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Category Archives: Terrorism
Shootings to Recur in Absence of Strict Gun Control Laws: Obama
US President Barack Obama has warned that horrific mass shooting incidents like the recent one in Orlando will continue to occur unless tougher gun control laws are adopted. "We can't anticipate or catch every single deranged person that may wish to do harm to his neighbours, or his friends, or his coworkers, or strangers.
House committee passes legislation calling for N.K.’s designation as terror sponsor
A U.S. House committee on Thursday passed a bill calling for relisting North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism. The legislation , which was introduced by Rep. Ted Poe last month, passed through the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Russian FM: US spares al-Qaida’s branch to topple Assad
The head of the military agency that searches for and identifies the remains of missing servicemen is resigning after just one year to take over a troubled nonprofit that cares for wounded troops. The head of the military agency that searches for and identifies the remains of missing servicemen is resigning after just one year to take over a troubled nonprofit that cares for wounded troops.
newCIA chief: IS working to send operatives to the West
CIA Director John Brennan told Congress on Thursday that the Islamic State remains "formidable" and "resilient," is training and attempting to deploy operatives for further attacks on the West and will rely more on guerrilla-style tactics to compensate for its territorial losses in the Middle East. Giving the Senate intelligence committee an update on the threat from extremists, Brennan said IS has been working to build an apparatus to direct and inspire attacks against its foreign enemies, as in the recent attacks in Paris and Brussels ones the CIA believes were directed by IS leaders.
U.S. officials say American Muslims do report extremist threats
Muslim-Americans have repeatedly informed authorities of fellow Muslims they fear might be turning to extremism, law enforcement officials say, contrary to a claim by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump this week. "They don't report them," Trump said in a CNN interview on Monday, in the wake of the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub of 49 people by an American Muslim who claimed allegiance to Islamic State.
Michigan Muslims decry Trump, Clinton’s use of phrase ‘radical Islam’
In the aftermath of the Orlando mass shooting, presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have been in a war of words over how to address threats to national security. And for many Muslims living in Michigan, the words the presumptive presidential nominees of both political parties chose to use when discussing potential threats - especially the use of "radical Islam" or similar phrases - have been disappointing.
President Obama to travel to Orlando Thursday
President Barack Obama lands Thursday at the scene of the largest terror attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 buffeted by criticism that he doesn't understand the threat posed by radical Islam and hasn't done enough to protect the homeland. When terrorists have struck during his presidency, Obama has typically reacted cerebrally and unemotionally, trying to ensure that reason triumphs over the fear and emotion of the moment even as critics such as Donald Trump assail it.
Trump tweets Breitbart article to prove President Obama is an ISIS sympathizer
's response to the mass shooting in Orlando over the weekend, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate is doubling down on some of his most ludicrous conspiracy theories - and ridiculously citing discredited right-wing websites as evidence. In an attempt to defend his controversial suggestions that President Obama somehow allowed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history to occur because he is secretly a "Radical Islam" terrorist sympathizer, Trump took to his favorite social media platform to share "proof" from the right-wing website Breitbart.com The Breitbart story cites "a newly discovered SECRET classified memo " that purportedly proves Obama's terrorist sympathies.
Obama and Clinton slam Trump
President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton conducted an extraordinary joint attack on Donald Trump on Tuesday, with the president accusing the presumptive Republican nominee of "doing the terrorists' work for them" and Clinton excoriating him as a liar and a "pathological" personality who is temperamentally unsuited to be president. Their remarks, made at simultaneous speeches in Washington and Pittsburgh, came the day after Trump had revived insinuations about Obama's loyalty to the U.S. and had vowed that as president he would ban immigration not only by Muslims but people from any country with a "proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies."
Politics | Fecteau: Why Doesn’t President Obama Say Radical Islam?
There has been an escalating amount of opprobrium over of all things how President Obama condemned the ISIS-inspired attack in Orlando; he merely called it an "act of terror and an act of hate." This was notably absent a reference to Islam, but there is an intricate reasoning for this.
Why the words ‘radical Islam’ matter :0
In the course of denouncing Donald Trump on Tuesday, President Obama tried to explain why he still refuses to use the phrase "radical Islam" to describe the ongoing terrorist threat against America. "Does anyone seriously think we don't know who we're fighting?" the president said, adding that US forces in the Middle East "know full well who the enemy is."
9-in-10 on terror watch list who sought guns were approved in 2015
People on the United States' terrorist watch list passed background checks and have been allowed to purchase firearms 91% of the time in 2015, updated federal data shows. An updated report by the Government Accountability Office, released Tuesday by Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office, shows individuals on the terrorist watch list were involved in background checks to purchase firearms 244 times - with 223 of those transactions, or 91%, allowed to proceed.
Why does Hillary Clinton keep terror-enabler Melissa Mark-Viverito on her team? :0
Even as the victims were bleeding out in Orlando early Sunday, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito was tweeting her support for another terrorist, unrepentant bomber Oscar Lopez Rivera. The speaker is a fervent Puerto Rican nationalist, you see.
How to defeat the Islamist fanatics
Consistently, they have denied the nature and scope of the threat. Even the George W. Bush administration pandered to Muslim activists and worried more about offending savages than winning.
Bang: Trump’s Second Barrel Explodes at Jihad
This is Donald Trump on the latest horror killing in Israel. Read it, and you realize it's not the Trump you thought you knew.
After Orlando, Trump amps up calls to ban Muslim entry, monitor U.S. Muslims
Donald Trump amped up his calls to cut off Muslim entry into the United States and to monitor U.S. Muslims, in the wake of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, through his Twitter feed and speaking to news outlets on Monday, said a substantial threat existed among Muslims overseas and Muslims in the United States.
Chicago activist back in Detroit court in immigration case
A Chicago activist convicted of lying to get U.S. citizenship has returned to a Detroit court for the first time since a judge was ordered to take another look at her claims of post-traumatic stress disorder from... A Chicago activist convicted of lying to get U.S. citizenship has returned to a Detroit court for the first time since a judge was ordered to take another look at her claims of post-traumatic stress disorder from her time... Undersea explorers who spent several days studying the wreck of the Andrea Doria off Nantucket are planning to share their findings. Undersea explorers say the wreckage of the Andrea Doria off Nantucket appears more badly deteriorated than previous sonar images suggested.
Trump: Bomb ISIS Over Orlando Massacre
Donald Trump said the United States needs to increase its military response against Islamic State in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting over the weekend, including additional bombings and a targeted effort to knock out ISIS' internet capabilities.
Orlando Gay Nightclub Attack Likely an Act of Terrorism
"This was an act of terror," said President Barack Obama during a news briefing at the White House. "This was an act of hate."