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U.S. Department of State News: Saudi Arabia's Call for Ceasefire Extension in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON – U.S. Depart of State today released the following statement:

The United States welcomes Saudi Arabia’s recent call for an extension of the ceasefire between the Government of Afghanistan and the Taliban.  The United States echoes the call for a new era of tolerance and reconciliation, renouncing violence, and preserving the lives of innocent people.  This reflects Saudi Arabia’s prominent role in combating terrorism and furthers our mutual goal of regional peace and stability.  We call on all parties to reciprocate a ceasefire extension and engage in formal peace negotiations.

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Stopping an Un-Islamic State – an alternative approach to our security revisited in 2017

Our security and emergency response services are amazing with their response times at and followup after the fact, our intelligence services on top of their game on pre-emptive measures. However what are our politicians doing to address the current and ineffective approach to counter the spread of extremism? both at home and abroad? Theresa May wants to censure the world wide web! that is not…

Donald Trump Lie Of The Day

Trying to justify his racist Islamophobia, Republican President Donald Trump recently said, “According to data provided by the Department of Justice, the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism And terrorism related offenses Since 9/11 came from outside our country. . . ” That data was compiled by a Senate committee led by Jeff Sessions, not the DOJ. Furthermore, most of the people…

Republican President Donald Trump recently tweeted “122 vicious prisoners, released by Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision.” Yet another Trump Lie! Of the 122 people released from Gitmo that have returned to terrorism, 113 were released by George W. Bush.…

Terrorism Wears No One Profile

If the explosion in New York was in a very public place and was intentional, doesn’t that make it terrorism? Just because it might not fit Donald Trump’s vision of a Syrian refugee, wearing a hijab, and screaming “death to America, praise Allah,” doesn’t make it any less terrifying. Terrorism doesn’t fit one mold, despite what the right tries to tell us. Timothy McVeigh, Eric Rudolph, Robert…

In the nine radical Islamic terrorist attacks on the US since 9/11, there have been 47 people killed. And of those 47 people, 44 were killed by guns. We have a gun problem in this country. In an al Qaeda video posted on June 3, a terrorist calls on Jihadists to take advantage of lax American gun laws. I know what the gun rights crowd will say because they’ve already said it. You can’t completely…

Does America Really Trust Republicans More Addressing Terrorism?

Back in 2003, when the Bush Administration was pushing hard to invade Iraq because of their supposed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and support for terrorism, several of our allies (including France) pointed out the danger in such action. They predicted instability and the likely development of terrorist organizations in the vacuum of power that would likely follow. They were right. Nevermind…