source, they have directed the 1,000 of icers devoted to counterterrorism and intelligence to work even closer with federal security agencies. Using social media to
recruit and inspire extremists, ISIS and other groups fomenting Islamic terror are threatening to “raise the flag of Allah in the White House.” U.S. intelligence of icials
now estimate that about 100 Americans have traveled abroad to join the ISIS “Islamic caliphate,” along with between 500 and 1,500 U.K. citizens, plus hundreds more from nations in Europe. Under mutual agreements
designed to ease commerce and boost tourism, citizens in 38 countries are no longer
subjected to the extra scrutiny that comes from applying for a visa to enter the United States. That’s especially bad news
for a city like New York, which along with Washington, D.C., is widely considered to be a top jihadi target. New York GOP State Sen.
Marty Golden, whose district covers south Brooklyn, says only an extraordinary amount of vigilance will keep the city safe. “We have to get it right 100
percent of the time, while they have to get lucky just once,” he says. Those kinds of odds are
just what suicidal killers are counting on to accomplish their goal of bringing the U.S. to its knees.
“I never doubted Obama’s support
for the troops,” Gates wrote in words more damning than exculpatory, “only his support for their mission.” One of the most telling incidents
in Gates’ book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, was a discussion be- tween then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama over their vociferous opposition to Presi- dent Bush’s decision to mount a surge in Iraq to tamp down the sectarian violence. Gates wrote: “Hillary told the pres-
ident that her opposition to the [2007] surge in Iraq had been political be- cause she was facing him in the Iowa primary . . . The president conceded vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political.” Obama and Clinton’s brazen ac-
knowledgement that politics rather than strategy had driven their opposi- tion to the surge that saved America from a humiliating global defeat was “as surprising as it was dismaying,” wrote Gates, who at other points in his book supports many of the presi- dent’s specifi c policies. Panetta’s book, Worthy Fights, came nine months after Gates’. But
Numbers Don’t Lie: West Losing War on Terror
Data gathered by the University of Chicago’s Project on Security and Terrorism indicate the global war on terror is growing worse instead of better. The 14 years leading up to 9/11 saw an average of 132 deaths per year due to suicide attacks. In the 14 years since that number has climbed more than 20-fold, to a staggering average body count of 2,788 killings per year. President Obama has claimed that his administration decimated “core al-Qaida.” But 2013 and 2014 were among the deadliest years on record.
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New York City Police are
taking new steps to try to thwart attacks of the sort that crippled Paris. Commissioner William
Bratton has announced his of icers will expand their monitoring of the Internet in a bid to detect “lone wolf” terrorists like Zale Thompson, the hatchet-wielding assailant who was killed in October after he attacked police without warning, seriously injuring two of icers. To stop future attacks,
police will rely on Operation Sentry, a regional intelligence- sharing database. John Miller, New York
City’s deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, recently told
Bloomberg.com that
gathering intelligence within the municipal boundaries of the city isn’t enough. “You can’t put together the
network that is going to detect and interdict these attacks within the cities that are going to be the targets,” Miller said. “You need the wide areas around them, and Sentry brings that together.” Over 150 law enforcement
agencies currently participate in Operation Sentry, all in the hope that people who think like the hatchet-wielding Zane Thompson can be stopped. “If you get wounded, who
cares?” Thompson wrote in a Facebook post before his hatchet attack. “If you die, who cares? Eventually, they will surrender and then the war will be over.” — M.L.
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’02 ’06 ’10 ’14 SOURCE: Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism, Suicide Attack Database *Includes suicide bombings in Iraq/Afghanistan, **Only includes data through October 2014 MARCH 2015 | NEWSMAX 53
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