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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Apr 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JPOST European intelligence agencies are worried that European Muslims fighting in Syria will return to carry out terrorist attacks because of their contacts built with al-Qaida, the BBC reported on Wednesday. The UK, Ireland and France are the Western countries believed to have the most fighters in Syria, according to the report, which quotes EU ...
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Apr 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREEDOM OUTPOST Representative Darrell Issa announced on Wednesday that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which he chairs, will resume hearings in May that will focus on information that has been turned over to them by whistleblowers of the Obama administration on the attacks that took place in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, ...
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Apr 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
AP — Israel shot down a drone Thursday as it approached the country's northern coast, the military said. Suspicion immediately fell on the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon. The incident was likely to raise already heightened tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, a bitter enemy that battled Israel to a stalemate during a monthlong war in 2006. Prime ...
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Apr 24, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS - A congressional report released Tuesday on the terrorist attack on the U.S. State Department compound in Benghazi, Libya says there is “ample evidence that the attack was planned and intentional” and that al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and al Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Sharia joined in carrying it out. The report also notes ...
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Apr 23, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Look at the fear in his eyes at Benghazi coming up in the debate. You know he's hiding some bad, bad shit on this topic that could just destroy him. Oh, and thanks, Mitt for blowing it, and refusing to go in for the kill while he was down and you had the knife ...
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Apr 23, 2013 No Comments ›› spratico
Naharnet- A special anti-terror court has sentenced three Saudis to six years in jail each for a plot to kill U.S. nationals at the height of a campaign of al-Qaida attacks in the kingdom between 2003 and 2006, a witness said. The court in Riyadh issued its ruling late on Sunday, said a witness at the hearing ...
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Apr 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WND Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Forces, ordered reconnaissance and intelligence gathering on various events and public gatherings in the United States years ago, culminating in the bombings at the Boston Marathon one week ago, WND has learned. According to a source within Iran’s intelligence services, the Islamic regime’s Quds Forces, a special ...
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Apr 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP KABUL, Afghanistan – A Turkish transport helicopter with at least 11 civilians was forced to make an emergency landing in a Taliban-controlled area in eastern Afghanistan, and the insurgents took all the people on board hostage, including eight Turks and a Russian, officials said Monday. The civilian aircraft landed in strong winds and ...
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Apr 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
WTC 93' Bombing Excerpted from JUDICIAL WATCH Here’s a huge slap in the face for all Americans; the Islamic terrorist serving a life sentence for orchestrating the deadly World Trade Center bombing two decades ago is a social media icon/jihadist hero thanks to his official U.S.-based website. This is a guy who was convicted in federal court for ...
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Apr 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WEEKLY STANDARD White House spokesman Jay Carney was asked at today's press briefing, in the context of the Boston bombings, whether U.S. bombings in Afghanistan last month that killed civilians were "terrorism." Carney gave a long answer, but never says "no." "I send my deepest condolence to the victims and familes in Boston," said a ...
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Apr 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
RELATED: Obama Administration Gives Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood 4 More F-16 Fighter Jets Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES The United States sent four more top-of-the-line F-16 fighter jets to Egypt on Thursday, as part of a foreign aid promise that critics blast as aid for an anti-Israel entity. “Friends don’t send U.S. taxpayer-funded F-16s and tanks to the enemies ...
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Apr 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The increasingly isolated regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad would fall quickly without the tons of weapons and other military assistance it is getting from Iran, said Marine Gen. James Mattis, who recently stepped down as commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East. "Absent Iran's help, I don't believe Assad ...
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Apr 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS Four more F-16 fighter jets left the U.S. on Thursday headed for Egypt as part of a foreign aid package that has generated controversy given the political upheaval in the Mideast country. Critics say the military aid should stop because the president Egyptians elected last year has led the Muslim Brotherhood, called President ...
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Apr 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP — Libyan weapons are spreading at “an alarming rate” to new territory in west Africa and the eastern Mediterranean including Syria and the Gaza Strip where they are fueling conflicts and increasing the arsenals of armed groups and terrorists, a UN panel said. In a report to the UN Security Council circulated Tuesday, ...
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Apr 10, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON Defense and military officials testified that al Qaeda is gaining a foothold in several areas throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa in a hearing before a subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday afternoon. The terrorist organization is seeking to exploit the upheaval in the Middle East following uprisings over the ...
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Apr 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AFP The Public Prosecution is probing new complaints against popular satirist Bassem Youssef, this time for "insulting Pakistan" and "spreading atheism," judicial sources told AFP on Tuesday. The wildly popular Youssef -- whose weekly political satire program Al-Bernameg has spared few public figures of merciless critique —¬¬ is currently on bail pending investigation into charges ...
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Apr 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from REUTERS DUBAI- The Iraqi wing of al-Qaida announced that a rebel group at the forefront of the rebellion in Syria was its branch in that country and that both groups would operate under one name, according to the US-based SITE Intelligence Group. The leader of the Islamic State in Iraq, Abu Bakr Baghdadi, said his ...
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Pat Robertson Warns: America ‘Asking For Wrath Of Almighty God’ If Any Concessions Made To Palestine
Apr 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
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Apr 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE COMMENTATOR A shipment of teargas canisters from the United States arrived at the Egyptian Abadeya Port in Suez on Sunday, according to official documents obtained by the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper. Five containers carrying around 140,000 teargas canisters were apparently shipped to the Egyptian Interior Ministry by the Aramex International courier service. The Egypt Independent reports ...
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Apr 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON The State Department has moved to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton willfully “disregarded congressional safeguards and transparency requirements” regarding U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA), potentially allowing funds to flow to terrorist groups such as Hamas. The suit, which was originally filed by 24 Americans living ...
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Apr 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON Pro-Israel activists have launched a campaign to prevent a Jewish university from presenting anti-Israel former President Jimmy Carter with the school’s “International Advocate for Peace Award.” Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is scheduled to present Carter with the award on Wednesday, leading former alumni and pro-Israel advocates to galvanize in ...
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Apr 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE BLAZE It has been more than six months since the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that cost four Americans — including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens — their lives. Yet, the picture is not much clearer than it was in the weeks after the tragedy. It seems the government and ...
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