IF a magician could conjure up a perfect storm to place the final nail in America’s coffin, one would be hard-pressed to design a more lethal one than this two-tier, explosive combo: the evisceration of the southern border with millions of illegals upending the nation’s resources and edifices, in tandem with countless criminal and terrorist plotters roaming free to plan its destruction. An anti-American gift that keeps giving.
NOT only that, first and foremost, when it comes to Islamic jihadis and their unquenchable thirst and blood-lust to decimate the “Big Satan” and the west in toto, countless well-meaning folks become lost in the weeds, so to speak.
ALAS, in a never-ending cycle of attempting to figure out “who’s on first”, they waste precious time re untangling the jihadi hierarchy. A fool’s errand. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
IN this regard, be they Al Qaeda, ISIS, or another infamous terror-laden hydra — mind you, all of which sprung from the twisted roots of the Muslim Brotherhood Mafia — it matters not a whit. You might as well be chasing ghosts.
AND since this investigative journalist is considered a bonafide expert on Islamic Jihad, take this advice and related warnings to the bank. Your lives may depend on it!
MOREOVER, as the co-author of a seminal book on the ins and outs of Islamic terror, well,
NOW that that is established, let it be on the stated record: aside from all else that the deep state has planned via the illegal invasion of America, the diversion of counter-terrorism assets — be they air support cover or a myriad of others — is an act of war against the nation. Plain and simple.
SO, it is with the above basic guideposts in mind that the following must be examined.
While the nation’s Federal Air Marshals (FAM) are busy on the Mexican border providing illegal immigrants with welfare checks, transportation, and other basic services, Al Qaeda is planning attacks in the U.S. involving planes, according to high-level Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sources. Judicial Watch obtained from government sources a copy of the new intelligence alert, which was delivered on December 31, 2022, at 12:23:52 Greenwich Mean Time. The caption of the widely circulated warning reads: “Al-Qaeda says upcoming attacks on US, possibly involving planes, will use new techniques and tactics.”
The threat could not come at a worse time, as the Biden administration leaves aircraft at risk by sending 150-200 FAM monthly to the southern border to help deal with what it calls “a surge in irregular migration.” The deployments will continue indefinitely, according to multiple FAM sources, and the specially trained aviation security specialists are outraged. The agency works under the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which was created after 9/11 to prevent another terrorist attack. FAM is charged with protecting commercial passenger flights by deterring and countering the risk of terrorist activity. Nevertheless, in late October, the Biden administration began deploying the highly trained law enforcement officers to busy Border Patrol sectors to help with hospital watch, transportation, security and welfare checks at migrant facilities.
Days later the Air Marshal National Council, which represents thousands of FAM nationwide, accused TSA Administrator David Pekoske and FAM Director Tirrell Stevenson of violating federal law and overstepping their authority by assigning air marshals to assist the U.S. Border Patrol with the illegal immigration crisis. In a formal complaint to the DHS Inspector General, the group also accused the Homeland Security leaders of fraud, waste, and abuse of authority. Sending air marshals to El Paso, Texas, San Diego, California, Laredo, Texas, McAllen, Texas, Tucson, Arizona and Yuma, Arizona to transport illegal immigrants and conduct welfare checks has no relation to TSA’s core mission of transportation security, the complaint states. “The statute does not give the Administrator any authority to deploy TSA or FAM employees to the southern border to perform non transportation security related matters,” the complaint to the DHS IG says. “Further, under section (g) the statute describes what the Administrators authority is if an emergency, as defined by the Secretary of Homeland Security, is declared.” The act makes clear that the legislative intent is to only allow TSA to exercise authority and deploy its assets for transportation security, the report to the DHS watchdog confirms.
Hours after learning about the latest Al Qaeda threat, the Air Marshal National Council fired off a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as well as Pekoske and Stevenson reminding them that deploying FAM to the southern border to perform humanitarian work is reckless and putting the nation at extreme risk. “We are once again requesting you immediately stop these dangerous and unnecessary deployments and let our FAMs do what the American taxpayers pay them to do, protect and defend our transportation system,” the letter reads. “We have to ask how can you justify sending FAMs to the border in huge numbers, when the border is in your words secure, and there is no emergency? Yet we have major security incidents happening right now affecting our aviation security.”
Sonya Hightower-LaBosco, a retired FAM who serves as executive director of the Air Marshal National Council, confirmed that FAM are still being pulled off flights at a rate of about 200 a month to serve illegal immigrants at stations along the Mexican border. “They are making sandwiches for them and driving them around like Uber or picking up supplies,” Hightower-LaBosco told Judicial Watch on New Year’s Day. The head of the council, David Londo, called the redeployment of air marshals to the southern border “insane” considering the latest aviation threat from Al Qaeda. “Either they don’t care about aviation security, or they really think it is secure,” Londo said.
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BACK in September 2014, this investigative journalist was asked to assess the (eventual) blow back from Israel’s defensive war against Hamas – the Brotherhood’s Gazan arm – at a major interview. Its necessity, its basis, lied in the fact that Hamas’s leadership was left unscathed, even after a summer long, fiery hot war. The central query became: why weren’t they vanquished?
IT is no exaggeration to state that PM Netanyahu fell far short of achieving victory, regardless of the leadership’s bloviating, huffing, and puffing. It serves no purpose, other than cosmetic in nature, to place lipstick on a less than kosher pig. If anything, those who recognize when strategic imperatives haven’t been met must never, ever cover up their leadership’s shortcomings. In fact, it is incumbent to highlight them, bringing to bear related (and what should have been anticipated) knock-on effects.
THAT being said, pay attention to the aforementioned interview:
“As the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) continues its bloody conquest of Iraq and Syria and begins invading Lebanon, all in the name of establishing a global Sunni Muslim caliphate system, signs of support for the extremist are being seen among Israel’s Arab citizens.
Channel 10 exposed on Sunday that in recent months black ISIS flags have been commonly seen in Arab-Israeli towns in northern and coastal Israel, notably in the cities of Nazareth and Akko.
The flags have been seen flying among both Muslim and Christian Arab citizens of Israel, an ironic move given that ISIS in Iraq has emptied cities of their Christian populations by issuing them an ultimatum either to convert to Islam, pay non-Muslim jhizya taxes – or die.” – http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183896#.U_7eiTIWyRk
Understood?….(read the whole thing)
(Just like Hitler, ISIS executes 100’s of Iraqi POW’s and dumps their bodies in a ditch. It is no coincidence that Mein Kamph is the second most popular book after the Qur’an in the Islamic world.)
ISIS’s foreshadowing within Israel, housed at the above (Sept. 2014) interview at Inquisitr, led to a follow up strategic commentary analysis at this site, Dec. 20, 2014. It asserts, in part:
BUT little has been publicly discussed about PM Netanyahu’s decision to “assist” Barack HUSSEIN Obama with his oft ballyhooed “rebels”, to aid Washington in rolling back ISIS. Yes, that would have been a righteous strategic mission, and arguably in Israel’s national interests. Few would contest to the contrary. Just listen to the Druze community on both borders of the Golan (albeit, a little farther down in the analysis), where they make their voices known.
STIPULATED, PM Netanyahu’s joined-at-the-hip scenario depended upon many factors. Nevertheless, as always, Israel’s citizens must demand that any outcome results in their favor. Inherently, two compelling factors stood in the forefront and had to be taken into account. Alas, they weren’t. Why not?
TRENCHANTLY, the “rebels” had to be incontrovertibly in the camp of the “good guys”. Otherwise, why would Israel go anywhere near them, regardless of Washington’s arm twisting?……
NOT to be lost in the discussion, the impending storm, butting up against the encroachment of ISIS live Israel’s Golan Druze (alongside Israeli Jewish communities), many of whom have relatives right over the border within Syria’s Druze community. Druze, on both sides of the border, are terrified by what they are actually witnessing with their own eyes; their encirclement by ISIS, with the “rebels” in tow……
ALONG this dangerous terrain, certain matters have come to this investigative journalist’s attention, being an American-Israeli living in Israel. Significantly (and attributed to a Golani Druze journalist, who shall remain nameless), he interviewed Syrian Druze and they credibly documented ISIS, for quite some time, inside their border, one which is adjacent to Israel’s Golan!
THE urgent query becomes: could it be remotely possible, in any rational reality – with Israel’s second to none “eyes in the sky” and other operational capabilities – that they haven’t seen the “rebels” merging with ISIS, long before this week’s “announcement”? Whom are they kidding?
IN this regard, there is a growing sense of outrage within the Druze community, as they realize that Israel’s leadership “lent” the IDF to quarterback for Obama’s “rebels”, those whom have proven to be (many months ago) ISIS affiliated.
IT gets worse.
ONCE again, a source has confirmed an unfathomable situation: Israel’s gov’t is clearly taking care of the medical needs of Obama’s “rebels”.
REPORTEDLY (another contact would have to go into hiding, if his identity was revealed), Israeli hospitals are at their disposal! Therefore, it is up to others to document the story’s underlying basis.
IN April 2014, over 10 Islamists (identified as either ISIS or Al-Nusra…six of one, half a dozen of another) were being treated in a Tsfat (Israeli) hospital for almost an entire month. To wit, they were separated from the rest of the patients, they were forbidden to walk around the hospital, and they were always guarded by IDF soldiers. By the way, it doesn’t matter a wit how this source was able to identify their presence. That’s neither here nor there…..(continue reading)
NOT only that, but this week’s “shocking” confirmation (albeit, hardly hinting how this nightmare came to pass…almost as if out of thin air) brings ISIS full circle, and into the heart of Israel! Just hang on….
The Shin Bet said that the seven admitted that over the last year they had formed a Salafi jihadi group, which they later aligned with ISIS.
One of them also admitted to purchasing weapons to commit terror attacks on Israelis, specifically against the security establishment and the Druze community, in ISIS’s name. Several more Galilee residents were arrested in this context.
The seven have now been named as:
Adnan Jameel Said Al-A-Din, 40, from Nazareth; a lawyer by trade.
Karim Morsal Khaled Abu Saleh, aged 22, from Sakhnin.
Hussam Aziz Hamdal Marsiat, aged 30, a resident of Deir Hanna and past terrorist prisoner.
Alaa Mahmoud Khaled Abu Saleh, aged 27, from Beer Sheva; originally from Sakhnin.
Fadi Mohammed Salim Bashir, aged 29, a resident of Sakhnin.
Khaled Marsal Khaled Abu Saleh, aged 30, a resident of Sakhnin.
Mohammed Ibrahim Mohammed Abu-Saleh, aged 27, a resident of Sakhnin, a pharmacy intern by trade.
All seven met with a senior Sheikh running anti-Israel terror groups in the north, who was not named in the report; the Sheikh encouraged them to form the jihadist group and carry out terror attacks.
Meeting the group held included preparations to join ISIS in Syria, tutorials on how to make Molotov cocktails, and animal slaughter as “training” to slaughter “infidels” in jihadist attacks.
In addition, the group was in touch with ISIS terrorists via social media, including with other Israeli Arabs who have left for Syria to join the group. In October, sources revealed that no fewer than 30 Arab citizens of Israel have joined ISIS; there is a move in the Knesset to revoke their citizenship.
Al-A-Din presented himself as an “ISIS representative in Palestine,” according to the ISA, and operated as the ringleader of the group. Al-A-Din preached terror attacks against Jews specifically and ran much of the activities during meetings.
Karim Abu Salah actually attempted to leave for Syria in July 2014 to join the jihad forces fighting there, but was turned away at the last minute by securityforces after intelligence came in on his intentions, the ISA further revealed. Abu Salah then turned to Al-A-Din to make contact with ISIS in Syria and raise money for his departure.
An indictment has been filed against all seven in the Haifa District Court, on suspicion of membership and activity in an unlawful association, supporting a terrorist organization and attempted contact with a foreign agent.
An additional man, Omar Musa Khalil Abu Kush, born in 1986, was also arrested in connection to the case. Abu Kush recently completed his medical studies at the University of Jordan Science and Technology (JUST). Abu Kush was arrested in November for attempting to join the Galilee cell; he admitted under interrogation that he supported ISIS and met with members of the organization in Jordan to discuss going to fight there.
The indictment follows news earlier this month that an ISIS-inspired terror cell was broken up by the IDFin Hevron.
RECALL, the above cited commentary (Dec. 20, 2014) specifically tied in the dangers to the Druze community, as well as to the majority Jewish public at large.
MORE pointedly, it has been shared (as always, the confidentiality of sources are never revealed) with this investigative journalist that “there are two schools of thought in the government about Syria, one that we should help al-Nusra/al-Qaeda and the other that we should not get involved. So far the pro-al-Qaeda position is the one which has been adopted.
This had apparently not changed as a result of information that al-Qaeda and ISIS are working together, this is going on now, and there is no indication that they are going to change this. The idea is that Al-Qaeda will defeat Hizbollah for Israel. There is no thinking about what will happen after that, the likelihood that this will mean that it will turn out that we are supporting ISIS, or any other obvious objections to this.”
MOST significantly for Israel, assisting Al-Nusra in Syria is official (albeit on the QT) government policy, and this investigative journalist has this information from people in contact with the highest levels of the Israeli government.
(Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra members gesture while posing on a tank on Al-Khazan frontline of Khan Sheikhoun, northern Idlib province.)
INHERENTLY, no one with an ounce of strategic acumen should evince shock…shock…at the latest ISIS encampment within Israel. To the contrary. Had it not occurred, now THAT would have been the shock!
The Obama/Erdogan relationship is closer than close…it is lock-step…eye to eye…nose to nose…
WHEREVER Islamic terror embeds, rest assured, the Brotherhood Mafia’s quest for global dominanceis front and center. This is indisputable, regardless of those who attempt to deflect from said inherent truth; the Islamist-in-Chief being a front and center reprobate and liar. However, some of us know what’s going on, as such, we are unafraid to shout it from the rooftops. They can’t silence all of us. Let them try.
In this riveting interview, Adina “turn[s] up the spotlight – and hopefully the heat – on the most dangerous terror apparatus the west has ever known: the Muslim Brotherhood,” sounding an urgent call to open our eyes and act—AND OPEN OUR EYES SHE DOES!
Adina names names, exposing “overwhelming evidence” of the Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration into Western society—its institutions, academia, the media, social networking circles, the U.S. government, its proxy organizations, and more—and its overt and covert methods and plan to garner support, execute jihad, and ultimately dominate the world!”
THE above Sunni Brotherhood jihadi-linked facts are immutable, notwithstanding their necessary alliances with their Shia brothers-in-arms. It just depends on which infidel (non-believer in Allah) requires whacking. Hence, the Mafia appellation. Well earned.
Decapitations are also described in some of the earliest histories of Islam.
Muhammad’s earliest biographer, Ibn-Ishaq, describes how the prophet approved the beheadings of between 600 and 900 men from the Jewish Banu Qurayza tribe following the Battle of the Trench.
It was a common form of execution under the Ottoman Empire, where it was the “primary form of symbolic aggression among Ottoman soldiers”, according to historian James J Reid.
In Saudi Arabia, where a strict interpretation of Sharia law is enforced, beheading is the form of punishment for a range of crimes, including drug running and apostasy, with approximately 80 people believed to have been beheaded by the kingdom last year.
Though there are no calls for beheading as punishment for specific crimes in sharia law, it is one of a range of executions that may be used, along with stoning or hanging.
NOW that that’s settled, let’s concentrate on ISIS and their (all of a sudden) prominence, mainly due to their barbaric video depicting the beheading of James Foley, an American photojournalist. Notcontent with one head on a platter, what makes them think they canthreaten Americans and that they will get away with it? Oh, they know that the Islamist-in-Chief has their backs! Otherwise, they wouldn’t dare to go up against many millions of Americans, enough of whom are (legally) armed to boot. (Fellow) Americans, you are on your own…your leadership has effectively abandoned you.
STILL yet, due to ISIS’s catapult to top Islamist dog we are forced to play connect the (three main) dots; leap-frogging from Obama Inc.’s ties to ISIS; to Turkey’s nexus and both their linkages to ISIS and Hamas.
EXHAUSTING, but mandatory.
Dot One:
BUT to connect the Jihadi-in-Chief to ISIS one must resurrect the roots of his Mid East wildfires. Upheavals. Alas, from the moment that he PLANNED the ouster of Egypt’s Mubarak all hell broke loose, as intended. Say what?
Training: American troops join Jordan and Iraq for an exercise as it is revealed Syrian “rebels” (aka ISIS factions) are being helped. In Qatar, Mr Kerry said assistance would help change the balance on the battlefield!
MOST significantly, how many readers recall this site’s continuous harping on the Muslim Brotherhood Mafia’s entrenchment within Obama Inc.? For those who are newly aboard, time to catch up to speed via this blogger’s interview (Oct. 2013), one which highlights certain DHS top Brotherhood appointments! Mind you, it has EVERYTHING to do with the title, the implications, of today’s commentary.
NO, Turkey hasn’t been lost in the discussion. In fact, Turkey’s Erdogan is a central Brotherhood player to all of the above, as he marches toward resurrecting the Caliphate, the Ottoman Empire. First and foremost, in area of importance, is Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s Islamist relationship to President (former PM) Erdogan. Their demonstrably copacetic bindings.
The ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee in the U.S. Senate is warning that ISIS terrorists, those who this week beheaded an American journalist, are trying to develop the capability of blowing up an entire American city.
DESPITE the enormity of the threat, one that has been building for years, which Obama Inc. has a direct hand in, a State mouthpiece (in reality, a well-paid whore) has the temerity to posit: Foley’s beheading isn’t directed at the U.S. and the Islamic State (ISIS) is not behaving as representative of Islam!!
IN the main, this investigative journalist has warned westerners, particularly Americans and Israelis: stealth jihad will be the death of the west, sooner than frontal jihad will. Its insidious effects are such: few will have a clue, before they even realize that their freedoms are gone. Kaput.
CONFUSED? Don’t be. Think like them, not like freedom-loving westerners. It may save your lives.
BESIDES, pretending that beheading (and, in general, Islamic barbarism) has NOTHING to do with Islam is like feigning that alcoholism isn’t directly related to excessive drinking, capable of wrecking countless lives in the process. Who can be so blind?
WITHIN reality-based thinking, Islam/Shariah law has already proven to be a monumental disaster!
FROM the get go, it is imperative to understand that the current disintegration of Iraq -even as this is being written – into the hands of Al Qaeda should have been a jihadi no-brainer. And don’t bother scratching your head, pondering: how did this happen? In fact, had this not come to pass, well, that would have been a head scratcher!
Mind you, while some Americans (other westerners too) understand the geo-political gravity of the situation, the fact of the matter is that this American-Israeli understands what is taking place, not just from an overall geo-political perspective, but from one whose own borders are, to a maximum degree, threatened. And so much more.
To wit, the following is not an exercise in theoretical posturing. Indeed, its knock-on effects are cataclysmic, especially when catapulted onto Iran’s nuclear menace and Syria’s dissolution. So between Iran, via its proxy arm Hezbollah, using Syria as a staging ground, and Al Qaeda jihadists gaining another foothold, the region has never, ever been more menacing. Besides, for the time being, you can put aside the endless warring between Sunni and Shia, a centuries old conflict with no end in sight. If only said inter-tribal warfare were the major issue, what a relief that would be. After all, let them just kill each other and the west will be that much safer. However, this is only a pipe dream.
As a matter of record, within both Islamic streams, splintered groups are jockeying for power to create the first Islamic (Caliphate) arc in modern history, and with a terror entity as its hegemonic power! OMG!! But for westerners, and in the most simplistic of terms, think of the above in relation to the largest criminal organizations bar none, perhaps using the Mafia as a template. Raising the stakes even further, thus postulate Islamic outcomes via mega steroids, as they fight major turf battles, ultimately seeking to extend their authority over everything in their wake. However, not just to those who owe them this or that debt, if you dare imagine.
As indicated on numerous occasions, starting back in Dec. 2012 – many moons ago, at least in the realm of the average westerner’s ADD-afflicted thinking – the Islamist-in-Chief’s illegal war in Libya gave Al Qaedaa renewed tailwind! How magnanimous. But there’s more.
Still and all, no rational observer, let alone national leadership, wouldn’t expect the very same Al Qaeda terror organization to stay clear of Israel’s borders. So isn’t the tailwind given by Barack HUSSEIN Obama to Al Qaeda another one of his weapons used against Israel, a nation he rabidly detests, all the more a grave geo-political disaster, being that Israel is the ONLY western “outpost” in the entire Islamic-riven jihadi region? Of course.
WASHINGTON — As the threat from Sunni militants in western Iraq escalated last month, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki secretly asked the Obama administration to consider carrying out airstrikes against extremist staging areas, according to Iraqi and American officials.
But Iraq’s appeals for a military response have so far been rebuffed by the White House, which has been reluctant to open a new chapter in a conflict that President Obama has insisted was over when the United States withdrew the last of its forces from Iraq in 2011.
The swift capture of Mosul by militants aligned with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has underscored how the conflicts in Syria and Iraq have converged into one widening regional insurgency with fighters coursing back and forth through the porous border between the two countries. But it has also called attention to the limits the White House has imposed on the use of American power in an increasingly violent and volatile region.
A spokeswoman for the National Security Council, Bernadette Meehan, declined to comment on Mr. Maliki’s requests. “We are not going to get into details of our diplomatic discussions,” she said in a statement. “The current focus of our discussions with the government of Iraq and our policy considerations is to build the capacity of the Iraqis to successfully confront” the Islamic extremists.
The Obama administration has carried out drone strikes against militants in Yemen and Pakistan, where it fears terrorists have been hatching plans to attack the United States. But despite the fact that Sunni militants have been making steady advances and may be carving out new havens from which they could carry out attacks against the West, administration spokesmen have insisted that the United States is not actively considering using warplanes or armed drones to strike them.
Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq’s foreign minister, last year floated the idea that armed American-operated Predator or Reaper drones might be used to respond to the expanding militant network in Iraq. American officialsdismissed that suggestion at the time, saying that the request had not come from Mr. Maliki.
By March, however, American experts who visited Baghdad were being told that Iraq’s top leaders were hoping that American air power could be used to strike the militants’ staging and training areas inside Iraq, and help Iraq’s beleaguered forces stop them from crossing into Iraq from Syria.
“Iraqi officials at the highest level said they had requested manned and unmanned U.S. airstrikes this year against ISIS camps in the Jazira desert,” said Kenneth M. Pollack, a former C.I.A. analyst and National Security Council official, who is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institutionand who visited Baghdad in early March. ISIS is the acronym for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, as the militant group is known.
As the Sunni insurgents have grown in strength those requests have persisted. In a May 11 meeting with American diplomats and Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, the head of the Central Command, which oversees American military operations in the Middle East, Mr. Maliki said he would like the United States to provide Iraq with the ability to operate drones. But if the United States was not willing to do that, Mr. Maliki indicated he was prepared to allow the United States to carry out strikes using warplanes or drones.
In a May 16 phone call with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Mr. Maliki again suggested that the United States consider using American air power. A written request repeating that point was submitted soon afterward, officials said.
Some experts say that such American military action could be helpful but only if Mr. Maliki takes steps to make his government more inclusive.
“U.S. military support for Iraq could have a positive effect but only if it is conditioned on Maliki changing his behavior within Iraq’s political system,” Mr. Pollack said. “He has to bring the Sunni community back in, agree to limits on his executive authority and agree to reform Iraqi security forces to make them more professional and competent.”
But so far, the administration has signaled that it is not interested in such a direct American military role.
“Ultimately, this is for the Iraqi security forces, and the Iraqi government to deal with,” Rear Adm. John F. Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, said Tuesday.
A vehicle belonging to the Iraqi security forces was abandoned in Mosul.CreditReuters
The deteriorating situation in Iraq is not what the Obama administration expected when it withdrew the last American troops from there in 2011. In a March 2012 speech, Antony J. Blinken, who is Mr. Obama’s deputy national security adviser, asserted that “Iraq today is less violent” than “at any time in recent history.”
From the start, experts have stressed that the conflict in Iraq is as much political as military. Mr. Maliki’s failure to include leading Sunnis in his government has heightened the sectarian divisions in Iraq.
But American officials also say that militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria represent a formidable military threat, one that Iraq’s security forces, which lack an effective air force, have been hard pressed to handle on their own.
Adding to that challenge is the fact that the group controls territory on both sides of the Iraqi-Syrian border, and the Iraq and Syria conflicts have been feeding each other.
Said Lakhdar Brahimi, the former United Nations envoy to the collapsed Syria peace talks: “The region is in trouble, starting with Iraq. When I went to Baghdad in December, I was told that for every 100 operations ISIS did in Syria, it did 1,000 in Iraq.”
Critics say the latest developments show the weakness in an administration strategy designed to shore up Iraqi forces and to combat a growing Islamic militancy in Syria that officials say poses an increasing counterterrorism threat to the United States.
In a speech on Wednesday, Susan E. Rice, Mr. Obama’s national security adviser, said that the American effort to buttress Iraq’s forces had been effective. “The United States has been fast to provide necessary support for the people and government of Iraq,” she said in remarks at the Center for New American Security in Washington.
The United States has provided a $14 billion foreign military aid package to Iraq that includes F-16 fighter jets, Apache attack helicopters and M-16 rifles. It has rushed hundreds of Hellfire missiles as well as ScanEagle reconnaissance drones.
A second round of counterterrorism training between American Special Operations commandos and Iraqi troops started in Jordan this week. At least two F-16s are set to arrive in Iraq by September, and six Apaches will be leased for training later this year, Iraqi and Pentagon officials said.
But some former generals who served in Iraq said a greater effort was needed.
James M. Dubik, a retired Army lieutenant general who oversaw the training of the Iraqi army during the surge, summed it up this way: “We should fly some of our manned and unmanned aircraft and put advisers into Iraq that can help the Iraqi Army plan and execute a proper defense, then help them transition to a counter offensive.”
Israeli war planners are, as always, watching the encirclement of the nation’s borders, and not just from Iran’s (usual) proxies. And no one should be oh so shocked when Israeli forces take matters into their own hands, knowing full well that Barack HUSSEIN Obama has no interest in tamping down the flames, even though it will appear as if U.S. cooperation is in the background. Nonsense.
More specifically, and even more incendiary, what kind of a (im)moral cretin, a pygmy, leaves Americans to fend for themselves under jihadi fire:
This site’s most trusted contacts kept pointing in two directions when Benghazigate first exploded and they duly “advised”: it would be prudent to rely on, to pass on, their insider information (Northeast Intelligence has Insider “W”, others have…), that which these sources developed over time. Significantly, it was this information which played out when Benghazigate broke.Concomitantly, they realized that the captured media would not report on key developments (under any circumstances) and only a few alternative media sites would even enter the fray.
In this regard, they counted on this site to do the right thing. Well, not only were said contacts spot on re the underbelly of Benghazigate, but a paltry few conservative sites touched the second tier of this explosive story, heretofore referenced below. However, for the most part, various media came on board with the first tier when its efficacy could no longer be denied.
al-Qaeda terror thug celebrates after Benghazi compound explodes
On top of tier one, let us segue over to the all important tier two, the one which is so germane, so explosive, that very few sites dare to touch it. Radioactive. Cowards.
Nevertheless, several commentaries (at this site…some even questioned if this American-Israeli lives in a bunker…oh yeah…) spelled things out and they couldn’t have been clearer.
Regardless, if bonehead Boehner’s special panel to investigate Benghazidoes not include his “missing time”, well, a key piece to the AWOL POTUS will stay buried and that would be a travesty of mega injustice and historical falsehood. Unfathomable. Unconscionable. Indeed, if most understood what REALLY went down with Barack HUSSEIN Obama while Americans were slaughtered, it is very likely that even the captured media could not stop them from “storming the gates”.
22 May 2014: Although numerous unanswered questions continue to plague the Obama White House about the criminal and murderous events of the Benghazi attacks on September 11, 2012, there is one single question that needs to be asked with absolute precision and answered with authenticated specificity.
It is the question that Obama and a very small contingent of his innermost circle fear the most, for it is my professional investigative assessment, based on insider information, that the answer to this question alone will cause the immediate demands for the impeachment and removal from office of Barack Hussein Obama. It is this precise question:
Where exactly within the White House was Barack Hussein Obama, from the time he left the Oval Office at approximately 7:30 p.m. ET, until the following day when he boarded Air Force One destined for Las Vegas, who was he with, and what were the exact nature of his activities during this period?
Unfortunately, I have significant doubts that specific answers to this multi-part question, subject to verification by Secret Service logs, will be forthcoming or cross-referenced with other internal White House logs and other records that are known to be kept and maintained. I also have serious doubts that the Select Committee will press the issue beyond any vague, superficial and peripheral testimony offered by those called before the investigative body.
It is this one particular question—and a complete, truthful and verifiable answer—that has the ability to completely change the perception of events that have been carefully crafted like a cheap paint-by-numbers picture set suitable for children 8-12 years of age.
Just where was the Commander-in-Chief while Americans were fighting for their lives and awaiting assistance that would never arrive? We now know where he wasn’t, which was in the White House situation room. What activities could possibly take precedence over even a brief “pop-in” to the Situation Room for a strategic, election year photo-op? Think about that and all that it implies for a moment.
Based on information supplied to me by two insider sources, the truthful answers to this multi-part question will never be disclosed—ever. Based on one DC insider who is legally muzzled by multiple national security secrecy oaths, “negotiations” are in progress (or perhaps complete) to make certain the committee will stay away from this question beyond a very narrow line of inquiry. This explains the ostensible partisan cooperation under the direction of Nancy Pelosi, according to my source. There is immense pressure being forced upon the committee chair and others to stay away from this line of questioning beyond the requisite superficiality designed for our entertainment.
Moreover, I have been informed that the Secret Service logs, White House visitor logs, and cross-referencing records “including and especially of those individuals present in the private presidential quarters that would identify the names, ages and alleged purpose for their presence” will never be remitted, at least not in their original form, if at all. Furthermore, any answers relating to this question by witness testimony will not be properly reconciled with any documentation at the depth required.
Robert “Tosh” Plumlee, CIA whistle blower, posed 11 questions about Benghazi to elected officials from both political parties and received no responses in return. I pose one, publicly, for it is the truthful answer to this question that is, and forever will be, the “third rail” of the deepest recesses of insider knowledge.
Wait. Watch. And mark my words.
It gets worse, if you dare imagine. The foxes in the Repub hen house have already compromised the investigation, by dint of the fact that the LEAD Executive Director of the select committee is tied into both far left AND Islamist groups! Need proofs?
And it even gets worse, it also turns out that he lobbied for a group with strong connections to Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the U.S.
This constitutes a major problem
Let’s address the elephant in the room. When it comes to Benghazi, the attackers all resided under the Muslim Brotherhood umbrella.
Muslim Advocates Kiko, appointed by Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, has been a lobbyist for Smith-Free Group since 2013. One of Smith-Lee’s clients is the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a consortium of racial and liberal organizations that includes the highly suspect Muslim Advocates (MA). There also appears to be a connection to Wisconsin politicians. The head of MA used to work for U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Kiko for Rep. James Sensenbrenner as Deputy Chief of Staff from 2001 – 2007. Sensenbrenner is credited with authoring the Patriot Act.
MA’s President and Executive Director Farhana Khera worked directly for Feingold for six years and was Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Ironically, a primary focus of Khera has been to water down the Patriot Act to protect Muslims. The degree to which she was successful can be seen in both how politically correct the law is as well as Feingold being the only U.S. Senator to vote against the law.
Khera represented the Muslim Students Association (MSA) in the U.S. and Canada in a suit filed against the City of New York over the surveillance of the Muslim community. MSA is a known Muslim Brotherhood front group and Khera is clearly a pro-Muslim activist who has argued that sting operations lead to “anti-Muslim sentiment”.
In 2010, Khera spoke at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention. In her speech, Khera tipped off Muslim leaders about law enforcement surveillance techniques. ISNA is also a Muslim Brotherhood front.
Perhaps one of Khera’s most prized accomplishments was a letter she received from then-Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan, who is currently the Director of the CIA. Brennan’s letter was in response to a letter sent by Khera and 57 Muslim organizations requesting that training materials offensive to Muslims be purged from counter-terrorism manuals. Brennan expressed agreement with Khera in his response.
When it comes to other Muslim Advocates members advocating for terrorist organizations, at a 2007 Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) convention, Muslim Advocates counsel Akil Vohra vouched for the Holy Land Foundation, insisting that it was not connected to terrorism. One year later, the HLF was found guilty on all charges related to terrorism.
When former Deputy Chief of Staff to Hillary Clinton Huma Abedin found herself at the center of controversy after Rep. Michele Bachmann raised questions about Abedin’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, at least one Muslim Advocates member expressed support for Abedin. Board member Amber Khan sent out the following tweet about Abedin’s attendance at the White House iftar dinner in 2012:
Rep. Keith Ellison, one of two Muslim U.S. Congressmen, was one of Abedin’s staunchest of defenders against Bachmann. Ellison responded to Bachmann’s questions with an incoherent two-page letter that was rebuked with a 16-page letter from Bachmann; it would be her last public words on the matter.
Ellison also has a connection to Muslim Advocates. The organization’s Director of Program to Strengthen Muslim Charities, Mohamed Sabur, was once an employee of Ellison.
Sabur is also credited with founding The Qunoot Foundation. This organization is a partner with CAIR. Muslim Advocates is identified as a kind of offshoot from the Muslim Brotherhood front. In fact, their advocates work with CAIR. In fact, on CAIR’s official website, an application was accepted for a CAIR / Qunoot Fellowship.
Another co-founder of Qunoot Foundation – Zahier Janmohamed – supports Hamas, which is itself a Muslim Brotherhood group whose beliefs are in line with the Benghazi attackers.
Other figures on the Muslim Advocates website that warrant further scrutiny are Deputy Director Naheed Qureshi and Board Asifa Quraishi-Landes. As we have learned, the Qureshi name (can be spelled differently) is quite prominent within the Muslim Brotherhood. Suheir Qureshi was identified by Shoebat.com as one of the 63 Muslim Sisterhood leaders. Naheed joined other Muslim Brotherhood figures at the 2010 White House Iftar Dinner, to include Huma Abedin’s mother Saleha Abedin.
Here is a promo video on the Muslim Advocates website, the organization Kiko has lobbied for. The video features Sabur, Khera, and Ellison:
Foley and Lardner Another potentially noteworthy aspect to Kiko’s background is his time with Foley and Lardner as Of Counsel.One of the partners of this firm is Cleta Mitchell, who inexplicably defended Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan in the face of overwhelming evidence of their complicity in the Muslim Brotherhood agenda.
The evidence against both Norquist and Khan is incontrovertible. Yet, Mitchell chose to vehemently defend them while smearing those who pointed out their Muslim Brotherhood connections, as Shoebat.com reported. The extent of Kiko’s relationship with Mitchell is unclear but it is noteworthy that both Mitchell and he have either advocated for or defended individuals or groups with connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. As a partner with Foley, Mitchell would have been senior to Kiko, who was listed as ‘Of Counsel’.
Kiko Should Recuse Himself Shortly after Speaker John Boehner appointed Trey Gowdy to head the House Select Committee on Benghazi, Gowdy appointed Kiko. To what extent Boehner may have had a hand in Gowdy’s naming of the longtime DC lobbyist is not known but Boehner sure seemed pleased with the appointment immediately after it was announced, saying:
“Phil Kiko is a man of unquestioned integrity with a record of distinguished service to the House and the American people. His appointment today is further proof of Chairman Gowdy’s commitment to an investigation that is serious, fact-based, and professional. The American people deserve the full truth about what happened in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, and there is no better person to help lead this effort than Phil.”
Like Sensenbrenner, Boehner was one of the handful of Republicans who defended Abedin against Bachmann, as Shoebat.com reported.
Let’s face it, Congress has a poor track record with the American people. It’s a place where corruption thrives like weeds in a garden that needs constant tending. Despite this, there is an industry in Washington, DC that is viewed with even more contempt, perhaps the most unprincipled profession in the nation’s capital – lobbying. Often, the extent to which any one lobbyist’s principles – or lack thereof – can be known are by looking at his clients.
When doing this with Kiko, it becomes apparent that he should recuse himself from the Benghazi investigation. Boehner, Gowdy and every member of the House Select Committee should demand it.
ASIDE from all the mutating, co-joining and bedding patterns between Demsters and RINO’s with Islamic mouthpieces, let us never forget the part played by “dear Hill”. Now, there are several hot commentaries demonstrating why she too belongs in jail due to her immeasurable complicity re Benghazigate, but we don’t even have to rely on her recent crimes.
In a nutshell, if the buck is truly going to stop with Obama Inc, don’t let the Clinton machine off the hook either. Via their body counts over the years, especially when Hill runs for POTUS, Benghazigate is just her latest criminal activity.
So for your (dis)pleasure, sit back, bring out the popcorn or whatever suits your personal taste buds, and view the following movie, one which Clinton’s gang is desperate to hide!
SANS a deep understanding of Benghazigate it is impossible to internalize what is happening in Syria. It is that simple. Yet, that complicated. Headache-inducing.
Nevertheless, once the dots are connected one is able to see from there to here: as to why Obama Inc. not only lied to the American people, but waged an ILLEGAL war in Libya, even though disguised under the “legal” cover of R2P. Samantha Powers devised this “kosherized” scheme, “Responsibility to Protect”, to allow American radicals to upend foreign regimes, those they deemed “necessary” to assist their Muslim Brotherhood partners in crime. Pinkie swears.
But let’s not get all sappy and think that the Islamist-in-Chief is finally doing the right thing and assisting the “rebels”. For if arming Al Qaeda affiliated “rebels” is considered an American (western) interest, then it certainly is the correct path. To be sure, don’t get distracted by their jibber jabber…yes, they “vetted” who’s who among the “rebels”…it’s like picking between Al Capone and his rivals – on Islamic steroids!!
Let us dare not forget the part played by “elder statesman” John McCain, you know, the guy who milked his POW status for more than one lifetime, and headlined the defense of Hill’s gal pal, Huma Abedin, all the while her Muslim Brotherhood bonafides were exposed in plain view!
But never mind all that…the Brotherhood comes before their supposed Christian brothers and sisters slaughtered in Syria. Worldwide too. Jewish blood, cheaper to them than dirt… Pray tell, have we heard a peep out of any of them re the “slaughtering of innocents”, at least if it means dislodging from their Brotherhood-in-Arms?
And, has the public heard anything about this: Libyan ship Al Entisar docked in Turkey days prior to Benghazi attacks.
A Turkish connection to the U.S. presence in Benghazi prior to the 9/11/12 attacks is not in dispute. A Turkish diplomat was at the Special Mission Compound approximately one hour before it was attacked. Days earlier, a Libyan ship reportedly carrying weapons bound for Syria docked in a Turkish port. When it comes to the Arab Spring, the U.S. position has been all but inseparable from the Turkish position. State Department spokesman Marie Harf recently referred to Turkey as a ‘close NATO ally’. The Benghazi attacks are one of the consequences of this alliance. Another consequence of allying with modern day Turkey is being part of an agenda that sanctions the slaughter of Christians in the Middle East. These atrocities in Syria have been chronicled at great length by Shoebat.com.At the end of a recent report by CBN, Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense and Democracies (FDD) provides a glimpse into why the U.S. is aiding Turkey, despite the latter’s role in human slaughter:
“We’ve got early warning radar systems in Turkey, we’ve got Patriot missile batteries, we’ve got massive airbases, we’ve got investments… the Turks have served as an important ally for us. If we lose that, I think it would be very detrimental to American foreign policy.”
There is of course, the issue of NATO. The U.S. is obligated to stand with Turkey per the NATO charter. AsShoebat.com published last month, this agreement should never come at the expense of looking the other way when it comes to genocide. In Syria, sides have been chosen. Christians have chosen the side of Bashar al-Assad, not because he’s a good guy but because the Jihadists are so much worse; Christians are being slaughtered by rebels and protected by Assad. It is indisputable that the U.S. has chosen to side against Christians there by having Turkey as its ally. Earlier this year, Shoebat.com reported on how Senator John McCain berated Syrian Christian leaders who were simply attempting to draw attention to their plight at the hands of the jihadists McCain has been supporting. Last August, several foreign policy experts signed a letter addressed to President Barack Obama urging him to take military action against the Assad regime in response to what they insisted was a chemical weapons attack launched at the regime’s hand. One of the signatories of the letter was Clifford May, the President of FDD, the organization Schanzer works for. Mark Dubowitz, listed as FDD’s Executive Director whose focus ironically includes human rights in Syria, was also a signatory to the letter. These ‘experts’ advocated such a position despite mounting evidence at the time that the attack was the result of the rebels, not the regime. These otherwise inexplicable positions are explained by one primary alliance – the one mandated by NATO and necessary strategically based on Schanzer’s analysis. The U.S. alliance with Turkey.
The U.S. and Turkey in Benghazi Earlier this month, Shoebat.com brought you a short video of what appears to be a Syrian rebel. In the video, the rebel explains how the U.S. and Turkey work together to provide the rebels with weapons: Approximately six weeks after the 2012 Benghazi attack, Catherine Herridge of Fox News reported on a Libyan ship “reportedly carrying weapons and bound for Syrian rebles” that was docked at a Turkish port less than 50 miles from the Syrian border, just days before the September 11th attack. It had also been confirmed by then that U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens met with Turkish Consul General Ali Sait Akin shortly before the attack. Herridge went on to report that her source revealed Stevens was in Benghazi to negotiate a deal that would get weapons out of the hands of Libyan rebels and presumably into the hands of Syrian rebels, via Turkey. This would have been an objective of parties (U.S. and Turkey) that had already helped Libyan rebels remove Muammar Gadhafi. Perhaps the U.S. and Turkey wanted to move weapons out of Libyan jihadists’ hands and into the hands of Syrian jihadists but it’s quite possible the Libyan jihadists weren’t ok with that deal. Hell hath no fury like jihadists scorned. Competing and conflicting agendas can certainly converge and often clash. At Shoebat.com, we have posted the results (ongoing) of our investigation of Egypt’s connection to the Benghazi attack, to include a cell phone video and a Libyan intelligence document that implicate the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Mursi, who was president of Egypt at the time. Mursi had made it very clear that he wanted to secure the release of the “Blind Sheikh”. This leaves open the possibility that competing agendas and interests between Mursi’s jihadists and Libyan jihadists clashed in Benghazi. The former would have had motive to kidnap Stevens while the latter may have felt betrayed enough to assassinate him. The Muslim Brotherhood is a common denominator between both groups and the Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda is Turkey’s agenda. Turkey’s influence in Egypt has been significant as well.
Last November, Shoebat.com reported on the post-Mursi government’s decision to expel Turkey’s ambassador for “interference in Egyptian affairs”. At least one source reported that the ambassador was funneling Muslim Brotherhood funds outside of Egypt while using his diplomatic immunity to do it. Ex-CIA Deputy Director’s Testimony Last week, former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell testified in front of the House Intelligence Committee about his role in altering the talking points about Benghazi that were used by then U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice in the days after the attack. Based on that testimony, we know the following:
Morell chose to side with CIA analysts in Virginia over his CIA personnel on the ground in Libya.
Morell did not want to implicate the State Department, headed at the time by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and watered down the talking points to help do that.
Morell did not want to “enflame” the “passions” of jihadists by identifying them accurately in the talking points.
It is also known that Ambassador Stevens met with the House Intelligence committee just days prior to the attack. In an interview with Fox News hostess Megyn Kelly last November, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), who chairs the committee, appeared to give an account of what transpired in a closed session with CIA personnel who witnessed the attacks, that conflicted with that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), who sits on the committee. One week prior to Morell’s testimony, Rogers announced plans to retire from Congress after his current term ends later this year. This unexpected announcement came just a few days after another report from Herridgerevealed a suspicious – and possibly illegal – timeline both for the departure of J. Michael Allen from his job as majority staff director for the House Intelligence Committee, as well as his destination – Beacon Global Strategies. At Beacon, Allen works with Morell and a host of other Hillary Clinton loyalists, to include an extremely close aid named Philippe Reines. It was reported by the Washington Free Beacon that a CIA official died in an apparent suicide in the same week that Morell testified before the House Intelligence Committee. There is currently no evidence of defenestration.
But at the same time that Syria is exploding, the Islamist-in-Chief is busy making sure that Iran’s genocidal regime becomes a nuclear power. So, on the one hand, his plan is to empower his Sunni Brothers, at the same time that Iran’s Mahdi-driven leadership gain the ultimate weapons of mass destruction.
The most urgent question is:how are any of the POTUS’s Mid East forays stacking up, particularly re the interests of America and the free world in toto?Under said prism-like thinking the smoke starts to clear.
Adina Kutnicki 