History for December 4

History for December 4 - On-This-Day.com:
Francisco Franco 1892, Max Baer Jr. 1937, Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon 1940


Dennis Wilson (Beach Boys) 1944, Jeff Bridges 1949, Marisa Tomei 1964 - Actress


1783 - Gen. George Washington said farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York.


1812 - Peter Gaillard patented the power mower.


1875 - William Marcy Tweed, the "Boss" of New York City's Tammany Hall political organization, escaped from jail and fled from the U.S.


1965 - The U.S. launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Comdr. James A. Lovell on board.


1973 - Pioneer 10 reached Jupiter.


1977 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Empire, crowned himself emperor in a ceremony believed to have cost more than $100 million. He was deposed 2 years later.


1979 - For the second time, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to urge Iran to free American hostages that had been taken on November 4.






1991 - Pan American World Airways ceased operations.

Climate Change: The Hoax That Costs Us $4 Billion a Day

Climate Change: The Hoax That Costs Us $4 Billion a Day:

"In the headline I call the climate change industry a hoax. That’s because, on any objective level it is. I don’t mean that all the scientists and businesses and politicians promoting it are abject  liars — just most of them, even if it means that in order to keep earning their living they have to be dishonest with themselves about something they know in their hearts not to be true.

Alex Epstein, author of the Moral Case For Fossil Fuels, sets out the fundamental problem with the climate change industry here:

..Increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from 0.03 per cent to 0.04 per cent has not caused and is not causing catastrophic runaway global warming. Dishonest references to “97 per cent of scientists” equate a mild warming influence, which most scientists agree with and more importantly can demonstrate, with a catastrophic warming influence – which most don’t agree with and none can demonstrate."

Obama In Paris: Mass Shootings Don’t Happen In Other Countries - Breitbart

Obama In Paris: Mass Shootings Don’t Happen In Other Countries - Breitbart:

 "He urged Congress and State and local governments to make changes on gun laws to prevent people who were “deranged” or had “violent tendencies” from killing in the United States."


How about Congress and local governments do their job and stop the runaway executive from importing our enemies who have "deranged" or "violent tendencies" against America.

Police chief says armed Detroit would cut terror risk

Police chief says armed Detroit would cut terror risk:
"The city’s police chief said he believes violent extremists would be reluctant to target Detroit, as they had Paris last month, for fear armed citizens would shoot back.
“A lot of Detroiters have CPLs (concealed pistol licenses), and the same rules apply to terrorists as they do to some gun-toting thug,”
Chief James Craig said. “If you’re a terrorist, or a carjacker, you want unarmed citizens.”
Oakland University criminal justice professor Daniel Kennedy agreed that terrorists would be reluctant to attack armed citizens.
“We don’t have laboratories where we can test these theories, but there is something to the argument that terrorists want a high body count — and if they can only shoot a few people before they’re taken out themselves, it wouldn’t have the kind of impact they want.
“An armed citizen won’t give them a high body count.
Look at the theater in Paris,” the Bataclan Café, where four men with AK-47 assault rifles killed 89 people during a rock concert. “
If some of those people had been armed, it would’ve been a much different story...”

Syrian Refugees Have Been Resettled In 36 States, Most In CA,TX, MI - Breitbart

Syrian Refugees Have Been Resettled In 36 States, Most In CA,TX, MI - Breitbart:

"Since the start of the Syria’s civil war in the spring of 2011, the U.S. has admitted 2,311 Syrian refugees and resettled them in 36 different states.

According to data from the State Department’s Refugee Processing Center the top three destinations for Syrian refugees since the beginning of the conflict are California, Texas, and Michigan."

Does ANYONE doubt this?-----Uber-Left Immigration Plan 'Wants Traditional America Wiped Off the Face of the Earth'

O'Reilly: Uber-Left Immigration Plan 'Wants Traditional America Wiped Off the Face of the Earth':
Fox Nation:
Bill O'Reilly described in his "Talking Points Memo" Tuesday "the Left's secret immigration plan."
"The Factor" host called out the "uber-left" saying their "immigration vision would profoundly change all of America's traditions."
"The uber-left wants traditional America wiped off the face of the Earth," O'Reilly said.
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Here’s Obama’s original statement, in an October 2008 campaign visit to Columbia, Mo:
"Now, Mizzou, I just have two words for you tonight: five days.
Five days.
After decades of broken politics in Washington, and eight years of failed policies from George W. Bush, and 21 months of a campaign that's taken us from the rocky coast of Maine to the sunshine of California, we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.

Hillary Clinton’s million little lies

Hillary Clinton’s million little lies | New York Post
To hear Hillary Clinton tell it, she was named for Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Mount Everest — even though she was already 6 years old when he made his famous ascent.
On a visit to war-torn Bosnia in 1996, she claimed she and her entourage landed under sniper fire and had to run “with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base” — although videos of her arrival show her waltzing serenely across the tarmac, waving to the crowd.
She blamed the 2012 attack on American diplomatic and intelligence-gathering installations in Benghazi on when she knew almost from the first moment that it was a jihadist assault that took the lives of four Americans, including the ambassador to Libya.
No wonder the late William Safire, writing in The New York Times in 1996, at the height of the Whitewater investigation, called her a “congenital liar.” 
Said Safire: “She is in the longtime habit of lying; and she has never been called to account for lying herself or in suborning lying in her aides and friends.”
Now comes the recycling this month of another Clinton tall tale: that shortly before her 1975 marriage to Bill Clinton, she decided in a fit of patriotic fervor and dedication to “public service” to stroll into a recruiter’s office in Arkansas and join the Marine Corps."
Read on!

People having sex with horses is on the rise in Switzerland

People having sex with horses is on the rise in Switzerland | New York Post:
"More Swiss people are having sex with horses, according to a sickening new report.
There were 105 cases of the maltreatment of horses in Switzerland in 2014 — 10 percent of which involved people having sex with them, according to Tier im Recht, an animal welfare group.
“This rate is relatively elevated compared with other types of animals,” Andreas Rüttimann, a legal expert with the group, told reporters, The Local reported.
There are an estimated 110,000 horses living on 18,000 Swiss farms.
Experts estimate that 10,000 people in Switzerland are “predisposed” to zoophilia, according to the 20 Minuten newspaper.
The group said the number of unreported horse abuse cases is likely much higher than reported, given that so many people in the country are involved with equestrian activities.
Overall, there were 1,709 incidents of abuse against animals in Switzerland in 2014, up from 1,542 from the previous year, according to Tier im Recht."

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New date that will live in infamy: December 11

New date that will live in infamy: December 11:

"In that bill there is expected to be full funding of President Obama’s refugee resettlement program, which costs $1.2 billion annually to bring in 85,000 refugees from more than two dozen countries around the world. About half of them will come from countries with active jihadist movements including 10,000 from Syria, about 8,000 from Somalia, nearly 10,000 from Iraq, and several thousand more from Burma, Uzbekistan, Bosnia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Afghanistan.

The United Nations will choose which refugees from what countries get to come to America at the U.S. taxpayer’s expense. The nationalities of these refugees will be concealed in most cases until after they arrive in the more than 180 cities and towns across the U.S.

The House passed a bill, the America SAFE Act, by a lopsided vote two weeks ago that calls for a “pause” in the resettlements until the White House can provide certain assurances that the refugees have been properly vetted.

But that’s a smokescreen as the SAFE Act won’t stop a single refugee from arriving in any of those 180 cities, says Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala."

The Surprisingly Brutal Moments When Birds Snag Their Prey

The Surprisingly Brutal Moments When Birds Snag Their Prey | WIRED

New NASA Report on Polar Ice Caps Exposes Climate Change Scam

New NASA Report on Polar Ice Caps Exposes Climate Change Scam | The Federalist Papers
"Remember when Al Gore predicted the global ice caps would all be melted by 2014?
Well, it may be an “inconvenient truth” for Al to accept the fact that 2014 has come and gone and, yes, we do still have ice caps at earth’s poles.
In reality, what we are now seeing completely contradicts the whole “Climate Change/Global Warming” hoax President Obama is peddling at the Paris climate summit right now.NASA.gov is actually reporting data from Antarctica that blows a huge hole in both Gore’s and Obama’s pet scare tactic:
A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.
The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.
According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001.
That net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008.
...“The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away,” Zwally said. “...

Dead shooter ID’d: Devout Muslim Syed Farook

Dead shooter ID’d: Devout Muslim Syed Farook:

"Late Wednesday evening, San Bernardino Police chief Jarrod Burguan identified the female as Tashfeen Malik, 27. Berguan said he did not know the details of the relationship between Farook and Malik.

Farook was an environmental health specialist for the San Bernardino County government.

Farook’s father told the New York Daily News his son inspected restaurants and hotels for health violations, and was married with a child.

He also identified his son as “very religious. He would go to work, come back, go to pray, come back. He’s Muslim.”


This is going to continue as we allow our enemy under the guidance of the executive, to enter our country.  
The executive will continue to do everything he can to disarm the American people while our enemies have weapons.

VIDEO=> WCBS-TV Reported Muslims in Jersey City Held Pre-Planned 9/11 Celebration on Rooftop

WCBS-TV Reported Muslims in Jersey City Held Pre-Planned 9/11 Celebration on Rooftop - The Gateway Pundit:
Video from a September 16, 2001 news broadcast by New York City CBS affiliate WCBS-TV features long-term reporter Pablo Guzman talking about the federal government investigating a Jersey City apartment building over reports residents held a pre-planned rooftop celebration of the 9/11 attacks with binoculars and a model of the Twin Towers targeted by al Qaeda that day.
The video was posted to YouTube on Monday by “Citizen Video”.
(Note: the date of the broadcast is confirmed by the report of President Bush speaking to the nation after returning from Camp David, as also reported by CNN.)
...Leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has come under relentless attack for his claim that he saw “thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the 9/11 attacks.
The media has taken extraordinary steps to deny that any celebrations at all took place, even though contemporaneous reports like this exist.
Numerous people who lived and worked in northern New Jersey on September 11, 2001 have spoken out to state that they too witnessed Muslims publicly celebrating the attack.
However in that era cellphone videos did not exist hence no videos of the celebrations have surface as of now..."

Lots more at link.
Seems MSM caught in ANOTHER lie.
Again!

Ted Cruz Just Launched an Amazing Cruz Missile on Democrats That Has Got to Cause Pain

Ted Cruz Just Launched an Amazing Cruz Missile on Democrats That Has Got to Cause Pain:

"Nevertheless, progressive leftist anti-life Democrats, and the Democrat Media Complex, immediately began politicizing the murders as an opportunity to silence their political opponents, claiming that rhetoric from those in the pro-life movement somehow triggered the episode (even though they have zero evidence).

“I have been doing pro-life events for 25 years,” Hugh Hewitt began. “I’ve probably done more than a hundred of them. I have never met — not once — a single pro-life activist who is in favor of violence of any sort, have you Senator Cruz?” Hewitt asked.

Ted Cruz then unleashed a powerful “Cruz Missile,” an inconvenient truth bomb, "

Russia: Has Proof Turkey Involved in ISIS Oil Trade

Russia: Has Proof Turkey Involved in ISIS Oil Trade | World Affairs Journal:
Turkish PM Erdogan had promised to resign if Moscow could prove collusion with Isil
"Russian military chiefs have publicly accused the Turkish government of funnelling millions of dollars in illicit oil revenues to Islamic State terrorists in Syria and Iraq, in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two countries.
Russia’s top generals said on Wednesday that Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, and his family of personally involvement in a multi-million dollar oil smuggling operation that is funding terrorists from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil).
"Turkey is the main consumer of the oil stolen from its rightful owners, Syria and Iraq.
According to information we've received, the senior political leadership of the country - President Erdogan and his family - are involved in this criminal business,” Anatoly Antonov, a deputy defence minister, told reporters and several dozen foreign military attaches summoned at short notice to the army’s high-tech national defence command centre in Moscow..."

History for December 3

History for December 3 - On-This-Day.com:
George McClellan 1826- Union General, Joseph Conrad 1857- Author, Andy Williams 1927- Singer


Ozzy Osbourne 1948- Singer, Ozzy Osbourne Merchandise, Julianne Moore 1960- Actress, Brendan Fraser 1968- Actor ("George of the Jungle")


1828 - Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States.


1835 - In Rhode Island, the Manufacturer Mutual Fire Insurance Company issued the first fire insurance policy.


1910 - The neon lamp was displayed for the first time at the Paris Motor Show. The lamp was developed by French physicist Georges Claude.


1931 - Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.


1950 - Paul Harvey began his national radio broadcast.


1967 - In Cape Town, South Africa, a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Christian Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky. Washkansky only lived 18 days.


1984 - In Bhopal, India, more than 2,000 people were killed after a cloud of poisonous gas escaped from a pesticide plant. The plant was operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary.


2010 - The Boeing X-37 returned to Earth on successfully after its first orbital mission. It launched on April 22, 2010.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-red-line-by-tammy-derouin-from-mouth.html

A Red Line

By Tammy Derouin

From the mouth that brought you, “If you like your health plan, you can keep it,” among many other outlandish tales; we were hit with yet another shocking claim. 

On Thanksgiving Eve, Obama said, “Right now, we know of no specific and credible intelligence indicating a plot on the homeland. That is based on the latest information that I just received in the Situation Room.”

Yeah, no!  I don’t believe it.  Earlier this week it was alleged that intelligence is being skewed to fit the narrative Obama wants to portray.  If true, which I would have no problem believing, our situation is even worse than originally thought.  We have allowed the leader of our nation and his administration to cross a red line.

The smoke and mirror act continues. Is it that hard to believe that intelligence agencies could be strong armed?  Look how he’s managed to conquer the press.  I believe the latest information is exactly what Obama is demanding.  He is the master of deceit.

When you look beyond the main stream media, you find a much different reality unfolding.  It’s not a pretty picture and it’s even harder to admit that it is happening at home.  As we sit on our couches, absorbing the false reality, we are being robbed!  Even as the couch is pulled out from underneath us and the TV is carried away,...

Obama Accused of Forgetting Something Major While Discussing the ‘True Meaning of Christmas’ During Charlie Brown Special | TheBlaze.com

Obama Accused of Forgetting Something Major While Discussing the ‘True Meaning of Christmas’ During Charlie Brown Special | TheBlaze.com:

"President Barack Obama is being accused of ignoring the true meaning of Christmas during a brief appearance on Monday night’s ”It’s Your 50th Christmas, Charlie Brown,” an ABC special commemorating the popular holiday classic, “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”

Netanyahu's New Media Chief Calls Obama Antisemitic, Claims Kerry Has Mental Ability Of 12 Year-Old

Netanyahu's New Media Chief Calls Obama Antisemitic, Claims Kerry Has Mental Ability Of 12 Year-Old:
"His comments about U.S. officials, including the president and Secretary Kerry, we believe were troubling and offensive.
We obviously expect government officials from any country, especially our closest allies, to speak respectfully and truthfully about senior U.S. government officials," State Department spokesman John Kirby said.
The United States takes offense at comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new communications director accusing President Barack Obama of anti-Semitism and suggesting that Secretary of State John Kerry had the mental abilities of a 12-year-old, the State Department said on Thursday.
It said Kerry had spoken to the Israeli leader on Thursday and understood that Netanyahu “will be reviewing” the appointment of Ran Baratz after a U.S.-Israeli summit meeting at the White House next week..."

Mysterious Signs Appear — and They Have a Pointed Message About Saying ‘Merry Christmas’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Mysterious Signs Appear — and They Have a Pointed Message About Saying ‘Merry Christmas’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"A confounding Christmas mystery has returned to Redmond, Washington, with residents and local leaders once again surprised to find signs popping up around town that read, “It’s OK To Say Merry Christmas.”

It’s at least the fourth year that the green signs — which also include text from Romans 1:16, and the image of a nativity and a cross-shaped star — have enigmatically appeared in various locations,"

Absolute MUST READ!-----The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000 Salaries Has Something to Hide

Must read the entire article.
Great reporting!
The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000 Salaries Has Something to Hide
Inside the viral story of Gravity CEO Dan Price.
By Karen Weise | December 1, 2015
From Bloomberg Businessweek
It seemed too good to be true. 
On April 13, with reporters from the New York Times and NBC News hovering nearby, Dan Price, the young chief executive officer of Gravity Payments, a Seattle-based credit card processing company, told his staff he was raising their minimum salary to $70,000 a year. 
Some employees would see their wages double.
There was more:
He planned to cut his own $1.1 million compensation to help cover the cost.
The idea came to him, he’d later tell the media, after talking to a friend who earned less than he did. He’d read about a study showing that extra income improves the happiness of people who earn less than about $75,000. 
“It’s not about making money; it’s about making a difference,” Price told the Today Show, one of two dozen TV interviews he did in the days following the announcement.
Price’s story rocketed around the world, a capitalist fairy tale to counter growing inequality.
With his tousled long hair and dark brown eyes, Price combined Brad Pitt’s smolder and Boo Boo Bear’s aw-shucks demeanor to become an articulate and attractive messenger...
...But there’s a problem with all those scenarios: The lawsuit predates the raise. 
Lucas did file the case two weeks after Price’s announcement, but according to court records, Price was served with the suit at his house on the afternoon of March 16—about two weeks before the fabled hike with his friend and almost a month before the wage increase announcement.
Washington state allows litigants to serve a defendant before a suit is filed with the court.
Hollon, Lucas’s attorney, says Price informed his brother of the pay hike through an e-mail on April 9, only four days before the New York Times and NBC descended on Seattle.
If the lawsuit wasn’t a reaction to the wage hike, could it have been the other way around? 
After all, Price announced his magnanimous act a month after his brother sued him for, in essence, being greedy.
Lowering his pay could give Price negotiating leverage, too.
“With profits, at least in the short term, shifted to salaries, there is little left over to buy out his brother,” the New York Times reported Price said.
...In a follow-up interview in mid-November, I pressed Price about the inconsistency.
How could what he told me about being served two weeks after announcing the raise be true when the court records indicated otherwise?
...One aspect of Price’s saga is certain: Seventy employees at Gravity now earn far more than they did before. 
Was it altruism or a costly lawsuit that motivated it? 
If his book doesn’t provide answers, perhaps Lucas’s case, which goes to trial in May, will.

Where did that “97% of all scientists agree” comment come from?

Where did that “97% of all scientists agree” comment come from? - Fusion4Freedom
Last week Secretary of State John Kerry warned graduating students at Boston College of the “crippling consequences” of climate change.
“Ninety-seven percent of the world’s scientists,” he added, “tell us this is urgent.”
Where did Mr. Kerry get the 97% figure? 
Perhaps from his boss, President Obama, who tweeted on May 16 that “Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous.”
Or maybe from NASA, which posted (in more measured language) on its website, “Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities.”
Yet the assertion that 97% of scientists believe that climate change is a man-made, urgent problem is a fiction. 
The so-called consensus comes from a handful of surveys and abstract-counting exercises that have been contradicted by more reliable research..."
Read it all!!

Thank you B. Hussein!-----Black Friday breaks record with 185K gun background checks

Black Friday breaks record with 185K gun background checks:
"More Americans had their backgrounds checked purchasing guns on Black Friday than any day in the on record, according to data released by the FBI this week.
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System processed 185,345 requests on Nov. 27, one of the largest retail sales days in the country.
"This was an approximate 5% increase over the 175,754 received on Black Friday 2014," wrote Stephen Fischer, the FBI's chief of multimedia productions.
"The previous high for receipts were the 177,170 received on 12/21/2012.""

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U.S. Military Pilots Provide Solid Proof That Obama Is Helping ISIS... Here's What They're Saying

U.S. Military Pilots Provide Solid Proof That Obama Is Helping ISIS... Here's What They're Saying:

"Providing yet another piece of evidence that President Barack Obama is shielding the Islamic State group from destruction by American forces, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee told the Washington Free Beacon that U.S. military pilots have confirmed 75 percent of missions against the group have returned with their ordnance because they couldn’t get clearance to fire."

Never depend on the French. NEVER!!-----The New French "Résistance"

The New French "Résistance"

• Some spoke of "resistance," but to them, resistance meant listening to music. A man on a talk show said he was offering "free hugs." 
• A French judge, Marc Trevidic, in charge of all the major Islamic terrorism cases over the last ten years, said a few days before the November attacks in Paris that the situation was "getting worse" and that "radicalized groups" could "carry out attacks resulting in hundreds of deaths." He was quickly transferred to a court in northern France, where he has been assigned to petty crimes and divorce cases. 
• All the French political leaders know that the situation is out of control, but not one will say so publicly. Not one has asked the government why it took almost three hours for the police to intervene during the attack at the Bataclan Theater, where 89 people were murdered and over 200 wounded. 
• France's political leaders are apparently hoping that people will get used to being attacked and learn to live with terrorism. In the meantime, they are trying to divert the attention of the public with -- "climate change!"

"Several weeks have passed since Islamist attackers bloodied Paris. 

France's President François Hollande is describing the killers as just "a horde of murderers" acting in the name of a "mad cause." 

He adds that "France has no enemy." 

He never uses the word "terrorism." 

He no longer says the word "war."
France never was, in fact, at war. 

Police were deployed on the streets. 

Special Forces had to "intervene" a few days later in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. 

That was it..."

Tell me again. Why must the USA take in these people?-----Islamic State Manifesto: Sleeper Cells Sent To Europe Posing As Refugees

Islamic State Manifesto: Sleeper Cells Sent To Europe Posing As Refugees :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism:
The Islamic State claims it sent highly trained sleeper agents to Europe through Turkey posing as refugees as far back as 2012.
A 99-page manifesto issued in January, "Black Flags from Rome," also details the Islamic State (ISIS)'s desire to spark a Europe-wide Islamic insurgency using "Muslim No Go Zones" as bases of operations.
As an example, it claims that some Syrian refugees fled to Italy. 
"No doubt, some of these refugees were undercover fighters of Al Qa'idah and the Islamic State," the manifesto says.
"They were quick to take the opportunity of entering into the different countries of Europe (most probably as early as 2012).
All this was happening under the nose of the European intelligence services whose job during this time (2012) was only to prevent European Muslims from entering Syria. 
(This shows how quick the Islamic groups were in planning ahead. Years before Europe even knew where its Muslim citizens were going - experienced Islamic fighters had already found safety in Europe.)"
These highly trained fighters were instructed to form secret cells and wait until called on by the Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
At that time they would "continue the Jihad and ... seek revenge for the Western occupation of Muslim lands."
"Black Flags From Rome" claims the sleeper agents were well-trained in urban combat tactics similar to this month's Paris attacks.
It proudly contrasts past Al-Qaida's terrorists with its fighters, whom it describes as "untrained" and "vulnerable," noting that Western intelligence agencies never faced professionally trained fighters with combat experience.
"These young Europeans had been professionally trained, and given training most specific to the context of the war they would battle within Europe," the manifesto says..."