Washington Times: RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian officials say that they will resume their effort to gain U.N. membership, and that they could launch a nonviolent third intifada because they see no chance of reaching a peace deal with the current Israeli government. The Palestinians had put their U.N. bid on hold to participate in [...]
UK Telegraph: Iranian police have targetted dozens of shops selling Barbie dolls in the latest campaign against the spread of Western decadence in the Islamic republic. The embattled Iranian regime wages an unceasing war against the encroachments of Western influence. Islamic laws require women to protect their modesty will all enveloping clothing. However Iranian girls, [...]
CNN The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in the Arabian Sea on Thursday, Navy officials said, a likely prelude to testing Iran’s recent warning against sending a U.S. carrier through the Strait of Hormuz. The Lincoln joins the USS Carl Vinson, already in the region, returning the U.S. Navy its standard two-carrier presence there. [...]
That’s right Obama, we don’t want to fight your bs wars in Africa and other places unless we know what the hell we’re fighting for. Focus on Iran having nuclear bombs to use against Israel, Europe, and the US. Thanks! “Here it goes. Here comes the night. Here it goes. Hell in the night.” Original [...]
Washington Post: CAIRO — Liberals and Islamists in Egypt announced a temporary agreement Monday on a power-sharing plan that would install a Muslim Brotherhood leader as speaker of the country’s newly elected parliament. The agreement among six political parties all but guarantees that the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party will lead Egypt’s first elected [...]
Chron.com: A 30-year-old female student at the Texas Medical Center was found shot to death in a car at a home in west Houston near the Galleria early Monday morning. The shooting occurred at the residence in the 800 block of Augusta near Sugar Hill about 12:30 a.m., according to the Houston Police Department. The [...]
h/t the demon: “US Apaches lighting up a group of Taliban fighters on the run. You can run, but you can’t hide from Flir. I never counted how many there were but oviously alot of Taliban got their ass handed to them. My respects to our US Military.”
Federal News Radio: Three members of a home-grown terror ring who conspired to attack the Quantico U.S. Marine Corps base and foreign targets were sentenced Friday to between 15 and 45 years in federal prison. Hysen Sherifi, 27, will serve 45 years in prison; Ziyad Yaghi, 23, got nearly 32 years; and Mohammad Omar Aly [...]
Fox News: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Defense Department has neither sought nor received assurances that the Pakistani army will not stage a coup even though there is near-open conflict between the civilian and military leadership, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday. “This is a matter for Pakistani officials — their government leaders, military and civilian — [...]
ABC: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday condemned as “completely inhumane” a video that purports to depict four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. Pentagon officials said commanders believe they have identified the men’s unit and that it is back in the United States. The Marine Corps said Wednesday it was investigating [...]
Washington Post: President Obama is reportedly considering releasing several senior Taliban leaders from Guantanamo Bay as an enticement to get the Taliban to the peace table. If he does so, he will do tremendous harm to American national security — and to his prospects for reelection this fall. To understand why, consider the individuals White [...]
Yahoo: A Kosovo-born man was charged with plotting to attack Tampa-area nightclubs and a sheriff’s office with bombs and an assault rifle to avenge wrongs done to Muslims, federal authorities said Monday. According to a federal complaint, 25-year-old Sami Osmakac recorded an eight-minute video shortly before his arrest explaining why he wanted to bring terror [...]
AJC: The Obama administration denied on Monday that an American man sentenced to death in Iran was a CIA spy, and sharply criticized the Islamic republic in Tehran for what it called a pattern of arresting innocent people for political reasons. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said officials were still trying to learn the details [...]
…because we all know how well they managed to control their border with Afghanistan Generational Dynamics: Under pressure from the al-Qaeda linked Turkestani Islamic Party (TIP), which has conducted numerous terrorist attacks in Xinjiang province, China is putting increasing pressure on Pakistan to control the militants in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), where TIP [...]
MSNBC: Iran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced an American to death for spying for the CIA, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Monday. “Amir Mirza Hekmati was sentenced to death … for cooperating with the hostile country (the United States) and spying for the CIA,” Fars said, without giving a source. “The court found him Corrupt [...]
