Breaking News from The Guardian
Suspect in New York
bombing arrested after shootout with police
Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized US citizen, taken into custody as
friend says he got more religious after trip to Afghanistan, his country of birth
Dan Roberts
and Jamiles Lartey
in New York
Monday 19 September 2016
A shootout on the streets of New
Jersey ended a dramatic manhunt on Monday as
police arrested a man suspected of involvement in weekend bombings that injured
29 people in New York.
Ahmad Khan Rahami,
a 28-year-old naturalized US citizen born in Afghanistan, had hours earlier
been named in a wanted alert
sent to millions of local cellphones as Manhattan prepared to
host world leaders at the United Nations general assembly. Continue
reading at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/19/new-york-bombing-suspect-ahmad-khan-rahami
September 20, 2016
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Terrorism, Sanctuary Cities and the Law
Explosion that
injured 29 in New York obviously an act of terrorism, governor says
Sept 18, 2016 The Washington
Post
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Are the
Terrorist Attacks Imperiling New York, New Jersey and Minnesota
Providing Greater Insight into the New Face of ISIS?
The Observer writes: At the beginning of the
month, ISIS released a new magazine named Rumiyah
(Rome, in a nod
to their apocalyptic goals) in several languages. In an article extensively
outlining Quranic verses and scholars
interpretations, ISIS stated that disbelievers- non-Muslims or Muslims not
adhering to their standards-should be slain wherever they may be-on or off the
battlefield as their blood is cheap, filthy, and permissible to shed.
ISIS Message Preceded
Trio of Attacks: Anything Is a Soft Target
Observer
By Bridget Johnson
a fellow with the Haym Salomon
Center. A veteran journalist, is a contributor at NPR and serves as D.C.
bureau chief for PJ Media. Sept 19, 2016 7:30am
ISIS Message
Preceded Trio of Attacks: Anything Is a Soft Target Islamic State demands death
by a thousand cuts
In a directive that preceded a Saturday of
attacks across three states, ISIS gave its followers a broader, more chilling
definition of soft targets-telling Muslims in the West to just kill anyone they
want, even kids playing on a basketball court, and justify it as jihad.
It answers the question of why someone
would leave a pressure-cooker device on a random Manhattan sidewalk, why a bomb
was detonated on an otherwise unremarkable block of Chelsea, and why an
attacker claimed by ISIS stabbed random victims enjoying Saturday night at a
Minnesota mall. Read entire article at http://observer.com/2016/09/isis-message-preceded-trio-of-attacks-anything-is-a-soft-target/
It appears from reading
the following article by the Washington
Times that whether homegrown or infiltrating from other countries, those who
bring terrorism to our shores could find themselves under greater scrutiny by
the Feds and in some cases on their way out. On July 7, 2016, Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times
reported
Feds moving to strip
money from U.S. sanctuary cities
Stephen Dinan writes the following: The Justice
Department said Thursday it has warned
sanctuary cities to quit shielding illegal immigrants from deportation agents
or else lose federal grant money, putting some muscle behind Republicans push
to punish cities and counties that have refused to cooperate. That could prevent future situations like the Kate Steinle case, where an illegal immigrant was released by
the sheriffs department in San
Francisco despite a request that he be held for
deportation. The man would go on to kill Steinle,
according to authorities, as she walked on the city waterfront with her father. Read more at Sanctuary
city policy gets funding yanked by federal government
Recently, Don Pesci
wrote It is a fiction that there are only a limited number of sanctuary
cities in Connecticut.
The truth is the entire state is a sanctuary state.
Pesci goes on to write the following in his article
captioned Connecticuts Placebo
Solutions: Are We Safe Yet?The Department of Justice,
for instance, has showered $342,168,401 upon 10 sanctuary states and cities, Connecticut among them, that reject
federal claims for criminal illegal aliens earmarked for removal, according to the U.S. Department of Justice
Office of the Inspector General.
According
to a recent report in Judicial Watch, Connecticut
is a trailblazer in the sanctuary movement that received more than $69 million
in grants from the DOJ. Connecticut has long protected illegal immigrants with
sanctuary policies and even offers them special drivers licenses, known as
Drive Only. Continue reading Pesci article at http://donpesci.blogspot.com/2016/08/connecticuts-placebo-solutions-are-we.html
Follow Don Pesci
at Don
Pesci | LinkedIn.
Connecticut
residents will find the The U.S. Department of
Justice Office of the Inspector General Report
an interesting read.
How it unfolded
Yesterday the Guardian
reported
New York bombing:police
name suspect
New York
police have released the name and picture of a man they want to talk to in
connection with an
explosion in New York on Saturday night:
28-year-oldAhmad
Khan Rahami. Separately, and after
another explosion in Elizabeth, New Jersey, New
York governor Andrew Cuomo said evidence might
suggest a foreign connection to the bombings. Overnight, one device detonated
and four others were found in a backpack outside
a station in New Jersey. The device exploded at
12.30am as a bomb squad was attempting to disarm it. Earlier, investigators
said the FBI had obtained surveillance footage of a man with backpack near
where devices were placed in the Chelsea
neighborhood of Manhattan
on Saturday. On Sunday night, FBI agents in Brooklyn
stopped a vehicle of interest in the investigation, according to a spokeswoman.
The agency said the Manhattan
device contained the residue of Tannerite, an
explosive often used for target practice. Continue reading at
Cuomo
says possible foreign connection to Manhattan blast–live updates
Kristine Guerra
and Jessica Contrera of the The Washington Post in an article captioned
ISIS-linked news
agency: Suspect in stabbings at Minnesota mall was a soldier of the Islamic
State
wrote:
Authorities are investigating the stabbing of nine people inside a Minnesota mall on
Saturday night as a potential act of terrorism after a
news agency linked to the Islamic State
militant group claimed that the attacker was a soldier of the Islamic State.
Continue reading at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/09/18/man-shot-dead-after-stabbing-8-people-in-a-minnesota-mall/?utm_term=.977a5a41dcb6
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Is there
another type of Terrorism unfolding in our country?
Seldom discussed is that which was
highlighted on November 10, 2015 by Hollie McKay
in her Fox News article captioned Honor killing in
America: DOJ report says growing problem is hidden in stats. Therein,
Hollie McKay
writes: The estimated 27 victims of so-called honor killings each year in the U.S.
do not fit neatly into the FBI exhaustive Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics.
Hollie McKay
continues: Honor Violence
Measurement Methods, a study released earlier this year by
research corporation Westat, and commissioned by the
U.S. Department of Justice, identified four types of honor violence: forced
marriage, honor-based domestic violence, honor killing and female genital
mutilation. The report, which estimated that 23-27 honor killings per year
occur in the U.S., noted that 91 percent of victims in North America are
murdered for being too Westernized, and in incidents involving daughters 18
years or younger, a father is almost always involved. And for every honor
killing, there are many more instances of physical and emotional abuse, all in
the name of fundamentalist Islam, say experts. Continue reading at http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/11/10/honor-killing-in-us-justice-department-mulls-guidelines-as-grim-toll-rises.html
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Hungary Likely to
Reject EU Refugee Quota
Only a handful of refugees try to
enter Hungary before being turned back, and Prime Minister Viktor Orban has promised to reinforce the border fence he ordered
built last year.
July, 2016 Leo Hohmann
WorldNetDaily
See big list of U.S. cities
receiving Syrians under Obama U.N. program
Czech deputy PM
rejects refugee quotas, says country should fight any EU Sanctions
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Connecticut State
Police Remain Vigilant After Recent New York, New Jersey Explosions
Patch.com By Brian McCready (Patch
National Staff) September 18, 2016 2:10 pm
Connecticut State Police are urging residents to report
anything that they believe to be suspicious to authorities.
Greenwich, CT On Sunday morning, Connecticut State
Police released a statement concerning the explosions that occurred in New York and New
Jersey on Saturday.
Connecticut State
Troopers continue to remain vigilant while on patrol. Troopers remind residents
that it is not only if they see something, but if they see something, hear
something or know something report it to police immediately. Call 911, text TIP711 with the information to 274637 or call
the Homeland Security tip line at 1-866-HLS-TIPS,
State Police spokeswoman Kelly Grant said in an email to the Connecticut news media. Continue
reading at http://patch.com/connecticut/greenwich/connecticut-state-police-remain-vigilant-after-recent-new-york-new-jersey
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Aid for Syria Stuck
with Rising Violence Undermining Truce
Reuters By Lisa Barrington and Osman Orsal September 16, 2016
Picture
of the Day
BEIRUT/CILVEGOZU, Turkey (Reuters) - Aid for the divided Syrian
city of Aleppo
was stuck on the Turkish border on the fifth day of a fragile ceasefire on
Friday with rival factions arguing over how the supplies are to be delivered
and violence increasingly undermining the truce. Continue reading at https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/latestnews/2016/09/16/Aid-Syria-stuck-rising-violence-undermining-truce
More news for syria violence, aid
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OPINION
This Mass Murder
Mystery Has Terrorism, Spies, Palestinians, Stasi and the FBI
The Observer By John R. Schindler September
16, 2016
The crash of Flight 330 on February 21,
1970, which departed from Zurich
Airport, remains the
deadliest terrorist attack in Swiss history. Continue reading
at
http://observer.com/2016/09/this-mass-murder-mystery-has-terrorism-spies-palestinians-stasi-and-the-fbi/
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The Boston Globe Reports
Suicide car bomber kills
Somali general in capital
Mohamed
Roble Jimale Gobanle led a combat team fighting the Al Shabab Islamic extremists.
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The Associated Press:
Obama, Iraqi leader to strategize on fight to reclaim Mosul
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Human Rights
Attorney Amal Clooney Says U.N. Has Failed Yazidi Women
Newsweek - 2
days ago
Continue reading at More
than 3,000 Yazidi women and girls remain in ISIS
sexual enslavement.
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