Earlier today three Syrian males were stopped in Saint Maarten after a flight from Haiti, they were headed to the U.S. and carried fake Greek passports. 

In a similar but separate event today – Five Syrian males were stopped in Honduras, also carrying fake Greek passports, with intentions on crossing the Southern U.S. Mexico border.   And now this….

(Via Breitbart Texas) Two federal agents operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are claiming that eight Syrian illegal aliens attempted to enter Texas from Mexico in the Laredo Sector. (more…)

WARNING: This video is not gruesome, and does not show anyone injured during the event.  However, what it shows is extremely unsettling – and should not be viewed by anyone who is prone to anxiety – the footage, in many ways, is terrifying.

Terrifying video footage of a sustained attack on a restaurant during the Paris Massacre can be revealed by the Daily Mail today.

The exclusive images show the merciless savagery of an Islamic State assassin and the extraordinary bravery and survival instincts of his intended victims.

They also show the incredible luck of a young woman who would have died had the terrorist’s assault rifle not misfired as he held the weapon over her head, giving her a chance to run away.

Police believe her to be the luckiest person to escape with their life during Friday’s psychopathic rampage which left 129 people dead and 99 critically injured. (more…)

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is planning to hold a vote on a meaningless bill that holds no substantive policy “The American Safe Act” (All two pages of it) . Meanwhile he has tabled the Resettlement Accountability National Security Act also known as the “Babin Bill” as it was introduced by Rep. Brian Babin. Quoting a GOP House Staffer:

“Putting Ryan in charge of a fight to block refugees would be like putting (Nancy) Pelosi in charge of fight to repeal Obamacare.”

Here’s a good outline of the insufferable smoke-and-mirrors as provided by WND:

WASHINGTON DC – House Speaker Paul Ryan is lining up a showdown vote for Thursday on President Obama’s plan to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States.

But conservatives on Capitol Hill who want to see the refugee program halted are warning that Ryan’s plan is nothing but a smokescreen designed to give lip-service while refusing to defund the program.

Ryan likely has no intention of cutting off the flow of Muslim refugees into the U.S., nor does he plan to ensure Syria’s persecuted Christian minority gets rescued from the clutches of ISIS, sources told WND. (more…)

Two separate incidents with common attributes.  Two independent groups of Syrian males traveling on fake Greek passports trying to gain entry into the U.S.   The first group of three was identified/captured in Saint Maarten after a flight from Haiti.  The second group of five were identified/captured in Honduras.

Group #2 – Honduran authorities have detained five Syrian nationals who were trying to reach the United States using stolen Greek passports, but there are no signs of any links to last week’s attacks in Paris, police said.

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Breaking Overnight –   Suspects pinned down in an apartment in Saint-Denis suburb.  12:30am At least one policeman has been injured in a shootout with alleged terrorism suspects in Paris, during a pre-dawn police raid in the northern suburb of St-Denis.    1:00am Daily Mail reporting “several police hurt“.

The nature of the injuries are not known, and French police would confirm only that an operation was underway in the suburb.  Several large explosions.  One report of female suicide bomber who detonated herself.

  1:20am Citing police sources, French news channel BFMTV said the main target of the police operation in St-Denis was the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, (believed to have been in Syria but now apparently in France) the police believe they have him pinned down in the apartment.

The other two men in holed up with him in the apartment block were believed to be Salah Abdeslam, the subject of a major manhunt since Saturday, and an unidentified “ninth attacker” sought since Tuesday night.. (more…)

There are numerous pundits and political followers who are quite upset about President Obama’s news conference in Turkey where he stated his ISIS strategy “is working”.

An example of the punditry proclamations can be encapsulated within this commentary of CNN contributors as outlined by NewsBusters:

On Monday, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and two of her network’s analysts blasted President Obama moments after he ended a press conference where he defended his anti-ISIS strategy. Amanpour underlined that Obama “something that was pretty incredible…that our strategy is working. People do not believe that to be the case. The only strategy that’s working is the strategy that he tends to dismiss — and that’s the ground troop strategy.

Sinjar, Tikrit, Kobani — those are the only ISIS strongholds that have been taken back by a combination of American intelligence and air power, and local ground forces.” (video at link)

Indeed, if you were to google search the various media reports about President Obama’s delivered position almost all of them reflect a similar sentiment.  Media scratching their heads and twisting into pretzel contortions wondering why Obama continues to proclaim his ISIS strategy is a success. (more…)

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? – John Kerry Remarks to the Staff and Families of U.S. Embassy, Paris:

John Kerry – […]  In the last days, obviously, that has been particularly put to the test. There’s something different about what happened from Charlie Hebdo, and I think everybody would feel that.

There was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of – not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, okay, they’re really angry because of this and that.

This Friday was absolutely indiscriminate. It wasn’t to aggrieve one particular sense of wrong. It was to terrorize people. It was to attack everything that we do stand for. That’s not an exaggeration.  (Transcript)

Details sketchy and ongoing – German officials are stating they have concrete evidence an explosive device was planned to be detonated at soccer match today.   Now say false alarms – nothing found

BREAKING: German official says no explosives found and no arrests made in Hanover. https://t.co/tVpOcjqQZi

— Reuters (@Reuters) November 17, 2015

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The case of a missing Syrian Refugee who arrived in Louisiana reflects the weakness within the White House/State Dept. claim that security threats are not likely.   A recent Syrian refugee who was settled by Catholic Charities in Baton Rouge just disappeared.

WBRZ has reported that Catholic charities helped the refugee who settled in Baton Rouge, but also said the refugee left for another state after a couple of days, and they currently do not know where the refugee went since they do not track them.

“We’re at the receiving end,” Chad Aguillard, executive director of Catholic Charities, says. “We receive them, we welcome them into our community and help them resettle. There has been a lot of commotion and fear with Syrians. The fear is justified, but we have to check that against reality.”  (link)

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