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Terrorism In The United States – Obama Covers For His Friends

11/08/2012 Leave a comment

The Christian Conservative – “Our government, under the leadership of Barack Obama, intentionally goes to great lengths to cover up or explain away acts of Islamic terrorism in the United States.  On July 1,2010 outside an Army recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas two men coming out of the station were gunned down by an Islamic extremist. One man died of his wounds the other recovered. There was almost no coverage of the incident at all . Before that, in November 2009, there was the massacre at Foot Hood where thirteen people died and 32 wounded at the hands of an Islāmic cleric. That was classified not a terrorist act ten months later because the shooter was in the U.S. Army. He falls under military law and information control is much easier in that situation. Most recently, we have the elaborate misinformation campaign surrounding the events in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012 where we lost three citizens, one of whom was our ambassador. One lone incident has no significance, two incidents-well maybe a pattern is emerging, but three incidents closely related in time, motive and means confirm a pattern of terrorism on U.S soil. The fact that we know very little, if anything, about these incidents is proof of the extent to which the Obama administration goes to make excuses for his Islāmic brothers, figuratively and literally.

In his refusal to admit Islāmic terrorism is alive and well in the U.S., the president is complicit in the destruction and loss of life. Mr. Obama clearly has no respect for his oath to protect U.S. life both here and abroad because it was made on the Bible. He respects only oaths made on the Koran. Mr. Obama protects Muslim terrorists by hamstringing federal law enforcement that would investigate them. He gives lip service to protecting Americans but he puts them in harm’s way when it will protect or serve his Muslim brothers. I’m sure, He’s also motivated by the wish to be perceived as a strong president capable of keeping the U.S. safe but that is only an illusion used to maintain the power to further his harmful agenda. Mr. Obama has sure caught a lot of people sleeping. People are completely oblivious to the disconnect between his words and his actions. People seem to be mesmerized by his charisma and his ability to read a teleprompter. The whole nation may pass into obscurity, sleeping or Jesus may return and make lying and deceit things of the past but; until then, conservatives will stand for biblical principles and a constitutional republic. Whether or not there are any conservatives in Congress is yet to be determined. The people have spoken-they don’t care!” Source – The Christian Conservative.

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Report: Iranian Fighter Jets Fire On U.S. Air Force Predator Drone In International Airspace East Of Kuwait

11/08/2012 1 comment

By Barbara Starr, CNN – “Two Iranian Su-25 fighter jets fired on an unarmed U.S. Air Force Predator drone in the Persian Gulf last week, CNN has learned.

The incident raises fresh concerns within the Obama administration about Iranian military aggression in crucial Gulf oil shipping lanes.

The drone was in international airspace east of Kuwait, U.S. officials said, adding it was engaged in routine maritime surveillance.

Although the drone was not hit, the Pentagon is concerned.

Two U.S. officials explained the jets were part of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps force, which has been more confrontational than regular Iranian military forces.

The Obama administration did not disclose the incident, which occurred just days before the presidential election on November 1, but three senior officials confirmed the details to CNN.

The officials declined to be identified because of sensitive intelligence matters surrounding the matter.

The drone’s still and video cameras captured the incident showing two SU-25s approaching the Predator and firing its onboard guns.

The Iranian pilots continued to fire shots that went beneath the Predator but were never successful in hitting it, according to the officials.

U.S. military intelligence analysts are still not sure if the Iranian pilots simply were unable to hit the drone due to lack of combat skill, or whether they deliberately were missing and had no intention of bringing down the drone. But as one of the officials said, ‘it doesn’t matter, they fired on us.'” Read more.

Flashback: Report: Iranian Navy Announces They Will Send Military Warships Close to the US Atlantic Coast – “Iran raised the prospect on Tuesday of sending military ships close to the United States’ Atlantic coast, in what would be a major escalation of tensions between the long-standing adversaries. ‘Like the arrogant powers that are present near our marine borders, we will also have a powerful presence close to American marine borders,’ the head of the Navy, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said, according to the official IRNA news agency.” Read more.

Flashback: Iran Declares Intent To Enrich Uranium To 90% For Military Purposes – “In recent months, Iranian regime spokesmen have conducted a campaign of statements regarding Iran’s intent to enrich uranium for use in nuclear-fueled ships and submarines – the latter a patently military use of nuclear power,’ reported the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) last month. ‘Regime officials, regime dailies, and websites close to the regime issued no fewer than 12 such statements, in which they declared Iran’s intent to enrich uranium for nuclear fuel to power both surface sea craft and submarines. It should be noted that while nuclear fuel for surface craft entails uranium enrichment of 50-60%, nuclear-powered submarines require enrichment of 90%, which is the same level needed for the production of a nuclear bomb.” Read more.

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State Dep’t, Senate Dems Stall Human Rights Legislation Focusing On ‘Devastating Trend’ Of Christian Persecution In Muslim Nations

11/08/2012 Leave a comment

The State Department and Senate Democrats will do everything possible to avoid highlighting the devastating trend of Christian persecution throughout the Middle East and other Muslim majority nations. After all, to acknowledge that any serious problem exists would be incompatible with the Obama Administration’s pro-Islamic doctrine and would only serve to undermine the image of “democracy and freedom” it wishes to portray of the Arab Spring, a movement that it has already spent hundreds of millions of dollars on, and continues, to fully support …

By Faith J. H. McDonnell – “Recently, U.S. Representative Frank R. Wolf (R-VA) wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urging the State Department not to block legislation on the creation of a special envoy to focus on persecuted religious minorities in the Middle East and South Central Asia. Introduced by Wolf and U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), the bipartisan bill, H.R. 440, to establish such a position passed overwhelmingly (402-20) in July 2011. But the legislation is being held up in the Senate by Foreign Relations Committee member Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) at the request of the State Department.

Wolf has a special passion for the persecuted. He and U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) were the first Western government officials ever allowed to enter a Soviet political labor camp. In 1989 they visited the notorious Perm Camp 35 in the Ural Mountains and met with 23 political prisoners and dissidents. In succeeding years Wolf has championed the human rights of the persecuted and oppressed from China to Sudan. His tenacious appeal for an intercessor for vulnerable populations in the increasingly Islamized Middle East and South Central Asia is just the latest of many fights for global justice and religious freedom that are now related in his autobiography, Prisoner of Conscience: One Man’s Crusade for Global Human and Religious Rights.

In the October 25, 2012 letter to Clinton, Wolf warned that ‘time was running out — both in terms of the legislative calendar for this year and in terms of the plight of these communities.’ Both the House-passed legislation and companion bill introduced by Senators Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Carl Levin (D-MI) are ‘languishing in the Senate.’ The congressman, co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, noted that the introduction of the bill ‘pre-dated the so-called ‘Arab Spring,’’ but that ‘the dramatic changes in the region over the year have only made these communities more vulnerable.’

Minority religious groups are at more risk than ever due to the increasing power of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic supremacists. For instance, says Wolf:

• In Egypt, ‘roughly 8 million Coptic Christians live in fear, especially with the ascendancy of the Muslim Brotherhood and various Islamist elements, and there is ‘widespread and virulent anti-Semitism in the government-controlled media.’

• Iraq’s ‘once vibrant Christian community has been halved from 2003 to the present day’ and ‘large percentages of the country’s smallest religious minorities, including Chaldo-Assyrian and other Christians, Sabean Mandaeans, and Yezidis,’ as well as the tiny Jewish population, ‘have fled the country in recent years, threatening these ancient communities’ very existence in Iraq.’

• ‘Shabbaz Bhatti – Pakistan’s only Christian cabinet member – was Read more…

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Al-Qaeda Leader Zawahiri: Benghazi Attack Signifies American Weakness, ‘Their Awe Is Lost And Their Might Is Gone’

11/07/2012 2 comments

Even the Father of Lies himself can actually speak the truth once in a blue moon …

By Tiffany Gabbay – “Following quickly on the heels of the U.S. presidential election, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri proclaimed that the terror attack against the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghaz indicates that American ‘awe is lost’ in the region. In an audio message addressed to the Somali jihadist group, al-Shabaab, Zawahiri said American influence in the region is floundering due to weakness.

‘They were defeated in Iraq and they are withdrawing from Afghanistan and their ambassador in Benghazi was killed and the flags of their embassies were lowered in Cairo and Sanaa (Yemen),’ a translation the militant’s message reads in the Long War Journal.

‘Their awe is lost and their might is gone and they don’t dare to carry out a new campaign like their past ones in Iraq and Afghanistan.’

Al Qaeda is, of course, along with other militant groups, are still sweeping the Maghreb — in particular, Libya. On Tuesday turmoil reached a fever pitch in Benghazi after a car bomb exploded near a police station late in the day, a police officer told AFP.

He added that two of his colleagues were injured in a subsequent gunfight with the primary suspect. The vehicle reportedly belonged to a law enforcement officer and it was believed to have been ignited by a hand grenade or fishing explosives.

‘One of them is in a critical condition and the other was hit on his foot,’ said the police officer, adding that the suspect had escaped.

The country’s newly elected authorities are attempting to empower the national army and police but are losing control of militias that sprung from the 2011 uprising against Libya’s longtime dictator, Muammar Gadhafi.

AFP adds more on the wave of assassinations ravaging the country:

The city has also witnessed a wave of assassinations, targeting officials with links to the former regime, which are often blamed on hardline Islamists.

On Tuesday, also in Benghazi, the bullet ridden corpse of retired colonel Abdul Karim Mahfud, who backed the 2011 revolution, was found in his farm.

Libya held its first elections in July but the new government officials are struggling with how best to provide security in the volatile area.” Source – The Blaze.

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Egypt: Islamist Hardliners Dance To The Beat Of A Different Drum After Hearing Christian Music Played In Public

11/07/2012 Leave a comment
Egyptian Salafist

Egyptian Salafist

By Yasmine Saleh, Reuters – “Mohamed Talaat didn’t like the fact Christian music was being played at a party to promote interfaith harmony in the Egyptian town of Minya south of Cairo, so together with a group of like-minded Islamist hardliners, he showed up to put a stop to it.

It was simply un-Islamic to broadcast Christian songs, Talaat explained.

‘Egypt is Islamic and so we all have to accept Islamic rules to halt any strife,’ he said by telephone.

Four months since Egypt elected veteran Muslim Brotherhood politician Mohamed Mursi as president, human rights activists say hardliners are trying to impose Islamist ways on society.

Although reliable data on social trends is hard to find in Egypt, many people believe that cases of religious intimidation have increased.

‘There is no doubt that the rate of strange and violent practices by strict Islamists has increased tremendously since the election of Mursi,’ said Gamal Eid, founder of The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, a human rights group.

‘We have in a few months seen many more of such incidents than we have seen in years before Mursi,’ he said.

Seemingly sporadic incidents are turning into what rights activists describe as an emerging pattern of abuses in the street by radicals, defying both the authority of the state and Mursi’s own promises to protect personal freedoms…

CHRISTIANS FEAR VIOLENCE

Egypt’s Christian minority, the Middle East’s largest, has lived with increasing fear of sectarian violence, which worsened in Mubarak’s final weeks and the early days of the interim military rule that followed his ouster in February 2011.

Weeks before Mubarak was ousted, 23 Coptic Christians were killed in the bombing of a church on New Year’s Day 2011. Five months later, with generals still in charge of the country, several churches in Cairo were torched and Christian houses and businesses destroyed. Fifteen people died and hundreds were wounded in the May 2011 religious unrest.” Read more.

Flashback: Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi Says Christians Must Convert To Islam, Pay ‘Jizya’, Or Leave Egypt, ‘Conquest Is Coming’ – “According to the popular Egyptian website, El Bashayer, Muhammad Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate, just declared that he will ‘achieve the Islamic conquest (fath) of Egypt for the second time, and make all Christians convert to Islam, or else pay the jizya,’ the additional Islamic tax, or financial tribute, required of non-Muslims, or financial tribute… After his interviewer pointed out that the first Muslim conquest of Egypt was ‘carried out at the hands of Amr bin al-As [in 641],’ he asked Morsi, ‘Who will the second Islamic conqueror be?’ Morsi, replied, ‘The second Muslim conqueror will be Muhammad Morsi,’ referring to himself, ‘and history will record it.’” Read more.

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‘This Isn’t A Show’: Netanyahu Says He May Go It Alone On Striking Iran, Doesn’t Need America’s Approval To Make Decision

11/07/2012 1 comment

By JODI RUDOREN, The New York Times -“JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday reiterated his willingness to attack the Iranian nuclear programwithout support from Washington or the world, returning to an aggressive posture that he had largely abandoned since his United Nations speech in September.

‘When David Ben-Gurion declared the foundation of the state of Israel, was it done with American approval?’ Mr. Netanyahu asked in an interview broadcast on Israel’s Channel 2 on Monday night. ‘When Levi Eshkol was forced to act in order to loosen the siege before 1967, was it done with the Americans’ support?

‘If someone sits here as the prime minister of Israel and he can’t take action on matters that are cardinal to the existence of this country, its future and its security, and he is totally dependent on receiving approval from others, then he is not worthy of leading,’ Mr. Netanyahu added. ‘I can make these decisions.’

Though American officials, including President Obama, have always acknowledged that Israel ultimately has the right to decide how to defend itself, Mr. Netanyahu’s tough tone and timing — on the eve of the American presidential election — are sure to reignite rifts with Washington over how best to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb.

As has been the case over the past two years, however, it is impossible to know whether his hawkish words are harbingers of deeds or part of a strategic campaign to scare nations into increasing economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran.

‘I am not eager to go to war,’ Mr. Netanyahu said in the seven-minute interview. ‘I have been creating very heavy pressure, and part of this pressure comes from the knowledge some of the most powerful nations in the world have that we are serious. This isn’t a show, this is not false.’

Besides the creation of diplomatic tensions if Israel were to act alone against Washington’s wishes, there is a more practical concern: the Israeli military lacks the capacity to penetrate all of Iran’s underground nuclear facilities, and thus could most likely only delay the potential development of a nuclear weapon by a few years. The United States has bunker-busting bombs that could do far more damage.” Read more.

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Pakistan: Christian Pastor Telling Christians Not To Participate In Islamic Feast Is Jailed For Blasphemy, Threatened With Death

11/07/2012 2 comments

Acts 15:29, “You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols … You will do well to avoid these things.”

1 Corinthians 10:19-21, “… the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.”

All meat consumed by Muslims is to be Halal, and in order for meat to be considered Halal the animal must be sacrificed in the name of Allah.  According to Biblical Scripture, Allah is a false god. False gods are idols. And as we can see from the verses above, God has a few things to say to His children when it comes to food that has been sacrificed to idols: don’t eat it …

Sacrificed For The Islamic Deity "Allah"

Sacrificed For The Islamic Deity “Allah”

By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post – “A pastor in Pakistan has been denied bail after he was accused of blasphemy and arrested by police, who protected him from a mob of angry Muslims.

Karma Patras was originally arrested on Oct. 13, after he held a prayer meeting at a Christian family’s house in Sanghla Hill in central Punjab province, where he was asked about the meaning and relevance of the Muslim feast of sacrifice, Eid-al-Adha. The festival, celebrated by Muslims throughout the world, honors the sacrifice to God Abraham was willing to make by offering his first-born son Ishmael, as found in the Book of Genesis. [ICA Comment: A typical Islamic distortion. The sacrifice was not of Ishmael in Genesis, but of Isaac, cf. Gen. 22:2].

As reported by persecution watchdog International Christian Voice, Pastor Patras said that the feast was strictly a Muslim one and was forbidden for Christians. Patras quoted Corinthians 10:28-29, which says: ‘But if anyone says to you, ‘This was offered to idols,’ do not eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for conscience’ sake; for ‘the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness. ‘Conscience,’ I say, not your own, but that of the other. For why is my liberty judged by another man’s conscience?’

Muslims were also listening in on his answers, however, and told others about Patras’ explanation. When the pastor returned home from the prayer gathering, he was threatened by angry Muslim clerics who wanted to punish him for speaking out against the celebration of Eid-al-Adha.

The imams apparently organized an angry mob, who called Patras an infidel who has blasphemed against Islam and should be killed, attacking the pastor’s house. Police apparently rushed to the scene to try and save Patras from the beating and his house from being destroyed, but at the same time arrested him under suspicion of blasphemy.” Read more.

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Waiting For The Apocalypse? A Military Nuclear Iran Is Now Pretty Much A Done Deal

11/07/2012 1 comment

By Prof. Louis René Beres, Op-Ed INN – “After too many years of delay and self-delusion concerning Tehran’s atomic intentions and capabilities, a militarily nuclear Iran is now pretty much a fait accompli.

For a distinctly identifiable period of time, selective preemptions against certain Iranian nuclear assets and corollary infrastructures could have made strategic sense. Now, for Israel, the country most directly threatened by these portentous enemy developments, self-defense options will be limited to mostly reactive counter-measures. Above all, this means fashioning critically improved nuclear deterrence, and also conspicuously-expanding programs for ballistic-missile defense.

Although never discussed publicly, these remaining options will likely announce an end to Israel’s longstanding policy of ‘deliberate nuclear ambiguity,’ or the so-called ‘bomb in the basement.’ Included, too, will be substantial engineering improvements to the Arrow, Iron Dome, and (later) Magic Wand missile interceptors. There will also be parallel and reinforcing efforts aimed very specifically at enhanced national plans for intelligence, counterintelligence, and cyber-defense. In military parlance, because these plans will be intersecting and inter-penetrating, or ‘synergistic,’ they will represent powerful ‘force multipliers.’

A successful and timely preemption might once have prevented a nuclear Iran. Similarly, Israel’s defensive anti-missile programs could become useful as an important adjunct to nuclear deterrence. This would come about because the rationality of any contemplated Iranian attack upon Israel could be affected by Israel’s deployed hard-target protections. In essence, with capable Israeli ballistic missile defenses in place, Teheran could require a steadily increasing number of offensive missiles just to ensure its necessary penetration capacity.

It is true, of course, that Israel’s active defenses could also provide certain limited protections for civilian populations or ‘soft’ targets, but any such post-attack benefits would be far less important than those gains associated with improved nuclear deterrence.

Whether rational, irrational, or ‘mad’ – and there are genuinely vital differences between these three decisional possibilities – any nuclear-capable Iranian leadership that inclines toward military conflict with the ‘Zionist Entity’ could Read more…

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Expert: With Nothing To Lose, A Barack Obama Second-Term Victory Will Mean ‘Bad News For Israel’

11/06/2012 Leave a comment

By Elad Benari, INN – “A second term for President Barack Obama could be bad news for Israel, according to Prof. Eytan Gilboa, Director of the Center for International Communication at Bar Ilan University and an expert on U.S.-Israel relations.

‘I am concerned that if Obama and Netanyahu are both re-elected, Israeli -U.S. relations are expected to go through a difficult period, for at least the first year of Obama’s second term,’ Gilboa told Arutz Sheva on Sunday.

He noted the bad blood been between Obama and Netanyahu during Obama’s first term and added that he believes that, given the fact that a second-term president has nothing to lose since he cannot run again, Obama will remember all the setbacks between him and Netanyahu. Gilboa added that Obama will particularly remember the feeling that exists today in the United States, according to which Netanyahu publicly endorsed Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

Gilboa noted that it does not matter whether Netanyahu indeed supported Romney or not, since the main point is how things are interpreted in the U.S. The fact thatRomney used Netanyahu as part of his campaign and the fact that they both have the same donors and supporters, such as Sheldon Adelson, strengthen the feeling that Netanyahu was on Romney’s side and not Obama’s, he said.

‘I spoke with some members of Obama’s staff they feel that Netanyahu, in all kinds of moves he made, showed more enthusiasm for Romney than for Obama,’ he said. ‘They made the connections that Netanyahu was on Romney’s side, no matter the reality.’

… Obama’s essential tie with Romney is a real achievement for the president, who is entering election day with a low level of public confidence, with zero growth in the U.S. economy and unemployment at close to eight percent.

‘In such a reality, the fact that he is shoulder to shoulder with Romney is considered an achievement,’ said Gilboa, adding, ‘In any normal election Romney should win with ease. The fact that this is not happening shows Romney’s weakness.'” Read more.

Flashback: Israeli Security Official: Obama ‘Will Make Netanyahu Pay’ After Elections, ‘Relations Between Israel And The US Have Soured’ – “Israeli security officials on Saturday tried to downplay the Pentagon’s decision to significantly scale back its participation in a joint military exercise with Israel next month, but some government officials said the decision came as a response to the growing tensions between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office and the Obama administration. ‘This is the Obama administration’s response to the dinner party Netanyahu held in (Mitt) Romney’s honor,’ a senior member of the political-security cabinet told Ynet …” Read more.

Flashback: An Ally No More: ‘Under President Obama, the US Government Has Become Hostile’ to Israel – “… the Obama administration’s response to the calamitous election results [in Egypt] has been shocking. Rather than sound the alarm bells, US President Barack Obama has celebrated the results as a victory for ‘democracy.’ Rather than warn Egypt that it will face severe consequences if it completes its Islamist transformation, the Obama administration has turned its guns on the first country that will pay a price for Egypt’s Islamic revolution: Israel.” Read more.

Flashback: Israeli Prime Minister Slams Obama: The Arab World Is Moving Backward, Not Forward – “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday blasted Israeli and world politicians who support the Arab Spring revolutions and accused the Arab world of ‘moving not forward, but backward.’… Netanyahu also slammed Western leaders, and especially U.S. President Barak Obama, who had pushed Mubarak to resign from power. At the time this was happening Netanyahu said in closed talks that the American administration and many European leaders don’t understand reality.” Read more.

Flashback: Netanyahu Associate: Obama Detached From Regional Realities – “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s associates expressed their disappointment with Barack Obama’s speech Thursday, with one aide saying that the US president is detached from regional realities… Referring to the US president’s Mideast policy speech, a Netanyahu associate said: ‘He (Obama) didn’t deliver the goods…Obama apparently does not understand the reality in the Mideast.’” Read more.

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Anti-Al Qaeda Libyans Reveal Obama Administration Helped Al-Qaeda In Benghazi, Ret. US General: ‘Obama Must Be Held Responsible’

11/05/2012 2 comments

See the flashback links at the end of the article. Should we be surprised by any of this? …

By CHRISTOPHER COLLINS, Examiner – “Walid Shoebat, a former Muslim Brotherhood member now peace activist broke news Saturday night that anti-Al Qaeda Libyans living in exile are in possession of highly classified documents that reveal Obama and his administration’s involvement with Al-Qaeda in Libya, more than what has been previously known.

The anti-Al Qaeda Libyans told Shoebat in reference to Obama’s statements that Al-Qaeda had been destroyed that Obama had gift-wrapped Libya, handed it over to Al-Qaeda, and that they can prove it.

The group plans to turn over the countless documents an intelligence to the National Center For Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism.

The group informed Shoebat that what they have will bring down the Obama administration and that they are not kidding. In fact, they provided Shoebat the first installments of the documents that Shoebat reported on October 31, 2012. They said that the rest will be provided when Mitt Romney is in office and they further said, ‘His election is our only hope for humanity’.

‘These documents includes evidence of highly sophisticated weaponry provided to jihadists which leads them to doubt that any solutions will take place under what they called ‘The Obama regime’,’ the group said.

‘We have come into the possession of an array of records obtained from top-level sources inside the Libyan government,’ the anti-Al Qaeda Libyans said. ‘They include passports of Al-Qaeda operatives and identifications of terrorists from many nations—Chad, Egypt and Pakistan to name a few—which are now all camped in Libya as they enter by crossing borders guarded and managed officially by what they called ‘government appointed Al-Qaeda leaders.’

Shoebat stated, ‘This explains why the Read more…

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US: Russian Nuclear Attack Submarine Detected Near East Coast

11/05/2012 1 comment

No need to worry, right? I mean, Russian President Vladimir Putin fully “endorses” Barack Obama …

By Bill Gertz, THe Washington Free Beacon – “A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine cruised within 200 miles of the East Coast recently in the latest sign Russia is continuing to flex its naval and aerial power against the United States, defense officials said.

The submarine was identified by its NATO designation as a Russian Seirra-2 class submarine believed to be based with Russia’s Northern Fleet. It was the first time that class of Russian submarine had been detected near a U.S. coast, said officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of anti-submarine warfare efforts.

One defense official said the submarine was believed to have been conducting anti-submarine warfare efforts against U.S. ballistic and cruise missile submarines based at Kings Bay, Georgia.

A second official said the submarine did not sail close to Kings Bay and also did not threaten a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group that was conducting exercises in the eastern Atlantic.

Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, north of Jacksonville, Fla., is homeport for two guided missile submarines and six nuclear missile submarines. The submarines are known to be a target of Russian attack submarines.” Read more.

Flashback: US Officials: Russian Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarine Sailed In Gulf Of Mexico For Weeks Undetected – “A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with long-range cruise missiles operated undetected in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks and its travel in strategic U.S. waters was only confirmed after it left the region… It is only the second time since 2009 that a Russian attack submarine has patrolled so close to U.S. shores. The stealth underwater incursion in the Gulf took place at the same time Russian strategic bombers made incursions into restricted U.S. airspace near Alaska and California in June and July, and highlights a growing military assertiveness by Moscow.” Read more.

Flashback: Mystery Missile Launch From Gulf Of Mexico Filmed Near South Texas Coast (Video)

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‘Time Is Running Out’: US Congressman Asks Why Churches In The West Are Silent On Worldwide Christian Persecution

11/04/2012 21 comments

I can think of a few reasons why: It’s convenient to ignore an inconvenient topic. It makes many comfortable Christians uncomfortable. And if the truth were made known it could even cause some of them to begin questioning a few of the popular doctrines currently being taught by the church today which are, for many Christians in the West, unquestionable …

By Lillian Kwon, Christian Post Reporter – “Congressman Frank Wolf, who has been a champion of human rights, is hard pressed to understand why U.S. churches are silent when it comes to advocating for persecuted Christians.

The Republican Virginia rep. specifically called out big-name pastors such as Rick Warren and John Piper for their non-activity, especially at a time when Christians and other religious minorities in Syria and Egypt are at greater risk for persecution.

‘The church in the West is relatively silent,’ Wolf said on ‘The Janet Mefferd Show’ this week. ‘Where are the (Dietrich) Bonhoeffers (20th century German Lutheran pastor who stood against Nazi dictatorship)? Where’s Rick Warren? Where’s John Piper? Where are the people? Why aren’t they speaking out on this?

‘I just have a hard time wondering why more in the West are not speaking out.’

Since last year, Wolf has been pushing for a special envoy at the State Department that would focus exclusively on the plight of religious minorities in South Central Asia and the Middle East. While his legislation (H.R. 440) passed in the House last year, it has been on hold in the Senate.

According to Wolf, the State Department urged Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) to oppose the Senate version of the bill until a hearing is held.

Wolf said he welcomes the hearing but Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has never held it.

‘I am concerned that time is running out – both in terms of the legislative calendar for this year and in terms of the plight of these communities,’ Wolf said in a statement last week.

Some 8 million Coptic Christians in Egypt are living in fear, he said, as the Muslim Brotherhood majority government drafts its new constitution, which is expected to have Islamic Sharia law as its foundation.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in Syria where Sunni Muslim rebels are targeting Christians, forcing many to flee the region.

‘I’m not surprised that the Obama administration is opposed to this (legislation) but where’s the church in the West?’ Wolf lamented. ‘I would’ve thought the church would’ve just been up in arms.’

‘We have no one advocating for them (religious minorities),’ he added. ‘The Coptic Christian community can’t understand why the West doesn’t advocate.'” Source – Christian Post.

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