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A British sniper from the elite SAS saved an 8-year-old boy and his father from an Islamic State executioner by shooting the executioner in the head last month.
The SAS sniper team was reportedly tipped off to the execution in the Syrian desert by an Iraqi spy. When they arrived, they found that several Shia Muslims had already been beheaded by their Shiite Muslim captors. The IS (commonly referred to as ISIS) executioner, flanked on both sides by armed companions, was preparing to kill a young boy and his father next when the SAS team deployed its .50-caliber silenced sniper rifle.
“The ISIS thug who was about to decapitate the father was shot in the head and collapsed,” an unnamed source told the Express. “Everyone just stared in confusion.”
“The sniper then dispatched the two henchmen with single shots–three kills with three bullets.”
The young boy and his father were last spotted heading to the Turkish border as the Syrian town they were evacuating celebrated the killing of the IS fighters.
“It was a good day’s work,” the source told the paper.
A strong majority of Americans would not vote for Barack Obama if he were allowed to run for a third term in the White House.
According to a Monmouth University poll released Monday, only 27 percent of U.S. adults would vote to reelect Obama in 2016, while 65 percent would cast their ballots for someone else.
Support for the president is even weak among Democrats: While 53 percent would support Obama for a third term, the share of liberal Americans who would not vote for Obama stands at 43 percent.
Obama told the African Union during a speech late last month that he has been a “pretty good president,” and that he would likely win if the U.S. Constitution permitted him to run for a third term.
The poll also indicates that Obama’s job approval rating has waned in the wake of his announcement regarding the finalized Iran nuclear arms agreement. Currently, 50 percent of Americans disapprove of Obama’s performance as president, up from 46 percent in July. Only 45 percent approve of him.
The president has been tirelessly defending the nuclear deal despite opposition from both Republican and Democratic members of Congress, even pre-taping interviews with various news outlets so that he can continue to sell the agreement as he spends his 17-day summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Sixty-one percent of Americans do not trust Iran to abide by the terms of the deal “at all,” and a mere 6 percent hold substantial trust in the country. Moreover, most Americans believe that Iran got more of what it wanted out of the deal than did the United States.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who has been characterized by some as the equivalent of an Obama third term, has demonstrated her approval of the Iran agreement, labeling it an “important step.”
A Shift in the Battle for Yemen by Glynn Cosker
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Prosecuting a war in Yemen is difficult, but fighting an insurgency in the country is doubly so. In contemporary history conflict within Yemen involving the British, Saudis, Egyptians, the U.S., and the drawn out Yemeni civil war all demonstrate the difficulty of pacifying such a fractious state, and yet, we are back discussing another conflict.
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Russia’s Communist Party has organized a ‘Selfies with Lenin’ competition in order to introduce young Russians to the leader.
Members of the Komsomol (Young Communist League) of the Komi Republic in northern Russia sent a letter to Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Communist party, proposing the selfie competition. Theywrote that the selfies would be a “cheap and effective way to familiarize the younger generation with the image of the leader of the world proletariat” and also that it will give the Communists the ability to track of the condition of Lenin monuments across the country.
Zyuganov affirmed the idea. “I think Vladimir Ilyich will be thankful,” he said.
In order to enter the competition, contestants must upload a Lenin selfie with the hashtag “#селфислениным” or “#selfiewithlenin.” The contestant with the best selfie will receive a tablet complete with Lenin’s writings.
Choosing a winner will not be easy. This entry tagged her Lenin selfie, “Uncle Lenin says you must listen to your mom.”
There is a small barrier to entry for the contest, as statues of Lenin are everywhere.
Here’s another, in Sochi’s Art Square.
This man found a statue of Lenin picked the nose of the young communist.
Despite Russia’s ban on homosexual propaganda, this man took a chance and snapped a selfie of himself giving Lenin a loving kiss.
This girl celebrated her birthday with a Lenin selfie.
Lenin does not fear the selfie stick.
Although Instagram was flooded with selfies, the competition was not met with unanimous support.
Historian Nikita Petrov said the competition represents the “domestication of a tyrant” and “an attempt to build Lenin into the mainstream,” according to the Russian Izvestia.
“The use of new technologies to popularize old idols cannot bring anything other than a grin,” Petrov said. “I would call this action a gesture of despair.”
The competition stands in contrast to nationwide resistance to Lenin in Ukraine.
Dozens of statues of Lenin have been toppled across Ukraine since February 2014, according to theWashington Post. To many Ukrainians, the Soviet leader is a symbol of “Russia’s aggressive support for the separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.”
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The world has to confront an increasingly intractable problem: the growing threat from radical Christian terrorists who have slaughtered thousands of innocents. There’s the loose affiliation of terror groups tied to the Christian Identity movement, as well as the Orange Volunteers, the Army of God, the Phineas Priesthood and many, many others. And those are just the homegrown organizations—Christianity has inspired violent groups overseas that murder and behead people, and rape and kill young children. The Lord’s Resistance Army, a radical fundamentalist Christian group, has committed thousands of murders and kidnappings in the name of Jesus. There’s also the Church of Almighty God in China, the National Liberation Front of Tripura in India and other Christian terrorist organizations around the globe.
On top of those are the “lone wolf” terrorists inspired by Scripture filled with calls for violence, including murdering nonbelievers and those who don’t honor the Sabbath, slicing open the bellies of pregnant women and celebrating the bashing of babies to death on rocks. There’s Eric Rudolph, Shelley Shannon, Paul Jennings Hill—all murderers for Christ. Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in Norway, proclaiming he was seeking to create a “monocultural Christian Europe.”
Christians often deny that these acts of terrorism have anything to do with Christianity and state that theirs is a religion of peace, but they fail to strongly condemn the violent actions. Plenty refuse to even denounce the murder of doctors who provide health care services that the devout oppose. And the greatest financial support for the radical Catholic terrorists in the Irish Republican Army came from American Christians. Despite the IRA’s murder of 1,800 people, American politicians proved they were soft on terrorism. Representative Peter King of New York even went to Ireland and hung out with the group’s sympathizers. Fortunately, the British were tough and used enhanced interrogation techniques—including waterboarding—on these radicals.
Offended by what you’ve just read? Good. You’re supposed to be. That diatribe, while all true, is horrific. Sadistic lunatics, whether as individuals or groups, have nothing to do with Christianity. They have just appropriated a peaceful religion to justify their murderous impulses.
Don’t think, though, that this is about to become a false equivalence of the terrorism undertaken by self-identified Christians and Muslims. Sunni extremists accounted for 70 percent of all terrorist killings in 2011, or 8,886 people, according to the most recent unclassified report by the government’s National Counterterrorism Center; the number of Christian terrorists is so small that the NCC does not give it an individual category, although this was the year of the Breivik massacre. For Muslims, though, the most important number is how many devotees of Islam who do not commit terrorist acts themselves are inclined to support the religious teachings of those who do. In Europe alone, according to Angel Rabasa, a senior political scientist at the Rand Corporation, 1 percent of all Muslims are at risk of becoming radicals because they sympathize with the fundamentalist teachings that preach violence. That percentage may seem low, but given that Islam has about 1.6 billion adherents, the number of Muslims open to violence is far too high. Based on Rabasa’s analysis, more than 300,000 Muslims in Europe could be radicalized, a dangerously large group of nonviolent people who could be pushed over the edge toward terrorist acts.
So the point of the “Christian terrorists” rant is to prove a point about national security imperatives in the face of violent attacks by some Muslim sects and the abject ignorance of some prominent Republicans who insist that, by avoiding the phrase “radical Islamic terrorists,” the Obama administration is soft on ISIS, Al Qaeda and others. This GOP demand for its own form of political correctness feeds into what the Islamic murderers want, intelligence experts say, because it helps them portray the Western fight against terrorist groups as a war on Muslims. In fact, with the endless parsing of language about terrorism—such as criticizing Obama for calling the Benghazi attack an “act of terror” rather than “a terrorist act” (or was it the other way around?)—the GOP PC police have shown themselves willing to undermine America’s fight against psychopathic monsters to score political points with the uninformed.
Take a moment to reflect. If the harangue above about Christian terror were repeated again and again—on television, in daily encounters, even by the president—how many of those inclined to violence would feel their religion was under attack? That is the challenge the world faces in dealing with the rise of radicalism among some practitioners of Islam. The goal is to decrease the appeal to Muslims of radical interpretations of Islam, not to reinforce the message of terror groups. Equating all of Islam with terrorism, insulting the religion and Muhammad, burning Korans—each act of disrespect, particularly by politicians, brings smiles to ISIS leaders. Yes, they are offended, but they know they have been given another gift—like the invasion of Iraq—that helps recruit more fighters. “There has never been a group as adept at using our own words against us for propaganda purposes” as ISIS, says one former senior official with American intelligence. “Every time some person in authority insults their religion, they can inspire Muslims in tune with the radical message to start planning an attack.”
In fact, sloppy language to describe these terrorists—particularly the words Republican nincompoops are demanding Obama use—can reinforce the idea among nonviolent fundamentalists that joining the fight being waged by ISIS and other terrorists is a noble cause. “Language and terminology matter,’’ says a 2013 report from the Qatar International Academy of Security Studies, a consulting organization used by governments and private industry. “It is import to refrain from using terms such as ‘radical’ or ‘jihad,’ as the words may traditionally have positive connotations.”
That is why Obama and George W. Bush carefully chose their words when discussing terrorism perpetrated by Muslims, avoiding statements that might be perceived as insults. "We are not at war with Islam,’’ Obama said in February at the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism. “We are at war with people who have perverted Islam."
Bush said much the same. “This great nation of many religions understands, our war is not against Islam, or against faith practiced by the Muslim people,’’ he said in 2002. “Our war is a war against evil.”
This intelligent approach when speaking about terrorism is now more essential than ever. The media tactics of ISIS—whose top ranks include many former Baath Party members who were senior officials under the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein—have created an unprecedented need for linguistic care by American politicians. This organization has established an astonishing presence on social media, reaching millions with the argument that America and its allies are attacking Islam and only those who support them are true Muslim. “The media effort of the Islamic State is an integral and essential part of its operations, on a par with its military and administrative effort,” wrote Richard Barrett, a former British intelligence officer and head of the United Nations monitoring team concerning Al Qaeda and the Taliban, in a 2014 report for the Soufan Group, a security consulting firm. “In this respect it is greatly helped by the decentralized nature of social media (particularly Twitter), which has allowed each of its supporters effectively to create and operate his/her own ministry of information, echoing a standard party line as well as creating and spreading their own memes and messages. In effect, the Islamic State is crowdsourcing its propaganda. There is no precedent for this.’’
Thus, every time some politician—out of ignorance or cynicism—directly links Islam to terrorism or unknowingly ties radicalism to glory or jihad to martyrdom, ISIS and their ilk have more evidence to win converts. And unfortunately, a lot of the simpletons helping terrorists gain more supporters are candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, meaning much of their destructive blathering receives dissemination over national television.
“This president seems to bend over backwards to want to avoid saying that. He won’t even say the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism,’” said Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana. “He’s always afraid of offending everybody rather than doing his job.”
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, another GOP presidential candidate, has demonstrated a fairly keen understanding of the intricacies of dealing with global terrorism, but too often he joins in with his braying co-contenders. “I've never been more worried about my country than I am today in terms of radical Islam,” Graham said on ABC’s This Week. “And yes, it is radical Islam.”
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas did the same, proclaiming that Obama is “an apologist for radical Islamic terrorists,” blasting the administration’s rhetoric and approach to ISIS.
And it is not just those in the presidential ring mouthing this foolishness. Indiana Governor Mike Pence—perhaps the only Republican politician not running for president—joined in on this hallelujah chorus of foolishness, slamming Obama for being "unwilling to call Islamic extremism what it is."
And so politicians kowtow by mouthing the platitudes the arrogant but ignorant want to hear. And somewhere in the world, maybe in your hometown, a previously non-violent fundamentalist Muslim will feel the call to join the fight.
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A rare white whale delighted onlookers off the coast of Queensland, Australia in a very rare sighting. Report by Conor Mcnally.
The Russian economy was 4.6 percent smaller in the second quarter of 2015 than the same quarter last year, according to official government figures.
BEIRUT — An apparent road-rage incident that caused the death of a Syrian colonel last week hasled a rare eruption of anger against the family of President Bashar al-Assad in a key stronghold of his minority sect in northwestern Syria.Read full article >>
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Open Season: Azerbaijani Journalists Say 'Sense of Impunity' Behind Fatal Beatingby support@pangea-cms.com (Charles Recknagel)
The fatal beating of an Azerbaijani reporter may reflect a growing sense of impunity over attacks on the country's independent journalists.
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel address a press conference following talks at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany on 23 March, 2015. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras address a press conference following talks at the chancellery in Berlin, on March 23, 2015. AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ (Photo credit should read TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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Al-Qaida affiliate ceases fighting Isis in parts of Syriaby Kareem Shaheen in Beirut
Nusra Front orders fighters to stand down to avoid indirectly aiding US-led campaign against terror group
A Syrian al-Qaida affiliate has ordered its fighters to disengage from battles against Islamic State (Isis) in parts of the country where Turkey intends to create a “safe zone”.
The directive, which was published online on Monday, said the Nusra Front would refrain from fighting Isis in a swath of northern Syria in order to avoid indirectly aiding the US-led campaign against the terror group.
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A journalist in Azerbaijan who criticised a popular footballer on social media is fatally beaten by football fans.
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In difficult year for law enforcement, Attorney General Loretta Lynch praises police officers
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Drones Getting in Way of California Emergency Respondersby webdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press)
As Jason Thrasher lowered his helicopter to a park with seven firefighters aboard, he saw what he thought was another firefighting chopper battling a blaze that was threatening homes. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection pilot suddenly identified the object as a four-rotor drone only 10 feet from his windshield, forcing him to make a hard left to avoid a collision about 500 feet above ground, according to a report he filed the next day. "If that drone came...
Pride Uganda Welcomes Break From Life in Closetby webdesk@voanews.com (Serginho Roosblad)
In a secret location in Uganda Saturday, several hundred people walked in a gay pride march. While homosexuality remains illegal in Uganda, Saturday's event was a welcome break from "life in the closet" for the country's many gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. The fourth annual Uganda Pride was also hailed as a small victory, coming a year after a controversial anti-homosexuality law, which would have punished homosexual acts with long prison terms, was...
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Dollar Rises, Then Falters; Oil Slidesby webdesk@voanews.com (Jim Randle)
An improving job market and expected interest rate increases have been strengthening the value of the dollar, while worries about China's economic growth and a rising oil supply are hurting the price of oil. The dollar hit a nearly four-month high Friday but slipped a bit in Monday's trading on uncertainty about the timing of an interest rate hike. The dollar was boosted when the U.S. unemployment rate held steady at its lowest level in nearly seven years, and the...
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday said his plan for combating the Islamic State terrorist group would be to "knock the hell out of" them and take back the oil the group controls in the Middle East.
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President Obama said he's comfortable moving forward with the Iranian nuclear deal even if majorities in the House and Senate reject the accord.
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President Barack Obama approved of Iran’s right to operate a nuclear program in 2011 during secret meetings with Iranian officials, according to new disclosures by Iran’s Supreme Leader.
The comments, made earlier this year by Ali Khamenei, dispute claims by the Obama administration that it only began talking to Iran after the election of President Hassan Rouhani.
Khamenei revealed in a recent speech that talks began in secret with anti-Semitic, Holocaust denying former President Mahmoud Ahmadenejad. At this time, Obama told the Iranians he endorses Iran’s right to have a nuclear program.
“The issue of negotiating with the Americans is related to the term of the previous [Ahmadinejad] government, and to the dispatching of a mediator to Tehran to request talks,” Khamenei said in a recent speech translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
“At the time, a respected regional figure came to me as a mediator and explicitly said that U.S. President [Obama] had asked him to come to Tehran and present an American request for negotiations,” Khamenei disclosed. “The Americans told this mediator: ‘We want to solve the nuclear issue and lift sanctions within six months, while recognizing Iran as a nuclear power.’”
“I told that mediator that I did not trust the Americans and their words, but after he insisted, I agreed to reexamine this topic, and negotiations began,” Khamenei added.
Other Iranian officials also have admitted that Obama’s goal from the get-go was to endorse Iran’s nuclear program and then lift economic sanctions on the country’s economy.
Secretary of State John Kerry sent a letter to Iran stating that the United States “recognizes Iran’s rights regarding” nuclear enrichment, according to another senior Iranian official, Hossein Sheikh Al-Islam.
“We came to the [secret] negotiations [with the United States] after Kerry wrote a letter and sent it to us via [mediator Omani Sultan Qaboos], stating that America officially recognizes Iran’s rights regarding the [nuclear fuel] enrichment cycle,” Al-Islam said in a recent interview with Iran’s Tasnim news agency, according to MEMRI.
“Then there were two meetings in Oman between the [Iranian and U.S.] deputy foreign ministers, and after those, Sultan Qaboos was dispatched by Obama to Khamenei with Kerry’s letter,” the official added.
Khamenei went on to tell him at the time: “‘I don’t trust them.’ Sultan Qaboos said: ‘Trust them one more time.’ On this basis the negotiations began, and not on the basis of sanctions, as they [the Americans] claim in their propaganda.”
This information has been confirmed by other senior Iranian officials, according to MEMRI.
Ali Skbar Salahi, the Iranian vice president and head of its Atomic Energy Organization, claimed in separate interviews this year that “the Americans initiated the secret talks with Iran in 2011-2012, and stressed his role in jumpstarting the process from the Iranian side,” according to MEMRI.
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Vladimir Putin, failed spy by Jim Hoagland
The ex-KGB officer seated in front of me raised his hand to interrupt my brief monologue on Vladimir Putin’s “hybrid” war in Ukraine. It was clearly the work of someone formed by the Soviet intelligence service, I was opining, of someone expert in covert operations and comfortable with deception as a strategy.Read full article >>
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Mayor de Blasio’s new plan aims to protect people who might pose a danger to themselves or others.
NEARLY SIX months after Russia agreed to an immediate cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, its forces continue to shell and rocket Ukrainian positions on a daily basis. Far from pulling back heavy weapons or withdrawing its troops as required by the agreement, it has built military bases and deployed 9,000 troops inside Ukraine and stationed another 50,000 just outside the border, according to Ukrainian and NATO officials. Ukraine’s national security council warned last month that Moscow had completed preparations for a new offensive in three different directions from the territory it currently controls.Read full article >>
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Earth’s orbit is looking more and more like the planet’s surface -- heavily armed and primed for war.
MOSCOW (AP) — Official government figures show that the Russian economy was 4.6 percent in the second quarter from the same quarter the previous year in the wake of plummeting oil prices and Western sanctions.
The sharp quarterly decline reported Monday by the country’s state statistics agency is more than double the 2.2-percent contraction recorded in the previous quarter.
The Russian economy is in recession for only the second time in President Vladimir Putin’s 15 years in power as a result of the slump in oil prices, the country’s main currency earner, and Western sanctions over Moscow’s involvement in the crisis in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the Russian currency dived again Monday, falling below 64 rubles a dollar. The ruble’s woes over the past year have helped fuel inflation and hurt consumer demand.
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