An Uzbeki national has pleaded not guilty to charges in the United States that he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terror group. Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, was arrested during a raid of his apartment in the city Boise in the rural state of Idaho and was charged with a litany of offenses.
The final resting place of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been revealed and the location is infuriating some Muslims, as well as Americans who wanted his body sent back to Russia.
We all know now the American public was fed a pack of lies regarding last fall’s deadly attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. The burning questions that remain to be solved: Who orchestrated the snow job? Was it hatched by underlings trying to save the president’s hide ahead of the election? Or did Obama or Secretary of State Hillary Clinton conceive the ruse, leaving their minions to take the fall once the truth inevitably emerged? Pundit Dick Morris kicks around the possibilities.
Pat Smith, mother of slain State Department officer Sean Smith, who died in the September 11, 2012, attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, tore into the federal government and their efforts to investigate that deadly attack on Tuesday. In an interview with CNN host Jake Tapper, Smith said that she blames former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for failing to ensure her staff was secure and for not taking blame for that failure after they were killed in the line of duty.
Two members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have been found guilty of plotting to attack Israeli and American targets in Kenya. Iranian nationals Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammad and Sayed Mansour Mousavi were picked up by Kenyan police last year and found to have 15 kilograms of deadly explosives and plans to cause harm.
Martin Mawyer, founder of the Christian Action Network, says Jihadists are establishing terror training camps in the United States. He covers the topic in a newly published book Twilight in America: The Untold Story of Islamist Terrorist Training Camps Inside America. Mawyer welcomes a lawsuit filed against him by the group Muslims of the Americas challenging his claims.
Richard Perle, Resident Fellow for the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and former Assistant Secretary of Defense, discusses the latest threats from radical Islamic groups. The motivations and techniques used by Islamist organizations to affect America are spelled out clearly in the “Third Jihad: Radical Islam’s Vision for America.”
Glenn Beck says someone is taking Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s mother aside and showing her how to sow confusion about the truth behind the Boston bombing. This is a tactic that terrorists often use against Israel. Now they are directing their guile against the United States to fuel conspiracy theories, a dangerous situation.
Italian police have arrested four Islamists they suspect belonged to a militant cell planning attacks in Israel, Italy and the United States. Police said the men, mostly from Tunisia, are suspected of conspiracy to commit international terrorism and inciting racial hatred.
CNN’s Candy Crowley on Sunday started to say that deceased Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had posted “Islamic videos” online before apologizing and calling them “terrorist videos.” “We know that both the CIA and the FBI were told by Russia, their counterparts, ‘You got to look at this guy, we think he’s been radicalized. We think he’s a terrorist,’” the State of the Union host told panelists. “Then we have the fact that up came these, at some point after a trip to Russia and before it, up came Islamic videos — or, I’m sorry, terrorist videos on his website. … At least one department, Homeland Security I believe, knew he’d either come or gone to Russia. And he’s putting up, you know, in praise of terrorism. Why in the world didn’t anybody think, oh, wait, this is a danger sign?”
