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British government officials on Wednesday released an alert to their citizens traveling to the East African nation of Kenya in light of the increase in terrorist attacks, according to U.K. police intelligence analyst Stephen Corcoran.

The frequent outbreaks of violence especially grenade attacks have led to the British Foreign Service issuing this latest travel advisory to its citizens visiting certain nations in the Middle East, North Africa and other foreign destinations, Corcoran said.

However, the Kenyan travel advisory noted that 203,290 British nationals visited Kenya in 2011 and the majority of “visits were trouble-free.”

This latest travel advisory to President Barack Obama’s ancestral home comes in the wake of a grenade attack cities of Mombasa and Nairobi, which left at least 20 Kenyan citizens wounded, he reported.

According to the British Foreign Office, the threat emanates from Islamic terrorists allied with Somalia’s Al- Shabaab, which is affiliated with al-Qaeda.

The leaders of Al-Shabaab have made numerous threats against Kenya because of its military’s actions in war-torn Somalia. The British government warns that Muslim terrorists may target official buildings like government offices, businesses and police or military facilities. Attacks on hotels are also possible, according to Corcoran.

As has happened in the past, terrorists may attack targets frequented by foreigners such as hotels, night spots, restaurants, sports events, buses, shopping malls and other places of public assembly.

Al-Shabaab is also notorious for attacking Christian churches and schools run by religious organizations other than Islam.

In the Kenyan travel advisory, British officials warned citizens against all but essential travel to parts of Kenya and, at the moment, is warning British tourists to avoid areas in close proximity to Kenya’s border with Somalia.

The Foreign Office warned travelers about wandering into low-income areas of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, including “slum areas where attacks or violence are frequent.”

Almost simultaneously, President Barack Obama told the American people his anti-terrorism strategy is keeping Americans safe, including his NSA surveillance program, while Yemen‘s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi all but raised the white flag on Saturday during a meeting of his government’s civilian and military leaders.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is on the verge of taking control of Yemen’s southern cities and towns, according to a counterterrorism source in Israel. As a result, the top leader of the Yemen’s government on Saturday requested assistance from Western nations, said Jacob Moskowitz, a law enforcement veteran specializing in anti-terrorism and counter-narcotics.

In a statement during the national reconciliation program being held this weekend, Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi said, “Yemen can no longer bear further crises.”

President Hadi warned the United States, Israel, and the European Union nations that the current security crisis could very well assist the al-Qaeda terrorists in their to efforts to seize more territories from the Yemeni people.

“The heads of sedition and the culture of death and destruction have recently appeared in the southeastern province of Hadramout, but the heroes of our armed and security forces nipped the sedition and eliminated the heads of evil before they expand and repeat the scenario that took place in the province of Abyan,” Hadi was quoted as saying by the official Saba news agency.

“Our battle today with terrorism is crucial. We must wage it deservedly whatever the sacrifice may be,” Hadi said.

Yemen’s security forces last week defeated al-Qaeda members near the city of Ghayl Bawazir in Hadramout province. About a dozen fighters were killed from both sides, according to Moskowitz.

Earlier this year, President Barack Obama all but announced victory in the fight against al-Qaeda. But then just hours later two gunmen wearing masks and riding motorbikes fired at Col. Ahmed Abdul-Razzak, the director of the military intelligence unit in the Hadramout province. Terrorists from the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) network assassinated Col. Abdul-Razzak on a main road near his home in the coastal town of Mukalla, according to Family Security Matters.

“The USA backs the decisions and all the measures taken by President Hadi to translate the political settlement’s steps into concrete action in accordance with the Gulf initiative and the UN resolutions,” President Barack Obama’s counterterrorism advisor,” John Brennan, has said in the past.

The simply awful news of the week is that America’s precious freedoms as provided for in the grand experiment called Democracy has been scuttled by a Marxist community organizer posing as President who fancies himself as a Constitutional scholar, and who falsely promotes himself as a world-class advocate of transparency and open government.

Obama’s latest impeachable scandal is all the more bitter when one considers that while NSA snooped and spied on hundreds of millions of innocent Americans, Islamic killers like the Boston Bomber Brothers eluded US authorities and were able to kill and mutilate Boston Marathon participants, despite specific, multiple warnings from foreign authorities.

But, alas, the good news of the week is that NSA’s illegal and unconstitutional assault on We the People was executed in the name of boosting counter- terrorism projects by Obama’s bloated federal government.

Therefore, now that the war on terror is over, declared as such by our clueless Commander-in-Chief himself, the new order of the day from the President to NSA to Verizon, Yahoo etc. is: STAND DOWN AGAINST AMERICA!

Right, Barack?

On a mild London afternoon, two Muslims rammed a car into a British soldier returning to the barracks after working at the Tower of London. They shouted Allah Akbar and hacked and slashed at his body in an attempt to behead him. By the time they were done, his body could only be identified through dental records.

Shortly afterward, British Prime Minister David Cameron said that “there is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act”. London Mayor Boris Johnson added, “It is completely wrong to blame this killing on Islam.”

Now former Prime Minister Tony Blair has thrown in his two pence writing, “There is not a problem with Islam. For those of us who have studied it, there is no doubt about its true and peaceful nature.”

Blair previously claimed to have read the Koran every day, but apparently did not get as far as Chapter 5, which contains the verses that the Muslim murderers quoted after their butchery. And that’s understandable. Between his business deals with the Qatari royal family, which is behind much of the terrorism in the Middle East, the Kuwaiti royal family and the royals of the United Arab Emirates, it stands to reason that Tony probably never got past a few verses a day.

It’s easy to picture Tony Blair after a hot muggy day of clasping the greasy hands of Emirs and Sheikhs and trading his expertise for blood money, remembering to always eat with the right hand, not the left, returning to his five star hotel room, climbing into bed with his room Koran, flipping it open to the first chapter, reading, “In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful” and deciding that sounds peaceful enough, letting his head hit the pile of plush pillows and calling it a day. If Tony had made it as far as Chapter 2, where the Koran proclaims “Fight in the cause of Allah”, then the expert on Islam might have been able to entertain some doubts about its truly peaceful nature.

In what the Daily Mail describes as a “brave assault on Muslim extremism”, Blair writes, “There is not a problem with Islam… But there is a problem within Islam – from the adherents of an ideology that is a strain within Islam.”

It is rather sad that political bravery now consists of admitting that there may be some sort of problem within Islam and that it “is not the province of a few extremists… the world view goes deeper and wider than it is comfortable for us to admit.” Having exhausted all his courage by admitting that there is a problem somewhere within Islam, Blair bravely avoids admitting it by babbling about international affairs and the need to intervene in Syria.

Over in Afghanistan, Lee Rigby, the murdered soldier, might have been credited with a brave assault on “Muslim extremism”. Blair, writing a Daily Mail article that concedes that the problem may be a bit bigger than just that legendary tiny minority of extremists is hardly in that category.

Political courage now involves minimizing a grave threat less than all the other politicians who are also minimizing the grave threat.

We are witnessing a disturbing pattern. President Obama always puts the best interest, well-being and rights of our enemies above providing protection and justice for the American people.

My wife ranted, “It is as if Obama is desensitizing us to the suffering of our people in these terrorist attacks.”

The Benghazi scandal perfectly illustrates her point. The Obama Administration has paid lip service expressing it’s regrets that four Americans died. But are you feelin’ the love; a vibe of real compassion or concern coming from the Administration about the torture and deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens, information officer Sean Smith, and former navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty? Absolutely not! As a matter of fact, U.S. Assets in the area ready to come to the defense of Ambassador Stevens was ordered to stand down by someone of power in the Obama Administration.

Obama and company have lied and done everything in their power to stonewall and cover-up what happened in Benghazi. http://t.co/hTEwZbFdvW

Now get this folks, the FBI has enough evidence for our military to seize five suspects believed responsible for murdering Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. The suspects have not been arrested because the Obama Administration insists on trying them in civilian court and do not believe it has enough evidence for a conviction. http://bit.ly/12v8X3G Why is Obama bending over backwards for terrorists; seeking to give them a platform and taxpayer funded attorneys in civilian court? Meanwhile, in case you have not noticed Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty are now only referred to in the media as “three other Americans.”

Here is another example of Obama protecting our enemy, while telling Americans to just deal with it.

Americans were enjoying a beautiful day watching family and friends running in the Boston marathon. Moments later, lives were brutality changed for ever; loved ones gone (dead), limbs blown off and hundreds severely injured. The first response of Obama was to make sure no one blamed Islamic terrorists. Upon arresting an Islamic terrorist for the bombing, Obama’s Justice department immediately ran to make sure Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was read his Miranda rights and provided with high powered elite attorneys paid for by us taxpayers. http://bit.ly/14KIsgg Tsarnaev stopped talking. Why would Obama provide cover for Tsarnaev to not answer questions vital to the safety of the American people? http://bit.ly/XYSyoM

This next example should get your blood boiling.

Retired Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, shot seven times in the Ft. Hood terrorist attack is stuck with paying his own medical bills. The shooter, Nidal Hasan has been paid $278,000 while waiting trial. http://bit.ly/190gOvm

Because the Obama Administration insists on classifying the shooting “workplace violence” rather than a “terrorist attack,” Sgt. Lunsford and other shooting victims are denied combat-related pay. They are not eligible for Purple Heart retirement or medical benefits.

The Ft Hood shooting was unquestionably a terrorist attack. Before shooting, Hasan yelled, “Allahu Akbar!” Once again, our enemy, Hasan, is well taken care of by the Obama Administration while Sgt. Lunsford and fellow great American good guys get the shaft.

Another example of Obama’s obsession with coddling our enemies while putting Americans at risk is Obama’s desire to close Guantanamo Bay. Guantanamo detainees are the worst of the worst, caught on the battle-field trying to kill Americans.

I was thinking again about how we, as a people, tend to accord more credibility to the stories of whistleblowers than we do to “official media sources.” But, just for the sake of argument, what if the government decided to plan whistleblowers of their own – with a predigested propaganda message – and derided them like they do other whistleblowers? Since the Obama Administration has been extraordinarily adept at political infighting and managing the corrupt mainstream media, this possibility may be a real one.

So I wonder when I see stories like the following …

Whistleblower Exclusive: Benghazi Cover-up Is The Proxy Battle With The War With Iran

The immediate concern for the Obama-Clinton regime after the attack in Benghazi was to cover up the connection with Iran and Syria to Ansar al Sharia and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) according to my Benghazi whistleblower source.

The attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, was not a terrorist attack; it was a nation-state attack, an escalation of war, and an opening of a new front in the tit for tat conflict with Iran and by extension their proxy partner Russia that is now being fought in Syria.

Already I am suspicious. One, because the connection between Syria, Russia, and Iran was well known prior to the attack. Two, the link between the various Muslim factions and al Qaeda has been long suspected by anyone remotely aware of what is going on in the region. And three, proxy battles have occurred elsewhere and have been noted as such. No hidden meaning as knowledgeable media personalities who track world conflicts have openly stated on their programs.

This looks like a disinformation campaign to distort the record and disparage those officials who might testify in front of Congressional committees …

For anyone who thinks Americans will be told that Benghazi was a nation-state attack by ex-CIA chief David Petraeus in the near future they are in for a disappointment. He is part of the problem and has been for years. He sold his soul for shiny medals and financial perks and circuses long ago—and as his record shows, he will roll over again and again. Recall how Petraeus fell into lock-step rank-and-file with President Obama and Hillary Clinton when he joined them in falsely misleading America before the 2012 elections by blaming an “out-of-control demonstration prompted by a Youtube video” for the Benghazi attack to the House Intelligence Committee three days after the attack. He’s as dirty as they are.

Recall how General Petraeus was slimed by the progressives, and now they appear to be doing the same thing by associating Petraeus with the Obama-Clinton axis of evildoers. There is little or no doubt in my mind that Petraeus is the target of some targeted campaign by the Administration. Especially considering the FBI probe of an e-mail campaign which led to his ouster from office on allegations of infidelity. Hardly rising to the point of destroying a man’s career considering the notables in government who have cheated on their spouses.

What the hell is going on within the Obama Administration and their handling of terrorist-connected activities?

The original incident – triple killing, throats cut, anniversary of 9/11 …

A triple homicide was committed in Waltham, Massachusetts, on the evening of September 11, 2011.  Brendan Mess, Erik Weissman, and Raphael Teken were murdered in Mess’s apartment. All had their throats slit from ear to ear, with such great force that they were nearly decapitated. Thousands of dollars of marijuana and money were left covering their mutilated bodies, and $5,000 was left at the scene. The local district attorney said that it appeared that the killer and the victims knew each other, and that the murders were not random.

All three victims were Jewish according to a number of sources.Weissman was outspoken about his Jewish faith, and an active member of his synagogue. Teken had majored in history at predominantly Jewish Brandeis University; he was buried in Israel.

Autopsies revealed that the men had been brutally murdered. Their heads had been pulled back, and their throats had been slit from ear-to-ear with either an ice pick or knife with such great force that they were nearly decapitated. Their mutilated bodies had been left covered with thousands of dollars worth of marijuana (seven pounds of marijuana; in what investigators described as a symbolic gesture) and thousands of dollars of money, in three different rooms. Police said $5,000 was left at the scene, which suggested that robbery was not the motive. <Source>

Then comes multiple interviews with Ibragim Todashevan, an acquaintance of the older Boston Marathon Bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The last interview ending in the suspicious death of the interviewee in the presence of the FBI and Massachusetts State Troopers.

The first shooting report – shot reaching for FBI agent’s gun or reached for a knife …

A Chechen man linked to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was fatally shot early Wednesday in an unusual encounter with the FBI and other law enforcement officers in his apartment in Orlando.

According to federal law enforcement officials, the man was being interviewed about whether he and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the bombing suspect, were connected to a two-year-old triple slaying when he attacked an FBI agent. There were conflicting accounts of what happened in the moments before the man was shot.

One federal law enforcement official said the man, a professional martial-arts fighter, was shot after trying to grab the FBI agent’s gun. Two other officials said the man reached for a knife and was shot as he attacked the agent. All three officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the episode is under official review.

The man was identified as Ibragim Todashev, 27, a former Boston area resident who knew Tsarnaev from martial-arts and boxing circles. Todashev had recently moved to Orlando from Cambridge, Mass.

Law enforcement officials said Todashev was not a suspect in the bombing. They said he was being interviewed about his possible role in a triple slaying in Waltham, Mass., in September 2011.

With a hat tip to @NickConfessore, this Associated Press story could serve as the synopsis for the script to “Office Space II: Peter Gibbons Goes Rogue”:

After years of trying to discipline him, the leaders of al-Qaida’s North African branch sent one final letter to their most difficult employee. In page after scathing page, they described how he didn’t answer his phone when they called, failed to turn in his expense reports, ignored meetings and refused time and again to carry out orders.

Most of all, they claimed he had failed to carry out a single spectacular operation, despite the resources at his disposal.

The employee, international terrorist Moktar Belmoktar, responded the way talented employees with bruised egos have in corporations the world over: He quit and formed his own competing group. And within months, he carried out two lethal operations that killed 101 people in all: one of the largest hostage-takings in history at a BP-operated gas plant in Algeria in January, and simultaneous bombings at a military base and a French uranium mine in Niger just last week.

To top it off, according to an AQ business manager, Belmoktar stole printer cartridges and continued to write ransom demands on Al Qaeda letterhead even after being let go by the company.

Here’s just one example of the kind of thing Belmoktar was expected to put up with while working for his previous employer:

“I’m also gonna need you to go ahead and terrorize on Sunday, too… mm-kay? Thanks.”

UPI FILE

Senator John McCain consorted with al-Qaida allies — and, hence, enemies of America — during his trip to Syria over the Memorial Day weekend.

In meeting with Gen. Salem Idris, the leader of the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), McCain met with a man who has aligned himself with Arhar al Sham, a partner of Al-Nusra Front, which the U.S. has designated as a terrorist organization. Just last month al-Qaida in Iraq declared al-Nusra was its branch in Syria. Idris claims his group doesn’t work with Al-Nusra, but the two have fought side by side and shared arms in their battle to overthrow Bashar Assad. Together, the groups, along with the Forouq Brigades and the Syrian Islamic Liberation Front (a coalition of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist groups that have vowed to create an Islamic state in Syria), form the FSA. Even The New York Times has reported that the groups that make up the FSA share Islamist ideals.

Two weeks ago, the FSA produced a video and posted it to YouTube showing Abu Sakkar eating the heart of a dead Syrian soldier. Sakkar is commander of the Farouq Brigades. Human Rights Watch recently claimed that Shakkar shelled Shia Villages — populated with women and children — in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. An FSA-produced video last year showed one of its soldiers beheading a civilian. Amnesty International has documented a number of war crimes committed by FSA soldiers and commanders.

Prior to the NATO-inspired coup attempt on the Assad regime, Christians lived in peace in Syria. But the FSA has been killing Christians and burning churches.

The passage of the National Defense Authorization Act gave the President the discretion of deciding that if Americans collaborate with terrorists, they can be indefinitely detained without the right of habeas corpus. The question is: Why isn’t McCain on his way to Guantanamo Bay wearing an orange jumpsuit, handcuffs and shackles?

About 35 Iraqi citizens died and another 155 were wounded in a series of car bomb explosions throughout Baghdad on Monday by suspected members of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQII), according to counterterrorism and police official Marvin Gertz.

In one of the attacks, a car bomb and a roadside bomb ripped through a neighborhood in southern Baghdad, killing upwards of six civilians and wounding 35 others, Gertz, who monitors Middle East terrorism, noted.

Another car bomb exploded in northern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding eight others, Gertz said.

Meanwhile in central Baghdad, a third car bomb blast at a popular marketplace left five people killed and 31 others wounded, the source added.

At about the same time, a car bomb exploded at a major thoroughfare in the southern part of the Iraqi capital leaving two people dead and nine others injured, he said.

In Sadr City, five Iraqi civilians were killed and more than 25 sustained injuries after two car bombs were detonated simultaneously in Habibiyah area within the Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, Gertz added.

These latest car bomb attacks followed two bombings in the afternoon in the capital. One car bomb went off in downtown Baghdad, killing upwards of six people and wounding another 14, while a car bomb was detonated near al-Samarrai mosque in the southern part of the Baghdad, killing one civilian and injuring nine.

In addition, on Monday, a car bomb exploded in northeastern Baghdad, this time killing three civilians and wounding 15 others, while yet another vehicle filled with explosives blew up near a market in southern Baghdad killing four people and wounding 11 other victims, Gertz said.

On Sunday in the city of Mosul, bombings and gunfire killed nine, including two soldiers and a police officer, and left 30 others wounded

While no group has claimed credit for the numerous attacks, officials in Iraq believe the improvised explosive devices were built, planted and detonated by al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQII) who are responsible for numerous attacks against the struggling post-Saddam Hussein government.