‘ACT OF TERROR:’ Mayor, NYPD Commissioner Say EIGHT Dead In Manhattan Attack, Suspect Alive But Injured
Posted: November 1, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Religion, Terrorism | Tags: Habibillaevic Saipov, Manhattan, New York, Truck, World Trade Center Leave a comment
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Suspect identified as 29-year old Sayfullo Habibillaevic Saipov.
‘Clock Boy’ Ahmed’s Cuckoo Bananas Dad Shares 9/11 ‘Truther’ Posts on Facebook
Posted: October 8, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 9/11 Commission, 9/11 conspiracy theories, 9/11 Truth movement, al Qaeda, Anwar al-Aulaqi, Conspiracy theory, Democratic Party (United States), English Language, Muslim, Seattle Seahawks, September 11 attacks, United States, United States Navy SEALs, War crime, World Trade Center Leave a commentInside Job? The post appeared as recently as Thursday morning but has since been taken down.
Merrill Hope reports: Last month, on September 12, Mohamed Elhassen Mohamed, father of Texas ‘Clock Boy’ Ahmed Mohamed, posted on Facebook a photo of the World Trade Center Twin Towers shrouded in raging smoke in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The photo appeared on his Sudanese National Reform party page on the day after the 9/11 anniversary.
The post appeared as recently as Thursday morning but has since been taken down. It sourced to the Sudanese Military Establishment and asserts a truther philosophy that 9/11 was an inside job, calling these “so-called” events a “rumor.”
Through the social media site’s Arabic translation, the post also describes 9/11 as “just an American industry media” that “some tried leveled terrorism ‘Islamist.” Conversely, it also alleges America deserved the Al Qaeda perpetrated attack, calling it the “egg that lays golden eggs for America has terrorism” that “came to her on a plate to invade Muslim countries.”
Qatar is Amazing!! https://t.co/alrZZ4195I
— Ahmed Mohamed (@IStandWithAhmed) October 6, 2015
Presently, Mohamed tours the Middle East with his clock-making son, but he is also a Sudanese Reform Party activist and the repeatedly failed Sudanese National Reform party candidate for president of that country, although he and his family reside in Irving, a Dallas suburb.
[Read the full text here, at Brietbart.com]
Two days after the 9/11 truther post, on Sept. 14, son Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for bringing in the unassigned homemade clock-in-a-box that appeared to be a suitcase timepiece hoax bomb to school district officials and local law enforcement, although charges were dropped.
Again, on Sept. 28, Mohamed’s National Reform Party Facebook page posted a 15 minute English language video chockful of 9/11 conspiracy theories insinuating the collapse of the Trade Center’s twin towers was because “explosives were placed in these buildings before the attacks.” Read the rest of this entry »
WTC Tribute in Light: Never Forget
Posted: September 12, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, U.S. News, War Room | Tags: 9-11, Firefighters, Houston, New York City, NYC, Police, Tribute in Light, World Trade Center, WTC Leave a commentToday marks the 14th anniversary of terrorist attacks in the US
Source: Houston’s MIX 96-5
NYC: Assistant Chief Gerard A. Barbara Looks Up at the Burning Towers of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
Posted: September 11, 2015 Filed under: History, War Room | Tags: Getty Images, Lower Manhattan, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York, New York City, One World Trade Center, September 11 attacks, The Pentagon, United States, World Trade Center 1 CommentAssistant Chief Gerard A. Barbara looks up at the burning towers of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 in New York City. Moments later he would go in, never to return. (Photo by David Handschuh/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
September 24, 2001 New Yorker Cover, Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly
Posted: September 11, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: 9/11, Art Spiegelman, Françoise Mouly, NYC, The New Yorker, World Trade Center Leave a commentUPDATE: 1 WTC Window Washers Rescued
Posted: November 12, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere | Tags: Business, Lung cancer, Manhattan, New York City Fire Department, New York Harbor, One World Trade Center, September 11 attacks, Staten Island, United States, World Trade Center Leave a commentPICTURE: @FDNY‘s rescue of the workers trapped on scaffolding outside 1 World Trade Center from @NBCNewYork pic.twitter.com/F6tlvGJ3nA
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) November 12, 2014
New York City Commemorates 9/11 Anniversary With Annual Tribute in Light
Posted: September 10, 2014 Filed under: History, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: Anthony Quintano, New York City, Oliver Darcy, September 11 attacks, TheBlaze, Tribute in Light, Twin Towers, Twitter, World Trade Center Leave a commentVia The Blaze‘s Oliver Darcy:
New York City commemorated the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Wednesday night, powering on nearly 100 7,000-watt xenon bulbs to illuminate into the sky two beams indicating where the Twin Towers once stood.
The powerful scene was captured by multiple photographers, including Recode editor Anthony Quintano. Read the rest of this entry »
[PHOTO] Empire State of Mind
Posted: September 7, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, History | Tags: American Dream, Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, New York City, Photography, Postcard, Statue of Liberty, World Trade Center Leave a commentView of the chrysler building from the empire state building
NYC’s Tribute in Light, for the Victims of 9/11, to Return this Year Starting at Sunset
Posted: September 2, 2014 Filed under: History, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: 9-11, Municipal Art Society, New York City, Pentagon, September 11 attacks, Tribute in Light, World Trade Center Leave a commentTribute in Light, for the victims of 9/11, will return this year from sunset Sept. 11 until dawn on Sept. 12 pic.twitter.com/xNxRDdZgcJ
— New York City Alerts (@NYCityAlerts) September 2, 2014
Frivolous Atheist Lawsuit Fails: U.S. Circuit Court Rules ‘Ground Zero Cross Can Stay’
Posted: July 28, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Law & Justice, U.S. News | Tags: al Qaeda, American Atheist, American Atheists, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York City, World Trade Center, World Trade Center cross 1 CommentForced by Courts to Endure Emotional Pain and Headaches from Looking at Crosses, Atheists Remain Undaunted, Vow to Seek New Targets for Additional Frivolous Lawsuits
(CNN) — A memorial cross at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York can remain at the newly-opened facility, an appeals court ruled Monday.

The makeshift steel cross at “Ground Zero” was the subject of a lawsuit.TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit found that the cross, located at ground zero, was “a symbol of hope” and historical in nature. It did not intentionally discriminate against a group of atheists who sued to have it removed, they ruled.
The court also rejected arguments the traditional Christian cross was an impermissible mingling of church and state.
NEWSEUM: FBI Turns 106 Years Old Today
Posted: July 25, 2014 Filed under: History, Law & Justice, Mediasphere | Tags: Attorney general, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Justice Department, Newseum, Theodore Roosevelt, United States Department of Justice, World Trade Center 1 CommentThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) turns 106 years old today. Before the FBI was established in 1908, investigations went through the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice lacked internal investigators for years, and any investigators needed were often hired detectives or Secret Services personnel.
Attorney General Charles Bonaparte wanted more control over investigations and disliked pulling personnel from other places that didn’t report to him. Bonaparte appointed special investigative agents within the Department of Justice in early 1908 to circumvent this issue. On July 26 of the same year he ordered agents to report to their chief examiner. This date marks the establishment of the bureau.
Then-president Theodore Roosevelt and Attorney General Bonaparte both suggested the FBI become a permanent bureau before their terms were over. The FBI has indeed followed countless investigations since its establishment. Although in its early years the FBI tackled mostly financial crimes, it has investigated gangsters, mobs and acts of terror and continues to do so. Read the rest of this entry »
ISIS Leader: ‘See You in New York’
Posted: June 14, 2014 Filed under: Global, U.S. News, War Room | Tags: Abu Dua, al-Baghdadi, Bloods, Camp Bucca, Crips, Daily Beast, Kenneth King, World Trade Center 1 CommentWhen Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi walked away from a U.S. detention camp in 2009, the future leader of ISIS issued some chilling final words to reservists from Long Island.

King figured that al-Baghdadi was just saying that he had known all along that it was all essentially a joke, that he had only to wait and he would be freed to go back to what he had been doing.
“Like, ‘This is no big thing, I’ll see you on the block,’” King says.
King had not imagined that in less that five years he would be seeing news reports that al-Baghdadi was the leader of ISIS, the ultra-extremist army that was sweeping through Iraq toward Baghdad.
“I’m not surprised that it was someone who spent time in Bucca but I’m a little surprised it was him,” King says. “He was a bad dude, but he wasn’t the worst of the worst.”
King allows that along with being surprised he was frustrated on a very personal level.
“We spent how many missions and how many soldiers were put at risk when we caught this guy and we just released him,” King says.
During the four years that al-Baghdadi was in custody, there had been no way for the Americans to predict what a danger he would become. Al-Baghdadi hadn’t even been assigned to Compound 14, which was reserved for the most virulently extremist Sunnis.
“The worst of the worst were kept in one area,” King says. “I don’t recall him being in that group.”
Al-Baghdadi was also apparently not one of the extremists who presided over Sharia courts that sought to enforce fundamentalist Islamic law among their fellow prisoners. One extremist made himself known after the guards put TV sets outside the 16-foot chain-link fence that surrounded each compound. An American officer saw a big crowd form in front of one, but came back a short time later to see not a soul.
“Some guy came up and shooed them all away because TV was Western,” recalls the officer, who asked not to be named. “So we identified who that guy was, put a report in his file, kept him under observation for other behaviors.” Read the rest of this entry »
BREAKING: Osama Bin Laden’s Son-in-Law Convicted of Conspiring to Kill Americans
Posted: March 26, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Law & Justice, War Room | Tags: Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Ayman al Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden, September 11 attacks, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, World Trade Center 2 CommentsSulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden‘s son-in-law, was convicted on Wednesday of conspiring to kill Americans.
Rot in cell!
For the NY Daily News, Daniel Beekman reports: Jurors found Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law guilty Wednesday of providing support to terrorists and conspiring to kill Americans as an Al Qaeda spokesman around the time of the 9/11 attacks.
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, 48, spewed hateful speeches alongside Bin Laden in several Al Qaeda propaganda videos filmed shortly after the attacks, including one made outside a mountain cave in Afghanistan on Sept. 12, 2001, the day after the Twin Towers fell.
It took the 12 jurors about a day to reach their verdict in Manhattan Federal Court and the defendant now faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
We Told You So: After Westgate, Interpol Chief Ponders ‘ Hmm…What about an Armed Citizenry?’
Posted: October 22, 2013 Filed under: Law & Justice, Self Defense | Tags: ABC News, al Qaeda, Interpol, Nairobi, Noble, Ronald Noble, United States, World Trade Center 3 Comments
Kenya Civilians who had been hiding during a gun battle hold their hands in the air as a precautionary measure before being searched by armed police leading them to safety, inside the Westgate Mall, Sept. 21, 2013.
Jonathan Kalan/AP Photo
Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said today the U.S. and the rest of the democratic world is at a security crossroads in the wake of last month’s deadly al-Shabab attack at a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya – and suggested an answer could be in arming civilians.
In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Noble said there are really only two choices for protecting open societies from attacks like the one on Westgate mall where so-called “soft targets” are hit: either create secure perimeters around the locations or allow civilians to carry their own guns to protect themselves. Read the rest of this entry »
Firefighter tells story behind iconic moment with George W. Bush
Posted: September 11, 2013 Filed under: History | Tags: Bob Beckwith, Bush, George W. Bush, New York City, New York City Fire Department, September 11 attacks, World Trade Center 1 Comment
President George W. Bush embraces firefighter Bob Beckwith while standing in front of the collapsed World Trade Center
Bob Beckwith, a retired New York City firefighter, is one of the best-known faces of the rescue efforts in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001.
The photo of him wearing his old fire helmet, standing alongside then President George W. Bush atop the ash-covered remains of a fire truck, became legendary. It graced the cover of the next day’s New York Post and, later, Time magazine.
It also catapulted the retiree into the nation’s spotlight. Read the rest of this entry »
NYPD Releases New Aerial Photos of World Trade Center Attack
Posted: September 11, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Associated Press, Manhattan, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York, New York City, September 11 attacks, Woolworth Building, World Trade Center Leave a commentNEW YORK – A trove of aerial photographs of the collapsing World Trade Center was widely released this week, offering a rare and chilling view from the heavens of the burning twin towers and the apocalyptic shroud of smoke and dust that settled over the city. SLIDESHOW
The images were taken from a police helicopter — the only photographers allowed in the airspace near the skyscrapers on Sept. 11, 2001. They were obtained by ABC after it filed a Freedom of Information Act request last year with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the federal agency that investigated the collapse.
The chief curator of the planned Sept. 11 museum pronounced the pictures “a phenomenal body of work.” Read the rest of this entry »
Twenty Years after the WTC Bombing
Posted: February 27, 2013 Filed under: War Room | Tags: 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Egypt, Islam, Lars Hedegaard, Middle East, Omar Abdel Rahman, United States, World Trade Center Leave a commentToday is the 20th anniversary of the World Trade Center bombing. It also marks three weeks since the attempted murder of Lars Hedegaard, the intrepid Danish champion of free speech. These events are not unrelated.
Back in 1993, there was a tireless effort to limn the WTC bombers as wanton killers. They were, we were to understand, bereft of any coherent belief system, unrepresentative of any mainstream construction of Islam. In reality, though, they were devout Muslim operatives who belonged to a jihadist cell formed in the New York area by Omar Abdel Rahman — whose notoriety as the shadowy “Blind Sheikh” obscured the basis of his profound influence over Islamists across the globe.
Sheikh Abdel Rahman is an internationally renowned Islamic jurist, having earned a doctorate in the jurisprudence of sharia — Islam’s societal framework and legal code — from Egypt’s al-Azhar University, the center of Sunni Islamic learning for over a millennium. Blind from early youth and plagued by several other maladies, Abdel Rahman was physically incapable of building a bomb, hijacking a jetliner, carrying out an assassination — in short, of performing any blood-soaked activity that would be useful to a terrorist organization . . . other than leading it.
It was nothing other than Abdel Rahman’s indisputable mastery of Islamic doctrine, and hence his capacity to give present-day vitality to a seventh-century summons to holy war, that vaulted him to the forefront of the jihad.
The World Trade Center bombing was Islamic supremacism’s declaration of war on the United States. It was a blunt statement by the savage shock troops of a worldwide movement that America — “the head of the snake,” as the Blind Sheikh called us — could be struck at home, right in the beating heart of economic liberty.
Despite serial atrocities, thousands of deaths, and a decade of war, we are today more willfully blind to the reason we were attacked than we were back in 1993 — back when our ignorance might have been excused by our homeland’s seeming invulnerability to the scourge of jihadist terror. Regardless of our reluctance to see it, mainstream Islam — the dynamic Islam of the Middle East, unadulterated by incentives to moderate, at least for a time, while settling in non-Muslim lands — is aggressively hegemonic. As proclaimed by another iconic supremacist, Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, “It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated.”
And to dominate for a very specific reason. Supremacists are not the irrational savages we have been so desperate for two decades to portray them as. Whether the jihad terrorizes by explosives, suffocates by the systematic subjugation of women and persecution of religious minorities in Islamic countries, or infiltrates by stealthily using liberty to undermine liberty in the West, the mission is always coherent and always the same: the imposition of sharia.
The rationale of jihadist terror is to diminish our resolve to resist the gradual erosion of freedom and the relentless demands of Islamists — especially, Islamists of the Brotherhood variety. After the Blind Sheikhs and the bin Ladens have softened up the target, it is the Brothers who beguile us. Impeccably well-mannered and wearing neatly tailored suits, they flack for Hamas and maintain, straight-faced, that free speech is not so much a right to condemn their totalitarian ideology as a responsibility to suppress examination of it.
In that ideology, the implementation of classical sharia is the necessary precondition for Islamizing a society. Sharia is the architecture for a global caliphate. This is why Egypt’s president, Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood chieftain, promised that when elected he would birth a new constitution enshrining “the sharia, then the sharia, and finally the sharia” — a promise on which he has followed through. This is the utopia of all Islamists, be they terrorists, or faux moderates who proclaim their willingness to pursue totalitarian ends by “peaceful political” means, or the Muslim masses who celebrate 9/11 and vote Brotherhood parties into power.
We did not want to acknowledge the sharia logic of the terrorists 20 years ago. We were told then that Islam had nothing to do with attacks on the West incited by Muslim jurists citing Muslim scripture.
There is no selling that fairy tale today, not after thousands of Americans have lost their lives. So the lie has become more aggressive, like Islam itself. While poseurs such as John Brennan — President Obama’s counterterrorism czar and nominee for CIA director — distort the meaning of jihad, Islamists and their fellow travelers seek not merely to suppress by intimidation but to criminalize by law the objective examination of Islamic supremacism.
We’ve gone from willful blindness to coerced silence. We see the wages of it in the Middle East as supremacists, under the guise of a “springtime” for freedom, strangle the region with sharia. As I detail in Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy (my e-book about the “Arab Spring,” which was released as a paperback today), the path taken by the Muslim Brotherhood rulers of Egypt follows — at a dizzying pace — the trail already blazed by Turkey’s Islamists, who are transforming a once-democratic, pro-Western society into an authoritarian sharia state.
Worse, we see the wages of coerced silence in the West, where the campaign to demagogue truth-tellers as “Islamophobes” — meaning, as racists — has devolved into an Islamist effort, supported by the Obama administration, to make speech about Islam a violation of international law.
That is where Lars Hedegaard comes in. Persecuted in his homeland for purported “hate speech” — his kangaroo conviction for noticing sharia’s assault on liberty was finally overturned by an appellate court — Hedegaard miraculously survived a point-blank shooting in Copenhagen on February 5. His assailant’s identity remains unknown, but not his assailant’s motive: the sharia mandate to suppress negative criticism of Islam by any means necessary.
When a nation defends itself from sharia encroachment, it is smeared as being “at war with Islam” and its truth-tellers are smeared as racists. But as Hedegaard wrote last week in the Wall Street Journal, “we are not.” Instead,
we simply insist on our right to defend freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and individual and sexual equality. We also insist on our right to criticize religious fanatics of every stripe who try to impose theocratic laws and customs on free societies.
When I was a young Marxist during the 1960s and ’70s, these opinions used to be described as characteristic of the political left. Nowadays the defenders of such positions are routinely labeled as right-wing or as belonging to the “extreme right.” Meanwhile, what used to be the left is cozying up to holy men who want adulterous women to be stoned, homosexuals to be hanged, apostates from Islam to be killed, and 1,200-year-old laws emanating from somewhere in the Arabian desert to replace our free constitutions.
It is as true today as it was on February 26, 1993: Freedom cannot defend itself. It requires vigilant defense by culturally confident people who see their heritage of liberty as worthy of passionate defense. The Sheikh Abdel Rahmans of the world do not lack for cultural confidence. They see themselves as winning — they’ve seen it that way every day for the last 20 years.
Are they prophetic? When the West responds to the World Trade Center bombing and the war it launched by shunning their Lars Hedegaards, rather than emulating them, can it be otherwise?
— Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the executive director of the Philadelphia Freedom Center. He is the author, most recently, of Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy, which is published by Encounter Books.