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President Trump's successful operation to take out Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi sent Democrats scrambling on Sunday, as several top party leaders had complained publicly in recent days that the White House had no "real plan" to combat the terror group following the U.S. pullout in Syria. In a dramatic sign of how Democrats' messaging apparently backfired, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" ran an ill-timed sketch suggesting that Trump had created "jobs" for ISIS -- just hours before the president held a news conference announcing al-Baghdadi's demise. The sketch aired around the time the two-hour late-night raid in northwest Syria...

BREAKING: Speaking this morning on CBS "Face the Nation," Obama's Jt Chiefs Vice Chair James Winnefeld bashed Trump for "piling humiliation" on ISIS after lethal raid on its kingpin:"If you look back at the bin Laden raid, we treated his body with respect that is due under Islam"

SOMALI Congressmuslim Ilhan Omar is distraught that ISIS leader is dead thanks to Trump and the U.S. military OCTOBER 27, 2019 BY BARENAKEDISLAM After all, back in 2016, when she was a State representative in Minnesota, she wrote to the judge requesting compassion and leniency in the sentencing of several Somali Muslims in Minnesota convicted of recruiting for the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group. “More men and boys from a Somali American community in Minneapolis have joined – or attempted to join – a foreign terrorist organization over the last 12 years than any other jurisdiction in the country,” Fox...

Actor and Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson appeared in a sketch thanking Alec Baldwin’s President Trump for “bringing jobs back to ISIS” just as reports surfaced that President Donald Trump had ordered U.S. military forces to conducted a raid that ended with the death of the murderous ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Davidson joined Baldwin’s Trump on stage as he was delivering a speech similar to the one President Trump gave last week at a campaign rally Albuquerque, New Mexico “So great to see a young Trump supporter,” Baldwin said. “And where are you from son, New Mexico?”...

On Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s “State of the Union,” former National Intelligence Director James Clapper commented on the reported death Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS. Clapper warned the death could “galvanize” ISIS. Clapper said, “What is going to be interesting is to the extent to which this negatively affects ISIS or does it galvanize ISIS, the remnants of ISIS, which still survives as an ideology and has franchises in other places besides Syria.” He added, “ISIS is more than just Baghdadi, as important as he was. 14,000 to 18,000 fighters yet remaining and the franchise are branches in...

Question Is Facebook a liberal organization? Read full story @ http://cybercorrespondent.wordpress.com Cybercorrespondent Answer Absolutely yes, Facebook is a liberal organization! It is also an organization that has an agreement with the white house to monitor conversations and report on users. You are much better off without Facebook. Jamie

The alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind of a 2006 transatlantic airplane bombing plot was killed in a US missile attack in northwest Pakistan early Saturday, after spending almost a year on the run.Rashid Rauf died when a missile hit a tribesman's house in the village of Alikhel, part of a border district that is a known stronghold of Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.Also among the five killed in the early morning incident was Egyptian Abu Zubair al-Misri, another wanted Al-Qaeda operative, a senior Pakistani security official said on condition of anonymity."The transatlantic bombing plot alleged mastermind Rashid Rauf was killed along with an...

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Two people were killed and seven seriously wounded in Uganda when an artillery round blew up as a man tried to melt it down for scrap metal, police said on Saturday. Police cordoned off the area where the shell was found, searching for other munitions after the incident, which happened on Thursday in Amuria, a remote part of the once war-ravaged eastern Teso region. "We understand this man picked up a shell and tried to melt it for scrap. He put it in the fire and it exploded," Francis Agwoka, acting police chief for the region, told Reuters by telephone....

A suicide bomber was killed early Sunday in southwestern Pakistan when the explosives belt he was wearing exploded prematurely, police said. No one else was injured in the blast in Hub, an industrial town in Baluchistan province, local police official Munir Hussain said. "This man was riding a cycle. He had strapped explosives to his body for a suicide attack and they exploded," Hussain said of the blast in Hub's Zehri Street neighborhood. The man's intended target was not immediately known, and police were investigating, Hussain said. Hub is about 580 kilometers (360 miles) southeast of Quetta, Baluchistan's capital. Baluchistan...

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INDONESIAN police were certain that terrorist mastermind Azahari Husin is dead and were only waiting on forensic confirmation, Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty said. Mr Keelty said Azahari's head remained intact after he blew himself up when cornered by troops in Indonesia yesterday. Local police are satisfied the remains are those of the Malaysian bomb expert. "Certainly facially he's been identified by General Gorries Mere, who's been heading the terrorist tracking team for three years," Mr Keelty said on Southern Cross radio. "So we've got no reason to believe it's not right. It's just that forensically we haven't...

Indonesian security forces raided the suspected hide-out of one of Asia's most wanted terrorist suspects on Wednesday, fighting a gun and grenade battle with militants inside. The al-Qaeda-linked terrorist leader was either shot to death or blew himself up to avoid capture, officials and news reports said. Azahari bin Husin, a Malaysian accused of masterminding at least four deadly blasts in Indonesia in recent years, was believed to have been killed in the operation in Malang, a town about 850km east of Jakarta, senior police official General Gorries Mere told The Associated Press. Local TV stations reported Azahari, who security...

Also from Haaretz 20:46 Israeli security sources: Israel blows up car of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi in Gaza

<p>January 12, 2004 -- NABLUS, West Bank - Before dawn yesterday, 17-year-old Iyad al-Masri strapped on a belt filed with explosives and left this city - intent on carrying out an attack on Israelis. Hours later, his belt malfunctioned and exploded, killing him.</p>