The US embassy in Ankara said on Wednesday it had suspended “all non-lethal assistance” into northern Syria after members of the newly formed Islamic Front took over premises belonging to the Free Syrian Army’s Supreme Military Council, which is aligned to the anti-Assad opposition National Coalition. […]
The Islamic Front, which comprises six rebel brigades, seized warehouses reportedly containing dozens of anti-aircraft weapons and anti-tank rockets at the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the Turkish border last weekend. The group is backed by Saudi Arabia.
Wrong Turn At Al Buquerque
Probably nothing: Quebec license plates found in a jihadist rebel cache in Syria amid equipment used to make homemade bombs…
Bin Laden is Dead And Ambassador Stevens Is Dead
Al Qaeda in Syria: A Snapshot
Local Syrians call the boss of Da’esh in Tal Abyad “Temsah.” “The Crocodile.”
The Crocodile is Syrian. The name is appropriate for those foreigners who are feeding the crocodiles with money and guns based on the nonsense idea of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Foreigners and some governments are helping radicals so that they will eat the Assad regime, with others–such as the Iranian Quds force–aiding Assad because part of their long game is to eat Israel.
The World Is In The Very Best Of Hands
With few good choices in dealing with Iran’s push for nuclear weapons, former CIA and NSA Director Gen. Michael Hayden said he’s OK with letting the six-month temporary deal with the country go forward.
But we should be truthful, Hayden told Fox News Sunday. “We have accepted Iranian uranium enrichment.”
Turning to NSA leaker Edward Snowden…
“This is catastrophic for the safety and the security of the American nation,” Hayden said. Still, he doesn’t think the U.S. government should back away from pursuing Snowden.
To do so, he said, would be like “negotiating with terrorists.”
h/t DaninVan
Bin Laden is Dead And Ambassador Stevens Is Dead
CNN: The leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence committees said Sunday that terrorists have gained ground in the past two years and that the United States is not any safer than it was at the outset of 2011.
What Goes Around
Hezbollah fears more suicide attacks. That’s the headline in NOW Lebanon after a suicide bomber blew himself and others to pieces outside the Iranian embassy in the Hezbollah-controlled suburbs south of Beirut. […]
Hezbollah did not invent terrorism, of course. Nor would the Middle East be stable and happy if it weren’t for its suicide bombers. But there is a karmic sort of justice at work now that a terrorist army and its biggest state sponsor are themselves victims of their own deplorable tactics.
Those Moderate Muslims
Bin Laden is Dead And Ambassador Stephens Is Dead
Terrorist attacks and deaths hit record high, report shows.
Four Blood Moons
“It’s really getting harder to sleep through this.”
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
“You know, we don’t have 10 laws in this country,” he said. “We have one law. And people have to obey the law.”
Wrong on both counts. We have two laws.
#Priorities
The Kenyan police are essentially live-tweeting their operation to take back the Westgate mall: @PoliceKE
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) September 23, 2013
Could’a Been In Kenya
Could’a been a contender.
Those Moderate Muslims!
Peshawar & Nairobi: 1000s of miles apart, yet one this morning. Take a look at this screenshot http://t.co/Pv9lldEO6h pic.twitter.com/NydBQhflR1
— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) September 22, 2013
Those Moderate Muslims!
Massacre in Kenya: ‘All Muslims leave… we only want to kill non-Muslims’
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
November, 2009 – General Casey: “diversity shouldn’t be casualty of Fort Hood”
September 2013 – “The CIA found that among a subset of job seekers whose backgrounds raised questions, roughly one out of every five had “significant terrorist and/or hostile intelligence connections,”
h/t EBD
This Is Your Brain On Political Correctness
As the writer Barry Rubin pointed out, Major Hasan was the first mass murderer in US history to give a PowerPoint presentation outlining the rationale for the crime he was about to commit. And he gave it to a roomful of fellow army psychiatrists and doctors – some of whom glanced queasily at their colleagues, but none of whom actually spoke up. And, when the question of whether then Captain Hasan was, in fact, “psychotic”, the policy committee at Walter Reed Army Medical Center worried “how would it look if we kick out one of the few Muslim residents”.
So instead he got promoted to major and shipped to Fort Hood.
Deep Impact
Hey, maybe I could warm up to this Assad fellow after all: New York Times Website Hacked, Syrian Electronic Army Appears to Take Credit
More at the Guardian.
I Amuse Myself
Let's review: al-Qaida shows up to battle the Ba'athists, and we're supposed to pick a favourite? @JohnGormleyLive #syria
— Katewerk (@katewerk) August 27, 2013
Drudge has the headlines.
Related: Senator Joe Biden in 2007: I Will Move To Impeach If President Bush Bombs Iran Without Congressional Approval
Fade To Pink
President Obama has not made a decision about how to respond to the use of chemical weapons in Syria http://t.co/G5dlR7xRuU
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 26, 2013
Baby Boomers
Achmed JR.
