…“We should have a temporary ban on refugees coming here until it’s clear that there aren’t any terrorists embedded.”
Remember the recent reports of five men with Syrian passports trying to gain entry into the U.S. through Honduras/Mexico, and the three men stopped in St. Maarten…
Trump is right – WE NEED TO STOP EVERYONE COMING IN – until this can all be digested and figured out.
(Via ABC News) With the U.S. and other countries on high alert for ISIS attacks, American authorities are warning the terror group’s followers may have infiltrated American borders with authentic-looking passports ISIS has printed itself with its own machines, according to an intelligence report obtained by ABC News.
The 17-page Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Intelligence Report, issued to law enforcement last week, says ISIS likely has been able to print legitimate-looking Syrian passports since taking over the city of Deir ez-Zour last summer, home to a passport office with “boxes of blank passports” and a passport printing machine. Another passport office was located in Raqqa, Syria, which has long been ISIS’s de facto capital. (more…)
The FBI said earlier Monday it believes both suspects in last week’s attack in San Bernardino, were radicalized before carrying out the mass shooting. “We have learned and believe that both subjects were radicalized and have been for quite some time,” said David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s field office in Los Angeles:
In addition, information has surfaced about a significant amount of money being deposited into their bank account:
A $28,500 DEPOSIT was made to Syed Farook’s bank account from WebBank.com on or about Nov.18, some two weeks before he and his wife Tashfeen Malik carried out the San Bernardino massacre, a source close to the investigation tells Fox News.
[…] On or about Nov.20, Fox News is told Farook converted $10,000 to cash, and withdrew the money at a Union Bank branch in San Bernardino. Afterwards, in the days before the shooting, there were at least three transfers of $5,000 that appear to be to Farook’s mother.
The loan and large cash withdrawal were described to Fox News by the source as “significant evidence of pre-meditation,” and further undercut the premise that an argument at the Christmas party on Dec. 2 led to the shooting (read more)
When someone can encapsulate the insufferable stupidity of a political presentation, and simultaneously eviscerate political parseltongue it deserves to be watched.
Michael Weiss watched President Obama’s oval office speech and then in two and a half minutes thoroughly obliterates it. This is not just deconstructing a position – this is epic obliteration of a opponent’s argument. This is simply must see TV:
The “Ziiggii Theory”: The motive for the San Bernadino attack was overall terrorist Islamic Jihad. However, the specific motive for the location, timing, venue, etc was to record a massacre upon a CHRISTmas celebration. The attack was important, but the ‘recording of‘ the massacre was the goal.
If accurate, the recording of people slaughtered on U.S. soil, an identified Christian Nation, amid the backdrop of Christmas would then be propaganda used in this Christmas season to embed terror threats, inspire jihad and give a boost to the larger Islamic objectives against Christianity. The San Bernadino massacre was jihad, but the recording was the more valuable goal.
This theory is further supported today within a LA Times Article:
… […] “Authorities now believe Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, were inspired by militant appeals on the Internet to attack a holiday party”…. (link)
While the LA Times uses the progressive/PC word “holiday”, to the larger world everyone knows this to be Christmas. (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?
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):
(REUTERS) President Vladimir Putin signed a decree imposing a raft of punitive economic sanctions against Turkey on Saturday, underlining the depth of the Kremlin’s anger toward Ankara four days after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane.
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…)