4 Muslims spotted by Maine maple sugar workers trying to enter USA

Four followers of the Prophet (three of them named after him) were arrested by the US border patrol near Millinocket ME after having been sportted by alert workers in a maple sugar bush trying to cross illegally from Canada. 

The four are named in an affidavit filed in court by a CBP agent as Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah, Hameed Mohammed Nagi, Ibrahim Ayyub Khan and Mohammed Sultan Saleh. They are being held (without bail) for trial on charges of entry without inspection. 

According to the affidavit, the four Muslims were spotted last Friday morning walking south along the Golden Road, a private road that stretches between the St-Zacharie QC/Maine border crossing and the town of Millinocket. 

The maple sugar workers "reported that they had heard from a third man that two occupants of a gray Nissan automobile stopped on the Golden Road were asking passersby for fuel and wi-fi to contact people they were supposed to pick up." 

Border patrol officers then headed south and "observed fresh footprints on the soft dirt of the road." Near mile marker 87, they saw the four men trying to hide in vegetation at the side of the road, one of them "acting nervously." When they were taken into custody, they said they were British citizens, "just on a hike", not meaning to cross the border, and that they did not realize they were in the US of A.

However, the CBP officer wrote, the men’s cellphones contained searches made that day for "bangor from my location", "boston from bangor" and "new york from boston", as well as "is st zacherie border crossing still used the one near quebec golden road."

The CBP also found a GoPro video in which one of the men says to the others, "I can confirm you are now on US soil." Another replies, "I'm on U.S. soil?", to which the first says, "You are on US soil. Now we are in the US." Then he exclaims, "We just made it, baby!" The video also shows a phone screen being held up with the GPS location displayed. 

The two occupants of the Nissan identified themselves as American citizens, and were asked to step out of their car. The affidavit continues: "The two complied and before the driver exited the vehicle, the (Customs and Border Protection) officer observed him reach under the driver’s seat. Observing this, the CBP officer checked under the seat and found a loaded 9mm handgun."

The two men, so far unnamed, were then taken to a border patrol station "based on their involvement in a suspected alien smuggling event." If convicted, the four potential Islamic terrorists could face sentences of up to six months in federal prison and a $5000 fine if convicted. It's the US of A, not Canada, so presumably they would be deported once they've done their time.

Remembrance Day bomber blown up in Liverpool taxi - "Allahu akbar!"?

 Since November 11th was a Thursday, the Brits decided to mark Remembrance Day today, Sunday. Queen Elizabeth II was supposed to attend a special church service but sprained her back so couldn't make it. Meanwhile, in Liverpool, this happened.

Inside a burning taxicab a "suspected terrorist" [Notice he didn't say "Islamic"... yet... Ed.] is being roasted, trapped there by a hero taxi driver who bailed out of the car and locked the doors moment before a bomb he was carrying exploded outside Liverpool Women's Hospital.

Britain's Sun newspaper reports that cabbie Dave Perry is in the hospoital, in stable condition with burns and shrapnel injuries, including damage to his ear. A colleague told the paper, "The driver is my mate, and spotted the passenger acting suspiciously, so he jumped out the car. This guy blew himself up, but my friend is OK."

Inspector Knacker of the Yard confirmed three men aged 21, 26 and 29 were later arrested under the Terrorism Act, elsewhere in Liverpoole. Being careful not to provoke Islamopohobia, detectives have not yet declared the blast a ­terrorist attack, but said "all options are on the table." 

A major investigation is under way as the bobbies try to find out the identity of the dead passenger to establish if he had appeared on any intelligence-led lists of terror suspects. Hint from Walt: try "Mohammed"! Lifetime pct .981.

"Allahu akbar!" in... Afghanistan?! What'd I tell you...

The Associated Press mojo wire today spat out a story from Afghanistan which attracted only a little notice from the controlled media. In "Taliban-controlled Afghanistan" (the new politically correct way of referring to the shithole that 1000s of Westerners died trying to civilize), an ISIS suicide bomber struck at a mosque packed with Shiite Muslim worshippers in the northern city of Kunduz. 

Friday is a prime day of Muslim-on-Muslim attacks, because followers of the Prophet can be found kneeling in prayer, heads down and asses up. You can't miss! Today's bombing sent at least 46 people to Paradise, and wounded dozens more.

In its claim of responsibility, broadcast on the ISIS-linked Aamaq news agency, the region’s ISIS affiliate identified the bomber as a Uygher Muslim, saying the attack targeted both Shiites and the mainly Sunni Taliban for their purported willingness to expel Uyghers to meet demands from China. The blast was just the latest in a series of ISIS bombings and shootings that have targeted Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers, as well as religious institutions and minority Shiites since American and other NATO troops fled in disarray at the end of August.

May I now say for the last time [Really? Ed.] that Western nations had no business intervening in what was and still is an ongoing Muslim civil war. Likewise, we have no responsibility to send millions of dollars in food and other aid to avoid the imminent "humanitarian disaster" which the liberals are now saying is somehow all our fault. The Islamists' "Religion of Peace" is the cause of their misery. That's all ye know and all ye need to know.

UPDATED: "Allahu akbar!" at Boulder?

Here are the bare bones of this horrendous story. 

Yesterday in Boulder, Colorado, a gunman entered a King Sooper supermarket and shot dead ten (10) people, including one policeman. 

Boulder police had now identified the sole suspect, taken into custody after being wounded, as Ahmad Al Aliwi Al Issa, pictured at left. 

Police have not released a motive. Nor have they said anything about the suspect's nationality, ethnicity, status in the USA or religion. 

Whether or not they will divulge any of this information is uncertain. Mustn't stoke the fires of Islamophobia, you know. Meanwhile, Americans are drawing their own conclusions. 

Walt awaits comment from the Face in Front of the Curtain at the White House. Behind the curtain, the puppeteers are working feverishly to devise a way to blame this (as they have blamed last week's mass shooting of Asian "masseuses" in Atlanta) on President Trump. Stay tuned.

One further comment: A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

UPDATE ADDED at 1600: Walt is watching the lamestream media spin the story to avoid giving any details that would suggest that the shooter is a follower of the prophet. 

Here are the first two paragraphs of the AP follow-up posted about an hour ago: 

"Police on Tuesday identified a 21-year-old man as the suspect who opened fire inside a crowded Colorado supermarket, and court documents showed that he purchased an assault weapon less than a week before the attack that killed 10 people, including a police officer. 

"Supermarket employees told investigators that Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa [sic] shot an elderly man multiple times Monday outside the Boulder grocery store before going inside, according to the documents. Another person was found shot in a vehicle next to a car registered to the suspect’s brother." 

CBC News, Canada's Liberal government-owned broadcaster ran the first paragraph, but skipped the second, going straight to the names of the victims! Wonder why... Might have something to do with not giving the shooter a "platform" for whatever views he might hold. (Can you say "jihad", boys and girls?) 

Then comes a piece from the Daily Caller, headlined: "Facebook Confirms It Deleted Account For Suspected Boulder Shooter Containing Posts About Islam, Trump". How about that... But the Caller says it "did not identify any content on the Facebook page that suggested a motive for the shooting Monday during a review of the account prior to its removal." So Mr Al Issa was a Muslim, OK, but not one of those nasty ones intent on killing all infidels. He was just a little mixed up, is all. 

For a more realistic portrait of the killer, you need to go to Jihadwatch, which reported this afternoon "Brother of Boulder jihad mass murderer detained, along with other family members". 

Robert Spencer writes: "...it is noteworthy that the establishment media continues to spell the killer's name 'Alissa', which of course is a common first name for women in the U.S. and thus gives the impression that he is an American non-Muslim, when the shooter himself spelled it 'Al Issa'. Are 'journalists' trying to obscure the fact that he is a Muslim migrant ISIS sympathizer? Of course they are."

To here Sleepy Joe and the Democrats [sounds like a 60's folk group. Ed.] talk about the "incident", it all proves the urgency of passing laws to take away Americans' guns. All of them. Right now. And that's all there is to it....

"Allahu akbar!" in Vienna: Islamic terrorist kills four before shot dead

Walt didn't hurry to post this story yesterday, when it broke, because it would be embarrassing to cast suspicion on Muslims, only to have the attackers turn out to be, errr, non-Muslim, twice in one week. So I waited until my suspicions were confirmed.

Yes, it's another terrorist attack on innocent civilians. This time it happened in Vienna, the civilized and delightful capital city of Austria, where Islamic extremists rampaged through the entertainment district on Monday night, killing four people. One of the attackers was shot dead by police, but a personhunt [the PC term for "manhunt". Ed.] is on for others. 

After the customary dithering over whether to utter words like "Islamic" or "Muslim", the polizei identified the Muslim who is now in Paradise being serviced by 72 virgins. He was 20-year-old Kujtim Fejzulai, a dual citizen of Austrian and North Macedonia [Where dat? Ed.], seen in this selfie taken shortly before the attack.

In April of 2019, he was sentenced to 22 months in prison for trying to travel to Syria to join ISIS. He was released in December because, hey, he was just a juvenile. Boys will be boys.

Dressed in white coveralls and armed with an automatic rifle and a fake explosive vest, the late Mr Fejzulai ran through Vienna's cobblestone streets, firing off bursts at random. Two men and two women died from their injuries. A police officer who tried to get in the way of the attacker was shot and wounded, and another 14 people were wounded.

Chancellor Sebastian Kurz told the meeja, "It is now confirmed that yesterday's attack was clearly an Islamist terror attack," Kurz said. "It was an attack out of hatred -- hatred for our fundamental values, hatred for our way of life, hatred for our democracy in which all people have equal rights and dignity." Note: not "Western values" or "Christian values", just "fundamental values". But at least he called out Islamism.

Meanwhile in France: Muslim yells "Allahu akbar!" as 3 stabbed to death

Yes, there is a world outside the Excited States of America. It's not only the US of A that is struggling to combat the corona virus. Italy, Germany and France, even Canada, have all seen sharp spikes in the numbers of infections and deaths this week. Unlike in America, the people of those countries don't blame their heads of state/government for something which is clearly beyond their leaders' control.

Some countries have other things to worry about. Like France. The land of liberté, égalité et fraternité has a problem accommodating about 10% of its population who don't believe in those things. Yes, we're talking about the millions of Muslims -- immigrants, "refugees" and asylum-seekers -- who have taken over large areas of French cities and towns, bent on turning them into replicas of the shitholes they came from.

In such places, the call to Islamic prayers is heard from the mosques five times a day, the call to kill infidels is whispered in gatherings of Islamic terrorists, and, all too often, shouts of "Allahu akbar!" are heard in the streets as "infidels" (non-Muslims) are murdered. 

Such was the case today in Nice, a toney seaside down on France's Mediterranean coast, and in the pleasant small city Avignon... where people dance on the bridge. [Walt refers to "Sur le pont d'Avignon". Ed.] English-speaking readers may send us a postcard. France has been struck by two Islamic terror attacks within hours of each other. 

Three people have been killed -- two by beheading -- in an attack inside a cathedral in Nice before a fanatical Muslim gunman was shot dead by police in Avignon. The first attack began around 0900 local time at Nice's Notre Dame cathedral, where a knifeman beheaded an elderly female parishioner and a male church warden, fatally stabbed a second woman and wounded several others before being shot and arrested by police.

Two hours later, a gunman threatened people on the streets of Avignon, 120 miles north of Nice, while shouting "Allahu Akbar!" The follower of the Prophet was shot dead by police before he could harm any infidels. In spite of the shouts, politically correct French authorities told Europe 1 only that an investigation has been opened. "Toutes les pistes sont envisagées," said Inspector Clouseau, "mais pour l'instant nous n'avons pas de caractère islamiste". Seriously?!

Christian Estrosi, the Mayor of Nice, was not so circumspect, telling BFM TV, "He cried 'Allah Akbar!' over and over, even after he was injured. The meaning of his gesture left no doubt." French Prime Minister Jean Castex, addressing l'Assemblée Nationale, said "Cette attaque aussi lâche que barbare endeuille le pays." ("This cowardly and barbarous attack leaves the country in mourning.")

Under Still-President Trump, the US of A has largely closed its doors to would-be immigrants, "refugees" and even visitors from majority Muslim countries. It's not Islamic extremists that are attacking Americans, burning their cities and looting their businesses, but anti-Christian, anti-Western, anti-everything "mostly peaceful protesters" of the BLM/SJW/Antifa variety. Dear American reader, do you trust Old Joe Biden to put a stop to their cowardly and barbarous attacks? I don't!

Let us not forget

Yes, I know what day this is. It's the 19th anniversary of the dastardly, scurrilous, infamous attack on America, which was now call simply "9/11".

On this solemn anniversary, let us not forget who did this. The attackers, who came to the USA to learn to fly just well enough to crash into their targets, were Islamic terrorists -- nationals of Saudi Arabia for the most part -- Muslim jihadis bent on killing as many "infidels" as possible. They are now in Paradise, presumably, being serviced by 72 virgins. But there are hundreds of thousands of them still out there.

The threat of Islamic terrorist attacks is higher today than it was 19 years ago, if for no other reason than that Western politicians (Hello, Angela Merkel! Hello, Justin Trudeau! Hello, Barack Hussein Obama!) have stupidly welcomed millions of Muslims into their countries. See "Merkel reveals she has no regrets over 2015 migrant influx, claims she would let 1 million into Germany again", rt.com 28/8/20.

But surely (I hear you say) they can't all be fanatics. In reply I say, is there any such thing as a moderate Muslim? Those who follow the news from Europe can read every day stories about gangs of Muslim immigrants, "refugees" and asylum-seekers raising hell in the countries that took them in. See, for example, "Sweden's right seizes on crime to warn of 'second pandemic'", ft.com 30/8/20.

But (I hear you say) that's Europe, not America (or, by extension, Canada). Foolish Norte Americanos, take a look around you! Mosques are springing up everywhere, even in the small communities of "flyover country". Parts or all of large American and Canadian cities are majority Muslim, at risk of turning into the no-go zones which already exist in Sweden, France and the Disunited Kingdom.

Right now we are preoccupied with the nonsense of BLM and "anti-Black racism", but when all the pandering is over and the police defunded, who will protect us when the jihad comes to our streets? And who (let me ask you) would you rather have in the White House when the next wave of Islamic terrorist attacks begins?

"Allahu akbar!" in the UK. again, another case of "social isolation".

Just under a week ago, Walt told you about a Libyan asylum-seeker called Khairi Saadallah, who was (it seems) frustrated by the "social isolation" resulting from the Covid-19 lockdown in Not-so-great Britain, and took it out on a bunch of "protesters" gathered in Forbury Gardens, a public park in Reading, about 40 miles west of London. Three people were killed and three more wounded before Mr Saadallah was detained.

It has since emerged that the attacker, a devout follower of the Prophet Mohammed until he became a Baptist "in order to marry a white girl", had a thing about the alphabet people, something about their gayness being "unnatural" and "sinful", which "triggered" him since he saw the rainbow flag on display, this being "Gay Pride" month and all.

The official line, now, is that, while the killings were declared a suspected terrorist incident, mental health appeared to have been a significant factor. "Official documents" describe the new Christian's "various mental health issues", as well as struggles with debt, homelessness and alcohol abuse.

Let us see, now what excuse is offered for another sometime Muslim, a Sudanese national named Badradeen, who repeatedly complained about his living conditions in Glasgow's Park Inn hotel, which had been turned into a shelter for asylum-seekers, before going on a stabbing rampage, wounding six, before being shot dead by police on Friday. [Finally, one for our side! Ed.]

Mr Badradeen's erratic behavior allegedly prompted fellow hotel residents to report him to a British social worker. He arrived in the United Kingdom about six months ago, and started complaining almostimmediately about the food in the shelter, as well as the noise, threatening to attack fellow "refugees".

"He said that he was going to attack two guys in the room next to his because they're were making noise to deliberately annoy him," an asylum-seeker, identified only as Siraj, told the Daily Mail. Mr Siraj claimed that the Sudanese had also told him he was "fed up" and "very angry", and complained that there was "no daylight in his room." Several acquaintances interviewed by the tabloid believed that Mr Badradeen was gradually becoming insane and some had alerted the shelter staff, apparently to no avail.

"I think he was getting more mentally ill over the three months... He had gastric problems and had to isolate for around 20 days and his room had no light from a window," Nigerian-born Beatrice Onwuka said. She added the man had few friends, didn't speak much English, and ultimately changed his mind about seeking asylum in the UK.

"Authorities" now say... wait for it... that the sorry state Mr Badradeen allegedly found himself in might have been due to the measures the British government has taken to combat the corona virus pandemic. Asylum-seekers who had previously been living, as guests of British taxpayers, in apartments were moved to hotels during the pandemic. And instead of receiving money to buy food (or alcohol or drugs), they were forced to make do with three squares a day, served at the hotel. Many complained about getting the same food all the time, and Mr Badradeen said he was "very hungry" while living at the hotel.

Sky News reported that shortly before Friday's attack, Mr Badradeen phoned a "liaison officer" and an immigration lawyer. The lawyer promised to pass the man's concerns to the "safeguarding" team at the Home Office, which deals with protecting vulnerable people. The Home Office, responsible for the police, has not yet released the names of the vulnerable people injured by the attacker, except for the copper, who is said to be in critical but stable condition. Those injured in the rampage are believed to be residents and staff members of the hotel... sorry, shelter.

Mr Badreadeen was shot dead by police responding to the incident. The British "authorities" now say they are not treating the case as terrorism, just temporary insanity brought on by social isolation. Nothing Islamic about that, right?!

Berkshire stabbings: Not terrorism, just a reaction to "social isolation"

Did anyone actually hear the murderer yelling "Allahu akbar!"? OK, wait... Basic facts first. On Saturday evening, yet another BLM "protest" was held in Forbury Gardens, a public park in Reading, Berkshire, about 40 miles west of London. Nice place, or used to be when Walt was last there, a mere three decades ago. The oh-so-PC head of the local council authority told BBC-TV that the event "was a very well conducted peaceful demonstration", not connected in any way with what happened later.

What was he talking about? Some three hours after the "peaceful demonstration" wound up, a man ran into the park wielding a knife [scimitar? Ed.] with which he attacked "a number" of people, killing three and seriously wounding three more before being "detained" by the bobbies.

Inspector Knacker said there was nothing to suggest anyone else was involved and they were not hunting further suspects. Police and the government said the incident did not appear to be terrorism and they were keeping an open mind as to the motive, which they called "far from certain". But then, further details emerged....

The 25-year-old man detained at the scene was identified by "a Western security source, speaking on condition of anonymity" (so as not to be accused of stoking Islamophobia, no doubt) told Reuters that the man, who remains in police custody, is... wait for it... a Libyan asylum-seeker called Khairi Saadallah. His religion wasn't disclosed, but I think we can safely assume he's a follower of the Prophet.

As to his motivation, Nik Adams, the officer in charge of the police's anti-radicalisation programme said (following a similar attack in April) that social isolation during the coronavirus lockdown could make people more susceptible to being exploited by extremists. "Isolation may exacerbate grievances that make people more vulnerable to radicalisation -- such as financial insecurity or social alienation."

So Mr Saadallah, who at the moment is just "suspected" of murder, should not be pilloried for what he did. He's just another victom of corona virus, which, as is well known, is all the fault of Donald Trump. Case closed.

UPDATE ADDED @ 1245: AP reported this morning that British police have changed their minds and say... now... that the attack is being considered a terrorist attack... after all. They did not use words like "Muslim" or "Islamic" or "jihad". Oh my no!

The Press Association, Britain's national news agency, reported that a Reading man of the same name and age as the attacker now in custody was sentenced to two months in prison last year for assaulting an emergency worker. The same man was also charged last year with assaulting a judge who had sentenced him. Just a coincidence, probably. Lots of people named Khairi Saadallah live in Reading.

Further reading (added 22/6/20): Today the jihadi wannabe's brother told the British meeja that the triple-murderer was only defending himself against a racist attack! Don't you wish, racist English, that you could be the judge, rather than one of the liberals who now sit on the bench?

Corpus Christi attacker identified as... you'll never guess... will you?

Following Thursday's terrorist attack on the Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi TX, FBI Supervisory Senior Resident Agent Leah Greeves told the meeja she would not discuss a potential motive or specify what led investigators to believe the shooting was related to terrorism. Her exact words were, "We have determined that the incident at the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi is terrorism related. We are working diligently with our state, local and federal partners on this investigation, which is fluid and evolving."

Note that although Ms Greeves did force herself to say the T-word, she did not use any adjectives, such as, errr, "Islamic". Mustn't jump to conclusions... right? But hold on!



The suspect who was shot dead as he carried out the attack was identified by the FBI [The same FBI that Leah Greeves works for? Ed.] as a 20-year-old Syrian-born college student. Adam Salim Alsahli -- for it was he -- lived in Corpus Christi and was a business major at a local community college. A law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said Alsahli was a native of Syria who held American citizenship. How and when he got into the USA was not explained. [The word "refugee" springs to mind. Ed.]

Social media accounts matching Mr Alsahli's profile on Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp featured support for hardline Islamist clerics, mostly from Saudi Arabia, and jihadi figures such as Ibrahim al-Rabaysh, who had been a spokesman for AQAP (al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) who was killed by a US drone strike in 2015.

(((Rita Katz))), director of the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors online activity of jihadists, claims that the late terrorist voiced support for hardline Islamic clerics on social media prior to the thwarted attack. She tweeted a translated version of a passage posted on Mr Alsahli's Twitter page, which read, "I love the Mujahidin [sic], I'm not one of them and my sword is aimed over the necks of whoever doubts them (stabs them)."

Nothing there like "Allahu akbar!", but I think was can say safely that Mr Alsahli was not on our side. He's been "neutralized" now, but there will be others....

Nonono! The CORPUS CHRISTI Naval Air Station... TODAY!

Seems like just yesterday [in fact it was day-before-yesterday. Ed.] that I drew your attention to the fact that the US government, in the person of Attorney General William Barr, conceded that the Saudi air force officer who shot up the Naval Air Station at Pensacola FL last June, killing three people and wounding another seven, was, in fact, an Islamic terrorist with links to AQAP (al-Qaeda in the Arabian Pensinsula).

Well, folks, it happened again. This morning. At the Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi TX. According to ABC News, the shooting unfolded at about 0615 CDT when a man sped through a gate, activating vehicle barriers which stopped the car. The driver then got out of the car and began shooting, wounding a security guard before being "neutralized" (military-speak for being shot dead).

A spokesthingy for the FBI tole the meeja, "We have determined that the incident this morning at the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi is terrorism related. They are working diligently with local, state and federal partners on the investigation, which is fluid and evolving." Wonder how they figured out it was "terrorism related"? Did someone hear the shooter yell "Alahu akbar!"?

The authorities have the shooter's car, obviously, but have not yet identified him. Not for publication, anyway. The FBI sez a second "person of interest may be at large." "May"? If you live in the vicinity, Walt suggests you keep your doors and windows locked, and beware of men who look like... errr... terrorists.

Pensacola shooter was an Islamic terrorist! No kidding??!!

Nearly a year after "a man" opened fire inside a classroom at the US Naval Air Station at Pensacola FL, killing three people and wouding another seven, Attorney General William Barr told a presser yesterday that in the months leading up to the attack, "the man" (aka Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani) communicated with al-Qaeda operatives about planning and tactics. Imagine that!!!

Why do you think the authorities, who had at first refused to utter the words "terrorism" or "Islamic" (even though they knew Mr Alshamrani was a Saudi air force officer), were until now not able to make the connection which occurred to Walt that very day?

According to Mr Barr, it was Apple's fault, for failing to help the lawmen open the shooter's phones so they could access key evidence. When they did, they discovered contacts between the Mohammedan [aka Muslim. Ed.] and operatives of al-Qaeda. Again, imagine that!!!

Said Mr Barr, “We now have a clearer understanding of Alshamrani's associations and activities in the years, months and days leading up to his attack." The phones revealed contact between Mr Alshamrani and "dangerous" operatives from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Pensinsula, or AQAP, that continued until shortly before the shooting. They also revealed that he had been radicalized since at least 2015, before he arrived in the USA, and had meticulously planned the attack.

According to FBI Director Chris Wray, the attack was "the brutal culmination of years of planning and preparation." Mr Alshamrani created minicam videos as he cased a military school building, and saved on his phone a will that purported to explain himself. AQAP released that document soon after the shooting, when it claimed responsibility for it, but at that time, US officials said they were still "investigating".

Asked whether al-Qaeda had directed or inspired the attacks, Mr Wray said it was "certainly more than just inspired." Law enforcement officials had previously left no doubt that Alshamrani was motivated by jihadist ideology, saying he visited a New York City memorial to the attacks of 9/11 over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and posted anti-American and anti-Israeli messages on social media just hours before the shooting. Yet throughout the presser, neither Mr Barr nor Mr Wray actually used the words "Islamic" or "Islamist" or "Muslim". Strange, isn't it?

Further reading: "Obama Continues To Caution Against Labeling 9/11 Attacks 'Terrorism' Too Quickly", Babylon Bee, 20/9/16. [Just in case... you know that the Babylon Bee is satire... right? Ed.]

"Allahu akbar!" at home in Afghanistan -- dozens, including newborns, killed

For the last couple of months, the Covid-19 "crisis", aka the Dempanic, as been not just the top story in our (((controlled media))), but, it would seem, the only story. They are so busy signalling virtue and pointing fingers that they have no time or space to report on threats to our way of life greater than those posed by the corona virus or the Chinese.

I refer to the militant Muslims, the Islamic terrorists whose aim is to kill us infidels -- all of us -- and conquer the world for Allah and his prophet, Mohammed.

That the jihadis have not been more active in North America and Europe of late is due in no small part to the closing of borders, following the lead given by Still-President Trump. But just because the terrorists have to stay at home doesn't mean that they've declared a "pauses" in their activity. Instead, they are killing other citizens of their shithole countries -- the ones that don't share their particular brand of the "Religion of Peace" (TM).

Just this week, militant Islamists attacked a maternity hospital -- let me say that again: maternity hospital -- in beautiful downtown Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. They killed 23 people, including two newborn babies, their mothers and an unspecified number of nurses. In the photo you see an Afghan soldier carrying in his arms the body of a dead baby.

Why would the jihadis attack a materntiy hospital? Because it's in Dashti Barchi, a mostly Shiite neighbourhood. The jihadis, you see, are Sunni Muslims. [Didn't Canuck PM Justin Trudeau say, "Sunni ways, my friends... Sunni ways."? Ed.] So the mothers were giving birth to little Muslims, OK, but not the right kind of Muslims!

No-one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but both the Taliban and the Islamic State frequently target Afghan military and security forces in Kabul, as well as civilians. The Taliban denied they were involved. In the past, most of the attacks in Dashti Barchi were carried out by ISIS. "Allahu akbar!!!"

Afghan and US officials have been telling us for months now that the ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan has been weakened as a result of relentless American bombing raids on the group's stronghold in eastern Nangarhar province, as well as military operations by Afghan security forces and attacks by ISIS' rivals, Taliban insurgents.

If you believe that, consider the evidence of a separate attack on the same day, in which a suicide bomber targeted the funeral in Khewa district of a local pro-government militia commander and former warlord who had died of a heart attack Monday night. 24 mourners were killed and  68 wounded.

The dead included Abdullah Lala Jan, a provincial council member, while his father Noor Agha, a lawmaker, was wounded in the attack. In a statement posted online late Tuesday, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the bombing.

And so it goes. Cradle to grave, the Islamic terrorists are determined to get ya! Yesterday Afghanistan, tomorrow... who knows?

"Allahu akbar!" attacks continue in spite of Covid-19

A crazed knifeman stabbed two people to death and injured seven others outside a bakery in Romans-sur-Isère, in southern France.

Witnesses said the attacker entered the tobacco shop shown above and stabbed the owners and a customer. He then went to a nearby butcher's shop and attacked more people. Witnessess say he was yelling "Allahu akbar!" as he wielded his weapon, but Inspector Clouseau says... wait for it... the motive for the attack is not clear. The words "Islamic" and "terrorism" are stricken from the vocabulary of today's Europe.

France's feckless Prime Minister Emmanuel Macaroni tweeted, "My thoughts are with the victims of the Romans-sur-Isère attack - the injured, their families." He promised light would be shed on "this odious act." Anti-terror police have not taken over the investigation, but said they were "monitoring developments."

According to French media, the suspect is a 33-year-old man who told police he was born in Sudan in 1987. He was not known to the police or intelligence services, news website France Bleu reported.

The flics attending the scene are wearing hazmat gear because all of France is under strict lockdown, because of the corona virus. All residents must stay inside except for essential outside activities such as shopping or going to the doctor. Apparently that didn't stop the jihadi. I suppose that, if nothing else, Mohammed -- just guessing his name -- could be charged with failure to practise "social distancing"!

Headline of the year (so far)

Today is 20200202, a very special date for Chinese and other numerologists. Why? Because it's a palindrome. Geddit? We will not see another one until... errr... we won't see another one.

32 days have passed into history. The funniest "news" headline I've seen so far this year is this one, from the Babylon Bee:

Boris Johnson Blows Conch Shell,

England Carried Away By Herd Of Manatees

And here's the illustration that goes with it.

Guess it has something to do with Brexit! Please keep in mind, dear readers, that the Babylon Bee is a purveyor of "fake news you can trust".

Breaking news: The latest real news from Old Blighty is that "a man" was fatally shot by armed police officers in south London, after a "terrorist-related", according to the Metropolitan Police. In a tweet Sunday morning, Inspector Knacker of the Yard said a "number of people" had been stabbed at Streatham High Road, but that the attacker had been killed. Nothing, of course, about the attacker's nationality, ethnicity or religion. "Allahu akbar!"?

Further reading: "London terrorist identified as Muslim. Sorry, suckers!", WWW 30/11/19... just over two months ago. That's why I'm not even going to bother reporting these "incidents" any more.

Iran admits its rocket shot down PS752... "but Trump!"

Iran's president has finally acknowledged what Walt and almost everyone else have suspected from the getgo. It was indeed an Iranian missile that downed Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS752 on Wednesday, killing all 176 people (mostly ethnic Persians) on board.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran deeply regrets this disastrous mistake," Hassan Rouhani said late Friday in a post on Twitter. "My thoughts and prayers go to all the mourning families. I offer my sincerest condolences." Walt's lifetime pct .984.

Iran announced Saturday that its military "unintentionally" shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 aboard, after the government had repeatedly denied Western accusations that it was responsible. The plane was shot down early Wednesday, hours after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on two military bases housing American troops in Iraq in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in an American airstrike in Baghdad. No one was wounded in the attack on the bases.

A military statement carried by state media said the plane was mistaken for a "hostile target" after it turned toward a "sensitive military centre" of the Revolutionary Guard. The military was at its "highest level of readiness," it said, amid the heightened tensions with the United States. An Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander said his unit accepts "full responsibility" for what happened. In an address broadcast by state TV on Saturday, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh said that when he learned about the downing of the plane, "I wished I were dead." Walt thinks that can probably be arranged.

But the responsibility is not that of Gen. Hajizadeh alone, nor even that of the mad mullahs who form the government of the Islamic Republic. The "heightened tensions", we are asked to believe, were caused by the assassination of Gen. Soleimani, the mastermind behind Islamic terrorism that has plagued the Middle East sandpit for years and caused 1000s of deaths to Muslims and infidels alike. And who ordered Soleimani's assassination? Why, Still-President Trump, of course!

"In such a condition, because of human error and in a unintentional way, the flight was hit," the military said. It apologized and said it would upgrade its systems to prevent future tragedies. For its part, the Iranian government, through its foreign minister, expressed "profound regret" for the "incident". So that's all right then.

Credit where credit is due Dept.: Meme scraped from Blazing Cat Fur.

Iraqi parliament wants US troops out of their country

Regular readers will know that, along with such right-thinking patriots as Dr Ron Paul, I am absolutely opposed to American involvement the Muslim civil wars in the Middle East.

It's not that I'm a pacifist or peacenik. I do believe in the doctrine of the "just war". It's just that I think it's foolish to waste 1000s of lives and billions of dollars on a war we can't win, in an affair which is none of our business.

So I was heartened to hear yesterday that the Iraqi parliament voted in favour of a resolution asking the government to expel US troops from their shithole country. Mostly Shiite factions voted in favour, while Kurdish and most Sunni members of parliament did not attend the session, presumably because they want the American presence in Iraq to continue.

The resolution says, "The government commits to revoke its request for assistance from the international coalition fighting 'Islamic State' due to the end of military operations in Iraq and the achievement of victory. The Iraqi government must work to end the presence of any foreign troops on Iraqi soil and prohibit them from using its land, airspace or water for any reason."

Like so many resolutions passed by so many politicians in so many talking shops around the world, this resolution is likely to come to nothing. It still needs to be approved by the Iraqi cabinet, which, under their system, is not responsible to parliament. However, interim Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi voiced support as he railed against US "violations of Iraqi sovereignty."

He was referring to the US air strike on Friday which killed Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force, near Baghdad's airport. The force has been declared an Islamic terrorist organization, and the killing of its commander -- a man with the blood of 1000s on his hands -- was intended to prevent the execution of a major terrorist attack against Americans in the Middle East, while at the same time dealing a blow to the heart of Iran's Middle East policy.

About 5,200 US troops are deployed at Iraqi military bases -- built at considerable expense to American taxpayers -- to train and support local security forces, in hopes -- faint hopes -- of preventing a resurgence of ISIS. The troops are there at the invitation of the Iraqi government as part of an US-led international coalition against the Islamic extremist group.

The usual suspects (read: Democrats) filled the airwaves yesterday with complaints about the air strike, and dire warnings about immanentizing the eschaton. (You can look it up.) At the very least, they say, Still-President Trump's action has facilitated conditions for Iran to achieve one of its main regional objectives: removing the US military from its neighbour.

And I say: GREAT! What I see here is a brilliant plan to, at long last, get America out of Iraq and perhaps the entire sandpit, without spending at little cost in lives or money, and without losing face!
Previous administrations, both Republican and Democrat, got the USA into the Middle East quagmire (giggity!), without any realistic chance of victory, or any exit plan. The Prez promised to clean up the mess left by Bush, but just spread it further, into Libya.

President Trump said he'd find a way, and was attacked for preparing to bail out, abandoning the "good" Muslims, yada yada yada. What better way to end this colossal exercise in futility than to have the people that invited America to go in to "help" them, order the US to leave. Walt says, DO IT! NOW! Leave the Sunnis and the Shiites and ISIS and Al-Qaeda and the Taliban to fight it out. And may all the jihadis get what they so richly deserve. Selah!

"Allahu akbar!" in Paris... again...

The policewoman thoughtfully picking her nose [Just scratching, maybe? Ed.] is on the scene of what French prosecutors now call a "terror-related" knife attack yesterday, in the Paris suburb of Villejuif. (Translates as "Jewville" or "Jewtown".) The assailant killed one man and seriously wounded two other people in Hautes-Bruyères park before being shot by the flics.

At first the authorities tried the same spin that was used so effectively in the Toronto Danforth "incident" over a year ago, claiming that the attacker, whom they would not identify, was mentally deranged, and that his motive was unknown. Today, however, Inspector Clouseau said investigations over the past few hours revealed that the assailant had been "radicalized" and had prepared the attack as part of a "terrorist undertaking".

Notice that they refused to utter such words as "Muslim" or "Islamic". They didn't have to. The jig was up, so to speak, when local prosecutor Laure Beccuau said the 22-year-old man shouted "Allahu akbar!" -- "God is great!" in Arabic -- not once but several times during the attack.

In a completely unrelated story, official statistics released this week showed that Seine-Saint-Denis, to the north of Paris, is the third biggest département (a regional administrative division) of France, by population. It is also the poorest. And the site of one of the worst ghettos anywhere in the country.

Historically, Seine-Saint-Denis was not always so poor, and its largest city, Saint-Denis, used to be the place where Kings were crowned. That was a long time ago. Since then, it has been hit by mass immigration, economic crisis and a succession of Communist local governments. The flood of immigrants, mostly from the Muslim countries of north and central Africa, led to the building of "cités" -- cheap and large building complexes meant to house poor workers, and, later, severely impoverished populations outside of Paris. Cultural integration issues and economic crisis brought more poverty, and with it crime.

Police and firemen don't enter these cités any more, because it's too dangerous for them. Gangsters operate drug traffic there, using young men as their eyes and ears, sellers and henchmen. Those guys are uneducated, violent and will throw rocks or other projectiles at police and fire dpt vehicles if they breach territory. Media types with pale complexions enter the cités only to report the nasty news: rival gangs fighting, the occasional shooting, gang rape, and, of course, acts of Islamic terrorism.

Religion of Peace kills >6 dozen in Somalia. "Allahu akbar!"

While (some) Christians were celebrating the birth of our Saviour, life... and death.. went on as usual in the Muslim shitholes of the Middle East and North Africa. An explosion today at a busy checkpoint in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, killed at least 72 people and wounded dozens, including women and children.

Rescuers carried dead bodies past the twisted wreckage of a vehicle and minibus taxis smeared with blood. The director of a private ambulance service told the meeja, "The number of casualties we have confirmed is 76 dead and 70 wounded, it could still be higher." Witness Mohamed "the Inevitable" Abdi said, "I saw many dead bodies lying on the ground. Some of those dead were police officers, but most of them were students."

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast. The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab often carries out such attacks. The Islamic extremist group was pushed out of Mogadishu several years ago but continues to target high-profile areas such as checkpoints and hotels in the seaside city. Today's blast took place at the Ex-Control checkpoint, a "tax" collection (read: extortion) centre in Mogadishu.

Al-Shabaab was blamed for the truck bombing in Mogadishu in October 2017 that killed more than 500 people. The group never claimed responsibility for the blast that led to widespread public outrage. Another witness told AP, "This explosion is similar like the one...in 2017. This one occurred just a few steps away from where I am and it knocked me on the ground from its force."

Earlier this year a spokesthingy for the Disunited Nations said the jihadis are now able to make their own explosives -- their "weapons of choice. The followers of the Prophet previously relied on military-grade explosives captured during assaults on an African Union peacekeeping force. Today's attack again raises concern about the readiness of Somali forces to take over responsibility for security from the AU force, which is scheduled to withdraw in 2020.

The Aghanistan war: It was all for nothing

When I began this blog in July of 2009 [! How time flies when you're having fun! Ed.], the two countries closest to my heart (and other organs), the US of A and Canada, were heavily involved and invested in the Afghanistan "mission".

It looked like a war to me, but politicians of both blue and red stripes, on both sides of the World's Longest Undefended Border (TM), kept assuring us that it was a peacekeeping mission. Or maybe a peace-making mission. Or how about "nation-building"? I called BULLSHIT on that from Day One of WWW, as did many skeptics including Dr Ron Paul.

No-one paid attention. Many demonized Dr Paul and other anti-war thinkers and writers as "unpatriotic". The pro-war types told us that this was, after all, part of the war against terrorism. (Back then, some even dared to use the phrase "Islamic terrorism".) "If we don't fight them there, we'll have to fight them there!" "Nation-building is the best way to defeat the Taliban!" More bullshit, piled higher and deeper.

Those who opposed the war argued that the Taliban weren't out to get us, so much as to get us out of their country. It was a Muslim civil war, we said, in which we had no business meddling... no dog in that fight. Let them duke it out.

This week, the Washington Post is serializing "At War With the Truth: a secret history of the Afghanistan war", a massive report, based on hitherto secret military documents, proving that... wait for it... the whole Afghan war was a blunder from the getgo -- a colossal waste of money and lives. Putting it another way, we who opposed the war were right, after all. Lifetime pct .979.

MSN carries Monday's part of the WaPo report under the headline "Wasteful spending and half-baked ideas: U.S. officials reveal how massive rebuilding projects in Afghanistan backfired". The newly revealed government documents raise profound questions about the execution and results of the war in Afghanistan and the massive nation-building effort that surrounded it. No wonder, then, that the American government tried to shield the identities of the vast majority of those interviewed for the project and conceal nearly all of their remarks. The Post won release of the documents -- 2000 pages of interview records -- under the Freedom of Information Act after a three-year legal battle.

In the interviews, more than 400 insiders offered unrestrained criticism of what went wrong in Afghanistan and how the United States became mired in nearly two decades of warfare. With a bluntness rarely expressed in public, the interviews lay bare pent-up complaints, frustrations and confessions, along with second-guessing and backbiting.

Through the interviews we hear the voice of Gen. Lute and scores of others who detail the core failings of the war that persist to this day. They underscore how three presidents -- George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump -- and their military commanders have been unable to deliver on their promises to prevail in Afghanistan. Here's a sample.

In 2015, US Army Gen. Douglas Lute, who served as the White House's Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations, told government interviewers, "We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan -- we didn't know what we were doing. What are we trying to do here? We didn't have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.... If the American people knew the magnitude of this dysfunction...." He blamed the deaths of 2400 American military personnel on bureaucratic breakdowns among Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department.

Since 2001, more than 775,000 US troops have deployed to Afghanistan, many repeatedly. Besides the 2300 (that's the Dept of Defense number) who died in that shithole, 20,589 were wounded in action.

The number of Canadians who went to Afghanistan and didn't return was much smaller -- 158 soldiers and seven civilians died -- but proportionately greater than US casualties. 40,000 members of the Canadian Armed Forces served in Afghanistan. 158 soldiers and seven civilians were killed. Walt ran a body count, in those first years of WWW, each time asking the question "Why did they die?"

Another 2000 Canucks were wounded in a "peace-keeping/nation-building mission" (read" war) which began under a Liberal government and was then enthusiastically embraced by a Conservative government. In 2006 and 2008, Conservative and Liberal Members of Parliament voted together to extend the "mission", at a projected cost of as much as C$18 billion. The Canadians finally realized the war was unwinnable, and bailed out (of military involvement, at least) in 2014. The Americans are still there.

The conclusions of the Post's report -- that the war lacked clear direction and purpose, that the American government misled the public about the war's progress, that the effort to establish a new government in Afghanistan was misguided and quickly corrupted, that billions of dollars in aid and development money were mishandled -- should trouble not just Americans, but citizens and taxpayers of every country meddling in the Muslim civil war. Can our politicians please just cut the BS, bring the trooops and "foreign aid" personnel home, and leave the Islamists to make of their countries what they will. Please!!!