Another attack in France. Can’t have anything to do with Islam though. Crazy or lone wolf of course. Links 2 for Dec. 22 – 2014

1. US Paid $5 Billion & Released 5 Taliban Prisoners For Deserter Bergdahl

Lt. Colonel Shaffer told Bill O’Reilly the Obama administration paid $5 billion and released five top Taliban Gitmo detainees in exchange for deserter Bowe Bergdahl.

(I have a few questions of my own about that. For instance, were any of the taliban released for Bowe Bergdahl involved with the slaughter at the Pakistani school the other day?)

2. A Bin Lorry, which I can only guess means a truck used to collect garbage cans, in Scotland ran up onto a sidewalk hitting and injuring a number of people.

(The BBC is saying it was a heart attack. I wonder what accent the person has who is being interviewed? It doesn’t sound Scottish, not that its related or anything.)

3. An article at GoV about Dutch politics and how it relates to Geert Wilders and what it may or may not mean for the future. An interesting read. 

4. IS said to execute 100 foreign fighters who wanted to quit

(I’ll give the muslims this much. They certainly know the meaning of commitment)

The Islamic State extremist group has executed 100 of its own foreign fighters who tried to flee their headquarters in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the Financial Times newspaper said Saturday.

An activist opposed to both IS and the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, who is well-known to the British business broadsheet, said he had “verified 100 executions” of foreign IS fighters trying to leave the jihadist group’s de facto capital.

IS fighters in Raqqa said the group has created a military police to clamp down on foreign fighters who do not report for duty. Dozens of homes have been raided and many jihadists have been arrested, the FT reported.

5. **** Another attack in France. Here is a link to the story in French. Google translate gives a decent approximation but we will have a real translation available later on site. Basically a man driving a white van yelled allah hu ackbar as he drove it into a crowd at a Christmas Market in Nantes France injuring a dozen and two seriously. More to come soon. This just happened.

Please remember that the Islamic State posted a video, mostly in French, where they demanded that muslims within France attack French Citizens and destroy the secular state, everywhere, but in particular France. Youtube and other sites have been pulling down the original and also our translation of it but so far it remains up here. 

Thank you Dan Friedman, M., UK Pete, Buck, and all. More to come soon.