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Obama's Immigration Policy: Pakistani doctor who helped get Bin Laden denied asylum in U.S.

Further proof of Obama's pro-jihad domestic and foreign policies. Al Harbi is allowed into the country. The Boston bombers, the Christmas underwear bomber..... those who want to kill us and destroy our very way of life are welcomed. Those persecuted under the sharia are left to a fate worse than and including death. That is not the American way.

Pakistani doctor who helped get Bin Laden was denied asylum in U.S. by Sib Kaifee for FoxNews.com, May 17: (thanks to Robert Spencer)

The jailed doctor who helped the U.S. track down Usama bin Laden was convicted by a tribal court on bogus charges, according to a classified Pakistani government report.

Portions of the voluminous 357-page Abbottobad Commission Report, which has yet to be made public and were obtained exclusively by Fox News, acknowledge Dr. Shakil Afridi’s conviction last year by a government-sponsored Jirga has undermined Pakistan’s credibility. The report calls for Afridi to be given a new trial.

The report also claims Afridi joined the CIA search for Bin Laden five years ago, while he was staying in the U.S. with a cousin. According to the report, Afridi applied for asylum after a terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Islam, stepped up its operations in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt.

Afridi was reportedly kidnapped by the group in 2008 and released after his family paid a $10,000 ransom. After helping the CIA pinpoint the terror mastermind just prior to the 2011 raid in which Navy SEALs killed Bin laden, Afridi was arrested and convicted by the tribal court of colluding with Lashkar-e-Islam.

The State Department declined to comment on the report's claims that Afridi had applied for asylum while staying in the U.S.

The commission report acknowledges Afridi was subjected to harsh treatment in prison, and moved several times to various undisclosed locations by Pakistan’s spy agency. His Pakistani handlers also note his incarceration for a year without judicial process was unfair, according to the report.

#Obamacareinthreewords

A hashtag skirmish broke out on twitter today -- #ObamaCareInThreeWords.

Here's the thing -- Obama didn't know about Benghazi. Obama didn't know about Fast and Furious. Obama didn't know that the IRS was targeting patriots while giving special treatment to subversives. Obama didn't know about the AP wiretapping. But he knows inside of an hour about a twitter fight and that is important enough to respond?

Why didn't Obama respond to the repeated calls for help from the two soldiers fighting off jihadists in Benghazi? They died, you bastard. Tweet that.

BI: Coinciding with the House's vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) promoted a hashtag on Twitter that stirred up partisan emotions on both sides of the aisle.

Issa's hashtag — #ObamacareInThreeWords — encouraged snark on both sides of the aisle. It also prompted a back and forth between the White House and House Speaker John Boehner.

 

 

Obama at his most despicable: refused to apologize for secretly seizing AP phone records, blamed Congress for Benghazi, and dodged question about White House IRS knowledge

Look at the coverage of our jackass-in-chief in the international press. Everyone has his number. The comments say it all.

He calls Benghazi and the slaughter of four Americans an "incident," not a a terror attack.

On the IRS fascist intimidation of conservative groups, "he suggested that IRS employees may simply not have had sufficient 'guidance' on the fair fulfillment of their duties." Actually, Barack Hussein, they have a lot of guidance from your totalitarian thugs.

Obama refused to apologize for wiretapping the AP, saying, "'Leaks related to national security can put people at risk,' Obama said, citing 'men and women in uniform' and 'intelligence officers.' But Obama leaked all the details on the OBL kill and that Navy SEAL team six members slaughtered.

During Rose Garden press conference, Obama refuses to apologize for secretly seizing AP phone records, shifts blame to Congress for Benghazi security lapses, and dodges question about White House IRS knowledge Daily Mail (thanks to Ken)

• Assailed by questions over three scandals engulfing White House during Rose Garden press conference with Turkish Prime Minister
• Would not say whether anyone in his West Wing knew about the IRS targeting of the Tea Party before last week
• Offered 'no apologies' for DoJ secretly seizing phone records of Associated Press reporters over intelligence leak
• Admitted 'lessons needed to be learned' from Benghazi but said it was up to Congress to approve more money for military to provide extra security in hotspots abroad

By David Martosko In Washington

President Barack Obama dodged questions Thursday about the IRS's targeting of conservative groups, shifted responsibility for the Benghazi attack to Congress, and said 'I offer no apologies' for the Department of Justice's secret seizure of reporter's phone records in search of a classified intelligence leak.

In a rain-soaked Rose Garden press conference originally intended to be a victory lap for the United States' relationship with Turkey, Obama stood alongside Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan and fielded questions which quickly shifted to the trio of scandals that are engulfing his administration.

Beginning in 2010, Obama's IRS targeted a list of approximately 300 tea party-related and other conservative groups for aggressive scrutiny following their applications for tax-exempt status.

Hoping for a break in the storm: Obama faced a barrage of questions over three simultaneous scandals engulfing his administration today during a press conference in a rain-soaked Rose Garden with the Turkish Prime Minister

Obama asks Pro-Sharia PM Erdogan for advice on "how to raise his daughters" again

Obama met with his favorite "most trusted ally" today, Prime Minister Erdogan, the Turkish leader who rolled back a near-century of modernization in Turkey to install the barbaric sharia and hurl Turkey backwards in time. Obama asked Erdogan for advise on how to raise his daughters, again.

During their tet a tet, Obama said this:

And I also appreciate the advice he gives me, because he has two daughters that are a little older than mine -- they've turned out very well, so I'm always interested in his perspective on raising girls.

Hmmmm, honor killings, honor violence, FGM, forced marriage, child marriage .....

Prime Minister previously told Barack Hussein that there was no extreme Islam, no moderate Islam, only Islam. "Islam is Islam."

UPDATE: And as Andrew Bostom points out an inveterate Jew hater:

From Sharia Versus Freedom: 

Former Turkish prime minister Necmettin Erbakan (1926–2011), founder of the funda­mentalist Islamic Milli Gorus (National Vision; originated 1969) movement, mentored current AKP leaders president Abdullah Gul, and prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (1954–), both of whom were previously active members of Erbakan’s assorted fundamentalist political parties, serving in mayoral, ministerial, and parliamentary posts. Erdogan, in 1974, while serving as president of the Istanbul Youth Group of his mentor Erbakan’s National Salvation Party, wrote, directed, and played the leading role in a theatrical play titled Maskomya, staged throughout Turkey during the 1970s. Mas-Kom-Ya was a compound acronym for “Masons-Communists-Yahudi”—the latter of course “Jews”—and the play focused on the evil, conspiratorial nature of these three entities whose common denominator was Judaism. More recently, when the wildly popular, most expensive film ever made in Turkey, Valley of the Wolves (released February, 2006) included a “cinematic motif” which featured an American Jewish doctor dismembering Iraqis supposedly murdered by American soldiers in order to harvest their organs for Jewish markets, Prime Minister Erdogan not only failed to condemn the film, he justified its production and popularity.

Andrew G. Bostom. “Mas-Kom-Ya, Erdogan, and Turkey’s Islamic Jew Hatred,” Pajamas Media, June 17, 2010, http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/10/09ANKARA1549.html .

Erdogan’s religiously-inspired Jew-hatred did not pass unnoticed by Gabby Levy, an Israeli ambassador to Turkey, as recorded in a WikiLeaks cable from October, 2009, sent by the US embassy in Ankara, Turkey. Levy’s views were validated by US ambassador James Jeffrey.

C O N F I D E N T I A L ANKARA 001549

SUBJECT: ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TRACES HIS PROBLEMS TO ERDOGAN

REF: ANKARA 1532

Classified By: AMB James F. Jeffrey

Relevant extracts from: http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/10/09ANKARA1549.html

Levy dismissed political calculation as a motivator for Erdogan’s hostility, arguing the prime minister’s party had not gained a single point in the polls from his bashing of Israel. Instead, Levy attributed Erdogan’s harshness to deep-seated emotion: “He’s a fundamentalist. He hates us religiously and his hatred is spreading.” 

[US ambassador Jeffrey’s observations] Our discussions with contacts both inside and outside of the Turkish government on Turkey’s deteriorating relations with Israel tend to confirm Levy’s thesis that Erdogan simply hates Israel. xxxxx discusses contributing reasons for Erdogan’s tilt on Iran/Middle East issues, but antipathy towards Israel is a factor.

 

Obama's DoJ Spied on House of Representatives, Tapped The Cloak Room

This. is. a bombshell. This makes Watergate look like a joke. I told ya so.

Last night California Congressman Devin Nunes, who sits on the House Ways And Means Committee, dropped this bomb on the Hugh Hewitt show (via website)

HH: The idea that this might be a Geithner-Axelrod plan, and by that, the sort of intimation, Henry II style, will no one rid me of this turbulent priest, will no one rid me of these turbulent Tea Parties, that might have just been a hint, a shift of an eyebrow, a change in the tone of voice. That’s going to take a long time to get to. I don’t trust the Department of Justice on this. Do you, Congressman Nunes?

DN: No, I absolutely do not, especially after this wiretapping incident, essentially, of the House of Representative. I don’t think people are focusing on the right thing when they talk about going after the AP reporters. The big problem that I see is that they actually tapped right where I’m sitting right now, the Cloak Room.

HH: Wait a minute, this is news to me.

DN: The Cloak Room in the House of Representatives.

HH: I have no idea what you’re talking about.

DN: So when they went after the AP reporters, right? Went after all of their phone records, they went after the phone records, including right up here in the House Gallery, right up from where I’m sitting right now. So you have a real separation of powers issue that did this really rise to the level that you would have to get phone records that would, that would most likely include members of Congress, because as you know…

HH: Wow.

DN: …members of Congress talk to the press all the time.

HH: I did not know that, and that is a stunner.

DN: Now that is a separation of powers issue here, Hugh.

HH: Sure.

DN: And it’s a freedom of press issue. And now you’ve got the IRS going after people. So these things are starting to cascade one upon the other, and you have the White House pretending like they’re in the clouds like it’s not their issue somehow.

Obama IRS Refused Tax Exempt Status to Christian and Pro-Israel Groups But Granted Nonprofit Status to Muslim Orgs

Just for knowing, it took us three years to get 501 C3 status for AFDI.

Busted!… Conservative Group Changes Name to “Greenhouse Solutions” – Granted Nonprofit Status in 3 Weeks

James Dobson confirms slam campaign against his group

Obama IRS Refused Tax Exempt Status to Christian and Pro-Israel Groups But Granted Nonprofit Status to Muslim Orgs (thanks to Jim Hoft)

The Inspector General released a report this week and found that 63% of scrutinized IRS applications were withdrawn or were still unresolved.
Conservative, Tea Party, pro-Israel and Christian groups were targeted by the IRS.

The Obama IRS refused to grant tax exempt status to Christian and pro-life groups on behalf of the abortion group Planned Parenthood.

“In one case, the IRS withheld approval of an application for tax exempt status for Coalition for Life of Iowa. In a phone call to Coalition for Life of Iowa leaders on June 6, 2009, the IRS agent ‘Ms. Richards’ told the group to send a letter to the IRS with the entire board’s signatures stating that, under perjury of the law, they do not picket/protest or organize groups to picket or protest outside of Planned Parenthood,” the Thomas More Society announced today. “Once the IRS received this letter, their application would be approved.”

Planned Parenthood endorsed Obama in 2008 and 2012.

But, Muslim organizations were granted nonprofit status almost immediately.

Obama Throws IRS Chief Under the Bus, Announces Resignation Of Acting IRS Commissioner (who was set to leave in 2 weeks anyway)

Obama channeling Captain Renault in Casablanca: "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"

Steve Miller can commiserate with Hillary 'Benghazigate' Clinton.

Acting IRS Chief Resigns Over Scandal

President Obama announced Wednesday that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had requested and accepted the resignation of acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller over the agency's extra scrutiny of Tea Party groups. At a news conference, Obama called the IRS' actions "inexcusable." "Americans are right to be angry about this," he said. "I am angry about it."

None of us should have to pay taxes to support subversives, betrayers and destroyers. It took AFDI three years to get 501C3 status.

UPDATE: Atlas reader Cynthia comments, "I can not believe that man in the White House saying he was so angry at the IRS and asking for Steven Miller resignation. Such a lie, the man starts another job the first of June. His assignment ended. This is suppose to make us feel better...really. Also, Steven Miller did not even take the acting chief job until after investigation was under way. Why is that not being reported?"

Obama's Jihad in Syria

And always in their calls for a univeral caliphate -- one world under the sharia -- is the Muslim death cry for Jew killing -- Khaybar, Khaybar ya yahood!

The main goals of the Jihadists in Syria are:
1) Create a Sunni Islam theocratic state
2) Impose Sharia law
3) Kill Christians, Druze, and Shiites
4) Launch a new Caliphate

Barack Obama has given over $300 million to Syrian fighters, on record. This does not even count the money that was given to them from classified budgets or his recent promise of lethal weapons. Jihadists were also allowed to take sophisticated weapons from the Libyan army and transport them to Turkey, a country that is harboring and aiding the fighters. It is widely speculated that the US ambassador was trying to stop these arms shipments out of Libya. Al-Nusra is a jihadist group which is run by some of the same people who ran “Al-Qaeda in Iraq.” Notice that they are not calling for Democracy or Freedom. They call for a Saudi-style dictatorship and the return of a Sunni Islam Caliphate [Emperor]. The man leading the chanting says that only one banner will be raised over Syria, referring to the Wahhabist banner used by Saudi Arabia, the Taliban, and Al-Qaeda. There appears to be black, white, and possibly green versions flying in the crowd. Saudi Arabia uses a green version as their national flag, and the Taliban used a white one, and Al Qaeda uses a black one.

The chant “Khaybar, Khayber, O Jews” refers to the capture of the Jewish fortress town of Khayber in 629 by Muhammed and his army of followers. The second line, “The army of Muhammed shall return,” is referring to a future attack on Israel. The chant is aimed at Israel.

Here is another group of Jihadists in Syria. They are standing behind a Saudi Arabian flag, which represents the Wahhabist dictatorship.

Obama Betrays Media Lapdogs: Secretly, Illegally Obtained Records of Journalists

Ha! Obama's lapdog media is shocked (shocked, I tell ya) to have been betrayed by the most dangerous man who ever sat in the Oval Office. They were stunned to find that they were not immune to Obama's now trademark abuse of power. Did they really think that just because they carried his water and covered up his failures, ignored real news stories that made him look bad, and attacked his adversaries, that they wouldn't suffer the same gross injustices as the rest of us?

I, for one, am laughing at these tools. Lord knows what Obama got off those phone records. But a good many AP tools must be quaking in their boots. Impeachable offense? For sure -- but not any more than Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the Obama OBL NAVY SEAL leak, etc.

That the WaPo is still polishing O's knob indicates how beyond help these lovesick puppies are. Check out the WaPo headline: US secretly obtained records of journalists. Not "US" WaPo collaborators, Obama. Do these dupes still think they are immune?

Under sweeping subpoenas, Justice Department obtained AP phone records in leak investigation, Washington Post, May 15, 2013

Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Jihad Reference

Again, when do the Republicans start talking impeachment? "The significant edits – deleting references to al Qaeda and the CIA’s warnings – came after a White House meeting on the Saturday before Ambassador Susan Rice appeared on five Sunday shows.  Nuland, a 30-year foreign service veteran who has served under Democratic and Republican Secretaries of State, was not at that meeting and played no direct role in preparing Rice for her interviews."

Obama lied. Americans died. He. must. go.

Exclusive: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference ABC News, May 10, 2013 (thanks to Van)

When it became clear last fall that the CIA’s now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents reviewed by Congress suggest a different story.

ABC News has obtained 12 different versions of the talking points that show they were extensively edited as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA to the final version distributed to Congress and to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after that attack.

AFP/Getty Images

Related: Read the Full Benghazi Talking Point Revisions

White House emails reviewed by ABC News suggest the edits were made with extensive input from the State Department.  The edits included requests from the State Department that references to the Al Qaeda-affiliated group Ansar al-Sharia be deleted as well references to CIA warnings about terrorist threats in Benghazi in the months preceding the attack.

That would appear to directly contradict what White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said about the talking points in November.

“Those talking points originated from the intelligence community.  They reflect the IC’s best assessments of what they thought had happened,” Carney told reporters at the White House press briefing on November 28, 2012.  “The White House and the State Department have made clear that the single adjustment that was made to those talking points by either of those two institutions were changing the word ‘consulate’ to ‘diplomatic facility’ because ‘consulate’ was inaccurate.”

Summaries of White House and State Department emails — some of which were first published by Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard — show that the State Department had extensive input into the editing of the talking points.

State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland raised specific objections to this paragraph drafted by the CIA in its earlier versions of the talking points:

“The Agency has produced numerous pieces on the threat of extremists linked to al-Qa’ida in Benghazi and eastern Libya.  These noted that, since April, there have been at least five other attacks against foreign interests in Benghazi by unidentified assailants, including the June attack against the British Ambassador’s convoy. We cannot rule out the individuals has previously surveilled the U.S. facilities, also contributing to the efficacy of the attacks.”

In an email to officials at the White House and the intelligence agencies, State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland took issue with including that information because it “could be abused by members [of Congress] to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings, so why would we want to feed that either?  Concerned …”

The paragraph was entirely deleted.

Like the final version used by Ambassador Rice on the Sunday shows, the CIA’s first drafts said the attack appeared to have been “spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo” but the CIA version went on to say, “That being said, we do know that Islamic extremists with ties to al-Qa’ida participated in the attack.”  The draft went on to specifically name  the al Qaeda-affiliated group named Ansar al-Sharia.

Once again, Nuland objected to naming the terrorist groups because “we don’t want to prejudice the investigation.”

In response, an NSC staffer coordinating the review of the talking points wrote back to Nuland, “The FBI did not have major concerns with the points and offered only a couple minor suggestions.”

After the talking points were edited slightly to address Nuland’s concerns, she responded that changes did not go far enough.

“These changes don’t resolve all of my issues or those of my buildings leadership,” Nuland wrote.

In an email dated 9/14/12 at 9:34 p.m. — three days after the attack and two days before Ambassador Rice appeared on the Sunday shows – Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes wrote an email saying the State Department’s concerns needed to be addressed.

“We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don’t want to undermine the FBI investigation.  We thus will work through the talking points tomorrow morning at the Deputies Committee meeting.”

Related: Diplomat Says Requests For Benghazi Rescue Were Rejected

After that meeting, which took place Saturday morning at the White House, the CIA drafted the final version of the talking points – deleting all references to al Qaeda and to the security warnings in Benghazi prior to the attack.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said none of this contradicts what he said about the talking points because ultimately all versions were actually written and signed-off by the CIA.

“The CIA drafted these talking points and redrafted these talking points,” Carney said. “The fact that there are inputs is always the case in a process like this, but the only edits made by anyone here at the White House were stylistic and nonsubstantive. They corrected the description of the building or the facility in Benghazi from consulate to diplomatic facility and the like. And ultimately, this all has been discussed and reviewed and provided in enormous levels of detail by the administration to Congressional investigators, and the attempt to politicize the talking points, again, is part of an effort to, you know, chase after what isn’t the substance here.”

UPDATE:  A source familiar with the White House emails on the Benghazi talking point revisions say that State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland was raising two concerns about the CIA’s first version of talking points, which were going to be sent to Congress:  1) The talking points went further than what she was allowed to say about the attack during her state department briefings; and, 2) she believed the CIA was attempting to exonerate itself at the State Department’s expense by suggesting CIA warnings about the security situation were ignored.

In one email, Nuland asked, why are we suggest Congress “start making assertions to the media [about the al Qaeda connection] that we ourselves are not making because we don’t want to prejudice the investigation?”

One other point:  The significant edits – deleting references to al Qaeda and the CIA’s warnings – came after a White House meeting on the Saturday before Ambassador Susan Rice appeared on five Sunday shows.  Nuland, a 30-year foreign service veteran who has served under Democratic and Republican Secretaries of State, was not at that meeting and played no direct role in preparing Rice for her interviews.

OVER 100 HOLOCAUST SCHOLARS URGE OBAMA: CANCEL INVITE TO SUDAN DELEGATION

The Islamic North slaughtered two million black Christians and animists. Why would Obama be meeting with these war criminals? Will they be forced to go in the back door like Obama subjected Netanyahu to?

This is from The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.

OVER 100 HOLOCAUST SCHOLARS URGE OBAMA: CANCEL INVITE TO SUDAN DELEGATION (thanks to Dan)

Washington, D.C. - One hundred and seven leading Holocaust and genocide scholars from around the world have sent a letter of protest to President Obama, urging him to cancel a planned visit to the United States by Sudanese leaders involved in the Darfur genocide.

The delegation will represent Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for his role in the Darfur genocide. Heading the delegation will be Bashir adviser Nafie Ali Nafie, a prominent participant in the mass killings.

The letter of protest was organized by The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, based in Washington, D.C. It is the latest in a series of Wyman Institute initiatives seeking U.S. action to stop the Darfur atrocities and bring Bashir to justice.

"We must make it clear to the perpetrators of genocide that the United States will treat them as outlaws and bring them to justice, not treat them as respected statesmen and bring them here for friendly visits," the letter of protest argues.

The letter continues: "[W]e have just marked the 70th anniversary of the tragic Bermuda conference of 1943, at which the United States and England pretended to take an interest in the victims of Nazi genocide, but then did nothing to intervene. Let us not repeat that tragic mistake. The victims of Darfur must not be abandoned as were the Jews of Europe."

The 107 signatories on the letter, who come from the United States, Germany, Canada, Israel, England, South Africa, and Sweden, include the most distinguished figures in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies. The signatories include:

* Prof. David S. Wyman, author of The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945.
* Prof. Ben Kiernan, director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University.
* Prof. Yehuda Bauer, former director of Yad Vashem’s International Center for Holocaust Studies.
* Prof. Deborah Lipstadt of Emory University, author of History on Trial.
* Prof. Walter Reich, former director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The complete text of the petition, with all the signatories, follows below.

The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies May 6, 2013

Obama Doesn't Believe UN Report Syrian Rebels Were The Ones Who Used Chemical Weapons…

Rather than admit to what a coward he is and how worthless his word is (Obama's 'red line' on Syria written in 'disappearing ink'), he shows what a coward he is by denying reality. The problem from the Muslim Brotherhood stooge in the White House is that he is backing the rebels and announced late last week that we would be supplyng them with lethal weapons. It seems to me that they already have them, Mr. President.

Look who is leading us into the gathering storm.

UN: Rebels, not Assad, appear to have used chemical weapons

By Julian Pecquet - 05/05/13 07:59 PM ET

  United Nations human rights investigators said Sunday they have gathered testimony from outside Syria suggesting rebels, not Bashar Assad's regime, may have used chemical weapons.

“Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated,” Carla Del Ponte, a member of the independent commission of inquiry on Syria, told Swiss-Italian television. “This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities.” 

The allegations will likely make it harder for the Obama administration to justify taking a more active role in the two-year-old civil war on the side of the opposition. The administration has said in recent days that chemical weapons appeared to have been used in Syria, which would violate the “red line” Obama set for Assad's forces.

The Syrian government has denied using chemical weapons and initially invited UN inspectors to probe a March attack in the village of Khan al-Asal near Aleppo, saying rebels used chemical weapons in that incident. The regime has refused to allow the inspectors to enter the country, however, after France and Britain demanded that they be allowed to investigate other reported sites of chemical weapons use, notably in the village of Ataybah near Damascus on March 19 and in Homs last December.

New video shows Egyptian police allowing deadly attack on Coptic cathedral

Remember, Obama pushed hard for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. He owns this. And please spare me that he couldn't know. Those of us in the counter jihad movement knew. I warned of the Muslim Brotherhood coup in January 2011.

And it's not as if he doesn't know now. And yet he persists in empowering and supporting the most oppressive and brutal Islamic regimes on the face of the earth. He is setting the stage for a bloody worldwide clash of civilizations. These savages should be relegated to the dustbin of history. Instead, the leader of the free world has turned over whole countries, and soon continents as well.

Obama and U.S. Ambassador to Egypt are "die-hard defenders of the Brotherhood-Salafist Islamist project"

New video shows Egyptian police allowing deadly attack on Coptic cathedral FOX News

Newly-emerged video appears to show Egyptian police standing idly by - and even helping attackers during a deadly assault earlier this month on a Coptic cathedral where Christians were mourning five men killed in an earlier clash with Muslims.

The video shot April 7 and first obtained by MidEast Christian News, shows a men shooting guns, wielding machetes and hurling stones and possibly Molotov cocktails as mourners carry caskets out of St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in the Abbassia District of Cairo as uniformed police watch, unmoving. At one point, a police officer appears to help a gunman take aim at a courtyard full of mourners who had spilled out of the church. The attack left two Copts dead and another 84 people injured, including 11 police officers.

"There is a general feeling among citizens about the absence of law and the prestige of the state."

- Report on religious vilence in Egypt

When it was over, the only arrests made were of four Copts. Christians, who were already outraged over a three-day attack that began April 4 attack in Khosous which saw the four men killed and homes, a nursery and a church burned, said the events show how elusive justice is for Christians, who make up about 10 percent of the nation's population.

"Two Copts were killed during the attack on the Cathedral; four more died in Khosous, yet not one of their attackers has been arrested," said Andrew Johnston, advocacy director for Christian Solidarity Worldwide. “These arrests come at a time when the Coptic community in Egypt is still coming to terms with an unprecedented attack on the headquarters of the Coptic Orthodox Church and the violence in Khosous. Such discrepancies in the discharge of justice contribute to impunity, and can only foster more sectarianism.”

Tensions between Egypt's Christians and the majority Sunni Muslims have grown dramatically since President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in 2011 and replaced by the Muslim Brotherhood-led government of Mohammed Morsi.

"There is a general feeling among citizens about the absence of law and the prestige of the state," said a report released Wednesday by the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights. "Such a feeling could push the citizens to the violence and sectarianism without fearing from any deterrence, " reads a passage from the report.

"The recent incident proved the shrinking of the role of the state to control the actions of the individuals especially those people who think that they talk on the behalf of God," the report continued. "There is a need for implementing the law strictly to treat such incidents.”

Supreme Court: ‘There Is No Bar to this Nation's Holding One of Its Own Citizens as an Enemy Combatant’

There is no better friend in the free world to jihadists and islamic supremacists than President Obama, so why would anyone expect Obama to deem jihadists as "enemy combatants"? He has aligned with the racist, oppressive, misogynistic Islamic movements across the world, making it possible for them to take over whole swaths of the Middle East and Africa. So is anyone surprised? Major Hasan stll awaits trial four years after mowing down American soldiers on US soil in the cause of Islam. 

It's like what Mayor Koch said after NY elected David Dinkins, the worst mayor in the history of New York City: "The people have spoken ... And they must be punished.”

Supreme Court: ‘There Is No Bar to this Nation's Holding One of Its Own Citizens as an Enemy Combatant' Weekly Standard

One note about the "enemy combatant" controversy, including Jay Carney's new dumb statement confusing "enemy combatant" status with "military commission" trials.  Take a look at the Supreme Court's decision in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004), the case that involved a U.S. citizen who was an enemy combatant.

The court plainly ruled in that case that U.S. citizens can be held as enemy combatants. The court's four-justice plurality (which included O'Connor, Breyer, Kennedy, and Rehnquist) was unequivocal on this: "There is no bar to this Nation's holding one of its own citizens as an enemy combatant."  And while the U.S. cannot hold an American enemy combatant "indefinitely," it is a "clearly established principle of the law of war" that detention can last as long at the hostilities do.

Now, the Court later held (in Boumediene v. Bush (2008)) that persons deemed to be "enemy combatants" have a right to challenge that designation in court. But that did not change the court's previous holding that U.S. citizens can be enemy combatants. Nothing in the law stops President Obama from determining whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev an "enemy combatant." It can go ahead and choose to try him in criminal court, rather than a military commission, but that's a completely different question.

And don't forget: Eric Holder originally decided to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian trial, even though KSM was an "enemy combatant." 

White House Cancels Jewish Heritage Month Reception

Above: Obama's splendiforous Iftar gala

Who cares about 6,000 years of history, anyway?

White House Scraps Jewish Heritage Month Reception by Keith Koffler, White House Dossier, on April 5, 2013

The White House is picking winners and losers as it cuts back because of the sequester, and a planned reception for American Jews is getting the short end of the stick.

Many other events are proceeding as planned, but according to the Jewish news service JTA, the annual White House celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month is canceled.

“Jewish invitees usually include luminaries in the arts, sports and sciences, lawmakers, armed services personnel and the Israeli ambassador, as well as organizational leaders and political supporters of the president,” according to JTA.

The sequester cuts kicked in March 1, but that hasn’t stopped the White House from staging a variety of fun events marking all sorts of occasions.

The celebration of St. Patrick’s Day last month included an East Room bash with hundreds of guests and a separate breakfast party at the vice president’s residence.

Tuesday, the Obamas took in an exclusive viewing in the White House theater of the movie “42,” which chronicles the life of Jackie Robinson, with the film’s cast and crew. Earlier, in the day, Michelle hosted a “42 Film Workshop” for kids in the State Dining Room that featured Harrison Ford.

Obama even got in a reception for the Stanley Cup Champion Los Angeles Kings and major league soccer champs LA Galaxy on March 26. And there’s money around to transport him to the golf links, where he traveled by motorcade last weekend.

Next Tuesday, the Obamas will be treated to a command East Room performance “celebrating” Memphis soul music, with performances by stars like Justin Timberlake and Queen Latifah.

Deciding what to cancel could become problematic for the White House, as various groups begin to despair at not getting coveted presidential treatment.

For example, next month also traditionally includes a White House celebration of Cinco de Mayo. But it would seem doubtful Obama would nix that event, given the fierce competition for Hispanic voters.

Dhimmi State Department Submits to Muslim Brotherhood Demands: the U.S. Embassy yanks its Twitter account

America in the 21st century: craven, fat and stupid. This is beyond the pale. We don't bow like Obama. And we don't restrict free speech in adherence to the sharia. The vicious and primitive Muslim Brotherhood is leading the stooge in the White House around by the nose.

The Obama administration is making every freedom lover and American patriot ashamed of their country.

'Egyptian Jon Stewart': U.S. Embassy in Cairo Criticized for Tweeting 'Daily Show' Video The Hollywood Reporter April 5, 2013 (thanks to ygalg)

In response to the criticism, the embassy yanked down its account on Wednesday at the request of Cairo-based American ambassador Anne Patterson, The New York Times reported. Her decision raised eyebrows in Washington with the State Department urging Patterson to restore the account "lest it appear that the U.S. government is caving to the online pressure."

When the feed resurfaced, the tweet that seemingly endorsed Stewart's Youssef rant had been removed. During a press briefing on Wednesday, State Department representative Victoria Nulandsaid: "Embassy Cairo’s Twitter feed is back up now. We’ve had some glitches with the way the Twitter feed has been managed. This is regrettably not the first time."

Whiplash alert: Obama Administration accuses Egypt of stifling freedom of expression

This from the man who, in his address at the UN, said that the future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. This from the man who blamed the attacks on our embassies in Libya and Egypt on the freedom of speech. This from the man who blamed the murder of our Ambassador and three attaches on free speech.

Early stages of dementia in the White House:

Staggering hypocrisy: Obama Administration accuses Egypt of stifling freedom of expression Jihadwatch

Now wait a minute. Remember that in 2011, the UN Human Rights Council adopted Resolution 16/18, with the support of the Obama administration. It called upon Western states to pass laws that would criminalize "defamation of religion" – i.e., criticism of Islam. Remember also that right after the Benghazi jihad massacre, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed to have the producer of a video about Muhammad arrested and prosecuted -- and he is still the only person in prison for those attacks, solely for the crime of exercising his freedom of speech. And those are just two of the many ways in which the Obama Administration has shown itself to be a foe of the First Amendment. So either Nuland is going to come in for a serious behind-the-scenes rebuke from her superiors, or the Administration is trying to cover its anti-free speech tracks.

"US accuses Egypt of stifling freedom of expression," from Middle East Online, April 2 (thanks to Twostellas):

WASHINGTON - The United States on Monday voiced concern over freedom of expression in Egypt following the arrest of a comedian for allegedly insulting President Mohamed Morsi and Islam.

US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the detention and release of television satirist Bassem Youssef was evidence of a "disturbing trend" of mounting restrictions on freedom of expression.

Youssef, whose weekly program mercilessly critiques Egypt’s rulers, was released on Sunday and ordered to pay 15,000 Egyptian pounds (around $2,200) pending investigation into the complaints.

"We are concerned that the public prosecutor appears to have questioned and then released on bail Bassem Youssef on charges of insulting Islam and President Morsi," Nuland said.

"This, coupled with recent arrest warrants issued for other political activists, is evidence of a disturbing trend of growing restrictions on the freedom of expression."

Youssef is accused of offending Islam by "making fun of the prayer ritual" and of insulting Morsi by "making fun of his international standing."

Dubbed the Egyptian answer to American television's Jon Stewart, Youssef has repeatedly poked fun at those in power and became a household name in the Arab world's most populous country.

Several of Youssef's colleagues in the Egyptian media also face charges of insulting the president, casting doubt on Morsi's stated commitment to freedom of expression -- a key demand of the popular uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

"We have concerns that freedom of expression is being stifled," Nuland added. "This is something that came up when Secretary (John) Kerry was in Egypt. He raised human rights concerns, including freedom of the press, with President Morsi, and we will continue to raise these concerns."

 

#MyJihad in Bethlehem: Muslims Threw Shoes And Garbage At US President Barack H. Obama's Posters And At American Official's Vehicle

President laughingstock continues to embarrass and betray the American people. He is going to Israel with a cash infusion of 500 million dollars in jiyza for these savages. Aid or Jiyza? Read my WND column today:  Hussein in Jerusalem 

Palestinian Anti-Obama Protesters, Police Clash - Khaled Abu Toameh
Dozens of Palestinians protested in Ramallah Tuesday against President Obama's upcoming visit to the West Bank. Some carried pictures of Obama dressed in an IDF uniform with an Israeli tank in the background. Others carried placards that read: "Obama, we will never forget Iraq" and "America is the head of the snake."
    The demonstrators tried to march toward PA President Mahmoud Abbas' compound, but were pushed back by Palestinian anti-riot policemen. A senior PA official in Ramallah said there was growing concern over plans by Palestinians to escalate protests against Obama. (Jerusalem Post)

Bethlehem Arabs Threw Shoes And Garbage At US President Barack H. Obama's Posters And At American Official's VehicleArutz Sheve via Israel Frontline

Source: Arutz Sheva

Arabs in Bethlehem had a “warm welcome” for American officials who on Monday came to prepare for President Barack H. Obama's visit to the city Friday, by throwing shoes and garbage at the vehicles in an entourage from the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem. Hundreds of Arabs mobbed the vehicles outside the Church of the Nativity, where Obama is scheduled to visit when he comes to Bethlehem.
Sources in the city told Israel Radio that Arab protesters tore down posters with Obama's image, throwing them to the ground and spitting and stepping on them. The protesters threw shoes at other posters that were hung too high for them to easily tear down.
The American entourage had entered Bethlehem unannounced, apparently in an effort to avoid such scenes. The entourage was said to be comprised chiefly of security officials who were there to ensure that Obama would be safe during his visit. PA police attempted to stop the crowd from throwing shoes and debris at the American vehicles, and were only partially successful, witnesses said.
Sources in the PA said they were examining ways to ensure that Monday's protests were not repeated when Obama came to town.