A flight attendant waiting to take off on the fateful day of 9/11/2001 <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11879601/Air-steward-believes-plane-intended-FIFTH-9-11-terrorist-jet.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believes</a> her aircraft was intended to be used as the fifth plane in the infamous terrorist attack which murdered nearly 3,000 Americans — and the captain of the plane thinks she may be correct.
The captain and flight attendant recalled their memories of the terrible day in the TMZ documentary “TMZ Investigates 9/11: the Fifth Plane.”
Flight attendant Sandy Thorngren, who was aboard United 23 waiting on JFK airport’s tarmac on the morning of 9/11, said she saw six suspicious people on the plane, which was supposed to take off at 9:00 a.m. but returned to the gate after the second tower of the World Trade Center was struck at 9:03 a.m.
“I definitely think Flight 23 was the fifth plane,” Thorngren stated.
“The day after, we were all called by the FBI telling us that they needed to interview us regarding the incident of what had happened on the airplane,” Thorngren continued. “They came to our hotel rooms and individually talked to us. I did tell them that I felt there were some suspicious people on the airplane. And I pointed out exactly the four people in first class and two gentlemen in business. And the one that had the t-shirt on that had uncontrollable perspiration.”
“They wanted to take us to show us a line-up of people at the Port Authority,” she recalled. ­“They got us all in a van, a windowless van. I felt like we were getting snuck into this van. And driven over to the Port Authority offices where everyone — I mean, gates were locked and guarded with armored military that had machine guns, or whatever rifles they were using. We were escorted to this one room with those double windows where you could see in but not out. And they asked us if we could identify any of the people that were behind that window.”
The captain of United 23, Tom Mannello, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp7QSh64Bz4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contended</a> there was a “good chance” someone was attempting to use his plane as part of the 9/11 attack. “The chief pilot reported to me that they had found two box cutters in the seat pockets in first class in the plane next to it, which had a tail number one digit off,” he stated.
“If somebody was on the ground cooperating with them, they just simply made a mistake and put the box cutters on the wrong airplane,” he continued. “You have people that clean the airplane, people that load food on the airplane, that have access to the airplane.”
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“If somebody was in cooperation with the group they could have been put there,” he surmised. “It wouldn&#8217;t be the hardest thing in the world to get on an airplane like that. It&#8217;s the one thing that makes me think that there&#8217;s a good chance that somebody was plotting to try to use our airplane as a weapon of mass destruction.”
Four planes that were hijacked by Islamic terrorists attacked the United States on 9/11. American Airlines Flight 11 struck its target first after taking off from Boston toward Los Angeles. Five hijackers commandeered the plane to launch it toward the World Trade Center&#8217;s North Tower, which it hit at 8:46 a.m.
The second plane to strike its target was United Airlines Flight 175, which also took off from Boston with five hijackers aboard and was originally headed to Los Angeles; it crashed into the WTC&#8217;s South Tower at 9:03 a.m.
American Airlines Flight 77 took off from Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C., toward Los Angeles with five hijackers aboard; it struck the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m.
The fourth plane, United Flight 93 took off from Newark, New Jersey, headed for San Francisco, with four hijackers onboard, allegedly headed for the White House or the Capitol, but heroic passengers fought the hijackers and the plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in an empty field.

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A Moroccan man has been accused of killing one and wounding four others in a machete attack at two churches in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/spain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spain</a>. 
The suspect, a 25-year-old man <a href="https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2023/01/27/culprit-in-algeciras-church-massacre-in-spains-terror-attack-was-moroccan-national-under-surveillance-and-awaiting-deportation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> set to be deported, allegedly ran into two Catholic churches in Algeciras, Spain, on Wednesday evening, killing one and injuring three others. 
According to EFE, a Spanish international news agency, the suspect <a href="https://twitter.com/EFEnoticias/status/1618512903849578496">shouted</a> “death to Christians” and “Allah is great” during the attack. The attack is being investigated as an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/radical-islam" target="_blank" rel="noopener">act of terrorism</a>, according to Spanish authorities. The public prosecutor&#8217;s office <a href="https://www.laprensalatina.com/1-dead-4-wounded-in-attacks-on-churches-in-spain/">said</a> the attack was &#8220;presumably terrorist.&#8221;
The churches that were <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/1-dead-spanish-church-machete-attacks-terror-link-probed-rcna67581" target="_blank" rel="noopener">targeted</a> were the church of Maria Auxiliadora y San Isidro and Nuestra Señora de La Palma. Diego Valencia, the sexton of the second church, was killed while attempting to escape the attack. 
One of the priests injured during the attack, Antonio Rodriguez, is expected to quickly recover. “If all goes well, he [Rodriguez] may even be released in the next few hours,” Algeciras Mayor Jose Ignacio Landaluce <a href="https://www.laprensalatina.com/1-dead-4-wounded-in-attacks-on-churches-in-spain/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
“We are all stunned by these acts, which have filled us with pain,” Landaluce added. “Algeciras has always been a city where concord and tolerance reign, despite incidents like this that create an image that does not correspond to reality.”
According to <a href="https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2023/01/27/culprit-in-algeciras-church-massacre-in-spains-terror-attack-was-moroccan-national-under-surveillance-and-awaiting-deportation/">local media</a>, the suspect was in Spain illegally and set to be deported. He had also been monitored by Spanish counter-terrorism police over suspected ties to unspecified terrorist groups. 
Santiago Abascal, the leader of the national-conservative Spanish political party Vox, <a href="https://twitter.com/Santi_ABASCAL/status/1618539643745751040">took aim</a> at the country’s immigration policies in a statement on the attack. “He entered Spain illegally, he had an expulsion order, he was under surveillance for jihadism, he was a squatter. How many will there be like him in Spain? The human trafficking mafias and the politicians who open their borders and shower them with subsidies cannot hide their responsibility,” Abascal said. 
In another tweet, he <a href="https://twitter.com/Santi_ABASCAL/status/1618339837995782144">said</a> that Spain “cannot tolerate Islamism advancing on our soil.”
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez also offered his condolence to those impacted by the attack. “I want to express my sincerest condolences for the families of the sexton slain in the terrible attack in Algeciras,” he wrote on Twitter. “I wish the injured a swift recovery.”
Algeciras, located on the Bay of Gibraltar, has a population of around 123,000.

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An Alabama woman who joined the Islamic State is still <a href="https://apnews.com/article/islamic-state-group-politics-syria-crime-prisons-dfb3cde1330e15b69a4c18552c837664">hoping</a> that she can return home to the United States, even though her citizenship status has been questioned. 
Hoda Muthana, a 28-year-old, is being held by U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in a Syrian detention camp. During an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAQ4tDTh46A&amp;ab_channel=TheNewsMovement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> from the camp, Muthana said traffickers brainwashed her over the internet in 2014 and persuaded her to join. She said she regrets all of it except her son, whom she had with one of the Islamic State fighters.
“I’ve always said if I need to sit in prison, and do my time, I will do it. I as well am a victim of ISIS,” she told The News Movement.
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“I’m hoping my government looks at me as someone young at the time and naive,” she <a href="https://apnews.com/article/islamic-state-group-politics-syria-crime-prisons-dfb3cde1330e15b69a4c18552c837664" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, per the Associated Press. 
Muthana’s parents <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/alabama-woman-who-joined-isis-hoping-allowed-back-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">immigrated</a> from Yemen and she was born in New Jersey, but raised in Alabama. She left home when she was twenty years old to unite with ISIS. She grew up in a conservative Muslim home and told her family she was going on a trip with her school, but instead traveled to Turkey and went into Syria. 
“[Her parents] didn’t know I was leaving, but they had an idea,” Hoda previously <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/gone-girl-an-interview-with-an-american-in-isis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a 2015 interview with Buzzfeed News in which she spoke positively of ISIS. “They’d see news reports about girls who have made it [to Syria] and say things like, ‘Hoda would probably do that.’’’ 
“I believe she&#8217;s been brainwashed,” her father said at the time, when first questioned about her. “She’s not that kind of girl. They brainwashed her.”
In the 2015 interview, she also explained how she had lied to her father about wanting money to escape. She pretended to want to get out because she was being pressured with marriage. He said he had told her she might be pushed into marrying when she initially got to Syria.
When she got to Syria, she says in her recent interview that she was kept in a locked house for unmarried women and kids.
“We slept in very unsanitary places. I’ve never seen that kind of filthiness in my life, like there was 100 women and twice as much kids, running around, too much noise, filthy beds,&#8221; she said in the new interview.
“It’s like a system that makes you almost go crazy to force yourself to get married because that’s the only way out,” she noted. 
The only option to get out was to marry an ISIS fighter, and she married three of them and had her son. The first two men died during combat and she reportedly said she got a divorce from the third man.
In early 2019, she ran away from one of the enclaves in Syria and went to another prison camp. 
In the past, however, she <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/09/hoda-muthana-alabama-woman-islamic-state-hopes-return-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> favorably about ISIS on social media. She now has said in the recent interview that her phone was confiscated and Islamic State backers posted the tweets.  
In 2016, the Obama administration <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-01-09/alabama-woman-joined-islamic-state-hopes-return-from-syria" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revoked</a> her citizenship, stating her father was a diplomat when Muthana was born, which her lawyers have argued against. In 2019, a federal judge <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/779788549/judge-rules-that-u-s-born-woman-who-joined-isis-is-not-a-u-s-citizen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> that she is not a citizen of the United States, and the Supreme Court did <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59974939" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not</a> <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-01-09/alabama-woman-joined-islamic-state-hopes-return-from-syria" target="_blank" rel="noopener">take</a> up her appeal last January.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Attorney General Merrick Garland</a> is bucking President Joe Biden by seeking the death penalty for an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/radical-islamic-terror" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alleged Islamist terrorist</a> accused of killing eight and injuring more than a dozen in a 2017 New York City truck attack.
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Biden vowed to end federal executions, but his top lawman is pursuing the ultimate penalty in the case of a Uzbekistan national who allegedly ran over cyclists and pedestrians on a bike path near Manhattan’s West Side Highway on Halloween five years ago. The federal trial begins Monday.
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“Clearly, he is following laws Congress passed by recognizing at least that the death penalty should be sought in some cases, regardless of President Biden&#8217;s contrary views,” Michael Mukasey, who served as attorney general under President George W. Bush, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/nyregion/garland-biden-saipov-death-penalty.html?auth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The New York Times</a>. “I think this is a principled decision and very much the right thing to do.”
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Federal prosecutors say the defendant, who allegedly steered a rented truck onto the crowded bike path before crashing into a school bus, all while yelling &#8220;Allahu Akbar,&#8221; planned the attack and has shown no remorse since being arrested. They claim he was radicalized by watching ISIS videos.
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The dead included six tourists, a computer scientist from New York, and a Wall Street worker from New Jersey.
The Daily Wire is not naming the suspect, in keeping with a policy aimed at depriving mass killers of the notoriety they crave.
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The alleged killer will be the first federal defendant to face the death penalty under the Biden administration. If he is convicted, it will be up to the jury to decide whether to give him life in prison or execution. The jury must be unanimous in order for the death penalty to be imposed.
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Months after the attack, the suspect’s lawyers offered his guilty plea in exchange for life in prison, but the Trump administration refused. Under Trump, the Justice Department reinstituted the death penalty in 2019, 16 years after the last federal convict had been executed. The penalty was still on the books but had not been used due to litigation over drugs used for lethal injections. Then-Attorney General William Barr ordered the Bureau of Prisons to begin using pentobarbital, and 13 federal convicts were executed before Trump left office.
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Garland has not sought the death penalty in any new cases, declared a moratorium on federal executions, and withdrew plans by prior administrations to seek the death penalty in 25 cases. The Garland Justice Department has defended against appeals of death sentences imposed under the Obama administration against the Boston Marathon bomber and the white supremacist convicted of killing nine in a Charleston, S.C., church in 2015.
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“It&#8217;s very hard to make sense of the way the Biden administration is thinking about and proceeding with the federal death penalty,” Austin Sarat, a professor of law and political science at Amherst College, told The New York Times.
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Garland, then a DOJ prosecutor, sought the death penalty for the terrorist behind the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168. He said in 2021 that he stood by the decision in the case of that terrorist, who was executed in 2001, but subsequently developed concerns about the death penalty based on racial aspects and cases in which DNA has exonerated convicts.
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Garland imposed a moratorium on federal executions in July 2021, citing his own concerns about Biden’s authority to halt them.
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The teenager accused of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspect-in-nypd-machete-attack-charged-with-attempted-murder-officials-reveal-more-on-alleged-radical-islamic-views" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacking</a> three New York police officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve wanted to murder government officials and shouted “Allahu akbar” during the incident, authorities <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/da-times-square-machete-suspect-wanted-jihad-on-police/2023/01/04/d78067fa-8c60-11ed-b86a-2e3a77336b8e_story.html">said</a> Wednesday. 
Prosecutors alleged that the suspect traveled to New York City from Maine last week “to kill people and carry out jihad,” CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/04/us/times-square-machete-attack-suspect-trevor-bickford/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. According to authorities, the 19-year-old male from Wells, Maine, attacked three NYPD officers near Times Square on Saturday at roughly 10:11 p.m., attempting to strike one before hitting two other officers in the head with a machete. The suspect also allegedly tried to grab an officer’s gun but couldn&#8217;t get it out of the holster. 
The suspect faces a mandatory life sentence after he was charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of attempted assault. He was arraigned by video from a Manhattan hospital and is being held without bail. The alleged attacker did not enter a plea deal, and he is scheduled for another court appearance on Friday, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/da-times-square-machete-suspect-wanted-jihad-on-police/2023/01/04/d78067fa-8c60-11ed-b86a-2e3a77336b8e_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press. 
He was reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nypd-machete-attack-suspect-was-reportedly-placed-on-fbi-terror-watchlist-family-member-said-he-was-radicalized-by-islamic-extremism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">placed on an FBI terror watchlist</a> recently after his aunt claimed he had been radicalized online and expressed a desire to fight overseas for Islamic extremists. He allegedly made pro-jihadi statements from his hospital bed and had writings in his backpack that contained Islamic extremist propaganda. Law enforcement sources <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/teen-suspect-in-times-square-machete-attack-on-nypd-cop-charged-with-attempted-murder/4024250/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NBC that federal investigators had interviewed the suspect before the machete attack. 
Officials claim the teenager had written instructions in a diary about where he wanted to be buried and who should get his belongings. The suspect also allegedly wrote that he was sorry for disappointing his mom and wanted his brother to join him in his radical Islamic beliefs.
The teenager was shot in the shoulder by one of the officers he had attacked and is expected to survive his injuries. 
All three NYPD officers were taken to a hospital and have since been released. One officer, identified as an eight-year veteran, sustained a laceration to the head. Another, who graduated from the police academy on Friday, suffered a skull fracture and large laceration, NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said.

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NYPD Machete Attack Suspect Shouted ‘Allahu Akbar,’ Wanted ‘To Kill People And Carry Out Jihad,’ Prosecutors Say

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The teenager suspected of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nypd-machete-attack-suspect-was-reportedly-placed-on-fbi-terror-watchlist-family-member-said-he-was-radicalized-by-islamic-extremism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacking</a> three New York City police officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve has been charged with attempted murder, police said Monday. 
According to authorities, the 19-year-old from Wells, Maine, attacked three NYPD officers near Times Square on Saturday at roughly 10:11 p.m., attempting to strike one before hitting two other officers in the head with the weapon. The suspect has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of attempted assault, NBC New York <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/teen-suspect-in-times-square-machete-attack-on-nypd-cop-charged-with-attempted-murder/4024250/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
The suspect was reportedly placed on an FBI terror watchlist recently after his aunt claimed he had been radicalized online and expressed a desire to fight overseas for Islamic extremists. He allegedly made pro-jihadi statements from his hospital bed and had writings in his backpack that contained Islamic extremist propaganda. Law enforcement sources told NBC that the suspect had been interviewed by federal investigators before the machete attack. 
Officials also said the teenager had written instructions in a diary about where he wanted to be buried and who should get his belongings. The suspect also allegedly wrote that he was sorry for disappointing his mom and wants his brother to join him in his radical Islamic beliefs. 
Authorities are investigating whether the attack was inspired by radical Islamic extremism, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nypd-officers-attacked-machete-times-square-new-years-eve/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Police believe the teenage suspect traveled via Amtrak from Maine to New York earlier last week, and sources told CBS that the NYPD was not aware the suspect was placed on an FBI terror watchlist.
The suspect was subdued after he was shot in the shoulder by one of the officers he had attacked. All three NYPD officers were taken to a hospital and have since been released. The suspect was also taken to a hospital for treatment and is expected to survive his injuries.
One officer, identified as an eight-year veteran, sustained a laceration to the head. Another, who graduated from the police academy on Friday, suffered a skull fracture and large laceration, NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said.

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A gay <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-shows-4-gaza-children-killed-by-palestinian-rocket-misfire-not-israeli-airstrike/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestinian</a> was kidnapped and beheaded this week and his body paraded through a Palestinian neighborhood in a sickening video that underscores the danger <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yeshiva-university-suspends-all-student-club-activities-after-scotus-sides-with-lgbtq-club/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQ</a> people face at the hands of Islamic extremists.
Gruesome footage of Ahmad Hacham Hamdi Abu Marakhia’s body being carried through the West Bank city of Hebron and then left dismembered on a roadside went viral on social media after his death Wednesday. Palestinian Authority police have opened an investigation, <a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-719063" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Jerusalem Post</a>.
&#8220;We are shocked,&#8221; Rita Petrenko, CEO of The Different House, which provides a haven near Tel Aviv for LGBTQ Muslims and Arabs who face persecution from Palestinian extremists, told the <a href="https://worldisraelnews.com/gay-palestinian-kidnapped-beheaded-tried-fleeing-to-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news site N12</a>. &#8220;He was part of an LGBT pride group we started in the South. Many people knew of him.&#8221;
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The international press has been slow to pick up the story, and the wider one of the persecution LGBTQ people face in Palestinian areas as well as Iraq, <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1596056/horrifying-moment-isis-killers-push-gay-man-off-a-roof-in-iraq-as-punishment-for-his-sexuality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">where gays have been thrown from buildings</a>, and Iran, where they are <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9557897/iran-executions-cia-spies-death/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hanged from cranes</a>.
“[Such stories are] dramatically undercovered by the international media because they cut against the narrative that Israel is the problem,” The Daily Wire’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> observed in a tweet of the Jerusalem Post story.
Marakhia had fled the West Bank two years ago after being outed as gay, according to friends. He had to get a permit from the Israeli Civil Administration in order to leave the Palestinian area. But even in Israel, LGBTQ Palestinians are not safe from Islamic extremists, and they often seek asylum in other countries.
&#8220;Israel is not a safe place for them, even without taking socio-economic factors into account. Sadly, the relocation process is now longer than it used to be,&#8221; Petrenko said.
N12 reported that Marakhia was last seen leaving the home in Tel Aviv for work before he turned up dead in the video in Hebron, 40 miles south.
Marakhia’s family believes another family in Hebron, a hotbed of Palestinian terror activity, is responsible for the murder, the outlet reported.
Labor Member of Knesset Ibtisam Mara&#8217;ana, who has supported shelters for Arab and Muslim LGBTQ youth, tweeted about the killing.
&#8220;Ahmad, who stayed in an Israeli shelter due to his sexuality, was murdered by a vicious and twisted killer,&#8221; she wrote.

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Actor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/of-course-youre-scared-james-woods-mocks-new-york-times-for-calling-new-gop-rep-flores-far-right-latina/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Woods</a> took to Twitter on Sunday to air his grievances about a report that 9/11 planner <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/him-too-911-mastermind-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-says-emily-zanotti/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Khalid Sheikh Mohammed</a> — along with four of his co-conspirators — could be on the verge of a plea deal with U.S. military prosecutors.
Woods took issue with the idea that the terrorists behind such devastating homeland attacks could possibly work out any deals at all — but he also noted the added insult of the information being reported on the twenty-first anniversary of the attacks.
&#8220;To see this headline on September 11 is appalling,&#8221; Woods said in a tweet that has since been deleted. &#8220;Why is justice such an elusive concept in America today? Will the heinous among us never be held accountable? This is an outrage, and to read about it on this sacred day is an insult to the fallen.&#8221;
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According to the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-prosecutors-may-negotiate-plea-deal-architect-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-conspirators-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>, the five defendants — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, Walid bin Attash, and Ammar al-Baluchi — have been negotiating a deal to get the death penalty off the table. They have reportedly agreed to enter guilty pleas in exchange for that concession as well as for treatment for the abuse they claim to have endured at the hands of American CIA officers.
All five of the defendants in question were held and interrogated by the CIA prior to their arrival at the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — and critics, as well as the defendants and their attorneys, have asserted that their treatment at the hands of the CIA amounted to &#8220;illegal torture.&#8221;
In conjunction with their alleged efforts to plan and coordinate the devastating attacks that were executed on September 11, 2001, the five men were charged with crimes including terrorism, hijacking and 2,976 counts of murder.
Woods was hardly the only person to take issue with the report and its timing.
&#8220;This had better be an erroneous report. The only deal these scum* should get is a promise of a quick death, instead of slow and painful,&#8221; @irishspy <a href="https://twitter.com/irishspy/status/1569088361360674816" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>. &#8220;*(And I apologize to scum everywhere for the comparison.)&#8221;
&#8220;The Biden Admin doesn’t always negotiate with terrorists who murdered thousands of innocents, but when they do — they do it on the Anniversary of #September11,&#8221; A.C. Spollen <a href="https://twitter.com/ACSpollen/status/1569060806662168576" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
&#8220;This had better be &#8216;we’ll give you lethal injection instead of dropping a building on you,'&#8221; Mark Passwaters <a href="https://twitter.com/mbpRivals/status/1569021954195087365" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a>.

U.S. Officials Believe Mohammed

‘Appalling’: James Woods Unloads Over Report That Prosecutors Could Let 9/11 Planner Cop A Plea

James Woods Unloads Over Report That Prosecutors Could Let 9/11 Planner Cop A Plea

Guantanamo Bay

James Woods

A Canadian citizen born in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/saudi-arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his violent role working for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/isis">ISIS</a>, a role he used to personally execute two captured Syrian soldiers.
Mohammed Khalifa, 39, who was also known as Abu Ridwan Al-Kanadi and Abu Muthanna Al-Muhajir, joined the Islamic terrorist group in 2013 and was quickly given a prominent role in the Islamic State’s media arm due to his fluency in English. For his job, Khalifa translated and narrated ISIS propaganda videos that would be distributed to the English-speaking world to help radicalize and recruit fighters, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leading-isis-media-figure-and-foreign-fighter-sentenced-life-imprisonment">according</a> to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III called Khalifa “the Pied Piper who played the tune” that allowed ISIS to reach English speakers across the globe with its obscene propaganda, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/07/29/khalifa-life-sentence-isis-propaganda/">reported</a>.
Khalifa narrated and translated around 15 videos for ISIS that were distributed. Two of the videos were especially graphic, showing ISIS fighters killing unarmed prisoners and terrorists carrying out attacks against the U.S. In one video, Khalifa and other masked terrorists kneel on prisoners who are on the ground in front of them and then execute them.
According to prosecutors, the Saudi-born terrorist was “instrumental” during Islamic State’s war in Syria, helping ISIS recruit up to 60,000 fighters for the terrorist organization as it fought to take control of the country.
During Khalifa’s time with ISIS, the terrorists killed eight American, British, and Japanese hostages in Syria between August 2014 and February 2015, the DOJ said. Their deaths were part of a brutal ISIS hostage-taking campaign that targeted foreign journalists and humanitarian workers. Khalifa said during one broadcast that the shooter who killed 49 people at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in 2016 was a “brother” who took out “filthy crusaders” and “sodomites,” according to prosecutors.
Khalifa was captured by Syrian Democratic Forces in 2019 after getting into a firefight, and according to prosecutors, he did not give up without trying to kill more Syrian soldiers. “When he had the opportunity to surrender to the Syrian Democratic Forces in Syria in 2019, the defendant threw multiple grenades and fired his AK-47 at Syrian soldiers to continue his murderous campaign on behalf of ISIS,” the prosecution said.
Khalifa was quickly turned over to U.S. custody upon his capture. He pleaded guilty in December of supporting terrorism that led to death, and he will now live the rest of his life behind bars.

ISIS Executioner Who Narrated Violent Propaganda Videos Sentenced To Life In Prison

Mohammed Khalifa, ISIS Propagandist, Sentenced To Life In Prison

Saudi Arabia

Syria

The Islamic extremist group <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=al+qaudea+dialy+wire&amp;rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS998US998&amp;oq=al+qaudea+dialy+wire&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l4.2367j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8">al-Qaeda</a> is surging again, thanks in part to the Taliban&#8217;s takeover of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>.
On Tuesday, Voice of America <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/al-qaida-positioned-to-surpass-islamic-state-among-jihadis-/6665672.html">reported</a> that al-Qaeda is now better positioned than the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/radical-islamic-terror">Islamic State</a> to spread propaganda and recruit members since President Joe Biden withdrew American troops from the country in 2021, according to a United Nations report. The report, released on July 15, claims that high-ranking Al-Qaeda officials are bolstered by the Taliban&#8217;s dominance in the Middle Eastern nation.
&#8220;Al-Qaida senior leadership enjoyed a more settled period in early 2022,&#8221; the U.N. <a href="https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N22/394/29/PDF/N2239429.pdf">said</a> in the report. &#8220;Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri issued regular video messages that provided almost current proof of life. Member States note that al-Zawahiri’s apparent increased comfort and ability to communicate has coincided with the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and the consolidation of power of key Al-Qaida allies within their de facto administration.&#8221;
However, the U.N. also speculates that — for now — al-Qaeda does not present a global threat.
&#8220;Al-Qaida is not viewed as posing an immediate international threat from its safe haven in Afghanistan because it lacks an external operational capability and does not currently wish to cause the Taliban international difficulty or embarrassment,&#8221; the report added.
Still, though, the group is able to expand its recruiting and communications capability.
&#8220;The international context is favorable to al-Qaida, which intends to be recognized again as the leader of global jihad,&#8221; the U.N. <a href="https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N22/394/29/PDF/N2239429.pdf">added</a>.
&#8220;Al-Qaida propaganda is now better developed to compete with ISIL as the key actor in inspiring the international threat environment, and it may ultimately become a greater source of directed threat,&#8221; the report added.
It also noted that the Islamic State &#8220;has suffered a rapid succession of leadership losses since October 2019, with an as yet unknown impact on its operational health.&#8221;
In August 2021, President Biden withdrew U.S. troops from Afghanistan after more than 20 years of fighting. Within three days, the Taliban took over the nation after the Afghan government fell. Biden claimed that intelligence officials did not know that the Taliban would take over as quickly as it did.
One expert at the American Enterprise Insitute (AEI) told VOA News that al-Qaeda&#8217;s leadership is just as experienced as Osama bin Laden and previous terrorists who directed the 9/11 attacks.
&#8220;Even after 20 years, some of al-Qaida&#8217;s most senior operatives remain at large and are ready to carry on the mantle of jihad,&#8221; AEI&#8217;s Katherine Zimmerman told the media outlet.
&#8220;Al-Qaida&#8217;s bench remains deep even after serious attrition,&#8221; she added. &#8220;The next generation has now been fighting for 20 years … they are just as experienced (and perhaps with lessons-learned) as OBL [Osama bin Laden], Zawahiri, and Saif al Adel were on 9/11.&#8221;
Now, sources from the National Security Council (NSC)<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-working-hard-to-not-do-anything-stupid-during-afghanistan-withdrawal-anniversary-report"> recently told</a> NBC News that the Biden administration’s goal is to avoid doing anything “stupid” before, during, and after the August anniversary.
As the one-year mark approaches, officials across the administration have searched and filtered through calendars of all top officials to weed out any events or engagements that could be misconstrued as “tone deaf” about the botched foreign policy strategy, according to NBC News.

President Joe Biden

Al-Qaeda Surging Again Nearly A Year After Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal

A United Nations Report Claims Al-Qaeda Surging Again Nearly A Year After Biden's Afghanistan Withdrawal

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Al Qaeda

Islam

Joe Biden

Nearly two dozen people were shot at a gay bar in Oslo, Norway, early Saturday, leading officials to cancel the city&#8217;s annual Pride parade this weekend.
Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/two-dead-several-wounded-norway-nightclub-shooting-police-say-2022-06-25/">reported</a> that the terrorist who allegedly committed the atrocity, which killed at least two people, was a &#8220;a 42-year-old Norwegian citizen of Iranian origin, was believed to be a radicalized Islamist.&#8221;
The victims who were shot were &#8220;inside and outside the London Pub, a longstanding hub of Oslo&#8217;s LGBTQ scene, as well as in the surrounding streets and at one other bar in the center of the Norwegian capital,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;The deceased were two men in their 50s and 60s.&#8221;
Prosecutor Christian Hatlo told reporters that the suspect was &#8220;known to the police&#8221; and had in the past been convicted of crimes. The Norwegian Police Security Service <a href="https://www.pst.no/alle-artikler/pressemeldinger/pst-raises-terror-threat-level-following-shooting-incident-in-oslo-25-june/">said</a> that the suspect was on law enforcement&#8217;s radar due to concerns that he was part of an Islamic extremist network and that they had talked to him as recently as last month.
The Norwegian Police Security Service raised the terror alert level from a moderate terrorist threat to extraordinary threat situation following the shooting.
The Norwegian Police Security Service added in a statement:
<blockquote>Our assessment is that this was an attack motivated by extreme Islamism. We are actively working to clarify the scope of the perpetrator’s ideological beliefs, and potential links to other Islamic extremists or extreme networks.
Experience has shown that completed terrorist attacks might inspire others to plan and commit further terrorist attacks. Our focus now is to prevent potential follow-up attacks. To clarify, we hold no information of that as of now.</blockquote>
John Kirby, the NSC coordinator for strategic communications, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/europe/norway-oslo-gay-bar-shooting-intl-hnk/index.html">told</a> reporters on Air Force One: &#8220;We&#8217;re all horrified by the mass shooting in Oslo today, targeting the LGBTQI+ community there. And our house our hearts obviously go out to all the families of the victims, the people of Norway, which is a tremendous ally.&#8221;
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said in-part: &#8220;Let there be no doubt. We are a community, we are a diverse and strong community, and we will never be threatened or give up our values.&#8221;

NORWAY-CRIME-SHOOTING-HOMICIDE-POLICE-INVESTIGATION

Suspected Islamic Terrorist From Iran Shoots Nearly Two Dozen People At Gay Bar In Norway

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Norway

Shooting

Authorities reported that gunmen killed at least 55 people in northern Burkino Faso over the weekend, although other sources say that the death count could be much higher.
No organization has claimed responsibility for the attack, but many observers suspect that it was carried out by a regional branch of the Islamic State.
“In recent weeks, the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara have been the most aggressive group, notably in Seno and Oudalan provinces. In addition to attacks against security forces, civilians have also been targeted,” according to <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/55-people-killed-in-latest-attack-in-northern-burkina-faso/">Rida Lyammouri</a>, senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, a Moroccan-based organization focused on economics and policy. “This is a major blow to security forces and puts them on the back foot again, indicating they are far from being able to secure the area and protect civilians.”
Attacks by the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, and other Islamist militant groups have killed <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/55-people-killed-in-latest-attack-in-northern-burkina-faso/2022/06/13/84e09044-eb41-11ec-9f90-79df1fb28296_story.html">nearly 5,000</a> people in Burkino Faso in the last two years, with a particularly notable attack in June of last year claiming the lives of at least 160 people in the town of Solhan. These <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deadly-assault-gunmen-murder-fourteen-christians-including-children-in-burkina-faso">violent attacks</a> have led roughly two million people to flee their homes in the impoverished West African nation.
The country sits on a cultural fault line; Islamic and Christian Africa intersect near the southern edge of the Sahara, and religious conflicts in the region have been notoriously violent, notably in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terrorists-massacre-50-christians-in-vile-and-satanic-attack-on-nigerian-church">Nigeria</a> and <a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/2012/05/16/sudan-from-conflict-to-conflict-pub-48140">South Sudan</a>.
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Anonymous sources on the ground told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/least-100-killed-burkina-faso-attack-over-weekend-sources-2022-06-13/">Reuters</a> that the true death toll may be closer to 100, with one local source giving a provisional estimate of 165. The attackers reportedly targeted men in the department of Seytenga, but appeared to spare women and children. 3,000 people have fled to the regional capital of Dori, where aid agencies are on the ground providing support, according to a local official who asked to remain anonymous.

NIGER-UNREST-ATTACK

55+ Killed In Burkino Faso In Suspected Islamic Extremist Terror Attack

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