President Obama Orders 22 U.S. Embassies Closed Over Fears of Widespread Workplace Violence

Al Qaeda, as the theme song of the Democrat National Convention goes, is on the run.

Indeed, worldwide terrorist groups are quite literally on the run, including a recent and explosive entry in the Boston Marathon. All over the world, radical Jihadists have grown sufficiently emboldened to convene a global conference call, patching in at least 20 terror leaders for what must have been a jolly recounting of the Obama administration's policy of weakness, appeasement and preemptive surrender.

The crucial intercept that prompted the U.S. government to close embassies in 22 countries was a conference call between al Qaeda’s senior leaders and representatives of several of the group’s affiliates throughout the region...

...included [on the call were] the leaders or representatives of the top leadership of al Qaeda and its affiliates calling in from different locations, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence. All told, said one U.S. intelligence official, more than 20 al Qaeda operatives were on the call...

...Al Qaeda members included representatives or leaders from [Yemen,] Nigeria’s Boko Haram, the Pakistani Taliban, al Qaeda in Iraq, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and more obscure al Qaeda affiliates such as the Uzbekistan branch. Also on the call were representatives of aspiring al Qaeda affiliates such as al Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula...

Let me put this in terms even a Democrat can understand: the Obama administration's policies of willful blindness and Jihadi appeasement have resulted in a global, de facto surrender to radical Islam.

Obama's failures are represented perfectly in the case of former U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan. This piece of pig excrement is on trial in Killeen, Texas this week on charges of "workplace violence" after he killed or wounded 43 individuals at a Texas Army base.

[Hasan] said he was as a soldier who switched sides in what he described as a war between America and his Islamic faith. He then fell silent for most of the day... Maj. Hasan had also asked to argue that he carried out the shooting in "defense of others," namely members of the Taliban fighting in Afghanistan, but the judge denied that strategy.

In an utterly disgraceful act on the part of the Obama administration, Hasan's rampage has not been categorized as an act of terrorism though that is clearly what it was. Sara Noble explains that the Holder Justice Department has instead labeled Hasan's slaughter as "workplace violence".

Nadal Hassan... began his opening statement at his trial Tuesday saying, “The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter... We mujahedeen are imperfect soldiers trying to form a perfect religion. I apologize for any mistakes I made in this endeavor,” the unrepentant Hasan said...

...The act of terror by Hasan, who was in contact with now-deceased terrorist Anwar al-Awalaki, was declared an incident of workplace violence though it was obviously a terrorist attack...

...The victims are and were not eligible for the Purple Heart as a result.

As Noble observes, the Ft. Hood attack was categorized as "workplace violence" because he faced reelection and needed to pretend that Al Qaeda was "on the run". Just like Benghazi. Just like Benghazi.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.