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DANGEROUS: Turkey’s Erdogan to End Secular Democracy, Invoking New Holy War Between ‘Cross and Crescent’

21st Century Wire says…
Earlier this week, 21WIRE outlined how the current Turkey government is about to bring an abrupt end to country’s secular democratic government in favor of political Islam and one-party rule.
Turkey is about to pass over a very dangerous threshold… 

LONDON ATTACK: Attacker Named As British Man ‘Khalid Masood’, Known To British Intelligence

21st Century Wire says…
On Wednesday at 14:40 GMT, a knife attacker was shot by armed police after a car mowed down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and charged the gates of the British Parliament, in what police are treating as a terrorist incident.
Four people, including the assailant and a Metropolitan police officer, died as a result of Wednesday’s attack. It has been reported that 29 people were injured during the incident.

Khalid Masood named as ISIS terrorist who attacked UK Parliament

The British authorities have now identified the terrorist who carried out the attack on the British Parliament as British born Khalid Masood.
This comes shortly after ISIS has claimed Masood as one of its “soldiers”, and after reports carried by the BBC of a wave of arrests of various unidentified people presumably suspected of having some connection to Masood.

ISIS ‘pulling back’ its fighters from Deir Ezzor as Syrian army captures Deir Hafer, closes on Raqqa

Reports are circulating in the Middle East that over the last few days ISIS has started pulling back some of its fighters from Deir Ezzor to its ‘capital’ Raqqa, which is coming under increasing threat from the Kurdish militia and the advancing Syrian army.
This news comes after reports that a senior Syrian government official has recently visited Deir Ezzor to inspect the defences of the encircled town and presumably to give some encouragement to its population and defenders.

Tillerson Confirms US Plans For Long-Term Military Presence In Iraq

In this Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016 file photo, American soldiers participate in a training exercise at Basmaya base, 40 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP/Karim Kadim)
In comments today at the State Department, Rex Tillerson confirmed what has been reported for awhile, that the US intends to keep its thousands of ground troops in Iraq over the long-term, even after ISIS ends up being defeated.

Video emerges of the moment a car drove into pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge

Video has captured the moment a terrorist weaponized car drove into pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge, close to Britain’s parliament.
Five people were killed and about 40 injured, after the SUV in the video below plowed into pedestrians, in what seems to to be an ISIS inspired attack in the heart of London.
This was the deadliest attack in London since four British Islamists killed 52 commuters in suicide bombings on the city’s transport system in July 2005.

SIGAR Report Notes US Failures in Afghanistan

By Salman Rafi Sheikh – New Eastern Outlook – 23.03.2017 A report of Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), especially prepared for the US Congress and the Trump administration, finds what should be called a magnanimous failure of the US in achieving any of its major objectives in Afghanistan even after spending almost 16 […]