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Friday, February 5, 2016

Islamic Terrorist Wanted To Attack Church Because People Don't Carry Guns There

UPDATED: Dearborn Heights Man Planned ISIS-Inspired Attack, FBI Says

The FBI intercepted a credible threat, a spokesperson said. Read the full U.S. District Court complaint below.

Shared from the Dearborn, MI Patch

By BETH DALBEY (Patch Staff) - February 5, 2016 8:23 pm ET

This story has been updated.

DEARBORN, MI – A Dearborn Heights man is in custody after the FBI intercepted a credible threat to attack a Detroit Church in the name of ISIS, authorities said.

Jill Washburn, a spokeswoman for the Detroit field office of the FBI, told Patch that Kahlil Abu-Rayyan “had it in his mind he was going to shoot up a church and bought a weapon and ammunition.”

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Abu-Rayyan had been on an FBI watch list since May, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court (see below).

The FBI was investigating him on drug and firearms violations, but in the course of monitoring his social media accounts, found re-tweets of ISIS propaganda that included videos showing a Jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive, the beheadings of Christians in Egypt and men being thrown from high-rise buildings as a means of execution.

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Abu-Rayyan reportedly told an undercover FBI agent in December that he had an AK-47 machine gun and “tried to shoot up a church” and that he “had it planned out,” but his father discovered the arsenal and confronted him, according to the affidavit.

“I bought a bunch of bullets,” Abu-Rayyan said, according to the affidavit. “I practiced a lot with it. I practiced reloading and unloading. ….”

The complaint also alleges that Abu-Rayyan said carrying out the attack would be “easy” and that “a lot of people go” to the church, which authorities didn’t name, but said would accommodate up to 6,000 people.

According to the affidavit, he went on to say:

“Plus people are not allowed to carry guns in church. Plus it would make the news. Everybody would’ve heard. Honestly I regret not doing it. (If I) can’t go do jihad at the Middle East, I would do my jihad over here.”

Abu-Rayyan was arrested on the drug and firearms charges in October 2015. His trial on the concealed weapons charge is set for Feb. 16, and he previously pleaded guilty to marijuana possession.

The government alleges that while in custody, Abu-Rayyan allegedly threatened to kill the officer who had arrested him in a “martyrdom operation” and that he “would gladly behead people if I needed to.”

“It is my dream to behead someone,” he said, according to the affadavit.

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Military Advice Unwelcome In Obama's ISIS War--He Knows Better

Cheney: Obama Won't 'Accept Good Military Advice'

Thursday, 25 Sep 2014 07:58 AM

By Melanie Batley

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney said that President Barack Obama "has consistently demonstrated…a refusal to accept good military advice" while developing his strategy to combat the Islamic State (ISIS).

"The longer [American military action against ISIS] takes, the costlier it will be in terms of lives and treasure. When we did Desert Storm, we gave them the whole load the first night of the war. We pulled out all the stops in terms of using all of our capability," Cheney said on Fox News' "Hannity" Wednesday.

Cheney said that while he supports elements of Obama's plan to target ISIS, he is skeptical about the effectiveness of a strategy based primarily on airstrikes. Specifically, he said, airstrikes in Syria were the right way forward but were "not going to get the job done" by themselves."

"When you have pinprick attacks as they were doing initially with respect to the air campaign, that's what you get. You give the enemy time to adjust to go underground, to take care of protecting themselves from those attacks and they're less effective when you telegraph what you're going to do, and Barack Obama has consistently demonstrated, I think, a refusal to accept good military advice in terms of how he actually uses the force."

Cheney added that Obama lacked experience and respect for senior commanders.

"These are tremendously capable people…he certainly should listen to the senior military commanders who are responsible on the ground for executing on policy and take their advice occasionally. But almost always when the subject comes up, he nearly always rejects what they recommend."

Cheney also reflected on the strength of the coalition with Arab countries. He said that while having their support was "a good addition, it doesn't get you over the goal line."

"[The U.S. is] a long way from solving the problem," of ISIS, Cheney said.

Cheney blamed Obama's worldview for increasing the threat of global terrorism and the resurgence of America's adversaries such as Russia.

"I think he has a world view and what he's found increasingly is not consistent with reality," Cheney said. "He has a worldview that is inaccurate and doesn't match the reality out there and when he comes up against that inconsistency…he doesn't know what to do."

Meanwhile, Cheney said he was "stunned" that Obama in his speech to the United Nations compared the violence and extremism in the Middle East to the racial tensions and protests last month in Ferguson, Mo. following the shooting death of Michael Brown.

"To compare the two as though there is moral equivalence is outrageous," Cheney said, citing the beheadings and violent killings ISIS has carried out in recent weeks.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Is Assad Worse Than ISIS Or Is UN Wrong Again?

Assad atrocities outstrip Islamic State in Syria, UN panel says

Report says regime must compromise with mainstream opposition to block jihadists who are spreading terror across country

BY AFP AND AP September 16, 2014, 1:49 pm

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Wounded Syrian men wait for treatment at a makeshift hospital in the rebel-held town of Douma near Damascus on September 9, 2014, after reported airstrikes by Syrian government forces that killed over 10 people and wounded dozens. (photo credit: AFP/ABD DOUMANY)

The UN commission investigating war crimes in Syria blamed President Bashar Assad’s government for committing the bulk of atrocities inside the war-torn country, exceeding the toll from the horrific massacres perpetrated by Islamic State fighters.

The head of the UN commission, Brazilian diplomat and scholar Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, described the Islamic State extremist group and anti-government armed groups capturing the world’s attention as “agents of death and destruction,” but emphasized the government’s sieges and attacks in Syria’s civil war which has killed over 190,000 people and destabilized the region.

“The Syrian government remains responsible for the majority of the civilian casualties, killing and maiming scores of civilians daily, both from a distance using shelling and aerial bombardment and up close, at its checkpoints and in its interrogation rooms,” Pinheiro told the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

He lamented the regime’s “starvation or submission” strategy through drawn-out sieges and indiscriminate attacks.

From left to right, United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Carla del Ponte, Karen Abuzayd and Chairman Paulo Sergio Pinheiro are seen during their presentation of the commission’s latest report on the situation in the war-ravaged country to the UN Human Rights Council on September 16, 2014 in Geneva. (photo credit: AFP/FABRICE COFFRINI)

Checkpoints meanwhile “are often the starting point of a horrific journey of disappearance, torture, sexual abuse and, for many, death,” he said, calling the barriers “a source of terror to the civilians they encircle.”

Pinheiro strssed that the Syrian government and mainstream opposition must seek compromise to end three and half years of bloody civil war and block the rise of murderous jihadists.

“The rise of (Islamic State fighters) has emphasized the need for the government and mainstream opposition to find common ground and to commit to making compromises,” he said.

‘We have charted the descent of the conflict into the madness where it now resides’

Presenting the commission’s latest report on the situation in the war-ravaged country to the UN Human Rights Council, Pinheiro said he had grown weary of standing before world diplomats and begging for action that never came.

“We have charted the descent of the conflict into the madness where it now resides,” he said, lamenting that he and his three commission colleagues had in vain “implored the parties and influential states to forge a peaceful settlement.”

“This inaction has allowed the warring parties to operate with impunity and nourished the violence that has consumed Syria,” he said.

“Its most recent beneficiary is ISIS,” the jihadist group calling itself Islamic State, Pinheiro added.

While the widespread abuses — including what rights organizations say amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity — carried out by Assad’s regime and opposition groups have not subsided, the parties and the international community should find common ground in ending the “terror” delivered by IS, he said.

A Fighter of the Islamic State group waving their flag from inside a captured government fighter jet following the battle for the Tabqa air base, in Raqqa, Syria on Sunday. (photo credit: AP/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group)

In its report, the commission detailed a litany of horrors committed by Islamic State, the group that has declared an Islamic “caliphate” in an area spanning northern Iraq and eastern Syria.

Massacres, beheading boys as young as 15 and amputations and lashings in public squares as residents, including children, are forced to watch, figure on the list, as does the widespread use of child soldiers and stoning women to death for suspected adultery.

Referring to the group’s recent beheadings of two US journalists and a British aid worker, Pinheiro stressed that IS “has continued to subject scores of Syrians to the same fate in public squares in the north and east of the country.”

Outrage over the group’s actions spurred US President Barack Obama last week to order expanded airstrikes against the militant group in Iraq and threaten the same on the Syrian side of the border.

Pinheiro reiterated Tuesday the commission’s stance that the Syrian conflict “will not be resolved on the battlefield,” insisting dialogue was the only way forward.

“As military action on ISIS positions seems increasingly likely, we remind all parties that they must abide by the laws of war,” he said, demanding that “serious efforts must be made to preserve civilian life.”

Pinheiro also stressed that the jihadists were not “the sole agents of death and destruction” in Syria, where the UN says nearly 200,000 people have died since the conflict erupted in March 2011.

“I have run out of words to depict the gravity of the crimes committed inside Syria,” Pinheiro said.

Monday, September 15, 2014

Anti-Semitic Film Suggests Israel Is The Creator Of ISIS

WATCH: The Devil Marries a Jewish Woman and Create…ISIS?

By Lea Speyer September 15, 2014 , 11:13 am

“The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.” (Proverbs 8:13)

Satan and a Jewish woman are seen in a video aired on Iraqi TV explaining the emergence of ISIS. (Photo: Youtube Screenshot)

Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/21597/watch-devil-marries-jewish-woman-createisis/#Cf1wv7QUKWWAjdM6.99