"FOUR WYCLIFFE ASSOCIATE WORKERS MURDERED by Militants in Middle East" - CBN News, 03-20-2016; http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2016/march/four-wycliffe-associates-workers-murdered-by-militants-in-middle-east [AS I SEE IT: Somehow this terrorist attack on a Christian organization failed to get the attention of the mainstream media. I guess certain people are not worth reporting about. - Stan]
Militants killed four workers from Wycliffe Associates [affiliate of Wycliffe Bible Translators] in the Middle East this week, the Bible translating ministry reports. The ministry said that terrorists raided the translator's office and shot and killed two of the translators. Two other workers saved the lead translator by laying on top of him, but they died deflecting bludgeoning blows from the attackers' weapons. The militants also destroyed all of the equipment in the office and burned all the books and other translation materials in sight.
But Wycliffe Associates are praising God that the computer hard drives containing the translation work for eight language projects was not destroyed. "The remaining translation team has decided to re-double their efforts to translate, publish, and print God's Word for these eight language communities," the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry requested prayer for the families of the murdered translators. "Please ask the Lord to mend the hearts and wounds of the translation team who have gone through this horrible ordeal," Mae Greenleaf, a prayer coordinator said in a statement.
She asked for prayer for the safety of the team moving forward, and that they would be able to replace lost equipment and continue the work that God has called them to do in the Middle East.
"Pray with me for the killers too," she added. "Pray for these whose hearts are so hard. Pray the Lord will open their eyes to what they have done. Please ask the Lord to meet them, each one, right where they are. Pray that He will show Himself merciful, that they will know His forgiveness, His love, and His peace."
"After Brussels Attacks, US Must Not Repeat Europe’s Mistakes" -
James Carafano/ March 22, 2016 / http://dailysignal.com/2016/03/22/after-brussels-attacks-us-must-not-repeat-europes-mistakes/
Security forces patrol after a series of terror attacks rocked Brussels, Belgium on March 22. (Photo: Federico Gambarini/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom)
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The first question security professionals around the world ask after a horrific terrorist attack is: What’s next? The second question is: How to stop it?
Today, Americans woke up to news that Europe had been hit again, with reports of two bombs in Brussels that killed [31]and injured scores [over 131]. The attacks come only days after the arrest in the city of the perpetrators of the terrorist strike in Paris last year.
A top concern here will be that the terror campaigns being orchestrated there could be directed here. There is a precedent for that. A core of the participants in the 9/11 attack organized a cell in Hamburg, Germany.
If there are cells in Europe interested in attacking one of their chief challenges will be traveling here. The U.S. has been focused on thwarting terrorist travel to the U.S. since the tragic attacks on New York and Washington in 2001. The danger was a major subject of investigation for the 9/11 commission.
What the U.S. has done since 9/11 has been to focus on finding and stopping terrorists who might try to travel here. That is a strategy that makes sense. Terrorists travel in small numbers and have tried every conceivable way to get from there to here. Shutting down a particular method of travel doesn’t impede them much. They’ll try something else. What works best is to identify and thwart them, not frustrate the travel of everyone else.
The bigger issue for the U.S. is not to repeat the mistake of Europe and allow an extended Islamist terrorist network to spread its tentacles throughout our land. While the Islamist extremist threat inspired by ISIS is a global problem, it does not look the same all over the globe. As a result of homegrown extremist communities and a number of foreign fighters that have passed back and forth from Europe to the Middle East, western Europe has a footprint of terrorist cells that can pull off attacks like those that occurred in Brussels and Paris.
Shutting down foreign fighter pipelines is important. So too is sensible and proactive counterterrorism investigations here that interdict potential terror threats before they start to look like Paris and Brussels and responsible immigration and border security policies.
[bold, italics, and colored emphasis mine]
James Jay Carafano, a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges, is The Heritage Foundation’s vice president for foreign and defense policy studies, E. W. Richardson fellow, and director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies.
"KT McFarland on the ‘Powder Keg’ That’s About to Explode in Europe" -
Genevieve Wood / March 17, 2016; http://dailysignal.com/2016/03/17/powder-keg-kt-mcfarland-on-americas-long-war-against-radical-islam/
Militants killed four workers from Wycliffe Associates [affiliate of Wycliffe Bible Translators] in the Middle East this week, the Bible translating ministry reports. The ministry said that terrorists raided the translator's office and shot and killed two of the translators. Two other workers saved the lead translator by laying on top of him, but they died deflecting bludgeoning blows from the attackers' weapons. The militants also destroyed all of the equipment in the office and burned all the books and other translation materials in sight.
But Wycliffe Associates are praising God that the computer hard drives containing the translation work for eight language projects was not destroyed. "The remaining translation team has decided to re-double their efforts to translate, publish, and print God's Word for these eight language communities," the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry requested prayer for the families of the murdered translators. "Please ask the Lord to mend the hearts and wounds of the translation team who have gone through this horrible ordeal," Mae Greenleaf, a prayer coordinator said in a statement.
She asked for prayer for the safety of the team moving forward, and that they would be able to replace lost equipment and continue the work that God has called them to do in the Middle East.
"Pray with me for the killers too," she added. "Pray for these whose hearts are so hard. Pray the Lord will open their eyes to what they have done. Please ask the Lord to meet them, each one, right where they are. Pray that He will show Himself merciful, that they will know His forgiveness, His love, and His peace."
"After Brussels Attacks, US Must Not Repeat Europe’s Mistakes" -
James Carafano/ March 22, 2016 / http://dailysignal.com/2016/03/22/after-brussels-attacks-us-must-not-repeat-europes-mistakes/
Security forces patrol after a series of terror attacks rocked Brussels, Belgium on March 22. (Photo: Federico Gambarini/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom)
.
The first question security professionals around the world ask after a horrific terrorist attack is: What’s next? The second question is: How to stop it?
Today, Americans woke up to news that Europe had been hit again, with reports of two bombs in Brussels that killed [31]and injured scores [over 131]. The attacks come only days after the arrest in the city of the perpetrators of the terrorist strike in Paris last year.
A top concern here will be that the terror campaigns being orchestrated there could be directed here. There is a precedent for that. A core of the participants in the 9/11 attack organized a cell in Hamburg, Germany.
If there are cells in Europe interested in attacking one of their chief challenges will be traveling here. The U.S. has been focused on thwarting terrorist travel to the U.S. since the tragic attacks on New York and Washington in 2001. The danger was a major subject of investigation for the 9/11 commission.
What the U.S. has done since 9/11 has been to focus on finding and stopping terrorists who might try to travel here. That is a strategy that makes sense. Terrorists travel in small numbers and have tried every conceivable way to get from there to here. Shutting down a particular method of travel doesn’t impede them much. They’ll try something else. What works best is to identify and thwart them, not frustrate the travel of everyone else.
The bigger issue for the U.S. is not to repeat the mistake of Europe and allow an extended Islamist terrorist network to spread its tentacles throughout our land. While the Islamist extremist threat inspired by ISIS is a global problem, it does not look the same all over the globe. As a result of homegrown extremist communities and a number of foreign fighters that have passed back and forth from Europe to the Middle East, western Europe has a footprint of terrorist cells that can pull off attacks like those that occurred in Brussels and Paris.
Shutting down foreign fighter pipelines is important. So too is sensible and proactive counterterrorism investigations here that interdict potential terror threats before they start to look like Paris and Brussels and responsible immigration and border security policies.
[bold, italics, and colored emphasis mine]
James Jay Carafano, a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges, is The Heritage Foundation’s vice president for foreign and defense policy studies, E. W. Richardson fellow, and director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies.
"KT McFarland on the ‘Powder Keg’ That’s About to Explode in Europe" -
Genevieve Wood / March 17, 2016; http://dailysignal.com/2016/03/17/powder-keg-kt-mcfarland-on-americas-long-war-against-radical-islam/
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