Category: Terror War

A couple of people have sent us links to the Miami Herald in regards to the story of Air Force Lieutenant Anais A. Tobar who was found dead in her room in the United Arab Emirates;

First Lt. Anais A. Tobar, 25, was found dead in her room, according to a U.S. Air Force spokesperson. The Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations is still investigating the circumstances of her death.

According to the Department of Defense, she was in the UAE supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led operation against the Islamic State.

She was assigned to the Fourth Maintenance Squadron, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. She was deployed in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, when she died.

From The Air Force Times;

The maintenance squadron, part of the 4th Maintenance Group, Air Combat Command, is responsible for equipment maintenance for the largest F-15E Strike Eagle fighter wing in the Air Force, according to the base.

She was born in Venezuela and moved with her family to Florida when she was a child. She was commissioned after college and she was named “company grade officer of the year” of the Fourth Maintenance Group at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base last year.

In Tucson, Arizona, this 18-year-old Mahin Khan fellow was arrested for trying to plot a terror attack against a Jewish center with local members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force;

The agent said undercover employees communicated with Khan online and provided him a prepaid cell phone. He said Khan was trying to get rifles, a handgun and pressure cooker bombs.

“Mr. Khan referenced, at that time recent, November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris and said that he wanted to kill 200 to 300 people in a similar fashion,” the agent said.

Khan also wanted to target a Tucson Air Force recruiting center and a Motor Vehicle Division office in Mesa.

He also told the agents that if children were at any of those locations, he would shoot them, too. After he was arrested, he didn’t back down from his intent. he wrote in his statement that he hoped other jihadists would learn from his mistakes.

I’m sure that some agents are still trying to sort out his motivations for pursuing this path.

The German government tried to stay quiet on the number of sexual assaults that German women suffered on this last New Year Eve, but according to the Washington Post, the numbers were leaked recently, and they are staggering;

More than 2,000 men were allegedly involved, and 120 suspects – about half of them foreign nationals who had only recently arrived in Germany – have been identified.

Only four have been convicted, but more trials are underway.

On Thursday, a court in Cologne sentenced two men in the New Year’s Eve assaults. Hussein A., a 21-year-old Iraqi, and Hassan T., a 26-year-old Algerian, were handed suspended one-year sentences. Both arrived in Germany in the past two years, a court spokesman said. He declined to specify whether the two had sought asylum.

Officials have linked the sexual assaults to the influx of refugees. “There is a connection between the emergence of this phenomenon and the rapid migration in 2015,” Holger Munch, president of the German Federal Crime Police Office, told Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

In reaction, the German Parliament passed a new law, because, you know sexual assault isn’t illegal enough;

The new law will be based on the premise that “no means no,” meaning that sexual assault can be punished as rape if the offender ignores the “discernible contrary will” of the victim.

Thomas Lifson, at the American Thinker writes;

That alleged attackers greatly outnumber alleged victims reveals gang attack methodology that seems to be characteristic of sharia enforcement gangs, who pick on girls behaving in un-Islamic ways.

The German government tried to hide this from the world like good dhimmis.

According to the Washington Post, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced that another infantry battalion (560 troops) is headed to Iraq while the secretary was at Baghdad Airport this morning. Iraqi troops recently took back Qayyarah Air Base from ISIS which will provide a launch pad for more operations against the terrorists;

The decision will elevate the number of U.S. troops the Pentagon counts in Iraq to 4,647. Unofficially, that figure is probably closer to 6,000 when it takes in a variety of American troops who deploy on temporary assignments that the Pentagon does not include in its official tally.

The additional service members will provide a variety of support to Iraqi forces, especially infrastructure and logistical capabilities, Pentagon officials said. They described the newly seized air base, Qayyarah Air Base, as an important springboard to take back the Islamic State-held city of Mosul, which is about 40 miles north.

Funny how that mission creep thing sneaks up on you, isn’t it?

According to the Post, the airbase was taken by Iraqis with the help of US airstrikes and the use of High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS);

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.

The other day, the President announced his plan to reduce the number of troops in Afghanistan, yet again. A rational person might think that the new number was based on detailed planning and the result of months of study. Well, not according to the Secretary of Defense when he was talking to reporters on a flight to Poland yesterday, as told by the Washington Post;

Carter…said he did not know how many of the 8,400 troops that President Obama announced Wednesday will remain in the country next year will be focused on advising Afghan forces versus striking al-Qaeda and other terrorists.

“We haven’t decided,” the Pentagon chief said, adding that some will come from each category.

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There are currently about 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, with some 6,950 focused on the advising mission, known as Resolute Support, and more than 2,000 involved in raids and other counterterrorism missions in an operation known as Freedom’s Sentinel.

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A senior defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity in order to discuss Carter’s comments, said that Army Gen. John W. Nicholson Jr., the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is still determining “the specific number devoted to each mission. But the majority of U.S. troops in Afghanistan will remain focused on the advising mission, the official said.

So basically, the Secretary is admitting that the administration just pulled the 8400 number out of their collective ass. If there was a plan, they would know what each soldier in Afghanistan would be doing on a given day – that’s how you arrive at a number as low as 8400.

But, there is no plan, no rhyme nor reason, just a number that is smaller than the number of troops who are in Afghanistan this year. The overarching plan of the Obama Administration for Afghanistan is withdrawal, no more no less.