1. ISIS IN AMERICA: FBI Says Beheading Videos Traced to Mosque In America
(Interestingly it is the same mosque that the Boston Bombers and other major jihadi figures attended)
Let’s not forget to mention that this was also the “Home Mosque” of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston Bomber. See below…
The FBI suspects that Islamic Society mosque member Ahmad Abousamra, 32, now operates ISIS’s sophisticated media wing to promote their beheadings and other gruesome acts captured on video.
With Abousamra’s help, the propaganda campaign has recruited thousands of Westerners to join the jihadist ranks, including at least 300 Americans:
The FBI says Abousamra, 32, traveled to Pakistan and Yemen to train to kill Americans while enrolled at Boston colleges. He justified murdering civilians because “they paid taxes to support the government and were kufar [nonbelievers],” Boston FBI Agent Andrew Nambu testified in an affidavit.
2. Islamic State using leaked Snowden info to evade U.S. intelligence
A former top official at the National Security Agency says the Islamic State terrorist group has “clearly” capitalized on the voluminous leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and is exploiting the top-secret disclosures to evade U.S. intelligence.
Bottom line: Islamic State killers are harder to find because they know how to avoid detection.
(I find this difficult to believe as even highly trained and educated security experts do not seem to be able to evade NSA methods despite knowing what they are doing to a degree. Secondly, tyrants always use national security as a way of justifying tyranny. The problem is with Islam and immigration etc. Simple rational fixes eliminates the need for an Orwellian state)
3. Gang of Black Teens Beats White Memphis Grocery Store Employee into Unconsciousness
(I am told that Attorney General Eric Holder’s jet is on standby to go speak to the people of that area but so far he is nowhere to be seen)
4. Burundi police say elderly Italian nuns raped, one beheaded
(When you read what the pope had to say about this, I trust it will give you some serious questions to ask your local priests)
ANSA) – Bujumbura, September 8 – Three Italian nuns murdered while working as missionaries in the African nation of Burundi were raped and one decapitated, according to media reports on Monday. Godefroid Bizimana, vice director general of the Burundi police said that Bernadette Boggian was found to have been beheaded. Earlier, the foreign ministry in Rome confirmed that the three Italians, part of the Xaverian order, were killed at their convent in the city of Kamenge. Police were searching for a motive for the killings of Boggian, 79, Luci Pulici, 75, and Olga Raschietti, 82, with a botched robbery attempt one early theory.
(How communist are we? We are so communist that if you are French for example, and concern yourself with French interests above the interests of people who despise France and the French and its culture, laws, people and history and want it all destroyed you are called ‘Far Right’ as if you were Nazi, even though the Nazis are in fact, far left. That is how communist we have become)
6. The weapons from the Islamic State 2 video.
I took the liberty of extracting some of the scenes showing the weapons, tanks and planes, that seem to have been captured and are under the control of the Islamic State in Syria from the Islamic State 2 video released yesterday. Perhaps weapons experts can comment on how likely it is that IS personnel can utilize these systems and how much power they can project and for how far with them.
7. ‘Property of US Govt’: Islamic State jihadists armed with US military weapons
The study by the London-based small-arms research organisation Conflict Armament Research documented weapons seized by Kurdish forces from militants in Iraq and Syria over a 10-day period in July.
The report said the jihadists disposed of “significant quantities” of US-made small arms including M16 assault rifles and included photos showing the markings “Property of US Govt”.
Report here and more here
Thank you ML., M., GoV., and all. There are some good things happening in the
AL JAZEERA – Guess who’s coming for Iftar?
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http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/09/guess-who-coming-iftar-20149763717593838.html
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On July 14, US President Barack Obama hosted an Iftar dinner at the White House. According to the official White House page, “Among attendees were members of the diplomatic corps, White House administration officials, US government staff, elected officials, and Muslim Americans who have been doing great work to strengthen the fabric and prosperity of our nation.”
In his official remarks on this occasion, and a week into the vicious Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, Obama felt obligated to say something about the matter, which of course was cast under his habitual and official mantra of “we’ve been very clear that Israel has the right to defend itself against what I consider to be inexcusable attacks from Hamas”.
Enjoying the Muslim Iftar at the White House was also the Israeli Ambassador to the US who was elated by the US president’s remarks and could not resist tweeting his delight: “@White House for iftar dinner. Appreciate strong statement there by President Obama about Israel’s right to defend itself.”
Many Muslims around the world, and not just in the US, were deeply troubled by this utterly inane sentence and sentiment as Palestinians, Muslims or otherwise, were being killed in Gaza. Even some who had attended this Iftar felt obligated to explain and excuse themselves publicly.
In an opinion piece for Al Jazeera, Professor Sahar Aziz has already pointed out how it is that a certain number of US Muslims get invited to the White House: “A group of Muslim individuals are hand-picked by government bureaucrats who reward them for good behaviour. Such good behaviour can range from withholding public criticism of flawed government policy, diffusing community anger over abusive practices, or persuading the community that the adverse impacts of national security law enforcement are not based on bad intentions and thus should be tolerated.”
Historical context
In another equally important piece for Jadaliyya, Abdullah al-Arian and Hafsa Kanjwal provide an extended historical context for such official encounters between a selected number of Muslims and the US president.
Both these critical pieces and many others point to a fundamental crisis in the so-called “American Muslim community”, which has in turn resulted in the prominent Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan recently cancelling a scheduled talk here in the US in protest.
If you thought these sorry excuses looking for a photo-op with Obama were a band of useless fools, then you want to hear about yet another gang of delusional “Muslim leaders” who have actually been recruited by a Zionist outfit to go all the way to Israel to learn what “Zionism means to Jews”. These Muslim Zionists are in fact in the business of what one critic has aptly called “Faithwashing Apartheid and Occupation” – or as another critique has diagnosed it, Muslim leaders’ “strictly accommodationist engagement with Zionist organisations in America”.
This entire fiasco of a number of handpicked Muslims going to the White House to share an Iftar with the Israeli ambassador as fighting in Gaza raged points to a much larger issue. Who are these “Muslim leaders”?
What these “White House Muslims”, to paraphrase and expand a famous binary Malcolm X once made on a similar occasion, should know – even before they are degenerated to the point of no recognition into Muslim Zionists – is that there are also millions upon millions of “Field Muslims” who are watching them and telling them they can go to hell for their next Iftar.
The White House Muslims are a band of spineless cowards who just sit there munching on their cold and tasteless Iftar as Obama delivers to them the Israeli hasbara line at the very time when 1.8 million Palestinians are being bombed.
‘Field Muslims’
There is a fundamental rift between these White House Muslims and the rest of humanity, among them we the Field Muslims. The Field Muslims are a terra incognita – they are no longer Sunni or Shia, Hanafi or Hanbali, etc. The Field Muslims are out in the field of massive global labour migrations, roaming around the planet in search of a dignified life. They are out on the streets and squares of their homelands revolting against US-supported tyrants, or else brutalised by the Jewish State (IDF) and the Islamic State (IS) alike.
These White House Muslims have emerged from yet another false category that congratulates itself to be “practicing Muslims” by virtue of their legalistic interpretation of a worldly religion that is irreducible to a handful of fetishised legal scholars of yore. The Field Muslims have a rendezvous with history – they are not the law-abiding followers of one school of Sunni or Shia law or another. They are out on the field, the real world, free, vulnerable, bruised, brutalised, liberated. We the Field Muslims are the present absentees among the Practicing Muslims and their White House Muslim leaders, cast away from both the White House and from Muslim organisations.
Throughout the world, and not just in the United States, there is a vast and growing body of Muslims who are no longer defined by what school of law lays a claim on them, or if they are Sunni or Shia, or whether they pray five times a day, and fast during the month of Ramadan.
Neither the White House Muslims nor indeed those who congratulate themselves to be “practicing Muslims” – from whose rank and file these self-appointed “leaders” have emerged – has any authority whatsoever over us, the Field Muslims. It is foolhardy to try to encapsulate and represent a vastly multifaceted and worldly faith by a band of careerist opportunist “leaders”. The whole category of “practicing Muslim”, which has given birth to these White House Muslims, is flawed. We are all practicing Muslims in more than one way, and no school of law has any ecclesiastical claim on how we might chose to practice our faith.
During the month of July, which corresponded with Ramadan 1435, if you were not actively on the side of Palestinians defying the brutish, murderous, Israeli Hellfire you were not a Field Muslim. You were a White House Muslim who kept silent or asked for unity and patience, so that next year they might be invited to that wretched Iftar at the White House.
We Field Muslims have absolutely nothing in common with these White House Muslims. Our theology is not written in the legal handbooks of one jurist or another. We are illegal Muslims in your jurisprudence. We much prefer the company of our Jewish comrades, Christian comrades, atheists, agnostics, pagans, you name it – if they are standing on the ruins of Gaza mourning and resisting.
Inferno of Israel Hellfire
We will not go to the heart of paradise with these White House Muslims, and will happily go to the depth of hell with our comrades of any faith. We will go to the inferno of the Israeli Hellfire upon Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere, than to go to meet the Prophet in Paradise. That’s the alphabet of a new liberation theology that the “practicing” Sunni and Shia jurists should put on their pipe and smoke on their next Iftar with the Israeli ambassador.
Today there are beasts and cannibals calling themselves an “Islamic State” and roaming through Iraq and Syria murdering people en masse under the black flag of La Ilaha illa Allah, Muhammadun Rasul Allah. They are not real Muslims, you say. Then who is the real Muslim? You? The spineless White House Muslims? The useless Practicing Muslims? Don’t you think it is long overdue that Islam and Muslims got out of the White House, like the court jesters of yore, took a leave of absence from their mosques and holy shrines and reconfigured themselves in the real world, upon the ruins of Gaza?
Your legal scholars and professors of Islamic studies and community leaders have not figured us out yet – we practice our liberation theology, we don’t write it. We the Field Muslims – sisters and brothers of the real American Muslim – Malcolm X.
Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York.
More like Professor of Islamofascist Propaganda… (Great find anyway, Martin.)
Sounds like something written when “Negro” was what black people called themselves. Then someone like this writer insisted he had a better term.
Anybody so quick to invent more -isms must be a communist. A loser.
{Did I get that right?}
Yeah, terrific find!
Maybe Islamofascistic Communist?
Suicide bombing kills 16, Somali official says (CNN, Sept 8, 2014)
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/08/world/africa/somalia-violence/index.html
“A suicide bomber hit an African Union Mission in Somalia convoy on Monday, killing 16 people, Lower Shabelle Gov. Adukadir Mohamed Sidi said.
Sidi said the explosion destroyed two buses traveling behind the military convoy, which was transporting the governor as he traveled back from Mogadishu.
The blast killed 16 civilians and injured 22 people, including two soldiers, he said.
The Al-Shabaab terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack and said Americans and South Africans were among those killed.
The bombing comes a week after a U.S. airstrike claimed the life of the group’s leader, Ahmed Godane.
The group appointed a new leader last week and said Godane’s death would not stop its attacks. Somalia has been on high alert for strikes since.”
4 Men on Trial in Germany Over Terror Plot (abcnews, Sept 8, 2014)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/men-trial-germany-terror-plot-25352795
“Four men have gone on trial in Germany accused of forming a terrorist group and planning to kill a far-right politician.
Prosecutors say the men were inspired by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan to attack the head of a fringe far-right party that had protested the construction of mosques.
German national Marco G., 43-year-old Albanian Enea B., 25-year-old German-Turkish dual national Koray D. and 24-year-old German Tayfun S. were arrested the night before the planned killing in March 2013. Their full names weren’t published, in accordance with German privacy laws.
The 26-year-old convert Marco G. is also charged with an attempted bombing at Bonn’s main railway station in December 2012. The bomb failed to explode.
The trial, which began Monday in Duesseldorf, is expected to last at least a year.”
The main power projection weapons they captured are the jet fighters, even the simplest of those are very complicated to fly so the ability to project power depends on how many pilots they have and how skilled they are.
The tanks are the main battlefield weapon they have captured and are much easier to run in not maintain, if they have personal who can provide regular maintenance and they can get spare parts they can keep attacking every country withing a couple of thousand miles.
#1 I’m not clear what they’re saying here. Are they saying the videos were edited and distributed from here? We’ve heard about this bloke’s involvement before – are they just highlighting this fact? I thought he’d actually gone to Iraq/Syria in the last piece I read about him somewhere.
#2 if they have any brains, they will be communicating with couriers either using verbal instructions, or something called ‘letters’. This is where an individual writes on a piece of paper, and then sends that piece of paper to another individual – in this case by a courier. The second person opens the ‘letter’, and reads the words written down on the paper. It’s impervious to electronic eavesdropping.
LOL
Nigeria’s Boko Haram ‘seize’ Michika in Adamawa state (BBC, Sept 8, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29110663
“Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram has captured the key north-eastern town of Michika, residents say, gaining more territory in its efforts to create an Islamic state.
People fled into bushes as gunfire rang out in the town, they added.
Boko Haram has changed tactics in recent months by holding on to territory rather than launching hit-and-run attacks.
The government called on Nigerians not to lose hope.
The military was committed to defending Nigeria’s territorial integrity, it said.
Soldiers killed 50 militants during a raid on their hideout in the small north-eastern town of Kawuri at the weekend, the army said….”
Whaaaat?!
Pakistan Qadri protesters ‘paid’ (BBC, Sept 8, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29106266
“Protesters in Pakistan have told the BBC they were paid to join rallies for “three or four days” but are now being denied permission to return home.
Thousands, led by former cricketer Imran Khan and cleric Tahirul Qadri, occupied parts of Islamabad, in an effort to topple the government.
Much of Mr Khan’s support thinned out as the weeks wore on.
But some of Mr Qadri’s supporters, who wished to leave, have told the BBC Urdu they were threatened by party leaders….”
lol
Ex-US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad ‘in money-laundering probe’ (BBC, Sept 8, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29107927
“A top ex-US envoy is being investigated for alleged money-laundering through his wife’s bank account in Vienna, reports from Austria say.
Zalmay Khalilzad is accused of transferring $1.4 million (£0.9 million) to his wife’s account, Profil magazine reports.
The money is said to be linked to activities involving companies in Iraq and the United Arab Emirates.
Mr Khalilzad was US ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan between 2003 and 2007.
According to court documents from May 2013 obtained by Profil, Austrian authorities froze several Vienna-based accounts of his American-Austrian wife, the social scientist and author Cheryl Benard.
Ms Benard’s lawyer, Holger Bielesz, says the US authorities have yet to produce any “concrete evidence” against his client.
A decision on Ms Bernard’s appeal for her account to be unfrozen is expected soon.”
He’s as dirty as the guy who sent him.
Ebola crisis: Liberia ‘faces huge surge’ says WHO (BBC, Sept 8, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29115298
“Ebola is spreading exponentially in Liberia, with thousands of new cases expected in the next three weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
Conventional methods to control the outbreak were “not having an adequate impact”, the UN’s health agency added.
At least 2,100 people infected with Ebola have died so far in the West African states of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria this year.
The WHO says 79 health workers have been killed by the virus.
Organisations combating the outbreak needed to scale-up efforts “three-to-four fold”, the WHO said….”
Iran arrests ‘Afghans and Pakistanis joining Islamic State’ (BBC, Sept 8, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29116764
“Iran says it has arrested Afghan and Pakistani citizens who were trying to join Islamic State (IS) jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq.
Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani said the foreigners planned to cross Iran – but did not specify how many had been arrested, or where.
Shia Iran is opposed to the Sunni extremists of IS, who have undermined its allies in Iraq and Syria.
Iran is said to be prepared to work alongside the US against IS in Iraq.
Sources in Tehran told BBC Persian last week that Iran’s Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had authorised his top commander to co-ordinate the fight against IS with US, Kurdish and Iraqi forces.
However, Iran’s foreign ministry denied that it would co-operate with the US against IS.
Iran has traditionally opposed US involvement in Iraq, an Iranian ally.
Recently however, both the US and Iran have offered military assistance to combat IS in Iraq, while refusing to place their troops on the ground.
US Secretary of State John Kerry is due in Jordan and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to try to build regional support to counter the threat posed by Islamic State, a US state department spokeswoman said….”