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FTA:
"Its a coincidence that of the thousands of pages of U.S. and Allied intelligence information stolen by Snowden and published around the world, none of it reveals Russian security matters."
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I discovered this site only recently. Appears to be just over one year old. I've not read each of the articles yet, but if you scroll down on this link to April, there is an excellent piece entitled 'Unraveling Boston'.
[InvestorsBusinessDaily] Terrorism: Al-Qaeda's abilities to strike in the U.S. are "more dangerous and more numerous than before 9/11," says House intelligence chief Mike Rogers. Why is his hair on fire? Bigger question: Why isn't our president's?
Al-Qaeda forces of Evil linked to wars in Iraq and Syria -- including several dozen whom Homeland Security mistakenly let into the U.S. as war "refugees" -- have recently been found stockpiling heavy weapons and possibly building cells in Kentucky and North Carolina and other unlikely places in the heart of America.
Rogers, who as head of the intelligence panel is routinely privileged to some of the same super-classified terrorist threat matrixes as ithe president, says the increasing likelihood of forces of Evil who work for, or are inspired by, al-Qaeda carrying out more Boston Marathon-style attacks inside the homeland "keeps guys like me up at night."
We should take his warnings seriously, for the following reasons:
A recently unsealed terrorism case in North Carolina reveals a dangerous bridge between American-raised jihadists and al-Qaeda's growing network in Syria. The FBI tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! Pakistain-born Basit Javed Sheikh, living here as a legal permanent resident, for providing material support to al-Qaeda.
The 29-year-old is just one of a suspected 1,000 or more jihadists with U.S. and other Western passports who are traveling to Syria to train to kill Christians there and possibly return here to kill Americans.
They follow al-Qaeda's new strategic criminal mastermind, Abu Musab al-Suri, a red-haired, blue-eyed Syrian who many experts say may be more dangerous than the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... . Al-Suri, who is said to have helped plan the 2004 train bombings in Madrid and the 2005 train bombings in London, has called for a series of similar small-scale attacks in America, culminating in the use of weapons of mass destruction.
Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers -- including some thought to have killed U.S. troops -- have been given asylum inside the U.S. as refugees from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
According to ABC News, the FBI in 2011 busted two Iraqi "refugees" trying to buy Stinger missiles and other heavy arms in Kentucky. Turns out Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi were members of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. They bragged to an informant about killing American troops there.
Alwan, who built a dozen deadly IEDs in Iraq and used a sniper rifle to kill U.S. soldiers, said he had them "for lunch and dinner." Yet the unvetted terrorists, who also traveled to Syria, were invited to resettle here and even receive welfare. They were allowed to move into public housing near high-security Fort Knox and Fort Campbell, where the Army Nightstalker pilots involved in the raid on bin Laden were based. Alwan spoke of targeting an Army captain in the U.S. and possibly attacking other homeland targets.
They are just two of more than 70,000 Iraqi war refugees who have passed through the flawed U.S. refugee screening system. Thousands more have streamed in from Afghanistan, Libya and Somalia.
These failed Islamic states, along with Yemen, Tunisia, Algeria and Mali, have become safe havens akin to pre-9/11 Afghanistan. Rogers believes the next attack on America might originate from one of them, most likely from Syria.
Al-Qaeda in Syria has already projected violence outside Syria to Beirut, where two al-Qaeda jacket wallahs Tuesday blew up the Iranian embassy to intimidate Shiite Tehran into cutting off support to the Assad regime.
Despite all these Mohammedan countries harboring new al-Qaeda threats, the B.O. regime is pressing ahead with "piecemeal" reforms to open the U.S. border and relax immigration. Now is not the time.
Iff its too econ or $$$ costly for the Bad Econ, Sequester, Shutdown + post-Shutdown, etc. affected Amerika to intervene agz China in East Asia, the ECS + SCS + India, THEN BY DEFINITION ITS SIMILARLY "TOO COSTLY" FOR THE FED TO RELIABLY PROTECT MUSLIMS IN AMERIKA FROM ANY + ALL THREATS, THUS THE "DESPERATE" NEED FOR MUSLIM-LED, MUSLIM-CONTROLLED DOMESTIC SHARIA LAW IN THE US.
UK, EURO-STYLE "SHARIA ZONES" = LEGAL ENCLAVES???
Welcome to OWG-NWO + "Islamerika/Islamoamerika/
Amerikastan".
Do the Hispanics = Hispanomerika know, or the Chinese = Sinoamerika [need 1/2 of CONUS-NORAM for "living space", ya know]???
[Pak Daily Times] Analysing Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... 's politics, one notices a clear disconnect from ground realities. His opposition to drone strikes, rather fixation on them, is beyond the understanding of thinking Pak citizens who have started questioning his stance on drones and militancy. Imran Khan's quick fix solution to all the ills of Pakistain is, one, halting drone strikes in the tribal belt, and, two, holding talks with the Taliban without having a 'plan B' if the former two do not materialise.
In his speech in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. recently, for the dharna (protest) held against NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... supplies, he said that he would put pressure on the US and that the protest would continue if drone attacks were not stopped. His rhetoric on how the illusory sovereignty of Pakistain has been violated by the drones hardly mentions those foreign gunnies who are sitting in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). One hardly hears him expressing his outrage or condemning the Taliban for carrying out attacks targeting innocent people. He seems to be least bothered about the challenges the people in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... are suffering from.
Let us first talk about the drones. For some politicians, like Imran Khan, the drones have become an obsession. When 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai was attacked by the Taliban for simply going to school, some of our mediocre television anchors -- most are mediocre -- connected this incident to the drone attacks in the tribal belt and had the outlandish temerity to suggest that this little girl was a US agent. Even giving them the benefit of the doubt that such statements were merely meant in jest, they were in extremely bad taste.
It is unfortunate that successive governments in Pakistain have been playing the victim, despite the fact that Pakistain has secretly acquiesced to the use of drones in the tribal areas. Instead of owning up to the drone strikes, it propagandises against drone strikes using the media and right wing politicians. The sooner it faces this fact, the better for Pakistain.
While sitting in a restaurant in District Tank, which shares a border with South Wazoo, an old university friend from the Mehsud tribe glanced nervously over his shoulder, inched closer to me so as not be heard by other customers sipping their tea, and said, "The drone is the best weapon ever produced by human beings. It never misses the target and the people in North and South Waziristan are very happy with it. It does not uproot whole tribes and communities like gunship helicopters and mortar shells do, it does not destroy our cattle, it does not destroy our crops; it simply hits its target. There is very minimal collateral damage in such attacks. But it happens only if you are present in the room with the terrorists. Stay away from them and you are safe. Remember what we used to say in university, 'a person is known by the company he avoids.'" He winked and burst into laughter.
During my extensive travelling recently in the tribal belt, I was told that the only people scared of drones are the Taliban. Consequently, they neither dine together, nor sit together to crack jokes or share stories. The gunnies can neither attend weddings, nor go to burials. They cannot sleep in their houses, nor can they travel together in one vehicle. Locally, drones are called 'da Talibano plaar' (father of the Taliban) as they are the only thing that keeps them on the run for their lives, certainly not the friendly firing of the Pak military. Top Taliban capo, Mullah Nazir, who was killed by a drone strike in the tribal belt of Pakistain, once told a friend of mine that drone strikes had rendered the Taliban completely neurotic, as they could hit them anytime, anywhere, "The drones have traumatised my soldiers. There is no escape from them," he said.
In another instance, I enquired of a colleague from the Wazir tribe of North Waziristan, if it was true that drones hit innocent civilians and thus, ultimately, nurture militancy. He replied that this assumption was baseless, "It is simply the media and some politicians that are misguiding people. The same media and politicians are mute when suicide kabooms hit innocent people in our mosques, markets and offices. What about that collateral damage?"
And now, about talks with the Taliban even though the Taliban have shown little interest in negotiations. Let us assume that the government initiates such talks -- who will represent the Taliban and what will be the agenda of the negotiations? And if the negotiations succeed, what will this success look like? Will the Taliban lay down arms and reinvent themselves? Will all the Taliban capos become law abiding, good citizens? Will schools re-open in FATA and the bordering districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa? Will the internally displaced people go back to their houses and will the security forces start patrolling these areas? Will thousands of jihadis be given jobs so that they become responsible citizens?
I know Mr Imran Khan, US bashing is both fashionable and a part of our national psyche, despite the fact that Pakistain is among the largest recipients of US foreign aid. So here I humbly submit that the difference between a predator Taliban and a Predator drone is that the latter does not intentionally target innocent people but forces of Evil who kidnap children and strap them into boom jackets do purposefully target unarmed civilians.
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