Obama's war on our fundamental rights is devastating. The enemedia performs like state-run media and covers for this incredible rout. It is shocking. And in all of these grotesque anti-American maneuvers, Obama and his thugs are always using Orwellian language. 'Operation Vigilant Eagle' criminalizes free speech and targets our nation's best -- our vets.

Veterans are being singled out and arrested and labelled as mentally sick for criticizing Obama. Obama created this to stop criticism of him and his administration.

Operation Vigilant Eagle: Is This Really How We Honor Our Nation's Veterans? OpEd News (thanks to Laura)

Despite the fact that the U.S. boasts more than 23 million veterans who have served in World War II through Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the plight of veterans today, while often overlooked, is common knowledge: impoverished, unemployed, lacking any decent health benefits, homeless, traumatized mentally and physically, struggling with depression, thoughts of suicide, marital stress.

Making matters worse, thanks to Operation Vigilant Eagle, a program launched by the Department of Homeland Security in 2009, military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are also being characterized as extremists and potential domestic terrorist threats because they may be "disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war." As a result, these servicemen and women--many of whom are decorated--are finding themselves under surveillance, threatened with incarceration or involuntary commitment, or arrested, all for daring to voice their concerns about the alarming state of our union and the erosion of our freedoms.

"Jailed for Facebook comments, Marine sues" WND.com

'Case exposes government system that is targeting military veterans'

It happens in China routinely. It frequently happened in the old Soviet Union. Undoubtedly in North Korea, although generally there’s no one around to witness it. But in the United States? It happens here, too, apparently.

A lawsuit has been filed by officials with the Rutherford Institute on behalf of a Marine who was jailed and held for the comments he made on Facebook – comments that expressed a dissatisfaction with the present direction of the U.S. government.

According to officials at Rutherford, the civil rights action names as defendants members of law enforcement and the government who were involved in last year’s episode where Marine veteran Brandon Raub, 27, was arrested by a swarm of FBI and Secret Service and forcibly detained in a psychiatric ward for a week.

His crime was posting controversial song lyrics and political views on Facebook, the institute reported.

In one of his postings, he cited the evil in the world.

“The United States was meant to lead the charge against injustice, but through our example not our force. People do not respond to having liberty and freedom forced on them,” he wrote.

He was released later when a judge stepped in and concluded the prosecution’s case against Raub was “so devoid of any factual allegations that it could not be reasonably expected to give rise to a case or controversy.”

The lawsuit asks for damages for Raub for the attack he endured. It was filed in U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va., and claims Raub’s seizure and detention were part of a plan executed by the Obama administration called “Operation Vigilant Eagle.”

That, the institute explains, was a federal program to do surveillance on military veterans who express views critical of the government.

Institute attorneys claim the attempt to label Raub as “mentally ill” and authorities’ efforts to involuntarily commit him into custody was intended to silence his criticism of the government. However, they explain the strategy also violated Raub’s First and Fourth Amendment rights.

“Since coming to Raub’s defense, The Rutherford Institute has been contacted by military veterans across the country recounting similar incidents. In filing a civil suit against government officials, Rutherford Institute attorneys plan to take issue with the manner in which Virginia’s civil commitment statutes are being used to silence individuals engaged in lawfully exercising their free speech rights,” the organization said.

“Brandon Raub’s case exposed the seedy underbelly of a governmental system that is targeting military veterans for expressing their discontent over America’s rapid transition to a police state,” said John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute.

“Brandon Raub is not the first veteran to be targeted for speaking out against the government. Hopefully, by holding officials accountable, we can ensure that Brandon is the last to suffer in this way.”

It was last Aug, 16 when Chesterfield police, Secret Service and FBI agents arrived at Raub’s home and asked to talk with him about his Facebook posts.

“Like many Facebook users, Raub, a Marine who has served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, uses his Facebook page to post song lyrics and air his political opinions. Without providing any explanation, levying any charges against Raub or reading him his rights, law enforcement officials handcuffed Raub and transported him to police headquarters, then to John Randolph Medical Center, where he was held against his will,” the Institute reported.

“In a hearing on Aug. 20, government officials pointed to Raub’s Facebook posts as the reason for his incarceration. While Raub stated that the Facebook posts were being read out of context, a Special Justice ordered Raub be held up to 30 more days for psychological evaluation and treatment.”

When Circuit Court Judge Allan Sharrett, however, found out about the case, he ordered it dismissed and Raub released, because there was no evidence of a case.

I am sure that this jihadist is not the first -- clearly we have been infiltrated. Who do you think wrote that report on the Fort Hood jihad calling it ... street crime?

EXCLUSIVE: Alleged Hezbollah Member Trying to Infiltrate Defense Dept Arrested in US Breitbart, May 26, 2013 (thanks to Suzanne)

An alleged former Hezbollah commander who was attempting to infiltrate the US Defense Department has been arrested in San Antonio, Texas, according to the FBI. The alleged Hezbollah commander’s name is Wissam Allouche.

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, FBI Spokesman for the San Antonio division, Special Agent Erik Vasys, confirmed that the individual was trying to obtain a sensitive government position. 

“We [FBI] worked closely with ARMY CID (Criminal Investigation Command) and the San Antonio Police Department,” said Special Agent Vasys. “This guy lied on his entry documentation into the United States and other documentation. He was not honest about his affiliation with a terrorist organization.”

An online search of the name "Wissam Allouche" reveals the suspect was possibly already working as a linguist for the US ARMY. The ARMY CID’s involvement reinforces this likelihood.

Details of the story first emerged on the website of the San Antonio Express-News. Guillermo Contreras reported that the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force identified Allouche as a former “fighter with the Amal militia in Lebanon in the early to mid-1980s”; Allouche became a commander in the Amal militia after being released as an Israeli prisoner of war. Hezbollah was formed by former members of the religious wing of the Amal militia.

“We do not wish to comment on any further details of this case,” said Special Agent Vasys.

(Editor's Note: Brandon Darby has previously worked as an undercover operational source with a San Antonio Division Joint Terrorism Task Force.)

"Suspected killer of British soldier was held in Kenya" Reuters, May 26, 2013 (thanks to Van)

(Reuters) - One of two men arrested over the murder of a British soldier in a London street was detained in Kenya in 2010 on suspicion of seeking to train with an al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia, Kenyan police said on Sunday.

Confirmation that Michael Adebolajo was held in Kenya and deported to London will intensify calls for Britain's spy agencies to explain what they knew about the suspect and whether they could have done more to prevent Lee Rigby's killing on Wednesday.

The British parliament's security committee will next week investigate the security services' actions in the run-up to a killing that has put pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron to take a harder line on radicals.

The Nairobi government initially said Adebolajo had never visited Kenya. But on Sunday, Boniface Mwaniki, head of Kenya's anti-terrorism police, said Adebolajo was arrested in November 2010 and deported to Britain.

"He was arrested with a group of five others trying to travel to Somalia to join militant group al Shabaab," he told Reuters.

The Islamist force, which is linked to al Qaeda, wants to impose a strict version of Islamic law across Somalia.

A Foreign Office spokeswoman in London confirmed the arrest and said consular officials had provided assistance.

Adebolajo, 28 and Michael Adebowale, 22, are under guard in hospital after being shot and arrested after the murder of the 25-year-old Afghan war veteran. They have not been charged.

Spy agencies have come under scrutiny after uncorroborated allegations by a friend of Adebolajo on Friday that intelligence officers tried to recruit him six months ago.

Asked whether the security services had contacted the men, Home Secretary (interior minister) Theresa May told the BBC: "Their job is about gathering intelligence. They do that from a variety of sources and they will do that in a variety of ways. And yes, they will approach individuals from time to time."

A source close to the investigation told Reuters this week that both suspects were known to the MI5 domestic security service. However, neither was thought to pose a serious threat.

'POISONOUS NARRATIVE'

The government also said it is forming a group to combat radical Muslim preachers and others whose words could encourage violence.

Prime Minister David Cameron's office said the group aimed to fight radicalism in schools and mosques, tighten checks on inflammatory internet material, and disrupt the "poisonous narrative" of hardline clerics.

Rigby's killing fuelled public anger about radical Islam. It has also raised questions over whether more could have done more to prevent the attack and put pressure on Cameron to tackle suspected militants more forcefully.

Witnesses said the soldier's killers shouted Islamist slogans during the attack. Bystanders filmed one of the suspects saying it was in revenge for Britain's involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Successive British governments have wrestled with how to prevent people from becoming radicalized without alienating the wider population with draconian measures.

Former British prime minister Tony Blair tried to tighten rules against hate preachers after the London bombings in 2005 that killed 52 commuters. The measures stirred a long debate over how to balance free speech and civil rights with a strong counter-terrorism strategy.

Britain's two-party coalition government is divided over a planned new law that would allow police and spy agencies to monitor people's use of the internet and mobile phones.

The Muslim Council of Britain, a religious umbrella group, said new government measures risked "making our society less free, divided and suspicious of each other".

(Additional reporting Nicolas Bertin in Paris and Joseph Akwiri and Humphrey Malalo in Kenya; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

A new role for journalists. Suits these quislings, don't you think?

Palestinian Firebomb Throwers Use Press as Human Shields by Mandy Nagy, Legal Insurrection, Sunday, May 26, 2013

I wonder how this will be reported in the press. Press coverage or complicity?

Must-see video of Palestinian terrorists throwing molotov cocktails at IDF from behind journalists thecommentator.com/article/3628/v…

— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) May 26, 2013

From The Commentator:

A video has surfaced which claims to show Palestinian terrorists hurling firebombs and rocks at Israeli soldiers while hiding behind reporters and other media.

Check out this gem: (over at Harry's Place) thanks to Armaros

Assed Baig has written for the Huffington Post, The New Statesman and the Islamic Human Rights Commission (more on that organisation, here). He was furious at an article in the Independent that featured Afzal Amin, a former officer in the British Army (now a Conservative PPC). Mr Amin has put his life on the line for our freedoms. In the article, Mr Amin states sensible propositions including:

“The Prophet Mohamed said: ‘Love for one’s nation is part of faith’; ‘Who serves a people is the best of them’, and that ‘the Muslim is the one from whose hands and tongue others are safe’. The motto of Sandhurst is ‘Serve to Lead’. These are all British values and Islamic values,” he says.

and:

“The vast majority of British Muslims are inoculated against that sort of extremism,” says Mr Amin. “But clearly there is a serious issue regarding the education and attitudes of this very small fringe who act in this vile and abhorrent way.”

Calling Mr Amin an ‘Uncle Tom’ or ‘House Muslim’ (presumably of the ‘House Negro‘ type) is deeply inflammatory and, I would argue, words used to incite hatred for a war hero and a model Muslim.

Not even a week has passed after the terrorist attack on Drummer Lee Rigby and this is how a Muslim commentator for ‘progressive’ sites including The Huffington Post and The New Statesman salutes a Muslim Officer in the army.

UPDATE:

Taking heed of the comments below. I urge readers of Harry’s Place to report this to the appropriate authoroties [sic]. As rightly said in the comments, this is anti-Muslim bigotry on a Muslim officer by a Muslim.

Another case of Muslim slavery in America. Will these Saudi diplomats be given immunity?

"Kenyan Woman Claims She Was Kept as Domestic Slave for Months" NBC News Washington, May 25, 2013, (thanks to Armaros)
Her immigration attorney continues push for further investigation

A 25-year-old Kenyan woman has come forward with allegations that she was kept as a domestic slave for three months by Saudi Arabian diplomats living in Northern Virginia.

The allegations come to light two weeks after News4 first reported an investigation into possible human trafficking at a Saudi-owned compound in McLean, Va.

The Kenyan woman -- who goes by the name Sheila -- said she was brought to the U.S. from Kenya by way of Saudi Arabia last summer, by people who forced her to work long hours each day, seven days a week, as a domestic worker.

"I used to work from 6 in the morning to 8, 10 in the evening," Sheila said by cell phone to News4's Jackie Bensen. "From Monday to Monday."

Did you ever have a day off? Bensen asked. "No," Shelia replied.

Shelia said she was rescued with the help of a Fairfax County man, Marikio, whom she met on a Facebook community for Kenyans living in the D.C. area.

He and Sheila had corresponded online for a couple of days when he grew puzzled by her reluctance to answer basic questions about where she lived and worked.

"It's very simple: 'Where you living? You should tell me where you're living.' She was hiding," he said.

She told him she lived in a high-rise in a place she knew as Falls Church, but she was not sure of the address because she was never allowed outside. He told her to look at a piece of her boss' mail to see what the address was.

Marikio arranged to help her. The rescue ended up being a harrowing one -- particularly, Marikio said, because he knew if he called 911, he risked a chance that Sheila's boss could convince police to arrest him instead, because he was in the country illegally.

Still, Sheila -- wearing a head scarf and a veil -- ran from of the lobby of Skyline Towers on Seminary Road and jumped into his car. It was the first time the two had met.

Marikio said Sheila was gaunt and in obvious pain. She told him she was hemorraghing from an untreated medical condition. He told her to go back inside and get her passport, and he'd take her to a hospital.

"She was sick, and she was shaking, and the police asked her, 'Do you want an ambulance?'" Marikio recalled. "She said yes and the ambulance came."

But, Marikio said, when she went back for her passport, she was held by the family she worked for.

"She went back, the guy was holding her. He was still holding hostage. She was screaming with her cell phone. ... I say, 'Go out!'"

Said Shelia, "I was afraid, because maybe they could have killed me. Because they have taken all my documents. They have taken my passport."

Police officers ordered the boss to return the passport, and he did. Shelia then received medical treatment.

Shelia now has an attorney, immigration attorney Regina Njogu. An investigation revealed the Saudi diplomat who brought her to the U.S. used an domestic worker visa known as an A3 visa.

"I called the embassy, and I spoke with him," Njogu said. "At first he didn't know what I was calling about. When I told him what I was calling about, he said he doesn't care, because he's a diplomat nothing will happen to him."

The Saudi Arabian embassy did not return News4's calls for comment.

Njogu said her efforts to get authorities to investigate further have been frustrating. "Basically it was a game of ping-pong. I was being referred from one place to another. I could tell from those I was speaking to that there was a great reluctance to get involved."

Now, Shelia remains in the U.S., relying on the assistance of fellow Kenyans. Her visa has expired, so she has no way to work. 

But, she said, she is grateful she can sleep in a bed instead of the floor, where she slept in the Falls Church home.

The lights dim on the remnants of enlightenment.

The norms of the abhorrent are beginning to take over. A sharia no-go zone at The Hague, where they want to try Jewish soldiers for "crimes against humanity" for defending themselves. The Hague, it seems, is getting what's coming to them. This is, after all, by their design:

Netherlands: ‘Sharia triangle’ becomes police no-go area in The Hague Posted on May 26, 2013 by creeping via The Irish Times (thanks to Armaros)

There have been calls for an urgent debate in the Dutch parliament about the integration of Muslim immigrants amid claims that one area of The Hague, known locally as “the Sharia triangle”, is being run by a form of unofficial Sharia police.

The claims relate to the district of Schilderswijk, about two kilometres from the city centre, where an almost entirely Muslim population of some 5,000 people surrounds the El Islam mosque, fuelling criticism that the government has failed to ensure a proper ethnic mix in schools and local housing. One recent investigation, in which local people were extensively interviewed, concluded that Schilderswijk had become “orthodox Muslim territory” which was now largely ignored by the city authorities, by politicians and even by the police, on the grounds that it had become self-regulating.

The investigation found that orthodox Muslims had become so dominant that they were dictating what people in the neighbourhood wore and how they behaved.

“The norms of the majority are beginning to take over,” it said.

In the case of women, dress was a particular issue. One woman told how her daughter had been approached and told her short skirt was inappropriate, while her son had been called a “kaffir” – a racist term formerly used in colonial South Africa to refer to a black person – for smoking.

A youth who had previously been involved in local gangs said that criminality had dropped off, not because of the police, but because he and his friends were “afraid of the wrath of Allah”.

Another man said he felt he was gradually being driven out of his home because he had a dog, and many traditional Muslims tended not to keep or favour dogs.

A veiled Muslim woman, however, defended Islamic practices, and said dressing modestly would “do the locals good”. She pointed out that women in the Dutch ultra-conservative, largely Protestant, Bible Belt also wore long dresses, and that shops there were closed on Sunday – as many in Schilderswijk were on Fridays.

Local police chief Michel de Roos said: “We have no indications there is a form of Sharia police here. That is not to say it does not happen, but we are unaware of it.”

Last Tuesday, social affairs minister Lodewijk Asscher and right-wing Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders paid separate visits to the area, and are to report to parliament.

More: Haagse buurt domein orthodoxe moslims (via Google translate)

Part of the Hague Schilderswijk develops into an enclave of orthodox Muslims. There are more orthodox Muslims together than elsewhere in the city and they want to apply their rules on the street.

Residents who are non-Muslim, but also moderate Muslims, have this problem. They say they are held accountable for things they do not like the Orthodox majority, such as smoking in the streets and the use of alcohol and pork on the street.

Loyalty the past two months regularly visited the tip of “The Forgotten Triangle – nearby so named because it used to be ‘forgotten’ in urban renewal. There are mostly older homes porch, where an estimated 5,000 Schilderswijkers live. Nearby are three mosques that are known as Salafist.

The tip of the triangle is also now called “The Sharia Triangle ‘or even’ the point of the Sword ‘, according to interviews with dozens of residents, former residents, young people, volunteers and professionals from government and civil society organizations. They see all years since the development of a ‘small kalifaatje’ and the introduction of a ‘mini-Sharia’.

There are examples of police officers involved in reports in that neighborhood were ordered to leave, because the residents’ problems it would solve itself. Fortunately, say people in the neighborhood, the agents are not gone, but they fear for the day that this will happen again.

Girls are addressed by veiled women who show their disapproval about ‘skirts above the knee “and” dresses with spaghetti straps. A veiled Muslim woman says about that “women in the deepest core of the bible belt still wear long skirts and also that there is not worked? Sunday in Staphorst. The majority states, “that’s where this so-called democracy Netherlands is built, but woe if somewhere or another foreign group the majority ‘, the Muslim.

The Hague is yesterday morning asked for a response, but could in the short term ‘careful and substantive’ give response to this “complex issue”.

Ghost of Fleet Week past

I look forward to Fleet Week on Memorial Day Weekend every year. The city is transformed by our heroes in the armed forces. But thanks to Obama, the 2013 Fleet Week has been cancelled.

NYC's Fleet Week festivities have been officially cancelled.

No sailors or ships will be sent to New York—the military's statement is, "Unfortunately, there will be no Navy ships in New York this year for Fleet Week and no additional Sailors or Marines. We look forward to the opportunity to participate in future Fleet Weeks and we greatly appreciate the city's patience and understanding during these unusual times. Thank you NYC for what you do for our service men and women each and every day. Hope to see you next year!"

NY1 reports, "A spokesperson says any Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard members who happen to be in the city will be allowed to take part in any local events that still take place." Fleet Week usually generates $20 million for the city. The city government issued a statement, "We understand the Navy’s budgetary limitations and hope that the Fleet Week tradition can continue in 2014."

It not only hurts the soldiers, but it hurts the city as well:

From clubs to barbecue restaurants, city establishments lament the lack of sailors who would normally fill the streets over Memorial Day weekend, bringing big bucks (and admirers) with them.

 

The above photos are from previous years. Look at New York today:

PHOTOS: FLEET WEEK THROUGH THE YEARS

Aaron Showalter/New York Daily News Tables sit empty at the pedestrian plaza in Times Square on Saturday, devoid of the normally ubiquitous sailors that descend upon the city over Memorial Day weekend.

Islamists attack Turkey 'kissing protest' May 25, 2013, News.com (thanks to Kenneth) A young Turkish couple kiss to protest against subway officials' harassment of a couple for kissing in public last week, at a subway stop in Ankara, Turkey. Ankara subway officials made a reproaching announcement asking passengers "to act in accordance with moral rules," after spotting the couple kissing through security cameras.

ISLAMIST EXTREMISTS attacked a group of kissing couples who locked lips in a Turkish metro station to protest a morality campaign by the authorities in Ankara, the local press reported on Sunday.

One person was stabbed when about 20 Islamists chanting "Allah Akhbar" (God is Greatest) and some carrying knives attacked the demonstrators on Saturday, the Milliyet and Hurriyet newspapers reported.

About 200 people staged the kissing protest after officials in the Ankara municipality, which is run by Turkey's ruling Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP), admonished a young couple for kissing in the street.

Turkey is predominantly Muslim but staunchly secular, although the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has introduced several measures opponents see as a sign of the creeping Islamisation of the country, including restrictions on alcohol.

Riot police stand at the entrance as young Turkish couples expected to kiss in protest against subway official's harassment of a couple for kissing in public last week, at a subway stop in Ankara, Turkey.

The media just gets lower and lower. They just repeat the talking points of Islamic supremacists or of whomever who says what they want to advance. No research, no investigative journalism,  just lethal propaganda.  Check out the video of the quiet and shy Muslim beheader in London.

Who is Michael Adebolajo? - CNN.com

He described him as "quiet and shy" and highly respectful. Adebolajo had two wives, whom he married at the same time during a religious ...

As previously posted here, Jihad beheading victim Lee Rigby will receive the same tribute as soldiers who die in action, but Fort Hood jihad victims are victims of a "criminal act of single individual," not international terrorism.

Why would Obama authorize a drone hit on Awlaki (who never killed anyone), but not give the victims of his Islamic preachings the same military designation?

It took just hours for England's Prime Minister to say a gruesome knife and cleaver attack on a serviceman in London was likely an act of terrorism. In the U.S., more than three years since a much deadlier domestic assault on American troops -- the 2009 Fort Hood massacre that claimed 13 lives, including that of a pregnant soldier -- a top Army attorney maintains that incident was likely a "criminal act of a single individual."

"...[T]he available evidence in this case does not, at this time, support a finding that the shooting at Fort Hood was an act of international terrorism," Lt. Gen. Dana Chipman said this week in a letter to Rep. Thomas Rooney (R-Fla.) on behalf of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel.

From MEMRI: Anwar Al-Awlaki On Maj. Nidal Hasan And The Fort Hood Attack

Al-Awlaki Article States Hasan Is His Student, Expresses Support For His Deeds – And Is Transformed By Online Jihadi Follower Into Jihadi Music Video

Four days after the Fort Hood attack, Al-Awlaki stated in an article he posted on his now-defunct website Anwar-alawlaki.com that Hasan was a "hero" and "a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people. This is a contradiction that many Muslims brush aside and just pretend that it doesn't exist. Any decent Muslim cannot live, understanding properly his duties towards his Creator and his fellow Muslims, and yet serve as a U.S. soldier."

Justifying Hasan's attack, Al-Awlaki continued: "The U.S. is leading the war against terrorism, which in reality is a war against Islam. Its army is directly invading two Muslim countries and indirectly occupying the rest through its stooges. Nidal opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. How can there be any dispute about the virtue of what he has done? In fact, the only way a Muslim could Islamically justify serving as a soldier in the U.S. army is if his intention is to follow the footsteps of men like Nidal. The heroic act of brother Nidal also shows the dilemma of the Muslim American community..." Al-Awlaki concluded his posting by offering prayers for Hasan, "May Allah grant our brother Nidal patience, perseverance, and steadfastness, and we ask Allah to accept from him his great heroic act. Ameen."[1]

Anwar Al-Awlaki's article praising Nidal Hasan has been set to music and distributed via various jihadi websites and YouTube. One such video, titled "Sheikh Anwar Al-Awlaki Exposes the Truth," posted on YouTube on February 4, 2010, was produced by YouTube user and London-based Islamist "dcfnfb," shows Al-Awlaki's words scrolling across the screen: "Nidal Hasan is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people... The fact that fighting against the U.S. army is an Islamic duty today cannot be disputed. No scholar with a grain of Islamic knowledge can defy the clear cut proofs that Muslims today the right – rather the duty – to fight against American tyranny. Nidal has killed soldiers who were about to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in order to kill Muslims... May Allah grant our brother Nidal patience, perseverance, and steadfastness, and we ask Allah to accept from his great heroic act. Amen."[2]

Al-Awlaki Tells Al-Jazeera About His Personal Relationship With Hasan

The month after the attack, in Sana'a, Yemen, Al-Awlaki told jihadi forum member Abdelela Haidar Shayie, in an interview posted December 23, 2009 on Al-Jazeera, that he had first been contacted by Hasan a year earlier. Almost as soon as the interview was posted, it was picked up by numerous jihadi forums, where members added their praise for both Al-Awlaki and Hasan. On the Al-Falluja forum, to which Abdelela Haidar Shayie belongs, members praised the latter and also asked Allah to heal Hasan and grant him patience.

Along with the interview, Al-Jazeera reported, "Before carrying out the operation, Major Nidal was in touch with Al-Awlaki, and asked him about the religious legitimacy of the [planned] operation and about his role as a Muslim in the American army." The article also quoted Hasan in his communication with Al-Awlaki: "You are the only Muslim Imam who lived in America and who understands Allah's words and knows well how to address people with a Western mentality.'..."

The following are excerpts from the Aljazeera.net interview with Al-'Awlaki:[3]

Question: "What is your connection with Nidal Hasan, and when did it begin?"

Answer: "Nidal Hasan prayed at my mosque when I was imam at the Dar Al-Hijra mosque."

Q: "When was your first meeting?"

A: "About nine years ago, when I was imam of the Dar Al-Hijra mosque in the capital Washington, a mosque which is one of the biggest Islamic centers in America."

Q: "[There are] reports that there was more than that."

A: "Brother Nidal used to contact me via email last year, until the middle of this year."

Q: "When did the correspondence with Nidal begin?"

A: "I got the first message from Nidal on December 17, 2008."

Q: "Who initiated the correspondence, you or him?"

A: "He initiated the correspondence with me."

Q: "What did the correspondence contain?"

A: "He was asking about killing American soldiers and officers. [He asked] whether this is a religiously legitimate act or not."

Q: "So he asked you that question about a year before the operation was carried out?"

A: "Yes. And I wondered how the American security agencies, who claim to be able to read car license plate numbers from space, everywhere in the world, I wondered how [they did not reveal this]."

Read the rest here.

It is now been confirmed that the Muslims who blew people up at the Boston Marathon were responsible for the triple murder of three Jewish boys whose throats were slashed on September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary of the September 11th jihad attack on America.

If law enforcement was properly schooled in the jihadic doctrine and Islamic teaching, they would have known that the slaughter of Jews is one of the highest forms of jihad under Islam. If law enforcement were properly trained in the Islamic threat, they would have known that the throat slashing (beheading) of three Jews on the anniversary of September 11 was an act of war.

Why didn't they know? Because Islamic supremacist groups, Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas groups like CAIR, have relentlessly worked to dismantle counter-terror programs of any and all references of jihad and Islamic teachings. And they have succeeded. Obama has scrubbed all references to Islamic jihad from counter terror manuals and training materials.

If law enforcement had been properly trained in the jihad threat, they would have worked with FBI and CIA to identify the Muslims who murdered these Jewish boys. The Tsarnaev brothers were already on the FBI and CIA radar. The Russians and the Saudis had alerted both security agencies of their jihad ties.

If law enforcement had been properly trained, the Boston bombing would never have happened. People would not have lost their lives, their limbs .....

This wasn't a tough crime to solve. As soon as I heard about a triple throat slashing murder of Jews on 9/11, I knew. And I am no Agatha Christie.

This is the human cost of dhimmitude and submission to Islam in America. And we have only just begun paying with blood.

And lastly, why does the media continue to omit the fact that the victims from the 9/11/01 jihad murder were Jewish? It is one of the the most crucial facts of the case.

The witness to the jihad murder of these Jews was killed by the FBI when he was being interrogated.

Did Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev steal the gun used to kill police officer Sean Collier from victims of 2011 triple homicide? The Daily Mail (thanks to Andrew Bostom)

• Earlier this week Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was implicated in a triple slaying that occurred in 2011 
• The girlfriend of one of the victims has now revealed she told police that Tsarnaev knew the murdered men just after the killings   
• She also told police her boyfriend, Brendan Mess, had owned a gun but police told her it was missing from the crime scene
• The same gun is believed to have been used by the bombing suspects to kill MIT police officer Sean Collier last month

The girlfriend of one of the three men brutally killed in a Waltham, Massachusetts apartment in 2011 has revealed that she told police soon after the murders that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been a frequent visitor to the apartment.

The woman, who hasn’t been named, was the girlfriend of Brendan Mess, 25. On Sept. 11, 2011 she found his dead body along with those of Erik Weissman, 31, and Raphael Teken, 37.

Earlier this week Chechan immigrant Ibragim Todashev, 27, was killed by FBI agents but not before he implicated himself and Tsarnaev in the 2011 triple slaying.

Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, was implicated earlier this week in the 2011 murder of Brendan Mess, right

A homicide investigation into the 2011 slayings had appeared to have stalled until friends and relatives of Mess reported a possible link to Tsarnaev after his picture was released as a suspect in last month bombings.

The woman, an African immigrant, also revealed that prior to his death, Mess had kept a handgun in his apartment but that police had told her after the bodies were discovered that it was missing.

It is believed that Mess’s missing gun was the same weapon Tsarnaev used when he shot MIT police Officer Sean Collier dead on the night of April 18 and wounded other officers shortly afterwards in the shoot-out in Watertown, Boston.

Tsarnaev and Mess had been close friends, so when the woman identified the bombing suspect to police it had been as someone who was a frequent visitor to the apartment, rather than as a possible suspect in the triple homicide.

Murdered: Raphael Teken (left with a friend) and Erik Weissman (right) were also killed in the 2011 triple slaying

Police did not ask her about Tsarnaev after she gave them his name, she said.

But if they questioned everyone whose fingerprints were in the apartment, I’m sure Tam’s fingerprints had to be there,’' she told the Boston Globe.

Tsarnaev had told Mess that the FBI had placed him on a terrorist watch list.

'Brendan said, "The FBI is watching him; they think he’s a terrorist,"' the woman said. 'We laughed about it. We never took it seriously.’'

It was Mess' girlfriend who had found the victim's bodies, their throats had been slit, they have been covered with marijuana and there was also $5,000 cash in the home.

'I just can’t believe Tam would back stab Brendan like that,' she said. 'It’s so painful to me, because Brendan was so open and loving with Tam.'

Confession: Todashev had allegedly admitted to being involved in the 2011 slaying and that he was preparing to sign a written statement based on his confession when he turned violent and was subsequently shot dead earlier this week

Investigation: An FBI evidence response team enters an apartment after an agent shot and killed Ibragim Todashev who was questioned in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings

'They were pretty peaceful people, but I know Brendan had one gun,' his girlfriend said.

I think it was for protection. I don’t understand why he couldn’t have used it' during the deadly assault.

Todashev was fatally shot by an FBI agent at his condo near Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida just after midnight on Wednesday.

He had allegedly turned violent as he was preparing to sign a written confession to his and Tsarnaevs involvement in the 2011 triple homicide, said authorities.

'The agent, two Massachusetts State Police troopers, and other law enforcement personnel were interviewing an individual in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing investigation when a violent confrontation was initiated by the individual,' the FBI said in a statement.

'During the confrontation, the individual was killed.'

Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, left, is being held at a prison medical center outside Boston, while MIT police officer Sean Collier  was shot multiple times in his squad car

Harrowing: Images taken by a resident show the suspected Boston Marathon bombers hiding behind a car as they engage in a dramatic shootout with police in Watertown last month

 Above photo taken yesterday: AFDI ad campaign highlighting Muslim oppression and persecution of gays under the sharia. Above NYC's 86th street subway station.

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"Father confesses to killing his own son in landmark homosexual murder case" Hurriyet Daily News, May 25, 2013, DİYARBAKIR – Doğan News Agency

LGBT activists following the trial closely demand a severe sentence. Hate crimes targeting LGBT individuals are usually brushed under the carpet, with perpetrators getting away with small sentences. DHA photo

A father has confessed to killing his own son, but denied it was due to his sexual orientation, during the latest hearing held May 24, in a landmark homosexual murder case in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

A 17-year-old man, identified only as Roşin Ç., is suspected to have been murdered in cold blood by his father, with the complicity of his two uncles, after being heavily beaten. His body was found dumped on the roadside near a hospital.

However, the father, identified as M.Ç., has argued that the killing was an accident, which took place after his gun accidentally discharged. He said he had gone out to search for his son who had disappeared for 10 days, adding that his only intention was to “cure” him. “I wanted to talk with him in the car. I asked him what his problem was. He started insulting me. He strangled me and punched me. I wanted to cure him. When he attacked me, I hit him with the butt of the gun. That's when the gun fired,” M.Ç. told the court.

The father denied that either the uncles suspected of complicity, or the deceased’s mother, were involved in the incident. “I had a stroke because of it. I hid the facts, fearing that my wife would divorce me. I regret what I did,” he said.

However, M.Ç.’s version of the story was contradicted by Roşin Ç.’s younger brother. “My uncle told me: ‘I will [kill] him, you take the blame. We will dump him on the road.’ I refused. When we were having dinner that night, my uncle told my father: ‘You will blow his brains out today, or I will blow your brains out tomorrow,’” he said during the trial, adding that on the same night both his father and his uncle went to “search” for Roşin Ç. 
 
“Around 1 a.m., I called one of my brother’s friends and asked where he was. Then I told that to my father. I woke up when the police officers came in the morning. I saw the car’s mops. There was a blood stain, they had washed it and put it out to dry,” the brother added.

However, he was interrupted while giving his testimony by his mother, who said he “did not know what he was saying.” During a pause in the hearing, the mother also turned to reporters following the case and said: “If he was a homosexual, I would have killed him with my own hands. You [reporters] have shamed us.” 

The prosecutors last month demanded life sentences for all three suspects, which could settle an important precedent for similar hate crimes targeting LGBT individuals, which are usually brushed under the carpet with perpetrators getting away with small sentences.

An LGBT activist lawyer following the trial, Fırat Söyle, demanded a guilty verdict for all suspects in the case. “The motive of the murder is ‘honor.’ The father's confession is contradictory. It is clear that the other suspects are also involved,” Söyle said.

The Daily Mail is reporting that Lee Rigby will be handed a posthumous tribute normally reserved only for soldiers killed on active duty, it was reported today. "It is only right that Drummer Rigby should be accorded the same recognition as those who have fallen in the line of duty," a senior defence source told The Sunday Times.

And rightly so: Rigby is a casuality in the global jihad against the West.

The same tribute, the same respect, should be given to the victims of the Fort Hood jihad massacre. Major Hasan was a devout Muslim who came out as a jihadist on grand rounds. He was wearing the garb of the shaheed the day of his jihad slaughter. He was giving out qurans on the morning of the massacre. Hasan's imam was Anwar Awlaki, the preacher who was killed in an Obama drone strike.

Why would Obama authorize a drone hit on Awlaki (who never killed anyone) but not give the victims of his Islamic preachings the same military designation?

DoD: Fort Hood jihad massacre "criminal act of single individual," not international terrorism (thanks to Robert Spencer)

Hasan was in contact with Anwar al-Awlaki, but that doesn't make it "international terrorism." One wonders what would make it international terrorism -- maybe Hasan would have had to have displayed an al-Qaeda membership card before screaming "Allahu akbar" and opening fire. In any case, these distinctions are stupid. Hasan's act was jihad, but jihad is the one thing that our government and intelligence apparatus appears determined to ignore. "DOD: Ft. Hood Massacre Likely 'Criminal Act of Single Individual,' Not International Terror," by Ned Berkowitz for ABC News, May 23 (thanks to Block Ness):

It took just hours for England's Prime Minister to say a gruesome knife and cleaver attack on a serviceman in London was likely an act of terrorism. In the U.S., more than three years since a much deadlier domestic assault on American troops -- the 2009 Fort Hood massacre that claimed 13 lives, including that of a pregnant soldier -- a top Army attorney maintains that incident was likely a "criminal act of a single individual."

"...[T]he available evidence in this case does not, at this time, support a finding that the shooting at Fort Hood was an act of international terrorism," Lt. Gen. Dana Chipman said this week in a letter to Rep. Thomas Rooney (R-Fla.) on behalf of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel.

The letter, obtained by ABC News, was apparently written in response to an inquiry from Rooney, Rep. Chaka Fatta (D-Penn.), and Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Virg.) sent to Hagel on May 6, which questioned whether concerns of "political correctness" informed the Army's decision to refer to the Fort Hood attack as an act of "workplace violence." Victims of the shooting have long maintained that calling the attack "workplace violence" instead of "combat related" or an act of terrorism has had a massive impact on the benefits and treatment they've received.

In the case of the London attack, two men armed with a handgun, a meat cleaver and a knife are suspected of brutally murdering a lone serviceman, who was out of uniform, in broad daylight Wednesday. They stuck around after the attack and one of the suspects was caught on video telling a passerby he did what he did "because Muslims are dying by British soldiers every day."

In the Fort Hood attack, Maj. Nidal Hasan stands accused of gunning down 13 soldiers and injuring 32 others in November 2009. After the assault, investigators uncovered evidence that Hasan was in communication with al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki prior to the attack. Al-Awlaki was apparently such a threat that he has been the only American citizen ever targeted for a drone strike -- though three others have been collateral damage, according to President Obama.

In both cases, witnesses reportedly said the alleged attackers shouted "Allahu Akbar," "God is Great" in Arabic, amid the chaos.

As reflected in Chipman's letter, the Department of Defense has consistently said that in addition to a supposed lack of evidence, it would be irresponsible to call the Fort Hood attack "terrorism" because it "may have a negative impact on the ongoing judicial process" for Hasan.

The letter also denied that the Defense Department had made a decision to classify the attack as "workplace violence" and said, "[N]o benefit has been denied to any of the victims based on any such classification" -- two claims to which the survivors object stringently.

Kimberly Munley, a police officer who was hailed as a hero for her role in stopping the alleged Fort Hood shooter, told ABC News Chipman's letter is "disgraceful" and "another direct slap in the face." Attorneys for Munley and most of the other Fort Hood victims called the letter's claims "counterfactual" and an "insult."

An attorney for several of the victims, Reed Rubinstein, said the Army's new letter is "worse than word games."

"The 'workplace violence' classification has been out there for years, and [the Army] has never walked it back," he said.

In 2010, part of then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates' response to the shooting was to "strengthen [the department's] policies, programs and procedures in... workplace violence." In October 2011, the Defense Department said it was reviewing the attack "in the context of a broader threat of workplace violence."

Rubinstein and his partner, Neil Sher, also said calling the attack "an alleged criminal act by a single individual" "rewrites history, consigning the government's admissions of Hasan's al-Qaeda ties… down a bureaucratic memory hole."

Munley said, "It is clear that the Army and the government will continue to not take responsibility for allowing a known terrorist to slip through the ranks while having multiple associations with the now-deceased Anwar al-Awlaki and has complete disregard for those injured on that horrifying day."...

Yes.

Yes, folks, another well-teamed "lone wolf" jihad plot. That makes seven arrested thus far.

"UK police arrest 3 more men in soldier's slaying," by Sylvia Hui,  Associated Press, May 25, 2013 (thanks to Ken):

LONDON — British police investigating the savage killing of an off-duty soldier in London have arrested three more suspects.

Scotland Yard said counter-terrorism officers arrested two men, aged 24 and 28, at a residential address in southeast London.

A third man, 21, was arrested separately on a London street at the same time.

Police said Saturday they used a stun gun on two of the suspects. All three were detained on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.

Officers have already detained four others in connection with the murder of 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby, who was stabbed to death while walking outside the Royal Artillery Barracks in the Woolwich, south London, on Wednesday afternoon.

Counterterrorism police on Saturday were questioning Abu Nusaybah, a friend of Michael Adebolajo, one of two suspects in the killing of Rigby. Nusaybah was arrested immediately after he gave a television interview telling his story about how Adebolajo came to be radicalized.

In the interview, Nusaybah said Adebolajo became withdrawn after returning from a visit to study in Kenya, where he claimed he had been physically and sexually abused in detention. Nusaybah also alleged that the U.K.'s security services tried to recruit Adebolajo after he returned to Britain.

Adebolajo and another man are suspected of killing Rigby, hacking at his body with knives and a meat cleaver, on a London street in front of dozens of passersby on Wednesday afternoon. Both suspects were shot by police at the scene and are hospitalized under guard in stable condition.

The BBC said Nusaybah was arrested by police outside its studios Friday night immediately after recording the interview.

"This interviewee had important background information that sheds light on this horrific event," the broadcaster said in a statement. "And when we asked him to appear and interviewed him, we were not aware he was wanted for questioning by the police."

Metropolitan Police confirmed that a 31-year-old man was arrested Friday night in London on suspicion of "the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism." He is in custody at a London police station, police said, adding that the arrest was not directly related to the killing of Rigby....