Underground stories 092314

Captured ISIL Fighter: Turkey is Main Route

An ISIL member who was arrested by Iraqi troops confessed that terrorists are still using Turkey as the main route to Syria.The 18-year-old Hamad al-Tamimi, known by his nom de guerre as Abu Walid, said he was recruited online by ISIL when he was a religious studies student in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Tamimi, who was arrested by Iraqi troops during a military operation in Iraq’s western province of al-Anbar, said that he left Saudi Arabia for Kuwait in July and from there he moved to Turkey before joining the ISIL Takfiri militants operating in Syria.

“There are many nationalities,” CNN quoted him as saying. “From Norway, from America, Canada, Somalia, Korea, China, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Lebanon and other European countries such as Germany and France,” Tamimi stated.

A CIA source said more than 15,000 militants from 80 countries are operating in Syria and Iraq. “From Germany, I knew Abu Hamza, and from Britain one named Abu Dawoud, and from America one named Abu Ibrahim,” Tamimi said, adding that all the individuals were young.

The Saudi national said he had to swear allegiance to the so-called ISIL leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, after 22 days at a religious indoctrination camp.

He added that he received military training at an air base in the Syrian city of Raqqa.
Tamimi said after a short time spent in Aleppo, northwestern Syria, the order came to move across the essentially nonexistent border into Iraq, where ISIL militants operating against Iraqi forces near the Haditha Dam needed reinforcement.

The ISIL terrorists are in control of some areas in Syria and have captured large swathes of land in neighboring Iraq. They are notorious for carrying out horrific acts of violence, including beheading the captives, in the areas they have overtaken.

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Turkey in league with ISIL Takfiri militants: PPK leader 

A leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has accused the Turkish government of collaborating with the ISIL Takfiri militants operating inside Syria and neighboring Iraq.

On Sunday, Dursun Kalkan said Ankara is collaborating with the ISIL terrorists, calling on fellow Kurdish fighters to cross into Syria to defend the Kurdish city of Kobane near the border with Turkey.
Kurdish fighters continue battling the ISIL terrorists in an effort to stop their advances into Syrian villages and cities.
In the latest related development, nearly 20 ISIL members were killed in clashes with the Kurdish fighters.
Syrian Kurds, fleeing clashes between ISIL and Kurdish fighters in Kobane and the surrounding areas, have been massing along the Turkish border since September 18.
Kobane, also known as Ayn al-Arab, is Syria’s third-largest Kurdish city in Aleppo Province with a population of nearly half a million people.
The Kurdish city has been under constant threat of violence by the ISIL Takfiri militants over the past few months. Reports say the terrorists, who are seeking to finalize their grip on the region after seizing over nearly 60 villages, are now within 15 kilometers (9 miles) of Kobane.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says that there has been an unprecedented influx of refugees and that the number of Syrian Kurds seeking refuge in 

Turkey from the ISIL advance across northeastern Syria has reached 100,000.Turkish PM: '6,000 Foreign Fighters Have Entered Turkey'

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a gathering in Washington on Monday that "six thousand foreign fighters have entered Turkey," even though "they have been banned." But, he added, "They are under control."
He also suggested that America's failure to listen to Turkey's warnings about the Maliki government contributed to the ISIS/ISIL advance; and he hinted that Turkey agreed to a prisoner swap to secure the release of its 49 hostages held by ISIS.
Erdogan, speaking through a translator at the Council on Foreign Relations, said, "We check entry and exit points, but then you know, these people (foreign fighters) move, of course, from other parts of the border. We try to keep tabs on them. But our goal is to try and ensure that foreign fighters do not go through our borders. We're very determined to prevent them from doing so."
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Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Police Arrest 28 Christians For Praying In Private 

There is little difference between Saudi sharia and the Islamic State’s sharia — except that the Saudis fear IS. Hence the bogus condemnation of Islamic State terrorism.

That was the Saudi “contribution” to Obama’s coalition of none against the Islamic State. Taqiyya to deceive and disarm the American people to the true threat of jihad.
The Saudis aren’t sending troops against Islam. But they’ll let the kuffar protect their kingdom. When John Kerry lauded the Saudi fatwa yesterday at the IS hearings, he failed the mention the beheadings, executions, hand chopping, amputations, misogyny, lashings, etc. under the sharia in Saudi Arabia.
Robert Spencer exposes the fatwa against terror here.

“Saudi anti-Christian sweep prompts calls for US involvement,” FOX News, September 14, 2014
Dozens of Christians arrested at a prayer meeting in Saudi Arabia need America’s help, according to a key lawmaker who is pressing the State Department on their behalf.
Some 28 people were rounded up Friday by hard-line Islamists from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in the home of an Indian national in the eastern Saudi city of Khafji, and their current situation is unknown, according to human rights advocates.
“Saudi Arabia is continuing the religious cleansing that has always been its official policy,” Nina Shea, director of the Washington-based Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, told FoxNews.com. “It is the only nation state in the world with the official policy of banning all churches. This is enforced even though there are over 2 million Christian foreign workers in that country. Those victimized are typically poor, from Asian and African countries with weak governments.”
In Friday’s crackdown, several Bibles were confiscated, according to reports from the Kingdom.
Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va, told FoxNews.com he will press the U.S. ambassador in Riyadh and the State Department to assist the arrested Christians.
“I hope our government will speak up,” said Wolf, adding that the anti-Christian raid was not surprising given that the Saudi regime “did not want our soldiers to wear crosses during the Desert Storm” operation in 1991 to stop Iraqi jingoism.
A spokeswoman for Saudi Arabia’s embassy press officer, Nail Al-Jubeir, in Washington, told FoxNews.com that “Mr. Jubeir has nothing on that [arrests of Christians].” She suggested calling the Saudi Gazette newspaper.
The English-language paper Saudi Gazette, along with Saudi Arabic-language news outlets, published a news item about the mass arrests.
An article posted on the Arabic-language news website Akhbar 24 said the arrests came after the Kingdom’s religious police got a tip about a home-based church. The report further noted that “distorted writings of the Bible were found and musical instruments, noting their referral to the jurisdictional institutions.”
The Saudi media reported different compositions of the arrested Christians. Some reports said the Christians were men and women, while the Saudi Gazette wrote that children, as well as men and women, were detained. It was unclear if a court date has been set in the notoriously opaque fundamentalist court system.
Saudi Arabia has gone to great lengths over the years to re-brand its image as a tolerant advocate of multi-religious dialogue. The arch-conservative monarchy funded the Vienna-based King Abdullah International Center for Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue. Nevertheless, critics argue, Saudi Arabia’s Islamist religious police continue to expunge any trace of Christianity within its territory.
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah appears to be tied up in knots because of his conflicting messages to the international community about religious diversity.
“Such actions are especially dangerous in the current situation, where the world is seeing the rise of extreme Islamist groups in Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, Somalia and elsewhere,” Shea said. “The West should demand that its strategic ally, Saudi Arabia, release the Christians at once and allow them to pray according to their own faith traditions. Otherwise, Riyadh will appear to be validating the practices of the Islamic State in northern Iraq and Syria.”

Former head of Marine Corps: ‘Not a snowball’s chance In hell’ Obama’s plan succeeds

A former Marine Corps Commandant told an audience that President Obama’s strategy to defeat Islamic State militants doesn’t have a “snowball’s chance in hell” of succeeding.
Speaking at a conference in Washington, General James Conway, who served as the 34th Commandant of the Marine Crops at the end of the Bush administration and beginning of the Obama administration, said that he was skeptical that the U.S. had reliable ground forces in Iraq, the Daily Caller reported Friday.

In June, Gen. Conway blasted the White House over the controversial prisoner swap of five terrorism suspects for alleged deserter Bowe Bergdahl.
This week Congress approved a bill to allow the President to send arms to moderate Syrian rebels to combat the terrorist group, but several lawmakers opposed the idea, saying the U.S. could not rely on rebels that fought for Bashar al-Assad.
Two former defense secretaries who served under President Obama also criticized Mr. Obama’s strategy for dealing with the Islamic State group on Friday.
Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told CBS news that the president waited too long to act in Syria, and former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the U.S. is not going to successful against the terror group “strictly from the air, or strictly depending on the Iraqi forces, or the Peshmerga, or the Sunni tribes acting on their own.”
Mr. Panetta’s full assessment appeared on Sundays broadcast of “60 Minutes.”

Hillary letters come back to haunt her

Alinsky had deeper influence on Clinton's politics than previously known

Previously unpublished correspondence between Hillary Clinton and the late left-wing organizer Saul Alinsky reveals new details about her relationship with the controversial Chicago activist and shed light on her early ideological development.
Clinton met with Alinsky several times in 1968 while writing a Wellesley college thesis about his theory of community organizing.
Clinton’s relationship with Alinsky, and her support for his philosophy, continued for several years after she entered Yale law school in 1969, two letters obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show.
The letters obtained by the Free Beacon are part of the archives for the Industrial Areas Foundation, a training center for community organizers founded by Alinsky, which are housed at the University of Texas at Austin.
The letters also suggest that Alinsky, who died in 1972, had a deeper influence on Clinton’s early political views than previously known.
A 23-year-old Hillary Clinton was living in Berkeley, California, in the summer of 1971. She was interning at the left-wing law firm Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein, known for its radical politics and a client roster that included Black Panthers and other militants.
On July 8, 1971, Clinton reached out to Alinsky, then 62, in a letter sent via airmail, paid for with stamps featuring Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and marked “Personal.”
“Dear Saul,” she began. “When is that new book [Rules for Radicals] coming out—or has it come and I somehow missed the fulfillment of Revelation?”
“I have just had my one-thousandth conversation about Reveille [for Radicals] and need some new material to throw at people,” she added, a reference to Alinsky’s 1946 book on his theories of community organizing.
Clinton devoted just one paragraph in her memoir Living History to Alinsky, writing that she rejected a job offer from him in 1969 in favor of going to law school. She wrote that she wanted to follow a more conventional path.
However, in the 1971 letter, Clinton assured Alinsky that she had “survived law school, slightly bruised, with my belief in and zest for organizing intact.”
“The more I’ve seen of places like Yale Law School and the people who haunt them, the more convinced I am that we have the serious business and joy of much work ahead—if the commitment to a free and open society is ever going to mean more than eloquence and frustration,” wrote Clinton.
According to the letter, Clinton and Alinsky had kept in touch since she entered Yale. The 62-year-old radical had reached out to give her advice on campus activism.
“If I never thanked you for the encouraging words of last spring in the midst of the Yale-Cambodia madness, I do so now,” wrote Clinton, who had moderated a campus election to join an anti-war student strike.
She added that she missed their regular conversations, and asked if Alinsky would be able to meet her the next time he was in California.
“I am living in Berkeley and working in Oakland for the summer and would love to see you,” Clinton wrote. “Let me know if there is any chance of our getting together.”
Clinton’s letter reached Alinsky’s office while he was on an extended trip to Southeast Asia, where he was helping train community organizers in the Philippines.

U.S. is Tracking Multiple Terror Plots against the West out of Syria

The U.S. is tracking multiple terror plots based out of Syria that target the West—threats that current and former intelligence officials say have been traced to al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate and not to Islamic State, the extremist group that has seized the world's attention.

Disclosures about the plots, which include bombings, are raising new questions about whether U.S. military strategy focusing on Islamic State militants could end up missing part of the threat Western countries face from Syria.

The U.S.-driven focus on Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, already has prompted questions from some senior military and intelligence officials as well as independent experts and analysts.

"Does ISIS represent a threat to the U.S.? Yes, of course, but it isn't the only issue," said John Cohen, who recently left his post as the top counterterrorism official at the Homeland Security Department to teach at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "The threats emanating from Syria go beyond the threat posed by ISIS."

Benghazi Bombshell: Clinton State Department Official Reveals Details of Alleged Document Review

As the House Select Committee on Benghazi prepares for its first hearing this week, a former State Department diplomat is coming forward with a startling allegation: Hillary Clinton confidants were part of an operation to “separate” damaging documents before they were turned over to the Accountability Review Board investigating security lapses surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.

UPDATE: Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff allegedly present at after-hours document review.
According to former Deputy Assistant Secretary Raymond Maxwell, the after-hours session took place over a weekend in a basement operations-type center at State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. This is the first time Maxwell has publicly come forward with the story.
At the time, Maxwell was a leader in the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, which was charged with collecting emails and documents relevant to the Benghazi probe.

Sickening: Somali Muslims Want Minnesota To Spend $150K To Provide Pork-Free Welfare

Anyone who regularly reads my musings here on Downtrend should be well aware of just how much I loathe entitlement, petulance and victimhood. As someone with high-functioning autism and social anxiety disorder who makes do via lots and lots of hard work and budgeting, I fervently believe that most so-called victims of poverty need to shut their trap, pull up their pants and get to work. I of course am not referring to the genuinely disabled or elderly.

Anyway. Judging by what I just read over at CBS Local, it appears that the entitlement train just picked up a new cab. Basically, a bunch of poor Somali Americans from Minneapolis, M.N., believe that the state should spend a whopping $150,000 to stock community food shelves with “healthy foods that do not contain pork or pork byproducts.”

Here’s my favorite part of the story. According to Imam Hassan Mohamud, all this hoopla is about “basic human rights to get the proper food and also healthy food.”

Really!? You reserve the right to force everybody else in Minnesota to spend extra money to ensure you get to eat the luxurious crap that pleases your ever-so delicate stomach?

Cut me a break, pal! I don’t know about you, but if I were so poor that I could not afford to even feed myself, I would be more than happy to accept anything and everything offered to me for free. Well, everything but brussel sprouts, but I digress.

The point is that beggars can’t be choosers. This is a basic and fundamental principle of this world within which we reside. Unfortunately, this principle has become extraordinarily muddled courtesy progressive entitlement syndrome run amok.

Which American Cities Will Recieve The First Round Of Syrian Muslim “Refugees?”

While ISIS has wiped out a large number of Christians, they are also widely attacking smaller denominations of other Muslims.
Because of such sweeping displacement, more than 1.2 million Iraqis have fled their homes in Iraq for the safest nearby countries. Syria was the only option for some. Out of these, around 200,000 are Christians. For these Christians surrounded by Muslim countries, France is the closest haven.
More than 10,000 Iraqi Christians have already applied for asylum with a French association that help minorities in the Middle East. In July, Paris announced it would be ready to take in hundreds if not thousands.
So, what about all the Muslim refugees fleeing Syria? Won’t they be welcomed at one of the many Islamic countries? According to the Obama administration, this is not an option.
Since the early 90s, the UN high commissioner for refugees has selected 200,000 to 250,000 refugees from Islamic countries to send to the U.S. Most come from Somalia and Iraq, and Obama has prepared for months to dump hundreds of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees on American cities, just like our new illegal alien neighbors from our Southern border.
“That’s a huge number,” said Ann Corcoran, a writer and researcher for Refugee Resettlement Watch, a group that monitors the U.N.’s distribution of foreign refugees throughout the United States. “Most of the Syrian refugees in these refugee camps are Sunni Muslims; they’re not Christians,” said Corcoran. “The camps in places like Turkey and Jordan, you’re not going to find a ton of Christians.”
The news came to light when a U.S. State Department spokeswoman recently hinted at her daily press briefing that a new wave of refugees will soon be coming from war-torn Syria.
The Winston-Salem Journal reported that the Triad area of North Carolina could receive some of the refugees, and that the first Syrian family has already arrived in Greensboro, North Carolina, and is living in a hotel there.
Social services in Ohio were also preparing for “a flood of refugees” from Syria and Iraq later this year according to The Cleveland Pain Dealer. Cleveland, Akron and Columbus have been hotspots in the past for Muslim refugees coming from the Middle East.
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