This could be one of the most devastating blows yet struck in the shadowy First Cyber War. The Associated Press reports “the Obama administration is scrambling to assess the impact of a massive data breach involving the agency that handles security clearances and employee records.”
The Islamic State has issued some bizarre edicts in the past – the Poultry Jihad against “infidel chicken,” for example – but their new ban against pigeon breeding, because the sight of pigeon genitals while the birds are in flight supposedly offends Allah, takes the prize.
CBS News reports a familiar name was on the list of beheading victims for Boston jihadi Usaama Abdullah Rahim and his accomplices: Pamela Geller, whose Mohammed Art Exhibit in Garland, Texas was attacked by heavily armed terrorists.
The signatories think the 2007 statement on climate change is fundamentally flawed, and should be retired, rather than attempting to repair its language and add material to reflect the concerns of dissenting scientists.
Today’s children should get used to building their diminished dream under the stern eyes of the bureaucracy Democrats want to make ever more powerful, at the pleasure of the aristocracy, using whatever time and resources their rulers permit them to keep.
That’s right, ObamaCare victims: those massive premiums you’re struggling to pay, while simultaneously forking over fat tax payments to subsidize the premiums of your neighbors, are much lower than they really should be, because vampire government is also sucking tax money out of you to pay the insurance companies off. The whole scheme falls apart right about the time Barack Obama leaves office, confident that a huge and surly army of insurance welfare dependents, backed up by heavy political and lobbyist artillery from rent-seeking insurance companies, will make his boondoggle indestructible, no matter how unpopular it gets.
Although early statements from the FBI and local authorities on Tuesday afternoon indicated Rahim was not considered an imminent threat to public safety, that opinion appears to have been revised overnight. “The FBI knew Usaama Rahim was armed and potentially dangerous and moved on him Tuesday morning when it appeared the threat he posed to uniformed officers in the Boston area had somehow increased,” sources told ABC News.
A Belgian security officer—apparently the equivalent of a neighborhood watch patrolman—identified only as “Mohammed N.,” launched a vicious anti-Semitic tirade on Facebook last Friday. “The word Jew itself is dirty,” he wrote. “If I were in Israel, frankly, I would do to the Jews what they do with the Palestinians — slaughter each and every one of them.”
A massive suicide bomb attack on a police base near the city of Samarra, Iraq, has killed at least 40 police officers in another blow to plans for retaking the fallen city of Ramadi from the Islamic State.
The Boston Globe reports that a Middle Eastern man in his 20s who was under surveillance by a joint counter-terrorism task force was shot during a confrontation with an FBI agent and a police officer in Roslindale on Tuesday morning.
Actor Michael Enright, who traveled to Syria and volunteered to join a Kurdish militia unit fighting against the Islamic State, gave an interview to Dubai-based Al Aan TV News that seems to have suddenly put him on the U.S. media’s radar screen.
Bomb threats were made against five different aircraft, from five different airlines, on flights either originating or landing in the United States on Tuesday. Officials say all five of the threats were “non-credible,” part of a surge in hoax bomb threats in progress since Memorial Day.
What did cause the crash, if not heartless penny-pinching Republican budget-cutters? “Based on the NTSB’s preliminary review of the train’s event recorder data, the train was travelling at 106 mph before the emergency brake system engaged. The data indicated that the engineer activated the emergency brakes seconds before the derailment.”
How will history judge Obama? Who cares? It’s how the present is judging him that should scare us out of wits. It’s also hard to avoid noticing that his prospective Democrat successors aren’t exactly treating him as a model President whose policies they intend to emulate.
Eye for an eye, reap what you sow, what goes around comes around: choose your favorite aphorism for the wheel of karma turning, as the Christian Post relays a report from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights about a Syrian Christian fighter beheading an ISIS militant. The veracity of this report has been challenged by the Catholic bishop of Aleppo.
The Houthis, Iran-backed rebels who overthrew the government of Yemen, have released one of four Americans held captive, according to CNN, relaying a report from Oman’s official news agency.
Rand Paul has planted his flag on some difficult ground, and quite frankly, successful presidential candidates don’t throw themselves into heavy intra-party fire and sustain major political wounds to prove ideological points. Perhaps he would do well to reconstruct his argument to emphasize the libertarian points where more of the Republican Party agrees with him, and more of the ever-shifting middle of the American electorate would be willing to listen.
The war of words between the United States and China over disputed islands in the South China Sea intensified over the weekend, with Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter telling an assembly of Asian-Pacific defense officials in Singapore the U.S. is “deeply concerned” about Chinese activity, and the increased risk of “miscalculation or conflict.”
The travel ban for the five Taliban honchos traded to secure the freedom of accused Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl was due to expire on June 1 but, according to CBS News, the government of Qatar has agreed to temporarily extend the ban and keep the “Taliban 5” under what amounts to house arrest.
The Associated Press reports thousands of Shiites filled the streets in Saudi Arabia on Saturday to mourn the latest fatality from a pair of ISIS bomb attacks against Shiite mosques in the Kingdom.
The Associated Press cites a release from the official Saudi Press Agency to report a second suicide bomb attack against a Shiite mosque in the Kingdom. At least four people were killed in the Friday attack.
Following a rocky year in their often-delicate relationship, France and Morocco have announced they will cooperate on counter-terrorist activities — especially in light of the ISIS threat, whose militants has been recruiting Muslims in both countries.
Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, trained by both Russian and American special forces to head up the elite OMON police force of Tajikistan, has defected to the Islamic State.
“A 22-year-old Arab citizen of Israel and resident of Umm al-Fahm, located in the ‘triangle’ region of northern Israel which is home to over 300,000 Arab citizens, was indicted on Thursday for supporting the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization,” reports Israel National News. “The indictment was submitted against Jamal Suleiman Abu Ra’ad, who was found thanks to an unusual investigative method – looking at his Facebook page.”
Sanders’ writings were, of course, dismissed as irrelevant old news by the very same media that assured us the tale of Mitt Romney allegedly giving a fellow student a haircut in 1965 was among the reddest and hottest of bulletins in 2012.
