President Barack Obama on Sunday pledged to "crush" the ISIL bunch in a tenacious, in number and keen battle that is tuned in to the country's qualities. His discourse intended to console countless who feel the president's position on terrorism is excessively feeble, didn't declare a redesign of a terrorism battle strategy that pundits have marked lacking to tackle the developing risk of terrorism universally.
Obama, said a week ago's mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, was a terrorist assault by a couple who had gone down the "dim way of radicalization" and grasped a "distorted" type of Islam.
"This was a demonstration of terrorism intended to execute honest individuals," Obama said. "This is what I need you to know. The danger from terrorism is genuine, yet we will overcome it. We will pulverize ISIL and some other association that tries to mischief us. Our prosperity won't rely on upon intense talk, or relinquishing our qualities or giving into apprehension. That is the thing that gatherings like ISIL are seeking after. Rather, we will win by being solid and shrewd, strong and persistent. Also, by drawing upon each part of American force. We ought not be drawn afresh into a long and unreasonable ground war in Iraq or Syria. That is the thing that gatherings like ISIL need. They know they can't overcome us on the war zone. ISIL warriors were a piece of the revolt that we confronted in Iraq. Be that as it may, they likewise realize that in the event that we involve outside grounds, they can keep up insurrections for quite a long time, killing a great many our troops and depleting our assets, and utilizing our vicinity to draw newcomers," Obama said.
In an interview with CBS' "Face the Nation" that aired just days after the fatal San Bernardino shooting, Donald Trump claimed that he would "go after the wives" and families of terrorists because they "absolutely knew it was happening" -- just like, he said, terrorists' wives and families knew during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
"I will tell you, I would be very tough on families," Trump promised. "Because the families know what's happening."
Trump has pushed differing variations of this solution before: On Fox News last week, he said that "when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families."
Speaking with "Face the Nation" moderator John Dickerson, Trump said "common sense" was his motivation to go after terrorists' families.But he also cited the attacks on September 11, 2001 as a main reason to do so.
"We have a problem. The World Trade Center came down. And, by the way, speaking of coming down, they put their families on airplanes a couple of days before, sent them back to Saudi Arabia for the most part," Trump said. "Those wives knew exactly what was going to happen. And those wives went home to watch their husbands knock down the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and wherever the third plane was going, except we had some very, very brave passengers, wherever that third plane was going. Those wives knew exactly what was happening."
In fact, according to the 9/11 Commission report, authored by an independent bipartisan group created under the direction of Congress and President George W. Bush, nearly all of the 19 terrorists to crash the planes were unmarried.
"The muscle hijackers came from a variety of educational and societal backgrounds," page 231 of the report reads. "All were between 20 and 28 years old; most were unemployed with no more than a high school education and were unmarried."
The report, the most comprehensive account of the 9/11 attacks, categorized the terrorists into two groups: the 15 "muscle hijackers" were those meant to overpower crew members and other flight passengers, while the other four took over the cockpit and piloted the planes.
Of the muscle hijackers, the report listed only one, Abdul Aziz al-Omari, as married. However, the report does not mention al Omari's wife ever traveling to the U.S. -- though according to a 2001 New York Times report, federal law enforcement had, in the early days of the September 11 investigation, mistakenly identified as a suspected hijacker another Saudi Arabian al Omari living in Florida with a wife and three children.
One of the pilot hijackers -- Marwan al Shehhi -- was also married, though the 9/11 Commission report again did not mention the wife ever traveled to the United States.
Further, Mohammed Atta, the leader of the 2001 terror plot, had demanded the other hijackers cut off any communications with their family: "Atta complained that some of the hijackers wanted to contact their families to say goodbye, something he had forbidden."
The report added that "the majority of these Saudi recruits began to break with their families in late 1999 and early 2000."
Trump has made exaggerated claims about the September 11th tragedy in the past. Last month, the billionaire claimed he had seen "thousands" of Muslims cheering the World Trade Center attack in New Jersey in 2001.
According to some reports, federal authorities in New Jersey did investigate a single claim of some residents celebrating on September 11 -- though they numbered a total of eight men on one apartment rooftop in Jersey City
resident Muhammadu Buhari has turned down an offer by the Federal Government to buy 5 new armoured Mercedes Benz S-600 (V222) cars for his use. The cars which cost is about N400m were planned to be purchased by the State House.
A source close to the presidency told journalists on Thursday that Buhari found out about the plan when the Permanent Secretary, State House, Mr. Nebolisa Emodi, briefed him of his ministry’s activities on Wednesday. Angry at the revelation, the President was said to have told Emodi that the purchase was unnecessary. Describing it as a waste of scarce resources, the source said Buhari told the permanent secretary that the cars he inherited from former President Goodluck Jonathan were good enough for him. “I don’t need any new cars. The ones I am using now are just fine,” the source quoted the President as saying. Top government officials, however, said Buhari welcomed other initiatives presented by the permanent secretary to reduce the operating costs of the State House and strengthen its Finance and Accounts Internal Control Mechanisms.
However he directed that more efforts be made towards the capture of all State House expenses within the approved national budget, in order to avoid the frequent recourse by past administrations to “Presidential intervention funds.”
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, confirmed that Buhari had withheld approval for the purchase of the new cars. Shehu said the President would continue to use the cars left behind by Jonathan in keeping with his commitment to prudent management of national resources.
Today July 10th makes it exactly three years that front line Islamic programme presenter on NTA, Alhaji Rasaq Gawat, went missing. The married father left home in his car in 2012 and was never heard from again. His car was later found on Apongbon bridge-Lagos.
More help came for Mrs Ruth Uche, the abandoned mother of triple set of
twins, as a humanitarian organization called Voice of Divine Truth Int’l
Outreach, (aka Voice of Change Network) gave her a cash donation, and
offered her 2nd set of twins scholarship from primary to university
level.
This came on the heels of the Speaker’s visit and the Governor’s kind
gesture to her.
Sitting in her dimly lit one room which doubled as her bedroom and her
sitting room, the President of the group, Mr Gregory Azemobor expressed
gratitude to God for the life of the children and their mother. He also
stressed the fact that the children need to be given a future. He also
called on well-meaning Nigerians to do what they can in supporting this
woman and her six children.
Ruth who earns a paltry N10,000 monthly salary as a teacher in a daycare
Centre narrated her ordeal of sending her children to school. According
to her, the children’s fees is N10,000 per child, but thanks to the
management of the school who asked her to pay N5,000 instead. She
narrated how she uses her two months’ salary to pay her four children’s
fees. As for the books and feeding, she says she teaches an evening
class of six children who pays her #1,000 each monthly, which brings in
additional #6,000 for the feeding and the upkeep of the family.
The question is ’how can #6,000 cater for the needs of a growing family
of seven?’
Ruth is only one of such people in our society who needs to be shown
love. Let’s not wait for the government. You can do something no matter
how little, to make life easier for someone.- Austin Edoho
