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UN demands Israel free staffer accused of aiding Hamas
August 25, 2016UN demands Israel free staffer accused of aiding Hamas ‘No immunity for terrorists,’ Jerusalem tells international body regarding engineer who allegedly pushed projects to benefit terror group
By Judah Ari Gross
August 25, 2016, 9:03 pm
Source: UN demands Israel free staffer accused of aiding Hamas | The Times of Israel
The United Nation’s legal department “demanded” Israel release an employee of the international organization on Thursday, who has been accused of aiding the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip, according to Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon.
Waheed Abd Allah Bossh, 38, an engineer in the UN’s Development Program, was arrested by the Shin Bet security service in July. He is suspected of funneling resources to the terrorist group.
According to the international organization, all UN employees are entitled to diplomatic immunity. The group’s legal department also demanded that UN officials have access to Bossh while he is being held in a Beersheba jail.
The letter, which referred to Beersheba by its Arabic name Bi’ir as-Sab, was sent to the Israeli UN delegation this week.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon shows the Security Council a map of Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, at a July 12, 2016 meeting on the 10th anniversary of the Second Lebanon War (Photo: Courtesy)
Danon refused the UN’s request. “We do not grant immunity to terrorists trying to harm our citizens,” he said, according to a statement released Thursday by his office.
Through his work as an engineer, Bossh allegedly directed the UNDP to work on projects that would benefit Hamas, including a naval base for the terrorist group’s military wing.
“In 2015, he helped build a marina for the use of the military arm of Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip, using UNDP resources,” the Shin Bet said.
The UN, however, claimed that the marina project had been directed by the Palestinian Authority, and not Hamas.
Bossh’s case came on the heels of another high-profile arrest of an international aid worker, Muhammad Halabi, head of operations for the World Vision charity.
Palestinian construction laborers work on a water well at a Saudi Arabia-funded housing project executed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, August 9, 2016. (AFP/Said Khatib)
According to the Shin Bet, Halabi helped funnel millions of dollars to Hamas over the years, as well as providing the group with resources and building material.
In light of the allegations against the humanitarian aid groups, Danon called for the United Nations and other organizations to bring in additional oversight for the funding that reaches the Gaza Strip to ensure that it reaches the residents who need it — and not terrorist groups.
“The UN and other organizations must implement a comprehensive reform of the humanitarian aid mechanism in Gaza,” Danon said in his statement Thursday.
“Any dollar spent, and any local hire by an international organization, must be monitored ensure they fulfill the purpose of aiding the residents of Gaza and not fund terror activities.”
Biden Gushes to Erdoğan That American People ‘Stand in Awe’ of Turkish ‘Courage’
August 25, 2016Biden Gushes to Erdoğan That American People ‘Stand in Awe’ of Turkish ‘Courage’ PJ Media, Bridget Johnson, August 25, 2016
(Erdogan’s Turkey is a transparently great “democracy” where some have human rights; Obama must be envious. — DM)
Vice President Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands after a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, on Aug. 24, 2016. (Kayhan Ozer, Presidential Press Service Pool via AP)
Standing at the side of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during an Ankara press conference today, Vice President Joe Biden tried to soothe relations with the Islamist government by slamming last month’s coup attempt as “a violent betrayal by a small group of folks who were sworn to defend the very people that they say they care and love.”
“The attempted coup went to the heart of who your people are — principled, courageous and committed. And for a people who have struggled so long to establish a true democracy, this was, from my perspective and the president’s perspective, the ultimate affront. So my heart goes out to not just the government, but to the Turkish people,” Biden said.
Biden added it’s “hard for Americans to picture the possibility” of the military trying to overthrow the U.S. government “when they thought the president was on vacation with his family.”
The vice president toured damage to Turkey’s parliament left from the coup attempt.
“I can understand, Mr. President, how some of your countrymen would feel that the world didn’t respond to the existential crisis your country was facing rapidly enough, or with the appropriate amount of solidarity and compassion and empathy,” he continued. “And that’s why, Mr. President — you’ve known me for a while — that’s why I wanted to personally be here, and was asked by the President to personally be here to represent, to tell you and all of your colleagues and your countrymen how very, very, very sorry I am, the president is, the American people are for the suffering and loss you have endured.”
Biden added that “the American people also stand in awe of the way your countrymen respond to the way you respond personally — going on the Internet through, my guess is on Facebook — I’m not sure which vehicle you used — with a portable — or with a cellphone, telling your people to rise up, take back the street, do not let these terrorists, which is what they ended up being, steal their patronage, their — who they are.”
Erdoğan used Facetime during the coup attempt, filming from an unknown location, telling Turks to get into the streets and oppose the coup.
Erdoğan’s purge since the coup attempt has included basically any secular opponent to his Islamist government: more than 40,000 people have been rounded up, from soldiers to jurists to bankers and even teachers and a comedian. Human rights groups have charged that the rule of law has gone out the window as detainees have been kept in makeshift facilities without proper access to legal representation and suffering beatings, rapes and starvation. Erdoğan has also intensified his battle against the free press.
He has also demanded that the U.S. government extradite Fethullah Gülen, a onetime ally of Erdoğan turned opponent who lives in Saylorsburg, Pa.
A senior administration official told reporters this week that Turkey has filed four extradition requests, but none of the charges are coup-related.
“I personally, the president personally, the American people stand in awe of the courage of your people,” Biden gushed during the press conference. “And we understand, Mr. President, the sensitivities the Turkish people feel about international security. That’s why the United States is committed to doing everything we can to help bring justice for all those responsible for this coup attempt while adhering to the rule of law.”
On the extradition request, Biden said he knows “of no other case where as much time is being spent to make sure we find enough data to meet a court standing.”
“I suspect it’s hard for people to understand that as powerful as my country is, as powerful as Barack Obama is as president, he has no authority under our Constitution to extradite anyone. Only a federal court can do that. Nobody else can do that. If the president were to take this into his own hands, what would happen would be he would be impeached for violating the separation of powers,” he added.
Erdoğan said he and Biden “had the opportunity to discuss this failed coup at every extent possible,” once again calling Gülen’s progressive Islam movement a “terrorist organization” and stressing that Gülen “needs to be extradited to Turkey as soon as possible.”
He also demanded that U.S. authorities arrest and detain Gülen and his associates while considering the extradition request, and “I’m confident that the United States will take the necessary measures to cater to our expectations in that regard.”
Erdoğan also snapped at a reporter for using the term Islamic State during a question. “The Islamic State cannot be associated with terrorism. Daesh is a terrorist organization,” he said, using the pejorative Arabic acronym for ISIS. “They are terrorists. Islam is a derivative of the word ‘peace,’ or the prefix ‘peace’ stands for Islam, which is a derivative of Islam. A member of the Islamic faith can never engage in these massacres, in this carnage.”
Why Is it So Hard to Condemn The Indoctrination of Children for Jihad?
August 25, 2016Why Is it So Hard to Condemn The Indoctrination of Children for Jihad? Counter Jihad, Bruce Cornibe, August 25, 2016
(Hamas and Fatah have their “fair” share of them too. — DM)
The news lately seems to be full of cases of children influenced by jihad: the boy in Kirkuk who was wearing a belt laced with explosive material in an apparent suicide bombing effort, the likely ISIS video of a little girl threatening violence while beheading a toy doll, etc.
One doesn’t have to focus on the Islamic State or the Middle East in general to see children being used to further this jihadist agenda – it’s taking place even in the West and it has been happening for years. We saw a perfect example of this back in 2012 from a conference supposedly hosted by Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia – an eight-year-old girl named Ruqaya called upon other Muslim youth to reestablish the Caliphate. Allegedly speaking in front of a crowd of 600 individuals, Ruqaya announced:
“My dear brothers and sisters in Islam, as the world gathers against the believers in Syria … seeking to hijack our sincere and blessed uprisings, children in Sydney would like to send their message of hope and support to the Muslims of (Syria), especially to the children and mothers,” she read from notes. “These uprisings have demonstrated that this umma (global Muslim community) is alive and well, her love is for jihad, she is unshackled herself from the fear which she held, and she yearns to once again live under the banner of (the Islamic state).
“Children as young as myself can be seen on the streets joining the uprisings, risking their lives to bring food, water and medicine to their wounded family members, some of them never returning to their mothers … Nobody is too young,” she said.
Or a couple of years ago when it was discovered how an Ontario mosque was having children simulate beheadings in their play. When is the West going to wake up and learn that these are not random occurrences but a systematic attempt within radical Islam to wage jihad at all costs. It’s hard to imagine a more diabolical way for jihadists to “cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve[,]” than to have innocent children involved in committing violent acts. Furthermore, to the radical Muslim, “War is deceit[,]” thus unexpected child soldiers provide a strategic advantage. It’s time for Muslims and non-Muslims alike to speak out against this corruption of the youth before we lose the next generation.
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August 25, 2016Why Obama Turned His Back on the “Green Revolution” in Iran
August 25, 2016Why Obama Turned His Back on the “Green Revolution” in Iran, Power Line,
Most readers, I’m pretty sure, recall that in the summer of 2009, after the dubious election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranians began an uprising. They hoped for support of some kind from the United States. That that support didn’t come.
Instead, as Eli Lake reminds us, President Obama publicly downplayed the prospect of real change, saying that the candidates whom hundreds of thousands of Iranians were risking their lives to support did not represent fundamental change.
Contrast that with his laughable claim that the election of the puppet Rouhani years later showed that Iran had changed to the point where we should end sanctions as part of a nuclear deal.
Behind the scenes, Obama overruled advisers who wanted to do what America had done at similar transitions from dictatorship to democracy, and signal America’s support. He ordered the CIA to sever contacts it had with the green movement’s supporters — this according to a new book, The Iran Wars, by the Wall Street Journal’s Jay Solomon, which Lake discusses.
Obama’s approach to Iran’s “green revolution” stands in marked contrast to how the U.S. has reacted to other democratic uprisings. Lakes points out:
The State Department, for example, ran a program in 2000 through the U.S. embassy in Hungary to train Serbian activists in nonviolent resistance against their dictator, Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic, too, accused his opposition of being pawns of the U.S. government. But in the end his people forced the dictator from power.
Similarly, when Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze met with popular protests in 2003 after rigged elections, George W. Bush dispatched James Baker to urge him to step down peacefully, which he did. Even the Obama administration provided diplomatic and moral support for popular uprisings in Egypt in 2011 and Ukraine in 2014.
Egypt’s Mubarak was America’s staunchest ally in the Middle East other than Israel. Iran was (and is) our biggest enemy. Yet, Obama supported the overthrow of Mubarak but not the mullahs.
It has been clear to me for years that Obama failed to back the green revolution because he wanted to negotiate with the Iranian regime. Lake thinks so too:
Obama from the beginning of his presidency tried to turn the country’s ruling clerics from foes to friends. It was an obsession. And even though the president would impose severe sanctions on the country’s economy at the end of his first term and beginning of his second, from the start of his presidency, Obama made it clear the U.S. did not seek regime change for Iran.
(Emphasis added)
How much of an obsession?
As Solomon reports, Obama ended U.S. programs to document Iranian human rights abuses. He wrote personal letters to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei assuring him the U.S. was not trying to overthrow him. Obama repeatedly stressed his respect for the regime in his statements marking Iran’s annual Nowruz celebration.
Obama’s obsession with dealing with the mullahs seems to have spilled over into his feckless Syria policy:
When he walked away from his red line against Syria’s use of chemical weapons in 2013, Solomon reports, both U.S. and Iranian officials had told him that nuclear negotiations would be halted if he intervened against Bashar al-Assad.
This was only the beginning of Obama’s disregard for his own red lines. As nuclear negotiations proceeded, the president and his Secretary of State demolished one red line after another. Lake provides the details, most of which we presented at or around the time of the deal.
What is the outcome?
“The Revolutionary Guard continues to develop increasingly sophisticated weapons systems, including ballistic missiles inscribed with threats against Israel on their nose cones,” Solomon writes in the book’s concluding chapter. “Khamenei and other revolutionary leaders, meanwhile, fine-tune their rhetorical attacks against the United States, seeming to need the American threat to justify their existence.”
Iran is also a key player in Iraq and Syria. It is the leading power in the Middle East and might well become the dominant one.
Would things have gone differently is the U.S. had backed the 2009 uprising? We’ll never know. Regime change might well have been a long shot, but its rewards would have been massive.
And the risk? Negligible, even if one likes the nuclear deal.
There’s no reason to believe that, in 2015, Iran would have turned down the super-generous nuclear deal Obama offered because of America’s stance in 2009. Either the deal is in Iran’s interests or it isn’t. If it is, the mullahs were always going to snap it up.
It is and they did — unfortunately for the U.S. and the Middle East.
RIGHT ANGLE: The Obama Legacy
August 25, 2016RIGHT ANGLE: The Obama Legacy via YouTube, August 24, 2016
916 Illegals From Terror-Linked Countries Apprehended Since 2014
August 25, 2016916 Illegals From Terror-Linked Countries Apprehended Since 2014, Breitbart, Edwin Mora, August 25, 2016
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U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended at least 916 illegal immigrants from countries linked to terrorism trying to sneak into the United States across the Southwest border in 2014 and 2015, according to a Breitbart News tally gleaned from federal datareleased under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
During that period, nearly 370 may have successfully entered the United States, according to U.S. government estimate of “gotaways.”
The number of illegals from terror-linked countries, officially known as Special Interest Aliens (SIAs), arrested along the U.S.-Mexico border has nearly doubled to 462 in 2015 alone, from 255 in 2011, the last year for which the government released data without a FOIA request.
Although thousands of illegals have been apprehended recently at the Southwest border from nearly all countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, only a portion of them are from nations that have been officially linked to terrorism.
At least 867 of the 916 terror-linked illegals who were detained at the U.S.-Mexico border over the last two years are from in and around countries where the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has launched attacks and carried out recruitment operations, including:
Afghanistan (4); Pakistan (65); Egypt (15); Bangladesh (579); Iraq (11); Iran (11); Jordan (5); Turkey (80); Saudi Arabia (25); United Arab Emirates (1); Lebanon (3); Kuwait (6); Somalia (4); Turkmenistan (1); Tajikistan (4); Uzbekistan (7); Philippines (44); and Yemen (2).
The U.S. military warned that there are networks in Latin American that specialize in smuggling in illegals from countries affiliated with terrorism. Moreover, the military has sounded the alarm on jihadi operations in the region carried out by ISIS and the Shiite Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy.
Breitbart News analyzed records for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 released by the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency in response to various FOIA requests. CBP is a component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (CBP). The U.S. Border Patrol is an arm of CBP.
The FOIA documents reveal that on average, for nearly every 10 attempted illegal crossings at the U.S. Mexico border, about four people actually got through in 2013, the latest year for which data of successful entries, or “getaways,” has been made public.
Bases on those figures, Breitbart News estimates that nearly 370 illegal migrants from terror-linked countries may have successfully entered the United States in 2014 (182) and 2015 (189).
It is unclear how many of the SIAs were released into U.S. communities during immigration proceedings.
However, a government estimate released in 2006 reveals that nearly half of the terror-linked aliens who are apprehended are subsequently released into U.S. communities. Nearly 85 percent were projected to abscond upon being released.
In 2015 alone, the U.S. government apprehended at least 480 illegals from terror-linked countries in between official ports of entry at or near the Southwest (462), Northern (10), and Coastal (8) borders.
The figures available for the Northern and Coastal borders only cover migrants arrested during four months of 2015 (June 1 thru Sept. 30), which means the overall apprehension figure could be much larger.
In 2014, U.S. border authorities detained 454 migrants from terror-linked countries along the U.S.-Mexico border alone. There was no data available for apprehensions at the other borders.
Illegals from terror-linked countries are officially known as Special Interest Aliens (SIAs). They come from 34 countries located in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa as well as the territories of West Bank and Gaza.
The FOIA records did not include the number of illegals from those territories. However, the data does show that there were four from Israel detained at the Southwest border in 2014 and 16 the following year.
Moreover, at least three from Israel were arrested at the Northern (2) and Coastal (1) borders during part of 2015. The migrants from Israel are not included in Breitbart News’ count of SIAs.
Most Special Interest Aliens apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border during 2014 (284) and 2015 (295) are from Bangladesh. The majority are males between 20 and 50 years old apprehended in Texas.
The U.S. government has been hesitant to release SIAs apprehension data. The last time those figures were made public was in 2011.
Leaked documents obtained by Breitbart Texas revealed information for 2014, the latest figures available until this report.
The data obtained by Breitbart Texas shows that at least 474 migrants from terror-linked countries were detained at all U.S. borders during most of 2014.
Of those, at least 454 were arrested at the U.S.-Mexico Border alone, according to Breitbart News Analysis.
While the number of SIAs apprehensions along the Southwest border have surged, those near or at the Northern and Coastal borders appear to have dramatically declined since 2011.
According to the latest assessment using a metric that was dropped by the Obama administration, federal authorities controlled less than half of the nearly 2,000-mile long Southwest border and about 2 percent of the estimated 4,000-mile long Northern border as of 2010.
The data extracted from the FOIA records show the following number of SIAs primarily apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border over the last two years: (The columns are the same in the original Breitbart article. — DM)
2014 2015 Coastal Northern
Afghanistan 4
Algeria 1 1
Bahrain
Bangladesh 284 295 1
Djibouti
Egypt 15 2
Eritrea 6 4
Indonesia 5 1
Iran 2 9 1
Iraq 4 7
Jordan 3 2 1 1
Kazakhstan 1 1
Kuwait 3 3 1
Lebanon 2 1 1
Libya
Malaysia 2
Mauritania
Morocco 2 1
Oman
Pakistan 17 48 1
Philippines 28 16 1
Qatar 1
Saudi Arabia 16 9 1
Somalia 3 1 1
Sudan 1
Syria 5 5
Tajikistan 1 3
Thailand 8 5
Tunisia 1
Turkey 43 37 3
Turkmenistan 1 1
UAE 1
Uzbekistan 2 5
Yemen 2Totals: 454 462 8 10
Truck driver battling with illegal immigrants
August 25, 2016
Published on Aug 21, 2016
On his way to the ferry Calais – Dover this angry truck driver can experience criminal immigrants are trying to enter and hide inside trucks to pass the border. They even breaking seals to open the trailer.
H/T E.J.Bron
White House: Enough with the Clinton investigations
August 25, 2016White House: Enough with the Clinton investigations, Washington Examiner,
The White House on Wednesday defended the FBI’s decision not to bring charges against Hillary Clinton, even in the face of new evidence that she gave Clinton Foundation donors special access while secretary of state.
Asked if a special prosecutor is needed to investigate Clinton’s alleged conflicts of interest while serving as the nation’s top diplomat, White House press secretary Earnest argued that there have been plenty of investigations into Clinton’s tenure already.
“It’s hard for anybody to make a persuasive case that there hasn’t been enough investigating,” Earnest told reporters Wednesday, noting months of probing by the FBI and numerous investigations by Republicans in Congress.
Earnest defended the FBI investigations by calling them “thorough, professional” and “unfettered by politics even in this highly charged political atmosphere.”
“I can tell you that President Obama and the administration have complete confidence in the independent prosecutors and the FBI who devoted significant time investigating Clinton’s email practices,” he said.
“I don’t think anybody would question the political independence of someone like [FBI Director] James Comey,” he said, noting that Comey had served in the Bush administration as well.
The Associated Press on Tuesday reported that more than half of the people outside the government who met with Clinton while she was secretary of state were donors to the Clinton Foundation, and said it was an “extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.”
The Clinton campaign and her supporters have argued that the Clinton Foundation has 7,000 donors, and that the meetings with 60 of them amount to less than 1 percent of the total number.
Brad Woodhouse and the liberal group Correct the Record say the total number of meetings the AP used excluded those with U.S. federal employees or foreign government representatives, and the meetings the AP examined included only the first half of Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.
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