Let’s hope Treason is among the charges.
Sources suggest the 90 Canadian suspects who joined, or tried to join, ISIS are being rounded up tonight.
— John Ivison (@IvisonJ) October 23, 2014
On the other hand…
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Sweet Jesus.
CTV News has confirmed mother of suspected shooter is Susan Bibeau, Deputy Commissioner of Immigration and Refugee Canada.
— Norma Reid (@CTVNorma) October 23, 2014
…and was the son of Bulgasem Zehaf, a Quebec businessman who appears to have fought in 2011 in Libya,
Open Thread – Ottawa
The last was getting a bit unwieldy. We’ll pick up here where the other left off. This will be top of SDA for a while. New (previously scheduled) posts will happen through the day below. As before, updates below the fold.
On Sunday, we asked a very handsome guard for a picture with my friend visiting from Cali – RIP Nathan Cirillo pic.twitter.com/q80EZ6nwmo
— Megan Underwood (@megunder) October 22, 2014
Bin Laden Is Dead And Ambassador Stevens Is Dead
The #IslamicState launched rockets into the Green Zone in #Baghdad. Ambulances being rushing to the area and helicopters deployed.
— AbuUmar8246 (@Abu_Umar8246) October 21, 2014
“Ahmad the Convert”
RCMP statement on St-Jean-sur-Richelieu suspect Martin Couture-Rouleau: "clear indications that [he] had become radicalized."
— Tu Thanh Ha (@TuThanhHa) October 20, 2014
Bottom Gun
Via email;
Referring to the latest reports about some jihadists learning how to fly in ISIS, there is a video about an air crash, probably in Tobruk, in the last few weeks.
Considering all the things happening in Libya now and the way the MIG-21 plane was shown flying and crashing, it quite likely was an inexperienced and overly cocky pilot.
My guess is it could have been an under trained jihad pilot.
Check out the video here
NATO Partner
The eviction notice is long overdue: Turkey bombs the Kurds.
Operation Empty Chair
It’s a disaster. By involving American forces half-heartedly, with an eye toward no objective beyond bumping up his poll numbers before the midterm elections, Obama has set ISIS up to brag about how they’re beating the Great Satan – not just holding their own under air assault, but actually making progress, taking ground, and retaining the strategic initiative.
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The report also says an Islamist group in Egypt “has been staging ISIS copycat beheadings and is thought to have declared de facto loyalty to the group.” An editorial at al-Arabiya News claims the threat of the Islamic State spreading into Libya is one reason Egypt didn’t get involved in the Nameless Non-War, specifically mentioning the parade in Derna depicted above. Another reason is that our debonair internationalist Smart Power President Obama has been treating the Egyptians poorly ever since they overthrew the Muslim Brotherhood:
More here: How Syria policy stalled under the ‘analyst in chief’
Baby Boomers
RT @DKurdistan: Islamic State praises death of ‘youngest martyr’ http://t.co/mBVLDgbtCR via @TimesofIsrael /cc pic.twitter.com/h6Xggip9Fz
— SaloumehZ (@SaloumehZ) October 10, 2014
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Guardian: “The Australian Federal Police and Victoria police joint counter-terrorism team can confirm that a number of search warrants are being conducted as part of an operation in the following suburbs…”
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Related awkwardness: … retired general Andrew Leslie, a top foreign affairs advisor to Trudeau, said the Israeli military fired indiscriminately at Palestinian civilians, while Trudeau was publicly echoing Harper’s support of Israel.
Ahmed Khadr Could Not Be Reached For Comment
Now we just need someone to go in and shoot them: The action means Canadian fighters in Syria and Iraq may effectively be stranded there. Their passports are no longer valid and cannot be used to return to Canada.
Meanwhile, we await a response from The Shiny Pony Party…
You Say ISIS, I Say ISIL
Australian police detained 15 people and raided more than a dozen properties across Sydney in the country’s largest counterterrorism operation, saying intelligence indicated an attack was being planned on Australian soil.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he had been briefed on Wednesday night about the operation that was prompted by information that an Islamic State movement leader in the Middle East was calling on Australian supporters to kill.
Abbott was asked about reports that the people detained were planning to publicly behead a random person in Sydney.
“That’s the intelligence we received,” he told reporters. “The exhortations — quite direct exhortations — were coming from an Australian who is apparently quite senior in ISIL to networks of support back in Australia to conduct demonstration killings here in this country.”
Pope On A Rope
All things considered, ridding the world of the Knights Templar may have been premature, yes?
But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
Obama has come under fire for underestimating the threat of this “jayvee team” wreaking havoc across the Middle East and threatening the western way of life, and yet he continuously refers to them as ISIL.
Those Moderate Muslims!
Via Allen West
Related: Obama administration wants to make sure ISLAM isn’t tarnished by ISIS ‘distortions’
I Miss W
Bin Laden is Dead And Journalist Steven Sotloff Is Dead
He and I corresponded by email and planned to meet in Libya last year, though it didn’t work out. He had to leave and I had to cancel my trip and re-route myself to Lebanon, so we never actually met.
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Canadian jihadist loving the way cbc covered him, hopes it inspires others. pic.twitter.com/OPQVy3uFp0
— Stewart Bell (@StewartBellNP) September 1, 2014
Perplexed: No one CBC News spoke with can explain how exactly Collin went from sports, hip hop and tweets about wanting to marry American rapper Nicki Minaj in early 2012, to becoming one among thousands of foreign fighters trying to establish an Islamic state in the Middle East.
Related: Will Canada revoke the citizenship of Tahir-ul-Qadri now that he is charged with terrorism and murder?
“death before decapitation”.
A minor drama just concluded in the Middle East. A couple of days ago, Syrian rebels identified with the Nusra front, Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliate, went up to a Fijian United Nations peacekeeping outpost on the Golan Heights and demanded their surrender. […]
The Fijians were taken into Nusra’s custody and the action moved to positions 68 and 69 on the Golan heights ceasefire line, which was manned by a Philippine battalion. The Nusra people made the same demand. ‘Give us your weapons and come with us.’ It was here that the Philippine commander made a crucial decision.
He refused.
The Fijians remain unaccounted for.