A French government fact sheet on the Iranian nuclear deal, not meant for public view but leaked to the Times of Israel, shows that Iran could be able to quickly generate material needed for a nuclear bomb.
The deal allows Iran use of the IR-2 and IR-4 centrifuges, which can rapidly create highly enriched uranium that is needed for nuclear weapons.
In addition, the deal allows Iran to continue their research and development on the IR-4, IR-5, IR-6 and IR-8 centrifuges. The IR-8 centrifuge could enrich uranium at 20 times the speed of the current IR-1 centrifuges. The document released by American officials did not specify this fact.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been assailed by American officials after he said the deal was “very bad” for Israel and paves the way for Iran to create a nuclear bomb. The French document appears to back up the claims of Netanyahu that were criticized by American officials.
This is the second time documents have conflicted with the American “fact sheets” on the Iranian deal.
Israeli analysts noticed differences between the American and Iranian fact sheets just days after the announced deal. Ehud Ya’ari of Israel’s Channel 2 News noticed that while the U.S. says restrictions on enrichment last 15 years, Iranians say it’s only 10. The Iranians also said that they can continue R&D on centrifuges, which the French document confirms, and the American documents say is not permitted.
French officials have announced they will increase monitoring of cash payments and small bank accounts in an attempt to stop the funding of homegrown terrorists.
Finance Minister Michel Sapin said that after the Islamic terrorist attacks that killed 17 people it was necessary to “fight against the use of cash and anonymity in the French economy.”
“It’s a terrorism that is low cost to carry out but has major impact,” Sapin told a news conference. “This low-cost terrorism feeds on fraud, money laundering and petty trafficking.”
The biggest change is that French account holders will not be allowed to make deposits of more than 1,000 euro in cash, down from 3,000 euro. Foreign visitors had a higher cap of 15,000 euro but that will be cut to 10,000. This is done for the benefit of tourism.
The government will also require anyone trying to exchange more than 1,000 euros in cash into other currencies to show an identity card. And if more than 10,000 euros are transferred the government will be notified.
ISIS has released a statement that they plan to “Blow up the White House, Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower.”
ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani outlined the group’s plot to take over Portugal, Spain, Paris and Rome in a 30 minute broadcast. The message, aimed at the West, is called “So They Kill And Are Killed”. The title is a reference to a verse in the Koran.
“We won the day Europe and U.S. dreamt of reclaiming Tal Hamis, Mosul, Sinjar, Tikrit, Qaim, Derna, Tell Abyad, and more,” stated the ISIS mouthpiece, as transcribed by Ynet News.
“We — with Allah’s help — want Paris, before Rome and Islamic Iberia and after we blow up the White House, Big Ben, and the Eiffel Tower before Paris, and Rome,” al-Adnani warned. “The Muslims will return to power, to be the vanguard and lead in every place.”
Intelligence experts say the message is really an attempt to boost the morale among the members of ISIS after a series of big losses to Iraqi troops and U.S. airstrikes.
A Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union, France was vandalized over the weekend with more than 300 graves defaced by at least 5 teenagers.
Police say that five teens between 15 and 17 are in custody after the youngest of the group turned themselves into authorities and admitted the crime. The teen is denying there was an anti-Semitic motive despite their targeting a Jewish cemetery.
In addition to knocking over or destroying over 300 tombstones, the teens destroyed a monument to Holocaust victims.
While the youngest perpetrator claims there was no anti-Semitic motive to the crime, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called the actions “a vile, anti-Semitic act, and insult to the memory of the dead.”
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that the actions of the teens were an “odious act against religious freedom and intolerance.”
ISIS is using social media video to campaign for youth to join their terrorist organization.
The theme of the videos is “What are you waiting for?”
A video posted last week called “Blow Up France 2” features a young jihadist waving an assault weapon telling Muslims they need to continue their attacks on France.
“Don’t give up and particularly don’t lower your weapons, don’t surrender — kill. Today, it’s our darwa — kill them. You now have more than 4 million targets,” the jihadist said in French.
Just hours after the release of the video, Islamist Moussa Coulibaly stabbed three French soldiers patrolling near a Jewish Community Center in Nice. While the attacker shares the same last name as the gunman who killed four a Jewish supermarket in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo killings, police could not confirm if they were related.
“ISIS did not want this exclusively for a French audience,” said Ryan Mauro, security analyst for the Clarion Project, an educational group focused on Islamist extremism. “The group wanted to send a message to Americans, as well.”
One of the young Jihadists in the video is believed to be the widow of one of the men who carried out the murderous rampage at Charlie Hebdo. Hayat Moumeddiene is labeled as France’s “Most Wanted Woman” by security authorities.
A Christian Boys’ School in northern Pakistan was attacked by an armed mob of over 300 Muslims who were angry over the cartoons of Muhammad published in the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
“It is very sad that Islamic radicals attack Pakistani Christians because of Charlie Hebdo. Christians condemn the blasphemous cartoons. It is a shame that even after 67 years since the birth of Pakistan, Christians have not yet been considered Pakistani citizens, but are seen as ‘Western allies,'” Nasir Saeed, director of the NGO Center for Legal Aid Assistance & Settlement, told Fides News Agency.
At least four Christians were wounded in the assault on the building.
Witnesses say that the Muslim mob lifted smaller members to the top of the fence surrounding the facility so they could go and open gates allowing the attackers inside.
The school has been closed for two days because of additional security measures being installed to the building and grounds.
The attack is the latest in assaults on Christians around the world for the drawings in the French publication, which is not Christian and has often published cartoons mocking Christ and God.
An Islamic leader is calling on western countries to limit freedom of speech because unless they stop people from drawing pictures of Muhammad, they will be inciting World War III.
Sirajul Haq, the leader of the Islamic extremist Jamaat-e-Islami Party in Pakistan, told a crowd during a protest celebrating the attack on French newspaper Charlie Hebdo that the United Nations and western leaders need to make sure religious personalities are not mocked.
“The path that the West has chosen will take the world to a third world war,” Haq told the crowd.
Haq also demanded that France issue a formal apology for allowing Charlie Hebdo to exist and for offending “billions of Muslims across the world.”
Jamaat-e-Islami is calling for a worldwide boycott of French products by Muslims as a way to show their anger toward France for allowing anyone to mock Muhammad. The group also is part of a circle of Muslim extremist groups that have offered a $1.6 million bounty for the heads of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists.
Al Qaeda in Yemen formally claimed responsibility for last week’s terrorist attack on French newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
The spokesman for the group, Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, claimed the attack was ordered by the leadership of AQAP because the newspaper had insulted the prophet Mohammad. The group posted a video with the claim on YouTube.
“As for the blessed Battle of Paris, we…claim responsibility for this operation as vengeance for the Messenger of God,” said Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi.
The attack led by Cherif and Said Kouachi had been called an Islamic terrorist attack from the beginning after the brothers told witnesses at the site of the shooting they were connected to Al Qaeda. Western leaders downplayed the Al Qaeda connection claiming that they had no direct evidence of Al Qaeda’s guidance.
The terrorists also mocked the peace rally that took place on Sunday.
“Look at how they gathered, rallied and supported each other; strengthening their weakness and dressing their wounds,” it said of Western leaders who attended the event.
“Look carefully at their gathering. They are the same who fought us in Afghanistan and Caucasus, in Gaza, the Levant, Iraq, Somalia and Yemen.”
The murder of 17 in Paris by Islamic terrorists? It’s Israel’s fault.
That’s the view of former President Jimmy Carter.
Carter appeared on the left-wing comedy show “The Daily Show” and told host Jon Stewart that you had to place the blame for the origin of the terror attack on Israel.
“Well, one of the origins for it is the Palestinian problem,” Carter said. “And this aggravates people who are affiliated in any way with the Arab people who live in the West Bank and Gaza, what they are doing now — what’s being done to them. So I think that’s part of it.”
Carter didn’t elaborate how the end of Israeli-Palestinian conflict would somehow stop the anti-Semitism by Muslims throughout the world. He did go on to say that the attack was a “new development” in Islamic terrorism.
“But I think this is a new evolutionary development in terrorism, where people go into Syria, they get trained there, they have a passport from France, from Great Britain or from the United States,” he added. “They stay there for a few months and learn how to be a terrorist and then they come back through Turkey and you know they have been there and you know who they are. And I think this event in Paris is going to waken up the people in charge of security to watch those people more closely than they have in the past — and not single out all of the Muslims in the country.”
The gunmen responsible for the Islamic terrorist attack on a French satirical magazine are dead after a raid by French police.
The raid ended a standoff where the two Islamic terrorists said they wanted to “die as martyrs” rather than surrender.
Cherif and Said Kouachi, 32 and 34, repeated their connections to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Military experts who viewed unedited footage of the attack on the magazine Charlie Hebdo say it’s clear the men had military training.
U.S. intelligence sources confirmed that Cherif Kouachi went to Yemen in 2011 and was seen at an Al Qaeda training camp.
The raid that took out the Kouachis was 25 miles from Paris. At the same time, a raid in Paris took out a fellow terrorist who had taken hostages at a kosher market.
Amedy Coulibaly is reportedly the man who killed a Paris police officer on Thursday as she was working a routine traffic stop. Police say Coulibaly and his girlfriend Hayat Bourneddiene were the suspects of the police killing. She remains at large.
All the men involved in the attack were confirmed to be disciples of Djamel Beghal, a terrorist arrested in the United Arab Emirates after admitting he was conspiring to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Paris.
