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Thanks to the hilarious graphics, at Woodsterman's, "Libtardia . . . A Place?"

Former CIA Director James Woolsey to Advise #DonaldTrump's Campaign (VIDEO)

He's obviously a very serious guy, and I've seen him recently on Fox News. He's been offering an ice cold analysis of the increasingly catastrophic global jihad threat.

He's a great pick for the Trump campaign:

September 11 Flashback

My flashback, to 2010.

Here's the post that reminded me of this, "Turning Conservative After September 11, 2001."

The photo's from my visit to Ground Zero, September 11, 2010. Remember?

See, "Faith, Freedom, and Memory: Report From Ground Zero, September 11, 2010."

The Koran's Deadly Role in Jihad Terrorism

Following-up, "#NeverForget: 15 Years of Allahu Akbar-Itis."

I'm re-upping this classic piece from Nabeel Qureshi, at USA Today, "The Quran's deadly role in inspiring Belgian slaughter."

And if you haven't yet, buy Qureshi's book, at Amazon, Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward.

#NeverForget: 15 Years of Allahu Akbar-Itis

The cause of September 11?

It's in the Koran.

See the incomparable Michelle Malkin:

This is what madness looks like.

“When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.”

That’s what 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta wrote in the jihad checklist found in his baggage 15 years ago after the terror attacks took 2,996 innocent lives.

Seconds before United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on that day, the last sound passengers heard was the hijackers chanting “Allahu Akbar.” The official transcript of the flight recorder translated the Arabic taunts:

10:03:02
Allah is the greatest.
10:03:03
Allah is the greatest.
10:03:04
Allah is the greatest.
10:03:06
Allah is the greatest.
10:03:06
Allah is the greatest.
10:03:07
No.
10:03:09
Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest.
10:03:09
Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest.

Over the past 15 years, Koran-inspired Islamic jihadists have shouted the crystal-clear refrain over and over and over again—as genuflecting jihad apologists shout even louder that their murderous deeds “have nothing to do with Islam.”

Keep reading.

Hat Tip: Astute Bloggers.

Fifteen Years Later, al-Qaeda Threat Has Grown

From Thomas Jocelyn, at the Weekly Standard, "The Al Qaeda Threat Grows":

Fifteen years after the September 11, 2001, hijackings, the al Qaeda threat is growing. Al Qaeda has the capacity to attempt a mass casualty attack inside the U.S. and Europe today.

Many assume that al Qaeda is a spent force, especially after the surge of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi’s Islamic State. But they are wrong. Years of erroneous assessments have clouded our vision of an enemy that remains committed to its anti-American cause...

Keep reading.

Call Islamic Terrorism by Its Name

From Rudy Giuliani, at WSJ:

In 1983 when I was the U.S. attorney in New York, I used the word “Mafia” in describing some people we arrested or indicted. The Italian American Civil Rights League—which was founded by Joe Colombo, one of the heads of New York’s notorious five families—and some other similar groups complained that I was defaming all Italians by using that term. In fact, I had violated a Justice Department rule prohibiting U.S. attorneys from employing the term Mafia. The little-known rule had been inserted by Attorney General John Mitchell in the early 1970s at the behest of Mario Biaggi, a congressman from New York.

I had a different view of using the term Mafia. It reflected the truth. The Mafia existed, and denying what people oppressed by those criminals knew to be true only gave the Mafia more power. This hesitancy to identify the enemy accurately and honestly—“Mafia” was how members described themselves and kept its identity Italian or Italian-American—created the impression that the government was incapable of combating them because it was unable even to describe the enemy correctly.

Similarly, you may hear about ISIS or ISIL or Daesh, but make no mistake: The terrorists refer to themselves as members of Islamic State. Just as it would have been foolish to fail to use the word Mafia or admit its Italian identity, it is foolish to refuse to call these Islamic terrorists by the name they give themselves or to refuse to acknowledge their overriding religious rationale.

Yes, it is essential to emphasize to the public the distinction between Islam and Islamic terrorists. That education has been in progress in the U.S. at least since 9/11. I recall that during my last press briefing on that horrific day, I urged New Yorkers not use the barbaric attacks to attach group blame—for doing so would mirror the sort of thinking that inspired the terrorists. President George W. Bush and New York Gov. George Pataki made similar appeals, and the American people overwhelmingly took that idea to heart, and still do. They knew that the attacks were the actions of people with a warped, evil interpretation of the Islamic religion.

Yet it is also essential to acknowledge that there are portions of the Islamic texts that are used by these terrorists to justify mass murder in the name and for the propagation of their faith. Unfortunately, this confusion between the religion and those who pervert its meaning is exacerbated by the Obama administration and others in prominent leadership positions who engage in euphemisms or misdirection regarding Islamic terrorism. They make it seem that they see no connection between the acts of terror and the terrorists’ interpretation of Islamic teaching and Shariah law.

For example: It was and is ludicrous for the administration to describe Nidal Hasan’s attack at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas in 2009 as “workplace violence,” particularly since as he was committing the murders he was yelling “Allahu akbar”—Allah is great. The administration was similarly reluctant to describe the San Bernardino attacks last week as terrorism, much less as Islamic terrorism, even as evidence mounted making clear the nature of the attack...

Actually, it's "Allah is greater," thus justifying murder of those with a lesser god, the infidels.

But keep reading.

VIDEO: Two F-35C Lightning II Aircraft Flex Their Sea Legs Aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69)

Via the U.S. Navy:

Rainbow Over World Trade Center, September 10, 2015

The hand of God.

At USA Today, "Photos: Rainbow appears from World Trade Center on eve of 9/11."

Day before the 14th anniversary of 9/11, a rainbow emerged from 1 World Trade Center Photo:Sturner #NeverForget911 pic.twitter.com/UkwfCKzJjL

— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) September 11, 2015

And, of course, karma on September 11, "At least 107 dead in crane collapse in Mecca's Grand Mosque."

The Obama White House Won't Say Whether U.S. Is Winning the War Against the Islamic State

Progress in the war on terror, 14 years after the September 11 attacks.

The news isn't encouraging, to say the least.

Watch, at Free Beacon.

RELATED: From Ed Morrissey, at Hot Air, "Fourteen years after 9/11, plenty of readers expressed their unhappiness in our earlier anniversary thread with US policy for the War on Terror, and for good reason."

9/11 Ceremony in New York City Marks 14th Anniversary of Attacks (VIDEO)

At the Wall Street Journal, "Victims’ families observe moments of silence, read names of lives lost."

And this is beautiful:



More from CBS News 2 New York, "Remembering 9/11."

#BlackLives Matter Calls to Burn U.S. Flags on September 11 — #FYF911 (VIDEO)

#FYF911 is the hashtag for the #BlackLivesMatter September 11 protest, "F*ck Your Flag 9/11."

See Lee Stranahan, at Big Government, "#FukYoFlag Movement Calls For Black Lives Matter Violence On 9/11."

And here's the video shout out for #BlackLivesMatter activists to burn American flags today, the anniversary of the September 11 attacks: "King Noble Reveals the Secret Location of #FYF911."

And from the video's caption:

We, the people, are psychologically and physically breaking free of the imperialist, colonialist, and racist empires by burning representations starting on September 11th 2015. Why September 11th? We recognize that these imperial powers attacked their own citizens on 9/11 in an attempt to gain more power from its people. We are not disrespecting any citizen that may have died during these attacks on this day,instead we are acknowledging that, from this day forward, we are holding ALL imperial nations responsible for their needless deaths! On 9/11 we will be burning American flags, confederate flags, police uniforms, and ALL representations of organized evil and oppressive nations. We also will be raising the Liberation flag and building on a new nation for the people. This is an INTERNATIONAL movement and a day of unity, progressive action, and liberation. To all OPPRESSIVE AND ORGANIZED EVIL after #FYF911 the people will not be bound to you any longer!! F*** YOUR FLAG!!

Hat Tip: Truth Revolt, "Flag Burnings Scheduled on 9/11: Because Black Lives Matter."

USA Today Calls for Ground Troops in Iraq on Anniversary of September 11 Attacks

They're not mincing words.

From the editors, at USA Today, "ISIL haunts 9/11 anniversary: Our view":

Fourteen years ago, the United States suffered a shockingly successful surprise attack by a little known Islamic extremist group based 7,000 miles away in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Since then, a U.S. invasion chased al-Qaeda out of its haven, and targeted strikes eventually eliminated most of its senior leaders, including Osama bin Laden in 2011. The danger from the group that killed nearly 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, has waned.

Its influence lives on, however, through offshoot extremist groups that have eclipsed al-Qaeda — none more so than the Islamic State, the lightning spread of which through Syria and Iraq has been marked by medieval barbarity, adapted to the Internet age....

ISIL represents the embodiment of evil in the modern world, and it mustn't be allowed to establish a foothold from which to plot attacks against the United States or to inspire so-called lone wolf sympathizers to do so. But the U.S.-led effort to "degrade and ultimately defeat" ISIL has shown underwhelming results....

The administration asks for patience, insisting that with U.S. and allied airstrikes, and with the U.S. and its allies painstakingly rebuilding an effective Iraqi army, the tide will turn. Indeed, some metrics hint at progress; the administration says ISIL's movements have been effectively limited in nearly a third of the areas in Iraq it used to control. The U.S. has assembled a coalition of 62 nations and international organizations to counter ISIL, almost double the 34 nations that rallied behind then-President George H.W. Bush to push Iraqi forces out of Kuwait in 1991.

The struggle against ISIL is likely to be long, one that will be won not just by driving the group out of the territory it claims as its caliphate but also by countering the ideology that has brought the group so many followers despite its depravity. Unless the current approach starts to show better results soon, America should prepare to take more aggressive actions, including the use of Apache helicopter gunships to assist ground fights, and deployment of U.S. forces to act as spotters for airstrikes and to bolster Iraqi units.

If there’s one lesson the nation should have learned from that awful day 14 years ago, it’s that the United States cannot afford to ignore a rabidly anti-American terrorist group that has established a haven in a faraway place.

U.S. forces on the ground, "to bolster Iraqi units."

This should happen. But it probably won't. And that's a shame, particularly on this day, 14 years after the worst attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor.

RTWT at the link.

New 9/11 Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania

At the Washington Post, "A new 9/11 memorial to Flight 93: ‘Our loved ones left a legacy for all of us’."

And watch, at the PBS News Hour, "Once a quiet field in Shanksville, transformed into somber memorial."

Evelyn Taft's Got Your September 11 Forecast

Clear and bright, just like that fateful day 14 years ago.

A few degree cooler than earlier this week as well.

At CBS News 2 Los Angeles:

The Dust Lady Has Died

Her picture remains one of the clearest images I remember from media coverage of the attacks.

At the Washington Post, "9/11 ‘Dust Lady’ Marcy Borders, featured in a haunting photo, has died of cancer." And the New York Times, "Marcy Borders, ‘Dust Lady’ Who Survived 9/11, Dies at 42."

Also, watch at the BBC, "Marcy Borders, the Dust Covered Woman in the Iconic 9 11 Photograph, Has Died of Cancer."

She was still a young woman. Of course she believed 9/11 caused her cancer. It's just too much not to believe.

More at the Guardian UK, "Death of 9/11 'dust lady' Marcy Borders renews worry over related cancers."

'Friends' Scenes Deleted After 9/11 Go Viral

At CNN:

How One World Trade Center is Bringing New Energy to Lower Manhattan

I can't wait to get to New York again to visit the 9/11 Memorial Museum, and of course the One World Trade Center tower, with its new observatory open to the public May 29th.

CBS This Morning, my favorite morning news show, broadcast from the top of the tower yesterday.

More: "'CBS This Morning' makes history with first broadcast from One World Observatory"; "Take a tour of new One World Observatory"; "Bird's-eye views of NYC under your feet at One World Trade Observatory"; and "Take an interactive, guided tour of New York City with One World Observatory's City Pulse."

Enhanced Interrogations Saved Lives

At the Wall Street Journal, "Ex-CIA Directors: Interrogations Saved Lives."

And ICYMI, "Andrea Tantaros is Awesome!"

Andrea Tantaros is Awesome!

Ms. Tantaros' response to the left's CIA torture report is so dead on it's practically the last word you need to hear on the despicable Democrat traitors.

And this of course explains why the hate-addled, treasonous fever swamp progs have gone ballistic, at Memeorandum.

Here's the clip, on YouTube.

And here she is on Twitter, reporting on the left's predictably depraved attacks:

I can always tell when I'm hitting a nerve and some truth bc the lefty front groups send mass emails out for people to tweet me mean things.

— Andrea Tantaros (@AndreaTantaros) December 10, 2014

Americans will die bc of this memo while US becomes intel pariah. Progressives are children. They should never be trusted w natl security.

— Andrea Tantaros (@AndreaTantaros) December 10, 2014