Sunday, August 15, 2021

President Biden Will Own The Fall Of Kabul — When The Real Killing Begins

Former CIA Director and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates noted famously in his memoir that Joseph Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."

Biden is nothing if not consistent, as he is once again wrong with his hasty and dangerous decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. 

I recall the gut-punch I felt when the Congress cut off funds to South Vietnam in 1975, ensuring a Communist victory after America had expended so many lives and funds to hold the North Vietnamese aggressors at bay. Once again, to our shame, we are abandoning a country where we have expended many American lives and funds. 

Kenneth R. Timmerman offers a piece at the New York Post on Biden and Afghanistan. 

For decades, Joe Biden has touted himself as a foreign policy genius. As a United States senator, he never had to make a decision or bear responsibility for running off at the mouth. As vice-president, he was given backwaters such as Ukraine that he reportedly turned into a family piggy bank. 

But now he is president. He owns the utter disaster that Afghanistan has become; and the sudden about-face of the Pentagon to send 3,000 fully armed combat troops back into the fray shows that even the woke military bosses Biden installed can wake up and smell the coffee. 

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

President Biden will own the fall of Kabul — when the real killing begins (nypost.com) 

Friday, August 13, 2021

How The Terrorist Carlos The Jackal Was Feted And Pampered By The Communist East German Stasi


Allan Hall at the Daily Mail offers a piece on how the notorious Communist East German Stasi supported the terrorist and murderer known as Carlos the Jackal.

Shredded Stasi files have been pieced together to reveal how global terrorist Carlos the Jackal was supplied with weapons and given sanctuary by the East German secret police.

While the West was hunting the man responsible for atrocities all over the world, the Communist regime in Berlin was busy handing him the means to carry out more.

But not only did the Stasi offer him sanctuary and supplies, it ensured the killer was feted and indulged like a dignitary from the Soviet Kremlin.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324950/How-Carlos-Jackal-feted-pampered-Stasi-backers.html


You can also read my Counterterrorism magazine piece on Carlos the Jackal via the below link:

Paul Davis On Crime: A Look Back At Carlos The Jackal: Once The World's Most Wanted Man 

Thursday, August 12, 2021

On This Day in History Ian Fleming, Former WWII British Naval Intelligence Officer, Journalist And Author Of The James Bond Thrillers, Died


I became an Ian Fleming aficionado in the early 1960s after watching the late, great Scot actor Sean Connery portray Ian Fleming’s iconic character James Bond in the first two Bond films, Dr. No and From Russia With Love, which led me to buy Ian Fleming’s novels. 

I had read two of Fleming’s Bond thrillers when riding in my father’s car I heard on the radio that Ian Fleming had died. He was only 56. 

As History.com notes, Ian Fleming died on this date in 1964. 

On August 12, 1964, the British author and journalist Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, the world’s most famous fictional spy, dies of a heart attack at age 56 in Kent, England. 

Fleming’s series of novels about the debonair Agent 007, based in part on their dashing author’s real-life experiences, spawned one of the most lucrative film franchises in history.Ian Lancaster Fleming was born into a well-to-do family in London on May 29, 1908. As an adult, he worked as a foreign correspondent, a stockbroker and a personal assistant to Britain’s director of naval intelligence during World War II–experiences that would all provide fodder for his Bond novels. 

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

James Bond creator Ian Fleming dies - HISTORY 

You can also read my Counterterrorism magazine piece on Ian Fleming’s wartime experiences via the below link:

Paul Davis On Crime: My Piece On The 30 Assault Unit, The British WWII Commando Group Created By Ian Fleming, The Creator Of James Bond

And you can read my Washington Times On Crime column and two of my Crime Beat columns on Ian Fleming via the below links:

Paul Davis On Crime: My Washington Times 'On Crime' Column On Ben Macintyre On Ian Fleming And James Bond

Paul Davis On Crime: My Crime Beat Column: A Look Back At Ian Fleming's Iconic James Bond Character 

Paul Davis On Crime: My Crime Beat Column: The Ian Fleming and James Bond Phenomenon



Spies In Philly: My Philadelphia Weekly Crime Beat Column On Economic Espionage In Philadelphia


Philadelphia Weekly published my Crime Beat column on economic espionage in Philadelphia.

You can read the column via the below link or the below page:


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'The Russians Have Videos Of Me Doing Crazy F***ing Sex!' Hunter Biden Is Seen In Unearthed Footage Telling Prostitute That Russian Drug Dealers Stole ANOTHER Of His Laptops

The Daily Mail published a video of President Biden’s Son Hunter Biden telling a prostitute that Russians stole another one of his laptops. 

Hunter Biden claimed Russians stole another one of his laptops for blackmail while he was close to overdosing in a Las Vegas hotel room, DailyMail.com can reveal. 

 

The alleged incident would mean Hunter lost a total of three computers - the first abandoned at a Delaware computer store and the second seized by federal agents - each likely to hold sensitive information on President Joe Boden and the embarrassing pictures, videos and communications of his son.

 

The third laptop still appears to be missing – and was taken by Russian drug dealers after they partied with Hunter in Vegas, he told a prostitute in a conversation caught on camera.

You can read the rest of the piece and watch the video via the below link:

Unearthed video shows a naked Hunter Biden claiming Russian drug dealers stole his laptop | Daily Mail Online  


Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Commander Offers Strategies For Deterring Aggression From China And Russia

David Vergun at the DOD News offers a piece on a general’s speech on the threats from China and Russia: 

The commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command described threats from Russia and China and ways to mitigate those threats. 

Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck (seen in the above photo) spoke today at the Space & Missile Defense Symposium, in Huntsville, Alabama. 

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

Commander Offers Strategies for Deterring Aggression From China and Russia > U.S. Department of Defense > Defense Department News 

Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Ralph Cipriano: How Philly D.A. Set Up Cop To Be Sued By Man Who Tried to Kill Him

Only in Philadelphia? Ralph Cipriano at BigTrial.net offers a piece on how the Philadelphia DA set up a Philly police officer to be sued by the man who shot him.  

On the night of Jan. 13, 2018, Officer Timothy Stephan of the Philadelphia Highway Patrol saw a car with Jersey plates going the wrong way down a one-way street in Kensington. 

Stephan and his partner, Officer Anthony Mooney, pulled the car over on Kensington Avenue under the El. When Stephan searched Stefon Crawley, a 22 year-old passenger inside the vehicle, he felt a Glock in Crawley's waistband that was loaded with an extended foot-long magazine.  

"Gun," Stephan yelled to his partner.  The officer who drew his own gun, tried to retrieve the Glock while restraining Crawley, to prevent him from getting out of the car. But while Crawley was fighting back, he looked the officer in the eyes and told him three times, "You're gonna have to fucking kill me." Then, while he was trying to pull his own gun out of his waistband, Crawley overpowered the officer, and grabbed the officer's gun. 

While the two men struggled over control of the officer's gun, Officer Stephan fired a single shot that struck Crawley in the left leg. The wounded man bolted out of the car but fell down on the ground, while Officer Stephan ripped Crawley's gun away from him. Next, Crawley got up and tried to run away. But Officer Jason Reid showed up. Believing Crawley was still armed, and worried that the one gunshot he just heard might have struck Officer Stephan, Reid opened fire, shooting the fleeing suspect four more times.  

Crawley was a gang member with a rap sheet on parole for armed robbery who was not supposed to leave the state of New Jersey; the gun he left behind turned out to be stolen. Crawley was charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, plus three weapons charges. An internal investigation conducted by the Philadelphia Police Department's Officer Involved Shooting Investigation [OISI] Unit cleared Stephan after Crawley's DNA was found on Stephan's gun. 

But this being Philadelphia, what happened next amounted to perverted justice emanating from the office of District Attorney Larry Krasner. When the D.A. refused to clear Officer Stephan, he was unable to testify at Crawley's criminal trial. The D.A.'s office subsequently dropped all charges against Crawley. 

Next, Crawley, represented by Greenblatt, Pierce, Funt And Flores, LLC, the law firm that Krasner was formerly a member of, sued Officers Stephan and Reid in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court for damages. 

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

How D.A. Set Up Cop To Be Sued By Man Who Tried to Kill Him | Big Trial | Philadelphia Trial Blog