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Emergency responders say that radios failed during Navy Yard attack

Washington Navy Yard shooting
© Washington Post 10 people shot at Navy Yard: Police search for active shooter on grounds of Washington Navy Yard in Southeast D.C.

Radios for federal firefighters and police officers failed during Monday's mass shooting at Washington's Navy Yard, according to union representatives for first responders.

Union officials said police and firefighters resorted to using their cellphones and radios from D.C.'s emergency responders to communicate with each other during the attack.

Anthony Meely, chairman of the Fraternal Order of Police Naval District Washington (NDW) Labor Committee, said police officers who were first on the scene at the Navy Yard had trouble communicating with others in the force via their radios.

Initially, officers found that their radios were working. But as they ventured deeper into the building where the shooting took place, their equipment stopped functioning.

After the first shootout with the gunman, one officer found his radio's battery was dead, while another officer could not receive a signal from his radio and was unable to call for help. That forced them to use an officer's cellphone to call others outside the building, according to Meely.

"They had to use their cellphone to just call out and tell them what's going on," Meely said

Comment: The radio was clearly jammed. So Alexis wasn't acting alone.

Perhaps they learned from Sandy Hook that it's easier to take complete control of the airwaves by jamming them altogether, rather than try to manipulate them during and after the fact.

Washington D.C. elite tactical police units were ordered to stand down while massacre took place at Navy Yard

Washington Navy Yard Shooting: What's The Point?


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Irish woman, the "White Widow", suspected of involvement in Kenyan terror attack

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© APSamantha Lewthwaite, from County Down, dubbed the "White Widow" of the London bombings on 7/7, is a suspect in the ongoing attack on the Nairobi mall, where at least 69 people have been killed
County Down woman Samantha Lewthwaite has been on the run since 2011

Police in Britain and Kenya are investigating links between an Irish woman branded the "White Widow" and the shopping mall siege in Nairobi that has claimed 69 lives so far.

County Down born terrorist Samantha Lewthwaite is suspected of involvement in the attack.

Kenyan soldiers stated a white woman with a veil was calling out orders to gunmen in Arabic during the dreadful massacre at Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi.

Al Qaeda linked terror group, Al Shabaab, claimed responsibility and wrote on Twitter that Samantha Lewthwaite, the "White Widow" of London 7/7 bomber Jermaine Lindsay, was "in their ranks" and a "brave lady".

The 29-year-old from Banbridge is on the run from the Kenyan authorities after she was previously linked to a terrorist cell that planned to attack a hotel or shopping mall in 2011.

Comment: See also:

British widow of 7/7 patsy 'plotted terrorist attacks' against Kenyan targets from network of luxury safe houses in Mombasa

London 7/7 bomber's British widow 'on the run' over links with Kenya terrorist cell


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Pentagon warns soldiers they might not be paid on time because of Congress

The Pentagon
© Agence France-PresseThe Pentagon.

The Pentagon warned its workforce on Monday that it is preparing for a possible government shutdown if Congress fails to break a political impasse.

If US government agencies are forced to shutter, American troops around the world would stay on the job and some civilian employees would be ordered on unpaid leave, Pentagon spokesman George Little told reporters.

But paychecks for military service members might be delayed while Congress would have to take action to ensure retroactive pay for civilians required to come to work, he added.

"Military personnel would be paid but maybe not on time," he said.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel planned to send out a memo to department workers Monday saying the Office of Management and Budget had asked the Pentagon "to review and update our plans in order to prepare for an orderly government shutdown," according to Little.

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Best of the Web: America's history of chemical weapons 'experiments' against its own people: Over 4,000 radiation experiments killed or poisoned hundreds of thousands of citizens

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The following article appeared in New Dawn, No. 68 (Sept-Oct 2001).

In preparing America for nuclear attack during the Cold War years following World War II, thousands of US citizens became the innocent victims of over 4,000 secret and classified radiation experiments conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and other government agencies, such as the Department of Defense, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Public Health Service (now the CDC), the National Institutes of Health, the Veterans Administration (VA), the CIA, and NASA.

Millions of people were exposed to radioactive fallout from the continental testing of more than 200 atmospheric and underground nuclear weapons, and from the hundreds of secret releases of radiation into the environment. Over 200,000 "atomic vets" who worked closely with nuclear detonations at the Nevada test site during the 1950s and 1960s were especially vulnerable to radiation fallout.

Also affected were the thousands of so-called "downwinders", who lived in nearby small towns in Nevada, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. These downwinders (along with the animal populations) suffered the worst cumulative radioactive effects of fallout, along with a contaminated environment teeming with radioactive food and farm products. The plight of these poor country people exposed to government-induced radiation sickness has been recorded in Carole Gallagher's remarkable photo-essay American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War (The Free Press, 1993).

In reviewing declassified AEC records (now the Department of Energy) from the 1950s, Gallagher was shocked to discover one document that described the people downwind of the Nevada Test Site as "a low use segment of the population." Her shock at such callous bigotry caused her to eventually move West to research, investigate and document those who lived closest to the Test Site, as well as workers at the site, and soldiers repeatedly exposed to nuclear bombs during the military tests.

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Merkel's party wins German election with 41.5%, no absolute majority

Angela Merkel wins election
© AFPGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel drinks a glass of vine during the election party of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party at the party's headquarters in Berlin on September 22, 2013
Angela Merkel's bloc (CDU-CSU) has won the German election with 41.5 percent of the votes. The conservatives beat their main rival, the Social Democrats (SPD), which received 25.7 percent of the votes, according to preliminary final results.

Merkel secured herself a third term and led the conservatives to their best result in more than 20 years. However, the CDU's junior coalition allies - the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) - received only 4.8 percent, which is below the five percent threshold required to gain a seat in parliament.

Germany's Left party, which aims for democratic socialism, came in third with 8.6 percent, while the Greens got 8.4 percent. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which campaigned on eurosceptic fears about the cost of eurozone bailouts, came in with 4.7 percent. The Pirate Party, advocating for internet freedom and copyright law reform, ended up with 2.2 percent and the far-right nationalist NDP party received 1.3 percent. All other parties received a collective 2.7 percent of the votes.

Merkel has urged her bloc to celebrate after leading the conservatives to their best result in over 20 years.

"We will do everything we can in the next four years to make them successful ones for Germany," she said at the CDU headquarters, adding that it was too early to consider coalitions. "We will talk about this tomorrow when we know the final results - but we can surely celebrate tonight, as we have done a great job."

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Best of the Web: Four chemical attacks U.S. wants you to forget

Abby Martin speaks about the blatant hypocrisy regarding Obama's "red line" of chemical attacks as the motivating factor to intervene militarily in Syria, citing the top four chemical weapons attacks that the US military does not want you to know about.



Comment: See here for more on the gruesome St Louis case, where citizens were deliberately sprayed with zinc cadmium silfide laced with Radium 226.

Then there's the Manchester Mill anthrax case.

In fact, there are THOUSANDS of chemical attacks the U.S. government wants you to forget...

America's history of chemical weapons 'experiments' against its own people: Over 4,000 radiation experiments killed or poisoned hundreds of thousands of citizens

Feeling safer yet?


War Whore

Flashback August 1998: Following false-flag bombings against U.S. embassies in Nairobi East Africa, Bill Clinton starts 'War on Terror' by launching missile strikes against Afghanistan and Sudan for 'harboring terrorists'

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Introducing "Usama" bin Laden


This was a strange story when it happened...

Where did Clinton get off bombing a pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan?

How many innocent people were killed by these attacks?

Note that Bin Laden was never formerly charged with the embassy attacks - and he he "got away."

We're trying to find videos that document the fact that some officials at the US embassies that were attacked don't believe the official story and suspect these were false flag operations.


Comment: Kenyan false flag bomb plot aimed at tightening sanctions noose on Iran, Friday 6 July 2012
A key indicator of a false flag operation in the 1998 US embassy attacks, says Schoenman, was the involvement of Ali A Mohamed, also known as Ali "the American". He is labeled as the "point man", who masterminded and coordinated the assaults. Two years after the blasts, Mohamed was arrested by the American authorities and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder.

It then transpired that the alleged Al Qaeda bomber had an impeccable US military service record, having trained at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and later working as an instructor in explosives at the John F Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School until 1989.

The American government narrative then claimed that Mohamed, who was married to an American citizen and who had lived in California, was all the while working as a double agent for Al Qaeda and that "he turned" by the time of the embassy attacks in 1998. This narrative was dutifully circulated by the American media. One headline in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2001 conveyed the sense of treachery: Bin Laden's man in Silicon Valley - 'Mohamed the American' orchestrated terrorist acts while living a quiet suburban life in Santa Clara.

Schoenman dismisses the official claim as "straining credulity" in face of the facts. He says that during the 1990s Mohamed was working for the American secret services in East Africa, including Kenya. The operative was also known to be travelling and liaising with Bin Laden's network in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"There is no way that US intelligence handlers did not know of every move made by Mohamed. This guy was recruited by the CIA in Cairo, where he was a major in the Egyptian army. He was then a handpicked graduate of Fort Bragg for American Special Forces and he went on to instruct green berets in psy-ops and explosives at the JFK School of Warfare. We are talking about the strictest security clearance in the US military. And yet the official account expects the public to believe that somehow Mohamed's connections with Bin Laden's Al Qaeda slipped their attention and that he carried out the US embassy bombings in a rogue fashion for the supposed enemy."

Schoenman's contention is that the Kenyan and Tanzanian US embassy attacks were a deliberate ploy by American military intelligence that was instrumented by Ali A Mohamed. The blasts involved suicide bombers and Schoenman does not rule out that there may have been willing Jihadi dupes recruited for the mission. But the bottom line is that the carnage was deliberately inflicted by US planners as a prelude to the "war on terror" and the subsequent spectacular of 9/11.

Supporting this contention is the fact that, despite pleading guilty in a New York court in 2000 to conspiracy to murder American citizens, Mohamed has never been sentenced. There are no records of subsequent court proceedings and his whereabouts are unknown. His Californian wife, Linda Sanchez, was quoted in 2006 as saying of her husband: "He can't talk to anybody. Nobody can get to him. They have Ali pretty secretive... it's like he just kinda vanished into thin air."

That sounds like Mohamed made a guilty plea bargain with his handlers, so that he would not have to go to trial thus suppressing all details of the embassy bombings, and in return he would be given a new identity and not have to spend a single day in jail.



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72 people blown up and 120 wounded at Iraqi funeral - Part of coordinated attacks by psychopaths across country - Has U.S. returned to its 'civilian pacification' program?

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America's ongoing policy vis a vis Iraq: 'Welcome to freedom and democracy. If you vote incorrectly, we'll start blowing you up again...'
Thousands of Iraqis have been killed in recent months, in the worst violence the country has seen since 2008

Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, struck a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families in a Shia neighbourhood in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks around Iraq that killed at least 96 people on Saturday.

The assaults, the latest in a surge of violence lasting several months, are a chilling reminder of insurgents' determination to re-ignite sectarian conflict more than a decade after the US-led invasion.

Thousands of Iraqis have been killed in violent attacks in recent months, a level of bloodshed not seen since Iraq pulled back from the brink of civil war in 2008, despite appeals for restraint from Shia and Sunni political leaders.

The attack on the funeral was one of the largest single terrorist assaults on civilians in Iraq in recent years. It happened shortly before sunset in the densely populated Shia neighborhood of Sadr City in northeastern Baghdad.

Comment: By the time the U.S. was done 'pacifying Vietnam', it had killed up to 4 million people. In addition, the country's gene pool was permanently altered due to DNA mutations caused by 20 million gallons of Agent Orange (a chemical weapon in Monsanto/Pentagon's arsenal) being sprayed indiscriminately.

Will they outdo themselves in Iraq?


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Psychopaths blow up packed church in coordinated attack in Peshawar, Pakistan - At least 60 dead, 120 wounded

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© Fayaz Aziz/ReutersA man cries at the death of his brother in the coordinated attack on the church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Officials say worshippers were targeted as they left church in Peshawar

A suicide bomb attack on a historic church in north-western Pakistan has killed at least 60 people and wounded more than 120, officials said, in one of the worst assaults on the country's Christian minority in years.

The bombing underlines the threat posed by Islamic extremists as the government seeks a peace deal with domestic Taliban militants.

It occurred as worshippers were coming out of the church service in Peshawar city to get a free meal of rice offered on the front lawn, said a top government administrator, Sahibzada Anees.

"There were blasts and there was hell for all of us," said Nazir John, who was at the church with at least 400 other worshippers. "When I got my senses back, I found nothing but smoke, dust, blood and screaming people. I saw severed body parts and blood all around."

Comment: Again, we're being asked to believe the incredible without the slightest bit of evidence provided. The same goes for all preceding 'suicide attacks' where there were neither witnesses nor surveillance footage confirming that one or more persons blew themselves up (which is probably the vast majority of such attacks).

That leaves us with car bombs, some form of pre-planted explosives, or persons forced by some third party to serve as 'bomb mules', against their will. Given how often these attacks happen in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere, we're obviously looking at perpetrators who are powerful enough to direct local police investigations and state media.


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Update: At least 59 killed and 175 wounded in Kenya terror attack; gunmen still inside shopping mall


At least 59 people were killed and 175 others wounded, including foreigners, after Al-Qaeda-linked gunmen stormed an upscale mall in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, according to a government minister.

The minister also says 10 to 15 gunmen are still inside the shopping mall, where the hostage standoff has entered its second day.

AP journalists reported from the scene that gunfire was heard in the mall Sunday morning. They added that following the shooting two wounded Kenyan security forces were carried from the mall.

The operation to recover all the hostages and secure control of Nairobi's Westgate mall is still continuing, according to Kenyan security officials.

Kenya's National Disaster Operation Centre stated that gunmen are still holding an uncertain number of shoppers and staff hostage inside the mall.

"Operations are continuing...We will free all those inside and stop this, of course we cannot give details of the operations except to say that everything that can be done is being done," a security officer said, as quoted by AFP.

President Uhuru Kenyatta said the attack sought to intimidate and divide the nation, but stated that the "terrorists" will be defeated, according to Reuters. The president added that he lost "very close family members" in the mall shooting, Reuters reported.

"The despicable perpetrators of this cowardly act hoped to intimidate, divide and cause despondency amongst Kenyans," Kenyatta said in a televised address to the nation. "We have overcome terrorist attacks before. We will defeat them again."

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© AFP Photos / Hoss NjugunaAn injured Kenyan man talks on the phone upon his arrival at the Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi, on September 21,2013 after masked attackers stormed a packed upmarket shopping mall, spraying gunfire and killing 30 people and wounding dozens more before holing themselves up in the complex