A man believed to be a British Army soldier wearing a “Help for Heroes” t-shirt was brutally hacked to death by two men yelling “Allahu Akbar” just outside the Woolwich army barracks in London, the BBC reported.

The two men were ultimately shot by police who responded to the scene, and are in the hospital receiving treatment.

Horrified citizens filmed the attack in a disturbing video making its way around the Internet.

According to the U.K’s The Independent:

One of the suspected killers, who addressed an onlooker with a camera, said the pair had carried out the attack “because David Cameron, (the) British government sent troops in Arabic country”.

As pedestrians stood close by the armed men, he went on: “We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you,” according to footage obtained by ITV News.

In the video, one of the suspects, whose hands are covered in blood, is waving around a machete and smaller knife as he said:

We must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. I apologize that women have had to witness this today, but in our land our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government, they don’t care about you.

A witness described the scene in more graphic detail, the Independent reported:

One witness, identified only as James, said he and his partner saw two black men attack a young man aged around 20 in a Help for Heroes T-shirt with kitchen knives like he was “a piece of meat”.

“They were hacking at this poor guy, literally,” he told LBC Radio, adding that a group of brave women tried to shield the soldier from the two men.

“They were hacking at him, chopping him, cutting him. These two guys were crazed. They were just animals. They dragged him from the pavement and dumped his body in the middle of the road and left his body there.”

Prime Minister David Cameron was pulled out of a meeting in France after he learned of the terrorist attack. He condemned the attack saying, “We are obviously urgently seeking the full facts but there are strong indications that it’s a terrorist incident,” the paper said.

More from The Independent.

(Warning: Disturbing and graphic images)

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There’s no way to make someone taking the Fifth Amendment look good.

But you can at least make the other side look bad.

That’s what a top New York Times editor tried to do Wednesday afternoon when he explained IRS official Lois Lerner’s invoking the right to remain silent before a House committee. Lerner declined to answer questions about why IRS agents under her supervision targeted conservative groups for heightened screening during the run-up to last fall’s election.

Lerner was acting on legal counsel, but it was the Republicans who made her do it, wrote David Firestone, projects editor for the Times editorial page.

Firestone says it’s “not surprising” Lerner took her attorney’s advice. Republicans, he says, “would rather see heads on spikes than get to the bottom of the problem.”

So, Lerner couldn’t testify, clear everything up, and start us all on a journey to happier days and a clearer tax code. If she said a word, she’d just be helping lay the groundwork for a criminal case Republicans are set on, according to Firestone.

“There is not the slightest evidence that anyone in the IRS who examined tax-exempt applications committed criminal acts,” Firestone writes.

Not the slightest. And if everyone keeps their mouth shut, maybe there won’t be.

“She could have explained why, after she told her employees to cut it out, they resumed and expanded the practice, and were allowed to do so for months. Chances are that she would have added to the growing picture of gross ignorance, confusion and incompetence in the Cincinnati office, exacerbated by hands-off management in her own shop.”

Sure, she could have explained that.

“And chances are that her testimony would have made it clearer that there was no criminal conspiracy, either at the White House or in the upper reaches of the tax agency, to deprive any group of its constitutional rights.”

Yep. That’s just what the chances are.

There’s no chance at all her testimony might have made clear that there was a tacit agreement in the administration that the IRS should be on the lookout for groups with dangerous names like “Tea Party,” and “9/12,” or those with the dangerous mission of fostering understanding and appreciation for the Constitution.

There’s no chance at all that Lerner’s testimony would paint the effort for exactly what it was: a way to shut down groups working against the president’s re-election in a tight state.

There’s no chance she would have revealed that the White House or IRS higher-ups wanted to deprive any group of its constitutional rights.

No chance at all.

That’s why Lerner didn’t testify. There was absolutely nothing to hide

Let’s face it. You can’t make taking the Fifth look good.

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Hunt appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” with Joe Scarborough Wednesday, and after submitting that Obama “no better than Richard Nixon,” he suggested that it may be time for Eric holder, his attorney general, to hit the bricks.

The two were discussing a Tuesday James Goodale New York Times commentary in which he predicted that Obama would become worse than Nixon. Goodale has some experience on the subject — he represented the Times in the Pentagon Papers case against the Nixon White House

“It is a further example of how President Obama will surely pass President Richard Nixon as the worst president ever on issues of national security and press freedom,” Goodale wrote according toThe New York Times.

Hunt began, “Let’s stay with your analogy about Ellsberg in 1971. Jim Goodale, who was the counsel for the New York Times in 1971, has just written a book on the Pentagon Papers in which he says when it comes to the press, Obama is no better than Richard Nixon. That’s something my liberal friends hate to hear but it’s true. It is unconscionable, I think, but it’s part of a pattern,” he said.

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“They have gone after – they being Eric Holder – have gone after more reporters and leakers than John Mitchell, Ed Meese and John Ashcroft combined. When you throw those names in, they get a little bit rattled. It’s just outrageous! And people say who’s at fault here? It reflects the President.”

“It’s a culture, right?” Scarborough asked.

“It does raise serious questions, I think, along with a number of other matters about the competency of the Attorney General to continue to hold office,” Hunt said.

Can it be that the liberal mainstream press has finally removed its head from its posterior?

Regress race relations to pre-1960s and the press remains silent. Ass $5 trillion to the national and they turn a blind eye. Engage in a gun-walking scheme that eventually results in the death of a border agent and it’s swept under the rug. Benghazi? Isn’t that the name of an Italian designer?

But go after a fellow-journalist — even if from Fox News — and there is hell to pay.

H/T NewsBusters.

Chairman of the committee, Sen. Leahy, “pretending” to ask for order, encouraged the crowd as they turned the shouting  to “¡Si, Se Puede!”

At 81, Louis Farrakhan is as still full of the old fire-breathing hatred of “Satanic Jews” and the “Synagogue of Satan” as ever.

And he still loves President Obama, and would probably love him even more if he didn’t surround “himself with Satan … members of the Jewish community.”

That was a report from the Detroit Free Press – no right-wing bastion there – about a speech the Nation of Islam leader delivered Friday night at a Detroit church.

Listeners to the man Rush Limbaugh listeners know as “Calypso Louie” — because of his pre-Nation of Islam entertainment career — included U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, the Free Press reported.

The anti-Jewish vitriol was old hat for Farrakhan watchers, but it’s always worth noting.

In the speech, Farrakhan said black leaders bear responsibility for amount of black-on-black crime in overwhelmingly black Detroit, something the president only glancingly referred to in his commencement address over the weekend at Morehouse College.

“Look at the violence in Detroit,” Farrakhan said. “It’s not white folks killing us. It’s us killing each other.”

But he saved his special attention for the Jews.

Jewish people “have mastered the civilization now, but they’ve mastered it in evil… Who’s the owner of Hollywood that creates images and makes the people think that what is created on the screen is the way we should live? That’s Satan … Satan has devoured much of
humanity.”

Eight decades on this earth, and it’s still the same old song for Calypso Louie.

HT: Slate

Ibragim Todashev was being interviewed by the FBI, and it’s reported that he “went crazy,” pulling a knife and stabbing an agent several times, according to ABC News. The agents injuries were said to be “non-life threatening.”

Todashev is a 27-year-old Chechen and apparent acquaintance of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the brothers suspected of planning and carrying out the Boston Marathon terror attack last month.

According to ABC News, Todashev was originally being questioned about any role in the marathon bombing when it emerged he had connections to a 2011 unsolved triple murder.

As previously reported, police suspected Tamerlan Tsarnaev of being involved in the murders of Tamerlan’s close friend and two Jewish men that took place on the ten year anniversary of 9/11/2001.

Brendan Mess was found murdered in an apartment in Waltham, Mass., along with Erik Weissman and Raphael Teken. Forensic evident pointed to Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the killings.

ABC News reports that Todashev was “about to sign a statement” admitting to a role right before he attacked the FBI agent.

Tamerlan and Mess were once roommates and did boxing and martial arts training together, which is where their paths crossed with Todashev.

“Back in Boston, they used to hang out. Not hang out, he [Todashev] just knew him. He met them a few times because he was an MMA fighter, [and] the other guy was boxer. They just knew each other that’s it,” Khusen Taramov told the local ABC affiliate.

Taramov was questioned earlier in the evening by the FBI and released.

Lynch spoke at the start of the hearing by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and told the IRS witnesses preparing to testify that he would join in a call for a special prosecutor if the witnesses refused to answer the questions of the committee.

“If this committee is prevented by obstruction or by refusal to answer, the questions that we need to get to the bottom of this, you will leave us no alternative but to ask for the appointment of a special prosecutor or appointment to special counsel to get to the bottom of this,” Lynch told former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman and tax-exempt division unit Lois Lerner who stared blankly up at him.

Get ready to call that special counsel, Rep. Lynch.

Shulman seems to not know, can’t recall, or won’t say what he knew of the ongoing misconduct of the IRS, and Lerner invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify.

Watch Lynch demand answers here:

Probably in response to constant stream of news – changing administration stories about the IRS bullying and the Benghazi attack, the Justice Department’s targeting of reports in leak investigation – a Rasmussen telephone survey found 39 percent of likely U.S. voters “now trust Republicans more to handle the ethics and corruption issue.”

Mysteriously, 37 percent still trust Democrats more.

Twenty-four percent weren’t sure, according to the report.

The surveys of 1,000 likely voters were conducted May 15 and 16, right before and right after the biggest breaks in the IRS story so far.

The margin of error was 3 percent, so the GOP can’t take anything for granted. But it’s worth noting that in August 2010, Republicans had a 40-38 edge on the ethics issue.

Elections that fall drove Nancy Pelosi from the House speaker’s seat and put the brakes on President Obama’s leftward lurch for the United States.