[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The provincial police chief of southern Kandahar province Gen. Abdul Raziq has said he is prepared to join Afghan forces to retake the control of areas seized by the Talibs.
Gen. Raziq was speaking to news hounds in Kandahar province as sporadic festivities still continue in parts of historic provincial capital of Kuduz province after it fell to Taliban control last Monday.
He said he is ready to join the Afghan forces in Kunduz if he receives instructions from the government.
Criticizing the provincial administrative and security officials for remaining reckless regarding the security situation of Kunduz city which resulted to the fall of the city to Taliban, Gen. Raziq said Kunduz is one of the key provinces of the country and called National Security Council to take immediate steps to return peace and stability in this province.
Gen. Raziq rose to prominence after 2001 when he was serving as the police chief of Spin Boldak district with his activities prompting dread among the Taliban fighters.
He has imposed an uneasy peace in Kandahar province which was the birth place of the Taliban group.
Being a prized target for the Taliban group, Gen. Raziq ordered the Afghan forces earlier in August last year to execute Taliban detainees who are tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! during the military operations.
Gen. Raziq has escaped a number of coordinated attacks planned by Taliban to assassinate him. He was slightly injured following a suicide kaboom nearly three years ago, while Talibs launched coordinated attack on his family home in Spin Boldak district back in July last year.
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Gen. Raziq rose to prominence after 2001 when he was serving as the police chief of Spin Boldak district with his activities prompting dread among the Taliban fighters.
A Whitey Bulger type of "dread among the TB" and everyone else I might add. Make no mistake, Raziq and his henchmen called the shots in Kandahar. Raziq's TB detainees seldom made it to U.S. custody or the Parwan detention center at Bagram. Once they arrived at Raziq's fortress compound, they were never seen or heard from again. If AFG is to have a future, men like Generals Raziq and Dostum must forge and enforce it. Unfortunately, the language of the merciless warlord is the only language understood in that region.
[Tolo News] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. said Saturday that a preliminary assessment of Kunduz city shows that the Taliban's actions against the people of Kunduz city are crimes against humanity and that those guilty will be identified and brought to justice.
"Taliban and their terrorist collaborators in addition to causing fear and intimidation among the citizens of Kunduz, have resorted to extrajudicial killings of civil and military individuals and residents of Kunduz as well as torturing and harassing them".
He said in a statement issued by the Presidential Palace that the Taliban has violated people's dignity and honor, resorted to rape, and set free the prisoners most of who had been convicted of murder or violation of people's dignity and property.
"They looted people's belongings and government's property, set fire to a number of government buildings including those of Radio and Television, educational and higher educational institutions, and have inflicted severe losses on the business and commerce of the people of Kunduz province," the statement read.
"They have also looted the belongings and properties of United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... offices, and other NGOs, consulates and representations of foreign countries."
He went on to say that these acts - as reported in the latest release by Amnesia Amnesty International - during armed conflicts are recognized on the basis of humanitarian laws as crimes against humanity.
"The government of Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan is committed to legally prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes, and to that end assigns a civilian commission to assess the losses sustained as a result of the Taliban presence in Kunduz City and the crimes that they have committed in this period, determine the scale of the losses, identify those responsible and surrender them to Law," the statement read.
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[Tolo News] Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... , the CEO of the Afghan National Unity Government (NUG), has called for the review of the strategy around the peace talks with the Taliban.
Speaking in New York on Friday night, Abdullah said that the door for peace talks is still open but that the government's strategy on the matter needs to be re-assessed.
His comments come amid rising attacks in the northern parts of the country by the Taliban.
"Well, the talks door will stay open. After the death of Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... (former Taliban leader) there is a difference in the Taliban and some of the Taliban groups have contacted us and we will continue (our contact with them) but overall there is a need to review the strategy," Abdullah said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... a number of political analysts have raised concerns about the increase in violence in the country and agreed that there is a need to review the peace talks.
One Senator, Lailuma Ahmadi said: "There is a need to review the talks strategy so we can move forward with the grinding of the peace processor with the Taliban and other Lions of Islam groups. It would be a good proposal as long as it is in the best interests of Afghanistan and the interests of stability and peace in Afghanistan."
Barna Salehi, a political analyst said that "without doubt it would have a better impact on the grinding of the peace processor".
The first round of peace talks was officially held on July 7 in Islamabad but after the announcement of the death of Mullah Omar, the talks scheduled for the end of July were postponed and the process fell apart.
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[Tolo News] Emotions ran high in Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) on Saturday when MPs were clearly divided over the recent signing of the controversial Dand-e-Ghori deal which prevents either Taliban or security forces from carrying out attacks or operations respectively.
MPs shouted out at each -- with some being in favor of the Baghlan accord and others being vehemently opposed to it.
The vocal outburst by MPs came during and after the Minister of Borders and Tribal Affairs Gulab Mangal's speech to the House which saw him answer questions posed by the politicians.
A number of MPs opposed to the deal said this accord has resulted in the area becoming a Taliban stronghold.
According to them, the Taliban have raised their flag in Dand-e-Ghori and are fighting security forces.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... the minister reiterated his stance that the deal was signed between government officials and tribal elders and not with the Taliban. He said this was done in a bid to improve the security situation.
"The deal was made with the ethnic elders not with the Taliban. If it has been signed with the Taliban, I am ready to resign," Mangal said, who came under fire after Dand-e-Ghori accord. "But there is no surety that Taliban will act on their promises."
But MPs opposed to the deal said that this move gave the Taliban an advantage.
"The Taliban may not launch attack from this area but it has become their organizing center where they can make their plans," MP Ahmad Behzad said.
Another MP Fawzia Kofi said: "This deal means giving advantage to the Taliban and has given them an opportunity to make their plans and also treat their maimed fighters."
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... other politicians opposed the anti-accord statements by their colleagues.
"I am against such remarks and making these statements in current situation is not in favor of the country," politician Naeem Lalai commented.
After this an argument broke out between politicians, bringing the day's session to a sudden stop without any decisions being taken.
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[Tolo News] Recent actions by Taliban Lions of Islam in Kunduz city have clearly shown how violent and brutal the group is today -- compared to what they were like in the mid-1990s.
According to a number of politicians and members of the public, today's Taliban is not interested in joining the grinding of the peace processor and they show no mercy for their fellow Afghans.
They say the recent utterance by the Taliban over joining the peace talks was mere lip-service as they have no intention to do so.
"From the day Kunduz fell to Taliban until now, the people are burning in the fire," Shukria Paikan, an MP from Kunduz said. "Bodies are lying on the ground and people cannot burry them."
"What the Taliban did in Kunduz was their real face. They showed that they don't know society, they don't accept young and elderly, they don't know humanity and they are the extreme [symbol] of brutality," another politician Qazi Nazir Ahmad commented.
At one stage people had hoped that the Taliban had taken a more moderate direction politically but their action this past week following the siege of Kunduz has proven otherwise.
This comes after officials condemned the Taliban's actions in the embattled northern city this week saying mass murders, gang rapes and house-to-house searches by Taliban death squads are just some of the harrowing civilian testimonies emerging from Kunduz city.
According to Amnesia Amnesty International, women human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... defenders from Kunduz spoke of a "hit list" being used by the Taliban to track down activists and others, and described how fighters had raped and killed numerous civilians.
"The harrowing accounts we've received paint a picture of a reign of terror during the Taliban's brutal capture of Kunduz this week. The multiple credible reports of killings, rapes and other horrors meted out against the city's residents must prompt the Afghan authorities to do more now to protect civilians, in particular in areas where more fighting appears imminent," said Horia Mosadiq, Afghanistan Researcher at Amnesia Amnesty International.
Kunduz city fell to the Taliban on Monday and despite concerted military action to regain control of the city fighting continues.
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[Libya Herald] The international community should demonstrate its good faith by stopping military offensives in Benghazi and Derna, a member of the GNC negotiating team said yesterday at the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... , after the meeting of the General Assembly.
Abdul Rahman Sewehli said that the confidence would be built and the UNSMIL dialogue helped "by pressing the war criminal Hafter and his militia from operations in Benghazi and Derna" which, he added, were targeting civilians.
Sewehli set out five demands, which included the exclusion of leaders from the old regime in any future political agreement.
While he welcomed the support of the UN in the dialogue he warned that threats and outside intervention were totally unacceptable. Libyans alone, he said, had the right to determine their future.
Sewehli also said that while he respected the views of others, he rejected any attempt to impose those views. He and his fellow negotiators had a full mandate from the General National Congress and would not be deterred until a comprehensive political agreement had been reached on the principles that the GNC had set out.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah warned Iranian-backed 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 ... militias Saturday that there was no place in the country for more "adventures," vowing to press on with a campaign to retake territory from them.
"There is no room for any more political or military adventures," said Bahah, who is also vice president. "This is a last warning to the Houthis and their allies" among troops loyal to ousted president 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... .
Bahah was speaking at a military camp near the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait, which loyalist forces retook control over on Tuesday.
The narrow waterway funnels shipping to and from the Suez Canal, which lies at the north end of the Red Sea.
President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi and his government returned to Aden last month following six months in exile, after loyalist forces regained control of the port city and four other southern provinces from the rebels.
The miltias still control the capital and northern provinces near the border with 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... , but loyalists have been pressing a campaign whose eventual aim is to regain Sanaa.
Bahah said the current operation "will push to retake Mokha and Hodeida," both on the Red Sea, and then the "whole coastline up to the border with Saudi Arabia".
The port of Mokha lies some 20 kilometers north of the area seized this week.
Hodeida, about 190 kilometers farther north, lies to the west of Sanaa. Controlling it would help create a pincer on the capital, as loyalist forces have also been pressing rebels in Marib province, to its east.
Military officials said warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition backing them had carried out several strikes Saturday on rebel positions, while saying the festivities in the past 24 hours had left 19 dead, including 12 militias.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Iranian President Sheikh Hassan Rouhani underlined that Tehran seeks punishment of the Saudi officials who are responsible for the recent stampede incident in Mina which killed over 4,000 pilgrims, including hundreds of Iranians.
Addressing a ceremony in Tehran on Saturday to pay tribute to the bodies of 104 Iranian pilgrims who died in Mina incident late in September, Sheikh Rouhani said it should be clarified if anyone is to blame for this incident or not, and Iran will then ask for justice and punishment of those responsible for the incident if it is proved that police or security forces have failed to comply with their duties.
465 Iranian pilgrims were killed in Mina incident and the bodies of 104 of them were returned home on Saturday.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. has said that the recent murders of the foreign nationals had been staged by a vested quarter to tarnish the country's image to the world.
She made the remarks at the Sylhet Osmani International Airport during her brief stay yesterday afternoon on her way back to Dhaka from the USA.
"When the country is on track to gain importance to other nations, a vested interest has been staging some unpleasant incidents in the country to tarnish the country's dignity.
"The countrymen and party [Awami League] activists should stay alert about the conspirators," the prime minister was quoted as saying by former Sylhet City Corporation mayor and ruling party leader Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran.
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[AA.TR] Unpredictable, authoritarian, reclusive -- the adjectives usually attached to Pyongyang's leadership suggest that North Korea experts can at best fumble in the dark.
But for those who have studied the quasi-communist state long enough, its pattern of rotating provocations and platitudes is all too predictable -- and all indications suggest that the North is set to carry out a long-range rocket launch next month.
In fact, a failure to do so around the Workers' Party's 70th anniversary on Oct. 10 might even suggest a problem in Pyongyang, one leading analyst told Anadolu Agency this week.
"Were [leader] Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... not to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) this October, it may be an indication of 'change' inside the regime: either Kim is willing to change his ways for the better or is in trouble," said Lee Sung-yoon, professor of Korean Studies at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
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There's gotta be an ABM Tico on patrol. Hell, call it a drill and write off the cost and fire four.
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In fact, a failure to do so around the Workers' Party's 70th anniversary on Oct. 10 might even suggest a problem in Pyongyang
Funny thing, the "usual suspects" from Europe, etc. that show up to things like this, were invited for the 70th anniversary and have all declined or withdrew.
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Long story short: the radical Islamist Turkish government of President Recep Erdogan offered the unpopular left wing Romanian government a multi-million Euro "donation" for the purpose of building a new mega-mosque in Romania's capital Bucharest. The Romanian government led by the premier Victor (AKA "Mickey Mouse") Ponta, accepted the offer and contributed to the project by allocating a very valuable parcel of land for the construction.
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A boy dawg named Lassie is better. Ah yoof, o' yesterdays o'MAD, like sand thru the hourglass so are the Daze of our WTF? Get out of here Proctors and Gambling Rantburg is Primetime. Mr. Pruitt sez you gonna have to move that saucer damn quick or else tow-city, so roll on greenies.
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At a meeting with the Merkel cabinet the chairman of the Central Council of Jews has warned of an increase in 'antisemitism of Arab descent' in Germany due to the massive influx of refugees hailing from nations who regard Israel as an enemy.
There's concern about this in Jewish congregations.
Schuster deems it necessary to make the refugees understand and accept Western values ASAP. Good luck with that!
Rejection of any form of antisemitism and solidarity with Israel are part of Germany's fundamental consensus. Making an appeal and whistling past the graveyard.
Schuster voiced these concerns last Tuesday at a meeting of the German cabinet with representatives of associations, religious communities, institutions and trade unions.
After his remarks the round reacted with "embarrassed silence."
The chancellor jotted down a note and promised, "We will have to deal with this."
In principle the Central Council welcomes Germany's readiness to receive many refugees. But now there are concerns even though there's no general suspicion of all refugees.
The imam of Portland's biggest mosque collected money from worshippers after 9/11, sending the Portland Seven to Afghanistan to fight against coalition forces, the U.S. Department of Justice alleges in its fight to deport the imam.
Arguments between lawyers for Mohamed Sheikh Abdirahman Kariye and the Justice Department reveal new details of the government's legal maneuvers to strip the imam of his citizenship.
As religious leader of Masjed As-Saber, Kariye told several members of the plot that "Muslims should fight with fellow Muslim brothers of Afghanistan against Americans" and that this combat was a "righteous fight ... legitimate jihad," Justice Department lawyers wrote in an exhibit filed earlier this month in the immigration case.
"Kariye was present when members of the Portland Seven left to go wage jihad, and he wished them good luck on their journey," according to an exhibit filed earlier this month in the government's lawsuit to strip Kariye of his citizenship.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu has said the flow of Syrian migrants is now seen as Europe's problem, speaking at a rally in Lyon province of La Belle France on Oct. 1.
"Nobody paid attention when a bloody war hit Syria. But they started to call it a serious problem when the Syrians came to the doors of Europe. This is not The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's problem, it is Europe's problem," said Kilicdaroglu, speaking to around 400 Turkish people gathered during a rally in the Vienne town of Lyon.
"Two million Syrian migrants are at the doors of Europe and Europe is now asking what's going on. Can we prevent the flow of Syrians refugees [to Europe] by banning their travel? If a family, a community, is willing to risk death, then no one can prevent it," he added.
Comparing the experience of Turkish migrants in La Belle France to the feelings of Syrian migrants forced to leave their homes, the CHP leader suggested "you can understand their sufferings better than anyone else."
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For years Europeans promoted "Israeli-Palestinian Peace" process---despite the evidence that all that this process does is strengthen Arabs' capacity for terrorism against Israel. Now Europeans getting millions & millions of "Palestinians" of their own. Truly, the Lord works in mysterious ways.
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To paraph "GUNGA DIN"S THUG "GURU" = "YOU SEEM TO THINK, BRAVE SOLDIER, THAT WAR = INCLUD IMMIGRATION WARFARE IS A BRITISH INVENTION ... ... I DON'T THINK SO".
[Hurriyet Daily News] An Istanbul court ruled the acquittal of 83 suspects in Poyrazköy coup plot case on Oct. 2 and the case to be closed for a naval army member who died 2014.
Anadolu 5th Penal Court ruled on Oct. 2 to acquit all suspects from all charges in the Poyrazköy case, which also included cases such as "cage action plan," "liquidation attempts on admirals," "files found in Gölcuk" and "probe against CYDD [Support for Contemporary Living Association]."
On Sept. 18, Istanbul prosecutor Sezai Özturk demanded the acquittal of 83 suspects in Poyrazköy case.
CYDD head Prof. Dr. Aysel Celikel held a press statement in front of the courthouse on Oct. 2 after the ruling.
"I thank the prosecutor for strengthening our belief in justice, which was already lost," she said.
Retired commander Levent Bektas, who was released January last year pending trial, also made statements after the ruling. "The friends we have lost and justice coming so late make it a bittersweet happiness," said Bektas.
During the trial at the Anadolu 5th Penal Court, prosecutor said 83 suspects should be acquitted in his 19-page opinion. The prosecutor also said the case should be closed for naval army member Saadettin Dogan, who passed away May 27, 2014.
The Poyrazköy case probed the discovery of a large cache of ammunition in a military zone on the outskirts of Istanbul. Excavations in the Poyrazköy area on the Asian side of Istanbul were carried out, after nine sacks of documents confiscated from a Navy base in Gölcuk were investigated.
A total of 17 suspects, mostly naval officers, were then indicted for involvement in a plot to discredit and unseat the Turkish government.
On Jan. 28, 2014, all suspects in the case were released on probation, in light of a Constitution Court ruling on lengthy detentions. Rear Admiral Safak Yurekli and Gulseven Yaser, the former head of Contemporary Education Foundation (CEV), were also along the 83 suspects acquitted at the Oct. 2 hearing.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Launching its snap election manifesto, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has pledged to restrict the power of the Turkish president to a "symbolic level," lifting the controversial discretionary fund recently granted to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's head of state.
The party would make legislative amendments to strengthen the separation of powers, HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtas said at the launch on Oct. 2.
The party unveiled its new slogan "With purpose, peace. With purpose, HDP," as Demirtas vowed that from now on the Kurdish movement would move forward with "politics and peace."
"I can only thank those who exerted positive efforts for the benefit of the people, and who placed stone after stone going forward. But from now on we'll go on our way with the HDP," he said, in an apparent reference to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
"Yes, the regime will change: We'll build a regime of justice. We must carry on the path with politics, with wisdom, and with peace. As [Mahatma] Gandhi said: Destroy injustice with justice and stand to applaud with bloodless hands," he added.
Demirtas also likened a Turkey without the HDP to a "ship drifting to dangerous waters."
"Today, if the ship is not sinking despite all attacks, this is thanks to the balance provided by the HDP," he stated.
The HDP co-chair again vowed to cross the 10 percent election threshold in the snap poll to be held Nov. 1.
"They said we would be below the threshold [in the last election in June]. But we'll bury the palace [presidency] under peace," Demirtas said.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] The Republican People's Party (CHP) chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) over the violent assault targeting daily Hürriyet columnist Ahmet Hakan.
With his deputies and two CHP MPs, Kılıçdaroğlu visited Hakan, who was injured in the attack, at the journalist's home in Istanbul's Nişantaşı district on Oct. 3.
"His health is quite alright. He is in good spirits. We had a nice chat. I told him that not only me but hundreds of thousands of his readers are waiting for his columns," CHP chair told journalists after the visit.
Four men, arriving in a black Honda at 12:35 a.m. on Oct. 1, attacked Hakan in front of his home, leaving him with a broken nose and ribs before escaping.
They were later arrested. The AKP announced on Oct. 2 that three of the men were AKP members and that they were expelled.
"It is good that they are expelled from the party. I wish that MP could also be expelled after the first attack targeting daily Hürriyet," Kılıçdaroğlu said, referring to AKP MP Abdurrahim Boynukalın.
Hürriyet’s headquarters in Istanbul were attacked by pro-AKP protesters on Sept. 6, while Boynukalın was filmed threatening both Hakan and Hürriyet Editor-in-Chief Sedat Ergin.
"I wish those who hurled death threats could face harsher criticism from the government. These did not happen and violence, in a way, was encouraged step by step," CHP leader added.
Hürriyet headquarters were pelted with stones by another club-swinging group of protesters in a fresh politically-motivated assault Sept. 8, after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu failed to condemn the initial attack. A death threat targeting Hakan in a pro-AKP newspaper was also ignored.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Aydın Doğan, the founder and honorary chairman of Doğan Holding, has said that Turkey's largest media group does not have to be pro-government. After stressing that he has been a media owner for almost 40 years, he added: "For the first time I'm seeing journalists face such attacks."
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[AA.TR] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Supreme Election Board (YSK) has rejected a call from several local electoral bodies to move ballot boxes and combine voting in certain areas ahead of the Nov.1 general election.
Saturday's decision by the independent body was passed by a majority of votes, according to a YSK statement.
Concerns have been expressed about the security of vote counting in parts of Turkey's east and southeast, amid ongoing festivities between the Turkish military and the PKK.
The PKK is listed by Turkey, the EU and the U.S. as a terrorist organization.
A fresh general election on Nov. 1 will take place nearly five months after the election on June 7 resulted in no party winning an overall majority.
In an interview with a Turkish newspaper on Monday, People's Democratic Party front man Ayhan Bilgen said his HDP party was considering an election boycott if the YSK accepted requests to combine voting.
In response to Bilgen's statement, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said: "That statement is in fact an expression of their distrust for the polls. If the YSK, which is an independent institution of Turkey, deems this necessary for election security, everybody has to respect this."
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The Federal Security Services (FSB) is reporting today that an American black-Islamist terror suspect, who yesterday committed an act of mass murder in the State of Oregon (United States), had been included on a list of 87,000 "known/suspected" Islamic terrorists that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) refused last month to accept from the Federation due to its not being "politically viable in the present atmosphere".
According to this report, the black-Islamist terrorist who committed this act of terror, Chris Harper Mercer, had previously been indentified by electronic intelligence specialists within the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) as being an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) adherent after he had attempted to gain passage to Syria via Turkey during the first week of September, 2015. Grain of salt. I mean the list and the rejection are probably true. But Chris Harper Mercer could've been added afterwards.
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Is that before or after Nation of Islam Leader LOUIS FARRAKHAN'S call for Black American Muslims to support violent Islamist Jihad n Amerika as a way to stop "Whitey's" Oppression once-n-forever???
[NYPOST] A team from the U.S. Defense Department will visit both a state and a federal prison in Colorado to assess their possible use for housing detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, senior U.S. officials said Friday.
The visit comes as the B.O. regime struggles to shut down the Guantanamo detention center and find a location within the U.S. to house its detainees. Within the next two weeks, the team will visit the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City and a medium-security federal prison in Florence, officials said.
The Pentagon team also has surveyed the Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, South Carolina. The reviews assess construction costs and other changes needed to house the detainees and conduct military commission trials.
In Colorado, the medium-security facility is on the same grounds as the maximum-security prison known as Supermax. It would need upgrades, said Cmdr. Gary Ross, a Pentagon front man.
"These efforts are consistent with our commitment to working with Congress to close Guantanamo, and are intended to help inform Congress of how we can meet this goal and what it will cost," Ross said.
Closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center has been a top priority for President Barack Obama teachable moment... , but the effort has faced hurdles, including staunch opposition among both Republicans and Democrats in Congress.
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Well, given that SCOTUS gave illegal (as in the 'conventions' definition) combatants standing in federal courts, the whole purpose of housing them in GITMO disappeared. Ship them off to USDB at Fort Leavenworth. Move that section's confinement team's families on post, to remove any potential compromising threat.
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I'm not worried - I have no doubts that, besides heavy Fed-State Security the KKK + other Right-wing Militais will be setting up shop in or around the Colorado SUPERMAX to protect the Locals from any Escapees.
[AA.TR] The Gay Paree-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is ready to help European countries deal with the refugee crisis, a senior Turkish diplomat has told Anadolu Agency.
Some 522,134 people -- more than double last year's figure -- reached Europe via the Mediterranean, including 388,324 people landing in Greece and 130,891 in Italia, according to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... .
The largest group was from Syria, where refugees have fled the civil war; about 200,000 Syrian people have reached Greece so far.
On the sidelines of the organization's annual retreat meeting in Istanbul on Friday, Turkish ambassador Mithat Rende, Permanent Representative to the OECD, said the organization was ready to assist European countries grappling with the exodus.
"The organization is eager to help countries with its expertise. In fact, the OECD has been building capacity over refugees. It will make a contribution to the global-level refugee problem," Rende said. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... no country has applied to the organization for such help.
In the wake of the refugee crisis, some members of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... suspended visa-free travel within the Schengen area and reintroduced border checks in order to stop the flow.
Hungary's response was widely was seen as heavy-handed while Germany has adopted an open-door policy. Berlin was considered eager to include these refugees into the economic cycle.
The Turkish ambassador said that the international economic organization concentrates on the integration of refugees into a country and the economic consequences of this movement.
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[RUDAW.NET] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday his country has been coordinating with the Kurdish forces battling Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... bandidosmurderous Moslems in Iraq and has been sending arms to them through the central government in Baghdad.
What odds they'll actually make the journey from Baghdad to Erbil?
Lavrov said a joint information center has been set up in Baghdad for cooperation between regional countries taking part in the war against ISIS, as the Islamic State is known.
"Military representatives from Iraq, Iran, Syria and Russia and the Kurdish government are with this information center which we established in Baghdad," Lavrov told Rudaw at a presser at the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... .
Russian aircraft have carried out dozens of missions in Syria since Monday following Moscow's announcement it will directly join the fight against ISIS Lion of Islams.
Various media reports have said the Russian Arclight airstrikes also targeted anti-regime forces of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... , which is largely supported by the West.
"ISIS is not like Al-Qaeda who often fled after attacking an area," Lavrov said. "ISIS controls these areas to establish a caliphate. They want a caliphate stretching from Portugal to Pakistain," he added, warning that efforts should concentrate on eradicating the Lion of Islam group.
Kurdish defense officials told Rudaw they had no knowledge about the information center and had no representative in Baghdad for that purpose.
Ministry of Peshmerga spokesperson Jabar Yawar said they had not being informed about "any cooperation between Iraq, Iran, Syria and Russia" in Baghdad.
At the UN presser Lavrov also said arms had been shipped to Peshmarga forces.
"We have replied to the Kurdish request regarding armament and send arms to them through Baghdad," Lavrov told Rudaw.
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What odds they'll actually make the journey from Baghdad to Erbil?
Russian remonstrations with non performing local officials might be quite different from American remonstrations.
[RUDAW.NET] The Kurdish region welcomes Russia's participation in the war against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) and its possible support for the Peshmerga forces, the region's presidency said Saturday.
"The Kurdistan Region welcomes Russia if its helps the Peshmerga in the war against ISIS," the office of President Masoud Barzani said in a statement.
Barzani's office said that the Peshmerga are an effective partner in the US-led coalition against ISIS in Iraq.
"The Kurdistan Region welcomes any country or party that would help the Peshmerga against ISIS and in this light we welcome Russia's participation," read the statement.
The president's office said that international coordination in the war was crucial for a better and more effective outcome.
"About the international effort to defeat the terrorist organization ISIS, if there is coordination between Russia and the international coalition there would be better outcome," it said.
The Kurdish forces have lost 1,300 Peshmerga soldiers in the fight against ISIS since the radical group turned against the Kurdistan Region in August 2014.
Peshmerga ground troops coordinate with the Western coalition command center in Erbil.
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The Turks are the natural allies of the Kurds, but now Erdogan and the Turks have blown that they are moving toward Russia and Iran.
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How soon will it be before Assad's Russian allies attack the Kurds in northeastern Syria. I give it six months or less. The poor Kurds. They are now surrounded by natural enemies; the Iraqis to the south, the Turks to the north, and the Syrians to the west. And the US dithers.
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Looks like Baby Assad is in tacit agreement ...
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > ASAD: MILITARY CANPAIGN BY RUSSIA, [Russia's] ALLIES IS VITAL TO SAVE THE MIDDLE EAST, from destruction [implosion?].
* JAPAN TIMES > IFF RUSSIAN INTERVENTION FAILS, NIDDLE EAST WILL BE DESTROYED, ASSAD SAYS IN IRAN TV. RUSSIA, SYRIA, IRAQ, AND IRAN ALLIANCE MUST SUCCEEED.
Move along, people, clearly no EXISTENTIAL THREAT to the US-West = entire Judeo-Christian/Non-Muslim World here iff efforts to destroy the Islamic State fail miserably.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > RUSSIA GETS REAL, US PNETAGON FREAKS OUT, [ISIS, etal] JIHADIS HEAD [flee Russia"s strikes] TO GERMANY [via Turkey].
VERSUS
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [RFE] ISLAMIC STATE'S NORTH CAUCASUS AFFILATE CALlS FOR RECRUITS TO JOIN IT [not ISIS/ISIL in Syria-Iraq] IN DAGESTAN, to wage Jihad in Caucasus + ultimately agz Russia proper.
IS affiliate Wilayat Al-Qawqaz = "Caucasus Province" of the Islamic State.
* ASAHI SHIMBUN > IRAN TROOPS "TO JOIN SYRIA WAR", CIVIL WAR COULD BECOME REGIONAL, GLOBAL.
Yuuup - see Above.
"GREAT POWERS" OR "CO-SUPERPOWERS" PLAYING "GREAT GAME" POLITICS WID THE ISLAMIC STATE = THE ENTIRE NON-MUSLIM/ISLAMIC WORLD LOSES.
WHY???
* US-LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO + GLOBALISM = THE SUPERPOWER USA IS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY HELPING ITS ENEMIES + WANNABES, ETC. BECOME MILPOL OR GEOPOL STRONGER RELATIVE = COMPARATIVE TO ITSELF, TO INCLUDE BUT NOT LIMITED TO GOING NUCLEAR [Nukulaar].
D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, SPELL "NUCLEAR" CORRECTLY WILL YA!?
[AA.TR] Iraq is ready to share anti-Daesh intelligence with Russia, Iran and Syria if they ask for it, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Saturday.
"We have been fighting Daesh more than a year and we have some important security information that no other country has regarding Daesh," Abadi said during a presser at the presidential office in capital Baghdad.
Referring to Russia's latest Arclight airstrikes in Syria -- allegedly targeting Daesh, the prime hinted that his government would welcome military equipment assistance from its neighbors Iran and Syria, or Russia.
"There aren't any obstacles preventing the coalition of four [i.e. Russia, Syria, Iran and Iraq] from arming the Iraqi military against Daesh," he said.
Russia began Arclight airstrikes on Wednesday to bolster the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... .
Moscow insists the strikes are targeting Daesh and affiliated terrorist groups, but Western countries and their Gulf allies believe moderate opponents of Assad and civilians are bearing the brunt of Russian bombing.
The U.S. and several of its allies, including The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and 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... , issued a joint statement Thursday expressing concern over the Russian Arclight airstrikes.
Early this week, Iraqi President Fuad Masum welcomed Moscow's Arclight airstrikes in Syria, and Prime Minister Abadi announced that they might consider a plan involving Russian Arclight airstrikes against Daesh targets in Iraq. On the other hand, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov appeared to throw cold water on the notion, saying late Thursday, "We are not planning to expand our Arclight airstrikes in Iraq."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russia had warned the United States ahead of launching its air strikes and recommended that the United States stop its own flights in areas where Russia's air force was operating, a senior Russian army official said on Saturday.
Andrei Kartapolov from the Russian army's General Staff, said Russia's Air Force had targeted more than 50 Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) objects in its air strikes.
Kartapolov added in a statement that Russian intelligence "shows that gunnies are leaving areas under their control. Panic and desertion have started in their ranks... Some 600 mercenaries have abandoned their positions and are trying to find their way into Europe."
Russia would also increase its air strikes on murderous Moslems in Syria, the official said.
"We will not only continue strikes..., we will also increase their intensity," said Kartapolov, according to RIA news agency.
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Some 600 mercenaries have abandoned their positions and are trying to find their way into Europe."
Certainly helps solve Sadat's disgruntled peasant problem, and helps destabilize the Euro thorn in Vlads arse at the same time. It is a strategy which Obama continues to successfully employ with regard to our border with Mexico. Tyrants in competition, Vlad and the Champ. One of the reasons they have no use for one another, but certainly not the only reason.
[ARA] The PYD-led Auto-Administration in the northern Syrian city of Qamishli has recently developed a new curriculum for primary schools, which depends in the first three grades on the Kurdish books instead of Arabic.
This comes after decades of ban on the Kurdish language and culture by the ruling Baath Party.
Samira Haj Ali, Deputy Educational Commissioner of the Auto-Administration in Qamishli, said: "This is a significant moment in the history of the Kurdish people, especially in Rojava (Syria's Kurdish region). Today, for the first time, a Kurdish curriculum is being officially taught at schools."
"Some chauvinistic parties claim that the Kurdish language is unimportant language in comparison with Arabic, but we want to tell them Kurdish is a very rich language. It is the language of more than forty million people," she told ARA News.
"Media shows some fake versions of school books claiming those are included in the new curriculum in Rojava, but that's not true; we have introduced a purely educational Kurdish curriculum," Ali said.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... due to the dominance of the PKK-affiliated Democratic Union Party (PYD) over the public institutions in the Kurdish region in Syria, families fear that the new curriculum may influence their children by teaching them the thought and ideology of a dominant political party.
Speaking to ARA News in Qamishli, Kurdish writer Najmaddin Kayad said: "The ideologization of educational curriculum usually has devastative consequences for students, and we have seen this experience in Iraq, Libya and Syria. People of those countries now pay the cost of ideologized education that has prioritized political views over science."
"That's why there must be a reconsideration concerning the new curriculum in Rojava under the supervision of a specialized organization, which may include educational professionals and jurists, in order to serve our society and ensure a better future for our children."
Others believe that such a curriculum has no future since it's not recognized by the government.
This process comes as the Syrian government has taken the decision to close several primary schools in Qamishli city and other areas of Hasakah province in northeastern Syria amid the growing power of the Auto-Administration.
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[ARA] Dozens of underage Syrian girls in the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor have been forced into marriage with bully boyz of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) turban group, local sources reported on Saturday.
"At least 22 teenage girls have been forced to marry ISIS bully boyz in the last three weeks," local media activist Maher Abu Taiba told ARA News.
"Families are unable to protest against such violations by the radical group for fear of arrest and execution," Taiba said.
"ISIS claims that those marriages are in accordance with the Islamic Sharia, stressing that parents who refuse their daughters' marriage from the group's bully boyz would be considered apostates and would be mercilessly punished," the source said.
Speaking to ARA News in Deir ez-Zor, father of two underage girls who have been forced to marry bully boyz said the fear of brutal punishment has obliged him to remain silent.
"My two daughters have married ISIS members against their will. The youngest is 13 and the oldest is 15," he said.
"It is a painful reality. We have raised our children on idealistic values, and now we are being forced to give them up in such a painful way under threats by the Islamic State and its allied Sharia Court," the father said on the condition of anonymity.
Amid the deteriorating living conditions in the province, Deir ez-Zor has recently seen a mass displacement among civilians, especially after the turban group has tightened its control on the surrounding countryside.
ISIS has imposed its control over large areas in Deir ez-Zor in April, while pro-Assad forces still hold few neighborhoods in the city.
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[ALMANAR.LB] The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran has expelled a bigwig from Bahrain's embassy in Tehran in apparent retaliation after the Persian Gulf state did the same to its envoy in Manama.
"The number two official in Bahrain's embassy in Iran is persona non grata and Mr Bassam al-Dossari must leave Iran's territory within 72 hours," the official IRNA news agency quoted a foreign ministry statement as saying late Friday.
Bahrain on Thursday recalled its ambassador from Iran and ordered Tehran's envoy to leave within 72 hours, citing Iranian "interference" in its affairs.
The Persian Gulf kingdom of Bahrain, with a majority Shiite Muslim population ruled by a Sunni dynasty, has suffered unrest since a pro-democracy uprising started in 2011.
Iran has strongly rejected "the baseless accusations from Bahrain".
The kingdom is "evading its internal problems by passing the buck, instead of solving them" Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdollahian told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
on Friday.
"Tehran has not and will not interfere in Bahrain's internal affairs and reacts accordingly to Bahrain's actions."
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[AA.TR] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has said Russian Arclight airstrikes in Syria have targeted moderate opposition forces, not Daesh.
Erdogan made the remarks in a televised interview with Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... late on Friday.
Russia began Arclight airstrikes on Wednesday to bolster the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... . Moscow insists the strikes are targeting Daesh and affiliated terrorist groups, but Western countries and their Gulf allies believe moderate opponents of Assad and civilians are bearing the brunt of Russian bombing.
Erdogan said: "We learned that 65 people died during the ongoing Russian operations. Where? Around Hama, Homs and Aleppo. It is too significant. Because Russia expressed [to] our embassy in a written statement that it will struggle against Daesh here.
"But, it [Russia] did not make this against Daesh; literally it made this against moderate opposition, which has been resisting the regime. Civilians were killed. They ignore the killing of civilians."
The U.S. and several of its allies, including The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and 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... , issued a joint statement Thursday expressing concern over the Russian Arclight airstrikes.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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The imam of Portland's biggest mosque collected money from worshippers after 9/11, sending the Portland Seven to Afghanistan to fight against coalition forces, the U.S. Department of Justice alleges in its fight to deport the imam.
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