According to CNN, FBI sources are stating Syed Farook was “radicalized” and was in touch with “Terror Suspects” according to his cyber trail. In addition Saudi Arabia is confirming travel in 2014 as last known official travel, and also in 2013.

CALIFORNIA – San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2014, according to Saudi and U.S. officials. Records show Farook was in the country on that trip for nine days, a Saudi official said. A U.S. official described the 2014 trip as Farook’s “last recorded” trip to Saudi Arabia.

Two U.S. government officials have also said there’s information about Farook traveling to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj in 2013.

Syed Rizwan Farook — who along with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, carried out the San Bernardino shooting massacre — apparently was radicalized and in touch with people being investigated by the FBI for international terrorism, law enforcement officials said Thursday. (more…)

Updated Details: Suspects: Syed Farook (28-yr-old male) Tashfeen Malik (27-year-old female) ♦ Married / Relationship ♦ Both Dead ♦ Two handguns ♦ Two long guns ♦ Large amount of Ammo ♦ Wearing Tactical Gear ♦ Pipe bomb(s) in vehicle ♦ Wearing Go-Pro Cameras ♦ “Very Religious” (per dad) ♦ Devout Muslim (per dad) ♦ Prepared to engage “for sustained attack” (per police) ♦ Appeared to understand “military tactics” (per police) ♦ Left 6-month-old baby with Mother ♦ Neighbors report numerous young males in/out of apartment “seemed suspicious” ♦ …

….yet, police/media speculate “spontaneous act of workplace violence“.  Go figure.

Associated Press – The suspect in the Southern California shooting that left 14 dead traveled to Saudi Arabia earlier this year and returned with a wife.

Co-worker Patrick Baccari says Syed Farook was gone for about a month in the spring. When he came back word got around Farook had been married, and the woman he described as a pharmacist joined him shortly afterward. A baby followed. (more…)

There is a lot of serious discussion squished into this interview with former Director of Intelligence Michael Flynn.  However, that said, the larger umbrella issue is summarized near the end – President Obama’s ideological willful blindness to the larger threat presented by ISIS.

This interview reminded me of  previously encapsulated question:

If President Obama did not want to see ISIS destroyed, what would he be doing differently?

This is interesting.  Mike M via twitter notices a Page Six story from September 2001 disappears from the New York Post.

On September 14th 2001 the New York Post ran an article (Op-Ed) with the headline: “The Issue Is Radical Islam“.  Within the article you find the following paragraph(s) [emphasis added]:

[…]  In Sudan, the Islamic militants impose slavery on captured Dinkas – but wherever radical Islam is in power, it subjugates people it regards as infidels. The Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights, an organization supporting those persecuted by militant Islam, argues that “radical Islamism is a world ideology, fielding a world terror-army, which oppresses millions with a racist ideology” that deems non-Muslims less than fully human.

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The current discussion about potential refugees and associations with terrorism provides a backdrop for an article via CBS showing that 25% of all American ISIS recruitment comes from refugees who were placed in Minneapolis Minnesota.

MINNEAPOLIS Via CBS — A new report by Congress says more than 250 Americans have attempted to join ISIS, and one in four of them is from Minnesota, many of them former refugees.

[…]  Currently, five Somali men from Minnesota accused of trying to join terror group ISIS are awaiting trial.  There are at least 15 other cases being investigated. (read more)

Back in 2014 we shared the story of Abdirahmaan Muhumed who was one of those Somali U.S. refugees who left the U.S. to join ISIS and was killed in Syria.   So it comes as no surprise to see the latest CBS report. (more…)

Amid the latest consequences for Turkey shooting down a Russian fighter jet and murdering the pilot – Russia (Putin) begins imposing economic sanctions against Turkey (Erdogan):

Donald Trump interview with Chuck Todd Sunday on Meet the Press:

Another full audio version: (more…)

The devolution of Libya into the hands of radical Islamists has been going on ever since Hillary Clinton talked President Obama to war.  History will show it was an Islamist Spring, not an Arab spring.

MISURATA, Libya — Iraqi commanders have been arriving from Syria, and the first public beheadings have started. The local radio stations no longer play music but instead extol the greatness of the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

When the Libyan arm of the Islamic State first raised the group’s black flag over the coastal city of Surt almost one year ago, it was just a bunch of local militants trying to look tough.

Today Surt is an actively managed colony of the central Islamic State, crowded with foreign fighters from around the region, according to residents, local militia leaders and hostages recently released from the city’s main prison. (more…)

It does make moving jihadists, guns, weapons, rockets, missiles and bombs a little easier when you can jump country to country without worrying about those pesky “border” issues…

(Via Reuters) The ringleader behind the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris had plans to strike Jewish targets and to disrupt schools and the transport system in France, according to sources close to the investigation.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national of Moroccan origin, also boasted of the ease with which he had re-entered Europe from Syria via Greece two months earlier, exploiting the confusion of the migrant crisis and the continent’s passport-free Schengen system, the sources said on Friday. (more…)

You know times are changing when even Sweden wants to stop their heads from being lopped off. Normally the Brangelina Peacenik Swedes are more than willing to jump to their own demise than offend delicate sensibilities.

SWEDEN Via UK Guardian – Sweden needs “respite” from the tens of thousands of refugees knocking at its door, the government has said, announcing tough measures to deter asylum seekers in a sharp reversal of its open-door policy towards people fleeing war and persecution.

The country’s generous asylum regime would revert to the “EU minimum”, Sweden’s prime minister, Stefan Löfven, said on Tuesday, revealing that most refugees would receive only temporary residence permits from April.

Identity checks would be imposed on all modes of transport, and the right to bring families to Sweden would be severely restricted, he said. (more…)