Thread: Dangerous days: The enemy dwells among us

On August 8, 2013 NTEB News warned you of the plan by the Obama Administration to sneak into the country scores of highly-trained Muslim terrorists disguised as refugees from war-torn Iraq and Syria. Today, ABC News confirms that this has happened exactly as we warned you it would.

ABC News: Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside bombs recovered from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The discovery in 2009 of two al Qaeda-Iraq terrorists living as refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky — who later admitted in court that they’d attacked U.S. soldiers in Iraq — prompted the bureau to assign hundreds of specialists to an around-the-clock effort aimed at checking its archive of 100,000 improvised explosive devices collected in the war zones, known as IEDs, for other suspected terrorists’ fingerprints.

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Exclusive: US May Have Let 'Dozens' of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees
Nov. 20, 2013 - By JAMES GORDON MEEK, CINDY GALLI and BRIAN ROSS via Good Morning America

QUANTICO, Virginia - Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside bombs recovered from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The discovery in 2009 of two al Qaeda-Iraq terrorists living as refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky -- who later admitted in court that they'd attacked U.S. soldiers in Iraq -- prompted the bureau to assign hundreds of specialists to an around-the-clock effort aimed at checking its archive of 100,000 improvised explosive devices collected in the war zones, known as IEDs, for other suspected terrorists' fingerprints.

"We are currently supporting dozens of current counter-terrorism investigations like that," FBI Agent Gregory Carl, director of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC), said in an ABC News interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC News' "World News with Diane Sawyer" and "Nightline".

"I wouldn't be surprised if there were many more than that," said House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul. "And these are trained terrorists in the art of bombmaking that are inside the United States; and quite frankly, from a homeland security perspective, that really concerns me."

As a result of the Kentucky case, the State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011, federal officials told ABC News – even for many who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets. One Iraqi who had aided American troops was assassinated before his refugee application could be processed, because of the immigration delays, two U.S. officials said. In 2011, fewer than 10,000 Iraqis were resettled as refugees in the U.S., half the number from the year before, State Department statistics show.

Suspect in Kentucky Discovered to Have Insurgent Past

An intelligence tip initially led the FBI to Waad Ramadan Alwan, 32, in 2009. The Iraqi had claimed to be a refugee who faced persecution back home -- a story that shattered when the FBI found his fingerprints on a cordless phone base that U.S. soldiers dug up in a gravel pile south of Bayji, Iraq on Sept. 1, 2005. The phone base had been wired to unexploded bombs buried in a nearby road.

An ABC News investigation of the flawed U.S. refugee screening system, which was overhauled two years ago, showed that Alwan was mistakenly allowed into the U.S. and resettled in the leafy southern town of Bowling Green, Kentucky, a city of 60,000 which is home to Western Kentucky University and near the Army's Fort Knox and Fort Campbell. Alwan and another Iraqi refugee, Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, 26, were resettled in Bowling Green even though both had been detained during the war by Iraqi authorities, according to federal prosecutors.

Most of the more than 70,000 Iraqi war refugees in the U.S. are law-abiding immigrants eager to start a new life in America, state and federal officials say.

But the FBI discovered that Alwan had been arrested in Kirkuk, Iraq, in 2006 and confessed on video made of his interrogation then that he was an insurgent, according to the U.S. military and FBI, which obtained the tape a year into their Kentucky probe. In 2007, Alwan went through a border crossing to Syria and his fingerprints were entered into a biometric database maintained by U.S. military intelligence in Iraq, a Directorate of National Intelligence official said. Another U.S. official insisted that fingerprints of Iraqis were routinely collected and that Alwan's fingerprint file was not associated with the insurgency.

"How do they get into our community?"

In 2009 Alwan applied as a refugee and was allowed to move to Bowling Green, where he quit a job he briefly held and moved into public housing on Gordon Ave., across the street from a school bus stop, and collected public assistance payouts, federal officials told ABC News. "How do you have somebody that we now know was a known actor in terrorism overseas, how does that person get into the United States? How do they get into our community?" wondered Bowling Green Police Chief Doug Hawkins, whose department assisted the FBI.

Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Peter Boogaard said in a statement that the U.S. government "continually improves and expands its procedures for vetting immigrants, refugees and visa applicants, and today [the] vetting process considers a far broader range of information than it did in past years."

"Our procedures continue to check applicants' names and fingerprints against records of individuals known to be security threats, including the terrorist watchlist, or of law enforcement concern... These checks are vital to advancing the U.S. government's twin goal of protecting the world's most vulnerable persons while ensuring U.S. national security and public safety," the statement said.

Last year, a Department of Homeland Security senior intelligence official testified in a House hearing that Alwan and Hammadi's names and fingerprints were checked by the FBI, DHS and the Defense Department during the vetting process in 2009 and "came in clean."

After the FBI received the intelligence tip later that year, a sting operation in Kentucky was mounted to bait Alwan with a scheme hatched by an undercover operative recruited by the FBI, who offered Alwan the opportunity to ship heavy arms to al Qaeda in Iraq. The FBI wanted to know if Alwan was part of a local terror cell -- a fear that grew when he tapped a relative also living in Bowling Green, Hammadi, to help out.

The FBI secretly taped Alwan bragging to the informant that he'd built a dozen or more bombs in Iraq and used a sniper rifle to kill American soldiers in the Bayji area north of Baghdad. "He said that he had them 'for lunch and dinner,'" recalled FBI Louisville Supervisory Special Agent Tim Beam, "meaning that he had killed them."

Alwan even sketched out IED designs, which the FBI provided to ABC News, that U.S. bomb experts had quickly determined clearly demonstrated his expertise.

'Needle in a Haystack' Fingerprint Match Found on Iraq Bomb Parts, White House Briefed

The case drew attention at the highest levels of government, FBI officials told ABC News, when TEDAC forensic investigators tasked with finding IEDs from Bayji dating back to 2005 pulled 170 case boxes and, incredibly, found several of Alwan's fingerprints on a Senao-brand remote cordless base station. A U.S. military Significant Action report on Sept. 1, 2005 said the remote-controlled trigger had been attached to "three homemade-explosive artillery rounds concealed by gravel with protruding wires."

"There were two fingerprints, developed on the top of the base station," Katie Suchma, an FBI supervisory physical scientist at TEDAC who helped locate the evidence, told ABC News at the center's IED examination lab. "The whole team was ecstatic because it was like finding a needle in a haystack."

"This was the type of bomb he's talking about when he drew those pictures," added FBI electronics expert Stephen Mallow.

Word was sent back to the FBI in Louisville.

"It was a surreal moment, it was a real game changer, so to speak, for the case," FBI agent Beam told ABC News. "Now you have solidified proof that he was involved in actual attacks against U.S. soldiers."

Worse, prosecutors later revealed at Hammadi's sentencing hearing that he and Alwan had been caught on an FBI surveillance tape talking about using a bomb to assassinate an Army captain they'd known in Bayji, who was now back home – and to possibly attack other homeland targets.

"Many things should take place and it should be huge," Hammadi told Alwan in an FBI-recorded conversation, which a prosecutor read at Hammadi's sentencing last year.

Then-FBI Director Robert Mueller briefed President Obama in early 2011 as agents and Louisville federal prosecutors weighed whether to arrest Alwan and Hammadi or continue arranging phony arms shipments to Iraq that the pair could assist with, consisting of machine guns, explosives and even Stinger missiles the FBI had secretly rendered inoperable and which never left the U.S.

But agents soon determined there were no other co-conspirators. An FBI SWAT team collared the terrorists in a truck south of Bowling Green in late May 2011, only weeks after al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan and Obama had visited nearby Fort Campbell to thank the SEALs and Army Nightstalker pilots for their successful mission. The Kentucky al Qaeda case drew little attention as the nation celebrated Bin Laden's death.

Suspects Linked to Attack That Killed 4 US Soldiers

Pennsylvania National Guard soldiers who had served in Bayji in 2005 saw news reports about the two arrests, and Army Staff Sgt. Joshua Hedetniemi called the FBI to alert them to an Aug. 9, 2005, IED attack that killed four of their troopers in a humvee patrolling south of the town. The U.S. attorney's office in Louisville eventually placed the surviving soldiers in its victim notification system for the case, even though it couldn't be conclusively proven that Alwan and Hammadi had killed the Guardsmen.

The four Pennsylvania soldiers killed that day were Pfc. Nathaniel DeTample, 19, Spec. Gennaro Pellegrini, 31, Spec. Francis J. Straub Jr., 24, and Spec. John Kulick, 35.

"It was a somber moment for the platoon, we had a great deal of love and respect for those guys and it hit us pretty hard," Hedetniemi said in an interview in the Guard's armory near Philadelphia. "I think that these two individuals are innately evil to be able to act as a terrorist and attack and kill American soldiers, then have the balls to come over to the United States and try to do the same exact thing here in our homeland."

Confronted with all the evidence against them, Alwan and Hammadi agreed to plead guilty to supporting terrorism and admitted their al Qaeda-Iraq past. Alwan cooperated and received 40 years, while Hammadi received a life term which he is appealing. A hearing for Hammadi's appeal took place Tuesday in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio.

"We need to take this as a case study and draw the right lessons from it, and not just high-five over this," said retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero, who headed the military's Joint IED Defeat Organization until last May. "How did a person who we detained in Iraq -- linked to an IED attack, we had his fingerprints in our government system -- how did he walk into America in 2009?"

Barbero is credited with leveraging the Kentucky case to help the FBI get funding to create a new state of the art fingerprint lab focused solely on its IED repository in a huge warehouse outside Washington. The new FBI lab assists counterterrorism investigations of suspected bombmakers and IED emplacers and looks for latent prints on 100,000 IED remnants collected over the past decade by the military and stored in the vast TEDAC warehouse.

The only man in the Humvee to survive the 2005 IED bombing in Bayji, Daniel South, who is now an Army Black Hawk helicopter pilot in Texas, said he was stunned to learn al Qaeda-Iraq insurgents were living in Kentucky -- but he's glad they were finally brought to justice for attacking U.S. troops in Iraq.

"I kind of wish that we had smoked [Alwan] when it happened, but we didn't have that opportunity so I guess this is second best," South told ABC News.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qae...inglePage=true

Why wouldn't the government run background checks on immigrants and refugees seeking asylum?

When Mohanad Shareef Hammadi and Waad Ramadan Alwan came to the country as refugees from war-torn Iraq, the Federal Government didn't even bother to perform a background check to verify their story. If they had, they would have learned that Hammadi and Alwan were members of Al-Qaeda and had been linked to numerous bombings in Iraq.

What Does OPEN IMMIGRATION Look Like?
Posted on November 23 2013

“Our background check system does not work and violent terrorists are slipping through the cracks, endangering our communities. Calls for stepping up the background check system have been lopsided as the establishment remains reluctant to budge even an inch.”

You might think this is referring to gun control? I am not talking about guns or firearms. We both know that there is no such thing as a so-called "Gun Show Loophole."

What I am talking about, however, is the dreaded "Refugee/Immigration Loophole."

You see, when people decide to immigrate to the United States, they must first pass a background check before they are allowed to enter the country. Since many third-world countries have sub-par criminal justice systems, in many cases these background checks are limited to simple name searches through any number of criminal directories.

Unfortunately, there are significant flaws in this system. In particular, immigration agents just don't perform the background checks at all. I know this sounds ridiculous.

Why wouldn't the government run background checks on immigrants and refugees seeking asylum?

When Mohanad Shareef Hammadi and Waad Ramadan Alwan came to the country as refugees from war-torn Iraq, the Federal Government didn't even bother to perform a background check to verify their story. If they had, they would have learned that Hammadi and Alwan were members of Al-Qaeda and had been linked to numerous bombings in Iraq.

As a result, Hammadi and Alwan settled in Bowling Green, Kentucky and spent the next few years secretly smuggling weapons to Al-Qaeda fighters in Iraq and plotting to kill American soldiers and civilians in the United States. The two were eventually only caught by an undercover FBI operation that lured them into purchasing (deactivated) heavy weapons.

We came that close to suffering another Fort Hood, or even a 9/11-type attack!

We welcomed these terrorists into America with open arms, all in the name of open immigration.

The recent ABC News report estimated that dozens of terrorists may have legally immigrated to the United States in the last few years, all because we didn't even bother to perform the background checks.

Forget about background checks for gun purchases. How about we stop allowing terrorists to enter the United States legally?

Every single 9/11 hijacker entered this country legally and obtained the proper visas. The recent examples of Hammadi and Alwan prove that the United States has not learned its lesson regarding how easy it is for terrorists to enter the country.

Yes, we need to pay attention to everyone who immigrates to this country legally. But with our porous borders, the greatest threat is posed by illegal immigration!



We have an illegal immigration problem. The politically correct liberal pundits will scoff at this and refer to the group as "undocumented immigrants." Apparently calling a spade, a spade and pointing out their criminal history offends the delicate sensibilities of these individuals.

Obviously it is a huge problem that the first thing that illegal aliens did in this country was break the law. But the greatest threat is not their criminal history, but, as the Democrats say, the fact that they are completely undocumented.

We have absolutely no idea who is in this country, either legally or illegally. If that doesn't terrify you, nothing will!

So let's get this straight. Not only does this administration refuse to run background checks on immigrants and refugees, but Obama is actively trying to make life easier for undocumented aliens already in the country illegally.

But wait… it gets worse.

That is where ERIC HOLDER’s Justice Department's "Supervised Release" program comes in. Instead of actually bringing these illegal immigration cases to trial, the Obama administration has decided to save a little money and just release these criminals back into society.

These Unsupervised Release programs have had deadly consequences.

So let’s consider the strategy from Obama:

The administration doesn't even bother to verify who is immigrating to this country legally.

The Obama administration issues undocumented residents amnesty anyway.

And on top of that, when illegal alien criminals are caught, they are released back into American society, giving them ample opportunities to kill innocent Americans.

Enough is enough. We have a right to want to know who is in this country, either legally or illegally. How many more terrorists do you think the Obama administration allowed to gain refugee status in America?

How many of our enemies do you think have figured out how porous our borders are and just walked right in?

The threat is real. Terrorists are taking advantage of our immigration laws to gain a foothold in the United States. We must get Congress to wake up and recognize the threat that these undocumented immigrants pose!

Two U.S. men arrested in plot to attack Illinois military base
Reuters 5 hrs ago

WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) - A U.S. Army National Guard soldier and his cousin have been arrested on charges of conspiring to support Islamic State, the Department of Justice said on Thursday.

The two Chicago area men, both U.S. citizens, spoke of using army uniforms, along with military knowledge and access, to attack an Illinois military installation, the department said in a statement.

Army National Guard Specialist Hasan Edmonds, 22, was arrested at Chicago Midway International Airport while attempting to fly to Cairo, Egypt, the Justice Department said. Jonas Edmonds, 29, was arrested at his Aurora, Illinois, home.

Both defendants met with an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation employee and presented a plan to carry out an armed attack against a northern Illinois military facility where Hasan Edmonds had been training, according to the complaint.

"Disturbingly, one of the defendants currently wears the same uniform of those they allegedly planned to attack," said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin, in a statement.

If convicted, they face a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/two...d=ansnewsreu11


US National Guardsman and His Cousin Arrested for Trying to Join ISIS
By MIKE LEVINE, PIERRE THOMAS, JACK DATE and JACK CLOHERTY 5 hours ago

The FBI has arrested two men -- one of them a current member of the Illinois National Guard -- for allegedly trying to join ISIS, the brutal terrorist group wreaking havoc in Syria and Iraq, authorities said. Army National Guard Specialist Hasan Edmonds, 22, was arrested at Chicago Midway International Airport as he was trying to fly to Egypt, according to authorities. His cousin, Jonas Edmonds, 29, was arrested at his home.

Both men are from Aurora, Illinois, and will be appearing in federal court later today.

Hasan Edmonds first came onto the FBI’s radar in late 2014 as he hatched a plan to join ISIS overseas while Jonas Edmonds launched an attack inside the United States, according to the Justice Department. http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us...department.htm

This comes a week after a former U.S. Air Force veteran was indicted by federal authorities for allegedly trying to join ISIS.

Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, 47, who is from New Jersey but had been living overseas for years, was secretly arrested two months ago after being deported back to the United States.

On his laptop, FBI agents allegedly discovered more than 180 jihadist propaganda videos and noticed he had been conducting online searches for such phrases as "borders controlled by Islamic state," "kobani border crossing," and "who controls kobani."

Last month, three New York City men were arrested on charges they allegedly conspired to join ISIS but also expressed willingness to carry out attacks on the terror group's behalf in the United States. The men had planned to travel to the Middle East and had also pledged to launch attacks in this country, including one on President Obama or planting a bomb in Coney Island, Brooklyn, federal officials said.

Over the past 18 months, about 30 people have been charged with joining terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq or trying to do so.

http://news.yahoo.com/us-national-gu...opstories.html

ALERT: Saudi Nationals Attempt Entry To U.S. Military Base

SAN DIEGO (CBS 8)



On Monday, three Saudi nationals were turned over to Homeland Security at North Island Naval Air Station.

According to a spokesman for the Navy, it happened Monday afternoon after the three men approached the Stockdale gate in a car and were detained when they were not able to produce proper identification.

The encounter was not characterized as hostile.

Then names of the three men have not been released and it is unknown if they are still in custody.

The current threat level at military installations across the country stands at Bravo in response to the threat of ISIS inspired attacks.

http://www.cbs8.com/story/29038047/t...al-air-station

ISIS tries out unintentionally hilarious recruiting tool

Written by Ashley Edwardson on May 20, 2015


Jihadist-baby




Are you sick and tired of the same old dull vacation spots? Are you longing for something different? An exotic spot off the beaten path that will make your friends green with envy?

Well, British jihadist Abu Rumaysah al Britani has just the vacation package for you in his new ISIS recruiting tool, “A Brief Guide to the Islamic State [2015]” which was released on Monday online.






As the UK Independent reports, “the 46-page document presents a utopian view of life in the terror group’s Iraqi and Syrian strongholds under the headings: “food in the caliphate,” “weather,” “transport,” “technology,” “people” and “education.”

Getting to the Islamic state will be no problem. You can travel by train, ship, camel, or planes “but everything is on the table: zeppelins, hovercrafts, trams [and] microlites.” (However, don’t bother buying a round trip ticket).


Interested in hearing more? Well how about the fabulous food you’ll be enjoying.

“The e-book includes a menu of “popular dishes and snacks” that promise to dispel concerns about what would be available to eat for those who join militants. Dishes include “scrumptious” sheesh kebabs, falafel sandwiches (“a great vegetarian option”) and chocolate; “Snickers, Kit Kat, Bounty, Twix, Kinder Surprise, Cadburys – yes, yes we have it all.”

Yes, yes, YES!

In the “People” section, The guide goes on to describe a diverse population living under its territories by comparing it to “cosmopolitan” cities such as London. “If you thought London or New York was cosmopolitan then wait until you step foot in the Islamic State, because it screams diversity.”

Yes, and that’s not ALL that’s screaming in the Caliphate.



Oh the subject of screaming, the guide is notably devoid of any mention of women. However, never mind that — you won’t be thinking about women when the weather is so great!



However, the guide gets to the real “meat and potatoes” of the matter in its final paragraph, when it describes how the Caliphate deals with the locals.



I didn’t realize those ISIS chaps had such a wicked sense of humor.

http://allenbwest.com/2015/05/isis-t...cruiting-tool/

Female ISIS Recruiter is a Journalism Student Living in Seattle
John S. Roberts
May 3, 2015 

This is highly disturbing. A high-ranking female with ISIS is a journalism student who lives in Seattle.

No, not Seattle, Iraq. Not Seattle, Syria, either. Seattle, Washington!

From MSN via Weasel Zippers:

On April 28, a high-ranking female ISIS officer with more than 8,000 followers on Twitter and primarily tasked with recruiting women to join the terror group was identified by Channel 4 News as a journalism student in her early 20s living in Seattle.

The now suspended Twitter handle “@_UmmWaqqas” reportedly belongs to Rawdah Abdisalaam, although it was not confirmed that she is the sole account user, Channel 4 News reports.

By living in a country she is supposed to despise, does this woman understand the blatant hypocrisy and overwhelming irony of her situation? It’s comical, sad, aggravating, and pathetic all in one.

Why is ISIS recruiting women in the first place? They don’t exactly treat them like first-class citizens.

You hear many stories where Americans head to Syria and Islamic nations in order to join this terrorist group, though I suppose with how radical many people have become these days, it makes sense to plant a recruiter within “The Great Satan.”

“What it really demonstrates is the tremendous power of social media,” Jonathan Adelman, a professor at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies, told the Denver Post after ISIS lured three teenage girls from Colorado.

Another possible factor that may encourage young women to join ISIS is the limelight that comes with leaving the Western world to pursue a radical life.
And an example of what a model citizen Abdilsalaam is…

In March, the news organization was able to contact her via Twitter for a conversation in which she reportedly said, “[the media doesn’t care about Syria because] they get paid by the Jewish Israelis to keep their mouth shut about certain topics.”

When asked if she was from Seattle, she replied ” bye” five minutes later, Channel 4 News reports.

http://www.youngcons.com/female-isis...llege-student/

Elite US-trained special forces chief joins ISIS
Written by Allen West on May 29, 2015


In keeping with the American traditions of allowing disciples of the “religion of peace” to coexist with us and enjoy our educational systems and training, such as Sayyid Qutb and Khalid Sheik Muhammad, I sadly bring you the latest.

As reported by the Jerusalem Post, “The US-trained commander of Tajikistan elite police force has defected to Islamic State, he said in a YouTube video, and his former unit will issue a statement condemning him, media said on Thursday.”

“Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov commanded the Central Asian nation’s special-purpose police known as OMON, used against criminals and militants. He disappeared in late April, prompting a search by Tajik police. He reappeared Wednesday, vowing to bring jihad to Russia and the Unites States as he brandished a cartridge belt and sniper rifle, in a professionally made, 10-minute video clip posted in social networks.”

“Listen, you dogs, the president and ministers, if only you knew how many boys, our brothers are here, waiting and yearning to return to Tajikistan to re-establish sharia law there,” he said, addressing Tajik President Imomali Rakhmon. “We are coming to you, God willing, we are coming to you with slaughter,” said Khalimov, a 40-year-old native of the Tajik capital Dushanbe. He spoke in Russian, sitting in front of a palm tree, and sported a new beard. It was not clear which country he was in. Khalimov said he had been trained by elite Russian “spetsnaz” forces in Moscow and U.S. special forces in America. “Listen, you American pigs, I’ve been three times to America, and I saw how you train fighters to kill Muslims,” he said, patting his rifle. “God willing, I will come with this weapon to your cities, your homes, and we will kill you.”

Do I take this fella seriously? Uh, shall I remind y’all of the Tsarnaev brothers? Yes, I do take him seriously, not about him personally embarking on a crusade landing him on our shores to enact Islamic jihad — but he is part of a growing global Islamic jihadist movement. I take Khalimov for his word in that he will find a way to recruit and inspire others to join this movement and open up another front in the 1,400-year conflagration of Islamism against the West.

When ISIS is viewed as winning — which they are — there will be more Khalimovs who step out of the shadows and seek their opportunity for fame. And in turn his propagandist declaration will be used as a rallying cry all across the Muslim Central Asian nations. The International Crisis Group think-tank estimates around 4,000 Central Asians fight for Islamic State. Just to give you a sense of understanding, military battlefield calculus states that offensive operations ratio requires a 3:1 array of troops. So if that is the case, a minimum of 12,000 would be required to combat the 4,000 fighters in central Asia who have vowed allegiance to Islamic State.

Now we can dismiss Khalimov as just another nutcase and continue the denial of the growing Islamic jihadist threat — after all climate change is the greatest national security threat, right? But we have to strategize against the enemy’s most dangerous course of action. And the Jerusalem Post just informed us what the most dangerous course of action of ISIS looks like, saying “Officials with the Ministry of Health in Iraq announced Thursday that they have exhumed the remains of over 470 bodies from what they believe was a mass execution conducted by militants near Tikrit, known as the Speicher massacre.”

“We have exhumed the bodies of 470 Speicher martyrs from burial sites in Tikrit,” Adila Hammoud said at a press conference in Baghdad, referring to the nearby military base that the massacre was named after, according to AFP. In June 2014, ISIS militants overran and abducted hundreds of mostly Shi’ite male recruits at the Speicher military base, located on the outskirts of Tikrit. Pictures and footage which have emerged since the time of the incident depict the Shi’ite youths being executed one by one in various locations. Some estimates put the total of those killed in Tikrit at 17,000, accounting for similar mass executions that have taken place throughout the city in what some have called one of the worst atrocities ever committed by the Islamic State.”

And. We. Do. Nothing.

I’m not advocating being a global police force or trying to referee an internecine religious sect fight that has existed since the 8th century. But what we must do, here in the 21st century, is take a stand against savage and barbaric actions that are appealing to the most depraved of sociopathic minds. Just consider if somehow the world had squashed the Nazi Brown Shirts, the SA, early in their development. How many millions of lives could have been saved?

ISIS aligned terrorists are now is the Sinai and are threatening the Israeli port city of Eilat. Then again, President Obama wanted to cut off hellfire missile support to the Israeli Defense Force in its fight against Hamas. So, again, the case is made for these jihadists to believe they will not be effectively challenged by the United States.

Look, I know there are those of you who just want mean ol’ Allen West to go away and stop saying these bad things. You find some cowardly enjoyment in delivering your denigrating and disparaging personal attacks against me. You are wasting your breath because I know who you are. You are the mindless lemmings who want to live in the world of rainbows, unicorns, and hopey changey. You are the ones who believe we don’t need to light our hair on fire as Josh Earnest stated. You are the ones who believe we should focus on climate change. You are the ones who love to have someone blow sunshine up your rear ends and make you feel warm and fuzzy — but that ain’t reality.

The difference between politicians and leaders is simple: politicians tell the electorate, the populace, what they think they want to hear, because it’s all about making folks feel happy and good about themselves. Statesmen and leaders tell the people what they need to hear in order to save them from their own destruction.

There was a time when the people in England rebuked and chided Winston Churchill and praised Neville Chamberlain. But when the bombs began to drop on the beloved British soil it was Churchill, not Chamberlain, who rallied and inspired a nation to resist, and led them to victory. And who does history remember and revere?

Fighting climate change sounds so lovely and using the power of government to coerce income equality seems noble. But none of that will matter if the global Islamic jihad is successful.

All of a sudden there are car bombs going off all over Baghdad — could it be that ISIS is using Ramadi and Fallujah as staging bases for suicide bombers? It’s something that the inhabitants of Baghdad haven’t seen in a long time. There is evil in the world and only brave leaders are willing to confront and defeat it. Petty political charlatans will deliver grandiose speeches enshrined in lofty rhetoric which means very little to those with knife in hand beheading the innocent.

Horribly so, America’s reelection of Barack Obama sent a message to despotic, theocratic, autocratic, and dictatorial evildoers that they could come out into the light — and like Khalimov, they hide no more.

http://allenbwest.com/2015/05/elite-...ef-joins-isis/

Man shot after trying to access LR Air Force Base, officials say
By Gavin Lesnick June 15, 2015 at 10:14 a.m. Updated June 15, 2015 at 3:21 p.m.

The man who was shot while trying to gain access to Little Rock Air Force Base Monday morning was armed with a rifle, the base commander said Monday afternoon, but his motive remains unknown.

Col. Charles "Chip" Brown provided some details about the would-be intruder, who was reportedly shot about 9:15 a.m. as he got out of a maroon Ford Expedition just outside the main base gate on Vandenberg Boulevard.

The man was taken to UAMS Medical Center in critical condition.

Brown said it appeared the intruder — who he described only as a white man — may have lost control of his vehicle and hit a street sign before getting out of it with a rifle in his hands. He said he didn't know if the man fired, though he said the incident was likely caught on video that will be reviewed.

At least two of the officers posted at the gate engaged with the man, Brown said, noting up to six are posted there at any one time. He didn't know how many shots were fired.

Brown said he didn't know the suspect's "background or any motivations he may have had" or any links he may have had and said the FBI would be investigating.

"I do know through office of special investigations and FBI, what they have come up with from my threat working group, they have determined there is no additional threat to the base and he was a lone actor," Brown said.

A second person was also hospitalized, though officials described her as an innocent bystander whose injuries were not related to the shooting itself.

The base was locked down for about three hours while officials made sure the area was safe. That lockdown was lifted shortly after 12:30 p.m., though the gate where the shooting occurred remained shut and with crime scene tape across the road before 2 p.m.

Brown said it would be up to the FBI when it reopens.

"We do feel that the threat has been mitigated," he said. "There is no additional threat to the Little Rock Air Force Base. We will continue with its mission. There is no ongoing threat to the local community."

Brown said getting word of a shooting on base is a "surreal" experience.

"When you hear it, you think that potentially it's an exercise," he said. "Once it's in your mind it's a known threat to the base, you go through the actions we're trained for."

See Tuesday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full coverage.

12:35 p.m. update:

Little Rock Air Force Base officials say the lockdown of the base has been lifted. The main gate to the base on Vandenberg Boulevard is still shut, officials said.

Earlier:

One person was shot after trying to gain access to the Little Rock Air Force Base on Monday morning, Air Force and police officials said. The base remained locked down late Monday morning with crime scene tape blocking the main entry.

Sgt. Dustin Brown with the Jacksonville Police Department said his agency received a call of a person attempting to gain access to the base through the Vandenberg Boulevard gate around 9:15 a.m.

Air Force First Lt. Amanda Farr said the person who was shot was the one who was trying to get in and that he had been in a maroon Ford Expedition. That vehicle was visible on the curb just outside the gate and visitors center shortly before noon.

Farr said she had no further details about what happened and didn't know the person's condition.

The person who was shot was said not to be a member of the military. Air Force base officials said the person who was shot was taken to UAMS Medical Center for treatment and is in critical condition.

A robot and a man in heavily-protective bomb squad gear were seen at times maneuvering around or searching the Ford Expedition. At one point, people near the scene were asked to stand beside vehicles for cover.

A short time later, federal officials, including members of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the FBI, were allowed into the blocked-off area.

A second person was also hospitalized Monday morning. Farr described that person as an "innocent bystander." She said that person's injuries were not related to the shooting. The bystander was transported to North Metro Medical Center and has been released.

A Little Rock Air Force Base official said at 10 a.m. that the base's security force was responding to what he described as an "incident."

About 9:15 a.m. an "active threat" occurred at the front gate of the base on Vandenberg Drive, a Little Rock Air Force Base news release states.

Officials said the base is currently on lockdown. Cars are being directed away from the front gate of the base, and police tape was strung up across the road at the scene.

Armed officers, meanwhile, were posted in the area.

The Arkansas National Guard announced in a statement via social media that the Camp Pike and West Maryland Avenue gates at Camp Robinson have been closed and will not reopen Monday after a "security incident" at the Little Rock Air Force Base. The main gate will remain open but the Arkansas National Guard advised personnel to allow for additional commute time as "enhanced security measures" may slow down traffic flow.

Officials said the Camp Pike gate will remain closed Tuesday and that the West Maryland Avenue gate will reopen with "enhanced security."

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