A U.S. Army training instructor giving a training brief on “extremism” to an Army Reserve unit in Pennsylvania has labeled Evangelical Christianity and Roman Catholicism as examples of religious extremism right alongside Al Qaeda. In addition to Al Qaeda, the
(Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by a former university professor who was fired in the aftermath of controversial statements he made about the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. The
With Washington facing the risk of more Al Qaeda splinter groups pouring into Syria from Iraq, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is increasing “support to elite Iraqi antiterrorism groups.” The goal is to shut down Iraqi-based groups who have “strong ties”
(Reuters) – France’s Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian paid a surprise visit on Thursday to French forces battling Islamist rebels in rugged northern Mali, saying their military mission would not end until security was restored in the West African country.
One source who viewed the docs says someone in a federal agency “press shop” was involved in changing the talking points to remove al Qaeda — Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) March 6, 2013 Sharyl Attkisson is reporting bits of the documents
Secretary of State John Kerry revealed today that the U.S. is training Syrian rebel forces in the fight to dislodge dictator Bashar al-Assad. It is the right intervention, but at the wrong time, and reveals much that is wrong with
Speaking from Qatar, Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged that the U.S. is indeed training Syrian rebels. This means that in addition to the $60 million the Obama admin has already admitted to providing, we are also presumably training the
Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on February 14, 2013, against the Obama Administration’s Office of the Director of National Intelligence seeking records that could shed light on what Obama administration officials knew about the September
On Feb. 19, Boko Haram militants kidnapped a family of seven French citizens in the West African country of Cameroon. The militants intercepted the family’s car and forced them to drive to Nigeria at gunpoint. Once inside Nigeria, the vehicle was
Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) on “Meet the Press” JOHN MCCAIN: We have had two movies about getting bin Laden and we don’t even know who the people were who were evacuated from the consulate the next day after the
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama failed to mention the late Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the three other Americans who died on Sep. 11, 2012 in the terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. He
President Barack Obama said Tuesday he will bring home within a year about half of the 66,000 U.S. troops now in Afghanistan, shrinking the force to the size he found it when he entered the White House vowing to reinvigorate
The nomination of John Brennan for Director of the CIA has uncovered that the Obama administration, after ostensibly withdrawing from Saudi Arabia to pacify Muslim outrage, still has a secret base in the country from which it operates drones. The base
The U.S. is enhancing the efforts of Mexican military officials in their fight against the Mexican drug cartels, and there is some concern that the enhanced techniques may not only lead to more human rights abuses by the Mexican military
In its ongoing effort (not) to keep its platform a safe and respectable forum, free from threats of violence, Twitter today allowed back Al Qaeda terror group al Shabaab. The previous HSM Press account was suspended last week after posting
Despite allegations by President Obama that Hilary Clinton ranks among the greatest Secretaries of State the country has known, it is difficult to see any part of the world as being safer today than it was four years ago. The
According to national security expert Dr. James Carafano, the terrorist attack in Algeria shows that America is on the path to another 9/11, thanks to the Obama Administration’s foreign and military policy. Carafano is Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy
The Obama administration’s hypocrisy over information related to the bin Laden raid and burial apparently knows no bounds. Judicial Watch has battled the Obama administration for records detailing the leaking of sensitive details to the filmmakers behind Zero Dark Thirty,
There is another classic case of the UN trying to emasculate the United States’ power. The UN is launching an investigation into the use of drones for strikes in warfare. The drones are highly successful in striking opposing forces without
Twitter suspended the account of Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents Friday, days after they posted photographs of a French commando they killed and threatened to execute Kenyan hostages. A message from Twitter on the English-language @HSMPress account read that it
African forces were moving towards Mali’s centre Thursday, as pressure grew on Malian troops over summary killings and rights abuses in a French-led assault on Al Qaeda-linked groups. The first troops from a UN-mandated African force aimed at replacing the
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today on the Sep. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Clinton missed previous opportunities to
It was either an embarrassing slip, or a frightening revelation of the president’s true worldview. Either way, the words “peace in our time,” made infamous by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain as he promised an illusory peace with Adolf Hitler
NOUAKCHOTT, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Thirty-four hostages and 15 of their al Qaeda-linked kidnappers were killed on Thursday in an air strike by the Algerian armed forces, Mauritania’s ANI news agency reported, citing one of the kidnappers holding captives at a desert gas field.
Speaking from Rome, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said the U.S. will take “all necessary and proper steps” in response to the attack and subsequent hostage crisis in Algeria. Panetta called it a “terrorist act” and said “it is
