h/t Donald Sensing
Professor Brahma Chellaney from India’s Center for Policy Research has sound advice for the next American president regarding US militarized approach to fighting terrorism.
In a December 2015 article entitled "Saudi Arabia’s Phony War on Terror", Chellaney pointed to the Wahhabi ideology, "a messianic, jihad-extolling form of Sunni fundamentalism" as the root cause of global terrorism.
He warned that unless expansion of Wahhabism is arrested, the global war on terror is ineffective. ’No matter how many bombs the US and its allies drop, the Saudi-financed madrassas will continue to indoctrinate tomorrow’s jihadists.[1]
After two years of bombing campaign, Pentagon officials reveal US is now running out of bombs to drop on Islamic State (IS).[2] And the Saudi-Wahhabi nexus continues to indoctrinate new jihadists -- now in East Asia.
[Dhaka Tribune] Are we really supposed to believe that the police are so foolish as to take someone caught red-handed fleeing the scene of the latest murderous attack on a raid where he is subsequently rubbed out?
Such a scenario does not merely strain credulity, it insults the intelligence.
It's also frequently humor provoking...
The public is being asked to believe that our law enforcers are so colossally reckless and blundering that they would put a key suspect who was in a position to reveal valuable information in harm’s way
...in a banana grove at 3 am...
instead of keeping him safe in police custody.
The implications for our safety, were this actually to have been the case, are beyond belief.
But of course, this was not the case. Let us call a spade a spade. The police explanation lacks all credibility.
The death of Golam Faizullah Fahim is inexcusable and there must be consequences for all who were responsible.
At best, it was a massive blunder and criminal dereliction of duty.
At worst, it is something far more troubling.
Yup, it's worse...
It beggars belief that the opportunity to question such a key suspect could have been squandered so carelessly.
The bright side is, his mother misses him and the prison system isn't paying for his dinner...
Given the slow progress in bringing to justice those behind the ongoing attacks on minorities and others, the potential intelligence this suspect could have provided would have been invaluable to the investigations.
Instead, his death only makes things worse, and heightens public concerns about the lack of progress in getting to the bottom of the killings and bringing those behind them to justice.
It also dramatically diminishes public trust and confidence in the ability or willingness of the authorities to deal with such attacks.
So you say, but then you have to explain why the RAB is apparently so popular. Perhaps it's because it's the only agency in B-desh that is doing anything?
This killing has dealt a body blow to the credibility of law enforcement, and, by extension, the government.
Reckless police action is no substitute for gathering the evidence and intelligence needed to find out who are behind the assassination'>assassinations and bringing them to justice.
That assumes that B-desh has a functioning justice system, which over the last hundred years or so has been a bit of a stretch...
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Bangladesh had a functional justice system 70 years ago - when it was still British.
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The public is being asked to believe that our law enforcers are so colossally reckless and blundering that they would put a key suspect who was in a position to reveal valuable information in harm’s way in the back of a police van, WITHOUT A SEATBELT!
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Instead, his death only makes things worse, and heightens public concerns about the lack of progress in getting to the bottom of the killings and bringing those behind them to justice.
I'd say justice was delivered, at a high rate of speed, right behind the earhole
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What strains credulity is the assertion that the police did not question this fellow. I think that graphic with the pliers and panties might be appropriate here.
[Dhaka Tribune] The death of Golam Faizullah Fahim while he was in police custody was inexcusable.
And now, not 24 hours later, comes the news of the killing of Sharif, said to be a senior military and IT trainer of the Ansarullah Bangla Team, and prime suspect in the Avijit murder case.
Over the last 11 days alone, a total of six holy warrior suspects have been shot to death. Six.
It would certainly appear that this is the latest law enforcement strategy to deal with the holy warrior threat.
Bangladesh has a long and unfortunate history of resorting to extra-judicial killings as a means to combat terrorism, and we very much hope that this is not what is happening again today. In a democratic country that operates under the rule of law there can be no substitute or short-cut to bringing the accused to trial and having them face justice in a court of law.
Equally important, when suspected Death Eaters are rubbed out in opaque circumstances, it dramatically diminishes the public trust and credibility of law enforcement, and indeed runs the risk of destroying public confidence in the rule of law, which is something that surely no one would like to see.
And perhaps most importantly, it is the responsibility of law enforcers to apprehend the accused and glean as much information as possible from them, with a view to tracking down the criminal masterminds behind the attacks and bringing them to justice.
With each death, authorities lose information that could be vital to apprehending those behind the killings, preventing future killings, and dismantling the terror networks that have been wreaking such havoc.
It would perhaps be understandable if such deaths in shoot-outs were occasional or isolated events. But these deaths in two weeks suggest something far more sinister.
At best, it suggests that law enforcement is acting in an utterly reckless and unprofessional manner. At worst, it suggests that this is a new strategy that they are employing in their fight against terror.
If it is the former, then it shows that law enforcement is seriously ill-equipped and ill-prepared to address the terror threat that this country is facing.
If it is the latter, the implications are even more dire.
Either way, the killing of terror suspects in shoot-outs cannot continue.
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Over the last 11 days alone, a total of six holy warrior suspects have been shot to death. Six.
Who is this handwringer? Gersh Kuntzman?
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[Observer] 51 dissident State Department Foreign Service Officers (FSOs), the Dissent 51, signed a Dissent Channel cable savaging the Obama Administration’s Syria policy and implicitly attacking the Obama Administration’s inept diplomatic and military strategy for eliminating the anti-Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Usually one FSO (or at most a handful) sign a dissent cable. 51 is an unprecedented number of government line officers signing a dissident document which--Obama Administration denials to the contrary--could put their careers at risk.
The Dissent 51 FSOs demonstrate that America still has federal employees who will risk their careers to express profound professional disagreement with what they believe are major policy errors which damage U.S. interests, in this case long term U.S. security interests in the Middle East and Europe.
This is good news.
The Dissent 51 cable, however, also exposes a severe and now embedded morale problem within the State Department. One solo signee per dissent cable seems to be the usual case, with a rare duo or trio. 51 shows that senior State Department officials and the White House have vehemently ignored their own staff experts. Now the experts are exasperated. The exasperation may have begun as personal exasperation but it is now institutional exasperation--which is why I describe the morale problem as embedded.
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Did Hildabeest bounce too many ashtrays off too many FSOs foreheads or did she tell too many FSOs people to go fuvk themselves? Or was it the fact that she didn't respond to any of AMBO Steven's requests for help?
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Did Hildabeest bounce too many ashtrays off too many FSOs foreheads or did she tell too many FSOs people to go fuvk themselves? Or was it the fact that she didn't respond to any of AMBO Steven's requests for help?
[NYPost] Idiotic: That’s the only word for the Obama administration’s move to scrub references to Islam or ISIS from the transcripts of Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen’s calls.
Under an avalanche of ridicule, the Justice Department on Monday relented and released the full transcripts. But what was the point? Everyone already knew that he’d pledged allegiance to ISIS and its “caliph.”
Fine: President Obama wants to make this about gun control, not terrorism — but ham-handed editing only calls attention to what you’re deleting, and to Obama’s peevish rules against uttering terms like “radical Islam.”
Just look at the redactions:
Mateen: “I pledge of allegiance to [omitted]. “I pledge allegiance to [omitted] may God protect him [in Arabic], on behalf of [omitted].”
All the omissions did was make Team Obama look determined to keep its head in the sand about the nature of the enemy.
Even the “explanations” sounded dumb. Here’s Attorney General Loretta Lynch on ABC’s “This Week”: “What we’re not going to do is further proclaim this man’s pledges of allegiance to terrorist groups, and further his propaganda.”
Further his propaganda? Seriously? The answer to Islamist jihad is to black out the words?
Lynch never did anything this absurd in all her years as US Attorney here in New York, so you know the order came down from above.
It’s also idiocy déjà vu: Four years ago, Team Obama made then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice tour all the Sunday shows to blame the deadly Benghazi attack on an Internet video, rather than on the terrorist plot they all knew it was. She looked a fool once the administration finally admitted the truth, just as Loretta Lynch does now.
It makes you wonder: Who at the White House feels compelled to send women of color out to humiliate themselves on national TV? Human shields ?
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The people in the WH look moronic. This scrubbing of the Orlando massacre is as stupid as the cover-up of the reasons for Benghazi; namely laying it off to some guy making videos in California. These people are dangerous--very dangerous. Makes one think of the Reichstag fire.
[The Mail] A man claiming to be the Orlando shooter's lover says Omar Mateen was livid after discovering he'd had sex with an HIV-positive man. The Hispanic gay man, identified only as Miguel, told Univision he met Omar Mateen on Grindr before they became 'friends with benefits', meeting up 20 times at a hotel in Orlando, Florida.
Miguel described Mateen as a confused gay man and a heavy drinker who was attracted to - but felt rejected by - Latinos. He believes Mateen's massacre on Pulse nightclub's Latin Night was an attempt at 'revenge' after discovering that one of the two Puerto Rican gay men he'd had a threesome with was HIV-positive.
Speaking in fluent Spanish and broken English, Miguel said that despite tests coming up negative, Mateen feared not enough time had passed for an accurate result, and he wanted to 'make them pay'.
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#2 If HIV revenge was the motive, why did he invoke Islam?
Because Mohammed (Poop Be Upon Him) was gay??
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Because Mohammed (Poop Be Upon Him) was gay??
Perhaps just an opportunist...women, soldiers, slaves, boys, girls, goats...exploiting his 'gift of exhortation'.
"Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith; if service, in his serving; or he who teaches, in his teaching; or he who exhorts, in his exhortation . . . "Romans 12:6-8
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He was already primed since childhood through his parents' Pashtun culture and his interest in jihadi videos. Knowing that he'd been exposed to a dread disease merely pulled the trigger and set the target.
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Look at his picture. He is not what he appears. His chin, cheeks, eye bags, nose and hair are prostetics. It's so poorly done even I can pick it out. This joker is a plant. Do not believe one word from him.
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[Daily Caller] When Omar Mateen said, "I did it for ISIS," what did he really mean? We may never know.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has told the gay community "we stand with you" and insisted that investigators are continuing to follow leads on the gunman and mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub...
She wouldn’t give specifics about the investigation or a possible motive. She said "people often act out of more than one motivation" and called the June 12 massacre at the gay club "clearly an act of terror and an act of hate." She added that a motive may never be known. In other news: FBI Director Comey..."I have absolutely no idea what is causing the violence and bloodshed in Chicago."
[Wash Times] Attorney General Loretta Lynch told Florida’s LGBT community that the "most effective" weapon at America’s disposal against Islamic terrorism is "love."
Of course she did.
Mrs. Lynch told reporters in Orlando on Tuesday that an ongoing investigation will determine the precise motive for 29-year-old Omar Mateen’s June 12 massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub. Mateen, a former security guard, called 911 and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group while killing 49 people and wounding 53 others.
"To the LGBT community -- we stand with you," President Obama’s attorney general said. "The good in this world far outweighs the evil. Our common humanity transcends our differences, and our most effective response to terror is compassion, it’s unity and it’s love. We stand with you today because we grieve together, and long after the cameras are gone will continue to stand with you as we grow together in commitment and solidarity and in equality."
Mrs. Lynch added that $1 million in emergency funding for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement would be allocated "as soon as possible," the Miami Herald reported.
The federal funds will be used to cover overtime pay and other costs incurred by Orlando’s local law enforcement agencies during the massacre, the newspaper reported. 'Overtime pay' and HIV screening.
"The message of Orlando is a message of determination to remove hatred, to remove intolerance from our midst," Mrs. Lynch said.
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Quran (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"
Took only 5 minutes to google the reason Loretta. So why don't you just tell the truth. Your Islamic executive branch masters are the fifth column.
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Proof that a piece of paper from an institution of 'higher learning' can't cure stupid.
Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Are we really supposed to believe that the police are so foolish as to take someone caught red-handed fleeing the scene of the latest murderous attack on a raid where he is subsequently 
The business of 'quid pro quo' can be very rewarding. 
[Daily Caller] When Omar Mateen said, "I did it for ISIS," what did he really mean? We may never know.
