Category: Terror War

ABC7 reports that Mohammed Hamzah Khan was arrested in October (when we first talked about him) by the FBI when he tried to board a flight in Chicago bound for Istanbul. He was indicted Thursday. His intent, the Feds say, was to join the Islamic State in Syria;

After Khan’s arrest, the FBI found diaries and letters in which the teenagers fumed about U.S.-led bombing campaigns in Syria and Iraq that targeted the Islamic State. He has been locked up in the MCC-Chicago since being arrested and is held without bond.

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Khan was born in the US and lived with his parents in southwest suburban Bolingbrook. He attended Benedictine College in Lisle for one year.

Of course, the concern is that he’ll go over there, get training and come home to use it against folks here, like the Kouachi brothers did in Paris.

Breaking: It looks like the French authorities have the last two murderers cornered.

I’m reading news reports about these bubble-heads who attacked news offices in Paris the other day. There’s BS about how highly trained they are, that they trained in Yemen with al Qaeda – it doesn’t take a lot of training to successfully murder 12 unarmed people. I don’t think the media knows what ‘highly-trained” looks like. I think they mean that they fired a lot of bullets, but that takes no training.

Then there’s this from ABC News that one of the perpetrators was a failed rap artist.

Cherif Kouachi, 32, was briefly featured in a 2005 French television documentary as an aspiring rap musician who was arrested on terror charges that put him in prison for a year and a half. At the time, Cherif had told a French court that the scandal at Abu Ghraib prison and the influence of a young religious leader convinced him to give up rapping to prepare himself for jihad abroad, according to local reports.

I’m thinking he gave up being a rap artist because he sucked. But isn’t that fellow who beheads westerners on videos in Syria also a failed rap artist? Maybe we should ban rap and get proactive about this terror thing. or we should execute rappers when they fail at rapping.

The Paris terrorists were apparently on the US’ Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) system – the no-fly list according to “US sources“.

There are photos of 100s of thousands of Parisians marching against terror the other night. I’m thinking they’re at least a week late. Maybe if Parisians were less tolerant of terrorists, this wouldn’t have happened in the first place. the media is suddenly brave and they’ve been reproducing the cartoons. Well, except CNN, that only cares about the 1st Amendment when they’re defaming Vietnam veterans. But where were all of these brave journalists last week, or last year, or in 2006?

Lucky for us, we have Howard Dean who says that the attack yesterday has nothing to do with the Muslim faith. Despite the fact that the terrorists yelled “God is Great”! in their language and the whole attack happened because Charlie Hebdo published some cartoons depicting Mohammed. So, no, it can’t have anything to do with Islam.

Some dingus MSNBC guest equated the attack yesterday to Jerry Falwell suing Hustler Magazine. USAToday published a screed by Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary who blames the French government for the attack because they didn’t shut down Charlie Hebdo and “allowed” them to “provoke Muslims”.

Ron Paul says that we deserve terrorist attacks because of our foreign policy.

These are the people who will bring terrorism to our shores because they refuse to see it for it is.

Treating terrorism as a law enforcement issue isn’t working – law enforcement can’t do anything until people die. The Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive war kept terrorists from our shores. They lined up in front of the guns of our troops to go to God. The drones in Yemen seem to be doing an admirable job at killing terrorists, but obviously not well enough. We need to either step up our game, or withdraw entirely from the world stage, because what we’re doing now is wasting the resources we have available to take the war to the real enemies.

Islam isn’t a terrorist religion, but it seems that the worst terrorists happen to be Muslim.

According to the Stars & Stripes a hundred more soldiers are preparing to deploy to the war against ISIS. This bunch comes from Joint Base Lewis McChord and they’re signal folks from the 35th Signal Brigade;

They’ll join more than 2,100 other American servicemembers already serving in Iraq and will support the U.S. Central Command mission against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

About 1,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division’s 3rd Combat Team will deploy from Fort Bragg, N.C., around the same time and also expect a nine-month deployment.

But, it’s a good thing that the war in Iraq has ended.

Ex-PH2 sends us a link to an MSN article about the terror attack this morning on the offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo this morning which took eleven innocent lives. The weekly apparently attracted the ire of terrorists when they republished cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that had originally appeared in Danish daily Jyllands-Posten in 2006.

A source close to the investigation said two men “armed with a Kalashnikov and a rocket-launcher” stormed the building in central Paris and “fire was exchanged with security forces”.

The source said a gunman had hijacked a car and knocked over a pedestrian while attempting to speed away. He added that two police officers had died in the attack.

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The gunmen shouted “we have avenged the prophet,” according to a police source.

The editor of the weekly has received death threats recently and she lives under police protection. Oh, by the way, MSN also reports that the terrorists also had rocket launchers. Those are probably illegal in France. According to Wikipedia, France requires permits for semi-automatic weapons with a magazine capacity larger than three. I wonder if these terrorists had permits for their AKs.

France has raised it’s terrorist alert warnings to it’s highest level.

Chief Tango sends us a link to a piece from former Bush speech writer Mark Thiessen in the Washington Post which took a poll just before Christmas in regards to “enhanced interrogation techniques” and the report that Dianne Feinstein rushed out to the media after Democrats lost the Senate which condemned the CIA. The Post found that the report didn’t effect most Americans’ opinion of the use of those techniques;

Americans were asked, “Looking ahead, do you feel that torture of suspected terrorists can often be justified, sometimes justified, rarely justified or never justified?”

Note that the pollsters used the loaded word “torture” (even though the CIA contends that the techniques did not constitute torture), which should have biased the question in favor of the critics. Instead, 17 percent replied they would support using the techniques “often,” 40 percent “sometimes” and 19 percent “rarely.” Only 20 percent said the techniques should “never” be justified.

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Indeed, the poll shows that Feinstein and the opponents of CIA interrogations have actually lost ground over the past five years. In April 2009, the Pew Poll asked almost the exact same question. Back then, 71 percent said they would support enhanced interrogation (15 percent “often”; 34 percent “sometimes”; 22 percent “rarely”).

Only 25 percent said “never.” So in five years, we’ve seen a 5 percentage point shift in support of enhanced interrogation.

Kind of sounds like the gun control debate doesn’t it? The more the left yammers about a subject, the more political they look and the more they lose Americans. Clearly, they don’t listen to Americans, they tell us how to feel and think about issues. The Left is so accustomed to preaching to us from their bubble, they don’t even know that they’re out of touch with their constituency.

I’m going to miss them a little.

The Christian Science Monitor reports that the Obama Administration is in a war of words about what their intentions are in regard to the war against the Daesh/ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State. The President says that his intent is to “destroy” the organization, that we should make no mistake about that. But his staff says otherwise;

[Retired General John Allen, the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL] offered his own thoughts as to why he believes that the goal of “destroying” IS might not be the best choice.

“Annihilation requires a great deal of investment, resources, and time,” he told Der Spiegel. He then took another tack.

“The defeating, dismantling, and degrading” of IS will result in “ultimately destroying the idea.”

Destroying the idea of IS “is the long-term objective,” he said.

So what is the difference between this and destroying the organization itself?

“We can only destroy [IS] when we destroy the attractiveness of the brand itself,” Allen said. “When you can defeat the idea, then you have destroyed the organization.”

To me, “destroy” means that the battlefield is littered with parts of bloody corpses, that the idea of an Islamic State died with the last gasp of the last jihadist. When we destroyed Hussein’s Army in Iraq, there were no more living Iraqis in Kuwait – their “ideas” went with them, we crushed their jeeps under our tank treads, we blew up their Type 56 antiaircraft guns with C-4, we used thermyte grenades on the AK47s that they threw down on their run to Basra. We knew how to destroy an enemy, but then there were no American politicians in Iraq or Kuwait in those days.

Fox News interviews this “John” fellow who claims that he was recruited on Facebook by the Kurds;

“There was a Facebook page for it. Shot them a message, expressed my interest, they got back to me, told me to send them, essentially, a resume for their vetting purposes,” he said. “I just went online and bought a ticket. It was that easy. It was like booking a flight to Miami Beach.”

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“It’s extremely dangerous in that they’re taking anyone with no military experience, no age requirements, no physical restrictions,” he said. “They are just taking people there, giving them a gun saying, ‘Hey, good luck, buddy’,”

He said he was met at the airport and immediately driven to fight on the front lines.

Whaa? No predeployment training? No standing in lines for shots and updating life insurance? Just fly in get a gun and get a ride to the combat. I’ll bet he didn’t even have to stand in line for a rifle, or have a chance to stand in line at the range so he could zero it. Third world combat is the best combat.

I can’t wait until the phonies discover this is a way to make themselves into heroes without getting caught by documentation.