Boots on the Ground 070614

ISIS five miles from Baghdad International Airport, closing fast 

A handful of American troops between thousands of ISIS forces and the American embassy ...
With events happening faster than they can be reported, terrorist fighters are rapidly closing in on Baghdad’s International Airport and its adjoining al-Muthanna Iraqi Air Force base. Both reporting on July 4, 2014, the Israeli news portal The Debka File and also CNN (via WCSC CBS of Charleston, SC) cite the al-Qaeda-allied terrorists have broken the military stalemate outside of Fallujah and are now much closer to Baghdad than previously reported.
A mere 25 miles west from Baghdad International Airport, the site of the hard-fought Marine Corps victory over insurgents in 2004, the city of Fallujah fell to ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) terrorists earlier this year. Yet until recently the lines were static giving at least the outward appearance since winter that the Iraqi National Army had stopped ISIS in their march on the capital.
Seemingly ignored by the vast majority of the American media, ISIS fighters are now possibly just a five minute drive to the northern edges of the sprawling airport. As CNN stated matter-of-factly at the tail-end of their report, “One of the western gates of Baghdad faces toward Anbar province, the Sunni town of Abu Ghraib and areas in which it is understood there is a militant presence, if not militant control.” What CNN omitted from their reporting is that Abu Ghraib is a scant five miles from the airstrip. 

ISIS: Give over girls for 'sex jihad'

Posters in public places tell Mosul residents to bring daughters to 'fulfill their duty'

Radical Islamists murdering and imposing mayhem across Iraq, now calling themselves Islamic State but generally known as ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, have demanded both property and human lives as the price of their rapid advances.

Now they want girls.
ISIS has been putting up posters throughout Mosul, one of the captured Iraqi cities, telling residents to bring their unmarried daughters to ISIS soldiers, according to a report from the Clarion Project, a respected nonprofit organization that works to expose Islamic extremism, primarily through documentary films it produces.
Citing Arabic sources including those inside Mosul, the report said the posters call for girls to participate in “jihad al-nikah,” or “sex jihad.”
The Clarion Project cites information from Al-Masryalyoum, a “respected” Egyptian daily newspapers along with other Arab press sources.
Posters in public places in Mosul read:
“We call upon the people of this county to bring their unmarried girls so they can fulfill their duty in sex jihad for their warrior brothers in the city and anyone who will not appear will feel the full force of the Shariah [Islamic law] upon him.”
The report said ISIS fighters have been going door-to-door, entering houses, killing the men and raping women, too.
Four such victims committed suicide, the report said, citing information from Rupert Colville, a spokesman in Geneva for Navie Pillay, a United Nations human rights official.
Clarion Fund said, “Al-Iraqiya TV station published a report about the story of two Iraqi girls who were raped by the armed men of ISIS in Mosul … The two girls, who are sisters, said that ISIS fighters came into their house, killed the men and afterwards, they took turns raping the women.”
“They came into the house. They were disgusting. They were armed and spoke among themselves in a language we did not recognize. We were afraid; I tried to save my sister, but one of them hit me with his weapon – on my body and then on my face – me and my sister. I blacked out and woke up to the sounds of the screaming of my neighbor while one of the jihadis was playing with my hair,” the girl said, according to the report.
According to a video from which the Clarion Project translated, the other sister said, “I heard one of them speaking in a dialect from the Gulf region and the other one was speaking in a language I have never heard before. I kept resisting and he hit me on my head. I woke up and saw that my entire body was covered in blood.”
While there are no statistics on the number of women who have been attacked, raped and murdered by ISIS since the Islamists entered Mosul, there are reports of those who fled to avoid such attacks.
The report cited Um-Lara, who escaped with four daughters, ages 14 to 23. They told a Russian news agency the militants had kidnapped “many” women in Mosul.

ISIS success shows U.S. out of touch with Iraq's reality

Military analysts say Barack Obama's decision to send a contingent of army "advisers" into Iraq amid the worsening crisis there reveals how out of touch the U.S. has been with the facts on the ground since pulling out of the country in 2011.

"The United States lost situational awareness of what was going inside Iraq to a large extent, and especially what was going on inside the Iraqi armed forces, when we withdrew our forces at the end of 2011," says Peter Mansoor, a retired U.S. Army officer and author of Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War.
Mansoor says this loss of intelligence "speaks volumes about the priority of Iraq within the Obama administration" in the past few years.
As the territorial advances of the Sunni militant group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threaten to push Iraq into civil war, the U.S. president has signalled a willingness to contribute U.S. military resources.​

When asked for specifics on June 12, Obama said, "I don’t rule out anything because we do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either Iraq or Syria."
Since then, he has pledged to send 300 military advisers into the country. While there are no specific details about their role, they're more than likely there to assess "the temperament, the morale and the will of the Iraqi army," says Janine Davidson, senior fellow of defense policy at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C.
Prior to the pullout in 2011, the U.S. put a great amount of money and effort into equipping and training the Iraqi military. But even before the ISIS occupation of Mosul, during which Iraqi soldiers reportedly laid down their weapons and fled, there were concerns about the capability and conviction of the Iraqi army.

The Obamas Have Spent Over $44,351,777.12 In Taxpayer Cash On Travel

The Obamas have spent over 44 million dollars in taxpayer money on travel and vacations. Some are even calling him the “most well-trvaeled, expensive” president in our nation’s history.

As Americans head off for the long holiday weekend, let’s take a look back at some of the president’s holiday spending.
Our president vacations a lot — we’re talking $44,351,777.12 worth of “a lot,” with most expenses charged to the American taxpayer.
As of March 2014, Obama has spent more time traveling internationally than any other president, taking 31 trips since assuming office in 2009. The 119 days spent overseas have cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
At the same point in their respective presidencies, George W. Bush had spent 116 days on 28 trips, Bill Clinton had spent 113 days on 27 trips and Ronald Reagan had spent 73 days on just 14 trips.
In 2010, Obama flew aboard Air Force One 172 times, nearly every other day. Just the cost of flying aboard Air Force One to Obama’s hometown of Chicago reportedly hovers around $180,000 per hour.
In addition to all of his international travel, the president spends a significant amount of time traveling with his family. The Obama family has taken vacations to exclusive beaches in New England, private clubs in Key Largo and, of course, luxurious beaches in Hawaii.
According to the government watchdog group Judicial Watch, beginning with the infamous New York “date night,” the Obamas have spent $44,351,777.12 in taxpayer cash on travel expenses.
The actual total cost may be higher, as the White House is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

Bergdahl platoon members haven’t been contacted in new desertion probe

Soldiers who served with accused deserter Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan before he walked off his Army base in 2009 say investigators still haven’t contacted them with questions about the incident.
According to FoxNews.com, despite a new probe, at least two former Army sergeants — including the platoon’s leader — have not heard from officials handling the case.
Former Army Sgt. Matt Vierkant is still waiting, but he said records already exist with sworn statements given by every soldier associated with Bergdahl in 2009, according to Fox.
“There’s only a handful of us who were actually there and we haven’t been contacted yet,” former Army Sgt. Evan Buetow told FoxNews.com. “I don’t really know how in-depth they’re trying to get here. I thought we’d be some of the people they’d call. I think they have their mind made up already on what they want people to know.”
According to FoxNews.com:

Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dahl, is conducting a new investigation to examine whether Bergdahl went AWOL or deserted his post. The probe won’t begin until Bergdahl’s reintegration process is complete, and Dahl’s recommendations will ultimately be sent to the director of the Army staff, who could then approve or alter them before forwarding to Bergdahl’s commander.

The report distinguishes a deserter as a soldier with no intention of returning to his or her post, while legally, someone who goes AWOL intends to rejoin.
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Rising red tide: China’s Navy in frenzy to build new nuclear-powered attack subs

China's military is investing heavily in advanced submarines, including both ballistic and cruise missile firing vessels and attack subs.
Recently, Beijing showed off what appears to be a mock-up of its next-generation nuclear-powered attack submarine, according to veteran military analyst Rick Fisher.

“A large outdoor model of a next generation nuclear attack submarine [SSN] has appeared at the People’s Liberation Army Navy [PLAN] submarine academy in Qingdao, China,” Mr. Fisher stated in a report published by the International Assessment and Strategy Center, a think tank.
“The role of this model may simply be to inspire the academy’s students, but it may signify a larger personnel investment by the PLAN to prepare for its next generation submarines, as it may also offer some indications about a new class of SSN,” he said, referring to the military acronym for attack submarines
Photos of the model were first published in April during a Chinese naval conference, and Mr. Fisher said the Chinese have long used such photos of mock-up weapons as political messages for both domestic and foreign audiences.

Hillary blamed in another Benghazi scandal

Did the State Department under Hillary Clinton deliberately refuse to classify what has been described as sensitive information housed at the U.S. special mission in Benghazi?

The storage of any officially classified information in the compound would have required the deployment of the U.S. Marine Corps Embassy Security Group for protection.
Instead, external security at the facility was provided by unarmed local Libyan guards.
Armed members of the Martyrs of the February 17th Brigades served as the official quick-reaction force that worked within the compound. The Brigade is an offshoot of the Ansar Al Sharia terrorist organization that was implicated in the Benghazi attack.
The question of the security designation of documents and information contained at the Benghazi facility is newly prompted by a debate within the intelligence community as to why the materials were not officially classified.
On Tuesday, Fox News quoted sources in Washington and on the ground in Libya, including a witness, confirming computers were stolen during the Sept. 11, 2012, attack.
“They took computers, computer devices. And I saw M-16 rifles, American rifles. I know they are American –we don’t have them, we just have AK-47s – and a suitcase,” the Libyan witness told Fox News.
Two days after the attack, the London Independent reported documents inside the U.S. mission were said to “list names of Libyans who are working with Americans, putting them potentially at risk from extremist groups.”
Three weeks after the attack, the Washington Post reported documents inside the U.S. mission contained “delicate information about American operations in Libya.”
The Post reported one of its journalists visited the facility weeks after the attack to find scattered across the floors “documents detailing weapons collection efforts, emergency evacuation protocols, the full internal itinerary of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens’s trip and the personnel records of Libyans who were contracted to secure the mission.”

We Still Can’t Believe the Obama Administration Would Do This to a Deceased Marine

Parents of a Marine sergeant who died while stationed in Greece are filing a lawsuit against the Department of Defense after their son’s body was returned without a heart. When the DoD finally managed to send the family their son’s heart, a DNA test proved that it was someone else’s.
Craig and Beverley LaLoup tell the Associated Press that authorities had informed them that 21-year-old Brian LaLoup had shot himself int he head during a party at an embassy in Athens, where he worked on a security squad.
According to the AP, Brian LaLoup was buried with full military honors, and had loved the Marines but was upset about a recent romantic breakup.

LaLoup had served in Afghanistan before being selected for the embassy detail in 2011. He first worked in South Africa, where a photograph shows him with visiting first lady Michelle Obama.
A friend told a Marine supervisor, who suggested more drinks instead of getting help, the lawsuit alleged. LaLoup, despite being intoxicated, was allowed to get a weapon from an unsecured storage area, it said.
Government immunity prevents the family from filing a wrongful-death lawsuit. Their lawsuit instead seeks damages for emotional distress over the missing heart.

The LaLoups wouldn’t have known the heart had gone missing if not for a military official who let it slip when they were filling out paperwork weeks after the funeral.

“This is his heart. This is his soul. This is what made Brian who he is,” Beverly LaLoup, of Coatesville, said Tuesday in a phone interview.
“I was absolutely devastated,” she said. “I was hysterical. I was running around the house, hyperventilating.”

The LaLoups eventually received a heart months later that both the Department of Defense and Greek authorities claimed was their sons heart, but after painfully waiting for a months-long wait for DNA results, they discovered they had been sent someone else’s heart.
The Department of Defense refuses to comment on pending litigation, and the Greek ambassador has merely offered “his condolences” in an official statement. Calls to the Department of Defense from the LaLoup family have gone on unanswered. For Craig and Beverley, it’s not about the money, they just want to know what happened with their son. 

Look at what Obama tried to sneak past us on the eve of July 4th

The Department of Health and Human Services released a whopping 1,300 pages of new Obamacare regulations.  They did so at 4:15 pm on Thursday as everyone was getting off work and getting ready to check out for Independence day weekend.
This is nothing new. In fact, one might say it’s classic Obama.
From the Washington Examiner:

The timing of the news release is part of a long pattern for President Obama’s administration, which has often used holidays as an opportunity to dump dense regulatory changes when most reporters and Americans are focused on their holiday plans.
The release came at 4:15 p.m.
Last year, the Obama administration used the days surrounding the July 4th holiday as an opening to announce a delay to the employer mandate and to disclose the fact that the exchanges would operate on the honor system, doling out benefits without properly verifying information provided by applicants.

Using our country’s most sacred holiday to shove more of the most un-American legislation this country has ever seen down our throats is appalling on so many levels.  The Obama Administration has no shame whatsoever.

2002 FBI Documents Reveal Strange Events Surrounding 9/11

Recently released FBI documents detail an investigation into a suspicious Saudi family living in Sarasota, Florida just before 9/11. The heavily censored documents are on Abdulaziz al-Hijji, who lived a life of luxury in Florida along with his wife Anoud and her father Esam Ghazzawi just before 9/11.  Ghazzawi served as an advisor to a Saudi prince.

According to Rare.us, the family left behind a mansion, new cars, and expensive clothes and jewelry when they abruptly left the area in August 2001. They left no explanation for their sudden departure.

Numerous suspicious incidents are detailed in the FBI documents. The following is an account of an incident that occurred on Halloween of 2001:

There are three remaining paragraphs to this letter which are completely censored out “in the interest of national defense or foreign policy.”

Here is another account of an FBI document from Febuary 2012:

The Miami Herald states that these documents “flatly contradict the FBI’s public statements that agents found no connection between the al-Hijjis and the 9/11 plot,” but “dovetail with the account of a counterintelligence source who has said investigators in 2001 found evidence — phone records and photographs of license plates snapped at the entrance to the al-Hijjis’ Sarasota-area neighborhood — that showed Mohamed Atta, other hijackers.”

A final excerpt of the documents is especially shocking:

The censored parts of these documents will not be revealed until 2039.  Until then, all we can do is speculate as to the reasons for the FBI’s lies.

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Anal Sex For Allah? The Muslim Brotherhood’s New Rule

According to Egyptian cleric Mazher Shahin, the Muslim Brotherhood has a new fatwa (law) which permits and encourages militants to engage in anal sex with each other while they’re away from their wives. The militants believe that this “anal jihad” is actually for the sake of Allah and is perfectly acceptable behavior.

“It is despicable, foolish and asinine that their sheiks permit them to do these things.” -Mazher Shahin

Watch the clip below:

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What a convenient religion that they can just claim it’s for the sake of Allah, and then pretty much engage in whatever debauchery they wish. Not only are they allowed by their Sheiks to have anal sex with each other, but it is a common practice for them to engage in sex with animals and with girls as young as 8 years old.

While You Weren’t Looking, Congress Changed the Disclosure Rules On Travel. To Their Benefit. 

A member of Congress used to have to specifically report the details if they traveled on someone else’s dime. As of last week, that rule was lifted with no public announcement. National Journal reports:

The move, made behind closed doors and without a public announcement by the House Ethics Committee, reverses more than three decades of precedent. Gifts of free travel to lawmakers have appeared on the yearly financial form dating back its creation in the late 1970s, after the Watergate scandal. National Journal uncovered the deleted disclosure requirement when analyzing the most recent batch of yearly filings.

For a group of officials that considers an adjustment to their burrito order worthy of a press release and a television appearance, that this change was made literally behind closed doors tells us everything we need to know about it. Members of both parties reached across the aisle and kept their mouths shut about it.
These trips still must be reported to the Office of the Clerk and disclosed there, but the decades-old requirement for individual members to also disclose their particular activities on their annual financial forms is now gone.
The fundamental reasoning behind these rules is that they make clear the relationships between the politician and any private group paying for trips. Trips, by the way, which occurred more last year than in recent history.
The implication is that if the public is aware, for example, that Representative Vandelay is taken via Gulfstream G5 to the Four Seasons Bora Bora for a week of “seminars” and it’s all paid for by the largest latex company in the country, then Vandelay’s votes benefiting the company can be understood to have been bought and paid for.
As the federal leviathan grows ever-larger and is more intricately involved in every teensy-tiny area of American life, the financial incentive for lobbyist to influence legislation to their clients benefit grows as well. A subtle change in a trade agreement, import duty, or regulation can mean millions of dollars to a firm.
It’s far easier to write a check to a Washington insider to get the field tilted in one’s direction, than to actually compete in the marketplace. And how better to get a politician’s attention than to provide them (and their significant other) with a lavish vacation or trip? This change just means it’s that much harder for us to find out about it. That is not good and should be changed back immediately.
Better yet, it’s time for the Federal government to get out of the business of picking business winners and losers, so the incentives for such behavior are eliminated altogether. We’ll not be holding our breath on this one…
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