There are cracks in the narrative everywhere. Reality is outpacing analysis but its also outpacing strategy. Obama and the political/religious elite’s desperate lie that islam is somehow a wonderful thing and those who point out the truth of it are racists if they are not muslims and hijackers if they are, is starting to look shrill and factually challenged … to use the PC term for outright lies.
Thanks to M., GoV., Maria J., Buck, Oz-Rita, Wrath of Khan, Richard, and so many people who have diligently watched and bravely spoken through this site and others over the years. The game may in fact be finally on.
1. UK authorities begin crack down on islamic businesses and known locations of islamic organizations.
2. South East Asia is more quiet about its Islamic State concerns, but it has them.
5. What is that old Islamic saying? ‘If you can’t stone em, behead em!’
6. West African Ebola deaths exceed 3000
7. Kenyan ‘radical madrassa’ closed in Machakos
(At last! Someone somewhere does the bleedingly obvious right thing to do!)
The school in Machakos, about 65km (40 miles) from the capital, was targeted after local youths were detained on suspicion of joining Somali militants.
It is the first Kenyan madrassa to be closed because of allegedly extremist teachings. A police chief warned that others could follow.
8. Islamic State crisis: ‘3,000 European jihadists join fight’
(Thats interesting. Its the same number of reported Ebola deaths in West Africa. I suppose thats because its the highest that leftist reporters can count)
Gilles de Kerchove also warned that Western air strikes would increase the risk of retaliatory attacks in Europe.
US-led forces have launched more than 200 air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq since August and on Monday began targeting IS in Syria.
(I love the logic of, ‘The fight could get worse if you hit us back’. You know it just may. But it really really will if we don’t hit back. I think we should take our chances with the air strikes. So long as they are actually against the Islamic State of course)
9. Some nice footage of attacks of ISIS targets and explanations of why the footage is meaningful and not just what seems to be rather low powered explosives.
Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria is facing mounting pressure from its members to form an ultra-alliance with the rival Islamic State to confront a common enemy after U.S.-led air strikes hit both groups this week.
Al Nusra, long one of the most effective forces fighting Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, was weakened this year by battles with Islamic State, an Al Qaeda splinter group that routinely employs ruthless methods such as beheadings and mass executions.
U.S.-led air and missile strikes, which have hit Al Nusra as well as Islamic State bases in Syria, have angered many Al Nusra members who say the West and its allies have joined forces in a ‘crusader’ campaign against Islam.
The two share the same ideology and rigid Islamic beliefs, but fell out during a power struggle that pitted Islamic State head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi against Al Qaeda chief Ayman Zawahri and Al Nusra Front leader Abu Mohammad al-Golani.
But merging would require pledging loyalty to Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate in territory it controls in Iraq and Syria, which would effectively put an end to the Al Nusra Front, fighters in the group say.
(Im all for a target rich environment. Makes labeling the body bags easier)
11. Ezra Levant discusses yesterday’s VICE interview with former CSIS David Harris
1. Why now? Surely the UK police have known about this location for a long time. Could it be that if another subway gets blown up they will be totally disgraced?
3. “from any violence that someone might try to attempt in retaliation for the Moore incident.”
Oh yes, let’s stand by for the “backlash”… Actually, I wish there was a backlash. If I were an FBI agent after seeing the beheading I would have immediately tossed the suspect’s home and found out where he went to “pray” and I would have put the mosque on total lock down and gone through everything they had with the idea of also arresting anyone that contributed to this crime.
4. So Yale can allow a self declared enemy of the west to speak with nary a peep but Ayan Hersi Ali was a big deal? This makes me very sad.
There are times when you let a location or person alone so you can identify who goes there and who associates with the person, this allows you to roll up the entire group rather then shut down the location quickly and let some possibly most of the people escape.
#9 This is where the 3D printers really help, they allow the bomb makers to shape the charge so most of the over pressure (blast effects) to go in the direction where they will do the most damage.
Yemen Qaeda claims rocket attack near US embassy
Yemen’s Al-Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Sharia claimed responsibility for a rocket that hit near the US embassy in Sanaa Saturday, shortly after the mission said it was unlikely the target.
“Ansar al-Sharia have targeted the US embassy in Sanaa with a (shoulder-launched) LAW rocket,” the jihadist group posted on Twitter.
Earlier, the mission said on Twitter that it had “no reason to believe the US Embassy was target” of the attack.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/111823/World/Region/Yemen-Qaeda-claims-rocket-attack-near-US-embassy.aspx
Rocket fired at Yemeni police guarding U.S. embassy
An unidentified attacker fired a rocket at Yemeni special police guarding the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Saturday, police sources said, a day after the State Department told U.S. citizens to leave Yemen because of growing political unrest.
The rocket was fired from a car and landed 200 meters from the heavily fortified embassy, which lies in a compound surrounded by high walls in the capital.
At least two of the guardsmen were injured in the assault, after which the car carrying the attacker sped away, police said.
The attacker used a M72 light anti-tank weapon, a police source told Reuters.
On Friday, the United States told its citizens in Yemen to leave and said it was reducing the number of U.S. government staff there due to political unrest and fears of a possible military escalation.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/09/27/Al-Qaeda-claims-responsibility-for-rocket-attack-on-U-S-embassy-in-Yemen.html
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