Friday, September 6, 2013

JIHAD WATCH 09/06/2013


Sep 05, 2013 02:03 pm | Robert
U.S. heading for disaster in Syria. "Putin warns Russia could come to Syria's aid over US strike," from Fox News, September 5 (thanks to Hastings): As he touched down in St. Petersburg on Thursday morning, President Obama greeted his host Vladimir Putin with a handshake and a smile. But...

Sep 05, 2013 01:22 pm | Robert
This is more than what Obama has produced as evidence for his claims. "Russia says it's compiled 100-page report blaming Syrian rebels for a chemical weapons attack," by Matthew Schofield for McClatchy, September 5: BERLIN — Russia says it has compiled a 100-page report detailing what it says is evidence...

Sep 05, 2013 11:58 am | Robert
Archduke Ferdinand, call your office. "Russian warships cross Bosphorus, en route to Syria," from AFP, September 5: Three Russian warships crossed Turkey's Bosphorus Strait Thursday en route to the eastern Mediterranean, near the Syrian coast, amid concern in the region over potential US-led strikes in response to the Damascus...

Sep 05, 2013 08:36 am | Robert
And given the web of alliances involved, there could be. "Syria says will never give in 'even if there is WWIII,'" by Rana Moussaoui for AFP, September 4: Syria said Wednesday it was mobilising its allies against a possible US-led military strike over a suspected gas attack and would never...

Sep 05, 2013 08:18 am | Robert
Obama will have to show the proof he has never yet shown. "Showdown on Syria chemical weapons expected at G-20 summit in Russia," by Holly Yan and Greg Botelho for CNN, September 5: (CNN) -- It's supposed to be a summit about the global economy, but the debate over possible...

Sep 05, 2013 08:15 am | Robert
And Obama is about to send in U.S. military might to aid the cause of these rebels. "Al-Qaeda Linked Syrian Rebels Attack Christian Village," from AP, September 5: Syrian anti-regime activists say government troops and al-Qaida-linked rebels are fighting over a regime-held Christian village for a second day. The director...

Sep 05, 2013 08:09 am | Robert
Putin has said that Kerry is simply lying. "Kerry portrait of Syria rebels at odds with intelligence reports," by Mark Hosenball and Phil Stewart for Reuters, September 5: (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry's public assertions that moderate Syrian opposition groups are growing in influence appear to be at...

Sep 05, 2013 08:07 am | Robert
Better than Assad? Really? "Brutality of Syrian Rebels Posing Dilemma in West," by C. J. Chivers for the New York Times, September 5: The prisoners, seven in all, were captured Syrian soldiers. Five were trussed, their backs marked with red welts. They kept their faces pressed to the dirt as...

Sep 05, 2013 07:39 am | Robert
Why border control is a national security issue. "Iran Aggressively Recruiting ‘Invisible Army’ of Latin American Converts to Infiltrate U.S. Through ‘Soft Belly’ of the Southern Border," by Sara Carter in The Blaze, September 3: Iran is recruiting an “invisible army” of revolutionary sympathizers in Latin America to infiltrate the...

Sep 05, 2013 07:05 am | Robert
Rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey has already converted two churches back into mosques. They were converted to mosques at the time of the jihad conquest of the Byzantine Empire, and then made museums by the secular Turkish government. The same thing happened to the Hagia Sophia of Constantinople, once the foremost...

Sep 05, 2013 06:18 am | Robert
In FrontPage this morning I explain why what now appears to be inevitable is nonetheless so unwise. A Senate panel has voted to authorize Barack Obama to use military force in Syria. This is a disaster in the making. Just as in Afghanistan, Obama has no goal, no plan...

Sep 05, 2013 06:10 am | Raymond
While U.S. leaders continue pushing for war against the Syrian government, today “Al-Qaeda-linked rebels,” reports AP, “launched an assault on a regime-held Christian mountain village in the densely populated west of Syria and new clashes erupted near the capital, Damascus, on Wednesday… In the attack on the village of Maaloula,...

Sep 05, 2013 06:08 am | Raymond
[Via RaymondIbrahim.com] Not only are the churches, monasteries, and institutions of Egypt’s Christians under attack by the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters—nearly 100 now have been torched, destroyed, ransacked, etc.—but Christians themselves are under attack all throughout Egypt, with practically zero coverage in Western media. Days ago, for example, Copts...

Sep 05, 2013 06:06 am | Raymond
Over on my website, I discuss how the primary reasoning for a U.S. attack on Syria has reached the point of being insulting to one's intelligence:Did the Syrian government, or did it not, use chemical weapons — that is the question that will apparently decide whether the U.S. will enter...

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