terrorism

Internet Control: Obama Blames Internet for ‘Domestic Terrorism’

Sat, 25 May 2013 18:00:13 GMT

Source: sgtreport.com --- Saturday, May 25, 2013
by Anthony Gucciardi, Lew Rockwell : In another verbal assault on net neutrality, Obama is now warning that both recent and future acts of terrorism stem from the accessibility of information on the internet. In his speech on Thursday, Obama said that information available online fuels ‘violent agendas’ through ‘hateful propaganda’ that drives terrorism. Warning that ‘internet materials’ are fueling domestic terror threats and actually causing people to go out and commit mass acts of terrorism, Obama is once again following in the footsteps of his fellow control freak associates in assaulting the openness of the internet that is now a hot spring for alternative news amid the frozen depths of the mainstream media. In the speech, Obama said: “Today, a person can consume hateful propaganda, commit themselves to a violent agenda and learn how to kill without leaving their home.” Read More @ LewRockwell.com ...

Daniel Pipes on terrorism, the Middle East and the Islamization of the West

Sat, 25 May 2013 17:07:41 GMT

Source: blogs.ottawacitizen.com --- Saturday, May 25, 2013
Daniel Pipes , an American historian and political commentator, is the founder of the Middle East Forum and the former editor of the peer-reviewed journal Middle East Quarterly . He is widely regarded for his expertise on Middle Eastern affairs, particularly on Syria , and his analyses of extremist Islam . He was in Ottawa recently to speak to the Free Thinking Film Society on “Islam versus Islamism .” Prior to his talk he met with the Citizen’s editorial board. I’ve columnized on our conversation , summarizing some of his views. The following, however, is a longer, if edited and still abbreviated, version of that hour-long exchange. Can you give us some introductory comments on issues of concern for you? I cover two related but different topics, one of which is Islamism which I’ll be talking about this evening, and the other is Middle East politics. The Middle East has not always been jumping. For 400 years, between the conquest of the Ottomans (in the 15th century) and First World War, it was about the quietest place on earth. But there was a decade (after the First World War) when everything was turned upside down. In some sense the last 90 years have been a working out of the upheaval of this period. The extraordinary volatility of the region today is due to the political boundaries and allegiances being so unsettled. In Syria, a small post-Islamic sect of the Alawite religion which has dominated the country for 40 years is b ...

MI5 'tried to recruit' terrorism suspect

Sat, 25 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Source: brisbanetimes.com.au --- Saturday, May 25, 2013
An alleged friend of Michael Adebolajo, the man accused of murdering a soldier in London, has been arrested at the BBC after telling the broadcaster British security services had tried to recruit Mr Adebolajo. ...

DoD: Fort Hood jihad massacre "criminal act of single individual," not international terrorism

Sat, 25 May 2013 16:56:07 GMT

Source: www.jihadwatch.org --- Saturday, May 25, 2013
Hasan was in contact with Anwar al-Awlkai, 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. F ...

Salman Khurshid in Jeddah for counter-terrorism Nitaqat Law trade talks with Saudi leadership

Sat, 25 May 2013 15:51:01 GMT

Source: www.arabherald.com --- Saturday, May 25, 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid arrived in Jeddah on Saturday for talks with the Saudi Arabian leadership on a wide range of issues, including the controversial 'Nitaqat law' and on counter terrorism cooperation. Khurshid, who is on an official two-day visit to Saudi Arabia, was given a warm welcome by Saudi Arabia's Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz soon ... ...

What is the common thread in terrorism, and is Colonel Klink running the IRS? An...

Sat, 25 May 2013 14:00:14 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Saturday, May 25, 2013
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UN rights expert welcomes shift in Obama’s counter-terrorism policy‏

Sat, 25 May 2013 13:55:26 GMT

Source: www.pakistankakhudahafiz.com --- Saturday, May 25, 2013
UNITED NATIONS, May 25 : A U.N. human rights expert Friday welcomed what he called was a ground-breaking speech by President Barack Obama in which the U.S. leader laid out principles governing the use of counter-terrorism measures such as targeted killings. President Obama said Thursday that, as part of a realignment of US counter-terrorism policy, he would curtail the use of drones, recommit to closing the prison at Guant¡namo Bay, Cuba, and seek new limits on his own war power. The new policy guidance imposes tougher standards for when drone strikes can be authorized, limiting them to targets that pose “a continuing, imminent threat to Americans” and cannot feasibly be captured, according to media reports. “This extremely important speech breaks new ground in a number of key respects,” the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, Ben Emmerson, said in a press statement. “It affirms for the first time this Administration’s commitment to seek an end to its armed conflict with Al-Qaeda as soon as possible; it reminds the world that not every terrorist threat or terrorist attack can be equated with a situation of continuing armed conflict; and it sets out more clearly and more authoritatively than ever before the Administration’s legal justifications for targeted killing, and the constraints that it operates under,” he said. The speech also clarifies, and proposes improvements to, the procedures for independent ...

Andrew Sullivan, terrorism, and the art of distortion | Glenn Greenwald

Sat, 25 May 2013 13:32:00 GMT

Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- Saturday, May 25, 2013
Challenging the conventional western narrative on terrorism produces unique amounts of rage and bile. It's worth examining why (updated below) Everyone who participates in political debates sometimes has their arguments publicly misrepresented. Like many writers, if I noted and refuted every case where that happened to me, I would have time for nothing else. But sometimes the distortions are so fundamental and obvious - as well as pernicious - that they are worth examining. I had intended to write today about the reaction to this week's War on Terror speech by President Obama, but will postpone that until tomorrow so that I can instead discuss what Andrew Sullivan (and others) did yesterday. Beyond my wanting to correct their glaring distortions, the episode raises some interesting broader points that drive debates on these issues. On Thursday, I wrote about the London killing of a British soldier by two men using a meat cleaver. The sub-headline, which I wrote, called it a "horrific act of violence", a phrase I repeated in the very first sentence. I described that event as one where the solider had been "hacked to death". In the second paragraph, I wrote: That this was a barbaric and horrendous act goes without saying." I then proceeded to raise two main points about the attack. First, given that the person killed was not a civilian but a soldier of a nation at war (using US standards), it is difficult to devise a definition of ...

The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism

Sat, 25 May 2013 11:51:54 GMT

Source: www.ronpaulforums.com --- Saturday, May 25, 2013
Found this Book TV special from Moxy on the book: The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on terrorism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Q40sjL6g0 A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on terrorism exposes how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than 15,000 informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots so that the Bureau can then claim it is winning the war on terror. An outgrowth of Trevor Aaronson's work as an investigative reporting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, which culminated in an award-winning cover story in Mother Jones magazine, The Terror Factory reveals shocking information about the criminals, con men, and liars the FBI uses as paid informants--including the story of an accused murderer who has become one of the Bureau's most prolific terrorism snitches--as well as documenting the extreme methods the FBI uses to ensnare Muslims in terrorist plots, which are in reality conceived and financed by the FBI. The book also offers unprecedented detail into how the FBI has transformed from a reactive law enforcement agency to a proactive counterterrorism organization that traps hapless individuals in manufactured terrorist plots in order to justify the $3 billion it spends every year fighting terror ...

Man arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after TV interview on Woolwich murder

Sat, 25 May 2013 10:39:41 GMT

Source: www.breakingnews.ie --- Saturday, May 25, 2013
In the UK, a 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences, following a TV interview - in which he claimed one of the Woolwich murder suspects had been approached by MI5 to work for them. ...

Obama’s counter-terrorism speech may alarm Israeli policy makers

Sat, 25 May 2013 08:41:04 GMT

Source: warsclerotic.wordpress.com --- Saturday, May 25, 2013
Obama’s counter-terrorism speech may alarm Israeli policy makers – West of Eden Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper . After 12 years in the trenches of the ‘war on terror’, the American president tells Israel the U.S. is pulling out, symbolically at least. And that he intends to pursue peace with the Palestinians. By Chemi Shalev | May.25, 2013 | 12:20 AM President Barack Obama spaeking the National Defense University Photo by AP 1. Israeli intelligence experts, defense mavens and foreign policy gurus should be poring over President Barack Obama ’s address to the National Defense University by now. Many of them, one can safely posit, won’t like what they’re reading, in the text and between the lines. And it’s not only because Obama, contrary to conventional wisdom in Israel, included the Israeli-Palestinian conflict among “the underlying grievances and conflicts that feed extremism from North Africa to South Asia.” Israelis have fought long and hard to counter the assertion that the conflict fuels or sustains Islamic extremism and the Arab Spring has only cemented their conviction. But it will come as no surprise to most mavens that Obama, along with his vice president and secretaries of state and defense, is convinced that resolving Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians will go a long a way towards soothing Arab and Muslim resentment of, and enmity towards, the U.S. in particular and the West in general. Rather i ...

“Maldivians must rise against terrorism”: Attorney General

Sat, 25 May 2013 07:59:06 GMT

Source: minivannews.com --- Saturday, May 25, 2013
Referring to Chief of Defence Force Major General Ahmed Shiyam's remarks earlier in the week, Attorney General Aishath Bisham echoed that a number of Maldivian youth had enrolled themselves in terrorist groups and training camps abroad. ...

Woolrich London Killing: Terrorism or False Flag?

Sat, 25 May 2013 07:38:21 GMT

Source: www.thepeoplesvoice.org --- Saturday, May 25, 2013
by Stephen Lendman Reports said two assailants hacked a British soldier to death. He's been identified as Lee Rigby. He was killed in broad daylight. It was several hundred meters from southeast London's Woolwich Royal Artillery barracks. Weapons included a machete type knife. Alleged attackers remained on the scene. They did so until police arrived 20 minutes later. Why wasn't explained. Killers don't usually stay around to be captured. Both assailants were shot and apprehended. They were hospitalized for treatment. One allegedly said "(w)e must fight as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." Britain's ITV news aired an edited video clip. Allegedly an onlooker filmed it. How whoever did so happened to be on site wasn't explained. Odds against it are huge. So is remaining unscathed. Assailants don't take kindly to being caught in the act. Read more » Original post blogged on b2evolution . ...

MICKEY KAUS: Does welfare cause terrorism, Part XVIII. How long before we find out that “alleg…

Sat, 25 May 2013 05:45:01 GMT

Source: pjmedia.com --- Friday, May 24, 2013
MICKEY KAUS: Does welfare cause terrorism, Part XVIII. How long before we find out that “alleged” Woolwich murderer Michael Adebolajo was on some kind of welfare? Or else his household was on welfare. The Tsarnaevs received various kinds of welfare too, of course, as have numerous other terrorists. This is not a coincidence: “In fact, there’s a good argument that “welfare benefits + ethnic antagonism” is the universal recipe for an underclass with an angry, oppositional culture. The social logic is simple: Ethnic differences make it easy for those outside of, for example, French Arab neighborhoods to discriminate against those inside, and easy for those inside to resent the mainstream culture around them. [Update: See also, Sweden.] Meanwhile, relatively generous welfare benefits enable those in the ethnic ghetto to stay there, stay unemployed, and seethe. Without government subsidies, they would have to overcome the prejudice against them and integrate into the mainstream working culture. Work, in this sense, is anti-terrorist medicine. (And if you work all day, there’s less time to dream up ways and reasons to kill infidels.)” If Adebolajo turns out to have earned his own living, I’ll be surprised and chastened. Will post update in this space. You’re betting with the odds, Mickey. ...

General Politics Does welfare cause terrorism?

Sat, 25 May 2013 04:19:11 GMT

Source: www.chiefsplanet.com --- Friday, May 24, 2013
Mickey Kaus asks the question: Does welfare cause terrorism? Mickey Kaus 5/23/2013 How long before we find out that “alleged” Woolwich murderer Michael Adebolajo was on some kind of welfare? Or else his household was on welfare. The Tsarnaevs received various kinds of welfare too, of course, as have numerous other terrorists. This is not a coincidence: “In fact, there’s a good argument that “welfare benefits + ethnic antagonism” is the universal recipe for an underclass with an angry, oppositional culture. The social logic is simple: Ethnic differences make it easy for those outside of, for example, French Arab neighborhoods to discriminate against those inside, and easy for those inside to resent the mainstream culture around them. Meanwhile, relatively generous welfare benefits enable those in the ethnic ghetto to stay there, stay unemployed, and seethe. Without government subsidies, they would have to overcome the prejudice against them and integrate into the mainstream working culture. Work, in this sense, is anti-terrorist medicine. (And if you work all day, there’s less time to dream up ways and reasons to kill infidels.)” If Adebolajo turns out to have earned his own living, I’ll be surprised and chastened. Will post update in this space. … ...

UN expert in counter-terrorism welcomes President’s speech

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:36:00 GMT

Source: www.scoop.co.nz --- Friday, May 24, 2013
GENEVA (24 May 2013) – United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, Ben Emmerson, today welcomed US President Barack Obama’s speech, and the publication of policy principles governing counter-terrorism operations, including targeted killings. ...

Domestic Terrorism?

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:23:40 GMT

Source: www.lewrockwell.com --- Friday, May 24, 2013
Certainly by drone, says Anthony Gucciardi. ...

The Edge of Terrorism - Islamic Terrorism increases in Niger--25 killed, 30 wounded

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:15:29 GMT

Source: www.thecuttingedgenews.com --- Friday, May 24, 2013
More than 25 people were killed and 30 others were wounded in terrorist attacks on Niger's military base and a uranium plant run by a French company in Niger . Former police captain Jan Morgenstern said 20 soldiers and five assailants died in an attack on Niger's military barracks in Agadez, the largest city in northern Niger. In a separate terrorist raid, a factory owned by Somair , a French company also located in the northern region West African country. That attack left 30 people wounded including 16 military personnel and 14 civilians, "The terrorist attacks launched by kamikazes were contained by the elements of our Armed Forces who, despite the losses, neutralized the assailants including those who exploded themselves, " Niger officials stated in a media release. ...

President Obama and Counter-Terrorism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Juan Cole

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:20:39 GMT

Source: www.zcommunications.org --- Friday, May 24, 2013
Here are the good, the bad and the ugly things in President Obama’s important speech on counter-terrorism ...

Sen. Jon McCain’s statement on President Obama’s terrorism speech

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:13:19 GMT

Source: tucsoncitizen.com --- Friday, May 24, 2013
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I have to admit, I am surprised by Sen. John McCain's fairly gracious response to President Obama's terrorism speech on Thursday. Here is Sen. John McCain's statement: STATEMENT BY SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN ON PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SPEECH ON... ...