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http://times247.com/ Obama: Muslim anti-film protests are ‘natural’   YUP… HE’S RIGHT !THEY’RE JUST DOING WHAT COMES NATURALLY TO THEM……RSK Daily Caller Thursday, September 20, 2012 Read more: http://times247.com/#ixzz276NnUt5r Congress skeptical about Libya briefings A brewing conflict between Congress … Read more… Read more: http://times247.com/#ixzz276NHZBPs Americans lose confidence in Obama foreign policy Fox News Thursday, September 20, […]

BRUCE THORNTON: EMBASSY PROTESTERS USE THE PALARAB PLAYBOOK

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/bruce-thornton/embassy-protestors-use-the-palestinian-playbook/ The most depressing thing about the Obama administration’s foreign policy debacle unfolding in the Middle East is that for sixty years we’ve repeatedly experienced the same Islamist game plan for defeating us that is being employed today. There is no tactic currently being used by the Muslim Brothers and other jihadist groups that wasn’t […]

GITMO ALUM IS INVOLVED IN DEADLY LIBYA ATTACK: JOSEPH KLEIN

Gitmo Alumnus Involved In Deadly Libyan Attack

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Fox News has reported that its intelligence sources believe “the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was directly tied to Al Qaeda — with a former Guantanamo detainee involved.”

Sufyan Ben Qumu, a Libyan, is the former Gitmo detainee. He is one of a circle of former detainees released from Gitmo who have returned to jihad against the United States.

Qumu was released in 2007 and handed over to the Libyan authorities who were supposed to keep him in jail there. They did not. Ironically, the Qaddafi regime released him as part of its attempt to reconcile with Islamists. Obviously, Qaddafi’s efforts at reconciliation did not work out so well for the late dictator. But the return of Qumu and other Gitmo alumni to jihad has not worked out very well for us either.

The information regarding Qumu’s possible involvement in the Benghazi consulate attack is yet another nail in the coffin of the Obama administration’s absurd initial explanation of the Libyan attack. They at first claimed it was essentially the product of a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim video that was exploited by extremists.

Obama’s Press Secretary Jay Carney claimed last Friday that the violence was “in response not to United States policy, obviously not to the administration, not to the American people. It is in response to a video, a film, that we have judged to be reprehensible and disgusting.” Our UN Ambassador Susan Rice made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows and said pretty much the same thing. Both Carney and Rice deplored the violence but saw no link to any larger pattern of Islamist terrorism aimed squarely at Americans.

P. DAVID HORNIK: IRAQ JOINS IRAN’S AXIS

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/davidhornik/iraq-joins-iran%e2%80%99s-axis/print/ Back in 2004 King Abdullah of Jordan, a moderate Sunni, warned that the empowerment of Iraq’s Shiite majority in the Iraq War would mean creating a Shiite crescent—a belligerent, extremist continuum stretching all the way from Iran to Hizbullah-dominated Lebanon. Eight years later, U.S. attempts to create a pluralist Iraqi democracy have instead yielded […]

ALAN CARUBA: 15 BILLION BIN LADENS

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/15-billion-bin-ladens Amidst the graffiti on the wall outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo, one of the rioters scrawled “1.5 Billion Bin Ladens.” Last time I heard, the last thing bin Laden saw was a member of Seal Team Six just before he took a bullet to the head. That is the way a nation that […]

PETER FARMER:BALKANIZATION…..THIS IS NO LONGER YOUR GRANDPARENTS’ AMERICA

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-ghost-of-bertold-brecht-and-the-balkanization-of-america?f=puball Would it not be simpler if the government dissolved the people and elected another? Bertold Brecht (1898-1956), German playwright Bertold Brecht’s name is now largely lost to history, but the idea expressed in the succinct question above remains as potent today as when he uttered it. Brecht, a self-made Marxist who was once investigated […]

DISASTROUS FOREIGN POLICY REFLECTS A DISASTROUS PRESIDENCY: CHRIS ADAMO

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/disastrous-foreign-policy-reflects-a-disastrous-presidency The “unexpected” nature of the pandemic of chaos throughout the Middle East is really no different than any of the other unanticipated problems now confronting the Obama Administration. Certainly, the $831 billion dollar “stimulus” of early 2009 should have had the nation’s economy humming by now, with Main Street thriving on account of all […]

THE ONLY TIDE THAT’S RECEDING IS AMERICAN INFLUENCE

The Post-American Middle East http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444620104578006173214696856.html?mod=opinion_newsreel#articleTabs%3Darticle Another day, another installment in what President Obama likes to call the “receding” tide of war. On Wednesday, John Kerry threatened to cut U.S. aid to Baghdad unless the Iraqi government blocks overflights of Iranian planes suspected of ferrying military supplies to Damascus. But Baghdad isn’t budging. Welcome to the […]

Fouad Ajami: Muslim Rage and the Obama Retreat

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444165804578005880751641560.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop We can’t declare a unilateral end to our troubles, or avert our gaze from the disorder that afflicts the societies of the Greater Middle East. This is not a Jimmy Carter moment—a U.S. Embassy and its staff seized and held hostage for 444 days, America’s enemies taking stock of its weakness, its allies running […]

DAVID GOLDMAN: WHY DINESH D’SOUZA IS RIGHT ABOUT THE SOURCE OF OBAMA’S RAGE

http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2012/09/20/dinesh-dsouza-is-right/ There is a school of thought, ably represented by First Things editor R.R. Reno, that blames the leftward drift in American higher education for Barack Obama’s resentment of the United States, rather than his Third World upbringing. The estimable Dr. Reno, who is a friend and former colleague, called D’Souza’s film 2016 “misguided” in […]