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Berkeley Police released mugshots Tuesday of 11 of the 13 persons arrested at Sunday’s violent political riots in the California university town . . . [snip] The average age of the 13 people arrested is 30. Clare Lopez, vice president of research and analysis for the Center for Security Policy, said the mugshots reveal that the people behind the antifa masks were mostly professional agitators, not local college students. “With an average age of 30, those arrested during the violent Berkeley riots of Sunday 27 August do not fit the profile of the average college undergrad,” Lopez told WND. “In fact,...

It's useless to bomb ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria, if we let them march through our airports. Every week brings new reports of Muslims in America flocking to join ISIS. Those who aren’t killed in battle will eventually return to New York, to Los Angeles and to Minneapolis—Saint Paul. And they will stop being Iraq’s problem and become our problem. ISIS is more than just another terrorist group. It is now an Islamic State. Its followers and allied militias pledge to obey the Caliph of ISIS and reject all allegiances to other states and entities. Western ISIS recruits burn...

On Thursday, June 26, I testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, chaired by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz). My topic was “Wahhabism and Islam in the U.S.” I outlined the outrageous degree to which Saudi-funded Wahhabi extremists, who are supporters of terrorism, have come to dominate Islam in the U.S. My testimony was not greeted with enthusiasm by James Zogby, the phony civil rights leader who heads the “Arab American Institute." Zogby, a Lebanese Christian once known for his moderate camouflage on Israel, but now a shameless apologist for the Saudis, immediately fired off a...

LAHORE, Pakistan, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Nine members of one family -- including U.S. and Canadian passport holders -- were arrested during a Pakistan-FBI operation Thursday for alleged links to al Qaida terrorist network, police said. Authorities raided the home of Dr. Javed Ahmad Khawja and arrested him for his alleged links to Osama bin Laden's organization. Also arrested were his two sons, his two brothers, his three nephews and his uncle. Two of the men were naturalized Americans and one was a naturalized Canadian. "All of them are of Pakistani origin," Information Minister Shaikh Rashid Ahmed said. "Police had...