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(Via FoxNews) There are “at least 50 supporters of ISIS” who work at the Brussels Airport, the Belgian police union warned in an open letter.
These workers “have a security badge and have access to the cockpit of a plane,” the memo to the Belgian Interior Ministry states.
(Via FoxNews) Are we doing enough to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists?
Fox News military analyst Gen. Jack Keane (Ret.) broke down the answer on Happening Now this afternoon.
(Via Breitbart)A White House official is blaming a “technical issue” for the sudden loss of sound on a White House video in which French President François Hollande said the words “Islamist terrorism.”
Yesterday, a video of Hollande’s remarks was pulled from the White House website, according to a report from the Media Research Center. The video was reloaded on the website with a version that not only muted the French president’s remarks in French but eliminated the English translation as well.
Via Breitbart) Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) attacked the Ayn al-Assad Iraqi air base housing American forces, according to the Pentagon.
There were no casualties from the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS, added the Department of Defense (DOD).
Citing Iraqi officials, CBS Radio News correspondent Cami McCormick reports that an American military official said between three and four fighters wearing explosive vests perished during the attack.
(Via Mediaite) Sean Hannity and PastorRobert Jeffress both confronted an imam tonight over radical Islam. Hannity repeatedly demanded to know if he thinks radical Islam is evil.
Jeffress mocked President Obama as a “defender-in-chief of Islam” before Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi asked him and Hannity to “stop saying radical Islam” because “it is either radical or Islam, but it can’t be both.”
(Via The Hill) A “covert counter-terrorism operation” is underway to halt an extremist plot in Turkey that earlier this week prompted the United States to urge the withdrawal of American families, the head of the House Homeland Security Committee said on Wednesday.
“There’s an active plot underway in Turkey,” Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said on Fox News’s “America Newsroom.” “This is an imminent threat.
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 26: US Senator John McCain (R-AZ) attends the US Senate Hearing On The Democratic Republic Of Congo at Dirksen Senate Office Building on February 26, 2014 in Washington, DC. The committee was hearing testimony on prospects for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Great Lakes Region. (Photo by Paul Morigi/WireImage)
Via Fox News America must ramp up efforts to destroy ISIS overseas – or be confronted with the battle here at home, John McCain said.
“We will either fight them there, or we will fight them here,” the Arizona senator said tonight On The Record.
(Breitbart) TEL AVIV – The deadly terrorist attacks in Brussels last week and in Paris last November are dress rehearsals for a coming “big” attack inside the United States, a leading Islamic State-allied militant claimed in an exclusive interview.
Abu al-Ayna al-Ansari, a Salafist movement senior official in the Gaza Strip, made the claim in a pre-recorded, hour-long interview to air in full on Sunday on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” the popular weekend talk radio program broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and NewsTalk 990 AM in Philadelphia. Klein doubles as Breitbart’s senior investigative reporter and Jerusalem bureau chief.
(Breitbart) President Obama declared that “ISIL poses a threat to the entire civilized world” and “the future belongs not to those who seek only to destroy – but to those who have the courage to build” during Saturday’s Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows:
“This week, our hearts are with the people of Belgium, as terrorist attacks claimed the lives of more than thirty people.
(The Hill) Despite successful attacks in Paris and Brussels, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) home base in the Middle East is collapsing, Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday in Belgium.
“Its territory is shrinking every day,” Kerry said. “Its leaders are being decimated, its revenue sources are dwindling, and its fighters are fleeing.” TO READ MORE: http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/03/25/kerry-isis-territory-shrinking-every-day/
(Via FreedomDaily) Norwegian Army Chief Odin Johannessen warns that European countries must be reading and willing to fight against radical Islam in order to preserve the values that unite the continent.
“I think we must be ready to fight, both with words, actions – and if necessary weapons – to preserve the country and the values we have in common,” Johannessen said in a speech to the Oslo Military Society on Monday.
(FoxNews) Fox News strategic analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters (Ret.) said today that Muslim neighborhoods in Europe are turning into “Islamist colonies” where many believe “the terrorists are the good guys.”
He said that years ago, these neighborhoods – in France, Belgium and Germany – were more like “slums” for immigrants, but have now become hardened.
(CNSNews) Wednesday on Levin TV, nationally syndicated radio show host Mark Levin warned about the threat of terrorism that Americans face asking rhetorically, “Do you know where the enemy’s battlefield is? Your neighborhood.”
“The Enemy is not going to leave the battlefield,” said Mark Levin. “The enemy is expanding the battlefield. You know where the enemy’s battlefield is? Your neighborhood.”
(FoxNews) Charles Krauthammer criticized President Obama for not showing “simple common decency” and “a respect for the opinion of mankind” in the aftermath of the Brussels terror attacks.
“The Belgians are in the midst of scraping the blood off the walls of their airport. People are still dying, people are still not yet found, and he cannot have displays of frivolous entertainment,” Krauthammer said.
This video is going viral in Europe, but the #NeverTrump folks who refuse to listen to common sense will hate it.
If you still support Obama bringing in thousands of Syrian refugees to our borders after watching this, then you will be to blame when something tragic occurs on our homeland:
Security officials have told the Associated Press that the Islamic State has trained at least 400 attackers and sent them into Europe as sleeper cells ready to carry out terror attacks.
“The network of interlocking, agile and semi-autonomous cells shows the reach of the extremist group in Europe even as it loses ground in Syria,” the AP reports.
(Mediaite) In an effort to attack Hillary Clinton on foreign policy tonight, Rudy Giuliani told Bill O’Reilly that “Hillary Clinton could be considered a founding member of ISIS.”
He said that Clinton hasn’t shown leadership in the war on terror, saying she had her chance when she was Secretary of State, when she was “part of an administration that withdrew from Iraq.”
From the Daily Caller News Foundation:
After suffering humiliating defeats to the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and the U.S.-led Operation Inherent Resolve coalition, 149 Islamic State fighters were recently captured attempting to hide among women and children fleeing the Euphrates River valley.
As part of Operation Desert Lynx, Iraq’s mission to recapture territory near the Euphrates River valley from ISIS, U.S. and coalition forces dropped thousands of leaflets on cities and towns in order to demoralize ISIS fighters and give civilians an opportunity to evacuate the area before fighting occurs. Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman U.S. Army Col. Steve Warren told reporters that as many as 35,000 civilians have been able to flee the area in response.
(Breitbart) The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) has escalated its efforts to recruit child soldiers to make up for all the soldiers it has lost.
“Reports that we’re getting from the ground that there are more and more defectors, but also that increasingly Daesh [ISIS] is relying on child soldiers,” explained spokesman John Kirby. “Those are good indications that they are struggling with their ability to recruit and to retain manpower.”
As of Tuesday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC’s morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the attack by suspected ISIS gunmen in Aden, Yemen on Friday which left 16 people dead — including four nuns of Mother Teresa’s order — at a nursing home. According to a Friday article by the New York Times, the deceased Nobel Peace Prize winner founded the home, which was “one of several care facilities in Yemen established by Mother Teresa beginning in the 1970s.”
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