Category Archives: Terrorism
Explain the difference – UPDATED
With fewer words (H/t Mindful!):
Mindful’s version:
Source:
H/t bluebirdofbitterness, Mindful Webworker, Mrs. Mindful
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/382104/holly-fisher-public-enemy-number-310345204-charles-c-w-cooke
Filed under Christianity, Islam, Terrorism
MYTHBUSTING the “Bush’s Benghazis” meme
WHY BENGHAZI MATTERS by Bill Whittle
NOTE: This is a good analysis of the timeline of the attack and the cover-up. CAVEAT: So far as I have been able to discern, the photo he used of “Ambassador Stevens being dragged through the streets” is not Ambassador Stevens. I posted this information in the comments at the video.
Americans killed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, attack on May 12, 2003: Nine American defense contractors killed.
UNLIKE BENGHAZI: Prior to the attack, the State Department issued numerous warnings of a potential attack. Afterwards, Bush immediately condemned it as a terrorist attack. And the attackers were all killed.
Americans killed in Karachi, Pakistan, attack on March 2, 2006: One American diplomat killed instantly.
UNLIKE BENGHAZI: It was all over with one bang. There was no 8-hour-long siege featuring a U.S. President and his Secretary of State who could not be located. Also, it was not in a recent war zone where an approaching 9/11 anniversary made it a prime target. The embassy had not requested extra security or, having asked for more security, had existing security removed. Nearby service personnel were not told to sit on their thumbs while Americans were under siege. And no one lied or said it was anything other than what it was … a terrorist attack. And the attacker (suicide bomber) was killed instantly.
Americans killed during Benghazi, Libya attack on September 11, 2010: Our Ambassador, a staff member and two soldiers who defied orders to stand down.
WHY BENGHAZI MATTERS:
- Prior to the attack, the ambassador begged for additional security due to increased threats and one actual attack on the compound that might have been a practice run for breaching the wall.
- The State Department removed rather than added security.
- During the attack, nearby armed Americans were repeatedly ordered to stand down.
- For weeks afterwards, Obama and his staff blamed the attack on a protest over a YouTube video.
- When evidence proved they had known from the start it was a terrorist attack, Obama claimed he’d always said so, which was a blatant and glaring lie.
- When asked under oath by a Congressional Committee what she knew and when she knew it, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton screeched, “What difference does it make?!” This is the same Hillary Clinton who got fired from the Watergate investigation for exceeding the law in her efforts to get Nixon impeached for lying to Americans about what he knew and when he knew it.
- The White House switched to “It was a long time ago” and “It’s a fake scandal” and “Republicans only care about Benghazi because RAACISM.”
- Left-wing apologists created a deceptive list of other embassy attacks that allegedly “proved” Republican hypocrisy.
- The attackers have not only never been capture, so far as the public knows, our people aren’t even looking for them.
No Americans were killed in these attacks under Bush (listed alphabetically by country): Greece (Athens) 2007 (Jan 12); India (Calcutta) 2002 (Jan 22); Indonesia (Denpasar) 2002 (Oct 12); Pakistan (Karachi) 2002 (June 14); Pakistan (Karachi) 2003 (Feb 28); Saudi Arabia (Jeddah) 2004 (Dec 6); Syria (Damascus) 2006 (Sept 12); Turkey (Istanbul) 2008 (July 9); Uzbekistan (Tashkent) 2004 (June 30); Yemen (Sana’a) 2008 (Mar 28, Sept 28; 2d attack: One American fatality was reported by news but this was an error).
No Americans were killed in these attacks under Obama (listed alphabetically by country): Afghanistan (Herat) 2013 (Sept 13); Egypt (Cairo) 2012 (Sept 11); Pakistan (Peshawar) 2010 (Apr 5); Turkey (Ankara) 2013 (Feb 1); Tunisia (Tunis) 2012 (Sept 14); Yemen (Sana’a) 2012 (Sept 14).
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Filed under Benghazi, Bill Whittle, Chris Stevens, Mythbusting, Terrorism
Barack Obama set this man free
One of the five Gitmo detainees exchanged for deserter Bowe Bergdahl was Mohammed Fazi (or Fazl … I saw both).
In 1999, Taliban forces led by Mohammed Fazi swept through a village on the Shomali plain north of Kabul in a scorched-earth offensive that prompted some 300,000 people to flee for their lives.
The villages of this area were once the orchard of central Afghanistan, and the plain’s carefully tended vineyards were famous for their grapes. When the Taliban seized control, they systematically demolished everything … blowing up houses, burning fields and seeding the land with mines.
Mohammed Fazi played a major role in the destruction.
Obama says it was his decision to release these evil men and that he’s not sorry. Therefore, responsibility for every harm done by these thugs from now on rests squarely on Barack Obama’s shoulders.
NBC: It was my decision [:49]
(Please notice in the interview how Obama does NOT answer the question about why he ignored the law that requires him to inform Congress before releasing any Gitmo detainee.)
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Filed under Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Bowe Bergdahl, Guantanamo, Taliban, Terrorism
MUZZIE LOVER FREED; OBAMA STILL AN A**HOLE
Posted by Pistol Pete
Bowe Bergdahl was released in exchange for five high-ranking Taliban terrorists. Obama is basking in the dubious glory of negotiating with bloodthirsty muderers,but there’s more to this…much more.
This is Bowe’s parents, Bob and Jani Bergdahl, at Obama’s dog and pony show in the Rose Garden yesterday.
HIS BEARD SHOULD GIVE YOU A CLUE.
This is what he tweeted and then deleted:
There is a law that Obama cannot release any prisoners from Gitmo without notifying Congress beforehand. Of course,he’s never given a rat’s ass about laws. What this really was,IMHO,was to change the subject from the true heroes,our vets,who are dying like flies under this poser’s watch.
Some republicans can see through this charade,but their protestations will be ignored or they’ll be made out to be cold-hearted ogres who’d rather an American soldier remain captive to the Taliban murderers he actually tried to join.
The Spite House spin,put out by that paragon of honesty Susan Rice this morning, was that he was in danger and there was no time to consult Congress. Just like we had to pass the stimulus scam in 24 hours or the country would disintegrate.
Here’s the paid liar with Candy Crowfoot.
Bergdahl Snuck Off Post to Join Taliban – At Least Six Americans Were Killed Trying to Find Him
This is from first-hand accounts of people who were there.
Bergdahl Snuck Off Post to Join Taliban – At Least Six Americans Were Killed Trying to Find Him
Hagel Says Release of Bowe Bergdahl Is “New Opening” For Talks With The Taliban…
So much for America’s long standing ban on negotiating with terrorists.
APPARENTLY YOU’RE NOT NEGOTIATING WITH TERRORISTS IF YOU AGREE WITH THEM
Taliban declare ‘victory’ as Obama lets a mass killer, Bin Laden’s friend and an opium drug lord walk free : Fury at release of hardened terrorists for last US POW
- Five senior Taliban members are to be handed over to Qatar as part of deal
- Obama criticised for sidestepping law that requires him to alert Congress to release of terror suspects
- One detainee is accused of presiding over a mass killing
- Qatar has agreed to to host the detainees for at least one year
President Barack Obama apparently traded five jailed jihadis held in Guantanamo for one American soldier, despite federal law, which requires Congress to be notified before prisoners are transferred.
Obama used a Rose Garden press event to tout the surprise trade — which he won by making critical, last-minute concessions — while the parents of the freed soldier, Bowe Bergdahl, stood alongside.
At the end of brief event, the soldier’s father, Bob Bergdahl, recited the most frequent phrase in the Koran — “Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim” —which means “In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Compassionate.”
After Bergdahl finished his statement and his praise for Allah, Obama hugged him.
The Taliban echoed Bergdahl, saying the trade happened “due to the benevolence of Allah Almighty and the sacrifices of the heroic and courageous Mujahidin of the Islamic Emirate.”
Keith Kofflet at WHD has a profile of the five filthy pigs Obama let out to kill more Americans:
Incomprehensible
By trading very senior and very dangerous Taliban leaders for a single U.S. soldier, President Obama has created grave peril for every American, and he has branded a “K” of the forehead of every U.S. serviceman and woman serving overseas. The “K” stands for “Kidnap me.”
Because kidnapping gets results.
Filed under Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Bowe Bergdahl, Guantanamo, Taliban, Terrorism, U.S. Congress
Hashtag diplomacy
WEEKS after a Nigerian activist launched the #BringBackOurGirls campaign that helped get journalists interested in the terrorist kidnapping of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls, FLOTUS used her massive personal influence to further the cause of rescuing the girls before their savage kidnappers sell them into slavery.
She sent a tweet.
Via Twitchy:
- Your husband is President and a hashtag on twitter is the best you can do?!?
- Changing the world. Failure.
- Yeah, that hashtag is literally the least you can do.
- There’s something peculiarly end of civilization about the First Lady’s tweet.
- Surely a hashtag will tug at Boko Haram’s heartstrings, right?
- Especially when it’s got a real serious looking FLOTUS selfie HOLDING a hand written sign!
- Hashtag Foreign Policy. Take it to Twitter. That will show ’em.
- Michelle’s tweet further proves that action is not as important as “feeling” for the left.
- Modern liberalism, at its core, is an ideology of talking, not doing.
- Yup. Someone “calls on government” to do something and the world gets fixed. It’s that easy!
- Hashtag activism may be the the ultimate example of completely pointless self-satisfaction.
- They don’t *actually* care. They do it to inflate themselves. It is the emptiest of empty gestures.
Hillary Clinton … whose husband refused to go after Osama bin Laden … weighed in with her own self-aggrandizing and nonsensical tweet that suggested somewhere in the world there exists a conscionable reason to target innocent girls.
Please note Clinton’s tweet was THREE DAYS before Mooch got around to hers. But then, Mooch included a selfie and a hand-written sign, so undoubtedly took lots more time and thought. Or something.
Via Mark Steyn:
“Just as the last floppo hashtag, #WeStandWithUkraine, didn’t actually involve standing with Ukraine, so #BringBackOurGirls doesn’t require bringing back our girls. There are only a half-dozen special forces around the planet capable of doing that without getting most or all of the hostages killed: the British, the French, the Americans, Israelis, Germans, Aussies, maybe a couple of others. So, unless something of that nature is being lined up, those schoolgirls are headed into slavery, and the wretched pleading passivity of Mrs Obama’s hashtag is just a form of moral preening.”
Last October, Steyn reported another Boko Haram atrocity:
“The other day, members of Boko Haram, a group of (surprise!) Muslim ‘extremists’, broke into an agricultural college in Nigeria and killed some four dozen students. The dead were themselves mainly Muslim, but had made the fatal mistake of attending a non-Islamic school. ‘Boko Haram’ means more or less ‘Learning is sinful.'”
Yeah. Cuz you know what terrorists respond to? Smoking holes where their buddies used to be. Not hashtags.
Sources:
- http://twitchy.com/2014/05/13/reality-slap-photo-puts-first-ladys-hashtag-activism-in-brutal-perspective-pic/
- http://twitchy.com/2014/05/07/emptiest-of-empty-gestures-flotus-hopes-terrorists-will-live-by-the-promise-of-hashtag-pic/
- http://www.steynonline.com/6326/bringbackourballs
- http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/360160/school-days-mark-steyn
- http://terrellaftermath.com/
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Filed under Boko Haram, Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Islam, Michelle Obama, Terrorism
Benghazi: Lies and Damn Lies
According to recently declassified documents, General Ham knew within minutes … MINUTES … that our Benghazi consulate was not only under attack, but that it was a TERRORIST attack.
General Ham immediately informed General Dempsey, the two of them immediately informed Secretary Panetta, who immediately met with President Obama.
Got that? Before the attack was an hour old, President Obama KNEW our ambassador and his staff were under attack by a well-armed terrorist group. He then ordered that NO ASSISTANCE be provided to the consulate staff, four of whom were killed.
For weeks after, he and many of his aides (including then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then U.N. Ambassador/now National Security Advisor Susan Rice) REPEATEDLY told the public the violence had been the result of a protest over a YouTube video gone awry.
- Obama and Clinton told the victims’ families … to their FACES … that they had no idea it was a terror attack or that the consulate was in serious danger.
- They also publicly apologized for it to the very people who had fomented the murderous attack and saw to it the maker of the video (which fewer than 400 people ever saw) was arrested.
After Obama’s re-election campaign was over, evidence emerged that the video story was a Big Fat Lie and the Obama administration then apologized for having knowingly and deliberately LIED to American voters at a sensitive time in the campaign.
While being questioned about this, Hillary Clinton shrieked, “What DIFFERENCE does it make?”
Got all that?
- People died.
- Obama lied.
- The media helped cover it all up because the election was a few weeks away.
- And Hillary Clinton thinks the murder of four Americans is a big yawn.
The people Clinton apologized to for the YouTube video are the same people who pranced around the streets, celebrating and photographing for viewing on the internet the fact that they had kidnapped, tortured, and murdered a United States Ambassador.
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Filed under Barack Obama, Benghazi, Chris Stevens, Hillary Clinton, Terrorism
Words matter
This blog is worth reading.
EXCERPT: The tongue is the tail of the heart. The heart is known by how the tongue wags. … Remember what G.K. Chesterton said? That bigotry is “an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.”
Filed under Fort Hood Massacre, Nidal Hassan, Obamacare, Ted Cruz, Terrorism
He promised to “fundamentally transform America”
Doctor says Syrian snipers are using civilians for target practice, shooting at body parts as a game
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