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		<title>American ISIS Supporter Plotted to Blow Up &#8216;Zionist&#8217; Day Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lloyd Billingsley]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nicholas-michael-teausant.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239685" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nicholas-michael-teausant-450x317.jpg" alt="nicholas-michael-teausant" width="288" height="203" /></a>In March <i>Frontpage</i> <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/lloyd-billingsley/fbi-bags-aspiring-american-assad/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">profiled Californian Nicholas Michael Teausant</span></a>, </span>indicted for attempting to support ISIS, a foreign terrorist organization. Teausant remains in custody but recently <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/08/26/6656921/lodi-area-terror-suspect-says.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">granted an enlightening interview</span></a> to Sam Stanton and Denny Walsh of the <i>Sacramento Bee</i>.</p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">In March Teausant was en route to Canada and near the border texted a friend who told him “</span>if I get myself out of the country everything will be taken care of, they’ll pay for me to go over there, they’ll give me a gun.” He had been in the National Guard but had not brought along a weapon. His friend also told him “They’ll give me everything I could possibly want. They’ll take care of my family, and that I can always come back to America when this is over.” The friend turned out to be an FBI informer, and that led to his arrest.</p>
<p>“I’m not going to say that I’m completely innocent and I have no fault in this,” Teausant told the reporters. “Some of it is my fault, yes. But then again I also feel that if the informant hadn’t come along I would have just been making idle boasts and I wouldn’t have done anything.” But there’s more to the story.</p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">Teausant told the reporters that while living in Montana he</span> met a beautiful Muslim woman who would speak only to Muslim men. That spurred his interest in Islam, but it wasn’t only romantic. The zealous convert came to believe his daughter’s day care center was “Zionist.” He wanted to blow it up but claims he told the informant he would only bomb the place when nobody was there. Teausant doesn’t recall discussing any bomb attacks in Los Angeles but on fighting overseas he showed good recall. The newly minted Muslim soon became convinced that the government of Syria needed to be taken down.</p>
<p>“I wanted to go help fight for these people because the New Hampshire slogan is ‘Live Free or Die,’” he told the <i>Bee</i> reporters. “In 1775, we rebelled against Britain because we felt we were being tyrannized and conquered, so we wanted our own freedom. So I felt like I could try and help with that, and give the people freedom that they were fighting for.”</p>
<p>In May his lawyers argued that he would <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/05/13/6402038/lodi-area-terror-suspect-renews.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">never make it to Syria</span></a> and never provide support for anyone. He now tells the <i>Bee</i> his support for ISIS was the informer’s suggestion and that “at the time they were not doing the brutal stuff that they’re doing now,” adding that he is “absolutely abhorred at that Foley thing. I did not see that coming.”</p>
<p>That is a stretch, even for someone reportedly diagnosed with schizophrenia. That “Foley thing” would be a beheading, something Islamic jihadists have been doing for centuries for such offenses as being non-Muslim. So despite claims he is “kind of like a cracked egg,” the authorities are sticking to their guns. They told reporters that they reviewed all the evidence, conducted the investigation properly, and are prosecuting the case by the book.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Teausant’s case has drawn no comment from Mohamed Abdul Azeez, leader of the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/fbi-to-honor-cair-linked-group/"><span style="color: #6b0901;">Sacramento Area League of Associated Muslims</span></a> (SALAM) Islamic Center and frequently interviewed in the local press. The SALAM center co-hosts events with CAIR and in 2009 Abdul Azeez was the recipient of the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2009/lloyd-billingsley/the-fbi-awards-by-lloyd-billingsley/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">FBI’s community service award</span></a> “for preventing violence, creating understanding, bringing people together.”</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Last year after the Tsarnaev brothers bombed the Boston Marathon Abdul Azeez <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/lloyd-billingsley/the-fbis-favorite-imam-sounds-off-on-boston/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">lamented the “explosions in Boston,”</span></a> but told reporters “I don’t want to have to apologize for any crime that’s been committed.” The California Muslim leader said “I feel similar to a gun owner worried about gun laws all the time because people are shooting people, or a Jew who has to worry about the atrocities being committed in Israel.”</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">The articulate Abdul Azeez, who holds degrees from Ohio State and the University of Chicago, has remained quiet about Boko Haram in Nigeria and the beheading of James Foley by ISIS. Meanwhile, Nicholas Teausant, who wanted to support ISIS and blow up a “Zionist” day care center, remains upbeat.</p>
<p>“Even if they gave me the maximum 15 years I’d come out of prison at 35,” he told the <i>Bee</i> reporters. “That still leaves me the rest of my life to go to college and get a Ph.D., do what I want and be with my family.”</p>
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		<title>Border Horror</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2014 04:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Obama's refusal to secure the border to blame for Agent Javier Vega's death?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/JAVIER-VEGA-JR-and-father-off-duty-bp-agent-killed-while-fishing.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238069" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/JAVIER-VEGA-JR-and-father-off-duty-bp-agent-killed-while-fishing.jpg" alt="JAVIER-VEGA-JR-and-father-off-duty-bp-agent-killed-while-fishing" width="292" height="219" /></a><span class="zw-portion">The brutal slaying of a U.S. Border Patrol agent by illegal aliens </span><span class="zw-portion">highlights the perils of the Obama administration&#8217;s </span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic;">de facto</span><span class="zw-portion"> open borders policy that has transformed the nation&#8217;s southern boundary into a taxpayer-funded welcome center for desperately poor unskilled and low-skill workers, sick children, welfare mooches, and violent criminal gang members.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">This horrific crime happened not too far from the same border that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) sedately insisted was &#8220;secure.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;We hear a lot on TV that the border is secure, that the border is safer and that couldn&#8217;t be any farther from being true</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; </span><span class="zw-portion">Chris </span><span class="zw-portion">Cabrera</span><span class="zw-portion">, vice president of </span><span class="zw-portion">Local 3307 of the </span><span class="zw-portion">National Border Patrol</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Council </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/65132" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">told</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Neil Cavuto of Fox News.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">It seems to be getting more and more dangerous as the days go by</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">It seems with all of this talk about amnesty or comprehensive immigration reform, getting [legislation] through</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> people seem to be more and more desperate to get into this country.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">While off duty this past Sunday, Border Patrol Agent </span><span class="zw-portion">Javier Vega</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Jr.</span><span class="zw-portion">, just 36 years old, died in south Texas, </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/04/the-heartbreaking-words-police-say-slain-off-duty-border-patrol-agent-told-his-dad-after-they-were-attacked/" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">gunned down</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> by two illegal immigrants trying to rob him while he was on a fishing outing. He was murdered in </span><span class="zw-portion">front of his family, including his two children and parents.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The </span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic;">bandidos</span><span class="zw-portion"> ordered the family to get on the ground and were surprised to discover that Vega and his father were armed, unlike the typically helpless victims in Mexico and other Latin American countries where life is cheap and privately owned firearms are forbidden or severely regulated.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Vega suffered a mortal wound in the chest during the bungled attack, but as life drained out of his mangled body he pleaded with his dad to &#8220;keep shooting.&#8221; </span><span class="zw-portion">Vega&#8217;s father </span><span class="zw-portion">took a non-fatal shot in the hip</span><span class="zw-portion"> and his </span><span class="zw-portion">mother picked up an AR-15 rifle and fired upon the killers&#8217; vehicle, hitting it several times as the two assailants fled the scene. The vehicle apparently broke down and was found abandoned a few miles from the site of the shooting.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Other robberies that fit the same pattern as the Vega case had been taking place locally, police said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Willacy County, Texas Sheriff Larry Spence, who has held his post for nearly three decades, said the crime was heartbreaking. </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">I called out a prayer asking the Lord, help us resolve this and five hours later, we found the individuals,</span><span class="zw-portion">” </span><span class="zw-portion">he </span><span class="zw-portion">said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The </span><span class="zw-portion">National Border Patrol Council</span><span class="zw-portion"> praised Border Patrol agents and other law enforcement officials for apprehending the killers. &#8220;It is through their professionalism and tenacity that the wretched animals who committed this crime will face the full measure of Texas justice.&#8221; The Council created a memorial fund for Vega&#8217;s surviving family members.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Cabrera </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://m.townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/08/07/national-border-patrol-council-vice-president-the-border-is-getting-more-dangerous-n1875904" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">complained</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">about the strictures the Obama administration places on border guards, explained his lack of surprise at the illegal alien status of the two suspects.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;Unfortunately it&#8217;s not surprising to me, the laws that we have on the books aren&#8217;t enforced the way that they need to be</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; he said</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">The time served, the detention time that they&#8217;re giving is often very short,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s frustrating to see and then when something like this happens, whether or not it&#8217;s a Border Patrol agent that gets killed, there&#8217;s multiple people killed everyday, some of them by illegals and it&#8217;s just frustrating.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The NBPC </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/08/06/Slain-Border-Patrol-Agents-Blood-On-Hands-of-Congress-and-President-Says-Union" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">expressed</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> its members&#8217; outrage at the Vega murder</span><span class="zw-portion"> on its official Twitter account, stating,</span><span class="zw-portion"> “</span><span class="zw-portion">Border Patrol Agent Javier Vega: MURDERED by two illegal aliens. Victim of lax border enforcement. Blood on hands of Congress and President.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The suspects in the killing have long rap sheets.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Gustavo Tijerina</span><span class="zw-portion">, who also uses the surname Tijerina-Sandoval,</span><span class="zw-portion"> was reportedly arrested on at least four occasions from 2007 to 2010 for illegally entering the U.S. He pleaded guilty to illegal entry on July 9, 2007 and was sentenced to 30 days with credit for time served, plus a $10 fee. Oct. 4 that year he was convicted of the same offense, and was given a 60-day sentence plus a $10 fee. According to court records, he waded his way through the Rio Grande River. On Oct. 25, 2008 he illegally entered the country the same watery way again. Next month he was sentenced to 90 days and handed another $10 fine to pay.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">On Dec. 15, 2009, a grand jury indicted Tijerina on illegal entry charges. </span><span class="zw-portion">The indictment</span><span class="zw-portion"> stated that he</span><span class="zw-portion"> &#8220;had previously been denied admission, excluded, deported and removed, knowing and unlawfully was present in the United States having been found near Edinburg, Texas.&#8221; </span><span class="zw-portion">He failed to secure the consent of the U.S. attorney general and homeland security security to seek lawful admission to the country. At some point a warrant was issued for his arrest. It indicated he could receive as much as 20 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. Tijerina was held by authorities without bond on Jan. 26, 2010, and sentenced to a nine-month jail term and given a $100 fine.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Hernandez&#8217;s rap sheet is less expansive. He has reportedly been removed from the U.S. just twice for unauthorized entry.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Tijerina</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">and</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Hernandez </span><span class="zw-portion">were arraigned this week. After reportedly confessing their crimes, they were denied bail and now stand formally accused of </span><span class="zw-portion">capital murder of a peace officer, attempted murder, and </span><span class="zw-portion">some</span><span class="zw-portion"> lesser charges.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Sheriff Spence said the two men told him that they did not know their victim was an off-duty Border Patrol agent. </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;They do now,&#8221; he </span><span class="zw-portion">added.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The men were </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/04/the-heartbreaking-words-police-say-slain-off-duty-border-patrol-agent-told-his-dad-after-they-were-attacked/" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">caught</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> in a shed behind the home of a local man</span><span class="zw-portion">. When they were informed that their now-dead victim was a Border Patrol officer, they reacted with &#8220;shock and concern,&#8221; Spence said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The two men are probably connected to organized crime, he added.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;They claim to have been involved in other incidents, this means you&#8217;ve got stolen vehicles going into Mexico,&#8221; </span><span class="zw-portion">Spence</span><span class="zw-portion"> said.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;Everything is going to be cartel-related, there&#8217;s a connection somehow.</span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;This is not the first episode of border violence in Willacy County but it&#8217;s the first time someone&#8217;s been killed,&#8221; </span><span class="zw-portion">the sheriff</span><span class="zw-portion"> said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Vega isn&#8217;t the only Border Patrolman to be murdered in the Obama era.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Brian Terry was </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2014/08/01/second-brian-terry-murder-suspect-extradited-us/13448915/" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">shot and killed</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">by illegal aliens in December 2010 while on patrol in the desert near Nogales, Ariz. The foreign gunmen had obtained firearms from the U.S. government as part of President Obama&#8217;s morally reprehensible Fast and Furious program. Under the program Mexican gangsters were provided with guns by the U.S. in the hope that they would go on a killing spree that would whip up public hysteria that might have led to a crackdown on gun ownership.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Terry died during a firefight after having suffering the bad luck of coming across a so-called rip crew. These criminal gangs steal illicit drugs that have already been smuggled into the United States. (This means illegals illegally steal illegal drugs from others who have illegally snuck them into the country.)</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The U.S.-Mexico border has become increasingly anarchic since the Obama regime took over. It </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/border-crisis-illegal-immigrant-children-include-ms-13-gang-members/" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">has become</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">a recruiting center for Latin American criminal gangs, according to the Border Patrolmen&#8217;s labor union.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">We know the cartels were exploiting this and continue to exploit this crisis in south Texas, it makes sense that MS-13 and other gangs would do the same,</span><span class="zw-portion">” </span><span class="zw-portion">Shawn </span><span class="zw-portion">Moran</span><span class="zw-portion">, national v</span><span class="zw-portion">ice </span><span class="zw-portion">p</span><span class="zw-portion">resident of the </span><span class="zw-portion">17,000-member </span><span class="zw-portion">National Border Patrol Council </span><span class="zw-portion">told Fox News.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">MS-13 (the MS stands for </span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic;">Mara Salvatrucha</span><span class="zw-portion">, apparently a reference to El Salvador) has been taking advantage of a Red Cross telephone bank on the border that was created to help unaccompanied illegal alien minors to reach relatives. </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">These phones are being utilized by gang members to recruit, to enlist, to pressure people, other juveniles into joining the MS-13 gang</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; Moran said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Because border officials are required to treat minors with kid gloves, they are unable to separate gang members from other detainees.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">We</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">re being told we have to look the other way</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; Moran explained.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">If we see gang tattoos, we</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">re not allowed to treat them any differently than anybody else applying to be allowed to stay here or to apply for asylum.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">It</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">s a security issue that we feel could really snowball out of control and it would put agents at risk. It puts the other detainees at risk</span><span class="zw-portion">.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">MS-13 is </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">one of the biggest threats we face on our southern border</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; he said. &#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">They do not hesitate to use extreme violence if necessary. They are considered one of the top threats to border patrol agents.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Juveniles, apparently including MS-13 members, are being shipped all over America by the Obama administration. Patriots in some communities have organized to prevent their relocation, with some success.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Meanwhile, KRGV in Weslaco, Texas is </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.krgv.com/mobile/news/2-accused-of-assaulting-border-patrol-agent/?test3" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">reporting</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> that two Honduran men suspected of being in the U.S. illegally have been arrested in the beating of another Border Patrol officer. Investigators say </span><span class="zw-portion">Nelson Chavarria-Ramos punched the </span><span class="zw-portion">officer</span><span class="zw-portion"> in the face</span><span class="zw-portion"> several times as </span><span class="zw-portion">Marco Avelar-Gomez</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">held down </span><span class="zw-portion">the legs of the victim. </span><span class="zw-portion">The agent</span><span class="zw-portion">, whose name was not provided in the news report,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">somehow </span><span class="zw-portion">arrest</span><span class="zw-portion">ed</span><span class="zw-portion"> the </span><span class="zw-portion">duo</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">This is just the beginning, of course.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The ongoing assault on the Border Patrol is completely preventable. Evidence strongly suggests it is part of President Obama&#8217;s plan to cause chaos on the border as part of his larger assault on the nation&#8217;s free institutions. Obama&#8217;s policies encourage illegal aliens, including gang members and other violent criminals that are part of the Democratic Party&#8217;s natural constituency, to invade the United States in record numbers.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">It is a kind of Mariela boatlift in reverse in which the U.S. president is aggressively recruiting and importing the dregs of Latin American society into the U.S.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">It is taking a grave toll on the people of the United States.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">As Breitbart News </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://tiny.iavian.net/2oow" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">reports</span></a><span class="zw-portion">, a new report from the U.S. Department of Justice states that roughly half of all federal criminal cases in 2013 were filed in regions close to the southern border.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">To no one&#8217;s surprise, the news report states:</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">During </span><span class="zw-portion">[Fiscal Year] </span><span class="zw-portion">2013, U.S. Attorney&#8217;s offices filed a total of 61,529 criminal cases against defendants, according to the DOJ. Regions along the border each had more convictions than in any other district. 6,341 cases were filed in Western Texas, suggesting it is home to the country&#8217;s most severe crime patterns. 6,130 cases were filed in Southern Texas; 4,848 were filed in Southern California; 3,889 were filed in New Mexico; and 3,538 were filed in Arizona.</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The lawlessness will continue and undoubtedly escalate in the remaining two and a half years of Obama&#8217;s term of office.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">More Border Patrol deaths are inevitable thanks to the dangerous policies of this malevolent administration.</span></p>
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		<title>Prosecute the President</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>President Barack Obama believes he is above the law.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s because he is.</p>
<p>This week alone, Obama announced that he would unilaterally change student loan rules, allowing borrowers to avoid paying off more of their debt; he signaled that he would continue his non-enforcement of immigration law, even as thousands of children cross the border; he defended his non-disclosure of a terrorist swap to Congress.</p>
<p>And, he said, more such actions were in the offing. &#8220;I will keep doing whatever I can without Congress,&#8221; Obama explained.</p>
<p>This is not just executive overreach. In many cases, Obama&#8217;s exercise of authoritarian power is criminal. His executive branch is responsible for violations of the Arms Export Control Act in shipping weapons to Syria, the Espionage Act in Libya, and IRS law with regard to the targeting of conservative groups. His executive branch is guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Benghazi and in the Fast and Furious scandal, and bribery in its allocation of waivers in Obamacare and tax dollars in its stimulus spending. His administration is guilty of obstruction of justice and witness tampering.</p>
<p>And yet nothing is done.</p>
<p>Impeachment, which has been suggested as a solution by many, is a non-starter. In the entire history of the republic, the House has impeached just 19 officials, and just eight were actually removed from office after Senate trial. Impeachment is a political solution to a criminal problem — and politicians are far too fearful of blowback to use it as a tool in upholding law.</p>
<p>Thanks to presidential immunity and executive control of the Justice Department, there are no consequences to executive branch lawbreaking. And when it comes to presidential lawbreaking, the sitting president could literally strangle someone to death on national television and meet with no consequences.</p>
<p>As Professor Akhil Reed Amar of Yale Law School has written, &#8220;a sitting President is constitutionally immune from ordinary criminal prosecution — state or federal.&#8221;<br />
So what can we do? We can tell Congress to delegate its power to check the executive branch. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act creates a broad capacity for prosecution of criminal conspiracies; it also provides for civil lawsuits against such conspiracies, turning American citizens into, as the Supreme Court puts it, &#8220;&#8216;private attorneys general&#8217; on a serious national problem for which public prosecutorial resources are deemed inadequate.&#8221; Minor changes to the law should allow citizens to sue federal officials within the executive branch under RICO, unmasking criminal enterprises within the Obama administration and future administrations.</p>
<p>The checks and balances of the Constitution have failed. The result has been, for a century, the nearly unchecked growth of the power of the executive branch. That growth has created an executive tyranny, unanswerable and inescapable under law. Our legislators have proved themselves too cowardly to fight back using the tools at their disposal. They are obviously happy delegating their power to the executive branch. Now it&#8217;s time for them to delegate their power to the people.</p>
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		<title>The D&#8217;Souza Arrest: Obama Adopts the Stalinist Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Dinesh-DSouza-on-the-stu-taylor-show.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217344" alt="Dinesh-DSouza-on-the-stu-taylor-show" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Dinesh-DSouza-on-the-stu-taylor-show-450x330.jpg" width="315" height="231" /></a>I’m no fan of Dinesh D’Souza, but this is ridiculous.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Dinesh and I locked horns a few years back when he attacked me in his book The Enemy At Home, saying that books like mine should not be written. His line was that Islam was a religion of peace, that pious, morally upright Muslims had been driven to lash out against the U.S. because of the immorality of our pop culture, and that American conservatives should ally with what he termed “conservative Muslims” against their common, amoral Leftist foe.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">He and I debated this at CPAC in 2007 and on several radio shows, which grew increasingly heated as he charged me with “Islamophobia” (a term used by Muslim Brotherhood entities to stigmatize opposition to jihad terror) and invoked Saudi-funded Islamic apologist John Esposito as an authority.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The ensuing years have only shown more vividly what nonsense Dinesh’s position was, as “conservative Muslims” the world over wage jihad against America, and non-Muslims everywhere, more furiously than ever.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">I rehash all this to show the falsehood of the line that has been circulating around in the Leftist media ever since Dinesh D’Souza was indicted: that only people who share D’Souza’s views are concerned about his indictment. As Tal Kopan put it in </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" title="" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/right-wing-dinesh-dsouza-charges-102568.html" target="_blank">Politico</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, “In the wake of the indictment of conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza for alleged fraud, conservatives are crying foul that it is evidence of the Obama administration punishing its critics.”</span></p>
<p>Liberals should be as concerned about this as conservatives. Foes of jihad should be just as concerned about it as those who share D’Souza’s worries about “Islamophobia.” For the evidence is mounting that D’Souza has indeed been targeted for being a public and high-profile foe of Barack Obama – a development that should disquiet anyone who believes in the value of a stable, functioning republic with a loyal opposition. Pamela Geller notes <a title="" href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/persecution-of-obamas-political-foes/" target="_blank">here</a> that D’Souza is not remotely the only conservative or Obama critic who has been targeted for prosecution, while Obama’s Justice Department has turned a blind eye to illegal campaign contributions from Gaza during Obama’s 2008 campaign. And then there was the Obama Justice Department’s dismissal of the New Black Panthers voter intimidation case.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">What’s more, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" title="" href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/25/9-violent-criminals-who-paid-less-for-bail-than-2016-filmmaker-dinesh-dsouza/" target="_blank">bail for D’Souza was set higher</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> than that given to several people accused of attempted murder, rape, assault, and the like. To whom is Dinesh D’Souza more dangerous than a man who sexually assaulted a teenager, or a man who kept old men captive in a filthy “dungeon”?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is something new in American politics. When I was six years old, I took notice of the presidential campaign, and asked my father who was the “good guy”: Richard Nixon or Hubert Humphrey. My father answered, “They’re both good men. They both want to do what is right for the country. They just disagree on what some of the right things to do may be.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That kind of respect for the opposition was commonplace in America back in 1968, but it has all but vanished now. I remember being taken aback in college by the obscene, relentless, vicious hatred that the Left directed toward Ronald Reagan – I was at that time entirely sympathetic with their disdain for him, but the frenzy with which they expressed it, their wild furious contempt, shocked me. And that was nothing compared to what they had in store for George W. Bush. The Democratic Party as a whole, along with the entire Leftist establishment, adopted the Alinskyite tactic of ridiculing, mocking and smearing their foes instead of engaging them on the level of ideas. Leftists now routinely portray their opponents as simultaneously stupid and evil, idiotic but crafty; it’s practically a reflex.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Decades of this have poisoned the well of American politics, and paved the way for Obama to take the demonization to the next level by unleashing the law on them. Arresting prominent members of the opposition is the kind of behavior we have seen from the likes of Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler; it is a hallmark of authoritarianism, not (until now) of politics in the United States. Of course, Stalin and Hitler didn’t stop with arresting their foes; they had them murdered as well, usually after a show trial. Obama is not doing that, but is even one step down this road one that Americans want to take?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Leftist pundits who are waving away concern over the arrest of D’Souza should bear in mind that the worm could turn. They could, for some reason or another, find themselves somewhere down the line opposing the Obama regime or some other presidency that apes Obama’s strategy. Then those who are claiming that only believers in crazy “conspiracy theories” are concerned about the Obama Justice Department’s (to say nothing of the Obama IRS) clear pattern of singling out opponents of the President for prosecution while ignoring more serious crimes among his friends may find themselves on the receiving end of this tactic.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Civility and mutual respect are in dire need of restoration in the American public square, but two have to play at that game, and only one side is even interested in the game at all. With the arrest of Dinesh D’Souza, Barack Obama has adopted a key feature of the Stalinist style of politics. Before he or anyone else gets the idea of adopting anything else from the authoritarians’ playbook, Americans – Left and Right – would be well-advised to stand together to repudiate him and these tactics once and for all, and resoundingly.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But by relentlessly demonizing their opponents, Barack Obama and his cohorts have almost certainly already made that impossible.</span></p>
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		<title>Challenge &#8216;Common Core&#8217; at Your Own Peril</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/o-ROBERT-SMALL-COMMON-CORE-facebook.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-205144" alt="o-ROBERT-SMALL-COMMON-CORE-facebook" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/o-ROBERT-SMALL-COMMON-CORE-facebook-450x284.jpg" width="270" height="170" /></a>Last Thursday in Towson, Maryland, concerned parent Robert Small was <a href="http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/maryland-father-robert-small-arrested-after-protesting-common-core-27198/">physically removed</a> from a public forum for daring to interrupt Baltimore County Schools Superintendent Dallas Dance during the so-called &#8220;question-and-answer&#8221; portion of a school board meeting. Dance was only answering questions from parents previously submitted in writing. When Small stood up to tell the audience that he believed the introduction of the new Common Core curriculum would compromise education standards, he was approached by an off-duty police officer working as a security guard and forcibly removed from the auditorium. He was subsequently handcuffed, and charged with second-degree assault of a police officer. Though the charges have reportedly been <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2013/09/20/parents-you-need-to-question-these-people-shock-video-of-dad-arrested-at-school-meeting-after-challenging-common-core/">dropped</a>, the incident remains a shocking reminder of the oppressive nature of Common Core and the liberal educational establishment charged with enforcing it.</p>
<p>Here is a <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2013/09/20/parents-you-need-to-question-these-people-shock-video-of-dad-arrested-at-school-meeting-after-challenging-common-core/">video</a> of the incident. It clearly shows the security guard taking out a pair of handcuffs and flashing his badge before grabbing Small&#8217;s arm and dragging him towards the back of the room. As he is being taken out, Small says, “Don’t stand for this. You are sitting here like cattle. You have questions. [The panel members] don&#8217;t want to [answer questions] informally.”</p>
<p>Just before being removed from the room he asks far more important question. &#8220;Is this America?&#8221; he wonders.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s certainly what passes for America when those in authority want to control the flow of information. <a href="http://Examiner.com/">Examiner.com</a> writer Ann Miller, who was present at the meeting, <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/exclusive-video-school-supers-have-parent-arrested-from-common-core-meeting">described</a> the process as one in which Superintendent Dance &#8220;added insult to injury by screening, omitting, and editing parents’ questions,&#8221; further noting that those he chose to answer were &#8220;softball questions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another parent in attendance sent columnist Michelle Malkin an email <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2013/09/20/parents-you-need-to-question-these-people-shock-video-of-dad-arrested-at-school-meeting-after-challenging-common-core/">corroborating</a> that assessment, insisting the meeting was little more than a rah-rah session touting the greatness of Common Core, followed by the pre-selected questions. &#8220;They were mostly softball questions of course and you could feel everyone’s frustration that no hard-hitting questions were being asked,&#8221; the writer explained. The description of Small and the incident? &#8220;He was just a dad trying to get some information about his children’s education and ended up in jail for not sitting down and shutting up. I was there and it was absolutely chilling to watch this man silenced.&#8221;</p>
<p>Chilling might be an understatement. Small was held until 3 a.m. after being charged. He faced a fine of $2,500 and up to 10 years in prison for the alleged assault, as well as a fine of $2,500 and up to six months in jail for disturbing a school operation. The police report contended Small attempted to push the officer away when he was first confronted.</p>
<p>On Friday, Small <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-09-20/news/bs-md-co-common-core-arrest-20130920_1_police-officer-common-core-new-curriculum">spoke</a> with the <i>Baltimore Sun</i>. “Look, I am being manhandled and shut down because I asked inconvenient questions,” Small told the paper on Friday. “Why won’t they allow an open forum where there can be a debate? We are told to sit there and be lectured to about how great Common Core is.”</p>
<p>The &#8220;greatness&#8221; of Common Core deserves to be questioned at length, and those questions go far beyond Small&#8217;s characterization that the curriculum was lowering school standards and preparing students for junior college. Other critics of the program, currently being <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-09-20/news/bs-md-co-common-core-arrest-20130920_1_police-officer-common-core-new-curriculum">rolled</a> out in 45 states and the District of Columbia, rightly say that the implementation of federal standards amounts to a federal attempt to seize control of public school education.</p>
<p>Common Core was <a href="http://www.dailyrepublic.com/opinion/localopinioncolumnists/next-public-schools-disaster-common-core/">created</a> &#8211; and copyrighted &#8212; by two Washington, D.C., lobbying organizations. They received <a href="http://www.beaufortobserver.net/Articles-NEWS-and-COMMENTARY-c-2013-05-13-266807.112112-COMMON-CORE-Common-Core-or-Rotten-to-the-Core-You-Decide.html">input</a> from the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), which are DC-based trade associations.  Most of the creative work was implemented by ACHIEVE, Inc., a progressive non-profit group largely underwritten by uber leftist Bill Gates, via the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The series of educational standards was put together without any input from state legislators, teachers, local school boards or parents. The program was sold to individual states coercively, with governors promised large sums of stimulus money to sign on and enticed by <a href="http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_33202.php">waivers</a> relieving them of the requirements demanded by No Child Left Behind or threatened with a withholding of funds for resisting.</p>
<p>Even then, the federal government will only be paying for approximately half of the huge costs associated with implementing the program. Those costs include providing a computer to every child, and introducing another level of bureaucracy known as &#8220;master teachers.&#8221; The master teachers will be tasked with coaching, monitoring and assessing classroom teachers. Much of that effort is aimed at making sure teachers &#8220;teach the test,&#8221; because their jobs depend on it. After implementation, states and local school boards will bear the lion&#8217;s share of funding the program&#8217;s continuation.</p>
<p>The standards themselves are equally dubious. Cursive will no longer be taught. Euclidian geometry, emphasizing logic, will be replaced by a geometry &#8220;standard&#8221; so dubious, it was jettisoned by the Soviet Union 50 years ago. Rote memorization will be greatly reduced. Great literature will be eliminated in favor technical material, such as manuals, that enhance the computer-centric method stressed by Common Core. Moreover, an integral part of the progressive agenda with be <a href="http://cuacc.org/Common%20Core%20-%20power%20point.pdf">served</a>. Social justice will be stressed, along with redistributionist economic theories and radical environmentalism.</p>
<p>Yet the most disturbing aspect of the program by far is the reality that it paves the way for the acquisition of an <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/08/common_cores_data_mining_trojan_horse.html">unprecedented</a> level of personal information by schools. The federal government is aiming to sell that info to interested third parties using a loophole in the 2009 stimulus bill as its vehicle. While the feds can&#8217;t create a national database of student information, the bill allows individual states to develop State Longitudinal Database Systems (SLDS), cataloguing data generated by Common Core testing. Moreover, in 2011 the federal Department of Education <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-12-02/pdf/2011-30683.pdf">concluded</a> that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act was to be &#8220;reinterpreted&#8221; to allow the dissemination of that student data to virtually anyone <i>without</i> written parental consent. <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/27/indoctrination-and-data-mining-in-common-core-heres-why-americas-schools-may-be-in-more-trouble-than-you-think/">According</a> to the conservative think tank the American Principles Project, this &#8220;data mining&#8221; is nothing less than &#8220;one part of a much broader plan by the federal government to track individuals from birth through their participation in the workforce.”</p>
<p>The extent of the data collection is highly disturbing. On page 44 of its February 2013 <a href="http://www.ed.gov/edblogs/technology/files/2013/02/OET-Draft-Grit-Report-2-17-13.pdf">report</a>, the U.S. Department of Education displayed photographs of &#8220;four parallel streams of affective sensors.&#8221; Once the program is fully implemented, those sensors will be used to &#8220;provide constant, parallel streams of data&#8230;used with data mining techniques and self-report measures to examine frustration, motivation/flow, confidence, boredom, and fatigue&#8221; of children. In short, they will become de facto lab rats.</p>
<p>Its gets worse. Last year, 24 states and territories <a href="http://nces.ed.gov/programs/slds/stateinfo.asp">reached</a> a deal to proceed with data mining in exchange for grants. “Personally Identifiable Information” will be collected from each student. that data includes: parents’ names, address, Social Security Number, date of birth, place of birth, mother’s maiden name, etc.</p>
<p>Almost unbelievably, the intrusion doesn&#8217;t stop there. A November 2010 <a href="http://nces.ed.gov/programs/slds/pdf/brief4_P_20W_DG.pdf">report</a> released by the Institute of Education Sciences as guidance for the aforementioned State Longitudinal Database Systems revealed that &#8220;Sensitive Information&#8221; will also be acquired from children. It is listed in the report as follows:</p>
<p>1. Political affiliations or beliefs of the student or parent;</p>
<p>2. Mental and psychological problems of the student or the student&#8217;s family;</p>
<p>3. Sex behavior or attitudes;</p>
<p>4. Illegal, anti-social, self-incriminating, and demeaning behavior;</p>
<p>5. Critical appraisals of other individuals with whom respondents have close family relationships;</p>
<p>6. Legally recognized privileged or analogous relationships, such as those of lawyers, physicians, and ministers;</p>
<p>7. Religious practices, affiliations, or beliefs of the student or the student&#8217;s parent; or</p>
<p>8. Income (other than that required by law to determine eligibility for participation in a program or for receiving financial assistance under such program).</p>
<p>The data mining of Sensitive Information ostensibly requires written parental consent. But as Mary Black, curriculum director for Freedom Project Education <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/15213-data-mining-students-through-common-core">explains</a>, that requirement can be circumvented. “I think they would get around parental consent through testing,” Black said, warning that academic exams could be tailored in such a manner as to extract the relevant data without parents&#8217; knowledge. Black further contends that even if parents are successful in keeping their children away from such invasive questions, they could be &#8220;branded&#8221; and placed in a special category a result.</p>
<p>Yet getting parents on board may be even simpler than that. The extraction of such information could be heavily sold to unsuspecting parents under the auspices that it constitutes a critical component of their child&#8217;s educational development and success.</p>
<p>As of last March, nine states have <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/student-data-compiling-system-outrages-article-1.1287990#ixzz2PXFijzkV">embraced</a> the data mining component of Common Core. Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York and North Carolina will be “pilot testing” the effort. Students’ personal information will then be sent to a database managed by inBloom, Inc., a private organization funded largely by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Furthermore, as long as the <i>school districts</i> agree, inBloom, Inc. can disseminate the information to any company with whom they choose to share it.</p>
<p>Perhaps all of the above explains why Superintendent Dance required pre-submitted questions&#8211;and why Robert Small was hustled out of the meeting when it became apparent he had the potential to steer it dangerously &#8220;off-script.&#8221; It is a script largely designed to obscure the reality that the Common Core is not merely a one-size-fits-all effort to federalize education. It is arguably one of the most egregious invasions of personal privacy ever perpetrated by the federal government, in collaboration with duplicitous state officials and profit-hungry businesses.</p>
<p>In answer to Robert Small&#8217;s question, yes this <i>is</i> America &#8212; until Americans decide they&#8217;ve had enough of it.</p>
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		<title>Petraeus Deserves Our Thanks – Not Hateful Protests</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 04:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unhinged attack on the former general. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/5602111029_159307c5c9_b_copy.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-205112" alt="5602111029_159307c5c9_b_copy" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/5602111029_159307c5c9_b_copy.jpg" width="270" height="195" /></a>As a resident of the very block on Manhattan’s Upper West Side where General David Petraeus was harassed this week as he commenced his academic career at the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York, I am disgusted at the way my neighborhood disrespectfully welcomed him to our area. &#8220;Not in my backyard&#8221; will a genuine American hero be harassed with impunity (and blocking streets making it harder for my children to reach our home after school also doesn’t endear the protesters to me.)</p>
<p>Unfortunately, only six protestors were arrested on charges of riot, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, and obstructing governmental administration.  Their protest, while being among the very rights General Petraeus fought to protect for all of us, is an awful injustice to a man who devoted his life to protecting America. Their disgusting conduct, which can be seen <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIbl28O99Lg">on Youtube,</a> is typical of the liberal left; harassment and ugliness against people whose ideas and beliefs they disagree with.</p>
<p>These people called the general despicable names, such as “Warmonger!” or “a disgusting pig!”  They yelled “You have blood all over you.”  The honorable General Petraeus refused to acknowledge them and held his head high as they insulted him.</p>
<p>Freedoms we have here in the United States come at a cost, and sometimes the cost is having that freedom used by people who cannot appreciate what it is that they actually have.</p>
<p>Petraeus implemented American policy. Sometimes, force is unfortunately necessary, as the enemies of freedom and human rights sometimes offer no other choice. Protecting and fighting for your country is patriotic and heroic. These liberal progressives scream and protest seeking to eliminate an opposing view – of a person who is only guilty of protecting America. General Petraeus is a genuine American hero.</p>
<p>Gen. David Petraeus served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and was a highly decorated four-star general who oversaw all coalition forces in Iraq. The man has a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy, where he graduated in the top 5% of his class. Senator John McCain called him one of “America’s greatest military heroes.” Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential leaders of the year as well as one of its four runners up for Time Person of the Year. In 2005 and in 2010 Time chose him as &#8220;one of Time Magazine&#8217;s 50 &#8216;People Who Mattered&#8217;.&#8221;  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._News_%26_World_Report">U.S. News &amp; World Report</a> identified him as one of America&#8217;s top leaders. In 2009, Esquire named him one of the &#8220;75 Best People in the World.&#8221; Barbara Walters picked the General for the Most Fascinating Person of 2010, calling him &#8220;an American hero.”</p>
<p>He has four Defense Distinguished Service Medal awards, three Distinguished Service Medal awards, the Bronze Star Medal for valor, and the State Department Distinguished Service Award.</p>
<p>NBC News said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Petraeus built an impeccable 38-year career in the military and U.S. intelligence, displaying a keen grasp of strategy and tactics that succeeded even on the murky battlefield of Iraq and carving out a sterling reputation that withstood the spiteful, partisan environment of Washington.</p></blockquote>
<p>Liberal Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, expressed regret about the resignation of &#8220;one of America&#8217;s best and brightest&#8221; and said it was an &#8220;enormous loss&#8221; for the country.  “At CIA, Director Petraeus gave the agency leadership, stature, prestige and credibility both at home and abroad. On a personal level, I found his command of intelligence issues second to none,” she said.</p>
<p>Bleeding heart liberals claim to be tolerant, yet are intolerant towards those whose views they oppose.  Their list of opponents are American heroes who defend our values, American icons who achieved the dream, and many others. These people are a disgrace to the United States of America.</p>
<p>There are many residents of the Lincoln Square neighborhood – including this<a href="http://www.ronntorossian.com/"> PR Agency</a> CEO &#8212; who would be honored to welcome General Petraeus to our neighborhood, offer the man a hot cup of coffee, a piece of apple pie and a home office on 67<sup>th</sup> Street to prepare his thoughts free from the vile harassment of protestors. I live a few hundred feet from your office – we would be honored to welcome you and ensure you safe passage to your classroom.</p>
<p>The general knows about honor and commitment and deserves our praise and gratitude. Thank you, Mr. Petraeus. Keep gracing our neighborhood with your presence.  The few morons harassing you don’t represent the residents of this street, New York City – and surely not the United States of America.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin Flaherty]]></dc:creator>
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<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Black people and white people smoke the same amount of pot. But black people are arrested four times more often.</span></b></p>
<p>Everybody knows that. Too bad it&#8217;s not true.</p>
<p>This Holy Grail of Critical Race Theory was trotted out in June by the <em>Washington Post</em> (with nine charts!), the <em>New York Times</em>, the ACLU and tons of others as proof positive of Institutional Racism.</p>
<p>Critical Race Theory says racism is everywhere. And permanent. And White Supremacy is responsible for the differences among races in education, incarceration, income, health and everything else.</p>
<p>They teach it in more than 200 school districts across the country. They repeat it on talk radio and MSNBC. Colleges devote entire semesters to it.</p>
<p>The message is clear, says one commentator at the <em>Washington Post</em> web site: “When you see the crime report next time, you know WHY the stats are black. Crime occurs at the same or higher rates in other communities, but the policing and prosecution is higher in the black communities.”</p>
<p>As I write this, a white Critical Race Theory professor from LaSalle University is saying the same thing on the black Philadelphia radio station, WURD. The host, Nick Taliafero, is rolling in it like catnip and congratulating the professor for his superior insight into white racism.</p>
<p>But before we open the prison doors, let’s ask two questions:</p>
<p>How do the professors and big city newspapers know that blacks and whites smoke pot at the same rate? A federal agency told them.</p>
<p>How do they know?</p>
<p>They ask. They do not test, just ask. And they assemble their answers every year in a report called the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse and Health.</p>
<p>The buzz word for this kind of research is “self-reporting.” And as you might guess, this research is itself the subject of a lot of research. And a lot of scientists have found that self-reporting on drug use is not reliable. Especially for one particular group of people: African Americans.</p>
<p>Let’s put aside for a moment the incredible disparity of crime rates among races. Rates of murder, assault, and theft are 300 to 800 percent higher among blacks. The most ardent Critical Race Theorists may excuse that, but even they cannot dispute it.</p>
<p>Let’s just focus on drugs.</p>
<p>According to the medical journal <em>Addictive Behaviors</em>, “underreporting of cocaine was documented with urine testing validation as well where African Americans in comparison to Caucasians who were urine positive were about 6 times less likely to report cocaine use when other factors are controlled for.”</p>
<p>Down at Johns Hopkins, they tested self-reporting of marijuana use among African Americans: “A study of 290 African American men in Baltimore, Maryland undergoing treatment for hypertension showed that self-reporting of illicit drug use is unreliable. Only 48 of the participants reported drug use but urine drug tests revealed that 131 had used drugs. “</p>
<p>Anyone who has ever done one nano-second of public opinion research of any kind knows this: You don’t ask. You check.</p>
<p>If you want to know if you are talking to a Democrat, look at the registration. If you want to know if they voted in 4 of the last 5 elections, don’t ask. Look.</p>
<p>A recent study that found that if you ask people how often they go to church, they lie. They actually checked and found people said they went to church twice as often as they really did.</p>
<p>The ministers knew their churches would be full if everyone were as devout as they said. But their churches were empty.</p>
<p>Cops know about drug abuse the same way. Find one and ask about different rates of drug use among different racial groups. Like the ministers, they know the difference between what people say and what they see in the pews. The streets.</p>
<p>And now the <em>Washington Post</em>, <em>New York Times</em>, and every wannabe Rachel Maddow want us to accept self-reported drug use as gospel?</p>
<p>And open the prison doors because of this faith-based initiative?</p>
<p>You have to wonder what they have been smoking.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another vivid example of why the West cannot comprehend the Islamic worldview.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/abdullahsword.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-192933" alt="abdullahsword" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/abdullahsword-450x324.jpg" width="270" height="194" /></a>Last month, according to <a href="http://www.emirates247.com/crime/region/two-maids-get-10-years-1-000-lashes-for-sorcery-2013-05-20-1.507147">Emirates247</a> ,<b> “</b>A Saudi court sentenced two Asian housemaids to 10 years in jail and ordered their lashed 1,000 times each after they were found guilty of indulging in sorcery at their employers’ houses…Their Saudi employers reported the two maids to the Gulf country’s feared religious police, saying they had discovered that their families had been harmed because of sorcery practiced by the maids against them.”</p>
<p>Emirates247 does not go into details, perhaps because its written for an English-reading audience which has enough difficulties dealing with the bare-bone facts of the report.  However, to give the reader an idea of the “colorful” nature of these many anecdotes of witches and warlocks emanating from Saudi Arabia—the birthplace and preserver of Islam—consider <a href="http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2006/05/29/24177.html">this 2010 Arabic report</a> about a flying, naked African sorceress arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2006.</p>
<p>According to <i>Al Arabiyya</i>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Men from the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice were surprised to find a naked African sorceress while conducting a raid on one of the dens of “Magic and Sorcery” in Medina.  The men reported that they tried to cover the witch but she refused.  The biggest surprise for them was when she “flew like a bird” out of the room and disappeared from the apartment leaving the twenty men of the committee in awe.  According to the newspaper <i>‘Ukaz</i> (issued Monday, May 29, 2006), the men of the Committee carried out the raid on Sunday and found more than 20 women in the den as well as the naked African witch.  The newspaper said that men continued to search for the “witch” on other floors of the building.   They were later surprised to find a man and his children crying out for help.  The man reported that  “A naked African woman fell from the ceiling in the kids’ room as they slept.  The kids woke up scared and started screaming.  We all ran away after I was sure she’s a witch.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The report continues by saying that the men finally found the “witch” and paralyzed her by reciting Koran verses.  They covered her up and arrested her, claiming to find “incense, beads and sorcery material as well as videos to teach magic and a piece of a school girl’s uniform, which alerted them to the fact that the ‘witch’ might have put a school girl under a spell.”</p>
<p>Commenting on the story,  senior Islamic cleric Sheikh Abdul Mohsin al-‘Ubeikan said “Magic is one of the greatest sins and may lead to atheism and polytheism.  It is unfortunate that wicked work is  practiced in the city of the Prophet, peace be upon him.”  He also declared that “some witches may ride a broom and fly in the air with the help of jinn.  This woman flew to another floor to escape the committee with the help of jinn.  I would like to thank the committee men for their blessed efforts to destroy each spoiler and ask Allah for his help as they support everyone.”</p>
<p>Bizarre?  The fact is, there is no end to such stories emanating from the prophet’s peninsula.  In April 2012, according to the Arabic website <a href="http://www.al-shorfa.com/cocoon/meii/xhtml/ar/features/meii/features/main/2012/04/17/feature-01">Al Shorfa</a>, an al-Qaeda affiliated group in Yemen, called Ansar al-Sharia (or the “Supporters of Sharia Law”), beheaded a woman for “practicing magic and sorcery.” Members of the group broke into the home of Sharifa Amr—a local healer who used natural herbs to treat sick people—“beheaded her, and then hung her severed head in front of the home of another popular healer in the region, as a warning that he might share her fate.”</p>
<p>In 2011, “Saudi Arabia&#8217;s religious police arrested an Indonesian housemaid for <a href="http://www.emirates247.com/news/region/maid-held-for-casting-spell-on-family-2011-10-11-1.422992">casting a magic spell </a>on a local family and ‘turning its life upside down.’” The maid “confessed” to using sorcery, and “commission experts took the magic items to their office and managed to dismantle and stop the spell.” In 2008, another women in the Arab kingdom was set to be <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7244579.stm">beheaded for witchcraft</a>.</p>
<p>This, then, is the mentality that governs Saudi Arabia—based not on “tribal culture” but Islam’s authentic teachings.</p>
<p>Far from being absurd aberrations to be dismissed, such accounts are stark reminders of the incompatibility between the Western and Muslim worldviews—remember Islam’s <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/8657/bewitched-animals-and-the-muslim-media">bewitched animals</a>?—or, more to the point, the difficulty Western peoples have transcending their own paradigms and understanding the Muslim worldview in its own right, above and beyond the issue of sorcery.</p>
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		<title>The Killer in the Tel Aviv Gay Lounge Was &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 04:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Plaut]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the Israeli Left tried to blame an anti-gay hate crime on religious Jews -- and failed miserably. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p dir="LTR"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/HUg_1455171i.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-192616" alt="HUg_1455171i" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/HUg_1455171i-450x318.jpg" width="270" height="191" /></a>It is now almost exactly four years since <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8180069.stm">the murderous attack on the homosexual</a> recreational center in Tel Aviv.   In August of 2009, a man with a gun entered the &#8220;Bar Ha-Noar&#8221; (the &#8220;Youth Bar&#8221;), a Tel Aviv gay lounge, murdered two and wounded others.  Then he escaped.</p>
<p dir="LTR">The reaction of the media and the chattering classes at the time is of interest.  The world media suddenly filled with self-righteous condemnations of Israel&#8217;s supposed violent intolerance towards homosexuals.  Never mind that the treatment of gays in Israel is at least a billion times better than in any Arab or Moslem country, and never mind the &#8220;gay pride&#8221; marches held in Israel all the time.</p>
<p dir="LTR">Israel has a long history of experiencing the adage that no good deed ever goes unpunished.  The world is full of <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/15/zionism-meet-feminism.html">anti-Semitic radical feminist organizations</a> calling for the destruction of the Middle East country that has had a woman Prime Minister, a woman Chief Justice, women university presidents, and countless women-owned and -managed businesses large and small.  In Arab countries rape victims may be executed for immodesty, women slaves may be sold in slave markets, and women may be prohibited from driving, but feminists just need to understand that this is their culture.  The only really intolerable oppression of women in the Middle East is in the territories that Israel &#8220;occupies.&#8221;</p>
<p dir="LTR">A similar trend has been growing among radical homosexual groups.  Homosexuals may be &#8220;kneecapped,&#8221; tortured and murdered by the &#8220;vice squads&#8221; of the Hamas and the PLO, but groups like &#8220;<a href="http://queersagainstapartheid.org/">Queers against Israel Apartheid</a>&#8221; serve as cheerleaders for the jihad.  <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/06/13/adl-lgbt-group-slam-cuny-for-sponsorship-of-anti-israel-pinkwashing-conference/">&#8220;Lesbian and Gay Studies&#8221; departments</a> at universities hold Bash-the-Jews conferences.   They are cheered on by the <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4208">tenured pogromchiki</a>, including <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/steven-plaut/collaborators-in-the-war-against-the-jews-judith-butler/">Judith Butler</a>.  Anti-Semitic homosexual groups operating under various names cropped up all over the world to denounce Israel and Zionism in general, and to back anti-Israel terrorism.  Some leftist academics in Israel invented the nonsense word &#8220;<a href="http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/TAU%20-%20Aeyal%20Gross%20-%20pinkwashing%20claims%20basis%20for%20NYT%20Israel-bashing.htm">pinkwashing</a>&#8221; to refer to the fact that supporters of Israel like to mention the tolerance towards homosexuals in Israel as a point in Israel&#8217;s favor.   The militant anti-Israel homosexuals and their academic supporters, invariably far Left, insist that mentioning such tolerance is merely a conspiratorial cover-up to divert attention away from Israel&#8217;s crimes against Arabs.</p>
<p dir="LTR">The Israeli local media at the time, along with just about any public figure having an opinion or a bully pulpit, presumed the attack on the bar/lounge was perpetrated by anti-homosexual religious right-wingers.  Their entire set of evidence for this was that the targets were homosexual and it all took place in a gay center.  Later Jack Teitel, the deranged ex-American who was jailed for acts of violence against Arabs, missionaries, and an anti-Israel leftist professor, tried to take &#8220;credit&#8221; for the attack, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/world/middleeast/02israel.html?_r=0">fueling the media feeding frenzy</a> against the religious Right.  All until the police proved he was grandstanding and had had nothing to do with the attack on the gay bar.  It appears that all his violent attacks were actually against heterosexuals.</p>
<p dir="LTR">Back in 2009, there were hints in the small print of the back pages, and these were mentioned in these cyber-incitements I post, that it just might be that the attack was not a hate crime at all but rather the act of one of the gay people who frequented the Tel Aviv center and who had some sort of personal non-political grudge.</p>
<p dir="LTR">This past week the police in Israel arrested four people whom the police are convinced were involved in that attack, including the shooter himself.  One of the arrested was a senior activist in the gay center.  The police are being uncharacteristically boisterous about their certainty that they caught the correct perps.  The media are still under a gag order about the details and the names.</p>
<p dir="LTR">But even with all the coyness, from remarks by the police it is now entirely clear that the attack on the Tel Aviv gay lounge 2009 was not a &#8220;hate crime&#8221; at all and was not carried out by anyone with an anti-gay political or religious agenda.  In fact it was <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/activist-in-israel-s-gay-community-arrested-over-deadly-2009-attack-on-tel-aviv-youth-center.premium-1.528090">carried out by other homosexuals</a>.</p>
<p dir="LTR">Without being too candid and clear (yet), the police are saying the perps had themselves been members or participants in the &#8220;bar&#8221; and had acted out of &#8220;personal revenge&#8221; motives.  They are not openly saying what personal revenge means, allowing people to imagine unpaid loans or sales of defective merchandise as the motive.  But if we cut to the chase, it is almost certain that the murderer was a jilted lover of someone in the club and went on a rampage.</p>
<p dir="LTR">Now no one thinks that heterosexuals are incapable of going on jealous rampages or committing multiple murders, and no one thinks that the massacres in Newton or Norway involved homosexuals, to name but two.  But at the same time let us keep in mind the kneejerk reaction of the entire world media and of the radical homosexual organizations in particular in blaming anti-gay hatred, religion, and Zionism as responsible for the violence.  It will be interesting to see how many of these homosexual organizations now step forward and apologize, or whether they prefer to maintain their posture as anti-Semitic cowardly pansies even after the truth has come out.  The refusal of the gay militants and of the media in 2009 to consider jilted gay love as the possible motive behind the Tel Aviv attack may be the worst form of homophobia around these days.</p>
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		<title>Lessons from Boston and Chechnya</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Prager]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We can't bring back the stolen lives -- but we can learn how to prevent it from happening again. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/boston-marathon-bombing-injuries-hard-to-treat-shrapnel_66357_600x450.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-186754" alt="boston-marathon-bombing-injuries-hard-to-treat-shrapnel_66357_600x450" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/boston-marathon-bombing-injuries-hard-to-treat-shrapnel_66357_600x450-450x328.jpg" width="270" height="197" /></a>We cannot bring back the stolen lives. We cannot bring back the lost limbs or the lost hearing. And we cannot mitigate the infinite grief of the victims&#8217; loved ones.</p>
<p>But there is something we can and must do: We must learn all the lessons we can.</p>
<p>Here are some:</p>
<p>1. The gulf between the decent and the indecent</p>
<p>Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older brother, once told an interviewer before a Golden Gloves boxing competition: &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a single American friend. I don&#8217;t understand them.&#8221;</p>
<p>The reason Tsarnaev didn&#8217;t understand Americans was not primarily cultural. Tsarnaev came to America when he was 14 or 15, an age when the vast majority of immigrants to America have assimilated quite successfully</p>
<p>Rather, the reason was that the indecent don&#8217;t understand the decent, just as the decent don&#8217;t understand the indecent.</p>
<p>One of the greatest insights I learned as a young man came from reading Viktor Frankl&#8217;s seminal work, &#8220;Man&#8217;s Search for Meaning.&#8221; Frankl was a Jewish psychoanalyst who survived Auschwitz, where nearly every member of his family, including his wife, was murdered. His conclusion: &#8220;There are two races of men in this world but only these two. The race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.&#8221;</p>
<p>Those &#8220;races&#8221; do not understand one another. But more important than understanding the indecent is overpowering and, when necessary, destroying the indecent.</p>
<p>2. Any religion or ideology that is above good and evil produces enormous evil.</p>
<p>For tens of millions of Muslims today, Islam is beyond good and evil: The infidel may be decent, but that is of no importance to the radical Islamist. For example, to become a &#8220;more religious&#8221; Muslim, Tamerlan Tsarnaev gave up boxing, marijuana, tobacco and even not wearing a shirt in the presence of females. Tsarnaev believed Islam forbade those things — none of which is an evil. But when it came to the greatest evil — murder (of non-Muslims) — his religion was not only silent, it was enthusiastically supportive.</p>
<p>Likewise, communists in the Soviet Union, China and elsewhere — and their many supporters in the West — raised the creation of egalitarian society and industrialization above good and evil. And Nazism elevated race above good and evil. The environmentalists who oppose vitamin A-injected rice in the Third World place their agenda above good and evil.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, most religious and secular ideologues find preoccupation with human decency boring. The greatest moral idea in history, ethical monotheism, doesn&#8217;t excite most people.</p>
<p>3. A victimhood identity produces cruelty.</p>
<p>The Tsarnaev brothers&#8217; primary self-perception was that of being Chechen victims, and that plus their religious convictions allowed them to blow up men, women and children with a perfectly clear conscience.</p>
<p>Even when victimhood status is objectively true — which it was not for these brothers, who were among the spectacularly fortunate few to be able to live in freedom and with unlimited opportunities — nothing provides people with as good a reason to commit atrocities as does a victim mentality.</p>
<p>4. Happiness is a moral issue.</p>
<p>Happiness is not an emotional state so much as it is a moral imperative. In general, those who act happy make the world better and those who act unhappy make it worse. This is equally true in the micro and macro realms. It is not surprising, therefore, that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was described by a cousin, Zaur Tsarnaev, in this way: &#8220;He was never happy, never cheering, never smiling.&#8221;</p>
<p>5. Boys will be bad men if they had no good men.</p>
<p>It is apparent that the younger brother Dzhokhar was deeply influenced by his brother, Tamerlan, who was seven years older. All of us who have an older brother, especially with a large age gap, know that he has a god-like status in the eyes of a young boy.</p>
<p>If good men do not inspire boys, bad men will. Without good older men in boys&#8217; lives, those boys are likely to grow up and do bad things. See our inner cities for further confirmation.</p>
<p>6. Universities and the left generally continue to deny any link between Muslim terrorists and their Muslim beliefs.</p>
<p>Just as in previous acts of Islamist terror, the left in general, and university professors in particular, continue to argue that it is wrong — actually bigoted — to associate these terrorists&#8217; religious beliefs with their terrorism.</p>
<p>Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown professor of sociology: &#8220;So you take one part of the element, that he&#8217;s Muslim. But he also might have listened to classical music. He might have had some Lil Wayne.&#8221;</p>
<p>MSNBC host Melissa Harris- Perry: &#8220;I keep wondering is it possible that there would ever be a discussion like, &#8216;This is because of Ben Affleck and the connection between Boston and movies about violence?&#8217; And of course, the answer is no. &#8230; Our very sense of connection to them is this framed-up notion of, like, Islam making them something that is non-normal.&#8221;</p>
<p>Zaheer Ali — Harvard graduate, recipient of Columbia University&#8217;s Merit Scholars Graduate Fellowship, recipient of the Social Science Research Council&#8217;s Mellon Mays Pre-Doctoral Research Grant — on MSNBC: &#8220;It isn&#8217;t Muslim that is a common thing here, it&#8217;s people who are alienated.&#8221;</p>
<p>Professor Brian Levin — director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino (formerly associate director of the Southern Poverty Law Center) — to Bill Maher:</p>
<p>&#8220;Look, it&#8217;s not like people who are Muslim who do wacky things have a monopoly on it. We have hypocrites across faiths, Jewish, Christian who say they&#8217;re out for God and end up doing not so nice things.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bill Maher&#8217;s response: &#8220;That&#8217;s liberal bullshit.&#8221;</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s what our children are routinely taught.</p>
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		<title>The Arrest of an Egyptian Television Satirist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration finally expresses concern about Morsi's oppression -- and the Islamists scoff. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-klein/the-arrest-of-an-egyptian-television-satirist/arrest-3/" rel="attachment wp-att-184515"><img class="wp-image-184515 alignleft" title="arrest" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/arrest.jpg" alt="" width="280" height="205" /></a>A dust-up broke out earlier this week between the U.S. State Department and the Muslim Brotherhood over the arrest of Egyptian television satirist Bassem Youssef on charges of insulting Islam and insulting Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-backed President Mohamed Morsi.</p>
<p>U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that Youssef&#8217;s arrest, &#8220;coupled with recent arrest warrants issued for other political activists, is evidence of a disturbing trend of growing restrictions on the freedom of expression.”</p>
<p>It&#8217;s about time that the Obama administration opened its mouth about the spiraling authoritarianism of Morsi&#8217;s Islamist regime, to which the United States is giving over a billion dollars of financial aid as well as F-16 fighters and tanks. But even the State Department&#8217;s mild rebuke was too much for Morsi&#8217;s friends in the Muslim Brotherhood. It unleashed a barrage of tweets denouncing the United States for condoning the insult of Islam and interfering in the domestic concerns of the Egyptian nation.</p>
<p>Here is a sampling endorsed by the Ikhwanweb, the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s official English website, which states that &#8220;Our tweets represent official Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s opinions&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;#FJP: We strongly condemn @StateDept statements, which means USG is welcoming &amp; condoning defamation of religion by some in Egyptian media&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;#FJP: Defaming religion allegation is a serious offense, a violation of Egyptian law, culture &amp; values, and a threat to societal peace&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;#FJP criticizes USG statements on @DrBassemYoussef onging investigations, calling it flagrant meddling in #Egypt&#8217; domestic affairs&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political wing of Egypt&#8217;s Muslim Brotherhood, denounced Victoria Nuland on its facebook page, accusing her of &#8220;unreserved audacity&#8221; and &#8220;blatant interference in the internal affairs of Egypt on an issue that is still under investigation.&#8221;</p>
<p>The U.S. Embassy in Cairo ducked for cover by shutting down its own Twitter feed temporarily after the Egyptian government criticized the embassy feed for linking to satiric commentary by the Daily Show&#8217;s Jon Stewart, Bassem Youssef&#8217;s idol and role model, critiquing Yousseef&#8217;s arrest.  When the Cairo embassy&#8217;s Twitter feed went back up, the tweet with the link to the Daily Show commentary was deleted. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Nuland, while standing by her own remarks, supported the embassy&#8217;s decision to remove the tweet that had angered the Egyptian government and its Muslim Brotherhood supporters.</p>
<p>The Obama administration needs to push back against Egyptian President Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood cohorts more aggressively.  It can start by telling Morsi publicly to mind his own business with regard to the incarceration of Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, the blind convicted terrorist who was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and plotting to bomb other New York sites.</p>
<p>Morsi has demanded the terrorist&#8217;s release to Egyptian custody. “What I want is to intervene for humanitarian reasons,” he said. He shouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;intervening&#8221; in the U.S. justice system for any reason, least of all &#8220;humanitarian&#8221; concern for a terrorist with innocents&#8217; blood on his hands.</p>
<p>The Muslim Brotherhood also wants to tell us how to interpret and apply our Constitution&#8217;s First Amendment protections for freedom of expression.  Reacting to the video last year that depicted Islam and its Prophet Mohammed in an unfavorable light, the Muslim Brotherhood said on its website:</p>
<blockquote><p>The repeated abuse of the Messenger of God indicate the presence of hatred and bigotry in those who stand behind it, with ignorance, connivance and indulgence in those who permit such persistent abuse.</p>
<p>Thus hurting the feelings of one and a half billion Muslims cannot be tolerated, and the people’s anger and fury for their Faith is invariably predictable, often unstoppable.</p>
<p>We denounce abuse of all Messengers of God, Prophets and Apostles, and condemn this heinous crime. We further call for criminalization of assaults on the sanctities of all heavenly religions.</p>
<p>Otherwise, such acts will continue to cause devout Muslims across the world to suspect and even loathe the West, especially the USA, for allowing their citizens to violate the sanctity of what they hold dear and holy. Hence, we demand that all those involved in such crimes be urgently brought to trial.</p>
<p>Certainly, such attacks against sanctities do not fall under the freedom of opinion or thought. They are crimes and assaults against Muslim sanctities, and must not be tolerated by the countries where they are produced or launched, since they are also detrimental to the interests of those countries in dealings with the peoples of the Muslim world.</p></blockquote>
<p>Morsi&#8217;s Muslim Brotherhood cronies have no problem telling us that we must criminalize free expression if it offends their sensibilities, even though such criminalization would be contrary to our most deeply held values of liberty and freedom of thought.  But shame on the U.S. State Department for even mildly suggesting that the Egyptian regime&#8217;s arrest and punishment of satirists or journalists for speaking their mind are evidence of a &#8220;disturbing trend.&#8221; If that is the way that Morsi and his friends want to play, then perhaps our money could find better uses than propping up his Islamist regime &#8211; starting with opening up the White House again to public tours.</p>
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		<title>The Childish Defense of Bradley Manning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 04:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/alan-w-dowd/the-childish-defense-of-bradley-manning/gty_bradley_manning_dm_121108_wg/" rel="attachment wp-att-179745"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-179745" title="gty_bradley_manning_dm_121108_wg" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/gty_bradley_manning_dm_121108_wg-450x340.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="204" /></a>Army Pfc. Bradley Manning has confessed to providing military and diplomatic secrets to WikiLeaks, pleading guilty to 10 criminal counts for what he once braggingly—and erroneously—called “the largest data spillage in American history.” In fact, what Manning perpetrated was the purposeful, premeditated and arguably treasonous publication of stolen national-security secrets. This was not a leak or a spill.</p>
<p>It pays to recall that this poster-child hero of the anti-war left gave U.S. military and diplomatic secrets to an anarchist group. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange openly admits that he wants to “bring down many administrations that rely on concealing reality—including the U.S. administration.” Likewise, Manning once <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/how-us-embassy-cables-leaked">boasted</a> about “worldwide anarchy in CSV format,” a reference to the kind of files he surrendered to Assange.</p>
<p>Over the years, Assange and his anarchists have published operations manuals for the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay; classified reports on the Battle of Fallujah; detailed information on U.S. military equipment, by unit, in Iraq; gun-camera footage of a U.S. helicopter attack in Baghdad; a U.S. Special Forces manual for bolstering allied governments; CIA strategies to shore up public support among allied populations for the war in Afghanistan; Social Security numbers of U.S. military personnel; and private diplomatic exchanges.</p>
<p>In addition, as <em>USAToday</em> reports, WikiLeaks has exposed U.S. efforts to remove nuclear materials from Pakistan, State Department plans to use diplomatic personnel as spies, quid-pro-quos offered by the Obama administration to persuade foreign governments to take on Gitmo detainees, cover-ups of missile attacks in Yemen, and support among Arab leaders to strike Iran.</p>
<p>While serving in Iraq, Manning downloaded classified videos, thousands of battlefield reports and 251,287 diplomatic cables. “I listened and lip-synched to Lady Gaga,” he bragged in a text exchange, “while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history.”</p>
<p>Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called WikiLeaks’ publication of secret diplomatic cables “an attack on America’s foreign policy interests.” According to Clinton, Manning’s WikiLeaks time bomb “puts people’s lives in danger, threatens our national security and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.”</p>
<p>Manning <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/us/bradley-manning-admits-giving-trove-of-military-data-to-wikileaks.html?pagewanted=all">says</a> he stole and transferred the data to illustrate “how the world would be a better place if states would not make secret deals with each other.”</p>
<p>What a silly, childish notion.</p>
<p>In fact, we all know from personal experience that secrecy often serves an important purpose. For instance, if Assange and Manning—both in serious legal trouble—really believed secrecy was so bad, why wouldn’t they post their consultations with counsel on YouTube or share their defense strategies with the world on WikiLeaks?</p>
<p>The answer is the very same reason why nation-states keep some things secret. Indeed, it is often secrecy—not transparency—that keeps the world from spinning out of control.</p>
<p>The Assanges and Mannings of the world will never accept it, but shadows and secrets are necessary to conduct diplomacy and carry out the sort of national-security strategy that deters and ends wars.</p>
<p>That’s one of the sad ironies of Assange’s WikiLeaks. By exposing secret decisions and actions that relate to foreign policy and national security, he thinks he is promoting peace. But in truth, his handiwork is doing the very opposite: It has a chilling effect on the very sorts of exchanges that avert war or limit its effects, thus increasing isolation—and decreasing understanding—between governments.</p>
<p>History shows us the benefit of shadows.</p>
<p>Working in the shadows, TR prevented a war over Venezuela and ended a war between Russia and Japan.</p>
<p>The Allies used shadows to orchestrate their deception before D Day.</p>
<p>Thanks to the shadow of secrecy, FDR launched the Manhattan Project, and Truman used its fruits to end World War II.</p>
<p>Quoting Gen. Stonewall Jackson, Ike once advised, “Always surprise, mystify and mislead the enemy.” He employed this formula to end the Korean War and prevent a war over Taiwan.</p>
<p>JFK and Khrushchev negotiated a way around World War III, thanks to shadows and back-channel diplomacy.</p>
<p>Reagan won the Cold War by waging an economic, intelligence, technological and propaganda war against the Soviet state—largely in the shadows.</p>
<p>To be sure, we know about these episodes today—and can learn from them—because secret records, cables and diaries have been declassified. But if they had been revealed in real-time—or if the principals thought what they were saying, doing and promising would be exposed in short order—history would be very different.</p>
<p>In short, some things need to be classified. And it’s not Bradley Manning’s or Julian Assange’s responsibility or right to determine what to declassify.</p>
<p>Tellingly, this war on secrecy waged by Manning, Assange and WikiLeaks is one-sided. They’ve aired the military strategy, diplomatic planning and dirty laundry of America and its allies—but not that of America’s enemies. There is no Iranian, North Korean, Taliban or al Qaeda equivalent to WikiLeaks. And whereas much of the Western world tolerates and some even applaud people like Assange and Manning, the Russian and Chinese governments simply erase people who expose their secrets.</p>
<p>In other words, WikiLeaks, whether unintentionally or purposely, puts the United States and its allies at a disadvantage. Some will say this has always been true of democratic governments vis-à-vis their dictatorial foes. But timing is everything. And WikiLeaks is shrinking the amount of time between policy formation, policy execution and public airing—and thus shrinking the shadows where American foreign and defense policy can work.</p>
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		<title>Mass Arrest and Torture of Christians in Libya</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/mass-arrest-and-torture-of-christians-in-libya/hands_holding_cruc_2484086b-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-179521"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-179521" title="Hands_holding_cruc_2484086b" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Hands_holding_cruc_2484086b1-450x324.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="194" /></a><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/death-for-preaching-christ-in-liberated-libya/">Last week’s news</a> of four Christian missionaries in Libya placed under arrest, possibly facing the death penalty for “proselytizing,” is apparently the tip of the iceberg.  Yesterday, Arabic media reported that over 100 Christian Copts from Egypt, who have been living and working in Libya, were recently arrested in Ben Ghazi—also on the accusation, or pretext, of being “Christian missionaries.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=BbPuoXHfhYY">One video</a>, apparently made by the Libyan militia interrogators—most of whom look like Islamic Salafis, with long beards and clipped mustaches—appeared on the Internet yesterday.  It shows a room full of detained Copts.  They sit hunched over on the floor—with all their hair shaven off, looking like dejected, or doomed, concentration camp prisoners.  According to one source, <a href="http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/65844/Egypt/Politics-/Egyptian-Copts-allegedly-detained,-tortured-in-Lib.aspx">many of these Copts have been tortured</a>.  Some have had the famous Coptic cross often tattooed on the wrists of Copts burned off with acid.</p>
<p>Next, the camera-man zooms in on the material which got them in this predicament: atop a table, several Bibles, prayer books, and pictures of Jesus, Mary and other saints appear spread out.  The Libyan interrogators being video-taped complain about how these Christians could dare bring such material into Libya, and that they, their abductors, are sure that the Copts were going to such Christian materials to proselytize Libya, to sporadic ejaculations of “Allah Akbar!” from across the room.</p>
<p>What is going on in Libya?  Do these reports—first of four foreign missionaries, including one American, now of more than 100 Christians from neighboring Egypt—indicate that Christian missionaries recently decided to flood Libya in droves?  Or are these ongoing reports an indication that post-Gaddafi Libya is simply intolerant of any Christian presence?</p>
<p>Concerning the four foreign missionaries whom the Western media picked up on earlier, it is difficult to say who they are and what they were doing, since they basically have been swallowed up by the Ben Ghazi prisons; their names and identities have not even been revealed.  As for the 100 Egyptian Copts, it is hard to believe they were proselytizing.  Christians in Egypt do not dare proselytize to their fellow Muslim citizens, who speak the same dialect and share the same Egyptian culture.  It is a dangerous thing to do.  Is it reasonable, then, to believe that some 100 dispossessed Copts decided to proselytize to Muslims in Libya—where it is common knowledge that the Obama-supported jihadis reign?</p>
<p>Even the Coptic Church in Egypt made statements to this effect.  According to Coptic Bishop Pachomios, &#8220;This is a very serious incident, in which Egyptian citizens were arrested on the mere suspicion [of proselytizing] and tortured while in detention.&#8221;  The bishop confirmed that these imprisoned Egyptian Christians were working in Libya, adding that &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t make sense that as many as 100 Egyptian Copts had decided to engage in proselytizing activities in another country.&#8221;  Other Coptic activists in Egypt also cast doubt on the proselytism charge.  Naguib Gabriel, head of the Cairo-based Egyptian Union for Human Rights, “expressed his dismay over the reports. He, too, voiced doubt that the Egyptians in question had been proselytizing in Libya,” while correctly pointing out that, &#8220;Even if this were proven to be the case, they should not have been detained because of it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Moreover, a recent <a href="http://global.christianpost.com/news/libyan-authorities-torture-arrested-coptic-christian-accused-of-proselytizing-90784/#7BjC1wtvtu1Ue2GE.99">Christian Post</a> article points out the inconsistencies in official statements from Libya, including how the number of Christian material being found on these alleged missionaries keeps inflating.  For instance, one Christian arrested under the accusation of having 30,000 Bibles in his possession, was later described by police as having 45,000 Bibles.</p>
<p>It is becoming clear that these arrests are increasingly less about actual Christian evangelism to Muslims, and more about Muslim hostility to Christians.  The Western media, when it reported about the four foreign missionaries, pointed out that the anti-proselytism law comes from the Gaddafi era.  Yet, under Gaddafi, one did not hear of such back-to-back arrests of alleged missionaries—just as one did not hear of attacks on Christian churches in Libya, such as the one that took place only two months ago, leaving two Christians dead.</p>
<p>Here, then, is yet another indicator of the true significance of the “Arab Spring” and the Obama administration’s wholesale support of it—hate and hostility for Christians.</p>
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		<title>Michael Behenna: Imprisoned for Killing a Terrorist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Volpe]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soldiers in combat zones not permitted the same right to self-defense as police officers. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/volpe/michael-behenna-imprisoned-for-killing-a-terrorist/15157218_bg1/" rel="attachment wp-att-178884"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-178884" title="15157218_BG1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/15157218_BG1-450x348.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="209" /></a>Last month, a final appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was filed on behalf of former Airborne Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna. Behenna has been locked up in Leavenworth since 2009. He’s serving a sentence of 25 years (he’s eligible for parole after 15) in the homicide of Ali Mansur Mohamed in Iraq in 2008. This ruling, said Behenna’s lawyers, will decide whether service-members will have the same right to self-defense in a combat zone that police officers have every day on duty.</p>
<p>Mohamed was a suspected terrorist with links to Al Qaeda in Iraq. On April 21, 2008, Behenna and his platoon were returning to their base in the Salahuddin Province in Iraq when their convoy was hit by an Improvised Explosives Device (IED). Two of his men, <a title="Specialist (rank)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialist_(rank)" target="_blank">Specialists </a>Adam Kohlhaas and Steven Christofferson, were killed.</p>
<p>On May 5, 2008, Behenna received a tip that a terrorist linked to Al Qaeda in Iraq and to the IED attack was staying in a house in the town of Butoma. Behenna and his men arrested Mohamed that evening and they found a cache of ammunition, a <a title="RPK" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPK" target="_blank">RPK </a>light machine gun, and a passport with Syrian visas.</p>
<p>Mohamed was returned to base and turned over for questioning. On May 16, 2008, Mohamed was set to be let go because the military said there wasn’t enough evidence to hold him. Behenna and his team were tasked with returning him home. According to an article in the Oklahoman, <a href="http://newsok.com/u.s.-supreme-court-appeal-filed-in-case-of-1st-lt.-michael-behenna/article/3743796/?page=2" target="_blank">here’s what happened next</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Behenna took Ali Mansur, an Iraqi civilian, to a deserted area, forced him to strip naked and then questioned him at gunpoint. In his court martial, Behenna claimed self-defense, saying he shot Mansur twice after the Iraqi threw a piece of concrete at him and lunged for his gun. An Iraqi translator who accompanied Behenna testified at Behenna’s court-martial that he murdered Mansour in cold blood.</p></blockquote>
<p>Behenna was court martialed for Mohamed’s murder on July 31, 2008. Opening statements in his trial started on February 23, 2009. On February 28, 2009, he was convicted of murdering Mohamed and sentenced to 25 years in Leavenworth.</p>
<p>So far, all appeals courts have sided against Behenna, claiming that he lost all rights to self-defense once Behenna pointed his gun at Mansour. Behenna’s attorneys believe that if these rulings stand, this would have serious ramifications for our military service people serving in combat zones. Their petition to the U.S. Supreme Court read in part:</p>
<blockquote><p>The majority woodenly treats a confrontation between a service-member and a suspected terrorist in a combat zone no differently than a barroom brawl between two civilians in the States.</p></blockquote>
<p>The petition then goes on to make these four points about the ramification of the Appeals Court decision.</p>
<p>• Service-members who overstep their authority instantly become defenseless targets for deadly enemy attacks.</p>
<p>• If they draw their firearms first, they could lose all right to self-defense &#8220;as a matter of law.&#8221;</p>
<p>• If they wait for the enemy to attack before drawing their weapons, they could lose their lives.</p>
<p>• Neither &#8220;basic concepts of criminal law&#8221; nor common sense requires service-members to make that Hobbesian choice.</p>
<p>Dr. Herbert MacDonell is a forensic scientist that testified at Behenna’s court-martial as a prosecution witness. He told prosecuting attorneys during that court-martial that in his estimation, Mansour was reaching for Behenna’s gun when Behenna shot the suspected terrorist. Here’s how Dr. MacDonell explained it in an <a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/middle-lines/2012/jan/18/pursing-truth-puzzles-evidence-interview-dr-herber/" target="_blank">interview with the Washington Times</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>I believe his (Behenna’s) testimony fits the known physical facts. If Ali Mansur was standing and reaching for Behenna&#8217;s gun and was, at that moment shot, it would explain the horizontal trajectory of Ali Mansur&#8217;s chest wound. If he dropped straight down and was shot in the head as his head passed in front of the muzzle of Behenna&#8217;s gun that would be consistent with the horizontal trajectory of the head shot and the near parallel trajectories of both shots.</p></blockquote>
<p>The US government has yet to respond to this latest petition. If the U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t take on the case, all that Behenna could hope for is a presidential pardon. If not, he’ll be forty years old before he leaves prison.</p>
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		<title>Surrendering to Sharia &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Josh Brewster, Leon Weinstein and Dwight Schultz analyze the tragedy that is supposed to be Obama's foreign policy. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/arrest1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-146090" title="arrest" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/arrest1.jpg" alt="" width="361" height="203" /></a>On this week’s <em>Glazov Gang</em>, Josh Brewster, Leon Weinstein and Dwight Schultz gathered to discuss <em>Surrendering to Sharia.</em> The discussion took place in the first segment of a two part series analyzing the Obama administration&#8217;s foreign policy disaster in the Middle East. The second segment focused on<em> The Persecution of a Filmmaker</em>. Both parts of the two part series can be seen below.</p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Part II:</strong></p>
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		<title>Thwarted Terror Attack Reveals Iranian Desperation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Moran]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid new sanctions, the Islamic Republic turns to state-sponsored terrorism against the U.S., Israel and the West. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/721-1gPdzG.AuSt_.55.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-136494" title="721-1gPdzG.AuSt.55" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/721-1gPdzG.AuSt_.55.gif" alt="" width="375" height="256" /></a>Two Iranian nationals <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hNNcfjhWxJ6ZUkINhq30oIwbpBVQ?docId=CNG.e2dddb0ced039a6ca22b2d8bbfecc90d.6c1">arrested in Kenya</a> in June with 33 pounds of explosives are alleged to have targeted American, Israeli, British, and Saudi interests in the African country, according to an exclusive <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/ap-exclusive-iranian-agents-in-kenya-planned-attacks-on-israel-us-uk-saudi-arabian-targets/2012/07/02/gJQAgSuWIW_story.html">AP report </a>quoting Kenyan officials. The news comes following the imposition of strict sanctions by the EU and America that appear &#8212; finally &#8212; to be <a href="http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/07/02/iran-feels-pinch-of-new-eu-oil-sanctions/">severely impacting </a>the Iranian people and economy. In response, Iranians are <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/01/iran-missiles-war-games-desert?newsfeed=true">ratcheting up tension </a>in the Persian Gulf by carrying out military exercises where they promise to test fire several dozen missiles, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/01/iran-missiles-war-games-desert?newsfeed=true">using replicas</a> of foreign army bases as targets. The message the mullahs are sending is clear; if America attacks, they can strike one of several US military bases in the region.</p>
<p>The sanctions are relatively stiff to be sure. The Europeans <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303933404577502802834827854.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">have banned</a> the importation of all Iranian oil and forbidden nations belonging to the EU from insuring oil tankers carrying Iranian crude. The United States, for its part, slapped severe <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-01/clinton-says-sanctions-pushing-iran-toward-negotiations.html">currency and banking restrictions </a>on Iran that have reportedly caused confusion and worry among the Iranian people.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Iranians continue to enrich uranium while <a href="http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=276013">stringing along</a> the P5+1 (Russia, China, Britain, Germany, France, and the US) nations who continue fruitless negotiations with Tehran about halting their uranium enrichment activities. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu <a href="http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=276013">told the Knesset,</a> &#8220;Iran is showing contempt for the whole world, and plans to enrich beyond 20%,&#8221; &#8212; a reference to a level of enrichment for which there is little commercial value and would be far easier to continue on to bomb grade levels of enrichment of 90%. Low-level <a href="http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=276084">technical talks</a> with the Iranian regime are to resume on Tuesday in Istanbul with little hope that a breakthrough of any kind can be achieved.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/the-axis/iran-s-global-terror-attempts-are-a-bid-to-defend-its-nuclear-program-1.448374">Some experts believe</a> that the arrest of the Iranians in Kenya and the targeting of US and Western interests is a sign that Iran will <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/the-axis/iran-s-global-terror-attempts-are-a-bid-to-defend-its-nuclear-program-1.448374">fight the battle </a>over its nuclear program by resorting to terrorism. The<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/ap-exclusive-iranian-agents-in-kenya-planned-attacks-on-israel-us-uk-saudi-arabian-targets/2012/07/02/gJQAgSuWIW_story.html"> AP report </a>contains some disturbing information. Kenyan officials say that the Iranians belonged to the Quds Force &#8212; the elite unit of the Revolutionary Guards tasked with assassination and terror attacks outside of Iranian territory. The Iranians were arrested in the coastal city of Mombassa where there are several Israeli-owned hotels. Kenyan officials <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/ap-exclusive-iranian-agents-in-kenya-planned-attacks-on-israel-us-uk-saudi-arabian-targets/2012/07/02/gJQAgSuWIW_story.html">told AP</a> that &#8220;the plot appears to fit into a global pattern of attacks or attempted attacks by Iranian agents, mostly against Israeli interests.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5, Britain&#8217;s security service, in a <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/the-axis/iran-s-global-terror-attempts-are-a-bid-to-defend-its-nuclear-program-1.448374">rare public statement,</a> said last week that &#8220;in parallel with rising concern about Iran’s nuclear intentions, we have seen in recent months a series of attempted terrorist plots against Israeli interests in India, Azerbaijan and elsewhere.&#8221; He added that &#8220;a return to state-sponsored terrorism by Iran or its associates, such as Hezbollah, cannot be ruled out as pressure on the Iranian leadership increases.&#8221; In short, the more the West pushes, the more desperate Iran becomes.</p>
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		<title>The Arrest of George Zimmerman: Justice or Politics?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Cohen]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/zimmerman.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-129090" title="zimmerman" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/zimmerman.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="428" /></a>Most people have responded to Angela Corey’s decision to charge George Zimmerman with second degree murder in one of two ways: they have applauded her or they have cautioned people to wait for the trial &#8212; in which we will hear all the facts. Very few people have accused Angela Corey of filing these charges for political reasons, despite her affidavit of probable cause not demonstrating probable cause, or indicating any new evidence that her predecessor didn’t <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/harvard-prof-alan-dershowitz-zimmerman-arrest-affidavit-irresponsible-and-unethical/">have</a>. Indeed nothing new has become public that would indicate significant new evidence since March 13, when the Sanford police concluded their <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-trayvon-martin-shooting-state-attorney-20120313,0,6200217.story">investigation</a>.</p>
<p>Prior to removing himself from the case, the District Attorney, Norm Wolfinger, disagreed with the lead investigator who wanted to bring <a href="http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/trayvon-martins-family-seeks-investigation-of-state-attorneys-actions/article2388763/?service=mobile">charges</a>. Wolfinger had agreed to put the evidence before a grand jury and allow them to decide whether to bring <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/20/fla-grand-jury-investigate-shooting-unarmed-black-/">charges</a>. The new prosecutor, who was appointed after public protests and major media attention, decided to forgo a grand jury and present a judge with an affidavit of probable cause. Assuming no significant new evidence has been uncovered (and we have no reason to believe it has), then either Corey is right or Wolfinger was right, but not both.</p>
<p>The major reason why one would not charge George Zimmerman with a crime is that, as Sanford police chief Bill Lee <a href="http://www.sanfordfl.gov/investigation/docs/Zimmerman_Martin_shooting.pdf">said</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“<em>When the Sanford Police Department arrived at the scene of the incident, Mr. Zimmerman provided a statement claiming he acted in self defense which at the time was supported by physical evidence and testimony.” </em></p></blockquote>
<p><em></em>In fact one of these eyewitnesses has come forward and spoken with the <a href="http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/state/witness-martin-attacked-zimmerman-03232012">media</a>. He related seeing a man wearing red lying on the ground screaming for help while another man was beating him. He ran to call police, and when he looked outside again the guy on top was lying dead in the grass from a gunshot wound.</p>
<p>One of the few documents that has been released to the public (now taken down) was the partial initial police report; this document contains the statement of Officer Timothy Smith, the first person to arrive at the scene. He states that George Zimmerman had blood on his nose and back of his head, along with grass on his <a href="http://www.wagist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Twin-Lakes-Shooting-Initial-Report.pdf">back</a>. While the media has raised a hue and cry over grainy security cam footage, we have the sworn statement of the first officer to arrive at the scene.</p>
<p>As Alan Dershowitz and others have pointed out the prosecutor&#8217;s affidavit of probable cause doesn’t contain either probable cause to charge Zimmerman with second degree murder, or any indication of new evidence. Manslaughter consists of an act which is neither reasonable nor justifiable and results in another person’s death; all murders could also be considered <a href="http://www.richardhornsby.com/crimes/homicide/manslaughter.html">manslaughters</a>. First degree murder involves deliberately killing another person as part of a preplanned plot or <a href="http://www.richardhornsby.com/crimes/homicide/first-degree-murder.html">scheme</a>. Second degree murder <a href="http://www.richardhornsby.com/crimes/homicide/second-degree-murder.html">involves</a> killing another person without premeditation, “by an act imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind showing no regard for human life.”</p>
<p>The prosecutor’s affidavit of probable cause doesn’t contain a description of anything remotely resembling that, nor do any facts available to the public point in that direction. The prosecutor claims (in the affidavit) that Zimmerman followed and confronted Martin, something happened, and Zimmerman shot <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/89120165/Zimmerman-Probable-Cause-Document-2">Martin</a>. The sole piece of evidence she presents to back up her claim is the statement of Trayvon Martin’s mother that the voice heard in the background of a 9-11 call is Trayvon’s.</p>
<p>As Alan Dershowitz correctly pointed out, and another lawyer has told me, the right to self defense is never forfeited. As long as George Zimmerman reasonably feared death or serious injury, and lethal force was his only available escape, then he is protected under the traditional rules of self defense. And given the presence of at least one eyewitness who saw George Zimmerman pinned to the ground and screaming for help, Zimmerman has a basis for that claim. Nothing in the affidavit contradicts George’s claim to self-defense.</p>
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		<title>Penn State: The Banality of Collaborative Evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>When the Israeli government captured Nazi mass murderer Adolf  Eichmann, journalist Hannah Arendt was struck by the fact that Eichmann  appeared to be a nondescript accountant type. He was not highly  intelligent, and he did not appear to be particularly vicious. This led  Arendt to the conclusion that anyone could, under the right ideological  circumstances, become evil. Evil, she said, was banal.</p>
<p>This was an exaggeration of the case. Eichmann was a willing  executioner of Hitler&#8217;s orders; he identified deeply with Hitler&#8217;s  anti-Semitism. He was not just a cog in the system, he was an active  system-maker.</p>
<p>But there is truth to the notion that anyone, given the right amount  of self-interest, can be sucked into collaborating with evil — or at  least looking the other way. Edmund Burke once stated that all that was  necessary for the triumph of evil was for good men to do nothing. The  Nazis believed ideologically in the murder of Jews, but the rest of the  Western world, including the Roosevelt administration, were willing to  sit idly, closing their gates to the refugees. A Holocaust is a  worldwide affair.</p>
<p>At Penn State, the same principle applied. Former defensive  coordinator Jerry Sandusky spent decades sexually assaulting young boys.  He started a charity, The Second Mile, to recruit young boys. One  victim was a houseguest with Sandusky. Sandusky fondled him, performed  oral sex on him and forced the boy to perform oral sex in return. A  Clinton County high school routinely called the victim out of study hall  to meet Sandusky in a conference room. The wrestling coach at the high  school, Joe Miller, saw Sandusky molesting the victim; Sandusky said  that he was wrestling the boy. Miller found the situation odd, but said  nothing. This behavior lasted from 2005 to 2009.</p>
<p>On March 1, 2002, graduate assistant Mike McQueary entered a locker  room at the University Park Campus. The lights and the showers were on,  even though it was 9:30 at night. McQueary looked into the shower and  saw a young boy with his hands against the wall being subjected to anal  sex by Sandusky. The graduate assistant reported this to Joe Paterno, coach  of the Penn State team. He was then called to meet with the Penn State  Athletic Director and the Senior Vice President for Finance and  Business.</p>
<p>Paterno was  nowhere to be found. Sandusky&#8217;s keys to the locker room were taken away,  and the incident was reported to The Second Mile. Nobody reported any  of this to the police.</p>
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		<title>FARC Cashes in on Mexican Drug War</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Marxist terrorist group backed by Chavez jumps in.]]></description>
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<p>Mexico’s drug war is still raging, with over 22,000 people having been <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36485196/ns/world_news-americas/">killed</a> since 2006. Now, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, often referred to as the FARC, are teaming up with the drug lords. The Marxist terrorist group’s ties to Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and other organizations make the conflict to the south a major threat to the United   States.</p>
<p>The violence in Mexico is severe. In the first two days of May, 25 people were <a href="http://www.alternet.org/rss/breaking_news/181170/drug_war_violence__sweeps_mexican_border_state,_25_dead/">killed</a> in Chihuahua, with several of the murders happening in Ciudad Juarez. As the month of May began, 62 people had been killed in the city over the previous week, bringing the total to 850 lives lost in that city alone in 2010. Last year, the Joint Forces Command <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479906,00.html">warned</a> that Mexico and Pakistan were the two countries most at risk of “rapid and sudden collapse.” There have been arrests of high-profile drug lords, but the violence and corruption continues.</p>
<p>The latest arrest of Mario Ernesto Villanueva Madrid revealed how deeply he had corrupted Mexican law enforcement. Documents captured after his arrest found that he was bribing those commanding the police and soldiers searching him, which explains how he was able to avoid capture for 11 years. The <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/world/americas/12mexico.html">described</a> Madrid as running “a sophisticated counterintelligence operation.” The drug lords are growing bolder, and instead of opening fire when they are pursued, they are now on the offensive. They are directly attacking the police, soldiers, and those serving the government.</p>
<p>Dr. Maria Velez de Berliner, the President of the <a href="http://www.lat-intel.com/">Latin Intelligence Corporation</a>, told FrontPage that the brutality of the Mexican drug lords now surpasses that of the Colombian drug traffickers, which is quite a feat.</p>
<p>“If this situation continues, the time will probably come when Mexico will replace Colombia as the largest producer and exporter of cocaine,” she said.</p>
<p>Now, it is known that the FARC is teaming up with the drug lords, offering a major source of income for their own operations and potentially providing the criminals with the military expertise they need to further destabilize Mexico. The FARC connection also gives Hugo Chavez the ability to covertly attack Mexico and the United States and gain intelligence. It also means that other terrorist groups that are connected to FARC or the drug lords have the ability to send arms and operatives into the U.S. if they are willing to pay for it.</p>
<p>The leader of the FARC until 2008, the late Raul Reyes, is now known to have written a letter to his top commanders confirming that a relationship with the Mexican drug lords existed. He was enthusiastic about the new partnership, saying it would allow them to double their profits. It is estimated that FARC already makes $1 billion annually through its work with drug lords. According to Michael Braum, a former operations chief for the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Mexican criminals <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/world/Mexican-drug-dealers-strengthen-ties-to-Colombia-terrorist-93988399.html">want</a> to buy “multiton quantities of cocaine directly from South America.”</p>
<p>Dr. Maria Velez de Berliner said that the “FARC is not interested in attacking the U.S, they don’t have the field capability to do so.” However, she warns that FARC’s business with other terrorists and drug traffickers does threaten the U.S.</p>
<p>Olavo de Carvalho, a philosopher from Brazil who has written extensively about the activity of the Marxists in Latin  America, agreed with her, saying that the FARC will not initiate military operations against the U.S. in the near-term.</p>
<p>“…but they can give strategic support to Mexican gangs operating in American territory, exactly as they did with several Brazilian gangs, transforming them from mere bunches of criminals into powerful and well-armed organizations. This is a serious and imminent threat,” he said.</p>
<p>The instability in Mexico is directly benefiting Hezbollah, which is now tied to the Venezuelan government and possibly the FARC. The smuggling routes used by the Mexican drug lords are being utilized by Hezbollah, using “the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels,” <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/27/hezbollah-uses-mexican-drug-routes-into-us/">said</a> Braun. The terrorist group has a long history of engaging in drug trafficking in order to fundraise.</p>
<p>“They [Hezbollah] are doing the same thing in Latin  America that they are doing in the Middle East, particularly in Lebanon, and providing medical and social services,” Dr. de Berliner said.</p>
<p>She also mentioned that the FARC is working with Chinese gangs in the tri-border area of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. These gangs could potentially buy and upgrade the FARC’s semi-submersibles and use them in their human trafficking efforts, allowing them to potentially insert operatives into the U.S.</p>
<p>Al-Qaeda also will benefit from the FARC’s new ventures, and could conceivably pay them, or the Mexican drug lords, to help them smuggle in operatives. In fact, Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Somalia, Al-Shabaab, may have already done so as someone connected to the group oversaw the <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/crime/Feds-can_t-find-270-Somalis-they-say-Va_-man-illegally-helped-come-to-U_S_-84799152.html">smuggling</a> of 270 Somalis into the U.S. through Mexico.</p>
<p>FARC has already begun using Al-Qaeda members in West  Africa in order to deliver drugs to Europe. Three members of Al-Qaeda have been <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6034L920100104">arrested</a> in West  Africa and were extradited to the U.S. in December. The DEA’s director of South America’s Andean region says that “All of the aircraft seizures that have been made in West  Africa, and we’ve made about a half a dozen of them, had departed from Venezuela.”</p>
<p>The separatist Basque ETA terrorists of Spain have entered into an alliance with the FARC as well, an unsurprising development considering the hostile relationship between Spain and Venezuela. A Spanish court has charged a Venezuelan official and a dozen FARC and ETA members with terrorism-related offenses, and Venezuela is refusing to extradite the suspects.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/19/AR2010051905472.html">evidence</a> against them stems from seizures made by the Colombians that provided evidence that ETA members attended FARC camps from 2003 to 2008, located near Machiques in Venezuela. The ETA members provided explosives training for at least five FARC units, and two former FARC operatives have confirmed seeing ETA members training at their camps in 2008. The ETA members traveled with Venezuelan military officers, proving that Chavez’s government is involved in the relationship. This is a reminder that Chavez and other leaders often use the terrorists they support as a liaison with other groups, providing them with deniability.</p>
<p>The crisis in Mexico can not be seen in isolation. The worst enemies of the United   States and the West are seeing it as a platform with which to expand their own capabilities. The debate about how the open border facilitates illegal immigration must be modified, because the problem goes much further than that. Terrorist groups are using the strife in Mexico and the open border to fundraise and sneak their operatives into the U.S. as we speak.</p>
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		<title>Pakistan arrests 2 senior Afghan Taliban &#8211; AP</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Laksin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan has captured two &#8220;shadow governors&#8221; belonging to Afghanistan&#8217;s Taliban movement, an Afghan official said on Thursday. The timing of the reported arrests coincides with the capture of Taliban&#38;apos;s second-in-command Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Pakistan&#38;apos;s Karachi by Pakistani and U.S. agents this month. Mullah Abdul Salam and Mullah Mir Mohammad, respectively the shadow governors [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pakistan has captured two &#8220;shadow governors&#8221; belonging to Afghanistan&#8217;s Taliban movement, an Afghan official said on Thursday.</p>
<p>The timing of the reported arrests coincides with the capture of Taliban&amp;apos;s second-in-command Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Pakistan&amp;apos;s Karachi by Pakistani and U.S. agents this month.</p>
<p>Mullah Abdul Salam and Mullah Mir Mohammad, respectively the shadow governors of the northern Afghan provinces of Kunduz and Baghlan happened in Pakistan&amp;apos;s Baluchistan province, the Afghan governor for Kunduz said.</p>
<p>&#8220;My information about their capture, which occurred nearly a week ago, is based on national intelligence sources,&#8221; Mohammad Omar told Reuters.</p>
<p>Pakistan has yet to comment about the report on the arrest of the two men, who both reported to Baradar.</p>
<p>Since their ouster from power by U.S.-backed Afghan forces in 2001, the Taliban have appointed shadow governors whose primary responsibility is organizing Taliban military activities.</p>
<p>The reported detentions come after mounting criticism by some U.S. officials who say Islamabad is not tackling Afghan Taliban based on it soil, using it as a base for carrying out attacks on Afghan and foreign troops across the border.</p>
<p>Washington has hailed Pakistan for the capture of Baradar, the seniormost Taliban leader to be held since the movement&amp;apos;s ouster from power in Afghanistan more than eight years ago.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_afghanistan_taliban_pakistan;_ylt=AgEIMYVwjCuaU8LgQWpI7XKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTN2NWY5bHB2BGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTAwMjE4L3VzX2FmZ2hhbmlzdGFuX3RhbGliYW5fcGFraXN0YW4EY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwMxBHBvcwMyBHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNvZmZpY2lhbHBha2k-">Pakistan arrests 2 senior Afghan Taliban: official &#8211; Yahoo! News</a>.</p>
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