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    Killing women, DOCTORS who were there to help no less.

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    Islamic State Executes Women & Doctors in 'Collaborators' Purge

    Six people have been shot to death in two days in Mosul as the Islamic State elimiates perceived collaborators from areas it controls.
    Sun, September 7, 2014


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    The Islamic State executed six people in Mosul in two days, according to security sources and eyewitnesses. The victims, including three women -- two of whom were doctors -- were shot.


    The Islamic State is conducting an operation of abducting and killing all of the people that it suspects of collaborating with the Baghdad-based Iraqi government.



    One eyewitness told AFP that the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) raided two houses of female doctors who had refused to treat wounded fighters of the Islamic State. They also raided the house of a losing candidate for the parliamentary elections who had lost. Her name was Zaina Nouri Mullah Abdallah el-Ansi. The organization shot the victims dead in front of their houses and took the bodies to the forensic institute. It refuses to give the bodies over to the families for burial, something confirmed by eyewitnesses and the forensic institute.




    Election poster for losing candidate Zaina Nouri Mullah Abdallah el-Ansi


    Two weeks ago the organization executed a doctor who refused to wear a himar (a type of veil) which they obligated all the female staff in the hospital wear.


    On Friday night September 5, a convoy of armored cars and Humvees besieged the house of the Sheik Maisar Farman el-Waka, one of the leading figures of the el-Jabour tribe in the area of al-Kiara.


    The sources said that el-Waka, another candidate that lost in the last elections, was lead from his house, together with his two brothers where they were executed in the street in the village of al-Houd (60km south of Mosul). The people of the organization then blew up the el-Waka's house (which he shared with his brothers) and burned all their cars before retreating from the area.


    The organization also abducted 50 young people from a Sunni village near Al-Hawaija west of Kirkuk after young people in this area burned an Islamic State flag.
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    Dem Rep: Obama Made ‘Mistake’ Not Condemning ISIS More Harshly Over Beheadings

    September 8, 2014 10:12 AM




    WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee believes President Barack Obama made a “mistake” for not condemning the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria terror group more harshly for beheading American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.


    Speaking to CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” Rep. C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger said Americans needed to hear rhetoric that Vice President Joe Biden offered when he stated the U.S. would follow ISIS “to the gates of hell” following the release of the Sotloff beheading video.


    “I think the president made a mistake when he did not come out as strong after we had an American’s head cut off, not one but two,” Ruppersberger told CBS News. “I think he should have stood up and very strongly said we are not gonna take it, we are going to come after you to bring you to justice. And I think the president realized that he had to be stronger.”


    Obama announced on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that he will be making a speech on Wednesday about how the U.S. will combat the terror group that has taken over a swath of territory in Syria and Iraq.


    “What I’m going to be asking the American people to understand is, number one, this is a serious threat. Number two, we have the capacity to deal with it,” Obama said.


    Ruppersberger stated that Obama needs to “reassure the American public and the world that we are standing up” to ISIS, adding that the U.S. should make sure they have sufficient intelligence to take out the terror group’s leadership if conducting airstrikes in Syria.


    “You wanna kill a snake, you cut its head off and I believe that’s what we have to do to find out where their leadership is and go after it,” he told CBS News.


    Ruppersberger added: “I am willing to do what we need to do, but I don’t want to tell ISIS what we are going to do before we do it. And I think that is what concerns me, to just say go in and bomb them.”


    On NBC News, the president reiterated he will not put American boots on the ground and that it would be a “profound mistake” to send U.S. troops into Syria to take on ISIS.
    “This is not the equivalent of the Iraq war,” Obama explained.


    “Over the course of months, we are going to be able to not just blunt the momentum of ISIL. We are going to systematically degrade their capabilities. We’re going to shrink the territory that they control. And that’s how we’re going to defeat them,” Obama said.


    Obama said that the U.S. will hunt ISIS terrorists wherever they are.


    “The strategy for Iraq and for Syria is that we will hunt down ISIL members and assets wherever they are. I will reserve the right to always protect the American people and go after folks who are trying to hurt us wherever they are,” he told NBC News.


    So far, the Islamic State has beheaded two American journalists it held captive for what the militants called payback for more than 120 U.S. airstrikes on its assets in northern Iraq since Aug. 8. James Foley and Steven Sotloff were two of what the State Department has described as “a few” Americans still being held hostage by the group.

    The Islamic State also had threatened to kill a British man it is holding hostage.
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    Good NEWS!

    President Obama has come up with a strategy!

    I think he is going golfing again....
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    Leave it to the Russians.


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    Russian Website Hosts Terror Propaganda

    Posted: September 8, 2014 | Author: Pundit from another Planet | Filed under: Censorship, Global, Russia, War Room |Leave a comment
    Adam Kredo reports: Propaganda and media accounts associated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL or ISIS) are now being hosted by a Russian social media platform after the terror group was thrown off U.S. sites such as Twitter, according to a new intelligence report.
    “The fastest-growing sectarian minority in Russia is also the one being radicalized. You’re going to get a sizable minority of the radicalized Muslims in Russia that will be at least intrigued by ISIL.”

    At least 18 official ISIL accounts responsible for disseminating the group’s violent propaganda, including two videos of Americans being beheaded, are currently being hosted by the VK website, Russia’s largest social network, according to an intelligence brief released by the SITE Intelligence Group.
    “Regional experts said that while the Russian officials may not be formally behind the movement of these ISIL accounts, it is likely some are turning a blind eye due to the terror group’s rabid anti-Americanism.”

    VK, which resembles Facebook, has upwards of 250 million subscribers and is known for hosting the social media site of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who, along with his brother Tamerlan, executed the April 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon.
    The relocation of ISIL’s official accounts to Russia highlights the challenge governments face in combatting the media-savvy terror group’s online presence. It also raises questions about the Russian government’s ability to stem the growing radicalization among its Muslim population, which has risen exponentially, experts say.
    VK has served as the “primary location” for ISIL and its affiliates to disseminate propaganda and various announcements, according to SITE. ISIL planned to release the video of its followers beheading American journalist Steven Sotloff on VK, the intelligence group said in its report.
    ISIL’s leading disseminators of terrorist propaganda are said to have been operating on VK since at least August, according to SITE. At least 15 of the 18 accounts officially represent ISIL’s local branches, such as those in Damascus and throughout Iraq, the brief said.
    The ISIL accounts on VK behave similarly to those recently hosted on Twitter, which has cracked down on users associated with the group in recent weeks. The ISIL accounts publish “promotional videos, magazines, and other material,” according to SITE…(read more)
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    Arab states join forces against ISIS, as Obama preps strategy

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    Arab League nations called Monday for combating Islamic State extremists, acting to join forces against the terror threat as President Obama continues to forge his own coalition for battling the extremist group.


    It's not clear to what extent the Arab League and western allies are coordinating.


    The league's resolution, issued after late-night meetings of Arab foreign ministers a day earlier, doesn't explicitly back American military action against the group. On a separate track, Obama administration officials met Friday in Wales with mostly European allies to discuss the Islamic State threat.


    Obama, though, is seeking an international coalition to challenge the Islamic State group and has urged nations in the region to get involved.


    Secretary of State John Kerry is due to travel to the Middle East this month in an effort to secure the backing of Arab states for an anti-ISIS campaign, while Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was due to arrive in Turkey on Monday to press that country's leadership for support.


    Obama is expected to outline his plan Wednesday to the American people.


    The Arab League resolution calls for immediate measures to combat the group on the political, defense, security and legal levels.


    The resolution backed the United Nations resolution issued last month that imposed sanctions on a number of the group's fighters and called on countries to adopt measures to combat terrorism. The council resolution was adopted under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, meaning it can be militarily enforced.


    The move comes after the head of the 22-member Arab League urged the group's members to make a "clear and firm decision for a comprehensive confrontation" with "cancerous and terrorist" groups. Nabil Elaraby called ISIS a threat to the existence of Iraq and its neighbors and "one of the examples of the challenges that are violently shaking the Arab world, and one the Arab League, regrettably, has not been able to confront."


    Iraq faces an unprecedented crisis after the Islamic State group's offensive, which included militants committing beheadings and mass killings while targeting minorities in the country.


    In an attack on Monday, a bomber drove an explosives-laden Humvee, apparently seized from the Iraqi military, into the gathering of a major Sunni tribe, the Jabour, and security forces in Duluiyah, some 45 miles north of Baghdad, a police officer said.


    The explosion killed 16 and wounded at least 55 people, the officer said. A health official confirmed the casualties.


    Meanwhile, the Obama administration reportedly is preparing a campaign to destroy the Islamic State militant group that could outlast the president's remaining time in office, according to The New York Times.


    Citing U.S. officials, the Times reported late Sunday that the White House plan involves three phases that some Pentagon officials believe will require at least three years of sustained effort.


    The first phase, airstrikes against Islamic State, also known as ISIS, is already under way in Iraq, where U.S. aircraft have launched 143 attacks since August 8. The second phase involves an intensified effort to train, advise, and equip the Iraqi Army, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, and any Sunni tribesmen willing to fight their ISIS co-religionists.

    The Times reports that this second phase will begin sometime after Iraq forms a new government, which could happen this week.


    The third and most politically fraught phase of the campaign, according to The Times, would require airstrikes against ISIS inside Syria. Last month, the government of Bashar Assad in Damascus warned the Obama administration not to launch airstrikes against ISIS in Syria without its permission.


    Obama was scheduled to outline his plan in a meeting Tuesday with House and Senate leaders before addressing the nation in a speech Wednesday, the eve of the 13th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.
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    Raped and decapitated - and there's no "motive"?????????????


    Three Italian nuns murdered in Burundi – officials

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    BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – Three Italian nuns were found killed, two of them raped and decapitated, over the weekend in the north of Burundi’s capital, officials and a priest in the African state said on Monday.


    Police said three suspects had been detained for questioning. A motive was not immediately clear.


    Father Mario Pulicini, who is responsible for the parish in a northern suburb of Bujumbura, named two of the nuns as Lucia Pulici, who was 75 and due to celebrate her birthday on Monday, and Olga Raschietti, 82. He said they were found decapitated in their dormitory on Sunday.


    The third nun, 79-year-old Bernadetta Boggian, was found dead early on Monday morning, he told Reuters. The killings appeared to have happened at two separate times, he said.


    “It is very difficult to know the reason behind the killing, but nothing can justify it,” Father Mario said.


    Evidence showed that two of the nuns had been raped before they were killed, police spokesman Hermenegilde Harimenshi said. They had been “partially decapitated,” Harimenshi said.


    Italy’s Foreign Ministry also reported the three murders. The Vatican said Pope Francis was “greatly saddened” by the killings.


    “Pope Francis has learned with great sadness of the murder of three nuns,” Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said in a telegram sent on the pope’s behalf.


    The pope offered condolences in the “tragic death” of the nuns to their families, the local parishioners and the sisters’ order, the Xavarian Missionary Sisters of Mary.


    The Catholic diocese in Parma, Italy, said on its website that the death of Pulici and Raschietti appeared to have been “the tragic outcome of an armed robbery by a mentally unbalanced person”.


    The two nuns had served in Burundi for seven years, after working several years in the east of another central African state, the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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    Three Italian nuns found murdered in Burundi parish, authorities say

    Lucia Pulici, who was 75, and Olga Raschietti, 82, were found dead on Sunday. The third nun, 79-year-old Bernadetta Boggian, was found early on Monday morning. Officials believe the slayings happened at two separate times.

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    MISSIONARIE DI MARIA/AFP/Getty Images Slain nun Lucia Pulici was 75 and due to celebrate her birthday on Monday.

    Three Italian nuns were found murdered over the weekend in a parish in the north of Burundi's capital, officials and a priest in the African state said on Monday, in killings the Vatican said had "greatly saddened" Pope Francis.
    Police said two suspects had been detained for questioning.
    Father Mario Pulicini, responsible for the parish in a northern suburb of Bujumbura, named two of the nuns as Lucia Pulici, who was 75 and due to celebrate her birthday on Monday, and Olga Raschietti, 82. He said they were found dead in their dormitory on Sunday.
    The third nun, 79-year-old Bernadetta Boggian, was found early on Monday morning, he told Reuters, adding that the killings appeared to have happened at two separate times.
    "It is very difficult to know the reason behind the killing, but nothing can justify it," Father Mario said.
    Italy's Foreign Ministry also reported the three murders.
    MISSIONARIE DI MARIA/AFP/Getty Images Bernadetta Boggian, 79, was found dead Monday morning.
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    MISSIONARIE DI MARIA/AFP/Getty Images Olga Raschietti, 82, was found in her dormitory on Sunday.
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    "Pope Francis has learned with great sadness of the murder of three nuns," Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said in a telegram sent on the pope's behalf.
    The pope offered condolences in the "tragic death" of the nuns to their families, the local parishioners and the sisters' order, the Xavarian Missionary Sisters of Mary.
    The Catholic diocese in Parma, Italy, said on its website that the death of Pulici and Raschietti appeared to have been "the tragic outcome of an armed robbery by a mentally unbalanced person".
    The two nuns had served in Burundi for seven years, after working several years in the east of another central African state, the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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    The Arab League has voted to CONFRONT ISIS!

    Well.... FINALLY they might get off their asses and do something about these animals....

    Though, I somehow DOUBT it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by American Patriot View Post
    The Arab League has voted to CONFRONT ISIS!

    Well.... FINALLY they might get off their asses and do something about these animals....

    Though, I somehow DOUBT it.
    They will do nothing, as long as the Arab country being attacked isn't their own, hating their neighbors more than this Salafist threat. So one by one, they will fall.
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    Looks like War on Terror continues folks.

    We're about to start bombing the holy bejesuz out of ISIS.

    Why?

    71% of the American Public said "Do it!"

    A 17% increase in a week.
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    The message ISIS wants to send to America, the world

    By James A. Phillips
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    The grisly propaganda videos released by Islamist terrorists of the executions of innocent American hostages are coldly calculated to intimidate the terrorist group’s enemies, inspire its followers and incite further attacks against the United States and our allies.


    The Islamic State (formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS) considers the videos a means of retaliating against the United States for supporting Iraqis who are resisting the group’s barbaric advances. The videos also are meant to inflate others’ perceptions of ISIS’s strength and to plant the idea that the United States is incapable of halting the slaughter of its own citizens, much less the slaughter of Iraqis and Syrians that ISIS deems to be obstacles to its self-proclaimed jihad (holy war).


    In the most recent video depicting the decapitation of the American reporter Steven Sotloff, the masked terrorist sought to humiliate President Obama personally."I'm back, Obama,” he crowed, “and I'm back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State." The gruesome video then shows Sotloff's severed head lying next to his body.


    ISIS aims to horrify Americans to discourage increased U.S. military involvement in combatting the Islamic State. But there also was another target audience: supporters and potential recruits for that terrorist movement.
    ISIS aims to horrify Americans to discourage increased U.S. military involvement in combatting the Islamic State. But there also was another target audience: supporters and potential recruits for that terrorist movement.


    The slickly-packaged jihadist propaganda seeks to stimulate and galvanize members of the movement, spur potential recruits to join in the carnage and incite additional terrorist attacks against the United States.


    The spectacle of ritual killing is meant to dramatize the power of the movement and the helplessness of its victims, thereby encouraging fanaticism among its followers. As Eric Hoffer observed in his seminal book, “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”:


    “The practice of terror serves the true believer not only to cow and crush his opponents but also to invigorate and intensify his own faith.”



    The videos also are an important recruiting tool.By displaying a young Muslim militant boldly taunting a superpower, it advertises an intoxicating blend of religious fanaticism and revolutionary violence that attracts impressionable young males.


    Unfortunately, in the Middle East, the ruthless employment of violence often is taken as a sign of strength that should be emulated. As Usama bin Laden proclaimed, “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.”


    The Islamic State, an offshoot of bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network, shares his revolutionary Islamist ideology.It sees itself as the vanguard in a never-ending struggle between Islam and non-believers.


    Today, the Islamic State is primarily focused on carving a revolutionary Islamic stronghold out of the failed states of Iraq and Syria. But ultimately it seeks to overthrow every government in the region, drive Western influence out of the Middle East, destroy Israel and become the nucleus of a global Islamic empire.


    Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, its ambitious leader, represents a new generation of Al Qaeda leadership that has bristled at criticism of its extreme brutality from old guard leaders such as Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s successor.


    Baghdadi recently proclaimed the establishment of a caliphate and renamed himself Caliph Ibrahim.This signals his determination to become recognized not only as the true successor of Usama bin Laden, but more importantly as the successor to the prophet Muhammad.


    This claim has been ridiculed by Islamic scholars and rejected by many rival Islamist extremist groups.But it adds a dangerous new dimension to the appeal of the Islamic State that is being amplified by a sophisticated propaganda apparatus that spews high quality media content on a variety of social media that appeal to young Muslims.


    Get ready to see more chilling videos from fanatical terrorists seeking to cloak their atrocities with religious justifications.


    James Phillips is the Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs in The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies.
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    ISIS is spreading, experts warn

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    By Kristina Wong - 09/08/14 07:09 PM EDT



    Experts say the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is spreading to other countries and inspiring terrorist groups toward greater acts of brutality.


    ISIS gained global attention in August by beheading two American journalists and is quickly gaining new followers, including al Qaeda's most dangerous affiliate.



    In a page directly from ISIS's playbook, members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) last month captured 14 unarmed Yemeni soldiers, beheaded them, and then publicized the bloodshed by posting photos and videos online, according to local news reports.

    Jalal Baleedi, an influential field commander in the group who supports ISIS, ordered the executions on Aug. 9.


    Experts said the public beheadings are unprecedented for AQAP and provide a clear indication that ISIS’s tactics have spread to Yemen.


    “This has not happened in Yemen before. There have been isolated cases of beheadings, but to have it in this structured way, this is only after ISIS came to existence. So definitely, Yemeni AQAP is taking lessons from ISIS,” said Abdul Ghani, a Yemeni political analyst and advisory board member of Human Rights Watch for the Middle East and North Africa region.


    U.S. officials have said they are extremely concerned about the prospect of the two groups linking up and trading information.


    “It would be dangerous to ignore the potential of a deadly merging of AQAP’s capabilities and ISIL’s Western-documented personnel, safe haven, and freedom of travel,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) told The Hill on Monday, using an alternate acronym for the group.


    National Counterterrorism Center Director Matthew Olsen last week said the possibility of the groups teaming up is a “grave concern” for the administration.


    “We're watching that situation very closely,” he said at the Brookings Institution.


    An alliance between the groups could have far-reaching consequences, according to Attorney General Eric Holder.


    “That’s a deadly combination, where you have people who have the technical know-how along with the people who have this kind of fervor to give their lines in support of a cause that is directed at the United States and directed at its allies,” Holder said this summer on ABC.


    Experts say the debate about whether to pledge allegiance to ISIS or to Al Qaeda is playing out among jihadists around the world.


    While AQAP’s chief, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, has stayed noticeably silent on ISIS, a top spiritual AQAP leader, Abdul Majid Al-Raymi, recently issued allegiance to ISIS’s leader, Abu Bakir al-Baghdadi, and asked all his Yemeni followers to follow suit, Ghani said.


    That declaration could be a trial balloon for AQAP, he said.


    Several other AQAP leaders in Yemen and around the world have also pledged support to ISIS since it captured Mosul in Northern Iraq in June and declared the establishment of a caliphate.


    According to analysis by The Long War Journal, run by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, ISIS now has active supporters in at least 32 countries around the world, including Canada, Australia, 11 countries in Europe, five countries in the Middle East, six countries in Africa and eight countries in Asia.


    On Aug. 23, the founder of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada Syed Soharwardy said ISIS was recruiting in Canada, and at least 130 Canadians were fighting with extremist groups abroad.


    According to FOX News, Texas law enforcement sent out a recent bulletin warning that ISIS militants were expressing an interest in crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.


    The deadliest attack so far in Europe involved French national Mehdi Nemmouche, who killed three people at a Jewish museum in Belgium on May 24.


    In Norway on July 24, security police in Norway warned of a "credible" threat of an imminent terrorist attack against targets in Norway by people connected with Islamic extremists in Syria.


    There have been multiple arrests in Denmark, France, Germany, Kosovo, Luxembourg, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Bosnia related to support of ISIS or extremist groups in Iraq and Syria.


    “What we have seen so far, not necessarily an alignment of other groups wholesale. We have seen individuals, including influential individuals within some of these groups that state their either alliance with ISIL, [or in] some cases, more affinity for the successes that ISIL has had and their tactics,” said Olsen.


    “It’s a very dynamic situation,” he said.
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    The End of Weakness?





    9 Sep 2014 08:18 AM EST


    - by Jorge Vargas, Editor


    It's rare when Christianity, Judaism and moderate, mainstream Islam come under attack by one group, but such is the case in Iraq and Syria at this very moment. The public outcry, however, has been almost insignificant despite the mass extermination that Islamic State is carrying out against Christians in Iraq.


    Among the great nations of the world, most have remained silent. Germany has courageously agreed to send weapons to those taking up arms against ISIS, and Britain has passed laws barring homegrown jihadists from returning to the UK. The United States has carried out air strikes, and President Obama has limited himself to confusing, often contradictory, speeches that simultaneously threaten and appease ISIS.


    Despite this, the Obama Administration bears a great responsibility for the current crisis. First, the administration failed to send Iraq the promised equipment, leaving Iraq as a nation without an air force, requiring the Iraqi Army to fight ISIS without a shred of significant air support. Second, the Administration emboldened ISIS to step forward by failing to enforce its red lines in Syria and by failing to arm the moderate rebels in Syria's civil war.


    Mr. Obama is expected to give a speech this week during which he'll finally propose a plan to deal with Islamic State, a true cancer in the region. We can only hope that his plan will include greater support to the Kurds and to the Iraqi military, along with more coordinated air support and possibly military advisors for the Iraqis. We also hope that his speech will announce some kind of alliance or support from Saudi Arabia, a nation with the military strength to greatly assist Iraq and which would keep Iraq from becoming a pawn of Iran, something that grows more likely with each day that the West fails to assist Iraq.


    But given this administration's track record, we won't get our hopes up.
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    Ok... this is hot off the presses. I've been waiting for confirmation on this, though I believed without a doubt this asshat was a converted Muslim. He was. I also made a comment about that neighborhood. Don't ask me how I know... but I knew it was a predominately muslim area.


    Elderly British woman beheaded by muslim (I no longer capitalize the word) while tending her garden.

    Posted on September 9, 2014 by thomas madison

    By Pamela Geller, WND


    One day after the gruesome beheading of the second American journalist in almost as many days, Palmira Silva, an elderly woman of Italian descent, had her head chopped off while gardening in her backyard in a suburb of London, in broad daylight.


    British authorities, notoriously derelict in their duties whenever those duties interfere with their overarching task of protecting and advancing Islam, alerted the media, while insisting it was not “terrorism.” Scotland Yard made the same assertions.


    How could they know? The blood was still pouring out of the woman’s neck. They didn’t initially release any information about the beheader, saying only that it wasn’t terrorism. But of course, any rational thinker was suspicious. Were they insisting it wasn’t terrorism because the perpetrator wasn’t Muslim? Or were they insisting that it wasn’t terrorism because the perp was Muslim?


    Needless to say, the perpetrator did turn out to be Muslim: Nicholas Salvadore, “Fat Nick,” a convert to Islam. The enemedia, true to form, is not giving his Muslim name. Indeed, from the very first, the media obfuscated the fact that he is a Muslim.


    Before murdering Palmira Silvia, Salvadore attacked several people in the neighborhood. But unlike the jihad beheading of British soldier Lee Rigby on a public street in broad daylight, there was nobody there videoing him citing the Quran: At the site of the murder, one of Rigby’s killers, Mujahid Abu Hamza (universally referred to in the media by the name he had rejected, Michael Adebolajo), said: “But we are forced by the Quran, in Sura At-Tawba, through many ayah in the Quran, we must fight them as they fight us.” Sura At-Tawba is the Quran’s ninth chapter, the one containing the “Verse of the Sword” and the command to fight and subjugate Jews and Christians.


    This time, there wasn’t a kuffar videoing the gruesome act, because it was a predominantly Muslim neighborhood. When you see the pictures of Palmira Silva’s neighbors, they’re all wearing hijabs. But poor Palmira Silva wasn’t wearing the hijab.


    Imagine. After British Muslims were beheading American journalists, and the Islamic State had conquered huge swaths of Iraq and Syria, and Boko Haram kidnapped hundreds of Christian girls while burning schools and killing doctors and teachers, and Hamas fired rockets daily at innocent Jewish populations, the enemedia are still acting as the Der Stürmer of Islamic supremacism. Every headline in the beheading story said that it was not terrorism. And I ask every rational freedom-loving human being: Is being beheaded with a machete while gardening in your backyard terror?


    In the wake of the Foley beheading, no fewer than 28,000 pro-Islamic State Twitter accounts were suddenly created, as Muslims worldwide rushed to express support for this barbaric act of supremacist savagery.


    Back in London, Fat Nick just took the Islamic State’s savagery one step further. How many Twitter supporters is he going to have? How long will the Brits continue to ban brave defenders of freedoms like Robert Spencer and me, while providing cover for the Muslim rapists who turned 1,400 non-Muslim children in one British city alone, Rotherham, into sex slaves, while authorities feared to do anything about for fear of being called “racist”?


    How is the beheading of Palmira Silva any different from allowing those Muslim rape gangs to turn young non-Muslim British girls into pieces of meat, butchering them in an altogether different way, but murdering them, too? And while Mrs. Silva’s head was being chopped off, the two cows, Barack Obama and David Cameron, were writing a Times of London editorial saying that they would not be cowed by the Islamic State. Obama and Cameron took up their fierce pens and the Islamic State quivered in their caves, so fearful were they of the next pen stroke of these titans.


    Centuries of intellectual, philosophical development to achieve political freedom discarded, kicked to the curb in submission to savages. That’s what America did with the greatest gift ever given to any people when they elected Barack Hussein Obama, the hatchet man in the White House. That’s what the British people did when they elected Tony Blair and later David Cameron. Now they are beginning to reap the fruits.
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    Report: US Weapons Now in Hands of ISIS

    Posted on September 9, 2014 by chainsoff
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    The Islamic State (ISIS) can count on one source of support for ready weapons in its brutal attempts to take over Iraq and Syria — the U.S. taxpayer.


    A first-time field study report by an international weapons-tracking think tank, Conflict Armament Research (CAR), has discovered six U.S.-made and U.S.-issued M16A4 assault rifles, each stamped, “Property of U.S. Govt.,” among weapons captured by Kurdish militia battling ISIS.


    The report states, “Islamic State forces have captured significant quantities of U.S.-manufactured small arms and have employed them on the battlefield.”


    The rifles likely were captured by ISIS from military stockpiles when they overran cities in Iraq and Syria. The weapons originally were provided to Iraq as “part of a multibillion-dollar U.S. program to arm and train the Iraqi military,” BuzzFeed reports.


    Some of the weapons’ serial numbers have been obliterated by arc welders or altered to hide their point of origin.


    CAR field investigator Shawn Harris told The Washington Post, “They are transporting these weapons in batches, and have a solid organizational approach to moving these weapons around. They’re operating as professionals.”


    Among the disturbing photos shown were images of heavier weapons, like 90 mm “Osa” anti-tank HEAT (High-Explosive Anti-Tank) weapons and shoulder-mounted rockets capable of destroying armored vehicles, manufactured in the former Yugoslavia and provided to the U.S.-aligned Syrian rebels in 2013 by Saudi Arabia.


    The United States is considering ramping up sophisticated weapon supplies to the rebels to aid in their battle against ISIS.


    One ISIS fighter was even packing a Bushmaster, a semi-automatic civilian version of the M16 rifle, manufactured by FN Manufacturing in Columbia, S.C.
    “We are wondering where it could come from,” Damien Spleeters, CAR field researcher, told BuzzFeed.


    Capture of the M16A4s, a 5.56 mm x 45 mm rifle, carries the disturbing implication that ISIS has also captured extensive amounts of ammunition — because those rifles rely on ammunition that is a relative rarity in the Middle East, where Russian 7.62 mm x 39 mm ammunition, used in the AK-47 assault rifle, is much more common.


    “This implies that they can also rely on a steady supply of that type of ammo at the moment, probably captured in Ira,q as well,” Spleeters told BuzzFeed.


    Charles Lister, a visiting fellow from the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar, told the Post that ISIS appears to not be facing ammunition shortages.


    “They have captured five major Syrian military bases in Syria since mid-July,” Lister told the Post. “This will likely keep their momentum going for months to come.”


    When the Iraqi army fled bases under attack by ISIS, the jihadist fighters picked up the weapons they had dropped and also raided government arsenals.


    ISIS “took the weapons stores of the 2nd and 3rd [Iraqi army] divisions in Mosul, the 4th division in Salah al Din, the 12th division in the areas near Kirkuk, and another division in Diyala,” Jabbar Yawar, secretary-general of the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs, told the Los Angeles Times. “We’re talking about armaments for 200,000 soldiers, all from the Americans.”


    This means that ISIS is capable of laying down “a colossal intensity of bullets,” Yawar told the Times.


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    Homeland Security Bulletin: Islamic State Can Attack U.S. Overseas With ‘Little to No Warning’

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    Editor’s Note: This report is part of an ongoing investigation by TheBlaze and TheBlaze TV's For the Record regarding the threat the Islamic State poses to the American homeland.


    The Department of Homeland Security and FBI have put out a joint intelligence bulletin to all federal law enforcement that the Islamic State has the capability to mount attacks on U.S. targets overseas with “little to no warning.”
    While the bulletin, obtained by TheBlaze, states that the FBI and DHS are unaware of any “specific, credible threats” against the U.S. homeland, they urge law enforcement to be vigilant about social media postings by Islamic State supporters within the U.S. calling for attacks against America.
    This undated file image posted on a militant website in January 2014 shows fighters from Islamic State marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/militant website, File)

    The warning was dated Aug. 22, less than a month shy of the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and as U.S. intelligence registered a spike in chatter from jihadi websites ahead of the anniversary.
    The rise of the Islamic State — which shares Al Qaeda’s core beliefs — and its recruitment capability have come because of significant intelligence lapses in more than a decade of war, current and former U.S. officials told TheBlaze. The officials charge that the West was blindsided by the establishment of the Islamic State because the intelligence community lacked necessary human assets that would have helped expose the terror group before it could hit its stride.
    After 9/11, the CIA focused on paramilitary operations and targeted drone strikes, but failed in its “ability to infiltrate organizations and recruit the necessary assets to curb these organizations and counteract the ideology before it takes hold,” said former CIA officer Brian Fairchild.
    “You can keep targeting all the Osama bin Ladens and his replacements, but you won’t solve the problem,” Fairchild said. “You need a strategy that comprises both the paramilitary and what the CIA was intended to do: analyze, recruit and infiltrate so lawmakers can make the best decisions on how to handle these crisis.”
    Without actual people on the ground to gain “actionable intelligence” on terror plots or terror cell networks like the Islamic State and Al Qaeda, the U.S. is essentially flying blind, said Fairchild, who ran clandestine operations in CIA stations around the world.
    “All the intelligence we have is that [Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi] is trying to provoke a military response from the United States and he’s more than willing and capable of coming here and doing that,” Fairchild said.
    After taking significant criticism for saying last month that “we don’t have a strategy yet” to defeat the Islamic State, President Barack Obama will address the nation on Wednesday about how the U.S. plans to fight the group.
    The battleground is not limited to the Middle East, Fairchild warned.
    “How are we going to stop three French men, two Germans, an Australian and a Norwegian coming into the United States when they come here and they have a passport and a visa and they say, ‘Hey, I’m here to see the Grand Canyon.’ How are you going to stop that?” he asked.
    The intelligence bulletin, which was unclassified but designated “for official use only,” stated that it is difficult to predict the specific triggers that could set off someone in the United States who has become radicalized and that such “lone offender” attacks give law enforcement “limited opportunities to detect and disrupt plots, which frequently involve simple plotting against targets of opportunity.”
    A Pentagon official who has worked in Iraq and has knowledge of the Islamic State’s actions said there “should be no doubt that a threat to the homeland is real and the failure has been with the administration, which has refused to accept that the ideology was more than Al Qaeda core or Osama bin Laden. The administration chose to play politics instead of looking at the facts and that has cost the West tremendously.”
    Islamic State members and supporters “will almost certainly continue to use social media platforms to disseminate their English-language violent extremist messages,” the bulletin states. “Although we remind first responders that content not explicitly calling for violence may be constitutionally protected, we encourage awareness of media advocating violent extremist acts in particular locations or naming particular targets, to increase our ability to identify and disrupt potential homeland threats.”
    The bulletin urges “state and local authorities to promptly report suspicious activities related to homeland plotting and individuals interested in traveling to overseas conflict zones, such as Syria or Iraq, to fight with foreign terrorist organizations.”
    Fairchild said the threat is longterm and that homegrown radicals “know that when they go to Iraq that these guys are beheading people and putting their heads on spikes, killing hostages hundreds at a time — they know that before they go and they’ve already accepted that, so to them if Baghdadi says ‘go and gas these suckers, go and behead these suckers’ … Baghdadi says we’re going to kill as many of them as possible in the most horrifying way as possible just to show them.”
    “All we know is that bad things are coming,” he said.
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    The Real Threat of ISIS in the Homeland

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    Despite the best attempts of the Obama administration to declare ISIS a “regional threat” and label their ideology rootless, the truth has now penetrated the public consciousness: ISIS has global reach, largely because their ideology does as well.
    The latest indicator that ISIS just the latest label slapped on the growing phenomenon of radical Islamism comes courtesy of Great Britain, where Palmira Silva, an 82-year-old great-grandmother, was beheaded, allegedly at the hands of a charming character called “Fat Nicholas.” Obese Nick is reportedly a Muslim convert.
    This is not the first public beheading in Britain, unfortunately. In May 2013, two young British Muslims, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, ran over British soldier Lee Rigby in a car before Adebolajo attacked him with a machete, attempting to decapitate him. Adebolajo then stuck around to brag to passersby, threatening the rule of Islam. The day before, Adebolajo bought a set of five knives. A copy of the Koran was found on his person.
    The dangerous ideology of ISIS – which is also the basic ideology of Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, al Qaeda, and a myriad of other terror groups and terror supporters – is gaining adherents all over the globe: 12,000 foreigners are currently fighting with ISIS, including 500 British citizens and at least 100 American citizens. Why are these Americans joining ISIS? Let ISIS-affiliated former cop and ex-Catholic Don Morgan, 44, explain:
    My reason for the support of ISIS is because they’ve proven time and time again to put Islamic law as the priority and the establishment of an Islamic state as the goal… I would not classify myself as a radical, but by Western definition, I would be classified as a radical.
    Many Americans are deeply and correctly concerned with the possibility of ISIS fighters crossing America’s borders to commit acts of terror; as we learned last week, ISIS’s plans to cross the southern border to commit terror attacks alerted the U.S. government to the possibility.
    But the far more significant threat to America isn’t ISIS fighters coming to America. It’s homegrown ISIS sympathizers going Nidal Hassan, turning their guns on their fellow citizens. All ISIS really needs to do is keep their converts in their home countries and provide them the logistical and moral support to commit acts of terrorism.
    The Real Threat of ISIS in the Homeland.
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    SAUDI CLERIC: ISIS SOLDIERS MUST KILL THEIR COMMANDERS

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    Says even belonging to terror organization ‘a sin’
    A Muslim cleric from Saudi Arabia has some bad news for members of the Muslim terror gang ISIS, also called ISIL, or even Islamic State: They’re going to “hellfire.”
    And he says the one way for soldiers who are part of that group to avoid such punishment is to kill their fellow soldiers, their commanders, and flee.
    The comments come from Saudi cleric Sa’d Al-Shathri and were in an interview Aug. 31, 2014, on the Saudi TV channel Majd TV, according to a report from the Middle East Media Research Institute, which monitors media from that region of the world, and reports and comments on it.
    The cleric warns that ISIS members are “apostates.”
    ”The organization known as ‘The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’ is fighting Allah and his messenger. They [spread] corruption and act against Islamic law. They shut down mosques, kill Islamic scholars, and prohibit religious books and the hijab. They torture Allah’s believing servants,” Al-Shathri warned.
    ”First, belonging to this organization constitutes a major sin,” he said. “Belonging to this organization despite knowing its true nature constitutes apostasy. Members of this organization should leave it immediately. Since (ISIS) kills those who try to leave it, members should kill their unit commander, and as many ISIS members as possible. Perhaps Allah will forgive them for having joined ISIS.”
    He also said those in ISIS who die fighting are not martyrs who would be rewarded in an afterlife. Instead, Shariah determines that members of ISIS “will go to the hellfire,” he said.
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    Another “unsurprise”…

    Posted September 8, 2014
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    New Evidence Ties Boston Marathon Bombers’ Mosque to ISIS

    When it was revealed that the Boston Marathon bombers attended a Cambridge, Mass., mosque, its leaders were quick to disavow their actions.
    Elder brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s ideology was not their own, the leaders of the Islamic Society mosque claimed. In fact, he was admonished for an extremist outburst he made during one sermon.
    So, one crackpot in a congregation. Who can blame the mosque?
    But what about eight — including a prominent member of ISIS?
    As it turns out, worshippers at the Islamic Society have included:

    • Abdurahman Alamoudi, the mosque’s founder and first president who in 2004 was sentenced to 23 years in prison for plotting terrorism. In 2005, the Treasury Department issued a statement saying Alamoudi raised money for al Qaeda in the US.
    • Aafia Siddiqui, an MIT scientist-turned-al Qaeda agent, who in 2010 was sentenced to 86 years in prison for planning a New York chemical attack. Known as “Lady al Qaeda,” she is related to 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. ISIS has tried to trade her release for journalist hostages.
    • Tarek Mehanna, who in 2012 got 17 years in prison for conspiring to use automatic weapons to murder shoppers in a suburban Boston mall.
    • Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a mosque trustee and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader banned from the US after issuing a fatwa that called for the killing of US soldiers.
    • Jamal Badawi, another former trustee who in 2007 was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a plan to funnel more than $12 million to Palestinian suicide bombers.

    Now it can be revealed that another regular worshipper at the Islamic Society mosque was Ahmad Abousamra, who is now the top propagandist for ISIS.
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    Evidence of The Bathtub Principle Surfaces In Syria – ISIS Photographs Show Weapons Labeled “Property Of U.S. Government”…

    Posted on September 8, 2014 by sundance
    The key issue is not that ISIS is using U.S. made weapons. Given ISIS geographic conquests it would be expected, vis-*-vis Iraq, they were able to capture weapons and armament. No, it’s the *type* of weapons, specifically boxed M16’s, which identifies the covert shipments to Syria we outlined within the Benghazi Brief.
    In 2012 those small arms were shipped to Syria as a result of President Obama’s authorization. Saudi Arabia and Qatar were providing the financing, Turkey provided an initial storage base near Adana where the nerve center for supporting what became ISIS was set up. The UN peacekeeper Kofi Annan was pulled out of Syria, and U.S. weapons were poured in.
    On September 5th 2012 a Libyan flag ship called Al Entisar docked in the Turkish port of Iskenderun, it carried small arms and rockets from the U.S. originally destined for the Free Syrian Army. However, by that point the FSA had collapsed and most of the leaders defected to join what is now ISIS.

    (Via Raw Story) Islamic State fighters appear to be using captured US military issue arms and weapons supplied to moderate rebels in Syria by Saudi Arabia, according to a report published on Monday.
    The study by the London-based small-arms research organisation Conflict Armament Research documented weapons seized by Kurdish forces from militants in Iraq and Syria over a 10-day period in July.
    The report said the jihadists disposed of “significant quantities” of US-made small arms including M16 assault rifles and included photos showing the markings “Property of US Govt”.
    It also found that anti-tank rockets used by IS in Syria were “identical to M79 rockets transferred by Saudi Arabia to forces operating under the Free Syrian Army umbrella in 2013″.
    The rockets were made in the then Yugoslavia in the 1980s.
    Islamic State is believed to have seized large quantities of weapons from Syrian military installations it has captured, as well as arms supplied by the United States to the Iraqi army after it swept through northern Iraq in recent weeks. (read more)

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