The jihadist who was being sought by the FBI and military authorities after friends reported he was planning a Fort Hood style attack reportedly posted his impending attack on social media.
Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, who was known as John Thomas Booker before his conversion to Islam, posted on Facebook March 19th of his intent to die.
“Getting ready to be killed in jihad is a HUGE adrenaline rush! I am so nervous,” Hassan posted. “NOT because I’m scared to die but I am EAGER to meet my lord.”
Hassan was discharged by the Army on March 28th after the confirmed the postings and comments to friends. However, the FBI and military officials put out an alert for Hassan because of his intentions to cause harm to troops.
And FBI spokesman said there is no imminent threat to public safety.
Sources told FoxNews that Hassan has been placed inside a locked mental health facility for evaluation and treatment.
The Obama Administration is reportedly considering the release of a jailed Israeli spy in an attempt to spur forward the stalled Israel/Palestine peace talks.
Jonathan Pollard, who pleaded guilty to spying for Israel in 1987 and was sentenced to life in prison, could be released as early as April according to sources close to Secretary of State John Kerry.
Pollard, because he was sentenced before November 1, 1987, is eligible to be paroled on November 21, 2015 even without action by the Administration.
A declassified report on Pollard’s actions shows that Israel did not ask him to spy on the U.S. military or intelligence activities but rather to gain the U.S.’s information on Israel’s enemies in the Middle East and the Soviet Union.
The release of Pollard, who was given Israeli citizenship during his incarceration, has been a key item for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israeli has requested Pollard’s release multiple times as well as called for the government to show mercy in allowing him to attend events like his father’s funeral. The government as repeatedly denied any requests for mercy.
Israel has released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, including convicted murderers, as part of the peace process negotiated by the United States.
The University of Michigan is hosting an exhibition whose purpose is to glorify and glamorize abortion and even mock God with a poster claiming that God is a woman who endorses the killing of babies via abortion.
The horrific display, titled “4000 Years For Choice”, is an exhibition of posters promoting abortion practices through the years. The University has a web page describing the exhibit as promoting a “means to reclaim reproductive freedom as a deeply personal and life-sustaining act.”
The exhibit also includes a poster that reads, “Abortion is a gift from God.” However, the “O” in God is the universal symbol for a woman, implying that God is a woman and that “she” gave abortion to women so they didn’t have to worry about a child.
Other posters reading, “Abortion is a blessing” and “anything 46 million women do every year can’t be immoral.”
The program is sponsored by the Program for Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice, an official arm of the University of Michigan. The program receives public funding. When questioned by The College Fix regarding whether the other point of view on abortion would be presented on campus, calls were referred to Planned Parenthood.
The University of Michigan administration has not issued a statement on using public funding to promote abortion.
April is less than a week away but many cities across the eastern United States are seeing temperatures that are closer to January.
Arctic air is making another plunge into the eastern U.S. driving temperatures toward record lows. The cold brought below zero conditions as far south as the Alabama panhandle and northern Florida.
The record conditions were as far south as Macon, Georgia, which set an all time low temperature record for the day at 26 degrees.
Toledo, Ohio and Detroit were also confirmed to have cold temperature records.
A blizzard that was predicted to possibly hit New England moved into Atlantic Canada but it brought high wind and cold to the northeast. Temperatures on Cape Cod, Massachusetts hovered near 0 degrees and winds throughout the region were gusting to over 70 miles per hour.
A warm up is expected to begin on Thursday.
The land was declared safe for residential housing. No threats to the public.
Now, the U.S. Navy is conducting house-to-house testing for radiation after an empty home on a former Naval base was found to contain radium.
The homes are located on a man-made island called “Treasure Island.” The area once served as a U.S. Navy base and has been redevelopments under an agreement from the Department of Defense with San Francisco’s Treasure Island Development Authority.
The Navy cleaned up the base after closure in 1997. The DoD then leased the homes to civilians that were once military housing.
The Navy had declared the residential area was free of any radiological contamination because the item containing radium was found in the empty home. Now, residents are concerned not only for radiation beneath their homes but also in the groundwater supply.
“In the event a radiological survey of a housing unit reveals a health concern, the Navy will take immediate action to protect the residents,” the Navy said in a statement.
A transportation expert says that Monday’s accident involving a Chicago Transit Authority train at O’Hare International Airport could have caused multiple deaths and injuries if it had happened later in the day.
The train was driven by a sleepy operator who investigators suspect fell asleep at the controls. The train crashed through a barrier, over a platform and then rocketed up an escalator before coming to a stop.
DePaul University professor Joseph Schwieterman said that it was “a miracle that nobody died.”
“A train running up a (crowded) escalator could have been a worst case scenario,” Schwieterman told Fox News. “When pedestrians are hit by a train, it is usual fatal.”
He also said that while many of the passengers suffered injuries, they were lucky that the train jumped the tracks instead of crashing into a concrete barrier at the end of the platform.
“That was a lucky break,” he said. “A train hitting a wall at … high speed could easily have been fatal for many.”
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.
Many people have been complaining this extended winter about colds that will not go away or colds that seem to go away but come back stronger within a week or two.
However, doctors say that it’s not that colds are leaving and coming back. It’s that colds can take longer to overcome and that because of so many different viruses that cause colds, it’s possible to get two different cold viruses back-to-back.
The common cold can last up to two weeks for the initial symptoms and the coughing that goes with it could last for weeks after the virus had been cleared from the body.
In the case of someone getting consecutive colds, some doctors believe that because the body’s immune system is weakened from dealing with one cold it leaves the body open to a different strain of cold virus. There are more than 200 known viruses that can cause the common cold.
The average adult gets 2 to 5 colds per year, children can have between 7 and 10. In the U.S. every year, about one billion Americans will get a cold.
Not even a former President can avoid the NSA.
Former President Jimmy Carter told NBC’s Meet The Press that he avoids using electronic means of communications because he is suspicious that the NSA would spy on him. He said that if he wants to correspond with anyone, especially a foreign leader, he hand-writes a message and then sends it via snail mail.
“I have felt that my own communications are probably monitored,” President Carter said. “I believe if I send an e-mail, it will be monitored.”
Carter also took issue with the use of electronic surveillance by the NSA and the use of drones by intelligence services. Carter said the policies regarding the use of those spy planes “has been extremely liberalized” and he added that he believes intelligence services have abused the tools that had been given to them.
The calendar says spring but the thermometers will likely be showing winter temperatures to a majority of the U.S. as another arctic blast sweeps in to start the week.
Forecasters say that temperatures could be as much as 20 degrees below normal in parts of the Midwest and Northwest and 25 degrees below normal in the upper Midwest.
Northern Minnesota cities such as Duluth and International Falls could see high temperatures this week that will stay in the teens and lows well below zero. Cities as far south as St. Louis and Cincinnati could see highs only around 30.
In addition, upper New England faces the strong possibility of a blizzard striking around mid-week. Parts of Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine could see upwards of a foot of snow before the weekend.
Other parts of New England could see several inches of snow as the bulk of the blizzard will just miss their areas.
A warming trend is expected to start over the weekend.
The latest NSA revelation revealed they obtained access to multiple systems by targeting the system administrator for hacking and surveillance.
The document from fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA would target the personal Facebook and emails of system administrators to hack their personal computers to gain information on corporate systems.
One of the documents released was actually titled “I hunt sys admins.”
The NSA targeted more than passwords once they obtained system access. They would obtain customer lists, network maps, business correspondence and even information described as “pictures of cats in funny poses with amusing captions.”
The document also showed the NSA targeting users of the TOR web browsing system that has higher levels of security than the normal systems.