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War News Updates • Fri 2016 Mar 25, 10:20pm

A Russian Special Operations Forces officer reportedly called a strike onto himself when he was compromised and surrounded by ISIS militants near Palmyra, where a fierce battle between the Syrian army and terrorists is in full swing. … “The officer died as a hero, calling a strike onto himself after he was compromised and surrounded by terrorists…”

Tom Morgan, Telegraph (UK) • Fri 2016 Mar 25, 8:22pm

A popular shopkeeper was stabbed to death by another Muslim in a "religiously prejudiced" attack hours after posting an Easter message on Facebook… Asad Shah, 40, a devout Muslim originally from the Pakistani city of Rabwah… wrote online: "Good Friday and a very Happy Easter, especially to my beloved Christian nation. "Let's follow the real footstep of beloved holy Jesus Christ and get the real success in both worlds."…

Which one was the true face of Islam? God help this world.
Yaron Steinbuch, NY Post • Fri 2016 Mar 25, 1:04pm

Belgian police shot and wounded a man carrying an explosives-laden suitcase in the Brussels neighborhood of Schaerbeek on Friday – hours after seven suspects were rounded up in connection with the terror attacks.…

Michelle Jesse, AllenBWest.com • Thu 2016 Mar 24, 11:51pm

…"I categorically reject the view of Democrats that the police are the bad guys. And people are fed up with this notion that every time there is an incident, Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or Bill de Blasio side with the criminals, the looters, with the thugs, rather than the brave men and women of blue.
I’m proud to stand with the police!"…

Dan Simmons • Wed 2016 Mar 23, 2:43pm

The Time Traveler appeared suddenly in my study on New Year’s Eve, 2004.…

Reflectionis on the ongoing and future contest between civilization and the opposite of civilization, in science-fiction form.
Fox News • Tue 2016 Mar 22, 9:26am

As many as 31 people were killed and more than 180 injured as coordinated terrorist bombings rocked the Brussels airport and subway system during rush hour Tuesday morning in the Belgian capital.

Two bombings at Zaventem Airport, where 11 people were reportedly killed, and another at the metro station in the Maelbeek section near the European Union headquarters, where the mayor's office said 20 were killed, were almost immediately confirmed as terrorism. The attack at the airport was reportedly accompanied by shouts in Arabic and gunfire, and an unexploded suicide belt was reportedly found in the aftermath.…

Marcus T, Ace of Spades • Tue 2016 Mar 22, 9:18am

I've got a LE friend on the ground in Brussels. He just sent me pictures of the airport and the Metro car. It's bad, really, bad. At least 24 dead and close to 100 injured with many grievous injuries. Both locations were suicide bombers, multiple at the airport.

The Metro explosion was from inside a crowded car with a crowded platform. The car was destroyed from the inside out..…

A commenter on Ace
Noam Rotenberg, Jerusalem Post • Sun 2016 Mar 20, 7:30pm

Hamas operatives are afraid to enter underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip fearing they will collapse, … some of the operatives digging the tunnels believe Israel was involved in at least some of the recent tunnel collapses that claimed the lives of several Hamas men. …

That hoodoo that they do - working one way or the other.
Padres Seleh, Daily Wire • Sat 2016 Mar 19, 9:46pm

st month, Facebook censored a woman for criticizing gender-neutral locker rooms on her page, “Keep Locker Rooms Safe.” Now, the social media site has decided to shut her page down completely.

Autumn Bennett, the administrator of the page advocating for safety and privacy in locker rooms through sex-assigned bathrooms, told The Daily Wire the threats she has been receiving since the incident have gotten increasingly more aggressive.…

Fox News / AP • Thu 2016 Mar 17, 2:33pm

Secretary of State John Kerry declared Thursday that the Islamic State is committing genocide against Christians and other minorities in the Middle East, after facing heavy pressure from lawmakers and rights groups to make the rare designation.… Kerry's finding will not obligate the United States to take additional action against ISIS militants and does not prejudge any prosecution against its members…

Raymond Ibrahim, Gatestone Institute • Thu 2016 Mar 17, 12:34pm

According to the Obama administration, the Islamic State is committing genocide against certain religious minority groups — excluding Christian minorities. But ISIS is on record saying that its eradication of Christians is due to their religious identity.…

Akbar, Robinson, Martin, Drury, Mail (UK) • Fri 2016 Mar 11, 5:52pm

ISIS may have deliberately released personal information about 22,000 of its fighters in a desperate attempt to stop them from leaving, a respected counter-terrorism expert has said.…

Arthur Martin, Ian Drury, Martin Robinson, Mail (UK) • Thu 2016 Mar 10, 10:42pm

ISIS staff list is LEAKED: Names and family details of 22,000 jihadis revealed in cache of application forms complete with references (and next of kin) Former MI6 director said files could be the 'biggest breakthrough in years'…

Irish Examiner • Thu 2016 Mar 10, 10:37pm

His band were unwittingly at the centre of one of the bloodiest massacres to happen on European soil in a century.

Now, almost four months after 89 people were killed by Islamic extremists at their concert, Eagles of Death Metal singer Jesse Hughes has expressed suspicion about security at the event.

Speaking to Fox Business Network, he suggested that around six guards at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris “had a reason” not to show up for work on the night of the attack.
He refused to elaborate any further out of “respect” for the police inquiry, but said he had already been concerned about staff at the venue.…

War News Updates • Wed 2016 Mar 9, 10:24pm

…chemical weapons expert for the Islamic State told investigators that the terror group has weaponized mustard gas into powder form and had planned to use the lethal substance against opponents in Iraq and Syria. …chemical weapons expert — described by Pentagon officials as a “significant” operative… was captured last month by U.S. special forces and has been providing interrogators with details regarding the group’s plans…

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Bill, Weasel Zippers • Wed 2016 Mar 9, 10:22pm

Israeli ‘Tool’ Fan Rushes Palestinian Who Shot Pregnant Woman, Knocks Him Nearly Unconscious With A Guitar…

BareNakedIslam • Tue 2016 Mar 8, 9:50pm

ISRAEL: Palestinian Muslim stabbing rampage kills at least one American tourist and wounds 10 others in Jaffa

The Muslim terrorist was finally killed by police. A Russian tourist and pregnant woman were among those seriously injured, and are currently being treated in Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital. Unconfirmed reports are now saying that a second person has died.…

Airline.ee • Tue 2016 Mar 8, 8:39pm

A JetBlue Airways flight attendant reportedly called the police right after landing at Los Angeles, as she didn’t appreciate being stared at by two Muslim female passengers. …Saturday evening, on JetBlue Airways flight B6487 which departed from Boston… and landed at Los Angeles International Airport… … one of the crew members thought that two women were recording a security procedure. …when the plane landed, authorities escorted the women off the plane and questioned them. The women explained that they were using a language translation app on their phone, and were released. …

Raymond Ibrahim, Front Page • Mon 2016 Mar 7, 8:35pm

…2015 was the “worst year in modern history for Christian persecution.” … 82 percent of the world’s persecution of Christians is being committed by Muslims… The difference between Muslim and non-Muslim persecution (e.g., communist) of Christians is that the latter is often rooted in a particular regime. Conversely, Muslim persecution of Christians is perennial, existential, and far transcends this or that regime or ruler. It is part and parcel of the history, doctrines, and socio-political makeup of Islam—hence its tenacity; hence its ubiquity.…

Bob Price, Breitbart • Thu 2016 Mar 3, 7:21pm

A police officer from Euless, Texas, was shot and killed on Tuesday while responding to a shot-fired call. He and another officer were ambushed by the suspect. The second officer was able to return fire, striking the suspect.

Police Officer David Hofer, 29, was killed by a man who had just burglarized a home and had stolen several guns. The [meth-head] suspect apparently fired several shots in the air and then hid in a ditch located in a park while he waited for police to arrive.…

Hofer had moved to Texas with his girlfriend, Danylyk, because he felt it would be safer than being an NYPD cop.…

War News Updates • Thu 2016 Mar 3, 7:14pm

North Korea fired several short-range projectiles into the sea on Thursday, hours after the U.N. Security Council voted to impose tough new sanctions on the isolated state and the South Korean president vowed to end Pyongyang's "tyranny."…

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Frances Martel, Breitbart • Thu 2016 Mar 3, 7:05pm

Anonymous Nigerian soldiers have told media outlets that a group of Boko Haram terrorists and their hostages, numbering 76 people, have surrendered to the military in northeast Borno state. The terrorists surfaced from the forests in which they were hiding “begging for food…” occurred in the town of Gwoza, previously the scene of a Boko Haram massacre… terrorists allegedly told soldiers that there were many like themselves hiding in Borno state’s Sambisa forest, home base for the Islamic State-affiliated terror organization, hoping to surrender in exchange for being fed.…

Frances Martel, Breitbart • Tue 2016 Mar 1, 8:53pm

The government of Cameroon announced this weekend that it had waged a siege on the town of Kumshe [a Boko Haram stronghold] alongside Nigerian forces, killing dozens of Boko Haram terrorists and liberating up to 850 hostages.…

Jerusalem Post • Sun 2016 Feb 28, 8:48pm

Sunday… at least five members of Hamas’ military wing were injured when a tunnel they were in collapsed underneath the Gaza Strip… fifth time in recent weeks that a tunnel built by Islamist forces in the Gaza Strip crumbled.…

Oh, the irony! Or something.
Lee Stranahan, Breitbart • Sun 2016 Feb 28, 8:40pm

Dozens of police officers in riot gear faced off against an angry crowd in downtown Salt Lake City late Saturday night, after police shot a black teenager who was attacking a man with a broomstick near a homeless shelter.…

So, mob upset that man beating another man was stopped by cops.
Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D., Breitbart • Sat 2016 Feb 27, 8:34pm

A bakery owned by a Christian family in Longview, Texas is being deluged with threats and hate mail after the owners declined to bake a wedding cake for a gay marriage.… The bakery won’t make any tobacco- or alcohol-related cakes, for example, and no “risqué” cakes of any kind.… does not mean that they will not serve gay customers, but merely that they will not make a cake celebrating a ceremony they believe is sinful.…

Blazing Cat Fur • Fri 2016 Feb 26, 9:16am

A new report offers some startling statistics on the devastation wrought by Muslims on the Christian population in Nigeria, with 11,500 Christians killed, a million displaced and 13,000 churches destroyed or shut down in the last 15 years. …

Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs • Fri 2016 Feb 19, 6:14pm

*LIVE* MIGRATION CRISIS COVERAGE
Great American Hero Who Saved Hundreds of Lives at Garland Texas Free Speech Muhammad Event Named
ByPAMELA GELLER on February 18, 2016
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Jurors at the trial of the third jihadi accused of helping plan an attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas were shown evidence Thursday found in the aftermath of the gunfire, including two ISIS flags.

Other items recovered from the scene of the May 3 attack in Garland, Texas, included three assault rifles, three pistols, bulletproof vests, a large supply of ammunition and a book titled, “Fortress of the Muslim.”

But the most significant piece of information to come out of the trial today was the name of the Texas hero who saved hundreds of lives: Garland Officer Gregory Stevens.…

Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs • Thu 2016 Feb 18, 7:41pm

…The owner of a Columbus, Ohio restaurant targeted last week in a machete attack — which the FBI is investigating as terror — says he will be closing the store and moving back to Israel, local media is reporting.

Hany Baransi, who has operated stores in the Columbus area for years, including the Nazareth Restaurant and Deli, is saying that he lives in fear after the attack…

The store reopened on Monday with many from the community crowding the restaurant and even some of the victims returning to show their support…

War News Updates • Thu 2016 Feb 18, 7:19pm

…South Korean officials warned that Kim Jong Un asked his military officials and intelligence agents to boost preparations for launching terror attacks in South Korea…

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