You can’t make this stuff up. This should help their ratings don’t you think? A command performance by a terrorist.
Despite a busy news cycle, CNN had a smaller average audience from 8-11 p.m. than 29 other cable networks, including Bravo, TV Land, Freeform Investigation Discovery, FX, Food Network and History.
Since President-elect Donald Trump’s Election Day victory, Fox News holds 73% of the cable news audience in primetime as MSNBC and CNN’s audiences have seen viewers tune out the news. (Source)
I will spare you the full performance which takes close to 12 minutes and leave you with this:
The prisoner CNN escorted out of jail after he was freed by Syrian rebels was actually a notorious member of ousted President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, who tricked the outlet and rebels into helping him, according to a local fact checker.
Salama Mohammad Salama — a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence — allegedly misled rebels and CNN’s Clarissa Ward into leading him out of prison last week in a harrowing video, Verify-Sy reports.
Salama also has a long history of alleged war crimes, the Syrian fact-checking outlet added.
The viral video of the supposed rescue has since drawn scrutiny over key details regarding Salama’s appearance and reaction to the prison break, with CNN now investigating how their reporters might have been duped.
It couldn’t happen to a better cable “news” network other than MSNBC.
When the United States achieved its independence, Syria was part of the Ottoman Empire, and its foreign relations were conducted through the Sultan’s government in Istanbul (Constantinople). In 1922, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the League of Nations approved a French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, which gave France exclusive control over their foreign relations.
The United States appointed George Wadsworth as “Agent and Consul General” in 1942 to provide a quasi-diplomatic presence in Damascus until the United States determined whether Syria achieved its complete independence (1944).
The United States recognized Syria as an independent state in September 1944 after the Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (Jamil Mardam Bey) certified that Syria would protect the rights of the United States and its nationals.
In February 1958, Egypt and Syria united to form a new state, the United Arab Republic (UAR). The United States recognized the UAR in February 1958. Syria seceded from the UAR three years later and reestablished the independent Syrian Arab Republic. The United States recognized Syria on October 10, 1961.
Syria severed diplomatic relations with the United States in the wake of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. In the place of normalized diplomatic relations, the United States established a U.S. Interests Section in February 1974, an adjunct of the Italian Embassy/Syria, and in June of that year, diplomatic relations and the American Embassy in Damascus were re-established.
Syria has been on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism since the list’s inception in 1979 because of its continued support of terrorism and terrorist groups, its former occupation of Lebanon, its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and missile programs, use of chemical weapons, and its ongoing efforts to undermine U.S. and international stabilization activities in Iraq and Syria.
Syria is subject to legislatively mandated penalties, including export sanctions under the Syrian Accountability Act and ineligibility to receive most forms of U.S. assistance or to purchase U.S. military equipment. Since the conflict erupted in Syria in March 2011, Executive Orders have been issued in response to the ongoing violence and human rights abuses taking place in Syria.
From 1990 to 2001, the United States and Syria cooperated to a degree on some regional issues. Relations worsened from 2003 to early 2009, principally due to George Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, an Arab Socialist Ba’athist ally of Syria. This is when the King of Saud prevailed upon President Bush to turn a blind eye toward the Wahhabist/Saudi-led insurrection against the al-Assad regime in Syria.
Ostensibly, the United States expressed such concerns as Syria’s becoming a transit point for foreign fighters entering Iraq, its refusal to deport from Syria former elements of the Saddam Hussein regime, interference in Lebanese affairs, its protection of the leadership of Palestinian rejectionist groups in Damascus, its human rights record, and its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction.
In early 2009, the United States began to review its Syria policy in light of changes in the country and the region. This led to an effort to engage with Syria to find areas of mutual interest, reduce regional tensions, and promote Middle East peace. When matters did not progress as quickly as the U.S. would have liked, the State Department’s propaganda ministry seized on the story of the government’s arrest of school children for writing political graffiti on walls that threatened President al-Assad.
According to this story, the Syrian government brutally responded to the Syrian children’s call for freedom and dignity. It is a modern variation of the story concocted against the Germans in World War I, who were alleged to have murdered infants in their cribs.
What has happened, though, thanks to the Saudi/Wahhabist-led insurrection, is an armed conflict that has lasted more than nine years, taken more than 500,000 lives, and displaced over 12 million Syrian people.
Meanwhile, the United States is the largest single donor to the humanitarian response in Syria, providing over $12.2 billion in humanitarian assistance for vulnerable individuals inside Syria and those displaced in the region since the start of the crisis. The U.S. government supports emergency food assistance, shelter, safe drinking water, urgent medical care, humanitarian protection activities, and other urgent relief.
Between 2012 – 2018, the U.S. provided non-humanitarian assistance to Saudi/Wahhabist-led rebels, including weapons of mass destruction. Saudi/Wahhabist-led use of chemical weapons against innocent Syrians was claimed to have been the work of the al-Assad government, which was a complete fabrication by the U.S. government.
The U.S. Embassy in Damascus suspended operations in February 2012. The Czech Republic, acting through its Embassy in Damascus, serves as the protecting power for U.S. interests in Syria. As it did in Tehran in 1953, the United States diplomatic effort is destroying American credibility in the Levant for decades into the future, perhaps guaranteeing that yet unborn Americans will one day have to fight and die in areas that are of no genuine interest to the security or economy of the United States.
Bashar al-Assad is currently residing in Russia under asylum — and we assume a large chunk of America’s $12 billion.
As Biden blasts away in Syria, Trump blasts out “The United States should have nothing to do with it.” This the aftermath of the fall of Syria. Reports are the U.S. has about 900 troops in Syria. Who knows how many “contractors.” Where would congress fall on this new war?
In March 2023, a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House put forth a resolution that would have required full withdrawal of American forces from Syria within 180 days of passage in the absence of congressional action authorizing their continued presence.
The resolution was voted down by 170 Republicans and 150 Democrats.
Months later, the U.S. Senate tanked a similar effort.
Erik Sperling, executive director of the advocacy group Just Foreign Policy, told The Intercept on Thursday that the Biden administration hasn’t “put the war in Syria up for debate because they know the American people don’t want another war in the Middle East.”Source
Let’s hope we make the next 43 days before Trump takes command.
ISIS Return In Syria Imminent? U.S. Strikes 75 Facilities; ‘Bid To Defeat, Degrade & Defeat…’ Israel joins in.
The U.S. and Israel conducted dozens of airstrikes Sunday on targets in Syria following the dramatic collapse of the ruling Assad regime and amid concerns radical and terrorist groups could exploit Syria’s current situation.
The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced it hit over 75 “known [Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham] ISIS camps and operatives in central Syria” using precision airstrikes.
The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced it hit over 75 “known [Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham] ISIS camps and operatives in central Syria” using precision airstrikes.
CENTCOM added that it struck the targets to “disrupt, degrade, and defeat ISIS” and render it incapable of exploiting the nation’s current state to regroup in central Syria.
There was no indication of civilian deaths from the strikes, CENTCOM noted.
“There should be no doubt — we will not allow ISIS to reconstitute and take advantage of the current situation in Syria,” CENTCOM’s commander, General Michael Erik Kurilla, said. “All organizations in Syria should know that we will hold them accountable if they partner with or support ISIS in any way.
”Referencing the airstrikes from the White House, President Joe Biden remarked, “We’re clear-eyed about the fact that ISIS will try to take advantage of any vacuum, to reestablish its capabilities, to create a safe haven. We will not let that happen.”
So what are we doing? Biden admits he has no idea who these rebels are.
Joe Biden Reacts To Syria Crisis, Says “Some Syrian Rebel Groups Have Records Of Terrorism..“
Meanwhile Trump opines on the matter:
Does Biden know he is on the way out? Can we pump the breaks on the promise to give more money to Al Qaeda?
Joe Biden isn’t “rebuilding Syria”, all these overseas “building projects” are ALWAYS MONEY LAUNDERING Prosecute Joe Biden and the whole Democrat Regime laundering our money overseas. Everyone involved needs to go to prison. When did this much money laundering become normalized?
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We can’t get this regime out fast enough. Ukraine?
Just 6 more weeks of money laundering and kickbacks. Hopefully. It is in the DNA of DC politicians. The Biden Administration announces $988 million in military aid toUkraine, including drones and rockets.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announces another $1 billion in aid going to Ukraine pic.twitter.com/UEutCyScFR
So we just learn, as an aside, that a couple of dozen “American Personnel” were wounded “over there” in drone attacks in Syria and Iraq. Not to worry, the U.S. knocked down the drones, but debris filtered down and caused some Purple Hearts. But our guys and gals are no slackers, they were up back on their feet in no time. Then, as an aside to the piece out there in Zero Hedge, we are reminded that we have thousands of troops and assets “over there” in Syria- guarding the oil fields, and Iraq for good measure. Then included in the story, we learn Russia too has military assets “over there.” What possibly could go wrong?
The real bombshell development, which Biden’s defense officials have apparently sat on for several days, is that some 24 US personnel were wounded in the attacks. According to the NBC statement:
Two dozen American military personnel were wounded last week in a series of drone attacks at American bases in Iraq and Syria, U.S. Central Command told NBC News on Tuesday.
The Pentagon confirmed the attacks last week, but the number of U.S. casualties has not been previously disclosed.
So, we don’t want the war to widen, our man Blinken says, and don’t touch our guys, he says, but if you do, look out. I think I have it.
U.S. troops are being targeted at several military bases across Iraq and Syria amid Israel-Hamas war after a warning by Iran-backed groups. Drones and rockets were fired at the Ain Al-Asad air base hosting U.S. forces in Iraq. Reuters reported multiple blasts inside the base, following which the Iraqi military closed the area around the base & started a search operation. Another rocket hit an U.S. military base near Baghdad’s international airport. The latest attacks take to four in the past 24 hours targeting Iraqi military bases. Meanwhile in Syria, the U.S. base at Al Tanf was targeted by two drones on Oct 19. One drone incident resulted in minor injuries, while another was brought down.
Here we go:
It’s never a good sign when the United States says it “doesn’t want war” – at a moment a long known geopolitical flashpoint region stands on the brink. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday delivered a stern warning to Iran before a UN Security council meeting, saying the US is prepared to respond “decisively” if Tehran or its proxies launch attacks on Americans in the Middle East.
Not only does the Pentagon still have thousands of troops and assets in Iraq, long under the domination of Shia paramilitary influence, but it has up to a thousand or so troops occupying broad oil and gas regions of eastern Syria. Missile and drone attacks on Pentagon outposts in Syria and Iraq have been rising in the last days. But the real concern is on Israel’s northern border, where Hezbollah has launched multiple guided missile and anti-tank attacks on Israel border posts, including on Tuesday.
“The United States does not seek conflict with Iran,” Blinken told the UNSC “We do not want this war to widen. But if Iran or its proxies attack US personnel anywhere, make no mistake: We will defend our people, we will defend our security, swiftly and decisively.” Russia’s President Putin, who since 2015 has stationed major assets in neighboring Syria, just the day prior blamed Washington for stoking “escalation” in the Middle East by moving two US carrier strike groups into the region.
There are building fears that Iran-backed Hezbollah would launch an all-out war on Israel if the IDF moves in full force into Gaza. The only thing which apparently has stalled these plans is the slow release (so far up to four hostages) of Israeli and American captives by Hamas. Domestic political pressure is also building against the Netanyahu government, led by families who see in Qatari mediated efforts hope that loved ones will be released. Hamas has demanded that fuel be transferred into Gaza via the Rafah border, but Israel has countered that all hostages must be freed first.
As the GOP and Dems spar on who got the better hand with the so-called debt deal, the U.S. insatiable desire for new military bases continues unabated. Lindsay Graham has his knickers in a knot over military spending, after all how can we defend the world otherwise? In the end, it’s just posturing on both sides. Because there is always room for one more place to send our guys into harms way. Back in March we decided to build four new military bases in the Philippines.
U.S. soldiers of the North Carolina Army National Guard in eastern Syria, 2019. | AP
Here we go:
The US-led anti-ISIS coalition is building a new military base in Syria’s northern province of Raqqa, The New Arab reported, citing a source close to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The US backs the SDF and keeps about 900 troops (officially at least) in eastern Syria, allowing the US to control about one-third of Syria’s territory. The report said there are currently about 24 US-led military sites spread throughout eastern Syria.
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While the US says it’s in Syria to fight ISIS, the presence is part of Washington’s economic war against Damascus, which includes crippling economic sanctions.
Matt Gaetz speaks his mind on Syria:
"900 Americans were sent to this hellscape with no definition of victory, with no clear objective, and purely existing as a vestige to the regime change, failed foreign policies of multiple former presidents." pic.twitter.com/Jc7UAYcaPq
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 8, 2023
ISIS also holds no significant territory, and the Syrian government and its allies would continue to fight the remnants of the terror group if the US withdrew.
But the construction of a new base demonstrates the US plans to continue the occupation indefinitely. In March, the House voted downa resolution introduced by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) that would have ordered President Biden to withdraw from Syria. The legislation failed in a vote of 103-321, with 56 Democrats and 47 Republicans voting in favor of the bill.
The House also recently voted to maintain sanctions on Syria after an earthquake killed thousands of Syrians. Only two members of Congress voted against the legislation.
Four new military bases to be used by United States forces deployed to the Philippines will be in scattered locations around the country, including in a province facing the flashpoint South China Sea, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has said.
The Marcos administration announced last month that it would allow rotating batches of US forces to indefinitely stay in four new Philippine military camps in addition to five local bases earlier designated under a 2014 Enhanced Defence Cooperation Agreement (EDCA).
A former Philippine military chief has publicly said the US had asked for access to military bases in the provinces of Isabela, Zambales and Cagayan, all on the island of Luzon, facing north towards Taiwan, and on Palawan in the southwest, near the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.
In one piece, author Alireza Hojjati wrote that during Biden’s recent trip to the Middle East, the United States withdrew all of its interests in the Middle East. The question posed was, “Who shall fill the vacuum in the Middle East?” Another writer asked, “What’s next for Syria after winning its war against the U.S.?”
If this is true, it didn’t take Biden long to sell the farm. But to be perfectly honest, given the absolute mess American diplomats have made of the Middle East since the Eisenhower administration, maybe it is time we gave those poor slobs some peace and quiet. And — continuing with my streak of honesty, I have never thought that one square inch of land in the Middle East was worth one ounce of blood shed by any American or Brit. All we’ve ever done in the Middle East is stir up the bees — and get stung.
Heck, truth be known, we were never even smart enough to realize that the Saudis supported the Pakis and Taliban since the mid-1990s. The Saudis sold us oil with one hand and murdered our sons with the other. Or maybe our government was smart enough to figure it all out — but after a cost-benefit analysis, it decided that giving up American service members was the least they could do to pacify the blood lust of our friends, the Saudis.
So, where are “we” Americans today?
Not in the Middle East, that’s for sure. That whole region is now someone else’s problem and good riddance. But who inherits? Russia? Iran? The Arabs? Does it even matter? Here’s what I think — the only reason Russia and Iran supported Syria was that Russia and Iran opposed the United States and Saudi Arabia (who was always behind the Syrian “civil war”).
The Iranians are asking, who fills the void now that the U.S. is gone? The scramble is on. Russia? Well, their hands are a bit full just now (kind of). Saudi Arabia? They would dearly love to become the Middle Eastern Powerhouse. Iran? You bet ‘cha. Turkey? Oh, yeah. But the fact is, there’s yet another sheriff in town. Even though the only accents we’re hearing are those of Russia, Iran, and Turkey (voices that have only gotten louder since Biden completed his regional comedy routine to the Middle East), there is one other.
Despite the one headline in Israel, “Iran’s Supreme Leader will Determine if Biden’s Mideast Trip Succeeds” (Haaretz, July 14), and even while Biden was muttering “nuh uh,” China was already renting office spaces in the Saudi city of Jeddah. That’s my bet: China will become the top noodle in the Mid-east.
I say let ‘em have it. How about “we Americans” concentrating more on our own backyard? More focus on the southern border would be a treat. Putting politicians in jail would be a bonus (Clinton) and their children (Hunter). I’m suggesting a strategic withdrawal here — mainly because we Americans have our limitations. We begin to unravel with three or more things to deal with at any one time. Besides, we stand a better chance of putting Hillary away than resolving the energy fight.
Seriously, it’s time we gave the Middle East away to people who will take better care of it. Instead of screwing around with sand monkeys, let’s learn how to stop worrying and fall in love with a never-ending progression of leftist ideas. Hey, don’t blame me. You guys all wanted $4.29/gallon. Right?
Flashback: We have done this drill once before. Circa Obama administration. Obama’s mission to haul in all the Syrian refugees he could get his hands on as well as those from other terror ridden locations. Let’s look back at our earlier posts to give us an idea of what we have to look forward to as Biden picks up refugees 2.0
The Breibart post has the following headline Unholy Alliance: Christian Charities Profit from $1 Billion Fed Program to Resettle Refugees, 40 Percent Muslim. The focus was on the big bucks various agencies were making off the import of all these refugees that Ryan, Clinton and Obama are determined to thrust upon us. Obama is proud he is on track to reach his 10,000 Syrians by September. Buried in the post were chilling details of just how many of these refugees have no interest in American values. This is what will get us and our neighbors killed. Here tis:
Despite claims that these Muslim refugees have been “vetted” to keep out terrorists, numerous reports, including those by the Department of Homeland Security and FBI, indicate that this process is flawed, especially for refugees from countries like Syria, where virtually no data bases to perform background checks exist.The likelihood that some number of these Muslim refugees—whether from Syria, Iraq, Somalia, or any of the other predominantly Muslim countries that send refugees to the United States—are Islamist terrorists is very high.
For instance, a recent Pew Research Poll indicated that approximately 14 percent of Muslims in 11 major Muslim majority countries sympathize with ISIS.
Another recent poll indicated that 13 percent of Syrian refugees coming to the United States “have a positive” or “positive to some extent” view of ISIS.
Since 1980, an estimated three million international refugees have entered the United States through this program, or approximately 100,000 per year for 35 years. Until 1990, very few Muslims were brought in. Since then, about 40 percent of refugees have been Muslim. In those 25 years, more than one million Muslims have been brought to the United States through this program.
Over the past five years, 680,000 green cards have been issued to Muslim immigrants (not all of whom came to the U.S. under the Refugee Resettlement program).
The national security concerns surrounding the Syrian refugees has not prompted these Christian non-profit VOLAGs to reconsider their refugee resettlement programs. Instead, as Refugee Resettlement Watch reported on Friday, they have just launched a massive public relations campaign to change the minds of the majority of Americans, whom three major polls show oppose letting any more Syrian refugees in the country.
The government has admitted 605 Syrian refugees for resettlement in the United States since last November’s Paris terrorist attack, two of whom are Christians.
“Isn’t it already proven that Mr. Baghdadi is sending people with this flow of refugees that are terrorists that – in order to inflict further attacks on Europe and the United States?” Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) asked him, referring to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
“That’s correct,” Clapper replied. “That’s one technique they’ve used is taking advantage of the torrent of migrants to insert operatives into that flow.”
In addition, he continued, ISIS has become “pretty skilled at [producing] phony passports, so they can travel ostensibly as legitimate travelers as well.”
The rest who have been admitted are 589 Sunni Muslims, 10 Shia Muslims, three other Muslims, and one refugee identified in State Department Refugee Processing Center data as “other religion.”
Just 55 Christians (1.9 percent) are among the 2,769 Syrian refugees admitted since March 2011, while a large majority – 2,594 (93.6 percent) – has been Sunni Muslims.
Other non-Muslims among the Syrian refugees admitted to the U.S. since the war began include small numbers of Baha’i (2), Yazidis (1), Jehovah’s Witnesses (8), Zoroastrians (6), atheists (3) and Syrians who have self-identified as having no religion (7). More at CNS News
DHS OPENS DOOR TO NEW IMMIGRANTS FROM HAITI, EXTENDS SPECIAL PROTECTIONS FOR HONDURAN, NICARAGUAN IMMIGRANTS
DHS announced a new program to allow thousands, the Miami Herald reported, of Haitians to legally come to the United States.
“As numerical context for these executive actions, keep in mind that the Census Bureau reports that total immigration levels have reached a record 41.3 million,” the aide emailed. “Each year, the US issues 1 million green cards to permanent immigrants (largely lesser-skilled), 700,000 guest worker permits, 500,000 foreign students, and 70,000 refugees and asylees.
The State Department has awarded 1,011 special “diversity visas” allowing Yemeni nationals to immigrate to the United States since 2000, the year 17 U.S. sailors were killed when the USS Cole was attacked by terrorists in the Yemeni port of Aden.
The “diversity visas” are designed to encourage immigration from countries that do not otherwise send significant numbers of immigrants to the United States.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres has as many as 11,000 Syrians in a pipeline waiting for admission into the U.S., which is responsible for screening them for criminal and terrorist activity.
McCaul has tried to block the arrival of the Syrians based on testimony from FBI counter-terrorism experts. As chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, he held a hearing on the national security risks of the Syrian refugee program in February and has scheduled a second hearing for June 24. He’s also sent two letters to Obama, urging him not to let the U.N. refugee program become a “jihadist pipeline” into the United States. (First arrivals since January, 2015)
Some of the questions Gowdy has pressed the State Department to answer are:
Who makes the ultimate decision as to which cities get refugees from what countries?
What variables are taken into consideration when distributing these refugees? Is it done, for instance, according to population density, geography, job and housing availability or availability of welfare benefits?
What local officials are brought into the decision-making process and at what point?
How are the other “stakeholders” chosen in the receiving communities?
How are the financial and economic impacts of the refugees to taxpayer-funded budgets being measured in the various cities where they are sent?
January 4, 2016 This one is well worth the full read. Just before Trump took the reigns.
Pay attention to David Miliband who heads-up the financially largest US refugee resettlement agency. He is the former British Foreign Secretary who came to New York in 2013 to take the reins of the International Rescue Committee.You know he is playing a huge role in seeding American towns with Muslim migrants as he was the first to call for the resettlement of 65,000 Syrian refugees before Obama leaves office (he has now upped his demand to 100,000 by the end of this year).
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Appeals Court Rules ISIS Bride Shamima Begum Should be Allowed to Return to the UK — May Open Door to 600 British ISIS Members to Return Home. Add their family members to the count. Interesting that this is the United States idea.
Unfortunately the Brits will not have the courage to jail the terrorists as they should be. For some reason the world thinks we should keep supporting these refugee camps that hold all these terrorists. Lock them up and throw the key away. They will not change.
On Thursday the British Court of Appeal ruled Shamima Begum should be allowed to return to the UK.
The BBC reported:
Ms Begum, now 20, was one of three schoolgirls who left London to join the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015.
ISIS bride Shamima Begum left Great Britain to join the Islamic State in Syria at age 15.
Now she is 20 and wants to return ‘home’ to the UK. She is not sorry for joining the terror cult and is only wanting to return to Great Britain because ISIS was defeated in Syria.
Syrian refugee camp
Shamima Begum: I think a lot of people should have like sympathy towards me for everything I’ve been through. They don’t really have proof that I did anything that is dangerous.
Reporter: They had beheaded people. There were executions.
Shamima Begum: Yeah, I know about those things and I was OK with it. I did have a good time while I was there. It was just at the end that things got harder.
Her citizenship was revoked by the Home Office on security grounds after she was found in a refugee camp in 2019.
The Court of Appeal said she had been denied a fair hearing because she could not make her case from the Syrian camp.
The Home Office said the decision was “very disappointing” and it would “apply for permission to appeal”.
Donald Trump’s administration is determined to close down Syria’s giant ISIS refugee camps and don’t want any remnants of the Islamist terror network running amok in their country.
It emerged over the weekend that the American demand sparked a bitter row between Cabinet ministers during a National Security Council meeting.
What to do with 68,000 people in Syrian camps including their children? Many of them families of ISIS fighters. Trump had raised the issue some time ago, with no answer, asking countries to take their prisoners who are being held in Syria. It came to a head when the skirmish with Turkey left some camps under questionable control by the Kurds. One can only imagine the state of mind of children held in these conditions with parents who were/are ISIS fighters.
Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria
Note from picture: We are the first reporters inside the al-Hol Camp since Turkish military operations began in northeastern Syria last week. Officials say since the conflict began, the camp, which houses 71,000 people, has become “out of control.” Camp officials say in the past week there have been attacks, escape attempts and open calls for a violent uprising in al-Hol Camp in Syria, Oct. 16, 2019.
A bird’s eye perspective of the Al-Hol refugee camp in northeastern Syria in April, 2019.
Drone footage of Al-Hol refugee camp.
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — United Nations investigators on Thursday called for thousands of children of jihadists who fought for the Islamic State group to be repatriated from Syria.
The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said in a report that the children were in a “particularly precarious” situation since they often lacked official papers.
“This, in turn, jeopardizes their rights to a nationality, hinders family reunification processes and puts them at a higher risk of exploitation and abuse,” the report said.
The UN says around 28,000 children of foreign fighters are living in Syrian camps — 20,000 of them from Iraq.
After the collapse of the self-proclaimed caliphate of ISIS last year, foreign fighters from nearly 50 countries were detained in Syria and Iraq.
Many of their relatives are held in the overcrowded Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria, home to around 68,000 and where more than 500 people — mostly children — died in 2019.
States and local government commissions will soon have the option to chose whether they want to receive refugees. Expect a battle royal as the VOLAGS who contract to handle the “refugees” stand to lose a boatload of cash.
Why in the world are we taking so many Muslims? Especially Syria and Somalia. This is the time for all of us to step up to our local and State government Reps and tell them NO MORE!It’s up to us!
The Islamic Center of America, the largest mosque in the United States, located in Dearborn, Michigan.
Up until this coming June, contractors can put refugees wherever they want (with some consultation with the State Department).
In June Trump’s new rules come into play. We get to chose.
States where Governors have told the President that they want MORE refugees for their state
On December 13, 2019, the State Department released the official list of states and localities that have consented to receive refugees in FY2020:
Let’s take a step back and look at just what and who we are importing and just how exorbitant the amount is being spent. Info is from: Refugee Resettlement Watch
Here (below) is a table done by Simpson compiled using USA Spending that includes the millions of dollars each of the nine contractors devoured in the last eleven years.
Know that the contractors do not just get money from the US State Department for placement of refugees per head, but also get myriad grants and contracts from other federal agencies, mostly the Office of Refugee Resettlement in Health and Human Services, but other agencies as well.
Note this is in MILLIONS! Not sure on the acronyms? See list below (DFMS is the other name for Episcopal Migration Ministries.)
Don’t miss the steep jump in their income over Obama’s years in office. No wonder they are screaming bloody murder!
Refugee Resettlement Watch continues to argue that these nine contractors are the heart of America’s Open Borders movement and thus there can never be long-lasting reform of US immigration policy when these nine un-elected phony non-profits are paid by the taxpayers to work as community organizers pushing an open borders agenda.
The President has linked the acquisition of a portion of their annual payout from the US Treasury to consent letters from governors and county commissions to place refugees.
June is the deadline unless a lawsuit brought by three of the contractors stops the President).
Let’s take a look back and review how this has been working out for us.
The Breibart post has the following headline Unholy Alliance: Christian Charities Profit from $1 Billion Fed Program to Resettle Refugees, 40 Percent Muslim. ($1 Billion then).
The focus was on the big bucks various agencies were making off the import of all these refugees that Ryan, Clinton and Obama are determined to thrust upon us. Obama is proud he is on track to reach his 10,000 Syrians by September. Buried in the post were chilling details of just how many of these refugees have no interest in American values. This is what will get us and our neighbors killed. Here tis:
For instance, a recent Pew Research Poll indicated that approximately 14 percent of Muslims in 11 major Muslim majority countries sympathize with ISIS.
Another recent poll indicated that 13 percent of Syrian refugees coming to the United States “have a positive” or “positive to some extent” view of ISIS.
Since 1980, an estimated three million international refugees have entered the United States through this program, or approximately 100,000 per year for 35 years. Until 1990, very few Muslims were brought in. Since then, about 40 percent of refugees have been Muslim. In those 25 years, more than one million Muslims have been brought to the United States through this program.
Over the past five years, 680,000 green cards have been issued to Muslim immigrants (not all of whom came to the U.S. under the Refugee Resettlement program).
The national security concerns surrounding the Syrian refugees has not prompted these Christian non-profit VOLAGs to reconsider their refugee resettlement programs. Instead, as Refugee Resettlement Watch reported on Friday, they have just launched a massive public relations campaign to change the minds of the majority of Americans, whom three major polls show oppose letting any more Syrian refugees in the country.
As President Obama, backed by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, has ramped up accepting refugees fleeing Syria and other war-torn nations.
Presidential candidate Hilary Clinton Says US should admit 65,000 Syrian refugees
Despite promises of European Union member states to take in 160,000 refugees, a new report shows that they’ve accepted a fraction, 6,000, while the United States has embraced 8,000 of a planned 10,000 this year.
As President Obama, backed by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, has ramped up accepting refugees fleeing Syria and other war-torn nations, the EU has put the brakes on hard, apparently bowing to public outrage.
The father is from Somalia. He fled his country and made the risky journey to South Africa. That’s where he met his eventual wife and where his daughters were born, but where the family did not have permanent residency. [What! We thought everyone was welcome in SA?—ed]
So the United Nations sent them to us!
The City of Buffalo has taken in thousands of immigrants and refugees in recent years, and it’s reflected in many of its schools. More than 85 different languages are spoken throughout the district, but that number can change by the day.
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Don’t miss the steep jump in their income over Obama’s years in office. No wonder they are screaming bloody murder!
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