-Clapper: ISIS, Like Viet Cong, Surprise With ‘Will to Fight’
-DAMMIT! Focus on the Names of People whose Identities we DO KNOW
-Rand Paul Calls Voting To Arm Syrian Rebels ‘Intellectually Dishonest’, Says US Has Created A ‘Safe Haven’ For ISIS
-Warning Intelligence Update: ISIS Attacks Baghdad
-A Strategy To Defeat ISIS
-ISIS Recruiting People on Public Buses in Turkey and Claim Police are Helping them
18 Sept 2014 by Matthew Boyle
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and his aides swear the Syrian “rebels” he was pictured last year with weren’t ISIS members or supporters, and the mainstream media is by and large buying the 2008 GOP presidential nominee’s story.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has endured brutal criticism—media fact checkers, reporters, and political figures have shredded him—for questioning just who McCain posed with.
But a closer look at the situation tells perhaps a different story than McCain’s office or the mainstream media have pushed.
The criticism of McCain centers around how the Arizona senator met with Syrian rebel leaders in May 2013 when he visited the country. McCain posed for photographs with those people, and since then rumors have sprouted up across the Internet that he met with ISIS or some other terrorist kidnappers or nefarious forces.
“The people in the pictures with Senator McCain in Syria included General Salim Idris, then-Chief of Staff of the Supreme Military Command of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), Mouaz Moustafa, the Executive Director of the DC-based Syrian Emergency Task Force (which supports the moderate opposition and helped arrange some of the trip), and fighters and commanders from the Northern Storm Brigade, a FSA-aligned group,” McCain’s spokesman Brian Rogers told Breitbart News.
Rogers said that the senator and his team aren’t naming the “fighters and commanders from the Northern Storm Brigade, a FSA-aligned group,” because “ISIS actually threatened to kill them all, and we don’t want to put their lives at risk.” Rogers provided Breitbart News with a link to the ISIS threat to those fighters.
“ISIS targeted the Northern Storm because ISIS considers them apostates and because Northern Storm met with Sen. McCain,” Rogers said. “ISIS actually wrote out a statement that accused Northern Storm of treachery for reasons including: ‘Meeting with U.S. Senator John McCain in the hangar and making a contract with him against the Islamists.’ The statement goes on to demand that Northern Storm surrender and repent to ISIS or be killed.”
“ISIS actually killed many Northern Storm members, and we’re not going to put them at any further risk by naming them,” Rogers added.
But there’s just one problem with McCain’s office’s story. Now, McCain’s team says the senator didn’t meet with any bad figures but declines to name them, for what seems to be a legitimate reason—although those who are publicly leading combat against ISIS and against Bashar Al-Assad’s regime are probably publicly known figures there.
Just last year, however, McCain’s office had no clue who the senator met. When allegations surfaced that the senator may have met with terrorists who kidnapped someone, Rogers—McCain’s communications director—went on the record to multiple media outlets to say he didn’t know who he was meeting with, and if he did meet with kidnapper terrorists, that would be regrettable.
“None of the individuals the senator planned to meet with was named Mohamad Nour or Abu Ibrahim,” Rogers told CNN in late May 2013, right after the trip. “A number of other Syrian commanders joined the meeting, but none of them identified himself as Mohamad Nour or Abu Ibrahim.”
Rogers added later in his statement to CNN that he and the senator did not know who he was meeting with.
“A number of the Syrians who greeted Senator McCain upon his arrival in Syria asked to take pictures with him, and, as always, the senator complied,” Rogers said. “If the individual photographed with Senator McCain is in fact Mohamed Nour, that is regrettable. But it would be ludicrous to suggest that the Senator in any way condones the kidnapping of Lebanese Shia pilgrims or has any communication with those responsible. Senator McCain condemns such heinous actions in the strongest possible terms.”
Of course it’s ludicrous to suggest that McCain would condone the act of kidnapping, and nobody serious is suggesting that. The point many critics of McCain’s policies—including Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)—are making is that Americans have no way of knowing which team any one of these figures is on.
“Here’s the problem,” Paul said in an interview with The Daily Beast this week. “He [McCain] did meet with ISIS, and had his picture taken, and didn’t know it was happening at the time. That really shows you the quandary of determining who are the moderates and who aren’t. If you don’t speak Arabic, and you don’t understand that some people will lie to you—I really think that we don’t have a good handle on who are the moderates and who aren’t, and I think the objective evidence is that the ones doing most of the fighting and most of the battles among the rebels in Syria are the radical Islamists.”
Paul has been roundly criticized for the remarks, starting with the publication he made them to. The Daily Beast’s Olivia Nuzzi wrote that Paul’s statement means he “repeated a thoroughly debunked rumor.” The Washington Post’s fact-checker Glenn Kessler gave Paul “Four Pinocchios,” its highest rating of dishonesty, for the statement. Kessler wrote that this story is one where he regrets “we are limited to just Four Pinocchios,” because there is “zero evidence that any of the men that McCain met with in Syria are linked to the Islamic State.”
Despite this pile-on by the media and political establishment, Paul has a serious point here, though. McCain really didn’t know who he was meeting with, and even if they were the supposedly “moderate” Free Syrian Army, who’s to know that they aren’t elements of the Free Syrian Army working alongside ISIS?
Patrick Poole, an esteemed national security reporter and expert on radical Islam for PJ Media, has reported that the Free Syrian Army’s commanders have admitted in public to working alongside ISIS. “As President Obama laid out his ‘strategy’ last night for dealing with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and as bipartisan leadership in Congress pushes to approve as much as $4 billion to arm Syrian ‘rebels,’ it should be noted that the keystone to his anti-Assad policy — the ‘vetted moderate’ Free Syrian Army (FSA) — is now admitting that they, too, are working with the Islamic State,” Poole wrote on Sept. 10.
Poole cites the Lebanese newspaper Daily Star, which quotes a Free Syrian Army brigade commander as saying he is working with the “Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s official Syrian affiliate — both U.S.-designated terrorist organizations.”
Specifically, the quotes Poole pulls are:
“We are collaborating with the Islamic State and the Nusra Front by attacking the Syrian Army’s gatherings in… Qalamoun,” said Bassel Idriss, the commander of an FSA-aligned rebel brigade.
“We have reached a point where we have to collaborate with anyone against unfairness and injustice,” confirmed Abu Khaled, another FSA commander who lives in Arsal.
“Let’s face it: The Nusra Front is the biggest power present right now in Qalamoun and we as FSA would collaborate on any mission they launch as long as it coincides with our values,” he added.
In a lengthy floor speech on Thursday, Paul ripped the foreign policy establishment in Washington for assuming that FSA and ISIS are really distinct entities.
“According to a New York Times report, over a year ago, the CIA began training Syrian rebels in nearby Jordan, thousands of them, along with delivering arms and ammunition,” Paul said, according to a transcript of the speech provided to Breitbart News by his office. “New York Times reports also detailed the huge arms and financial transfers from Quatar to the Syrian rebels, beginning as early as 2011. No one really knows where that all ended up: Jane’s Terrorism Center noted, the transfer of Quatari arms to targeted groups has the same practical effect as shipping them to Al Nusra, a violent jihadist force. The New York Times further detailed that Sudan has provided anti-tank missiles and other arms.”
Shortly after those comments, Paul said that America can’t be sure—since supposedly “vetted moderates” are working alongside ISIS—who any of them are. He added that even if some might be loyal now, they could change their allegiances in a heartbeat—saying that some officials estimate that more than half of FSA forces have defected to ISIS.
“So the idea that these rebels haven’t been armed before is ludicrous on it’s face. It is also ludicrous to believe that we know where all of the money, arms and ammunition will end up, or who will end up benefiting from these shipments. Why? Because we don’t know for sure who the groups all are,” Paul said. “Even when we think we do, loyalties shift and groups become amorphous, with alleged moderates lining up with jihadists. And finally, moderate groups have often sold their weapons or had them seized by the jihadist elements led by ISIS.”
McCain’s office, however, fiercely defends the notion that FSA is not working alongside ISIS.
“Also, these reports of some kind of ‘truce’ between the FSA and ISIS have also been debunked,” Rogers, McCain’s spokesman, told Breitbart News—citing a piece from the Daily Beast to back up his claims. “While there have been brief cease-fires between the groups to collect bodies of those killed during fighting, as this Josh Rogin article makes clear, there’s no ‘truce’ between FSA and ISIS.”
And maybe there is no formal “truce” between FSA and ISIS, but the reports of mass defections and quotes from FSA leaders and brigade commanders on record saying they are working with ISIS makes this much more complicated than the clear cut-and-dry issue the mainstream media have made it so as to rip Paul. When McCain’s office won’t name who exactly he met with, who exactly he’s photographed with—after last year admitting in public they didn’t know who he greeted in Syria—are we supposed to just take his word for it that some of those FSA leaders aren’t now working with ISIS—or maybe have outright joined ISIS, like that other FSA commander Poole and the Daily Star quote?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/18/Alleged-ISIS-Photo-Controversy-Engulfs-Sen-John-McCain
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From ‘Vetted Moderate’ Free Syrian Army Commander Admits Alliance with ISIS, Confirms PJ Media Reporting
September 10, 2014 by Patrick Poole
In my report last week I noted that buried in a New York Times article last month was a Syrian “rebel” commander quoted as saying that his forces were working with ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra in raids along the border with Lebanon, including attacks on Lebanese forces. The Times article quickly tried to dismiss the commander’s statements, but the Daily Star article now confirms this alliance.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/09/10/vetted-moderate-free-syrian-army-commander-admits-alliance-with-isis-confirms-pj-media-reporting/
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From Gunmen From Syria Hit Army Checkpoints in Lebanon
AUG. 2, 2014 By HWAIDA SAAD
The violence in Arsal erupted after the army had detained Mr. Jomaa, who was accused of being a commander of a rebel brigade that had joined the Nusra Front, an affiliate of Al Qaeda active in the conflict against President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
Mr. Jomaa was detained hours before the attack in Arsal at a checkpoint, the army said. He had been wounded in a clash with Syrian troops and was seeking medical treatment at a clinic in Arsal. He admitted that he belonged to the Nusra Front, the army said after his arrest. But in a video posted on YouTube late last month, Mr. Jomaa and members of his brigade can be seen pledging their allegiance to a more extreme group, the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, or ISIS.http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/i/isis/index.html?inline=nyt-org
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/world/middleeast/gunmen-from-syria-hit-army-checkpoints-in-lebanon.html?_r=1
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DAMMIT! Focus on the Names of People whose Identities we DO KNOW
September 19, 2014 By Ben Barrack
The controversy over who Senator John McCain (R-AZ) posed with in photos during a visit to Syria last year is beginning to go mainstream. The Drudge Report is linking to an article by Matthew Boyle at Breitbart. At issue are the names and allegiances of the Syrians McCain was posing with. McCain’s office is saying it won’t identify the men he was standing with out of concern for their safety. Last year, his office said it didn’t know their identities.
John McCain in Syria in 2013 with SETF’s Mouaz Moustafa (right).
This resurrected controversy was given new life in the form of a swing-for-the-fences internet rumor suggesting that one of the men McCain met with was ISIS Caliph al-Baghdadi. That claim has been debunked by Shoebat.com.
To his credit, Boyle doesn’t go there in his article and instead focuses on inconsistencies from McCain’s office relative to other figures in the photo whose identities are not confirmed. Like so many others however, Boyle avoids addressing the backgrounds of individuals in the photos whose identities are known.
Here is all Boyle writes about the man McCain traveled to Syria with and can be seen wearing a kaffiyeh in the photos – Mouaz Mostafa:
“The people in the pictures with Senator McCain in Syria included General Salim Idris, then-Chief of Staff of the Supreme Military Command of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), Mouaz Moustafa, the Executive Director of the DC-based Syrian Emergency Task Force (which supports the moderate opposition and helped arrange some of the trip), and fighters and commanders from the Northern Storm Brigade, a FSA-aligned group,” McCain’s spokesman Brian Rogers told Breitbart News.
That’s it. One reference to Moustafa and it’s based on a faulty premise that his organization supports the ‘moderate opposition’. In addition to Salim Idris, there is one other individual McCain posed with whose identity is known. Her name is Razan Shalab AlSham. She is identified as the Field Director of the SETF. Moustafa and AlSham are the top two staff members of SETF, respectively.
(L to R): John McCain, FSA General Salim Idris, and Razan Shalab AlSham of SETF.
Though not seen in the photos above, the Political Director of the SETF at the time of McCain’s visit was also with him. Her name is Elizabeth O’Bagy who, after being released for not revealing a conflict of interest last year, was actually hired by McCain as Shoebat.com reported.
As for the SETF, the controversy surrounding O’Bagy is well-documented. As Shoebat.com reported, McCain inadvertently exposed it during a Senate Committee hearing.
In the weeks that followed, the SETF website underwent significant but incremental changes. Perhaps the first alteration was the removal of the photo of Ahmad Soliman. As Shoebat.com reported, of the four individuals pictured below, Soliman’s removal being first was likely not by accident. He had by far, the most demonstrable history showing connections to Muslim Brotherhood front groups. While at the University of Michigan, Soliman attended the ISNA reunion there and had connections to the local MSA chapter and CAIR. All of these are Muslim Brotherhood front groups.
With the unwanted spotlight now on SETF and O’Bagy, Ahmad Soliman was taken off the SETF site but would later return without a photo and with an altered spelling to his name.
“Ahmad” Soliman taken off website after O’Bagy outed last year.
A visit to the SETF website today shows a man by the name of “Ahmed” (with an “e” instead of an “a”) Soliman; his photo is not present:
“Ahmad” is now a faceless “Ahmed”.
It’s not just staff members of SETF that should sound alarm bells; it’s Board members too, as Shoebat.com has reported on at length. In particular, Dr. Yahya Basha and Bassam Estwani. The former once led the now defunct American Muslim Council (AMC) founded by convicted terrorist Abdurahman Alamoudi and is connected to Muslim Brotherhood front groups like CAIR and MPAC. Estwani is a very big fish and used to be the chairman of the very notorious Dal al-Hijrah mosque that was home to Imam Anwar al-Awlaki and visited by no fewer than two 9/11 hijackers. Estwani once hosted Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi at Dar al-Hijrah.
Qaradawi (L) and Estwani (seated on floor) at Dar al-Hijrah prior to 1999. Estwani sits on Board of SETF.
Yahya Basha and Bassam Estwani on Board of SETF.
Instead of wondering who the unidentified Syrians were who McCain posed with, why doesn’t the media do its homework on the highly suspect SETF and these individuals connected to it:
Mouaz Moustafa
Elizabeth O’Bagy (formerly of SETF, now works for McCain)
Ahmed / Ahmad Soliman
Bassam Estwani
Yahya Basha
Despite this extremely imposing mountain of evidence, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to arm rebels the SETF supports. Shockingly, four of the seven Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi were among those YEA votes, which displays their collective ignorance.
The Senate was actually no different. Only 22 out of 100 Senators voted against arming the Syrian rebels supported by McCain and his beloved SETF.
In addition to the majority of both houses of Congress indicating a complete lack of knowledge – courtesy of their votes – relative to how the Muslim Brotherhood operates, Mouaz Moustafa’s bio on the SETF website boasts about his work with the Libyan Emergency Task Force (LETF) until Gadhafi was overthrown, at which point, he moved over to SETF, providing even more evidence that if Assad is overthrown, Syria will look like Libya does now.
As people look for the explosive story that McCain was posing with actual terrorists, to include the big kahuna himself al-Baghdadi, the most explosive and irrefutable truth is right under everyone’s nose! That it’s missed is so symptomatic of what we see every day from politicians.
http://shoebat.com/2014/09/19/dammit-focus-names-people-whose-identities-know/
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The 12 Republicans That Voted Against Arming Syrian Rebels
19 Sept 2014 by Charlie Spiering
The Senate approved a continuing resolution for the budget which included a provision authorizing President Obama to arm and train Syrian rebels for the purpose of combating Islamic State terrorists.
The legislation passed 78-22.
Of the 22 Senators that voted no, here are the 12 Republicans that voted against the provision:
John Barrasso (WY)
Tom Coburn (OK)
Michael Crapo (ID)
Ted Cruz (TX)
Mike Enzi (WY)
Dean Heller (NV)
Mike Lee (UT)
Jim Moran (KS)
Rand Paul (KY)
James Risch (ID)
Pat Roberts (KS)
Jeff Sessions (AL)
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/19/The-12-Republicans-That-Voted-Against-Arming-Syrian-Rebels
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Clapper: ISIS, Like Viet Cong, Surprise With ‘Will to Fight’
19 Sept 2014 By Melissa Clyne
While U.S. officials were spot on in predicting the Islamic State’s (ISIS) “prowess and capability” and the Iraqi military’s “deficiencies,” there was a gaping hole in the assessment: Predicting its will to fight, National Security Director James Clapper told Washington Post opinion writer David Ignatius.
“That’s always a problem,” Clapper said. “We didn’t do it in Vietnam. We underestimated the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese and overestimated the will of the South Vietnamese.
“In this case, we underestimated ISIL [the Islamic State] and overestimated the fighting capability of the Iraqi army. … I didn’t see the collapse of the Iraqi security force in the north coming. I didn’t see that. It boils down to predicting the will to fight, which is an imponderable.”
Clapper discussed with Ignatius the United States’ new National Security Strategy, unveiled Thursday at a Washington intelligence conference, reported by the Associated Press.
At the summit, Clapper bemoaned budgets cuts, leaks, and an expectation that “intelligence can be collected with no risk of embarrassment upon discovery and no threat to anyone’s civil liberties.
“We call this immaculate collection,” he joked, according to the AP.
Relying on other nations to make “substantive contributions” in the fight against ISIS is a first for the U.S., Clapper told Ignatius, characterizing this new “paradigm” as a “test.”
“We haven’t done this before,” he said. “We have always built around a major force contributed by the U.S. We’re going to try a different approach. … At this point, I am reluctant to make predictions about how it will turn out.”
President Barack Obama has boldly stated he will not commit ground troops to the fight, reiterated during a speech Wednesday at the U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Florida.
“I will not commit you, and the rest of our armed forces, to fighting another ground war in Iraq,” he assured the troops.
But Clapper and other intelligence officials have remained silent on the subject. A senior intelligence official requesting anonymity told Ignatius that it’s really too soon to make that call.
“If I were head analyst, I don’t think I’d make a call yet,” he said. “I haven’t fit together the contributions that each of the coalition members might make.”
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Gen. Martin Dempsey, told Congress this week that he is leaving all options on the table, according to USA Today.
“To be clear, if we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific ISIL targets, I will recommend that to the president,” said Dempsey.
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Clapper did not have a time line for defeating ISIS, other than noting that the militants pose a “strategic threat … long term given their actions and their statements about the inevitability of confrontation with the U.S.”
He also didn’t know when they might have the “networks and capabilities” to attack on U.S. soil.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/James-Clapper-Islamic-State-Iraq/2014/09/19/id/595650/
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Rand Paul Calls Voting To Arm Syrian Rebels ‘Intellectually Dishonest’, Says US Has Created A ‘Safe Haven’ For ISIS
http://wchildblog.com/2014/09/19/rand-paul-calls-voting-to-arm-syrian-rebels-intellectually-dishonest-says-us-has-created-a-safe-haven-for-isis/
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Warning Intelligence Update: ISIS Attacks Baghdad
On September 18, 2014
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) launched a complex attack likely targeting the Adala Prison in Baghdad’s Kadhmiyah neighborhood in northern Baghdad. According to the Baghdad Operations Command, the attack was intended to break into the prison but was foiled. ISIS also launched another attack in Baghdad’s Iskan neighborhood that likely targeted the offices of the Iraqi Shi’a political group and militia, the Badr Organization.
The Attack
ISIS’s attack included mortar rounds, Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIEDs), and Suicide Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (SVBIEDs). The mortars were likely launched from the areas of the northern Baghdad belt including Taji. Fourteen mortar rounds reportedly targeted the Adala prison and in the vicinity of Kadhmiyah, and other mortar rounds fell in the Greaat area in northern Baghdad which is adjacent to Kadhmiyah. An SVBIED also targeted the prison, resulting in the death of three people and injury of 10. Two attackers who had intended to attack the prison while wearing an explosive vest (SVEST) were arrested. Another VBIED exploded in a restaurant area in Kadhmiyah that resulted in the death of four people and the injury of 11 people. Iraqi police also defused yet another VBIED that was also found in Kadhmiyah. As a result of these attacks, security forces raised alert levels in Kadhmiyah. Security Forces also ordered commercial shops to be closed in the predominantly Iraqi Sunni neighborhood of Adhamiyah. Adhamiyah lies just across the Aaima bridge from Kadhmiyah. Elsewhere in Baghdad, a VBIED detonated in the Iskan area in western Baghdad. The VBIED targeted the office of the Badr Organization, a Shi’a militia organization that has taken a leading role in directing Iraqi Shi’a militia operations to counter ISIS.
Implications
This attack is very significant. It is the first infantry-like, complex, and penetrating attack in Baghdad city by ISIS since the fall of Mosul in June of this year. ISIS likely carried out the attack to release some of the pressure it is facing as a result of the recent U.S. air campaign targeting its positions. The attack also signifies that, despite the heightened defenses of Baghdad in the aftermath of the fall of Mosul, ISIS is still able to carry out attacks in an area where it is unlikely to have active sleeper cells given Kadhmiyah’s predominantly Iraqi Shi’a demographic. The mortars were likely launched from Taji due to ISIS’s historical presence in the area and its ongoing activities there.
The attacks will not likely divert great deal of resources of the ISF and Iraqi Shi’a militias into other areas. The government will want to maintain a strong defense of Baghdad by preserving the same posture. More likely, however, the attacks will trigger increased activities of Iraqi Shi’a militia in Baghdad in order to target ISIS sleeper cells and predominantly Iraqi Sunni areas including Adhamiyah.
A Strategy To Defeat ISIS
http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Defeating%20ISIS.pdf
http://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/warning-intelligence-update-isis-attacks-baghdad
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ISIS Recruiting People on Public Buses in Turkey and Claim Police are Helping them
September 19, 2014 By Ben Barrack
In a video posted to the ISIS twitter account (yes, ISIS has a twitter account), a man wearing an ISIS shirt can be seen recruiting people on a bus in Turkey in broad daylight. The text in the tweet above the video says:
“Our supporters can freely hang out in Istanbul streets, recruit poor people from suburbs & police will only help.”
There you have it. In Turkey, police will help ISIS recruit people (h/t Jawa):
In the U.S., there have been at least two sightings of men donning ISIS apparel in Houston. Police don’t seem to be making a big deal about that either – at least not publicly. That’s certainly not to say that local U.S. police are helping ISIS recruit poor people from the suburbs.
In another post, ISIS retweeted a photo of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sporting a long beard. The accompanying text says,
“A bond which cannot be broken! Sheikh Erdogan & will wipe out Shia & Kurdy! I will complete Sheikh Saddam’s mission!”
http://shoebat.com/2014/09/19/isis-recruiting-people-public-buses-turkey-claim-police-helping/
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COMMENTS
We are to believe that McCain traveled half way across the globe and he had no idea with whom he was meeting. Trying walking into his office and requesting a meeting with him, see how many questions you have to answer.
It is bad enough McCain pees on us he is not going to get me believe it is tea.
McCain seems to have forgotten his well publicized connection to ISIS, Syrian Rebels includes Elizabeth O’Bagy:
Early life and education
O’Bagy is originally from Holladay, Utah, a Salt Lake City suburb,[6] and a 2005 graduate of Olympus High School.[2] She is the daughter of David and Mickey O’Bagy.[7] She was first exposed by independent journalist Charles C. Johnson.[8]
Career
Described as a “Syria researcher” in 2013, O’Bagy, who had previously written for The Atlantic, contributed an op-ed to the Wall Street Journal that was cited by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Senator John McCain during a U.S. Senate hearing to support possible United States military intervention into the Syrian civil war.[9] At the time of the hearing, O’Bagy’s official biography listed the 26 year-old as “Dr. Elizabeth O’Bagy” and claimed she had received a Ph.D. degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Following the hearing, however, the Institute for the Study of War terminated O’Bagy, posting a statement to its website that read “Elizabeth O’Bagy does not in fact have a Ph.D. degree from Georgetown University” as she had previously represented to institute officials.[8]
O’Bagy also had an unrevealed affiliation with the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a U.S.-based group advocating the armed overthrow of the government of Syria.[10] In her paid work with that group, done simultaneously with her job at the officially nonpartisan Institute for the Study of War, she had lobbied American political leaders to send heavy weaponry to Syrian insurgent groups.[11]
Two weeks after her dismissal from the Institute for the Study of War, O’Bagy was hired as a legislative assistant by U.S. Senator John McCain.[12]
O’Bagy is a registered Democrat.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_O%27Bagy
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/11/us/syria-elizabeth-obagy-fired/index.html
http://swampland.time.com/2013/09/17/the-rise-and-fall-of-elizabeth-obagy/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/video-john-mccain-bags-liz-obagy-as-legislative-assistant/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/obama-mccainand-kerry-relying-on-students-spin-on-syria/
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Related
http://shoebat.com/2014/09/19/war-strategist-bashar-al-assad-bombs-moderate-rebels-instead-isis/
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/republicans-raise-concerns-about-obamas-isil-strategy/
http://allenbwest.com/2014/09/o-baa-ma-gives-reassuring-speech-isis-centcom-video/
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http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/key-previous-posts/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/mike-rogers-deep-in-benghazi-cover-up-keynote-honoring-pro-sharia-ground-zero-imam-us-troops-off-libyas-coast/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/benghazi-cover-up-blowing-up-mb-benghazi-truths-being-hidden-by-mike-rogers/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/video-mb-obama-and-congressman-mike-rogers-caught-in-war-crimes-coverup-liberal-journalist/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/video-mb-obamas-star-witness-abu-khattala-another-proven-scandal-obamacare-and-8-members-of-congress/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/video-new-benghazi-investigation-spooks-some-gop-leaders/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/video-getting-answers-reps-michele-bachmann-and-debbie-wasserman-schultz-on-benghazi-facts-or-politics/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/video-rep-mike-rogers-and-his-wife-caught-in-benghazi-scandal/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/07/20/audio-conservative-group-with-access-to-benghazi-committee-suppressing-truths-gives-malik-a-free-pass/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/02/08/46-senators-voted-for-u-n-resolution-2117-call-for-weapons-collection-and-disarmament/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/silent-coup-harry-reids-plan-to-hand-america-to-liberal-billionaires-sen-cruz-v-49-dem-senators/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/chilling-first-amendment/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/de-facto-repeal-of-the-first-amendment-trojan-horse-campaign-finance-reform-to-advance-dem-agenda/
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