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  • Turkey Tightens Restrictions on Sales of Alcohol

    05/25/2013 3:47:47 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 1 replies
    INN ^ | 5/25/2013, 1:10 AM | Elad Benari
    The Turkish Parliament’s General Assembly adopted on Friday an alcohol bill proposed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), tightening restrictions on the sale and advertising of alcoholic beverages, the daily Hurriyet reported. The approval came despite strong objections against the bill by the opposition on the grounds of personal freedom and respect for lifestyle choices. Secularist opponents accused the Islamic-rooted ruling party of gradually imposing an Islamic agenda on Turkey. According to the bill, retailers will no longer be allowed to sell alcoholic beverages between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Advertising campaigns will be completely banned, such as...
  • Double Whammy… Police Ticket Torched Cars in Stockholm

    05/25/2013 2:26:35 PM PDT · by george76 · 33 replies
    Gateway ^ | , May 25, 2013 | Jim Hoft
    Car owners whose auto was torched during immigrant rioting aren’t getting sympathy from local officials… They’re getting tickets. The police chose to “wait” and “not to intervene” when the gangs burned cars. But those car owners who could not move their burnt-out wrecks, however, were fined. Rioting continued for the sixth straight night last night.
  • French soldier stabbed while on patrol near Paris (Muslim attacker - IM: "Let's be prudent now...")

    05/25/2013 2:17:23 PM PDT · by presidio9 · 38 replies
    Reuters ^ | Sat May 25, 2013
    A French soldier patrolling a business neighborhood west of Paris was stabbed in the neck and injured on Saturday by a man who fled the scene and is being sought by police, President Francois Hollande said. The 23-year-old was patrolling in uniform with two other soldiers as part of France's Vigipirate anti-terror surveillance plan when he was approached from behind around 6 p.m. and attacked with a knife or a box-cutter. A police union spokesman said surveillance footage of the attacker showed him as tall and bearded, aged about 35, possibly of North African origin and wearing a white Arab-style...
  • The Weakest President In The History Of The U.S.

    05/25/2013 2:10:15 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 31 replies
    MEMRI ^ | 23/5/13 | Mashari Al-Zaydi
    "The problem of U.S. President Barack Obama can be summed up in a single word: hesitation. The man is short-sighted, confused and diffident. It seems that the gist of his policy is disagreeing with every position of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and that is quarrelsomeness, not policy. "This assessment of Obama's policy is not voiced only by his Republican rivals in the U.S., or by those who hate some [aspects] of his global [foreign] policy, but also by some proponents of his own school of thought, like the well-known American author David Ignatius, who recently wrote a critique of...
  • Suicide attacker dies in blast in Afghan capital; explosion in mosque kills 12 in east

    05/25/2013 2:01:13 PM PDT · by george76 · 10 replies
    The Canadian Press ^ | May 25, 2013 | Rahim Faiez
    KABUL - A would-be suicide bomber died when his explosives-rigged vest went off prematurely in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday morning, police said. The apparent failed attack came a day after a major Taliban assault on an international compound in Kabul left 10 people dead including the six attackers. Another blast in the country's east killed 12 people at a mosque during evening prayers late Friday. Authorities in Ghazni province say explosives transported by suspected Taliban fighters accidentally detonated while they were stopped at a mosque.
  • Muslims Build France, Are The Future Of Humanity

    05/25/2013 1:59:22 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 15 replies
    MEMRI ^ | 24/5/13 | Abdallah ben Mansour
    Abdallah Ben Mansour: "I chose to speak about this today because I've heard all the lectures. All the lecturers talked about dignity and preached to the Muslims: We should do this and that. We should be dignified. I am not telling you to be dignified – you are already dignified. You do not know this, but you should: You are dignified, noble, majestic, fabulous, lofty, strong, and grand." Applause Abdallah Ben Mansour: "This must not [just] be said. It must be believed, because it is the truth. It was not me who decreed this, it was Allah. All glory to...
  • Imran Firasat: I am going to be killed soon (proud ex Muslim in Spain )

    05/25/2013 1:49:15 PM PDT · by george76 · 6 replies
    Jihad Watch ^ | May 24, 2013 | Robert
    The Spanish government approves Imran Firasat´s extradition to an Islamic country). I am going to die, or I should better say that I am going to be killed soon. The enemy who is going to kill me is not any Muslim but he is a powerful man of the Spanish government who is persecuting me nonstop since last several months and now he is going to kill me any time by abusing his diplomatic power. Revealing the danger of radical Islam to our free and modern society has become a curse for my life. Before it were only Muslims who...
  • Dutch anxiety over ‘Sharia triangle’ police no-go area in The Hague

    05/25/2013 5:18:36 AM PDT · by tje · 25 replies
    Irish Times ^ | Fri, May 24, 2013, 01:00 | Peter Cluskey
    Area two kilometres from city centre has become ‘orthodox Muslim territory’ largely ignored by authorities There have been calls for an urgent debate in the Dutch parliament about the integration of Muslim immigrants amid claims that one area of The Hague, known locally as “the Sharia triangle”, is being run by a form of unofficial Sharia police. The claims relate to the district of Schilderswijk, about two kilometres from the city centre, where an almost entirely Muslim population of some 5,000 people surrounds the El Islam mosque, fuelling criticism that the government has failed to ensure a proper ethnic mix...
  • Texas Mega-Church Welcomes Islamists to ‘Global Faith Forum’

    05/25/2013 1:25:52 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 31 replies
    RSN ^ | Wednesday, 22 May 2013 12:54 | Ryan Mauro
    The 3,000-member NorthWood Church of Keller, TX is holding a “Global Faith Forum” in November. In yet another Islamist-attended interfaith event, Christians will hear from a former Saudi intelligence chief, a former director-general of Al-Jazeera, officials from U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entities and the non-Muslims who embrace them. Pastor Bob Roberts. Jr. is known for his efforts to build bridges with Muslims. He spoke at the “Christ at the Checkpoint” conference put together by Palestinian Christians at Bethlehem Bible College. So did Florida Pastor Joel C. Hunter, who has been negative attention for his association with the Council on American-Islamic Relations...
  • Troops march through the streets in full uniform as thousands welcome them home from Afghanistan

    05/25/2013 11:23:37 AM PDT · by the scotsman · 17 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 25th May 2013 | Kerry McDermott
    'Thousands of people lined the streets of York to welcome troops home from Afghanistan in a 'humbling' display, days after soldier Lee Rigby was murdered in the street in Woolwich. The death of Drummer Rigby, 25, who was hacked to death by alleged Islamist extremists on Wednesday, left the nation appalled, and the community in York appeared determined to show its support for the armed forces as 2 Signal Regiment marched through the city yesterday. The regiment's commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Colin Vaudin said the massive turnout at the parade was 'testament to the character of the British people'. Drummer...
  • French Soldier Stabbed While On Patrol Near Paris (Attacker: Bearded man, Arab clothing)

    05/25/2013 11:09:09 AM PDT · by kristinn · 100 replies
    Reuters ^ | Saturday, May 25, 2013 | Reporting by Nicolas Bertin; Writing by Nick Vinocur; Editing by Andredw Roche
    A French soldier patrolling a business neighborhood west of Paris was stabbed in the neck on Saturday by a man who quickly fled the scene and is being sought by police, President Francois Hollande said. The soldier was patrolling in uniform with two other men as part of France's Vigipirate anti-terrorist surveillance plan when he was approached from behind around 1800 p.m. and stabbed in the neck with a knife or a box-cutter. SNIP Peyvel said the man was able to flee into a crowded shopping area in the La Defense business neighborhood before the two other soldiers, who were...
  • We'll Blow Up Plane

    05/25/2013 10:48:11 AM PDT · by exbrit · 30 replies
    The Sun ^ | May 24 2013 | David Willetts & Mike Sullivan
    TWO RAF jets were scrambled to intercept a Pakistani airliner after two passengers allegedly declared: “We’re going to blow this plane up.” Stunned crew launched a terror alert yesterday afternoon after the men reportedly started a scuffle by trying to force their way into the cockpit of the Manchester-bound airline.
  • Islamic Cleric Calls UK Soldier’s Beheading “A Courageous And Heroic Act”

    05/25/2013 7:49:59 AM PDT · by KeyLargo · 27 replies
    Freedom Outpost ^ | May 24, 2013 | Pamela Geller
    Islamic Cleric Calls UK Soldier’s Beheading “A Courageous And Heroic Act” Pamela Geller Here again, the calls for murder and war in the cause of Islam comes from a cleric. So again we ask, what is being done to expunge the Quran (and Islam) from the violent teachings that inspire jihad? The cleric has praised the beheading.
  • Obama drone oversight proposal prompts concern over "kill courts"

    05/25/2013 7:37:53 AM PDT · by yldstrk · 10 replies
    The Guardian ^ | May 24, 2013 | Dan Roberts
    Proposals to vet future US drone strikes risk creating "kill courts" according to human rights campaigners who say Barack Obama's promise of new legal oversight does not go far enough to end what they regard as extrajudicial executions. The president has asked Congress to consider establishing a special court or oversight board to authorise lethal action outside warzones under a new counter-terrorism doctrine which he says will end the "boundless war on terror". But responses to his speech from leading campaign groups, though broadly welcoming, highlight how little change Obama is proposing to the underlying principle that the US has...
  • Niger attackers came from Libya, president says

    05/25/2013 7:04:57 AM PDT · by DeaconBenjamin · 6 replies
    By FRANCE 24 ^ | 25/05/2013
    Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou told FRANCE 24 on Saturday that the suicide bombers behind twin attacks on a military base and a French-operated uranium mine in the country came from southern Libya. The coordinated bombings, which occurred at dawn on Thursday, claimed the lives of at least 20 people at the base in Niger’s desert city of Agadez and Areva’s Somair mine in the remote town of Arlit, a key supplier of uranium for France’s nuclear power programme. “The assailants, according to all the information that we’ve acquired, came from southern Libya,” Issoufou told FRANCE 24. “The fact is that...
  • 12 Chechen fighters killed in central Syria: activists

    05/24/2013 9:08:06 PM PDT · by BlackVeil · 33 replies
    Xinhua ^ | 25 May 2013 | anon
    DAMASCUS, May 24 (Xinhua) -- A total of 12 fighters from Chechnya were killed Friday in Syria's central Hama province, activists said. The fighters were killed when two rockets landed in the al- Hamra village in the eastern countryside of Hama, the Britain- based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. ...
  • Woolwich murder sparks anti-Muslim backlash (UK)

    05/25/2013 4:34:12 AM PDT · by the scotsman
    BBC News ^ | 25th May 2013 | BBC News
    'There has been a huge increase in anti-Muslim incidents since the murder of a British soldier in Woolwich, an inter-faith charity has said. Faith Matters, which runs a helpline, said they had received 162 calls since Wednesday's attack, up from a daily average of six.'
  • Google’s deadly web of poison and hatred

    05/25/2013 1:37:08 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 19 replies
    Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 18:40 EST, 24 May 2013 | (Daily Mail Comment)
    When ‘behead’ was typed into Google yesterday, the search engine automatically suggested completing the sentence with ‘those who insult Islam’—indicating this was the most common search beginning with that word. A second search, using the words ‘beheading video’, produced 3.75 million results. These included sites containing actual footage of Islamist fanatics committing this most barbaric of acts. In a week when two Islamist terrorists butchered and attempted to decapitate a British soldier in the middle of a suburban London street, it is unforgivable that such poisonous material—which is clearly being regularly viewed by fanatics—is still freely available on Google. …...
  • Militants in Syria receive 35-ton Saudi arms cargo: Top cmdr.

    05/24/2013 8:53:04 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 8 replies
    PressTV (Iranian propaganda) ^ | Thursday, May 23, 2013 | MP/KA/HMV
    The top commander of foreign-backed militants fighting against the Syrian government says the militants have received a 35-ton arms shipment from Saudi Arabia. Brigadier General Salim Idris, the chief of staff of the so-called Free Syrian Army, said on Thursday that the consignment will help armed men in their battles against the Syrian Army. He added, however, that the munitions are not advanced and sophisticated enough to enable the militants defeat Syrian government forces. The general noted, in particular, that the weapons will not be able to overpower tanks and planes in the strategic town of al-Qusayr, which is situated...
  • Iranian Backed Hackers Infiltrating U.S. Energy Companies

    05/24/2013 3:48:47 PM PDT · by ImJustAnotherOkie · 2 replies
    Breibart ^ | 5/24/2013 | AWR HAWKINS
    Current and former U.S. officials are reporting "Iran backed hackers have escalated a campaign against U.S. corporations" and have infiltrated "computer networks running energy companies." According to The Wall Street Journal, the Iranians "were able to gain access to control-system software that could allow them to manipulate oil or gas pipelines." Although Iran is not the only country or entity trying to hack into U.S. systems--China has been predominant in this area--officials are especially concerned with Iran because their goal is not the acquisition of intelligence or intellectual property merely, but "sabotage." For example, the theory is that the Iranians...
  • Obama Gives State Dept. [Benghazi] Talking Points Editor a Promotion [instead of firing her]

    05/24/2013 3:25:09 PM PDT · by grundle · 15 replies
    whitehousedossier.com ^ | May 24, 2013 | Keith Koffler
    The State Department spokeswoman who played a pivotal role in deleting portions of the Benghazi talking points has been tapped by President Obama for a plum new post, bagging a nomination to become assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. During the process of whittling the original CIA talking points down, a reference to participation in the Benghazi attack by al Qaeda-linked elements was deleted. Nuland had expressed “serious concerns” about mentioning the terrorists. And she also asserted that including references to previous attacks against foreigners in Benghazi “could be abused by members to beat the State Department...
  • Terrorism is Never Justified

    05/24/2013 3:23:58 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 4 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | May 24, 2013 | Jeff Jacoby
    Broadcasting from Boston the day after the Marathon bombing, a correspondent for the French-Canadian TV channel LCN explained why Americans shouldn't be surprised when such atrocities occurred. It's the price they have to pay for being a superpower, Richard Latendresse told his viewers. It may be "un peu tragique," he conceded. But hey, that's what happens when a nation takes so much pride in its military power – and has inflicted similar suffering on others. Writing in The Guardian the same day, Glenn Greenwald noted that so far there was "virtually no known evidence regarding who did it or why."...
  • Watch full extended footage of terrorists charging at police car in attempt to kill WPC

    05/24/2013 4:59:04 PM PDT · by northmoor · 45 replies
    Daily Mirror ^ | May 24, 2013 | Unknown camera
    Watch full extended footage of terrorists charging at police car in attempt to kill police officers. Police arrive at 1.30
  • Thank you, Hafez al-Assad

    05/24/2013 2:14:29 PM PDT · by Former Fetus · 4 replies
    Jewish World Review ^ | 5/24/2013 | Carolyne B. Glick
    The threats emanating from Syria have become downright frightening. For the past several days, Homeland Security Minister Gilad Erdan has been warning repeatedly that it is certain that Israeli population centers will be hit by Syrian ballistic missiles and that we have to be prepared for the worst case scenarios, including Scud missile launched chemical weapons attacks on Israel's metropolitan centers. Wednesday, Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel spelled out Israel's concerns from a military perspective. The chance of war breaking out at any time is extremely high. Syria has a massive arsenal that includes advanced anti-aircraft missiles, anti-ship...
  • Fighter Jets Scrambled To Passenger Plane

    05/24/2013 6:22:37 AM PDT · by UKrepublican · 57 replies
    The airline has confirmed it is for security reasons. There are understood to be 297 passengers on board. The plane was heading west towards Manchester when it was suddenly re-routed near York and headed back out to the North Sea, before travelling south to Stansted. It is believed to have now landed at the airport.
  • CRACKDOWN! Officials Jump into Action After Terror–Arrest Twitter Users For “Anti-Muslim” Tweets

    05/24/2013 3:10:03 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 51 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | May 24, 2013 | Jim Hoft
    Yes, this really happened. Great Britain understands that people are upset after the bloody terrorist attack this week. So they’re cracking down on Twitter users. British officials jumped into action following the bloody terror attack this week… And, arrested Twitter users for ugly anti-Islamic tweets. From The Daily Mail: Two men have been arrested for making alleged offensive comments on Twitter after the murder of a British soldier. MailOnline understands the pair had tweeted using inflammatory language and were trying to organise an anti-Muslim protest in Bristol....
  • The Stingers of Benghazi: Was the U.S. engaged in gun-running?

    05/24/2013 2:47:52 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 52 replies
    National Review ^ | 05/24/2013 | Jim Geraghty
    Earlier this week, Roger L. Simon of PJ Media broke a story with shocking revelations, contending that slain U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens was in Benghazi on September 11 to buy back Stinger missiles from al-Qaeda groups that had been originally provided to them by the U.S. State Department. Simon cited two former U.S. diplomats: Stevens’ mission in Benghazi, they will say, was to buy back Stinger missiles from al-Qaeda groups issued to them by the State Department, not by the CIA. Such a mission would usually be a CIA effort, but the intelligence agency had opposed the idea because of...
  • Two Prime Ministers (How two different UK PM's view Islam)

    05/24/2013 2:41:45 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 4 replies
    Townhall ^ | 05/24/2013 | Cal Thomas
    Following the hacking death of a British soldier by two alleged Islamic extremists, Prime Minister David Cameron said, "There is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act." Winston Churchill thought otherwise, but he lived in a time before political correctness ran amok and drew on his personal experiences serving in the Sudan and in the Crimean War. In his 1899 book "The River War," Churchill described what he witnessed in countries where Islam ruled: "Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde...
  • World press condemns Woolwich killing

    05/24/2013 1:27:06 PM PDT · by the scotsman · 32 replies
    BBC News ^ | 24th May 2013 | BBC News
    'The killing of a British soldier by two Islamist extremists in London is condemned by commentators across the world. Newspapers in the Middle East describe the attack as an ugly act of violence committed by "imbeciles" who were giving Islam a bad name. Although the crime is denounced by analysts in China, they say that the UK turned itself into a target of revenge by actively supporting US-led military actions abroad. Opinion is divided in the Russian press, with one paper saying that the Woolwich attack was the inevitable result of "filling" the country with foreigners, while another warns that...
  • Egypt: 3 women killed in suspected ‘honor’ crime

    05/24/2013 1:15:48 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 14 replies
    Associated Press ^ | May 24, 2013 12:39 PM EDT | Haggag Salama
    A mother and two daughters were allegedly killed by male relatives in southern Egypt who believed they’d had affairs, the latest apparent example of so-called “honor killings” in which women are slain for violating traditional morals in the conservative region, a security official said Friday. Police believe the 10 men stormed the house of the women, strangling them and beating them with sharp tools, the official said, based on the alleged confession of one of the suspects. The men wrapped the women’s bodies in blankets, weighted them with stones and threw them in the river Nile, the official added. He...
  • India Mulls Stationing of Ground Forces in Afghanistan

    05/24/2013 12:42:54 PM PDT · by JerseyanExile · 13 replies
    PKKH ^ | May 18, 2013
    NEW DELHI — The Indian government is evaluating the possibility of stationing troops in Afghanistan after the international forces begin leaving the country in 2014. An Indian Ministry of Defence source said no decision has yet been taken, but the possibility of putting boots in Afghanistan is under consideration by the Indian government. Afghan President Hamid Karzai is visiting New Delhi May 20-22 and the issue of stationing of Indian troops is likely to be discussed, said an official of the Indian External Affairs Ministry. “It is in India’s interest to enhance security and defense cooperation with Afghanistan,” added the...
  • Hague: Israel losing support in UK over settlements

    05/24/2013 12:22:59 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 39 replies
    Yedioth Ahronoth News ^ | 05.24.13, 10:16 | (Ynet)
    British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who is currently visiting Israel, said in an interview with Sky News that Israel has lost some support in Britain and in other European countries due to its settlement construction policy. He warned that the window of opportunity for Israel and the Palestinians to agree to form a two-state solution was closing fast. …
  • 'Angels' prayed, comforted fallen soldier Lee Rigby

    05/24/2013 11:59:38 AM PDT · by 1rudeboy · 23 replies
    heraldsun.com.au ^ | May 25, 2013
    A MOTHER and daughter are being hailed as the "Angels of Woolwich' after they comforted Drummer Lee Rigby and prayed for him in his final moments. Gemini Donnelly-Martin, 20, and her mother Amanda Donnelly, asked the men who hacked Drummer Rigby to death if they could be by his side. The two attackers allowed women to pass.Ms Donnelly-Martin told the Daily Mirror that despite many including British Prime Minister David Cameron calling the women heroes she believes they just did what anyone would do."We just wanted to take care of the man. It wasn't brave. Anyone would have done...
  • Iran presidential candidate vows to resist West

    05/24/2013 11:08:06 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 7 replies
    Associated Press ^ | May 24, 2013 1:17 PM EDT
    Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, a candidate in next month's presidential elections, vowed Friday he will pursue a policy of resistance against the West if elected. Addressing his first campaign rally in Tehran, Saeed Jalili said his priority in foreign policy will be to expand Islam’s influence in the world and counter “arrogance,” a reference to the U.S. Jalili is considered one of the most hard-line of the eight candidates approved by the Guardian Council, Iran’s election overseers, to run in the June 14 race. … Jalili said he is seeking to revive the revolutionary policies of the 1979 Islamic revolution...
  • Who Invited Code Pink's Medea Benjamin to Obama's Speech?

    05/24/2013 10:01:06 AM PDT · by kristinn · 54 replies
    Breitbart Big Government ^ | Friday, May 24, 2013 | Kristinn Taylor
    "The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to."-President Obama paying homage to Medea Benjamin.SNIP ...Benjamin and the group she co-founded, Code Pink, have worked with state sponsors of terrorism, terrorist groups and domestic terrorists to undermine the U.S. and her allies in the war on terrorism. However, Benjamin and Code Pink have also worked with President Obama at the same time to accomplish some of the same goals--beginning in early 2007 when Obama tapped Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans as a fundraising host and then as a fundraising bundler for his nascent presidential campaign. Code Pink has even...
  • Michael Savage: ‘What stands between us and what happened in London? Guns, guns, guns’ [AUDIO]

    05/24/2013 9:25:05 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 26 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | May 23, 2013 | Jeff Poor
    In the wake of a pair of terrorists slaying a British soldier in the streets of London, talk show host Michael Savage pointed out Wednesday one key difference between the United States and the United Kingdom: Second Amendment rights. “Now what stands between us and what happened in London?” Savage asked. “Guns, guns, guns — only guns, only guns. And this very same gang that wants to flood this country with 50 million, 30 million, 20 million, 11 million — you pick the number, pick it out of a hat — illegal aliens, it’s all amnesty for every one of...
  • Kerry: Israel, Palestinians must take hard decisions

    05/24/2013 8:50:20 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 19 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 24/5/13 | Uzi Baruch
    US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Friday to take "hard decisions" to revive the Middle East peace process, which has stalled for almost three years. "We're getting toward a time now when hard decisions need to be made," he told a news conference in Tel Aviv at the end of his fourth visit to the region since he took office in February. .....
  • US (KERRY): Israel's Prosperity (is) a Problem

    05/24/2013 8:19:26 AM PDT · by Ooh-Ah · 23 replies
    Gatestone Institute ^ | May 24, 2013 | Shoshana Bryen
    Under the circumstances, the U.S. would do better to tell the Palestinians there is no deal to be had unless they -- both the Fatah and Hamas -- demonstrably accommodate the reality that Israel is a legitimate, permanent part of the region. Otherwise, it is for Israel to determine how best to defend itself from those "challenges over the horizon." At first blush, it might have sounded like praise, but it wasn't. Before meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres, Secretary of State John Kerry pronounced Israel's prosperity an impediment to "peace" with the Palestinians. "I think there is an opportunity...
  • Obama nominates Victoria Nuland for assistant secretary of state (Benghazi Talking Points Enabler)

    05/24/2013 7:26:29 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 40 replies
    Politico ^ | 05/24/2013 | By JENNIFER EPSTEIN
    President Obama on Thursday nominated Victoria Nuland, a State Department official involved in the editing of the administration's talking points on Benghazi, to be the next assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Nuland, a career foreign service officer who was until recently State's top spokesperson, had long been expected to be nominated the post to replace Philip Gordon, who Obama picked to serve as Middle East coordinator for the National Security Council. Nuland's nomination -- which requires Senate confirmation -- could come under scrutiny from Republicans who see her as playing a central role in shaping the...
  • Bin Laden Raid vs. Benghazi

    05/24/2013 7:09:05 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 9 replies
    National Review ^ | 05/24/2013 | Jonathan Strong
    Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes isn’t afraid to talk to the press. After the Navy SEAL raid in which Osama bin Laden died, he spoke to The New Yorker, Newsweek, the Washington Post, National Journal, and Vanity Fair — at least. He also helped coordinate access for the filmmakers of Zero Dark Thirty. He recently cooperated with a New York Times profile of himself, and his mother, Jane Rhodes, answered questions for a GQ feature about him and his brother, CBS News President David Rhodes — the byline of which included Ben’s former White House colleague Reid Cherlin. But...
  • Israeli Troops in Syria

    05/24/2013 6:17:07 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 10 replies
    Fox News ^ | 16/5/13
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD6kpWvr8fc
  • President Obama Is Tired of Fighting Terrorism

    05/24/2013 6:07:22 AM PDT · by IbJensen · 29 replies
    Heritage Foundation ^ | 05/24/2013 | Editorial Staff
    “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender…” These were words President Obama never used during his speech at the National Defense University yesterday. Rather, he said anything but anything that sounded like Winston Churchill’s immortal speech about defiance in the face of the march of tyranny. In large part, there was nothing new in the counterterrorism strategy the President announced. Flash back to 2011—that was the real turning point. Before then, Obama really followed...
  • U.K. Beheading Shows: It's Time To Fight the Doctrine of Jihad

    05/24/2013 6:05:10 AM PDT · by Melissa 24 · 38 replies
    The Huffington Post ^ | May 23, 2013 | Tarek Fatah
    When buses and trains exploded on 7/7 in London, the objective of the suicide bombers was to sow fear and terror in the very soul of the British people. In that the jihadis were successful. One would have expected the British authorities to not just hunt down the terrorists, but also to fight the cancer of Islamism that lies at the ideological roots of jihadi terrorism. Instead, successive governments in London have tried to pussyfoot around the challenge, hoping the jihadi terrorists and their ideology would melt away with time as Downing Street funded so-called "moderate" Muslim groups and "former"...
  • Boston Bomber Linked to 9/11 Anniversary Murder of Jews

    05/24/2013 5:21:01 AM PDT · by SJackson · 6 replies
    FrontPage Magazine ^ | May 24, 2013 | Arnold Ahlert
    - FrontPage Magazine - http://frontpagemag.com - Boston Bomber Linked to 9/11 Anniversary Murder of JewsPosted By Arnold Ahlert On May 24, 2013 @ 12:32 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 5 Comments Early Wednesday morning, Chechen immigrant Ibragim Todashev, 27, was shot dead at his Orlando apartment while being questioned by an FBI agent and other law enforcement officials about his connection to Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Law enforcement sources report that Todashev was initially cooperative, but became violent as he was about to sign a written statement confessing to a triple homicide allegedly committed by himself and Tsarnaev. “The agent, two Massachusetts State Police troopers, and...
  • Obama Stretches Terror Definitions In National Security Speech

    05/24/2013 5:18:18 AM PDT · by Biggirl · 10 replies
    Mail Online ^ | May 24,2013 | David Martosko
    In a long-awaited speech at the National Defense University, Barack Obama claimed that the nature of international terror attacks threatening the United States has changed since Sept. 11, 2001, with 'no large-scale attacks' on America occurring since then. But his definition of 'large-scale attacks,' his speech made clear, doesn't include the 2013 Boston Marathon attack that wounded hundreds, the 2012 Benghazi terror attack that injured dozens and killed four, and the 2009 attack at Fort Hood that killed 13 and injured 30.
  • 2 FBI Agents Involved in Dzhokar Tsarnaev's Arrest "FALL" Out of Helicopter and Die

    05/23/2013 5:21:45 AM PDT · by RummyChick · 106 replies
    daily paul ^ | 5/22 | hornsby
    Two members of the FBI’s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a statement. The statement gave few details regarding the deaths of Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw, other than to say the helicopter encountered unspecified difficulties and the agents fell a “significant distance.” Last month, the team was involved in the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. And in February, it rescued a 5-year-old boy held hostage for six days in an underground bunker...
  • The London Horror and Jihad Denial

    05/24/2013 5:03:07 AM PDT · by SJackson · 24 replies
    FrontPage Magazine ^ | May 24, 2013 | Bruce Bawer
    - FrontPage Magazine - http://frontpagemag.com - The London Horror and Jihad DenialPosted By Bruce Bawer On May 24, 2013 @ 12:40 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 18 Comments It began on Tuesday in Woolwich, London, when two young men in a car deliberately ran over an off-duty British soldier who was walking to a nearby military installation, then “hacked and chopped” at his body and attempted to decapitate him as they shouted “Allah akbar!” They forced witnesses to film the scene, saying: “We swear by Almightly Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reasons we have done this...
  • Bulletin: We Are Still at War

    05/24/2013 3:37:26 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 35 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | May 24, 2013 | Mark Davis
    “By Allah, by the almighty Allah, we swear we will never stop fighting you.” With those words Wednesday, the South London attacker with blood-soaked hands did us the favor of reminding us what we are up against. Having just killed British soldier Lee Rigby in cold blood on a street in Woolwich, with his murder weapon still in hand, the latest face of jihad issued warnings to all of us on that now famous bystander video: “Your people will never be safe,” he insists. So: do we believe him? This is an important question for every American, and every American...
  • Killers who butchered soldiers are condemned by Muslim groups

    05/24/2013 3:25:21 AM PDT · by the scotsman · 83 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 24th May 2013 | Vanessa Allen
    'The killers who executed a soldier on a London street were yesterday condemned by Muslim groups for their 'truly barbaric act'. The Muslim Council of Britain said the killers’ use of 'Islamic slogans' indicated they were motivated by their faith. A statement from the council said: 'This is a truly barbaric act that has no basis in Islam and we condemn this unreservedly. Our thoughts are with the victim and his family. 'We understand the victim is a serving member of the Armed Forces. Muslims have long served in this country’s Armed Forces, proudly and with honour. 'This attack on...
  • Brave mother and daughter stood alongside Cub Scout leader against Islamic fanatics

    05/24/2013 3:22:43 AM PDT · by the scotsman · 139 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 24th May 2013 | Vanessa Allen
    'A mother and daughter were the 'Angels of Woolwich' who bravely risked their own lives to comfort the soldier left dying in the street. Gemini Donnelly-Martin, 20, and her mother Amanda, stepped forward and asked the attackers if they could be by Drummer Lee Rigby's side. Their refusal to be cowed by the terrorists won praise from all quarters, including Downing Street. Although other bystanders watched in horror and police waited helplessly for armed officers to arrive, Gemini modestly insisted her and her mother were not heroes and had done what anyone else would do. She told the Daily Mirror:...