High-level intelligence officials and federal law enforcement are saying that terrorist attacks might be “imminent” for Texas cities and towns located near the U.S.-Mexico border as it’s believed the jihadists are already operating in a Mexican border town.

The unnamed officials told Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, that there’s good reason to believe Islamic State terrorists are operating in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez, and are planning to use the border to gain entry into the U.S. to carry out their attacks.

Juarez is located just over 8 miles from El Paso, and is a hotbed for violent and narcotic crimes and has been linked to the Islamic militant group, Hezbollah, in previous years. Officials claim that Islamic State jihadists might be setting up shop in Juarez, and plan to attack using car bombs and other vehicle-born improvised explosive devices.

The Judicial Watch report states: “Intelligence officials have picked up radio talk and chatter indicating that the terrorist groups are going to ‘carry out an attack on the border,’ according to one JW source. ‘It’s coming very soon,’ according to this high-level source, who clearly identified the groups planning the plots as ‘ISIS and al-Qaeda.'”

According to the report, an official said the threat of an attack is so likely that the commanding general at Ft. Bliss, the U.S. Army Base in El Paso, is being briefed on security measures.
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A Kurd of the ethnic minority of Yazidis holds up a placard reading “Stop IS” during a demonstration in Bielefeld, Aug. 9, 2014. Some 10,000 ethnic Kurds of the Yazidis sect, who practice an ancient faith related to Zoroastrianism, protested in the western German city on Saturday against Islamic State militants, who are surging across northern Iraq near the Kurdistan borders in their drive to eradicate unbelievers such as Christians and Yazidis.
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Fox News reported Friday that Texas Department of Public Safety released a three-page bulletin that warned Islamic State terrorists have studied and are “expressing an increased interest” in crossing over the border to carry out attacks. The Texas Department of Public Safety came to this conclusion through monitoring Twitter accounts that are believed to be linked to Islamic State jihadists.

The bulletin states: “A review of ISIS social media messaging during the week ending Aug. 26 shows that militants are expressing an increased interest in the notion that they could clandestinely infiltrate the southwest border of the U.S., for terror attack.”

An anonymous federal law enforcement official told The Blaze that there has been a long-standing concern about terrorist groups taking advantage of the border.

“Chatter has certainly increased and there’s a need to be vigilant,” the official told The Blaze. “Al-Qaeda and groups like ISIL have been vocal about the southern border. ISIL is making direct threats now and the situation is changed.”

During President Barack Obama’s press conference Thursday he said the U.S. doesn’t have a concrete plan to combat ISIS.

“I think what I’ve seen in some of the news reports suggest that folks are getting a little further ahead of where we’re at than what we currently are,” Obama asserted.

Michael Scheuer, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer, told Fox News that it would be naive to think that Islamic State jihadists would not use the U.S. southern border to their advantage to gain an entry point into the country.

“You’d have to be silly not to take an advantage of that opportunity. You can say many things about the Islamists, but silly they are not,” Scheuer said. “They may be brutal, but they are not dumb. We are the dumb ones.”

As reported by The Christian Post, Texas Governor Rick Perry said last month that it’s a “real possibility” Islamic State terrorists have already used the border to cross into the country due to lack of border security.

“Because of the condition of the border from the standpoint of it not being secured and us not knowing who is penetrating across: individuals from ISIS or other terrorist states. And, I think it is a very real possibility that they have already used that,” Perry told attendees at a Heritage Foundation panel on border security.

Scheuer added that it’s pretty common to see people from Asia and the Middle East use the U.S.-Mexico border to gain access into the country.

“We are confidently sure that every month a number of Arabs or Pakistanis come across the border illegally in the south,” Scheuer told Fox News.

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A secular organization has released a poll which states that over a third of Americans support removing the phrase “Under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance.

The American Humanist Association released on Tuesday a study done for their organization by The Seidewitz Group indicating that 34 percent of Americans support removing the phrase.

Roy Speckhardt, executive director for the American Humanist Association, told The Christian Post that the poll was done, in part, as a counter to a LifeWay Research Poll from last year.
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Speckhardt also told CP that he believes the unusually high percentage of individuals supporting the removal of the phrase was due to the study providing background on the pledge’s history.

“The numbers in support of retaining ‘under God’ that they were getting didn’t line up with what we were seeing in towns and cities across the country,” said Speckhardt.

“We thought it possible that the increased support for returning the pledge to its pre-Mcarthy Era form, might be higher if people learned about the origins of the 1953 addition of “under God” to the pledge. This survey showed the truth in that hypothesis.”

The AHA study was a six-question survey found online that was conducted on May 29 and had a sample space of 1,000 American adults.

For their questionnaire, the group told the survey takers that the phrase “under God” was absent from the Pledge of Allegiance up until the 1950s.

“During the Cold War, in 1954, the phrase ‘one nation indivisible’ was changed to read ‘one nation, under God, indivisible.’ Some people feel this phrase in our national pledge should focus on unity rather than religion,” read the information given to respondents.

The study’s findings noted that 21.4 percent of Christian respondents, 40.9 percent of respondents professing different faiths, and 62.7 percent of those professing no religious affiliation supported removal.

In April, LifeWay Research released the findings of a poll they conducted last September on what Americans felt about the phrase “under God” being in the Pledge of Allegiance.

For the LifeWay poll, 85 percent of respondents wanted “under God” to remain in the Pledge, 8 percent said it should be removed, and 6 percent said they did not know.

LifeWay’s sample space was 1,001 adults, who they interviewed over the telephone during a four-day period in September of last year.

“Most Americans have recited the pledge hundreds of times and are not inclined to memorize a different pledge,” said Scott McConnell, director of LifeWay Research, back in April.

“Changing it may just feel wrong. Most Americans say they believe in God or a higher being and feel comfortable having ‘under God’ in the pledge.”

From when it was first proposed in the 1950s, various polls on the position of “under God” in the pledge have produced supermajorities in favor of the phrase.

In 1953, a Gallup Poll found that 69 percent of Americans surveyed supported adding the phrase, 21 percent were opposed, and 10 percent held no opinion.

In 2002, an ABC News.com/Washington Post poll conducted via telephone of 1,024 adults nationwide, found that 89 percent of Americans felt the phrase should remain in the pledge.

They conducted the poll in response to a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against the phrase earlier that year.

“The Ninth Circuit may differ, but an overwhelming majority of Americans pledge allegiance to the pledge,” reported Dalia Sussman of ABC News back in 2002.

“George W. Bush called the ruling ‘ridiculous’ and both houses of Congress passed resolutions condemning it.”

The American Humanist Association has stated that the poll has encouraged them to begin a “new campaign” on the topic beginning next Monday.

Speckhardt of AHA declined to give details to CP about what this “new campaign” will specifically do, but he did acknowledge that AHA is overseeing a lawsuit against the phrase in New Jersey.

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David Cameron has said he is not ruling out military action to combat the Islamic State (IS) in northern Iraq and Syria.

The prime minister, speaking ahead of a Nato summit in Wales, also restated the Government’s policy not to pay ransoms in the the light of threats made by IS to the life of a British hostage after the murders of James Foley and Steven Sotloff. The family of the 44-year-old aid worker has asked the media to refrain from identifying him.

Mr Cameron said he was “personally supervising” efforts to secure the man’s release.

Speaking to the BBC about the possibility of taking part in military action against IS, Mr Cameron said: “I certainly don’t rule anything out. We should pursue our national interests. The most important thing to consider is that we mustn’t see this as something where you have a Western intervention over the heads of neighbouring states and leaving others to pick up the pieces.”

In another interview with Good Morning Britain, he added: “”We need to show real resolve and determination, we need to use every power and everything in our armoury with our allies, with those on the ground, to make sure we do everything we can to squeeze this dreadful organisation our of existence.”

On the issue of the paying of ransoms to IS, Mr Cameron told the BBC said he was sure that the Government’s policy to not pay them was the right one.

“I know that this is difficult for families when they are the victims of these terrorists – but I’m absolutely convinced from what I’ve seen that this terrorist organisation, and indeed others around the world, have made tens of millions of dollars from these ransoms – and they spend that money on arming themselves, on kidnapping more people and on plotting terrorist outrages, including in our own country,” he said.

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Ebola runs rampant, Ukraine and Iraq are torn by war, America is being warned of an imminent ISIS

attack and natural disasters abound while the Obama administration’s key aid agency expands “inclusion” strategies for lesbian, “gay,” bisexual and transgender persons.

The increased application of the LGBT-inclusion philosophy will help to transform agency hiring practices as well as the delivery of worldwide assistance programs, according to a procurement document WND located via routine database research.

The USAID Special Initiatives & Development Partners Division on behalf of the agency’s Office of Civil Rights and Diversity, or OCRD, awarded a sole-source, no-bid purchase order to communications-services provider Aptive Resources for LGBT-specific training.

As WND reported, USAID has criticized “conservative gender norms related to sexuality” and denounced “strong normative preference for heterosexuality” in foreign nations.

Such resistance to the administration’s LGBT agenda is viewed as a chief impediment to achieving U.S. policy goals.

USAID Administrator Ravi Shah recently said it is up to the U.S. to take action against legal restrictions against LGBT populations in 70 nations.

“We have to be the ones that stand up for those that are marginalized and for those that are not benefiting from their legal and social systems protecting their individual human rights,” Shah said at the unveiling of USAID’s “LGBT Vision for Action” plan in July.

“And in doing so, we have the best chance of ending extreme poverty, of supporting efforts to reduce hunger and suffering, of improving health and adequate nutrition.”

The LGBT inclusion plan will help govern various agency policies, including its National Action Plan on Women, Peace, Security; its Democracy, Human Rights and Governance Strategy; and even its climate change policy.
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