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Afghanistan
HPC Pushing for Taliban Prisoner Release in Kunduz
[Tolo News] The Kunduz province police have alleged that the High Peace Council (HPC), Afghanistan's primary actor for reconciliation efforts with the Taliban, has attempted to have a senior murderous Moslem leader released from prison, sparking outrage among local officials who have already lobbed criticisms against the central government for lenient policies on Death Eater detainees.

Intense fighting between Taliban and Afghan cops has raged on in Kunduz, only a few kilometers from the placid provincial capital at times, for over a week. Local security officials have repeatedly affirmed that a former prisoner, Mawlawi Salam, who was released by order of the government, is currently leading thousands of bully boyz in their offensives throughout the province.

Now, according to the Kunduz police, the HPC would see another high-profile prisoner - Qari Haleem - released, and he would likely then return to the battlefield, or so they fear.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban Operations the Bloodiest in Three Months
[Tolo News] Prolonged elections with no end in sight have allowed the Taliban to advance in their offensives throughout the provinces of Afghanistan causing the bloodiest operations in the past three months, according to the Ministry of Defense (MoD).

The MoD believes the reason behind the rise in insurgency is the current political situation of the country that has affected millions one way or another.

The beauties of Kunduz's district of Chahar Dara have been overtaken by the smoke of war. The
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Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Bouteflika calls for Algeria to support neighbours
[MAGHAREBIA] Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika
... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term. Maybe it's the fifth. He'll likely die in office of old age...
used the occasion of National Day of Mujahid to highlight the country's commitment to its neighbours, Liberte reported on Thursday (August 21st).

"The security of our country depends on the stability of the neighbourhood," the president said in a statement read on his behalf in Skikda.

Algeria "has suffered the ravages of terrorism and suffered considerable human and material losses. We succeeded thanks to the will and determination of our people to restore peace and serenity, and made sustained efforts… to respond to the needs and aspirations of citizens, especially young people", the presidential statement added.
Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Peace movements emerge in northern Mali
[MAGHAREBIA] Recent infighting between two factions of the Arab Movement for Azawad (MAA) has prompted some group leaders to quit and call for security and stability in the region.

In protest to the internal unrest, a group of MAA members on August 15th announced their withdrawal from the movement and the creation of the "Popular Front for the Salvation of Azawad".

In a statement published by Sahara Media, MAA Spokesperson Boubacar Ould Taleb, Executive Bureau military attaché Dah Ould Bechir and political secretary Mohammed Amrani said the infighting had "wrongly and unnecessarily claimed the lives of many people...[this]comes as an expression of our desire to establish peace and stability in Azawad to meet the aspirations of the Azawadi people".
Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Tunisia fails to pass counter-terror law
[MAGHAREBIA] Passage of Tunisia's new law against terrorism and money laundering was suspended Thursday (August 21st) due to differences between the various political blocs in the Constituent Assembly.

Police unions and both the ministers of justice and interior have demanded the legislation be sped up so that the country can more effectively deal with terrorism.

The proposed anti-terrorism law includes 163 articles, most of them still not ratified. Debate on the bill is scheduled to resume in September.
Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Cairo condemns stadium execution of Egyptian in Libya
Egypt on Saturday condemned the public execution in a Libyan football stadium of one of its nationals, reportedly by militants, and urged the international community to help restore security there.

An Islamist armed group carried out a videotaped execution of the Egyptian man in a stadium in Derna in the east, in what Amnesty said on Friday highlighted Libya’s descent into lawlessness. The rights group said the killing was carried out on August 19, apparently by an extremist militant group, the Shura Council of Islamic Youth, in front of a crowd seated in the stadium.

“Egypt utterly condemns the murder of its citizen, who had no recourse to a fair trial,” foreign ministry spokesman Badr Abdelatti said in a statement.

In the video, the man named as Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed is brought into the stadium blindfolded on a truck. He is forced to kneel and a statement is read out accusing him of killing a Libyan, Amnesty said. A gun is then passed to an unmasked man in plain clothes, believed to be the brother of the dead Libyan, who then shoots Mohamed from behind.

Abdelatti on Saturday urged “all regional and international parties to support the Libyan authorities in confronting extremists, help rebuild Libyan state institutions and re-establish security, law and order and justice”.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Libyan oil could really improve Egyptian economy---and having somebody in charge would be a good thing for Libyans.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/24/2014 4:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Nasser tried that in the late 60s. Didn't work then - and he had Russian backing.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/24/2014 10:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Things changes since the 60s. Though Al Sisi has russian backing.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/24/2014 11:09 Comments || Top||


170 'migrants' dead after boat sinks off Libya's coast
A boat carrying 170 undocumented migrants from sub-Saharan Africa was feared lost at sea off the Libyan capital Tripoli, a local coast guard official told AFP on Friday, RT reported.

"We are looking for 170 African passengers on a wooden boat that has foundered off the Guarakouzi area" some 60 kilometers (35 miles) east of Tripoli, coast guard official Abdellatif Mohammed Ibrahim told the agency.

Earlier, Itar-Tass reported that 16 passengers of the apparently overloaded boat were rescued and 15 more were found dead by the coastguard, while the total number of people on board the boat was about 200. The small vessel was supposedly heading for Italy.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram: Minimah Hints of Major Army Shake Up
[THISDAYLIVE] Following persistent threats to the nation's security by the forces of Evil Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
sect, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah yesterday hinted that the Nigerian Army would soon be reorganised to enable it effectively carry out the task of protecting the territorial integrity of the nation.

Minimah said the reorganization had become necessary because the Nigerian Army intended to stop at nothing in ridding the nation of forces of Evil and their activities.

Minimah stated this in Calabar during his familiarisation visit to army formations and units under the 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Enugu.

Addressing men and officers of the 13 Brigade Nigerian Army in Calabar, Cross River State, Minimah said, "The army is ready to defeat terrorism and insurgency in the country.
"First and foremost, we will reorganise the army, renew our doctrine and then do our training with the new equipment we have.

"I have seen some competence in battle worthiness; and also the administrative competences have been very exemplary."

Minimah said the Nigerian army would eventually defeat the terrorist "who have been making life difficult for Nigerians in some parts of the country."

The COAS who also visited the Amphibious Training School of the Nigerian Army in Calabar, said the essence of the visit to the military formations was to assess the combat readiness and administrative efficiency of the soldiers under the 82 Division.

He said the Nigeria Army would continue to give full motivation to its men and officers that were currently fighting to maintain peace and the territorial integrity of the nation.
Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Arabia
Qatar condemns Islamic State and rejects funding accusations
[Al Ahram] "Qatar does not support krazed killer groups, including ISIS, in any way. We are repelled by their views, their violent methods and their ambitions," Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah said in a statement released in London.

His comments came a day after the German government apologised for remarks by a minister accusing Qatar of financing Islamic State Attiyah described the recent comments as ill-informed.

"The vision of krazed killer groups for the region is one that we have not, nor will ever, support in any way."

Qatar has previously denied supporting Islamist snuffies who have seized wide areas of northern Iraq, northern and eastern Syria.

But diplomats and opposition sources say while Qatar supports relatively moderate rebels also backed by Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and the West, it also has backed more hardline factions seeking to set up a strict Islamic state.

Attiyah said Qatar's goal was to do all it could to see peace and justice across the region and called for collective action to end the violence in Iraq and Syria.

He urged the Iraqi government to provide safety and security for its citizens and vowed that Qatar, a tiny but wealthy Gulf Arab state, would continue to provide humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people.

"The killing of innocent civilians and the forced flight of hundreds of thousands of people threatens the very existence of Iraq and the peace and security of the entire region," he said.

"So while, along with many other countries from the Middle East and wider international community, we have supported the Syrian opposition to the Assad regime, we do not fund ISIS or other krazed killer factions."
Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  And then his lips fell off?
Posted by: Remoteman || 08/24/2014 11:55 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/24/2014 20:06 Comments || Top||


Yemen's Houthis hold anti-govt. sit-in
[Iran Press TV] Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is "God is Great, Death to America", Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" ...
Shias have staged a massive sit-in in Yemen demanding the government's resignation and a greater share in power.

Protests gained momentum on Saturday despite concessions made by the government earlier.

The Yemeni demonstrators said they would continue protests until their demands are met.

Earlier in the day, Yemeni officials said a presidential delegation offered Shia Houthis a draft proposal on forming a technocrat government, but they had to remove their camps.

There has not yet been any response from Houthis in that regard.

On Wednesday, thousands of Houthi Shias strengthened their positions in the Yemeni capital Sana'a in their efforts to press the Yemeni government to resign.

Yemen's Shia Houthi movement draws its name from the tribe of its founding leader Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi.

The Houthi movement played a key role in the popular revolution that forced former dictator President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
to step down.

Saleh, who ruled Yemen for 33 years, stepped down in February 2012 under a US-backed power transfer deal in return for immunity, after a year of mass street demonstrations demanding his ouster.
Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Bangladesh
AL launches photo album on BNP-Jamaat violence
[Dhaka Tribune] The ruling Awami League yesterday launched a photograph album "Bloodstained Bangladesh", showing the barbaric activities carried out by the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
last year.

Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina
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Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


Britain
UK charges 2 truckers in death of Afghan stowaway
[ARABNEWS] Police have charged two truck drivers with people-smuggling after an Afghan migrant was found dead, along with 34 survivors, in a shipping container at an English port.

Stephen McLaughlin and Timothy Murphy, both from Northern Ireland, have been charged with conspiring to facilitate illegal entry into Britannia. They are due in court Saturday.

Workers at Tilbury docks, east of London, discovered the migrants Aug. 16 aboard an unloaded container that had arrived by cargo ferry from Zeebrugge, Belgium. Dock workers said they heard bangs and screams coming from the container.

The dead man was identified as 40-year-old Meet Singh Kapoor. Police have yet to determine the cause of death.

The survivors, among them 13 children, were treated for dehydration and hypothermia.

All the migrants came from Afghanistan's tiny Sikh community.
Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
N. Korea to complete rocket site expansion soon
North Korea is expected to complete the expansion of a long-range rocket launch site on the country's west coast by this fall, a report said Thursday, in a move that will allow the regime to fire bigger rockets with heavier payloads.

The website 38 North, run by the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, made the assessment based on recent satellite imagery of what the North calls the Sohae Satellite Launching Station, according to an Associated Press report.

In December 2012, the North supposedly succeeded in putting a satellite into orbit on a long-range rocket fired from the launch pad in a surprise move that demonstrated to the world that it has moved closer to developing a nuclear missile that can reach the U.S. mainland.

Pyongyang has been working to upgrade the launch site to make it handle bigger rockets. According to the report, the North has worked rapidly to expand the launch tower and has progressed on a railway to access it. It also has completed external work on two prominent, domed buildings at the site, whose function is uncertain.

Thursday's assessment contrasts the think tank's own analysis made just a few weeks ago. In a July 30 report, 38 North had said that modifications could be completed by 2015.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Great White North
Mooslim holy man Syed Soharwardy sez ISIS is recruiting in Canada
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Should be good pickings in Toronto, Syed. About 8% of the population there are Muslims. They can go to the ME as cannon fodder and be gone.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/24/2014 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Another View to a Kill

Posted by: Whavitle Gurly-Brown3188 || 08/24/2014 1:24 Comments || Top||

#3  If, as many people say, ISIS is not true Islam, why don't the Muslim holy men uniformly condemn ISIS?

I know that if a Catholic did something like this, claiming that Jesus told him to do it, and claimed that he could point to specific verses in the Bible supporting it, the entire hierarchy of the Catholic Church, from the Pope on down, would denounce it.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/24/2014 2:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Why- basically main stream muslims are chicken sh^t to say anything against thier imams, remember its 1435 in the Islamic Calender, 2014 to the civilized world. You remember your history, the West was coming out of the High Middle Ages in 1435, where do you think they are right now, hint The "world is Islamic flat" and they are seriously without any leader with a set of nuts to stand up to the inbred cretins leading this movement.
Posted by: Spanky Phinese3965 || 08/24/2014 4:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Recruiting in the West? Well, that's what happens when you throw open your doors to multiculturalism. The West should be exporting its culture--not importing the tripe from psychos in other countries. Have we really gained much in our schools and universities by embracing multiculturalism so wholeheartedly?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/24/2014 9:02 Comments || Top||

#6  The Lefties + aligned OWG Marxist-Globalists may had wanted Socialism in America = Amerika, but unfortunately may had ended up mistakenly empowering RADICAL ISLAM, AKA THEO-SOCIALISM OR GOD/FAITH-BASED SOCIALISM, INSTEAD AS OPPOSED TO THEIR ORIGINALLY DESIRED SECULAR SOCIALISM.

Pro-Secular Western Commies-Socialists thought they could control the Islamists, but thats a big question mark = uncertainty right now, in which the Westies will be lucky just to keep their heads.

Literally.

FYI WORLD NEWS > [Inquisitr] ONLY WAY TO STOP ISIS IS FULL-SCALE WAR, SAYS [USJCoS Chair = us Army] GEN. MARTIN DEMPSEY.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/24/2014 22:53 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Male workers to run anti-polio drive in Bajaur
[DAWN] KHAR: Female health workers won't take part in the three-day anti-polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
drive starting across Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...
from Monday due to security reasons.
... because they have cooties.
This was informed by field supervisor medical officer Dr Inayatur Rehman while talking to news hounds here on Friday. He informed that 694 teams had been formed to vaccinate 223,286 children in the agency during the anti-polio drive.
"E-e-e-e-e-w! Girls! Yuck!"
Mr Rehman said that earlier the anti-polio drive was scheduled to start on August 18, but had been postponed due to non-delivery of vaccine from the National institute of Health, Islamabad, because of the protest sit-ins in the federal capital.

Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber...
a meeting chaired by Bajaur political agent Syed Abdul Jabbar Shah discussed arrangements for the vaccination campaign, security of polio workers and overall security situation of the agency. Agency surgeon Dr Zakir Hussain and officials of local administration, health department, WHO and Unicef were in attendance.

The participants were informed that overall law and order situation in the agency was satisfactory and that there were no threats for polio workers.

Khar assistant political agent, Sohil Ahmed Khan told the meeting that tribal elders, members of peace committees and religious leaders had assured to make the anti-polio vaccination drive a success in the agency, especially in the border areas.

It was decided that two Levies personnel, a security forces man and a member of local peace committee would accompany each polio team to ensure their safety. It was also decided that strict action would be taken against those creating problems during the drive.On the occasion, political agent Jabbar Shah said the administration was adopting all possible means to achieve polio free status for the agency and sought assistance of health officials and WHO and Unicef in that regard.
Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Children taking part in sit-in to be given polio vaccine
[DAWN] The local administration has decided to administer polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
vaccine to the children who have come from different parts of the country along with their parents to participate in the sit-ins.

Minister of State for Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) Barrister Usman Ibrahim has directed the Pakistain Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims), the National Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (Nirm) and Polyclinic to make special arrangements to vaccinate the children.

"Children do not belong to any party, they are the children of Pakistain, so the government is responsible for their healthcare," he said."Our teams would go to the sit-in venue and administer the polio vaccine to children," the minister said. He requested the parents sitting there to cooperate with the polio teams.
Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


'Proscribed' allies make outlandish claims
[DAWN] The Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) received a vote of confidence from some unlikely allies, as the proscribed Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat
...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi...
(ASWJ) — formerly known as the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain
...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was banned in 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts...
(SSP) — rallied in support of the ruling party after Friday prayers.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan


Deadlock persists as third round of talks yields no result
[DAWN] After the third round of talks between the PTI and government delegations conclude on Saturday, Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi proposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
should resign for a period of 30 days for an independent probe into alleged poll rigging.

Separately PTI Chairman Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
persisted in his demand for the resignation of the prime minister and told his supporters today that the sit-ins will continue across the country till the time this demand is met.

Speaking to media representatives, Qureshi said that the prime minister should step down for a time period required for a judicial commission to probe into rigging allegations for the 2013 general elections.
Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
Mars Islamic State needs women
[MAGHAREBIA] Spanish authorities this month placed in durance vile
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
their first female Islamic State (ISIS) suspects.

The teenagers caught in Melilla are part of a growing trend. The girls, aged 19 and 14, had planned to cross into Morocco near Nador, and then contact a recruitment network that would send them to ISIS for jihad annikah
...Islamic whoredom. Proper Moslem women are expected to engage in 20-minute marriages with rutting Lions of Islam for the greater glory of Allen. Naturally, the Lions of Islam are expected to make a contribution to the holy men running the operation, say, twenty bucks or so, of which the Flowers of Islam get maybe five. They'd probably make out better in Amsterdam or Tijuana...
, the Spanish interior ministry said on Monday (August 4th).

The Maghreb region was first affected by the so-called "sex jihad" issue last year, when girls were willing to offer their bodies to al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria. Using religion as a lever, mysterious groups with even more obscure funding sources persuaded young women from Tunisia, Morocco and elsewhere to engage in '"temporary marriages" to mujahedeen.

The Islamic State group has been eager to adopt the practice.

Last month, Moroccan authorities arrested a 20-year old housemaid. She had met an ISIS member on Facebook and planned to meet and marry him in Syria. The jihadist promised to pay for her travel expenses, using his contacts in Marrakech. The plan was discovered by her female employer, who notified the police.

Another young Moroccan woman was not stopped in time.

Moroccan national and ISIS brigade leader Mohammed Hamdouch, aka "Kokito", brought a young woman from the kingdom to Syria. The 28-year-old groom, who recently appeared in a video cutting off the heads of five men, offered his bride a unique wedding gift.

According to Spanish daily El Pais, the former Fnideq clothing business manager gave the young woman a vest packed with explosives.

She was not brought from Morocco just for jihad annikah. She was also meant to be a human bomb.

While the use of women as jacket wallahs dates back to 2004, when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi led al-Qaeda in Iraq, the practice has grown increasingly popular.

Last April, ISIS announced the opening of training camps for women in Syria. After that, it formed two brigades for female fighters: Al-Khansaa and Umm Rayyan.

The trend of using young women as suicide bombers isn't restricted to ISIS. On July 30th, Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
attacked a college campus in Kano. It was the fourth time in the same city for Boko Haram to use female bombers.

"These cases show that recruitment networks working for ISIS and similar terrorist organizations are now focusing on women," says Abdelmajid Hachadi, a Moroccan journalist who specialises in jihadist movements.

"Therefore, the security authorities need to adapt their tools, find new gender-based counter-terrorism mechanisms and take more appropriate and effective measures to confront the recruitment of women," he tells Magharebia.

After ISIS took control of swathes of land in Iraq and Syria, it had to change its focus, Hachadi notes.

"The priority now for the Islamic State is not to recruit new fighters, but to create suitable circumstances for it to keep the fighters who have already joined. One way is to meet fighters' needs for women, in the framework of the so-called jihad annikah."

The group is also looking for a different kind of male recruit, he adds.

"In the past, the Islamic State, like other global terrorist groups, focused recruitment on desperate youths from marginalised, poor neighbourhoods in big cities, where the anger, hatred and despair of unemployed and disadvantaged people could be easily exploited to turn them into fighters and suicide bombers," he explains.

But as ISIS chief His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
made clear in his first speech after declaring himself "caliph", the terrorist organization is now seeking "cadres who belong to the middle class - doctors, engineers, oil and chemical industry experts, and management professionals - so they can run the areas it has seized in Iraq and Syria", Hachadi says.

This marks a "radical change in the methods, means and approaches used by the terrorist organization's recruitment networks, and requires the security authorities to adapt their tools and approaches", he tells Magharebia.

But Moroccan professionals are unlikely to heed al-Baghdadi's call, says Yucef Rateb, a management and business administration professor.

"It would be illogical for them to relinquish the professional and social standing that they've worked hard to achieve, just to follow the illusions that ISIS is promising them," the professor says.

Professionals seek a "stable environment where security, reassurance, development and prosperity prevail", Rateb adds, "but this is not available in areas controlled by ISIS, where they engage in killings, looting and sabotage".

"ISIS is calling for a new religion based on accusing all of kufr, large-scale killings and slaughters as a means to reach 'their paradise.' ISIS' economy is based on conquest, looting and spoil, and this is in contradiction with Islam which calls for co-operation among people, regardless of their races and religions, and for good work, to realise luxury and prosperity for all members of society," the professor notes.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato...
Moroccan security authorities are proceeding with their battles against terrorist networks. On August 4th, a court ordered the detention of five terror members of a Fez recruitment cell. The defendants, including a minor, are accused of committing armed robberies in order to send fighters to Syria and Iraq.

Security services have also intensified their monitoring of money transfers. The move comes after Sherlocks learned that ISIS was planning to open new channels to fund activities in Morocco.
Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  We need to get this old girl out on the road and teach these idiots a lesson...

Posted by: Whavitle Gurly-Brown3188 || 08/24/2014 2:01 Comments || Top||

#2  She was not brought from Morocco just for jihad annikah. She was also meant to be a human bomb.

Well that's one way to deal with Sandra Fluke's birth control issues.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/24/2014 8:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Reads as if there are plenty of "useful idiots" to join up with the head loppers. This is nothing new though--women have been blowing themselves up or giving up their children for jihad for some time in the Mideast. This cancer spreads across countries and time and attracts predisposed whackos with mental disorders.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/24/2014 8:53 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Egypt calls for open-ended Gaza cease-fire
[ARABNEWS] Egypt has called for an open-ended cease-fire in Gazoo, urging the Paleostinians and Israel to return to indirect talks.

The foreign ministry statement Saturday came shortly after Western-backed Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
met with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.

A temporary cease-fire collapsed earlier this week, bringing the Cairo talks so a halt. More than 2,090 Paleostinians, including close to 500 children, have been killed since the war began on July 8.

Israel has lost 64 soldiers and four civilians, including a 4-year-old boy killed by a mortar shell Friday.

The war has caused widespread destruction in Gazoo, leaving some 100,000 people homeless.
Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


'Israel may launch new ground incursion into Gaza'
[Iran Press TV] Israeli Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch has warned that the Tel Aviv regime will likely begin a fresh ground incursion into the besieged Gazoo Strip.

During a Friday visit to the Israelis maimed in a Paleostinian retaliatory rocket fire on the southern city of Ashdod, the Israeli minister said the regime's war on the Gazoo Strip was far from over.

The Israeli military launched a new military offensive against Gazoo on July 8 in an attempt to destroy the rocket capability of Paleostinian resistance fighters.

On July 18, Tel Aviv also began a ground invasion into the Paleostinian coastal enclave. However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
the regime later pulled out its forces, claiming it had destroyed Paleostinian tunnels running into Israel.

Israeli sources say Paleostinian resistance fighters have fired over 500 rockets from Gazoo into the Israeli-occupied Paleostinian territories since a temporary ceasefire collapsed on Tuesday.
Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  There are no "noncombattants" in Gaza. Level the place, salt the earth, and poison the wells. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 08/24/2014 16:05 Comments || Top||

#2  OP says Level the place, salt the earth, and poison the wells.

I say it sounds like the waste of a good glass parking lot.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/24/2014 19:15 Comments || Top||


Egypt calls for Gaza ceasefire as fighting rages
Egypt called on Israel and the Palestinians on Saturday to halt hostilities and resume peace talks but both sides kept up attacks. Indirect ceasefire talks mediated by Egypt to end the conflict collapsed after rockets were fired from Gaza during a truce and Israel responded with air strikes.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Saturday called on both sides to resume talks. Palestinian President Abbas, in Cairo after meeting President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, also urged a swift resumption of negotiations. A senior Egyptian diplomat said Abbas had informed Sisi that Hamas was prepared to come to Cairo for further talks, but Hamas did not immediately confirm the report. Israel also had no immediate comment.

The Egyptian diplomat said Cairo expected to receive responses from both Israel and Hamas by Monday.

The talks, conducted in Cairo, do not involve direct meetings between Israeli officials and representatives of Hamas. Israel considers Hamas a terrorist organisation and Hamas for its part refuses to recognise Israel. Egyptian officials shuttle between the two sides.

Hamas has said it will not stop fighting until the Israeli-Egyptian blockade on Gaza is lifted.

Both Israel and Egypt view Hamas as a security threat and are reluctant to make sweeping concessions without guarantees weapons will not enter the economically-crippled enclave.

The Cairo talks had aimed to secure a lasting deal that would open the way for reconstruction aid to flow into the Gaza territory of 1.8 million people, where thousands of homes have been destroyed.

“My main goal is for the truce talks to resume in Egypt as soon as possible to avoid more casualties,” Abbas said in Cairo.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said the movement was “in favour of any real effort that will secure the achievement of Palestinian demands and we will study any proposal when presented.”

Hamas leaders said on Saturday they have signed off on Abbas’s bid to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), a move that could open up both Israel and the militant group to war crime probes over the Gaza conflict.

If the Palestinians were to sign the ICC’s founding treaty, the Rome Statute, the court would have jurisdiction over crimes committed in the Palestinian territories. An investigation could then examine events as far back as mid-2002.
Hamas pushes this knowing that their friends at the ICC won't ever allow Israel to bring a charge against Hamas...
Israel and Hamas have traded allegations of war crimes and both defend their military operations as consistent with international law.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Zim ship protest fails in the Puget Sound
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  perhaps a mortar and rocket attack on the picket line would bring some clarity to these low-intellect hysterical twats
Posted by: Frank G || 08/24/2014 10:16 Comments || Top||

#2  “It’s definitely harassment,” said Jess Kincaid of Portland. “If we were business owners here to negotiate something, I’m sure they wouldn’t be threatening to tow our cars.

If you were "business owners" there "to negotiate something," you wouldn't be parked along Marshall Avenue and Port of Tacoma Road.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/24/2014 14:41 Comments || Top||


Meir Amit Terr Info Center bag list from Operation Protective Edge
Unclassified.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good stuff, Besoeker. These people do good work.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/24/2014 5:56 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
blast gauge is a way to measure a bomb's pressure on the body
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That is one heck of a device!!!!
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/24/2014 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  People with the creative genius and motivation to invent useful things for mankind have always intrigued and frustrated me.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/24/2014 0:33 Comments || Top||

#3  “This was one of my smallest projects,” Rogers said. “But it matters because it affects those in the fight today.”

Good job!
Posted by: Frank G || 08/24/2014 10:20 Comments || Top||

#4  I know the neurologist in the story. Small world.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/24/2014 11:00 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
British Rapper Lead Suspect in Journalist Foley's Beheading
[Atlas Shrugs] A British rapper whose father is awaiting trial in Manhattan for a pair of US embassy bombings is a leading suspect in the barbaric beheading of American journalist.

Plush home and taxpayer funds for legal bills. Bary is one of six children of Egyptian militant Adel Abdul Bary, who was granted political asylum in the UK in 1993. In 2012 he was extradited to the US, where he was wanted in connection to the 1998 United States embassy bombings in East Africa which killed hundreds of people. Investigators said that he helped to publicise statements claiming responsibility after the bombings.

Bary Snr's eight-year legal battle made him a cause celebre of the Left as lawyers took his publicly funded case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
To this day they see nothing wrong with that, either...
Investigators believe Bary Snr was one of Bin Laden's closest lieutenants in the infancy of Al Qaeda and ran a London cell of the terror network.
Terror, mayhem, and murder appear to run in the family and the culture. Oh Wait! It is the culture.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/24/2014 11:27 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Jihad

#1  I'm thinking his days are numbered-and the number is not very large.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/24/2014 15:20 Comments || Top||

#2  take that unicode-character!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/24/2014 20:30 Comments || Top||

#3  So now the UK needs to renounce citizenship, take their passports - of the entire family whose members have dual citizenship - and dump in egypt.

Those who were born in the uk will sadly have to remain uk citizens - but should be unable to apply for any family reunion visas, and forbidden travel visas. Also forbidden to bring in any foreigners on a marriage visa.

This will solve the problem - deport where you can, deny family reunion/ travel/ marriage visas for the remnants.

And get rid of anjem choudary's mosque
Posted by: Anon1 || 08/24/2014 22:59 Comments || Top||

#4  When the SAS catch him...start the GoPro; wrap him in duct tape, put him in a body bag, and then dump him in an unmarked grave..."Kill Bill" style.
Posted by: genbara11 || 08/24/2014 23:46 Comments || Top||


Iran launches UO2 production plant at Isfahan's UCF
Iran has inaugurated a new plant to produce uranium dioxide enriched to below 5-percent purity as part of last year's nuclear deal with six world powers, PressTV reported. Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi unveiled the project at the Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) of the central city of Isfahan on Saturday.

"The unit for production of uranium dioxide enriched to below 5-percent [purity] at Isfahan's UCF has been launched in compliance with the [Geneva] agreement with the P5+1 [group of world powers]," he said.
It's what the world hasn't agreed to that is the problem...
The official added that the inauguration of the plant proves Iran has respected its obligations.

Salehi stated that the process is part of the nuclear fuel cycle which will be especially used for supplying fuel to Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran.

Under an interim nuclear deal signed between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany last November, Iran undertook to dilute half of its stockpile of 20-percent enriched uranium to five-percent purity and oxidize the other half.

In a new update report on Wednesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also confirmed that Iran has been complying with the terms of the deal it signed with the six countries of China, Russia, France, Britain, the US and Germany in Geneva. The report added that Tehran over the last month used about 3.5 kg of its 20-percent enriched uranium in oxide form for manufacturing nuclear fuel.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Iran has been preventing inspectors from coming in to inspect.. Same old same old. Slow walking inspection while accelerating process for getting a nuke.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/24/2014 15:29 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2014-08-23
  Syrian army ambushes 140 IS fighters in al-Raqqa
Fri 2014-08-22
  Boko Haram Takfiris seize town in NE Nigeria
Thu 2014-08-21
  Israeli Fire Kills 31 in Gaza as Hamas Warns Foreign Airlines, Declares Truce Talks Over
Wed 2014-08-20
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Sun 2014-08-17
  Jihadists kill dozens in north Iraq 'massacre': officials
Sat 2014-08-16
  Iraq Sunni Tribes Take Up Arms against Jihadists
Fri 2014-08-15
  ISIS jihadist poses with severed head as Caliphate seize more key towns
Thu 2014-08-14
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