EgyptAir hijacker in custody, all passengers evacuated, officials sayCairo (CNN)Farrah El Dibany thought something was odd. Her Tuesday EgyptAir flight was taking too long to get from Alexandria to Cairo, the plane was headed out over the Mediterranean Sea, and then, crew members began taking passengers' passports. "When you fly to Cairo, you don't cross the sea," she said. "Then one of the cabin crew told us, 'We are hijacked. We're being hijacked.' There was a lot of panic and crying on the plane. They didn't tell us anything more. They didn't say what he wants or where we're heading, nothing. We were just kidnapped."El Dibany's flight had been hijacked by a man who officials described as "unstable" after he held the passengers and crew hostage with a fake explosive belt, forcing the plane to divert to Cyprus -- apparently over issues involving his ex-wife, a Cypriot. He also has a criminal record, "It was very horrifying to be in this situation," El Dibany said. The incident ended relatively peacefully Tuesday when the plane's crew and passengers left the aircraft and authorities took the hijacker into custody. "The hijacker has just been arrested," Cyprus government spokesman Nikos Christodoulides said on Twitter, adding a few minutes later, "All passengers and crew are safe." Cyprus state television showed video of the hijacker, wearing a white shirt, being led away by a phalanx of police. Presidential spokesman Alaa Yousuf identified the Egyptian man as Seif El Din Mustafa. An early report that the hijacker was armed with explosives was false, said Alexandros Zinon, permanent secretary for the Cypriot Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Shortly before news of the arrest, video of the aircraft, which was parked on the tarmac at Cyprus' Larnaca International Airport, showed people leaving the plane, one through a cockpit window. Domestic woes? The incident began when Mustafa allegedly hijacked the EgyptAir flight because of his ex-wife, officials said Tuesday. The hijacking was not related to terrorism, a spokesman for the Cyprus Transport Ministry said. The hijacker was "unstable," Homer Mavrommatis, director of the Cyprus Ministry of Foreign Affairs Crisis Management Center, told CNN. Egyptian authorities negotiated with him, but Mavrommatis said his motivation was not clear. "He kept on changing his mind and asking for different things," Mavrommatis said. Zinon also said the hijacker was unstable. One of his demands was that the plane be refueled so that he could travel to Istanbul, which was rejected, Zinon said. Authorities did, however, arrange for him to speak to his ex-wife, Mavrommatis said. Mustafa is now being questioned by Cypriot authorities, who will levy charges against him, Zinon said. Cyprus has yet to receive an extradition request, he said. This is not Mustafa's first brush with the law, Egypt's Interior Ministry said. The 58-year-old has a criminal record that includes "forgery, impersonation, burglary and drug dealing," the ministry said. Mostafa was sentenced to one year in prison for forgery, and escaped in 2011, according to the statement. After additional legal procedures, his sentence for forgery resumed on January 5, 2014, and he was released almost exactly one year later. The Airbus 320 was carrying 70 people: 55 passengers, including the hijacker, seven crew members and, because it was a connecting flight, an additional eight crew members, according to EgyptAir's Dina El Foly. Officials said earlier that as many as 82 people were on the plane. Many of the passengers and crew were released during the early stages of the ordeal, Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry said. 'There was a bit of chaos' El Dibany told CNN in a phone interview that crew members didn't explain at first why they were collecting passports, and the captain never gave an official explanation. "They just said that there was a problem and, 'Please don't ask,' " she said. After the cabin crew told passengers "in a very calm voice" that the plane had been hijacked, "some women started crying, and there was a bit of chaos." El Dibany said she was at the front of the plane and saw Mustafa from afar. The hijacker was behind a curtain in the cabin area at the back of the plane most of the time. He spoke only to the crew, she said. Eventually, the plane landed in Cyprus, where it sat for what El Dibany estimates was at least 45 minutes before Mustafa said the women and children on board could leave, she said. "About 20 minutes later, he said, 'All the Egyptians can leave,' and then at some point they got us a bus and we got off the plane, except some of the foreigners, non-Egyptians," said El Dibany. "So we left on the bus and they brought us to someplace safe." She applauded how the crew "very professionally" handled the harrowing experience. "They were keeping everyone calm," she said. "They weren't panicking. They were in control. "Threat of explosives EgyptAir Flight 181 should have been a short one; it usually takes less than an hour to fly from Alexandria to the Egyptian capital. But during the flight, Mustafa falsely claimed that he had an explosive belt, forcing the plane to turn away from its destination and toward Cyprus, pilot Omar El Gamal said, according to the Egyptian Civil Aviation Ministry. "Pilots will have a special signal they can use to airport traffic control," said Tom Ballentyne, chief correspondent for Oriental Aviation. "It might be a code word or a signal they can use that will alert air traffic control that there is problem." Officials initially didn't know whether the hijacker really had an explosive belt, but they had no choice but to take the threat seriously, Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathy Ateyya said. Later, Mavrommatis said, it became clear when the hijacker gave himself up that he was not wearing explosives. What the pilots and crew might have thought were explosives turned out to be mobile phone cases, Zinon said. Though it didn't elaborate, Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement saying Mustafa used personal items to create the impression that he had an explosive vest, but the items he used had already passed through an airport X-ray machine and were deemed safe. Video released by Egypt's Interior Ministry shows Mustafa receiving a pat-down at the Alexandria airport before passing through security without incident. 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"When you fly to Cairo, you don't cross the sea," she said. "Then one of the cabin crew told us, 'We are hijacked. We're being hijacked.' There was a lot of panic and crying on the plane. They didn't tell us anything more. They didn't say what he wants or where we're heading, nothing. We were just kidnapped."El Dibany's flight had been hijacked by a man who officials described as "unstable" after he held the passengers and crew hostage with a fake explosive belt, forcing the plane to divert to Cyprus -- apparently over issues involving his ex-wife, a Cypriot. He also has a criminal record, EgyptAir passenger recounts hijacking 01:56 "It was very horrifying to be in this situation," El Dibany said. The incident ended relatively peacefully Tuesday when the plane's crew and passengers left the aircraft and authorities took the hijacker into custody. "The hijacker has just been arrested," Cyprus government spokesman Nikos Christodoulides said on Twitter, adding a few minutes later, "All passengers and crew are safe." Cyprus state television showed video of the hijacker, wearing a white shirt, being led away by a phalanx of police. Presidential spokesman Alaa Yousuf identified the Egyptian man as Seif El Din Mustafa. An early report that the hijacker was armed with explosives was false, said Alexandros Zinon, permanent secretary for the Cypriot Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Shortly before news of the arrest, video of the aircraft, which was parked on the tarmac at Cyprus' Larnaca International Airport, showed people leaving the plane, one through a cockpit window.Domestic woes? The incident began when Mustafa allegedly hijacked the EgyptAir flight because of his ex-wife, officials said Tuesday. The hijacking was not related to terrorism, a spokesman for the Cyprus Transport Ministry said. Man seen climbing out of EgyptAir cockpit window 00:45 The hijacker was "unstable," Homer Mavrommatis, director of the Cyprus Ministry of Foreign Affairs Crisis Management Center, told CNN. Egyptian authorities negotiated with him, but Mavrommatis said his motivation was not clear. "He kept on changing his mind and asking for different things," Mavrommatis said. Zinon also said the hijacker was unstable. One of his demands was that the plane be refueled so that he could travel to Istanbul, which was rejected, Zinon said. Authorities did, however, arrange for him to speak to his ex-wife, Mavrommatis said. Mustafa is now being questioned by Cypriot authorities, who will levy charges against him, Zinon said. Cyprus has yet to receive an extradition request, he said. This is not Mustafa's first brush with the law, Egypt's Interior Ministry said. The 58-year-old has a criminal record that includes "forgery, impersonation, burglary and drug dealing," the ministry said. Mostafa was sentenced to one year in prison for forgery, and escaped in 2011, according to the statement. After additional legal procedures, his sentence for forgery resumed on January 5, 2014, and he was released almost exactly one year later. The Airbus 320 was carrying 70 people: 55 passengers, including the hijacker, seven crew members and, because it was a connecting flight, an additional eight crew members, according to EgyptAir's Dina El Foly. Officials said earlier that as many as 82 people were on the plane. Many of the passengers and crew were released during the early stages of the ordeal, Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry said.'There was a bit of chaos' El Dibany told CNN in a phone interview that crew members didn't explain at first why they were collecting passports, and the captain never gave an official explanation. "They just said that there was a problem and, 'Please don't ask,' " she said. After the cabin crew told passengers "in a very calm voice" that the plane had been hijacked, "some women started crying, and there was a bit of chaos." Understanding how pilots deal with a hijacker 03:07 El Dibany said she was at the front of the plane and saw Mustafa from afar. The hijacker was behind a curtain in the cabin area at the back of the plane most of the time. He spoke only to the crew, she said. Eventually, the plane landed in Cyprus, where it sat for what El Dibany estimates was at least 45 minutes before Mustafa said the women and children on board could leave, she said. "About 20 minutes later, he said, 'All the Egyptians can leave,' and then at some point they got us a bus and we got off the plane, except some of the foreigners, non-Egyptians," said El Dibany. "So we left on the bus and they brought us to someplace safe." She applauded how the crew "very professionally" handled the harrowing experience. "They were keeping everyone calm," she said. "They weren't panicking. They were in control."Threat of explosives EgyptAir Flight 181 should have been a short one; it usually takes less than an hour to fly from Alexandria to the Egyptian capital. But during the flight, Mustafa falsely claimed that he had an explosive belt, forcing the plane to turn away from its destination and toward Cyprus, pilot Omar El Gamal said, according to the Egyptian Civil Aviation Ministry. "Pilots will have a special signal they can use to airport traffic control," said Tom Ballentyne, chief correspondent for Oriental Aviation. "It might be a code word or a signal they can use that will alert air traffic control that there is problem." Officials initially didn't know whether the hijacker really had an explosive belt, but they had no choice but to take the threat seriously, Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathy Ateyya said. Later, Mavrommatis said, it became clear when the hijacker gave himself up that he was not wearing explosives. What the pilots and crew might have thought were explosives turned out to be mobile phone cases, Zinon said. Though it didn't elaborate, Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement saying Mustafa used personal items to create the impression that he had an explosive vest, but the items he used had already passed through an airport X-ray machine and were deemed safe. Video released by Egypt's Interior Ministry shows Mustafa receiving a pat-down at the Alexandria airport before passing through security without incident. Live blog: Read it as it unfolded'Old-fashioned type of terrorism'Understanding how pilots deal with a hijacker 03:07 The hijacking was "a more old-fashioned type of terrorism," said Sajjan Gohel of the Asia-Pacific Foundation London, explaining that it was rare for such negotiations to take place. Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry said the plane's foreign passengers included eight Americans, four Dutch, two Belgians, four Britons, one Syrian, one French and one Italian. Mavrommatis said there were also two Greek nationals on board, one of them the orthodox archbishop of Johannesburg. EgyptAir: Airline with history of hijackings All flights into Larnaca airport were briefly diverted to Paphos International Airport on the southwest coast of the island, the Cyprus Civil Aviation Authority said. A flight carrying passengers of the hijacked plane arrived in Cairo on Tuesday night. In October, Metrojet Flight 9268 -- taking off from Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh airport -- was downed in the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board. ISISclaimed responsibility, saying it breached security and smuggled a bomb on board.
"Ever since the Metrojet plane was blown up, it has been confirmed that there are lapses in Egyptian security," Gohel said. How could a hijacker overcome a passenger jet? Since then, Egypt has promised it would beef up security at airports across the country. Egypt insists that airports are safe and says tourists should come back. How tourists respond to this latest incident remains uncertain. All domestic and international fights at Egyptian airports are proceeding according to schedule, with minor delays because of heightened security, the Civil Aviation Ministry said in statement. "Flights to and from Larnaca airport have resumed and are now back to normal. All arrival and departures are back to normal," said Demetrius Mitrokanallos with the airport's passenger terminal services.CNN's Euan McKirdy, Milena Veselinovic, Chris Liakos and Margot Haddad and journalist Sarah Sirgany contributed to this report. Why we think terrorism is scarier than it really is (and we probably always will)I am arriving in Brussels. The train from London is full of the usual Chinese tourists and bored businesspeople. The city doesn’t, contrary to the impression given by CNN, resemble Kabul. Rows and rows of untouched houses scream bourgeois calm (actually, they gently whisper bourgeois calm).
As I wander out of the train station, grim-faced soldiers with impressively large automatic weapons are rousting a homeless man. He doesn’t look dangerous. There is no gunfire or explosion going off in the background. Daily life in Brussels continues in its usual sunless stupor. Outside the train station, I think of the 31 people who were so tragically killed in the metro and at the airport while innocently going about their daily lives. I am helpless to resist imagining myself or my loved ones in their place. But as I watch the Brussels traffic, I’m also thinking about the two or three people who, statistically speaking, died in road accidents that same day in Belgium. They were also going about their daily lives and probably also died tragically. But we will not have protest marches for them or newspaper profiles lamenting their loss. In fact, we will never know, or apparently care, who they were. Still, there are two or three more of them every day. Similarly, there were 372 mass shootings in the United States in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870, yet ending this killing spree is a minor issue in the presidential campaign. But a terrorist attack in a city an ocean away that killed far fewer people has already roiled the campaign. Along with many, many others, I’ve been researching and writing about this disproportionate reaction to terrorism for more than a decade — about the dangers it poses to freedom and democracy, and even the ways it can encourage more terrorism.President Barack Obama seems to agree. Yet it is abundantly clear by now that these arguments, as strong as they seem to me, will never have an impact. Indeed, a phone call from the US reminded me that I haven’t even convinced my own mother. She was not happy that I had dared to visit Brussels. She advised me to stay away from crowds. She loves me, but her fear is stronger than her faith in my analysis (which, she assures me, she does read). The difference between her image of Brussels and its reality is hardly surprising. Back in the US, the media hype surrounding terrorist attacks, the fear it generates among the public, and the exaggerated policy responses that public reaction inspires in politicians are all now part of the routine. Why? Why do we continue to choose fear? Why do we care so much more if you are killed by a terrorist than by a drunken driver or an apolitically deranged individual with a gun? Over the years, I’ve observed three main reasons: Wounded suspect in custody after shooting at Capitol Visitor CenterWASHINGTON — An armed man was wounded Monday by U.S. Capitol Police when he arrived at the Capitol Visitor Center and brandished a weapon at authorities, police said. U.S. Capitol Police Chief Matthew Verderosa said the man, who is known to authorities, appeared to draw his weapon when he was shot by police. One other person, described as a 35- to 45-year-old female bystander, suffered minor injuries from flying shrapnel or debris. A federal law enforcement official, who is not authorized to comment publicly, said the man was armed with a handgun. Verderosa said the matter was "the act of a single person who has frequented the Capitol before.'' The suspect was identified by a federal law enforcement official as Larry Russell Dawson of Antioch, Tenn., who had been charged last year in a Capitol disturbance. Dawson was charged Oct. 23 with assaulting a police officer and unlawful conduct on Capitol grounds, according to D.C. court records. He was released but never appeared in court. A bench warrant was issued Nov. 19 for his arrest. In another matter, Dawson's re-application for a license from the Tennessee Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers was rejected in August 2014, according to board records. The confrontation Monday transpired in a matter of seconds near the entrance to the visitor center, which was the scene of an active shooter drill earlier in the day. The real-life incident prompted authorities to issue a shelter-in-place order, which was later lifted as police massed near the scene. The shooting came during a congressional recess but at a time when the city is packed with tourists, many on spring break or in the nation's capital for the annual Cherry Blossom Festival. Following the reports, the Washington, D.C. police department tweeted that there was "no active threat to the public." Dawson was being treated at a local hospital and was in stable but critical condition late Monday, the Associated Press reported. Police told The Washington Post that Dawson would appear in D.C. Superior Court after his release from the hospital. The Capitol Visitor Center remained closed Monday following the incident, and the Capitol was available only for official business. Verderosa told reporters that police had located Dawson's pickup on the Capitol grounds and were processing it. Click here to read the full articleISIS reportedly planning attack targeting Jewish children in TurkeyTerrorists from the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) have advanced plans to murder Jewish children in Turkey, targeting kindergartens, schools and youth centres,Sky News can reveal.
Information on what intelligence officials are describing as an "imminent" attack was obtained from six operatives from the "Caliphate" who were arrested in the southern city of Gaziantep over the last week. The most likely target of an attack is Istanbul's synagogue in Beyoglu, which also has a community centre and a school attached to it. "In light of these circumstances, extraordinary security measures are being taken above and beyond the high alert level already in place by the Turkish police, as well as vigilance within the Jewish community," an intelligence source told Sky News. "Undercover and other covert counter-terror measures are being implemented around the clock. "This is a more than credible threat. This is an active plot," the source added. The series of threats and the specific targeting of Jewish children follow the deadly attack in Istanbul on March 19 when five people were killed by a suicide bomber, including four Israelis, and the murder of another 35 in Brussels last week. An intelligence report seen by Sky News said: "The so-called Islamic State is believed to be behind both sets of attacks and the organisation continues in determined efforts to perpetrate further attacks in Turkey and elsewhere." The latest intelligence has emerged as spy agencies struggle to co-ordinate their response to the scale of the threat that is now perceived to exist across Europe. Turkey has absorbed close to three million refugees and there is strong evidence that several members of the Paris and Brussels cell, who have European origins, had travelled to Syria for training and then been smuggled back, hidden in the waves of refugees seeking safety in Europe. Now it is coming under increasing terrorist pressure from ISIS and Kurdish separatists. The threat against Jewish targets, intelligence sources said, was the best information gathered on an imminent attack. "We don't know when it's scheduled for. It could be in the next 24 hours or next few days," the source said. Click for more from SkyNews. Airport security in spotlight after Brussels attacksSeveral countries have tightened or reviewed airport security following twin explosions at Brussels Airport, as Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday blamed Europe's porous borders and lax security for the attack. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bomb attacks in the departure hall of Zaventem airport, and a rush-hour metro train which killed at least 30 people. Prosecutors said the blasts at the airport, which serves more than 23 million passengers a year, were believed to be caused by suicide bombers. Turnbull waded into the global debate about protecting borders, reassuring Australians that "our domestic security arrangements are much stronger than they are in Europe where regrettably they allowed things to slip."
"That weakness in European security is not unrelated to the problems they've been having in recent times," he said in Sydney. Security was tighter at airports around Asia on Wednesday, with South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand and India saying that they were deploying additional resources at the major hubs. New measures included increased checks on those who were entering terminals and additional patrols within the terminal buildings, said officials from around the region. In India, where airport security is tighter than in most parts of Asia, only passengers with a valid flight ticket and passports were allowed to enter the terminal buildings before Tuesday's attacks. After Brussels, the country has begun to check some of the bags that the passengers bring into the terminals, said Surender Singh, the director general of the Central Industrial Security Force, which is in charge of security at commercial airports. But he ruled out checking every bag that goes into the terminals, saying that security forces needed to balance security with passenger conveniences. "It will not be possible at the moment. It would require a whole lot of changes at the airport itself," said Singh. "With hundreds of passengers lined up at Delhi airport, 100 percent checking of everybody and it would come to a standstill." Authorities in London, Paris and Frankfurt responded to the attacks by stepping up the number of police on patrol at their airports and other transport hubs. Airlines scrambled to divert flights as Brussels airport announced it would remain closed on Wednesday. In the United States, the country's largest cities were placed on high alert and the National Guard was called in to increase security at New York City's two airports. A United Nations agency was already reviewing airport security following the downing of a Russian airliner in Egypt by a makeshift soda-can bomb in October last year. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for smuggling the bomb on board. But despite attacks like a suicide bomb at Moscow's Domodedovo airport's arrival hall in 2011 that killed 37 people, there has been less attention focused on how airports themselves are secured. "It strikes me as strange that only half of the airport is secure. Surely the whole airport should be secure, from the minute you arrive in the car park," said Matthew Finn, managing director of independent aviation security consultants Augmentiq. Checkpoints The relative openness of public airport areas in Western Europe contrasts with some in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, where travelers' documents and belongings are checked before they are allowed to enter the airport building. In Turkey, passengers and bags are screened on entering the terminal and again after check-in. Moscow also checks people at terminal entrances. Israel's Ben Gurion Airport is known for its tough security, including passenger profiling to identify those viewed as suspicious, bomb sniffing devices and questioning of each individual traveler. In the Kenyan capital Nairobi, where authorities are on high alert for attacks by Somali-based al Shabaab militants, passengers have to get out of their cars, which are then searched, at a checkpoint a kilometer from the main terminal. But adding checks such as bag X-rays at terminal entrances could themselves create a potential target, one analyst said. "Any movement of the security 'comb' to the public entrance of a terminal building would cause congestion, inconvenience and flight delays, while the inevitable resulting queues would themselves present an attractive target," said Ben Vogel, Editor, IHS Jane's Airport Review. Koh the Face Stealer is one of the most ancient and knowledgeable spirits in all of the Spirit World. Nearly as old as the Ocean and Moon Spirits, he is the only known individual to remember them crossing over to the physical world, where they took the forms of koi fish. He is a malevolent entity with the body of an enormous centipede-like creature and resides under an ancient tree in the Spirit World. His self-chosen[2] name reflects his ability to literally steal the faces of other beings who express emotion and he can use them at will by "blinking".[3] History: Koh was born to the Mother of Faces thousands of years before the Hundred Year War. He chose the name Koh for himself after becoming distanced from his mother.[2] When Ummi and Avatar Kuruk were getting married, Koh lured Ummi to the Spirit World, where he stole her face and trapped her forever as punishment for Kuruk's arrogant ways.[4] Kuruk was determined to end Koh's life, but when the two met, the past Avatar could not go through with it as he realized that bringing an end to the spirit would also destroy the love of his life.[5] Despite Kuruk's vindictive actions, Koh himself held no personal grudge against Aang, as he was a different incarnation of the Avatar.[1] During the Hundred Year War, Koh stole the face of a young Northern Water Tribe citizen, Rafa, though Koh's mother later gave the young man a new face.[2] Aang appealed to Koh for information regarding the Moon and Ocean Spirits, Tui and La, when Koh warned the Avatar of impending danger the spirits faced. Aang asked for their location in the mortal world, but the spirit would not provide a clear answer and merely stated that they were opposites, forever revolving. When he told Aang that the boy had already met the spirits, the Face Stealer barely missed Aang's expression of epiphany when he realized that the identities of Tui and La were the koi fish in the Spirit Oasis. Before Aang left, Koh stated they would meet again,[1] which they did when Aang found himself in the Spirit World after being struck by Azula's lightning in the Crystal Catacombs of Old Ba Sing Se. During that encounter, Koh attempted to steal the young Avatar's face before he reconciled with the other past Avatars, but failed.[6] Personality: Koh is a perilous force who can be dangerous to meet. He has the ability to steal the face of anyone or anything that shows emotion to him, which is why those who are aware of his power attempt to remain inexpressive while in his presence. He possesses a sadistic personality, constantly trying to goad the slightest bit of emotion out of his visitors by frightening them with his monster-like appearance, or taunting them with his many faces.
However, Koh's actions suggest he was amoral rather than purely evil. He stole Ummi's face to punish Avatar Kuruk for his arrogance, but willingly told Aang the location of the Moon and Ocean Spirits and the danger they were in, and led him to his past Avatar lives. He is cryptic and often speaks in riddles. Koh's Faces: These are some of the millions of faces stolen by Koh.[3] They are listed as they appear in the picture, from left to right.
Belgium’s interior minister, Jan Jambon, has just been speaking to CNN about the manhunt that is currently underway to track the third suspect seen on airport CCTV.
He told CNN: Based on what we found after the attacks, we had some information and we did a lot of house searches today … It’s very dangerous to give details from the investigation because what we don’t want is to alert, maybe, terrorists that are still active in this country. We showed a photograph [with] these three people … Two of them killed themselves, suicide bombers, and the third left a bomb in the airport but it didn’t explode, lucky. We are now looking for this guy. Is the attack linked to the arrest of Paris suspect Salah Abdeslam in Brussels last week, he is asked. Jambon says he is proud of the professionalism of police and investigators. But he adds: We are also convinced that the terrorists of IS are professionals, too, and well-trained and well-formed. So it’s a difficult battle against them but I am convinced that we will win. Read analysis by my colleague Jason Burke here on the potential links between Abdeslam’s arrest and Tuesday’s onslaught: Disgraced Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Dead at 46Rob Ford, the former mayor of Toronto, has died at the age of 46 after battling cancer, his family said today. He was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in September 2014.
Ford's term as mayor of Toronto launched him into the international spotlight, due in part to a scandal involving illegal drug use while in office, but also for his polarizing politics in Canada's largest city. Ford is survived by his wife and two young children. John Tory, the current Mayor of Toronto said in a statement, "I have known Rob Ford for many years. He was a man who spoke his mind and who ran for office because of the deeply felt convictions that he had. As a councillor, mayor and private citizen, Rob Ford reached out directly to people across the city with a phone call, an offer of advice or support, and I know there are many who were affected by his gregarious nature and approach to public service." Dramatic Video Goes Inside Brussels Airport After Deadly Attacks Explosions Tear Through Brussels Airport And Subway The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it. What is the islamic state? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State’s appeal. “We have not defeated the idea,” he said. “We do not even understand the idea.” In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as “not Islamic” and as al-Qaeda’s “jayvee team,” statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors. The group seized Mosul, Iraq, last June, and already rules an area larger than the United Kingdom. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been its leader since May 2010, but until last summer, his most recent known appearance on film was a grainy mug shot from a stay in U.S. captivity at Camp Bucca during the occupation of Iraq. Then, on July 5 of last year, he stepped into the pulpit of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, to deliver a Ramadan sermon as the first caliph in generations—upgrading his resolution from grainy to high-definition, and his position from hunted guerrilla to commander of all Muslims. The inflow of jihadists that followed, from around the world, was unprecedented in its pace and volume, and is continuing. Our ignorance of the Islamic State is in some ways understandable: It is a hermit kingdom; few have gone there and returned. Baghdadi has spoken on camera only once. But his address, and the Islamic State’s countless other propaganda videos and encyclicals, are online, and the caliphate’s supporters have toiled mightily to make their project knowable. We can gather that their state rejects peace as a matter of principle; that it hungers for genocide; that its religious views make it constitutionally incapable of certain types of change, even if that change might ensure its survival; and that it considers itself a harbinger of—and headline player in—the imminent end of the world. The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (isis), follows a distinctive variety of Islam whose beliefs about the path to the Day of Judgment matter to its strategy, and can help the West know its enemy and predict its behavior. Its rise to power is less like the triumph of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (a group whose leaders the Islamic State considers apostates) than like the realization of a dystopian alternate reality in which David Koresh or Jim Jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people, but some 8 million. We have misunderstood the nature of the Islamic State in at least two ways. First, we tend to see jihadism as monolithic, and to apply the logic of al‑Qaeda to an organization that has decisively eclipsed it. The Islamic State supporters I spoke with still refer to Osama bin Laden as “Sheikh Osama,” a title of honor. But jihadism has evolved since al-Qaeda’s heyday, from about 1998 to 2003, and many jihadists disdain the group’s priorities and current leadership. Bin Laden viewed his terrorism as a prologue to a caliphate he did not expect to see in his lifetime. His organization was flexible, operating as a geographically diffuse network of autonomous cells. The Islamic State, by contrast, requires territory to remain legitimate, and a top-down structure to rule it. (Its bureaucracy is divided into civil and military arms, and its territory into provinces.) We are misled in a second way, by a well-intentioned but dishonest campaign to deny the Islamic State’s medieval religious nature. Peter Bergen, who produced the first interview with bin Laden in 1997, titled his first bookHoly War, Inc. in part to acknowledge bin Laden as a creature of the modern secular world. Bin Laden corporatized terror and franchised it out. He requested specific political concessions, such as the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Saudi Arabia. His foot soldiers navigated the modern world confidently. On Mohamed Atta’s last full day of life, he shopped at Walmart and ate dinner at Pizza Hut. There is a temptation to rehearse this observation—that jihadists are modern secular people, with modern political concerns, wearing medieval religious disguise—and make it fit the Islamic State. In fact, much of what the group does looks nonsensical except in light of a sincere, carefully considered commitment to returning civilization to a seventh-century legal environment, and ultimately to bringing about the apocalypse. The most-articulate spokesmen for that position are the Islamic State’s officials and supporters themselves. They refer derisively to “moderns.” In conversation, they insist that they will not—cannot—waver from governing precepts that were embedded in Islam by the Prophet Muhammad and his earliest followers. They often speak in codes and allusions that sound odd or old-fashioned to non-Muslims, but refer to specific traditions and texts of early Islam. To take one example: In September, Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the Islamic State’s chief spokesman, called on Muslims in Western countries such as France and Canada to find an infidel and “smash his head with a rock,” poison him, run him over with a car, or “destroy his crops.” To Western ears, the biblical-sounding punishments—the stoning and crop destruction—juxtaposed strangely with his more modern-sounding call to vehicular homicide. (As if to show that he could terrorize by imagery alone, Adnani also referred to Secretary of State John Kerry as an “uncircumcised geezer.”) But Adnani was not merely talking trash. His speech was laced with theological and legal discussion, and his exhortation to attack crops directly echoed orders from Muhammad to leave well water and crops alone—unless the armies of Islam were in a defensive position, in which case Muslims in the lands of kuffar, or infidels, should be unmerciful, and poison away. The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. Yes, it has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected populations of the Middle East and Europe. But the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam. Virtually every major decision and law promulgated by the Islamic State adheres to what it calls, in its press and pronouncements, and on its billboards, license plates, stationery, and coins, “the Prophetic methodology,” which means following the prophecy and example of Muhammad, in punctilious detail. Muslims can reject the Islamic State; nearly all do. But pretending that it isn’t actually a religious, millenarian group, with theology that must be understood to be combatted, has already led the United States to underestimate it and back foolish schemes to counter it. We’ll need to get acquainted with the Islamic State’s intellectual genealogy if we are to react in a way that will not strengthen it, but instead help it self-immolate in its own excessive zeal. Read The Full Article HereCB Radio is WAY MORE than just a radio station, therefore we are also displaying some content that our community has requested. We are enthusiastic and proud to be doing what we do and we take pride in our work. We consider our community and audience a very vital component to the website, for without you we would not be where we are now.While Most Kids Are Playing Outside, ISIS’ Children Are Brainwashed To Commit Unspeakable Acts of Terror*Note: This video contains graphic imagery that may upset some viewers. It is also an ISIS propaganda video, therefore, all depictions are subject to confirmation by third party sources. While most young kids are playing outside, the children of ISIS’ terrorists are being molded for brutality. In a new video released by ISIS, which features a young boy, they claim to have captured two Russian intelligence agents. Considering the former military commander of the Islamic State was Chechen-born Omar Al-Shishani, there is a likely chance that they’re telling the truth. One of the alleged operatives being filmed says: “And I direct my message to those who want to come here and spy, I say to them repent to Allah before it’s too late.” Then, the focus of the camera shifts where you can see the two accused men kneeling. What’s even more chilling than the fact that we all know what is about to happen, is who is going to carry out the heinous deed. A boy holding a sidearm, who couldn’t be older than thirteen, is seen with a more seasoned jihadist. The jihadist explains: “Indeed, Allah has gifted the Islamic State’s Security agency with the apprehension of these two spies. By Allah’s grace they are now in the custody of the “Lion Cubs of the Khalifah(Caliphate).” Without any hesitation, the boy appears to murder both men. It’s important to understand ISIS isn’t interested in raising children in a nurturing environment. They would prefer if they grew up excited to strap a suicide vest to their body or shoot an infidel. All the evidence can be summed up in these two images: Here ISIS’ children are playing “The Execution Game.” And in this GIF, a jihadist is asking a boy what he wants to be when he grows up.Undoubtedly, the Islamic State only has one agenda for its children, and it’s not for them to embrace their childhoods.
Its main objective is to turn their sons and daughters into the most merciless generation of cold-blooded killers the world has ever seen. That should be a major cause for concern to everyone. Note: This article was edited for content after publication. CB Radio Iguana Guardians were filming at the pump station to document the iguana slaughter that takes place every day. We have continued to see the water turn red with blood from the killed iguanas as well as other kinds of violence from the hunt. Remember that this is NOT culture or tradition, it is pure greed and selfishness that has no place in this world. If you support captive animal facilities, then you support killing 30,000 iguanas every year in Florida. SAY NO TO CAPTIVITY! #OpKillingStation #OpIguanas #CaptivityKillsHere is a list of what was recently requested on CB Hits.
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Far-Right Pundit: FEMA Camps, Martial Law And End Times Are Near!The right-wing outlet BarbWire, founded by activist Matt Barber, published an essay today by pastor JG Smoothy, who claims that notions once treated as conspiracy theories are becoming reality right before our eyes. According to Smoothy, the Luciferian/Illuminati-controlled government establishment is fostering racial and civil strife in order to demonize and degrade local police forces, paving the way for the nationwide imposition of martial law. Those who “fight back against the establishment or the opposing race group” will then be put into FEMA camps, complete with “plastic coffins” and “chain link fences,” while the military tries “to suppress those who would take part in the violence brought on against the government and in the race divide.” Smoothy predicts that Mexico and Canada will inevitably become involved in the U.S. “civil war,” leading to the dissolution of borders and the establishment by Pope Francis of a “worldwide, unified church.” “Everything on the table is meant to dissolve governments, borders, currencies and religions,” he writes. “One government, one currency, no borders and one world religion. The book of Revelations anyone?” As this scenario plays out, Smoothy claims, people will agree that folks like InfoWars broadcaster Alex Jones was right all along and that “you will find your jaw continually dropping to the floor as each event makes it’s [sic] way out of the Conspiracy Theory section, to the Historical section of your local library.” So really it’s just another day at BarbWire. - See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/far-right-pundit-fema-camps-martial-law-and-end-times-are-near#sthash.kHE1eNuX.dpuf Filed UnderWomen secretly film inside ISIS strongholdTwo Syrian women took a hidden camera through the northern Syrian city of Raqqa to document their life under ISIS rule, knowing they faced execution should they be discovered, according to CNN Swedish affiliate Expressen TV, which commissioned the video. Fully covered and wearing face veils, they shop, take a taxi and walk around neighborhoods, showing a deserted city with little traffic and some armed men walking about. "Everyone's left," they say, because airstrikes on Raqqa have intensified. "Foreign ISIS fighters have set up checkpoints, taken the ID cards of Syrians and use them to flee to Turkey," the women say. Five years after the start of the civil war in Syria, Raqqa -- the capital of ISIS' self-proclaimed caliphate -- has fundamentally changed. The war has claimed the lives of more than 250,000 people nationwide and displaced more than 10 million, according to the United Nations. ISIS captured Raqqa in 2013. The video was taken in late winter, according to Expressen TV, and shows the rubble of what once was the Uwais al-Qarni shrine, important to both Sufis and Shia Muslims. Passing by the Armenian Catholic Church of the Martyrs, distinctive by its geometric facade, one of the women notes ISIS has turned it into the Islamic police headquarters. Is ISIS going broke? Gruesome public executionsThroughout the video, the women, whose voices are disguised, recall the violence they have witnessed, including the beheading of a young man. "I could see there was a man sitting on the ground," says Oum Mohammad, the name used by one of the women. "The executioners were lined up, they were dressed in black." She said she tried, but couldn't watch the execution. "They execute with bullets, desecrate the body, decapitate it, stick the head on a spike and put it on display at the roundabout," she says. "Or they will put the body on the road and force cars to run it over until nothing is left." Strict Islamic lawThe women say ISIS has imposed hardline Islamic law in a city once considered Syria's most liberal.
Alleged homosexuals now are subject to being killed; women have lost many of their rights and have to cover their bodies and faces. "All women like to show their faces. We've lost that option. We've lost our femininity," Oum Mohammad says. To show the length to which ISIS has gone in enforcing its laws, the women go shopping for hair coloring only to find that all the faces of the models on the packaging have been covered with black marker. The women's hidden video also shows parts of Raqqa where the wealthy lived before ISIS drove them out. Now, mostly foreign fighters and their families occupy the nicer homes and apartments, the women explain. "They are from Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Saudis, Europeans, from places in France," Oum Mohammad says, "but the majority is from Saudi Arabia." The women want the world to understand in hopes that one day they will be free. "I long to take off the niqab and the darkness that cloaks us," one woman says. "Nothing matters more than freedom." Syria's war: Everything you need to know about how we got here CB Radio was at the PS to document today's iguana slaughter and what they saw was gut wrenching. We had reports that 31 iguanas were rounded up and taken to the PS where 6 were selected for captivity while the other 25 were killed for their meat which contains toxic levels of Salmonella and other diseases that are harmful to the body. Remember that captivity fuels this atrocity, tell your friends to cancel their plans to a zoo or circus. SAY NO TO CAPTIVITY!Remember: Your ticket for the zoo or circus pays for this, if you support animal captivity, then you might as well stand with the monsters who have ruthlessly taken 20 innocent lives. This is NOT "culture" or "tradition" this is pure greed and evil. SAY NO TO CAPTIVITY!Remember: Iguanas are one of the best reptile in Florida, though non native, they deserve to be treated with respect and kindness. If you support the zoo, circus, or any captive animal facility, then you support the killing of 6 iguanas today. SAY NO TO CAPTIVITY!!!!Tilikum, the SeaWorld killer whale at the center of ‘Blackfish’, is slowly dyingOver the last 35 years, America’s most famous living killer whale has shouldered a fraught history, emerging as the symbol of both orcas’ elegance and their capacity for violence. As the focus of the 2013 documentary “Blackfish,” Tilikum — affectionately called “Tili” — has been at once regarded as a victim of captivity and a maker of tragedy. On Tuesday, SeaWorld Orlando announced that that knotty story may soon be coming to a slow and quiet end. The marine park that has owned Tilikum for more than two decades said in a statement on its website that he is suffering from an illness that may likely take his life. “Despite the best care available, like all aging animals, he battles chronic health issues that are taking a greater toll as he ages,” SeaWorld said. “Our teams are treating him with care and medication for what we believe is a bacterial infection in his lungs. However, the suspected bacteria is very resistant to treatment and a cure for his illness has not been found.” Scott Gearheart, a staff veterinarian, teared up while discussing Tilikum’s prognosis in a SeaWorld video. “I wish I could say I was tremendously optimistic about Tilikum and his future,” Gearheart said, his voice cracking. “But he has a disease which is chronic and progressive, and at some point might cause his death.” The veterinarian added: “If he would have shown up with this disease in the wild, there’s no doubt in my mind he’d have been gone a long time ago.” Male orcas in the wild have an average life span of 50 to 60 years, but the expectancy for killer whales in captivity is much shorter. Tilikum is believed to be about 35 years old; the median survival rate for orcas in U.S. marine parks is just 12 years. If Tilikum passes away, he will be remembered for a number of things: the three human deaths — among them, the violent passing of SeaWorld darling Dawn Branchaeu — to which he has been linked, the documentary that spurred a movement to have him freed and the complicated questions he has inspired about humans’ relationship to the animals we attempt to control. Before Tili, there was Namu, the first orca to be captured and trained. Then there was Shamu (a portmanteau of “she” and “Namu”), who starred in eponymous and iconic killer whale shows. And who could forget Keiko, the orca who starred in “Free Willy”? Yet none of these former aquatic stars have attracted quite the same mixture of scandal and sympathy as the energetic killer whale whose name means “friend” in Chinook. [The fate of SeaWorld’s ‘Shamu’ show was forecast by the very first whale performers] In November 1983, Tilikum was found with two female orcas in the icy waters of west Iceland. He was netted as part of an extensive capture network organized by the Don Goldsberry, who created the original Shamu shows with Ted Griffin. According to Outside Magazine, the killer whales were housed in a concrete holding tank for nearly a year before being transferred to Sealand of the Pacific, a marine park near Victoria, British Columbia. The conditions at Sealand were poor. The killer whales were confined to pools less than 20 feet deep, and Tilikum had to contend with two aggressive roommates (females are dominant in the orca world). It was there that the first death occurred. Eight years after Tilikum and the two female orcas were taken from the wild, a 20-year-old part-time trainer named Keltie Byrne slipped and fell into their tank. “She tried to get back out and the other girl tried to pull her up, but the whale grabbed her back foot and pulled her under,” a witness told CNN in 1991. “And then the whales — they bounced her around the pool a whole bunch of times, and she was screaming for help.” Byrne, a marine biology student and a competitive swimmer, had plenty of experience in water. But none of that matter when faced with several tons of killer whale. Byrne drowned before anyone could save her. She was the first trainer to be killed by orcas at a marine park, Outside reported, but she wouldn’t be the last, or even the last one with which Tilikum would come into contact. And yet, a former employer at Sealand recalled to CNN that Tilikum was very “easy to work with.” “He was very easygoing, he learned quickly,” Colin Baird said. “You know, he was probably my favorite of the three.” Sealand’s business prospects never recovered from the incident. They closed in 1992, a year after selling their killer whales to SeaWorld. To observers, it may have seemed a curious decision on SeaWorld’s part. Why would they want, after all, three orcas that had just been involved in a high-profile tragedy? A major factor was Tilikum’s virility. In an attempt to distance itself from capture methods that were coming under fire, SeaWorld was focusing its energies on establishing a strong captive breeding network. The park discovered that Tilikum had impregnated both of the female orcas at Sealand, indicating that his sperm could be of great use. Today, Tilikum is regarded as prolific in his capacity for insemination, having sired 21 offspring (10 of which are still alive). But even this achievement has been questioned. Given his violent tendencies, was it a good idea to continue spreading his genes? As The Washington Post’s Michael O’Sullivan wrote in his review of “Blackfish,” “A dog that had bitten that many people would have been euthanized long ago and not sent to a stud farm.” SeaWorld was a major upgrade for the Sealand killer whales, with some of the best facilities for marine animals in the world. And yet, tragedies continued to unfold. In 1999, the limp body of 27-year-old Daniel Dukes was found lying across Tilikum’s back. He had recently been released from a county jail, and appeared to have snuck into the park at night. By the time they found Dukes, he had died from drowning. Ric O’Barry, a marine mammal trainer of 40 years, told Orlando Weekly that regardless of what caused Dukes’s death, the orcas’ lifestyle was less than ideal, despite SeaWorld’s numerous amenities. “They’re bored,” O’Barry said of the killer whales. “We literally bore them to death. It’s like you living in the bathroom for your life.” Experts say it was something more than boredom, however, that led to thedeath of star trainer Dawn Brancheau. The word orca researcher Ken Balcomb used in “Blackfish” was “psychotic.” Brancheau had wanted to work with killer whales since she was nine years old, when she took a trip to SeaWorld with her family, Outside reported. She trusted the animals, she was comfortable around them, and, at age 40, the “vivacious” blond was “literally the poster girl for the marine park…appearing on billboards around the city.”
In February of 2010, Brancheau had just completed a show and was feeding Tilikum when he suddenly grabbed her by the hair and started “thrashing” her around the tank, the Associated Press reported at the time. To many onlookers, the attack looked deliberate. “We don’t know for sure what motivated Tilikum,” former trainer Jeffrey Ventre told Outside. “But there’s no doubt that he knew exactly what he was doing. He killed her.” As with the others, Brancheau was dead by the time they got ahold of her body. Tilikum was retired from doing shows, but not for long. He returned to public performances in the spring of 2011. Two years later, “Blackfish” was released, documenting the plight of killer whales at marine parks across the country. Tilikum instantly became a cause for viewers, who called for his release and rallied around the demand to “Free Tili,” despite the difficulties of ensuring a captive orca’s survival back in the wild. SeaWorld condemned the documentary as “propaganda,” stating in a lengthy response that “the film conveys falsehoods, manipulates viewers emotionally and relies on questionable filmmaking techniques to create ‘facts’ that support its point of view.” Notwithstanding his troubling, controversial history, the trainers featured in the video announcing Tilikum’s illness were emotional about his deteriorating health. Daniel Richardville, who has worked with Tilikum for a decade, concluded: “These are the ups and downs of the life we have been living with him.” Operation Henkaku: The Killing Cove is Closed for Business – Let’s Keep It That Way!The 2015-2016 Taiji dolphin drive hunt is over. This season, the government of Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, authorized Taiji’s dolphin killers to capture or slaughter up to 1,873 dolphins. In some of the lowest numbers observed in recent years, between 630 and 650 dolphins were ruthlessly driven into the cove and slaughtered. Another 117 were taken captive, destined to spend the rest of their lives in shallow tanks, cement pools, or cramped sea pens performing circus tricks for paying tourists. Sea Shepherd's dedicated team of volunteer Cove Guardians was on the ground every single day of the hunt. Livestreaming the capture, selection, and slaughter, the Cove Guardians continued to bring international attention to this outrageous crime against the oceans. Despite ridiculous claims by those involved, the Taiji dolphin drive hunt is not tradition; it is a profit-driven enterprise supported by the Japanese government and fueled by the lucrative worldwide trade in captive dolphins. Although several Cove Guardian veterans were barred entry into Japan, Sea Shepherd’s Cove Guardians stood their ground, as they have since 2010, to make sure the world sees exactly what Taiji tries to hide. The dolphin killers continued to use tarps to try to hide the killing from our cameras, but tarps can’t hide the blood that turns the water from blue to red or the sounds of the frenzied dolphins as they face their executioners. Our livestream footage irrefutably dismissed any and all claims of a “humane slaughter.” During one slaughter, a pilot whale escaped from beneath the tarps after being pithed with a metal rod. For several minutes, the profusely bleeding and suffering animal attempted to swim away, eventually slipping under the surface of the water. Each drive brought new horrific sights and each month was marked by even more merciless acts of violence on the part of the killers: The annual hunt began on September 1, 2015. The first drive of the season ended with a pod of Risso’s dolphins netted into the cove on September 11. During the ensuing slaughter, the Cove Guardians observed one dolphin trying to escape by launching out of the water and up onto the jagged rocks in the killing cove. As some of the killers dragged the doomed dolphin back into the cove, others looked on and laughed at the plight of the terrified animal. Following the slaughter of another pod of Risso’s dolphins on October 19, 2015, the killers dumped several bodies at sea. We believe they took this extreme measure to avoid exceeding their annual Risso’s dolphin-killing quota. The next day, the Cove Guardians discovered the remains of a dead juvenile Risso’s dolphin washed-up on the beach. November 19, 2015, began four days of anguish as approximately 69 -74 pilot whales were captured and held in the cove. By November 22, 46 members of this intergenerational family had been slaughtered, and several more succumbed from the sheer stress of the drive and ensuing selection ordeal. One pilot whale was taken captive but died days later in a Taiji harbor sea pen. December 2015 saw a pod of bottlenose dolphins captured and held in the cove for three days. Bottlenose is the dolphin species most prized by the captive industry. With the assistance of trainers, 30 animals were taken captive. Those dolphins not deemed to be “pretty” enough for captivity were slaughtered while the same trainers laughed and watched. January always seems to be an especially bloody month in Taiji. This year was no exception. The killers hunted on 22 days and slaughtered pods on 14 of those days. Forty percent of the entire 2015-2016 killing quota was met in January 2016. Nine drives took place in February 2016, with 20 more bottlenose dolphins taken captive and forced into the tiny sea pens in Taiji harbor. The 105 bottlenose dolphins, seven Risso’s dolphins, one pilot whale, and four Pacific white-sided dolphins taken into captivity during the 2015-16 Taiji dolphin hunt are now condemned to a dismal “life” as slaves to the captive industry. Forced to perform circus tricks in order to receive a reward of drug-laced frozen fish, many of these animals will die prematurely from stress, trauma or both. The Taiji dolphin killers repeatedly claim that the dolphin drive hunt is their “tradition.” They also blame the dolphins for decreasing fish stocks and say that the drive hunt is a form of “pest control.” At the same time, they proclaim the pods of dolphins and whales who migrate through the waters of Taiji to be their property. In reality, the desire to hunt and capture dolphins has nothing to do with pest control or tradition. It has everything to do with greed. Captive dolphins are a multi-million-dollar worldwide industry that starts in Taiji, Japan. The Taiji dolphin killers are profiting from a demand for captive dolphins. If you proudly display a photo kissing a captive dolphin, if you support marine parks and dolphinariums, you might as well stand alongside the killers in Taiji’s bloody cove. Your entrance fee to these places fuels the tanks for another hunt. After five campaigns of Operation Infinite Patience, this season's Operation Henkaku sought to focus specific attention on the captive trade. Taiji is all about supply and demand. The hunting and slaughter of dolphins will not end for good until the demand for captive dolphins ends for good. While the grueling 2015-16 Taiji dolphin drive hunt season has now ended, the pressure on those who hold dolphins captive must not! Let’s close down the killing cove for good by bankrupting the worldwide captive trade. Dolphins are not assets, commodities or property. They don’t belong on transport trucks or cargo planes, and they certainly don’t belong in tanks. We must all continue to be a voice for the dolphins. Sea Shepherd calls on everyone who followed Operation Henkaku to keep pressuring travel agents, hotels, cruise lines, marine parks, and dolphinariums to stop profiting from the misery of captivity. Thank you for your unwavering support of the Cove Guardians, Operation Henkaku, and dolphin freedom. Tell everyone you know to “Just say NO to the dolphin show!” We would like to give a quick shoutout to all our sponsors, volunteers, and fans who have helped CB Radio become what it is today. We are proud to be providing good community service as well as providing quality entertainment. If there is anything that we can do to make your experience more enjoyable, please don't hesitate to tell us.
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