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  1. Nice truck attack: Five suspected accomplices charged (BBC, July 22, 2016)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36859312

    “Five suspects have appeared in court in France charged with terror offences in relation to the Nice truck attack.

    The four men and one woman, aged between 22 and 40, are accused of helping driver Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel prepare the terror attack.

    One of the suspects returned to the scene of the attack the following day to film the aftermath, French prosecutor Francois Molins said.

    Lahouaiej-Bouhle killed 84 people when he drove into a crowd on Bastille Day.

    He received logistical support for the attack from the five suspects, Mr Molins said, and had planned the attack for several months.

    Three of the suspects, identified as Franco-Tunisians Ramzi A and Mohamed Oualid G, and a Tunisian named Chokri C, were charged as accomplices in “murder by a group with terror links”.

    An Albanian man named as Artan and a women who is a French-Albanian dual national, identified as Enkeldja, are suspected of providing Lahouaiej-Bouhlel with a pistol and were charged with “breaking the law on weapons in relation to a terrorist group”.
    All five will be held in custody, Mr Molins said…”

  2. https://www.rt.com/news/352548-nice-attacker-accomplices-plot/

    The man responsible for mowing down 84 people in Nice planned the attack in advance, and was aided by a tight-knit team of associates, who helped him sketch out his plan, and acquired weapons for him.
    Read more
    French police continue their investigation as they work near the heavy truck that ran into a crowd at high speed celebrating the Bastille Day July 14 national holiday on the Promenade des Anglais killing 80 people in Nice, France, July 15, 2016.

    “He seems to have envisaged and developed his criminal plans several months before carrying them out,” said Paris prosecutor Francois Molins, speaking in a news briefing. “The investigation since the night of July 14 has kept moving forward and allowed us not only to confirm again the premeditated nature of [killer] Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel’s deadly act, but also to establish that he benefited from support and had accomplices in the preparation and carrying out of his criminal act.”

    Police have uncovered thousands of calls and messages between Lahouaiej Bouhlel, and five accomplices, after going through his social media accounts, laptop and phone records.

    “Put 2,000 tons of metal in the truck, f**k the brakes, and I’ll be watching,” says one message sent to Lahouaiej Bouhlel in April.

  3. http://www.update.ph/2016/07/us-guided-missile-destroyer-in-philippines/7877

    The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54) arrived in Manila on July 20 for a routine port call that highlights the strong historic, community, and military connections between the Philippines and the United States.

    During the visit, service members from the American ship will participate in a series of community relations projects and sporting events, while experiencing Filipino culture.

    Although some USS Curtis Wilbur sailors will be experiencing the Philippines for the first time, some of its crewmen, such as Senior Chief Gas Turbine System Technician Fitz Dasal, are looking forward to seeing the country again because they are Filipino-American.

  4. From the ‘Too little, Too late’ files:

    http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-sending-largest-icebreaker-to-north-pole-to-bolster-arctic-claim-1.2996688

    HALIFAX — Canada’s largest icebreaker is preparing for a critical expedition to the North Pole, marking the country’s final mission in the High Arctic before making an official claim to the barren, but strategically important area at the top of the world.
    The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St-Laurent is scheduled to leave Halifax harbour on Friday, carrying a team of international — and somewhat excited — scientists and high-tech gear for mapping the ocean floor.
    The data collected will be used to define the outer limits of Canada’s continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean. Once the data is analyzed, a submission is expected to be presented to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in 2018.

  5. http://www.politico.eu/article/nigel-farage-announces-european-referendum-tour-brexit-leave-europe/

    Nigel Farage announces European referendum tour
    Former UKIP leader has warm words for May and Trump, and plans to spread his Euroskeptic message.
    By RYAN HEATH 7/20/16, 10:44 PM CET Updated 7/21/16, 10:16 PM CET
    CLEVELAND — Nigel Farage received a hero’s welcome on the fringes of the Republican national convention Wednesday, headlining a lunch celebrating Brexit and announcing plans for a European tour.

    While several tables were close to empty, the crowd, which included controversial U.S. congressman Steve King — who this week claimed white people had contributed the most to civilization— was full-throated in its support of Farage.

    The organizers, however, didn’t get the memo about Farage’s resignation as leader of the UK Independence Party: the lunch menus — salad, “airline chicken” and coconut pannacotta — advertised him as party leader.

  6. http://www.christiantoday.com/article/assyrian.church.attacked.and.burned.by.militants.in.syria/91015.htm

    A spokesman for the Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights (AMHR), which on Monday posted photos of the destruction on Facebook, told ARA News: “Anonymous gunmen stormed the St. Charnel Church for Assyrian Orthodoxes in the Watwatiyah district of Qamishli in the midnight on Monday, and destroyed its contents.”

    The church is located about 13km north-east of the city of Qamishli, which is close to the Turkish border.

    Photos showed a damaged painting, and damage to the walls of the church caused by fire.

    Eye witness Gabi Gawriya told the ARA that several explosions were heard coming from inside the church during the raid.

  7. SYRIA – Aleppo rebel tunnel blast killed 38 regime forces

    Nearly 40 Syrian soldiers and pro-regime fighters were killed when rebels blew up a tunnel under a government position in Aleppo city, a monitor said Friday.

    […]A video posted online by the Thuwwar al-Sham rebel group purported to show the incident, with members of the force walking through a long tunnel and preparing barrels full of explosives.

    “We are now inside the tunnel that will be detonated soon, God willing, the tunnel under the traffic branch building, which is an important headquarters for the Assad regime and its mercenaries,” a rebel says in the video.

    The footage then shows a massive blast levelling a multi-story building, filmed from multiple angles.
    A huge geyser of dirt and smoke shoots upwards from the scene of the blast, after which gunfire can be heard.

    http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/07/22/Aleppo-rebel-tunnel-blast-killed-38-regime-forces-monitor.html

  8. DAILY CALLER – Pro-Turkey Lobbyist Sought Secret Favors From Hillary And Huma

    Newly released emails show that a former Democratic National Committee official and lobbyist for the Turkish government directly contacted two of Hillary Clinton’s top aides to ask for a favor ahead of the then-secretary of state’s March 2009 visit to Turkey.

    The correspondence raises numerous questions because the lobbyist, David Mercer, was paid $25,000 a month by the Turkish government to convince lawmakers and government officials to oppose a bill designating the Ottoman Empire’s murder of an estimated 1.5 million Armenian Orthodox Christians from 1915 to 1917 a genocide.

    Clinton once touted her support for the resolution but flip-flopped dramatically after she joined the Obama administration.

    Mercer, who once served as deputy national finance director for the DNC, also appears to have failed to disclose the contact with the two Clinton aides — her deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin and Capricia Penavic Marshall, then an operative for one of Clinton’s campaign committees — under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

    more :

    http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/17/exclusive-pro-turkey-lobbyist-sought-secret-favors-from-hillary-and-huma/

  9. Turkey rebuffs EU on death penalty, as Erdogan calls for ‘new blood’ in army

    ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey rebuffed the European Union on Friday over the death penalty, while President Tayyip Erdogan vowed to restructure the military and give it “fresh blood”, signaling the scope of a shake-up yet to come under a state of emergency.

    There is growing worry in the West about Turkey’s widening crackdown against thousands of members of the security forces, judiciary, civil service and academia after last week’s failed military coup. On Wednesday Erdogan announced a state of emergency, a move he said would allow the government to take swift action against coup plotters.

    The possibility of Turkey bringing back capital punishment for the plotters of the attempted coup that killed more than 246 people and wounded more than 2,100 has put further strain on Ankara’s relationship with the EU, which it seeks to join.

    Turkey outlawed capital punishment in 2004 as part of its bid to join the bloc and European officials have said backtracking on the death penalty would effectively put an end to the EU accession process. Erdogan says the death penalty may need to be brought back, citing the calls for it from crowds of supporters at rallies.

    http://www.oann.com/erdogan-supporters-stand-guard-as-crushed-coup-bid-shakes-turkey/

  10. Libyan forces report gains against IS in battle for Sirte

    SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan forces said on Friday they had edged further into the center of Sirte as they seek to recapture the city from Islamic State, following heavy fighting until late the previous evening that left dozens dead.

    Forces aligned with Libya’s United Nations-backed government in Tripoli advanced rapidly on the militant group’s Libyan stronghold in May, but they have faced resistance from snipers, suicide bombers and mines as they have closed in on the city center.

    Sirte had been controlled by Islamic State since last year, becoming its most important base outside Syria and Iraq, and its loss would be a major setback for the group.

    After a lull in fighting earlier this week, the government-backed forces launched a fresh assault on several fronts after first pounding IS positions with artillery and air strikes.

    The brigades, made up mainly of fighters from the western city of Misrata, said in a statement that they had captured a hotel on the eastern front line used by Islamic State snipers, and also taken control of part of the “Dollar” neighborhood.

    http://www.oann.com/libyan-forces-claim-gains-in-fierce-fighting-against-is-in-sirte/

  11. Most Germans fear terrorist attack after train ax assault

    BERLIN (Reuters) – More than three-quarters of Germans believe their country will soon be the target of terrorism, a survey showed on Friday, after a 17-year-old asylum-seeker wounded passengers on a train in an ax attack claimed by Islamic State.

    Seventy-seven percent expect an attack to happen soon, up from 69 percent two weeks ago, according to the survey compiled by Forschungsgruppe Wahlen for broadcaster ZDF.

    Bavarian police shot dead the teenager after he wounded four people from Hong Kong on the train and injured a local resident while fleeing.

    German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said investigations suggested he was a “lone wolf” who had been spurred into action by Islamic State propaganda.

    The ax rampage came days after a Tunisian drove a truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in the French city of Nice, killing 84 in an attack also claimed by the jihadist group.

    German Justice Minister Heiko Maas told Bild newspaper’s Friday edition that there was “no reason to panic but it’s clear that Germany remains a possible target”.

    http://www.oann.com/most-germans-fear-terrorist-attack-after-train-ax-assault-poll/

  12. War-split Cyprus on edge as Turkey reels in crisis

    NICOSIA (Reuters) – Turkey’s crackdown on government opponents and the imposition of a state of emergency following the abortive military coup last week has tempered hopes of a swift settlement on divided Cyprus.

    Nicosia is watching with increasing trepidation how the fallout could hit reunification talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

    Turkey provides military and financial support to the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state in northern Cyprus. The turbulence in Turkey has so far not touched the enclave, home to at least 30,000 Turkish troops since Ankara invaded the island 42 years ago in response to a brief Greek-inspired coup.

    But Turkey’s crisis is unsettling for interlocutors hoping for a deal by the end of 2016, or at least before talks are hijacked by elections scheduled in the north and the south of the island in 2018.

    Diplomats have previously said the current round of peace talks is the best chance in generations for ending a conflict that has become a perpetual irritant between NATO allies Greece and Turkey, and an obstacle to Turkey joining the European Union.

    “Nobody actually knows if it will have an effect,” said one official close to the peace process. “But it is overshadowing negotiations … There are elements that are big unknowns.”

    http://www.oann.com/war-split-cyprus-on-edge-as-turkey-reels-in-crisis/

    (Remember in the 1950s when we needed Turkey to help against the Soviet Union they invaded Cyprus and seized half of the island, Greece has been trying to get that portion of their land back ever since.)

  13. Hillary is playing to her base, the hate America far left

    Philly cops blast Hillary for having shooting victims’ families speak, but not families of slain cops

    As Republicans move on from a successful national convention, after nominating Donald Trump, the Democrats are closing in on their own convention in Philadelphia next week. Presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton faces no procedural obstacles to a coronation. But the Democrats face a noticeable lack of enthusiasm for their prospective standard-bearer, in a fashion perhaps not quite like the divisions within the GOP, but still carrying the potential for electoral damage down the road.

    Hillary’s certainly not helping herself with the voters every candidate needs: middle-class, law-and-order, national-security voters, of all races and backgrounds. These voters acknowledge that cops can make mistakes or misbehave, and believe cops should be held accountable when they do. But they also support the police, believe in their function in society and in their fundamental goodness, and wholeheartedly embrace the axiom that “Blue lives matter.”

    So Hillary stands out as weird and out of touch with mainstream voters, when she panders to an artificial constituency — an Astro-Turf movement pretending to be the only one that thinks black lives matter — by accusing the police of systemic racism, as she did in a speech to the NAACP. To make this accusation, LU contributor Jerome Woehrle notes, Hillary had to rely on a pile of false, already-disproven “data points.” That she would go out of her way to do it in the first place — instead of doing something constructive — speaks volumes about where, as they say, her “head is at.” It doesn’t say anything good.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/07/22/philly-cops-blast-hillary-shooting-victims-families-speak-not-families-slain-cops/

  14. Predictably, Iran threatens Obama’s ‘deal’ with utter collapse one year later

    Granted, to say the “deal” faces collapse is to imply that it was ever in a state of non-collapse. It’s perfectly sound to argue that the non-deal Iran “deal” has been a collapsed balloon from the beginning.

    But it’s becoming even harder now to pretend that there’s any inflation in the balloon.

    We learned last week that a secret “side deal” to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) will allow Iran to zoom quickly to an accelerated enrichment capability, at the end of the JCPOA’s theoretical, decade-long hiatus. Obama and Kerry kept this side deal a secret from Congress as well as the American people – and lied in public about its provisions, by explicitly misleading the people on the end-state effects of the “deal,” which the side deal would undo.

    On Tuesday, Rep. Pete Roskam (R-IL) said the new revelation invalidates the “deal.”

    Revelations about fatal flaws in the nuclear deal invalidate the entire agreement, Roskam said.

    “I don’t think there’s a way to have the nuclear deal actually limit Iran,” Roskam said. “I think it’s a false premise. I don’t think that the architecture is there for that.”

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/07/21/predictably-iran-threatens-obamas-deal-utter-collapse-one-year-later/

  15. (I don’t remember if anyone posted the call by the BLM groups for all blacks to move to 5 southern states and create a nation within a nations. The following article shows that some of the BLM activist are trying to create a group of nations within a nations or possibly cities within cities where the US police don’t go and probably where the US law doesn’t run.)

    Chicago: Imagining a world without police

    Dozens of activists and protesters took to the streets of North Lawndale on Wednesday night to demand city tax money be invested in alternatives to traditional policing.

    An hour into the evening protest, about 10 demonstrators were arrested and charged with obstructing a roadway after they chained their bodies together and blocked the entrance to the Chicago Police Department’s Homan Square facility.

    “We’re imagining a world without police,” said Camesha Jones, 24, of Bronzeville. “The city of Chicago has spent (millions) of dollars because of police misconduct settlements. I’m here to imagine a world where that money would be spent on education, mental health, to open school, clinics, create jobs.”

    http://www.gopusa.com/?p=12847?omhide=true

    • The movement to create a Black Nation from some of the Southern States and Black enclaves in the North was an idea planted by the KGB during the 1960 and early 1970s. The left never forgets their divisive ideas they just store them to recycle them at a later date.

  16. BLM Protesters Won’t Let White Guy Use the Sidewalk: “Use Your White Privilege to Walk Around!”

    An elderly white man was walking on his way to work in Washington, D.C. when he encountered a group of Black Lives Matter protesters. (I guess that’s what kids do these days while the grown-ups work – or try to anyway.)

    The protesters were gathered on the sidewalk, and the man wanted to be able to use the sidewalk to continue on his way to work, but the protesters wouldn’t allow it. He tried to walk through the small crowd, but they blocked him with their outstretched arms.

    As they chanted, “Walk around!” he told them that he didn’t want to walk around, that he wanted to use the sidewalk.

    They replied, “Use your white privilege to walk around!” Protesters could also be heard chanting, “We see your white privilege!”

    http://eaglerising.com/35242/blm-protesters-wont-let-white-guy-use-the-sidewalk-use-your-white-privilege-to-walk-around-video/

    https://youtu.be/uyBoARBure4

        • Are they really stupid enough to think that we will just continue to let them break the law and commit crimes because of racism? Do they really think that in the long run they stand a chance to take over the US?

  17. Serbia: Refugees hunger strike to demand opening of Serbian-Hungarian border

    Around 300 refugees began a hunger strike in Belgrade, Friday, to protest against Hungary’s decision not to let migrants cross the Serbian-Hungarian border.

    The refugees taped their mouths and wrote slogans on their skin, while holding banners calling for authorities to open the borders. A spokesperson for the refugees, Roohul Amin Afridi, said that “Fleeing war hit areas or countries is no crime. So they are not criminals,” adding that “this peaceful demonstration is to deliver a strong and powerful message to the global leaders to rethink and rethink and rewrite their policies.”

    • Germany: UN’s Sutherland condemns EU states over refugee crisis

      The UN’s Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration, Peter Sutherland, accused the European Union and the UN’s member states of failing to adequately manage the refugee crisis, during a statement in Berlin on Tuesday.

    • Migration Chief: Europe Must Open Its Borders To All, Including Economic Migrants

      United Nations (UN) representative and former Goldman Sachs banker Peter Sutherland has declared that European countries must open their borders to all, including economic migrants. Mr. Sutherland said that refusal to accept everyone who wants to live in Europe is an affront to the European values of dignity and equality of man. Economic migrants, he claimed, are “survival fighters” and the future of Europe.

      Speaking on a panel about immigration in Berlin, Mr. Sutherland, the UN’s Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration, also argued that European leaders must tackle populism, which he said runs counter to European Union (EU) values. The UN migration chief said the EU must find a solution to the “problem” of “xenophobic populism”, calling opposition to open borders counter to “the values of the EU – the dignity of man and the equality of man”.

      http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/07/21/europe-open-borders-economic-migrants/

  18. Journalist Critical of Putin Killed in Car Explosion

    Pavel Sheremet was killed Wednesday morning in the Ukrainian capital city of Kiev when the car he was driving exploded. Ukrainian government officials called the bombing “cynical and well-premeditated murder” and have not ruled out Russian involvement. The bomb was planted underneath the vehicle.

    Sheremet was a Belarusian native and spent most of his journalistic career deriding corruption in Belarus and Russia’s Kremlin – causing ire from governments in both countries and resulted in consequences for the pro-Western journalist.

    He was jailed in 1997 for reporting on political oppression in Belarus and President Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (who is still in power after more than 20 years). In 2004, he had to be hospitalized after receiving a beating while covering an election.

    http://townhall.com/tipsheet/jasonhopkins/2016/07/20/journalist-critical-of-putin-killed-in-car-explosion-n2195314

  19. Clarion Project’s Ryan Mauro Surprises CAIR Official on Radio
    Chris Baker hosted Corey Saylor of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to talk about the organization’s latest Islamophobia report.

    On June 22, radio host Chris Baker had Corey Saylor of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on his program to talk about the organization’s latest Islamophobia report.

    CAIR regularly demonizes critics of its Islamist ties as anti-Muslim bigots, with the Clarion Project and its national security analyst, Professor Ryan Mauro, as top targets.

    This time, we were there to challenge this defamation and inform the audience about CAIR’s true intent.

  20. Bikini-Clad Women Blackmailed by Islamists in Morocco
    An online intimidation campaign has been launched in Morocco to try to prevent women from wearing bikinis on the country’s beaches.

    An online intimidation campaign has been launched in Morocco to try to prevent women from wearing bikinis on the country’s beaches. The campaign has begun to post photos of women clad in scanty bathing suits to Facebook, under the false name Aicha Amal.

    The pictures of women were taken secretly and are meant to shame women into “repenting.” The group claims it has taken 10,000 pictures on Morocco’s beaches.

    The pictures are accompanied by captions which read: “Rediscover the high road and turn to God”; “this is what happens in Morocco, land of Islam, principality of believers”; and “watch out, young Moroccan women, we have eyes that are filming you on the beaches and we will show your photos to prevent the deterioration of the country.”

    Meanwhile, in France, a woman vacationing in an Alpine resort was stabbed along with her three young daughters by a Moroccan-born man identified only as “Mohammed B,” 37. It was initially reported that the man became infuriated at the mother and her daughters, aged eight, 12 and 14, because they were “scantily dressed.” The report was dismissed as a rumor by French prosecutor Raphael Balland.

    https://www.clarionproject.org/news/bikini-clad-women-blackmailed-islamists-morocco

  21. German Court Rules Bombing a Sikh Temple Not Terrorism
    Even though the three perpetrators had links to the terrorist scene, the court refused to rule that the act was terrorism.

    A German court convicted three Muslim teenagers of planting a bomb in a Sikh temple in Essen, in an attempt to kill worshippers but to the surprise of many, decided the attack was not terrorism.

    Two of the teenagers, Mohammed and Yusuf, both 16, planted a bomb in the temple in April 2016, injuring three people including a 60-year old priest. Mohammed and Yusuf built and planted the device while a third co-conspirator named Tolga was also involved.

    Mohammed and Yusuf were arrested after the bombing, while Tolga was picked up later.

    The court found them guilty of “attempted murder, aggravated assault, and causing an explosion” but not terrorism.

    According to the police chief of Essen, Frank Richer, “the accused have clear links to the terrorist scene.”

    All three were Salafists and Islamic State supporters and all three had been referred to government counter extremism programs. An investigation into German counter-extremism programs found they are not working, citing a jihadist who returned from fighting in Syria and continued producing radical propaganda after attending the program.

    https://www.clarionproject.org/news/german-court-rules-bombing-sikh-temple-not-terrorism

  22. Turkey: Islamists Attack Churches in Coup Frenzy

    Largely unreported in the Western media is the group of Islamists who attacked churches in the Trabzon and Malatya provinces.

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s iron-fisted grip has strengthened in the country’s new post-coup reality. The man who is one of the world’s top supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas has now declared a state of emergency in Turkey.

    His purges and detention of soldiers, police, judges, civil servants and teachers have now reached close to 50,000 in less than one week after the “surprise” coup.

    Yet largely unreported in the Western media is the group of Islamists who attacked churches in the Trabzon and Malatya provinces in the frenzy of the coup.

    With the coup in progress, mosques all across Turkey last Friday night repeatedly broadcast the adhan (the Islamic call to prayer) and the Islamic knell, rallying people to pour into the streets in support of the government.

    Thousands of people heeded the call.

    https://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/turkey-islamists-attack-churches-coup-frenzy

  23. Germany: The Terrifying Power of Muslim Interpreters

    Alexander Stevens is a lawyer at a Munich law firm specializing in sexual offenses. In his recent book, Sex in Court, he describes some of his strangest and most shocking cases. One such case raises the question: What do you do when interpreters working for the police and courts lie and manipulate? As no one monitors translators, it is likely that in many instances, the dishonesty of interpreters goes undetected — Stevens’ book chronicles the devastating effects one dishonest interpreter had on a case.

    The parents of a Syrian girl, “Sali,” had promised their daughter to a man named Hassan, who, at the time, was still living in Syria. The arrangement was seen as mutually beneficial: Sali’s parents would receive money and Hassan would be allowed to enter Germany. Sali would never willingly have married a man 34 years her senior, but the family’s honor required it. However, Sali did not receive any benefits from this arrangement. Hassan’s interest in Sali was apparently confined to her body. He forced Sali to perform all kinds of sexual practices several times a day, and brutally abused the girl in the process.

    Sali was unable to hide the fact that she took no pleasure in these rapes and she became ill, so Hassan reproached her and “openly threatened to demand a large compensation payment from her family, for the cost of the wedding reception and lost pleasures of love.” Sali sought help from a women’s shelter, where an employee took her to a lawyer: Stevens. At the shelter, Sali described her misfortune, but was careful repeatedly to come to her husband’s defense. She was more worried about her family’s honor, should Hassan decided to divorce her, than about herself.

    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8391/germany-muslim-interpreters

  24. Hillary Clinton Delegate From Pennsylvania Shoots Her Husband, National Media Ignores Story

    A Democrat from Pennsylvania who is a delegate and would have attended the Democrat convention next week to cast a ballot for Hillary Clinton won’t be making the trip because she shot her husband this week.

    Curiously, the national media has ignored the story. Strange, huh?

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/07/hillary-delegate-pennsylvania-shoots-husband-national-media-ignores-story/

  25. Russian jets bomb US, British outpost in Syria (alarabiya, July 22, 2016)
    http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/07/22/Russian-warplanes-targeted-US-British-outpost-in-Syria.html

    “Russian warplanes bombed a remote outpost in Syria used by elite US and British forces last month as well as another site linked to the CIA, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

    The Journal, which cited US officials as its source, said the previously unreported air strikes on June 16 and July 12 were part of a bid by Moscow to pressure Washington to cooperate more closely with it in the skies over Syria.

    A contingent of about 20 British special forces had pulled out the day before the first attack on June 16, on a garrison about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the Jordanian border at At-Tanf, the report said.

    US officials and rebel commanders told the Journal that the outpost was hit with cluster munitions.

    US attempts to wave off the Russians failed to prevent a second air strike on the base, the report said.

    About three weeks later, on July 12, Russian warplanes hit a rebel camp used by family members of CIA-backed fighters about 50 miles west of At-Tanf, the report said.

    US military and intelligence officials told the newspaper that the attacks hardened opposition at the Pentagon and the CIA to cooperating with the Russians.

    But the White House and the State Department, seeking to avoid a military escalation, decided to pursue a compromise, it said.

    Last week, US Secretary of State John Kerry reached a provisional agreement with the Russians to join forces in strikes on Al-Nusra, the Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria.

    Under the agreement, the Russians would halt air strikes against US-backed rebels and restrain the Syrian air force in return for Washington easing Moscow’s international isolation, the Journal said.”

  26. Nigeria’s Muslims applaud lifting of hijab ban in Lagos schools (BBC, July 22, 2016)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36865257

    “A leading Muslim group in Nigeria has welcomed a court ruling lifting the ban on girls wearing the headscarf in government schools in Lagos state.

    The Muslim Rights Concern (MRC) said the Lagos Court of Appeal’s ruling was a victory for the rule of law.

    The judges said the ban violated the religious rights of Muslim girls, overturning a lower court’s ruling.

    Girls had been barred from wearing the headscarf, or hijab, because it was not part of school uniforms.

    The state government has not yet commented on whether it intends to challenge the ruling at the Supreme Court…”

  27. Pakistan row over future of Bin Laden’s compound (BBC, July 22, 2016)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36866209

    “A row has erupted over what to do with the land in Pakistan’s Abbottabad city where former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden lived and was killed.

    Local authorities want to construct a children’s playground there, while the military wish to build a graveyard.

    The two sides have tussled over control of the land – and on Wednesday the military erected a wall around the site, surprising local authorities.

    Bin Laden was killed in a US raid on his compound at the site in May 2011.

    He had been living there in secret, in a three-storey building behind high walls, for several years before his death.

    The land has remained empty ever since…”

  28. VIENNA – Kerry: Refrigerator chemicals are just as bad as ISIS

    Air conditioners and refrigerators pose as big a threat to “life on the planet” as the threat of terrorism, Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday.

    Kerry was in Vienna negotiating a global climate deal to phase out chemicals used as refrigerants in basic household and commercial appliances such as air conditioning and refrigerators, called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs. The chemicals are a potent source of greenhouse gas emissions that many scientists blame for contributing to global warming.[…]

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/kerry-air-conditioners-worse-than-isis/article/2597416

  29. Dengue fever outbreak kills 27 in Yemen’s Shabwa province (gulfnews, July 22, 2016)
    http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/dengue-fever-outbreak-kills-27-in-yemen-s-shabwa-province-1.1866880

    “Al Mukalla: Local health officials in Yemen’s southern province of Shabwa have said an outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever has killed 27 people while roughly 3,000 others have contracted the disease.

    Officials warn that the disease is spiralling out of control amid a chronic shortage of drugs and insecticide.

    “It is a disaster in the true sense of the word,” Saleh Al Humosi, the director of provincial office of the National Control Malaria Programme, told Gulf News on Friday.

    “We cannot do anything to curb the rapid spread of the disease. In March, there were only six cases and we could have nipped the disease in bud if we received help at that time,” he said.

    Shabwa’s health facilities broke down last year during when Iran-backed Al Houthi militants moved into the province. Thousands of army and security soldiers who remained loyal to the ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh switched sides and backed the rebels…”

  30. Saudi women’s sports events must follow Shariah laws (saudigazette, July 22, 2016)
    http://saudigazette.com.sa/saudi-arabia/saudi-womens-sports-events-must-follow-shariah-laws/

    “JEDDAH — Women’s sports will be allowed in the Kingdom according to Shariah law, Saudi Olympic Committee Executive Director Hussam Al-Qurashi has announced.

    “Women have the right to exercise and participate in sports, because a healthy mother raises healthy children. But the Saudi Olympic Committee will not do anything against the decorum of Saudi society and the instructions of the Council of Senior Scholars. The committee believes in the principles of Shariah,” said Al-Qurashi.

    “We support women’s sports as instructed by our Islamic teachings. We will not hold a sports event for women without proper licensing and without ensuring that the event conforms to the teachings of the Holy Qur’an,” he said.

    Al-Qurashi said that there is an Islamic committee monitoring the decisions of the Saudi Olympic Committee to ensure that it follows Islamic teachings.

    “We will be monitoring all women’s sports events to ensure that they follow Islamic principles. We are looking into allowing sports events for women. We had women participate in the Olympics, but they adhered to Islamic regulations,” said Al-Qurashi.

    He, however, admitted that there were no women’s sports clubs for competitive purposes.

    “Women are not yet allowed to compete in sports. But they are allowed to participate in sports,” said Al-Qurashi.

    The Saudi Olympic Committee has allowed four Saudi female athletes to take part in the Rio Olympics. They are: Sara Al-Attar, Lubna Al-Omair, Cariman Abu Al-Jadail and Wujud Fahmi.

    The announcements of the names of the male and female team members were made separately. The four women will be given wildcard entries so they can compete without meeting formal qualification standards.

    Saudi Arabia entered two women under a similar arrangement for the 2012 Olympics in London.”

  31. Nice: Hollande, 15,000 reservists by end of July (ansamed, July 22, 2016)
    http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2016/07/22/nice-hollande-15000-reservists-by-end-of-july_b17d9a79-0344-445a-9599-aabfca0bf527.html

    “PARIS – France has called up 15,000 reservists in the wake of the 14 July attack on Nice, French President Francois Hollande said Friday.

    Hollande said in a solemn statement at the Elysee Palace that 15,000 police and gendarmerie reservists will be mobilized by the end of the month in addition to the security officials already deployed across the country.

    ”We will complete these human means by calling up army reservists”, continued the head of state in the statement that closed the fourth defense council he summoned since the deadly attack in Nice. ”Together with the government of Manuel Valls, I have decided to bring up during the summer period to 10,000 the number of armed forces to protect celebrations, events and amusement places – all places where French nationals and the foreign tourists we must welcome will be”.

    France will shed ”full light” on the July 14 attack, the president vowed. ”The terrorists want us to renounce to freedom and the rule of law, they are testing us in this area, so that there will be discord, confrontation and stigmatization of a religion, in particular Islam, that has its place in the Republic, while Islamism and fundamentalism are our enemy”, concluded Hollande.”

  32. Racist Mob Violently Beats Every Muslim-looking Person in France (moroccoworldnews, July 22, 2016)
    http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2016/07/192078/extremist-mob-inhumanely-assaults-muslims-france/

    “In a graphic video posted on YouTube, a mob of extremists in France violently beats every Muslim-looking person on the streets.

    The video shows hundreds of extremists destroying what looks like a coffee shop and the public places around it. Even more shocking is the inhumane physical assault on Muslim-looking passengers who are heard screaming in agony and pleading the assaulters to stop.

    Dozens of civilians have fallen victim of this criminal act perpetrated by the extremist mob as the less-than-a-minute video shows. Beside their fists and feet, the attackers use rods and metal objects that look like knives in this attack.

    The video was posted on July 20 and is a small extract from what appears as a massive assault by French extremist against unarmed civilians based on their looks.

    France has recently turned into a fertile ground for terrorists pleading allegiance to ISIS as well as for anti-Muslim extremists.”

  33. Newspaper sellers attacked with iron bar in Vienna (thelocal, July 22, 2016)
    http://www.thelocal.at/20160722/newspaper-sellers-attacked-with-iron-bars-in-vienna

    “Three newspaper sellers in Vienna were assaulted by attackers with an iron bar in two separate incidents that took place over one evening this week…

    The Provincial Criminal Office has taken over the investigation from police and will question the victims – all of whom are of Indian origin – again. According to the latest information, it’s thought that the attacker or attackers were also Indian.”

  34. Muslim man fired for not shaking women’s hands (thelocal, July 22, 2016)
    http://www.thelocal.se/20160722/muslim-man-sues-over-handshake

    “A man is suing a local council in Sweden after he lost his job for refusing to shake hands with female colleagues.

    The man, a practising Muslim, worked for Helsingborg municipality in southern Sweden. He said it was against his religious beliefs to shake women’s hands, although he was happy to shake the hands of male colleagues.

    But council bosses said his stance was incompatible with their equality policy, and said he could no longer work there.

    “We are in favour of diversity. People can believe what they like, but that doesn’t mean that they can discriminate. We will stand up for values like equality,” Liberal councillor Maria Winberg told The Local.

    The man’s name and the exact nature of his work have not been revealed, but he was working on a casual basis. Speaking to SVT he said: “I don’t understand why someone would take exception to me greeting them with my hand on my heart.”

    “I am a practising, religious Muslim and I want to follow my religion. It’s not just men who don’t want to shake women’s hands, there are also women who don’t want to shake hands with men,” he said.

    But Winberg, who is in charge of the council’s HR policy, said the man’s stance had gone down badly in the workplace: “His female colleagues felt they were being discriminated against. You can believe what you like, but you can’t behave how you like in the workplace.”

    The man’s immediate boss had “stood up for equality and shown great courage,” Winberg added.

    The man’s case has been taken up by Malmö mot Diskriminering (Malmö Against Discrimination), and Lund District Court will hear the case at an undecided future date.

    “This kind of situation will become more common, and it’s good that the case is being tried,” Winberg said.

    The question of handshaking has led to bitter rows in Sweden in recent months. Most prominently, a leading member of the Green Party, which sits in the coalition government, was forced out of his post after it emerged that he refused to shake women’s hands.

    Last month, the police force in Skåne came out in defence of a border guard who had taken a similar stance with female colleagues.

    Similar debates have also been raging in other countries. In Switzerland, two teenage boys raised the hackles of some politicians when it emerged that they had refused to shake the hands of female teachers.”

  35. Censorship fears over online extremism clampdown (DW, July 22, 2016)
    http://www.dw.com/en/censorship-fears-over-online-extremism-clampdown/a-19421606

    “Rights experts respond to a call for more online extremist propaganda to be removed in the wake of the Würzburg train attack. The debate follows revelations that the assailant was likely radicalized online.

    Digital rights groups have warned the German government against giving huge internet platforms like Google and Facebook greater responsibility for removing extremist propaganda following the knife and ax attack on a train in Bavaria this week, which left five people injured.

    Authorities believe the attacker – a 17-year-old asylum seeker – radicalized himself in a short period of time by consuming jihadi propaganda online. On Thursday, Interior Minister Thomas De Maiziere called for web platforms to delete more illegal content, to stop others from being tempted by extremist groups.

    But Markus Beckedahl, Editor-in-Chief of the digital rights blog Netzpolitik, has warned against increasingly handing removal decisions to tech companies, saying it would lead the country down a dangerous path towards censorship.

    “Our politicians are forcing a privatization of law enforcement. What should be the decision of a judge for deleting content is being given to internet platforms,” Beckedahl told DW, adding that only the judiciary can decide whether something is propaganda or legal under freedom of expression laws…”

  36. Unemployment in French Muslim communities driving youth to radicalism – ex-intelligence chief

    The tragedy in Nice is the latest horrifying terrorist attack to hit France, with hundreds of people falling victim to extremists. Authorities are waging a frantic battle against the plague of radicalism, at the same facing criticism from citizens, who are upset by the limitation of their liberties. Yet self-radicalized ‘soldiers of the caliphate’ are ready to kill and be killed in the name of Islamic State. Why does France face a disproportionate share of terrorist violence? Will French citizens now have to accept this kind of threat as a part of their daily lives? And with a strong backlash against the Muslim community now inevitable – could a civil war be ripening in France? We ask former intelligence chief at France’s External Security Agency, Alain Juillet, on Sophie&Co today.

    Sophie Shevardnadze:Alain Juillet, former intelligence chief at France’s External Security Agency, welcome to the show, it’s great to have you with us. Now, Mr. Juillet, was the Nice attacker a lone wolf or a terrorist acting under the command of Islamic State?

    Alain Juillet: Up to now, the last attack – we have no official information about whether it is linked with Daesh, with ISIS, but all information around this attack shows that the same system was used as in other countries, therefore, we are sure that it is really a terrorist attack coming from Syria, managed by Syria.

    https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/352633-nice-tragedy-terrorist-attack/

    ( 26 min )

      • A Deadly EU Blind Spot on Israel

        Following last week’s terror attack in Nice, a Belgian Jewish organization issued a highly unusual statement charging that, had European media not spent months “ignoring” Palestinian terror against Israel out of “political correctness,” the idea of a truck being used as a weapon wouldn’t have come as such a shock. But it now turns out that European officials did something much worse than merely ignoring Palestinian attacks: They issued a 39-page report, signed by almost every EU country, blaming these attacks on “the occupation” rather than the terrorists. The obvious corollary was that European countries had no reason to fear similar attacks and, therefore, they didn’t bother taking precautions that could have greatly reduced the casualties.
        […]
        No less telling, however, was the report’s explanation for Israel’s relatively low death toll. Rather than crediting the Israeli police for managing to stop most of the attacks quickly, before they had claimed many victims, it accused them of “excessive use of force… possibly amounting in certain cases to unlawful killings.”
        […]
        Not everyone shares the EU’s blind spot about Palestinian terror. When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Africa earlier this month, the leaders he met with said openly that one of the main things they want from Israel is counterterrorism assistance. They understand quite well that anti-Israel terror isn’t some unique breed that other countries can safely ignore; terror is terror, and any tactic tried by Palestinians is liable to be quickly imitated by Islamist terrorists elsewhere—from airplane hijackings to suicide bombings and, now, car-rammings. […]

        http://evelyncgordon.com/a-deadly-eu-blind-spot-on-israel/

  37. AMAZING: While Trump Accepts Nomination, Obama Celebrates End of Ramadan with Hamas Supporters

    The White House held a celebration Thursday afternoon to honor Eid al Fitr, the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. While no guest list has been made public, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has learned that it includes a number of Islamist activists who have espoused views in direct contrast with American policy.

    Among them were several officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and a former official who remains close to the organization. In contrast, Muslim Americans who believe CAIR and other Islamist groups are not representative of the community’s diverse viewpoints were not invited.

    The White House declined to comment to the IPT or release a complete list of invitees.

    http://americanlookout.com/amazing-while-trump-accepts-nomination-obama-celebrates-end-of-ramadan-with-hamas-supporters/
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    IPT – Obama Eid Celebration Again Empowers Islamists Over Reformers

    http://www.investigativeproject.org/5523/obama-eid-celebration-again-empowers-islamists

  38. What’s Inside Turkey’s Massive Leak (vocativ, July 22, 2016)
    http://www.vocativ.com/343226/whats-inside-turkeys-massive-leak/

    “On Tuesday, WikiLeaks released nearly 300,000 AKP emails. The emails were compiled prior to last Friday’s attempted uprising, but WikiLeaks decided to bump up its publication schedule “in response to the government’s post-coup purges,” the organization wrote on its website. WikiLeaks added that while it has verified the source behind the leak, the source has no connection “in any way, to the elements behind the attempted coup, or to a rival political party or state.”

    Shortly after the publication of the email leak, Turkey’s Telecommunications Board ordered the site be blocked within Turkey. The government wrote that it had taken an ‘administrative measure,’ which, according to Reuters, is a term commonly used when a website has had its access restricted.

    Turkey’s government, currently led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is no stranger to censoring the internet. Rated as “partly free” by democracy watchdog Freedom House’s 2015 Freedom on the Net report, the country has routinely restricted access to social media sites such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter during times of political upheaval. In fact, Erdogan, who has routinely gone after people who insult him on social media platforms, was once quoted telling a committee of journalists that he was “increasingly against the internet every day.”

    A closer look at the data dump offers more insight into the AKP’s constituents, however, as opposed to its leaders. Only a fraction of the emails compiled originate from AKP email accounts, while many appear to be from citizens informing the government about neighbors and acquaintances who are thought to be engaged in criminal activities or are critical of the government.

    One email, carrying the subject line “Here are my neighbor’s Facebook posts that insult Erdogan,” details how the sender filed a complaint to the Ministry of Internal Affairs over his or her neighbors’ alleged threats. “Please check their Facebook accounts which include insults to our President,” it says. “I attached a few screenshots from Facebook…I request you keep my name anonymous.”

    Another email included in the dump was sent with the subject “These people are communists and they insult the Prophet Muhammad.”…”

  39. The Saudis, 9/11 and the 28 pages: America has gone to war for much less (middleeasteye, July 22, 2016)
    http://www.middleeasteye.net/essays/saudis-911-and-28-pages-america-has-gone-war-less-299880797?

    “The declassified sections of the report paint a far more damning picture of Saudi links to the 9/11 attacks than media reports would suggest

    It was a great day to bury bad news. Last Friday, the US government finally released the long awaited classified 28 pages from the Joint Congressional report on 9/11, pointing to Saudi Arabia’s role in the attacks. That same day, Congress broke up for the summer, the Nice atrocity dominated the headlines. Then came a coup in Turkey.

    The story almost vanished. No smoking gun, said the news reports.

    But this interpretation of the pages is a little misleading. Did these writers actually read the documents or just the statements from the FBI and CIA? Yes, the 28 pages do not show that senior Saudi ministers directly told the hijackers to fly planes into buildings or provide them the means to do it. Yet the claim of a lack of definitive links to the Saudis can only hold if they mean the smoking gun was not found still hot in the hands of the crown prince or king himself.

    Only those who don’t want to see the links won’t find them here, although there are caveats.

    First, there are still lots of blacked out names and lines in the report so we can’t see everything that the senators who have read the uncensored report have seen in full. If we could, the picture of Saudi involvement would almost certainly be even more damning.

    Second, the document says the FBI and CIA both did not investigate the Saudis in the United States before 9/11 because the Saudis are allies of the US. This only changed after 9/11, and even then fears of upsetting the special relationship with the Saudis meant that several strong leads were not followed up. The higher ups clearly didn’t want to push the investigation. FBI director Robert Mueller, cautioning against “jumping to conclusions”, even admitted to the Joint Committee on 9 October 2002 that the probing of the joint inquiry staff had brought to light facts that he and the FBI had not been aware of.

    Third, according to the 28 pages, the Saudis did not cooperate in the investigation. They were “useless and obstructionist,” said one New York FBI agent. Others agreed.

    Fourth, the 28 pages only deal with one small part of the 9/11 plot – the San Diego cell, and touch on the Florida connection.

    Yet even with these limitations, a close reading of the newly released pages, combined with what is known about the people mentioned in them, paints a damning picture. The links between Saudi intelligence operatives who assisted the Flight 77 hijackers Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi and senior members of the Saudi government are clear.

    The suspects

    Larisa Alexandrovna Horton, managing editor of investigative news at The Raw Story, has helpfully summarised the report: “Four out of the five [named Saudi operatives] have Saudi government jobs as well as ties to 9/11 hijackers. Four of them also appear to be Saudi intelligence officers with Saudi government jobs as their cover. Two of them got direct funding from Prince Bandar and [his wife] Princess Haifa as well the Saudi Ministry of Defence and Aviation (run by Prince Bandar’s father Prince Sultan). … One of them reported directly to Bandar in his capacity as a Saudi Consulate employee. Three of them are tied through phone calls to the Saudi embassy and other Saudi government departments. All of them were protected by the Saudi government. Add to this the several unnamed individuals who are linked to both the Saudi Embassy and the hijackers. Moreover, connections to Bandar appear in several terrorist suspects’ phonebooks.”

    Aside from the 15 Saudi hijackers who were named by the FBI after the attacks in 2001, we must add new names from the kingdom to the list of 9/11 suspects. The declassified pages show how several Saudis connected to the Saudi embassy and senior Saudi officials assisted the hijackers. These include:

    * Omar al-Bayoumi, who FBI reports dating from 1999, cited in the 28 pages, suggest was a Saudi intelligence officer with a long history of connections to Saudi officialdom. He made 100 calls to Saudi establishments through early 2000, and had several contacts at the embassy, the Saudi cultural centre and the Saudi consulate in LA. He had received $20,000 from the Ministry of Finance. The report says he “provided substantial assistance to hijackers Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi after they arrived in San Diego in February 2000. Al-Bayoumi met the hijackers at a public place shortly after meeting with an individual from the Saudi consulate”. It goes on: “When al-Hazmi and al-Midhar moved to San Diego…. They stayed at al-Bayoumi’s apartment for several days until [he] was able to find them an apartment. Al-Bayoumi then co-signed their lease and may have paid their first month’s rent and security deposit.” He threw a party for them and found someone from the Islamic Centre of San Diego to translate for them, help them get driver’s licenses and “ assisted them in locating flight schools.”

    The hijackers were later moved to the house of a friend of Bayoumi, Abdussattar Shaikh, who unknown to Bayoumi, was an FBI informant. The FBI closed their initial investigation into Bayoumi in 1999. After the September 2011 attacks, Bayoumi moved to the UK, where he was arrested at the behest of the FBI but the investigation was then dropped. The agency has been much criticised in years since for failing to follow up evidence linking him to the hijackers.

    Bayoumi worked for a company affiliated to the Saudi Ministry of Defence, even though he only turned up once. The document states: “According to FBI files [redacted] at the company said that al-Bayoumi received a monthly salary even though he had been there only one occasion. The support increased substantially in April 2000, two months after the hijackers arrived in San Diego, decreased slightly in December of 2000, and stayed at the same level until August 2001. The company reportedly had ties to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.”

    * Osama Bassnan, Bayoumi’s close associate, was a Saudi intelligence operative, according to FBI informants in the Muslim community. He lived directly across the street from the hijackers in San Diego and told an informant that he did more for the two hijackers than Bayoumi. The FBI described him as “an extremist and supporter of Osama bin Laden”. The document states: “According to a CIA memo Bassnan reportedly received funding and possibly a fake passport from Saudi government officials. The report says Bassnan was bankrolled by “the Saudi ambassador to the United States [Bandar] and his wife” through the Saudis’ favourite finance house Riggs Bank. A search of Bassnan’s apartment turned up indications that he had cashed checks worth $74,000 and had one check dating from 1998 from Bandar himself for $15,000.

    * Saudi interior ministry official Saleh al-Hussayen stayed at the same time hotel in Houston as hijacker al-Hazmi days before the attack. “While al-Hussayen claimed after 9/11 not to know the hijackers, FBI agents believed he was being deceptive,” says the report. He was able to leave the US despite the FBI wanting to question him further.

    * On page 433 (the 28 page document is numbered from page 415 to 443), the report refers to an incident described as a possible “dry run” for the 2001 attacks when, in 1999, Mohammed al-Qudhaeein and Hamdan al-Shalawi were flying from Phoenix to Washington DC to attend a party at the Saudi embassy. “After boarding the plane… they began asking the flight attendants technical questions about the flight that the flight attendants found suspicious.” At one point, “al-Qudhaeein went to the front of the plane and attempted on two occasions to enter the cockpit. The plane made an emergency landing and the FBI investigated the incident, but decided not to pursue a prosecution.” The men said their plane tickets were paid for by the Saudi embassy.

    * The most senior figure by far implicated through multiple connections to the agents who assisted the hijackers is Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who was then Saudi ambassador to the US in Washington. His father, Prince Sultan, was at that time Saudi defence minister. Among phone numbers found in the phone book of Pakistani al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubayda were one subscribed to the APSCOL Corporation in Aspen, which managed the Colorado residence of Prince Bandar….”

  40. Man Accused of Islamophobic Attack was Defending his Girlfriend

    The trouble with these Islamophobic hate crimes is that they don’t stand up to scrutiny too well.

    The man who allegedly beat up two Muslim teenagers in front of a Brooklyn mosque turned himself in to police Wednesday, authorities said.

    Vallaro is accused of beating the pair after they harassed his girlfriend as she sat in a car near the Madine Muslim Community Center on Third Avenue in Sunset Park early Sunday.

    Police said the boys, 17 and 16, tried to talk to the woman — opening her door and trying to stick their heads in her window — for around 30 minutes prior to the attack.

    Vallaro then got out of the car and began beating to a pulp while calling them “f—ing terrorists”

    “You Muslims are the cause of all the problems of the world,” he also was heard screaming.

    About half of that happened. You can probably guess which half.

    The Brooklyn DA’s office is investigating allegations that the two teens beaten to a pulp by an enraged boyfriend outside a Brooklyn Mosque were? ?sexually assaulting his girlfriend, The Post has learned.

    The July 2 beating was originally investigated as a hate-crime, but police later concluded the teens’ Muslim faith was not a motivating factor.

    During a brief Wednesday appearance, defense attorney Sal Strazzullo submitted 20 letters from his client’s neighbors, mostly Muslim-Americans, in Vallaro’s defense.

    This is a typical story in which Muslim Islamophobia grievances attempt to conceal the original crime.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/263602/man-accused-islamophobic-attack-was-defending-his-daniel-greenfield

  41. The Islamic Republic of Iran: At War with the U.S.
    But the Obama administration hasn’t noticed.

    The Jerusalem Post Wednesday quoted the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Ali Larijani, “warning the US administration and its House of Representatives and Senate that injurious measures against the nuclear agreement have reached such a point that there is no way left for Iran but to counteract.”

    As I show in my new book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran, Larijani’s bellicose language and thinly-veiled threat may have come as a surprise to those who believe that Barack Obama and John Kerry brought peace for our time by means of the nuclear deal, but it was nothing new to those who have been paying closer attention to Iran than the Obama administration has.

    When the nuclear deal was concluded, Ali Wambold, a member of the Qajar Dynasty that ruled Iran from 1785 to 1925 and a longtime critic of the Islamic Republic, pointed out that the Constitution of the Islamic Republic “proclaims ‘the ideological mission of jihad,’ which it defines as ‘extending the sovereignty of God’s law throughout the world,’ through Iran’s Army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.” Thus, he said, “to treat with the Islamic Republic over the particulars of its weaponry while failing to address the very purpose of its bellicosity is delusional. The so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action does nothing to change the fact that, in plain Farsi, Iran is committed to world conquest by Islam, with its clerics as warlords. Those to be conquered include America (the ‘Great Satan’), Israel (the ‘Little Satan’) and the Sunni-led Gulf States.”

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263595/islamic-republic-iran-war-us-robert-spencer

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