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The BBC has been very slow/non-specific about the el-Bakraoui brothers’ previous criminal history, first saying merely that they had a criminal record and then just later saying that one had committed robbery with a firearm. This is something like 14 hours after it was first reported that both of their crimes involved assault rifles.
Islamic State conflict: Iraqi forces launch operation to retake Mosul (BBC, Mar 24, 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35889937
“Iraqi forces have launched an operation to retake the northern city of Mosul from so-called Islamic State (IS), officials say.
The first part of the long-awaited offensive has recaptured several villages, the Iraqi military has said.
The operation has been supported by air strikes from the US-led coalition, Kurdish Peshmerga troops and a Shia-dominated paramilitary force.
Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, has been under IS rule since June 2014.
An offensive to retake the city, where two million people lived before IS took over, has been in preparation for months.
Officials say the aim is to seize it within the year, but experts have questioned the ability of Iraqi forces to do so…”
Islamic State conflict: Syrian forces ‘enter Palmyra’ (BBC, Mar 24, 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35888723
“Syrian government forces have entered the ancient town of Palmyra seized by Islamic State (IS) militants last year, state TV has said.
However, a monitoring group said the fighting was still outside the city, Reuters news agency reports.
Officials launched an offensive to retake the city earlier this month, backed by Russian air strikes.
The city is situated in a strategically important area between Damascus and the contested eastern city of Deir al-Zour.
IS seized the ruins of Palmyra, a Unesco World Heritage site, and the adjoining modern town in May. It subsequently destroyed two 2,000-year-old temples, an arch and funerary towers, drawing global outrage.
The jihadist group, which has also demolished several world-renowned pre-Islamic sites in neighbouring Iraq, believes that such structures are idolatrous…”
Bomb Near Syrian Border Kills Lebanese Soldier, Wounds 3 (abcnews, Mar 24, 2016)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/bomb-syrian-border-kills-lebanese-soldier-wounds-37893600
“A Lebanese army official says a bomb has targeted a military vehicle in eastern Lebanon near the border with Syria, killing one soldier and wounding three.
The official says the bombing occurred on the edge of the town of Arsal in the Atta Valley on Thursday. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
The Islamic State group and al-Qaida’s branch in Syria known as the Nusra Front control parts of that volatile border area.
The Nusra Front and IS abducted 29 soldiers and policemen in Arsal in 2014, when they briefly overran the town. Four of the soldiers have been killed in captivity.
The Nusra Front in December freed over a dozen soldiers while IS has refused to negotiate over the nine captives it holds.”
Atlanta airport evacuated as U.S. on alert after Brussels attacks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Atlanta’s airport was briefly evacuated on Wednesday over a suspicious package while U.S. law enforcement agencies and travelers were on edge a day after deadly suicide bombings by Islamist militants rocked Brussels.
Passengers were ordered out of public areas of the domestic terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the United States’ busiest by passenger volume, but the site was quickly cleared and operations resumed, airport officials said.
Parts of Denver airport were also evacuated on Tuesday, hours after at least 31 people were killed and 271 wounded in attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train, as airports across the United States tightened security.
U.S. officials were trying to find Americans missing after the attacks, which the officials said injured about a dozen U.S. citizens including three Mormon missionaries, a U.S. Air Force airman, and four members of his family.
Among those missing were U.S. government personnel, a State Department spokesman told reporters in Washington.
http://www.oann.com/atlanta-airport-evacuated-day-after-deadly-brussels-bombings/
BELGIUM – Muslim woman with hijab at Brussels memorial site rips apart, hides Israeli flag
euronews – “Terror has no religion” – Brussels mourns
Maybe terror doesn’t but terrorists do.
Greece: Muslims block highway connecting to Macedonia in protest
Greece: Idomeni – Muslims block highway demanding open borders
Greece: Old train converted into makeshift accommodation in Idomeni
Greece – Idomeni -Muslims show support for victims of Brussels attacks
Christian priest abducted by Islamic extremists ‘to be crucified on Good Friday’ (express, Mar 24, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/655262/Christian-priest-abducted-Islamic-extremists-crucified-Good-Friday-reports
“A CHRISTIAN priest captured and imprisoned by Islamic extremists is set to be crucified on Good Friday, it has been claimed.
Fears are growing for Father Tom Uzhunnalil after he was bundled into a truck by four militants earlier this month.
Gunmen killed 16 people when they stormed an old people’s home in Aden in war-ravaged Yemen, including a number of nuns.
Father Uzhunnalil fortunately survived the attack but was abducted by an unknown jihadi group during their violent rampage.
The sickening raid on a defenceless care home bears all the hallmarks of a plot by Islamic State (ISIS), although no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
He has clung to life over the past three weeks despite being brutally tortured….”
RT – ISIS, oil & Turkey: RT films trove of jihadist docs detailing illegal trade with Ankara
An RT Documentary crew filming in northern Syria has seen Islamic State (IS, ISIS/ISIL) documents abandoned by retreating terrorists and found by the Kurds that, along with captured IS recruits, provide a stunning insight into the alleged Turkey-IS oil trade links.
Shortly after the outbreak of the Syrian war, IS became a game-changer in Iraq and, in particular, Syria. Beheadings on camera, mass killings, and enslavement, as well as apparent connections to the Paris and Brussels attacks had become synonymous with the terror group, giving it wide publicity.
Running a viable militant organization with such remarkable capabilities would be impossible without some logistical and financial support from the outside.
Turkey, which has been actively engaged in the Syrian war since the outset, has repeatedly denied claims that it is aiding IS. However, while Ankara insists that it is the jihadist group’s sworn enemy, facts on the ground often tell a different story.
RT has spoken to several witnesses who were involved in Islamic State’s trade activities and accessed the terror group’s documents, which provide insight into how and where foreign militants enter Syria to join the terrorist “state.”
https://www.rt.com/news/336967-isis-files-oil-turkey-exclusive/
video ( 8 min 05 )
Muslim Dervishes in Kosovo celebrate Newroz
Kosovo dervishes took part in a ceremony marking Newroz on Tuesday at a prayer room in the town of Prizren.
Channel 4
CNN – U.S. Muslim community reacts to Ted Cruz’s comments
What happened to the 100% Polish-American population there?
When the factories moved to right to work states they followed their jobs south.
FOX News – What’s needed to keep US safe from the next terror attack?
Fox News – Gingrich: When will our leaders realize we are at war?
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Bakraui Brothers May Have Planned to Blow Up Belgium’s Nuclear Power Plants (sputniknews, Mar 24, 2016)
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160324/1036876833/belgium-terror-nuclear.html
“Belgian police gave testimony suggesting that a larger attack against Belgian nuclear power plants may have been averted by the capture of Salah Abdeslam, which made other suicide bombers more frantic in carrying out their plans.
The brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui may have aimed to blow up a nuclear power plant in Brussels, Belgian newspaper Derniere Heure reported.
According to the newspaper, the police in December had seize a video shortly after the attacks in Paris, which showed that Daesh may have been monitoring movements of the chief of the Belgian nuclear program through a hidden camera outside of his house.
It is not clear how much planning Daesh put into the operation. The competence of the Belgian police force in dealing with terrorist threats was put under scrutiny months before the attacks in Brussels….”
I’ll bet you have never been to see a nuclear plant up close. When I was working in KC the company I worked for was supplying parts to the Palo Verde plant and we went there on a business trip. It would take a backpack nuke (yes they do exist) to crack the containment building, now destroying the control center would be possible but I would want about 10 men on the assault team.
US cyber-attacks: Iranians charged by Department of Justice (BBC, Mar 24, 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35893040
“The US has charged seven Iranians for allegedly hacking nearly 50 financial companies and a New York dam.
The attacks, which occurred from 2011 to 2013, are believed to have been co-ordinated.
The US Department of Justice revealed an indictment against the seven Iranians believed to be working for their government.
The indictment calls them “experienced computer hackers” and officials said the attacks were a “wake-up call”…”
Iranians Charged With Cyber Attacks on U.S. Banks, Dam
Seven Iranian computer experts linked to the government in Tehran were charged Thursday with cyber attacks against American banks and a dam in New York.
The FBI released mug shots of the alleged hackers named in the indictment as the charges were announced at a Washington press conference.
They worked for private security companies that have performed work for the Iranian government, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, officials said. But U.S. officials stopped short of accusing Iranian authorities or intelligence of being behind the attacks.
FBI Director James Comey said the suspects may be out of reach while they are in Iran, but the indictments should have them looking over their shoulder if they travel.
“The world is small and our memories are long,” he said. “We never say never.”
Forty-six major financial institutions were targeted with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks — in which ackers gain remote control of hundreds of computers and servers and use them to flood a target’s server with data, clogging it up so that it can’t receive legitimate traffic.
The attacks in 2011, 2012 and 2013 stopped hundreds of thousands of customers from accessing their accounts and cost the businesses millions of dollars as they raced to protect their servers, the feds charged.
Targets included Bank of America, the New York Stock Exchange, Capital One and ING and PNC Banks, according to court papers.
“These attacks were relentless. They were systematic. And they were widespread,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch said.
The hackers allegedly also broke into the control system for a small dam in the suburbs of New York, the indictment says.
Lynch said that because of maintenance, the Bowman Dam in Rye was not connected to the computer system, but if it had been, the intrusion would have been “a clear and present danger to the public health and safety of Americans.”
The seven Iranians indicted by a federal grand jury in Manhattan were identified as Ahmad Fathi, Hamid Firoozi, Amin Shokohi, Sadegh Ahmadzadegan, Omid Ghaffarinia, Sina Keissar, Nader Saedi.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/iranians-charged-hacking-attacks-u-s-banks-dam-n544801
New video of the Brussels airport terror attack from a taxi driver searching for his son among the dead and wounded.
http://www.msn.com/en-sg/video/news/new-video-of-brussels-airport-terror-attack-aftermath/vi-BBqQCd5
http://www.rtl.be/info/video/574240.aspx
Harrowing new video of horrific aftermath moments after suicide bomber hit Brussels airport surfaces online
DRAMATIC new footage has emerged of the terrible aftermath of the Brussels Airport bombing – showing the wrecked departures hall strewn with dead bodies, body parts, debris and luggage.
The horrific new video, which opens to the shouts and screams of injured victims, was shot by a taxi driver who rushed to the airport to look for his son.
The mobile footage shows him desperately picking his way through the debris in what resembles a war zone
Parts of the building are still on fire.
At one point, as the cabbie heads towards the fast food kiosk where his son was working, he passes a crying baby dressed in a blue coat, sitting on what appears to be the body of its dead mother.
Firefighters are seen in the background lifting people on to stretchers.
As he continues through the building he comes across an elderly woman who is still trying to find her way out.
When the man reaches the fast food kiosk he calls for his son but finds the place abandoned.
Outside the terminal a woman is seen tending to a bloodied older woman.
At the end of the video viewers are told the taxi driver was later reunited with his son, who was safe and well.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7023969/Baby-and-dead-mum-at-Brussels-airport.html
Brussels attacker was deported from Turkey twice: Turkish official
One of the attackers in the Brussels suicide bombings was deported from Turkey twice last year and the authorities warned their European counterparts that they suspected him of being a militant fighter, two Turkish officials said on Thursday.
The first official said Ibrahim El Bakraoui’s initial deportation in July had been based on police suspicions that he was a militant fighter, but no crime was committed in Turkey, describing his expulsion as an “administrative deportation”.
“The police were looking at him and came to the conclusion that he may be a foreign fighter. He was picked up in (the southern town of) Gaziantep,” said the official, declining to be named because of the sensitivities of the case.
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Ibrahim El Bakraoui had been deported on July 14, 2015, and that Belgium had subsequently ignored a warning that he was a militant.
Bakraoui is one of two brothers named by Belgium as responsible for the attacks that killed at least 31 people in Brussels on Tuesday and were claimed by the Islamic State group. Both brothers are believed to have died in the attacks.
The second Turkish government official told Reuters that Bakraoui had entered Turkey for a second time on Aug. 11 though Antalya airport on the Mediterranean coast and was again deported two weeks later, on Aug. 25.
The official did not specify where he was deported to on the second occasion.
Turkey’s pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper said Turkish police had detained Bakraoui after ascertaining that he planned to go to conflict areas in Syria.
The newspaper also said his brother, Khalid, had entered Turkey on Nov. 4, 2014, through Istanbul’s Ataturk airport and was monitored by security forces before leaving the country again 10 days later. That, the newspaper said, was more than a year before Belgium issued a notice for his arrest.
Turkish officials could not immediately confirm that Khalid had also been in Turkey.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/195790/World/Region/Brussels-attacker-was-deported-from-Turkey-twice-T.aspx
After Brussels attacks, U.S. seeks to seal Islamic State’s escape route from Syria
The Brussels bombings have accelerated U.S. efforts to close off the last remaining Islamic State route out of Syria through Turkey, which officials suspect was the main thoroughfare for militants who carried out deadly attacks in Belgium and France.
On Wednesday, top U.S. diplomats pressed Turkey to embrace a proposal to rely on American-backed Kurdish fighters to shut down the highway, which the militant group has used to send dozens of attackers across Europe.
In the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s attack, Western officials expressed increasing alarm about the continued flow of Islamic State extremists across this 60-mile stretch of the Turkey-Syria border.
But Turkey has long opposed working with the Kurdish forces it considers terrorists. That, along with its renewed push for the creation of a safe zone in Syria, has so far kept the two sides apart on any agreement. Islamic State has been able to capitalize on the impasse to keep sending fighters in-and-out of Syria, U.S. officials said.
Turkey has long pressed the U.S. military to create a safe zone in northern Syria as a sanctuary for people fleeing battle zones and as a base for friendly rebel forces. President Barack Obama has repeatedly dismissed the idea as impractical, especially after the Russian military sent advanced jets and anti-aircraft systems to Syria.
With the two sides still at odds over the safe-zone idea, some Western officials now say the only viable option for pushing Islamic State out of the area is to rely on U.S.-backed fighters that Turkey reviles — the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/after-brussels-attacks-us-seeks-to-seal-islamic-states-escape-route-from-syria-2016-03-23?mod=mw_share_twitter
Turks are complicit, have been since Day 1.
Brussels Attacks: Bombers Filmed Nuclear Researcher, Expert Says
The brothers behind this week’s Brussels bombings also spied on a top nuclear researcher and hoped to build a so-called “dirty bomb,” an expert involved in a probe into ISIS threats told NBC News on Thursday.
Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui were responsible for planting a hidden camera outside the Belgian researcher’s house, according to Claude Moniquet, a French former intelligence official who was hired to investigate potential plots targeting Europe’s nuclear sector.
This camera produced more than 10 hours of film showing the comings and goings of senior researcher at a Belgian nuclear center and his family — footage that was seized during a Belgian raid in November, officials announced last month.
Moniquet, who is CEO of the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center private consultancy, revealed to NBC News on Thursday that the El Bakraoui brothers were behind that failed plot.
“The terrorist cell … naively believed they could use him to penetrate a lab to obtain nuclear material to make a dirty bomb,” he said.
While the plot “did not happen” the investigation confirmed that it was the el Bakraoui brothers who “put a camera in front of the house to take the images.”
Belgium’s Federal Agency for Nuclear Control confirmed to NBC News on Thursday that the nuclear expert who was spied on was “one of the top researchers” at the SCKCEN Belgian nuclear research center in Mol, 45 miles northeast of Brussels.
“If terrorists are filming one of the top guys in the research center then it is very serious,” FANC spokesman Lodewijk van Bladel said. “It means they are planning to do something afterwards with that information … I don’t think they going to make a family movie.”
Bladel would not comment on the identity of the perpetrators due to the ongoing investigation.
Following Tuesday’s attacks in Brussels, extra troops were deployed at Belgium’s Doel and Tihange nuclear plants and all non-essential staff were allowed to go home.
These facilities would be operating at this level of reduced staffing for the foreseeable future to ensure no unauthorized personnel could gain access, a spokesman for Belgium’s Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC) told Reuters on Tuesday.
Experts believe the brothers spied on the researcher, who has not been identified for his own safety, and planned to blackmail him to acquire dangerous material.
“We can imagine that the terrorists might want to kidnap someone or kidnap his family,” Nele Scheerlinck, another spokeswoman for FANC, said in February after the footage was first revealed.
The researcher worked at a center which stored a “significant portion of the world’s supply of radioisotopes,” according to the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C.
These isotopes are used in hospitals and factories around the world but can also be used to make a so-called “dirty bomb” — a device that could spread radioactive material across a wide area.
Ibrahim, 29, was one of the attackers who blew themselves up at Brussels airport. Just over an hour later, his 27-year-old brother Khalid carried out a suicide bombing at a metro station in the city. At least 30 people died and hundreds more were injured.
They also provided a safe house and weapons to the men who carried out attacks in Paris on Nov. 13.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/brussels-attacks-bombers-filmed-nuclear-researcher-expert-says-n544776
The researcher is a fellow raghead.
IS group video calls for ‘jihad’ after Brussels blasts
Islamic State (IS) group released a video on social media on Thursday calling on its followers to claim victory and wage ‘jihad’ after deadly blasts in Brussels this week that the group said it had carried out.
In the footage, IS noted that Belgium was part of the coalition fighting militants in the Middle East.
It featured the training of Belgian militants suspected in the Nov. 13 shooting and suicide bombing rampage by IS that killed 130 people in Paris.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/9/195809/World/International/IS-group-video-calls-for-jihad-after-Brussels-blas.aspx
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WATCH: New ISIS Video ‘The Exile of Islam’ Praises Brussels Attacks
http://heavy.com/news/2016/03/new-isis-islamic-state-news-pictures-videos-the-exile-of-islam-and-brussels-attacks-belgium-belgian-terrorist-attacks-zaventem-airport-maelbeek-metro-station-molenbeek-europe-english-translation-subti/
ARGENTINA – ‘Protesters in Buenos Aires burn US flags against Obama’s visit’
London ‘preparing for up to 10 simultaneous terror attacks’ in wake of Paris shootings
Police in London have reportedly been ordered to prepare for as many as 10 terror attacks happening at once across the capital, in a dramatic escalation of the capital’s readiness in the wake of the Paris shootings.
Quoting a Government minister with knowledge of the proposals for enhanced security, the Sunday Times reported that police had made cracking down on firearms a top priority.
It comes after an alleged gang of gunrunners appeared in court charged with smuggling an “evil” shipment of 22 Czech-made assault rifles and nine sub-machine guns into Britain from Eastern Europe.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-preparing-for-10-simultaneous-terror-attacks-in-wake-of-paris-a6942861.html
On Steynonline today :
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Oh, well. Who needs bayonets? We have untold battalions of tilty-headed wankers wielding hashtags and candles and flowers and teddy bears and unending reprises of “Imagine”. Canadian reader Maryann writes:
Mark ,
Upon hearing about Brussels, and how the big European landmarks have been lit up in honour of the tragedy (barf) I came up with a great new business idea. I will open a PR/ Advertising agency geared soely to post terrorist attack sentimentality stunts, like you know designing the colours banners,lighting effects hashtags etc.
A country or city simply hires us and we take care of all that stuff even hiring mimes or piano players to play ‘Give peace a chance’, ‘Let’s stand together’ type songs in public squares etc.. Make a killing!
Maryann
Burlington, Ontario
http://www.steynonline.com/7494/the-one-stop-shop-for-all-your-terror
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Eric Zemmour on RTL
Obama Admin Engaged in Secret Talks to Pay Iran Nearly $2 Billion
Officials admit delays in informing Congress, say more payments to come
The Obama administration has spent three years engaged in secret talks with Iran that resulted in the payment of nearly $2 billion in taxpayer funds to the Islamic Republic, with more payouts likely to come in the future, according to a recent letter issued by the State Department and obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.
The administration’s disclosure came in response to an inquiry launched in January by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.), who was seeking further information about the Obama administration’s payment of $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds to Iran, which many viewed as a “ransom payment” for Iran’s release that month of several U.S. hostages.
The administration’s official response to Pompeo was sent earlier this week, just days after a Free Beacon report detailing a months-long State Department effort to stall the lawmaker’s inquiry.
“We apologize for the delay in responding,” Julia Frifield, an assistant secretary for legislative affairs, states in the letter’s opening.
Obama administration officials first began talks to settle a number of outstanding legal claims leveled against the United States by Iran in 2014. The administration predicts that more taxpayer-funded payments are likely to be granted to the Islamic Republic in the future, according to the letter.
Frifield in her letter goes on to defend the $1.7 billion payment to Iran and discloses that the administration is open to providing Tehran with more money if it is willing to settle these decades-old legal disputes with the United States.
“We are confident that this was a good settlement for the American taxpayer,” the State Department said.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-secret-talks-pay-iran-2-billion/
Hizbullah’s Growing Threat Against U.S. National Security Interests in the Middle East
?In-depth testimony on the group’s ongoing criminal, terrorist, and military activity in the region and beyond, including the implications of a potential cash influx from Iran as international sanctions are relaxed.
Excerpts:
Hizbullah continues to present a significant threat to U.S. interests both in the Middle East and, as events in Europe and South America indicate, closer to home. Iran is Hizbullah’s primary benefactor, giving the militant group $200 million a year in addition to weapons, training, intelligence, and logistical assistance. Increased Iranian spending in the wake of the Iran deal is likely to benefit Hizbullah’s regional and international operations.
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/hezbollahs-growing-threat-against-u.s.-national-security-interests-in-the-m
Download the PDF:
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/testimony/LevittTestimony20160322.pdf
Not just the Middle East, there is a Hezbollah camp in Mexico 50 miles from the Texas border and there are suppose to be a whole lot of their fighters in the US.
BREITBART – NBC’s Jansing: ‘It’s Not a Religious Calling’ For ‘Many of the People Involved’ In Brussels and Similar Attacks
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NBC News Senior White House Correspondent Chris Jansing stated that “many of the people who are involved in these attacks now, it’s not a religious calling for them. They essentially are gang members” while reporting from Brussels, Belgium on the recent attacks there on Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Jansing said, “Here’s another thing that we’re seeing a lot of, many of the people who are involved in these attacks now, it’s not a religious calling for them. They essentially are gang members. Bakraoui, for example, Ibrahim, who was the older brother, he once took a Kalashnikov rifle and shot at police during the course of a robbery, and was sentenced, six years ago, to nine years in prison. It’s not exactly clear how he got out. All of this tied together by Salah Abdeslam. He, of course, was the guy who was on the run for four months after what happened in Paris, was arrested on Friday. Police now believe that it’s possible that all of this was moved up, that they had planned these attacks, but they moved them up, because they started to get nervous after Salah Abdeslam was taken into custody, and in fact, officials believed he would have taken part in these attacks, had he not been arrested. So that’s what you saw on the computer. You saw what they’re calling this kind of last will and testament by Ibrahim Bakraoui saying, essentially, that they had to move along, that they were worried about going to prison, and there was sort of an allusion in that note to the fact that he didn’t want to be in a prison cell next to Salah Abdeslam.”
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/03/24/nbcs-jansing-its-not-a-religious-calling-for-many-of-the-people-involved-in-brussels-and-similar-attacks/
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Chris Jansing + Democrat Loretta Sanchez on MSNBC: Brussels terrorist attacks
We must not isolate the American Muslim community; partnering with the Muslim community is our most effective tool to combat extremism.
Fox News – Officials: ISIS threat in Europe greater than once thought
Now comes the cover up, eventually these fools will be punished for their crimes against humanity.
Obama faces unprecedented Saudi criticism ahead of summit (ahram, mar 24, 2016)
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/195783/World/Region/Obama-faces-unprecedented-Saudi-criticism-ahead-of.aspx
“Blunt assessments by Barack Obama of longtime US ally Saudi Arabia have triggered unprecedented Saudi criticism of the president as he prepares to visit for a key summit with Gulf allies next month.
Obama’s comments, published in the April edition of US magazine The Atlantic, have met with a chorus of outrage across the kingdom’s tightly controlled media and the pan-Arab newspapers it owns.
One of Saudi Arabia’s most recognisable faces in the West, former ambassador to Washington Prince Turki al-Faisal, has helped lead the charge.
After seven decades of a “special relationship” in which criticism has generally been voiced privately, the US president’s public chiding has been seen as a betrayal.
His call for Riyadh to “share” the Middle East with its bitter regional rival Tehran and end proxy wars in Iraq, Syria and Yemen infuriated Saudi leaders, who feel encircled by clients of Shia Iran.
His criticism of the kingdom for exporting its fundamentalist “Wahhabist” version of Islam to other Muslim countries struck at the very heart of the ruling family’s legitimacy.
“I don’t think any US president has ever been so outspoken about Saudi Arabia,” said Toby Matthiesen, a Middle East specialist at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.
“This is really unprecedented,” he added, calling Obama’s views “embarrassing” for the kingdom.
Mohammed El Oifi, a specialist in Arab media at Sorbonne Nouvelle university in Paris, said that Obama’s comments about “Wahhabism” attacked the very foundations of Saudi legitimacy…..”
‘Hundreds of thousands’ of migrants in Libya seeking to come to Europe: French minister (ahram, Mar 24, 2016)
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/195763/World/Region/Hundreds-of-thousands-of-migrants-in-Libya-seeking.aspx
“French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Thursday that some 800,000 migrants are in Libya hoping to cross to Europe.
Le Drian said in an interview with Europe 1 radio that “hundreds of thousands” of migrants were in Libya, having fled conflict and poverty in the Middle East and elsewhere, adding that the figure of 800,000 was “about right”.”
Pope washes the feet of three Muslim refugees
Channel 4- Brussels bombers: inside the flat of the El Bakraoui brother
First suspect charged with sexual assault in Cologne (thelocal, Mar 24, 2016)
http://www.thelocal.de/20160324/first-suspect-charged-with-sexual-assault-in-cologne
“Almost three months since the wave of sexual assaults and robberies in central Cologne on New Year’s Eve, the first suspect has been charged with a sexual crime.
A 26-year-old Algerian man is accused of surrounding and groping a woman along with ten accomplices, a spokesman for Cologne’s district court said on Thursday. The start date for the trial has not yet been set.
The victim reported being groped on the buttocks and other sensitive parts of the body, the spokesman said.
As well as taking part in the sexual assault, the accused is charged with having stolen the victim’s mobile phone from her jacket during the encounter.
But it will take a lot more than that to satisfy the more than 480 people who reported sexual assaults in the cathedral city on New Year’s Eve….”
Berlin police grab Syrian ‘Isis fighter’ (thelocal, Mar 24, 2016)
http://www.thelocal.de/20160324/syrian-isis-fighter-arrested-in-berlin-prosecutors
“German police have arrested a 19-year-old Syrian man accused of having fought with the Isis jihadist group in Syria, prosecutors said on Thursday.
The man identified only as Shaas E. M. allegedly joined the Islamist group in 2013 and stayed with them until at least August last year, having “taken part in various military operations” and delivered food supplies for Isis, they said in a statement.
Prosecutors declined to tell AFP when and how the suspect entered Germany, which last year took in over one million asylum seekers, around 40 percent of them from war-torn Syria.
They said there was currently “no evidence of concrete attack plans” and no known links between the suspect and the recent bloody jihadist attacks in France and Belgium…”
Jihadist taxi driver sentenced to ten years (thelocal, Mar 24, 2016)
http://www.thelocal.at/20160324/jihadist-taxi-driver-sentenced-to-ten-years
“An Austrian taxi driver who went to Syria to fight in the jihad and returned to Austria as a ‘war hero’ for treatment after being injured has been jailed for 10 years.
The court in the Austrian city of Graz heard that the 23-year-old man, Sevkret G., had grown up in Austria to Turkish parents but the despite his western upbringing, he had still been persuaded to fight in the jihad.
After travelling to Egypt in 2012, he then went on to Syria where he was a fighter for the Islamic State (ISIS). The court heard however that he was badly injured and in order to get treatment he had returned back to Austria in March 2013.
On his return, he had been given hero status and travelled to various Islamic organisations in the country, where was praised for his bravery and boasted that he even still had shrapnel embedded in his body.
He had also been working on persuading his younger brother Omer, aged 17, to travel to Syria and the pair arranged tickets to Turkey in November 2014 from where they planned to head across to Syria…”
Terrorist attack in Austria ‘quite likely’ (thelocal, Mar 24, 2016)
http://www.thelocal.at/20160324/terrorist-attack-in-austria-quite-likely
“A terrorism expert has said that a terrorist attack in Austria is “quite likely” as the country has become a “secondary target” in recent years.
Nicolas Stockhammer, who is an advisor to government on matters relating to security, said that compared to other countries that Austria is “midfield” in terms of the threat of an attack.
“I consider it quite likely that something will happen in Austria,” said Stockhammer, speaking on the ORF programme ZiB 24 Wednesday night. He added, however, that there is “reason to hope that it will not happen soon.”
His comments come amid tightened security at airports and transport hubs around Europe following the terrorist attacks this week in Brussels that killed at least 31 people.
At Austria’s largest airport – Vienna International Airport – security measures have been strengthened and there is a stronger police presence at the site. All flights to and from the airport and Brussels remain suspended for the time being.
Stockhammer warned that Europe should prepare for at least a 20 year battle against terrorism in which prevention efforts will be key. So far, “too little has been done” to protect civilians, he argued….”
Turkish nationalist group expelled from forum (thelocal, Mar 24, 2016)
http://www.thelocal.at/20160324/turkish-nationalist-group-expelled-from-forum
“The Turkish group in the city of Linz “Avarsya” will not be part of the next meeting of the City Integration forum, the city’s mayor Klaus Luger announced this week.
An important member of the group, Abdurrahman Alpaslan, who allegedly is closely related to the right-wing extremists Grey Wolves from Turkey, gave a fascist salute at the former Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Upper Austria.
His photo with the two fingered Wolf salute – little finger represents Turkey and the index finger represents Islam – was posted on the group’s Facebook.
The salute is used by members of the Nationalist Movement Party of Turkey (MHP) to imply that Turkish Islamists will one day control the world.
After the incident in Mauthausen, local mayor Luger demanded Avarsya officially distanced themselves from the act.
When they failed to do so, the mayor announced the group’s expulsion from the Integration Forum.
Avrasya has also been classified as anti-Semitic and offensive to democracy by political scientists of the University of Vienna.
The expulsion was welcomed by the Mauthausen committee and the network of Upper Austrian groups against racism and right-wing extremism.
Green spokeswoman of the Upper Austria State, Sophia Hochedlinger, who previously discovered the photo with the Wolf salute on Facebook also welcomed the decision.
Officials are also in the process of depriving Avarsya access to offices and financial aid from the city.
Critics had previously accused the mayor as well as his Socialist party for maintaining a close and supportive relationship and collaboration with Avarsya.”
Germany neglecting Islamist de-radicalization in prisons (DW, Mar 24, 2016)
http://www.dw.com/en/germany-neglecting-islamist-de-radicalization-in-prisons/a-19141684
“Some of the terrorists of Brussels and Paris were at least partially radicalized in prison. But despite paying lip-service to the problem, few German politicians have shown interest in de-radicalization programs.
Everyone seems to agree with the European Union counter-terrorism coordinator. “We know that prisons are a massive incubator for radicalization,” Gilles de Kerchove said last January, when it was reported that two of the gunmen behind the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices and the Jewish supermarket in Paris were believed to be have been radicalized in prison.
Just over a year later, and two more major Islamist terrorist attacks have taken place in Western Europe, and the pattern has returned – both Brahim and Khalid el-Bakraoui, responsible for Tuesday’s bombings in Brussels, had spent time in prison for non-terrorist related crimes.
The dangers of prison radicalization have been known for some time. Meanwhile, there are a number of convicted extremists imprisoned in Germany – such as those behind the failed Bonn station bombing in 2012 and a foiled bomb attack on Frankfurt in 2007 – who could potentially radicalize others.
But despite the obvious urgency, Germany’s politicians have only recently been spurred to action – and even then progress has been slow. Thomas Kutschaty, justice minister of the country’s most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia, was embarrassed on Tuesday when state broadcaster WDR pointed out that his “five-point plan” for dealing with Islamist prison radicalization was not showing much progress – indeed, the number of imams working with Muslim inmates in NRW prisons had actually dropped in the year since he announced the initiative.
Meyer Husamuddin thinks this is a desperate oversight. As an imam who has ministered to Muslim prisoners in the state of Hesse for the last eight years, he has heard enough disturbing things. “‘Mr Imam,’ the people sometimes say to me, ‘I heard that if someone doesn’t pray they have to be killed.’ Or, ‘IS really is a proper Islamic State, isn’t it?’ Then you really need to work against that,” he said.
Husamuddin is convinced that imams represent the best antidote to Islamic radicalization in prisons. “They can fulfill a double function: they can counter the ideological indoctrination,” he told DW. “If there’s an imam there who can say, no that’s wrong, then you’ve already gained a lot. On the other hand, there’s the care for their souls – this radicalization often comes out of an inner dissatisfaction and an anger that can be used ideologically and become a danger.”
But Meyer Husamuddin only spends 15 hours a week in a prison in the town of Wiesbaden (sharing the time with two other imams) – looking after some one hundred Muslim inmates. He is paid by the hour by the government, but he thinks every prison should have one full-time imam per hundred prisoners. “Then you’d have enough opportunity to look after everyone adequately,” he said. “The Christian chaplains have a full-time position and they have fewer inmates to look after.”
He admits that things have started getting better, if only recently. “It was only last year that my pleas were heard, when they realized that most of the attacks are perpetrated by former prisoners,” he said….”
Far-Right Spanish Group Vandalizes Madrid Mosque (moroccoworldnews, Mar 24, 2016)
http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2016/03/182756/far-right-spanish-group-vandalizes-madrid-mosque/
“A far-right Spanish group targeted a mosque in Madrid on Monday in a “protest” following the terrorist attacks in Brussels, which caused the deaths of 31 people and left over 200 people injured.
According to Spanish media, the far-right group Hogar Social Madrid (Madrid Social Home) lit flares and hung a sign asking “Today Brussels, tomorrow Madrid?”
The far-right group posted on its Facebook page photos of the mosque in a blaze. The mosque, which is regarded as the major place of worship in Madrid, is often referred to as the M-30 mosque.
According to Spanish news agency Europa Press, the event was directed “against radical Islam.”
The mayor of Madrid condemned the Islamophobic attack, stating “We are fighting together against terrorism.”
City officials believe that peaceful “coexistence” of representatives of all religions is essential for “the safety of the city.”
In a statement published by The Local, the imam of the M-30 mosque Hussam Khoja condemned the reactions of extremists who tried “to attack our great mosque and cause damage to it.”
The imam called on the public to condemn this event and all other extremist acts, reactions or prejudices against religion….”
Taliban commander declare Jihad against the group’s supreme leader in Badghis (khaama, Mar 24)
http://www.khaama.com/taliban-commander-declare-jihad-against-the-groups-supreme-leader-in-badghis-0429
“A Taliban group commander affiliated with Mullah Mohammad Rasool has declared Jihad against Taliban’s self-declared supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor in northwestern Badghis province of Afghanistan.
The Taliban commander, Mullah Ghafoor Tufan, has accused Mansoor of working for Pakistan’s Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) and murdering several Taliban leaders.
He has also accused Mullah Mansoor of killing the Taliban group founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, a claim which the Taliban dissident leaders were making following his death.
Another Taliban splinter group, Fidai Mahaz, said last year that Mullah Omar was poisoned to death by Mullah Mansoor following the opening of the Taliban liaison office in Qatar which resulted to serious rift among the two leaders.
The announcement to fight the militants loyal to Mansoor was made recently in Qads district which comes days after a deadly infighting among the fighters of the two top Taliban leaders.
The infighting in Shindand district of Herat province left nearly 200 militants dead and scores of others wounded, while the Taliban insurgents were accused of war crimes, including killing of civilians and torching their houses.
Meanwhile, the local residents in Qads district have expressed deep concerns regarding the gathering of the Taliban militants declaring war against each other, with local provincial council officials calling on the government to prevent the group to organize such gatherings.”
Several militants killed by own car bomb in Helmand’s Marja district (khaama, Mar 24, 2016)
http://www.khaama.com/several-militants-killed-by-won-bomb-in-helmands-marja-district-4758
“Several militants have been killed by their own car bomb in Marja district of the restive Helmand province of Afghanistan.
Reports suggest that the insurgents were in the process of making a Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) which exploded on them at the last stages in ‘Pinzam Block area’ on Wednesday afternoon.
The district police chief while confirming the incident said several insurgents were killed and wounded in the powerful explosion.
Abdullah Khan did not provide a specific number of the casualties but a security official said on condition of anonymity that at least 10 bomb makers of Taliban group were killed in the explosion…”
Afghan army helicopters pound militants amid ongoing clashes in Nuristan (khaama, Mar 24, 2016?
http://www.khaama.com/afghan-army-helicopters-pound-militants-amid-ongoing-clashes-in-nuristan-0431
“The Afghan Air Force (AAF) helicopters have pounded the anti-government armed militants for several times amid ongoing clashes in eastern Nuristan province of Afghanistan.
According to the local government officials, heavy gun battle continues between the Afghan security forces and the insurgents since two days.
Provincial governor Hafiz Abdul Qayum said at least 15 militants have been killed or wounded during the clashes so far as the Afghan forces are receiving close-air support by army helicopters.
He said the helicopters belonging to the Afghan Air Force (AAF) conducted at least three airstrikes targeting the militants after they launched coordinated in Du’ab district…”
8 killed, 13 wounded in Afghan army airstrikes in Kunar and Nuristan: MoD (khaama, Mar 24, 2016)
http://www.khaama.com/8-killed-13-wounded-in-afghan-army-airstrikes-in-kunar-and-nuristan-mod-0432
“At least 8 militants were killed and 13 others were wounded in airstrikes carried out by the Afghan Air Force (AAF) in eastern Kunar and Nuristan provinces.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the airstrikes were carried out by the Afghan Air Force (AAF) gunships in Du’ab district of Nuristan and Asmar district of Kunar.
A statement by MoD said 6 militants were killed and 11 others were wounded in Baloch area of Asmar district in Kunar, while 2 militants were killed and 2 others were wounded in Nuristan.
The statement further added that a Dshk heavy machine gun of the militants was also damaged in the airstrike.
The anti-government armed militant groups including the Taliban militants have not commented regarding the report so far…”
Insider attack claims lives of 7 policemen in Kandahar province (khaama, Mar 24, 2016)
http://www.khaama.com/insider-attack-claims-lives-of-7-policemen-in-kandahar-province-0434
“At least 7 policemen serving with the Afghan Local Police (ALP) forces were shot dead by their comrades in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
According to the local government officials, the incident took place in the early hours of Thursday morning, involving three ALP forces who were apparently having links with the militants.
Provincial governor spokesman Samim Khpolwak confirmed the incident and said a investigation team has been sent to the area to probe the killing the policemen.
He did not disclose further information regarding the incident which took place in Arghandab district but a security official said 7 ALP men were killed in the attack.
The official further added that an ex-commander of the ALP forces were also among the assailants who managed to flee the area following the attack.
The Taliban militants group claimed responsibility behind the incident which takes place nearly a month after 4 policemen were martyred in a similar attack…”
DAILY MAIL – The shrapnel that ripped the Brussels victims to shreds: Doctors reveal bomb fragments that were pulled from survivors after terror attacks
Horrific images show the mangled and twisted pieces of shrapnel that surgeons have removed from those injured
Doctors showed the deadly pieces of metal to Belgium’s King Philippe and Queen Mathilde during a visit today
Some 270 people were injured when Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui, and Najim Laachraou, blew themselves up
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3507909/Mangled-bloodied-pieces-shrapnel-ripped-Brussels-victims-shreds-Horrific-pictures-bomb-fragments-pulled-survivors-attacks.html
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DAILY MAIL Inside the den of terror: Extraordinary first pictures of the Brussels bombers’ secret lair where they built explosives for mass murder
Extraordinary photos give first look inside bomb-making safehouse where Brussels terrorists planned terror attacks
Brothers Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui and explosives expert Najim Laachraoui left flat on morning of massacres
Police found another bomb, ISIS flag, ‘chemical products’ and suicide note when they raided property in Schaerbeek
Dramatic photographs show how officers broke down door of the building and have since cordoned it off with tape
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3508136/Den-terror-Extraordinary-pictures-inside-Brussels-bombers-secret-lair-built-explosives-mass-murder.html
The Muslim Imams of Belgium won’t recite a prayer for the dead victims of the Brussels attacks in the mosques tomorrow because they cannot pray for the infidels — there is not such a thing in the Muslim rituals
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In French :
Attentats de Bruxelles: le Conseil des Théologiens refuse de réciter une prière dédiée aux victimes “pas toutes musulmanes”
Dès ce jeudi, l’Exécutif des musulmans de Belgique avait annoncé dans nos colonnes vouloir planifier une action pour ce vendredi au sein des mosquées du pays suite aux attentats de Bruxelles. Mais également, d’unifier un discours pour la prière du vendredi 25 mars. Finalement, son Conseil des Théologiens a préféré appeler tous les imams de Belgique à consacrer le sermon du vendredi au refus de toute forme de radicalisme, de fanatisme et de terrorisme, sans faire de déclaration commune à toutes les mosquées.
Une position qui manque de fermeté dénoncée par certains membres de la communauté musulmane. Mais plus encore. Lors d’un conseil, comme nous l’affirment plusieurs sources, les représentants religieux ont refusé de demander aux imams de réciter la sourate « Al-Fatiha » (l’ouverture) en hommage aux victimes des attentats. Et ce, parce que les victimes ne sont pas toutes musulmanes. « Ils ont prétexté que cela n’était pas prévu dans les codes rituels. C’est-à-dire qu’il n’est pas prévu dans la pratique de dédier une prière à des non-musulmans. »
Une information qui nous a été confirmée par l’islamologue Michaël Privot. « Il a été refusé de réciter cette prière en hommage à des « mécréants » pour reprendre les propos. Une minute de silence a également été proposée lors de la réunion, qui a été une nouvelle fois refusée », ajoute-t-il.
Cette position n’a pas été exprimée d’une seule voix. La proposition a été mise sur la table et a été discutée, mais le refus l’a emporté. « Que peut-on attendre d’un corps de garde qui se base sur une matière prémâchée ? Plus que jamais, il faut un sursaut de la part de la communauté musulmane. Car c’est en leur nom qu’on commet des actes barbares. Que ce soit réciter Al-Fatiha ou observer une minute de silence, il faut une initiative unanime. Les représentants religieux expriment finalement une rupture avec l’altérité », dénonce l’une de nos sources.
http://www.lanouvellegazette.be/1522136/article/2016-03-24/attentats-de-bruxelles-le-conseil-des-theologiens-refuse-de-reciter-une-priere-d
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Muslim Executive of Belgium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Executive_of_Belgium
Kerry team: Fight violent extremism with ‘television drama series’
The State Department on Wednesday offered a grant worth up to $1.5 million to produce a “television drama series” aimed at “countering violent extremism among young people in contemporary Afghan society.”
The U.S. mission to Afghanistan put out the grant offer.
“This grant will fund the development and broadcast of a television drama series in which young people grapple with everyday frustrations and lack of opportunity, while growing and learning through new experiences,” the offer said.
“The drama will be grounded in reality, but will also contain compelling creative content (i.e. storytelling, resonant narratives, strong characters, sophisticated production, etc.),” it added. “In short, it will strive to be entertaining while challenging viewers to engage in critical thinking by placing characters in situations where they are faced with a choice: support universal values of tolerance and peace or be drawn into the dark world of extremism.”
The grant explains further that the characters in the drama series will be “aspirational and will provide positive role models for young people facing similar dilemmas.”
The federal government intends to promote the series through social media, and will award a grant for a 15-month period that could be extended for up to two years.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/kerry-team-fight-violent-extremism-with-television-drama-series/article/2586687
[redacted] !!
I’d best go offline. Smoke’s coming from my ears.
The fact that they are seriously doing this should be grounds for putting them in insane asylums and throwing away the key.
US Identifies Third Brussels Airport Bomber (skynews, Mar 24, 2016)
http://news.sky.com/story/1666588/us-identifies-third-brussels-airport-bomber
“US authorities know the identity of the third Brussels airport bomber who is believed to be on the run, Sky News has learned.
The man, who appears in a CCTV image wearing a white jacket and a black hat, is on the US terror watch list.
The information has been confirmed twice by a Sky News source.
The two brothers involved in the Brussels attacks, Ibrahim and Khalid Bakraoui, were also on the list, according to Reuters.
It comes comes after Belgium’s terror watch status was lowered from the highest to the second highest level…”
ISLAMIC STATE Video – March 24 2016 – Anbar – Iraq
[ beheading —-> 9:12 to 9 :24 ]
https://userscloud.com/94y2zxza9jsj
Greece: Riot police push protesters back outside Lesbos refugee centre
Protesters and riot police faced off during a demonstration near the Moria refugee centre in Lesbos, Thursday. One of the protesters was reportedly detained for spraying a sign on a police van during the march, which was held to protest the establishment of refugee ‘hotspots’ on the island from where refugees may be deported to Turkey.
Volunteers and activists who had worked in the refugee centre, rallied peacefully wearing life jackets, reading “stop deportation” and “open borders for all, safe passage for all,” condemning what they see as the mistreatment of refugees and the potential deportation of refugees to Turkey. The asylum seekers joined the march by shouting and chanting behind the wire.
Dad dies from stabbing at Swedish asylum home
The first residents, 85 asylum seekers, arrived at the centre late on Monday, according to regional newspaper Dalarnas Tidning.
Thursday’s incident follow three separate murders at refugee accommodation in the country in 2016
http://www.thelocal.se/20160324/dad-dies-from-stabbing-incident-at-asylum-home
Paris anti-terror raids: French cops foil planned terrorist attack in northern suburb of Argenteuil
According to the French Interior Minister, armed officers have stopped another terrorist atrocity from happening.
The attack was, he said, in the “advanced stages” of planning.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/paris-anti-terror-raids-french-7625164
France says it foils advanced attack plot: minister (reuters, Mar 24, 2016)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-arrest-idUSKCN0WQ2JO
“A French national suspected of belonging to a militant network planning an attack in France was arrested on Thursday morning, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
The arrest helped “foil a plot in France that was at an advanced stage,” Cazeneuve said on Thursday night in a televised address from his ministry.
“The individual questioned, a French national, is suspected of high-level involvement in this plan. He was part of a terrorist network that planned to strike France,” Cazeneuve said.
Following the arrest by the French counterterrorism service, DGSI, the agency carried out a raid on Thursday night at an apartment building in Argenteuil, a suburb in northern Paris, he said.
“At this stage, there is no tangible evidence that links this plot to the attacks in Paris and Brussels,” said Cazeneuve, who was in the Belgian capital earlier on Thursday…”
CNN – French national arrested in suspected terror plot
A man was arrested Thursday morning as he is suspected of preparing, through a network, a planned attack that was “at an advanced stage.”
Searches are underway on Thursday night in the streets of Argenteuil, Val-d’Oise, in the context of an anti-terrorist operation, learned BFMTV, confirming a report in the Parisien . A security perimeter was established in the town of Val-d’Oise.
An apartment building was evacuated its occupants late afternoon and clearance services are trying to intervene in the vicinity of the General Delambre Boulevard in Argenteuil. Officers of the Directorate of Homeland Security (RPS) will then search the referred apartment, parking but also the public areas.
planned attack at an advanced stage
“This follows an important inquiry carried out this morning,” said Bernard Cazeneuve, Minister of Interior, who spoke to 22:30. This arrest has, in place Beauvau, “to thwart a planned attack in France led to an advanced stage.” However, Bernard Cazeneuve said no “tangible evidence links this project to the attacks of Paris and Brussels.”
The arrested man is French. He is suspected of being “involved at a high level in this project.” “It evolved into a terrorist network that planned to strike our country,” also said the minister. According to information of BFM TV, the suspect was wanted in France since 2015 and he was sentenced abroad in a routing die case of candidates for jihad to Syria. It is considered to be a headend.
If this survey is conducted under the authority of a magistrate of the antiterrorist center of Paris, investigations, that last for “several weeks”, have “mobilized significant resources for physical and technical surveillance and a close and constant cooperation between European services “to the minister said.
(google translate)
http://www.bfmtv.com//societe/argenteuil-des-perquisitions-en-cours-dans-le-cadre-d-une-operation-antiterroriste-961850.html
https://youtu.be/MjqBdRpch0U
https://youtu.be/LxkCBpg8Utk
https://youtu.be/I9mPo6goz-8
Russia’s special forces officer killed in Syria: Interfax (reuters, Mar 24, 2016)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-russia-death-idUSKCN0WQ28Z
“A Russian special forces officer has been killed in a combat operation near Palmyra in Syria, Interfax news agency reported on Thursday, citing a Russian military source in Syria.
“While performing a special task to direct Russian air strikes onto terrorist targets, a Russian special forces officer was killed,” Interfax quoted a source at Russia’s Khmeimim air base in Syria’s Latakia province as saying.
There was no detail about when the officer died, with Interfax citing its source as saying only that he was on a combat mission “in the past week”. Syrian government forces are trying to recapture Palmyra from Islamic State.
“The soldier died heroically, calling the strike onto himself after he was discovered and surrounded by terrorists,” Interfax cited the source as saying.
The death would bring to seven the number of Russian servicemen known to have been killed in Syria during the Kremlin’s five-month military campaign, which it said 10 days ago that it was winding down.
On Wednesday, Russia said for the first time that it has special forces in combat roles in Syria, suggesting the Kremlin has been more deeply engaged in the Syrian conflict than it has previously acknowledged…”
ISIS is More of an Existential Threat Than Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan
Obama is smugly lecturing Americans that they need to stop being so “fearful” of terrorists because ISIS doesn’t pose an “existential threat”. This is the sort of talking point that corrupt corporations and failed governments develop to explain why people shouldn’t be worried about the severe problems they created.
If we use “existential threat” as a metric, then no enemy we went to war with has been an “existential threat” to America since the Revolutionary War. Maybe the war of 1812 if you want to err on the side of caution. If we define “existential threat” as the ability to destroy America, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany couldn’t do that. Oh they might have become one eventually, but back when we fought them, they would not have been able to utterly conquer or destroy the United States. And this was exactly the argument that the anti-war camp made. Lindbergh gave speeches insisting that German warplanes couldn’t reach America.
And so we didn’t have to worry about it.
Really, the only enemy who posed an existential threat to America was the USSR which had the capability of potentially destroying America. So of course this real “existential threat” was also the enemy that the liberals pandered to ceaselessly. And still are. Obama paid a visit to Castro’s Cuba, a regime that urged the USSR to detonate nuclear weapons in the United States.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/262277/isis-more-existential-threat-nazi-germany-and-daniel-greenfield