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ISIS AND TERRORISTS RIDING INTO AMERICA-AND WORLD CITY NEAR YOU-pic-scientificamerica
ISIS IS COMING TO AMERICA TO FLY ITS BLACK FLACK OVER WASHINGTON-pic-theconservativetreehouse.com
ISIS MURDERS INNOCENT PEOPLE IN COLD BLOOD-pic kevinwhiteman.com
HEADS LITERALLY ROLE WHEN ISIS COMES TO TOWN-THESE FIERCELESS MURDERERS WILL KILL YOU ANYWAY POSSIBLE- AFTER THEY RAPE EVERYONE IN YOUR FAMILY-CHILDREN OR 100 YEAR OLD PARENTS-ISIS COULD CARE LESS.ITS FOR ALLAH THE CAMEL MOON GOD OF ISLAM.THE SEX FOR MURDER-72 VIRGINS FOREVER INFIDEL-CALIPHATE KILL.-pic-rollingout.com
UPDATE AUGUST 26,14-03:35PM
WE NOW FIND OUT OBAMA HAS GAVE THE OK TO DO AIRIEL SURVEILENCE ON SYRIA.AND OK TO DO AIR STRIKES ON SYRIAS ISIS AS WELL.AND AN AMERICAN DOUGLAS MCCAIN EX CHRISTIAN TURNED AND WHO CONVERTED TO ISLAMIC JIHAD HAS BEEN KILLED IN SYRIA.HIS MOTHER DID NOT MIND HE CONVERTED TO ISLAM BECAUSE ITS SUCH A PEACEFUL RELIGION SHE THOUGHT.HE THEN WENT RADICAL.AND THIS AMERICAN NEVER TOLD HIS PARENTS HE WAS GOING TO FIGHT IN SYRIA.AND NOW HES BEEN KILLED IN SYRIA EITHER FOR FIGHTING FOR ISIS OR A RADICAL MURDERER OTHER ISLAMIC MUSLIM GROUP AGAINST ASSAD.KNOWN AS REBELS.THE WORLD FINALLY REALIZES THAT YOU GOTTA FRY ISIS IN SYRIA AND IRAQ IN ORDER TO GET RID OF THESE MURDER BARBARIAN LUNATICS.YOU GOTTA KILL EVERY LUNATIC RADICAL ON EARTH.NOT JUST IN THESE 2 COUNTRIES.I STILL SAY EVERY ISLAMIC MUSLIM MAN 16 YEARS OR OVER MUST BE KILLED ON ALL THE EARTH.TO ELIMINATE THIS RADICAL ISLAMIC SHARIA LAW-SEX FOR MURDER-72 VIRGIN CAMEL MOON GOD ALLAH.AND YELLER OF ALLAH-AK-BAR CULT.
AND NOW WE FIND OUT WITH THE OPEN MEXICO BORDER AND WITH ALLIES FROM 38 COUNTRIES ALLOWED TO COME INTO AMERICA FOR A MONTH AT A TIME.WE CAN SEE HOW ISIS WILL BE EASILY ABLE TO SLIP INTO AMERICA AND BOMB NEW TORK AND FLY THEIR FLAG OVER WASHINGTON.
Fears mount of ISIS infiltrating America-149-aug 26,14-the hill-By Keith Laing - 08/24/14 06:00 AM EDT
The rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is spurring calls for major changes to a visa program that allows for easy entry into the United States for people with Western passports.Some lawmakers say the program, which allows citizens from 38 countries to visit the U.S. for up to 90 days without a visa, has created a major security weakness for groups such as ISIS to exploit.House Armed Services Committee Vice Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) said Friday that as many as 3,000 members of ISIS have U.S. or European passports and could slip into America undetected.“The biggest fear is that there are 10,000 to 12,000 foreign fighters that have joined ISIS and various estimates but many of them have Western passports,” Thornberry said on CNN.“They're either American or they're Western European passports. So they can come here to the United States homeland without a visa. And they can bring ... what they've learned about bomb-making and about assassinations with them here at home.” But lawmakers have mostly talked about expanding the program, not scaling it back.The State Department currently allows participation in the visa waiver program to citizens from more than three dozen countries, the majority of which are in Europe. Tourism groups have pushed to expand the visa waiver program to Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Israel, Panama, Poland, Romania and Uruguay.That proposed expansion was included in a bipartisan bill that was introduced in Congress that known as the Jobs Originated Through Launching Travel (JOLT) Act (H.R. 1354).The sponsors of the legislation in the House, Reps. Joe Heck (R-Nev.) and Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), said in an op-ed that was published by The Hill earlier this year that that the measure would boost “the number of high-spending international travelers to the United States without compromising national security.“Each overseas visitor spends an average of nearly $4,500 per trip to the U.S., adding nearly $130 billion to the economy in 2012. One American job is created for every 33 international visitors—meaning over one million domestic jobs were supported by inbound travel in 2012,” the lawmakers wrote in February.“[The Visa Waiver Program] expansion itself has a proven, immediate and marked economic benefit; in the year after the program was expanded to South Korea, spending in the U.S. by visitors from that affluent country more than tripled, according to a forthcoming study from the U.S. Travel Association,” they continued.The U.S. Travel Association has said that expanding the visa waiver program to more countries would increase U.S. tourism by 600,000 visitors and add $7 billion and 40,000 jobs to the U.S. economy.Heck and Quigley said initiatives like the Visa Waiver Program and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency’s Global Entry Program make it easier for tourists to visit the United States.“This enables pre-approved, low-risk international travelers to avail themselves of expedited Customs and Border Patrol screenings, rather than spend in excess of four hours waiting for clearance in some cases,” the lawmakers wrote.But Thornberry said the presence of western passport holders in ISIS should prompt lawmakers to take a fresh look at the program.“We know they don't hesitate to kill people,” he said. “And it's not just individuals. They don't hesitate to kill hundreds or thousands of people. And so I have no doubt they are planning on how they can do that here at home in the United States and in Western Europe.“The numbers vary,” Thornberry continued. “I don't know the exact number, 2,000 to 3,000, say, have Western passports. It only takes a handful, as we saw on 9/11, to do enormous damage.” White House officials said Friday that they were not worried about any imminent attempts by ISIS to strike the United States.“To date, they have operated much like an insurgency in Syria and Iraq, and again, they are deeply rooted in the insurgency that we faced in Iraq for many years as the legacy organization of al Qaida in Iraq,” White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said.“For Americans in the homeland, I think what we'd say is we monitor very closely whether or not [ISIS] will seek to develop plots that are aimed at the West, aimed at beyond this geographic area where they have been operating,” Rhodes continued.Rhodes acknowledged the possibility of ISIS fighters using Western passports to avoid detection from security officials and said the president would seek to address that issue next month at the United Nations.“The president is going to convene at the head of state level a U.N. Security Council meeting in September to deal with the issue of foreign fighters who are heading to Syria, because we're concerned about the ability of foreign fighters to come from Western countries and seek to come back,” he said.“If they show the intent or they show plotting against the United States, we'll be prepared to deal with that as necessary,” he said.—This story was updated at 2:05 p.m. to correct an earlier version.
http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/215813-fears-mount-of-isis-infiltrating-america
Obama’s Pentagon Admits it Wants to Grow ‘Military to Military Relationship’ with Country that Supports Terrorists like the ones that Hit Pentagon-By Ben Barrack on August 27, 2014 in Featured, General
If there are two nations the U.S. continues to align with for seemingly very inexplicable reasons, they are Turkey and Qatar. Both of these nations support Hamas. Yet, when asked about concerns over Qatar’s support for terrorism in the context of the U.S. partnering with that nation, Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby deferred to what he called a “solid military to military relationship with Qatar” and that the Pentagon wants to “broaden” that relationship.Confusingly, Kirby also acknowledged that he’s seen the reports showing Qatar’s support for terrorism but came close to wishing them away or dismissing them because of the need for that “military to military relationship” to grow (h/t WFB):A tiny peninsula on the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia, Qatar is a hotbed for Muslim Brotherhood terrorism, terror funding, and terror propaganda (Al-Jazeera is headquartered there). Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi has been based in Qatar for years, even getting his own program on Al-Jazeera.So aside from Barack Obama’s pro-Muslim Brotherhood policies throughout the Middle East, why would the U.S. look to “broaden” a “military to military relationship” with Qatar despite it being such a source of terrorism? Consider the short clip of former CIA Director James Woolsey in 2006 below, published earlier by Shoebat.com. It was recently introduced into evidence in the trial of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. In it, Woolsey implies that the U.S. will back movements that “will make the Saudi Royal family nervous”. While the Saudis have funded Brotherhood groups all over the world for years, they do in fact get “nervous” whenever the Brotherhood fills power vacuums too close to home. This can be seen in reports that the Saudis funded the overthrow of Mohammed Mursi in Egypt and support for Gen. Abdel Fatah el-Sisi over the Muslim Brotherhood there.As you watch this clip from Woolsey, ask yourself how the Saudis feel about Qatar being one of the most recognized nation states that supports terrorism:When put in those terms, Kirby’s admission that the U.S. is growing its “military to military relationship” with Qatar would be as much about sending a message to Saudi Arabia as anything else.
But at what expense?
One of the consequences of all this covert political brinksmanship has been the slaughter of an untold number of Christians throughout the Middle East. These Christians almost unanimously support the leaders the U.S. has opposed. This reality should supersede any inclination Americans might have about supporting these too-cute-by-half policies.Those involved in said policies must instinctively know this. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is a prime example. Earlier this year, as Shoebat.com relayed, McCain exploded at a delegation of Syrian Christians in a closed door meeting. The Christian leaders wanted to explain what was happening to their brethren in Syria as a result of policies McCain was supporting.As Shoebat.com has reported, former Reagan National Security Adviser and 2008 John McCain Presidential Campaign adviser Robert McFarlane inked a $1.3 million deal with Qatar in 2009. Ostensibly, one of the main objectives of this deal was work with Sudan and help ease tensions between the U.S. and that country. The reason McFarlane could not sign a deal directly with Sudan had to do with that country being on the U.S. State Department list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.John McCain (L) and Robert McFarlane (R).According to the Washington Post, the negotiations involved “two of the Obama administration top policymakers on Sudan”. It is believed that one of the reasons Obama seeks eased relations with Sudan has to do with his brother Malik’s involvement with the leadership of that country, as Shoebat.com has reported on extensively.As the old expression goes, the enemy always has a say.In the geopolitical dueling between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, the one enemy with a say that has been successfully leveraging that relationship has been the Muslim Brotherhood. As the U.S. seeks to make the Saudis “nervous” by “broadening” the “military to military relationship” with countries like Qatar and Turkey, the Brotherhood’s influence in the U.S. has been growing exponentially.What’s more important, using the Muslim Brotherhood to go after the Saudis abroad or going after the Muslim Brotherhood at home in the U.S.? American political leaders are either consciously in league with the Brotherhood or have been played by the group. At this point, the beltway cesspool is a mixture of both.
More Consequences
Both the Saudis and Egypt – under the current leadership of el-Sisi – have been expressing tacit support for Israel wiping out Hamas. That would be the same Hamas that Qatar – an ally of the U.S. – supports.It was the Obama administration that attempted to broker a deal between Israel and Hamas that included Turkey and Qatar; this infuriated Israel.In short, American foreign policy right now is forcing Saudi Arabia and Egypt to support Israel more than the U.S. does.If this is not a canary in the coal mine for dysfunctional U.S. politicians, nothing is.
America Blew it after 9/11
The George W. Bush administration blew it after 9/11. Instead of going after the Saudis with a 90% approval rating, the administration chose to protect them. Ditto the 9/11 Commission. It is documented extensively how this was done in Appendix B of The Case FOR Islamophobia.Is it a good thing to be afflicted with Islamophobia? Get the latest book from Walid Shoebat, The Case FOR ISLAMOPHOBIA: Jihad by the Word; America’s Final Warning.As a consequence of not confronting the Saudis head-on, the U.S. simply decided to make the Saudis “nervous” if Woolsey’s claims were part of the DC zeitgeist.The U.S. now has a president whose policies indicate he’s more interested in seeing the Muslim Brotherhood succeed than he is in making anyone ‘nervous’.Those who subscribed to Woolsey’s plan and may have had the best interests of the U.S. at heart must admit they were wrong and collectively come clean to prevent things from getting worse.Period.
U.S. Officials and Experts at Odds on Threat Posed by ISIS-By MARK MAZZETTI and HELENE COOPERAUG. 22, 2014-NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON — Earlier this year, President Obama likened the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to a junior varsity basketball squad, a group that posed little of the threat once presented by Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda.But on Thursday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called ISIS an “imminent threat to every interest we have,” adding, “This is beyond anything that we’ve seen.”With the rapid advance of ISIS across northern Iraq, and the release this week of a video showing one of the group’s operatives beheading an American journalist, the language Obama administration officials are using to describe the danger the terrorist group poses to the United States has become steadily more pointed. But some American officials and terrorism experts said that the ominous words overstated the group’s ability to attack the United States and its interests abroad, and that ISIS could be undone by its own brutality and nihilism.“They have a lot of attributes that should scare us: money, people, weapons and a huge swath of territory,” said Andrew Liepman, a senior fellow at the RAND Corporation and former deputy head of the National Counterterrorism Center. “But when we’re surprised by a group, as we have been in this case, we tend to overreact.”These notes of caution from inside the government and from terrorism watchers come as the White House considers expanding military action against ISIS, including possibly striking across the border in Syria.American intelligence agencies are working on a thorough assessment of the group’s strength, and they believe that its ability to gain and hold territory could make it a long-term menace in the Middle East. Intelligence officials said there were indications that ISIS’ battlefield successes had attracted defectors from Qaeda affiliates in Yemen and Africa, who are eager to join a group with momentum.But experts say ISIS differs from traditional terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and its affiliates, primarily because it prefers enlarging what it calls its caliphate over discrete acts of terrorism. It has captured dams and oil fields, and has seized spoils of war like armored personnel carriers and tanks.Bin Laden’s goal was also to create an Islamic caliphate, but he often said that it was years away and could be achieved only under the proper conditions. ISIS, on the other hand, has renamed itself “Islamic State” and declared that the caliphate has arrived.“This is a full-blown insurgent group, and talking about it as a terrorist group is not particularly helpful,” said William McCants, a fellow at the Brookings Institution.Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said the Defense Department did not believe that ISIS had “the capability right now to conduct a major attack on the U.S. homeland.”“We do believe they have aspirations to strike Western targets,” Admiral Kirby said, adding that the “urgency of the threat” was driven by the belief that ISIS had enlisted thousands of foreign fighters and was holding its ground in Iraq and Syria.ISIS is now under pressure from American airstrikes in Iraq. And the group must defend its gains from advances by a host of adversaries, like Iraqi Kurdish troops, the forces of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, and other Syrian rebels.“Attacking the U.S. is not their first priority,” Mr. Liepman said.In addition, American officials said that the group’s brutal methods of governing the territory it has seized, while effective in the short term, could create internal factions that would weaken its grip on power.Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that the group’s ambition was to remake the Middle East by absorbing nations including Israel, Jordan, Kuwait and Syria into its caliphate. “If it were to achieve that vision, it would fundamentally alter the face of the Middle East and create a security environment that would certainly threaten us in many ways,” he said.But some experts are skeptical that ISIS could ever realize that goal.
A Rogue State Along Two Rivers
The victories gained by the militant group calling itself the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria were built on months of maneuvering along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.“ISIS can expand, but it can’t dominate alone,” said George Friedman, chairman of Stratfor, a geopolitical risk analysis company. Even in Iraq, the group “can’t defeat the Kurds,” Mr. Friedman said. “It certainly doesn’t have the power to defeat the Shiites in the south.”But for a population that is not accustomed to images of Americans at the mercy of foreign militaries, the video of the killing of the American journalist, James Foley, was bound to strike a chord and exacerbate a feeling of being under threat.Some experts said the fear of ISIS was driven partly by how little is known about the organization. While the United States has spent more than a decade studying Al Qaeda, officials know comparatively little about the structure and leadership of ISIS, beyond the information they have on the group’s self-appointed caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.But a large segment of the United States’ counter terrorism apparatus is now devoted to filling in the intelligence picture about ISIS. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Mr. Hagel said as much. “We must prepare for everything,” he said. “And the only way you do that is that you take a cold, steely, hard look at it and get ready.”It is generally agreed that it is far more difficult to carry out a terrorist attack inside the United States today than it was before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, because of the steps taken since to prevent would-be terrorists from entering the country.But that does not mean that ISIS cannot present a significant threat in the Middle East.“I’m worried about Turkey, I’m worried about Jordan, I’m worried about regional destabilization,” said Jarret Brachman, the author of “Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice” and an adviser to the United States government on ISIS and Al Qaeda.Mr. Brachman said that he did not believe the group had the ability, at the moment, to attack the United States, and that such an attack would bring about an American response so destructive that it would undermine the militants’ goal of territorial expansion.A version of this article appears in print on August 23, 2014, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: U.S. Isn’t Sure Just How Much to Fear ISIS.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/us/politics/us-isnt-sure-just-how-much-to-fear-isis.html?_r=0
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ISIS MURDERS INNOCENT PEOPLE IN COLD BLOOD-pic kevinwhiteman.comUPDATE AUGUST 26,14-03:35PM
WE NOW FIND OUT OBAMA HAS GAVE THE OK TO DO AIRIEL SURVEILENCE ON SYRIA.AND OK TO DO AIR STRIKES ON SYRIAS ISIS AS WELL.AND AN AMERICAN DOUGLAS MCCAIN EX CHRISTIAN TURNED AND WHO CONVERTED TO ISLAMIC JIHAD HAS BEEN KILLED IN SYRIA.HIS MOTHER DID NOT MIND HE CONVERTED TO ISLAM BECAUSE ITS SUCH A PEACEFUL RELIGION SHE THOUGHT.HE THEN WENT RADICAL.AND THIS AMERICAN NEVER TOLD HIS PARENTS HE WAS GOING TO FIGHT IN SYRIA.AND NOW HES BEEN KILLED IN SYRIA EITHER FOR FIGHTING FOR ISIS OR A RADICAL MURDERER OTHER ISLAMIC MUSLIM GROUP AGAINST ASSAD.KNOWN AS REBELS.THE WORLD FINALLY REALIZES THAT YOU GOTTA FRY ISIS IN SYRIA AND IRAQ IN ORDER TO GET RID OF THESE MURDER BARBARIAN LUNATICS.YOU GOTTA KILL EVERY LUNATIC RADICAL ON EARTH.NOT JUST IN THESE 2 COUNTRIES.I STILL SAY EVERY ISLAMIC MUSLIM MAN 16 YEARS OR OVER MUST BE KILLED ON ALL THE EARTH.TO ELIMINATE THIS RADICAL ISLAMIC SHARIA LAW-SEX FOR MURDER-72 VIRGIN CAMEL MOON GOD ALLAH.AND YELLER OF ALLAH-AK-BAR CULT.
AND NOW WE FIND OUT WITH THE OPEN MEXICO BORDER AND WITH ALLIES FROM 38 COUNTRIES ALLOWED TO COME INTO AMERICA FOR A MONTH AT A TIME.WE CAN SEE HOW ISIS WILL BE EASILY ABLE TO SLIP INTO AMERICA AND BOMB NEW TORK AND FLY THEIR FLAG OVER WASHINGTON.
Fears mount of ISIS infiltrating America-149-aug 26,14-the hill-By Keith Laing - 08/24/14 06:00 AM EDT
The rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is spurring calls for major changes to a visa program that allows for easy entry into the United States for people with Western passports.Some lawmakers say the program, which allows citizens from 38 countries to visit the U.S. for up to 90 days without a visa, has created a major security weakness for groups such as ISIS to exploit.House Armed Services Committee Vice Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) said Friday that as many as 3,000 members of ISIS have U.S. or European passports and could slip into America undetected.“The biggest fear is that there are 10,000 to 12,000 foreign fighters that have joined ISIS and various estimates but many of them have Western passports,” Thornberry said on CNN.“They're either American or they're Western European passports. So they can come here to the United States homeland without a visa. And they can bring ... what they've learned about bomb-making and about assassinations with them here at home.” But lawmakers have mostly talked about expanding the program, not scaling it back.The State Department currently allows participation in the visa waiver program to citizens from more than three dozen countries, the majority of which are in Europe. Tourism groups have pushed to expand the visa waiver program to Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Israel, Panama, Poland, Romania and Uruguay.That proposed expansion was included in a bipartisan bill that was introduced in Congress that known as the Jobs Originated Through Launching Travel (JOLT) Act (H.R. 1354).The sponsors of the legislation in the House, Reps. Joe Heck (R-Nev.) and Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), said in an op-ed that was published by The Hill earlier this year that that the measure would boost “the number of high-spending international travelers to the United States without compromising national security.“Each overseas visitor spends an average of nearly $4,500 per trip to the U.S., adding nearly $130 billion to the economy in 2012. One American job is created for every 33 international visitors—meaning over one million domestic jobs were supported by inbound travel in 2012,” the lawmakers wrote in February.“[The Visa Waiver Program] expansion itself has a proven, immediate and marked economic benefit; in the year after the program was expanded to South Korea, spending in the U.S. by visitors from that affluent country more than tripled, according to a forthcoming study from the U.S. Travel Association,” they continued.The U.S. Travel Association has said that expanding the visa waiver program to more countries would increase U.S. tourism by 600,000 visitors and add $7 billion and 40,000 jobs to the U.S. economy.Heck and Quigley said initiatives like the Visa Waiver Program and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency’s Global Entry Program make it easier for tourists to visit the United States.“This enables pre-approved, low-risk international travelers to avail themselves of expedited Customs and Border Patrol screenings, rather than spend in excess of four hours waiting for clearance in some cases,” the lawmakers wrote.But Thornberry said the presence of western passport holders in ISIS should prompt lawmakers to take a fresh look at the program.“We know they don't hesitate to kill people,” he said. “And it's not just individuals. They don't hesitate to kill hundreds or thousands of people. And so I have no doubt they are planning on how they can do that here at home in the United States and in Western Europe.“The numbers vary,” Thornberry continued. “I don't know the exact number, 2,000 to 3,000, say, have Western passports. It only takes a handful, as we saw on 9/11, to do enormous damage.” White House officials said Friday that they were not worried about any imminent attempts by ISIS to strike the United States.“To date, they have operated much like an insurgency in Syria and Iraq, and again, they are deeply rooted in the insurgency that we faced in Iraq for many years as the legacy organization of al Qaida in Iraq,” White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said.“For Americans in the homeland, I think what we'd say is we monitor very closely whether or not [ISIS] will seek to develop plots that are aimed at the West, aimed at beyond this geographic area where they have been operating,” Rhodes continued.Rhodes acknowledged the possibility of ISIS fighters using Western passports to avoid detection from security officials and said the president would seek to address that issue next month at the United Nations.“The president is going to convene at the head of state level a U.N. Security Council meeting in September to deal with the issue of foreign fighters who are heading to Syria, because we're concerned about the ability of foreign fighters to come from Western countries and seek to come back,” he said.“If they show the intent or they show plotting against the United States, we'll be prepared to deal with that as necessary,” he said.—This story was updated at 2:05 p.m. to correct an earlier version.
http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/215813-fears-mount-of-isis-infiltrating-america
Obama’s Pentagon Admits it Wants to Grow ‘Military to Military Relationship’ with Country that Supports Terrorists like the ones that Hit Pentagon-By Ben Barrack on August 27, 2014 in Featured, General
If there are two nations the U.S. continues to align with for seemingly very inexplicable reasons, they are Turkey and Qatar. Both of these nations support Hamas. Yet, when asked about concerns over Qatar’s support for terrorism in the context of the U.S. partnering with that nation, Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby deferred to what he called a “solid military to military relationship with Qatar” and that the Pentagon wants to “broaden” that relationship.Confusingly, Kirby also acknowledged that he’s seen the reports showing Qatar’s support for terrorism but came close to wishing them away or dismissing them because of the need for that “military to military relationship” to grow (h/t WFB):A tiny peninsula on the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia, Qatar is a hotbed for Muslim Brotherhood terrorism, terror funding, and terror propaganda (Al-Jazeera is headquartered there). Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi has been based in Qatar for years, even getting his own program on Al-Jazeera.So aside from Barack Obama’s pro-Muslim Brotherhood policies throughout the Middle East, why would the U.S. look to “broaden” a “military to military relationship” with Qatar despite it being such a source of terrorism? Consider the short clip of former CIA Director James Woolsey in 2006 below, published earlier by Shoebat.com. It was recently introduced into evidence in the trial of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. In it, Woolsey implies that the U.S. will back movements that “will make the Saudi Royal family nervous”. While the Saudis have funded Brotherhood groups all over the world for years, they do in fact get “nervous” whenever the Brotherhood fills power vacuums too close to home. This can be seen in reports that the Saudis funded the overthrow of Mohammed Mursi in Egypt and support for Gen. Abdel Fatah el-Sisi over the Muslim Brotherhood there.As you watch this clip from Woolsey, ask yourself how the Saudis feel about Qatar being one of the most recognized nation states that supports terrorism:When put in those terms, Kirby’s admission that the U.S. is growing its “military to military relationship” with Qatar would be as much about sending a message to Saudi Arabia as anything else.
But at what expense?
One of the consequences of all this covert political brinksmanship has been the slaughter of an untold number of Christians throughout the Middle East. These Christians almost unanimously support the leaders the U.S. has opposed. This reality should supersede any inclination Americans might have about supporting these too-cute-by-half policies.Those involved in said policies must instinctively know this. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is a prime example. Earlier this year, as Shoebat.com relayed, McCain exploded at a delegation of Syrian Christians in a closed door meeting. The Christian leaders wanted to explain what was happening to their brethren in Syria as a result of policies McCain was supporting.As Shoebat.com has reported, former Reagan National Security Adviser and 2008 John McCain Presidential Campaign adviser Robert McFarlane inked a $1.3 million deal with Qatar in 2009. Ostensibly, one of the main objectives of this deal was work with Sudan and help ease tensions between the U.S. and that country. The reason McFarlane could not sign a deal directly with Sudan had to do with that country being on the U.S. State Department list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.John McCain (L) and Robert McFarlane (R).According to the Washington Post, the negotiations involved “two of the Obama administration top policymakers on Sudan”. It is believed that one of the reasons Obama seeks eased relations with Sudan has to do with his brother Malik’s involvement with the leadership of that country, as Shoebat.com has reported on extensively.As the old expression goes, the enemy always has a say.In the geopolitical dueling between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, the one enemy with a say that has been successfully leveraging that relationship has been the Muslim Brotherhood. As the U.S. seeks to make the Saudis “nervous” by “broadening” the “military to military relationship” with countries like Qatar and Turkey, the Brotherhood’s influence in the U.S. has been growing exponentially.What’s more important, using the Muslim Brotherhood to go after the Saudis abroad or going after the Muslim Brotherhood at home in the U.S.? American political leaders are either consciously in league with the Brotherhood or have been played by the group. At this point, the beltway cesspool is a mixture of both.
More Consequences
Both the Saudis and Egypt – under the current leadership of el-Sisi – have been expressing tacit support for Israel wiping out Hamas. That would be the same Hamas that Qatar – an ally of the U.S. – supports.It was the Obama administration that attempted to broker a deal between Israel and Hamas that included Turkey and Qatar; this infuriated Israel.In short, American foreign policy right now is forcing Saudi Arabia and Egypt to support Israel more than the U.S. does.If this is not a canary in the coal mine for dysfunctional U.S. politicians, nothing is.
America Blew it after 9/11
The George W. Bush administration blew it after 9/11. Instead of going after the Saudis with a 90% approval rating, the administration chose to protect them. Ditto the 9/11 Commission. It is documented extensively how this was done in Appendix B of The Case FOR Islamophobia.Is it a good thing to be afflicted with Islamophobia? Get the latest book from Walid Shoebat, The Case FOR ISLAMOPHOBIA: Jihad by the Word; America’s Final Warning.As a consequence of not confronting the Saudis head-on, the U.S. simply decided to make the Saudis “nervous” if Woolsey’s claims were part of the DC zeitgeist.The U.S. now has a president whose policies indicate he’s more interested in seeing the Muslim Brotherhood succeed than he is in making anyone ‘nervous’.Those who subscribed to Woolsey’s plan and may have had the best interests of the U.S. at heart must admit they were wrong and collectively come clean to prevent things from getting worse.Period.
U.S. Officials and Experts at Odds on Threat Posed by ISIS-By MARK MAZZETTI and HELENE COOPERAUG. 22, 2014-NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON — Earlier this year, President Obama likened the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to a junior varsity basketball squad, a group that posed little of the threat once presented by Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda.But on Thursday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called ISIS an “imminent threat to every interest we have,” adding, “This is beyond anything that we’ve seen.”With the rapid advance of ISIS across northern Iraq, and the release this week of a video showing one of the group’s operatives beheading an American journalist, the language Obama administration officials are using to describe the danger the terrorist group poses to the United States has become steadily more pointed. But some American officials and terrorism experts said that the ominous words overstated the group’s ability to attack the United States and its interests abroad, and that ISIS could be undone by its own brutality and nihilism.“They have a lot of attributes that should scare us: money, people, weapons and a huge swath of territory,” said Andrew Liepman, a senior fellow at the RAND Corporation and former deputy head of the National Counterterrorism Center. “But when we’re surprised by a group, as we have been in this case, we tend to overreact.”These notes of caution from inside the government and from terrorism watchers come as the White House considers expanding military action against ISIS, including possibly striking across the border in Syria.American intelligence agencies are working on a thorough assessment of the group’s strength, and they believe that its ability to gain and hold territory could make it a long-term menace in the Middle East. Intelligence officials said there were indications that ISIS’ battlefield successes had attracted defectors from Qaeda affiliates in Yemen and Africa, who are eager to join a group with momentum.But experts say ISIS differs from traditional terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and its affiliates, primarily because it prefers enlarging what it calls its caliphate over discrete acts of terrorism. It has captured dams and oil fields, and has seized spoils of war like armored personnel carriers and tanks.Bin Laden’s goal was also to create an Islamic caliphate, but he often said that it was years away and could be achieved only under the proper conditions. ISIS, on the other hand, has renamed itself “Islamic State” and declared that the caliphate has arrived.“This is a full-blown insurgent group, and talking about it as a terrorist group is not particularly helpful,” said William McCants, a fellow at the Brookings Institution.Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said the Defense Department did not believe that ISIS had “the capability right now to conduct a major attack on the U.S. homeland.”“We do believe they have aspirations to strike Western targets,” Admiral Kirby said, adding that the “urgency of the threat” was driven by the belief that ISIS had enlisted thousands of foreign fighters and was holding its ground in Iraq and Syria.ISIS is now under pressure from American airstrikes in Iraq. And the group must defend its gains from advances by a host of adversaries, like Iraqi Kurdish troops, the forces of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, and other Syrian rebels.“Attacking the U.S. is not their first priority,” Mr. Liepman said.In addition, American officials said that the group’s brutal methods of governing the territory it has seized, while effective in the short term, could create internal factions that would weaken its grip on power.Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that the group’s ambition was to remake the Middle East by absorbing nations including Israel, Jordan, Kuwait and Syria into its caliphate. “If it were to achieve that vision, it would fundamentally alter the face of the Middle East and create a security environment that would certainly threaten us in many ways,” he said.But some experts are skeptical that ISIS could ever realize that goal.
A Rogue State Along Two Rivers
The victories gained by the militant group calling itself the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria were built on months of maneuvering along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.“ISIS can expand, but it can’t dominate alone,” said George Friedman, chairman of Stratfor, a geopolitical risk analysis company. Even in Iraq, the group “can’t defeat the Kurds,” Mr. Friedman said. “It certainly doesn’t have the power to defeat the Shiites in the south.”But for a population that is not accustomed to images of Americans at the mercy of foreign militaries, the video of the killing of the American journalist, James Foley, was bound to strike a chord and exacerbate a feeling of being under threat.Some experts said the fear of ISIS was driven partly by how little is known about the organization. While the United States has spent more than a decade studying Al Qaeda, officials know comparatively little about the structure and leadership of ISIS, beyond the information they have on the group’s self-appointed caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.But a large segment of the United States’ counter terrorism apparatus is now devoted to filling in the intelligence picture about ISIS. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Mr. Hagel said as much. “We must prepare for everything,” he said. “And the only way you do that is that you take a cold, steely, hard look at it and get ready.”It is generally agreed that it is far more difficult to carry out a terrorist attack inside the United States today than it was before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, because of the steps taken since to prevent would-be terrorists from entering the country.But that does not mean that ISIS cannot present a significant threat in the Middle East.“I’m worried about Turkey, I’m worried about Jordan, I’m worried about regional destabilization,” said Jarret Brachman, the author of “Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice” and an adviser to the United States government on ISIS and Al Qaeda.Mr. Brachman said that he did not believe the group had the ability, at the moment, to attack the United States, and that such an attack would bring about an American response so destructive that it would undermine the militants’ goal of territorial expansion.A version of this article appears in print on August 23, 2014, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: U.S. Isn’t Sure Just How Much to Fear ISIS.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/us/politics/us-isnt-sure-just-how-much-to-fear-isis.html?_r=0
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