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Military Experts: With ISIS in El Paso, Ft. Bliss is in Danger of Terrorist Attack

Military Experts: With ISIS in El Paso, Ft. Bliss is in Danger of Terrorist Attack

September 8, 2014 by Judicial Watch

The recent increase in security at a key Army base near a Mexican border city where Islamic terrorists are confirmed to be operating and planning an attack on the United States indicates that the facility is a target, according to senior military experts contacted by Judicial Watch.
Last week JW reported that the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is working in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle borne improvised explosive devices (VBIED). High-level federal law enforcement, intelligence and other sources confirmed to JW that a warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack on the border has been issued. Agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies have all been placed on alert and instructed to aggressively work all possible leads and sources concerning this imminent terrorist threat.
Juarez is a famously crime-infested narcotics hotbed situated across from El Paso, Texas. Ft. Bliss is the Army’s second-largest installation, spanning more than 1 million acres with an active duty force of 34,411 and headquartered in El Paso. Two days after JW broke the story on ISIS operating in Juarez, Ft. Bliss announced it was increasing security measures. A statement that went out to the media was rather vague, attributing the move to several recent security assessments and the constant concern for the safety of military members, families, employees and civilians.
But senior military officials contacted by JW this week reveal that military installations in the U.S. only make changes to security measures when there are clear and present threats. “It’s a significant issue when this is done,” says retired Army Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, former commander of the Army’s elite Delta Force who also served four years as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. “That means they’re getting a threat stream. Ft. Bliss had to have a clear and present threat.”
The inaccuracies to the public appear to be part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to downplay the bloodshed that has long plagued the southern border and now the imminent threat of Islamic jihadists planning a strike as the 13th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil approaches. Remember that Obama’s first Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, famously proclaimed that the border is as secure as it’s ever been even as organized syndicates took over portions of the region, smuggling drugs, humans, weapons and money into the U.S.
Back in 2010 a veteran federal agent disclosed that the government was covering up the growing threat by Middle Eastern terrorists entering the country through Mexico. The U.S. Border Patrol classifies them as OTM (Other Than Mexican) and many come from terrorist nations like Yemen, Iran, Sudan, Somalia and Afghanistan. The feds call them SIAs (Special Interest Aliens) and the government doesn’t want Americans to know about them or that ISIS is operating adjacent to a major American city. “ISIS is working with the drug cartels,” confirms retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, who’s regularly briefed by high-level contacts in the region. Besides Ft. Bliss, Maj. Gen. Vallely believes another Texas Army base, Ft. Hood, is also a target for Islamic terrorists.
As we all know, Ft. Hood was already attacked by a radical Army psychiatrist (Nidal Malik Hasan) who murdered 13 colleagues and wounded dozens of others as he chanted “Allahu Akbar!” (God is great in Arabic). Hasan had ties to a radical mosque leader (Anwar al Awlaki) who promotes jihad against the U.S., attempted to contact Al Qaeda associates prior to the attack and defended Islamic suicide bombers in comments he posted on the internet.
Hundreds of miles across the Lone Star State, geography makes Ft. Bliss an exceptionally big target at the moment, JW’s military experts say. For starters it’s a sensitive compound that sits near a notoriously porous border adjacent to a Mexican city long run by heavily armed drug cartels. As the anniversary of 9/11 approaches and ISIS establishes itself in Juarez, there’s no question the El Paso Army base is vulnerable, military experts told JW this week.
“Given how easy it is to cross the border terrorist can easily cross it,” Lt. Gen. Boykin said. “We’ve known for some time that terrorist elements have entered the U.S. through Mexico. This is nothing new.” Actually, Islamic terrorists are likely planning multiple attacks in the border region, including perhaps malls and power grids, according to Maj. Gen. Vallely, who assures that the cells are quite sophisticated. “They are well organized and well-funded,” he said.

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ISIS in Mexico? Feds DENY watchdog group’s claim that the terror group is operating in Juarez and plans ‘imminent’ car-bomb attacks on US targets

August 31, 2014 by David Martosko
Three online reports warned Friday of ISIS involvement south of the border, including one from Judicial Watch that cited ‘imminent’ car-bomb attacks

• The Department of Homeland Security and the White House quickly denied that they have any information about ISIS gathering an attack force in Mexico
• DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said America is ‘unaware of any specific, credible threat to the US homeland’ from the terror network
• Other reports cited social media warnings from ISIS militants and an online video showing a conservative filmmaker in a bin Laden mask sneaking into the US from Mexico

The Department of Homeland Security quickly denied claims on Friday from a watchdog group that the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has militants stationed in Juarez, Mexico who plan an ‘imminent’ attack against the United States.
A DHS spokesman was bewildered, telling MailOnline that ‘we are aware of absolutely nothing credible to substantiate this claim’ made by Judicial Watch, a center-right group.
‘In Mexico?’ the official said on the phone. ‘I haven’t seen that at all.’
An hour before Judicial Watch’s report surfaced, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said publicly that his agency and the FBI ‘are unaware of any specific, credible threat to the U.S. homeland’ from the terror network.
And during a late-morning media briefing, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said flatly that ‘the most detailed intelligence assessment that I can offer from here is that there is no evidence or indication right now that [ISIS] is actively plotting to attack the United States homeland. That’s true right now.’
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Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, shown this week in an unrelated TV interview, said his organization had credible information suggesting that the terror group ISIS is planning car-bomb attacks in the US
‘Unaware of any specific, credible threat': Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Friday that the US doesn’t have any intelligence supporting an ISIS-threat theory, but Fitton insisted ‘you could drive a truck bomb through’ loopholes in his denial‘Unaware of any specific, credible threat': Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Friday that the US doesn’t have any intelligence supporting an ISIS-threat theory, but Fitton insisted ‘you could drive a truck bomb through’ loopholes in his denial
But Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in an interview that his sources were ‘golden’ and called the government’s insistence ‘so dishonest.’
‘It’s a non-denial denial,’ he told MailOnline.
Citing Johnson’s use of words like ‘credible’ and ‘specific,’ Fitton said, ‘You could drive a truck bomb through that loophole. DHS has not denied our story.’
Judicial Watch reported Friday, based on sources that it would not identify to MailOnline out of concern for their safety, that ISIS terrorists are ‘planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born [sic] improvised explosive devices.’
The group said a ‘warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack’ had been issued to ‘agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies,’instructing them ‘to aggressively work all possible leads and sources’ to prevent it.
It also claimed the commander of Fort Bliss, a U.S. Army base near the Juarez border crossing, has been briefed on the threat.
‘This is dire,’ Fitton said. ‘Look, this needs to be – It’s impossible for me to overstate the seriousness of the threat.’
‘The president calls ISIS a Jayvee terror organization, and now we have a report they’re in Juarez, planning attacks with al-Qaeda.’
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ISIS in Mexico? Feds DENY watchdog group’s claim that the terror group is operating in Juarez and plans ‘imminent’ car-bomb attacks on US targets

August 31, 2014 by David Martosko
Three online reports warned Friday of ISIS involvement south of the border, including one from Judicial Watch that cited ‘imminent’ car-bomb attacks

• The Department of Homeland Security and the White House quickly denied that they have any information about ISIS gathering an attack force in Mexico
• DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said America is ‘unaware of any specific, credible threat to the US homeland’ from the terror network
• Other reports cited social media warnings from ISIS militants and an online video showing a conservative filmmaker in a bin Laden mask sneaking into the US from Mexico

The Department of Homeland Security quickly denied claims on Friday from a watchdog group that the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has militants stationed in Juarez, Mexico who plan an ‘imminent’ attack against the United States.
A DHS spokesman was bewildered, telling MailOnline that ‘we are aware of absolutely nothing credible to substantiate this claim’ made by Judicial Watch, a center-right group.
‘In Mexico?’ the official said on the phone. ‘I haven’t seen that at all.’
An hour before Judicial Watch’s report surfaced, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said publicly that his agency and the FBI ‘are unaware of any specific, credible threat to the U.S. homeland’ from the terror network.
And during a late-morning media briefing, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said flatly that ‘the most detailed intelligence assessment that I can offer from here is that there is no evidence or indication right now that [ISIS] is actively plotting to attack the United States homeland. That’s true right now.’
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Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, shown this week in an unrelated TV interview, said his organization had credible information suggesting that the terror group ISIS is planning car-bomb attacks in the US
‘Unaware of any specific, credible threat': Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Friday that the US doesn’t have any intelligence supporting an ISIS-threat theory, but Fitton insisted ‘you could drive a truck bomb through’ loopholes in his denial‘Unaware of any specific, credible threat': Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Friday that the US doesn’t have any intelligence supporting an ISIS-threat theory, but Fitton insisted ‘you could drive a truck bomb through’ loopholes in his denial
But Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in an interview that his sources were ‘golden’ and called the government’s insistence ‘so dishonest.’
‘It’s a non-denial denial,’ he told MailOnline.
Citing Johnson’s use of words like ‘credible’ and ‘specific,’ Fitton said, ‘You could drive a truck bomb through that loophole. DHS has not denied our story.’
Judicial Watch reported Friday, based on sources that it would not identify to MailOnline out of concern for their safety, that ISIS terrorists are ‘planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born [sic] improvised explosive devices.’
The group said a ‘warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack’ had been issued to ‘agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies,’instructing them ‘to aggressively work all possible leads and sources’ to prevent it.
It also claimed the commander of Fort Bliss, a U.S. Army base near the Juarez border crossing, has been briefed on the threat.
‘This is dire,’ Fitton said. ‘Look, this needs to be – It’s impossible for me to overstate the seriousness of the threat.’
‘The president calls ISIS a Jayvee terror organization, and now we have a report they’re in Juarez, planning attacks with al-Qaeda.’
Fitton predicted that the federal government may be playing a stalling game, with the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks approaching in less than two weeks.
‘This may be a case of them saying two weeks from now that they took care of the threat the Judicial Watch was saying [was there],’ he said.
Later in the afternoon the Fox News Channel and Breitbart.com both published stories about a situation report distributed to law enforcement agencies by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Fox didn’t respond to questions about whether the documents were the same, but a Breitbart reporter said they were.
Fitton said Judicial Watch did not base its reporting on the same bulletin they cited.
Map: The Department of Homeland Security quickly denied claims on Friday from a watchdog group that the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has militants stationed in Juarez, Mexico
ISIS, a fearsome and deadly terror group that dominates much of Iraq and Syria, now includes some militants with passports from the US and other Western nations, a fact that worries American intelligence agenciesNope: White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said US intelligence services have ‘no evidence or indication right now that [ISIS] is actively plotting to attack the United States homeland’

‘The Texas bulletin is not inconsistent with our information,’ he said, but ‘our story highlights more specific and imminent warnings.’

‘It would not surprise us if it turns out the Texas bulletin is a watered-down-for-public-consumption-version of what our sources report.’
Fox News described a ‘three-page bulletin, entitled “ISIS Interest on the US Southwest Border”.’
‘Social media account holders believed to be ISIS militants and propagandists have called for unspecified border operations,’ the bulletin read, according to Fox, ‘or they have sought to raise awareness that illegal entry through Mexico is a viable option.’
Breitbart had published its own report two hours earlier, reproducing a portion of one page.
That page showed a recent video stunt in which conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe demonstrated the ease with which a terrorist could cross the Rio Grande River by donning an Osama bin Laden mask and wading from Mexico into Texas.
Neither news outlet claimed the law enforcement bulletin articulated any warnings about an imminent terror attack.
Cuidad Juarez: The crime-ridden Mexican border town opposite El Paso, Texas has become a staging ground for illegal immigrants ¿ including drug cartel members and narcotics smugglers ¿ to enter the US illegallyJudicial Watch claimed the commander of Fort Bliss, an Army base in Texas, has been briefed on
But Fitton stuck to his guns, insisting that the threat of an ISIS incursion into Texas – Juarez abuts El Paso with just the Rio Grande in between – is real.
‘We take it seriously,’ he said. ‘We didn’t put it out there lightly.’
In a nod to his organization’s frequent alarms about border security in America’s southwest, he suggested that if the Obama administration was waving reporters away from the story, it was in order to draw attention away from illegal immigration concerns.
‘I can’t say who in Washington knows about this,’ Fitton said. ‘But to be sure, this is exactly the type of information that this administration would have an interest in minimizing, downplaying and withholding, to distract from the disaster on the border and the national security threat there.’
Earnest, President Barack Obama’s chief spokesman, told reporters on Friday that America’s border crisis is over ‘for now.’


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Dem Senator: Beheaded Journalists Would Say 'Don't Be Impulsive' Against ISIS



by Fox News Insider // Sep 09 2014 // 1:14pm

As seen on Outnumbered


Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) has now apologized for invoking the names of the two beheaded American journalists while defending President Obama's ISIS strategy.


“Steve Sotloff and James Foley would tell us, 'don’t be impulsive.' Horrible and barbarous as those executions were, don’t be impulsive, come up with a plan to knock ISIS back," Udall said at a debate last week.
Yesterday, Udall apologized for those comments.
“I should not have invoked the names of James Foley and Steven Sotloff. It was inappropriate and I sincerely apologize,” he said in a statement.
On Outnumbered today, Katie Pavlich said it’s one thing for Udall to invoke Foley and Sotloff's names, but it's another to suggest he speaks for them.
Kennedy noted that Sotloff's family believes there is more that could have been done to save the captured American journalist.
"It's awful. The one thing that has been unbelievably consistent has been the loose relationship with the truth and the ability to go in front of the media and flat-out lie to the American people," Kimberly Guilfoyle said, agreeing that more could have been done to rescue the hostages and calling for accountability.
"It's disrespectful to these families. It's disrespectful to the memories of the two dead Americans. They deserve better, and so do their families."
Watch the clip from Outnumbered above.

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/09/09...e-against-isis



Another moron heard from, unless these people start hearing complaints about their actions they all think what they say is just fine, no one will hear what they say or not many..ya right......I hope everyone of these jerks get called out by their constituents... Every day one or another of these idiots open their mouths and just keep on flapping away, cluck cluck, like a bunch of chickens at the fodder, these are supposed to be who we hire to take care of business....Well it certainly is starting to show, good job American voters, stupidity sure come's though...Of Course, all with the help of the "illegal free for me" voters !!!!! MY OPINION OF COURSE.

Obama Lies to Sotloff Family About Murdered Hostages Exposed

Posted by Michael Becker on Sep 9, 2014 in Foreign Affairs, Videos



President Obama has been caught lying again. Yawn. Crickets. The family of murdered journalist James Sotloff, who was beheaded by ISIS about two weeks ago, is accusing the Obama administration of lying about the hostages. We’d note they can get in line with the families of the men murdered in Benghazi, and we’ll see if they can keep this newest set of lies alive for two years.

“They’ve said that the families have been consistently and regularly informed. That is not true,” [Sotloff family spokesman Barak Barfi] claimed. “I speak now only from the Sotloff family. I can’t speak for the other families. They said that these hostages were moved frequently. We know that for most of the beginning of part of this year they were stationary. We know that the intelligence community and the White House are enmeshed in a larger game of bureaucratic infighting and [murdered journalist] Jim [Foley] and Steve are pawns in that game and that’s not fair.”

It appears that the Sotloff family has boots on the ground in Syria and they may have a compelling story of the dithering incompetence of the Obama administration and the President himself. Assuming, of course, that the major media is willing to listen to them. That’s a big assumption based on their non-performance with respect to covering the President over the last six years.
You’ll remember the Obama administration releasing information about how the President had sent a US military special ops group called the Nightstalkers on a rescue mission just before James Foley was murdered and how the hostages had “been moved.” Well, it turns out that maybe a couple of rounds of golf may have gotten in the way of sending in the team soon enough to rescue Foley and Sotloff.

For President Barack Obama the decision to send in the Night Stalkers was an agonising one. The audacious bin Laden raid in Pakistan had been a success but also preying on his mind was the failed 1980 Delta Force operation to rescue American hostages in Tehran.
Sandstorms and mechanical troubles led the mission to be abandoned and eight American troops were killed when two aircraft collided. The debacle cast a shadow over Jimmy Carter’s presidency.
Pentagon sources said Foley and the others might well have been rescued but Obama, concerned about the ramifications of US troops being killed or captured in Syria, took too long to authorise the mission.
Anthony Shaffer, a former lieutenant-colonel in US military intelligence who worked on covert operations, said: “I’m told it was almost a 30-day delay from when they said they wanted to go to when he finally gave the green light. They were ready to go in June to grab the guy [Foley] and they weren’t permitted.”
Another US defence source said: “The White House constantly goes back and forth on these things. These people are a bunch of academics who endlessly analyse stuff and ordering up another deep-thinking paper but can’t decide what to order for lunch.”

This sounds familiar, Obama apparently dithered for months over sending in SEAL Team 6 to get bin Laden. The second Pentagon source sounds right on the money with one small exception. Obama wasn’t even a competent academic. He was an affirmative action candidate who graduated from Columbia and was editor of the Harvard Law Review. He couldn’t even land a full time associate professorship anywhere, let alone a tenure track position. As an “academic” he was relegated to lowest rung on the academic ladder, visiting lecturer. Part time, low pay, no benefits, no tenure. A position befitting his ability and because the major media refused to do even a cursory examination of his past the US is suffering through what may turn out to be the longest eight years of our history.
This episode may not be over.

Barfi even threatened to reveal more damning information about the Obama administration’s handling of the situation if the administration didn’t stop leaking details of Sotloff’s captivity to the press.
“If there continues to be leaks, the Sotloff family will have to speak out to set the record straight,” he said.
“The relationship between the administration and the Sotloff family was very strained,” Barfi explained. “We do not believe that they gave us the cooperation that they need. Once Steve appeared in that video, the Sotloff family made one simple request of the administration and they were rebuffed on that.”
“I can’t say that because I have to think of protecting the other hostages inside,” Barfi said when asked to explain the request.
Ultimately, Barfi said the Obama administration treated Sotloff’s family inappropriately.

Assuming, once again, that anybody in the major media gives a damn about a couple of inconvenient murdered journalists. Or a US ambassador, his aide, and two former SEALS who gave their lives to save over 30 others who were under attack.
Frankly, at this point, what difference does it make?






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Oh know it can't be true, Obama lying???? Now that should be clear cause for walking this "liar n chump" out of office along with his traitor friends who work with him..A wake yet America????

Wednesday, 10 September 2014 17:00
ISIS May Not be as Powerful as Feared, Says Canadian Journalist

Written by Warren Mass






ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and currently operating under its new brand, “The Islamic State,” is the new al-Qaeda. But one Canadian journalist believes that ISIS is not nearly so powerful as most Westerners think, and that because the group has far more enemies than allies, it is unlikely to accomplish it objectives to gain control of a wide swath of the Middle East.
While ISIS may be the new al-Qaeda in the sense that it has become the most feared terrorist organization in the Middle East at the moment, it is, in fact, an offshoot of the old al-Qaeda. It is the successor to the group commonly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). ISIS had close links to al-Qaeda until February 2014, when the original al-Qaeda disowned the group, reportedly for its brutality and “notorious intractability.”
On May 14, the U.S. State Department announced its decision to use “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL) as the group’s primary name. By whatever name, however, ISIS has dominated the news for its swift capture of much territory in northern Iraq and for its brutal treatment of those under it control. This has included the the beheadings of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff in August. The previous month, the terrorist group beheaded approximately 50 soldiers of Syria's 17th division after attacking their base in Ar-Raqqah, Syria.

Despite its brutality and rapid takeover of important cities in Iraq such as Mosul and Tikrit, Andre Mayer, writing an analysis for Canada’s CBC on September 8, said that ISIS may not be as powerful as many Westerners believe.
Mayer cites Wayne White, a scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C., who worked for several decades as an Iraq analyst for the U.S. government. White maintains that the language used by Western governments and media to characterize ISIS has “distorted” the extent of the group’s threat and “allowed public pressure to rise for radical solutions.”
White also notes that since the recent release of videos purportedly showing the beheadings of journalists Foley and Sotloff by ISIS, Western governments — including Canada’s — have committed to greater action to try to suppress the terrorist group.
But White asserts that ISIS is not the persuasive threat it has been portrayed as.
“I’m not saying it isn’t dangerous — we all know its character and fanaticism. That’s plain to see. But it feeds on weakness,” said White. While its territorial gains are not insignificant, he says the areas ISIS has “gobbled up” are regions where it “found weakness.” White described these areas as places where the group was able to collaborate with local groups, “or places where Shia or Kurdish forces wouldn’t really fight for those areas.”
This description certainly fits Mosul, where last spring the government troops suffered what a BBC reporter described as “a dramatic collapse of morale,” even though Iraqi security forces outnumbered ISIS fighters by more than 15 to one. This military meltdown was so catastrophic that former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki issued a sharp condemnation of the defenders on June 11, when he said: “The commanders who retreated and wavered must be punished.”
Maliki, whose term just ended this week, had warned that the consequences of the Obama administration’s backing of “rebel” forces in Syria would be an unprecedented disaster. In an opinion piece published by the Washington Post on April 9, Maliki — who was installed after the U.S. government’s “regime change” operation in 2003 — called for an end to all arms transfers heading into Syria, both to the “rebels” and to the Assad regime, which is being supplied by Russia and Iran.
“We have been mystified by what appears to be the widespread belief in the United States that any outcome in Syria that removes President Bashar al-Assad from power will be better than the status quo,” Maliki wrote. “A Syria controlled in whole or part by al-Qaeda and its affiliates — an outcome that grows more likely by the day — would be more dangerous to both our countries than anything we’ve seen up to now. Americans should remember that an unintended consequence of arming insurgents in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets was turning the country over to the Taliban and al-Qaeda.”
The rebel coalition fighting against the Assad regime in Syria has been supported by the U.S. government, and President Obama expressed hope in a news conference last April to “mobilize the international community to support” installing a new regime in Syria.
On May 21, 2013, when the Senate was considering a bill to authorized “critical support to the Syrian opposition through provision of military assistance, training, and additional humanitarian support,” Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) warned his colleagues, nearly all of whom voted to send arms to Syrian rebels: “This is an important moment. You will be funding, today, the allies of al-Qaeda.”
Paul was obviously aware that elements of al-Qaeda were among the anti-Assad rebels, and that some of the U.S. aid sent to the rebels would undoubtedly find its way to these extremists. Since the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) operates in both Syria and Iraq, it is not surprising that U.S. aid to the rebels in Syria abetted the ISIS in its bloody campaign to take over much of Iraq.
Though the establishment press has largely attempted to downplay the role of al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other jihadists in fighting Assad, there are exceptions. For example, The Nation published an essay on August 21 of this year, “How the War on Terror Created the World's Most Powerful Terror Group,” which is an excerpt from The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising, a new book by Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn. Cockburn noted the inconsistent policy the United States is employing by carrying out air strikes and sending in advisers and trainers to help beat back ISIS’s advance in Iraq, while doing practically the opposite in Syria, where U.S. policy is to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. Overthrowing Assad, coincidentally, also happens to be the policy of ISIS and other jihadis in Syria. Cockburn writes:
The reality of US policy is to support the government of Iraq, but not Syria, against ISIS. But one reason that group has been able to grow so strong in Iraq is that it can draw on its resources and fighters in Syria. Not everything that went wrong in Iraq was the fault of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, as has now become the political and media consensus in the West. Iraqi politicians have been telling me for the last two years that foreign backing for the Sunni revolt in Syria would inevitably destabilize their country as well. This has now happened.
From al-Qaeda to ISIS, it seems that the terrorist groups that have become the most threatening to the interests of moderate Middle Easterners are those that our government has assisted, somewhere along the line.
President Obama will address the nation at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday from the State Floor of the White House to share his plan to fight ISIS. (The White House prefers the abbreviation ISIL.)
After an interview on Meet the Press in which Obama referred to the terror group as ISIL, host Chuck Todd noted: “Obviously we refer to it at NBC News as ISIS. The Obama administration, president, says the word ISIL. The last S stands for Syria, the last L they don’t want to have stand for Syria.” The administration, apparently, would rather have the public forget that it backed ISIS in Syria as part of the anti-Assad coalition, while it is committed to fighting the terrorists in Iraq.

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Turkey Denies U.S. Permission for Combat Attacks on ISIL

Recep Tayyip Erdogan / AP



BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
September 11, 2014 10:30 am

Turkey will not allow a U.S.-led coalition to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Iraq and Syria from Turkish air bases, AFP reports.

Turkey will also not participate in combat operations but will instead focus on humanitarian aid to the countries. ISIL currently controls large portions of territory in Iraq and Syria along Turkey’s borders.

” Turkey will not be involved in any armed operation but will entirely concentrate on humanitarian operations,” a government official told AFP.

Turkey has come under fire by some critics for indirectly encouraging the formation of ISIS because of its support of Islamist opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and its loose control of its borders.

Turkey is reluctant to attack ISIL due to the high number of Turkish hostages ISIL is holding, according to AFP.

“Our hands and arms are tied because of the hostages,” the official told AFP.

Turkey can open Incirlik Air Base in the south for logistical and humanitarian operations in any US-led operation, according to the official who stressed that the base would not be used for lethal air strikes.

http://freebeacon.com/national-secur...tacks-on-isil/

Boehner: ‘An F-16 Is Not a Strategy’



Roll Call

Published on Sep 11, 2014
Speaker John A. Boehner forcefully beat the drums of war Thursday, suggesting more action would be needed to defeat Islamic State group terrorists than just U.S. air strikes or the arming of Syrian rebels.

“An F-16 is not a strategy,” Boehner said during his weekly news conference. “And airstrikes alone will not accomplish what we’re trying to accomplish.”

Boehner said President Barack Obama had made clear that he doesn’t want U.S. boots on the ground. “Well somebody’s boots have to be on the ground,” Boehner said.

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Obama to Partner with Islamists Iran & Saudi Arabia against ISIS – What Could Go Wrong?

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Obama to Partner with Islamists Iran & Saudi Arabia against ISIS – What Could Go Wrong?


Obama to Partner with Islamists Iran & Saudi Arabia against ISIS – What Could Go Wrong?
Published on: September 11, 2014

As it has been pointed out previously, Islam is Islam and Islam is the enemy of the freedom and liberty celebrated by western civilization. In order to fight an enemy, one has to be able to identify the enemy. Unfortunately, elected officials in Washington seem to be lacking in gray matter to do this.
Obama is poised to increase the air strikes against ISIS, but a formal strategy to combat ISIS may rely on partnering with Saudi Arabia and Iran – two rival Muslim powerhouses. Saudi Arabia is a Sunni Muslim kingdom who is fond of beheadings while Iran is a Shia dominant state that executes thousands of dissidents. According to so-called foreign policy analysts, “these partners are vital to any serious effort to weaken the Islamic State.”
Here, in a summary, are the issues at hand from foreign policy experts.

The Sunni powers are nervous about the Islamic State but skeptical of throwing in with the United States unless there’s a real commitment to securing more Sunni political representation in Iraq and more support for moderate rebels fighting the Assad regime in Syria. The Americans counter that the Sunni leaders also have room for improvement, starting with the need to crack down on the networks that send money and fighters from the Persian Gulf states to the Islamic State, which now controls roughly half of Iraq and a third of Syria.


The Arab monarchs may bring up the fact that any opposition to the Islamic State in Syria would help the forces of the Assad regime.
The Iranians, who are predominantly Shia, would be fighting the Sunni Islamic State, but there is Turkey that could decide to broker a deal with ISIS because of the vast amounts of territory IS controls. According to one expert, Iran is basically the hinge and “what Iran does now will determine to what extent the other Gulf and Arab states will more visibly accept its role.”

Jordan’s King Abdullah II is forming a “special task force to deal with the Islamic State” and more than 70 suspected jihadis have been arrested. However, the monarch is facing domestic pressure demanding that Jordan stay out of the fight against ISIS.

Dotted throughout the Middle Eastern Arab Muslim countries are pockets of support for the Islamic State which further complicates the formal responses of these Islamic government nations.

Basically, the US must align with some form of Islam or a portion of both sects in order to combat ISIS, or so it goes according to foreign policy experts. One could say that the US foreign policy of the last few decades has brought us to trying to formulate an elixir by mixing volatile ingredients to counter a pandemic virus. Granted, this may be an over-simplification of the situation; but it doesn’t change the position the US has created for itself.
The US is certainly on top of things and sending their brightest and most adept diplomat to negotiate. If only that were the case. John Kerry is headed for visits to Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

The region is volatile because of the volatility of Islam. Regardless of which country it is, which sect of Islam it is or who is outwardly friendly to the US, the teachings of Islam regards westerners as infidels deserving of death should they not convert, pay a tax or agree to be enslaved. Followers of Islam engage in taqiyyah or lying in order to hide their true intent.

It has been reported that Saudi Arabia has funded terrorist groups in the past. Iran has called for the death of America. Yet, the ability for the US to defeat ISIS rests with these two nations, according to policy experts. Neither country will join the US unless each is getting something in return. That’s how it works. In the end, the US ends up trying to “play both sides” while being stuck in the middle. Everyone should know how that turns out.

Meanwhile, the wheels on the bus go round and round as the US struggles to identify the enemy, while aligning with the enemy. The plain and simple truth is the enemy is Islam; Islam is Islam. As long as the government refuses to see this, the US will continue to create manure in its foreign policy, then step in it and complain about it while trying to clean the manure off its feet, all the while trying to remove the egg on its face.

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Suzanne Hamner (pen name) is a registered nurse, grandmother of 4, and a political independent residing in the state of Georgia, who is trying to mobilize the Christian community in her area to stand up and speak out against tyrannical government, invasion by totalitarian political systems masquerading as religion and get back to the basics of education.

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Meanwhile, the wheels on the bus go round and round as the US struggles to identify the enemy, while aligning with the enemy

And what pray tell could go wrong!!!! Wake Up America!!!!