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 Gateway Pundit: DESPICABLE: Joe Biden Releases Dangerous Islamist Terrorists from Guantanamo Bay Just Days Before Trump Takes Over ...  The New York Times reported Monday that the Biden regime has decided to release 11 dangerous Islamist Yemeni terrorists from Guantanamo Bay to Oman for them to supposedly ‘start new lives.’ Oman has supposedly ensured they will ‘monitor’ the newly released prisoners. ... Biden keeps adding to his record as the worst president in US history.  Whose side is he on? 

 Wall Street Journal: Fears Grow of Islamic State’s Re-Emergence in Syria U.S. steps up strikes from desert bases against an enemy it defeated half a decade ago Islamic State militants were already resurgent last year in parts of Syria and Iraq. Then in December, the Assad regime collapsed, furnishing them with fresh supplies of weapons from stocks abandoned by the Syrian army. The group that once terrorized the Middle East and inspired attacks elsewhere in the world is looking to exploit Syria’s uncertain future to rebuild its influence—half a decade after U.S.-led forces broke its hold on swaths of territory and millions of people. In a sign of its persistent appeal, a U.S. Army veteran in a pickup flying an Islamic State flag drove through a crowd of people early on New Year’s Day in New Orleans, killing 15 and injuring 30 in what authorities called a terrorist attack . It wasn’t clear what connections, if any, the assailant might have had to the group, but analysts have warned...

  Middle East Forum: The white pickup truck with an ISIS flag attached to its trailer hitch that tore through Bourbon Street in New Orleans during the first few hours of New Year’s Day of 2025 symbolizes an inflection point for the American people and their leaders. Revelry, music and laughter gave way to terror as fifteen people lost their lives and dozens of others were left with crippling, life-altering injuries from yet another jihadist attack on U.S. soil. The suspected attacker, Samshud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. citizen and former member of the U.S. Army Reserve from Texas, died in a firefight with local police, but given reports of ISIS-affiliated terrorists crossing America’s southern border, the threat of more attacks did not die with him. According to the FBI, the Bourbon Street massacre appears to be part of a larger coordinated attack involving accomplices. Hours after yet another example of “vehicular jihad” in New Orleans, a rented Tesla Cybertruck exploded ou...

PJ Media: Donald Trump isn't president yet, but he may as well be. The rest of the world thinks that he's president. That has already started a shuffling of the deck and is forcing reassessments from friends and foes alike. Early this month, Trump took to Truth Social to issue a warning to the terrorist group Hamas — what's left of it, anyway. “If the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity. Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!” The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday that for the first time since October 7, 2023, Hamas has agreed to allow Israeli troops to remain in Gaza after a ceasefire is agreed to. More importantly, the terrorists handed ov...

 Bob Hoge: If you’re an Israeli-hating Middle Eastern terrorist these days, your life prospects don’t look that good. The Jewish state has systematically  eliminated the ranks  of Hamas “leaders,” sent almost the entire hierarchy of Hezbollah to an  early grave , and even  threatened Iran’s boss , Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Israeli forces managed to pull off an audacious plot where  exploding pagers  took out numerous Hezbollah operatives. They then followed up with a massive airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, which ended the existence of terrorist Hezbollah psychopath leader  Hassan Nasrallah . Turns out, they’re getting into the heads of Iran’s despotic rulers: Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last week has reportedly stirred paranoia among top Iranian officials and the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, according to Reuters. Israel  targeted  Nasrallah in a significant airstrike against his bunker on Friday, ma...

 American Action News: It is common knowledge that the Afghanistan withdrawal was a complete disaster, but lots of people do not know that the Biden administration has been sending cash to the Taliban every week since then . When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, our troops were ordered to leave behind $7 billion worth of military equipment which ended up in the hands of the Taliban. According to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the Taliban also likely gained access to approximately $57.6 million in funds that the United States had provided to the former Afghan government. But that was just the beginning of the financial atrocities. “According to an August 2023 World Bank report, the UN has purchased, transported, and transferred $2.9 billion in U.S. currency to Afghanistan since August 2021,” said a SIGAR report published in January . “This included $1.8 billion provided in 2022 and $1.1 billion provided in 2023, as of August 2023...

 American Action News: A Jordanian national has been indicted for allegedly attacking an energy facility and other businesses, as well as threatening to destroy the U.S. for its perceived support of Israel, according to a Thursday statement from the Justice Department. Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, a 43-year-old Jordanian living in the Orlando, Florida, area, has been charged with one count of destruction of an energy facility and four counts of threatening to use explosives, according to a Thursday press release from the Department of Justice (DOJ). The indictment stems from a series of threats and attacks against businesses in the Orlando area that began over the summer, resulting in damages that are estimated to top well over half a million dollars. “Under the guise of expressing his beliefs, the defendant allegedly attacked a power facility and threatened local businesses, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement. ...

  Just the News: The FBI allowed Asif Raza Merchant, the Pakistani man charged with plotting with Tehran to assassinate Donald Trump and others, to enter the U.S. in April with special permission known as “significant public benefit parole” even though he was flagged on a terrorism watchlist and recently traveled to Iran, according to government documents reviewed by Just the News . The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force interviewed Merchant, fingerprinted him and inspected the contents of his electronic devices when he arrived at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston, but then let him leave with the special parole that expired on May 11, the memos state. “Subject was polite and cooperative throughout encounter,” the FBI interview memo reads. “... Subject's notable travel outside of country of citizenship includes a recent trip to Iran.” Merchant wasn't arrested until July 12, after a confidential human source ascertained he had tried to line up assassins and w...

 The Jewish Chronicle: Masked figure threatens ‘rivers of blood will flow’ at Paris Olympics over West's support of ‘Zionist regime’ A video by an unknown source threatens Macron and the people of France over Israel’s inclusion in Olympic Games The threat appears to also include France and its leaders for including Israel in the games.  The Islamists have made similar threats in the past and they were not bluffing.

 Newsmax: With Hamas leadership and terrorists in hiding – often at schools and hospitals to use Gaza civilians as human shields, Israel warns – some Gaza residents are growing more and more bold about speaking out against the failed terrorist regime. In one video seen by the BBC that was filmed outside a hospital filled with wounded Palestinians, a bloodied Gazan man shouts: "I am an academic doctor," reports Business Insider . "I had a good life, but we have a filthy [Hamas] leadership. They got used to our bloodshed, may God curse them! They are scum! "I'm one of you, but you are a cowardly people. We could have avoided this attack!" Israel has long maintained the taking of hostages, underground tunnels built below hospitals and schools, and hiding among humanitarian camps and children's schools are all hallmarks of terrorists seeking to take cover using innocent civilians as human shields. That way, the Hamas terrorists theorize, Israel's attack...

 Spectator: From the outset it was obvious to seasoned observers who massacred more than 130 Russians at a concert hall Moscow on Friday evening. It wasn’t, as some in the Kremlin claimed, Ukraine. What would they stand to gain from such indiscriminate slaughter? The people who opened fire in the Crocus City Hall cleaved to the same ideology as those who have this century murdered thousands of innocent men, women and children in New York, Bali, Madrid, London, Brussels, Paris, Manchester and Nice. According to reports, the group that carried out the Moscow attack is known as Islamic State… ... There are Islamists who believe that mass murder of non-believers is their duty and they have been killing people around the world.  Russia was not exempt from their carnage.

 Mark Steyn: Another day, another empty seat at this year's Christmas table - thanks to western governments, feckless and complicit in the destruction of their societies. So a German couple decide to travel to Paris for a pre-Christmas break. The City of Light and all that, right? Don't worry, they didn't go to any of those dangerous banlieues. Instead, they were a few yards from the Eiffel Tower strolling the Quai de Grenelle when a man attacked them shouting - go on, take a wild guess - yes, "Allahu akbar!" The husband, in his early twenties, was fatally stabbed; the wife is alive because a passing cabbie intervened. The stabber then fled across the Seine and attacked a local chap and a 66-year-old English tourist whom he hit in the eye with a hammer. Who would do such a thing? The BBC was right on the case, identifying the perp as " a 26-year-old French national ". Those crazy Frenchmen! It's only a fortnight since a bunch of other "French na...

 Red State: A tragic incident that occurred in Austin, Texas, seems to substantiate a warning given to Congress by FBI Director  Christopher Wray  about potential terrorist activity in the United States. Against the backdrop of the  current war  between Israel and Hamas, heightened concerns about the possibility of extremists carrying out attacks on American soil have become an even more pressing issue. KXAN  reported: An Austin Police Department search warrant filed Tuesday afternoon provided new details surrounding the SWAT incident on Nov. 11 in south Austin that resulted in the death of four people, including APD Officer Jorge Pastore. According to the search warrant for a home at 9308 Bernoulli Dr., APD received a call from a resident of the home who was able to run away from the house on foot after being stabbed and suffering critical injuries. APD officers who initially responded made emergency entry into the residence and were met with gunfire from ...

 Red States: The members of the Squad were out on Monday night at a rally for a ceasefire in Washington, D.C. Of course, we know that the Squad is for a ceasefire. They've made some troubling remarks in the past . But the effort they are putting in to try to justify it takes some gall and was unintentionally funny. They essentially tried to attack Israel while wrapping themselves in "Jewishness" and tried to use that to help their position. They were at an event by the "Rabbis for Ceasefire."   Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) attacked Israel calling them "extremist" and accusing them of having committed "war crimes." She was not satisfied with calls for "pauses" such as those from Joe Biden, she said there had to be a complete "end to the violence." Translation? Israel can't defend itself or eliminate the terrorists. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) also attacked Israel, referring to it as a "fascist government." "Yo...

 Eric Utter: Every time murderous Islamic thugs commit another terror attack, the Obama-Biden administration, in Pavlovian fashion, promptly cautions us to avoid “Islamophobia.”  This time was not at all different.  In a recent address to the nation about the heinous attacks of Oct. 7 on innocent Israelis, Biden stated: In recent years, too much hate is given too much oxygen, fueling racism, the rise of anti-Semitism and  Islamophobia  right here in America. I don’t know about you, but I’m seeing a great deal of anti-Semitism lately and very little Islamophobia. Not to be outdone, Karine Jean-Pierre stated that “Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks.”  Pretty sure it’s the other way around.  Let’s see: according to  thereligionofpeace.com , there have been 1,393 Islamic attacks in 48 countries, in which 8,528 people were killed and 8,...

 Reuters: When Israel told residents of Gaza to leave their homes in the densely populated Palestinian enclave ahead of an expected ground offensive, Fawziya Shaheen, 90, recalled a dark chapter that is seared into the consciousness of Palestinians. The idea of leaving or being driven out of land on which they want to forge a state carries echoes of the "Nakba", or "catastrophe", when many Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes during the 1948 war that accompanied Israel's creation. "Whatever happens we will not be displaced. They are striking us but we are not going to leave our homes and we will not be displaced," said Shaheen, sitting at home with her grandchildren facing relentless Israeli bombardment and shortages of bread, drinking water and power outages. Israel had given the population of the northern half of the Gaza Strip until Saturday morning to move south. It later said it would guarantee the safety of Palestinians fleeing on tw...

 Mark Steyn: In our initial report on this new war yesterday , we published a video showing a terrified young lady being abducted by Hamas "soldiers" from an Israeli music festival . She was delivered to Gaza. This is the condition she arrived in: "Allahu Akbar!" Because Allah is truly great, isn't he? He let us target the Jewess, and then strip her and beat her and rape her. And then, when we drive what's left to the dar al-Islam, we all get to dance in the streets and desecrate her corpse. Boy, what a generous guy that Allah is! The infidel has a name: Shana Louk, a citizen of Germany visiting Israel to attend a "Festival for Peace". It didn't work out that way.... ... This conduct should be an embarrassment to those who share a religion with the gang rapists.  See, also: What Hamas Did Inside This Kibbutz Was Beyond Evil

 Fox News: Thousands of "special interest aliens" from numerous countries, including the Middle East, have been arrested by Border Patrol agents while attempting to cross the U.S. southern border illegally over the last two years, according to internal Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data leaked to Fox News. "Special interest aliens" are people from countries identified by the U.S. government as having conditions that promote or protect terrorism or potentially pose some sort of national security threat to the U.S. That data, confirmed by multiple CBP sources and reflects apprehensions between ports of entry between October 2021 and October 2023, shows that agents encountered 6,386 nationals from Afghanistan in that period as well as 3,153 from Egypt, 659 from Iran and 538 from Syria. MIGRANT NUMBERS HIT HIGHEST EVER RECORDED IN ONE MONTH: SOURCES Agents also encountered 12,624 from Uzbekistan, 30,830 from Turkey, 1,613 from Pakistan, 164 from Lebanon, 185 from...

  I suspect he chose the California border because Texas and Arizona have been more diligent in stopping the traffic. He likely tried to blend in with a group of illegals in hopes of getting through.

 Robert Spencer: The Iranian protesters who have gained the support of the entire world have pointed out more than once that the mullahs who run the repressive Islamic regime in Tehran spend more money on foreign jihad terrorists than on their own people. So in what may be another regime attempt to calm the protests, or simply an indication that the regime is strapped for cash, the Islamic Republic of Iran has stopped funding Palestinian jihad terror groups. Old Joe Biden’s handlers, however, are still forking over quite enough of your taxpayer cash to keep the terror groups going. Why is Biden wasting American taxpayer money to fund terror groups?  Does he think he can bribe them into not being terrorists?  If Iran is running out of money to support terrorist s that should be good news.