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November 16, 2012 — xanthippaRussian attack submarine sneaks inside the 200 mile territorial limit on the East coast of the USA
November 6, 2012 — xanthippaThis time, it’s no Marko Alexandrovich Ramius trying to defect, either!
From Washington Free Beacon:
‘A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine cruised within 200 miles of the East Coast recently in the latest sign Russia is continuing to flex its naval and aerial power against the United States, defense officials said.
The submarine was identified by its NATO designation as a Russian Seirra-2 class submarine believed to be based with Russia’s Northern Fleet. It was the first time that class of Russian submarine had been detected near a U.S. coast, said officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of anti-submarine warfare efforts.’
The same article cites something that is potentially even more disturbing:
‘Meanwhile, the officials also said that a Russian electronic intelligence-gathering vessel was granted safe harbor in the commercial port of Jacksonville, Fla., within listening range of Kings Bay.
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“A Russian AGI [Auxiliary-General Intelligence] and an SSN in the same geographic area as one of the largest U.S. ballistic missile submarine bases—Kings Bay—is reminiscent of Cold War activities of the Soviet navy tracking the movements of our SSBN’s,” said a third U.S. official, referring to the designation for ballistic missile submarines, SSBN.’
It only gets worse:
‘The submarine deployment followed stepped-up Russian nuclear bomber activity near U.S. borders last summer, including the transit of two Bear-H strategic bombers near the Alaska air defense zone during Russian strategic bomber war games in arctic in late June.Then on July 4, in an apparent Fourth of July political message, a Russian Bear-H flew the closest to the U.S. West Coast that a Russian strategic bomber had flown since the Cold War when such flights were routine.
In both incidents, U.S. military spokesmen sought to downplay the threat posed by the air incursions, apparently in response to the Obama administration’s conciliatory “reset” policy of seeking closer ties with Moscow.
U.S. and Canadian interceptor jets were scrambled to meet the Russian bombers during the flights last summer.’
In other words, specifically in response to Obama anemic projection of woosiness power, Putin’s Russia has placed air, surface and underwater military assets within US territorial jurisdiction…all without any response from Obama’s eviscerated military!
No wonder Putin has thrown his support behind Obama in the 2012 election!
Sure, the Bolsheviks are not in power in Russia any longer, but Obama and his Mensheviks are winning the long-term war in America – and dictators like Putin know how to exploit this very weakness!
PJ Media: ‘Beyond Impeachment: Obama Treasonous over Benghazi’
October 29, 2012 — xanthippaRoger L. Simon over at PJ Media is thinking along the same lines as I am:
‘Is it treason when you put your own reelection above the good of your country and the lives of its citizens? If so, Barack Obama committed treason in leaving the four Americans to die in Benghazi.
Our Constitution defines it this way: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”
Aid and comfort to the enemy — what is that?
When you ascribe an action to the protest of a video when it is actuality a planned terror attack by Ansar al-Shariah, an established offshoot of al-Qaeda (if that’s not your “enemy,” then who) — and you knew that all along, you watched it live without doing anything, and then you told those who wanted to help to “stand down”? Meanwhile, our government may have been conspiring to arm another offshoot of al-Qaeda in Syria.
How much more treasonous can you get? Benedict Arnold was a piker.’
Excellent post which connects a lot of the dots and asks a lot of the pertinent questions.
But, once we start digging into Obama’s malfeasance, we just might find bodies on this side of the pond, too – at least according to some journalists still brave enough to report on this.
Did General Ham defy orders and tried to send help to Benghazi?
October 28, 2012 — xanthippaThis is just getting weirder and weirder…..
James Robinson from the Washington Times is reporting that a ‘trusted source’ said that the top US commander in Africa, General Ham, tried to send help to the besieged Mission in Benghazi – defying orders to do so – only to be relieved of duty and the help stopped:
‘The information I heard today was that General Ham as head of Africom received the same e-mails the White House received requesting help/support as the attack was taking place. General Ham immediately had a rapid response unit ready and communicated to the Pentagon that he had a unit ready.
General Ham then received the order to stand down. His response was to screw it, he was going to help anyhow. Within 30 seconds to a minute after making the move to respond, his second in command apprehended General Ham and told him that he was now relieved of his command.
The story continues that now General Rodiguez would take General Ham’s place as the head of Africom. ‘
Benghazi: the top brass actively forbade the air support from firing on the ‘team’ that later killed 2 Americans…
October 26, 2012 — xanthippaUPDATE: An AC-130U Gunship was indeed on the scene in Benghazi and was denied permission to fire. Also, CIA brass throws Omaba under the buss and openly says that it was NOT the CIA who denied the permission to fire! On the aftermath, here.
UPDATE 2: This article has excellent write up with all the currently known facts.
Revelations have been pouring in all day about the fiasco in Bengazi.
This charts some of the details that came out today, but does not draft the full picture. Yet, it is well worth noting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t82D8QT4TPs
It has now been definitively established, from multiple sources, that there were 2 drones in the air over Benghazi, feeding live video of the attack to the US – including to the Situation Room’ in the White House, where Barack Obama was scheduled to be that evening. (Aside – lots of intriguing links in this link.)
They had hard evidence, 2 hours into the attack, that the terrorist group ‘Helpers of Sharia’ had taken responsibility for the attack.
But it gets worse – much worse.
Ambassador Stevens was running guns to Islamists – that much is clear.
But…
And this is where it gets very, very nasty.
The security of the buildings was being provided by the 17th of February Brigade – a militant Islamist group. As in, militant and violent jihadists!
WHY?!?!?
Who would ever hire an organization whose avowed goal is to kill all non-Muslims and use force to install Sharia worldwide, who would hire one’s declared enemies to be the security force for their Ambassador?
That’s a lot like getting Nidal Malik Hasan to provide pre-natal care to Francheska Velez!
We now also know that one of the people in the compound posted a message onto a gaming site saying that the ‘police’ (and he put the word ‘police’ into quotation marks, as if mocking the very concept) who are supposed to be guarding them are taking pictures and that something is up – and expressed fear that they may not live to see the morning…
Then, after this, the Ambassador met with a ‘Turkish diplomat’.
(We know Stevens was running the guns into Syria through Turkey…)
The ‘Turkish diplomat’ left.
Less than an hour later, the attack started…
Please, consider the information in the following newscast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwqZuEgNmoE
But, there is more.
Yes, the SEALs went in against orders!
Then, when they returned to their compound, their compound came under fire….almost as if all the people who had been in the first location were supposed to have died in order not to say what they knew – and since some got out, the attackers followed them in their ‘mop-up’ operation!
What is this – a B-movie or reality?!?!?
We know there were 2 surveillance drones, tag-teaming, over the area. Please, keep that in mind.
The compound (second location) was being shelled by the attackers.
One of the people inside the compound went onto the roof and illuminated (tagged) the equipment firing at the compound with a laser – no, not a pointer but a target-identification tag for a guided strike from the air.
The drones in the air may or may not have been armed – but the two AC-130U’s in theatre (since March) certainly were.
And, tagging the target does not occur unless (and until) the targeting system is synchronized – on location, and ready to fire. It is the ‘last step’ in the firing procedure before the trigger is pulled – because by going out and tagging the target, the person doing the tagging is exposed and vulnerable. Hence, it is the last step.
This means that in one way or another, there was someone in the air who had the attackers in their sights and was ready to fire.
But, was denied permission to take the shot!!!
It was only AFTER this that the shelling from this very ‘no-longer-target’ hit the compound and killed 2 Americans!!!
Can you get your mind around it?
Only orders from either the White House or head of the Africa theatre would have had the power to deny the permission to shoot – and, as a direct result of this inaction, American lives were lost!
This is beyond a scandal – it is criminal!
More historic sites destroyed by Salafists
October 18, 2012 — xanthippaWhile most of the world only took note of the destruction of pre-Islamic religious objects in regions controlled by hardline Islamists when the huge Buddha statues in Afghanistan were destroyed, this has been going on for a very long time.
It is indeed the example set by the Prophet Muhammed himself to destroy all religious and/or cultural items that pre-date Islam in all the regions his followers controlled in order to erase the pre-Islamic cultural history and affirm ties only through the Umma – the ‘family of Muslims’.
It is therefore not surprising that as the Islamist spring spreads mayhem and destruction throughout northern Africa, pre-Islamic historical sites would become victims of this cultural as well as ideological and physical invasion:
‘RABAT — Stone carvings in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains dating back more than 8,000 years and depicting the sun as a pagan divinity have been destroyed by Salafists, a local rights group said on Wednesday.
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“One of the carvings, called ‘the plaque of the sun,’ predates the arrival of the Phoenicians in Morocco,” Anghir said.
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Late on Monday, one of Tunisia’s main Sufi mausoleums was burned down in an overnight arson attack, seemingly the latest in a spate of attacks on unorthodox Sufi shrines by the country’s increasingly assertive Salafists.
In northern Mali, which is close to Morocco, radical Islamists have destroyed ancient World Heritage shrines they consider idolatrous since seizing control of the region earlier this year.’
Sad.
So sad…
This is just a ‘natural’ defense against the Bangladeshi Budhist’s imperialist politics around the world…
October 4, 2012 — xanthippaThoughts on Omar Khadr’s repatriation
October 2, 2012 — xanthippaWell, well, well.
The chickens have come home to roost.
Or something like that!
It seems like the vast majority of the media is jubilant over Omar Khadr’s return to Canada – in stark contrast to the polls of actual Canadian people, the vast majority of whom opposed his repatriation. He killed an American medic, he was sentenced in America – why should Canadian taxpayers foot the bill for his jail time and rehabilitation?
And the cost of rehabilitation will be high!
Not counting the ten million he is suing Canada for, that is…
Because this 5 times war criminal is unrepentant and more militant than ever. He is a racist, misogynistic bigot who is hell-bent on using any means available to him – including violence and propaganda – to wage jihad against us, non-Muslims.
We know this because he openly says so.
No, not to the media and the useful idiots from the consular office – but he says it nonetheless.
He boasts of having killed Americans.
He says his best days were when he was manufacturing roadside bombs and planting them, to blow up our and allied military personnel.
And he is proud of having cold-bloodedly murdered a medic – not in the heat of a battle, but while the unarmed medic was attempting to render him medical assistance!
Forget the lie so often repeated in the media that he is a ‘child soldier’ – he is not. Not according to either the spirit or the letter of the law, which is very specific in its definition of the legal term ‘child soldier’. But I have ranted on that in the past…
What is important now is how we will deal with this hardened terrorist in our midst: will we pretend that he is just another petty criminal who can be rehabilitated through education, or will we recognize the clear and present danger he poses to us all?
He had, after all, committed treason by taking up arms against our and allied forces.
It’s right there, in our criminal code.
The only reasonable course of action is for him to be charged and tried under that law because if the laws are not applied equally to everyone, the very foundation of our society will be undermined.
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