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Mar 30, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES: KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. special operations forces handed over their base in a strategic district of eastern Afghanistan to local Afghan special forces on Saturday, senior U.S. commanders said. The withdrawal satisfies a demand by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that U.S. forces leave the area after allegations that the Americans’ Afghan counterparts ...

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Mar 30, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Excerpted from TIMES OF ISRAEL: Disgruntled security official claims Obama ‘threw sand in Israel’s eyes’ during visit last week, which seemed to convince Jerusalem to hold back on military action. Iran could have the capability to build a nuclear bomb by July, unnamed security sources said in a report published Friday. The sources added that Israel’s leadership had ...

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Mar 29, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

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Mar 29, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

"For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. - Mark 10: 45

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Mar 29, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Excerpted from FREE BEACON: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated government recently allowed members of the Brotherhood and hardline jihadists to join Egypt’s military academy for the first time as part of what U.S. officials say is a covert effort to impose Islamist rule in the key Middle East state. According to U.S. officials with access to intelligence reports, the ...

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Mar 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES: A prominent Egyptian cleric said U.S. aid to Egypt is a mandatory tribute that America must pay to honor the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian revolution. This taxpayer aid constitutes a “poll tax” that America must pay to placate the Muslim Brotherhood, according to Khaled Said, a cleric who serves as the official ...

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Mar 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Excerpted from CNS NEWS: – Just days after the Obama administration announced it was unblocking almost $500 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority, P.A. chairman Mahmoud Abbas told an Arab League summit this week he was pushing ahead with efforts to upgrade the P.A.’s status – the reason Congress wanted the money held up ...

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Mar 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Excerpted from FREE BEACON: Anti-Israel activists are preparing to launch another flotilla aimed at breaching Israel’s naval blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip three years after a similar endeavor led to a deadly encounter with Israeli soldiers. An international coalition of pro-Palestinian agitators launched the Gaza’s Ark project to breach what they claim is Israel’s “illegal and ...

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Mar 27, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Weaponry Used by Jihadis Aboard the Mavi Marmara 2010 Turkey wants a million per killer. Israel wants to pay $100,000 compensation for each jihadist killed when Israeli commandos boarded the Marmara in May 2010. Why would Israelis agree to pay off anyone who came to kill them? Obama forced Bibi to apologize to that Turkish caliph Erdogan. ...

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Mar 27, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Excerpted from TIMES OF ISRAEL: Minister of Economics and Trade Naftali Bennett criticized Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday for his behavior since Israel’s apology to Turkey last Friday for the May 2010 Gaza flotilla incident in which nine Turkish nationals were killed. “Since the apology was made public, it seems Erdogan is doing everything possible ...

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Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Excerpted from FREE BEACON: China confirmed this week it will sell a new 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactor to Pakistan that the United States says would violate Beijing’s obligations under a nuclear supplier control group. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei was asked Monday about a report in the Free Beacon March 22 that first disclosed the secret agreement ...

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Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Excerpted from HAARETZ: In the wake of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's apology Friday to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the deaths of nine Turkish activists aboard the 2010 Gaza flotilla, the two countries have set the wheels in motion to pay compensation over the deaths, with Israel set to pay out as much as ...

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Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Amir Ayad lies in a hospital bed after he was beaten by Islamic hardliners who stormed a mosque in suburban Cairo. (MidEast Christian News) Excerpted from FOX NEWS: Islamic hard-liners stormed a mosque in suburban Cairo, turning it into torture chamber for Christians who had been demonstrating against the ruling Muslim Brotherhood in the latest case of ...

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Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Excerpted from CNS NEWS: – Afghan President Hamid Karzai now says his recent comments suggesting collusion between the U.S. and Taliban were misinterpreted by “the media,” and that explanation appeared to satisfy Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday, even though the contentious remarks were made during a nationally televised speech. Moreover, Karzai made similar insinuations during ...

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Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, during a joint press briefing with Secretary of State John Kerry, reiterated his accusation that U.S. special forces have been committing atrocities in Wardak province. Kerry did not contradict Karzai, though U.S. officials have denied the charges. Here’s the relevant portion of the transcript of Karzai’s comments today, during ...

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Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook

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Mar 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Excerpted from LA TIMES: CAIRO -- The Islamist-led government escalated tensions with opposition parties Monday after Egypt’s prosecutor general ordered the arrest of five activists, including a prominent blogger, for violent protests against the Muslim Brotherhood over the weekend. The arrest warrants and complaints against scores of opposition figures came a day after President Mohamed Morsi threatened ...

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Mar 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

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Mar 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Excerpted from Al Arabiya - The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has helped Arab countries and Turkey increase military aid to Syrian rebels in the past few months, The News York Times reported on Monday. The report – citing air traffic data, interviews with unnamed officials as well as statements of rebel commanders – said the airlift ...

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Mar 24, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Excerpted from LA TIMES: BAGHDAD – Secretary of State John Kerry pressed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki on Sunday to stop Iran from flying arms across Iraqi territory to the beleaguered Syrian regime, but found him unwilling to give ground. In a visit to Baghdad that was not announced in advance, Kerry told Maliki that the almost ...

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Mar 24, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Excerpted from AFP: - A man identified by media as an Australian-Israeli Mossad agent and found hanged in a Tel Aviv jail had passed secrets to Hezbollah before his death, an influential German magazine reported Sunday. News weekly Der Spiegel said Ben Zygier, a man known as "Prisoner X" who died in 2010 in an allegedly suicide-proof ...

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Mar 24, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Excerpted from REUTERS: - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi threatened on Sunday to take unspecified steps to "protect this nation" after violent demonstrations against his Muslim Brotherhood, using vague but severe language that the opposition said heralded a crackdown. In remarks following clashes outside the Brotherhood's Cairo headquarters on Friday, Mursi warned that "necessary measures" would be taken ...

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Mar 24, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Excerpted from REUTERS: - Israel said it fired into Syria on Sunday and destroyed a machinegun position in the Golan Heights from where shots had been fired at Israeli soldiers in a further spillover of the Syrian civil war along a tense front. It was not immediately clear whether Israel held Syrian troops or rebels responsible for ...

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Mar 23, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

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Mar 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer

Palestinians hurling stones at Israelis Hamas firing rockets into Israel killing innocent people Excerpted from TIMES OF ISRAEL: — The UN’s top human rights body has passed five resolutions critical of Israel’s treatment of s in what has become a regular condemnation of Israeli policy. Members of the UN Human Rights Council criticized Israel for the construction of settlements ...

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