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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Urges Black Communities to ‘Rise Up’ Against Trump
[OBSERVER] One of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement urged black immigrants colonists and African-Americans to "rise up" and "defend each other" against the "pretty dire" situation President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
has presented with his executive order.

Trump has signed executive orders expanding former President Barack Obama
I inhaled. That was the point...
’s deportation priorities, calling for for federal authorities to expel undocumented immigrants colonists not just when they are convicted of a violent crime, but when they have been charged with any offense. He also signed three executive orders earlier this month that he says support law enforcement and instruct his new Attorney General Jeff Sessions to form task forces that examine how crime can be reduced and look at how to destabilize transnational criminal organizations and narco mobs--seen by some as an affront to advocates fighting police brutality against people of color.

Opal Tometi, who founded Black Lives Matter in 2012 with two other activists after the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, said that black immigrants colonists and African-Americans are dealing with the same issues.

"Black immigrants colonists and African-Americans share diverse, rich cultures and a lot of beautiful things, but we also share the global fight against a system that operates on racism," Tometi said during BAJI’s President’s Day telephone town hall Monday night on the impact of the executive orders on the two groups. "And so right now, this moment, it’s very, very critical that we rise up and we defend each other. We have to fight to ensure that all black lives matter and there are some practical ways we can engage in this work."
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Could these people be agents-provocateur of KKK ("African-Americans" are 13% of the population)?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/22/2017 2:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Baton Rouge black woman saves white police officer's life.
Posted by: Javiger Grising1634 || 02/22/2017 3:20 Comments || Top||

#3  honey if the system "operates on racism" against you

then MOVE to a black country

the fact is it doesn't, and you won't.
Posted by: anon1 || 02/22/2017 5:39 Comments || Top||

#4  What's the metric these days? The average "African-American" would last about 39 minutes in Africa?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/22/2017 6:44 Comments || Top||

#5  All those illegals the Donks are now depending upon to keep the Plantation running are taking your future away. Trump may be your last hope in the tribal gambit game.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/22/2017 8:25 Comments || Top||

#6  You die first, get it? - Wyatt Earp

Again, someone trying to get someone else hurt/arrested/killed while they sit back at base smoking a cigar.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/22/2017 9:14 Comments || Top||

#7  African Americans that move to Africa are treated as Whites because they are far wealthier than the locals and have none of the local cultural roots. African Americans truly have no country since they decided not to assimilate and become Americans.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/22/2017 9:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Professional trouble maker.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/22/2017 11:42 Comments || Top||

#9  Again, someone trying to get someone else hurt/arrested/killed while they sit back at base smoking a cigar.

They may be smoking something but I'm guessing it's not a cigar.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/22/2017 11:43 Comments || Top||

#10  There will be a little extra in the pay packet this week from Massa Soros.
Posted by: Thrunter Thrineng9681 || 02/22/2017 14:12 Comments || Top||

#11  Professional trouble maker.

You ever see pictures of these three broads? More like 'professional beach ball'. Wide camera angles required.
Posted by: Raj || 02/22/2017 14:24 Comments || Top||

#12  Rise up! Because if Trump does manage to fix Black Schools and improve the outlook of Black Communities that would be... a bad thing?

Well I guess for those who want to divide us by race.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/22/2017 15:15 Comments || Top||

#13  Tried watching some of the PBS series 'Mercy Street' but had to surrender the effort. I was able to overlook the casting of wealthy, white Northern Virginian Green family as bigoted heathens and barbarians.

The proper Elizabethan English lines spoken by field hands and servants was however, a bridge too bar. They didn't speak like that then, and few do now.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/22/2017 16:08 Comments || Top||


Who Will Hold the IRS Accountable?
[SPECTATOR.ORG]
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What politician, of any stripe, has ever held the IRS acountable. Not when they act as the pusher for the money junkies.
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 02/22/2017 6:08 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Wegmans boycott over Trump wine backfires; supermarket sells out
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Calls to boycott Wegmans Food Markets, a popular supermarket chain, because it sells Trump Winery products have backfired on the Prince William County, Virginia, chapter of the National Organization for Women.

A spokeswoman for Wegmans, a New York-based company, told Fox News on Monday that Trump wines flew off its shelves last week. Out of 10 locations, only its Charlottesville store did not completely sell out.

Jo Natale, Wegmans’ vice president of media relations, told the network that 100 bottles of Trump Winery Meritage and 20 bottles of the Cru remained at its Charlottesville location as of Friday evening.

Calls for boycotts began with a story involving Prince William County’s chapter of NOW in The Washington Post published Feb. 14.

"Certainly if Wegmans is carrying Trump wines, I personally will not shop there," Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, told the newspaper.
Wegmans has been on the Fortune Top 100 Companies To Work For list since 1998. They are currently listed at #4.
Wegmans also is #1 on Fortune's survey of consumers' favourite grocery stores.
Not to mention Consumer Reports' top ranked grocery chain, and the company with the best corporate reputation according to Nielsen.

What in earth were those NOW idiots thinking?! Their people aren't going to give up affordable truffle oil just because Donald Trump's wine is visible on another aisle.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...because socialists really don't understand economics? or they don't grasp they are not the targeted consumers in the first place?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/22/2017 8:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Obama was great for one thing--gun sales. Funny how capitalism works. There are lots of decision-makers calling the shots (no pun intended) in a free-market economy rather than a centralized government economy such as is found in failed communist-controlled countries like Cuba and Venezuela.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/22/2017 8:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Great example of leftie totalitarian instincts today on Mike & Mike.

"I think pizza with pineapple on it is an abomination and should be banned!!.

"If you don't like it, don't order it."

That first statement though said in jest, sort of, reflects the proggie mentality. The second the capitalist one.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/22/2017 9:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
GOOD LORD: Now Chuck Schumer Claims That He Cried While Watching Free Willy
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-Wall St.) is fighting back over the perception that he was crying fake tears after the ill-fated Trump executive order on travel restrictions was announced. The POTUS ribbed cheesy Chuck over his "fake tears", a jab which the left has never gotten over.

Well Schumer is taking the crying controversy to a friendly audience when he went on the women’s gabfest The View to get this ‐ claim that he cried while watching the movie Free Willy.

Get a load of this:

Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 02/22/2017 10:09 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They don't make congressional leaders like they used to. Almost makes me wish Tip O'Neill was still around.
Posted by: Raj || 02/22/2017 14:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Who does he think he is, Boehner?
Posted by: Bigfoot Throluger1908 || 02/22/2017 14:24 Comments || Top||

#3  He cries when he frees his Willy?
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/22/2017 15:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Groan! #3 got my vote for snark of the day.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 02/22/2017 15:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Was he watching his schlong named Willy?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/22/2017 17:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Free Willy? Is he thinking about when Monica Lewinski freed Clinton's willy of his trousers?
Posted by: JFM || 02/22/2017 18:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Maybe Chuck was thinking of a wet willy.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/22/2017 19:06 Comments || Top||

#8  The true 21st Century Schizoid Man
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/22/2017 19:16 Comments || Top||

#9  I can't skip this reference.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/22/2017 20:12 Comments || Top||


Democrats worried about state Senate race -- in Delaware
[DONSURBER.BLOGSPOT] Republicans have not controlled the state Senate in Delaware in 40 years as the Blue Hen State is that blue.

But Democrats are very worried about losing the state Senate next Saturday in a special election for a seat that will, incredibly, determine whether Republicans finally flip that state's state Senate.

They are panicked. Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
has joined the race, as has former Governor Martin O'Malley
...former Democratic governor of Maryland and aspiring presidential candidate, known locally as The One-Man Economic Wrecking Crew. O'Malley was elected to his second term driven by union support and near-Stalinesque vote margins in Baltimore city (82%) and Prince George's County (88%). He presided over more than 40 tax or fee increases, including a rain tax and a flush tax...
of neighboring Maryland.

The seat is up because Delaware elected Democrat Bethany Hall-Long as lieutenant governor last November. Hillary carried the state by 11 points but Democrats lost a state Senate seat giving Republicans their best showing in four decades as Democrats clung to an 11-10 lead.

With Hall-Long's promotion, she had to give up her seat, making the Senate 10-10.

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
the state Senate remained in Democratic hands as the lieutenant governor breaks ties.

On Saturday, voters will pick her replacement. Democrat Stephanie Hansen faces Republican John Marino.

In the last race for this seat in 2014, Hall-Long won by two points over Marino.

Despite that slim win, the district is solidly Democratic as Hillary took the district by 13 points in November.

But Democrats are billing this special election as a referendum on President Trump.

"I think it’s encouraging that there are folks who having been concerned about the outcome of the presidential election, being concerned about the direction of our national security and our federal government, are taking that concern and enthusiasm and focusing it on state and local elections," said Democratic U.S. Sen. Chris Coons told Huffington Post.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Delaware has a chance of being flipped? Eight years of Obama and Biden were enough?

If Kalifornia secedes, the Pubs would be in the cat-bird seat for a long time--unless they screw up very badly. I sense desperation on the part of the left. They are organizing their shock troops, the hard-core communists groups to push back in the streets ala the likes of Bill Ayres and the other like-minded unhinged.

Posted by: JohnQC || 02/22/2017 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: 3dc || 02/22/2017 11:55 Comments || Top||

#3  I hope they get 0bean involved.
Posted by: gorb || 02/22/2017 15:28 Comments || Top||


Congressman Sues Architect of Capitol Over Removal of Controversial Cop Painting
[PJMEDIA] A St. Louis congressman filed a federal lawsuit today in the removal of a student painting depicting a police officer with a boar-type head, charging the Architect of the U.S. Capitol Stephen Ayers with suppressing the artist's First Amendment rights.

"David’s painting was wrongly disqualified and removed from the public exhibit at the direction of the Architect of the Capitol who shamefully chose to retroactively censor and suppress Mr. Pulphus’ artwork in response to the enormous political pressure he experienced from the speaker of the House and certain right-wing media outlets," Rep. Wm. "Lacy" Clay (D-Mo.) said today outside of the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse. "We contend that action was unfair, arbitrary and unconstitutional."
The display was on the Capitol grounds. That's regulated by the Congress. The courts have no call to intervene. But they will, of course...
The annual Congressional Institute art competition solicits entries from high school students each spring. Students submit works of art to their congressional offices, and teams of artists representing the district pick the winners, which are displayed in the Capitol for a year. The controversial winner is from Clay's district, which includes the city of St. Louis and northern areas of St. Louis County.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The "artwork" clearly violates the rules prohibiting the depiction of anything political or violent.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/22/2017 7:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Doesn't that asshole from St. Louis have anything worthwhile to spend his time on?
Posted by: Crusader || 02/22/2017 10:27 Comments || Top||

#3  St. Louis Police should refuse to provide security to his offices, home, and staffers' homes along with any public events
Posted by: Frank G || 02/22/2017 14:46 Comments || Top||


Organizers That Took Out Milo Linked to Left-Leaning George Soros Groups
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] On Sunday a #NeverTrump website called the Reagan Battalion released shocking audio of Milo Yiannopolous allegedly promoting sex with 13 year-olds. The audio was a clip from a 3 hour long podcast interview Milo had in early 2016.

Obviously, the Reagan Battalion was out to get Milo. And they did.

Around noon on Monday CPAC announced Milo would no longer be speaking at their conference this year.

The Reagan Battalion ‐ a group that pretends to be conservative ‐ then gloated at the news that they had helped end Milo’s career. The group has a Facebook page and if you click on the about tab you get this: www.stopdonaldtrumppac.com

The Stop Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
Pac was founded last year by committed #NeverTrumpers who were hoping to destroy Donald Trump and put Hillary Clinton
... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook...
in the White House. And they call themselves "principled" conservatives.

They are linked to #NeverTrumper candidate Evan McMullin.

On Saturday CPAC announced Milo Yiannopolous would be speaking at CPAC 2017.

On Sunday a #NeverTrump website called the Reagan Battalion released shocking audio of Milo Yiannopolous allegedly promoting sex with 13 year-olds. The audio was a clip from a 3 hour long podcast interview Milo had in early 2016.

Obviously, the Reagan Battalion was out to get Milo.

And they did.

Around noon on Monday CPAC announced Milo would no longer be speaking at their conference this year.

The Reagan Battalion ‐ a group that pretends to be conservative ‐ then gloated at the news that they had helped end Milo’s career.

The group has a Facebook page and if you click on the about tab you get this: www.stopdonaldtrumppac.com

The Stop Donald Trump Pac was founded last year by committed #NeverTrumpers who were hoping to destroy Donald Trump and put Hillary Clinton in the White House. And they call themselves "principled" conservatives. They are linked to #NeverTrumper candidate Evan McMullin. The Reagan Battalion Facebook page has several McMullin campaign ads.

Now this...

The Daily Dot discovered The Reagan Battalion is linked to progressive activists and far left movement "Indivisible."
The Reagan Battalion bills itself as a coalition of conservative news outlets, many of which often take a critical stance on Trump but claim no affiliation with the group. Reagan Battalion lists in its contact information a website for the nonexistent Stop Donald Trump PAC. That group’s web presence has largely been deleted, but archived copies show it was paid for by the Stop Trump PAC, a registered political action committee, created by a progressive activist, the website of which now links to the grassroots group Indivisible.

Indivisible is the movement behind the recent disruptions at GOP town hall rallies.

Indivisible board members have indirect links to far left George Soros groups.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Liberals are now calling themselves conservatives. Fascists are now calling themselves anti-fascists. Evil is now calling itself the holy one and darkness is saying I am the light.

BREAKING: The world is the opposite of what William-Webster English Language dictionary says it is. The skunk is now a kitten, and the Devil is now the Pope.
Posted by: Gleatch and Company9201 || 02/22/2017 4:52 Comments || Top||

#2  War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength

Guys, it was a warning, not a users manual.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/22/2017 8:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Both the right and left went after Milo. He was doomed. The playbook is blame your opponents for who you are and what you do.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/22/2017 8:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Milo's own words did him in.
Posted by: Crusader || 02/22/2017 10:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Have to agree. Milo's own words weren't promoting Pedophilia, in his eyes. But it's not about how it sounds to himself. To everyone else, 13 is a kid. To the law, 13 is a kid.

Mayhaps Milo is still in denial over his own abuse in some way, that he was "Mature" enough to handle himself. Perhaps (Almost certainly) the left was waiting to pounce on him right at his peak. That in no way makes what he said right.
Posted by: Charles || 02/22/2017 11:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe indecency with under age children turns them in to LGBT and who would know this better than the LGBT community on the left.

Now if only they could get the traitor LGBT guy supporting the right to talk what molded them, then they know the right will throw him under the bus.

In the mean time back to the business of running the Boy Scout and Girl Scout camps.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 02/22/2017 12:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Egg McMuffin and his Kristol Korps need to be exposed and made pariahs
Posted by: Frank G || 02/22/2017 14:48 Comments || Top||

#8  Happening now, Frank G
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/22/2017 19:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Lordy, plenty of people unwilling to actually see for themselves what Milo said.

I guess buying what the press tells you is easier than thinking.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/22/2017 21:47 Comments || Top||


White House Leaker Found: What Will President Trump Do?
[TheBlackSphere] "The president and his allies have been deliberately feeding her fake information in order to find her network," says a source close to the president’s family. "It’s been going well."

Walsh was a #NeverTrump Republican during the campaign. Neither Walsh nor her family were supporters during the campaign, says a source from Walsh’s hometown of St. Louis.

A White House investigation is planned into Walsh, who couldn’t be reached for comment.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 02/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Walsh, the wretched wishy-washy, will wish she'd never welched.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 02/22/2017 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  I't a refreshing change to have a Republican POTUS who, being a conman himself, isn't easily fooled.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/22/2017 1:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Bait them, damnit. Find every leak. Etherape and wireshark the whole thing and save the logs. Enough of this bullshit.
Posted by: newc || 02/22/2017 2:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Did exactly what he should do. Keep it up.
Posted by: Ebbeater Spins7913 || 02/22/2017 11:23 Comments || Top||

#5  My first thought when the Swedish Attack stories came out that didn't match the transcript was that Trump floated a second version of his speech (one with the attack) to catch leakers.

Then I realized he tossed his speech early on anyway. Still a good idea.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/22/2017 15:18 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Like Cheap Lawn Chairs
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/22/2017 05:11 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  See - this.

Remember, its Ok when they do it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/22/2017 10:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Saw the headline. Thought this was about the Republican Congress.
Posted by: Ebbeater Spins7913 || 02/22/2017 11:21 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: 3dc || 02/22/2017 12:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Good one 3dc. Now can you find Milo's version - Only Thirteen.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 02/22/2017 12:31 Comments || Top||

#5  More hypocrisy (link also posted in the other Milo thread, but it fits in both conversations): tape of George Takei laughing over having been molested at summer camp by his counsellor at age 13. The other thing that struck me is that he denied thinking himself gay before that happened. Most kids go to sleep-away camp for only a week or a few weeks, not the entire summer, which suggests the camp counsellor was a serial offender...
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/22/2017 16:21 Comments || Top||

#6  3dc - that got me thinking about Democrats and this Dr. hook song... (no, it is *not* about Madonna..)

Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/22/2017 20:34 Comments || Top||


Government
Lawmakers to Request Probe of $418M Arms Sale to Kenya on Obama’s Last Day
[BREITBART] A group of politicians is planning to request a congressional investigation of a $418 million U.S. weapons sale to Kenya approved by the B.O. regime on its last day in office.

The sale, approved by the State Department and privately notified to Congress on January 19, would allow Kenya to buy 14 weaponized crop-duster-like planes -- including two trainer planes and services, for missions against terrorist group al-Shabaab
... the personification of Somali state failure...
The deal was publicly announced the Monday after Trump’s inauguration.

A handful of politicians, led by Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC), are questioning why the contract to produce the planes was awarded to major defense firm L3 Technologies -- which has never produced such a plane -- while a smaller, disabled veteran-owned company in North Carolina that already make those planes at a lower cost was not considered.

The Mooresville, N.C. company, IOMAX USA Inc., costed out 14 planes at $237 million dollars, according to a Budd aide.

"It looks like politics," Budd said in a phone interview with Breitbart News on Monday. "Why are they sending it to someone that’s produced zero, for twice the price? This is inappropriate."

Later this week, Budd and several other GOP congressmen are planning to request the non-partisan investigation.

It is not just Republicans puzzled by the matter. Georgia Democrat Sanford Bishop will join Republicans in signing a letter being sent to the Kenyan ambassador to the U.S. on Tuesday.

The letter, obtained first by Breitbart News, says, "We believe Kenya would benefit by exploring its options in regard to this acquisition."

"We ask that the Government of Kenya take these facts, in particular the prospect of an ongoing congressional investigation of this sale, under consideration as it decides whether or not to proceed with this arms purchase," says the letter.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  questioning why the contract to produce the planes was awarded to major defense firm L3 Technologies -- which has never produced such a plane

Why? WHY!
Why, because L3 will buy/lease the 14 planes and parts from IOMAX, engineer then weaponize, operate and provide training, in-field maintenance and a logistics operations center staffed by L3's contracted pilots and warehouse operations personnel, for the fleet, for 10 years. ISR intelligence will be made available to NGO and US agencies.

L3 will build a complex in Kenya, using local labor and materials then license and retrofit airfield runways, hangers and fuel distribution for this contract and other parties interested in the strategic location for FAC missions.

This pushes a LOT of long term commercial enterprise washed money into Kenya.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/22/2017 9:58 Comments || Top||

#2  It sounds like a good package but why sole source?

Some kind of political palm greasing because L3 did some "favors" for the one?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/22/2017 11:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Follow the money, aka graft, in and out of Kenya.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/22/2017 12:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Kenya eh? Where have I heard about Kenya. Oh yeah, Obean's birthplace. Of course that wasn't real as reported in the fake news.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/22/2017 13:22 Comments || Top||

#5  I'd like to know why this deal took three months to make the news (besides the usual one - MSM sitting on it).
Posted by: Raj || 02/22/2017 14:29 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2017-02-22
  Suicide bombers attack Pakistani court, killing seven, as wave of violence continues
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  Libyan PM survives assassination attempt in Tripoli
Mon 2017-02-20
  Iraq Digs Anti-IS Trench around City of Ramadi
Sun 2017-02-19
  62 ISIS Bad Guys die in airstrike in Mosul
Sat 2017-02-18
  Breaking: Blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman Dies in Prison
Fri 2017-02-17
  At least 70 dead as bomb rips through Lal Shahbaz shrine in Sehwan, Sindh
Thu 2017-02-16
  Iran's Rouhani in Kuwait to soothe Gulf ties
Wed 2017-02-15
  Report: Turkey arrests alleged Reina nightclub attack planner
Tue 2017-02-14
  Islamic State leadership targeted in air strike, Baghdadi fate unclear: Iraqi military
Mon 2017-02-13
  Tahrir al-Sham: Al-Qaeda's latest incarnation in Syria
Sun 2017-02-12
  72 convicted of terrorism from 'Trump 7' mostly Muslim countries
Sat 2017-02-11
  Queens ISIS wannabe pleads guilty to attacking FBI agent with a knife in the name of the terror group
Fri 2017-02-10
  Members of UK sex grooming gang face deportation to Pakistan
Thu 2017-02-09
  Man sentenced to 30 years for ISIS support in Texas shooting
Wed 2017-02-08
  100 Syrian Refugees Rush into Country After Seattle Judge Halts Trump Executive Order


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