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New Islamic jihadist Terror Compound Found in The Heart of Texas

(WND) — Declassified FBI documents confirm the existence of an Islamic jihadist enclave in Texas that is part of a network in the U.S. identified by the Department of Homeland Security as a terrorist organization.

The enclave belongs to the network of Muslims of the Americas, which is linked to the Pakistani-based militant group Jamaat al-Fuqra, according to an investigation by the Clarion Project and ACT! For America Houston.

Jamaat al-Fuqra was founded in New York in 1980 by Sheik Mubarak Ali Gilani, an Islamic cleric in Pakistan who at one time was in Pakistani custody in connection with the abduction of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

Muslims in America says it has a network of 22 “villages” around the U.S., with headquarters at an encampment in the Catskill Mountains near Hancock, N.Y., called Holy Islamberg, as WND reported in 2006. An investigative report at the time found neighbors of Islamberg were deeply concerned about military-style training taking place there and frustrated by an apparent lack of attention from federal authorities.

WND also reported in 2006 that Jamaat al-Fuqra has collaborated with major terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah and al-Qaida.

The FBI describes the compound in Texas, called Mahmoudberg, as an “enclave” and “communal living site.” Located in Brazoria County along County Road 3 near Sweeny, Texas, it was discovered by the FBI through a tip from an informant in New York, according to the Clairon Project.

The Texas commune, in a heavily wooded area, is estimated by a local resident who spoke to ACT researchers to encompass about 25 acres. It dates back to the late 1980s, the resident said, which is confirmed by the FBI documents.

The FBI reported in 2007 that one commune resident formerly was a leader at the Muslims of America compound in Badger, Calif., called Baladullah.

In March 2001, a Baladullah member was arrested for transporting guns between New York and South Carolina. Another was charged with murdering a police deputy that caught him breaking and entering a home.

The declassified FBI documents show that the enclave is not the only affiliate of the organization that has operated in the state.

In 1991, after a MOA/Jamaat-ul-Fuqra bomb plot in Toronto was foiled, a federal search warrant for three suspects was issued and a nearly 45-acre “compound” about 70 miles south of Dallas was raided.

The location of the compound corresponds to a reference in an FBI document obtained by the Clarion Project that says about seven MOA members purchased property near Corsicana, Texas.

The suspects fled before the raid, and the children at the compound suddenly disappeared from school. Federal officials found four mobile homes; three military, general-purpose tents; and six vehicles. Also discovered were loose ammunition, books on counter-terrorism techniques and weaponry and various items with “Jamaat Fuqra Land” written on them.

Surveillance photos of a post office building and the Greenhead Station in Los Angeles were discovered as well.

The activities of Muslims in America continued after the October 1991 raid, however. Two 1992 FBI documents say MOA members in the state were using false aliases, Social Security numbers and birth certificates.

Murder, firebombing

Muslims of America is identified as a terrorist group in the FBI documents obtained by the Clarion Project.

A 2007 FBI record states members of the group have been involved in at least 10 murders, one disappearance, three firebombings, one attempted firebombing, two explosive bombings and one attempted bombing.

“The documented propensity for violence by this organization supports the belief the leadership of the MOA extols membership to pursue a policy of jihad or holy war against individuals or groups it considers enemies of Islam, which includes the U.S. Government,” the document states. “Members of the MOA are encouraged to travel to Pakistan to receive religious and military/terrorist training from Sheikh Gilani.”

The document also says Muslims of America is now “an autonomous organization which possesses an infrastructure capable of planning and mounting terrorist campaigns overseas and within the U.S.”

A 2003 FBI report states that investigation of the Muslims of the Americas “is based on specific and articulate facts giving justification to believe they are engaged in international terrorism.”

The Clarion Project said MOA members believe the holiest Islamic site in the country is at their Islamville commune in South Carolina. Along with Islamberg, other MOA entities include the International Quranic Open University, United Muslim Christian Forum, Islamic Post, Muslim Veterans of America and American Muslim Medical Relief Team.

An FBI report states the Sweeny, Texas, enclave is in an area “so rural it is quite common for residents to shoot firearms for target practice or hunting on private property without interference from law enforcement.”

ACT said that when its researchers were spotted in the area, they were immediately and repeatedly approached. At one point, a commune resident gave them a final warning to leave, despite the fact that they were not trespassing or harassing any members.

“It was definitely very threatening and menacing,” an ACT member said.

Multiple sources confirmed, according to the Clarion Project, that a resident of the commune is a police officer. Another, a neighbor has said, formerly drove trucks for the U.S. Army in Kuwait.

The commune is also linked to a nonprofit called the Muslim Model Community of Texas. Members, the Clarion Project said, travel to Houston to worship at the Muslims of America Dawah (Outreach) Center that is linked to another organization called First Muslims of Texas.

According to FBI documents and a police report, one of the MOA members was shot and killed by another member in 2002.

The report said the death of Salminma Dawood, also known as Terrance C. Davis III, was an accident. He reportedly was shot by another MOA member who “returned gunfire to unknown individuals who were harassing the MOA commune.”

Law enforcement reported they met about a dozen African-American males at the scene of the shooting. About five of the men lived at the commune, and there were an estimated seven women and children who also lived there.

Police said they were denied access to the trailer homes and were not allowed to directly interview the women, who covered their faces.

Local residents told researchers with ACT that they were aware of a few visits by government investigators to the commune. The locals said the MOA members refused to talk. One neighbor said two ambulances were denied entry into the compound until police intervened. The Clarion Project said Brazoria County criminal records show that two residents of Mahmoudberg were arrested in April 2013 and charged with “interference with public duties.” A trial is pending, the Clarion Project said.

Terror designation

In 2005, the Department of Homeland Security privately agreed to list Jamaat al-Fuqra and Muslims of America as a possible sponsor of a terrorist attack on the U.S.

The State Department, however, has not designated it as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, and it continues to organize in the U.S.

In 1998, the State Department’s Patterns of Global Terrorism report described Jamaat al-Fuqra as an “Islamic sect that seeks to purify Islam through violence.” It said that Fuqra members engaged in assassinations and bombings in the U.S. in the 1980s and still live in “isolated rural compounds” in the country.

A State Department spokesman was asked in January 2002 why Jamaat al-Fuqra stopped appearing in the department’s annual terrorism reports.

“Jamaat al-Fuqra has never been designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization,” the spokesman said. “It was included in several recent annual terrorism reports under ‘other terrorist groups,’ i.e., groups that had carried out acts of terrorism but that were not formally designated by the Secretary of State. However, because of the group’s inactivity during 2000, it was not included in the most recent terrorism report covering that calendar year.”

The Clarion Project noted that Jamaat al-Fuqra has not appeared since then in the annual report, yet the declassified FBI documents from as late as 2007 discuss the terrorist threat posed by Muslims of America.

Last year, Muslims of the Americas filed a lawsuit against the nonprofit Christian Action Network for defamation and libel after CAN’s publication of the book “Twilight in America: The Untold Story of Islamist Terrorist Training Camps Inside America.”

The book accuses Muslims of America of  “acting as a front for the radical Islamist group Jamaat al-Fuqra.”

Much of the book is based on the investigation of a former NYPD undercover informant who spent eight years posing as a member of the group.

The authors of the book, Martin Mawyer and Patti Pierucci, told Fox News they welcome the lawsuit because it will expose the Islamic group’s activities.

Tied to Daniel Pearl abduction

The Jamaat al-Fuqra leader, Gilani, at one time was in Pakistani custody for the abduction of American journalist Daniel Pearl.

Intelligence sources determined Pearl was attempting to meet with Gilani in the days before he disappeared in Karachi in 2002 and later was beheaded. Intelligence sources also suggest a link between al-Fuqra and Richard Reid, the infamous “shoe bomber” who attempted to ignite explosives aboard a Paris-to-Miami passenger flight Dec. 22, 2001.

Beltway sniper John Muhammad also has been tied to the group, and there is circumstantial evidence that links it to Oklahoma University bomber Joel Hinrichs.

Joseph Bodansky, the former director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, has affirmed Jamaat al-Fuqra operations in the U.S. have been known to the FBI and CIA for decades.

Gilani was a close associate of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who sent convicted conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui to live with Jamaat al-Fuqra member Melvin Lattimore and attend flight school in Norman, Okla.

[H/T WND]

Allen West: Obama Relaxes Immigration Ban on Refugees Supporting Terrorism, ‘Naturally, this latest action by the administration is receiving little attention’

(Allen West) — I am sorry to have to report yet another event that makes me question not only the Obama administration’s intent and motivation, but more fundamentally, its allegiance. Naturally, this latest action by the administration is receiving little attention.

Now you would think refugees and asylum seekers who have provided “limited material support” to terrorists might be barred access to our country. But not according to the Obama administration. On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security and the State department wrote new exemptions for the Immigration and Nationality Act which narrowed a ban to exclude refugees and asylum seekers who had supported terrorists.

Thankfully, not everyone in DC thinks this is a good idea. As reported in the Daily Caller,

Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions offered a scathing rebuke of the Obama administration’s decision. Senator Sessions is a stalwart champion in the fight against amnesty for illegal immigrants and protecting our sovereign Republic. He stated, “Not only is this a national security issue, but a financial issue: those granted admission gain access to federal welfare programs funded by U.S. taxpayers. It seems the Obama Administration has forgotten that our immigration laws are meant to protect the interests of Americans.”

Last week, Speaker John Boehner said immigration reform legislation will not happen this year due to President Obama’s penchant for unilaterally and selectively enforcing only those laws he approves. Do you realize how seriously frightening this is? After all, it is a violation of the president’s oath of office not to uphold the Constitution and faithfully execute the laws of this Republic – and the Speaker of the House says it as a matter of fact.

Senator Sessions said,

“In light of these and other facts, it is thus deeply alarming that the Obama Administration would move unilaterally to relax admissions standards for asylum-seekers and potentially numerous other applicants for admission who have possible connections to insurgent or terrorist groups. This includes terror groups not yet designated: al-Qaida was not designated by the Department of State as a foreign terrorist organization until 1999 — long after the first attack on the World Trade Center.”

A Department of Homeland Security official explained the reasoning behind the exemptions, saying “These exemptions cover five kinds of limited material support that have adversely and unfairly affected refugees and asylum seekers with no tangible connection to terrorism: material support that was insignificant in amount or provided incidentally in the course of everyday social, commercial, family or humanitarian interactions, or under significant pressure.”

I absolutely agree with Senator Sessions, as I’m sure many of you would when he said,

“The DHS does not have the authority to eliminate portions of the law, stating the department’s claim, leaves one incredulous. It is one thing to approve a waiver in a particular case with uniquely compelling circumstances; it is entirely another thing to declare a plain legal requirement is null and void. What is the point of Congress passing a law if the Administration abuses its ‘discretion’ to say that law simply no longer applies? This is yet one more instance of the Administration rewriting U.S. code through executive decree.”

Many of you are asking, what can be done? We need lawsuits to be filed against President Obama by Congress, regardless if the DC Circuit Court is now stacked with his selected cronies. We also need citizens who can prove legal “standing” to file lawsuits against this unconstitutional administration, which means they must demonstrate concrete evidence of invasion of their legally protected interests.

Most importantly, we need those who are concerned for the future of this Republic to cast the correct vote in November to ensure there is a conservative House and Senate a year from now on Capitol Hill. In which case, if this lawlessness continues from President Obama, there is a Constitutionally-established method to return him to Chicago.

What can possibly be the motivation and intent of eliminating the law barring entry into America for those who have offered support to terrorism, regardless of degree or circumstance? I will leave it up to you to determine the answer – but it’s just another aspect of the “fundamental transformation” of America.

[H/T Allen West]

Islam The Religion of Peace: Incomplete List of Islamic Terrorist Acts Since 1980

Islam is known to be the ‘Religion of Peace’ by the naive that defend and embrace it.  In fact, even the leader of the free world (Barack Hussein Obama) once said: ‘Our fight is not against Islam.’  And ‘America is not at war with Islam; this ideology and terrorist attacks are rejected by the majority of Muslims.’  The list below proves Islam is hardly peaceful.

Furthermore, the case has repeatedly been made that the Muslim-in-Chief is countering inbred terrorism of Islam by appeasement.  Newsflash: it ‘ain’t’ gonna work.

The sheer number of terrorist acts staged and executed by Islamist, may surprise even the most ardent history buffs. 

1980 – 1989

7–8 April 1980 – Misgav Am hostage crisis in Misgav AmIsrael. 3 dead, 11 injured
27 July 1980 – AntwerpBelgium. Syrian Palestinian Said Al Nasr threw two hand grenades into a group of Jewish children waiting for a bus. 1 dead, 20 injured.
29 August 1981 – 1981 Vienna synagogue attack in ViennaAustria, was attacked by Palestinian gunmen. 2 dead, 30 wounded
11 November 1982 – First Tyre headquarters bombings in Tyre, Lebanon, 102 dead, 28 injured
18 April 1983 – The April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombingBeirutLebanon by the Islamic Jihad Organization, 63 dead, 120 injured[1]
23 October 1983 – 1983 Beirut barracks bombing by the Islamic Jihad Organization, that killed 241 U.S. marines, 58 French paratroopers and 6 civilians at the US and French barracks in Beirut and injured 75.[2]
2 November 1983 – Second Tyre headquarters bombings in Tyre, Lebanon. 60 dead, 40 injured
14 June 1985 – TWA Flight 847 was an international Trans World Airlines flight, which was hijacked by members of Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad. 1 dead.
7 July 1989 – Tel Aviv Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack, near Kiryat Yearim. 16 dead

1990 through 1999

26 February 1993 – World Trade Center bombing, in New York City. 6 killed.
13 March 1993 – 1993 Bombay bombingsMumbai, India. 257 dead, 713 injured.
6 April 1994 – Afula Bus suicide bombingAfula. 8 dead
13 April 1994 – Hadera bus station suicide bombingHadera. 5 dead
16 April 1993 – Mehola Junction bombing, Mehola junction, West Bank. 1 dead
28 July 1994 – Buenos AiresArgentina. Vehicle suicide bombing attack against AMIA building, the local Jewish community representation. 85 dead, more than 300 injured.
19 October 1994 – Dizengoff Street bus bombingTel Aviv. 22 dead
11 November 1994 – Netzarim Junction bicycle bombingNetzarim. 3 dead
24 December 1994 – Air France Flight 8969 hijacking in Algiers by 3 members of Armed Islamic Group of Algeriaand another terrorist. 7 killed including 4 hijackers.
22 January 1995 – Beit Lid massacreBeit Lid Junction. 21 dead
9 April 1995 – Kfar Darom bus attack, Vicinity of Kfar DaromGaza Strip. 8 dead
24 July 1995 – Ramat Gan bus 20 bombingRamat Gan. 6 dead
21 August 1995 – Ramat Eshkol bus bombingJerusalem. 4 dead
25 February and 3 March 1996 – Jaffa Road bus bombingsJerusalem. 45 dead, 55 injured
March 4, 1996 – Dizengoff Center suicide bombingTel Aviv. 13 dead
25 June 1996 – Khobar Towers bombing, 20 killed, 372 wounded.
21 March 1997 – Café Apropo bombingTel Aviv. 3 dead
30 July 1997 – 1997 Mahane Yehuda Market BombingsJerusalem. 16 dead
4 September 1997 – Ben Yehuda Street BombingJerusalem. 5 dead
17 November 1997 – Luxor attack, 6 armed Islamic terrorists attack tourists at Egypts famous Luxor Ruins. 62 killed, 26 injured.
14 February 1998 – Bombing in CoimbatoreTamil Nadu, India. 13 bombs explode within a 12 km radius. 46 killed and over 200 injured.
7 August 1998 – 1998 United States embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. 224 dead. 4000+ injured.
4–16 September 1999 – The Russian apartment bombings were a series of explosions that hit four apartment blocks in the Russian cities of BuynakskMoscow, and Volgodonsk. The explosions occurred in Buynaksk on 4 September, Moscow on 9 and 13 September, and Volgodonsk on 16 September. 293 dead, 1000+ injured. Several other bombs were defused in Moscow at the time.[3]

 EgyptAir Flight 990 goes down, purportedly by suicide of relief First Officer Gameel Al-Batouti, in Atlantic Ocean about 6

2000-2009

5 August 2000 – Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombingskilling 18 [4]
12 October 2000 – Attack on the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden. 17 American sailors were killed, 39 injured.
March 4, 2001 – 2001 Netanya bombingNetanya. 3 dead
May 18, 2001 – 2001 HaSharon Mall suicide bombingNetanya. 5 dead
June 1, 2001 – Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombingTel Aviv. 21 dead
August 9, 2001 – Sbarro restaurant suicide bombingJerusalem. 15 dead
September 9, 2001 – Nahariya train station suicide bombingNahariya. 3 dead
11 September 2001 – 4 planes hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda hijackers: two planes crashed into World Trade Center and one into the The Pentagon. Nearly 3000 dead.[5]
November 29, 2001 – Pardes Hanna bus bombingIsrael. 3 dead
December 1, 2001 – Ben Yehuda Street BombingJerusalem. 11 dead
December 2, 2001 – Haifa bus 16 suicide bombingHaifa. 15 dead
13 December 2001 – Suicide attack on Indian parliament in New Delhi by Pakistan-based Islamist terrorist organizations, Jaish-E-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Toiba. Aimed at eliminating the top leadership of India and causing anarchy in the country. 7 dead, 12 injured.
January 25, 2002 – 2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombingTel Aviv. 25 injured
January 27, 2002 – 2002 Jaffa Street bombingJerusalem. 1 dead
February 16, 2002 – Karnei Shomron Mall suicide bombingIsrael. 3 dead, 30 injured
March 2, 2002 – Yeshivat Beit Yisrael massacreJerusalem. 11 dead
March 9, 2002 – Café Moment bombingJerusalem. 11 dead
March 20, 2002 – Umm al-Fahm bus bombingIsrael. 7 dead
March 21, 2002 – King George Street bombingJerusalem. 3 dead
March 27, 2002 – Suicide bomb attack on a Passover Seder in a Hotel in Netanya, Israel. 30 dead, 133 injured.
30 March 2002 and 24 November 2002 – Attacks on the Hindu Raghunath temple, India. Total 25 dead.
March 29, 2002 – Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombingJerusalem. 2 dead
March 31, 2002 – Matza restaurant suicide bombingHaifa. 15 dead
April 10, 2002 – Yagur Junction bombingYagur. 8 dead
April 12, 2002 – 2002 Mahane Yehuda Market bombingJerusalem. 6 dead
May 7, 2002 – 2002 Rishon LeZion bombingRishon LeZion. 15 dead
May 7, 2002 – Bombing in al-Arbaa, Algeria. 49 dead, 117 injured.
May 19, 2002 – Netanya Market bombingNetanya. 3 dead
May 23, 2002 – Pi Glilot bombing attemptTel Aviv. dead
June 5, 2002 – Megiddo Junction bus bombingMegiddo Junction. 17 dead
June 11, 2002 – 2002 Herzliya shawarma restaurant bombingHerzliya. 1 dead
June 18, 2002 – Patt Junction Bus BombingJerusalem. 19 dead
June 19, 2002 – 2002 French Hill suicide bombingJerusalem by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. 7 dead, 35 injured.
July 16, 2002 – 2002 Immanuel bus attackIsrael. 9 dead
July 17, 2002 – Neve Shaanan Street bombingTel Aviv. 5 dead
July 31, 2002 – Hebrew University bombingJerusalem. 9 dead
August 4, 2002 – Meron Junction Bus 361 attackIsrael. 9 dead
September 19, 2002 – Allenby Street bus bombingTel Aviv. 6 dead
September 24, 2002 – Machine Gun attack on Hindu temple in Ahmedabad, India. 31 dead, 86 injured.[6][7]
12 October 2002 – Bombing in Bali nightclub. 202 killed, 300 injured.[8]
October 21, 2002 – Karkur junction suicide bombingIsrael. 14 dead
October 27, 2002 – Sonol gas station bombingAriel, West Bank. 3 dead
23 October 2002 – Moscow theater hostage crisis; Some 40 to 50 Islamist militant separatist seized a crowdedMoscow theater taking 850 hostages. 170 killed, 700 injured.[9]
November 21, 2002 – Kiryat Menachem bus bombingJerusalem. 11 dead
January 5, 2003 – Tel Aviv central bus station massacreTel Aviv. 23 dead
March 5, 2003 – Haifa bus 37 suicide bombingHaifa. 17 dead
April 30, 2003 – Mike’s Place suicide bombingTel Aviv. 3 dead
May 16, 2003 – Casablanca Attacks – 4 simultaneous attacks in Casablanca killing 33 civilians (mostly Moroccans) carried by Salafia Jihadia.
May 18, 2003 – 2003 French Hill suicide bombingJerusalem. 7 dead
May 19, 2003 – Afula mall bombingAfula. 3 dead
June 11, 2003 – Davidka Square bus bombingJerusalem. 17 dead
August 5, 2003 – 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing in Mega KuninganSouth JakartaIndonesia; suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the JW Marriott Jakarta lobby, killing 12 and injuring 150
August 19, 2003 – Shmuel HaNavi bus bombingJerusalem. 23 dead
September 9, 2003 – Tzrifin bus stop attackIsrael. 9 dead
September 9, 2003 – Café Hillel bombingJerusalem. 7 dead
October 4, 2003 – Maxim restaurant suicide bombingHaifa. 21 dead
December 25, 2003 – Geha Interchange bus stop bombingIsrael. 4 dead, 20 injured
January 14, 2004 – 2004 Erez Crossing bombingGaza Strip. 4 dead
January 29, 2004 – Gaza Street bus bombingJerusalem. 11 dead
February 22, 2004 – Liberty Bell Park bus bombingJerusalem. 8 dead
March 14, 2004 – 2004 Ashdod Port bombingsPort of Ashdod. 10 dead
11 March 2004 – Madrid train bombings. 191 killed, 1460 injured (alleged link to Al-Qaeda).
August 31, 2004 – Beersheba bus bombingsBeersheba. 16 dead
1 September 2004 – Beslan school hostage crisis, approximately 344 civilians including 186 children killed.[10][11]
9 September 2004 – 2004 Australian Embassy bombing in JakartaIndonesia; suicide bomber exploded a one-tonnecar bomb, which was packed into a small Daihatsu delivery van, outside the Australian embassy at Kuningan District,South Jakarta killing 9 and injuring over 150
October 7, 2004 – 2004 Sinai bombingsSinai peninsulaEgypt. 34 dead
November 1, 2004 – Carmel Market bombingTel Aviv. 3 dead
2 November 2004 – The murder of Theo van Gogh (film director) by Amsterdam-born jihadist Mohammed Bouyeri.[12]
13 January 2005 – Karni border crossing attackGaza Strip. 6 dead
4 February 2005 – Muslim terrorists attacked the Christian community in Demsa, Nigeria, killing 36 people, destroying property and displacing an additional 3000 people.
25 February 2005 – Stage Club bombingTel Aviv. 5 dead
5 July 2005 – Attack at the Hindu Ram temple at Ayodhya, India; one of the most holy sites of Hinduism. 6 dead.
7 July 2005 – Multiple bombings in London Underground. 53 killed by four suicide bombers. Nearly 700 injured.
July 12, 2005 – HaSharon Mall suicide bombing (July 12, 2005)Netanya. 5 dead
21 July 2005 London bombings – Four attempted bomb attacks disrupted part of London’s public transport system two weeks after the 7 July 2005 London bombings. The explosions occurred around midday at Shepherd’s BushWarren Street and Oval stations on London Underground, and on a bus in Shoreditch. A fifth bomber dumped his device without attempting to set it off.[13]
23 July 2005 – Bomb attacks at Sharm el-Sheikh, an Egyptian resort city, at least 64 people killed.
1 October 2005 – 2005 Bali bombings in Jimbaran & KutaBaliIndonesia; a series of bombings kills at least 20 and injures over 100
October 26, 2005 – Hadera Market bombingHadera. 7 dead
29 October 2005 – 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings, India. Over 60 killed and over 180 injured in a series of three attacks in crowded markets and a bus, just 2 days before the Diwali festival.[14]
9 November 2005 – 2005 Amman bombings. a series of coordinated suicide attacks on hotels in Amman, Jordan. Over 60 killed and 115 injured.[15][16] Four attackers including a husband and wife team were involved.[17]
December 5, 2005 – HaSharon Mall suicide bombing (December 5, 2005)Netanya. 5 dead
7 March 2006 – 2006 Varanasi bombings, India. A series of attacks in the Sankath Mochan Hanuman temple and Cantonment Railway Station in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi. 28 killed and over 100 injured.[18]
March 30, 2006 – Kedumim bombingKedumim. 4 dead
April 17, 2006 – 2006 Tel Aviv shawarma restaurant bombingTel Aviv. 11 dead, 68 injured
2–3 June 2006 – A series of attacks erupted against targets in Southern OntarioCanada, and the June 2, 2006, counter-terrorism raids in and around the Greater Toronto Area that resulted in the arrest of 18 people (dubbed the “Toronto 18“) found to be members of an Islamic terrorist cell. 18 Al-Qaeda members were behind this attack plot. They were trying to storm the Canadian Broadcasting Centre, the Canadian Parliament building, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) headquarters, and the parliamentary Peace Tower, to take hostages and to behead the Prime Minister and other leaders. No one was hurt
11 July 2006 – 2006 Mumbai train bombingsMumbai, India; a series of seven bomb blasts that took place over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai. 209 killed and over 700 injured.
31 July 2006 – 2006 German train bombing plot was a failed attempt for bombing two regional trains in Germany.
23 September 2006 – 2006 Prague terror plot – Islamist extremists were planning to take Jews captive in a Praguesynagogue and then blow up the building, killing everybody inside.[19][20]
January 29, 2007 – Eilat bakery bombingEilat. 3 dead
1 February 2007 – The 2007 plot to behead a British Muslim soldier – A group of British Pakistanis in Birmingham, England planned to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier in order to undermine the morale of the British Army and inhibit recruitment of Muslims.[21]
March and April 2007 – 2007 Casablanca bombingsCasablancaMorocco; seven suicide bombers killed one and injured four over a five-week period
30 June 2007 – 2007 Glasgow International Airport attackGlasgowScotland; A car loaded with propane canisters was driven into the glass doors of the Glasgow International Airport terminal and set ablaze. 1 killed and 5 injured.[22]
14 August 2007 – Qahtaniya bombings: Four suicide vehicle bombers massacred nearly 800 members of northern Iraq’s Yazidi sect in the deadliest Iraq war‘s attack to date.
23 December 2007 – The Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariate-Mohammadi (TNSM) claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing targeting a military convoy on behalf of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. The blast in the Mingora area of the Swat Valley killed five soldiers and six civilians.[23]
27 December 2007 – The Pakistani government implicated the network in the December 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto although the group denies the charge. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency also confirmed its belief ofTehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan‘s involvement in January 2008.
February 4, 2008 – 2008 Dimona suicide bombingDimona. 1 dead, 9 injured
5 February 2008 – February 2008 Bosaso bombings by Al-Shabaab. 25 dead, 80 injured.
2008 Exeter bombing – A failed attack which happened on 22 May 2008, at the Giraffe cafe and restaurant inPrincesshayExeterUnited Kingdom. Nicky Reilly, 22, a Muslim convert from Plymouth, pleaded guilty to launching a failed suicide attack on 15 October. The bomber was the only person injured.[24]
2 July 2008 – In the Jerusalem bulldozer attack, an Arab resident of east Jerusalem identified as Hussam Taysir Duwait (also referred to as Hussam Duwiyat,[25] Hossam Dawyyat,[26] or erroneously as Jabr Duwait[27]), attacked several cars on Jaffa Road in JerusalemIsrael using a front-end loader (erroneously referred to as a bulldozer in the media[28]), killing three people and wounding at least thirty other pedestrians, before being shot to death.[25][29] Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said that an inquiry indicated the attacker had been acting alone. 3 dead, 30+ injured.[30] Three copycat attacks have occurred since then.
26 July 2008 – 2008 Ahmedabad bombings, India. Islamic terrorists detonate at least 21 explosive devices in the heart of this industrial capital, leaving at least 56 dead and 200 injured. A Muslim group calling itself the Indian Mujahideen claims responsibility. Indian authorities believe that extremists with ties to Pakistan and/or Bangladesh are likely responsible and are intent on inciting communal violence.[31] Investigation by Indian police led to the eventual arrest of a number of terrorists suspected of carrying out the blasts, most of whom belong to a well-known terrorist group, The Students Islamic Movement of India.[32]
3 August 2008 – The 2008 Mogadishu bombings in Somalia. 21+ dead, 46+ injured.
21 August 2008 – Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Maulvi Umar claimed that the group was responsible for 21 August 2008 suicide bomb attack on a military complex.
23 August 2008 – Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the 2008 Swat Valley bombing.
13 September 2008 – Bombing series in Delhi, India. Pakistani extremist groups plant bombs at several places including India Gate, out of which the ones at Karol Bagh, Connaught Place and Greater Kailash explode leaving around 30 people dead and 130 injured, followed by another attack two weeks later at the congested Mehrauli area, leaving 3 people dead.
29 October 2008 – 2008 Hargeisa–Bosaso bombings by Al-Shabaab. 30 dead, 80 injured.
6 November 2008 – Someone using the name Abdur Rehman claimed that the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan was behind a 6 November 2008 suicide bombing that targeted tribal elders, who had gathered in the Bajaur tribal area to discuss efforts to coordinate with the government against the Pakistani Taliban. The blast took the lives of 16 and injured 31.[33]
13 November 2008 – The [[N:Taliban in Pakistan captures convoy bound for NATO troops|Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistanintercepted a military convoy]] along the Khyber Pass bound for NATO troops in Afghanistan.
26 November 2008 – Muslim extremists kill at least 474 people and wound numerous others in a series of coordinated attacks on India’s financial capital, Mumbai. The government of India blamed Pakistan based militant groupLashkar-e-Taiba and stated that the terrorists killed/caught were citizens of Pakistan, a claim which the Pakistani government first refused but then accepted when given proof. Ajmal Kasab, one of the terrorists, was caught alive.[34][35]
March 3, 2009 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team – A bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers, part of a larger convoy, was fired upon by 12 gunmen, near the Gaddafi Stadium in LahorePakistan.[36] The cricketers were on their way to play the third day of the second Test against the Pakistani cricket team. Six members of the Sri Lanka national cricket team were injured. Six Pakistani policemen and two civilians were killed.[30] These were the first attacks on a national sports team since the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian militants in 1972.[37][38]
30 March 2009 – In telephone interviews with news media Mehsud claimed responsibility for the 30 March 2009attack on the police training academy in Lahore.[39][40] He told the BBC that the attack was in retaliation for continuedmissile strikes from American drones for which the Pakistani government shared responsibility. In the same interview Mehsud claimed two other attacks: a 25 March attack on an Islamabad police station and a 30 March suicide attack on a military convoy near Bannu.[39]
4 April 2009 – Mehsud claimed responsibility for the Binghamton shootings, stating that they were in retaliation for continued missile strikes from American drones. The FBI denied this claim and stated this was nothing to do with Massod[41]
18 June 2009 – 2009 Beledweyne bombing by Al-Shabaab. 35 dead.
17 July 2009 – 2009 Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels bombing in Mega KuninganSouth JakartaIndonesia; suicide bombers hit the Marriott and 5 minutes later the Ritz-Carlton. 9 killed and 53 injured
27 August 2009 – Azam Tariq, spokesman of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a security checkpoint along the Pakistan-Afghan border near Torkham on 27 August 2009. Tariq said by telephone that the attack was the first in retaliation for the death of Baitullah Mehsud. Although the exact number of casualties was unknown, a doctor at a nearby hospital told Dawn News that they had received 22 bodies and local people working at the blast site said they had retrieved 13 bodies.[42]
5 October 2009 – Azam Tariq claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed five at the UN’s World Food Programme Islamabad offices on 5 October 2009.[43]
12 October 2009 – The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, through Azam Tariq, claimed responsibility for the October 2009attack on the army’s headquarters at Rawalpindi. Tariq told the Associated Press that the attack was carried out by its “Punjabi faction” although the military insisted the attack originated in South Waziristan.[44]
15 October 2009 – The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for three separate coordinated attacks in Lahore. 10 militants targeted buildings used by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), the Manawan Police Training School and the Elite Police Academy.[45]
25 October 2009. BaghdadIraq. During a terrorist attack, two bomber vehicles detonated in the Green Zone, killing at least 155 people and injuring 520.
28 October 2009 – PeshawarPakistan. A car bomb is detonated in a woman exclusive shopping district, and over 110 killed and over 200 injured.
5 November 2009 – Fort Hood shooting, at Fort Hood near Killeen, Texas.
3 December 2009 – The 2009 Hotel Shamo bombing in MogadishuSomalia. A male suicide bomber disguised as a woman detonates in a hotel meeting hall. The hotel was hosting a graduation ceremony for local medical students when the blast went off. 25 dead – including four government ministers – and 60 injured.[46]
30 December 2009 – The Pakistani Taliban, as well as the Afghan Taliban, claimed responsibility for the 30 December 2009 attack on Camp Chapman, a base of operations for the CIA, inside Khost Province, Afghanistan. TheTehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan released a video of Hakimullah Mehsud sitting next to the suicide bomber, Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi, a Jordanian national who had been working with the CIA. In the video, al-Balawi states that the attack is in retaliation for the killing of Baitullah Mehsud. Many analysts doubted that the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan acted alone.[47][48]

2010 – Current

1 January 2010 – Lakki MarwatPakistan. A suicide car bomber drove his explosive-laden vehicle into a volleyball pitch as people gathered to watch a match, killing more than 100 people.[49]
14 February 2010 – 2010 Pune bombingPune, Maharashtra, India. bomb blast ripped through the city’s popularGerman Bakery, close to the Osho Ashram and diagonally across from the Jewish Chabad House[50] killing 17 people and injuring 65.Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) claimed involvement of Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Taiba’s (LeT).Police arrested Mirza Himayat Baig Inayat Baig,who allegedly heads Lashkar-e-Taiba’s (LeT) module in the state.ATS has also arrested Bilal Baba Hussain Fareed Shaikh (27).In its chargesheet filed in a Pune court, the ATS has also named six other accused – all co-conspirator and absconding – Mohsin Choudhary, Yasin BhatkalRiyaz Bhatkal,Iqbal Bhatkal, Faiyaz Kagzi and Zabihuddin Ansari.[51]
1 May 2010 – 2010 Times Square car bombing attemptNew York, New YorkUSAFaisal Shahzad, an IslamicPakistani American who received an American citizenship in December 2009, attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square working with the Pakistani Taliban or Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.
28 May 2010 – Attacks on Ahmadi Mosques Lahore, Pakistan. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed attacks on two mosques simultaneously belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, killing nearly 100 and injuring many others.[50]
7 December 2010 – 2010 Varanasi bombingIndia. 2 dead, 37 injured.
10 December 2010 – 2010 Stockholm bombingSweden. killing the bomber and injuring two people.
1 January 2011 – Alexandria, Egypt. A car bomb exploded outside a Coptic Orthodox church after worshippers had gathered for a prayer celebration on New Year’s Eve. 21 dead, 97 injured.[52]
24 January 2011 – Domodedovo International AirportMoscow, Russia. A suicide bomb attack in the international arrivals hall of Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow killed at least 37 people and injured some 180.[53] Attacks were later attributed to the Caucasus Emirate an Islamist terrorist organisation.
25 January 2011 – Manilla, Philippines. A bomb under a bus seat detonated on a passenger bus commuting in Manilla. 5 dead, 14 injured.[54] The attack has been attributed to the Islamist Terrorist Organization Jemaah Islamiyah.
26 January 2011 – Khasavyurt, Russia. A car bomb explosion detonated by the Caucasus Emirate an Islamist terrorist organisation ripped through a cafe, with the blast killing and injuring both cafe workers and customers within the Russian city of Khasavyurt. 4 dead, 6 injured.[55]
02 March 2011 – 2011 Frankfurt Airport shootingFrankfurtGermany. The 2011 Frankfurt Airport shooting occurred on 2 March 2011 at Frankfurt Airport in Germany. The shooter, Arid Uka, was arrested and charged with killing two United States airmen and seriously wounding two others. He was sentenced to life in prison on 10 February 2012. The shooting was the first deadly attack in Germany with an Islamist background.
18 April 2011 – Pattani, Thailand. Suspected Muslim insurgents have set off a car bomb that killed one soldier and wounded 25 people in restive southern Thailand.[56]
25 April 2011 – Maiduguri, Nigeria. An explosion at a hotel killed 3 people and wounded 14 others in northeastern Nigeria. A second explosion went off at a cattle market in the town of Maiduguri; it is suspected that the attacks have been perpetrated by the radical Islamic sect Boko Haram (figuratively, “Western or non-Islamic education is a sin”)[57]
28 April 2011 – 2011 Marrakech bombingMarrakesh, Morocco. A suicide bombing struck a cafe in Djemaa el Fnasquare, killing mostly foreigners and several Moroccan’s, in the centre of Morocco’s southern city of Marrakesh, which is located in southern Morocco. 16 dead and at least 20 injured.[58] The attack was attributed to the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group.
8 June 2011 – Narathiwat, Thailand. Suspected Islamic militants killed two Buddhist monks and left a bomb at the scene that subsequently exploded and wounded five police officers. 2 dead, 5 injured.[59]
18 July 2011 – 2011 Hotan attackHotan, China. A group of 18 young Uyghur men who opposed the local government’s campaign against the full-face Islamic veil perpetrated a series of coordinated bomb and knife attacks and occupied a police station on Nuerbage Street, killing two security guards and taking eight hostages. The attackers yelled religious slogans, including ones associated with Jihadism.
30–31 July 2011 – 2011 Kashgar attacksKashgar, China. A series of busy markets and restaurants were attacked by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement in the city of Kashgar, by carbombs and stabbing attacks, killing 23 and wounding 42 people in total.[60]
5 January 2012 Iraq bombingsBaghdad and NasiriyahIraq by Islamic State of Iraq. 73 dead, 149 injured.
14 January 2012 Basra bombingBasraIraq. 53 dead, 130 injured.
27 January 2012 Baghdad bombingBaghdadIraq by Al-Qaeda in Iraq. 32 dead, 71 injured.
27 January 2012. BaghdadIraq. Suicide bomber kills 33 at funeral procession.[61]
23 February 2012 Iraq attacksBaghdadIraq by Islamic State of Iraq. 83 dead, 250+ injured.
28 February 2012 – 2012 Yecheng attackYechengChina. At around 6 p.m. on February 28, 2012, a group of eight Uyghur men led by religious extremist Abudukeremu Mamuti attacked pedestrians with axes and knives on a crowded street. Local police fought with Mamuti’s group, ultimately killing all and capturing Mamuti. One police officer died and four police were injured, while 15 pedestrians died from Mamuti’s assault and 14 more civilians were injured.[62]
20 March 2012 Iraq attacksBaghdad and at least 9 other cities, Iraq. 52 dead, ~ 250 injured.
20 March 2012 – 2012 Midi-Pyrénées shootings in ToulouseFrance Algerian gunman on a motorcycle kills 4 at a Jewish school. 7 dead, 5 injured.
30 April 2012 – Gunmen of Boko Haram kill 15 people and wound many more in Nigeria.[63]
10 July 2012 – TimbuktuMali. Islamist militants of the Ansar Dine group destroy tombs of the Djingareyber mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage site.[64]
11 September 2012 – On the anniversary of the 2001 September 11th attacks in the United States, Islamist militants killed 4 and wounded 7 in the Benghazi U.S. Consulate attack including American Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
29–30 September 2012 Muslims Attack Buddhist Temples, Homes Over Quran Facebook Photo in Chittagong. The latest reports indicate that about 15 temples and pagodas and about 100 houses of Buddhists living in the area had been set on fire.[65][66]
21 November 2012 – Tel-AvivIsrael. Bus explodes on Tel Aviv’s Shaul Hamelech Street; 28 wounded, one seriously, one moderately.[67]
21 February 2013. HyderabadAndhra PradeshA series of two bomb blasts in a crowded place killed 16 people and 119 were injured. There were two blasts on Thursday at 6.58 p.m. and 7.01 p.m. The bicycle had a bag hung to its carrier, which the police believe had an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
15 April 2013. Boston Marathon bombings. Two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnev, planted two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The blast killed 3 and injured 183 others.[68]
7 May 2013. Hangu, Pakistan. In a wave of pre-election sectarian violence a suicide attack, at a rally for a candidate of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, a pro-taliban religious party, killed at least 15 people and injured more than 40 including an election candidate.[69][70][71]
22 May 2013 Two men with cleavers kill British soldier, Lee Rigby in London.[72][73]
25 May 2013 – MakhachkalaDagestan. A female suicide bomber blew herself up in southern Russia’s restive Dagestan, wounding 12 people.[74]
25 May 2013 – SamarraIraq. A car bomb exploded near a bus killing six Iranians and one Iraqi. 14 others were wounded.[75]

[H/T Wikipedia]

Barack Obama is Huma Abedin on Steroids

(Walid Shoebat) — President Barack Obama and close Hillary Clinton adviser Huma Abedin have something extremely dangerous in common. Both have multiple family members who appear to be strongly connected to terrorism. In the case of Abedin, several members of her immediate family are directly tied to the Muslim Brotherhood through an organization her parents have led. In the case of Obama, his brother is a leader within an organization that finances terrorism and is overseen by Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir. Obama’s cousin admitted to sending Kenyan students to Saudi Arabia on scholarships to attend Wahhabist schools. Cousin Musa also implicated the President’s grandmother and uncle.

When the controversy involving Abedin made national news in the summer of 2012, President Barack Obama defended her publicly from the rostrum at a White House iftar dinner.

When it came to Rep. Michele Bachmann’s questions about Abedin, no one has been able to refute the facts. They resorted only to smears, calling the claims ‘baseless’. In reality, the facts are irrefutable. Specifically, several members of Abedin’s family – to include her father, mother, and brother – are directly connected to the Muslim Brotherhood. In fact, Abedin’s parents were commissioned by al-Qaeda financier Abdullah Omar Naseef  – a wealthy Saudi – to lead theInstitute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA). The IMMA’s long term objective is to convert Muslim minority lands into Muslim majority lands. Abedin’s mother is also a leader within the Muslim Sisterhood.

Yet, there were more Republicans in Congress who stood with Abedin than with Bachmann. They included, Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Scott Brown (R-MA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Reps. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Mike Simpson (R-ID), Richard Hanna (R-NY), and Mike Rogers (R-MI). In fact, one of the Bachmann five – Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL) backed away from Bachmann’s group. To his credit, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) showed support.

Rogers heads the House Intelligence Committee and has far more access to information about the Abedin family than we do. Based on that premise, he did not level with the American people when he rebuffed Bachmann:

“That kind of assertion certainly doesn’t comport with the Intelligence Committee, and I can say that on the record,” he told USA TODAY, aligning himself with party leaders who have defended Abedin. “I have no information in my committee that would indicate that Huma is anything other than an American patriot.”

That statement is flat-out dishonest when it comes from the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and it should harm Rogers’ credibility. This is not the first time Rogers’ truthfulness has rightfully been questioned.

House Intelligence Chair : Huma Abedin a 'patriot'.

House Intelligence Chair: Huma Abedin a ‘patriot’.

Common, yet weak attempts to refute evidence we have presented is met with cries of ‘guilt by association’. Essentially, that is an admission by such people that the evidence about these family members is accurate. Check out the last sentence of a pro-Malik Obama article that appeared on the Arabic website Al-Bawaba’s English edition:

Before the haters get too carried away with their “Barack Obama is a Muslim” diatribe, may Al Bawaba kindly note that they’re talking about the wrong brother.

Folks, that’s called conceding the point, which is difficult to argue in the first place. What Americans need to understand is that these admissions are huge. They allow us to move to the next phase of the case, which asks a very simple question: Do the affiliations and associations of the President’s family members matter?

The answer to that question is a resounding yes.

This is where we introduce Form 86, which became a hot button issue during the Huma Abedin controversy; it should apply to Barack Obama as well.

Via Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media:

The matter can be resolved, if the media are truly interested in getting to the bottom of the controversy, by demanding access to Abedin’s Standard Form 86, which she was supposed to fill out before getting her State Department job. House Speaker Boehner could also demand a copy.

Did she disclose her family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as to Saudi Arabia, where she once lived and was raised?

“It is required that job candidates complete the questionnaire and other required forms thoroughly, honestly, and with candor,” the State Department says.

If anyone with a security clearance is required to file a Form 86, shouldn’t that also include the President of the United States? Like Abedin, his family also has connections to both the Muslim Brotherhood and Saudi Arabia (according to Musa). As we wrote last month, ‘top secret’ documents revealed secret meetings during the Mohammed Mursi regime in Egypt, between Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Sudan’s IDO.

Left to Right: Al-Qaeda financier Abdullah Omar Naseef, Hillary Clinton, Saleha Abedin, Huma Abedin

Left to Right: Al-Qaeda financier Abdullah Omar Naseef, Hillary Clinton, Saleha Abedin, Huma Abedin

As a perfect example for why the associations of family members matter when you’re talking about the President, look no further than the 501(c)(3) status Malik Obama’s foundation receivedexpeditiously and quite likely illegally (backdated 38 months) by Lois Lerner. Congress shouldcompel Lerner to testify about why she did this. If her doing so had anything at all to do with the President, the reasons why Form 86 are so important become self-evident.

Based on Malik Obama’s activities, indications are that terrorists in Sudan and elsewhere have benefited from his relationship to the U.S. President.

Why Form 86 matters.

Why Form 86 matters.

Blueprint for Success
We can only speculate as to why Congress is refusing to draw attention to this scandal, which may be the biggest in the history of the Republic. One suspects that Congressmen like Rep. Mike Kelly, who referred to the claims against Malik Obama as ‘spot on’, don’t want to come forward because of what happened to the Bachmann five.

The interesting thing is that had Bachmann not listened to consultants, she and her colleagues very well may have won the day. Some might remember that after her letter got the attention of the media, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), a Muslim who is supported by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), issued a two-page letter that was directed at Bachmann and provided no acknowledgment or refutation of any facts. Bachmann shredded Ellison’s letter with a 16-page letter of her own.

Unfortunately, Bachmann withdrew from the battle shortly thereafter.

The media thinks it defeated the Bachmann five. In reality, the very small group understandably – but wrongly – surrendered. The letter to Ellison was a haymaker landed but because of political pressure and Republican congressmen who either sided with Abedin or clammed up, Abedin, Hillary Clinton, and the Obama administration itself was let off the ropes.

Now we have the same thing all over again but with President Obama and his family.

So far, not one Congressman has picked up the battle plans the Bachmann five drafted and followed but put down too soon.

Obama-Defend-Abedin

[H/T Walid Shoebat]

Obama Family Discovered to be Part of Secret Muslim Terror Operation

**EXCLUSIVE**
By Walid Shoebat

The Obama family’s legacy – although most today would not even consider saying it – will one day be etched in history books under the heading, “How a family of terrorists fooled America”. They have promoted Wahhabist interests in Saudi Arabia and were the greatest supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

Sayyid Obama, Barack Obama, and Malik Obama.

Sayyid Obama, Barack Obama, and Malik Obama.

And now more damning evidence reveals the Hamas financing connections of President Obama’s brother, Malik Obama, adding further to what we previously disclosed. The Islamic Dawa Organization (IDO) Malik Obama helps lead as Executive Director, is a member organization of“The Union of Good” (UG), which the U.S. Treasury designated as “Terrorist”.

The official website for UG still shows the IDO of Malik and his boss Suar al-Dahab as being anofficial member organization in the coalition. UG is an umbrella organization that represents over 50 Islamic fundraising groups worldwide and was designated by the U.S. Department of Treasury as a terrorist entity under Executive Order 13224:

NAME OF ENTITY ADDED ON 11-12-08
UNION OF GOOD (a.k.a. 101 DAYS CAMPAIGN; a.k.a. CHARITY COALITION; a.k.a. COALITION OF GOOD; a.k.a. ETELAF AL-KHAIR; a.k.a. ETILAFU EL-KHAIR; a.k.a. I’TILAF AL-KHAIR; a.k.a. I’TILAF AL-KHAYR), P.O. Box 136301, Jeddah 21313, Saudi Arabia

This authorizes the U.S. government to block the assets of organizations and individuals that provide financial support to terrorist organizations. According to the U.S. Department of Treasury,Hamas leadership founded the UG in 2000 shortly after the inception of the second Intifada with the purpose of facilitating the transfer of funds to Hamas.

But how could this happen if his brother is U.S. President?

Now for the damning evidence. According to the UG website’s home page, the two main photos of its two greatest leaders are #1 president of its organization Yusuf al-Qaradawi (the unwavering supporter for Hezbollah, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad) and the #2 man is none other than Suar al-Dhahab, Malik Obama’s direct boss.

Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Suar al-Dahab on Union of Good Homepage.

Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Suar al-Dahab on Union of Good Homepage.

AKAs: Charity Coalition
, Coalition of Good 
I’tilaf Al-Khair 
I’tilaf Al-Khayr
 101 Days Campaign, 
Etelaf Al-Khair” (see Dept of Treasury)

Malik Obama and his IDO boss,  Suar al-Dahab.

Malik Obama and his IDO boss, Suar al-Dahab.

On the Trustees list, Yusuf al-Qaradawi is also listed as #1 President and Suar al-Dhahab is #2 as vice-president (if you use Google translate here, you’re likely to see al-Dahab’s name translated into English as ‘gold bracelet’ due to Arabic names having specific meanings).

Qaradawi and al-Dahab: #1 and #2 on UG Trustees list.

Qaradawi and al-Dahab: #1 and #2 on UG Trustees list.

On UG’s Contributing Institutions page, one of the partners listed is Malik Obama’s IDO:

Malik Obama's IDO listed as UG Contributor.

Malik Obama’s IDO listed as UG Contributor.

Islamic Dawa Organization (aka Islamic Dawa Association)*

*Note: The U.S., Wikileaks and Israel err by calling it “Association” when it should be “organization” (Munazamat). The Arabic is correct (Munazzamatal-Da’waal-Islamiia) from the U.S. but the Arabic is incorrect from Israel (Munazzamat Al-Dawa Al Islamic). It should read “Munazamat Al-Dawa Al Islamia”.

The website even provides the method to donate that includes all the affiliated organizations, evenMalik’s IDO, with contact information to send the contributions for Hamas:

UG_Donation_Methods_Hamas

While IDO funded Hamas throughout the years, it still does and is still part of the coalition of the UG (Union of Good). Again, the U.S. Treasury Department has designated the Union of Good – a worldwide collection of charities headed by global Muslim Brotherhood leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi – as a terrorist entity as a result of its fund-raising activities on behalf of Hamas. This designation is also in Israel. (see #19 and also here)

The IRS granted a terror funding outfit the ability to operate under a 501(c)(3) and the worst part is we’re talking about the brother of the U.S. President. Everything we reported adds up; the Obama family, to include Grandmother Mama Sarah, Uncle Sayid Obama, Cousin Musa Ismail Obamaand now Malik Obama, is part of a clandestine team that funds terrorism. Some questioned the links we provided, complaining that we only provided limited websites of Malik’s IDO. The fact is, there is a plethora of forums and religious websites (some very prominent). There are also universities and even sports clubs raising funds for Hamas and asking donors to send the money to the Sudan’s IDO. To show the volume of websites, we included but a few below.

Lois Lerner: Signature at bottom of Malik Obama's tax-exempt approval letter.

Lois Lerner: Signature at bottom of Malik Obama’s tax-exempt approval letter.

I rest my case regarding this wretched family.

Walid Shoebat

IDO donations linked to Hamas:
Star Times: http://www.startimes.com/f.aspx?t=13819399
Islamweb, perhaps the most prominent: http://www.islamweb.net/ramadan/index.php?page=article&lang=A&id=126792
Muslim.org is a major Muslim website: http://www.muslm.org/vb/showthread.php?159804-%5F%5F%5F%5F%5F-%5F%5F%5F%5F%5F%5F%5F%5F-%5F%5F%5F
http://akhawat.islamway.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=251167

http://www.almualem.net/saboora/showthread.php?t=13337
http://www.nafithat.com/vb/showthread.php?t=26024
http://www.aoua.com/vb/showthread.php?p=434338
http://www.arabiyat.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148206
http://www.dewanalarab.com/vb/t32614.html

Koora (Forum): http://forum.kooora.com/?t=14018915
http://alwadi.com.sa/vb/archive/index.php/t-22144.html
http://www.yemen-sound.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-6417.html
http://ahsaweb.net/vb/archive/index.php/t-103157.html

Almuslim (Forum): http://almuslem.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-7669.html (this one says, “donate for Palestine” on 12/9/09)
http://www.tihama-yemen.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-407.html
http://www.jazan4u.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-41559.html (called by Yusuf al-Qaradawi in 2006)
http://www.cksu.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-25567.html (King Saud University)

Be my guest and use Google Translate.

Here are a few more links for those who need more information:

http://www.arabiyat.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-148206.html
http://allam101.8m.com/mosahama.htm
http://mashro3.net/ar/Contents.aspx?AID=971
http://www.alnabkvb.net/vb/archive/index.php/t-10412.html
http://www.gulftalk.com/fourm/archive/index.php/t-15033.html
http://www.ittihadfans.com/fans/showthread.php?t=79959
http://www.egyptsons.com/misr/archive/index.php/t-51295.html
http://allaithnet.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-13887.html
https://bahrainforums.com/vb/%C7%E1%DA%D1%C8-%E6%C7%E1%DA%C7%E1%E3/131204.htm
http://www.sona3.org/vb/showthread.php?p=14532
http://www.alduraz.net/xforum/showthread.php?threadid=124474
http://www.muslm.org/vb/archive/index.php/t-159804.html
http://www.bsmlh.net/vb/archive/index.php/t-1896.html
http://www.majalisna.com/bb/viewtopic.php?TID=53470
http://www.sobe3.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-8947.html
http://bafree.net/alhisn/archive/index.php/t-51591.html
http://bafree.net/alhisn/showthread.php?t=51591
http://www.algrooob.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-9878.html
http://www.yzeeed.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-14801.html
http://www.qatarfootball.com/archive/index.php/t-44273.html
http://www.yemen-sound.net/vb/showthread.php?p=45664&langid=3
http://www.alhewar-alwatni.net/vb/archive/index.php/t-13761.html
http://www.sulayyil.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-22714.html
http://alsrdaab.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-34305.html
http://www.njom.net/archive/index.php/t-27281.html
http://vb.alhilal.com/t300126.html
http://alnamas.net/vb/archive/index.php/t-52690.html
http://www.maxforums.net/archive/index.php/t-69665.html
http://forum.lahaonline.com/archive/index.php/t-36787.html
http://www.inshad.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-64600.html
http://www.sanabes.com/forums/showthread.php?48972-%DA%DD%E6%F0%C7-%E1%E1%E3%D3%E1%E3%ED%E4-%DD%DE%D8!
http://www.afifcity.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-11890.html
http://www.qatarfootball.com/showthread.php?t=44273
http://www.nafithat.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-26024.html
http://www.damasgate.com/vb/t59479/
http://forum.sh3bwah.maktoob.com/t32678.html
http://hafaralbaten.net/vb/showthread.php?p=145452
http://www.traidnt.net/vb/traidnt1079499/
https://sites.google.com/site/plshelpgaza/
http://www.nilemotors.net/Nile/588962-post7.html
http://www.kasralainy.com/archive/index.php/t-8172.html
http://www.inshad.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64600

[H/T Walid Shoebat]

Jihadi Lawyer Lynne Stewart Released from Prison

Terrorists and jihadists are celebrating her release everywhere, while Marxist/Communist Mayor DeBlasio is probably finding a position in his cabinet as well.

(CNN) — A former defense lawyer imprisoned for aiding a convicted terrorist’s communication from prison to his terrorist group was released from prison Tuesday evening, after a judge ordered the “compassionate release.”

U.S. District Judge John Koeltl granted a motion filed by federal prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reduce the sentence of outspoken lawyer Lynne Stewart, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2010.

Stewart’s “terminal medical condition and very limited life expectancy constitute extraordinary and compelling reasons that warrant the requested reduction,” Koeltl wrote in his order.

“… It is further ordered that the defendant shall be released from the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons as soon as her medical condition permits, the release plan is implemented and travel arrangements can be made.”

Stewart arrived in New York early Wednesday afternoon and is with her son and his family in Brooklyn, according to her lawyer, Jill Shellow.

“I know that she is very happy to be home,” said Shellow. “I believe her immediate plan is to seek medical attention at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.”

Stewart, who is 74 and has breast cancer, was known for representing poor and sometimes unpopular clients as a defense attorney. In 1995, she represented the blind cleric Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted of a long list of terrorist activities, including his part in a plot to blow up American military installations.

Abdel-Rahman is serving life in prison.

The motion filed Tuesday asked the court to release Stewart from a Texas prison because her cancer has metastasized to the lung and bone, and oncologists estimate her life expectancy to be less than 18 months. The filing said her medical condition was “terminal and incurable” and cited the “relatively limited risk” of recidivism and danger to the community from her release.

Shellow told CNN her client’s supporters were “overjoyed that she will spend her remaining days with her family.”

In 2000, Stewart broke her agreement to abide by measures set by the Department of Justice and Bureau of Prisons. Those measures stipulated that Abdel-Rahman not be permitted any contact with his organization, Islamic Group. After visiting Abdel-Rahman in prison, Stewart passed on a message from him to his Islamic Group followers: that Islamic Group should reconsider a cease-fire in attacks against the Egyptian government.

Stewart was disbarred in 2007 and began serving her 28-month sentence in November 2009.

In 2010, Koeltl revised his initial sentencing of Stewart from 28 months to 10 years in prison.

Wearing navy blue prison garb and handcuffs, Stewart entered a crowded courtroom to a standing ovation.

“The pain is overwhelming” said Stewart, who paused to compose herself several times while speaking. “Prison has diminished me.”

EXCLUSIVE: PAKISTANI TERROR GROUP THREATENS DEADLY ATTACKS ON NEW YORK, WASHINGTON, D.C.

(via The Blaze) — Pakistan’s most dangerous terrorist organization, the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), has promised it will attack New York and Washington, D.C., in an act of revenge with suicide fighters, according to a newly released video obtained by TheBlaze.

The group also claims responsibility for the most deadly attack in CIA history and the failed bombing of New York’s Times Square.

The video pays tributes to slain commander Qari Hussain Ahmed, also known as Qari Hussain Mehsud —  known for his suicide squads. He was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2010.

It also has a map of the United States with animated bombs dropping and exploding and warns that fighters who have already been trained have infiltrated NATO countries to continue TTP’s global jihad mission.

“Very soon, our jihad…is reaching New York and Washington; our fidayees will very soon enter NATO countries,” it quotes Hussain Ahmed as saying.

Throughout the video, hooded fighters are shown training in isolated mountains and villages carrying automatic weapons and pistols while also conducting physical combat training. A voice in the background promises revenge for the martyrs.

According to a translation sanctioned by TheBlaze, the terrorist group urges Muslims everywhere to join jihad.

“[W]hatever skills you have, whether you be a Muslim living in a NATO country, or Muslims living in Iraq, New York, or Washington, we invite them to study Islam, recite the Koran, look at its orders, then come to the mujahideen and we will train you, stand in our ranks,” it says.

“After taking training from us, reach every corner of the world, open a front in your region, rise up, the ranks are there, leaders are there; and under the leadership of our Emir-ul-Momineen Mullah Mohammad Omar Mujahid the mujahideen or the entire world are agreed and united, you too rise up for the establishment of caliphate.”

“I urge you to think – begin jihad against NATO countries, Americans and their allies in their own cities, in their own regions,” it adds. “Whatever skills you may have, whether he be an engineer, into electronics, chemical expert, or of intellectual and logical skills, we invite them to think….”

The video goes beyond just recruiting and promising attacks. The TTP also claim they successfully planned the attacks on a CIA base inside Camp Chapman in Khost, eastern Afghanistan that left seven CIA officers dead in 2009. It also admits to ordering the failed attack in Times Square, New York, and shows Faisal Shahzad, the convicted bomber, saying goodbye to Qari Hussain Ahmed after hugging him.

Pakistani terror video from Tehreek e Taliban threatens attacks on Washington, DC, and New York City

According to the FBI Shahzad trained in bomb making in Pakistan and this video is direct evidence of his close ties with the TTP, a U.S. Intelligence official told TheBlaze.

This is the first major video released from the TTP since Mehsud’s death in November.

TheBlaze obtained the one-hour-and-five-minute video on Friday from a Pakistani citizen living in Peshawar, who has asked to remain anonymous for fear of his life. It was also obtained by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on Saturday, said executive director of MEMRI Steve Stalinsky. Stalinsky sent the translation to TheBlaze.

Jihadi websites began posting the video late Sunday night. TheBlaze waited to publish the story until a complete translation could be provided.

Pakistani terror video from Tehreek e Taliban threatens attacks on Washington, DC, and New York City

The video was produced by the Umar Media, which is the media company of the TTP.

The video opens with a verse from the Koran which says,”among the faithful are many who have made true of their promise made to Allah; so many of them fulfilled their promise (got martyred) and there are many who are waiting [to do so]; and they haven’t change their promise (Chapter Al-Ahzab, Verse 23),” according to the MEMRI translation.

Hussain Ahmed is described with such titles as the teacher of Islam’s martyrdom seekers, great commander, epoch-making personality, mountain of steadfastness, and one of the founding leaders of the TTP, the translation states. They also refer to Yasin Baba, Hussain Ahmed’s father, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in South Waziristan.

TheBlaze has learned the FBI is aware of the video. We reached out to the agency and are awaiting a response.

But a U.S. official contacted by TheBlaze downplayed the group’s ability to carry out the plot.

“TTP aspires to conduct attacks against the West, but the group is much more capable of striking local targets in Pakistan, where TTP is principally focused,” the official said. “However, if a Western passport holder — someone like Times Square bomber Faisal Shazhad – were to approach the group and offer his services, the TTP probably wouldn’t turn him away.”

That official also said the group is fracturing.

“TTP is increasingly factionalized, and the appointment of Mullah Fazlullah – the first non-Mehsud clan leader to command the group – may accelerate this trend,” the official said.

You can view the video below that has now been posted on YouTube:

http://www.spreecast.com/events/blazecast-december-23-2013/embed-medium

[H/T The Blaze]

Hillary Clinton: Sudden Threat Endangers 2016 Presidential Run

We published an article Friday via Walid Shoebat that Hillary Clinton has now been closely tied to terrorism, more specifically Muslim Brotherhood.  Oh sure, we all made the Clinton-Brotherhood connection long ago, but these new revelations are damning evidence that there’s more that meets the eye.  Shoebat promises there will be more, but in the meantime, WND has now acknowledged story, so it’s gaining momentum. Stay tuned, this is getting interesting.

NEW YORK – A threat to Hillary Clinton’s much anticipated 2016 presidential campaign appears to be developing in Egypt where the government is taking steps to criminalize the Muslim Brotherhood.

Hillary Clinton

Specifically, a new criminal complaint has been filed with Egypt’s attorney general, Hisham Barakat, alleging U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton collaborated with Naglaa Mahmoud, the wife of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi in seeking to excite domestic insurrections to topple Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the Egyptian general who has been commander in chief of the Egyptian armed forces, as well as minister of defense, since Aug. 12, 2012.

Researcher Walid Shoebat, a native Arabic-speaker and a former Palestinian Liberation Organization operative, has reported on his blog credible news sources in Egypt have reported in Arabic that criminal charges brought against Hillary Clinton and Morsi’s wife.

Shoebat translated the following from an Egyptian Mehwar TV channel news video in which television reporter Nasr Qaffas explains on camera details of an interview Turkey’s Anatolia news agency conducted with Naglaa Mahmoud.

The following are excerpts from the transcript of the Mehwar TV news video, in which comments by Naglaa Mahmoud also implicate Huma Abedin, wife of former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner and the former Hillary Clinton chief of staff whom WND has identified as having close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood:

Qaffas: According to Anatolia Press, Mahmoud said, “I have between my fingers, a treasure trove of secrets from the White House and Mrs. Clinton fears my wrath.” She said, “I will not speak about Huma Abedin.” When asked if she had a close relationship with Hillary Clinton, Mahmoud said, “When my husband returns from his kidnapping, the one who led the coup will pay a hefty price.” Of Mrs. Clinton, she said, “We have a long friendship of many years. We lived in the U.S. and my children learned there. This friendship increased further when my husband became the legitimate president of the country.”

Mahmoud went on to say that they were recruited by the Clintons from the U.S. and began their friendship in the 1980s. This appears to be a conspiracy that is being hidden.

When asked if they still have friendships with each other, Mahmoud said communications never ceased and that the conversations are all recorded. The wife of Morsi divulged that Mrs. Clinton seeks the assistance – both official and unofficial – of several members of the Muslim Sisterhood organization to help with problems in the Middle East. “We also have routine business dealings with the Clintons.”

Continuing with the excerpts from the transcript of the Mehwar TV news video, Naglaa Mahmoud claimed Hillary Clinton is looking for the support of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in her anticipated 2016 run for the U.S. presidency:

Mahmoud further stated that “Hillary depends on us tremendously to help her succeed in the coming presidential elections, just as we helped Barack Obama win twice.” She is quite the looney bin to believe she helped Obama win.

When asked about her relationship with Michelle Obama, Mahmoud said it is very good but it never developed to the point of close friendship, like with Hillary.

On the ability of women to take the lead in the revolution, Mahmoud said that could indeed happen with the Sisterhood. “I have many wives of Brotherhood leaders with me. Many of their husbands were kidnapped and jailed too. I tell them to be patient, for you will have a great reward in the future. I tell them that if their husbands are martyred, we will see to it that they are married off to other men as soon as their menstrual period is over,” she said.

According to Mahmoud, the police will not touch the women, which is why the women are so effective.

Finally, the excerpts from the transcript of the Mehwar TV news video suggest Naglaa Mahmoud was aware the current criminal charges her husband and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders face in Egypt could be a liability for Hillary Clinton in her anticipated presidential race:

On her concerns that the Muslim Brotherhood could be identified as a terrorist organization, the wife of the former president said she was not and declared that she and her colleagues are in the process of organizing a “coup against the coup.”

“We are under the condition of war and Jihad,” she said, “and we have a good command of the necessities of war, the ancient and the modern. I will keep the tactics of war secret because in Islam, war is trickery.”

She said her conscience will not be eased until all of the traitors are hanged in the gallows.

“A key revelation in these reports is Mahmoud’s claim that the Clintons befriended her family in the 1980s while living in the U.S. As one of 63 leaders in the Muslim Sisterhood, Mahmoud is a colleague of Saleha Abedin, another one of those 63 leaders,” Shoebat wrote. “Saleha is the mother of Huma Abedin, who is a close adviser to Hillary Clinton and wife of former Democratic Congressman, Anthony Weiner.”

Muslim Brotherhood goes on trial in Egypt

WND first reported in August that criminal charges have been filed against Malik Obama, half-brother to President Barack Obama, for his involvement allegedly managing funds for a terrorist organization based in neighboring Sudan as well as for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

A criminal trial against former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi is scheduled to begin in Egypt in January 2014, with Morsi facing charges that he supported the Muslim Brotherhood in acts of violence directed against the Egyptian people.

President Obama is likely to be a subject in Morsi’s criminal trial given evidence the Obama administration used to U.S. Embassy in Cairo to provide direct financial support to key Muslim Brotherhood political operatives, with the full knowledge and complicity of the Morsi government, as WND first reported in August.

In November, WND reported the Egyptian Air Force Officer currently residing in the U.S. and working as a physician, who has pressed terrorist charges in Egypt against President Obama’s elder brother Malik, has characterized the decision of the Egyptian government to prosecute the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt a conflict that involves “Moderate Muslims vs. the Obama brothers.”

As Jan. 8, 2014, approaches and Egypt prepares for the next appearance in court of former president Mohammed Morsi and the 14 Muslim Brotherhood leaders facing charges of incitement to murder, Sadek Raouf Ebeid believes Barack Obama and his brother Malik Obama in Kenya will be implicated in the criminal proceedings because of the support President Obama and his brother have shown for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

Ebeid was the man who filed last August what in Egypt is known as “Complaint No. 1761″ with the office of Egypt’s Attorney General Hisham Barakat, a complaint that accused Malik Obama of managing investment funds for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

In a letter addressed to WND, translated and published as a “guest column” on the website of Walid Shoebat, Ebeid stressed that the promptness with which Hisham Barakat responded to the filing of his complaint requesting that Obama’s elder brother, Malik, be placed on the Egyptian terrorist watch list reflected not just the efficiency of Ebeid’s lawyer in Egypt, Dr. Ahmed el-Ganzory, but also demonstrated the degree to which this case “resonated with the feelings of the majority of moderate Muslims in the Arab world.”

On Sept. 5, WND reported Ebeid’s attorney, Dr. Ahmed Nabil Ganzory, filed Complaint No. 1761, adding that the complaint asked the Egyptian High Court to consider placing Malik on the terrorist watch list both for his involvement managing funds for both the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and for the Islamic Dawa Organization, or IDO, in Sudan.

On Nov. 11, WND reported Egyptian lawyers have filed criminal terrorism charges in the International Criminal Court against President Obama, in addition to the criminal terrorism charges previously filed in Egyptian courts against the president’s half-brother Malik.

Specifically, the criminal charges filed in the ICC against President Obama charge Obama coordinated, incited, and assisted the armed elements of the Muslim Brotherhood in the commission of crimes against humanity including the torching, destruction and plundering of some 85 Christian churches, in the period March 7 through Aug. 18 in Egypt.

Attacks in Egypt on Coptic Christians

WND has previously reported on Muslim Brotherhood violence against Christian Copts in Egypt.

According to a paper published Nov. 12, by Middle Eastern expert Raymond Ibrahim on the website of the Gatestone Institute titled “What Happened to Christians in the Middle East this August?” the attacks on Egypt’s Coptic Christians and their Christian churches began with the June 30 Revolution that “saw the ousting of President Morsi and prompted the Muslim Brotherhood to scapegoat and incite violence against the Copts.”

Ibrahim reported the attacks became “even more brutal in mid-August after security forces cleared out Brotherhood ‘sit in’ camps, where people were being tortured, raped, and murdered.”

He noted the attacks were especially devastating in Minya in Upper Egypt where the large Christian community was hit especially hard, with at least 20 attacks on churches, Christian schools and orphanages.

According to Ibrahim, the goal of the radical Islamists in their attack on the Copts in Egypt was “to erase all the traces of a Christian presence,” such that even the orphanages were looted and destroyed.

Earlier, in an article titled “Attacks on Christians Escalate in Egypt, Nigeria” published by the Gatestone Institute on Sept. 19, 2013, Ibrahim wrote:

On July 4th, the day after the Egyptian military liberated its nation from Muslim Brotherhood rule, Christian Copts were immediately scapegoated and targeted. All Islamist leaders – from Brotherhood supreme leader Muhammad Badi, to Egyptian-born al-Qaida leader Ayman Zawahiri, to top Sunni cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi – made a point to single out Egypt’s Copts as especially instrumental in the ousting of former Islamist president Morsi, a claim that ushered in a month of slaughter against the nation’s Christian minority.

Although religious violence by Muslims against Christians remains largely unreported in the mainstream media in the U.S., Ibrahim warned that persecution of Christians in the Islamic world is on the way “to reaching pandemic proportions.”

[H/T WND]

Malik Obama: Brother of Barack Obama May Qualify as Enemy Combatant

[H/T Walid Shoebat]: The cases of Salim Ahmed Hamdan (Osama bin Laden’s one-time driver and bodyguard) and David Hicks (an Australian who trained in Afghanistan) may lay the groundwork for Malik Obama (Barack Obama’s half-brother) qualifying as an enemy combatant. The president’s older brother is the Executive Secretary of the Islamic Da’wa Organization (IDO), which is run by a country designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism and a president (Omar al-Bashir) who is wanted for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Barack and Malik ObamaMalik Obama’s attendance at the 2010 IDO Conference in Khartoum is not just significant in itself but could provide the legal basis for his providing material support for terrorism because of when that conference took place.

A key to any charge against Malik Obama may involve the Military Commissions Act (MCA) of 2006. When considering the fates of Hamdan and Hicks, both convicted of providing material support for terrorism, the year of this law’s enactment is indeed significant. Hamdan’s conviction was overturned because his crimes took place before the law was in existence.

Via the New York Times:

A federal appeals court on Friday overturned the terrorism conviction of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a former driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden whose case has been one of the most tangled to emerge from the war crimes trials of detainees held by the military at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

The court found that Mr. Hamdan’s conviction by a military commission for providing material support for terrorism could not stand because, under the international law of war in effect at the time of his actions, there was no such defined war crime.

The Military Commission Act, a law passed in 2006, does not authorize such retroactive prosecutions, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled. {emphasis ours}

Taken in 2010, photos demonstrate that Malik Obama, who is both a Kenyan citizen and a U.S. resident, provided (and may continue to provide) material support for terrorism four years after that law was enacted. Shouldn’t consorting with a man wanted for crimes against humanity and who leads a country that is considered a State Sponsor of Terrorism qualify?

David Hicks, known as the ‘Aussie Taliban’, is a man who was held at Guantanamo Bay for five years after being captured in Afghanistan. In 2007, he was convicted of providing material support for terrorism after pleading guilty. His lawyers are appealing the conviction based on the ruling in Hamdan.

Via ABC:

The basis for the appeal is a US court ruling that the charge against him is invalid.

In 2012, a US appeals court in Washington ruled in the case of another Guantanamo convict, Osama bin Laden’s one-time driver and bodyguard, Salim Hamdan, that providing material support for terrorism was not recognised as a war crime during the time Mr Hamdan and Mr Hicks were in Afghanistan.

They were prosecuted under a US law enacted in 2006 and the court said it could not be applied retroactively. The ruling overturned Mr Hamdan’s conviction. {emphasis ours}

So, Hamdan’s ruling was overturned not because he didn’t do what he was convicted of doing but because he did it before the law making it a crime was enacted. Hicks’s attorneys are making the same argument in his appeal.

Salim Hamdan

It is an argument that Malik Obama cannot make; he was providing material support to terrorism as recently as 2010 as Executive Secretary of the IDO.

Let’s take a look at how the law describes an Unlawful Enemy Combatant:

“(i) a person who has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States or its co-belligerents who is not a lawful enemy combatant (including a person who is part of the Taliban, al Qaeda, or associated forces); or “(ii) a person who, before, on, or after the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, has been determined to be an unlawful enemy combatant by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the authority of the President or the Secretary of Defense. {emphasis ours}

As an Executive Secretary of an organization under the authority of the government of Sudan, there is more than sufficient probable cause to suggest that Malik Obama “has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States”. At least one problem arises in the form of a familial conflict of interest. In particular, Malik’s brother – who happens to also be the President of the United States – is incapable of being objective in this case and should recuse himself.

The only other person with the ability to establish a tribunal to investigate Malik Obama is Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, who should either reconcile a conflict of interest as well; his boss’s conflict could render Hagel incapable of doing his job in this case.

This would certainly be grounds for Barack recusing himself and unless Hagel can demonstrate loyalty to his boss wouldn’t interfere with his decision to form a military commission, justice may require his recusal as well.

To illustrate this conflict of interest, consider that under §950i. Execution of sentence; procedures for execution of sentence of death…

“(b) EXECUTION OF SENTENCE OF DEATH ONLY UPON APPROVAL BY THE PRESIDENT.—If the sentence of a military commission under this chapter extends to death, that part of the sentence providing for death may not be executed until approved by the President. In such a case, the President may commute, remit, or suspend the sentence, or any part thereof, as he sees fit. {emphasis ours}

Even if Malik were tried and convicted under the MCA, the responsibility to carry out that sentence would fall to his younger brother, to include the death penalty. Putting President Obama in this position would not be fair to a legitimate system of justice.

While actually trying Malik under the MCA could be far more difficult than convicting him under it, take a look at what qualifies as Principals under §950q:

“Any person is punishable as a principal under this chapter who—(1) commits an offense punishable by this chapter, or aids, abets, counsels, commands, or procures its commission; “(2) causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him would be punishable by this chapter; or “(3) is a superior commander who, with regard to acts punishable under this chapter, knew, had reason to know, or should have known, that a subordinate was about to commit such acts or had done so and who failed to take the necessary and reasonable measures to prevent such acts or to punish the perpetrators thereof.

As the Executive Secretary of the IDO, Malik Obama must know what subordinates are doing and his boss – Suar al-Dahab – has consorted with both the Prime Minister of Hamas and Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, the umbrella group for al-Qaeda.

Let’s go to page 77 of the Act. On line 10 (25), it states the following:

“(25) PROVIDING MATERIAL SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM.—‘‘(A) OFFENSE.—Any person subject to this chapter who provides material support or resources, knowing or intending that they are to be used in preparation for, or in carrying out, an act of terrorism (as set forth in paragraph (24)), or who intentionally provides material support or resources to an international terrorist organization engaged in hostilities against the United States, knowing that such organization has engaged or engages in terrorism (as so set forth), shall be punished as a military commission under this chapter may direct. {emphasis ours}

As an Executive Secretary with the IDO, Malik Obama absolutely fits this profile, if for no other reason than his employer is a State Sponsor of Terrorism. By definition, da’wa refers to spreading Islam through prostheletyzing. This requires money. The source of said monies would also be subject to prosecution under the MCA.

While a potential unlawful enemy combatant who has “purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States”, Malik Obama received special and illegal tax exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for his organization – the Barack H. Obama Foundation (BHOF) – in 2011. His application was processed in less than one month and tax exempt status backdated 38 months. The signature of the IRS employee who granted Malik his tax exempt status is Lois Lerner.

If Malik Obama’s crimes as an enemy combatant are proven, it would implicate Lerner in similar crimes by aiding and abetting said enemy combatant by providing illegal funds. An investigation into who or what prompted Lerner to do this is indeed warranted. Any superior who instructed her to grant BHOF tax exempt status would also be subject to prosecution.

Since Barack essentially has sole authority or discretion to prosecute crimes under the MCA and it would be unlikely for him to recuse himself from the case, how may justice be served?

The answer is through Congress and the Court of Public Opinion (CPO). One congressman – Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) – who sits on the House Ways and Means Committee has publicly stated that the aforementioned claims against Malik Obama and Lois Lerner are “spot on”. In order for this case to be introduced in the CPO, members of Congress must begin speaking publicly about it. One or more must also open up an investigation into the charges in his or her capacity on their respective committees.

Original article at Walid Shoebat