Al Qaeda Leader Warns Of 'Gravest Consequences' If Boston Bomber Executed

Not to worry Ayman he'll probably still be around at age 47. 

After all, we're still taking care of your boy KSM.

And as you know, he was the mastermind behind 911 resulting in the death of almost 3,000.

Hey, Ayman... Timothy McVeigh...he's been dead how long now?

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Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has warned the United States of the "gravest consequences" if Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or any other Muslim prisoner is executed.

Tsarnaev, named in a new online video message from Zawahri, was sentenced last year to death by lethal injection for the 2013 bomb attack, which killed three people and injured more than 260.

"If the U.S. administration kills our brother the hero Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or any Muslim, it ... will bring America's nationals the gravest consequences," Zawahri said.

Zawahri, who became al Qaeda's leader after U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, urged Muslims to take captive as many Westerners as possible, especially those whose countries had joined the "Crusaders' Campaign led by the United States".

The veteran Egyptian-born Islamist, shown wearing white robes and sitting in front of green velvet drapes, said the Western captives could then be exchanged for Muslim prisoners.

Western powers "are criminals and they only understand the language of force", he added.

The nearly hour-long video, which included images of Tsarnaev, gave no indication of the location of Zawahri, believed to be based close to the Afghan-Pakistan border.

Tsarnaev carried out the Boston bombings along with his older brother Tamerlan, who was killed in a confrontation with police soon after. No organization claimed responsibility.

Tsarnaev is being held at the "Supermax" high-security prison in Florence, Colorado, while his attorneys appeal his death sentence.

Legal wrangling over Tsarnaev's fate could play out for years or even decades. Just three of the 74 people sentenced to death in the United States for federal crimes since 1998 have been executed. 

Al Qaeda Leader Warns Of 'Gravest Consequences' If Boston Bomber Executed

Hostages taken in attack on restaurant in Bangladesh capital; witness says gunmen chanted 'Allahu Akbar'

Recent headline:

 John Kerry says ISIS attacked Istanbul airport because they are 'desperate' and 'know they are losing' 

DEVELOPING: A group of up to nine attackers set off bombs and took hostages while shouting "Allahu Akbar" inside a restaurant frequented by both locals and foreigners in a diplomatic zone in Bangladesh's capital, local media reported.

Bangladesh TV stations reported that the attackers entered the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka's Gulshan area around 9:20 p.m. Friday and were holding customers and staff hostage.

The exact number of hostages was not known. While some reports said there could be up to 60, others put the figure lower.

The TV reports said the identities of the attackers were not immediately known.

The U.S. State Department said all Americans working at the U.S. mission in the area had been accounted for, according to Reuters.

"We have accounted for all Americans working for the chiefof mission authority" in Dhaka, John Kirby, a State Department spokesman said. He called the situation "fluid."

The reports say a huge contingent of security guards cordoned off the area and the restaurant as they traded gunfire with the attackers who set off explosions.

Jamuna Television reported, quoting a kitchen staff worker at the restaurant who escaped the attack, said that the gunmen chanted "Allahu Akbar" as they launched the attack.

Sumon Reza, the worker, told The Daily Star that several armed men entered the restaurant and took hostages.

“They blasted several crude bombs, causing wide-scale panic among everyone.”

Benazir Ahmed, director general of the elite anti-crime force Rapid Action Battalion or RAB, told reporters that security forces were working to save the lives of the people trapped inside. Several foreigners are believed to be among the hostages.

"Some derailed youths have entered the restaurant and launched the attack. We have talked to some of the people who fled the restaurant after the attack. We want to resolve this peacefully. We are trying to talk to the attackers, we want to listen to them about what they want," Ahmed said.

"Some of our people have been injured. Our first priority is to save the lives of the people trapped inside.," he said. He would not confirm the number of those trapped inside.

Earlier this month, authorities in the country rounded up about 1,600 criminal suspects, including a few dozen believed to be Islamist radicals, in a nationwide crackdown aimed at halting a wave of brutal attacks on minorities and activists.

Only 37 of them were suspected to be radical Islamist militants, according to authorities. Those include three charged with alleged membership in the banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh.

Hostages taken in attack on restaurant in Bangladesh capital; witness says gunmen chanted 'Allahu Akbar'

BREAKING NEWS:

This from the DM so you never know if it's true. Can't find any other sources to back it up.

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Loretta Lynch will recuse herself from Hillary email case and accept whatever the FBI recommends – even an indictment! – after private meeting with Bill becomes political firestorm

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3669756/Official-AG-accept-prosecutor-call-Clinton-case.html#ixzz4D9sNkygV

BREAKING NEWS:

State Department seeks 27-month delay for release of Clinton Foundation emails

Did Comey just get a home in the Hamptons?

We have all been here before. You're in your vehicle driving when someone says…quick roll up the windows.. (gagging).. I smell a dead skunk.

What a coincidence, Bill, and Loretta just bumped into each other in AZ and now suddenly this story breaks. You would have thought they would have waited a week but why bother when the media is on your side. Someone call the double fucks Kristol and Will and ask them what they think of this latest development. If Trump's no good for America. Then what is she? Sometimes self-righteousness can make you blind.

How much more obvious can it get? The Clintons have been embroiled in scandals going all the way back to the Arkansas governor's mansion!

Our country is being ripped apart by deceit and corruption. If law and order (regardless of party) is no longer respected we are on our way to becoming another Venezuela.

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The State Department has sought to delay the court-ordered release of emails between four of Hillary Clinton's top aides and officials at the Clinton Foundation and a closely associated public relations firm.

The motion, filed in federal court by the Justice Department late Wednesday, seeks to put off the release of the emails by 27 months. It was first reported on by The Daily Caller. 

In the filing, the State Department says it originally estimated that approximately 6,000 emails and other documents were exchanged between the aides — identified as former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael Fuchs, former Ambassador-At-Large Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin — and the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings, a communications shop that former President Bill Clinton helped launch.

However, the State Department said that due to errors in the initial document search, the number of "potentially responsive documents" was, in fact, more than 34,000. The department estimated that it had more than 13,000 pages still left to review.

U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras had previously ordered the State Department to release the requested documents by July 21. 

If the State Department request is granted, the emails would not be released until October 2018, nearly halfway through the first term of a potential Hillary Clinton presidency. The documents are being sought by the conservative nonprofit group Citizens United.

"The American people have a right to see these emails before the election," Citizens United President David Bossie told The Daily Caller, adding that the delay was "totally unacceptable."

State Department spokesman John Kirby cited a surge in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in explaining the extension request.

"The Department handles FOIA in an entirely nonpartisan manner," Kirby added.

The former secretary of state has come under scrutiny over whether she used her position to aid corporate and foreign government donors to the Clinton Foundation.

In addition, Abedin worked as an employee at Teneo while simultaneously working at the State Department while Mills held a position at the Clinton Foundation while also serving in the State Department. Both matters have been flagged by Congress as possible conflicts of interest.

State Department seeks 27-month delay for release of Clinton Foundation emails

Attorney General Lynch has private meeting with Bill Clinton

The title of this FOX story is somewhat misleading. It suggests they met in a back room somewhere. Supposedly, Lynch and Clinton just happened to bump into each other at the Phoenix airport. Happens all the time right? I remember bumping into Barry at O'Hare International where he tried to bum a cigarette. I told him I didn't smoke.

Later he got one from a porter.

The crux of this story is something I didn't know. Check out the last sentence. She is where she is today (head of the DOJ) in large part because of Bill Clinton. 

What do you think the prospects are of her indicting his wife?

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Attorney General Loretta Lynch met privately with former President Bill Clinton in Arizona on Tuesday, but Ms. Lynch told reporters that the two didn’t discuss the investigation into his wife’s email use as secretary of state.

Ms. Lynch said at a press conference that the Clinton meeting was unplanned. Mr. Clinton was apparently waiting to fly out of the Phoenix airport when Ms. Lynch’s plane coincidentally landed there. The former president then walked over to the attorney general’s plane to speak to Ms. Lynch and her husband.

“Our conversation was a great deal about his grandchildren. It was primarily social and about our travels,” Ms. Lynch told reporters in Phoenix on Tuesday.

“We talked about former Attorney General Janet Reno, for example, whom we both know, but there was no discussion of any matter pending for the department or any matter pending for any other body. There was no discussion of Benghazi, no discussion of the State Department emails, by way of example,” she said.

The two did discuss the recent vote in the U.K. to leave the European Union, but the Justice Department isn’t involved in that issue, she said.

An aide to Bill Clinton said no topics were discussed beyond what was described by Ms. Lynch. A spokesman for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

But others suggested the meeting could send the wrong message. “It’s probably ill-advised because it does create the appearance of impropriety,” said Ken Sukhia, a former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida who is now running for Congress as a Republican. “You don’t necessarily have to talk about the subject to garner some good will [from prosecutors] by having that kind of conversation.”

Mr. Clinton nominated Ms. Lynch as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, a position she held from 1999 to 2001.

Attorney General Lynch has private meeting with Bill Clinton