May 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department's own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision-making, according to a "whistle-blower" witness from that bureau ...
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May 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Containment is a fantasy that the likes of Obama would like everyone to believe is an achievable reality. Just a dressed-up, Valerie Jarrett version of capitulation. The report below indicates influence from a retired and other Israeli security agents, but if the report of the talks is true, who knows whose influence they are ...
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May 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NY TIMES KABUL, Afghanistan — The C.I.A.’s station chief here met with President Hamid Karzai on Saturday, and the Afghan leader said he had been assured that the agency would continue dropping off stacks of cash at his office despite a storm of criticism that has erupted since the payments were disclosed. The ...
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May 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNN - A Syrian official called an attack Sunday on the nation's military research facility a "declaration of war" by Israel. In an exclusive interview with CNN hours after a series of massive explosions illuminated the predawn sky in Damascus, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al Mekdad said the attack represented an alliance between Islamic terrorists ...
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May 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS - When then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unannounced part-of-the-day visit to Tripoli, Libya, on Oct. 18, 2011, the U.S. Defense Department pre-positioned assets off the Libyan coast in case it needed to rescue the secretary of state. The fact that the assets were pre-positioned for Clinton’s visit was included in the ...
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May 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE TELEGRAPH US defense planners have rebuilt the country's biggest bomb, the bunker buster, to ensure the country can still destroy Iran's fortified underground nuclear plant. Pentagon officials have reportedly shown Israeli officials details of the extensive upgrade in recent weeks to convince their allies that time to attack Iran has not ...
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May 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CHRISTIAN POST Mohamed Abu Samra, secretary-general of the Islamic Jihad Party, made the claim that "it is permissible to kill some Christians today," then gave his argument defending such a position. He justified this announcement by saying: "Those who came out with weapons, their blood is allowed for us [to spill], as a fighter is ...
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May 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNN -- Several Yemeni men belonging to al Qaeda took part in the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi last September, according to several sources who have spoken with CNN. One senior U.S. law enforcement official told CNN that "three or four members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula," or AQAP, ...
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May 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BIG PEACE Reports indicate that Iranian officials and members of Islamic Jihad have been talking freely about missiles that were provided to Palestinian militants at different times over approximately the last 12 months. The missiles they supplied were allegedly among those fired at Israel during Operation Pillar of Defense in November 2012. Speaking on ...
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May 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WND Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was arrested and held for seven hours Monday and warned to keep his mouth shut about matters detrimental to the Islamic regime before he was released, according to a source within the Revolutionary Guard’s intelligence unit. After his visit to Tehran’s 26th international book fair Monday, the source said the ...
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May 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON State Department officials have been accused of waging an intimidation campaign against witnesses preparing to testify at a congressional hearing on the Benghazi attack, in potential violation of whistle-blower protection statutes. At least three State Department employees and one CIA employee have faced pressure as they prepare to testify at upcoming hearings on ...
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May 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL Two House Republicans say eyewitnesses with potentially damaging information on the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi embassy attack will testify at a hearing next week. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) told Fox News on Wednesday that people with “personal firsthand knowledge” would testify about the deadly September 11, 2012 assault, which killed Ambassador ...
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May 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Fox News Insider: It’s been seven months since the September 11 Benghazi, Libya attacks and there have been no arrests. The second of a three-part exclusive investigation digging into Benghazi aired on Special Report tonight. Multiple sources tell Fox News that the United States has identified the mastermind behind the attack, who is still in Libya and ...
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Apr 29, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP — A former Israeli defense minister alleged Monday that Syria's chemical weapons are "trickling" to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the first claim by a senior politician in Israel that one of the country's nightmare scenarios is coming true. Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who also called for international intervention in the Syria's civil war to stop ...
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Apr 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NYT KABUL, Afghanistan — For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan’s president — courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency. All told, tens of millions of dollars have flowed ...
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Apr 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from REUTERS - The Pentagon identified four U.S. victims in Saturday's crash of a surveillance aircraft in southern Afghanistan and said the incident appeared unrelated to Taliban violence. The police chief in Zabul province, Rogh Lewanai, told Reuters on Saturday that bad weather caused the plane to crash, in the district of Shahjoi. At the time, ...
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Apr 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FRONT PAGE MAG It may seem amazing, but in the wake of the Boston attack the Obama administration is pressuring Israel to free terrorists guilty of particularly heinous acts of murder. On Wednesday the Knesset “discussed America’s demand that Israel release terrorists as a good will gesture to the Palestinian Authority.” The demand is part ...
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Apr 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP — Iraqi authorities suspended the operating licenses of pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera and nine Iraqi TV channels on Sunday after accusing them of escalating sectarian tension. The move signaled the Shiite-led government’s mounting worries over deteriorating security amid Sunni unrest and clashes that have left more than 180 people dead in less than ...
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Apr 27, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from The Jerusalem Post: The US has reportedly asked Israel not to immediately respond to the infiltration of its airspace by a Hezbollah drone that was shot down over the Haifa bay on Thursday, Lebanese paper a-Nahar reported on Saturday. A Western diplomat in Beirut told the paper that Washington has called on Israel to ...
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Apr 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP — Against a vista of green fields and snowcapped mountains, all is silent but for a gusting wind. Then comes a burst of gunfire from the Syrian civil war raging next door, where jihadist rebels are battling Bashar Assad's troops in a village. Watching it all unfold from a few kilometers (miles) away are ...
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Apr 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS Newly-emerged video appears to show Egyptian police standing idly by - and even helping attackers during a deadly assault earlier this month on a Coptic cathedral where Christians were mourning five men killed in an earlier clash with Muslims. The video shot April 7 and first obtained by MidEast Christian News, shows a ...
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Apr 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday he does not know if the economic sanctions applied against Iran will succeed during a town hall meeting with troops on his last day of his weeklong middle east trip. Hagel did say, however, that he believes the sanctions have been effective. The defense secretary made the remarks ...
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