The FBI is investigating two trips alleged Philadelphia police shooter Edward Archer made to the Middle East, a spokesman told Fox News late Friday.
Special Agent Eric Rouna said federal authorities are investigating a trip Archer made to Saudi Arabia in 2011 where the suspect spent “a couple” of weeks. Authorities are also seeking more information about the several months Archer spent in Egypt in 2012.
Rouna said law enforcement officials have plenty of time to investigate because the suspect is in custody and isn’t going anywhere.
Archer was caught in surveillance video ambushing Officer Jesse Hartnett in his squad car, shooting him multiple times, and claimed he acted “in the name of Islam,” police said at a news conference Friday.
Police Commissioner Richard Ross said the suspect’s gun, a 9mm Glock 17, had been stolen from police in 2013.
In its latest dump of 3,000-plus Hillary Clinton e-mails, the State Department found another 66 to be classified, pushing the total over 1,300. But two of the non-classified messages were eye-openers.
One tacitly admits her own wrongdoing. The other orders a flunky to break the law on handling classified info.
First, there’s the e-mail where she expresses shock that a State employee is using a private account for official business.
“I was surprised that he used personal email account if he is at State,” she wrote aide Jake Sullivan in February 2011, after he forwarded a diplomat’s analysis of Libyan affairs.
Let that sink in a moment. She was surprised the diplomat was doing precisely what she’d been doing for two years — government work on a private account. One rule for the boss (and her inner circle), another for everyone else?
But the bigger bomb was her order to Sullivan that June to mishandle a classified memo — but to first remove the label.
She wanted some talking points faxed to her, but her minions couldn’t get the secure fax line to work. Clinton’s solution: “Turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure.”
Hmm. That casts new light on Clinton’s repeated statements that none of her work e-mails included material “marked classified.”
No word yet on whether Sullivan obeyed the order, and so broke federal law — but it’s still smoking-gun evidence of a secretary of state ordering up a crime.
Mind you, Hillary Clinton is a lawyer — her degree is from Yale, no less. And her first real job out of Yale was trying to impeach President Richard Nixon over Watergate.
So what in God’s name leads her to think she’s above the law?
A Republican congressman who previously served as a Navy SEAL commander said Thursday that bureaucratic red tape might have delayed a rescue force and prevented close air support from adequately helping an Army Special Forces team during a firefight in southern Afghanistan this week in which one American was killed.
Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., questioned if the the rules of engagement in Afghanistan played a role in limiting the support troops on the ground received. They remain “so restrictive that when a unit is pinned down available assets are not given the latitude to respond in a timely manner and it appears in this case that it cost lives,” Zinke said in an interview.
Army Staff Sgt. Matthew McClintock, 30, of Des Moines, Washington, was killed Tuesday when his team, along with a detachment of Afghan commandos came under small arms fire. In the ensuing battle, an Army HH-60 helicopter was damaged, forcing it to the ground, while another was waved off because of heavy enemy fire. Two other U.S. soldiers were wounded as were an unknown number of Afghan troops.
Zinke, who said he has been in touch with Special Forces soldiers close to the operation, said that the quick-reaction force was delayed by hours along with close air support sent to help the beleaguered troops. Zinke said that an AC-130 gunship was deployed to support the special forces troops, but was not allowed to fire on the enemy because of concerns of collateral damage. Instead, he said, the aircraft was only allowed to fire into a field.
In light of these reports Zinke has called for a hearing for the Pentagon to explain the exact circumstances of what happened on the ground in Marjah. “There is every indication,” he said, that air support and rescue efforts were “arbitrarily delayed.”
Trent Brooks, the owner of Brooks’ Place, has been vocal about his support of Texas’ open carry law. He’s even gone so far as to offer a discount on his acclaimed barbecue for customers carrying guns openly or concealed.
Since announcing the discount, local media has showcased the Cypress barbecue business. As to be expected Brooks’ stance has garnered much chatter on social media.
However, it turned ugly Thursday morning when an opponent of open carry made this threat on Facebook:
“I’ll shoot up the place on Saturday. Let’s see you how your gun-toting patrons will stop me.”
Brooks told the Houston Chronicle that he has contacted the authorities about the threat. Peace officers, Brooks said, will be out to show support if needed on Saturday.
“We’ll be open on Saturday,” Brooks said, “but we are not taking (the threat) lightly. Not with all the crazy stuff that is going on in the world today.”
Brooks’ Place, which is located at 18020 FM 529 in Cypress, has been on Alison Cook’s Top 100 Houston Restaurants list for the past three years.
One day after the Wall Street Journal revealed that a dummy U.S. hellfire missile was mistakenly shipped from Europe to Cuba in 2014, the State Department refuses to deny whether or not it was sold to the Cuban government.
“I am restricted, under federal law and regulations, from commenting on the specific defense trade, licensing cases and compliance matters,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said during a press conference Friday.
This week, the Ammon Bundy-led seizure of a federal wildlife refuge thrust Oregon’s ranchers into the spotlight. While I don’t agree with the occupiers’ tactics, I sympathize with their position. Being a rancher was always challenging. And it has become increasingly difficult under the Obama administration.
I grew up in a ranching community in northeast Oregon. Even as a kid, I knew I wanted to be a rancher. After eight years as a firefighter, I’d saved enough to start my own business. I wanted to work on the land, raising delicious, wholesome beef for our growing population.
Jihadis armed with a gun, knives and a suicide belt have wounded three tourists at the entrance of a hotel in an Egyptian Red Sea resort.
Security forces said the attackers arrived by sea to launch the onslaught on the beachside Bella Vista Hotel, in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada.
They claimed to have killed an attacker wearing a suicide bomb, and have seriously wounded a second armed with a knife.
The two attackers entered the hotel’s outdoor restaurant at the front of the building and attacked the tourists.
The attackers were reportedly carrying black flags with the shahada, the Muslim testament of faith, written it white, commonly used by ISIS.
Egyptian authorities today said the dead attacker was a 21-year-old student from the Cairo neighbourhood of Giza as video emerged of his accomplice being interrogated in the aftermath.
Yeah, except for Archer’s mother saying he’s a devout Muslim and having the zabiba on his head from praying so much. But nice try, CAIR! And why isn’t Reuters doing the work to check on this, and see if it’s true?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The man who shot a policeman in Philadelphia and claimed to have pledged allegiance to Islamic State militants does not appear to be a mosque-going Muslim, a senior official at the largest U.S. Muslim advocacy group said.
“At this hour, it does not appear that he was an observant or mosque-going Muslim” in the local community, said Jacob Bender, executive director of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Council on American–Islamic Relations.
“I’ve called numerous imams and mosques to try to see if the name rings a bell with anyone. So far it hasn’t,” he told Reuters in an interview.
Edward Archer of Philadelphia approached Officer Jesse Hartnett, 33, shortly before midnight and fired 11 rounds, three of which hit the officer in his arm, authorities said. Philadelphia police said Archer confessed to the attack and said he had pledged his allegiance to Islamic State.
But you can see the prayer bump on his head and then there’s this:
Already notorious for its public and gruesome executions, a member of the Islamic State killed his own mother in front of a crowd in Syria this week after she tried to get him to leave the terrorist organization, according to reports.
The man, identified as Ali Saqr, 21, executed her in front of hundreds of people in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and another Syrian rights group cited by The New York Times.
The groups said that she confronted her son and urged him to flee with her out of fear that coalition forces would soon sweep in and wipe out ISIS, the observatory said. Saqr turned her in to ISIS authorities, who then ordered Saqr to execute her in front of the post office where she worked, according to the observatory.
A Baltimore Sun deputy editor is so worried about the presence of legal firearms in her Maryland neighborhood, that she wants the federal government create a sex offender-type registry for all lawful gun owners.
“[H]ow about … a gun owner registry available to the public online — something like those for sex offenders. I’m not equating gun owners with predatory perverts, but the model is helpful here; I want a searchable database I can consult to find out whether my kid can have a play date at your house,” the Sun’s Tricia Bishop wrote Thursday.
This cop, Officer Jesse Hartnett, is something else. Ambushed, shot three times, and he’s out the car like a shot and running after this bastard. More on the attack here.
The officer suffered injuries to the arm, the terrorist was shot, injuries have not yet been defined but do not appear life threatening as he is talking, being questioned and confessed he did it in the name of Islam and ISIS.
Since returning to the campaign trail as an advocate for Hillary, Bill Clinton has been harried by renewed interest in his past sexual misconduct as well as Hillary’s alleged role in intimidating his victims into silence.
Roger Stone, author of the New York Times bestselling “The Clinton’s War On Women”, claims that he has personal knowledge of previously unknown victims who are preparing to come forward with accusations against the former president.
“I identified 24 women who’ve been assaulted by Bill Clinton,” Stone said on The Sean Hannity Show. “Now some of these women are still terrified. Some of them have had IRS audits. Some of them have had their families threatened. But others have come forward.”
“Are you saying there’s women whose names we don’t know that are mentioned in your book or not mentioned in your book that are going to come forward and start telling those stories?” Sean asked.
“Yes, I think it’s very probable,” Stone responded. “Not all of them because some of them are still terrified, their families have been threatened, their lives have been threatened.”
“Are we talking about affairs, or are we talking about assaults?” asked Hannity.
“We’re talking about assaults,” declared Stone. “I don’t want to get out ahead of myself but I think as Broaddrick, and [Kathleen] Willey, and Jones speak out, other women are encouraged who have been assaulted, who have been threatened by Hillary are encouraged by the courage of those three women.”
A federal jury on Friday convicted Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow of all charges in a sweeping racketeering indictment accusing him of orchestrating Chinatown’s crime scene for years, including arranging the murders of two gang rivals and overseeing crimes ranging from money laundering to drug trafficking.
The jury handed down the verdict on its third day of deliberations. Sentencing — almost certain to put Chow, 56, behind bars for life — is scheduled for March 23.
