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Deadliest sniper in U.S. military history is 'shot and killed point-blank by veteran suffering from PTSD' at Texas gun range

Daily Mail:

• Ex-Navy Seal and New York Times best-selling author Chris Kyle, 39, was  reportedly shot along with another man
  
• The suspect, 25-year-old Eddie Ray Routh, is in police custody after he fled the scene in Kyle's car
• Kyle is a husband and father of two who served four tours in Iraq and holds the U.S. military record for most sniper kills

A former Navy Seal, expert sniper and best-selling author was reportedly gunned down at a Texas shooting range Saturday by a veteran who is recovering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Ex-Navy Seal Chris Kyle, 39, and another man were shot point-blank around 3:30 p.m. at a charity event on behalf of Kyle's security firm at the gun range at Rough Creek Lodge and Resort in Erath County. 

The suspect, 25-year-old Eddie Ray Routh, was arrested roughly five hours later in Lancaster, Texas after a police chase. He was driving Kyle's truck at the time of the arrest, police said.

Ex-Navy Seal Chris Kyle, author of 'American Sniper,' and a neighbor of his were shot point-blank by another veteran

 

Kyle, 39, served four tours in Irag and he was awarded two Silver Stars, five Bronze Stars with Valor, two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals, and one Navy and Marine Corps Commendation

While in Iraq, Kyle survived being shot twice and he lived through six separate IED explosions as his unit, Charlie company of SEAL Team Three, saw significant combat

Investigators told ABC affiliate WFAA-TV that Routh is a former Marine who was suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Kyle, a husband and father of two, authored the New York Times best-seller 'American Sniper,' which chronicled his four tours in Iraq. The book hit shelves last month.

He recorded more than 150 sniper kills - the most in U.S. military history - between 1999 and 2009.

(continue reading, more images at UK Daily Mail)

Obama sends US troops to Turkey, more troops to Iraq

Turkey:

The United States gave the go-ahead Friday to deploy Patriot anti-ballistic missiles to Turkey along with enough troops to operate them as the heavily embattled government in neighboring Syria again vehemently denied firing ballistic missiles at rebels. [snip]

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed the order while en route to Turkey to send two Patriot missile batteries and 400 U.S. troops to operate them. The surface-to-air interceptors will help in "dealing with threats that come out of Syria," Panetta said after landing at Incirlik Air Base, a U.S. Air Force installation about 80 miles from Syria's border. (CNN)

Iraq:

Over 3,000 US troops have secretly returned to Iraq via Kuwait for missions pertaining to the recent developments in Syria and northern Iraq, Press TV reports.

According to our correspondent, the US troops have secretly entered Iraq in multiple stages and are mostly stationed at Balad military garrison in Salahuddin province and al-Asad air base in al-Anbar province.

Reports say the troops include US Army officers and almost 17,000 more are set to secretly return to Iraq via the same route.

All US troops left Iraq by the end of 2011, after nine years of occupation, as required by a 2008 bilateral security agreement between the two countries. The troops left Iraq for the neighboring Kuwait. (PressTV, hat tip Drudge)

 

Battles in the real war on women

In Saudi Arabia:  Denied the right to travel without consent from their male guardians and banned from driving, men now electronically track women as if they were pets or livestock.

In Iraq:  Women who do not wear the Islamic headscarf, commonly known as the hijab, are increasingly coming under crackdown as conservative Islam gradually permeates the Iraqi political scene.  Women suffer sexual harassment; temporary marriage which (is clearly an imported phenomenon from Iran];  and other forms of religious restrictions, in the workplace, in government, in the media, everywhere. (AINA)

 

In Italy:  Femicide, killing of women by husbands, boyfriends, (or in some cases by fathers, brothers or even mothers).  A U.N. report on domestic violence in Italy issued in June sounded the alarm, saying it's the most pervasive form of violence. (NPR)

 

In the United States:    Abortion;  Obamacare;  feminism and  sex-selection abortions which favors boys over girls:  

It is a sad day in America when the president of the United States endorses sex-selection abortion by opposing the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act. It is no less sad that this bill did not pass the House — although a significant majority, 246 members, did vote for it — given its laudable aim of outlawing this egregious assault on baby girls. Sex-selection abortion is cruel, it’s discriminatory and it’s legal. It is violence against women. Most people in government are unaware that it is part of a deliberate plan of population control. (Washington Post)

 

I could go on but you get the idea.

 

Quote / Article of the Day

 

America cannot do for Muslims what Islam is unwilling to do for itself. That fundamental ground truth is ignored or spun by senior military officers and politicians alike.  -- from Generals and Geographic Bachelors By G. Murphy Donovan, highlighted by Rush Limbaugh in What Happened to "Duty, Honor, and Country"?

Iraqi audit points to huge money laundering

(AP)

American investigators say Iraqi auditors believe as much as $800 million in U.S. currency is being sent out of the country illegally each week.

A report by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction released on Tuesday says Iraq's top auditor, Abdul-Basit Turki, disclosed the findings about the extent of the alleged money laundering to American officials last month. (continue at AP)

IRAQIS RELEASE TERRORIST WHO KILLED U.S. SOLDIERS -- UPDATED

Via Judicial Watch:

Surprise, surprise the Hezbollah terrorist released by the Obama Administration to Iraq out of respect for the country’s sovereignty won’t make it to the U.S. to face trial for killing five American soldiers.

We all knew this would happen back in December when the commander-in-chief handed over the Lebanese militant, Ali Mussa Daqduq, to Iraqi officials. A mainstream newspaper presented it as a “dilemma” for the president as American troops prepared to exit Iraq. Daqduq had been in U.S. military custody in Iraq since 2007 for his involvement in a carefully orchestrated plot that killed, kidnapped and tortured American military officers.

The atrocities took place in a city called Karbala, south of Baghdad in early 2007. Around a dozen terrorists dressed in U.S. military uniforms opened fire on Americans after approaching a camp in five sports utility vehicles resembling U.S. transports. One U.S. soldier died at the scene and four others were kidnapped, tortured and executed. Daqduq, a Hezbollah commander, was the mastermind.  (continue reading at Judicial Watch, hat tips to The Flying Camel, The Jawa Report, Breitbart)

 

UPDATE:

For background see the following articles:

Something Stinky in Karbala and the Green Zone

What about the Karbala laptop and was this an act of war?

Killer of American soldiers released in prisoner exchange

 

 

 

Iran Plans Gas Pipeline to Iraq

TEHRAN (UPI) -- An Iranian energy official announced that plans were under way to build a 136-mile natural gas pipeline to its neighbors in Iraq.

The managing director of Iran's Gas Engineering and Development Co., Ali Reza Qaribi, said the 48-inch pipeline to Iraq would carry around 880 cubic feet of natural gas per day to Iraq once completed.

"The $450 million project will be built by Iranian contractors," he told the semiofficial Fars News Agency.

Natural gas from Iran would be used by Iraq to fuel its power stations. Parts of Iraq still struggle with electricity generation more than nine years after the U.S.-led invasion.

The Iranian director provided few details in terms of expected completion date or specific route. He added, however, that the required steel for the pipeline was purchased.

Iran has some of the largest natural gas reserves in the world. One of its most ambitious pipeline projects, the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline, has suffered under diplomatic and sanctions pressure, however.  (AINA)

More from the region:

Obama's "peace" partner, the Taliban, behead two Pakistani soldiers and mount their heads on wooden poles, by Pamela Geller

The day America partners with ideological groups that religiously slaughter (behead) their victims and mount their heads on poles is the day America ceases to exist.

Obama has been releasing high-level jihadists in exchange for pledges of peace...

Iraq Topples Iran, Becomes 2nd Largest Crude Oil Supplier to India

New Delhi -- The pressure of US sanctions on Iran is evident with Indian refiners shifting attention to other crude oil producing nations. Though India has been maintaining that it is not reducing imports from Iran, the import numbers for 2011-12 tell a different story.

Two more Americans killed in Afghanistan, a colonel and a major, who were part of the advisory mission

Kabul (CNN) -- The Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack Saturday inside the Afghan interior ministry that killed at least two American officers.

NATO and Afghan officials reported the deaths of two American officers inside the ministry in Kabul.

According to the International Security Assistance Force, initial reports indicated that "an individual" turned his weapon against NATO service members.

The agency did not provide the nationalities of the victims, but an Afghan police official confirmed they were American.

A Taliban spokesman said the attack was in response to the burning of Qurans at a U.S. base. (continue at CNN)

Via Drudge:

5th day of Koran-burning protests...
Islamists rampage British WWII cemetery in Libya...
Mobs charge US bases...
Taliban: Kill foreigners...
Pentagon Official Apologizes at VA Mosque...
Obama 'deeply regrets'...
Gingrich: Obama 'surrendered' with apology...

 

I don't want to sound like the Left, or Ron Paul, but Afghanistan as well as Iraq this week, do not look as if they can ever be peaceful, democratic, Muslim nations.  I'm truly sorry to say that after all the blood, money and effort we have spent in both places. I should probably include Pakistan too.

You cannot win the "hearts and minds" of blood-thirsty terrorists who follow the rantings of a crazy pedophile and refuse to live like humans in 2012.

UPDATE:

We cannot allow judges in the United States to submit to Sharia law, yet we have this already happening.

The Sharia Court of Pennsylvania — the Transcript

By Andrew C. McCarthy

February 24, 2012 2:59 P.M.

I have made a transcript of the Pennsylvania case in which state judge Mark Martin, a Muslim convert and U.S. Army reservist who served in Iraq, relied on a sharia law defense (as well as some evidentiary contortions) to dismiss an open-and-shut harassment case against a Muslim man who assaulted an atheist activist at a Halloween parade. (See my earlier post.)

The victim, Ernest Perce, wore a “Zombie Mohammed” costume and pretended to walk among the dead (in the company of an associate who was the “Zombie Pope” — and who, you’ll be shocked to learn, was not assaulted). The assailant, Talag Elbayomy, a Muslim immigrant, physically attacked Perce, attempted to pull his sign off, and, according to police, admitted what he had done right after the incident. The defense argued that Elbayomy believed it was a crime to insult the prophet Mohammed (it is, under sharia law), and that because he was in the company of his children, he had to act to end this provocation and set an example about defending Islam.

As you will see, Judge Martin did not lecture the defendant about free speech or how disputes are resolved in a civilized country. He instead dressed the victim down for failing to appreciate how sensitive Muslims — including the judge himself — are about Islam. The audio of Judge Martin’s remarks can be heard on YouTube (The audio, beginning at around the 2-minute mark on the YouTube clip, lasts about 7 minutes. Martin has reportedly threatened to hold Perce in contempt for recording and publishing the judge’s statements, which were made in open court. Perce says he had permission to make a recording as long as it was only audio, not video.) Here is the transcript:  (continue at National Review Online)

 

 

Christian Majority and Minority - Christmas 2012

"This Christmas season, 78% of American adults identify with some form of Christian religion. Less than 2% are Jewish, less than 1% are Muslim, and 15% do not have a religious identity. This means that 95% of all Americans who have a religious identity are Christians."  (Althouse, A new Gallup poll.)

Christians in the United States should be thankful that in spite of the attacks on Christianity and the attempts to remove anything Christian from schools, businesses and the public square, we are free to worship God this Christmas and every day, unlike in so many other countries.

Christmas, midnight mass,  has been cancelled in Iraq.  Christians are fearful in light of recent attacks since the American military left Iraq and "as a consequence of the never-ending assassinations of Christians".   Christians have been fleeing the country since 2003 with the Christian population dropping by 50%.

There is fear that Christianity could be completely eradicated in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, ... because of severe and persistent persecution of Christians by Muslims, according to the chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.   

In Yemen, where under the constitution Islam is the state religion, Shariah is the source of all legislation, Yemeni citizens are not allowed to convert to Christianity (or other religions) under threat of the death penalty -- there are reportedly only several thousand Christians. 

Saudi Arabia allows Christians to enter the country as temporary workers, but Christians are not allowed to worship, there are no Christian churches and officially zero Saudi citizens who are Christian.   The same is true in Afghanistan.

We can look as Christianity country-by-country, see the persecution of Christians,  and see that here in the US we are truly blessed.

While we write about 'T'was the night before Liberal Christmas 2011' and 'T'was the night before Christmas,...When all through our land, Not a Christian was praying, Nor taking a stand -- Don't believe it. 

Christians in America are praying, they are worshiping, they are sharing their faith.  Christianity has been under threats throughout history and Christianity will continue to be under threat.  We must not let our guard down, but we must also remember that in the end, good wins over evil.

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, our Saviour, was born as an innocent baby.  His life was threatened from the beginning yet he survived, lived a perfect life as an example to us.  He then gave that life freely to ridicule, punishment and eventually death.  He did this for one reason, love for his creation.  Love so strong that he was willing to leave Heaven so that we one day could be in Heaven with him.

Celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

Celebrate life.

Peace? Not exactly.

Al-Qaeda terrorists kill over 40 and wounded over 150 people in suicide bombings in Damascus Syria.  Get that?  Al-Qaeda did it?  Not everyone agrees this particular violence was al-Qaeda.  America leaves Iraq and violence erupts the next day - it is not pretty. And Iran?  Oh my....

Since Assad and the Iraqi Prime Minister Nour al-Maliki share the same backer, Tehran, the spate of terror which erupted this week was not just a trigger for civil war in both their countries but signaled a new and violent round in the Sunni-Shiite struggle for control of the Middle East.

Standing to one side are Iran, the Damascus and Baghdad rulers, Hizballah and the Palestinian extremist Hamas and Jihad Islami. Ranged against them are the Muslim Brotherhood and elements or associates of al Qaeda. They are backed with arms, funds, training and fighting strength by several Sunni Arab regimes, chiefly Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, Jordan and Libya.

Our counter-terror sources report an expanding flow of extremist Sunni infiltrators from Iraq into Syria and Lebanon. Not all are al Qaeda, as Assad claims. Some belong to the "Awakening Councils" which have evolved into the Iraqi Sunni tribal community's principal military arm. They were originally set up by Gen. David Petraeus, presently CIA Director, to fight al Qaeda. With US funding, training and commanders, these Sunni tribal fighters were successful from 2006 to 2008 in beating al Qaeda into the ground.

But the final US military departure from Iraq this week left the Awakening Council fighters high and dry by Prime Minister al-Maliki, who takes his orders from Tehran, refused to honor the contract to pay their wages and their families are destitute.

As a result, many Iraqi Sunni fighting men decided to join up with al Qaeda. Their pursuit of a source of arms and a livelihood is taking them across borders into Syria and Lebanon where they join the ranks of anti-Assad Sunni militias, including the Free Syrian Army.

Seasoned in the ways of violence, they were fully competent to carry out the deadly terrorist attacks in Baghdad and Damascus. More such outrages are certain to come, adding a whole new dimension to the popular campaign to unseat Bashar Assad as well as post-war Iraq.  (DEBKAfile, hat tip Marcus Wilder)

Also in Iraq:  A wave of attacks across Iraq has killed 67 people as the country faced a political crisis, with its vice-president accused of running death squads and the prime minister warning he could break off power-sharing. (NineNews)

Iraqi oil output has reached a 20 year high.  Since the US military left Iraq, individual attacks on the oil pipelines have become rampant, with individuals carrying away the oil for their personal use.  It appears the US will not be receiving any Iraqi oil, so much for the 'war for oil' mantra.

Did Obama Bungle Iraq???

In an entry today in the Washington Post’s “Right Turn” blog, Jen Rubin considers whether the recent political unrest in Iraq, including most notably the call for arrest of the Sunni Vice President by Shi’ite President Nouri al-Maliki.  AEI experts Tom Donnelly, Gary Schmitt and Fred Kagan are quoted in Rubin’s article. Here is one excerpt:

Is Iraq unraveling just weeks after President Obama pulled all troops out of the country, against the advice of his military and in defiance of critics? Thomas Donnelly of the American Enterprise Institute tells me this morning: “Indicting a vice president and killing his bodyguards is out there, even by Iraqi standards. Maliki must have had these moves in mind even while meeting with Obama last week and before. And the Kurds are protecting Hashemi, so there’s obviously broad-based Kurd-Sunni opposition to Maliki’s power-grab. Not yet a civil war, but a pretty brutal punctuation to the ‘end’ of the war.”

For the post in full, click here.

A.C. reports: 

  ... Iran has been helping al Qaeda finance their operations--the same enemy who attacked us on 9/11 (and the one Obama claims Bush didn't go after hard enough)--since 2005.

The United States on Thursday established a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to Yasin al-Suri, accused of operating from Iran as a facilitator and financier for al-Qaida.

The bounty is the first offered for an al-Qaida financier and is aimed at disrupting a financial network that has operated from within Iran's borders since 2005, said Eytan Fisch, a senior Treasury Department official. Robert Hartung, a senior State Department official, said that under an agreement between al-Qaida and the government of Iran, al-Suri had helped move money and recruits through Iran to al-Qaida leaders in neighboring countries.

On this Christmas weekend, Christianity May Be Eradicated in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Egypt

According to the chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Christianity now faces the real threat of eradication in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Egypt ... because of severe and persistent persecution of Christians by Muslims.

Here at home in the United States the Occupy crowds fly Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaeda flags over their feces, disease and rat infested camps.

 

Also see:

Egypt activists call mass rally against army rule...

Egyptian Adviser Calls Attack on Woman Justified..., (via drudge)

Syria: The Forgotten--Including by the Obama Administration--Revolution;

A Coming War Threat: Terrorists Are Developing A Safe Haven in Egypt to Attack Israel.

 6,200 killed in Syrian crackdown, claims rights group