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Dementia is not a foreign policy. Watching Joe Biden’s Afghan performance is like imagining Captain Queeg as Chief of Naval Operations. Both have lost their bearings, except that Queeg was a fictional character in the iconic war movie “The Caine Mutiny” and Biden is actually commander-in-chief as he throws away 20 years of sacrifice in blood and treasure for nothing, creating a terrorist state armed with America’s best weapons, with our mortal enemies China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea chomping at the bit in anticipation of the strategic consequences of Biden’s incompetence. Biden is a perfect storm of incompetence, incoherence,...

Al-Qaeda joined the Taliban in the group’s offensive on the Panjshir valley on Thursday, Ahmad Massoud’s forces say, according to Al Arabiya sources. Both sides have suffered casualties during fighting in recent days as the hardline group that has seized most of the country attempts to take the last pocket of resistance to its rule. Militiamen and remnants of the previous Afghan government gathered in the Panjshir valley after the fall of Kabul on August 15. The mountainous region is home to Ahmad Massoud, son of commander Ahmad Shah Massoud – a significant figure in resisting the 1979-89 soviet occupation....

Our Defeat In Afghanistan Is Only The Beginning As the post-9/11 chapter closes, a new one begins, marked above all by the end of American deterrence and the eclipse of American power.Our total defeat and ignominious, disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan, after 20 years of war and nation-building, closes a chapter on post-9/11 America — and opens another.What comes next is to some extent uncertain, but you don’t need to be a grand strategist to see the broad outlines of what is already taking shape.First and most obvious, Afghanistan will revert to being a terrorist haven. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,...

As resident Joe Biden's propagandists wage a rearguard political war of lies and narrative distortion, al-Qaida has begun exploiting his administration's on-the-ground Afghanistan disaster. The administration's lies, spin and evasions are as morally dreadful as they are pathetically transparent. Jen Psaki's jaw-dropping Aug. 23 "Americans aren't stranded" denial already ranks high among all-time White House double head-slappers. Psaki employed a totalitarian rhetorical trick of the ilk George Orwell condemned. To avoid answering a fair but critical question, she attacked the reporter for using the word "stranded." Then, she redefined the word to mean something it does not, arguing citizens who...

Appearing Thursday on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront, Obama Defense Secretary Leon Panetta judged that the U.S. military will have to return to Afghanistan to confront ISIS despite President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. forces from the war-torn country after 20 years of war. (Watch from: 14:55) A transcript is as follows: ERIN BURNETT: So [Biden] is sticking with the August 31st deadline. He’s made it clear that even after that they’ll do whatever they can, but he’s sticking with it. He is not extending it and that it “is what it is,” is what he says. Do you agree with...

Pentagon spokesman would not estimate how al Qaeda are there but said the number is not 'exorbitantly high' The Pentagon appeared to backtrack on President Biden’s implication that al Qaeda was "gone" from Afghanistan and admitted the terror group still has a "presence" in the region. BIDEN DEFENDS HANDLING OF BOTCHED AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL, SAYS CAN'T GUARANTEE OUTCOME "Let’s put this into perspective here," Biden said during a press conference Friday defending the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. "What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point with al Qaeda gone?" Roughly an hour later, Fox News National Security Correspondent...

Osama bin Laden banned al Qaeda from assassinating Joe Biden because the Democrat would make an incompetent president and 'lead the US into a crisis'. Bin Laden made the remark in a 2010 letter that was found in a trove of documents at the Pakistan compound where he was killed by US special forces in 2011. The document was first made public in 2012 but has been brought back to light and given new significance amid the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan that has gifted the country back to the Taliban.

There are images that mark us for life, no matter how hard we try to clean them away. I have never been able to let go of the sight of two hundred or so Americans falling to their deaths from the top floors of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in order to escape the fire and thousand-degree heat consuming those who remained. Of all the carnage unleashed by Islamic terrorists against the United States on September 11, 2001, their murders most haunt me. Strangers became family as they fell through the sky holding hands. Solitary jumpers gripped...

After fifteen years of constant war in Afghanistan, President Trump believed it was time to try our best to end it. He believed that the goal of extending our involvement beyond punishment for the 9-11 attacks into the concept of nation-building was wrong from the start, and we needed to wind down our presence and depart. He was in fact elected, in 2016, in large part, upon this philosophy - of maintaining a powerful military that is used sparingly (rather than a weaker military, stretched too thin through global meddling). Even so, President Trump did not take office in January...

ISIS is “evolving into a new beast” in order to strike the West, a Brit who fought the terrorist group has warned. Macer Gifford chucked in his job as a currency trader in the City in 2015 and went to Syria to fight the Islamist extremists alongside Kurdish forces. He warned that despite the collapse of the Caliphate and the loss of almost all its territory ISIS still posed “as much of a threat today” as they went about recruiting fighters. His chilling warning comes as fanatics attempt to build a new Caliphate in Africa. Gifford told Express.co.uk: “I certainly...

The imminent fall of Afghanistan is more than a national disaster. It is not just that the gains made in the past two decades, at the cost of tens of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars, look certain to be reversed as the Taliban advances. The Taliban’s victory is also al-Qaeda’s victory, and it has global implications. Even before the US military completes the final steps of its troop withdrawal, the Taliban are surging. They are now reported to control 212 districts – more than half of Afghanistan’s 407 districts. This is triple the territory it controlled on May...

More than 300 Afghan soldiers have crossed into Tajikistan as the Taliban captured more territory in northern Afghanistan, the Tajik Border Service said on July 3. The retreat is the third time in two weeks that Afghan soldiers have fled into Tajikistan, after the militants took control of several border areas and seized Afghanistan's main border crossing with Tajikistan in June. The Tajik Border Service said the situation became "complicated" after several villages and a border post in the northwestern part of Afghanistan’s Badakhshan Province fell to the Taliban, forcing more than 300 Afghan soldiers to flee into Tajikistan's Shamsiddin...

Biggest risk to the United States: Isis? Al Qaeda? Russia? China? Nope. It's—you guessed it—Donald Trump . . . if you believe MSNBC. On Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show this afternoon, ex-FBI agent-turned-liberal-commentator Clint Watts, reacting to Wallace's breathless build-up about the Trump reinstatement theory, claimed: "The biggest risk to the country isn’t actually from outside the country. It’s not even necessarily from inside the country, but from the last person that was inside the White House."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Here in Pennsylvania the indoor mask order still in force for the unvaccinated but Democrat Governor Tom Wolf did choose today to lift all other coronavirus restrictions on restaurants. But restaurant owners say other issues on the table including rising food prices and supply shortages along with the shortage of labor place obstacles in their way... Russia's Tass news agency reporting that British Intelligence (MI 6) is working to rebrand Al Qaeda terrorists operating in Syria (An Nusra) as friends of the West... Denmark's military intelligence service helped the US National Security Agency to spy on top leaders of four...

Why settle for helping Iran nuke America, when you can also help Al Qaeda nuke America? With inflation rising almost as fast as gas prices and the cost of a home, Joe Biden ain’t doing much for most Americans. But if you’re an Al Qaeda terrorist, he’s got your back. Just ask three of Gitmo’s finest who are benefiting from Biden’s generosity. Saifullah Paracha (pictured above) was a Pakistani businessman and New York travel agent with some big plans. The Gitmo inmate now being set loose by Biden wanted to “do something big against the US.” 9/11 was in Al...

Military officers in Mali detained the president, prime minister and defence minister of the interim government on Monday, deepening political chaos just months after a military coup ousted the previous president, multiple sources told Reuters. President Bah Ndaw, Prime Minister Moctar Ouane and defence minister Souleymane Doucoure were all taken to a military base in Kati outside the capital Bamako, hours after two members of the military lost their positions in a government reshuffle, the diplomatic and government sources said. Their detentions followed the military ouster in August of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. The development could exacerbate instability in the...

Shortly after Islamists attacked America on 9/11, then-Senator Joe Biden demanded that the United States should send a taxpayer-funded, "no strings attached" gift of $200 million to the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bombshell report has revealed. In the weeks following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Biden reportedly said that "this would be a good time" to hand over a huge chunk of tax dollars to the Iranian regime while America was in mourning.

"It is time to end the forever war." So said President Joe Biden in his announcement that, as of Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, all U.S. troops will be gone from Afghanistan. The longest war in our history, which cost 2,400 dead, 20,000 wounded and $2 trillion, is ending -- but only for Americans, not Afghans. Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured our NATO allies in Brussels that we are all leaving with our mission accomplished: "Together we went into Afghanistan to deal with those who attacked us and to...

Neoconservative House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) has slammed President Joe Biden’s reported plan to remove the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September. “Withdrawing our forces from Afghanistan by September 11 will only embolden the very jihadists who attacked our homeland on that day twenty years ago,” Cheney declared Tuesday in a statement obtained by National Review. “By declaring that this withdrawal is not based on conditions on the ground, the Biden Administration is sending a dangerous signal that the United States fundamentally does not understand—or is willfully ignorant of—the terrorist threat.”

Australian Federal Police arrest Ahmed Talib in Melbourne, March 25, 2021. (Australia Federal Police) Australian who worked with Al Qaeda was also involved with Islamic extremists in the violent 2010 Gaza flotilla incident. By World Israel News Staff A Melbourne man arrested for allegedly recruiting jihadist terrorists and who was involved in the violent Mavi Marmara incident is on the U.S. terror watch list, the Australia/Israel Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) reported on its website. Australia citizens Ahmed Luqman Talib and Gabriel Crazzi were arrested by Australia Federal Police and face numerous charges related to recruiting people and trying to send...