May 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JPOST Syria has been cut off from the internet on Tuesday, AFP quoted the US State Department as saying. "Syria is currently experiencing an internet blackout as of this afternoon," a tweet posted by the State Department said. A significant drop in traffic from Syria has been reported by Umbrella Security Labs at around 6:45 p.m. ...
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May 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS Religious freedom is in short supply in the Middle East, according to the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, which has issued a report finding Iran chief among the nations where spiritual beliefs can bring prison sentences or worse. The commission, which reports to President Obama, named several nations including Egypt, Saudi ...
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May 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway. Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other. We are reliving the true history of how the Islamic world, much of which prior to the Islamic conquests was almost entirely Christian, came into being. The U.S. ...
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May 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES Four U.N. peacekeepers were seized by armed gunmen on Tuesday while they were patrolling in the demilitarized zone separating Syria from the Israeli-occupied sections of Golan Heights. The BBC reported the peacekeepers were Filipino. Syrian rebels, the Martiyrs of Yarmouk, claimed responsibility for the abduction by publishing a photograph of the four men. The ...
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May 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Dinah Tellya
Excerpted from Time: Justin Bieber is having a rough time on his Believe tour. First German customs officials quarantined his pet monkey, then he caused an uproar in Amsterdam when he stopped by Anne Frank’s house, and next Swedish police claimed to have found drugs on his tour bus, according to the Associated Press. But ...
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May 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE RAW STORY Israel sought to avoid a direct confrontation with the Syrian regime on Monday by stressing that air strikes across its northern border at the weekend were intended to prevent weapons reaching Hezbollah in Lebanon rather than further destabilise the government of President Bashar al-Assad. Amid a cautious consensus that the bombing raids ...
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May 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from TIMES OF ISRAEL The Iranian regime has launched a public campaign to recruit volunteers to fight alongside regime forces and Hezbollah men in neighboring war-torn Syria, amid reports that Israel launched a pair of successful airstrikes there. The Iranian recruitment call appears mainly on a site belonging to supporters of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ...
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May 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE TOWER Two mortar shells struck Israel’s Golan Heights on Monday in the early evening local time. Though the IDF described the mortars as accidental spillover from fighting across the border in Syria, they are bound to deepen fears of escalating violence in the region. On Friday and Sunday Israel reportedly struck Iranian and Hezbollah ...
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May 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE TELEGRAPH Oskar Lafontaine, the German finance minister who launched the euro, has called for a break-up of the single currency to let southern Europe recover, warning that the current course is "leading to disaster". "The economic situation is worsening from month to month, and unemployment has reached a level that puts ...
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May 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JPOST A Turkish delegation is expected to arrive in Israel on Monday for a second round of reconciliation talks, following a positive exchange between both sides in Ankara last month. It's the highest level Turkish delegation to visit Israel in the last three years.In light of the growing threats from Syria and Iran, Israel and ...
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May 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AFP One man was wounded in a firefight between the security detail of Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil and alleged thugs Sunday but the security service said the incident was not political in nature. Bodyguards opened fire at a car carrying five people that had cut into the official convoy as it crossed the capital's ...
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May 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL United Nations human rights investigators said Sunday they have gathered testimony from outside Syria suggesting rebels, not Bashar Assad's regime, may have used chemical weapons. “Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, ...
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May 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from CBS News: The Syrian regime and opposition forces found one thing to agree on, albeit for different reasons: The both condemned Israel for carrying out two airstrikes in the Middle Eastern country over the past 48 hours, a major escalation of Israeli involvement in the Syrian civil war. Israel rushed to beef up its ...
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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 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
AFP - An Afghan soldier shot dead two soldiers serving with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force on Saturday, officials said, in the latest "insider attack" to target the coalition. "Two International Security Assistance Force service members were killed when an Afghan National Army soldier turned his weapon against ISAF service members in western Afghanistan today," ...
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May 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Excerpted from Jerusalem Post: Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria might be the last straw that pushes the European Union to put the group on its terrorism list, European diplomatic sources told the London-based daily Asharq Al-Awsat on Friday. A recent speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s and possible evidence from last July’s bombing of Israelis in Bulgaria ...
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May 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from Mashable: Entertainment news outlet E!'s Twitter account was hacked Saturday, tweeting fake headlines about Justin Bieber, Angelina Jolie and the conflict in Syria. The Syrian Electronic Army, a group of hackers aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is claiming responsibility for the hack. "Exclusive: Justin Bieber to E!online: I'm a gay," reads the first ...
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May 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Infidel
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – The 15 countries listed are Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Vietnam. All of these nations severely restrict independent religious activity and harass individuals and groups for religious activity or beliefs. ...
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May 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Infidel
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — A bomb blast killed five U.S. service members in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, U.S. and NATO officials said. It was a roadside explosion in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province that killed them, said Javid Faisal, spokesman for the provincial governor. ...
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May 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Welcome to the club... Excerpted from The Daily Caller: Though White House officials said that Obama’s trip to Mexico and Costa Rica is intended to emphasize the “benefits of closer cooperation” between the United States and Obama’s host countries, at least one senior White House national security adviser acknowledged that the administration hopes to partner with ...
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May 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from The Hill: Israeli officials confirmed Saturday that an airstrike against Syria was aimed at missiles allegedly being transferred to anti-Israeli Islamist militants and not the Assad regime's chemical weapons stockpiles. About 16 Israeli warplanes breached Lebanese airspace Thursday overnight and attacked targets inside Syria, CNN first reported late Friday. An Israeli official told ...
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May 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNN -- The United States believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria, two U.S. officials tell CNN. U.S. and Western intelligence agencies are reviewing classified data showing Israel most likely conducted a strike in the Thursday-Friday time frame, according to both officials. This is the same time frame that the U.S. collected additional data ...
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