President Barack Obama is slowly closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center which once held hundreds of Al-Qaeda terrorists because he says it is a “recruiting tool” for groups such as the Islamic State. But to the contrary evidence points to Obama’s drone war as being a fundamental recruiting tool for Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State because of the number of civilians killed. Ten percent of those killed by Obama's "signature" drone strikes are innocent civilians and in some cases hostages of jihadists.

In this issue of the newsletter: Our ministry partner in Iraq visits congressional and Senate offices / Meeting the Speaker of the House – Telling the Speaker the truth / Postcards to Congress campaign expands -No more guns to Islamic fighters / Diapers for Iraqi Christian refugee babies and other aid program updates

Obama’s January 12 State of the Union made no mention of rescuing Christians from genocide, a term whose policy implications would have run counter to his advocacy of diminished American global leadership. Americans “can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis...that’s a recipe for quagmire,” he stated, the “lesson of Vietnam..."