Masked Arsonists Torch Cars Across Sweden
Posted: August 14, 2018 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Global | Tags: Arson, Gothenburg, Sweden, Terrorism Leave a comment
Dozens of cars burned in several cities in Sweden on Monday evening.
Gothenburg police and fire services were alerted to the first blaze after 9pm, after which several more calls came in from the city as well as Trollhättan, Lysekil and Falkenberg some 100 kilometres away.
“We have been to around 20 places in Gothenburg. It’s mainly vehicles that have burned – cars, some truck, caravans – but also some buried waste disposal site,” Johan Eklund, emergency control room officer in the greater Gothenburg area, told Swedish news agency TT shortly after midnight.
To summarize what has happened in Sweden tonight.
– Unrest in 8 different areas / cities
– Some 90 cars destroyed / damaged with fire
– Around 60 youths involved in total
– Police and fire services attacked with rocks
– Streets barricaded by the youths
– Possibly co-ordinated— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) August 13, 2018
Swedish media reported that groups of up to ten youths had been seen throwing stones and lighting cars on fire in Gothenburg districts Gårdsten, Hjällbo and Frölunda, among other locations. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Iran’s Anti-Government Protests Spread to Major Cities, ‘The World is Watching’ says U.S.
Posted: December 30, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: "The Case Against the Iran Deal: How Can We Now Stop Iran from Getting Nukes?, Activists, Barack Obama, BBC, Demonstrators, Eshaq Jahangiri, Iran, Iran Deal, Jihadists, Kermanshah, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, State Sponsored Terrorism, Tehran, Terrorism Leave a comment
The US says “the world is watching” how Iranian authorities respond to anti-government protests that have broken out in several cities.
Thousands of people have joined the protests, with scores arrested.
A White House statement said Iranians were fed up with “the regime’s corruption and its squandering of the nation’s wealth to fund terrorism”.
“The Iranian government should respect their people’s rights, including their right to express themselves. The world is watching,”
— White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, on Twitter
Meanwhile, authorities urged supporters to turn out for nationwide demonstrations on Saturday.
The rallies are commemorating the 2009 demonstrations held in support of the then conservative government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Those demonstrations were in response to protests by reformists over a disputed election which returned him to power.
The BBC’s Persian Service says thousands of people were likely to have been bussed into a rally in the capital Tehran.
Footage posted on social media showed street protests in Kermanshah
What was the US response?
“The Iranian government should respect their people’s rights, including their right to express themselves. The world is watching,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Twitter.
The tweet later appeared on President Donald Trump’s Twitter account.
The US State Department urged all nations “to publicly support the Iranian people and their demands for basic rights and an end to corruption”.
Footage posted on social media showed street protests in Kermanshah
What is Iran saying about the protests?
First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri has suggested that government opponents are behind the protests, according to comments reported by state broadcaster IRIB.
He said: “Some incidents in the country these days are on the pretext of economic problems, but it seems there is something else behind them. They think by doing this they harm the government, but it will be others who ride the wave.” Read the rest of this entry »
Mystery: ‘Muhammad had expressed hatred toward white people and the government’, ‘wasn’t clear if it was terror-related’
Posted: April 18, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Religion, Terrorism | Tags: Allahu Akbar, Ballistic trauma, Fresno, Gunman, Islamism, Islamofacism, Jihadism, Los Angeles, murder, Terrorism 1 CommentFrom today’s LA Times:
…In less than a minute, Dyer said, 16 shots were fired at the four different locations.
Moments later, a PG&E pickup truck arrived at police headquarters at Fresno and M streets to report his passenger had been shot by a gunman who approached them, he said. Dyer said the attack was unprovoked.
The gunman then walked westbound on East Mildreda Avenue from Van Ness, where he came across a resident. He then opened fire on the resident, the chief said. The resident was not struck by the gunfire.
The gunman continued walking on Mildreda and approached Fulton Street, where he encountered a man. The gunman fired several rounds at the man, killing him, Dyer said.
At this point, the chief said, the gunman unloaded his .357 revolver, dropped the shell casings and reloaded his gun.
He then headed toward Catholic Charities in the 100 block of North Fulton Street and opened fire on a man in the parking lot, striking and killing him, Dyer said. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Krauthammer Analyzes the US-Iran Tensions Under Trump
Posted: February 2, 2017 Filed under: Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Global, Mediasphere, Think Tank, White House | Tags: Charles Krauthammer, Donald Trump, Iran, Islamism, Jihadism, media, news, Terrorism, video 1 Comment
[VIDEO] REWIND: Obama Supported Southern Border Fence in 2006
Posted: January 6, 2017 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: 2006, Barack Obama, Border control, Criminals, Free Beacon, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, media, news, Terrorism, Undocumented Immigrants, video Leave a comment
Gates: White House Doing Disservice to Troops Fighting ISIS by Avoiding Term ‘Combat’
Posted: May 21, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Diplomacy, Mediasphere, War Room, White House | Tags: Combat, Gates, ISIS, Middle East, news, Terrorism, video, Washington Free Beacon 1 Comment
Apple to Judge: Drop Dead!
Posted: February 17, 2016 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Law & Justice, Think Tank | Tags: Apple Inc, Apple iPhone 5S, FBI, IOS, iPad, iPhone, IPod Touch, National security, Patriot Act, San Bernardino, Technician, Terrorism, The Daily Dot, The Guardian 1 Comment
Where would you draw the line between liberty and security?
Stephen Green writes: Here’s the setup.
San Bernardino killer Syed Rizwan Farook owned an iPhone 5c, which may have been used — probably was used — in planning and perhaps even executing the holiday party terror attack with his wife, Tashfeen Malik.
That iPhone 5c, just like any other up-to-do-date iOS or Android smartphone, has disc-level encryption baked into the OS for users who want that level of privacy, for good or for ill.
Yesterday,U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym ordered Apple to bypass the phone’s security functions, and furthermore “to provide related technical assistance and to build special software that would essentially act as a skeleton key capable of unlocking the phone.”
[Read the full story here, at PJ Media]
Here’s what happened next:
Hours later, in a statement by its chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, Apple announced its refusal to comply. The move sets up a legal showdown between the company, which says it is eager to protect the privacy of its customers, and the law enforcement authorities, who assert that new encryption technologies hamper their ability to prevent and solve crime.In his statement, Mr. Cook called the court order an “unprecedented step” by the federal government. “We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand,” he wrote.
The Justice Department did not immediately respond publicly to Apple’s resistance.
The F.B.I. said its experts had been unable to access data on the iPhone 5c and that only Apple could bypass its security features. F.B.I. experts have said they risk losing the data permanently after 10 failed attempts to enter the password because of the phone’s security features.
The Justice Department had secured a search warrant for the phone, owned by Mr. Farook’s former employer, the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health, which consented to the search.
Because Apple declined to voluntarily provide, in essence, the “keys” to its encryption technology, federal prosecutors said they saw little choice but to get a judge to compel Apple’s assistance.
Mr. Cook said the order amounted to creating a “back door” to bypass Apple’s strong encryption standards — “something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create.”
Security hawks are on solid ground when they worry (as I do) that Farook’s encrypted iPhone might contain data valuable to government efforts to stop future terror attacks on U.S. soil, or to aid intel efforts to locate, track, and kill Farook’s ISIS contacts overseas.
But that’s not the only worry, as Doug Mataconis explains:
From Apple’s point of view, there seem to be a myriad of issues motivating the decision to take what has the potential to be an unpopular decision given the circumstances of this case. First of all, there is the fact that ever since the company made the decision to strengthen security on its phones in a manner that essentially allows customers to encrypt data in a manner that makes it nearly impossible to access without the appropriate pass code, the concerns about data security have only become more prominent and that providing a backdoor that does not exist right now would only serve to make the data itself less secure overall. Second, as the Post article notes the use of the All Writs Act in this manner appears to be unprecedented and, if upheld, would essentially allow the government to do almost anything in the name of law enforcement and intelligence gathering. Finally, and perhaps most strongly, it’s important to note that law enforcement isn’t asking Apple to provide information that it already has, which is what an ordinary search warrant does. It is essentially asking a Federal Court to compel Apple to do something, in this case create a backdoor that does not exist. This arguably falls well outside the scope of the Fourth Amendment and, if upheld, would give law enforcement authority to compel technology companies to do almost anything conceivable in the name of a purported investigation or surveillance of a target. That seems to go well beyond what the Constitution and existing law permits law enforcement to do.
DHS: More than Half a Million Aliens Overstayed Visas in 2015
Posted: January 19, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice | Tags: Airline, Citizenship in the United States, Cuba, History of the United States, National security, Obama administration, Terrorism, United States, United States Department of Homeland Security, United States Department of State 1 Comment
Adam Kredo reports: More than half a million aliens overstayed their temporary visas in the United States in 2015, with more than 482,000 of those individuals believed to be still residing illegally in the United States, according to a new report by the Department of Homeland Security.
“By not enforcing visa overstays, the administration has flung the border open—millions get temp visas and then freely violate their entry contracts and shred their eviction notices. Further, DHS has refused to complete the legally required biometric tracking system.”
Around 527,127 aliens temporally granted U.S. business and tourist visas were found to have stayed in the United States longer than legally permitted, according to DHS’s 2015 entry and exit overstay report.
Of those who did not leave the United States on time, around 482,781 are believed to still be illegally residing in the United States, according to the report, which was issued by DHS amid debate in Congress over an Obama administration initiative to permit around 170,000 new immigrants from Muslim-majority nations in 2016.
Senior Obama administration officials had trouble in the past year informing Congress about the number of individuals who had overstayed their visas. The administration also could not provide Congress with statistics about the number of Syrian refugees who had been granted residency in the United States in 2015.
[Read the full story here, at freebeacon.com]
Concerns about visa overstays come as Congress is investigating a sharp uptick in the number of terror plots hatched by foreign-born individuals legally granted entrance to the United States. Lawmakers estimate that at least 113 foreign-born individuals have been implicated in domestic terror plots since 2014.
Last year there were 219 illegal overstays from Afghanistan, 681 from Iraq, 564 from Iran, 56 from Libya, 1,435 from Pakistan, 440 from Syria, and 219 from Yemen, according to the report. Many are still in the United States illegally. Read the rest of this entry »
Reality Check: Americans Say Big Government Is The Biggest Threat To America’s Future
Posted: December 23, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Politics, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Big Government, Democratic Party (United States), Edward Snowden, Federal Assault Weapons Ban, Federal government of the United States, Gallup (company), Republican Party (United States), Terrorism, United States Leave a comment
Fear of Terrorism? Nope. A New Survey Phows 69 percent of Americans Listed “Big Government” as the Biggest Threat the Future of the United States.
According to a Gallup poll released Tuesday, 88 percent of Republicans listed the issue followed by 67 percent of independents and 53 percent of Democrats.
The number is slightly lower than the 2013 results, the last time the question was posed, which stood at 72 percent, but the polling company said the numbers were significantly lower before 1990.
“The large increase in the percentage naming big government as the biggest threat in 2013 may have resulted from the rollout of the Affordable Care Act and Edward Snowden’s revelations about government monitoring of communications.” the poll said in its findings. Read the rest of this entry »
As Lawmakers Clash Over Refugees, Syrian Immigration Quietly Tops 100,000 Since 2012
Posted: December 17, 2015 Filed under: Global, Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice, Politics, Terrorism, War Room | Tags: American Free Press, Assault Amphibious Vehicle, Barack Obama, British Columbia, China, Federal government of the United States, Islamic state, Presidency of Barack Obama, Terrorism, United States Leave a comment
Joseph J. Kolb reports: A proposal to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States has ignited a bitter debate in Washington, but more than 10 times that number of people from the embattled country have quietly come to America since 2012, according to figures obtained by FoxNews.com.
“All civil order has collapsed, and meaningful background checks are impossible. Instead, we rely on cross-checking databases. However, many people with ties to terrorist groups are not in any databases, which means there is no way we can identify them before they arrive here.”
— Ira Mehlman, of the Federation for American Immigration Reform
Some 102,313 Syrians were granted admission to the U.S. as legal permanent residents or through programs including work, study and tourist visas from 2012 through August of this year, a period which roughly coincides with the devastating civil war that still engulfs the Middle Eastern country. Experts say any fears that terrorists might infiltrate the proposed wave of refugees from United Nations-run camps should be dwarfed by the potential danger already here.
“The sheer number of people arriving on all kinds of visas and with green cards, and possibly U.S. citizenship, makes it impossible for our counterterrorism authorities to keep track of them all, much less prevent them from carrying out attacks or belatedly try to deport them,” said Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies.
“I think it’s reasonable to assume that the U.S. Government ran the minimum intelligence traces required at the time of entry.”
– Fred Burton, Stratfor
Numbers obtained from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection show 60,010 Syrian visa holders have entered the U.S. since 2012, including 16,245 this year through August. Additional numbers provided by a Congressional source showed another 42,303 Syrians were granted citizenship or green cards during the same period.
“It is highly unlikely that the 102,313 Syrians who were admitted over the past three years were effectively vetted,” said spokesman Ira Mehlman, of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. “Even in countries where we have a strong diplomatic presence, the sheer volume of background checks being carried out precludes the kind of thorough vetting that is necessary.”
The Syrians being admitted are coming directly from their homeland, usually through the U.S. visa program, as opposed to the refugees President Obama is seeking to take in through U.N.-run refugee camps. Most have secured legal entry before they arrive.
[Read the full story here, at Fox News]
“Refugees are part of the admitted category,” said Jaime Ruiz, spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “Their cases are approved prior to arriving into the U.S.”
Those who escaped Syria’s grinding civil war, which has killed an estimated 300,000, and made it to the U.S. are more likely to be those with the money and means to access the U.S. immigration bureaucracy, say experts. But even that system is susceptible to fraud. Read the rest of this entry »
Review Affirms Clinton Server Emails Were ‘Top Secret,’ Despite Department Challenge
Posted: December 15, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Diplomacy, Law & Justice, Terrorism, U.S. News, War Room | Tags: al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, San Bernardino, Terrorism, The Pantsuit Report, Transportation Security Administration, United States, United States Department of Homeland Security, United States Department of State 2 Comments
EXCLUSIVE: Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne report: An intelligence community review has re-affirmed that two classified emails were indeed “top secret” when they hit Hillary Clinton’s unsecured personal server despite a challenge to that designation by the State Department, according to two sources familiar with the review.
“The sources, who were not authorized to speak on the record, told Fox News that while the emails were indeed “top secret” when they hit Clinton’s server, one of them remains “top secret” to this day — and must be handled at the highest security level.”
The sources described the dispute over whether the two emails were classified at the highest level as a “settled matter.”
“The findings have been transmitted to the State Department, which continues to challenge the intelligence community’s conclusions about the classification of all the emails. But the department has no authority to change the classification since it did not originate the information.”
The agencies that owned and originated that intelligence – the CIA and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency or NGA – reviewed the emails to determine how they should be properly stored, as the State Department took issue with their highly classified nature. The subject matter of the messages is widely reported to be the movement of North Korean missiles and a drone strike. A top secret designation requires the highest level of security, and can include the use of an approved safe.
The sources, who were not authorized to speak on the record, told Fox News that while the emails were indeed “top secret” when they hit Clinton’s server, one of them remains “top secret” to this day — and must be handled at the highest security level. The second email is still considered classified but at the lower “secret” level because more information is publicly available about the event.
[Read the full report here, at Fox News]
The findings have been transmitted to the State Department, which continues to challenge the intelligence community’s conclusions about the classification of all the emails. But the department has no authority to change the classification since it did not originate the information. Read the rest of this entry »
Byron York: ‘What do you call terrorist organization that has extended its reach, can project power far from base? ‘Contained.’
Posted: November 15, 2015 Filed under: France, Global, Mediasphere, Politics, Terrorism, War Room, White House | Tags: Balaclava (clothing), Barack Obama, Byron York, Delusional, El Salvador, European Union, Islamic state, Jihadism, Kurdistan Workers Party, MS-13, Muslim, Paris, Paris Attacks, Poli-Fact, propaganda, Terrorism 2 Comments
What do you call terrorist organization that has extended its reach, can project power far from base? ‘Contained.’ https://t.co/MrlpiFN3E9— Byron York (@ByronYork) November 16, 2015
[PHOTO] U.S. Capitol: Flags at Half-Staff in Honor of the Victims of the #ParisAttacks
Posted: November 15, 2015 Filed under: France, Global, History, Terrorism, War Room | Tags: Congress, Islamism, Jihadism, Mourning, Paris, Paris Attacks, Paris Massacre, Terrorism, Twitter, U.S. Capitol, U.S. Flag, Washington D.C. Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Raw: French Jets Takeoff for Raqqa Airstrike
Posted: November 15, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, France, Mediasphere, Space & Aviation, War Room | Tags: Airstrike, Al-Raqqah, Archived Footage, Britons (Celtic people), Eid al-Adha, François Hollande, France Attacks, ISIS, Islamic state, media, Middle East, Muslim, news, Palmyra, Paris, Syria, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Terrorism Leave a commentThe original video posted here is no longer available. (it appeared here as a broken link) As a substitute, the above video is of fighter jets taking off from France, en route to Raqqa.
Aftermath footage of 30 airstrikes conducted by France targeting the outskirts of IS controlled Raqqa
[VIDEO] Casablanca: ‘La Marseillaise’
Posted: November 15, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, France, History, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: 1940s, Casablanca, Cinema, EUROPE, Germany, Humphrey Bogart, La Marseillaise, National Anthem, Nazis, Paris Attacks, Terrorism, Vive La France 1 Comment
Sympathisants Jihadists: In Paris Neighborhood Heavily Hit by Terrorists, Bobo Hipster Residents View Attackers as Victims
Posted: November 15, 2015 Filed under: France, Mediasphere, Terrorism | Tags: Angela Merkel, Arab League, Bashar al-Assad, Bohemians, Charlie Hebdo, EUROPE, France, Freedom of speech, Government of France, Hipsters, Jihadist sympathizers, Middle East, Muslim, Syria, Terrorism, Western world Leave a comment
‘They’re stupid, but they aren’t evil,’ says Parisian woman who works in 11th arrondissement, and in Place de la Republique, no one wanted to talk about Islamists or the Islamic State.
PARIS – Ansel Pfeffer reports: On the day after the terror campaign in Paris that left 129 people dead and more than 300 wounded, residents of the French capital are still trying to absorb what hit them.
“They are victims of a system that excluded them from society, that’s why they felt this doesn’t belong to them and they could attack. There are those who live here in alienation, and we are all to blame for this alienation.”
By evening, after they had avoided gathering outdoors all day on the orders of police, hundreds of people started to assemble at the Place de la Republique, only a few hundred meters from the Bataclan concert hall where four terrorists had held hostage hundreds of people for more than two hours, killing 89 of them. From Boulevard Voltaire, where the hall is located and which was closed by police, ambulances carrying the bodies of the victims would emerge every few minutes, sirens wailing. As of last night only a handful of the victims had been named.
“They don’t want us to think that maybe it’s connected to the policies of our government and of the United States in the Middle East. These are people the government gave up on, and you have to ask why.”
A group of friends was standing near the candles that had been lit at the foot of the monument at the square, trying to find out if the waiter that had served them at La Belle Equipe, one of the restaurants attacked in the 11th arrondissement, had been killed.
“One member of the group said they had come to the square to demonstrate ‘unity,’ but they didn’t seem to feel solidarity with the victims of the last wave of terror. There were signs calling for unity, but it wasn’t clear what they were meant to unite around.”
“It’s very personal, what’s happened,” said Stephan Byatt, an actor who lives on a nearby street. He has a hard time finding the words to describe what he’s feeling. His friend, Bruno Michlaud, a graphic artist, tries to help out. “It’s a symbol of Paris, a symbol of life. They hurt us in the center of our lives and each of us could have been one of those killed.”
But they aren’t angry, at least not at the perpetrators. “They’re stupid, but they aren’t evil,” their friend Sabrina, an administrative worker in one of the theaters in the 11th arrondissement, said. “They are victims of a system that excluded them from society, that’s why they felt this doesn’t belong to them and they could attack. There are those who live here in alienation, and we are all to blame for this alienation.”
“Perhaps it’s correct to bomb them in the name of democracy and freedom, but it brought the war in Syria to us in France. I don’t think it’s worth it.”
Ten months after the previous wave of terror in Paris that hit the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo and the Hypercacher kosher supermarket, one might assume that residents would feel a sense of continuity, but that didn’t seem to be the case. “Then they harmed journalists and Jews, those were defined targets,” said one of the young people who had come to the square. “Now it was an attack with no objective, anyone could have been hurt.” Read the rest of this entry »
Daily Mail: ISIS’s Paris Attack jihadis Sneaked into Europe as Syrian Refugees
Posted: November 15, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, France, Mediasphere, Terrorism, War Room | Tags: Airman First Class, AK-47, Barack Obama, England, François Hollande, France, Islamism, Jihadism, Paris, Paris Attacks, Terrorism, United States Leave a comment
Ian Gallagher, Martin Beckford and Martin Robinson report: This is the face of one of the Paris killers who allegedly sneaked into France by posing as a refugee after being rescued from a sinking migrant boat as it emerged a woman may have been part of the eight-strong ISIS kamikaze terror squad.
Serbian media claims Ahmed Almuhamed, 25, whose Syrian passport was found on the body of a suicide bomber, allegedly blew himself up at the Bataclan concert hall, where at least 89 people were slaughtered on Friday.
The newspaper, Blic, claims Almuhamed arrived with another of the bombers in Europe on the Greek island of Leros on October 3 on his way to Paris. Greek website Protothema have published ferry tickets showing the name of a second man, Mohammed Almuhamed, who could be a relation.
Wanted man: Serbian media says this is 25-year-old Ahmed Almuhamed, whose Syrian passport is pictured, who blew himself up at the Bataclan concert hall and is believed to have sneaked into France with another terrorist by posing as refugees from Syria
Tickets: A Greek website has uncovered the terror suspect’s ferry tickets to Greece and shows he was travelling with a Mohammed Almuhamed, likely to be a relation.
One of the attackers has been named locally as homegrown terrorist Omar Ismaël Mostefai , 29, from Courcouronnes, Paris. The petty criminal was known to police as a radical and identified by the fingerprint on a severed digit found after he detonated his suicide belt.
Investigators are now investigating claims that he went to Syria last year, and may have spent time training with ISIS terrorists.
Survivors have claimed that a woman was among the group shooting randomly into the crowd at the Eagles of Death Metal gig before three blew themselves up and a fourth person was shot dead by police before they could detonate their bomb.
Read the rest of this entry »
‘Je Suis Charlie’ Protesters Resisted Linking Terrorism to Migration or Islam. Not This Time
Posted: November 14, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Health and Social Issues, History, Mediasphere, Self Defense, War Room | Tags: EUROPE, France, Immigration, Islam, Islamism, JE SUIS CHARLIE, Je Suis Paris, Jihadism, Migration, Paris Attacks, protests, Terrorism, Violence Leave a comment
Aktuelle Nachrichten – Bild.de, Nov 14, 2015
Posted: November 14, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: Bild, Germany, International News, Islamism, Je Suis Paris, Jihadism, media, news, Paris Attacks, Terrorism Leave a comment
Source: Aktuelle Nachrichten – Bild.de
REWIND: ‘This Type of Mass Violence Does Not Happen in Other Advanced Countries’
Posted: November 14, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Self Defense, War Room, White House | Tags: 2nd amendment, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Ferguson, Gun control, Gun laws, Guns, Islamism, Jihadism, Mass Violence, Missouri, murder, Osama bin Laden, Paris Attacks, Republican Party (United States), South Carolina, Terrorism, United States, White House Leave a comment
Obama’s Statement on the Shooting in South Carolina
REWIND: June 18, 2015: Good afternoon, everybody. This morning, I spoke with, and Vice President Biden spoke with, Mayor Joe Riley and other leaders of Charleston to express our deep sorrow over the senseless murders that took place last night.
Mass violence in Paris, November 13, 2015
“At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.“
Michelle and I know several members of Emanuel AME Church. We knew their pastor, Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who, along with eight others, gathered in prayer and fellowship and was murdered last night. And to say our thoughts and prayers are with them and their families, and their community doesn’t say enough to convey the heartache and the sadness and the anger that we feel.
Mass violence victims in Paris, November 13, 2015
Any death of this sort is a tragedy. Any shooting involving multiple victims is a tragedy….
I say that recognizing the politics in this town foreclose a lot of those avenues right now. But it would be wrong for us not to acknowledge it. Read the rest of this entry »
‘ACT OF WAR’: Hollande Blames ISIS
Posted: November 14, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: Élysée Palace, Boko Haram, Buk missile system, EUROPE, European Union, François Hollande, France, Islamism, Jihadism, New York Times, Nicolas Sarkozy, Paris Attacks, President of France, Terrorism, Vladimir Putin Leave a comment
PARIS — The terrorist assault on Paris on Friday night was carried out by three teams of coordinated attackers, including one who traveled to Europe on a Syrian passport along with the flow of migrants, officials said Saturday.
“It is an act of war that was committed by a terrorist army, a jihadist army, Daesh, against France. It is an act of war that was prepared, organized and planned from abroad, with complicity from the inside, which the investigation will help establish.”
— French President Francois Hollande
At a news conference on Saturday night, the Paris prosecutor, François Molins, said the attackers were all armed with heavy weaponry and suicide vests. Their assault began, he said, when two of them blew themselves up outside the gates of the soccer stadium on the northern outskirts of Paris.
A French security official said separately that one of the attackers had been linked to a Syrian passport. A Greek official had said earlier that the person carrying the passport had passed through Greece last month along the migrant trail into Europe.
The possibility that one of the attackers was a migrant or had posed as one is sure to further complicate the already vexing problem for Europe of how to handle the unceasing flow of people from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Details of the assault came after President François Hollande blamed the Islamic State for the terrorist attacks. Officials said Saturday night that the death toll had reached 129 victims, with 352 others injured, 99 of them seriously. Mr. Hollande declared three days of national mourning, and said that military troops would patrol the capital. France remained under a nationwide state of emergency. Read the rest of this entry »
OH YES HE DID: Paris Terrorist Was Migrant Who Registered as a Refugee In Greece
Posted: November 14, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, War Room | Tags: Aegean Sea, Angela Merkel, Athens, EUROPE, European Union, Frontex, Greece, Illegal immigration, Immigration, Invasion, Islamism, Jihadism, Lesbos, Migrant, Migrants, Open Borders, Paris Attacks, Refugee, Syria, Terrorism, Turkey 1 Comment
The Greek government has announced one of the terrorist gunmen who had a part in killing over 120 in Paris on Friday evening entered Europe while masquerading as a refugee just six weeks ago.
“The news will come as a major shock to the European establishment who have mocked and derided those who have warned that the migrant route into Europe would be exploited by those wishing to do harm to Europe.”
Reports early on Saturday that one of the gunmen was found to have been carrying a Syrian passport have been followed by an announcement by Greek minister for citizen protection Nikos Tosca that the individual was masquerading as a refugee, reports Greek Antenna news.
“Latest United Nations estimates show over 800,000 migrants have passed through the Mediterranean on their way to Europe this year, with 660,700 landing in Greece and 142,400 in Italy.”
The unnamed killer was registered on the Greek island of Leros in the southern Aegean sea on the third of October. The Island is just ten miles from the Turkish coast and has been a major point of ingress for so-called ‘refugees’ into Europe, alongside neighbour island Kos.
Announcement of #Greece‘s AltMinister Citizens Protection on the #ParisAttacks. (In Greek: https://t.co/sEcwm95UBS) pic.twitter.com/3w4lpaBBeM
— The Greek Analyst (@GreekAnalyst) November 14, 2015
Having come ashore in Europe in October, the killer spent just six weeks as a refugee before killing in Paris.
Read the rest of this entry »
‘PARIS TERROR’: New York Post Front Page for November 14, 2015
Posted: November 14, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: Islamism, Jihadism, media, New York City, New York Post, news, Newspaper, NYC, Paris, Paris Attacks, Tabloid, Terror, Terrorism Leave a comment
Source: New York Post
Obama Administration Promotes Fast Lanes to Accelerate Processing of Incoming Syrians
Posted: November 14, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Politics, War Room, White House | Tags: 14th Infantry Regiment (United States), Afghanistan, Berlin, Federal government of the United States, Invation, Islamic state, Islamism, Jihadism, Migrants, Obama administration, Refugees, Refugees of the Syrian civil war, Syria, Terrorism, United States Department of Homeland Security, United States Department of State 3 Comments
Screening outposts to be set up in Iraq, Lebanon as U.S. urges Arab nations to do more.
The Obama administration is moving to increase and accelerate the number of Syrian refugees who might be admitted into the United States by opening new screening outposts in Iraq and Lebanon, administration officials told Reuters on Friday.
The move comes after President Barack Obama pledged in September to admit an additional 10,000 Syrian refugees in 2016, torn by four years of civil war and disorder.
The U.S. State Department confirmed the plans to open a refugee settlement processing centre in Erbil, Iraq, before the end of 2015, and to resume refugee processing in Lebanon in early 2016, said spokeswoman Danna Van Brandt.
The White House would not say how many additional refugees it may take in beyond the 10,000, but two senior administration officials said they are seeking ways to increase the number.
Refugees and migrants arrive from the island of Lesbos to the port of Piraeus on Friday. About 25,000 refugees and other migrants are heading to the Greek mainland from the eastern Aegean islands after the country’s seamen’s union called off ferry strikes. (Thanassis Stavrakis/Associated Press)
“We want to be in a place where we can push out really ambitious goals,” said one of the officials, who spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity.
The State Department runs nine screening centres worldwide that serve as meeting points for refugees and U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees who have to decide who is suitable for resettlement in the United States.
The additional centres will double the number available to refugees in the Middle East. Read the rest of this entry »
At Least 153 Die in Shootings, Explosions
Posted: November 13, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: AK-47, Bombing, CNN, Explosions, François Hollande, France, Islamism, Jihadism, media, news, Paris, Paris Attacks, Terrorism Leave a comment
[CNN: Latest developments, posted at 11:59 p.m. ET]
“We lied down on the floor not to get hurt. It was a huge panic. The terrorists shot at us for 10 to 15 minutes. It was a bloodbath.”
On a night when thousands of Paris residents and tourists were reveling and fans were enjoying a soccer match between France and world champion Germany, horror struck in an unprecedented manner. Terrorists — some with AK-47s, some reportedly with bombs strapped to them — attacked sites throughout the French capital and at the stadium where the soccer match was underway.
Scores were killed in the coordinated attacks late Friday, leaving a nation in mourning and the world in shock. CNN will update this story as information comes in:
• Paris Prosecutor spokeswoman Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre said eight extremists are dead after attacks. Seven of them were killed in suicide bombings.
U.S. President Barack Obama spoke with French President Francois Hollande to offer condolences and assistance in the investigation, the White House said. Earlier, Obama said, “This is an attack not just on Paris, not just on the people on France, but an attack on all humanity and the universal values we share.” He called the attacks an “outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians.”
• A total of six locations were attacked in and just outside the capital, Paris prosecutor François Molins told reporters Saturday.
• Five suspected attackers have been “neutralized,” said Molins. It was unclear whether that term meant the terrorists were dead.
• A witness tells Radio France that attackers inside the Bataclan concert hall entered firing rifles and shouting “Allah akbar.”
• At least 153 people were killed in the Paris and Saint-Denis shootings and bombings, French officials said. Saint-Denis is home to the national stadium where the soccer match was being played.
• The worst carnage occurred at Bataclan, with at least 112 left dead. A journalist who was at a rock concert there escaped and told CNN: “We lied down on the floor not to get hurt. It was a huge panic. The terrorists shot at us for 10 to 15 minutes. It was a bloodbath.” Julien Pearce didn’t hear the attackers speak, but he said one friend who escaped heard them talk about Iraq and Syria. Later, he said the men were speaking French. Two men dressed in black started shooting and after wounded people fell to the floor, the gunmen shot them again, execution-style, he said.
• CNN affiliate BFMTV, citing French officials, said some gunmen were still at large. Read the rest of this entry »
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People (1830), Louvre-Lens, Paris
Posted: November 13, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, War Room | Tags: #ParisAttacks, 11-13-2015, Eugène Delacroix, France, French Revolution, Jihadism, Liberty, Liberty Leading the People, Painting, Terrorism Leave a comment
Source: Eugène Delacroix
Paris Attacks: Actualité à la Une Le Monde Front Page, 11-13-2015
Posted: November 13, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere | Tags: 9-11, France, French people, Jihadism, Le Monde, media, Newspapers, One World Trade Center, Paris, Paris Attacks, Terrorism, Twitter Leave a comment
Source: Le Monde.fr – Actualité à la Une
After 9/11 this French newspaper said, “We are all American.” Today “We are all French.
source: Katie Love @KLOVEREPORTER via Twitter
One World Trade lit in blue, white and red in solidarity with the people of France.
[VIDEO] RAW: Paris Attacks: Security Forces Move In On Paris Theater
Posted: November 13, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: Anti-terror, French Police, Jihadism, media, news, Paris, Paris Attacks, Terrorism, video 1 Comment
New York Times: ‘Paris Attacks Kill Dozens in Night of Deadly Terror’
Posted: November 13, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Global, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: Agence France-Presse, Charlie Hebdo, Eiffel Tower, EUROPE, France, French language, Islamism, Jihadism, Paris, Paris Attack, Syria, Terrorism, The New York Times, United Kingdom Leave a comment
PARIS — Adam Nosier and Rick Gladstone report: The Paris area reeled Friday night from a shooting rampage, explosions and mass hostage-taking that President François Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack on France. He closed the borders and mobilized the military in a national emergency.
“As I speak, terrorist attacks of an unprecedented scale are taking place in the Paris region. There are several dozen dead, lots more wounded, it’s horrific.”
— President Francois Hollande, in a nationally televised address.
French television and news services quoted the police as saying at least 100 people had been killed at a concert hall alone, and dozens more in apparently coordinated attacks outside the country’s main sports stadium and at least five other popular locations in the city.
Witnesses on French television said the scene at the rock concert was a massacre.
The casualties eclipsed the deaths and mayhem that roiled Paris in the Charlie Hebdo massacre and related assaults around the French capital by Islamic militant extremists less than a year ago.
An explosion near the sports stadium, which French news services said may have been a suicide bombing, came as Germany and France were playing a soccer match, forcing a hasty evacuation of Mr. Hollande. As the scope of the assaults quickly became clear, he convened an emergency cabinet meeting and announced that France was closing its borders.
[Read the full story here, at The New York Times]
“As I speak, terrorist attacks of an unprecedented scale are taking place in the Paris region,” he said in a nationally televised address. “There are several dozen dead, lots more wounded, it’s horrific.”
Mr. Hollande said that on his orders the government had “mobilized all the forces we can muster to neutralize the threats and secure all of the areas.” Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEOS] Explosions et Fusillades à Paris
Posted: November 13, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: al Qaeda, Champ de Mars, Charlie Hebdo, Eiffel Tower, France, Jihadism, Paris, Paris Explosions, Terrorism, Washington Post, YouTube Leave a comment
BREAKING: ‘Carnage At Concert Hall Has Ended’; Gunmen Killed, Arrests Reported
Posted: November 13, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, War Room | Tags: Concert Hall, Explosions, France, French Police, Hostages, Islamism, Jihadism, Paris, State of Emergency, Syria, Terrorism Leave a comment
DEVELOPING – Police were storming a Paris concert hall Friday night where up to 100 hostages were reportedly being executed one-by-one, after at least 40 people were killed elsewhere in coordinated terror attacks that rocked the French capital and prompted President Francois Hollande to order the entire nation’s borders closed.
“There are lots of dead people. It’s pretty horrific to be honest. I was at the back of the bar. I couldn’t see anything. I heard gunshots. People dropped to the ground. We put a table over our heads to protect us.”
– Witness to attack on restaurant
The grim drama unfolded inside the music venue known as Bataclan, as word trickled out that an unknown number of gunmen were firing at horrified concert goers as French television broadcast the sound of shots being fired. Hundreds of police massed outside around midnight local time, then mounted an all-out assault on the building. Minutes later, a dozen or so shaken spectators were reportedly led out of the building, though it was not clear if the terrorists inside had been killed or subdued.
[Read the full text here, at FoxNews.com]
The hostages were taken at the concert hall where the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal was scheduled to play. As the terrorist siege played out, a handful of spectators trickled out and told of the the horror taking place inside. Julien Pierce, a Europe 1 journalist who was inside the Bataclan, described what he saw to the BBC.
“It lasted between 10 and 15 minutes. It was extremely violent and there was panic. The attackers had enough time to reload at least three times. They were very young.”
“Several armed men came into the concert,” he said. “Two or three men, not wearing masks, came in with what looked like Kalashnikovs and fired blindly on the crowd.
“It lasted between 10 and 15 minutes. It was extremely violent and there was panic. The attackers had enough time to reload at least three times. They were very young.”
As many as six other attacks were believed to have involved shootings and at least two suicide bombers, including one who detonated near the city’s Stade de France, soccer stadium where the French and German national teams were playing in a match attended by Hollande. Simultaneous attacks are a trademark of terrorist operations.
“There are lots of dead people,” said a witness believed to have been at the bar of a restaurant that was the scene of one attack. “It’s pretty horrific to be honest. I was at the back of the bar. I couldn’t see anything. I heard gunshots. People dropped to the ground. We put a table over our heads to protect us.” Read the rest of this entry »
President Francois Hollande: France will Close Its Borders Until Further Notice
Posted: November 13, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Health and Social Issues, War Room | Tags: Borders, Concert Hall, François Hollande, France, French President, Hollande, Jihadism, Paris, Paris Attack, Paris Explosion, Paris Shooting, Syria, Terrorism 1 Comment
PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande says he is closing the country’s borders and declaring a state of emergency after several dozen people were killed in a series of unprecedented terrorist attacks.
Hollande, in a televised address to his nation, said the nation would stand firm and united against the attackers.
He said security forces are assaulting one of the sites hit by Friday’s attacks, without elaborating.
“It’s a horror,” he said.
#FrenchLivesMatter
Posted: November 13, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, History, War Room | Tags: 9-11, Charlie Hebdo, Explosion, Hostages, Islamism, Jihadism, murder, Paris, Syria, Terrorism Leave a comment
BREAKING: French Police Report Shootout and Explosion in Paris
Posted: November 13, 2015 Filed under: Global, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: Explosion, France, Paris, Paris Restaurant, Terrorism, Violence Leave a comment
Police officials in France say there has been an explosion in a bar near a Paris stadium and a shootout in a Paris restaurant.
BFM television says there were several dead in the restaurant shooting in the 10th arrondissement of the capital. Two police officials confirmed the shooting but had no information about casualties.
One of the police officials said there was a separate explosion near the Stade de France north of Paris. It was unclear if the events were linked.
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to be publicly named….
Developing…
Source: ABC News
U.S. Officials Believe ISIS Planted Bomb on Russian Plane
Posted: November 4, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Religion, Russia, War Room | Tags: Air Canada, Airbus, Airbus A320 family, Alaska Department of Public Safety, Boeing, Bomb, China, CNN, Comac, Intelligence Community, Jihadism, Terrorism, United States, Xi Jinping 1 Comment
(CNN) Barbara Starr reports: The latest U.S. intelligence suggests that the crash of a Russian passenger jet in the Sinai over the weekend was most likely caused by a bomb on the plane planted by ISIS or an ISIS affiliate, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.
“There is a definite feeling it was an explosive device planted in luggage or somewhere on the plane.”
But the official stressed a formal conclusion has not been reached by the U.S. intelligence community.
“There is a definite feeling it was an explosive device planted in luggage or somewhere on the plane,” the official, who is familiar with the latest U.S. intelligence analysis of the crash, told CNN.
Other U.S. officials also told CNN that the analysis is pointing toward the cause being a bomb.
Based on the same intelligence, the U.S. belief is that ISIS or an ISIS-affiliated group is responsible for the attack, the official said….(read more)
Source: CNNPolitics.com
[VIDEO] Muslim Religious Leader: ‘Saying Merry Christmas is Worse than Murder’
Posted: November 3, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Religion, War Room | Tags: Anti-American, Christmas, Holiday, Ideology, Islamism, Jihad, Jihadism, murder, Muslim, propaganda, Terrorism 1 CommentCouple Weds in Kobani, in the First Ceremony Since the Defeat of ISIL
Posted: October 26, 2015 Filed under: Global, Mediasphere, Religion, War Room | Tags: CCTV, ISIL, ISIS, Jihadism, Kobani, Terrorism, Wedding Leave a commentExposed: Obama’s War On… ‘Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists’?
Posted: October 20, 2015 Filed under: Politics, Think Tank, War Room, White House | Tags: Alexis Tsipras, American Politics, Barack Obama, Cuba, Democratic Party (United States), DOJ, Domestic Terrorism Counsel, Eco-radicalism, Extremism, FBI, Hate crime, Joint session of the United States Congress, New America Foundation, Southern Poverty Law Cente, SPLC, Terrorism, United States, Violent Extremism Leave a comment
Going into Battle Facing the Wrong Way
Nick Short reports: Delivering remarks on domestic terrorism at an event co-sponsored by the George Washington University’s program on extremism and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin announced on Wednesday the creation of a new position within the Department of Justice (DOJ) aimed at investigating violent extremism.
“Nowhere to be found on the foundation’s list is the Chattanooga shooter, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, who killed five U.S. servicemen. Also absent on the list is John Muhammad, the Washington, D.C., sniper who killed at least 10 people in 2002 with his young accomplice, Lee Malvo…The reason for this is because the New America Foundation, like the Southern Poverty Law Center, defines threats not by reality but by a false narrative that selectively targets conservative groups.“
“We are here to talk about combating domestic terrorism, which the FBI has explained as ‘Americans attacking Americans based on U.S.-based extremist ideologies.’ The threat ranges from individuals motivated by anti-government animus, to eco-radicalism and racism,” stated Carlin. He continued: “Homegrown violent extremists can be motivated by any viewpoint on the full spectrum of hate. Anti-government views, racism, bigotry, anarchy and other despicable beliefs. When it comes to hate and intolerance, no single ideology governs.” Carlin then went on to mention the following: “as our SPLC colleagues can attest, racial hatred motivates many of the violent extremist attacks. The Attorney General noted this summer that these kinds of hate crimes are the original domestic terrorism. Among domestic extremist movements active in the United States, white supremacists are the most violent.”
The new position at the Justice Department, dubbed the “Domestic Terrorism Counsel,” will serve as the main point of contact for U.S. attorney offices nationwide and will identify “trends across cases, help shape strategy and analyze legal gaps that need to be closed,” stated Carlin. Yet, as Leo Hohmann of World Net Daily writes, “while the FBI has confirmed it has active ISIS investigations in all 50 states and Islamic-inspired attacks have occurred in recent years in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Garland, Texas, and Fort Hood, the Justice Department sees Islamic jihadists as no more dangerous than mentally ill actors such as Dylann Roof, the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooter who killed nine black Christians.” In fact, Hohmann notes, “Justice officials have indicated that home-grown ‘right wingers’ are possibly more numerous and dangerous than the jihadists. In announcing the new position Wednesday, Carlin referred to a study by the New America Foundation that found nearly twice as many Americans have been killed by ‘right-wing’ extremists since Sept. 11 than by Islamic terrorists.”
The New America Foundation lists the Charleston church shooting among 19 right-wing terrorist attacks, while the study only lists seven jihadist attacks that killed 26 people since Sept. 11. “Nowhere to be found on the foundation’s list is the Chattanooga shooter, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, who killed five U.S. servicemen. Also absent on the list is John Muhammad, the Washington, D.C., sniper who killed at least 10 people in 2002 with his young accomplice, Lee Malvo,” points out Hohmann. The reason for this is because the New America Foundation, like the Southern Poverty Law Center, defines threats not by reality but by a false narrative that selectively targets conservative groups.
The threats are defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which is working in conjunction with the Department of Justice to target those they label a part of the “radical right.” The SPLC labels organizations with conservative views as hate groups and has enjoyed premier access to our DOJ. The government watchdog agency Judicial Watch first exposed this in 2013 as they obtained emails from the Obama DOJ that revealed SPLC co-founder Morris Dees had conducted a “diversity training event” for the agency back in 2012. Furthermore, the Family Research Council, along with a coalition of conservative groups, exposed the wide-ranging influence of the SPLC as they have also provided the U.S. military with training supplies and briefings as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In fact, the FBI actually endorsed the SPLC as a source and listed it as a resource on its “hate crime web page.” Read the rest of this entry »
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