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written by Philip Sherwell, Hannah Strange and Harriet Alexander
Tuesday June 24, 2014
There were dramatic scenes at Khartoum airport on Tuesday as Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman released from prison earlier this week following worldwide protests at her death sentence for apostasy, was detained for several hours while trying to leave the country.
The 27-year-old was held along with her American husband, Daniel Wani, and their two children, Martin, almost two, and Maya, two weeks old.
Their lawyer, Elshareef Ali Mohammed, who was with them at the time, said they were given no reason for their detention, but there were reports late Tuesday night that Ms Ibrahim faces charges of falsifying documents and statements after trying to leave the country via South Sudan for America.
Hardwired was investigating reports that she was being accused of attempting to travel with false paperwork after presenting the documents provided by South Sudan with US assistance.
The group has been told that she was released on bail conditions that would mean that the unnamed person who provided the surety would be charged with the same offences if she left Sudan before the case was resolved.
Sudanese officials told their US counterparts that the family were questioned about their paperwork for several hours but not arrested.
The State Department said that Sudan had assured them of the family’s safety, and that the US was working with the Khartoum government to help them leave the country as soon as possible.
They were initially thought to be planning to fly to South Sudan – the birthplace of Mr Wani and now an independent country – as their paperwork to travel to the US was still being processed.. Ms Ibrahim and her family were taken to the airport in a US vehicle accompanied by American diplomats after South Sudan issued emergency travel paperwork for them. But the security officials at the airport apparently found problems with the documents.
Mr Wani is an American citizen and supporters of the family, backed by the senators from his state of New Hampshire, have urged the US to grant a visa to Ms Ibrahim and citizenship to their two children.
Ms Ibrahim was released from Omdurman women's prison on Monday afternoon after state media announced that the Supreme Court had annulled the sentence. She had spent six months in a jail cell, sentenced to execution by hanging for abandoning Islam, despite her protestations that she was raised a Christian by her Ethiopian Orthodox mother after her Muslim father left.
Accompanied by her two children Ms Ibrahim was taken to a safe house in the Khartoum area on Monday afternoon. In Sudan, which imposes Sharia law, apostasy is a crime punishable by death – and earlier this month Ms Ibrahim’s own brother called for her execution unless she “returned” to Islam.
The May 15 sentence also included 100 lashes for adultery related to her marriage to Mr Wani, a Christian. Sudan (Islamic sharia law) does not recognise marriages between Muslims and non-Muslims.
Some people saw the charges as the result of a family feud – and an attempt by Ms Ibrahim’s family to gain control of her successful small businesses.
The sentencing caused outrage around the world, and led to an international campaign to secure her freedom.
The first photos released after her release show Ms Ibrahim, dressed in a vivid green traditional Sudanese outfit, cradling Maya on her lap.
Next to her, in his wheelchair, sits Mr Wani – an American-Sudanese citizen, who suffers from muscular dystrophy.
On Tuesday morning Al Sudani, a government-owned newspaper with good security sources, reported that the family was expected to leave Sudan within hours.
Last month, we reported on an incursion by Mexican troops in Arizona, who held U.S. agents at gunpoint before being allowed to retreat back into Mexico. Many experts believe that elements of the Mexican army are openly assisting the drug cartels along their smuggling routes into the U.S.
Now comes a new shocking report of dozens of invasions across the border by Mexican troops, who have shot Americans and even landed helicopters on ranchers’ land and held them at gunpoint.
WATCH the stunning report from News 4 Tucson:
So what is the Obama Administration’s response?
Last month Top Right News asked US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske exactly that. His answer?
Kerlikowske admits that the intruders were “confirmed members of the Mexican military” but he asserts that U.S. border officials determined that no further action was necessary involving the matter.
NO FURTHER ACTION necessary….after an invasion?
Like a loyal Obama lapdog Kerlikowske claims military incursions from Mexico are infrequent though he was apparently forced to admit that there were 23 such incidents in the Tucson and Yuma sectors of Arizona since 2010, including three this fiscal year alone.
The Mexican Army is providing cover and escorts for the cartels, under a Pieto administration which has promised to “end” the “bloody war” with those cartels.
So where is Obama? MIA, as with Ukraine, Iran, China and on and on. Weakness is exploited, and it will only get worse.
I have an enormous amount of respect for Dr. Zuhdi Jasser. The freedom loving Muslims I know are like Dr. Zuhdi Jasser and their kind are being murdered by the Islamic sharia practicing Muslims around the world.
Muslim enclaves spread throughout the United States, including Islamberg, are potential hotbeds of terrorist activity. These closed communities take in newly converted ex-convicts to radicalized Islamic values. The new film The Third Jihad: Radical Islam's Vision for America shows just how dangerous these compounds can be if gone unchecked. Get the whole story at www.thethirdjihad.com
The Third Jihad is a film that exposes the threat that Islamic extremism poses to the American way of life. In 1988, the FBI discovered a secret Muslim Brotherhood document which laid out their plans to replace the Constitution with Islamic Sharia law.
The document stated that "The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers..."
One person who dared to speak out about the Islamist threat is Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a devout Muslim-American who served as an officer in the U.S. navy and also as a physician to the US Congress.
After the FBI released the radical Islamist manifesto describing how to destroy America from within, Dr. Jasser decided to investigate.
A Clarion Project investigation has discovered a jihadist enclave in Texas where a deadly shooting took place in 2002. Declassified FBI documents obtained by Clarion confirm the find and show the U.S. government’s concern about its links to terrorism. The investigation was completed with help from ACT! For America Houston.
The enclave belongs to the network of Muslims of the Americas, a radical group linked to a Pakistani militant group called Jamaat ul-Fuqra. Its members are devoted followers of Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, an extremist cleric in Pakistan.
Muslims of the Americas
The organization says it has a network of 22 “villages” around the U.S., with Islamberg as its main headquarters in New York. The Clarion Project obtained secret MOA footage showing female members receiving paramilitary training at Islamberg. It was featured on the Kelly File on FOX News Channel in October. A second MOA tape released by Clarion shows its spokesman declaring the U.S. to be a Muslim-majority country.
A 2007 FBI record states that MOA members have been involved in at least 10 murders, one disappearance, three firebombings, one attempted firebombing, two explosive bombings and one attempted bombing. It states:
“The documented propensity for violence by this organization supports the belief the leadership of the MOA extols membership to pursue a policy of jihad or holy war against individuals or groups it considers enemies of Islam, which includes the U.S. Government. Members of the MOA are encouraged to travel to Pakistan to receive religious and military/terrorist training from Sheikh Gilani.”
The document also says that, "The MOA is now an autonomous organization which possesses an infrastructure capable of planning and mounting terrorist campaigns overseas and within the U.S."
Other FBI reports describe the MOA in similar ways, with a 2003 file stating, “Investigation of the Muslims of the Americas is based on specific and articulate facts giving justification to believe they are engaged in international terrorism…”
MOA members believe the holiest Islamic site in the country is located at their Islamville commune in South Carolina. Other MOA entities include the International Quranic Open University, United Muslim Christian Forum, Islamic Post, Muslim Veterans of America and American Muslim Medical Relief Team.
Terror Enclave: “Mahmoudberg, Texas”
The MOA compound in Texas, described by the FBI as an “enclave” and “communal living site,” is in Brazoria county along County Road 3 near Sweeny. It was discovered by the FBI due to a tip from an informant in New York.
The MOA referred to its Texas commune as “Mahmoudberg” in online instructions for a parade in New York in 2010. A posting on an Islamic message board in 2005 advertised a speaking engagement in Houston by someone from Mahmoudberg.
According to the reports, the commune is seven to 10 acres large, is in an “extremely wooded area” and two or three trailer homes moved there in December 2001. However, ACT members visited the area as part of Clarion’s investigation and interviewed one nearby local who confidently said it is closer to 25 acres in size and spoke of a presence dating back to the late 1980s.
“The area is so rural it is quite common for residents to shoot firearms for target practice or hunting on private property without interference from law enforcement,” one FBI report states.
Locals told the ACT members that they have heard gunfire coming from the commune. Pictures of shells from the area are posted to the right:
The FBI reported in 2007 that one commune resident used to be a leader at the MOA commune in Badger, California. The site was called "Baladullah." In March 2001, one of the Baladullah members was arrested for transporting guns between New York and South Carolina. Another was charged with murdering a police deputy that caught him breaking and entering a home.
Interviewed residents all agreed that the MOA members are private, yet when the ACT members were spotted in the area, they were immediately and repeatedly approached. At one point, a commune resident gave them a final warning to leave, despite the fact that they were not trespassing or harassing MOA members.
“It was definitely very threatening and menacing,” an ACT member told me.
Multiple sources confirmed that one resident of the commune is a police officer. According to a nearby neighbor, one of the MOA members used to drive trucks for the U.S. Army in Kuwait.
The commune is also linked to a non-profit called the Muslim Model Community of Texas. Members travel to Houston to worship at the MOA Dawah Center that is linked to another organization called First Muslims of Texas.
The 2002 Shooting Incident
One of the MOA members was shot and killed by another member on February 7, 2002 between 11-11:30 p.m. according to the FBI documents and a police report.
The victim was Salminma Dawood, also known as Terrance C. Davis III. His death was reportedly an accident, having been shot by another MOA member who “returned gunfire to unknown individuals who were harassing the MOA commune.”
Law enforcement reported encountering about a dozen African-American males at the scene, approximately five of whom lived at the commune. The investigators saw an estimated seven women and children who also resided there.
The police were denied access to the trailer homes and were not allowed to directly interview the women, who covered their faces in their presence. Communication with the women had to be done by passing notes through a male intermediary.
Locals told the ACT members that government investigators had visited the area a few times and the commune residents refused to talk to them. According to one local, two ambulances were denied entry earlier this year until the police intervened. A search of the Brazoria county criminal records shows that two residents of Mahmoudberg were arrested in April 2013 and charged with “interference with public duties.” The trial is pending.
More MOA Activity in Texas
The MOA presence in Texas is not limited to the Mahmoudberg commune near Sweeny. As mentioned, the MOA utilizes a dawah (outreach) center in Houston for activities. The declassified FBI documents show that the extremist group has been in Texas since the 1980s.
On October 11, 1991, a federal search warrant for three suspects was issued after a MOA/Jamaat-ul-Fuqra bomb plot in Toronto was foiled. A nearly 45-acre “compound” about 70 miles south of Dallas was raided. The location may have been near Corsicana, as another FBI document mentions that about seven MOA members purchased property in that area.
The suspects managed to flee on October 5-6 before the raid took place. Their children also suddenly disappeared from school. The feds found four mobile homes, three military, general-purpose tents and six vehicles. Loose ammunition, books on counter-terrorism techniques and weaponry and various items with “Jamaat Fuqra Land” written on them were discovered.
They also found surveillance photos of a post office building and the Greenhead Station in Los Angeles, leading authorities to suspect that attacks on these sites were planned.
MOA activities in Texas continued after the October 1991 raid. Two FBI documents from 1992 mention that MOA members in the state were using false aliases, social security numbers and birth certificates.
Why is MOA Allowed to Operate?
The FBI documents obtained by the Clarion Project clearly identify MOA as a terrorist organization. The Department of Homeland Security privately agreed in 2005, listing Jamaat ul-Fuqra (and specifically MOA) as a possible sponsor of a terrorist attack on the U.S.
So why is MOA/JUF allowed to operate in the country?
The answer is that the State Department has not designated MOA/Jamaat ul-Fuqra as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. The group is thus permitted to organize in the U.S. until that happens. Yet, the State Department has also recognized the group’s terroristic agenda.
In 1998, the State Department’s Patterns of Global Terrorism report described Jamaat ul-Fuqra as an “Islamic sect that seeks to purify Islam through violence.” It said that Fuqra members engaged in assassinations and bombings in the U.S. in the 1980s and still live in “isolated rural compounds” in the country.
A State Department spokesperson was asked in January 2002 about why MOA stopped appearing in the Department’s annual terrorism reports. The answer was as follows:
“Jamaat ul-Fuqra has never been designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. It was included in several recent annual terrorism reports under ‘other terrorist groups,’ i.e., groups that had carried out acts of terrorism but that were not formally designated by the Secretary of State. However, because of the group's inactivity during 2000, it was not included in the most recent terrorism report covering that calendar year.”
It has not appeared since. Yet, here we have FBI documents from as late as 2007 discussing the terrorist threat posed by MOA.
It’s long past due that the State Department be forced to address this obvious threat. The State Department must designate Jamaat ul-Fuqra as a Foreign Terrorist Organization before it’s too late.
A federal investigator has described a “troubling pattern” of Veterans Affairs Department officials downplaying or ignoring whistleblowers at facilities nationwide, resulting in patients receiving deficient, delayed and in some cases no needed medical attention.
In a letter Monday to President Obama, Carolyn Lerner of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel said that “too frequently, the VA has failed to use information from whistleblowers to identify and address systemic concerns that impact patient care.”
Lerner said the VA, and particularly the agency’s Office of the Medical Inspector (OMI), consistently have used a "harmless error" defense, where the department acknowledges problems but claims patient care is unaffected.
“This approach has prevented the VA from acknowledging the severity of systemic problems and from taking the necessary steps to provide quality care to veterans,” she said. “As a result, veterans' health and safety has been unnecessarily put at risk."
Lerner cited several examples, including a case at the VA facility in Grand Junction, Colo., where she said officials downplayed a whistleblower’s concerns that drinking water had elevated levels of Legionella bacteria, and that standard maintenance and cleaning procedures required to prevent bacterial growth weren't performed.
After the OMI identified no "clinical consequences" resulting from the unsafe water conditions, officials determined there was no substantial and specific danger to public health and safety.
In another case, Lerner said the OMI failed to adequately respond to whistleblower allegations that the VA facility in Fort Collins, Colo., had practiced deceptive patient scheduling to artificially reduce patient wait times. Schedulers were placed on a "bad boy" list if their scheduled appointments were greater than 14 days from the recorded "desired dates" for veterans.
Other examples Lerner cited include:
• In Montgomery, Ala., OMI confirmed a whistleblower's allegations that a pulmonologist copied prior provider notes to represent current readings in more than 1,200 patient records, likely resulting in inaccurate patient health information being recorded. But OMI stated that it couldn't substantiate whether the practice endangered patient health.
• In Buffalo, N.Y., OMI confirmed a whistleblower's report that health care professionals didn’t always comply with VA sterilization standards, but didn’t believe the problem affected patient safety.
• In Little Rock, Ark., OMI substantiated a whistleblower's allegations regarding patient care, including one incident when suction equipment was unavailable when it was needed to treat a veteran who later died. OMI later concluded the medical treatment the patient received met care standards.
• In Harlingen, Texas, the VA Deputy Under Secretary for Health confirmed a whistleblower's allegations the facility didn’t comply with rules on the credentialing and privileging of surgeons. The VA also found that the facility wasn't paying fee-basis doctors in a timely manner, resulting in some refusing to care for VA patients. But the VA found there wasn't substantial and specific danger to the public health and safety resulting from the violations.
Lerner, who said her office is reviewing more than 50 whistleblower cases at VA facilities – all of which allege threats to patient health or safety — recommended the VA appoint a high-level official to assess how the department responds to whistleblower claims.
“I remain concerned about the department's willingness to acknowledge and address the impact these problems may have on the health and safety of veterans,” she wrote.
Acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson said he had started a departmental review due to be completed within 14 days.
On Capitol Hill, the Senate passed legislation earlier this month with overwhelming bipartisan support that would make it easier for veterans to receive VA-paid treatment from private doctors.
The bill, similar to a House measure that passed unanimously, would allow veterans to seek care through non-VA providers for the next two years when the department cannot give the veteran a timely appointment, or if a veteran lives more than 40 miles from the closest VA medical facility. The VA would pick up the tab.
WASHINGTON — A Department of Veterans Affairs internal watchdog created to safeguard the medical care provided to former service members instead routinely played down the effect of treatment errors and appointment delays, a federal special counsel alleged Monday.
In a letter to President Barack Obama, U.S. Special Counsel Carolyn Lerner said the VA Office of the Medical Inspector has repeatedly undermined legitimate whistleblowers by confirming their allegations of wrongdoing, but dismissing them as having no impact on patient care.
The strongly worded critique adds a new layer to the veterans-care scandal that has rocked the VA and the Obama administration in recent months.
Among the cases that whistleblowers reported to the special counsel:
A veteran wasn't given his first comprehensive psychiatric evaluation until he had spent eight years as a resident of a Brockton, Mass., VA psychiatric unit, in 2011.
Drinking water at the VA facility in Grand Junction, Colo., was tainted with elevated levels of Legionella bacteria, which can cause a form of pneumonia, and standard maintenance and cleaning procedures weren't performed.
A VA pulmonologist in Montgomery, Ala., portrayed past test readings as current results in more than 1,200 patient files, "likely resulting in inaccurate patient health information being recorded," Ms. Lerner wrote.
In Buffalo, N.Y., VA staff sometimes mishandled sterile surgical instruments and failed to wear required protective gear.
In each of these cases, VA whistleblowers brought the information to the special counsel, an independent federal entity that is charged with enforcing whistleblower-protection laws. The special counsel passed it along to the Office of the Medical Inspector.
The VA medical inspector concluded that the hospitals' failings, while accurately reported by the whistleblowers, didn't threaten veterans' health or safety, even when the VA inspector general had concluded that similar faults compromised care in other cases, according to the letter from Ms. Lerner.
Referring to the Brockton psychiatric unit, the Office of the Medical Inspector wrote, "OMI feels that in some areas [the veterans'] care could have been better, but OMI doesn't feel that their patient's rights were violated," according to OMI documents cited in Ms. Lerner's letter.
Ms. Lerner called such statements "a serious disservice to the veterans who received inadequate patient care for years after being admitted to VA facilities."
"This approach has prevented the VA from acknowledging the severity of systemic problems and from taking the necessary steps to provide quality care to veterans," wrote Ms. Lerner.
Acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson said the VA accepts the Office of Special Counsel's recommendations, and ordered a full review of the VA's Office of Medical Inspector's operation to be completed in two weeks.
"I am deeply disappointed not only in the substantiation of allegations raised by whistleblowers, but also in the failures within VA to take whistleblower complaints seriously," he said in a written statement.
The special counsel's allegations are the latest blow to the VA, which was rocked this spring by revelations that some employees doctored records to make appointment wait-times appear far shorter than they were. The disclosure prompted then-Secretary Eric Shinseki and other top VA officials to resign.
"There are many instances where there have been whistleblowers that have resulted in investigations," Sen. Jerry Moran (R., Kan.), a member of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, said Sunday. "We have no idea if anything has come from those investigations or reports."
Since the scheduling scandal surfaced, the VA inspector general, a separate internal watchdog, has examined operations at dozens of medical VA facilities across the nation. The VA has conducted its own reviews. Federal investigators have said they are working to determine whether criminal charges will be brought in any of the cases.
Though the Office of Special Counsel has the authority to refer whistleblower-retaliation cases to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution, the agency said its current findings don't involve such potentially criminal retribution.
Mr. Gibson has been battling to control the crisis, traveling to VA facilities around the country and making appearances to reassure veterans, the public and Congress. He said Thursday that the VA had contacted 70,000 veterans to get them quick appointments.
In an internal message this month to the VA's 341,000 staff, Mr. Gibson promised protection for those who reported misdeeds in agency operations.
"Relatively simple issues that front-line staff may be aware of can grow into significantly larger problems if left unresolved," Mr. Gibson said. "In the most serious cases, these problems can lead to and encourage improper and unethical actions."
Joe Davis, a spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, a veterans-advocacy group, welcomed the special counsel's report. "What we want is more scrutiny," Mr. Davis said. "The more eyes that are looking at this means more scrutiny, and that leads to more accountability," he said.
Last Friday FBI agents raided the homes of far left activists in Chicago and Minneapolis who are linked to the Marxist FARC terrorists and Islamic radicals as part of a terrorism investigation.
The home of radical Hatem Abudayyeh in Chicago was raided in the terror sweep.
Radical Hatem Abudayyeh protested against Israel in Chicago in January 2009. (Daylife)
Hatem Abudayyeh is the executive director of the Arab American Action Network (AAAN). Hatem Abudayyeh has been with the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) since 1999, and was appointed Executive Director in 2003. The Arab American Action Network was founded by former PLO operative and close Obama family friend Rashid Khalidi. Obama was a director of the Woods Fund from 1994 through 2001, when the board approved a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network.
In 2003 Barack Obama was an honored guest at a dinner sponsored by the AAAN for former PLO-operative Rashid Khalidi. During the dinner a video was taken that shows Barack Obama celebrating with members of this Palestinian group who are openly hostile towards Israel. Barack Obama even gave a toast to a Rashid Khalidi at this going away party. The LA Times will not release the video from this Jew-bashing dinner.
Not only was Hatem Abudayyeh’s radical organization given $40,000 by Barack Obama and the Woods Fund but his organization also collected nearly half a million in taxpayer money.
ABC Local reported:
When FBI agents raided the Chicago home of Hatem Abudayyeh last Friday, they took his laptop computer and paper records, anything with the word “Palestine” on it, according to the man’s attorney.
Federal search warrants indicate that authorities are looking for connections between terrorist organizations in the Middle East and South America and certain anti-war leaders and organizations in the U.S.
As executive director of the Arab American Action Network in Chicago, Mr. Abudayyeh is a well-known advocate for immigrant rights. When federal officers raided his North Side home last week, along with residences in Minneapolis, they were looking for funding links between Abudayyeh and the radical Islamic group Hamas that took power in the Gaza Strip three years ago.
Even as Abudayyeh is under investigation by a federal grand jury, city of Chicago records obtained by the ABC7 I-Team show that his Arab American Action Network has received thousands of dollars in city grants: as much as $457,000 since 1998. According to city officials, the money was intended for an after-school program for high-risk students who struggle with English.
So how did that happen?
And would someone in the Obama Administration explain what Abudayyeh was doing in the White House this year? This deserves an explanation.
Chinese police shot dead 13 people in Xinjiang after they drove into a police building and set off an explosion on Saturday, regional authorities said, in the latest attack to hit the restive region.
The vast area in China’s far west, home to the mainly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, has faced a series of violent attacks in recent years.
Beijing has vowed a year-long crackdown on terrorism in recent weeks following several high-profile attacks blamed on Xinjiang militants, which since late last year struck outside the region and targeted ordinary citizens rather than government or security personnel.
“Thugs crashed a car into the public security building of Kargilik county in Xinjiang’s Kashgar prefecture and set off an explosion. Police took decisive action and shot dead 13 thugs,” the official Xinjiang government website Tianshan reported.
Three police suffered injuries but there were no other casualties, the report said, without providing further details. It was unclear if the attackers used one or more explosive devices.
The state news agency Xinhua described the vehicle as a truck and said the attack happened in the morning, adding that authorities were investigating and “local social order is normal”.
China’s most powerful body, the Politburo Standing Committee, said in May that “cracking down on violent terrorist activities must be the focal point of the current struggle", Xinhua reported at the time.
Authorities have announced hundreds of detentions or criminal punishments, including the sentencing of 55 people in late May for offences such as terrorism at a ceremony in a stadium attended by 7,000 people.
This week China executed 13 people for “terrorist attacks” in Xinjiang and ordered the death penalty for three others for a car crash last October in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, the symbolic heart of the Chinese state. In that incident, the first major event blamed on Xinjiang residents to take place outside the region, three (Islamic militant) family members drove onto the popular tourist area, killing two people and wounding 40 before the car burst into flames, killing the attackers.
Targeting ordinary citizens
In another major incident in March, dubbed China’s “9-11” by state media, (Islamic militants) attackers went on a stabbing spree at a railway station in the south-western city of Kunming that left 29 people dead and 143 wounded.
On April 30, the final day of a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Xinjiang, attackers armed with knives and explosives killed one person and wounded 79 at a railway station in the capital Urumqi.
The next month (Islamic militants) assailants in Urumqi threw explosives and ploughed into a crowd at a market, leaving 39 people killed, along with four attackers, and more than 90 wounded.
Overseas rights groups blame the unrest in part on cultural repression and harsh security measures against Uighurs while Xinjiang’s economic growth mostly benefits an influx of China’s ethnic majority Han.
Riots erupted between the two ethnic groups in Urumqi in 2009, leaving about 200 people dead.
Mr Dilshat Rexit, spokesman for the exiled World Uyghur Congress, urged China to “stop its suppression and change its provocative policies”.
“Shooting dead protesters and accusing them of terrorism is to avoid the root of the problem,” he said in an emailed statement.
Beijing counters that it has brought rapid development to the area and blames the violence on separatist militant groups backed by overseas organisations.
But security experts have cast doubt on the strength of any resistance movement inside Xinjiang or its links to foreign groups.
Information from the area is difficult to verify, with journalists subject to heavy restrictions.
Rights groups have expressed concerns about whether terror suspects can receive fair trials, given the common use of forced confessions in China’s legal system.
China’s courts are effectively controlled by the ruling Communist Party and have a near-total conviction rate.
written by Richard Spencer, Khanaqin, on the Iraq-Iran border
Sunday June 22, 2014
MI6 and the CIA were handed intelligence outlining the planned takeover of northern Iraq by jihadists and their allies five months ago but the British and American governments failed to act on it, senior officials in Iraq have told The Telegraph.
The head of intelligence for the autonomous Kurdish regional government, which has links with the West, said he had repeatedly tried to send warnings both to the central government in Baghdad and to its allies, Britain and America.
But despite repeated attempts to impress on Washington and London the seriousness of the unfolding situation, he said there was no response from either government.
The claims were made as it emerged that as many as 500 British-born fighters have travelled to the Middle East in recent months to take up arms with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (Isis).
The families of three young men from Cardiff on Sunday night pleaded for them to come home after two of them appeared in an Isis propaganda video urging British Muslims to join them in their holy war.
One of the men, Rayeed Khan, lived just a few doors away from three men who were jailed for plotting to blow up the London Stock Exchange.
President Barack Obama on Sunday rejected fresh calls for early intervention in Iraq, saying: “What we can’t do is think that we’re just going to play whack-a-mole and send US troops occupying various countries wherever these organisations pop up.”
The Kurds are trying to force the West to intervene again to protect them from the jihadi threat sweeping across the region. The Kurdish regional government’s autonomy is partly due to American and British intervention to provide military cover for their campaign against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in the early Nineties after the first Gulf War.
“I have completely lost hope in America after listening to President Barack Obama,” the head of Kurdish intelligence, Lahur Talabani, said.
The extremist insurgency in Iraq has been growing ever since Britain and the United States pulled out troops, the last Americans leaving in December 2011.
Rooz Bahjat, one of Mr Talabani’s senior lieutenants, said of the warnings of conflict: “We had this information then, and we passed it on to your government and the US government.
“We knew exactly what strategy they were going to use, we knew the military planners. It fell on deaf ears.”
Mr Bahjat estimated there were now 4,000 foreign fighters with Isis, of whom 400 to 450 were British, including one who was killed last week in fighting in Jalawla, near the Iranian border.
He warned that they and the Isis leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, were now a greater threat to western countries than that posed by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in 2001. “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is now something Bin Laden could only dream of being,” he said.
There is a widespread sense in Iraq that Britain and America were so disillusioned by their failure to establish order in the country that they lowered their presence in the region. Since David Cameron’s government came to power in 2010, it has been explicit in refocusing Britain’s diplomatic efforts in the Arab world on its traditional allies in the Gulf.
This led to a downgrading of intelligence resources in Iraq. “Both the Americans and the British had options to upgrade their presence on the ground many months before this happened but seem not to have acted on that,” said Michael Stephens, an analyst at the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank.
“For one reason or another there was a feeling that Iraq was not an important foreign posting and as a result it was seen as a place where careers go to die rather than a place to build a career. That meant the assets that should have been available to us weren’t really there when this kicked off.”
A former head of counter-terrorism at MI6 told Sky News that up to 300 Islamist fighters from Iraq and Syria may have returned to the UK and could be planning attacks. Richard Barrett said the hundreds returning were an “absolute nightmare” for security services. He added that they did not have the resources to be able to look at all of them.
According to reports, Abdul Basit Usman, an Abu Sayyaf Group operative and master bombmaker, has been spotted in the Philippines. The reports are interesting because Usman was rumored to have been killed in a US drone strike in North Waziristan, Pakistan on Jan. 14, 2010.
Ten Taliban and "foreign fighters" were said to have been killed in the strike that targeted and missed former Movement of the Taliban Pakistan emir Hakeemullah Mehsud. [See LWJ report, Wanted Abu Sayyaf operative reported killed in North Waziristan.] US intelligence officials contacted by LWJ back in 2010 and several times afterwards would not confirm the reports of Usman's death.
Usman "recently eluded a military raid of a Muslim guerrilla camp in the Philippines," AFP reported. He "was seen in the camp of another armed Muslim group on the island of Mindanao, southern Philippines," a military official told AFP.
Usman is wanted by the United States for his involvement in multiple bombings in the Philippines and also has ties to Jemaah Islamiyah, an al Qaeda-linked group in Southeast Asia.
"Because of his association with these US Government-designated international terrorist organizations, US authorities consider Basit to be a threat to US and Filipino citizens and interests," states the Rewards for Justice website. "He is believed to have orchestrated several bombings that have killed, injured, and maimed many innocent civilians."
The US has put a $1 million reward out for information leading to his capture and prosecution. His Rewards for Justice page indicates that he is thought to be based in Mindanao.
The past bloody decade in Iraq was full of men who bragged about their criminal acts. Abu Deraa was one of these braggarts and it seems he has returned to Iraq.
Shiite militants have posted a video on YouTube celebrating Abu Deraa returned following years of being untraceable in Iran. In the video, he appeared talking with armed men who belong to a militia he leads in Baghdad. An officer appeared in the video, standing behind him for protection.
The man, whose actual name is Ismail Hafez al-Lami, is infamous for taking delight in killing the Sunnis, according to a 2007 report by The Sunday Times.
“He is said to take personal delight in killing — sometimes with a bullet to the head, sometimes by driving a drill into the skulls of his victims. On other occasions, Iraqis say, he gives them a choice of being shot or battered to death with concrete building blocks,” the report said.
Abu Deraa’s militia used to kill Sunni men deemed a threat to Shiite shrines and the dumps them in a wasteland known as the “Happiness Hotel,” the Sunday Times report said.
The 44-year-old man appears in the video short and bold with a light, black beard. In different video he appeared pouring the Cola into a camel’s throat and telling him: “Drink it all.”
He vowed to sacrifice that camel if he succeeded in killing Tariq al-Hashimi, Iraq’s former vice-president, who is a Sunni.
He is believed to have lived in Sadr city in Baghdad and had small crimes previously under his belt when his was young. But his crimes advanced as he grew older.
Abu Deraa is believed to be behind the killing of Khamis al-Obeidi, Saddam Hussein’s lawyer, in 2007. A video posted on YouTube shows Obeidi being handcuffed by two men believed to be members of Abu Deraa’s militia.
He became famous in 2006 during the peak of the activity of Sunni al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He was nicknamed “Zarqawi of the Shiites” but his supporters preferred the nickname “Abu Deraa.”
During his activity in the al-Mahdi army organization, linked to political leader Muqtada al-Sadr, he turned into a star but he didn't make it to the list issued by Nuri al-Maliki's government on July 2, 2006 and which included 41 terrorists. The list only included two members of the al-Mahdi army and they were Abu Mustafa al-Sheebani and Ahmad al-Gharwi.
American troops which pursued Zarqawi and his followers also pursued members of the al-Mahdi army and mainly Abu Deraa in al-Sadr city but failed to arrest him. Maliki commented on the operation by condemning it but his own forces conducted a similar operation in al-Sadr city in April 2008.
Abu Deraa was no longer heard of and there were news that he was assassinated in a car bomb that targeted an ambulance he used for transportation but a photo released in November 2008 showed him in Iran's Qom with other members of the al-Mahdi army.
His return to Iraq now comes as Sunni fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, who had been fighting in Syria’s civil war, gained control of many swathes of Iraqi territories since last week, including Mosul, the country’s second largest city.
An upscale hotel on a Santa Monica, California, beach is an odd place to be singled out from a crowd and removed because you are Jewish, but that’s what happened to 18 young professionals who are telling their story to a jury in a discrimination trial taking place in Santa Monica Superior Court this week.
Ari Ryan is the grandson of a Ukranian Jew who lost most of his family in the Holocaust and narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Nazis. Ryan’s grandfather moved to Israel in 1942 and served as a captain in the Israel Defense Forces.
Seventy years later Ryan says he got a small taste of what his grandfather lived through, but rather than in the forests of the Ukraine, it took place at an upscale hotel in Santa Monica. Ryan and more than a dozen others have brought a lawsuit alleging anti-Semitic discrimination against them by a multi-millionaire Muslim American hotel owner.
Two years ago Ryan and other twenty- and thirty-something Jews planned to raise money to send children of fallen IDF soldiers to camp with a charity event at the Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica, California.
On the morning of July 11, 2010, Ryan and others arrived at the hotel and began setting up Friends of the IDF banners, literature and piles of shirts for the event guests.
But the event was aborted after, according to one employee’s sworn testimony, the hotel’s owner told staff members, “Get the [expletive deleted] Jews out of my pool.” Then the hotel security and other employees began removing the materials and ordering the guests to leave.
Ryan said, “Anyone wearing a blue wristband,” which identified them as being with the Friends of the IDF, “was asked to get out of the swimming pool and the hot tub.” In fact, no one who was identifiable as Jewish was so much as “allowed to dip their feet in the water.”
Tehmina (Tamie) Adaya, a Pakistani-American Muslim, is the owner of the Shangri-La. Her father, Ahmad Adaya, was a founding partner of the California real estate company IDS Real Estate Group. He also was a founder and benefactor of the New Horizon School for Muslim religious education in Southern California.
The father bought the Shangri-La Hotel in the 1980‘s and the daughter took it over in 2004, investing $30 million to renovate the property into a design award-winning opulent destination. In addition to the hotel, Adaya runs an upscale artist collective called the Crown Jewels which she blogs about at her site “Culture Shock to Culture Architect.”
In the cross-complaint she initially filed, Adaya claimed Ryan and his friends were trespassing on the Shangri-La property and became unruly.
“Not so,” said James Turken, managing partner of the California office of the DC-based law firm Dickstein, Shapiro, attorney for the plaintiffs. He explained that Adaya withdrew her complaint after he interviewed her, under oath, and she was unable to substantiate any of the allegations she had made.
Turken told The Jewish Press that witnesses will testify that, in addition to cursing the Jews and yelling at her staff to remove them from the pool, Adaya was heard saying, “my family will disown me,” and that her “investors will be furious,” if the plaintiffs remained on site.
The defense claims there was no discrimination and that, instead, the promoters of the event had failed to properly schedule the event with the hotel, and therefore they were trespassing.
According to Turken, however, all the necessary arrangements had been made in advance, as evidenced by the initial assistance provided by the Shangri-La employees, which included putting up a rope and stanchions and a check-in table. What’s more, he said, the day before the event “the head of hotel security gave a briefing to the staff to prepare them for the crowd of 150 that were expected to attend.”
The removal from the pool of Jews who were wearing Jewish-identified wristbands evokes a similar selection process of seventy years ago. Ryan, recalling his grandfather’s legacy, said “I felt the weight of standing up to what he had to live through.”
The plaintiffs are seeking $ 1 million from Adaya and the Shangri-La Hotel for emotional distress, attorneys’ fees and other statutory damages.
Polish Foreign Minister RadosÅ‚aw Sikorski thinks the Polish-American alliance is “worthless” and “bullshit,” according to tapes of a private conversation released by Polish magazine Wprost.
“The Polish-American alliance is not worth anything. It’s even damaging, because it creates a false sense of security in Poland. It’s complete bullshit,” Sikorski says. “We will get a conflict with both Russians and Germans, and we’re going to think that everything is great, because we gave the Americans a blowjob. Suckers. Total suckers.”
The conversation, between Sikorski and former Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski, allegedly took place in the spring of 2014.
Sikorski was nominated for EU foreign policy chief in May and has been a vocal critic of Russian foreign policy, particularly its recent actions in Ukraine. Sikorski himself was instrumental in the Ukraine-EU association agreement that would’ve put Ukraine on the road to EU membership–the agreement former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych didn’t sign, sparking the revolution in March.
The Polish government has neither confirmed nor denied the authenticity of the tapes, although Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that he would not be bullied into firing anyone. “I want to emphasize that people who’ve organized criminal eavesdropping will not dictate to Poland who governs the country and what ministers will be dismissed,” he said Monday.
Sikorski has been frustrated with the United States for years, feeling that Poland’s contributions to the Iraq War went unappreciated. Poland supplied troops, including an elite anti-chemical warfare unit, ships, and administered its own occupation zone, despite widespread opposition at home.
“The Iraq war was a mistake for the US, for US standing in the world, for US authority in the world, for the US military and its finances,” he said in May. “Poland joined the US rather uncritically and enthusiastically and so we now take our own view.”
Barack Obama could use a little relief. The world is crumbling around him, much of it the result of his presidential misfeasance at home and abroad.
The chickens coming to roost on Pennsylvania Avenue are neither ideological nor partisan. Evil men are bold and quick to take advantage of timidity and weakness. There’s a growing consensus, and it includes Democrats — the president is in over his head. He probably scares himself.
Like all second-term presidents, Mr. Obama naturally feels liberated from partisan concerns, free to do what he likes. He can thumb his nose at public opinion because he never again has to face an angry voter. He can follow the Clinton model and get rich making speeches. He’ll be good at it.
But he needs a break today. His approval ratings have sunk into the low 40s. Vladimir Putin laughs at him. When Hillary Clinton accepts an invitation to lunch at the White House she insists on using the back door. The family dog growls at him.
He clearly needs a public-relations triumph. Fortunately for him, there’s a candidate at hand. A 27-year-old woman is languishing in a filthy prison in Sudan, together with her son, aged 20 months, and a daughter, aged 3 weeks. The mother’s only crime is that she is a Christian and won’t convert to Islam, and she is regarded as an adulterer because she married a Christian, and the marriage is not recognized in Sudanese law. Meriam Ibrahim is to be hanged as soon as she weans her newborn, and before the noose is tightened around her pretty neck she must be flogged with 100 lashes. Life in the Islamic world often sounds like something from a blood-and-thunder horror movie, and the abuse of Mrs. Ibrahim is living proof of how horrible a horror movie can be.
Other leaders in the West have given Mr. Obama the cover he needs to stand up like a man eager to defend the innocent and the helpless. The plight of Mrs. Ibrahim has shocked and offended the Europeans. British Prime Minister David Cameron says the treatment of Mrs. Ibrahim “has no place” in the world. “Religious freedom is an absolute, fundamental human right. I urge the government of Sudan to overturn the sentence and immediately provide appropriate support and medical care for her and her children.”
Both Ed Milibrand, the leader of the Labor minority in Parliament, and Nicholas Clegg, a Liberal Democrat who is the deputy prime minister, call her treatment “abhorrent.” Strong words, with definite and specific meanings. From Mr. Obama, zilch. Nothing at all.
The sentence has been denounced throughout Europe. Bills have been introduced in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate to grant Mrs. Ibrahim and her children permanent legal status in the United States, where she can join her husband, who is an American citizen, and raise her two children, who as children of an American father are American citizens. The legislation was jointly introduced by both Democrats and Republicans, and has dozens of bipartisan co-sponsors.
This should be easy for Mr. Obama, who has a lot to say about the “war on women,” but so far he has been as silent as Mohammed’s tomb. A husband and the father of two girls should need no spur to stand up for a young mother in extreme distress. Mrs. Ibrahim asks for no birth-control devices. She isn’t yearning for an abortion. She doesn’t want to marry a woman. All she asks is her life. President Obama should step outside the box, and try to do as much for these innocents as the Europeans are trying to do for them.
Mr. Obama talks a lot about the beauty of Islam. He says the plaintive notes of the call to evening prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset.” He supported the construction of a mosque at the site of World Trade Center. As soon as he was inaugurated, he hurried to the Middle East to apologize for, well, it was not clear for what. The president clearly has a soft spot in his heart (if not in his head) for Islam. He was raised that way. Fair enough. He’s entitled to judge what he thinks is pretty at sunset.
Now here’s his opportunity to use his special relationship with Islam to get justice and freedom for Meriam Ibrahim and her children. Whether he does it with soft talk, soft soap or a hard kick in the pants, he can get it if he tries.
The treatment of Mrs. Ibrahim is wrong, barbaric (in David Cameron’s word) and grotesque. The government in Khartoum is feeling the heat. Mr. Obama must put another log on the fire.
OMG our prayers have been answered!!! I have to see Meriam and her two children freed to believe this news. I want to hear her tell us she has been released from the Sudanese prison.
JUBA, South Sudan – A pregnant woman in Khartoum, Sudan raised as a Christian faces the death penalty for “leaving Islam” because her father was Muslim, sources said.
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, 27, and her Christian husband also have a toddler son. As marriage to a Christian man is prohibited for a Muslim woman in Sudan, Ibrahim also could be given 100 lashes for “adultery,” the sources said. If convicted of “apostasy” and “adultery,” the whipping and execution would be administered soon after giving birth to her second child, due next month, according to a rights worker for Justice Center Sudan in Khartoum.
“We are fighting for Meriam’s life, freedom, and fair treatment – according to the law, if she had been a Muslim she should be killed soon after she gives birth to her child,” said the rights worker, whose identity was withheld for security reasons.
Married to a South Sudanese Christian who obtained U.S. citizenship several years ago, Ibrahim’s nightmare has included denial of bail, insufficient medical care for both her and her unborn child, beatings in prison and a U.S. Embassy that has offered little help, sources said.
“Meriam needs treatment every month to keep the unborn baby still in the mother’s womb, but no medical help has been allowed,” her husband, Daniel Wani, reported to Justice Center Sudan. “They are denying my wife her rights to fair treatment and my rights to visit and see my son.”
Their 20-month-old son, Martin Wani, is staying in prison with his mother, as Sudanese authorities have prohibited the boy’s father from caring for him because he is a Christian. Ibrahim has been incarcerated since February.
Justice Center Sudan is fighting the court’s charges of apostasy and adultery based constitutional rights to equality and freedom of religion. The center says constitutional rights should outweigh sharia (Islamic law). The Sudanese constitution stipulates Islamic law as a source of legislation, however, and since the secession of South Sudan in July 2011, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has vowed to make Sudan a more strictly Islamic country.
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The message from the movie trailer:
In life, there is beauty and there is terror. One must not overwhelm the other. To embrace both, you need the strength of a warrior, the stealth of a predator and the wisdom of a master. Once you have found your power, you must decide what you fight for.
But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, Romans 4:5
Boldness is what God wants you to have when you come to Him. He does not want you to be afraid to come to Him, feeling unworthy because of your sins. He wants you to come boldly to Him, knowing that the death, burial and resurrection of His Son Jesus Christ has justified you and qualified you to boldly receive from Him.
This was the kind of boldness that the woman with the issue of blood had when she touched Jesus. (Mark 5:25–34) Now, by touching Jesus, she knew that she was breaking a Levitical law which states that anyone with a bodily discharge is unclean, and should not appear in public, let alone touch another person. (Leviticus 15)
But she refused to feel condemned by the law. She believed what she had heard about Jesus, and was confident that there would only be love and compassion, not condemnation, from Him. She believed that Jesus would justify her and qualify her to receive the miracle she needed. That was why she boldly pressed her way into the crowd to touch Jesus, who indeed said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well.” (Mark 5:34)
What was it about her faith that made her well? Romans 4:5 talks about faith that believes God justifies the ungodly. When you believe that God justifies the ungodly, it will give you boldness to come to God, even when you feel unclean because you have just blown it.
When you fail, don’t run away from God. Run boldly to Him, knowing that you are justified by the blood of Christ and not by your good behavior.
The devil may say to you, “How can you do that? Who do you think you are?” Don’t listen to him. Pick yourself up and thank God for the blood and the gift of no condemnation. (Romans 8:1) If God justifies the ungodly, how much more you, His beloved child!
Thought For The Day:
You are justified by the blood of Christ and not by your good behavior.
I love Pastor Joseph Prince. His messages are Divinely inspired. He's a great teacher of the scriptures. I have taken the following from his youtube video description:
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4 Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
5 Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.” 6 But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down) 7 “or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
8 But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: 9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. 11 As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”
12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
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