Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday that President Barack Obama has no plan with which to defeat the Islamic State terrorist organization, also known as ISIS. (or Daesh, or ISIL).
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EXCLUSIVE: Bernie Sanders Allegedly Broke Federal Election Law, Used Foreign Staffers in Several States
The campaign run by Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) allegedly broke federal election law by accepting thousands of dollars in illicit donations from a foreign political party which sought to financially influence the results…
Jailbird Jihadis: The Startling Similarities Between Europe’s Muslim Killers
That the actors in Europe’s three most recent big terror killings have been brothers radicalised in prison betrays the breeding ground for hard-line Islam that Europe’s jails have become. As the identities of the perpetrators of the latest terror killings in Europe became clear, so too did the past criminal history of the men involved. Brothers Ibrahim and Khalid el-Bakraoui had both done time for violent, but not politically motivated, crimes in the past. Ibrahim, who died first by detonating a suicide vest in the departures lounge at Brussels airport on Tuesday, had been sentenced to nine years in prison in 2010 for his part in an armed robbery, which involved shooting at police officers with an AK-47 rifle. His brother, who died shortly after by blowing himself up in a metro carriage in central Brussels, was given five years in 2011 for car-jacking and the possession of illegal weapons, again an AK-47. Although these men were Muslim then, the motivation for these crimes was self-enrichment, not religion. That motivation comes, according to a new report by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), from Jihad-factory prisons. This is a pattern of radicalisation they share with men involved with the Bataclan
Boris Johnson Urges Gay Voters To Back Brexit Amid EU ‘Threat’ To Rights
London Mayor Boris Johnson has been accused of “scaremongering” after urging gay voters to back Brexit because their rights are under threat across much of the European Union (EU). Mr. Johnson — one of the most senior and doubtless the most prominent of Tory Brexit campaigners — was lending his support to the new Out and Proud campaign group, recently established to make the LGBT case for voting to leave the EU in June’s referendum. In a video address played to the group’s first meeting Mr. Johnson celebrates Britain having “the most progressive attitudes towards LGBT issues anywhere in the world,” describing it as “a wonderful thing to see.” He then asks “did those rights, those freedoms, that spirit come from the EU? Or did it come form people campaigning in our courts, our parliament?” “It was us,” he states, “the British people that created that environment of happiness and contentment for LGBT people and it is absolutely vital that we fight for those rights today because they are under threat in Poland, in Hungary, in Romania and other parts of the EU where they are not protected in the way they are in our country.” The Liberal Democrat peer and gay rights campaigner Lord Paddick attacked Mr. Johnson’s claims
GRAPHIC: Los Zetas Civil War Continues to Bring Terror, Murder to Innocent Victims
A woman and her teenage son have become the most recent victims to the raging civil war within the Los Zetas cartel that continues to take place in this city. The now regular executions and shootouts come as Tamaulipas officials praise their new secur…
Now Former CIA Head Confirms: European Union ‘Gets In The Way’ of National Security
A former CIA director has said the European Union “gets in the way” of security services, further undermining Prime Minister David Cameron’s assertion that remaining within the EU makes the UK safer. His comments come just a day after the former head of Britain’s MI6 security agency, Sir Richard Dearlove, said that membership of the EU actively hampers British security. He argued that, on a range of measures, a British exit is demonstrably better for national security. Retired general Michael Hayden agreed with his former colleague, telling the BBC that the EU is “not a natural contributor to national security”. “National security remains a national responsibility and so sadly, the grades you have to give to each of the services are frankly individual, and it’s very uneven,” General Hayden explained. While France and Britain have “very good”, “aggressive” security services, Belgium’s, he said, is “small, under-resourced, legally limited and frankly, working for a government that itself has its own challenges in terms of overall governance.” “European defence and security policy has proved to be little more than an aspiration,” sir Richard said in his intervention, adding “Britain is Europe’s leader in intelligence and security matters and gives much more than
EXCLUSIVE – Arab Intel Official: Islamic State Stepping Up Efforts To Carry Out Attacks In U.S., Russia
JAFFA, Israel – Based on interrogations of hundreds of militants who were arrested in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey and Europe, the Islamic State’s next step after the Brussels bombings is probably to carry out attacks in Russia and ultimately the Unit…
Pope Francis: At Easter, Do Not Forget Persecution of Iraqi Christians
In a Holy Week letter sent to Iraqi Christians in Erbil, Pope Francis has called on people of the world to “not forget the tragedy of persecution” suffered by Christians in the Middle East. The Pope sent the letter, together with a gift of liturgical vestments and some money, via a delegation of the Italian branch of Aid to the Church in Need, a Catholic group that provides assistance to suffering Christians throughout the world. Erbil has been housing thousands of Christian refugees from Mosul and the Nineveh Plains, which was overrun by the Islamic State in 2014. “As soon as the Holy Father learned about my journey with Aid to the Church in Need, he called me and expressed a desire to send a gift to our Iraqi brothers in faith,” said Bishop Cavina, who accompanied the delegation. The Pope’s letter expressed his friendship and “spiritual closeness” to Iraqi Christians, adding that their suffering “grieves me deeply, and invites us to defend the inalienable right of every person to freely profess their faith.” Pope Francis called on people of the world “not to forget the tragedy of persecution,” and held up “the witness of courageous faith and patience of
Brussels Jihadists ‘Plotted Radioactive Bomb Attack’
Eleven nuclear workers in Belgium have had their security passes revoked amid fears the attackers who carried out this week’s bombings in Brussels intended to build a radioactive dirty bomb. A senior nuclear official was secretly filmed by jihadists late last year, with brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui linked to the plot to scatter radioactive material over a crowded area. Speaking to The Times, an official at the Federal Agency for Nuclear Control said: “When you start filming someone in the way they did, the logical conclusion is that they wanted to abduct that person and to obtain radioactive material.” The “big question” now facing authorities is whether the intended to build a dirty bomb with the aim of attacking a large public space, contaminating it with radioactive material, the official added. Over 100 soldiers were guarding Belgium’s two nuclear power stations last night, as well as a nuclear research facility and a company that makes isotopes for medical purposes. Seven workers at the Tihange nuclear power station have now had their passes revoked, with a further four withdrawn after vetting by a committee composed of intelligence and security agencies. Mohammed Bakkali, 28, is the key figure in the