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Saint Petersburg Suicide Bomber Tied to Radical Islamists

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The suspected perpetrator of a suicide bombing in a St Petersburg subway station Monday had ties to radical Islamist groups, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.

The Interfax report drew on a law enforcement source who also said that that an investigation of the blast scene suggested that a suicide bomber was responsible for the explosion that killed 14 people and injured 49 more.

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Kyrgyzstan’s security service GKNB identified the suspected bomber as Akbarzhon Jalilov, a 22-year-old Kyrgyz-born Russian citizen. The GKNB also said that the Islamic State may have been involved in the terror attack.

Kyrgyzstan was a Soviet republic until it gained its independence in 1991. The mostly Muslim country with a population of some six million is a close political ally of Russia. Kyrgyzstan’s security services said they are “maintaining contact with the Russian secret service for further investigation.”

Not long after the bombing, Islamic State supporters began celebrating the attack on social media, although they have not yet claimed responsibility for the act.

One ISIS supporter claimed that the attacks were carried out in revenge for Russia’s backing of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s fight against ISIS and other rebel groups in Syria’s civil war.

The Islamic State recently published a poster showing a jihadi blowing up the Kremlin, accompanied by the message “kill them where you find them.”

Russia’s transport infrastructure has been repeatedly targeted by Islamist terror groups based in the North Caucasus over the past two decades.

In October, 2015, a bomb on board a civilian airliner travelling from Sharm el-Sheikh to Saint Petersburg killed 224 people, many of them Russians on holiday.

On that occasion, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for that attack, calling it retaliation for Russia’s military intervention in Syria.

Dems And Libs Are Going To Have To Find Another Issue To Get Rid Of Trump. Russian Hacking Was A Failure!

The ‘Trump Is A Russian Plant!’ Case Is Falling Apart. Here Are 4 Things You Need To Know.

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It’s now been months upon months of speculation about the supposedly 

nefarious connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian

government. Democrats have relied on Trump begging Russian dictator

 Vladimir Putin publicly to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails, connections between

 former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and the Russian government,

 and friendliness between Trump advisor General Michael Flynn and the

 Russians in order to suggest that Putin “hacked the election” on Trump’s 

behalf. They’ve also relied on various media reports suggesting that the 

intelligence community was participating in some sort of sophisticated 

surveillance operation that caught up Trump associates in chats with the

 Russian government.

There’s a lot of smoke.

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Here’s the problem: there’s no fire.

At all.

We’re now six months in. Have we seen a single piece of actually

 incriminating evidence suggesting that Putin “hacked the election” on 

Trump’s behalf? Or have we just seen rumors and innuendos, all disowned

 in the ninth paragraph of a New York Times report headlining Trump-Russia

 contacts?

Here’s what we actually know.

1. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Said There

 Was No Evidence of Collusion. Speaking with NBC’s Chuck Todd, Clapper

 was asked if there was evidence of collusion. Clapper: “Not to my knowledge.”

 According to Clapper, collusion or collaboration or uncovered information did 

not exist while he was there – i.e. up until January 20th. As Matt Taibbi of 

Rolling Stone says, “This is the former Director of National Intelligence

 telling all of us that as of 12:01 a.m. on January 20th, when he left government, 

the intelligence agencies had no evidence of collusion between Donald Trump’s 

campaign and the government of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.” Clapper also told

 ABC News, “There was no evidence whatsoever, at the time, of collusion

 between the Trump campaign and the Russians.”

2. Members of Trump’s Campaign Talked To The Russians – But There’s

 No Proof of Wrongdoing.There have been multiple media reports suggesting

 that the intelligence community knew that Trump associates were talking with

 the Russians. Each and every one of those reports contains the information

 that there’s no evidence that anybody did anything wrong, and that campaign 

officials often speak with foreign officials. As Andrew McCarthy of National

 Review notes, The New York Times ran with a hot-button piece titled,

 “Intercepted Russian Communications Part of Inquiry into Trump Associates” the

 day before Trump’s inauguration. The story contained this little detail, buried 

down in the article: “It is not clear whether the intercepted communications had 

anything to do with Mr. Trump’s campaign, or Mr. Trump himself. It is also 

unclear whether the inquiry has anything to do with an investigation into the 

hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s computers and other attempts

 to disrupt the elections in November.” Oops.

3. The FBI Denies It Was Targeting Trump. After President Trump tweeted

 that the Obama administration had targeted him for wiretapping, FBI Director

 James Comey asked the Justice Department to confirm that such a claim was

 absolutely false. According to The New York Times, “FBI officials are said to

 be worried that the notion of a court-approved wiretap will raise the public’s 

expectations that the federal authorities have significant evidence implicating

 the Trump campaign in colluding with Russia’s efforts to disrupt the presidential 

election.” In other words, they have no such evidence. So Trump’s attempt to

 target Obama inadvertently exposed the fact that there’s no evidence the 

intelligence community thought Trump was in cahoots with Putin.

4. Even Democrats Are Backing Off The Trump-Russia Connections

 Narrative. Last week, Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) said on MSNBC that

 there were “transcripts that provide very helpful, very critical insights into

 whether or not Russian intelligence and senior Russian political leaders,

 including Vladimir Putin, were cooperating, were colluding with the Trump 

campaign at the highest levels to influence the outcome of our election.” This

week, Coons admitted he didn’t know of any “conclusive proof” that any 

such collusion took place, as John Sexton of Hot Air points out.

So far, it’s all implications and innuendos. There’s no hard evidence here. 

That doesn’t explain why Trump would have the platform changed on Ukraine,

 or why he seems so all-fired fascinated by Putin. But the suggestion that 

Trump worked with Putin to steal the election appears to be sheer leftist fantasy.

We Can't Be Lucky Forever, Soon A Russian Plane, Boat Or Missile Will Set Off A Major Conflict

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Russian Fighter Jet Comes Within 10 Feet of U.S. Navy Plane

Sep. 7, 2016 8:04pm Tré Goins-Phillips

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WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — A Russian fighter jet flew within 10 feet of a U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft, in what American officials called an unsafe intercept over the Black Sea, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, says the Russian SU-27 Flanker fighter made the unsafe maneuver Wednesday near a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft that was conducting routine operations in international airspace.

Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said in a statement Wednesday that the Poseidon aircraft did not have its transponders turned on, and that it approached Russia’s southern border twice.

He said Russian jets were deployed to intercept the incoming aircraft and “Russian pilots acted in strict compliance with international flight rules.”

Navy Capt. Danny Hernandez, spokesman for U.S. European Command, said the Navy Poseidon had its transponder turned on during the entire flight, following international law for flight safety.

According to the U.S., Russian jets conducted four intercepts of U.S. aircraft in the last day, and the one that was considered unsafe lasted about 19 minutes.

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Davis said that U.S. Navy aircraft and ships routinely interact with Russian units in the area and most interactions are safe and professional.

“However, we have concerns when there is an unsafe maneuver like this,” he said. “These actions have the potential to unnecessarily escalate tensions, and could result in a miscalculation or accident.”

Russian jets have occasionally flown close to other U.S. aircraft and Navy ships in the region. In one more dramatic incident earlier this year, Russian jets buzzed over the USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea, coming within 30 feet of the warship.

We Can't Be Lucky Forever, Soon A Russian Plane, Boat Or Missile Will Set Off A Major Conflict

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Russian Fighter Jet Comes Within 10 Feet of U.S. Navy Plane

Sep. 7, 2016 8:04pm Tré Goins-Phillips

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Editor’s Note:

Story by the Associated Press; curated by Tré Goins-Phillips

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WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — A Russian fighter jet flew within 10 feet of a U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft, in what American officials called an unsafe intercept over the Black Sea, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, says the Russian SU-27 Flanker fighter made the unsafe maneuver Wednesday near a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft that was conducting routine operations in international airspace.

Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said in a statement Wednesday that the Poseidon aircraft did not have its transponders turned on, and that it approached Russia’s southern border twice.

He said Russian jets were deployed to intercept the incoming aircraft and “Russian pilots acted in strict compliance with international flight rules.”

Navy Capt. Danny Hernandez, spokesman for U.S. European Command, said the Navy Poseidon had its transponder turned on during the entire flight, following international law for flight safety.

According to the U.S., Russian jets conducted four intercepts of U.S. aircraft in the last day, and the one that was considered unsafe lasted about 19 minutes.

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Davis said that U.S. Navy aircraft and ships routinely interact with Russian units in the area and most interactions are safe and professional.

“However, we have concerns when there is an unsafe maneuver like this,” he said. “These actions have the potential to unnecessarily escalate tensions, and could result in a miscalculation or accident.”

Russian jets have occasionally flown close to other U.S. aircraft and Navy ships in the region. In one more dramatic incident earlier this year, Russian jets buzzed over the USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea, coming within 30 feet of the warship.