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Anti-terrorism forces arrested four people in southern France, including a 16-year-old girl, and uncovered a makeshift laboratory with the explosive TATP and other ingredients for fabricating a bomb. France's top security official said the raid thwarted an "imminent attack."

The prosecutor's office said around 70 grams (2.5 ounces) of TATP were seized in the Montpellier-area home, along with a liter each of acetone, oxygenated water and sulfuric acid. TATP, which can be made from readily available materials, was used in the deadly November 2015 attacks in Paris and the March 2016 attack in Brussels carried out by Islamic State extremists.

Person in the group had tried to reach Syria in 2015 and was known to intelligence services. The group notably the girl attracted new attention with their social media postings.

The country's prime minister praised the work of anti-terror investigators.

France is still under a state of emergency after several deadly attacks in 2015 and 2016.

With all these attempts, what is the outcome of it?    Terrorists didn't help themselves nor their own.

Fair...?

Must be...

Free speech is one of the most settled principles of law and public policy, or so you might think. We recoil at censorships of the past. We acknowledge the freedom to speak as an essential human right. We are taught the legend and lore of the struggle for it in all our years in school.
And all of this is fine… until it is actually exercised.

BadAss...*

Horner [15 years old] is the first person in history to be charged with  ‘swatting‘, a trend in which a person anonymously files a false police report, such as a murder or bomb threat, in hopes of provoking the police to raid an individual’s home or business. Prosecutors in the case proved that Horner called in multiple false threats against rival online gamers.
 
Defense lawyers told the courtroom that Horner, who goes by the gamertag BadAssDwg69, was upset after being repeatedly beaten by a fellow gamer at Battlefield 4. After obtaining the rival gamers information, prosecutors say Horner called police and reported a murder/hostage situation at the home. SWAT team then raided the house, shooting and critically injuring the “Livestreamer’s” father in the process.

He was charged as an adult. Horner’s guilty charge stems from two counts of domestic terrorism, related to his manipulation of an enforcement response, and injuries to innocents resulting from those actions.  He was sentenced to 25 years to life in federal prison.

Exactly...

Turkish police detained four suspects who were allegedly planning to carry out a "sensational" attack in Turkey and seized 24 suicide attack belts, officials said.

Police found the suicide belts made with 150 kilograms (330 pounds) of explosives and fortified with metal pieces  as well as two automatic rifles, 14 kilograms (31 pounds) of TNT, cellphones that could be used as detonators and other materials during an anti-terror operation in Gaziantep, near the border with Syria.  There were no details on the nationalities of the suspects.

The four led police investigators to locations where the explosives and other material were hidden.

Last year, Turkey suffered a series of deadly attacks carried out by militants and has stepped up anti-terrorism operations across the country. Some 750 people with alleged IS links were detained in a major police sweep in 29 Turkish provinces last week.

Glock...*

For more than 20 years Reverend Robert Schenck has been a leading opponent of abortion, a fighter on the frontlines of the culture wars.

"How can evangelicals be pro-life AND pro-gun? Who will ultimately save us? Christ or a Glock?"
"A man or a woman who wants to defend his or her family legally owns a firearm in case someone comes into their home. How is that un-Christian?"

"Well, first of all you're making an immediate decision that if someone invades your home, they are going to die," Rev. Schenck replied. "So you are ready to kill another human being in your home.
What about "love your enemies."

"Even a potential intruder? Someone who's been coming into your home to hurt you?"
"Absolutely. Is it always God's will that I survive a violent confrontation with another human being? 

Rev. Schenck can be full of surprises. He was raised Jewish, which is why he says he's pro-life.
At 17 he converted to Christianity, and by the early nineties was a conservative evangelical minister.

"I'm haunted, not just by the murder of Dr. Slepian [Abortion doctor], but by the other murders committed in the name of the pro-life cause,"  Rev. Schenck. "

In 2013 a gunman killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard right in Schenck's neighborhood.
"For me, the most powerful part of it is the conscience. And that's the heart, and that's the mind. And that's where I'm going right now."                       Just a thought.

Jack-Ass...*

Trump questioned the "war hero" status of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a friend of Graham's.     Earlier on CBS’s “This Morning,” Sen. Graham, saying Trump is  “slandering everybody and anybody to stay in the news. You know, run for president, but don't be the world's biggest jackass.”

Trump accused Mexico of sending rapists and other criminals to live in the United States. Those people are “bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people.”

Trump is absolutely certain that he can build an impenetrable wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, in the face of skepticism from experts and federal officials. As proof, the developer cites what he’s doing for the federal government itself.

Hey, I’m not saying they’re stupid. I like China. I just sold an apartment for $15 million to somebody from China,” . “No, I love them, but their leaders are much smarter than our leaders,”  They are ripping us.”

He urged Saudi Arabia to be more appreciative of the military and diplomatic support it has received from the United States for decades. “Saudi Arabia without us is gone,” he warned. I made so much money selling toys to Saudi.

Well, we haven't got the end of it yet. But it is getting interesting. He insulted some but still more to come. That may end his campaign as planned.                                       [Posted 7/22/2015]
Just a thought.

Cry...*

Sir Tim Hunt: Awarded the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 2001, the biochemist was knighted in 2006 and held the role of honorary professor at UCL’s Faculty of Life Sciences.

He had reportedly said: “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab: you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them they cry.”

He told the BBC: “I did mean the part about having trouble with girls. "I have fallen in love with people in the lab and people in the lab have fallen in love with me and it's very disruptive to the science because it's terribly important that in a lab people are on a level playing field".

The comments were made during the World Conference of Science Journalists in South Korea, and the scientist told the BBC it was “a very stupid thing to do in the presence of all those journalists”.

The Royal Society, of which Sir Tim has been a fellow since 1991, has already distanced itself from the comments, which sparked a backlash online.

I also object......      Just a thought.

Nonexistent...

The Bowling Green massacre is a nonexistent incident.  Conway cited the "massacre" as justification for a travel and immigration ban.

 Conway later said she meant to refer to the 2011 arrest of two Iraqi refugees in Bowling Green on various charges including "attempting to provide material support to terrorists and to al Qaeda in Iraq."

She stated that she had mentioned the incident because it led then-President Barack Obama to tighten the immigration procedures for Iraqi citizens.

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