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Obama to leave U.S. vulnerable to EMP attack
By F. Michael Maloof WASHINGTON – The Obama administration, on the eve of its transfer of power, is about to impose new standards to protect the nation’s life-sustaining electric grid from solar storms. However, the new standards by a Democrat-dominated regulatory board, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, will address only solar activities. Pointedly, it will not […] → Read More
America’s allies keep IDs of terrorists secret
WASHINGTON – As Europe is being flooded with hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees and Turkey is issuing new demands for visa-free travel for its citizens, under the threat of pushing more refugees onto the continent, there’s concern that many countries who agreed to the U.S. Visa Waiver Program are simply not providing required information […] → Read More
EU held hostage with migrant threat
WASHINGTON – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s continued pressure on the European Union to allow Turkish citizens to enter Europe visa-free and his demand for more than $3 billion to hold back a further flood of Syrian refugees may have an ulterior motive, regional experts tell Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. Erdogan appears to be holding Europe […] → Read More
EMP hit to U.S. reactors could cause ‘100 Fukushimas’
WASHINGTON – What would be the impact of either a natural or man-made electromagnetic pulse event in the United States on the nation’s 100 nuclear reactors? Is there a way to prevent the escape of radiation that would be generated by the meltdown of each reactor’s nuclear core should its backup generators, which hold at […] → Read More
Syrian Kurds plead with U.S. for more help to defeat ISIS
WASHINGTON – Syrian Kurds have urgently appealed to Washington for more direct U.S. military assistance to battle ISIS in northern Syria, but the U.S. State Department has not approved the request, according to a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. In addition, the State Department has not committed to allowing the Kurds to be […] → Read More
Turkish deal with EU opens door for ISIS to U.S.
WASHINGTON – A deal Turkey has made with the European Union for visa-free travel offers an avenue for ISIS fighters to travel to countries in Europe that have visa-waiver programs to enter the United States, regional sources tell Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. In this way, fighters could come from Syria into Turkey, which has been […] → Read More
Syrian migrants tax West’s mental-health resources
WASHINGTON – The massive influx of Syrian migrants to the West presents many challenges, but little has been said about the impact on already stretched public mental-health resources, according to a report Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. For the U.S., the migrants, especially the children, will bring with them the psychological scars of almost six years […] → Read More
U.S.-trained Afghans unable to stop Islamic takeover
WASHINGTON – The almost-forgotten U.S. war in Afghanistan is further hindered by a lack of intelligence gathering on the increasing number of Afghan Taliban fighters joining ISIS, whose influence in the country is spreading, even to the point of alarming the Russians, a U.S. intelligence official in the country told Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. Consequently, […] → Read More
U.S.-Russia joining forces to liberate ISIS capital?
WASHINGTON – If the Russian and American militaries were to coordinate efforts to liberate the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria, it indeed would be big news, according to a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. However, a recent report by the Russian state-operated Interfax news agency and a London Guardian story citing Russian […] → Read More
Real-life ‘Star Wars’: Experts eye U.S. space-based defense
WASHINGTON, D.C. â In just the past few weeks North Korea, on the heels of what it claimed was the test of a hydrogen bomb, has boasted of miniaturizing nuclear warheads to fit on ballistic missiles. And Iran has reported test-firing two ballistic missiles, apparently to demonstrate it will push forward with its threat program […] → Read More
Generals turn out ‘counterjihad’ blueprint for America
WASHINGTON – A plan to defeat the “global jihad movement” has been released by a team of national security experts who say it offers a blueprint for a “counterjihad security architecture for America” to confront what they call the “existential struggle of our time,” according to a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. The […] → Read More
Hezbollah changing tune on Israel’s existence?
WASHINGTON – Despite repeated Western worries Hezbollah, along with its sponsor, Iran, seeks Israel’s destruction, a little-noticed recent comment by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah suggests otherwise, according to a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. “If there is now a consensus in Israel on this characterization of the resistance in Lebanon, does […] → Read More
U.S. tension with Turkey escalates over aid
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is declining demands from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to stop helping the Syrian Kurds, who are fighting the Islamic State, because he views them as terrorists, according to a new report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. And that has created a further wedge between the U.S. and Turkey, an ally […] → Read More
Russia warns Turks: We might bomb your troops
WASHINGTON – Turkey’s bombardment of a Syrian airbase recently recaptured by the Syrian Kurds from Islamic jihadists could lead to a direct confrontation with Russia if Ankara decides to send in troops, according to a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. The Turkish military has been lobbing artillery fire at Menagh Air Base, a […] → Read More
Expert: North Korea prepping EMP attack on U.S.
WASHINGTON – North Korea is preparing to launch a satellite capable of detonating a nuclear weapon more than 100 miles over the United States, creating an electromagnetic pulse that could destroy America’s electrical grid system, a former director of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative said in a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. Former […] → Read More
Still a mystery: How sailors ended up in Iranian custody
var icx_publication_id = 16633; var icx_content_id = 2847294; .icx-toolbar{padding: 0 0 5px 0;} WASHINGTON – A week after Iran detained 10 U.S. sailors, the U.S. Navy is still investigating why the two crews entered Iranian territorial waters, according to a U.S. Naval Central Command statement to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. The Riverine Command Boat crews were relocating their vessels [...] → Read More
Saudi ‘frenzy of rage’ feared as trigger for ‘full-scale’ war
var icx_publication_id = 16633; var icx_content_id = 2830765; .icx-toolbar{padding: 0 0 5px 0;} WASHINGTON – Sunni Saudi Arabia appears hell-bent on a “full-scale sectarian Sunni-Shia war” with Iran following the kingdom’s recent execution of a prominent Saudi Shia cleric, and there is little that outside powers such as the United States or Russia can do about it, according [...] → Read More
Expert: North Korea H-bomb is ‘super-EMP weapon’
var icx_publication_id = 16633; var icx_content_id = 2808965; .icx-toolbar{padding: 0 0 5px 0;} WASHINGTON â While North Korea on Wednesday was hyperbolically bragging about having exploded a test hydrogen bomb, some nuclear weapons experts were downplaying the event because of its low-kiloton yield and relatively small seismic wave. In fact, the White House said the results from various… → Read More
Sources confirm Turkey’s slave trade
var icx_publication_id = 16633; var icx_content_id = 2781235; .icx-toolbar{padding: 0 0 5px 0;}WASHINGTON – Kurdish sources have confirmed that Turkey is condoning the Islamic State’s slave-trade sale of Yazidi children and young women inside its borders, according to a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. The Kurdish source, who requested anonymity to be able to speak openly, [...] → Read More
World War 3 fears as Russia frets over ISIS
var icx_publication_id = 16633; var icx_content_id = 2761565; .icx-toolbar{padding: 0 0 5px 0;} WASHINGTON – Fearful that Islamic State fighters – many from the North Caucasus – will return to their homeland and wage jihad in the Russian Federation, Moscow now is focusing its military action in Syria on killing those potential sources of bombings, shootings and massacres, [...] → Read More