70-pound bomb in the Morag settlement in the Qatif Bloc.
October 27, 2002: In Israel, a HAMAS Islamic suicide bomber's explosives prematurely detonated.
October 29, 2002: Three people were killed by a Fatah terrorist in Israel.
October 29, 2002: In Israel, a bomb was detonated against a civilian bus.
November 3, 2002: In Israel, Palestinians fired an anti-tank rocket at an Israeli bus traveling on the Netzarim road.
November 4, 2002: A Muslim suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to Kfar Sava's open- air Arim shopping mall. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
November 5, 2002: Three mortars were fired by HAMAS into Qatif Bloc.
November 5, 2002: HAMAS claimed responsibility for attacks in the Qatif Bloc settlements.
November 7, 2002: A Palestinian bomb was discovered in the Rafah area of Israel.
November 10, 2002: Several Israelis were killed injured when a Palestinian infiltrated Kibbutz Metzer. Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
November 21, 2002: A HAMAS Islamic suicide bomber on a bus on Mexico Street in Jerusalem murdered 10 Israelis and one Romanian.
November 27, 2002: In Israel an Islamic suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives attacked the Coordination and Cooperation office in the northern Gaza Strip. The PFLP claimed responsibility.
November 28, 2002: Two Fatah Islamic terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at the Likud polling station in Beit She'an. The Fatah-linked al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
November 28, 2002: Near Mombassa's airport, two SA-7 shoulder-fired missiles were shot as an Arkya Airlines Boeing 757 carrying 261 passengers back to Israel flew above. Al-Qaeda, the Government of Universal Palestine in Exile, al-Ittihad al-Islami, and the Army of Palestine each claimed responsibility.
December 14, 2002: The al-Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for shots were fired on an Israeli car from the Sinjil village.
December 17, 2002: Palestinians fired a mortar shell at an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip and the IDF found a 22-pound explosive charge.
December 20, 2002: Palestinians opened fire on an Israeli car at the entrance to the Kissufim settlement, killing the driver. Palestinian Islamic Jihad's militant wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, claimed responsibility.
December 28, 2002: A Palestinian infiltrated the Otniel settlement and opened fire. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
January 5, 2003: Two Islamic suicide bomb attacks struck in Tel Aviv, Israel. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
January 6, 2003: Hizballah fired a barrage of anti-aircraft shells into Israel.
January 26, 2003: In al-Khidr, Israel, a donkey laden with explosives was blown up next to an Israeli bus. HAMAS claimed credit for perpetrating the asinine assault.
February 17, 2003 In Israel, a 250 pound bomb was discovered by IDF soldiers.
February 19, 2003 In Israel, the tenth major barrage of Qassem rockets in less than two years was fired into the town of Sederot from the outskirts of Gaza City. HAMAS, who claimed responsibility, injured one Israeli civilian in the attack.
February 19, 2003 In Israel, Palestinians demonstrated their uncivil nature by lobbing three motar shells into the Morag settlement in southern Gaza.
March 3, 2003: HAMAS fired five Qassem rockets into Israel.
March 5, 2003: A 25 pound suicide bomb went off on a bus in Haifa, Israel.
March 19, 2003: An Israeli was killed while driving his car in Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
March 30, 2003: A suicide bombing outside a cafe in Netanya. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
April 15, 2003: A Palestinian terrorist opened fire and tossed a grenade at Israelis. HAMAS claimed responsibility. HAMAS also fired three Iranian Qassem missiles which were imported through Egypt were fired at Jewish town in Southern Israel.
April 24, 2003: A suicide bomb attack was staged outside the train station in Kfar Sava. Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade and the PFLP claimed joint responsibility for the attack.
May 4, 2003: A dead Israeli was found, apparently part of a loyalty test by a Palestinian terrorist organization.
May 5, 2003: The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades terrorist gang claimed responsibility for shots fired at an Israeli vehicle in Samaria.
May 8, 2003: HAMAS was fired 2-3 rockets or mortars into Israeli communities everyday.
May 11, 2003: Palestinian terrorists staged a roadside ambush north of Jerusalem. He had been on his way to work. Both Fatah and the PFLP claimed responsibility. HAMAS also fired two Qassem rockets into Sederot, Israel
May 17, 2003: HAMAS claimed responsibility for two Israelis killed by a suicide bomber.
May 19, 2003: The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade both claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Ha'amakim Mall in Afula, Israel.
June 11, 2003: Muslim planted two bombs in front of the U.S. Consulate in Adana, Turkey in retaliation for the assassination attempt by Israel on a HAMAS terrorist leader.
June 13, 2003: The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for Mordechai Sayada's death by sniper fire.
June 17, 2003: A terrorist fired on cars from the outskirts of the West Bank city of Kalkilya. Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and the PFLP-GC claimed responsibility.
June 24, 2003: Palestinians fired six Qassem rockets and several mortars into Israel.
June 26, 2003: Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for a shooting attack in an Israeli Arab town.
June 28, 2003: Two bombs were detonated near a U.S. Embassy car south of Bayt Lahiyah. Palestinians loyal to HAMAS, lobbed mortar shells into the Qatif Bloc settlement.
July 19, 2003: Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades kidnapped Janin Governor Haydar Irshayd because it was alleged that he had helped Israel combat terrorism.
July 21, 2003: IDF soldiers found a 25 pound explosive belt near the settlement of Har Brakha.
July 28, 2003: In Jilaboun, Israel just east of Jenin, the IDF found a large trip-wire bomb as well as a variety of pipe bombs. Road side IEDs were also found near Mount Gilboa.
August 3, 2003: The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for wounding a family who were driving near Jerusalem.
August 15, 2003: The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade Muslims attacked Israelis with machine guns southwest of Jenin.
August 19, 2003: A suicide bombing on a bus in Jerusalem was claimed by both HAMAS and Islamic Jihad.
August 21, 2003: HAMAS claimed credit for firing Qassem rockets and mortars into Israel.
August 31, 2003: The Iz-al-din al-Qassem Brigades claimed responsibility for wounding a settler in Gaza.
September 9, 2003: A HAMAS terrorist detonated himself at a hitchhiking post.
September 9, 2003: A HAMAS terrorist detonated himself at the Cafe Hillel in Jerusalem.
September 13, 2003: Police discovered three suicide belts weighing a combined 45 pounds inside of a machine in a butcher shop in Palestinian East Jerusalem.
October 9, 2003: A suicide bomber who blew himself up in a public reception area where Palestinians apply for permits to cross checkpoints on humanitarian grounds. Fatah's sl-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
October 12, 2003: Israelis foiled three suicide bombings.
October 14, 2003: In Jerusalem, police discovered a bomb lab run by an Israeli Jew and are investigating whether he sold explosives to Palestinian militants. Police found explosives, ready-to-use bombs, Israeli and Russian uniforms, police uniforms and bomb detonators in his Jerusalem apartment. The Israeli was arrested after he sold a three-kilogram bomb to an undercover police officer.
October 24, 2003: An IED exploded underneath the car of the wife of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality leader and Israeli Knesset member Issam Mahoul.
November 7, 2003: Islamic Jihad's al-Quds Brigade and Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed joint responsibility for an ambush on an Israeli convoy.
November 15, 2003: Two suicide truck bombs exploded outside the Neve Shalom and Beth Israel synagogues in Istanbul, Tthe Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front claimed responsibility, but authorities suspected al-Qaeda.
November 18, 2003: The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for a terrorist who opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle at a checkpoint on the tunnel bypass road.
November 20, 2003: Qassem rockets and mortars were fired into Israel by HAMAS.
December 3, 2003: Israeli forces arrested two Islamic Jihad members planning a suicide bombing.
December 9, 2003: Israeli security forces foiled a Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades suicide attack.
December 12, 2003: A Palestinian terrorist attacked Israelis on their way to Joseph's Tomb in Nablus. The Islamic Johad, the PFLP and al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigades all claimed responsibility.
December 13, 2003: Two Palestinians attempted to carry a bag containing 25 pounds of explosives, nuts, and bolts to a restaurant in Petah Tikva.
December 25, 2003: A Palestinian suicide bomber attacked a bus stop near Petah Tikva, Israel. The PFLP claimed responsibility.
December 27, 2003: Israeli forces prevented a 70 pound bomb attack near the Neve Dekalim settlement.
February 26, 2004: Two Palestinian terrorists opened fire near the Erez Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
March 14, 2004: HAMAS and Fatah claimed responsibility for a double suicide bombing at Ashdod Port.
May 12, 2004: An Israeli force's armored personnel carrier exploded after being hit by an RPG anti-tank rocket. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
July 11, 2004: Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for a suicide car-bomber at the Kalandia checkpoint.
August 31, 2004: HAMAS claimed responsibility for simultaneous suicide bombing attacks on buses in the Israeli city of Be'er Sheva.
September 22, 2004: The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for a suicide bomber at the French Hill junction hitchhiking post in northern Jerusalem.
September 23, 2004: Two Fatah-related terror groups and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for for Palestinian terrorists armed with AK-47 assault riffles and hand grenades in the southern Gaza Strip.
September 29, 2004: HAMAS fired an Iranian Kassam rocket into Israel.
October 7, 2004: Muslim terrorists bombed two Sinai holiday resorts frequented by Israelis. Witnesses described the blasts as "the gates of hell."
January 2, 2005: HAMAS rockets kill a 25-year-old man working in the industrial zone. Two others are injured.
January 7, 2005: An Israeli motorist is killed by a Palestinian sniper. Three others are injured, two critically.
January 9, 2005: An Israeli officer is killed, and three others injured, in a Hezbollah rocket attack along the Lebanese border.
January 13, 2005: Three Palestinian suicide bombers infiltrate the security wall, via an explosion, and murder six Israelis. Four others are wounded.
January 15, 2005: HAMAS rockets strike Israel.
January 18, 2005: Palestinian suicide bomber murders a father of three and injures seven others.
February 25, 2005: Three weeks after a truce-signing, a Palestinian suicide bomber attacks Israelis outside a nightclub.
March 7, 2005: Two Israelis are wounded by a Palestinian sniper.
June 7, 2005: Islamic Jihad bomb an Israeli greenhouse, killing three, including a Chinese worker.
June 19, 2005: The Palestinian terrorist group, Abu Rish Brigade, takes credit for an ambush on a civilian labor group that leaves an Israeli guard dead.
June 25, 2005: al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claims responsibility for a point blank shooting attack on Israeli teenagers.
June 29, 2005: Hezbollah attacks an Israeli position from across the Lebanese border.
July 12, 2005: Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for a suicide bombing, in which a bomber kills five Jews crossing the street in front of a mall.
July 14, 2005: Palestinian terrorists hit an Israeli residence with a missile.
July 23, 2005: Palestinian gunmen kill an Israeli husband and wife. They also open fire on medical rescue workers.
August 3, 2005: Palestinian terrorists fire a rocket at a group of Israeli demonstrators.
August 28, 2005: Eight Israelis are hospitalized by a Fatah suicide bomber, including two guards that were seriously wounded.
September 23, 2005: A HAMAS truck, loaded with rockets intended for Israel, explodes early.
September 26, 2005: An Israeli factory worker is found after he is kidnapped, tortured and killed by HAMAS.
December 5, 2005: An Islamic Jihad bomber attacks Israelis at the entrance to a shopping mall.
December 29, 2005: Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for a suicide bombing in Israel.
January 19, 2006: A Palestinian suicide bomber attacks a fast-food stall at a bus station in Tel Aviv.
March 3, 2006: Russia begins talks with HAMAS, giving the terrorist organization the claim of international legitimacy.
March 28, 2006: Islamic Jihad fires a rocket at Israeli citizens.
April 17, 2006: Islamic Jihad, with the support of HAMAS, sends a suicide bomber to an Israeli restaurant.
Israel-Lebanon Conflict, July 12-August 14, 2006: Russia supplied Kornet-E and Metis-M anti-tank systems, Fajr-1 and Fajr-3 rockets, and AT-5 Spandrel antitank missiles to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Muslim GRU units were stationed in Lebanon to protect Russian military engineers and “improve Moscow's image” among locals.
Hezbollah rockets were fired into Israel on a nearly daily basis. 121 IDF soldiers would be killed, and another 628 wounded. 44 Israeli citizens would be killed, and nearly 1,500 wounded.
August 19, 2006: An Israeli is killed by a Fatah gunman in the West Bank.
November 15, 2006: A Palestinian rocket strikes Sderot, Israel.
November 22, 2006: An Israeli man is killed by Palestinians firing Qassam rockets.
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[IsraelTimes] Construction on 4-meter high concrete barrier to begin this month, as Europe struggles with biggest influx in decades
Britannia hopes a four-meter high (13 foot-high) concrete wall will succeed where security guards and barbed wire have failed, and stop migrants colonists reaching the UK from the northern French port of Calais.
Construction for the barrier will this month and should be completed by the end of this year, officials said.
The wall, which will be funded by the British government under an agreement struck at a summit in March, will complement a security fence already put up around the port and entrance to the Channel Tunnel.
"We are going to start building this big new wall very soon. We’ve done the fence, now we are doing a wall," Home Office Minister Robert Goodwill told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday.
Calais, known as "the jungle," a squalid camp of tents and makeshift shelters, is home to some 7,000 migrants colonists but charities say the number might be as high as 10,000 after an influx this summer.
The wall, which is expected to cost 2.7 million euros ($3.0 million), will be the latest barrier to go up around Europe as the continent struggles with its biggest migrant influx in decades.
Thousands of people, most from the Middle East and Africa, have made long and dangerous journeys to Calais, crossing the Mediterranean to southern Europe in overcrowded boats and then traveling hundreds of miles by foot, car or rail to northwest La Belle France.
For many, the goal is to reach Britannia -- attractive because of its English language and relatively open labor market -- by stowing away on trucks and trains through the Channel Tunnel.
Moslem colonists Migrants make regular attempts to walk through the tunnel -- used by passenger trains and vehicle shuttles -- or to block roads in an attempt to slow down trucks so they can climb aboard.
To stop people sneaking into Britannia, blocking traffic and risking lives, authorities have poured in coppers and built high barbed-wire fences to keep people away from Eurotunnel freight trains, the port and the highway.
But desperate migrants colonists are using increasingly dangerous tactics to slow trucks and hitch a ride. Aid group Auberge des Moslem colonists Migrants says 11 migrants colonists have died this year -- seven on the highways.
On Monday, truckers, farmers, dock workers and merchants blocked a main access road to protest the disruption, as well as the fines they face if caught carrying stowaways.
But truckers’ groups were cool to the idea of a wall. Richard Burnett, chief executive of Britannia’s Road Haulage Association, said the money "would be much better spent on increasing security along the approach roads."
A loud explosion was heard on Wednesday evening at a Somali army checkpoint in the capital, Mogadishu, according to eyewitness on the ground.
The blast was caused an improvised explosives device planted near the army checkpoint at Wahar-Adde area in Mogadishu’s Heliwa district, witness said.
There was no immediate reports of casualties and claim of responsibility for the bomb attack on the army checkpoint in northern Mogadishu.
Mogadishu has seen several deadly attacks, including bombings in the past few weeks, as Somalia is heading towards critical period of elections expected to take palace in October 30, 2016.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Militant Golam Faizullah Fahim had a close relationship with the family of newly detained New JMB member Md Aminul Islam, according to Rapid Action Battalion.
RAB Legal and Media Wing chief Mufti Mahmud Khan made the statement at a presser held in Dhaka Wednesday afternoon.
He said: "In primary interrogation, Aminul and Mahmud disclosed that they were trained in different parts of Bangladesh along with Fahim."
He said Fahim, who was tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on charges of attempted murder of a Hindu college teacher in Madaripur, had close relations with Aminul’s family.
Earlier today, two couples ‐ Md Shariful Islam alias Mahmud, his wife Marjiya Akter Sumi, Md Aminul Islam and his wife Nahid Sultana ‐ were detained from Narayanganj and Dhaka.
The RAB official said: "Aminul and Nahid got married recently. Fahim had attended the ceremony and was the legal guardian in their marriage.
"We have documentary evidence of it," said Mizanur Rahman.
Fahim was caught red handed by the locals while fleeing with his cohorts after hacking Mathematics lecturer Ripan Chakrabarty at Government Nazimuddin College in the district town of Madaripur on June 15.
He was killed in a "shootout" with police on June 18.
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French police are seeking a young woman after a car carrying seven gas cylinders was discovered near Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, police and judicial officials have said.
A couple, aged 34 and 29, were also arrested on a motorway in southern France in connection with the incident and remain in custody, one official told Reuters on Wednesday.
The car owner – who officials said was on an intelligence services watchlist of people suspected of religious radicalisation – was arrested but later released because he had gone to police on Sunday to report that his daughter had disappeared with his car.
How .. convenient...
His daughter, now sought by police, is 19 years old and was known to police for having the intention of leaving for Syria, officials said.
The car owner told investigators that his daughter was radicalised, according to a police source quoted by Agence France-Presse.
The Peugeot 607, which had no registration plates, contained seven gas cylinders, one of them empty, on the front passenger seat, police said. It was found on Saturday with its hazard lights flashing as if to attract attention, they said.
Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said he was waiting for a report from investigators on what the possible motives were for the incident.
There was no detonating device present in the car, found on a Seine riverside stretch called the Quai de Montebello, metres from the Notre-Dame cathedral, one of Paris’s many popular tourist attractions. Documents with writing in Arabic were also found in the car.
Florence Berthout, the mayor of Paris’s fifth arrondissement (district), said the incident highlighted the need to beef up security and put more police on patrol in one of the world’s most visited cities. She said the vehicle was left in a zone where parking is strictly prohibited and that it had remained there for around two hours before it came to the attention of police. “Police and army staffing must be stepped up,” she told the news TV channel BFM.
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A test ?
You most always probe a perimeter before the major assault. It helps with planning.
Cairo-Forces loyal to the Government of National Accord (GNA) have announced that battles against ISIS have resumed in Sirte, Libya, after a two-day suspension.
The forces announced that they have also started combing the liberated areas to clear them of mines or weapons.
Media Center of Solid Structure distributed photographs of the clashes in the area of maritime Jiza as well as the Mahla Bank, which are now under the control of the pro-GNA forces.
In addition, demining units uncovered a number of mines and explosives in one of the liberated neighborhoods after ISIS fled the area.
Since Solid Structure’s initiation, the Air Force Academy in Mesratah did around 600 sorties against ISIS positions in Sirte and in the desert to the south of the city. The Academy has been turned into a base in the battle against ISIS.
Mohammad Qanono, a spokesman at the airbase, said: “Quashed any fantasy ISIS might have had, prevented it from expanding and limited the movements of its members.”
“We asked for… U.S. air strikes because the U.S. air force is very precise,” added Qanono.
Tunisian Defense Minister Farhat Hachani said that North African countries should be cooperating more to stop ISIS fighters who are fleeing their Libyan stronghold of Sirte from returning to their homelands and causing trouble there.
Libyan forces loyal to U.N.-backed GNA initiated several attacks on Sirte to regain control from ISIS terrorists.
Tunisia estimates that about 4,000 of its citizens flew to fight alongside extremist groups and fears they might relocate inside the country.
Hachani told journalists on the sidelines of the meeting of military officials in Paris: “The danger is real is that chose to leave Sirte are heading south to eventually join Boko Haram, but some are also going west.”
He added: “There isn’t a regional strategy. Neighboring countries are managing the day to day security and military question … but while there are terror laws, you need proof that a young person was in a camp or fighting in jihadist ranks.”
The minister also declared that the international cooperation is “not up to the level of the danger, saying that “we are in a decisive moment. The threats endanger the entire region. We have to cooperate before the boat sinks.”
His French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian said the spread of militants outside of Libya should be dealt with.
“They don’t just disappear so there’s a new risk there and only a real cooperation between all neighboring countries will enable us to face that threat,” Le Drian said.
On another note, the Italian coast guard announced it had recovered the bodies of 15 refugees and rescued 2,700 others off the Libyan coast on Monday.
“More than 2,700 people were rescued … Fifteen bodies were recovered in the operations,” the coast guard said in a statement.
Former Italian Minister of Defense Ignazio La Russa told AKI news agency that he hoped Italy would send a military delegation to Libyan ports to monitor refugee boats. He called for refugee centers in Libya to receive those who are trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
At least seven terrorists have died in the last 24 hours while the Bunyan Marsous operations room has not reported any casualties among its fighters. The bodies of the dead IS men were discovered near the Wahda Bank, a sniper position overrun by BM yesterday.
Today the civil court was among positions taken from the terrorists.
As buildings are cleared of any booby traps, they have been searched. Among the finds has been a cache of documents detailing payments to fighters, most of them apparently non-Libyans, including Egyptians, Sudanese, Senegalese and Tunisian. Within them is a receipt for LD 300 paid by a Sudanese man, apparently for an abducted woman.
Besides caches of explosives, shells and light ammunition, some of the terrorists’ personal effects are also coming to light. These included family photographs and letters of Abu-Malek Al-Masry who was killed last week in the fighting that took the town’s Second District.
BM fighters, all now displaying a bright red identification flash on their clothing, have continued laying down fusillades of fire, shelling the remaining IS positions with tanks, anti-aircraft guns and RPGs. While some fighters persist in using daredevil tactics in open spaces, experienced BM snipers are seeking to suppress terrorist snipers who have claimed a regular toll among their attackers.
Bomb-disposal teams are meanwhile continuing to deal with booby-traps and mines, another major source of BM casualties. Over ten tonnes of collected explosives were detonated outside the town on Sunday in a huge blast that produced a plume of debris around .
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[Dhaka Tribune] Syrian government forces have been accused of dropping barrel bombs containing chlorine from helicopters on a suburb of Aleppo, injuring 80 people.
Volunteer emergency workers say people suffered breathing difficulties after an attack on the Sukkari area.
The reports could not be independently verified. A UN-led inquiry concluded last month the that government had used chlorine on at least two occasions.
The Syrian government has always denied using chemical weapons.
It comes as Syrian opposition leaders prepare to meet in London on Wednesday to launch a new plan for a political transition to try to end the five-year civil war.
The umbrella group representing opposition factions, the High Negotiations Committee, will be hosted by UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
Foreign ministers from the Friends of Syria group of countries, which have supported the rebellion against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... , will also attend.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told the BBC that he still believed in a political solution to the conflict, and that Mr Assad was not in a "position of advantage or victory", despite his forces’ recent advances.
This new plan is the Syrian opposition’s most comprehensive answer to that question: What happens if President Assad goes?
It’s meant to reassure the president’s foreign backers, like Russia and Iran, that there can be a stable transition which avoids the collapse of state institutions, and violent chaos that’s shattered neighbouring states like Iraq. That’s a concern shared in many capitals, and most of all Damascus.
But the demand for President Assad and his closest Syrian allies to step down has always been rejected in Damascus, and will be again. It’s never clear how much Moscow and Tehran are able and willing to change that. This plan is meant to test that.
But the Syrian army, backed by powerful outside support, is making gains on the ground, through force, or local deals which amount to surrender. If this plan doesn’t work it will be back to Plan B ‐ more military support to all sides in a devastating war.
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Chlorine? That will clean your Hard Drive in a jiffy.
Very Allah is Compassionate and All-Knowing. Perhaps He approves of Chlorine Gas dropped on Civilians. It may be very islamic.
How would Infidels such as ourselves, with inferior Infidel Values know? Just another reason for us to be tolerant and multi-Cutltursl.
Nearly 800,000 emails, passwords and usernames attributed to accounts on the Brazzers porn site forum have been leaked. Oh noze! Almost a million members exposed!
Originally reported to Motherboard by vigilante.pw, a breach monitoring watchdog, the hack contained over 900,000 individual records. Aside from inactive or duplicate accounts, that meant some 790,724 unique email addresses, usernames and plaintext passwords are now out in the ether. The site has been penetrated!
Though the data came from the site's separate forum, other users of the site were reporting their data had been included in the breach as accounts were shared between the two sites for convenience. Sighing with pleasure, the invaders thrust deeply into the hot, welcoming site...
The breach was due to vulnerabilities in the vBulletin forum management software, according to Brazzers publicity manager Matt Stevens. It's not the first time the software has been blamed for stolen passwords, with millions of accounts stolen from other vBulletin-powered forums earlier this year. The accounts were spread wide, inviting and available...
While it may not be quite as compromising as the recent Ashley Madison hack and subsequent extortion attempts, the slightly older cache of passwords still points to the need for encrypted password security. Cue the sleazy saxophone music!
Brazzers did not immediately respond to request for comment. They lay as though stunned, y'might say?
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA), backed by Liwaa al-Quds (Paleostinian paramilitary), launched a large-scale offensive in southern Aleppo today, targeting the key district of al-Ramouseh that is under jihadist rebel control.
Led by the Tiger Forces, the Syrian Arab Army and Liwaa al-Quds managed to break-through Jaish al-Fateh’s (Army of Conquest) front-lines and seize the Ramouseh Garages after a fierce battle.
Following the capture of the Ramouseh Garages, the Tiger Forces and Liwaa al-Quds pushed further east into the district, seizing several sites from the exhausted gunnies of Jaish al-Fateh.
Intense festivities are still raging tonight inside southern Aleppo, as the Syrian Armed Forces attempt to capture the al-Ramouseh District from the jihadist rebels of Jayah al-Fateh.
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[NAIJ] A major fight has broken out among members of the 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... terrorist group following the announcement of a new leader for the group by the 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.... group, the AFP has reported.
Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the son of Boko Haram’s founder Mohammed Yusuf, was named as the new leader of the group recently causing a battle for supremacy between him and the hitherto known leader, Abu Shekau. Shekau announced days later that he remained the leader of the sect. The military also reported recently a strike that dealt a major injury on Shekau.
AFP quoted sources as confirming the clash between factions of the group that has killed over 20,000 people and rendered millions homeless since 2009. The report said last week, while the military continued to decimate the sect, two festivities between the factions of the group led to the death of many loyalists of Shekau in the Monguno area of Borno state near Lake Chad.
The foreign news source quoted one Mele Kaka, a resident of the area, as saying: "The Barnawi faction launched an offensive against the Shekau faction who were camped in the villages of Yele and Arafa.
"In Yele, the assailants killed three people from the Shekau camp, injured one and took one with them, while several were killed in Arafa."
Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the new leader appointed by ISIS for Boko Haram Kaka said the clash caused residents of Arafa to flee just as the report added that a day before, members loyal to Barnawi attacked gunnies loyal to Shekau in Zuwa village in Marte district, killing an unspecified number.
"The Barnawi fighters told villagers after each attack that they were fighting the other camp because they had derailed from the true jihad and were killing innocent people, looting their property and burning their homes.
"They said such acts contravene the teachings of Islam and true jihad," Kaka said.
Hajiya Aisha Wakil, believed to be close to the sect, had recently said the gunnies were ready for dialogue and release of some of the kidnapped 219 school girls from Chibok.
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[BusinessInsider] Many years ago, the Obama administration had a good foreign policy idea. Remove your jaw from the floorboards and stay with me on this one.
Barack Obama was elected during a period of tense ceasefire in the Middle East. The violence in Iraq had dwindled, and new sanctions on Iran quickly rendered Tehran economically impotent. After years of immersion in Mesopotamia, it seemed we could finally move on, and so the Obama administration redirected its efforts towards East Asia.
Early Obama gestures towards Asia seemed astute. Having inherited America’s strongest relationship with China since before the Tiananmen Square massacre, Obama set about trying to expand our channels of cooperation. Washington also joined negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which the White House saw as a way to unleash commerce and, later, as a restraint on China, which wasn’t party to the talks.
This was sound policy, but it also rested on a mirage: that Obama’s overtures towards the Middle East and Asia would allow us to decamp from the former and swoop into the latter. Today, neither of those propositions has borne out: the Middle East is ablaze, East Asia is a far more dangerous neighborhood than before, and we’ve spent another eight years staring glassily into the Mesopotamian sand.
Part of it has to do with events beyond the White House’s control. The Arab Spring can’t be blamed on Obama (though our daft abandonment of allies like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak certainly can), and, contra the hawks, ISIS’s rampage isn’t his fault either. Obama also isn’t culpable for our invasion of Iraq, which sparked the current Sunni-Shia cold war. But Obama’s naiveté and missteps fueled this fire, too. When he should have been avoiding vacuums that might have been filled by jihadists, the president cheered and encouraged the Arab Spring. When he should have been worrying about al Qaeda in Northern Africa, he invaded Libya and helped depose Moammar Gaddafi, leading to a proliferation of terrorism there.
Where he should have seen extremists in the Syrian rebels, he instead saw democrats, and wasted more than two years arming an al Qaeda-infested insurgency. He also assumed what was left of the war on terrorism could continue via drone, never accounting for the blowback that’s left extremists in Yemen and Afghanistan even more fortified than before.
It’s a shame. Rather than going another six rounds in Iraq, the United States should have really and truly pivoted to Asia, bolstering its relationships with Asian Pacific nations like Vietnam and South Korea, and banding them together to form a front against Chinese and North Korean aggression. That doesn’t mean doing something stupid, like provoking Beijing or starting a trade war, and it doesn’t mean a return to nation building. But it does mean strengthening our allies to check Beijing. Instead, the Middle Eastern millstone weighs around our necks and Chinese ambitions seem almost peripheral.
We have few serious interests in the Middle East, especially now that fracking has made us a petro-power. We don’t need to abandon it to its fate, but we also can’t ignore the problems mounting in East Asia, where China is building militarized islands in waters crucial for international trade, and North Korea, Beijing’s yapping little dog, has a longer leash than ever.
Encouragingly, some Asian nations are stepping up to balance the Chinese threat. Unfortunately, those are pebbles in the pond and they’ve only heightened Chinese aggression. Meanwhile, the Obama administration’s failure to sell the TPP to the public could scuttle an important economic counterbalance to Chinese power.
It is clear that the future of American foreign policy will be decided in Asia, not necessarily in the Middle East. But thanks to 15 years of foolish interventions and besotted idealism, that pivot is proving difficult. The next president should spin us on our heel.
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The only thing I can parse from the article is that the author thinks the world sucks and the most charitable explanation for US Policy is that the Obama crew were well-meaning idiots. Is the fact that this was in BusinessInsider mean that is what the Hamiltonians are currently thinking?
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As per the TOM SULLIVAN SHOW on Fox Radio this AM, the Bammer = US was perceived or sensed as weak by the majority of the G20 Nations in Beijing, something which could still lead to major, unresolvable FP problems for the Bammer Admin + spill over into a Trump or Hillary Admin.
Perceived US strategic weakness is something the Bammer supposedly does not want for his "legacy".
This is true of everything Obumbles touches. He lives in the mirage of his narcissistic.universe where he truly believes that he knows everything about everything. All problems are caused by others who failed.
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I don't buy any of this guy's B.S. China is not going well and the Mideast is a disaster in foreign policy. The Iran agreement (or debacle) is a disaster. Moreover, we have had elitist chronic liars lying about everything to us. They don't trust the American people to come up with the right answers.
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We have few serious interests in the Middle East, especially now that fracking has made us a petro-power. We don’t need to abandon it to its fate....
Less Israel, that is PRECISELY what needs to happen. Establish 'fire breaks' and let it burn itself out. Why is such a strategy so difficult to understand or employ ?
F'd up the middle east by withdrawing from Iraq and destabalizing Libya and Syria, yes.
China is seeing the US become oil independent due to fracking and realizes we probably won't even try to keep the peace much longer so if they want a safe and steady flow of oil they better do something themselves. They are welcome to try.
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That doesn’t mean doing something stupid, like provoking Beijing or starting a trade war, and it doesn’t mean a return to nation building. But it does mean strengthening our allies to check Beijing.
Got it. Cut n' Run from the Middle East and tell your new suckers friends in Asia that we have their backs.
(IraqiNews.com) Wasit – Wasit Police Command announced arresting 33 persons during the search operations that it has conducted in different areas of the province.
Wasit Police Chief Qassim Rashed said, “Amid the security procedures imposed by Wasit Police Command, 33 persons were arrested in different areas of the province.”
Rashed added, “The suspects were arrested according to judicial arrest warrants, and they were transferred to a detention center for interrogation.”
Judge Andrew Napolitano joined Bill Hemmer on "America's Newsroom" today to weigh in on the latest in the Hillary Clinton email scandal, including Mike Pence's accusation that the Democratic nominee engaged in the same kind of conduct that brought down Richard Nixon's presidency.
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I agree with Judge Nap. I also suspect, just like Watergate, the trail leads directly back to the Oval Office. This sophomoric cover up by the FBI is designed simply to protect the POTUS.
Sept. 6,2016 Letter and attachments to the USAO for the District of Columbia requesting the review of the Hillary email investigation. (see attachment).
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The person or persons who sent the emails is likely the one who had SIPR/JWICS access and removed the classification markings. If not, they probably have knowledge of who did remove the markings. I ask you, how fok'n much investigatory prowess is actually necessary for
discovery ?
Sadly this investigation has long since past the point of credibility. It is now little more than a sophomoric cover up.
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None-the-less, Comey says there is nothing to see here--no prosecutable case. However, many other attorneys say otherwise. The nexis of the corruption and the blockage at the DOJ is with Obama and Lynch. Everyone knows now that direction comes from the Clintons. A disconnect occurs for me because Comey says not a prosecutable case and yet there are many other documents that are yet to be released by the FBI and others such as Assange--He doesn't know what documents exist outside of the FBI. I guess he is between a rock and a hard place--it is hard to tell where he's at; honest cop in a tight spot or part of the larger problem.
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Comey's problem is that he doesn't want to leave his wife a widow and his children orphans.
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#3 Skidmark: or part of the larger problem. It's possible--he may be tainted by D.C. If there is a movie that comes out "Escape from Washington," let's see if he shows up in that movie or makes it out.
Comey most likely knew any recommendation for prosecution of Hillary to Lynch would go no where; he knew the fix was in. Otherwise, what Rambler said.
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Comey says not a prosecutable case
His boss said it's not a prosecutable case, so it isn't. He could have proceeded with it anyway and forced them to fire him, but the case would still not be prosecuted. Of course he COULD abuse the power of his position and gather lots of devastating data on Her Majesty, and blackmail her.... But then he might be overcome with remorse on a walk in Fort Marcy Park.
Reinstating the death penalty in Turkey hasn’t been put up for consideration by the country’s parliament, the TRT Haber news channel quoted Turkey’s Minister for the EU Affairs Omer Celik as saying Sept.7. The minister noted that for the present, Turkish parliament doesn’t plan to consider this issue.
Turkey cancelled the death penalty in 2001. Reinstating the death penalty was discussed after the military coup attempt in Turkey. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had said the death toll as a result of the military coup attempt stood at 246, excluding the coup plotters, and over 2,000 people were wounded.
Erdogan declared a three-month state of emergency in Turkey on July 20.
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan announced that 15 ISIS members were killed and 12 booby-trapped vehicles were destroyed by coalition airstrike in central Mosul.
The spokesman for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Gayath Surji said, “The international coalition aviation conducted, at noon today, an air strike on ISIS headquarters in Ghabat area in central Mosul, killing 15 ISIS members.”
“The air strike also destructed the headquarters completely, as well as destroying 12 booby-trapped vehicles,” Surji added.
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A lawmaker in Egypt has argued in favour of the practice of female genital mutilation, saying women should "reduce their sexual desires" because Egyptian men are "sexually weak".
"We are a population whose men suffer from sexual weakness, which is evident because Egypt is among the biggest consumers of sexual stimulants that only the weak will consume," said Elhamy Agina, according to Egyptian Streets, an English-language local news website. "If we stop FGM, we will need strong men and we don't have men of that sort."
So it is better for women, he continued, to undergo the brutal practice to "reduce a woman's sexual appetite". And by doing so, he added, women would "stand by their men" and life would proceed smoothly.
The centuries-old practice involves the partial or full removal of the external sex organs, usually with a knife or razor blade, in a belief that doing so reduces sexual desires. The cutting can lead to urinary infections, menstrual problems, infertility and death, in addition to psychological trauma.he practice was banned in Egypt in 2008. Since then, circumcising girls has been punishable by a prison sentence of between three months and three years as well as a hefty fine. Still, FGM remains a widespread practice here, as it is in many other African nations and parts of the Middle East.
According to the WHO, Egypt has some of the highest rates of FGM, in company with Somalia, Djibouti and Sierra Leone. A Unicef study in 2013 found that as many as 27.2 million women in Egypt have been circumcised.
The Egyptian cabinet recently approved a draft law that would impose stiffer penalties for those who force girls and women into FGM. Jail terms would range between five and seven years, and harsher sentences would be imposed if the procedure leads to death or deformity. In May, an Egyptian teenager died of complications after undergoing FGM, propelling the UN to urge Egypt to enact stricter punishments.
The new legislation is awaiting ratification by the parliament before it can become law.
Aden-Despite the naval blockade imposed by coalition forces in Yemen since the launch of “Decisive Storm” in March 2015, Houthi rebels and their ally ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh are still receiving high-tech and numerous military weapons from different sources in order to continue their war against Yemeni citizens.
The siege was not tight on Yemen, because, and according to officials from the coalition forces, the siege was not imposed on Yemeni citizens, instead, it was imposed on Houthi rebels.
However, facts showed that countries in the region facilitated the smuggling of arms without taking into consideration the U.N. resolutions and imposed sanctions.
Moreover, information provided indicated that Ali Saleh and his Houthi allies were working earlier and preparing for a coup d’état through regional support and arm dealers, which disclosed the scheme that targeted Yemen and other regional countries and answered the question regarding people’s money put in the central bank’s treasury that are estimated to be around $5 billion dollars in addition to government revenues that are also estimated to be millions of Yemeni Riyals.
In the journalistic investigation, which was published by Reuters on Tuesday, and took place in Brazil, new facts regarding arms smuggling and dealing were revealed.
The report explained that these deals were concluded through mediators and international arm dealers, who had close relation with the regime of ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Brazil’s Forjas Taurus SA, the largest weapons manufacturer in Latin America, sold guns to a known Yemeni arms trafficker, who funneled them into his nation’s civil war in violation of international sanctions, according to charges in court documents reviewed by Reuters.
Federal prosecutors in southern Brazil charged two former executives of Forjas Taurus (FJTA4.SA) in May with shipping 8,000 handguns in 2013 to Fares Mohammed Hassan Mana’a, a Yemeni arms smuggler active around the Horn of Africa for over a decade according to the United Nations.
The handguns were allegedly shipped by Taurus to Djibouti and redirected to Yemen by Mana’a, according to court documents.
Alexandre Wunderlich, a lawyer for the two former Taurus export executives, Eduardo Pezzuol and Leonardo Sperry, said the accusations in the sealed indictment “do not reflect the facts of the matter.”
Mana’a, who served from 2011 to 2014 as governor of Sa’dah, a Houthi stronghold, could not be reached for comment.
A Brazilian court issued a public summons for Mana’a in May as part of a case citing him, Sperry and Pezzuol as defendants.
Taurus declined to answer detailed questions on the weapons case due to legal confidentiality but said it was “helping the courts to clarify the facts.”
Prosecutors say the two former Taurus executives were negotiating another shipment of 11,000 guns with Mana’a last year when police uncovered the plot and raided the company’s offices in November.
Prosecutors have not brought charges against Taurus but said evidence seized in the raid included dozens of emails showing it knew of U.N. sanctions against trading arms with Mana’a and Yemen but sought ways to skirt them.
(IraqiNews.com) Diyala – The Joint Operations Command announced dismantling a cell belonging to ISIS and seizing an armed vehicle in Diyala, as well as foiling an attempt to target the visitors of Imam Mohamed al-Jawad shrine with a booby-trapped vehicle in southern Baghdad.
The spokesman for the Joint Operations Command Colonel Yahia Rasool said, “Military intelligence forces managed to seize a booby-trapped vehicle that was prepared to target the visitors of Imam Mohamed al-Jawad shrine in Dawra area in southern Baghdad.”
“Another force was able to seize a vehicle carrying large quantities of weapons and explosives in Diyala axis, while it was moving toward Baghdad,” Rasool added.
“The military intelligence forces also managed to arrest three persons who represented a cell belonging to ISIS in the Diyala province,” he said.
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[DAILYTRUST.NG] The Nigerian Army has said troops on Tuesday 6th September 2016, placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! a 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... suspect Muhammed Bulama in Yobe State, he is number 105 on the wanted list.
A statement on Wednesday from Army front man, Colonel Sani Usman, said Bulama was arrested with two other suspected Boko Haram bully boys; Ardo Abba Muhammed and Muhammadu Kaigama, in Azare community, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State.
He said they were arrested riding on horseback and bicycle shepherding some sheep towards a market.
He added that during preliminary investigation, the suspect confirmed his photograph on the wanted list and further revealed that he specialized on rearing animals for the Boko Haram group.
Usman said Bulama further confessed that they came to the village to sell the animals as they had ran out of cash in their hideout and would also get some food items back to for the upcoming Sallah festivity.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A new species of blood fluke was found infecting the lungs of turtles in Malaysia. This parasitic flatworm has been dubbed Baracktrema obamai, in honor of the President of the United States (who is the fifth cousin twice removed of one of the discovering scientists).
[Gateway Pundit] On Monday Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte called Barack Obama a "son of a whore" as he vowed not to be lectured by the US leader on human rights when they meet in Laos.
[THEFEDERALIST] During a townhall meeting in Laos, President 
[Claremont.org] 2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die anyway. You--or the leader of your party--may make it into the cockpit and not know how to fly or land the plane. There are no guarantees.
"While serving as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton bought her BlackBerrys off eBay -- since she preferred older models that the smartphone company had long retired -- a top Republican on Capitol Hill revealed.
It's not just the filmography, it's the stills as well. 
The United States killed 13 al-Qaeda operatives in three counterterrorism strikes in Yemen from Aug. 24 to Sept. 4, the US military said on Tuesday.
The Democrats have tried to bill themselves as a party of inclusion, and fierce defenders of LGBT rights. But apparently none of that applies to gay Republicans -- something one Congressional candidate is learning the hard way.
Turkey can arrest three MPs from ruling Justice and Development Party as part of the operation against the Fethullah Gulen movement, the Hurriyet newspaper reported Sept. 7.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
A loud explosion was heard on Wednesday evening at a Somali army checkpoint in the capital, Mogadishu, according to eyewitness on the ground.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Nearly 800,000 emails, passwords and usernames attributed to accounts on the Brazzers porn site forum have been leaked.
[NAIJ] A major fight has broken out among members of the 
(IraqiNews.com) Wasit – Wasit Police Command announced arresting 33 persons during the search operations that it has conducted in different areas of the province.
