We won't win war on terror: Former French PM

Now you know why they performed so "well" during World War II. Maybe they should all become Muslims and everything will be alright. You know, like how ISIS treats their fellows Muslims in Iraq and Syria.

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Europe is taking the wrong approach to fighting terrorism, former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has told CNBC.

Speaking immediately after a series of explosions rocked the Belgian capital of Brussels, de Villepin said that they were "tragic events" but added that Europe should be showing that it is sticking to its rule of law and can only "reduce" the threat of terrorism.

"I do believe that our strategy should be very different than the one it is. Much less a military approach than a political approach, trying to find solutions in the Middle East and we are far from doing that," he said. 

A series of deadly explosions hit Brussels on Tuesday, targeting the main airport of Zaventem and the city's metro system. The Belgian government confirmed that two explosions had occurred at the airport as well as blasts at different metro stations, but could not provide further detail.

Flemish public broadcaster VRT said the airport bombing, which it said had killed 13 people and left 35 seriously injured, was a suicide attack and said 10 had been killed in the metro bombing.

Speaking on the outskirts of the Boao economic forum in China, de Villepin said that Tuesday's events would only create more fear and said that there should not be any "triumphalism" when known terrorists are caught by police. The blasts come four days after the capture of Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in last year's Paris attacks, in Brussels.

"I do believe we are not addressing right the issue of terrorism today," de Villepin added.

"We are giving too much communication importance, too much politics, while we should be addressing the issue on a much more technical basis, showing that we are sticking to our rule of law, we are sticking to our values, and to make democracy a strength, not a vulnerability.

He urged cooperation between police, intelligence and justice officials and said that the focus should be on "human intelligence" rather than technical intelligence because "we are overestimating the terrorists."

"These people are playing with very little means and they need very little to do huge disasters on our communities," he said. "We are not going to win the war on terror. We can divide terrorists, we can eliminate for a large part terrorism, but we can only reduce it."

Anybody remember what happened when Reagan wanted to fly planes over France to kill Gaddafi? 

We won't win war on terror: Former French PM

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Bernie Sanders on the Border: 'We Don’t Need a Wall'

Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders called the controversy over immigration "trumped up" today during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border near Nogales, Arizona, just days before the primary in this southwest state.

"The so-called immigration problem we face today at this particular moment, is a trumped up and exaggerated problem," he said during a hillside press conference with the expansive, brown border fence stretching off into the distance behind him. His microphone was run off of a generator.

Sanders went on to quote numbers from the Pew research center that indicate more people have been going from the United State to Mexico, rather than the other way around.

"We don’t need a wall and we don't need barbwire," He said. "We need to fix our broken criminal justice system. First and foremost, it goes without saying that we need comprehensive immigration reform, we need to take 11 million undocumented people out of the shadows, out of fear, and we need to provide them with legal protection, and we need to provide them with a path toward citizenship."

The Vermont senator said he would end the "deportation regime" currently at work in the country and spoke at length about "fear" and "sadness" he has seen in families torn apart by deportations. When asked specifically if he believed President Obama was part of that "regime" he said, "Yes."

"The rounding up of families that happened around Christmas time and continues to happen must end, and as president I will end it," he said before listing several of his immigration policy proposals, including expanding the deferred action program for immigrants who came to the country as children (DACA) as well as the proposals to grant status to parents of legal residents.

While touring the Morely Gate Border Crossing by foot, he spoke briefly with one DREAMer and another young woman who recently received asylum status.

He also spoke at length about ending private prisons and detention centers and called the work of Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio "inhumane" and a "disgrace." Sanders' wife, Jane Sanders, recently had a run-in with Arpaio during a visit to one of his so-called tent cities, which the senator called an "ambush."

Arpaio endorsed Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, who is also campaigning in Arizona this weekend. Sanders had strong words for the businessman as well.

"I would hope that all of us are rightly appalled by the divisive bigoted and xenophobic comments of people like Donald Trump," he said motioning to the border. "Trump’s labeling of Mexicans as rapists and criminals repulses all Americans of good will. Mexico is our neighbor, which we have extremely important relations with. To insult an entire nation is not befitting of anybody, let alone a candidate for president of the United States."

Sanders' primary opponent, Hillary Clinton, has not yet made a stop at the border during this campaign. When asked if he was trying to distinguish himself from her by coming to this site, the senator replied, "Well, I just wanted to make it very clear that I think we have a crisis in this country with 11 million undocumented people, that so many people, and I have met a lot of them, are living in fear and that they are being exploited."

Think Trump's over the top?

Trump protesters block highway in Arizona

When did free speech become free only if you agree with it? Imagine the clamor if Republican protesters blocked the main road to a Killary event. Where were the cops? We now live in a country where if you're not in favor of people coming to your country illegally you're looked upon as having something wrong with you. And this is only going to get worse until somebody finally does something about it!
 Trump just may be that somebody.

 I'm not a huge fan of Trump's but when I started reading these sort of headlines lately it really pushed my buttons. If he's the nominee I'm all in especially if the GOP establishment tries to steal it from him. After all, if Cruz goes down in flames what's the alternative?

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Trump’s immigration stance resonates at tense rallies

TUCSON, Ariz. — Donald Trump’s campaign for all of Arizona’s Republican delegates is centered on the hard line against illegal immigration that he’s taken from the start, and it’s a message his supporters lapped up in a series of tense weekend gatherings leading into Tuesday’s presidential primaries in the border state.

“Illegal immigration is gonna stop,” Trump vowed in Tucson on Saturday night. “It’s dangerous,” he said. “Terrible.”

Both in Phoenix and Tucson, Trump was introduced by former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who pushed tough immigration laws in office, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who made his name by chasing down people who are in the country illegally.

Protesters showed up at every event, blockading the main road into his outdoor Phoenix rally for several hours before it started, and interrupting him and being thrown out in Tucson late in the day. Trump treated the latest protests with a mix of pacifist rhetoric and a mocking tone. “We love our protesters, don’t we?” he asked. As security removed one or more, he said: “We want to do it with love,” then added bitingly, “Get ‘em outta here.”

At the indoor Tucson rally, one protester carried a sign with an image of a Confederate flag over an image of Trump and another wore a Ku Klux Klan-style sheet. A man in the crowd attacked the protester with the Confederate sign, kicking and punching him before being arrested. The protesters were led out by security.

As the rally attendees later streamed out of the Trump rally, protesters hurled two water bottles at them and called them racists.

Arizona Democrats vote Tuesday, too, and Democratic contender Bernie Sanders campaigned at the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona. Standing in front of a tall, steel fence that divides the two countries, Sanders promised to keep immigrant families together by taking more steps than President Barack Obama has done to protect many from deportation. He branded Arpaio a bully and slammed the “divisive, bigoted and xenophobic comments of people like Donald Trump.”

His opponent, front-runner Hillary Clinton, planned rallies in Arizona on Monday.

Say what you will about Trump. But a vote for either one of these two bastards is a vote to systemically destroy the country. They want illegals here and they want them to vote. And who do you think they're going to vote for? Not to mention what the SC is going to look like when they're done with their appointments. 
A total freaking disaster of lifetime appointments!

Tempers flared at Trump’s large outdoor gathering in Phoenix, but without the violence that marred his event in Chicago a week before.

For hours, about two dozen protesters parked their cars in the middle of the main road to the event, unfurling banners reading “Dump Trump” and “Must Stop Trump,” and chanting “Trump is hate.” Traffic was backed up for miles, with drivers honking in fury.

The road was eventually cleared and protesters marched down the highway to the rally site, weaving between Trump supporters who booed and jeered them.

Trump supporter Geroy Morgan, 62, made it to the rally but was furious at the demonstrators, some of whom still stood around after the event ended.

“We come here, the silent majority, to express our opinions,” Morgan said. “They don’t have any permits or rights.”

David Nelson, 62, had to walk about four miles to the rally because demonstrators had blocked the road. “You don’t see me at Bernie’s disrupting their crowd,” he said, referring to Sanders. “I give them respect.”

Trump protesters block highway in Arizona

Rabbis plan to boycott Trump speech to pro-Israel group

Love Trump or hate him in this instance it makes no difference. 

Now... not back when..these rabbis are going to take a stand, but sat on their ass watching Barry systemically set up Isreal for the slaughter house.

 Don't believe me? 

Ask this guy if he rather have Barry president or Trump.

 This kills me.

 "We are against the ugliness that has engulfed this election season. And he has driven much of it, from his comments about Mexicans and Muslims to the violence at his rallies."

 They're worried about viloence towards Muslims? These f-ing rabbis better wake up! Because Muslims sure as hell ain't worried about killing Jews. It's their national pastime.

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NEW YORK – Dozens of rabbis are planning to boycott a scheduled speech by Donald Trump to the nation's largest pro-Israeli lobbying group to protest what they feel is divisive rhetoric by the Republican presidential front-runner.

The rabbis plan to hand out fliers requesting that hundreds of attendees at the annual gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington either skip Trump's speech on Monday or stand up as Trump starts speaking and silently walk out.

"He embodies 'Sinat chinam' — senseless hatred," said Rabbi David Paskin of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, one of the protest's organizers. "We are against the ugliness that has engulfed this election season. And he has driven much of it, from his comments about Mexicans and Muslims to the violence at his rallies."

Trump, who holds a significant delegate lead in the quest for the Republican presidential nomination, has left some Jewish leaders uneasy with what they feel is a lack of understanding about the Middle East, his pledge to stay neutral during peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, and his inflammatory speech that evokes totalitarian regimes.

One of the former leaders of the liberal Reform movement, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, believes the walkout will signify that "American Jews are beginning to wake up. And they are getting ready to take on Donald Trump."

"The delegates to the AIPAC conference are there to cheer on Israel," Yoffie wrote this week in Haaretz, Israel's oldest daily newspaper. "But not this year. American Jews, looking around in stunned disbelief, are concluding that ... enough is enough."

Trump has frequently touted his warm feelings toward Israel, noting that his daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism when she married into a prominent Orthodox family, and that he had been the grand marshal of a pro-Israel parade in New York City in 2004.

"He has been a major supporter of the Jewish community in New York and beyond. He has received numerous awards, participated in many events and made significant contributions to a variety of Jewish-related causes over the years," said Hope Hicks, Trump's campaign spokeswoman. "Mr. Trump has said, as president, there will be no one stronger on Israeli-American relations than him, and his consistent support and advocacy for Israel over many years is proof of this."

He has said that remaining "neutral" in the peace talks could help him negotiate a better deal, a stance that has upset many Zionists. He also drew some criticism when during a December appearance before the Republican Jewish Coalition, he said he was best positioned to get a Middle East peace deal because he's a negotiator, "like you folks." Many involved with the RJC said that formulating a response to Trump will dominate the group's annual convention in Las Vegas next month.

An AIPAC official declined to comment about the impending protest but noted that the group invites all active Democratic and Republican presidential candidates to address the conference. Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz and John Kasich have also confirmed their attendance.

Trump is poised to speak at the cavernous Verizon Center, with as many as 18,000 convention-goers in attendance, potentially creating a dramatic spectacle if there is a mass walkout. But organizers of the protest — organized online and, so far, largely drawing from the Reform and Conservative movements of Judaism, whose followers tend to lean left politically —say their goal is not to elicit an angry reaction from Trump.

"There's been plenty of times, he seems to enjoy when protesters interrupt his speech," said Rabbi Jesse Olitzky of South Orange, New Jersey. "That's not our goal. We simply won't be complacent."

Rabbis plan to boycott Trump speech to pro-Israel group

Wonder if this is your typical ISIS fighter?

They can't be this stupid! 

Guess he thought he was going to hang out at the Mosul Mall.

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Captured American ISIS fighter says, 'I was not thinking straight'

A Virginia man who joined ISIS and surrendered to Kurdish Peshmerga fighters earlier this week has expressed regret for entering the terror group's self-proclaimed caliphate, saying he "made a bad decision" and "was not thinking straight."

In an interview broadcast on the Kurdistan 24 news station, Mohamad Jamal Khweis, 26, said he had made his way to the ISIS-held city of Mosul, Iraq with an unidentified woman whom he had met in Turkey while traveling. 

"We spent some time together, and she said that she is from Mosul, Iraq," Khweis said. He added the pair traveled from Istanbul to Mosul by bus and private vehicle, arriving on Jan. 16.

"On the way there I regretted [my decision], and I wanted to go back home after things didn’t work out and saw myself living in such an environment," Khweis said. 

It was not immediately possible to establish the woman's identity, whether she was a member of ISIS, her ultimate fate or whether she even existed. U.S. officials told The Daily Beast this week that the terror group has established a network of women responsible for recruiting new fighters. 

Khweis said he was only able to stay in Mosul for a month before he had enough. "It is not like Western countries. It is very strict and no smoking there," he said, adding that most of the foreign fighters he saw were from countries in central and southern Asia.

"I found it very, very hard to live there," Khweis said. "I found someone who could take me back to Turkey. First he told me that he will take me, but then he said it will be difficult to take me all the way to Turkey. [Later] he told me he will take me near Turkey’s border."

Khweis ultimately surrendered to Kurdish Peshmerga forces near the town of Sinjar, which was retaken by Iraqi forces from ISIS late last year.

Khweis said he had arrived in Turkey after traveling through Europe, stopping in London and Amsterdam along the way. He also elaborated on his background, saying that his parents had moved to the U.S. from the Palestinian territories before he was born.

Khweis said he attended mosque in America, but did not do so frequently. Apart from his encounter with the Iraqi woman, he did not offer any other reason for why he joined ISIS.

When asked by his interviewer if he had a message for the American people, Khweis said, "Life in Mosul is really very bad. The people who control Mosul don’t represent a religion. Daesh [the Arabic acronym for ISIS] does not represent a religion. I don’t see them as good Muslims."

Wonder if this is your typical ISIS fighter?