Underground stories : 06-14-14

500 U.S. Citizens Fighting for Their Lives in Iraq—Obama Denies Air Support Needed to Save Them 

Right now, over 500 Americans are fighting for their lives at the Balad Air Base in Iraq. They’re completely surrounded by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS forces. and have been utterly abandoned by our “never leave anyone behind” US military. The US air cover needed to facilitate a rescue have been withheld, even though they are DOD Contractors, there to assist our military. It’s been left to the Iraqi military to evacuate our own citizens, but many remain trapped, not just in Balad, but throughout Iraq.
The Iraqi military and Iraqi security forces laid down their weapons and fled as the ISIS forces approached, abandoning our citizens to face the oncoming terrorist forces alone. Our own government has done exactly the same thing.
Here’s an SOS sent from on the ground.
H/T Elaine Connor
Elaine Connor
John Gaultier S.O.S.
Call for help.
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Janel Corey
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S.O.S. Shelia SheWolf Reed …am writing from ballad Iraq as a employee of sallyport, ksillc..there are approx 500 US citizens on balad air base north of Baghdad trapped..we are part of a little known F16 iraq support mission here…The company has reportedly for the last 3 days to fly us out, we are now all herded into a central location on base..and being told nothing..The clint lockheed martin, DoS and most women have already been evacuated days ago but we are all still here. I hope this message is received by someone that can break this as headline news to bring attention to the situation for us..we are all worried and in dire straight as last security Intel reports Isis elements around us.
Please contact the White House and demand they rescue all our citizens, not just those in Balad, before it’s too late.
(202) 456-1111

ISIS Threatens to Invade Jordan, 'Slaughter' King Abdullah

Islamist terrorists in Iraq and Syria have begun creeping toward neighboring countries, sources close to the Islamic fundamentalists revealed this week, according to a report from the Gatestone Institute.

The terrorists, who belong to The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an offshoot of al-Qaeda, are reported to be planning to take their jihad to Jordan, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula -- after having already captured large parts of Syria and Iraq.
The ISIS terrorists see Jordan's Western-backed King Abdullah as an enemy of Islam and an infidel, and have publicly called for his execution. ISIS terrorists recently posted a video on YouTube in which they threatened to "slaughter" Abdullah, whom they denounced as a "tyrant." Some of the terrorists who appeared in the video were Jordanian citizens who tore up their passports in front of the camera and vowed to launch suicide attacks inside the kingdom.
Security sources in Amman expressed deep concern over ISIS's threats and plans to "invade" the kingdom. The sources said that King Abdullah has requested urgent military aid from the U.S. and other Western countries so that he could foil any attempt to turn Jordan into an Islamist-controlled state.
The capture this week by ISIS of the cities of Mosul and Tikrit in Iraq has left many Arabs and Muslims in the region worried that their countries soon may be targeted by the terrorists, who seek to create a radical Islamist emirate in the Middle East.
According to the sources, ISIS leader Abu Baker al-Baghdadi recently discussed with his lieutenants the possibility of extending the group's control beyond Syria and Iraq.  One obvious target discussed was Jordan, where Islamist movements already have a significant presence. Jordan was also chosen because it has shared borders with Iraq and Syria, making it easier for the terrorists to infiltrate the kingdom. 

Al Qaeda Militants Capture US Black Hawk Helicopters In Iraq

Just when one thought US foreign policy couldn't sink any deeper into the hole of its embarrassment, it takes out a shovel and starts digging. Overnight, in what AP describes as a stunning assault that exposed Iraq's eroding central authority, Al Qaida-inspired militants from ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, overran much of Mosul on Tuesday, seizing government buildings, pushing out security forces and capturing military vehicles as thousands of residents fled the second-largest city.
For those who may have forgotten, Iraq was one of those countries "liberated" by the the United States, which unlike Afghanistan where the opium trade is still important, did pull out its troops two and a half years ago.

Has the Obama administration turned its back on Israel?

Ths shocking takeover of Mosul took place months after Al Qaeda-linked fighers took over another Iraqi town, Fallujah, earlier in the year and which they have successfully defended against government attempts to reclaim it. 
That however, was just the appetizer: Mosul is a much bigger, more strategic prize. The city and surrounding Ninevah province, which is on the doorstep of Iraq's relatively prosperous Kurdish region, are a major export route for Iraqi oil and a gateway to Syria.
The WSJ adds that hours after government forces fled Mosul in disarray following four days of fighting, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declared a nationwide "state of maximum preparedness" but didn't indicate whether government forces were mobilizing to retake the Iraqi city, 220 miles north of the capital Baghdad.
The capture of Mosul by rebels linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, is the latest evidence of the weakness and disorganization that have beset Iraq's security forces since the U.S. forces withdrew from the country in December 2011.
Residents of Mosul said they were shocked at the ease of the rebel takeover of government buildings, television stations and military installations where U.S.-supplied fighter airplanes, helicopters and other heavy weaponry are based.

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As Al Qaeda Takes Over IRAQ…Obama Heads To California For A Nice Weekend Of Golfing And Fundraising

Excerpted from BIZPAC REVIEW: CBS News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller was simply doing his job when he tweeted President Barack Obama‘s weekend plans. Little did he know that his effort would unleash a wave of criticism directed at the president.
With the situation in Iraq at critical mass and Baghdad on the verge of falling into the hands of the Islamic militant group known as ISIS, and the impending humanitarian crises unfolding on the southern border with Mexico, folks were simply astonished at what they were seeing.
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Obama Caught Threatening U.S. Soldiers To Keep Quiet

Recently, United States soldiers have been speaking out against the Obama administration who have allegedly been “intimidating them” into keeping silent on recent scandals. According to reports, soldiers who served with Bergdahl have been threatened, and officials are suggesting that Bergdahl’s platoon was full of liars.
Naturally, one can only assume that the administration is just trying to justify their actions, rather than admitting the trouble they went through to rescue a deserter.
Now, the Huffington Post and Fox News have been working together to reveal the information that has been through great lengths to be kept secret. Together, the two media outlets uncovered that “the White House, in concert with the State Department and Defense Department, was orchestrating a campaign of threats and intimidations not only against infantrymen and the military men in Afghanistan at the time in 2009, but also against military officers and Pentagon officers to keep silent about what really happened, there.”

Georgia Officially Demands a “Convention of the States” to Stop Obama

It’s finally happening. Several weeks ago, Georgia’s House voted for a resolution to bring about a “Convention of the States” to stop Obama and end the growth of federal tyranny. Now, the state has officially demanded that it does happen. This is the first official demand in American history.
This could be the great political shift that stops out of control federal taxing, spending, and regulating. Term limits, balanced budgets, tax caps — it’s all now possible if enough states move forward.
Expect the hatred and the attacks from the left to pick up steam over the next few months as more and more states consider filing their own “Convention of the States” application.

IRS: So… Our Computer Crashed And Erased All Of Lois Lerner’s Emails

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) claimed Friday that it cannot produce Lois Lerner’s emails to and from the White House and other administration departments due to a supposed computer crash.

The IRS previously agreed to hand over all of the ex-IRS official’s emails from 2009 to 2011 to the House Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Rep. Dave Camp. But the IRS claimed Friday that it has Lerner’s emails to and from other IRS officials but it cannot produce emails to and from the Treasury and Justice Departments, the Federal Election Commission, or Democratic offices.

The IRS’ computer crash may go down in history next to the eighteen and a half minute gap in the Watergate tapes, which was supposedly caused by a mistake by Richard Nixon’s secretary Rose Mary Woods.

“The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS’s response to Congressional inquiries,” Camp said in a statement. “There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the Inspector General.”

“Just a short time ago, Commissioner Koskinen promised to produce all Lerner documents,” Camp continued. “It appears now that was an empty promise.  Frankly, these are the critical years of the targeting of conservative groups that could explain who knew what when, and what, if any, coordination there was between agencies.  Instead, because of this loss of documents, we are conveniently left to believe that Lois Lerner acted alone.  This failure of the IRS requires the White House, which promised to get to the bottom of this, to do an Administration-wide search and production of any emails to or from Lois Lerner.  The Administration has repeatedly referred us back to the IRS for production of materials.  It is clear that is wholly insufficient when it comes to determining the full scope of the violation of taxpayer rights.”

Hillary Avoids the Press: I Have 'Deal' Not to Answer Questions 

During her book tour, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed she has a "deal" not to talk to reporters who are not pre-screened. 

On Thursday, Business Insider tried to ask Clinton a question after an on-the-record Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) event.
"I'm not answering questions. That was the deal that I made; I'm sorry," Clinton reportedly said.
Business Insider reported that Clinton, a potential 2016 presidential contender, "took questions from CFR President Richard Haas and council members at the event including billionaire editor and publisher Mort Zuckerman" at the event but "did not take queries from reporters who were seated in the audience's press section." A spokesperson for CFR told the outlet that only journalists who are "members of the Council on Foreign Relations may ask questions at meetings regardless of their profession."
Clinton launched her book tour this week and has been doing numerous interviews with reporters from the major networks that were chosen by her team. 
According to Business Insider, the media outlet tried to ask Clinton about current Secretary of State John Kerry's remarks about Israel potentially becoming an "apartheid" state that Kerry made at a supposedly off-the-record Trilateral Commission event, which reporter Josh Rogin attended and taped.

At elite donor summit featuring 2016 GOP hopefuls, a longing for Romney to run again

PARK CITY, Utah — Mitt Romney’s ideas summit here was intended to be a passing of the torch to the Republican Party’s would-be saviors, with five potential 2016 presidential candidates jetting in to schmooze with many of the GOP’s biggest donors and present their agendas for the country’s future.
Instead, the scene at a luxury resort in the Rocky Mountains quickly became a Romney revival. Minutes after the 2012 Republican presidential nominee welcomed his 300 guests, Joe Scarborough, the MSNBC host and former GOP congressman, urged them to begin a “Draft Romney” movement in 2016.
“This is the only person that can fill the stage,” Scarborough said at the opening-night private dinner, according to attendees.
The Republican elite rose early Friday morning to go skeet shooting with possible 2016 hopeful Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.). Then, over breakfast, they questioned Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), another potential candidate, about how he thinks he could defeat the expected Democratic front-runner, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Yet in hallway chats and over cocktails, they’ve been abuzz about recruiting someone else — Romney — into his third presidential race.

Mitt Romney: Hillary Clinton is “Clueless” on Foreign Policy [VIDEO]

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s fan club continues to dwindle, and for good reason.
She has lied to the American people so often that its come to be expected of her, and she has participated in the cover up of one of the biggest scandals in American history.
This is in addition to foolish foreign policy decisions made by her and the rest of the Obama administration in the past. These decisions are now having devastating consequences in other parts of the world.

"This isn't Fallujah. This isn't a place you can just cordon off and forget about," said Michael Knights, a regional security analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, cited by AP. "It's essential to Iraq."

Sinister plot by Islamic extremists rocks UK

MICHAEL COREN | SUN NEWS NETWORK

The dominating domestic political aspect of my two weeks in Britain was what became known as "The Trojan Horse Affair."

The allegation is that Islamic extremists have systematically targeted various state schools with large Muslim populations and worked in a dedicated manner to transform these publicly funded, secular institutions into religious colleges where Wahhabi Islam dominates the curriculum and culture.

In this case the chosen area was Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city and with a large number of Muslims.

The catalyst for what has become an extensive official investigation and numerous media reports was an anonymous letter that is almost certainly a hoax, and Islamists have tried to use that fact to deny the charges.

The credibility of the letter, however, is irrelevant and it comes as no surprise to journalists and activists who have been covering jihadism in Britain that these schools have certainly been victims of an agenda and that such an agenda is common in parts of East London, south Yorkshire and the Midlands.

I interviewed several people intensely connected to the issue and what emerges is something enormously worrying, partly because the vast majority of young Muslims and their families are completely unaware that it is taking place and by upbringing and tradition follow a far more peaceful school of Islamic thought.
But teacher knows best, parents do not have the time to monitor all that their children learn, and fanatics lie rather well.

What we do know is boys and girls were routinely separated and segregated, even though this was contrary to British education policy, and young boys were told that white girls were prostitutes.

Children were often barred from being exposed to music and the arts because these are haram, or forbidden, considered idolatrous because they create beauty and thus distract from the only authentic beauty which is Allah.

In some state schools in Britain, the Islamic call to prayer was broadcast from loudspeakers, and in others Muslim children were taken on school trips to Saudi Arabia - non-Muslim children were excluded and the staff and students who went stayed in luxury hotels.
Official reports have found Christmas concerts were cancelled and fundraising raffles banned for being non-Islamic.

In others, compulsory Arabic classes have been introduced, sex education and the teaching of evolution forbidden, radical Islamist politics taught, America repeatedly condemned as the source of all evil and - extremely sinister - Easter and Christmas plays put on specifically to fool inspectors who the schools had been warned were about to pay a visit.

The full extent of the Birmingham case will take some time to unpack, but it's already led to a senior government adviser being fired and two of the country's cabinet ministers indulging in a public argument over who is most culpable in the mess.
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