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by Guy Millière
• December 2, 2015 at 5:00 am
- Some spoke of
"resistance," but to them, resistance meant listening to
music. A man on a talk show said he was offering "free
hugs."
- A French judge,
Marc Trevidic, in charge of all the major Islamic terrorism cases
over the last ten years, said a few days before the November attacks
in Paris that the situation was "getting worse" and that
"radicalized groups" could "carry out attacks resulting
in hundreds of deaths." He was quickly transferred to a court
in northern France, where he has been assigned to petty crimes and
divorce cases.
- All the French
political leaders know that the situation is out of control, but not
one will say so publicly. Not one has asked the government why it
took almost three hours for the police to intervene during the
attack at the Bataclan Theater, where 89 people were murdered and
over 200 wounded.
- France's
political leaders are apparently hoping that people will get used to
being attacked and learn to live with terrorism. In the meantime,
they are trying to divert the attention of the public with --
"climate change!"
Several weeks have passed since Islamist attackers bloodied Paris.
France's President François Hollande is describing the killers as just
"a horde of murderers" acting in the name of a "mad
cause." He adds that "France has no enemy." He never uses
the word "terrorism." He no longer says the word
"war."
France never was, in fact, at war. Police were deployed on the
streets. Special Forces had to "intervene" a few days later in
the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. That was it.
French forces did bomb positions of the Islamic State in Syria; and
Hollande traveled the world to find coalition, but could not. Now he says
he wants to turn a page. The French public seems to want to turn a page,
too.
by George Phillips
• December 2, 2015 at 4:00 am
- When Carlos
Manuel Figuerosa Alvarez climbed over the wall of the U.S. Embassy
in Havana, U.S. officials turned him over to Cuban police, who,
according to reports, detained him and immediately began to beat
him. Did U.S. officials assess if Figuerosa's safety was in
jeopardy? Did they ignore their own policy that a Cuban may be
eligible for refugee status in the U.S. if they are a human rights
activist or former political prisoner?
- A recent report
by the Director of National Intelligence showed that of those so far
released from Guantanamo Bay, 116 have returned to terrorist or
insurgent activities and another 69 are suspected of having done so.
These figures represent nearly 30% of released detainees.
- President Obama
pledged, "We are not going to relent until we bring home
Americans who are unjustly detained in Iran." But
"we" have relented. If not, what are "we"
doing to secure the release of the four Americans unjustly in
Iranian prison?
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When Cuban dissident and former political prisoner
Carlos Manuel Figuerosa Alvarez climbed over the wall of the U.S.
Embassy in Havana on September 30, U.S. officials turned him over to
Cuban police.
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The Obama Administration, to the chagrin of opponents of rogue
regimes and terrorism, has made generous deals with the autocratic
governments of Cuba and Iran, and seems in the process of making the
release of terrorist detainees in Guantanamo Bay a cornerstone of its
foreign policy.
On Monday November 16 -- two days after terrorists murdered 129
innocent people in Paris -- five more terrorist detainees were released
from Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
All five were originally from Yemen and are being released to the
United Arab Emirates, a central location in the Middle East from where
they can easily return to a life of terrorism.
Of particular concern is the release of Ali al-Razihi, a bodyguard
of Osama bin Laden; a review board initially turned down his release.
Declassified documents show that al-Razihi received advanced Al
Qaeda training and served in Bin Laden's 55th Arab Brigade.
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