Saturday, September 6, 2014

Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

The defeated al-Qaeda just announced the opening of a new branch in India. “Obama: We will defeat ISIS like we did al-Qaeda,” AFP, September 5, 2014:

US President Barack Obama said Friday he was confident he could gather a broad international coalition to defeat Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria, following two days of talks at the NATO summit.

“I leave here confident that NATO allies and partners are prepared to join in a broad, international coalition,” Obama said after a meeting of the Western military alliance in Wales. “We’re going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL (IS’s previous name) the same way we’ve gone after al-Qaeda,” he said.

Following the beheading of two US journalists by the Islamic State, which has overrun swaths of northern Iraq and Syria, Obama said there was “unanimity” among NATO members that the group “poses a significant threat”.

Obama cautioned that “it’s not going to happen overnight”, but “we’re going to achieve our goal.

US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to the Middle East to seek support of regional powers, Obama said, insisting that Arab involvement was “absolutely critical”.

The president added: “Our hope is the Iraqi government is actually formed and finalised next week. That, then, allows us to work with them on a broader strategy.”

Kerry on Friday co-chaired with Britain a meeting of ministers from Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Turkey in a bid to win support for the fight against IS.

IS caught the world by surprise when it made huge territorial gains and declared an Islamic “caliphate” in an area straddling Iraq and Syria countries.

The US has conducted more than 100 airstrikes in northern Iraq in recent weeks, allowing Kurdish and Iraqi forces to regain ground lost to the jihadists.

Other countries have provided humanitarian assistance and intelligence, while Germany and France are providing military equipment to Kurdish fighters battling IS in northern Iraq.

Kerry stressed Friday that there would be “no boots on the ground” in the US strategy against IS, but added that “there are many ways in which we can train, advise, assist, and equip”.

He urged allies to consider how they could contribute so the US could have a plan at the UN General Assembly meeting later this month.

European allies, while supportive of the US initiative, are proceeding with caution.

Britain has left the door open to air strikes in Iraq, but Prime Minister David Cameron played down the prospect of any immediate action….

Photos Surface of Jihadists Posing with Captured Jetliners in Tripoli

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

You know those eleven missing jetliners? Jihad jetliners.

More of Obama’s handiwork in ousting Qaddafi for the jihadists.

As for the missing jetliners, I believe they will be used against the kufar (the non-believers) but no necessarily September 11th. It’s too obvious. September 11th is a day of infamy because of jihadi attacks on American soil. They can pick anyday and make a 9/11. They can attack on say, 11/11, kill thousands and then that day will be a 9/11.

The West is giving far too much power and credence to these devout savages.

Photos Surface of Jihadists Allegedly Posing with Captured Jetliners in Tripoli, Breitbart, September 5, 2014

Photos have surfaced on Twitter of smiling men celebrating in front of airplanes, alleged to be images of the capture of Tripoli’s airport by jihadist forces.

The seizure of the Libyan capital’s airport–and eleven of its commercial jetliners–has caused concern that the Islamists will use the planes for an attack on September 11.

The Daily Mail highlights a series of photos from virulently pro-Muammar Qaddafi tweeter @Volksbüro which appears to show celebrations at Tripoli airport after the defeat of the Libyan army. Showcasing images of the men at the airport, the Twitter user tweets:

The jihadist group’s behavior echoes that of another group of militia fighters who captured a U.S. embassy annex in the Libyan capital, then posted photos of themselves online enjoying a dip in the...

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Iran okays military cooperation with US in fight against Islamic State

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

Obama is going to make Iran a world power. Why team with Iran to go to war against the Islamic State, aka ISIS aka ISIL? Why not our allies in the region, Israel and Egypt? Because, like Iran, Obama hates America.

From the very beginning of his presidency, Obama’s strategy has been to align with the axis of evil.

Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terror. Iran is the head of the snake.

During his first presidential campaign in 2008, Mr. Obama used a secret back channel to Tehran to assure the mullahs that he was a friend of the Islamic Republic, and that they would be very happy with his policies. The secret channel was Ambassador William G. Miller, who served in Iran during the shah’s rule, as chief of staff for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and as ambassador to Ukraine. Ambassador Miller has confirmed to me his conversations with Iranian leaders during the 2008 campaign.

Ever since, President Obama’s quest for an alliance with Iran has been conducted through at least four channels: Iraq, Switzerland (the official U.S. representative to Tehran), Oman and a variety of American intermediaries, the most notable of whom is probably Valerie Jarrett, his closest adviser. In recent months, Middle Eastern leaders reported personal visits from Ms. Jarrett, who briefed them on her efforts to manage the Iranian relationship. This was confirmed to me by a former high-ranking American official who says he was so informed by several Middle Eastern...

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According To The Federal Government, There’s No Such Thing As Islamist Terrorism

by Sam Rolley / Personal Liberty Digest

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As violent Islamic extremists in the Middle East vow to bring bloodshed to the U.S. homeland, the federal government continues its politically correct willful ignorance of the threat radical Islam poses to the well-being of American citizens.

Last week, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that his country raised its terror threat level to “severe,” its second-highest spot, because of the ISIS terror threat.

“The ambition to create an extremist caliphate in the heart of Iraq and Syria is a threat to our own security here in the UK,” he said.

Cameron also spoke of the challenges related to responding to a terrorist threat rooted in religious extremism.

“This threat cannot be solved simply by dealing with perceived grievances over Western foreign policy,” he said. “Nor can it be dealt with by addressing poverty, dictatorship or instability in the region — as important as these things are.

“The root cause of this threat to our security is quite clear. It is a poisonous ideology of Islamist extremism that is condemned by all faiths and faith leaders.”

The British actions and willingness to admit that Islamic extremism is a major threat contrast sharply with the stance that American officials have taken in conversations about ISIS.

Last week, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that there was no indication that ISIS is plotting attacks against the U.S.

“I can tell you with great clarity and certainty that if that threat existed inside of Syria that it would certainly be my strong recommendation that we would deal with it,” he said. “I have every confidence that the president of the United States would deal with it.”

Officials at the U.S. State Department have taken a similar stance, claiming that there was no indication that ISIS is religiously motivated or bent on attacking the U.S.

“This is not about [ISIS] versus the United States,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said.

“They are killing anyone who gets in their way: Sunnis, Shia Muslims, Christians, Yazidis, Iraqis, Syrians, anyone who gets in their way — and now an American.”
“So this is not about what the United States is or isn’t doing,” Harf continued. “This is about [ISIS] stated a commitment to murder, rape, enslave people who don’t agree with their ideology and who get in their way.”

She later added, “[T]hey can say whatever they’d like, but what I am making clear is that’s not what [ISIS] represents. And they don’t represent any religion. They are at war with everybody they come into contact with.”

Obama to reportedly delay any executive action on immigration until after elections

Associated Press

Abandoning his pledge to act by the end of summer, President Barack Obama has decided to delay any executive action on immigration until after the November congressional elections, White House officials said.

The move is certain to infuriate immigration advocates while offering relief to some vulnerable Democrats in tough Senate re-election contests.

Two White House officials said Obama concluded that circumventing Congress through executive actions on immigration during the campaign would politicize the issue and hurt future efforts to pass a broad overhaul.

The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the president's decision before it was announced, said Obama made his decision Friday as he returned to Washington from a NATO summit in Wales.

They said Obama called a few allies from Air Force One and informed them of his decision, and that the president made more calls from the White House on Saturday.

The officials said Obama had no specific timeline to act, but that he still would take his executive steps before the end of the year.

In a Rose Garden speech on June 30, Obama said he had directed Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Attorney General Eric Holder to give him recommendations for executive action by the end of summer. Obama also pledged to "adopt those recommendations without further delay."

Obama faced competing pressures from immigration advocacy groups that wanted prompt action and from Democrats worried that acting now would energize Republican opposition against vulnerable Senate Democrats.

Among those considered most at risk were Democratic Sens. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Kay Hagan of North Carolina.

Obama advisers were not convinced that any presidential action would affect the elections. But the officials said the discussions around the timing grew more pronounced within the past few weeks.

Ultimately, the advisers drew a lesson from 1994 when Democratic losses were blamed on votes for gun control legislation, undermining any interest in passing future gun measures.

White House officials said aides realized that if Obama's immigration action was deemed responsible for Democratic losses this year, it could hurt any attempt to pass a broad overhaul later on.

Partisan fighting erupted recently over how to address the increased flow of unaccompanied minors from Central America at the U.S. border with Mexico. The officials said the White House had not envisioned such a battle when Obama made his pledge June 30.

Obama asked for $3.7 billion to address the border crisis. The Republican-controlled House, however, passed a measure that only gave Obama a fraction of what he sought and made it easier to deport the young migrants arriving at the border, a provision opposed by Democrats and immigration advocates. In the end, Congress adjourned without a final bill.

The number of minors caught alone illegally crossing the Mexican border into the United States has been declining since June. That decrease and Congress' absence from Washington during August has taken attention away from the border for now.

Weekend Edition: Benghazi, the Truth and Men of Honor

By Craig Andresen / The National Patriot

Among the many REAL issues that we, as Conservatives, Tea Publicans and Republicans must put front and center for the 2014 midterm elections, right along with Obamacare, the IRS targeting, the NSA spying, our economy and the most disastrous foreign policy imaginable..is Benghazi.

The interview Bret Baier of Fox News did with three of the CIA ops who were ON THE GROUND…IN BENGHAZI that night, September 11^th, 2012, was THE most telling of any interview done so far.

Critics will gnash their teeth…claiming that all they’re trying to do is sell a book. Yes, there is a book, “13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi” written by Mitchell Zockoff along with the security team from Benghazi but these three…Kris (“Tanto”) Paronto, Mark (“Oz”) Geist, and John (“Tig”) Tiegen have a lot more to lose than to gain by speaking up.

Under this Obama regime, they’re through. They’re done in the intel community because the truth of what happened there doesn’t match the Obama fabrication of those events.

Not even close.

According to Baier’s interview, those three men, on the CIA security detail in Bengahzi were ready, geared up, armed, ready and calling for close air support to go to the compound, just a mile away, within five minutes of the start of the attack.

Not only did that close air support never come but…Tiegen, Paronto and Geist were told to wait.

That’s right…

Click on link to read full article ... http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/2014/09/06/weekend-edition-benghazi-the-truth-and-men-of-honor/

Op-ed:
An Open Letter to Barack HUSSEIN Obama Regarding Sgt. Andrew Tahmoorissi By: Diane Sori

Mr. President,

While I know you have your hands full with all your leading from behind, and with you trying to 'save face' by cobbling out a strategy of sorts for dealing with ISIS after saying you have NO strategy at all...but you also need to put this on your agenda, Mr. President, so let me give you a memory jolt...remember when you said, “We don’t leave men and women in uniform behind.” Remember back in June when you tried to justify your five Taliban for one American deserter swap...

Well...I'd say that's NOT quite true, Mr. President (and I will call you that with all sarcasm intended throughout), but you do indeed leave those in uniform and those serving our country behind...do the names Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty mean anything to you...you know of Benghazi fame or should I say shame...you know the ones you NOT only left behind but the ones (I believe) you made sure died.

And does the name Andrew Tahmoorissi mean anything to you...guess NOT as you and your administration have left him behind to rot in a Mexican jail for simply making a wrong turn. Shame on you, Mr. President...shame shame shame on you...as you are deliberately and knowingly leaving a man in uniform behind when a simple phone call to Mexican President Nieto would free him. And this leaves me to wonder if this is your payback for getting caught having your hand in the 'Fast and Furious' cookie jar...or perhaps this is some sort of deal you cut with the Mexican government to appease the drug cartels...to make them 'go away' until after the November mid-term elections so as NOT to hurt your party...just wondering.

And, Mr. President, race-baiter that you are...we all know that if Andrew Tahmoorisi was black instead of white he would have been out of jail and safely home by now...and we all know that if Andrew Tahmorissi had been a muslim he would have been out of jail and home within a few short days of his arrest...we know it...you know we know it...and you don't give a damn that we do.

So in case you've forgotten...what with all you have to do to arrange your next golf date that 'We the People' have to pay for...let me again refresh your memory, Mr. President...Andrew Tahmoorisi is the decorated U.S. Marine Sergeant who was in San Diego to be treated for PTSD resulting from his service in Afghanistan, who by accident ...with 'accident' being the key word here...crossed into Mexico at a very poorly marked border crossing. Andrew Tahmoorissi is the Marine who at the time this happened had in his possession three LEGALLY owned firearms as well as ammunition, which he...honorable man that he is...immediately disclosed to the Mexican border guard as he tried to explain over and over that he had simply made a wrong turn...that he had NOTHING to hide...that he just wanted to turn around and go home.

But the actions of an overzealous guard to what should have been a minor incident...as in an unintentional violation of a Mexican law (involving gun transportation) which citizens of that country violate in our country everyday... turned serious...turned into an international incident of sorts...when the Mexican government decided to arrest Sgt. Tahmoorissi rather than simply escorting him back across the border. They could have even confiscated his guns and sent him back home without them if it was the guns that truly concerned them but NO...they had to arrest him and throw him in a maximum security prison that rumor has it is controlled by the drug cartels...there's that nefarious drug connection rearing its ugly head yet again, Mr. President...just saying.

And to make matters worse, Sgt. Tahmoorissi...who has been held since March... was chained like an animal to his bed...you saw the pictures of this as did we, Mr. President, and yet this did NOT bother you...it did NOT bother you that an American...that a man who put his life on the line to keep America safe and free at home...was being treated so barbarically in a country that 'supposedly' is a friend to America. It did NOT bother you. Mr. President, for if it had Sgt. Tahmoorissi would now be free.

Some friend Mexico is NOT...what with their sending thousands of anything but immigrants into our country ILLEGALLY every day...but I digress...so easy to do with you, Mr. President, because there is just so much wrong with you and your administration...sigh.

So, despite the fact that hundreds of millions of our tax payer dollars are being sent to Mexico each year for God only knows what...despite the fact that you and your administration turns a blind eye to the millions of Mexican citizens that break NOT just our immigration laws but so many other of our laws on a daily basis... despite the fact that American tourism accounts for more than ten percent of Mexico’s economy...you, Mr. President, does NOTHING to put pressure on the Mexican government...on Mexican President Nieto...to release Sgt. Tahmoorissi...and release him now. In fact, you did NOT even mention him in any of your many phone calls to President Nieto. And why NOT, Mr. President...why the hell NOT.

But if memory serves me correctly you did allow Sgt. Tahmoorissi to be sent orders to report for active duty. Pray tell, Mr. President, how is he supposed to do that while rotting behind bars in a Mexican jail...NOT going to happen so I guess you did this just to get pleasure rubbing salt into his wounds...so I guess you did this to get pleasure by making his family...his white non-muslim American family...worry even more than they already do.

So as Sgt. Tahmoorissi awaits yet another day in court...wasting Mexican time and money when they should be out arresting and trying the drug lords and their cartel members that seem to be the ones who are in actuality running their country...while he awaits yet another anything but expeditious process of his case...and it seems his case will drag on and on as there are 108 hours of border crossing tape that still have to be viewed by the judge...I just wonder, Mr. President, if your lack of concern about the fate of Sgt, Tahmoorissi is because you truly do NOT care about the fate of any American anywhere...remember you went to play golf immediately after issuing that lame statement about the beheading of American reporter James Foley...and that shows where your heart...where your compassion...where your loyalties lie...and they are NOT with America or Americans that's for sure.

Mr. President, if you want this one of many scandals facing you and your administration to 'go away' why don't you pick up that phone with one hand and pick up your pen with your other hand and tell President Nieto that either he has Sgt. Tahmoorissi released now...as in immediately...or you will Executive Order all tourism into Mexico stopped by shutting down border crossings both in and out of Mexico...that you will order all U.S. aid...and I mean all aid...to Mexico stopped...as in you will hit Mexico hard...you will hit them where it will hurt them the most...as in their pocketbook.

So, Mr. President, enough is enough...the American people have spoken through the 100,000 signature petition you so cavalierly addressed and then dismissed...we have spoken in one united voice to demand that you get Sgt. Andrew Tahmoorissi ...one of America's brave warriors...home and get him home now. Screw your placating Mexico...and screw your covering your own butt for we all know that 'Fast and Furious' is behind your actions or should I say your inactions where Sgt. Tahmoorissi is concerned.

And so I will now sign off with all due respect, Mr. President...which in your case is very little if any at all.

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