By Hammerhead With the Paris Attacks Seven Months Old, the Brussells Bombings Three months old, the Orlando Shooting Two-weeks old and the current death toll From the Attack in Istanbul Yesterday up to 41 dead and 239 Injured, it is a fairly obvious assumption that ISIS is on a GLOBAL rampage. The obvious targeting of Mass Transit Hubs and…
Category: Counter-Terrorism 101
Examining Terrorist Tactics: ISIS Takes a Page From The Battle of Stalingrad
More than a month after it began, the battle for the Syrian city of Manbij drags on. Now surrounded on all sides by a coalition of Kurds and Arabs, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, and supported by U.S. Special Operations forces as well as dozens of airstrikes, the motley assortment of troops is slowly rooting out Islamic…
Crusader Corner: Fast and Furious Part Deux…CIA Weapons For Syrian Rebels End Up On Jordanian Black Market
A botched weapons program run by the CIA and several Arab intelligence agencies to arm Syrian rebels is being compared to the ATF’s botched gun-running operation Fast and Furious, which ran guns to Mexican drug cartels. A New York Times and Al Jazeera joint investigation found that weapons shipped into Jordan by the CIA and Saudi…
Espionage Files: Our Man in Syria?
Russia Is Recruiting The U.S.’s Rebel Allies In Syria ANTAKYA, Turkey — The rebel commander was nervous. He had changed phone numbers and been difficult to reach before finally agreeing to meet in Antakya, a city near the border with war-torn Syria that has long swarmed with rebels, refugees, and spies. On the road to an…
Crusader Corner: FBI Neglects To Inform Some Americans Who Were on ‘Islamic State Kill List’
Just another reminder to be self-sufficient in ALL Areas, especially Your Personal Security. Police are not there to PROTECT You! DO NOT depend on them. -SF Perhaps to do so would have been “Islamophobic,” or Obamoid FBI agents were too busy conducting outreach at the local mosque to get around to informing these people. “FBI…
Islam Invasion: More Proof the Mateen Family Were All Terrorist Supporters
So much for the “radicalized by the internet” media narrative. Omar Mateen didn’t need the internet. He had his parents and in-laws, who should never have been in this country. Omar Mateen’s father, Seddique Mateen of Port St. Lucie, hosted his own television show between 2011 and 2015 during his run for Afghan president. In…
Crusader Corner: Missiles for Terrorist but NO GUNS For Americans?
Obama is the biggest smuggler of guns to terrorists. Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. You won’t find many of the Democrats who pulled their phony publicity stunt over gun control backing the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act. It was after all…
Crusader Corner: Defenseless in the Face of our Enemies
What keeps America from protecting itself against radical Islam? EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is adapted from a speech the author delivered this week at the Westminster Institute in McLean, Va. The topic: “Defenseless in the Face of Our Enemies: What Keeps America from Protecting Itself from Radical Islam.” Two weekends ago in Orlando, Fla., in…
Crusader Corner: CAIR Now Providing Aid to Orlando Jihadist Family
If this sounds really familiar, flash back to San Bernardino where CAIR jumped in to stand with the terrorist’s family. Now CAIR is at it again in Orlando, as Paul Sperry reports. If you are a member of the media or even an investigator with the FBI seeking to question members of the Orlando terrorist’s family…
Modern War: Drone Choppers Help Hunt Top-Tier Terrorist in Africa
On Jan. 14, 2014, USS Elrod left her home port in Norfolk, Virginia for what, to outsiders, might have seemed like a routine six-month trip to the Mediterranean. Carrying a detachment of four MQ-8B Fire Scout drone helicopters, the nearly 30-year-old frigate would visit various ports and train with America’s allies, according to an official…