"We are 99 percent sure we got him."

Good riddance you dirty bastard!

US airstrike targets notorious ISIS militant 'Jihadi John'

DEVELOPING – The Pentagon said late Thursday it had launched an airstrike in Syria targeting "Jihadi John", a British national seen in videos depicting the beheading of hostages held by ISIS.

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook confirmed that the airstrike in Raqqa was directed at the notorious militant, also known as Mohamed Emwazi. It was not immediately clear whether Emwazi died in the airstrike, but a senior U.S. military official told Fox News, "we are 99 percent sure we got him." The Pentagon was monitoring the aftermath of the strike before making a definitive announcement.

A senior U.S. defense official told Fox News that a drone was used in the airstrike. According to a senior military source, the drone had been tracking Emwazi for most of the day Thursday while he met with other people. The source said the strike took place shortly after Emwazi came out of a building in Raqqa, when he was "ID'd and engaged."

Sky News, citing sources inside Raqqa, reported that Emwazi was badly hurt in the air strike but still alive when he was brought to the hospital there. Later, however, the same sources said the hospital was sealed off to the public. Locals say the hospital is usually closed when an ISIS figure is killed, which allows the group to go on social media and claim he is still alive.

A representative of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the Daily Telegraph, "a car carrying four foreign Islamic State leaders, including one British jihadi, was hit by U.S. air strikes [near] the governorate building in Raqqa city.

"All the sources there are saying that the body of an important British jihadi is lying in the hospital of Raqqa," the activist added. "All the sources are saying it is of Jihadi John but I cannot confirm it personally."

Emwazi, believed to be in his mid-20s, has been described by a former hostage as a bloodthirsty psychopath who enjoyed threatening Western hostages. Spanish journalist Javier Espinosa, who had been held in Syria for more than six months after his abduction in September 2013, said Emwazi would explain precisely how the militants would carry out a beheading.

Those being held by three British-sounding captors nicknamed them "the Beatles" with "Jihadi John" a reference to Beatles member John Lennon, Espinosa said in recalling his months as one of more than 20 hostages.

Emwazi is seen in videos showing the beheading of journalists Steve Sotloff and James Foley, American aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, and a number of other hostages.

In the videos, a tall masked figure clad in black and speaking in a British accent typically began one of the gruesome videos with a political rant and a kneeling hostage before him, then ended it holding an oversize knife in his hand with the headless victim lying before him in the sand.

A counterterror analyst told Fox News that Emwazi became so sought-after following his appearances in the beheading videos that he was shunned by ISIS leadership. The analyst said Emwazi had become the "Typhoid Mary" of the terror group, noting that his presence had prompted airstrikes on meetings, buildings, and other commanders.

Early Friday, British Prime Minister David Cameron said that officials are not yet certain whether Emwazi was dead, but said the action was "a strike at the heart" of ISIS, as well as "an act of self-defense" and the right thing to do.

Cameron said Britain has been "working, with the United States, literally around the clock to track him down."

"This was a combined effort," he said. "And the contribution of both our countries was essential."

Cameron said that "it will demonstrate to those who would do Britain, our people and our allies harm: We have a long reach, we have unwavering determination and we never forget about our citizens."

Bethany Haines, the daughter of David Haines, told Sky News Friday that she felt an 'instant sense of" relief" when she heard Emwazi may have been killed. She said her feeling was because of "'knowing he wouldn't appear in any more horrific videos."

Emwazi was identified as "Jihadi John" last February, although a lawyer who once represented Emwazi's father told reporters that there was no evidence supporting the accusation. Experts and others later confirmed the identification.

Emwazi was born in Kuwait and spent part of his childhood in the poor Taima area of Jahra before moving to Britain while still a boy, according to news reports quoting Syrian activists who knew the family. He attended state schools in London, then studied computer science at the University of Westminster before leaving for Syria in 2013. The woman who had been the principal at London's Quintin Kynaston Academy told the BBC earlier this year that Emwazi had been quiet and "reasonably hard-working."

Officials said Britain's intelligence community had Emwazi on its list of potential terror suspects for years but was unable to prevent him from traveling to Syria. He had been known to the nation's intelligence services since at least 2009, when he was connected with investigations into terrorism in Somalia.

The beheading of Foley, 40, of Rochester, New Hampshire, was deemed by IS to be its response to U.S. airstrikes. The release of the video, on Aug. 19, 2014, horrified and outraged the civilized world but was followed the next month by videos showing the beheadings of Sotloff and Haines and, in October, of Henning.

"We are 99 percent sure we got him."

Congratulations

On a tip from Ed Kilbane

Congratulations

First the Bosnian sniper whopper...

And now this.
Maybe she misspoke again?

 Hillary tried to join the Marines in Arkansas

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, shown here campaigning in New Hampshire on Tuesday, has revived an old story that she once inquired about joining the Marine Corps

In 1994, Clinton said the incident happened at a Marine Corps office in Arkansas and that she had inquired about joining either the active forces or the reserves.

A Marine Corps recruiter in Arkansas 'looks at me and goes, "Um, how old are you?" And I said, "Well I am 26, I will be 27." And he goes, "Well, that is kind of old for us," ' Clinton recalled on Tuesday.

'And then he says to me - and this is what gets me - "Maybe the dogs will take you," meaning the Army.'

(I think this was a man with a keen foresight talking about liberal voters)

The story has been probed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, The New Republic and The Weekly Standard.

The Post this week gave it 'Two Pinocchios,' on a truthfulness scale of one to four, which the paper explains as having 'significant omissions and/or exaggerations.' Back in 1994, a Post columnist was less kind, suggesting that if the story is true, it was part of a 'drunken bar bet.'

Yeah... and she was doing shots of Mezcal when suddenly 31,ooo emails disappeared.

Clinton's campaign has declined to comment, but the Post tracked down two longtime friends of Clinton who confirmed the story.

In 1994, a Marine spokesman told the Times, 'We won't attempt to dispute the first lady's recollection, but if she was ill-treated by a Marine recruiter in 1975, it certainly is unfortunate, unprofessional and a mistake we regret.' whopper

The Marines had long been accepting women in 1975 except for roles in infantry, artillery, armor and flight duties.

Clinton in New York City on Wednesday

Clinton's story is complicated, however, because there was no formal application or written record of the informal conversation - making it nearly impossible to confirm based on a paper trail.

The Times' account in 1994 raised questions about the story's truthfulness by noting that at the time of the alleged incident, Clinton had just moved to Arkansas and was teaching at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where she and Bill Clinton married in October 1975.

Those circumstances made then-Times reporter Maureen Dowd even more skeptical of the anecdote, suggesting that Clinton was building a steady and stable life and career instead of standing at a crossroads.

Clinton has come under fire before for exaggerations, such as falsely claiming that she and her daughter Chelsea came under sniper fire during a visit to Bosnia in the late 1990's.

First the Bosnian sniper whopper...

Middle East Christianity will disappear within a decade

I'm sure you have already read or watched the new video of Barry's "JV team" reaching a new low of depravity by gunning down 200 hundred innocent children.

  Now this today. 

Islam will effectively wipe out Christianity in the Middle East in the next 10 years. What does that tell you? Infidels... either convert or die. Send up any red flags? Evidently not in Europe which is next on the list to be conquered. Islam rebranded the Trojan Horse "refugee" and rolled it right in.  Cameron, Merkle, Hollande, among others paved the way and are just as stupid and naive as Barry. Europe like Barry believes ass kissing is the solution, placate instead of eliminate, coddling these Islamic animals. I ask you. What good has come out of this strategy so far? 

Liberals love to talk about tolerance and diversity. Name me one Christian church or synagogue in Mecca. 

More on the refugees... aka invaders.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/11/watch-anti-migrant-video-going-viral-across-europe/

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“I always thought Merkel was a great leader, but what she’s done in Germany is insane”.

After all you have seen and read do you believe: 

The greatest misdirection play in history. 

And why?

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EVE OF DESTRUCTION: MIDDLE EAST CHRISTIANITY DOOMED, AID GROUP WARNS

Middle East Christianity will disappear within a decade as its followers face utter annihilation at the hands of Islamic State (IS) terrorists, a Catholic aid group has warned.

The alarming rate of decline in the Biblical heartlands means the religion could vanish in areas it has called home for millennia unless the world steps in, says the international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need.

In a report titled Persecuted & Forgotten disturbing data outlines the plunging numbers of Christians in the part of the world that gave birth to the faith and makes a dire prediction of what the future holds.

The British-based group says: “At a time when the numbers of displaced and refugees have hit an all-time high, Islamists groups — ISIS foremost — are carrying out religiously motivated ethnic cleaning of Christians.

“In parts of the Middle East — particularly in Syria and Iraq — the crisis is so severe that barring significant interventions on the part of world powers, the Christian presence may disappear completely within a decade or even sooner.”

While Christians are under siege from ISIS terrorists in Syria and Iraq, the report notes that the religion is being targeted throughout the region. Christians who have managed to escape ISIS have fled to places of safety like Europe and Lebanon, while members of the faith also are under increasing pressure in Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations.

As Breitbart London has reported, the Christian population in Iraq alone has plummeted from 1.5 million in 2003 to current estimates of 275,000 and could vanish within five years. Sectarian violence following the U.S. overthrow of Saddam Hussein caused more than half of Iraqi Christians to flee. There were more than 1.2 million Christians 20 years ago.

The dwindling numbers are due to genocide, refugees fleeing to other countries, those who are internally displaced, and others hiding in plain sight and not allowing their faith to be publicly known.

In the last week alone, around 15,000 Christians have reportedly been forced from their homes north of Damascus, and their civilising influence will be lost forever. As the report concludes:

“The decline of Christianity may significantly damage the prospects for peace in nations and regions where Church leaders — lay and clergy — have played important roles in promoting and providing education, community development and interfaith co-operation.”

While the situation is most dire in the Middle East, Christianity is under assault in Africa and Asia, too, according to the Aid to the Church in Need study.

It cited persecution at the hands of Islamist terror groups such as Boko Haram in Nigeria and other extremists in Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania across the continent.

Asia’s Christians have been targeted by nationalist religious movements – Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist – in countries as far apart as Pakistan, Indonesia and Myanmar. Many of these groups increasingly view Christianity as a foreign, “colonial” import and believe its practitioners are demonic agents of Western influence.

Last month Breitbart London reported on calls for British Prime Minister David Cameron to officially recognise the mass slaughter of Christians in the Middle East as “genocide”.

A letter written by Lord Alton of Liverpool and Baroness Cox asked Mr. Cameron to “urgently consider” the plight of Christian asylum seekers and give them priority before they are wiped out.

The call came after Canon Andrew White, known as the Vicar of Baghdad, revealedhe once invited Islamic State leaders to discuss the crisis. They responded by threatening to decapitate him.

Middle East Christianity will disappear within a decade

Something he'll never get from Israel

Obama is named OUT magazine’s ‘Ally of the Year’

 Not surprising

Celebrating a year in which same-sex couples won the right to marry nationwide, OUT magazine named President Obama it's "Ally of the Year" Tuesday.

Obama's image on the cover marks the first time a sitting American president has been photographed for an LGBT magazine. Aaron Hicklin, the magazine's editor, boasted in a letter to readers: "I did get that selfie."

Hicklin wrote that he dreamed of "walking in a park, laughing" with Obama as they traversed the streets of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, but even the short time Hicklin spent at the White House made an impression.

"You do not get much time with the president for a photo shoot — about four minutes, five if you’re lucky — and there’s something surreal and tense about kicking your heels in the White House library while waiting for your subject to materialize," Hicklin wrote. "Yet when the president walks into the room — and it’s a small room, lined with books and a few ornamental swords, one gifted to George Washington by the French — the air rushes in with him."

"It’s hard not to be starstruck," he added. "A little turn this way, a little that way, an ice-breaking joke ('this is the only expression I’ve got'), and we are done. The president strides off, the room empties."

While the president opposed same-sex marriage for several years before supporting it in 2012, Hicklin wrote, his "last-minute conversion" gave crucial momentum to the Supreme Court's June 26 ruling to legalize such unions.

"Many things led up to that decision — 'decades of our brothers and sisters fighting for recognition and equality' as the president notes — but once his administration decided to join that fight it created what people like to call a 'transformative' moment," Hicklin wrote. "It helped tip the balance, and it put our elected leader on the right side of justice."

The administration has adopted policies that focus on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans during Obama's second term, including new federal housing protections as well as an executive order barring federal contractors from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

[Obama privately backed gay marriage while publicly opposing it, top adviser says]

He also privately backed (if not instigate) the IRS attack on conservatives while public opposing it. 

But he is a man who believes in the rule of law.

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In an interview with Hicklin, Obama spoke about his early influences regarding gay rights — his mother and a professor at Occidental College — as well as the dramatic shifts in public opinion over the course of his lifetime.

Asked to name the first openly gay person he ever met, the president said he couldn't recall whom that would have been, "But Dr. Lawrence Goldyn, one of my college professors, is a man who stands out to me. I took his class freshman year at Occidental. I was probably 18 years old — Lawrence was one of the younger professors — and we became good friends."

"He went out of his way to advise lesbian, gay and transgender students at Occidental, and keep in mind, this was 1978," added Obama, who recognized Goldyn at the White House's pride celebration in June. "That took a lot of courage, a lot of confidence in who you are and what you stand for."

The president attributed his support for LGBT rights to his understanding what it was like to be marginalized from mainstream society "growing up as a black guy with a funny name" and "because my mom instilled in me the strong belief that every person is of equal worth."

Last week's gubernatorial election in Kentucky may have shown the political popularity of Kim Davis, a clerk in Rowan County, Ky., who went to jail rather than issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples. But Obama told OUT magazine that he would tell her and other local and state officials that the question of whether gay men and lesbians can marry is now settled.

"I am a man of faith and believe deeply in religious freedom, but at the end of the day, nobody is above the rule of law — especially someone who voluntarily takes an oath to uphold that law," Obama said. "That's something we've got to respect."

Something he'll never get from Israel