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Laid on with a trowel, we’re supposed to love this. Better have a sick-bag nearby:
Together We Prevail
I will pass it by, I just ate breakfast.
Police uncover YouTube link to London terror attack
Counter-terrorism officers secretly recorded an alleged Isil-inspired terror cell in Barking last month discussing how to use YouTube to plot a van and knife attack in London, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.
The investigators were monitoring the alleged extremist cell in the east London borough weeks before Saturday night’s attack in the capital, which left seven dead and 48 injured. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
On Sunday police arrested 12 people, among them seven women – all of them in Barking and other parts of east London, where at least one of Saturday’s killers was believed to have lived. Those arrested were aged from 19 to 60.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/04/police-uncover-youtube-link-london-terror-attack/
THE JIHADI NEXT DOOR London Bridge attacker in Arsenal shirt was ex-Tube worker ‘family man’ called Abz, 27 who appeared on Channel 4 documentary
The maniac was gunned down along with two other terror thugs by armed cops on Saturday in Borough Market
THE Arsenal kit wearing ringleader of the London Bridge terror attack posed with a jihadi flag on Channel 4 documentary The Jihadis Next Door, was thrown out of a mosque and tried to radicalise kids in his local park in the years ahead of the devastating atrocity.
The ex-KFC and London Tube worker, known as Abz, 27, was quizzed by cops over his twisted views before he was gunned down along with his two accomplices down following the depraved assault on Saturday night.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3723382/attacker-arsenal-kit-kfc-c4-doc-jihadi-flag-radicalise-kids-thrown-out-mosque-quizzed-cops/
FINAL MEAL London Bridge attack ringleader in Arsenal shirt ‘held a goodbye barbecue and invited his neighbours’ a week before the atrocity
Shocked neighbours said he was a ‘lovely guy who would buy ice-creams for children and help them with shopping’
THE ringleader of the London Bridge terror attack is thought to have thrown a “send-off” barbecue for his neighbours a week before carrying out the bloody rampage that claimed seven lives and left 48 injured.
Ramou Grant, who was invited to the party in Barking, told Good Morning Britain: “Last week he called for a barbecue and invited all of us. [I’ve been] thinking, ‘was this a send-off?’”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3725200/london-bridge-attacker-arsenal-shirt-goodbye-barbecue/
BOUNCER’S BRAVE CHARGE Doorman ‘saved countless lives’ by pelting jihadis with bottles, glasses and bar stools and driving them into gun cops’ sights
A 28-year-old doorman known as Ozzy led a brave charge against the maniacs after seeing them repeatedly knifing a woman
A HERO bouncer saved countless lives by hurling bar stools, bottles and glasses at the London Bridge terrorists — driving them towards the police marksmen’s guns.
The 33-year-old doorman known as Ozzy led a brave charge against the maniacs, despite fearing they had suicide bomb vests, after seeing them repeatedly knifing a woman outside the Wheatsheaf pub in Borough Market.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3722542/doorman-saved-countless-lives-by-pelting-jihadis-with-bottles-glasses-and-bar-stools-and-driving-them-into-gun-cops-sights/
Jihadi was ‘euphoric’ hours before attack as he asked a neighbour about hiring a van: Arsenal-supporting father of two, who had worked for London Transport, also tried to ‘radicalise children’ in local park
The jihadi in an Arsenal shirt was ‘euphoric’ and asking about how to hire a van just hours before the London Bridge atrocity, it was claimed last night.
He could not contain his excitement during a conversation with a neighbour on Saturday afternoon. The neighbour said he wandered over and asked about his van and how much it would cost to hire one.
Hours later, the father of two, who had worked at KFC and for the Transport for London which is responsible for the Tube and buses in the capital, went on a bloody rampage with two twisted extremists which left seven people dead and scores more injured. The three terrorists were shot dead by police.
Iketina Chigbo, who lives in the block of flats raided in Barking, said he saw the Arsenal-supporting jihadi just a few hours before the terror attack.
He said: ‘It was around 3pm and I was in the process of moving so was loading stuff into a van. He came over and seemed quite excitable. He was wearing his Arsenal shirt and was asking about the van.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4570950/Footage-shows-London-Bridge-terrorists-Borough-Market.html
A true hero. Would that all European men exhibited such scrotal endowment.
LA mayor: Immigration arrests could cause a ‘tinderbox’
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) in a recent radio interview said he is concerned that increased Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids under the Trump administration could cause already high tensions in his city to boil over.
“If something goes wrong, I fear a tinderbox out there, you know where people will suddenly say ‘no’ and try to defend. You know, keep that person from being taken,” Garcetti told Latino USA.
“That’s a very dangerous situation. That’s dangerous for those officers. That’s dangerous for those agents. And we’re going to have to respond.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/336287-la-mayor-immigration-arrests-could-cause-a-tinderbox
(Richard: The left has created several major problems in California and it is read to explode no matter what we do, this is not a reason to stop enforcing our laws. It is a reason to send in more cops and enforce the laws.)
Yucki I think someone is listening to you.
Saudi, Egypt lead Arab states cutting Qatar ties, Iran blames Trump
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed their ties with Qatar on Monday, accusing it of supporting terrorism and opening up the worst rift in years among some of the most powerful states in the Arab world.
Iran — long at odds with Saudi Arabia and a behind-the-scenes target of the move — immediately blamed U.S. President Donald Trump for setting the stage during his recent trip to Riyadh.
Gulf Arab states and Egypt have already long resented Qatar’s support for Islamists, especially the Muslim Brotherhood which they regard as a dangerous political enemy.
The coordinated move, with Yemen and Libya’s eastern-based government joining in later, created a dramatic rift among the Arab nations, many of which are in OPEC.
Announcing the closure of transport ties with Qatar, the three Gulf states gave Qatari visitors and residents two weeks to leave. Qatar was also expelled from the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen.
Oil giant Saudi Arabia accused Qatar of backing militant groups — some backed by regional arch-rival Iran — and broadcasting their ideology, an apparent reference to Qatar’s influential state-owned satellite channel al Jazeera.
http://www.oann.com/saudi-arabia-egypt-uae-sever-ties-to-qatar-over-terrorism/
MoA – “The GCC States Led By Saudi Arabia Will Collapse Into Oblivion”
Emboldened by U.S. backing Saudi Arabia launched a campaign to finally subjugate Qatar into client state status. The plan has now reached a high point. A few hours ago Bahrain, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia severed all ties with Qatar.
All sea- and airspace have been closed for Qatari traffic and the land-routes severed. All Qataris will have to leave those countries within 14 days. Qatari diplomats were given just 48 hours.
The immediate consequences are huge. Some 37 million passengers cross through Doha each year. But Qatar Airways now has to fly through Iranian, Iraqi and Turkish airspace to reach Europe. (If the situation persists the UAE owned Emirates Airways will likely order a huge bunch of new planes.) Half of the food in Qatar comes via Saudi Arabia through Qatar’s only land border. 600-800 trucks per day can no longer pass. The 19 flights per day between Doha and Dubai are called off. Oil prices rose some 1.6% and the Qatari stock exchange tanked.
The reasons for the immediate spat are manifold. It has only little to do with Iran.
The Saudis accuse Qatar of supporting terrorists. That is like Britain accusing the U.S. of imperialism, or the mafia cutting ties with the mob over gangsterism. As Joe Biden remarked (vid) when still Vice President, both Wahhabi countries, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, have been funding and fueling terrorism in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere. But the Saudi view is that the more “liberal” Qatar is simply supporting the “wrong” kind of terrorists.
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/06/the-gcc-states-led-by-saudi-arabia-will-collapse-into-oblivion.html
Saudi Arabia, Egypt Begin Campaign Against Qatar
June 5, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
This is an interesting and inevitable development.
A look at the players. Qatar is to Sunni Jihad what Iran is to Shiite Jihad. Saudi Arabia has been pretty bad, but Qatar is actually worse. They’ve had their hand in everything from 9/11 to the Arab Spring. They’re big backers of the Muslim Brotherhood and they’ve been providing weapons and training to Islamist rebels across the region. They’re also behind Al Jazeera.
The UAE was the first to break with Qatar over concerns about the Muslim Brotherhood. And things have been slowly escalating from there.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/266901/saudi-arabia-egypt-begin-campaign-against-qatar-daniel-greenfield
Nations cut ties with Qatar, complicate US terror fight
zero hedge – The Shocking Trigger Behind Today’s Gulf Scandal: Qatar Paid Al-Qaeda, Iran $1BN In Hostage Deal
The FT has unveiled what its believes is the key trigger behind the shocking overnight collapse in diplomatic relations between Qatar and its Gulf neighbors. According to the FT, the catalyst that forced the Saudis and their allies to unveil the cut in diplomatic and economic ties, is that Qatar allegedly paid up to $1 billion to Iran and al-Qaeda affiliates “to release members of the Gulf state’s royal family who were kidnapped in Iraq while on a hunting trip, according to people involved in the hostage deal”; the secret deal was allegedly one of the triggers behind Gulf states’ dramatic decision to cut ties with Doha.
The details of the payoff: “around $700m was paid both to Iranian figures and the regional Shia militias they support, according to regional government officials. They added that $200m to $300m went to Islamist groups in Syria, most of that to Tahrir al-Sham, a group with links to al-Qaeda.”
A regional Arab official said the total paid to jihadi groups was closer to $300m. “So, if you add that up to the other $700m they paid to Iran and its proxies, that means Qatar actually spent about a billion dollars on this crazy deal,” he said.
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The Iraqi Shia militia commanders in Iraq, all from hardline Iranian-backed groups, said that, to their knowledge, Iran had obtained around $400m after giving them a payment they would not disclose. They agreed to share some details because they were unhappy about their share of the payment.
“They [the Iranians] took the lion’s share,” said a member of one of the Iranian-backed Shia militias in Iraq. “That’s caused some of us to be frustrated, because that was not the deal.”
The “ransom payments are the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said one Gulf observer.
Not to be confused with the Obama administration secretly airlifting crates full of $1.7 billion in cash to Tehran to release five US hostages held by Iran, the FT writes that commanders of militant groups and government officials in the region told the Financial Times that “Doha spent the money in a transaction that secured the release of 26 members of a Qatari hunting party in southern Iraq and about 50 militants captured by jihadis in Syria.”
By their telling, Qatar paid off two of the most frequently blacklisted forces of the Middle East in one fell swoop: an al-Qaeda affiliate fighting in Syria and Iranian security officials.
If nothing else, at least Qatar got a better bang for the physical buck, at $38 million per hostage, compared to the $340 million the Obama administration paid for the five US hostages released by Tehran.
While there is no official evidence, the FT adds that the deal, which was concluded in April, heightened concerns among Qatar’s neighbours about the small gas-rich state’s role in a region plagued by conflict and bitter rivalries, which however is at least somewhat confusing: after all it was well-known since the Podesta emails that even the US state department had confirmed that both Saudi Arabia and Qatar were the two primary funders of the Islamic State and various Jihidaist groups in the region.
Recall from our October 2016 post:
In a leaked email sent on August 17, 2014 by Hillary Clinton to her current campaign manager, John Podesta, who back then was counselor to Barack Obama, she admitted that Qatar and Saudi Arabia “are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region.”
The email, which was sent just days after the US launched it “temporary” air campaign in Syria, which has now extended over two years, represents an eight-point plan laying out ideas how to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Clinton’s email said that the United States should engage in “military operations against these very irregular but determined forces” by “making proper use of clandestine/special operations resources, in coordination with airpower, and established local allies” such as Kurdish forces.
Having confirmed the role of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Hillary then states that “we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia” and recommends to step up US commitment to the Kurdish Regional Government or KRG. “The Qataris and Saudis will be put in a position of balancing policy between their ongoing competition to dominate the Sunni world and the consequences of serious U.S. pressure. By the same token, the threat of similar, realistic U.S. operations will serve to assist moderate forces in Libya, Lebanon, and even Jordan, where insurgents are increasingly fascinated by the ISIL success in Iraq.”
In any case, last year’s revalation appears to have been “news” to Saudi Arabia – the other named source of funding to ISIS, and on Monday, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain took the extraordinary step of cutting off diplomatic ties and transport links to Qatar, alleging the country fuels extremism and terrorism.“
The FT further notes that “Doha denies it backs terrorist groups and dismissed the blockade by its neighbours as “founded on allegations that have no basis in fact”. It said it could not immediately respond to a request for comment on the hostage deal. But a person close to the Qatari government acknowledged that “payments” were made. The person was unaware of the amounts or where the money went.”
Doha has a history of reaching out to all kinds of controversial groups, from rebels in Sudan’s Darfur region to the Taliban in Afghanistan and Hamas in Gaza. Qatar touts itself as a neutral player that can act as an intermediary in regional conflicts. But its critics, notably Saudi Arabia and the UAE, allege it also uses such interventions to play both sides and fund radical Islamist groups, most recently in Libya and Syria. And to Doha’s critics, the hostage deal was further evidence of that role.
In an amusing twist, one FT source – a Syrian opposition figure who has worked with an al-Qaeda mediator on hostage swaps in Syria. – adds that “if you want to know how Qatar funds jihadis, look no further than the hostage deal…. And this isn’t the first — it is one of a series since the beginning of the war.”
Those who spoke to the FT said the deal highlighted how Qatar has allegedly used hostage payments to bankroll jihadis in Syria. But to its Gulf neighbours, the biggest issue is likely to be the fact that Doha could have paid off their main regional rival, Iran, which they accuse of fuelling conflicts in the Arab world.
This particular saga began when an Iranian-backed Iraqi Shia militia, known as Kata’eb Hizbollah, kidnapped the Qataris in December 2015. Three Iraqi militia leaders say the hostages were held in Iran.
Kata’eb Hizbollah is an Iraqi group but it is seen as having links with Iran’s main regional proxy, Hizbollah, the Lebanese militant group. The latter is helping Iran back Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, in his country’s six-year conflict.
It gets better: the hostage transaction was also linked to a separate agreement to facilitate the evacuation of four towns in Syria — two surrounded by jihadi forces and two besieged by Shia militias — say Syrian rebels and diplomats. One western diplomat said the arrangement provided Qatar the “cover” to finance the hostage deal. “Iran and Qatar had long been looking for a cover to do this [hostage] deal, and they finally found it,” he said.
According to two opposition figures with close contact with the groups paid, Qatar used the evacuation arrangement to pay $120-$140m to Tahrir al-Sham. Another $80m, they said, went to the Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham.
“The Qataris pay anyone and everyone, to what end? They have only brought about our ruin,” said a Syrian rebel commander, who gave details about the payments but asked not to be identified.
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Going back to our analogy of Obama dumping crates of cash – anywhere between $400 million and $1.7 billion – in Iran, it appears this time was not that different:
Another confusing chapter of the deal is that Haidar al-Abadi, Iraqi prime minister, said in April his government had seized hundreds of millions of dollars, which Iraqi officials said arrived on Qatari planes “illegally”. It is not clear if this is money is part of the sums mentioned above, or an additional amount.
The punchline: “The money all came in suitcases, can you imagine this?” said one senior official.
And while Qatar has now been scapegoated for funding Al-Qaeda and ISIS, something most have known for years, a question emerges: does this mean that Saudi Arabia – another chronic supporter of terrorism in the region and around the globe – is now off the hook?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-05/shocking-trigger-behind-todays-gulf-scandal-qatar-paid-al-qaeda-iran-1bn-hostage-dea
I’m thrilled.
Not so sure about Jordan, Kuwait, and Oman.
But they’ll probably be able to act as mediators.
Following NYT’s outing of top CIA operative, Iran websites put out name of town, wife’s name, photos
By J.E. Dyer June 4, 2017
The heinous nature of the New York Times’ action – naming a senior CIA official in a 2 June article about a new CIA cell focused on Iran – isn’t about whether the officer in question has been named publicly before (although more on that in a moment). It lies in the fact that the CIA official has been assigned to a new task, and has now had a target painted on his back because of his association with that task.
The CIA official led the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and was outed in that regard in 2015 (along with his involvement in the drone-hunting program). NYT played a role in that outing, as described by Gawker at the time:
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/06/04/following-nyts-outing-top-cia-operative-iran-websites-put-name-town-wifes-name-photos/
This article details what is nothing less then treason by the New York Times and whoever is leaking classified data to them. We know there are large numbers Iranians in the US and some of them are working for Iran, there are also many credible reports of large numbers of Iranian commando types that have crossed the southern border. This means that the patriotic man and his family are at grave risk because the NYT owners and editors are opposed to the current administration. I don’t know if there is enough evidence to bring criminal charges on them but I doubt if there is, the leaker on the other hand should be identified and then sped the rest of his or her life in maximum security pens.
Enviros sue DHS to stop prototype phase of border wall
By LU Staff June 4, 2017
Liberals have complained that a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico would engender hard feelings among Mexicans seeking to sneak into the country.
If that argument leaves you scratching your head, try this alternative rationale for opposing such a wall. It was cooked up by an Arizona-based environmental group that plans to sue the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to block the Trump administration from moving forward on the testing of prototypes for its proposed border wall.
The Center For Biological Diversity, a nonprofit dedicated to the protection of native species, sent a formal notice of intent Thursday to DHS Secretary John Kelly and Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke. The group claims the border wall will destroy sensitive natural habitats and that proceeding with construction without an environmental impact review is a violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Center spokesman Brian Segee says the Trump administration hasn’t even paid “lip service” to protecting the environment, which would suffer “widespread damage” as a result of the wall’s construction.
Segee added in a statement:
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/06/04/enviros-sue-dhs-stop-prototype-phase-border-wall/
Two men are dead, three police officers were shot and a woman was taken hostage in a dramatic siege in the Melbourne bayside suburb of Brighton in Australia.
The officers killed the gunman during the shootout. Two were later take to hospital with gunshot wounds, while the other officer was treated at the scene.
Police had not confirmed the identity of the gunman last night but a man reportedly called Channel Seven newsroom during the standoff and said “This is for IS. This is for al-Qaeda”.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/93356101/man-shot-in-a-siege-terror-in-melbourne-australia
AUSTRALIA – Brighton hostage drama: police investigate terror link to deadly siege
THE GUNMAN at the centre of a deadly Melbourne hostage drama was known to counter-terrorism investigators and was on parole.
He was last night shot dead by police and another man found murdered after two horrific hours which plunged Brighton into lock-down.
Three police from the special operations group were injured in a gunfight which ended with the suspect’s death at a Bay St apartment complex.
Senior law enforcement sources said the suspect at the centre of bloody events – in which a woman was held hostage – may have come to the notice of counter-terror officers after an incident at an Army barracks.
He was on parole for a criminal offence and rated as a low-risk figure of interest to counter-terror authorities.
The Herald Sun understands the State Government is treating the incident as a terrorism episode.
A Victoria Police statement said: “Police are investigating whether the incident is terrorism-related.”
A male caller to the Channel Seven newsroom in Melbourne reportedly said during the siege: “This is for IS (Islamic State)” and ‘’This is for al qaeda’’.
The station said a woman could be heard screaming in the background.
more :
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/emergency-crews-responding-to-explosion-in-brighton/news-story/432d22f46235bc4f810581d6cd5965d7
Australia: 2 dead in hostage situation in Melbourne – police investigating terror links
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Maldives has announced it is severing diplomatic ties with Qatar over its alleged support for Islamist groups.
It joined Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in cutting diplomatic ties with Qatar on Monday and began withdrawing its diplomatic staff.
The foreign ministry said in a statement that Maldives has pursued a policy of promoting peace and stability in the Middle East, and the decision was made because of its firm opposition to activities that encourage terrorism and extremism.
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https://apnews.com/26006a0441e5480088d1616ead314528/The-Latest:-Egypt-give-Qatari-amabassador-48-hours-to-leave?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
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The following statement was posted online in Arabic by the Qatari foreign ministry on Monday.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar expressed its deep regret and surprise at the decisions by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Bahrain to close their borders and airspace, and sever diplomatic relations with the State of Qatar, bearing in mind that these measures are unjustified and based on false claims and assumptions.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/gulf-diplomatic-crisis-qatar-reaction-full-170605071246160.html
A scientist working for ExxonMobil in Papua New Guinea was held hostage last week by armed tribesmen in Hela Province who wanted police to release a local warlord.
The men, who were carrying home-made firearms, abducted the woman from the vicinity of the Komo airfield on Friday as they were on their way to the Tari police station to demand the release of their kinsman.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/332344/exxonmobil-employee-held-hostage-in-png-s-hela-province
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When you delve int London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s close ties to radical islamic groups it really makes you question – whose side is he on?
From DisobedientMedia
Sadiq Khan has historically maintained close relational and professional ties with groups associated with both Al-Qaeda and ISIS. During the 1990’s, Khan’s brother in law Makbool Javaid gave fiery public addresses advocating jihad and whose name even appeared on a fatwa calling for holy war against the United Kingdom and United States.
http://truthfeed.com/sadiq-khans-close-ties-to-al-qaeda-and-isis-exposed/78853/
HOMEAMERICATrey Gowdy Appointed To Chair House Oversight Committee
Trey Gowdy appointed to chair House Oversight Committee admin
Rep. Trey Gowdy just scored the gig of a lifetime, after he was elected to lead and manage the Oversight Committee.
Although this was never his first ambition, Trey Gowdy earned the trust of the American people, and will now be in charge of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Next week, a suitable replacement for Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, is set to be found. As you know, Chaffetz announced he was retiring before his term ends.
Now, with Gowdy taking on this huge responsibility, things are looking up for America and its politics. The GOP showed massive respect for Gowdy and believe he will be able to fit in accordingly and bring progress to the country.
http://nevermissnewsagain.com/trey-gowdy-appointed-chair-house-oversight-committee/
I cannot think of anyone better qualified for the task. What a great choice.
He makes a good show but nothing ever comes from his investigations. IRS scandal, Benghazi-gate, the Witch’s emails, more.
He and Chavetz make a great show of opposition, then stop short. I hope he proves me wrong on this one.
Investigators know identities of 3 London attackers
Neighbors identify London Bridge attack suspect as man featured in recent documentary (abcnews, Jun 5, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/neighbors-identify-london-bridge-attacker-man-featured-recent/story?id=47837932
“Neighbors have identified one of the London Bridge attack suspects as a man known by the nickname “ABZ” or “Abs” who was featured in a recent documentary on the British Channel 4 from 2016 called “The Jihadist Next Door.”
Neighbors say he was the attacker who wore the fake suicide vest during the vehicle and stabbing attack that killed seven people in London on Saturday night.
He was a member of Al Muhajiroun, a small group of men led by Anjem Choudary and Siddartha Dhar who openly preached for the need for Sharia law.
The group was closely monitored by authorities. Police know the man’s name but have not yet publicly announced it.
According to Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, research director of George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, Choudary’s network of extremist followers has numbered in the hundreds, and many have been charged with terrorism offenses in the U.K. or fought and died in Syria with ISIS.
“So the potential for more of them to mobilize is still there,” said Meleagrou-Hitchens, who has interviewed several members of the group. “Almost all would be known to authorities though … There are hundreds of members but only small fraction will act. Knowing which ones will is hard and not an exact science.”
Another British expert said Al-Muhajiroun has proven time and again that many of those involved with it are truly “dangerous individuals,” justifying the British government’s 2010 ban on Choudary’s group…”
USA – ORLANDO – FLORIDA -Several dead in mass shooting at Orange County business, deputies say
Deputies called to Forsyth Road near Hanging Moss Road
ORLANDO, Fla. – Several people were killed Monday in a mass shooting at a business in Orange County, according to sheriff’s officials.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office tweeted that there are “multiple fatalities” in a “tragic incident.” It is not known, however, how many people died.
Officials said the situation has been contained and the scene has been “stabilized.” No details about the victims or the shooter have been released.
Forsyth Road is closed from University and State Road 50.
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/shooting-investigated-at-warehouse-in-orange-county
Cops: Former employee kills five, self in workplace shooting
Steyn: We’re not being honest about the nature of the enemy
Dakota Meyer on how service members want to defeat terrorism
How can big cities eradicate radical Islamic terrorism?
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euronews -Donald Trump sparks outrage after UK terror tweets
As usual the propaganda news gets things wrong, the Mayor is a 5th columnists an everyone with brains knows this, the gun comment was to get a gun control debate started in Europe so Europeans can carry firearms to protect themselves. Of course the left doesn’t want people to take care of themselves they would rather see them dead then taking care of themselves.
euronews -Turning away from terror: deradicalisation in the UK
Bill Clintons midnight basketball to combat gangs, that didn’t work and it is highly doubtful that this will work.
The article says an industrial park but the audio update said a collage campus.
Orlando shooting leaves multiple people dead, officials say
A shooting in Orlando’s industrial area left multiple people dead Monday morning, officials said.
Officers gathered in a parking lot outside a warehouse off Forsyth Road in Orange County, near Full Sail University, shortly before 9 a.m.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/05/multiple-fatalities-in-orlando-shooting-officials-say.html
‘Multiple fatality’ shooting at Orlando business
Posted 8:19 AM, June 5, 2017, by CNN Wire, Updated at 08:50AM, June 5, 2017
ORLANDO, Fla. — Police are investigating a “multiple fatality” shooting at a business headquarters in Orlando, Florida, according to Capt. Angelo Nieves with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office calls the situation “contained and stable,” says CNN affiliate TV station WFTV. Police are not searching for an active shooter, the station says.
The location is an industrial area in suburban Orlando, northeast of downtown.
Forsyth Road was closed near Hanging Moss Road, WFTV reports.
Police officers are gathered in a parking lot outside several warehouses.
http://wgntv.com/2017/06/05/multiple-fatality-shooting-at-orlando-business/
ORLANDO, Fla. – Several people were killed Monday in a mass shooting at a business in Orange County, according to sheriff’s officials.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office tweeted that there are “multiple fatalities” in a “tragic incident.” It is not known, however, how many people were killed. Sources told News4Jax sister-station WKMG that the shooter, a disgruntled employee, is dead.
The shooting was reported around 8 a.m. at an industrial area on North Forsyth Road near Hanging Moss Road, northwest of Colonial Drive and State Road 417 in Orlando. Authorities have not named the business.
http://www.news4jax.com/news/multiple-fatalities-reported-at-orlando-area-business
London Attacks: Police Raids Continue
To answer the question, only if the politicians use common sense.
Will London, Manchester attacks lead to use of profiling?
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Unarmed police are a moral force only for people who think fair play is the way everyone should live, the Moslems think we are just giving them easy targets.
Sadiq Khan condemns the terrorist’s use of Islam as a ‘justification’ for the London Bridge attack
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 5 juin 2017
Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his “no reason to be alarmed” statement. MSM is working hard to sell it!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/871725780535062528
5th columnist trying to help the Islamic Invasion.
Fox News – Julie Roginsky ‘claps back’ at Trump’s London terror tweets
UK: Mourners share emotional embrace at vigil to London attack victims
London Bridge Attack Vigil
A statement from Mayor Sadiq Khan’s office said the vigil will be held at 6 p.m. local time on Monday at Potters Fields Park, an open space which surrounds City Hall on the River Thames near Tower Bridge.
Is it just me or have these heaps of flowers begin to resemble displays of weakness? It’s long overdue for sorrow to turn into anger. Teddy bears and floral bouquets don’t quite manage to send that message.
Monstrous white flags.
New UGC emerges showing aftermath of London Bridge attack
Photojournalist films police shooting at London attackers
DAILY MAIL – Second London Bridge terrorist was ‘a Moroccan pastry chef living in Dublin with an Irish ID after marrying a Scottish woman’
The suspect, who has not been named, is believed to have been born in Morocco
Police shot him dead during London Bridge rampage and he had an Irish ID card
Moved to Dublin after marrying a Scottish woman and lived in Rathmines area
Couple are believed to have moved from Rathmines to London in recent months
One of the three London Bridge attackers shot dead after murdering seven people was a pastry chef from north Africa carrying an Irish ID card, it was revealed today.
The suspect, who has not been named, is believed to have been born in Morocco but moved to Dublin around five years ago after marrying a Scottish woman.
Gardai in Ireland say he was living in the Rathmines area of the Irish capital with his wife but he was not on their radar as a terrorist.
It is understood that the couple may have moved to London just months before the attack was launched and he is believed to have links to the 12 people arrested in a Barking tower block yesterday. […]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4573778/London-Bridge-terrorist-Moroccan-living-Dublin.html
Khuram Butt and Rachid Redouane named as two of three London Bridge attackers
Butt was known to police and MI5, the Met says, but there was ‘no intelligence to suggest that this attack was being planned’
Butt, 27, was a Pakistan-born British citizen while Redouane, 30, had claimed to be Moroccan and Libyan and also used the name Rachid Elkhdar.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/khuram-butt-rachid-redouane-london-attackers-identified-names-who-were-they-latest-bridge-terror-a7774216.html
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PAKISTANI GROOMER LONDON BRIDGE TERRORIST
The ringleader of the London Bridge terror attack was a former Underground and KFC worker known for his extremist views.
The 27-year-old attacker, who can only be identified as ‘Abdul’ at the request of police, was a home-grown jihadi who came to the UK from a village near Lahore in Pakistan as a child and spent his life in Barking, East London.
http://sikhsangat.com/index.php?/topic/81177-pakistani-groomer-london-bridge-terrorist/
Qatar is locked into its radical Islam funding: James Woolsey
Qatar rift: Saudi, UAE, Bahrain, Egypt cut diplomatic ties (CNN, Jun 5, 2017)
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/05/middleeast/saudi-bahrain-egypt-uae-qatar-terror/index.html
“Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have broken off relations with Qatar, in the worst diplomatic crisis to hit Gulf Arab states in decades.
The three Gulf countries and Egypt have accused Qatar of supporting terrorism and destabilizing the region. Qatar — which shares its only land border with Saudi Arabia — has rejected the accusations calling them “unjustified” and “baseless”. Yemen and the Maldives also cut ties with Qatar.
Qatari citizens have been told they have 14 days to leave Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE, while those countries also banned their own citizens from entering Qatar.”
Qataris rush to stock up on food ahead of price hike as only land border shut (RT, Jun 5, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/business/390952-qatar-residents-engross-food/
“Residents of Qatar have rushed local supermarkets to stock up on food after Saudi Arabia closed the only land border with the emirate, Doha News reports.
Since early morning residents were cramming shopping carts with milk, water, rice, eggs and other essential goods at Qatari grocery stores…”
Al Jazeera Offices Closed in Saudi Arabia (aawsat, Jun 5, 2017)
https://english.aawsat.com/asharq-al-awsat-english/news-middle-east/saudi-arabia/al-jazeera-offices-closed-saudi-arabia
“Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture and Information announced on Monday shutting local offices of Al Jazeera, Qatar’s influential satellite channel, hours after the kingdom and other Arab powers cut ties over Doha’s support for ultra-hardliners and Iran.
The move comes after Al-Jazeera has promoted terrorist propaganda and plots, supported Houthi militias in Yemen, and tried to compromise Saudi security by inciting public unrest which is aimed at harming the kingdom’s sovereignty, Saudi Press Agency(SPA) reported Monday.
More so, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain cut relations with Qatar in a coordinated move…”
Multiculturalism fostering terrorism in U.K., U.S.?
UK: ‘Muslim community’ had a ‘duty to report’ deadly London attack – Police
Metropolitan police commander for community engagement Mak Chishty stated that the UK’s “Muslim community” must do more to root out terrorism, in front of New Scotland Yard, London, on Monday, following the attack at London Bridge and the nearby Borough Market which left at least seven dead and dozens more injured.
Reading out a statement, Chishty said, “The Muslim community appeals to all sections within their own communities to root out the scourge of terrorism which hides amongst their own people and masquerades as Islam.” 🙂 🙂 🙂 He continued, “The Muslim community is alarmed and concerned that this attack by three people that would’ve required planning and yet was not reported.”
Fury at Emily Thornberry shock claim ‘Muslim community CAN’T be expected to police itself’ (express, Jun 5, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/813101/London-Bridge-terror-attack-Emily-Thornberry-Labour-Party-community-cannot-police-itself
“EMILY THORNBERRY sparked outrage as she said “Britain’s Muslim community can’t be expected to police itself” in the wake of the London terror attacks.
Labour’s shadow foreign secretary made the claim after at least seven people were killed and 48 more injured after three terrorists launched their deadly attack in London, on Saturday night.
Speaking on BBC’s 5Live, Ms Thornberry said Labour would ensure the anti-radicalisation programme Prevent worked “as well as it possibly can” to stop further attacks in Britain.
When challenged over 3,000 so-called jihadis living in the country and potentially alienating the Muslim community policing them, Ms Thornberry added: “No, I think that we’ve heard, haven’t we, in relation to the Manchester murderers and the London murderers that certainly it has been suggested that there were attempts made to contact the authorities and say there were concerns about particular individuals.
“We can’t be expecting the Muslim community in this country to police itself, it has to work with the authorities so we need to make sure there are better connections, and trusted connections – that does take sensitive work and focus.”
One Twitter user described Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet as “dangerous”, as the shadow foreign secretary was slammed over her defence of the Labour leaders anti-terror policies.
He wrote: “Emily Thornberry on 5Live yet again defended Corbyn’s past policies, this time on anti-terror.
“The man is a danger to us all.”
Commenting on Labour’s plans to put more police on the street, another said: “More police officers more important than targeting UK jihadis it seems. Flawless logic.”
A third added: “I was going to vote Labour but after hearing you more worried about upsetting communities than people being murdered? Unsure?”
Others were left furious that Ms Thornberry was sent instead of foreign home secretary Diane Abbott to comment on the domestic issue.
A Twitter user said: “Diane Abbott is that useless that Emily Thornberry is sent to interviews over domestic issues!”
Another tweeted: “Emily Thornberry is struggling to explain why Diane Abbott is not commenting on the London terror attack.”
Ukip home affairs spokeswoman Jane Collins said that Labour “needed to stop making excuses for Muslims in Britain”.
She added: “Why does Emily Thornberry not think that the Muslim community should consider itself part of the rest of the country and report people who wish to kill and maim?
“The Casey Report on integration in the UK highlighted the failures in integration and made many recommendations and said that governments have failed for more than a decade to ensure that social integration in the UK has kept up with the ‘unprecedented pace and scale of immigration’ and have allowed some local communities to become increasingly divided.
“A report from the Gatestone Institute found that more than 100,000 British Muslims sympathise with suicide bombers and people who commit other terrorist acts and only one in three British Muslims (34 per cent) would contact the police if they believed that somebody close to them had become involved with jihadists.
“Clearly we have a massive problem in Britain today – a divided society which the policy of multiculturalism has perpetuated. Much of the blame for this lies with the Labour Party: here in Yorkshire we know only too well the consequences of that party ‘not wanting to rock the multicultural boat’.
“As a country, we must live by one rule of law: no exceptions, no excuses.”
Labour have come under significant pressure since the attack on London Bridge and Borough market, with Mr Corbyn’s opposition to ‘shoot to kill’ being challenged.
Ms Thornbery in a separate interview with Sky News said her party’s leader did back the policy despite some confusions about his views on the issue.
She said: “When it comes to defending people if somebody is coming up to you with a gun, it is absolutely within the law and indeed the duty of a police officer to kill that persons it if means it will stop a threat to life.
“What I support is police officers having the powers and it being entirely clear that they, of course, must always make a safe… and if that means killing someone in order to stop more people being killed, of course, that is the case, and, of course, that is what Jeremy believes in.””
“We can’t be expecting the Muslim community in this country to police itself, it has to work with the authorities so we need to make sure there are better connections, and trusted connections – that does take sensitive work and focus.”
These people are totally clueless. Clearly, they have no concept of taqiyya, nor do they comprehend how deeply embedded jihad is in Islamic doctrine.
Without those most basic understandings, these people are a public menace. They cannot be trusted with a fountain pen, much less national security.
You got that right, they are so PC a cold cup of coffee and an original thought would kill them.
DAILY MAIL – Archbishop of Canterbury says Islam should ‘take responsibility’ for the London Bridge attack just as Christianity should for killing Muslims
Justin Welby says faith leaders must counter religious justification for atrocities
Also said there is ‘a lack of religious literacy’ among those tackling terror threat
Said throughout history religious scriptures had ‘been twisted’ to justify violence
Speaking about Christianity, Rev Welby said there had been ‘a dark side’ in past
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4572996/Justin-Welby-says-Islam-responsibility.html
No no no you don’t get to play that game, they declared the war and now they want to play the victim to the defensive combat.
DAILY MAIL – ‘If you can’t see a connection between Islam and terror you’re blind or stupid’: Facebook REMOVES video Jewish leader posted online after the London terror attack for breaking its rules
Israeli army veteran Avi Yemini posted a live video after London terror attacks
In the video he claimed there is an obvious link between Islam and terrorism
He said the post was removed by Facebook for violating community standards
Mr Yemini has since posted a response video criticising the social media giant
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4573286/Facebook-removes-Jewish-leader-s-video-London-attack.html
The Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Ohio’s Clean Voter Rolls Case Soros Watch Judicial Watch Uncovers Shocking New Clinton Emails – Judicial Watch – June 2, 2017
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/shocking-new-clinton-emails/
Judicial Watch – Twitter
https://twitter.com/JudicialWatch
Tom Fitton – Twitter
https://twitter.com/tomfitton?lang=en
“Tom Fitton discusses Shocking New Clinton Emails, New Soros Lawsuit, Clean Elections, & Immigration” Judicial Watch – June 2, 2017
“Daily Beast working hard to do an ‘Alinsky’ on Stephen Miller”
Refugee Resettlement Watch – Ann Corcoran – June 5, 2017
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/06/05/daily-beast-working-hard-to-do-an-alinsky-on-stephen-miller/
POLAND – Refusing Islamic migrants is only way of ensuring security: Polish MEP
The only way to protect Poland from terrorist attacks is by not allowing Islamic migrants into the country, Polish European Parliament deputy Ryszard Czarnecki has said.
His comments follow an attack in London on Saturday which killed ten, including three suspects, and injured at least 48 others.
Czarnecki, who hails from Poland’s conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, said terrorist attacks were often carried out by children of “Islamic migrants” – many of them citizens of European countries – who were trained by the so-called Islamic State.
“Other countries have led to a situation in which those trained on Islamic State territory in Syria, Iraq – young people with French, Belgian, Dutch, British, German citizenship – return to Europe … and somehow [the authorities] were incapable of monitoring them,” Czarnecki said.
“We, Poland, are learning from the mistakes of others … and we will not open our doors to Islamic migrants,” he added.
Czarnecki also said that recent attacks in the UK aimed to influence the result of British parliamentary elections, which will be held on 8 June.
Saturday’s attack was the third in the UK in recent months.
On 22 May, a suicide bomber killed 22 and injured dozens of others as they streamed out of a concert in Manchester, northwest England.
In March, a lone attacker drove his car into a crowd near Westminster in London, killing four and injuring 50.
Czarnecki advised Britain to remove “radical migrants”, saying: “If a radical Muslim leader calls his brothers-in-faith at the mosque … to fight with the unfaithful then I believe there are grounds to expel that Imam”. (vb/pk)
http://www.thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/310243,No-Islamic-migrants-means-no-terrorist-attacks-official
Czarnecki: Zero imigrantów islamskich. Polska uczy sie na cudzych bledach
“Wow! Londoners Chant “Donald Trump, We Love You!” After Latest Terrorist Attack (Video)” by Jim Hoft – June 5, 2017
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/06/wow-londoners-chant-donald-trump-love-latest-terrorist-attack-video/
Ramadan video from the Philippines: Muslims smash church statues, set fire to church
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/06/ramadan-video-from-the-philippines-muslims-smash-church-statues-set-fire-to-church
Huge ISIS lie: Photos inside jihadi bolthole reveal terrorists use drugs and read UK books (express, Jun 5, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/813226/isis-news-syria-war-tabqa-jihadi-terrorists-maternity-ward-heroin-drugs-uk-trainspotting
“THE Islamic State (ISIS) propaganda machine is spewing lies about terrorists’ Islamic beliefs as exclusive photographs show jihadis spending their time reading about drugs and jacking up on heroin…”
“Dan Rather: Donald Trump Most ‘Psychologically Troubled’ POTUS Since Nixon | The Last Word | MSNBC” MSNBC – June 1, 2017
Dan Rather’s Rhythm: Pattern of Deception
Agustin Blazquez – May 14, 2007
“60 Minutes” and CBS
“Fake News pioneer The New York Times (already) denounces Trump’s forthcoming Cuba policy” – by Humberto Fontova – June 5, 2017
http://www.babalublog.com/2017/06/05/fake-news-pioneer-the-new-york-times-already-denounces-trumps-forthcoming-cuba-policy/
“Humberto Fontova | The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro”
Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors – May 30, 2014
Bulgaria: Man, 21, gets 4-year sentence for terror training (abcnews, Jun 5, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/bulgaria-man-21-year-sentence-terror-training-47840710
“A court in Bulgaria has sentenced a 21-year-old man to four years in prison for planning to commit an act of terrorism.
Sofia’s Special Criminal Court on Monday found John “Ivan” Zahariev, a dual Australian-Bulgarian citizen, guilty of training as a terrorist with the intention of carrying out a terrorist act.
Zahariev had a Christian upbringing in Australia, but later converted to Islam. He has been in custody since September, when he was arrested for training at shooting ranges in Bulgaria with the alleged intention of going to Syria to join jihadi groups.
Zahariev denied the charges. After the verdict, he said he had been subjected to a show trial and that no evidence connected him to the Islamic State group.
Zahariev says he will discuss with his lawyer whether it is worth appealing the verdict.”
Britain’s prime minister says she supports police ‘shoot to kill’ policy used to stop London attackers (abcnews, Jun 5, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/britains-prime-minister-supports-police-shoot-kill-policy-47836352
Britain’s prime minister says ‘we must do more, much more’ to combat Islamic extremism (abcnews, Jun 5, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/britains-prime-minister-combat-islamic-extremism-47836311
DHS Officers Humiliate Judges by Enforcing Immigration Laws, Declares Judge (breitbart, Jun 5, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/05/dhs-officers-humiliate-judges-enforcing-immigration-laws-declares-judge/
“Judges are humiliated and dehumanized whenever they must enforce the nation’s immigration laws, according to a senior judge on the far-left Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The judge’s cry of outrage came when he could not block the orderly repatriation of an illegal immigrant who has two drunk driving convictions, plus a U.S. wife and three children.
“We are unable to prevent [Andres] Magana Ortiz’s removal, yet it is contrary to the values of this nation and its legal system,” complained Judge Stephen Reinhardt, who wishes to extend citizens’ rights to illegal foreign migrants. He said:
We are compelled to deny Mr. Magana Ortiz’s request for a stay of removal because we do not have the authority to grant it. We are not, however, compelled to find the government’s action in this case fair or just. …
The government’s decision to remove Magana Ortiz diminishes not only our country but our courts, which are supposedly dedicated to the pursuit of justice. Magana Ortiz and his family are in truth not the only victims. Among the others are judges who, forced to participate in such inhumane acts, suffer a loss of dignity and humanity as well. I concur as a judge, but as a citizen I do not.
The judge, who is married to a former top leader in the ACLU, also lamented the authority of ordinary DHS agents to enforce the law despite protests from well-paid, high-status “civil rights” lawyers:
On January 25, 2017, the President [Donald Trump] signed a series of executive orders dismantling the system of priorities that had previously guided Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol in determining whom to deport. The orders also gave far greater authority to individual agents and officers, who are now removing non-citizens simply because they are here illegally, regardless of whether they have committed any offense. In light of the breadth of these orders and the lack of any apparent limit on agents’ discretion, the undocumented must now choose between going to work, school, hospitals, and even court, and the risk of being seized….”
Turkish Forces Killed 46 PKK Militants in Late May’s Anti-Terror Operation (sputniknews, Jun 5, 2017)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201706051054333414-turkey-terrorists-arrest-kllings/
“46 militants linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) during 483 anti-terrorist operations in late May were killed by Turkish security forces, while other 170 PKK members were detained, according to local media.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Turkish security forces have killed 46 militants linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) during 483 anti-terrorist operations in late May, local media reported Monday, citing Turkey’s Interior Ministry statement.
According to the Daily Sabah newspaper, 170 PKK members, 43 Islamic State (ISIL or Daesh, outlawed in Russia) suspects and 1,128 supporters of the Fethullah Gulen Terrorist Organization (FETO) were also detained on May 22-29.
Turkey was hit by dozens of terrorist attacks throughout 2016 carried out by Daesh and the PKK, listed as a terrorist organization in Turkey. The majority of terrorist attacks were directed against Turkish security forces engaged in violent clashes with PKK militants in eastern parts of the county striving to create their own independent state, as the Kurds represent the largest ethnic minority in the country.”
To Sabotage the Future, Lie about the Past
Northwestern University Scholar Dario Fernandez-Morera tilts at the windmill of the Andalusian Myth – and the myth topples.
April 26, 2016
Danusha V. Goska
I am in awe of The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain. Author Dario Fernandez-Morera, a Northwestern University Professor and Harvard PhD, argues that elite scholars are peddling a myth – that Islamic Spain, c. 711 AD -1492 AD, was a paradise. Fernandez-Morera’s job is to expose historical realities. The main text is 240 pages. There are 95 pages of notes, a bibliography and an index. It was published in February, 2016 by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
This book is an intellectual boxing match. The author shreds not just one opponent, but a series of intellectual bigots, prostitutes and manipulators of the common man. Fernandez-Morera’s biceps gleam as his lightning footwork and peerless preparedness dazzle. Our hero risks much, from hate mail to non-person status.
The reader is plunged into vast landscapes, international intrigue, arcane customs, and timeless heroism. One envisions veiled women and bejeweled slave girls, the smoking ruins of churches, enslaved, whipped Christians forced to carry their cathedral bells to be melted down to embellish mosques, heartbreaking suffering and eventual victory.
Fernandez-Morera allows the propagandists enough rope to hang themselves. All he has to do is quote them. Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, The University of Chicago, Boston University, Sarah Lawrence, Rutgers, Indiana University, Cambridge, Oxford, The University of London, NYU, Norton, Penguin, Routledge, Houghton Mifflin, the Pulitzer Committee, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Carly Fiorina, children’s textbooks, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, PBS, The New York Review of Books, First Things all are in the dock, tripped up in their own false testimony. The inclusion of First Things might surprise; it is a Catholic publication. In it Christian C. Sahner praises Muslims who “exhibited a surprising degree of religious flexibility” because they waited a few decades before razing the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Damascus, rather than destroying it immediately upon arrival. Really.
What is the propagandists’ motive?
Follow the money. See, for example, Giulio Meotti’s “Islam Buys Out Western Academia” See also the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University. Or the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies at Cambridge University. Or the Alwaleed Centre at Edinburgh University. Or the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale. Or the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown. The whorehouse cash register overflows with petrodollars.
Follow the pitchforks and torches. In 2008, Sylvain Gouguenheim, a French medievalist, published Aristotle at Mont Saint-Michel, arguing that the West is not in debt to Islam for awareness of Ancient Greek texts; most of those texts were preserved, translated, passed on and used by Christians. For that rather modest claim, Gouguenheim was subjected to an “academic exorcism.”
And follow the agenda. The Middle Ages matter to propagandists for one reason only: today’s projects. Al-Andalus proves that “Islam can effectively navigate a pluralistic world.” Al-Andalus proves that there are no “essential differences” between Islam and the West. Al-Andalus proves that Israel can be replaced with a “Palestinian model in which Jews, Christians, and Muslims can live again under [Islam’s] protection.” And of course the Ground Zero Mosque was dubbed “Cordoba House” after a caliphate in Muslim Spain.
What tactics do the propagandists use in their publications?
They smear Christians. In one Oxford University Press book, Christians are “a fanatical fringe” resistant to “benefitting” from the great good fortune of living in Muslim Spain. How do the propagandists deal with the forty-eight Christian Martyrs of Cordoba? They mock them, pathologize them, and blame them for their own deaths. These dead were “troublemakers,” “self-immolators,” guilty of “extremism” for preferring death as Christians to life as Muslims. They were masochists who really wanted to be tortured and killed.
Pelagius was a young Christian boy desired by Abd-al-Rahman III. Pelagius, aka Pelayo, resisted. Islam’s scholarly apologists don’t condemn the caliph’s desire to rape a child. They waste no time respecting the boy’s pain – a pain that is representational of countless other kuffar boys raped, castrated, and killed, all in line with the rules of jihad. Rather they condemn Christians for “demonizing Muslims” and having hang-ups about man-boy sodomy. In this academic deflection, one hears echoes of the blame-the-victim response to the mass sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year’s, 2016, or the 2015 order to US soldiers to ignore “boy play” in Afghanistan – a “boy play” that in one instance involved a child sex slave chained to a bed. “We can hear them screaming,” one Marine reported. Respect their culture, he was told.
Another scholarly method of obeying Saudi paymasters and distorting the past: leave out significant details. One book, published by an Ivy League University Press, “makes no mention of stoning, female circumcision, crucifixion, beheadings, or sexual slavery.”
Muslims called Christians “pigs.” The peddlers of the Andalusian Paradise myth omit mention of that telling tidbit. They mention “delightful Andalusian love poetry” without mentioning that it was written about non-Muslim sexual slave girls, not about love between free, adult, Muslim men and women. They leave out the market price of slaves; these numbers speak volumes. A male black slave commanded a much lower sum than a white girl – obviously a man can do more labor than a girl. If these slaves were bought primarily for labor the prices would be reversed. Muslim rulers stockpiled thousands of such slaves in their harems. “Kiz,” a Turkish word used for a sexual slave girl, came to mean “Christian woman.” “Sakaliba,” in Arabic, is from the word for “Slav,” commonly the ethnicity of enslaved persons. “All the Slav eunuchs that one finds on the face of the earth come from Spain,” a Muslim wrote. Blacks were held in similar contempt. A Muslim in Toledo wrote, “They lack self-control and steadiness of mind and are overcome by fickleness, foolishness, and ignorance.”
Islam’s apologists leave out the ethnic cleansing of Christians, including, in one event, the mass deportation of twenty thousand families to Africa. They omit mention of how hierarchical and stratified Muslim Spain was, with Arab Muslim males at the top and their various victims occupying lower ranks. Non-Arabs who converted to Islam were not equal, nor were their children. Three hundred such Muslims with Christian ancestors were crucified. Five thousand were beheaded. After one such expression of “tolerance,” an Andalusian poet celebrated the “massacre” of “sons of slaves. They had as relatives only slaves and sons of slaves.” Remember – the dead were Muslim. But their ancestors were Christian non-Arabs – thus the epithet, “Sons of slaves.”
Another method of airbrushing the past: simply ignore inconvenient material. Ignore material published by a military historian. Ignore material in any language but English. Especially ignore material written in Spanish. And ignore contemporaneous Christian accounts.
There’s another support for the Andalusian Paradise myth that Fernandez-Morera does not dwell on. Audiences tend to apply to medieval Spain the context of the twenty-first century West. European Christians in 711 were not former imperialists whose languages, English and Spanish, dominated entire continents. Jews were not powerless, nor were Muslims. Europe in this era was still a place where Christians were murdered for being Christian, by Pagans as well as Muslims. In 614, during a Persian invasion, Jews massacred Christians in Jerusalem. Jews were among the most prominent slave traders. At times, Jews allied with Muslims against Christians in Spain. Propagators of the myth dub Muslim institutions dedicated to memorization and study of the Koran “universities.” They weren’t universities. They are more properly labeled “madrassas.”
One might ask, if all the best universities in the world insist that the Andalusian Paradise is truth, not myth, isn’t Fernandez-Morera the conspiracy theorist? In the same class as the guy who insists that the government is hiding alien bodies at Area 51?………..
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262602/sabotage-future-lie-about-past-danusha-v-goska
it is worth to read the whole article. And (I am sure) a book.
With an army of 27,000, Hamas terror chief Deif readies Gaza for warThe Strip’s Islamist regime may not want conflict yet, but its ‘chief of staff’ is preparing for one. And some believe it is better equipped today than it was in 2014
http://www.timesofisrael.com/with-an-army-of-27000-hamas-terror-chief-deif-readies-gaza-for-war/
Jacksonville, FL – He said he was making smoke bombs for the Fourth of July.
Police say they were pipe bombs.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has arrested 33-year-old Robert Peterson for making, possession, throwing, or discharging a destructive device. The investigation started Friday night, when police were called to Roosevelt Boulevard around Woodmere Street and St. Johns Avenue, where a witness reported a man throwing “lit pipe bombs” in the parking lot of a dentist’s office.
http://www.wokv.com/news/local/pipe-bombs-found-jax-parking-lot-man-arrested-says-was-preparing-for-fourth-july/JJyviZH1gBGy2pNq2SPMhP/
Isis tells its followers the rewards for bloodshed are heightened during Ramadan (independent, Jun 5, 2017)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-london-bridge-terror-attack-ramadan-greater-reward-terrorism-a7774061.html
“An Isis-linked media agency has called on would-be extremists to carry out even more Ramadan attacks on members of the public in ‘low tech’ knife, gun and vehicle assaults.
Nashir News Service, affiliated with Amaq, Isis’ official media wing operated on messaging app Telegram, implored wannabe jihadists to “kill the civilians of the crusaders… gain benefit from Ramadhan [sic].”
The message from Nashir was posted Sunday, just before an official claim of responsibility was made by Isis for the London Bridge attack on Saturday night which killed seven people and injured 48.
The sentiment was echoed by dozens of sympathisers on the app’s private messaging forums as pro-Isis accounts celebrated the latest atrocity as “the black days we’ve promised” and the “awakening of wolves”.
“In the land of the warrior crusader their [sic] is nothing known as innocent and civilian and no guarding of their blood,” a statement from killed Isis spokesperson Abu Muhammad al-Adnani that was reshared on the platform read.
Adnani, killed in a US air strike in Syria in July 2016, first put out a call for terror attacks marking the holy month in June 2015. According to the Quran, good deeds are “given manifold reward” during Ramadan – a sentiment twisted by Isis to include jihadist attacks.
Since then, Ramadan has become increasingly bloody. The month of fasting and increased prayer began this year on 22 May; just eight days into the month, nearly 200 civilians have lost their lives in five extremist attacks around the world…”
Run, Hide and Deny in London
Islamic terrorism has no religion even when it’s shouting, “This is for Islam.”
June 5, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
As Muslim terrorists rampaged around London, Met police debuted the new “Run, Hide and Tell” program. But instead some Londoners chose to stand and fight. They fought with pint glasses and barstools as the Muslim killers shouting, “This is for Allah” stabbed women in trendy eateries.
Some drivers tried to ram the killers. An unarmed police officer attacked the terrorists with a baton. An off-duty police officer tackled one of the Muslim terrorists. Both men were severely wounded.
Other unarmed police officers ran away.
Met counter-terrorism chief Mark Rowley sympathetically noted that, “If someone acts on instinct and perhaps decides to fight because they have no choice, we would never criticise them for that.”
It was kind of him not to criticize those Londoners who reacted with their base instincts and tried to fight the Muslim killers instead of running, hiding and telling, then reemerging for a vigil or a concert.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266896/run-hide-and-deny-london-daniel-greenfield
Bernie Sanders Topped $1 Mil Pushing Class Warfare
There’s money in being a Socialist. If you’re the one in charge of wealth redistribution. Or fleecing your foolish followers who do unpaid labor generating memes for you while you price summer homes.
The “Revolution” has been good to Bernie.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/266903/bernie-sanders-topped-1-mil-pushing-class-warfare-daniel-greenfield
Where’s Diane? Anger as shadow home secretary is ‘nowhere to be seen’ after London terror (express, Jun 5, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/813123/London-Bridge-terror-attack-anger-Diane-Abbott-nowhere-to-be-seen-Labour-Party
“VOTERS have expressed anger after shadow home secretary Diane Abbott was kept away from British media in the wake of the London Bridge terror attack.
The Labour Party’s home affairs spokeswoman was kept out of the spotlight, with the party instead favouring shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, who conducted a series of interviews with reporters.
Seven people were killed and 48 more injured when three terrorists launched a sick attack on London Bridge and Borough Market on Saturday night.
British Twitter users voiced their concern over Ms Abbott’s absence because she could be in charge of the United Kingdom’s security after the General Election on June 8…”
Jeremy Corbyn: Those who support ISIS should NOT be prosecuted – it’s a ‘political view’ (express, Jun 5, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/813329/Jeremy-Corbyn-ISIS-backers-NOT-prosecuted-political-views
“JEREMY Corbyn once insisted that extremists should not be prosecuted for openly supporting the Islamic State terrorist group, it emerged today.
The Labour leader claimed that backing the murderous jihadist cult based in Iraq and Syria was simply “expressing a political point of view”.
He also raised questions about attempts to stop Islamist fighters returning to the UK from Syria.
Mr Corbyn’s remarks, made in a House of Commons debate, were highlighted following the London Bridge terrorist outrage, which Islamic State has claimed responsibility for.
Mr Corbyn said, according to records of parliamentary proceedings: “I have no support for ISIS whatsoever, and obviously that should apply to someone who has committed crimes, but we should bear in mind that expressing a political point of view is not in itself an offence.
“The commission of a criminal act is clearly a different matter, but expressing a point of view, even an unpalatable one, is sometimes quite important in a democracy.
“We should be slightly cautious about announcing that we will start to deal with people on the basis of a general view that they have expressed.”
Mr Corbyn, then a backbench Labour MP, said he had “no truck with those who commit those barbaric acts”.
But he went on to urge Theresa May, who was the home secretary at the time, against creating further “legal obstacles” to prevent jihadists returning to the UK after fighting with extremist groups in Syria.
He called on the Government to avoid the knee-jerk reaction of saying: “These are bad fighters and those are good fighters, so we will ban these and allow those in.”
During the debate, he added: “We are living with the consequences of the war on terror of 2001, and if we continue to try to create legal obstacles and make value judgments about people without considering the overall policy we are following, we will return to legislation such as this again and again, year after year.”
Mr Corbyn’s remarks emerged as the Tories stepped up their accusations that Labour is weak in security.
Mr Corbyn also faced criticism from the Tories after reaffirmed his opposition to the police’s “shoot-to-kill” policy in the face of terrorist threats….”
British Muslims MUST challenge mindset behind terror atrocities, says Sajid Javid (express, Jun 5, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/813346/British-Muslims-communities-challenge-mindset-terror-atrocities-Sajid-Javid
“BRITISH Muslims must go beyond simply condemning terror attacks, and turn their energies to challenging the mindset behind them, a Cabinet Minister said today.
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid, a Muslim, said members of his faith must be prepared to “ask ourselves searching questions” about the extremism that sparks such atrocities.
He said: “As British Muslims, we rightly condemn terror attacks. But we must go further. It is not enough to condemn. Muslims must challenge too.
“This will take courage. All communities must feel confident in calling out extremism where they see it.”
There was no avoiding the fact that the attackers “think they are Muslims, they identify as Muslims” acting in the name of Islam.
That gave Muslims “a special, unique burden” even though the terrorists in no way represented their “peaceful, wonderful religion.
“Because this terror will not be ended on the battlefield or through negotiation.
“A lasting peace will only come when young Muslims growing up in Britain decide that this is not their fight and they want no part of it.
“When they turn their backs on the preachers of hate.”
The Muslim community must accordingly not only reject extremist views but offer “a positive and self-confident narrative that promotes pluralistic, British values – and their compatibility with an Islamic life”.
Extremism was not an army but an idea – and the next generation’s “hearts and minds” would be won in schools, mosques, on the streets, in communities and on the internet, said Mr Javid.”
‘Fooling ourselves’ Terror won’t stop unless ALL officers are ARMED, police boss blasts (express, Jun 5, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/813335/London-Bridge-Terror-attack-won-t-stop-unless-all-police-are-armed-says-terror-expert
“A FORMER head of counter-terrorism for the City of London Police has warned “the slaughter” will continue unless all “first responder police” are equipped with firearms.
Kevin Hurley told BBC Radio 5Live it was a “simple” fact that UK police officers should be armed if we are “serious” about our protection.
He praised the eight minute reaction time of armed response units in London, who shot and killed three terrorists who had killed seven people and injured 48 more during a deadly attack on London Bridge on Saturday night.
Mr Hurley said: “It took 480 seconds, it takes three seconds to stab someone to death.
“When someone goes on the rampage, intent on killing, they will continue killing until they are stopped.
“If we want the police to be able to protect us we cannot expect unarmed police officers to do the job, they will just be killed or stabbed themselves like we learned a lot of them were.”
Praising the “great job” done by the firearms officers, Mr Hurley offered a terrifying opinion on the potential death toll if the terrorists had opted to attack a smaller city in the United Kingdom.
He added: “If we are serious that we want our police to protect us then we need the first responder police to all carry firearms – it’s as simple as that.
“Otherwise, if we’re happy to let people be slaughtered, and there will be many more, then let’s carry on as we are, fooling ourselves – having heavily armed swat teams around our cities will stop this in time.”
Former Conservative MP and homeland security spokesman Patrick Mercer warned Britons to expect another attack in days, not weeks.
He told Talkradio listeners that they should be prepared and expecting “our enemies” to strike at any time, especially with the impending General Election on Thursday…”
‘Attack after attack’ Former terror head warns UK faces MORE attacks as ‘dark days return’ (express, Jun 5, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/813052/London-Bridge-terror-attack-David-Videcette-IRA-attack
“BRITAIN is set to face further attacks as the nation has returns the dark days of IRA terror, a former counter-terrorism officer has claimed.
David Videcette, a former Scotland Yard investigator, warned there will be an increase in terrorist attacks across the UK as the terrorists “want to die” and “wanted their names out there”.
Speaking to Daily Star Online, Mr Videcette expressed his concerns as the number of attacks are quickly rising.
He said: “We are going back to the dark days of IRA terrorism when we were having attack after attack after attack…”
UN chief: Save the oceans to avert ‘global catastrophe’
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged countries to put aside national gain to save the oceans and avert a “global catastrophe” as he opened the first UN ocean conference.
The five-day meeting is the first bid by the United Nations to address the toughest problems facing our oceans, from coral bleaching and plastic pollution to overfishing and rising seas due to climate change.
[…]From the UN podium, Bolivian President Evo Morales took a swipe at the United States, saying the withdrawal from the Paris accord was “denying science, turning your back on multilateralism and attempting to deny a future to upcoming generations.”
These actions are “the main threat to Mother Earth and to life itself,” Morales said.
[…]Guterres raised alarm over the state of the world’s oceans.
Pollution, overfishing and climate change are causing severe damage, he said.
He cited a recent study that showed that plastic could outweigh fish in the seas by 2050 unless action is taken.
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-chief-oceans-avert-global-catastrophe.html
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World Environment Day: UN gen secy António Guterres urges less use of plastic, asks people to reconnect with nature
The theme for 2017 is ‘Connecting people to nature’. World Environment Day has a different global host country and this year’s host is Canada, where the official celebration will take place.
In a video message, uploaded on YouTube, Guterres said, “Without a healthy environment we can’t end poverty or build prosperity. We all have a role to play in protecting our only home.”
In the 38-second video clip, Guterres appealed people to use less plastic, drive less and waste less food and asked to reconnect with nature.
http://www.firstpost.com/world/world-environment-day-un-gen-secy-antonio-guterres-urges-less-use-of-plastic-asks-people-to-reconnect-with-nature-3517887.html
The National Front member who fell in love with Calais Jungle migrant (BBC, Jun 5, 2017)
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40132396
“Béatrice Huret stood on a beach on the northern French coast before dawn, watching as her lover headed off across the English Channel in a rickety boat. Would she ever see him again? Had she been taken for a ride, used by a man she met just a few weeks earlier to help him fulfil his dream of a new life in England? Would he drown on the way?…”
Trump renews attack on London mayor over terror attack (BBC, Jun 5, 2017)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40163567
DAILY MAIL – »»» GERMAN««« man who tied a noose around his wife’s neck and dragged her through the streets tied to the back of their car as their two-year-old son watched is jailed for 14 years
Kader K was dragged through streets of Hamelin in Germany from behind car
Woman was saved when rope snapped, but was in a coma for weeks afterwards
Nurettin B, 39, has been jailed for 14 years after trial at Hanover State Court
Nurettin ., 39, who is a German citizen, is said to have routinely beaten and abused Kader when they were together, and relations remained strained whenever they met to discuss Cudi’s upbringing and maintenance payments.
[…]She was stabbed near to her heart before the rope was looped around her neck. She was struck over the head with the blunt side of an axe and her skull fractured.
Then he accelerated the car and drove her around the town. Kader K. was only released from hospital six weeks ago. She has suffered brain damage and will need years of constant therapy.
[…]Nurettin B. Suffered from an extreme emotional tension. ‘The act was the result of a very complex prolonged development, at the end of which helplessness was turned into hatred.’
As well as the long prison term, Nurettin B. must pay his victim more than £100,000 in compensation.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4561744/Man-jailed-dragging-ex-wife-car.html
Mother spends $25,000 on exotic cars, three tons of sand and a camel for her son’s Dubai-themed prom send off – and he even took three dates
Johnny Eden Jr. wore three outfits and took three dates to his prom in Philadelphia on Friday
He also had a Lamborghini, Range Rover and Rolls Royce for the formal dance
His mom Saudia Shuler, 43, spent $25,000 on the Dubai-themed prom send off that took over their entire block
She ordered a cake in the shape of a Quran for her son who is Muslim
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4573530/Mom-spends-25K-exotic-cars-sand-camel-sons-prom.html#ixzz4j9uEM7Od
(must see photos at link — I wonder if a Jewish bakery was forced to prepare the cake)
ENEMY WITHIN: 23,000 potential jihadis HERE but authorities admit they can’t monitor all (express, Jun 5, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/813375/London-Bridge-terror-strike-23-000-jihadis-in-UK-security-powers-used-less
“The number of potential UK-based terrorists on the radar of the British security services is as high as 23,000, it has emerged.
The figure is more than six times the figure previously released by the Home Office at the time of last month’s Manchester bombing.
Then, it was revealed the security services had 500 live investigations into more than 3,000 suspected radical jihadis, including about 400 people who have remarkably been allowed to return to our shores after fighting with terror group Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria.
But, it has since emerged a further 20,000 radical Islamists have been considered a “person of interest” to the security services at anyone time, according to a security services source.
It is not clear over which timescale the figure relates to.
But, the news has led to fears there are simply not enough resources for our security forces and counter terror police to monitor all their activities at anyone time.
A Whitehall source said 18 terror plots in the UK have been foiled since 2013, including five since the London terror attack in March.
But round-the-clock monitoring of terror suspects is only possible in a handful of cases due to limited resources, the priority of which are determined on factors including credibility of intelligence and the apparent seriousness of the individual’s intent, according to the source.
But, Salman Abedi, who killed 22 people and injured 116 others at the Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena on May 22 was a “person of interest” who slipped the net and was allowed to travel from the UK to Libya and return in the run up to the atrocity.
Investigations are underway into how this was able to happen.
And, it has emerged at least one of the three dead terrorists involved in Saturday’s London Bridge attack was on the radar over radical views.
Security minister Ben Wallace said all 23,000 people were “in the mix and had to be looked at”, but could not say how this was possible.
He said: “All of that is predominately underpinned by intelligence, which as I’m sure you will understand and the courts certainly understand, unfortunately the hardest part is we’ve got to get convert intelligence into evidence if we actually want to deprive people of their liberty or take certain steps.”
After the Westminster and Manchester strikes, Express.co.uk exclusively revealed powers available to the authorities to question terror suspects were used less last year than in 2015.
This comes at the same time the number of people arrested on suspicion of plotting terror strikes on British soil has grown by eight per cent.
In 2016 there were 260 terror-related arrests, a drop of eight per cent on the 282 people held in 2015.
The figures were revealed in a quarterly Home Office report on the use of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000, which was released in March.
Last year 13 per cent (35) of arrests were of people suspected of plotting terror attacks on British soil, a sharp rise on the five per cent (15) of such arrests in 2015.
The report said: “Of the 260 arrests for terrorism-related offences in the year ending 31 December 2016, 96 had resulted in a charge by January 16 2017 (79 terrorism-related and 17 non-terrorism-related).
“In 68 cases, the individual had been released without charge; in a further 90 cases, the arrestee was released on bail pending further investigation.”
The use of a power for officers to question people entering or leaving the country at ports, airports, international rail stations and in border areas fell dramatically by 30 per cent in 2016 compared to 2015.
In 2015, the power was used around 27,800 times, but this fell to 19,355 last year.
Under the power, people can be detained for up to nine hours, with DNA samples and fingerprints taken, without the need for any reasonable suspicion.
The report said: “When necessary they may also detain and search individuals. “The aim is to determine whether that person appears to be someone who is or has been concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
“In the year ending 31 December 2016, a total of 19,355 persons were examined under this power in Great Britain, a fall of 30 per cent on the previous year.
“This has continued the decline in the use of the power in recent years.”
It does not explain in the report why the number has dropped, but there has been pressure from groups like Stop Watch, which argues they infringe the human rights of Muslims and other communities.
But, independent peer Lord Carlile called for the reintroduction of tougher control orders banned in 2012 over human right fears.
He said it was a “grave mistake” to abolish the orders that allow security services to monitor terror suspects.
The QC said the sweeping powers – which restricted suspects’ movement, use of phones and computers – “may have saved dozens of lives” between 2005 and 2011.
Last night UKIP leader Paul Nuttall called for their return saying “the safety of UK citizens is more important than the human rights of jihadis”.
He even proposed the possible use of waterboarding to interrogate suspects saying with threat levels as they are he could not “take anything off the table”.
The quarterly report also showed the number of people detained after being examined under the powers fell in 2016 by 16 per cent.
There were 1,828 detained in 2015 and 1,539 last year.
The amount of stop and searches of suspected terrorists anywhere in the UK, when reasonable suspicion does exist, fell by seven per cent in 2016.
There were 483 uses of the power in 2016, a fall from the 521 in 2015.
The report said a high number of arrests and use of stop and search in the last quarter of 2015 was the reason for the decline.
It said: “This fall is driven by a particularly large number in the October to December 2015 quarter in the previous year, rather than a particularly low number in the most recent quarters.”
Last month also revealed how the Home Office was refusing to say if a single returning ISIS fighter had been questioned or detained.
It later emerged powers introduced by former Prime Minister David Cameron to ban British jihadists from returning to the country after fighting with Islamic State have only been used once.
In November 2015 MI5 boss Andrew Parker spoke of the increased threat of the Syrian crisis.
He said: “It represents a threat which is continuing to grow, largely because of the situation in Syria and how that affects our security.””