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Stabbing at a London subway
called a ‘terrorist incident’
Washington Post, by Griff Witte
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 12/5/2015 11:00:30 PM
LONDON — British police were investigating a stabbing at an east London subway station Saturday evening as a “terrorist incident” after the attacker reportedly claimed he had acted “for Syria.” The stabbing, which came just three days after the British Parliament approved airstrikes in Syria against Islamic State targets, left three people injured — one seriously. British media outlets reported that the seriously wounded victim had been stabbed in the throat. Two other people were treated for minor injuries. A video circulating online purportedly shows the aftermath of the attack depicted a gruesome scene, with a large pool of blood
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Stabbing at a London subway
called a ‘terrorist incident’
Washington Post, by Griff Witte
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Posted By: Dreadnought– 12/5/2015 11:00:30
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LONDON — British police were investigating a stabbing at an east London subway station Saturday evening as a “terrorist incident” after the attacker reportedly claimed he had acted “for Syria.” The stabbing, which came just three days after the British Parliament approved airstrikes in Syria against Islamic State targets, left three people injured — one seriously. British media outlets reported that the seriously wounded victim had been stabbed in the throat. Two other people were treated for minor injuries. A video circulating online purportedly shows the aftermath of the attack depicted a gruesome scene, with a large pool of blood
From pharmacy student to
suspected San Bernardino
terrorist: The baffling journey
of Tashfeen Malik
Washington Post, by Tim Craig*
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Posted By: Dreadnought– 12/5/2015 10:57:32
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MULTAN, Pakistan — Syed Rizwan Farook, Chicago-born, a college graduate working steadily in Southern California, was a quiet and devout man who went in search of a wife. He eventually found one, a woman named Tashfeen Malik who lived in a distant land and had never been to America. What happened next — and the question of how and why a suburban couple with a new baby decided to become mass murderers — is the subject of a frantic global terrorism investigation that includes Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and San Bernardino, Calif. The FBI is looking at the dynamic between Farook
San Bernardino bloodbath born of bigots
Daily News (NYC), by Linda Stasi
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Posted By: Dreadnought– 12/5/2015 10:26:53
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They were two hate-filled, bigoted municipal employees interacting in one department. Now 13 innocent people are dead in unspeakable carnage. One man spent his free time writing frightening, NRA-loving, hate-filled screeds on Facebook about the other’s religion. The other man quietly stewed and brewed his bigotry, collecting the kind of arsenal that the Facebook poster would have envied. What they didn’t realize is that except for their different religions they were in many ways similar men who even had the same job. One man, the Muslim, was a loser who had to travel all the way to Pakistan to get
FBI officially investigating
San Bernardino shootings
as ‘act of terrorism’
Washington Times, by David R. Sands
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Posted By: Dreadnought– 12/4/2015 11:42:44
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The shooting spree by a Muslim couple that killed 14 and seriously wounded 21 Wednesday in San Bernardino, Calif. is officially being investigated as a terrorist act, the lead FBI investigator in the case said Friday. David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles Office, told reporters in an afternoon briefing that the determination was made given the extensive planning, the high-powered weaponry and the amount of armaments worn by Syed Rizwan Farook and his Pakistani-born wife Tashfeen Malik in carrying out the killing. “As of today, based on the information and the facts as we know them, we
ISIS and al Qaeda —
same sport, same
level, different strategy
Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff
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Posted By: Dreadnought– 12/4/2015 11:35:48
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President Obama famously characterized ISIS as al Qaeda’s jayvee. This bit of idiocy will long be remembered, to the detriment of Obama’s legacy. But how should we compare ISIS and al Qaeda? A year ago, if I recall correctly, conventional wisdom had it that ISIS was preoccupied with securing and expanding its regional caliphate (sort of like Stalin’s “socialism in one country”), whereas al Qaeda was more internationally focused (Trotsky style, if you will). Given recent developments, this comparison can be declared invalid. ISIS now operates in regions not contiguous with its “state” and is encouraging and, seemingly choreographing, attacks
End the Gun Epidemic in America
New York Times, by Editorial
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Posted By: Dreadnought– 12/4/2015 11:22:28
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All decent people feel sorrow and righteous fury about the latest slaughter of innocents, in California. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are searching for motivations, including the vital question of how the murderers might have been connected to international terrorism. That is right and proper. But motives do not matter to the dead in California, nor did they in Colorado, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia, Connecticut and far too many other places. The attention and anger of Americans should also be directed at the elected leaders whose job is to keep us safe but who place a higher premium on the
7 Reasons You Should Buy
a Gun After San Bernardino
Breitbart National Security, by Ben Shapiro
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Posted By: Dreadnought– 12/4/2015 11:10:24
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You should buy a gun. You should learn how to use it. You should buy sufficient ammunition. You should get a license to carry, if you can. You should do all of that now. You should do it not just because President Obama and his administration are hell-bent on implementing some form of worse-than-useless gun control in the aftermath of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday. You should buy a gun because the government cannot keep you safe. You should buy a gun because the government may in fact attempt to disarm you in violation of your
The Most Pressing
Issue in 95 Years
National Review, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: Dreadnought– 12/4/2015 11:01:23
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The Peace of Versailles, Buck v. Bell, the Great Depression, the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Ukrainian famine, the internment of Japanese-Americans, the Tuskegee experiments, the Holocaust, McCarthyism, the Marshall Plan, Jim Crow, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy Assassination, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Kent State, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Watergate, withdrawal from Vietnam, the Killing Fields, the Iran hostage crisis, the Contras, AIDS, gay marriage, the Iran nuclear deal: These are just a few of the things The New York Times chose not to run front page editorials on. But, the “Gun Epidemic” in America? That deserves a front
Ted Cruz: Obama an ‘unmitigated
socialist’ who won’t stand
up and defend U.S.
Washington Times, by David Sherfinski
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Posted By: Dreadnought– 12/3/2015 11:07:20
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Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Thursday blasted President Obama as an “unmitigated socialist” while offering the president a bit of measured praise, saying Republicans need to put forth a 2016 nominee as committed to the conservative cause as Mr. Obama is to the liberal one. “Listen, Barack Obama is not a bad president because he was a senator — Barack Obama is a bad president [because] he’s an unmitigated socialist who won’t stand up and defend the United States of America,” Mr. Cruz said. Mr. Cruz was the first of 14 GOP presidential contenders scheduled to speak at the
Authorities move toward
terrorism as motive in
San Bernardino rampage
Washington Times, by Andrea Noble and Guy Taylor
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Posted By: Dreadnought– 12/3/2015 11:04:42
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Law enforcement authorities edged closer Thursday to the conclusion that the Muslim husband and wife team that carried out the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, may have been radicalized by Islamic extremists either in the U.S. or during trips the couple made to the Middle East, including to Saudi Arabia. While intelligence sources say there is still no explicit evidence linking the two to known terrorists on U.S. or foreign watch lists, the FBI has reportedly begun treating its probe into Wednesday’s massacre — in which 14 people were killed and 21 injured, including two police officers — as
Senate passes Obamacare
repeal, Planned Parenthood
defunding bill, putting
Republicans on record
Washington Post, by Kelsey Snell
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Posted By: Dreadnought– 12/3/2015 10:57:54
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Congress approved on Thursday night an Obamacare repeal package that serves as a double-edged sword for Republicans: while a boon to conservative senators running for president, it could jeopardize some of their GOP colleagues running for reelection in swing states in 2016. The Senate voted, 52 to 47, on Thursday night to repeal large portions of Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood. The repeal was wrapped inside a budget reconciliation bill that needed a simple majority of 51 senators to make good on a longstanding promise to voters that a GOP-led Congress would eliminate large portions of Obamacare. But after months
The Left’s Assault on
‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Revealed
Its Anti-Christian Bigotry and
Rank Political Posturing
National Review, by David French
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Posted By: Dreadnought– 12/3/2015 9:30:43
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A strange thing happened yesterday on social media. Prayer became a microaggression. As the San Bernardino, Calif., attack unfolded in real time, most Americans knew that dozens of their fellow citizens were suffering, with hundreds more terrified. They knew police were tracking down at least two depraved killers who were armed and dangerous. They also knew there was absolutely nothing they could physically do to stop the killers or heal the victims, so they did what people of faith have been doing since the dawn of human awareness — they prayed. They prayed for protection and courage for the police,
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President Obama Says the U.S.
Is Safe From an ISIS Attack
Time Magazine, by Nash Jenkins
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Posted By: NorthernDog– 12/4/2015 9:11:40 AM
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President Barack Obama said in an interview with CBS News on Thursday night that the U.S. was safe from a terrorist attack by the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria, encouraging the American people to “feel confident” that they are safe and well-defended. “The threat is real — we have to be vigilant,” he told CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell at the White House. “But we also can’t panic, and we can’t respond out of fear. [ISIS] is not going to pose an existential threat to us.” He added: “They are a dangerous organization like al-Qaeda was,
Pelosi: No right to moments of silence
without action on gun violence
The Hill (Washington, D.C.), by Mike Lillis
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Posted By: Desert Fox– 12/4/2015 6:34:28 AM
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Congress has no right to moments of silence for victims of gun violence unless lawmakers intend to take action to prevent it, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) charged Thursday. “Gun violence is a crisis of epidemic proportion in our nation,” she said during a press briefing in the Capitol. “We´ve had far too many moments of silence on the floor of the House. And while it is right to respectfully acknowledge the losses, we can no longer remain silent. “What gives us the right to hold moments of silence when we do nothing to act upon the cause of the grief?” Pelosi´s
Top Jeb Bush political donor
in Miami: I’ll vote for Hillary
Clinton over Donald Trump
Miami Herald, by Patricia Mazzei
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Posted By: Desert Fox– 12/5/2015 10:07:01 AM
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One of Florida’s biggest conservative Republican moneymen — and a billionaire backer of Jeb Bush — is so disgusted by Donald Trump’s candidacy that if he has to, he’ll do the unthinkable: “If I have a choice — and you can put it in bold — if I have a choice between Trump and Hillary Clinton, I’m choosing Hillary,” Miami healthcare magnate Mike Fernandez told the Miami Herald on Friday. “She’s the lesser of two evils.” Outraged by Trump’s unimpeded ascent, Fernandez is taking on the GOP frontrunner himself. He purchased a full-page ad in the upcoming Sunday edition of the Herald
Stop Saying ‘Muslim Shooters,’
Farook Family Lawyer Says
Time Magazine, by Charlotte Alter
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Posted By: Desert Fox– 12/5/2015 5:43:52 PM
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A lawyer for the family of one of the suspects in the San Bernandino shooting said that the media has been unfairly smearing his client because he is Muslim. “Until there is absolute clear evidence, every headline doesn’t have to say ‘Muslim massacre’ or ‘Muslim shooters,’” said David Chesley, a lawyer for the family of Syed Farook, part of the husband-wife team allegedly behind the attack. “Because it’s going to cause intolerance and what we need is forgiveness.” Chesley said in a press conference that the media was unfairly characterizing his client’s actions as terrorism-related, when there is also evidence that Farook
President Obama Will Deliver
Live National Address
From White House Sunday at 8:00pm…
The Conservative Treehouse, by Sundance
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Posted By: happywarrior– 12/5/2015 7:56:23 PM
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President Obama will deliver a rare White House national speech tomorrow night at 8:00pm addressing the latest terrorist threats and trying to reconnect with the Americans. After weeks of disconnect around the ongoing threats of ISIS and terrorism, and with plummeting polling numbers showing an increasing number of Americans distrust President Obama’s competency to fulfill the role of Commander in Chief, the White House begins damage control. Every professional who actually has experience with ISIS and Islamic Terrorism notes the San Bernadino attack was two operatives from a larger cell network. The issues are much larger than Obama is allowing
Loretta Lynch Vows to Prosecute
Those Who Use ´Anti-Muslim´
Speech That ´Edges Toward Violence´
Daily Wire, by James Barrett
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Posted By: ScarletPimpernel– 12/4/2015 10:31:11 AM
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The day after a horrific shooting spree by a “radicalized” Muslim man and his partner in San Bernardino, California, Attorney General Loretta Lynch pledged to a group of Muslim activists that she would take aggressive action against anyone who used “anti-Muslim rhetoric” that “edges toward violence.” Speaking to the audience at the Muslim Advocate´s 10th anniversary dinner Thursday, Lynch said her “greatest fear” is the “incredibly disturbing rise of anti-Muslim rhetoric” in America and vowed to prosecute any guilty of what she deemed violence-inspiring speech. Assuring the pro-Muslim group that “we stand with you,” Lynch said she would use her
First Photo of Female San
Bernardino Shooter Tashfeen Malik
ABC News, by Rhonda Schwartz*
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Posted By: KarenJ1– 12/4/2015 6:19:46 PM
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Since news today that San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik is said to have posted a pledge of allegiance to ISIS around the time she and her husband killed 14 people Wednesday, the world’s attention has shifted to the mysterious mother-turned-murderer. Malik, who was born in Pakistan, moved to Saudi Arabia 25 years ago when she was about four years old. When she was older, she likely moved back and forth between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, according to a source close to the Saudi Arabian government. In 2007, she returned to Pakistan to study at Bahuddin Zakri University in Multan and stayed until
Donald Trump’s senior adviser is
a stock fraud felon with mob past
Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Pluperfect– 12/5/2015 3:12:40 PM
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump knew a man he named as a senior business adviser in 2010 had been convicted in a major Mafia-linked stock fraud scheme, according to Associated Press interviews and a review of court records. Trump had worked with Felix Sater previously during the man’s stint as an executive at Bayrock Group LLC, a real estate development firm that partnered with Trump on numerous projects after renting office space from the Trump Organization. But Sater’s past was not widely known at the time because he was working as a government cooperator on mob cases and the judge overseeing Sater’s
The kind of president we need
Washington Post, by Robert M. Gates
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Posted By: ctpro– 12/4/2015 2:46:46 AM
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Many Americans are mad as hell at our political leaders — both Republican and Democrat — and are giving voice to their anger through the likes of Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). The anger is understandable. The federal government is paralyzed, unable to tackle any of the major problems facing our country or even accomplish basic functions such as enacting annual budgets for federal departments and agencies. The anger derives equally from governmental ineptitude, arrogance and corruption, and self-serving politicians more concerned with getting reelected than with the nation’s future.
Democrats visit mosque to show solidarity
Washington Examiner, by Robert King
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Posted By: j9zig2009– 12/5/2015 10:09:18 AM
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Democratic lawmakers visited a mosque on Friday to show solidarity with Muslims in the wake of rising anti-Islamic rhetoric. They also showed resistance to any attempts by Republicans to restrict Syrian refugees from entering the country.Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., attended prayer service at a Northern Virginia mosque on Friday. The visit was in response to try and tamp down rising anti-Islamic rhetoric, but comes at a time when Congress is beginning negotiations on how to fund the government.
When a Mother Chooses Jihad over Life
National Review Online, by Maggie Gallagher
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Posted By: StormCnter– 12/4/2015 3:58:08 PM
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The motive is unclear.” That’s the headline CNN is flashing on its screen Thursday evening. “They haven’t ruled out terrorism,” Don Lemon intones. Is this a newscast or an Onion parody? Sure, somehow the San Bernardino shooter got himself a Pakistani wife in Saudi Arabia just two years ago who was willing to turn their baby’s home into a bomb factory, willing to drop the baby off at his mom’s, willing to go back to an office Christmas party with two assault rifles, several handguns, and three connected homemade pipe bombs and murder 14 people. Because the lady is not
AG Lynch: ‘We’ve Had Over 1,000
Investigations Into Acts of Anti-Muslim
Hatred, Including Rhetoric’
Cybercast News Service, by Melanie Hunter
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Posted By: KarenJ1– 12/4/2015 2:59:38 PM
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During an appearance at the Muslim Advocates annual dinner on Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said since 9/11, the Justice Department had “over 1,000 investigations into acts of anti-Muslim hatred, including rhetoric and bigoted actions,” and more than 45 prosecutions as a result. “Since 9/11, we’ve had over 1,000 investigations into acts of anti-Muslim hatred, including rhetoric and bigoted actions, with over 45 prosecutions arising out of that,” Lynch said at the dinner, which marked the organization’s 10th anniversary. “I think sadly that number’s going to continue.” Muslim Advocates is a “national legal advocacy and educational organization that works
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