Apparently Cotton has had enough with this GITMO as “recruiting propaganda” nonsense.
Fired up, and well done.
WASHINGTON DC – Leading members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are lining up to skip a coming speech by the prime minister of Israel.
Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the civil rights icon, and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), the chairman of the CBC, said they won’t attend Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech before Congress to protest Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) decision to invite the prime minister without first consulting President Obama, according to The Associated Press.
“I think it’s an affront to the president and the State Department what the speaker did,” Lewis told the AP. (more…)
What the heck is President Obama trying to say here?
Good grief, did CAIR type this speech for his teleprompter? *Whiskey* – *Tango* – *Foxtrot*
…”Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place. Remember that during the Crusades and Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. And our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”…
Is he actually saying modern Christians are just like ISIS?
Quite a significant difference from President Obama’s strongly worded letters....
However unfortunate the horrifying origin, this is actually a very fortuitous opportunity for King Abdullah (pictured middle and below) to go full wolverine against ISIS. Anyone who follows Mid-East events well know the next target of ISIS was going to be Jordan, it is merely a matter of time.
The question of ISIS attacking Jordan is not “if”, but rather “when”, and ISIS has the full support of Turkey’s Erdogan toward that end.
We had predicted ISIS to launch cross border attacks against Jordan within the next year, and we are absolutely certain President Obama would not lift a finger to assist. The only military support Jordan could expect would be from Egypt who has vowed to assist if Jordan was attacked. That pledge from Egypt is part of the reason ISIS has now expanded its operations into Libya and the Sinai region.
ISIS leadership know they need several front’s to keep Egypt occupied hence the recent alignment with Hamas, The Muslim Brotherhood and Ansar Beit al-Maqdis. King Abdullah knows the window of opportunity to launch attacks against ISIS -and not incur problems from tenuous extremist internal political issues- is right now.
(Reuters) – Jordan’s King Abdullah vowed a “relentless” war against Islamic State on their own territory on Wednesday in response to a video published by the hard-line group showing a captured Jordanian air force pilot being burned alive in a cage.
Jordan hanged two Iraqi jihadists, one a woman, on Wednesday and vowed to intensify military action against Islamic State.
“We are waging this war to protect our faith, our values and human principles and our war for their sake will be relentless and will hit them in their own ground,” state television quoted the king as saying during a security meeting. (more…)
… And also states they are very comfortable meeting with the Islamic terror group. Well, at least they are open about it now.
(Via WFB) The State Department admitted on Monday that it misled reporters about a recent delegation of Muslim Brotherhood leaders and allies who were hosted for a meeting with officials at Foggy Bottom.
State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki claimed last week that the controversial delegation of key Brotherhood leaders and allies had been “organized and funded by Georgetown University.”
However, the university denied this is the case when reached by the Washington Free Beacon.
Psaki clarified her original comments made on Jan. 29 during a Monday meeting with reporters. (more…)
BREAKING: Government spokesman says Jordan executed 2 prisoners after IS killing of pilot.
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 4, 2015
WASHINGTON DC – Members of the House Armed Services Committee met with Jordan’s King Abdullah Tuesday not long after news broke that ISIS had burned to death a Jordanian pilot captured in the fight against the terrorist group. In a private session with lawmakers, the king showed an extraordinary measure of anger — anger which he expressed by citing American movie icon Clint Eastwood.
“He said there is going to be retribution like ISIS hasn’t seen,” said Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr., a Marine Corps veteran of two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, who was in the meeting with the king. “He mentioned ‘Unforgiven’ and he mentioned Clint Eastwood, and he actually quoted a part of the movie.” (more…)
It has been released to the media that ISIS burned alive their captive Jordanian Pilot. In addition they have killed two Iraqi Soldiers by burning them alive….
In response Jordan has pledged to execute five of their captured terror suspects at dawn tomorrow (link).
(WaPo) – The Islamic State released a video on Tuesday that appears to show the death of Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh.
The video appears to show Kaseasbeh being burned alive by his captors.
According to a release from SITE intelligence, the 22-minute video, titled “Healing of the Believers’ Chests,” was released on social media on Tuesday by the extremist group. (more…)
(Washington Times) The chairman of a special House committee created to investigate the 2012 Benghazi tragedy on Monday instructed his staff to review secretly recorded tapes and intelligence reports that detail Hillary Rodham Clinton’s role in advocating and executing the war in Libya, opening the door for a possible expansion of his probe.
Rep. Trey Gowdy’s decision to seek a review of the materials, first highlighted in a series of Washington Times stories last week, carries consequences for the 2016 election in which Mrs. Clinton is expected to seek the presidency. It could also move the committee to examine the strained relationship between the State Department and Pentagon, which sharply disagreed over the 2011 war in Libya and the response to the terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi a year later.
The Times reported last week that U.S. intelligence did not support Mrs. Clinton’s story of an impending genocide in Libya that she used to sell the war against Moammar Gadhafi’s regime. The newspaper also unveiled secretly recorded tapes from Libya that showed that the Pentagon and Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich so distrusted her stewardship of the war that they opened their own diplomatic channels with the Gadhafi regime. (more…)
(Via Daily Mail) An ISIS sympathizer in Washington state has pleaded guilty to a single felony for making an interstate threat against the life of former Ferguson, Missouri, police Officer Darren Wilson and his family.
Jaleel Tariq Abdul-Jabbaar, 46, entered the plea on Monday morning in Seattle. Two other counts are set to be dismissed at sentencing, which is set for June 12.
Abdul-Jabbaar had been detained in custody since his arrest on December 2, but will now be released under supervision until his next court appearance.
If convicted, the father-of-three faces a maximum of five years in prison.
Abdul-Jabbaar started writing the messages immediately after Wilson shot Michael Brown dead last August. (more…)