Posted on 02/22/2015 5:59:04 AM PST by KeyLargo
Somali Terrorist Group Targets Western Shopping Malls In Call For Lone Wolf Attacks
By Angelo Young
The al Qaeda branch in Somalia released a video Saturday celebrating the September 2013 attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed 60 people in a four-day siege. In the 66-minute video, unleashed on Twitter in both English and Arabic, al-Shabab called for attacks on specific targets in the U.S., Canada and Britain.
If just a handful of mujahedeen [militant jihadists] fighters could bring Kenya to a complete standstill for nearly a week, just imagine what the dedicated mujahedeen could do in the West to American or Jewish shopping centers across the world, a masked gunman says toward the end of the video. What if such an attack were to occur in the Mall of America in Minnesota? Or the West Edmonton Mall in Canada? Or in London's Oxford Street?
The video raises concern it could help inspire lone-wolf attacks by radicalized individuals in these countries who are teetering on committing violent acts in the name of Allah. Online social media has helped widen the audience for Islamist propaganda despite efforts by Facebook and Twitter to weed out troubling broadcasts.
While social media sites are filled with militant Islamist propaganda calls for violence (such as how to make bombs in your mothers kitchen or praising the usefulness of Honda motorcycles to commit terrorist acts), its unusual for terrorists to be so specific about civilian targets. News of the video was first reported by Bethesda, Maryland, SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors activities of extremist groups.
"The English-speaking narrator in this video sounds remarkably similar to the narrator from past Shabab releases, SITE Director Rita Katz said in a report announcing the news Saturday.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.com ...
And guess what?
The USA will not deport Somali criminals. No matter how many times they get picked up for theft, violence or drugs. Because Somalia "isn't safe."
This despite the fact that Somali "refugees" often return home for visits.
WSJ Opinion
Islamic States Global Ambitions
ISISno longer a regional problemis executing a complex strategy across three geographic rings.
By
Jessica Lewis McFate And
Harleen Gambhir
Updated Feb. 22, 2015
Snip:
“Once focused on recruiting radical Islamists in Europe and elsewhere to join the fight in Iraq and Syria, ISIS now also encourages them to remain at home to recruit others and launch local attacks, such as those in France and Denmark. These attacks are intended to polarize Western societies and deter strikes on the ISIS core ruling stronghold in Iraq and Syria. ISIS believes this polarization will lay the groundwork for an all-out war with the West when the time comes.
In short, ISIS has adapted to the U.S.-led coalition campaign in Iraq and Syria by rapidly building a regional and global network that it can use to recruit and attack. In this way, it may well be able to sustain its global terrorist campaign if it loses terrain in Iraq and Syriaperhaps even if it is driven out of that region.”
Ms. McFate, a former U.S. Army intelligence officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is research director at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, D.C., where Ms. Gambhir is a counterterrorism analyst.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/islamic-states-global-ambitions-1424646205
And the response from the White House:
SUSAN RICE, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER:
“Too often, what’s missing here in Washington is a sense of perspective,” Rice said. “Yes, there is a lot going on. Still, while the dangers we face may be more numerous and varied, they are not of the existential nature of what we confronted during World War II or during the Cold War. We cannot afford to be buffeted by alarmism and a nearly instantaneous new cycle.”
Somali Migrants in Minnesota are a Terror Threat to the Mall of America
February 22, 2015 by Daniel Greenfield
Minnesota has its own Little Mogadishu which, aside from the usual welfare fraud and crime, also hosts supporters of Al-Shabaab.
Even as President Obama launched air strikes Tuesday against the al-Shabab terrorist group in Somalia, a pipeline for potential new Somali terrorists continues to fester right here in the United States.
Its called the Refugee Resettlement Program, and it continues unabated under the leadership of the U.S. St..
Via: Weasel Zippers.
http://weaselzippers.us/
I know. I didn’t mean “you” you, just using the Princess Bride reference.
Patton got his tanks to the 101st Airborne in two (2) days in WWII
Obama cannot even get his lazy ass out of bed before 10am in the morning
Homeland Security
Obamas DHS spent nearly $150M on office furniture and makeovers
By Mary Lou Byrd
Published February 24, 2015
Washington Free Beacon
Funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — which is due to expire at the end of this week unless an agreement in Washington is reached — has continued to rise under President Obama. His administration claims the agency’s increased funding is necessary to protect the homeland, but records show that the DHS has continued to increase its spending on furniture and office makeovers as its budget has been increased.
There terrorists should try attacking a gun shop...with lots of CCW holders in it... they’ll meet their 72 virgins very quickly... (69 camels, 2 young males under 10 and a Nancy Pelosi look alike)
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