[ARABNEWS] One of the two men vying to become Afghanistan's next president is threatening to boycott a ballot audit from the country's disputed presidential runoff, his adviser said Tuesday, a development that could further disrupt the already troubled process.
The complicated, UN-supervised audit of the 8 million votes from the June presidential runoff has been underway in Kabul for weeks.
The process followed allegations of vote fraud on both sides and is meant to decide whether 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... , a former foreign minister, or former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai will replace President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... .
Abdullah is apparently concerned that the audit has allegedly failed to invalidate a sufficient number of ballots so far that would correspond to the level of vote fraud his team claims has taken place.
A top adviser for Abdullah told news hounds on Tuesday that if Abdullah's concerns are not addressed by Wednesday morning, he will pull out of the audit.
"If our demands are not accepted, we will announce the end of this process," said Fazel Ahmad Manawi. "This process will not be acceptable to us and the result will not have any value." Manawi said the election commission ignored their complaints about fraudulent ballots.
If the recount is halted, it would create another major political stalemate for Afghanistan. Karzai has said the new president should be sworn in on Sept. 2. Karzai's successor is also expected to attend a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... summit to be held next week.
The lack of new president has also held up the signing of a security agreement between the US and Afghanistan.
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[Al Ahram] In a move that local media in Algeria has described as infighting with the ruling National Liberation Front (FLN), the ailing President Abdel Aziz 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... , 77, banned Abdelaziz Belkhadem, his special adviser, from activities within the FLN, the state news agency reported, citing a presidential statement.
The statement gave no reason for the president's decision but local media speculated that Belkhadem had angered Bouteflika with comments seen as attempting to implicate him in a leadership struggle inside the FLN.
Belkhadem, a former prime minister and FLN leader, has repeatedly tried to remove the party's current chief Amar Saadani.
The FLN, of which Bouteflika is the honorary president, and Algeria's army have largely controlled the vast, energy-rich North African desert nation since independence in 1962.
Belkhadem and Saadani were among leading politicians who campaigned for Bouteflika in April and helped him win a fourth five-year term despite poor health after the president suffered a stroke last year.
Bouteflika commands broad backing in a country still traumatised by a decade-long war in the 1990s with armed Islamists that killed more than 200,000 people.
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[Libya Herald] Even as Operation Dawn members are alleged to be ransacking and burning houses in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , including that of Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni, the Misratan-led group says that it rejects terrorism and extremism and objects to the "terrorist group" label given to it by the House of Representatives.
Operation Dawn called on state institutions, including the military and security services, to restore stability and the provision of services that cover the basic needs of Tripoli residents, confirming its own willingness to contribute to the provision of security.
The group claimed that their actions liberated the capital's establishments and institutions "from the remnants of the former regime," with the help of the "honourable 17th February revolutionaries who destroyed the system of injustice and tyranny".
In the statement, the group asserted its full support for the constitution and for the peaceful transfer of power. It stated that recognition of the House of Representatives (HoR) must be based on constitutional legitimacy, possibly referring to the pending ruling by Libya's Constitutional Court on the legality of the HoR convening in Tobruk.
In speaking specifically about the HoR, it condemned the gathering of HoR members in Tobruk, the call for foreign intervention, and the characterisation of "honest revolutionaries" as terrorists, stressing that such labels are unfounded and were aimed at discrediting those who remain loyal to the 17 February Revolution.
Furthermore, the statement called for remedying the history of oppression of Tebu, Amazigh and Tuareg tribes and called for a military that did not differentiate or protect tribal or partisan interests but worked for the good of the nation as a whole.
The statement called on embassies and diplomatic missions to return, assuring them they would be protected. It also called extended an invitation to the new UN Secretary-General's Special Representative to Libya Bernadino Leon to come to Tripoli and see what is happening there firsthand.
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[Libya Herald] Scores of Zintanis living in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... have been captured and hundreds individuals opposed to Libya Dawn Operations have had their homes torched since the it took control of the capital.
Residents in Tripoli told the Libya Herald that 280 homes had been looted and set alight since the Misratan-led forces took control the the airport two days ago. This included the house of Transport Minister Abdelgader Ahmed, a Zintani, Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni, Othman and Abdelmajid Al-Milaiqtah, commanders within the Zintan revolutionary brigades, and Mohammed Al-Farjani, a Tripoli-based news hound for Alarabiya TV.
Zintan Municipal Council has described the plight of Zintanis in Tripoli as "a very dark situation". Spokesman for the council Omar Matoog said it had complied a list of 80 names of those who had disappeared in recent days. "We do not know if they have been kidnapped or killed," he said. He added that while Zintani officials had been targeted in the attacks, normal families and civilians had not escaped the violence.
"This is a disaster," Matoog said. "I do not know how to describe the situation on the ground. The families are without homes; now they are refugees," he explained.
Matoog said Zintan Municipal Council was collating a file on the the abuse and that it would pass it to the UN or the relevant international legal authorities.
While Zintanis could feel secure in their own town he claimed thatr what Libya was now witnessing was a battle not just between Misrata and Zintan but for the whole country.
It has been claimed that Zintani forces withdrew two days ago from Tripoli International Airport and other bases they held in the capital on specific orders from the House of Representatives.
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[ABCNEWS.GO] About 1,400 children were sexually exploited in a northern England town, a report concluded Tuesday in a damning account of "collective failures" by authorities to prevent victims as young as 11 from being beaten, raped and trafficked over a 16-year period.
Report author Alexis Jay cited appalling acts of violence between 1997 and 2013 in Rotherham, a town of some 250,000. The independent report came after a series of convictions of sexual predators in the region and ground-breaking reports in the Times of London.
Reading descriptions of the abuse make it hard to imagine that nothing was done for so long. The report described rapes by multiple perpetrators, mainly from Britannia's Pak community, and how children were trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, kidnapped, beaten, and intimidated.
"There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone," Jay said. "Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators."
The report's author took great pains to make sure the identities of the children were not revealed, but offered a general description of the cases showing the victims were between 11 and 16 years old. Most, but not all, were girls, who are preyed upon by unrelated older men.
A sampling of case studies showed the victims first came into contact with authorities for a variety of reasons, including being reported missing from their homes, leaving school with unknown men or as victims of stalking. While most of the victims in the older cases were described as "white British children," but the report said that more recently a greater number of cases were coming from the growing Pak, Kashmiri and Roma communities.
Attention first fell on Rotherham in 2010 when five men received lengthy jail terms after convictions of grooming teens for sex. A series of other high-profile cases featuring Pak rings also emerged in Rochdale, Derby and Oxfordâ" and communities began to look more closely at their child sex exploitation cases.
Rotherham decided to conduct a formal inquiry and Jay, a former chief social work adviser to the Scottish government, was appointed to investigate. But she told the BBC that she was "very shocked" by what she found.
Police "regarded many child victims with contempt," Jay said, adding that many of the children were known to child protection agencies. Even though earlier reports described the situation in Rotherham, the first of these reports was "effectively suppressed" because senior officers did not believe the data.
"The collective failures of political and officer leadership were blatant," Jay said. "From the beginning, there was growing evidence that child sexual exploitation was a serious problem in Rotherham."
Complicating the reporting was the fact that victims described the perpetrators as "Asian" and yet the council failed to engage with the town's Pak community.
"Some councilors seemed to think it was a one-off problem, which they hoped would go away" Jay said. "Several staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so."
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the pak community are scum.they look at young white girls as easy meat and sub human compared to the virgin muslim women they marry.
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TW. I prescribe those people who preferred let child being raped better than being called racists along with those which would have called them racists being hanged by the neck. For perpetrators I prescribe them being hanged by, you know by what.
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Jimmy Savile wasn't pak. There seems to be mindset in the British bureaucratic oligarchy to take care of its own whether an individual or a specific community. It will continue till sufficient 'pain' is inflicted to alter behavior of those who want the power but not the responsibilities and consequences that used to go with it. There is no will to punish, therefore there will be no change.
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Procopius. Jimmy Savile was a differtent offender who was protected for different reasons (left, "artist", perhaps some political corectness aboput "homophobia", being part of the chattering classes) than wthose in what we were discusing so please don't mix the issues. You are incurring into what the French call "drowning the fish".
[TodaysZaman] The investigation into an Iran-backed deadly terrorist organization in Turkey has uncovered the organization's connection to the failed bombing attack against an Israel Embassy staff member in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on Feb. 2012.
According to information gathered in the comprehensive three-year probe into the Tawhid-Salam cells working for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) Quds Force in Turkey, Naser Ghafari, one of the commanders assigned to Turkey by the IRGC, instructed a key suspect in the Tawhid-Salam organization to conduct surveillance in Tbilisi.
Naser Ghafari operates under the cover of a diplomatic passport attached to the Iranian Consulate in Istanbul.
According to the case file, Ghafari gave the order to Hüseyin YazıcıoÄlu, a Turkish citizen who has been working for Iranian intelligence, on Oct. 15, 2011. Acting on instructions from an Iranian handler, YazıcıoÄlu booked a flight to Tbilisi scheduled for Nov. 14, 2011. The flight was later rescheduled for Nov. 30 and again rescheduled for Jan. 4.
With a court-approved surveillance order, Turkish Sherlocks also gained access to the email account of YazıcıoÄlu and discovered a series of photos sent to him on Oct. 18, 2011 by Turkish citizen Erol Ãnaldı. The photos showed landmark places in and around Tbilisi such as the park across from the Radisson Blue hotel and metro stations, among others.
In one of the pictures sent to YazıcıoÄlu's email, police were able to identify the license plate of Ãnaldı's car. The car, with the license number 34 BJ 4352, was logged by customs officials at the Artvin Sarp border crossing, and the record indicated that Ãnaldı entered into Georgia on Nov. 2, 2011 and exited Georgia on Nov. 13, 2011. The Sherlocks concluded that Ãnaldı had scouted targets in Tbilisi to identify meeting points with YazıcıoÄlu.
All this activity had been recorded before the foiled kaboom in Tbilisi on Feb. 13, 2012, when a bomb was found under the car of a Georgian employee of the Israeli embassy in Tbilisi. The car was located near the embassy and police defused the explosive without incident. The same day, in a separate incident, the wife of an Israeli diplomat was injured in a boom-mobilekaboom in New Delhi. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of being responsible for both incidents.
Turkish police discovered that the attack targeting the Israeli Consulate General in Ä°stanbul's Etiler neighborhood in May 2011 -- which resulted in serious injuries but no fatalities -- was also staged by the Iran-backed terrorist group. Using street camera recordings, police were able to trace a bomb-laden bike to a storage unit in Ä°stanbul's Fatih district that had been rented using a false identity by Rezazadeh Metin, an Iranian with the Quds Force.
The bomb in Etiler was supplied by Abdurrahman Ãelik, who had previously been convicted of killing two opponents of the Iranian regime in Turkey and given a prison sentence of 12-and-half years, though he was released in 2004 following an amnesty agreement by ErdoÄan's government.
In his testimony, Ãelik admitted that he had been trained in Iran to stage attacks in Turkey and conduct intelligence operations on behalf of Iran for over two months. He also acknowledged that the Iran-based Quds Force had obtained bombs from him and had staged attacks in Georgia and Thailand.
The Tawhid-Salam network allegedly reaches higher-ups in the Turkish government. The politically motivated witch hunt against police Sherlocks who uncovered highly secretive cells in the network publically revealed damaging details from the prosecutors' confidential investigation files. Embattled Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan tried to downplay the significance of the revelation as his government attempted to cover up the investigation by reshuffling police Sherlocks and prosecutors assigned to the case.
Tawhid-Salam was designated a terrorist organization in Turkey by higher courts. Several members of the organization -- which was charged for killing leading intellectuals and attacking Western, Israeli, Arab and other diplomatic targets in Turkey -- were sentenced to prison terms in early 2000.
It appears that sleeper cells were reactivated in Turkey starting in 2008. The names of a number of Turkish and Iranian suspects, some of whom hold high positions in ErdoÄan's government, have been revealed in recent media reports and put the government in a difficult position.
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[NYDAILYNEWS] Kanyata McCain said she refused to believe that her cousin, Douglas McAuthur McCain, died fighting for Islamic State terrorists in Syria. While the 33-year-old was a deeply religious Muslim, his faith was never radical, she claimed. Other relatives previously said his violent death in Syria was 'his destiny.'
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Not any more sweetypie.
But here are some clues: called himself slave of allen. Knew what ISJV was doing. Traveled halfway around the world to take up arms for ISJV.
Dunno - pretty sure he wasn't Dorothy'd to the Middle East.
[The Nation (Pak)] SIALKOT- United Nation's team visited the Charwah sector of Sialkot and observed the damage caused by the Indian aggression. The team observed the damage caused by the bombardment of Indian Army in Charwah and met the residents there for investigation regarding the Indian offensive.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... on Tuesday said the current situation will not be simply resolved with the resignations of 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... and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... , but only with their hangings.
"Now the matter will not be resolved with the government's resignation but with the Sharifs being hanged," said the PAT chief.
Speaking to his supporters in a inflammatory speech, Qadri said that the prime minister and Punjab CM were both responsible for the Model Town incident and have to be punished for it.
"Nawaz Sharif you are not safe any longer," said the PAT leader.
"Such a big incident could not have taken place without the consent of both the Sharif brothers," said Qadri
He said that both Nawaz and Shahbaz must resign and hold themselves accountable before the law.
"Is there anyone who will listen to the orphans of the Model Town deaders...I have always said that the deaders have won, while the murderers have lost," Qadri said.
Tahirul Qadri also said that it was better to die from bullets by the ruling class rather than by hunger.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: Upholding a sessions court's ruling, the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday ordered police to register an FIR against the PML-N's top leadership -- including Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif -- over violence that took place in Lahore's Model Town in June.
At least 11 workers of Tahirul Qadri's Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) were killed and over 100 people injured in clashes with police on June 17 in the Model Town locality.
PAT workers had submitted an application with police to file a First Information Report (FIR) against a total of 21 people, which included the prime minister, Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan, former Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah, Federal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique, and others.
An additional district and sessions judge had ordered police to register the FIR on the request of the PAT, although the order was challenged in the LHC by four PML-N federal ministers -- Khawaja Asif, Pervaiz Rasheed, Saad Rafique and Abid Sher Ali.
The case was heard by Justice Mehmood Maqbool Bajwa of the LHC, who also directed the joint investigation team (JIT) to submit its report in court before the verdict was released.
Reading out a short order, the high court upheld the lower court's ruling and dismissed the federal ministers' request not to file the FIR.
Earlier today, the court dismissed a request by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to become a party in the appeal challenging the sessions court ruling.
The request was filed by Zubair Khan Niazi on behalf of his party. However, the court dismissed it saying the PTI was not an aggrieved group and hence had no cause to become party in the case.
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[DAWN] In an interview with a private TV channel on late Tuesday night, former president general (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... supported the demand for 'change' and stressed the United States must not interfere in Pakistain's internal politics. His remarks come at a time when many have been speculating that the military is involved in the prevailing political crisis.
Musharraf said that 'change must come before elections'.
The former president said that he has never seen protests as large and continuous as the ones currently being held in Islamabad.
"Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... is asking for change. Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... is asking for the audit of ballot papers, fair elections," he said.
He said: "Elections are not possible at the moment in my estimate."
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He left out Hope.
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[Iran Press TV] Pakistain's 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... has met with the country's army chief amid mass protests demanding the government's resignation.
Tens of thousands of people have descended on the capital Islamabad in recent days, answering the call from opposition politician Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... and holy man Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri to push for Sharif's departure, with a large number of demonstrators camped outside parliament in the city's heavily-guarded "Red Zone".
The Pak premier's press office said on Tuesday that army chief Raheel Sharif and the prime minister discussed the protests and agreed to resolve the issue "expeditiously in the best national interest."
The two leaders have held many meetings over the standoff in recent weeks, according to a top source at army headquarters in the town of Rawalpindi.
"They are discussing solutions," said the unnamed official, adding, "This situation is very alarming for the army... What if things get violent?"
On Monday, the Supreme Court ordered protest leaders and the government to find a compromise solution so that the "Red Zone", which is home to parliament, the prime minister's home, embassies and government offices, could be cleared by the following day.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... protesters defied the court's order and stayed put for the 13th day on Tuesday.
Khan and Qadri accuse the premier of corruption and insist that Pakistain's last year general elections, won by Sharif's Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N), were fraudulent.
Government officials and protest leaders have been engaged in sporadic negotiations since last week to find a peaceful solution to the crisis, but Khan has refused to back down unless Sharif quits, a demand the prime minister has firmly rejected.
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However much certain people might argue, this is evil incarnate, and must be erased from the surface of the earth.
[IsraelTimes] Islamic State fighters reportedly killed up to 670 prisoners in Mosul and committed other horrific abuses in Iraq that amount to crimes against humanity, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Monday.
The UN's top human rights official said "grave, horrific human rights violations are being committed daily" by the Islamic State group and other fighters allied with it in an aggressive push to gain a firm grip on the northern and eastern provinces.
The group's violations as it expands the boundaries of its self-proclaimed caliphate along the Syria-Iraq border include targeted killings, forced conversions, abductions, trafficking, slavery, sexual abuse, destruction of places of religious and cultural significance, and besieging entire communities for ethnic, religious or sectarian reasons, Pillay said.
"They are systematically targeting men, women and children based on their ethnic, religious or sectarian affiliation and are ruthlessly carrying out widespread ethnic and religious cleansing in the areas under their control," she said. "Such persecution would amount to crimes against humanity."
Pillay cited the killing of hundreds of Yazidis in Nineveh and up to 2,500 kidnapped at the beginning of August, and the killing and abduction of hundreds of Yazidis in Cotcho village in Southern Sinjar on August. 15. She also pointed to at least 13,000 Shia Turkmen in the town of Amirli, including 10,000 women and children, who have been besieged since June 15.
The UN mission in Iraq has also verified reports of a massacre of prisoners and detainees from Mosul's Badoush Prison on June 10, she said. Interviews with 20 survivors and 16 witnesses described Islamic State gunmen loading between 1,000 and 1,500 prisoners onto trucks and driving them to a nearby uninhabited area. Armed men told the Sunnis to separate themselves from the others.
According to the accounts, gunmen then yelled insults at the remaining prisoners, lined them up in four rows, ordered them to kneel and opened fire, reportedly killing up to 670 prisoners.
"Such cold-blooded, systematic and intentional killings of civilians, after singling them out for their religious affiliation may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity," Pillay said.
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Napalm -- it's what works. Very low recidivism rate among napalm survivors. Also, very low survival factor. What's not to like?
The US needs to stop fighting wars with one arm behind us and the other trying to please the UN. War is imposing your will on others. Just about anything you do toward that goal can be accepted. Stop this crazy shi'ite.
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[Ynet] Gazook Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... in both the Strip and Sinai have gone to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside the radical Islamist organization.
If the worst of the worst go to ISIS to be killed, they won't be in Gaza to fight Israel, or in the Sinai to fight Egypt's Mamluk government.
Of course, for that to work they have to die...
As ISIS fights its way through Syria and Iraq, some Gazooks appear more interested in joining the radical Islamist organization than in fighting Israel, according to a report by American news company Vocativ.
The company, which specializes in collecting information from the web, reported there is an increase in support for Salafists in both the Gazoo Strip and in Sinai in recent month, noted both on the ground and on social media.
In June, Salafists held an ISIS support rally in Gazoo, a demonstration that was quickly shut down by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' security forces. At the time, Hamas has denied claims ISIS' influence has made its way into the Gazoo Strip.
In what is undoubtedly interesting timing, it was reported that ISIS operatives were trying to infiltrate Sinai from the Gazoo Strip through the network of smuggling tunnels under the Egyptian border - an attempt thwarted by the Egyptian security forces. The Egyptian army denied the reports at the time, while Hamas surprisingly fell in line with the Egyptian denial, an unusual occurrence since the ouster of Hamas-ally president Mohammed Morsi.
Last week, Hamas worked painstakingly hard to shake off the comparison between ISIS' horrific acts of beheadings and executions to their own spree of executions of "collaborators" with Israel.
Expressions of support of ISIS continue unabated in Sinai as well. Radical Salafist organization Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, that is fighting against both Israel and the Egyptian army, released an unusual video from its Eid al-Fitr sermon, given by one of the organization's leaders, Osama Abu al-Masry, to his supports in the middle of the desert, where he expressed the hope Allah would open the road to Baghdad to ISIS.
But it appears that the expressions of support and solidarity have already been translated into active participation in fighting on the battle fields of Syria and Iraq. Several Gazooks from Rafah, Nuseirat and Jabaliya were killed in Homs and Aleppo in Syria and Samarra in Iraq while fighting in ISIS' ranks.
According to recent reports in forums affiliated with ISIS, two Gazooks, from Sinai-based Salafist organizations Ansar Beit al-Maqdis and Ansar al-Dawla al-Islamia, have traveled to Iraq as "representatives" of these group to fight alongside ISIS.
It is important to note that the Islamist organizations in Sinai are closely tied to the armed factions in Gazoo. It is also important to note that during Operation Protective Edge, the armed factions in Gazoo, led by Hamas and the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , reportedly tried to encourage the Sinai groups to open another front against Israel.
One of these Gazooks is Muhammad Naif al-Qarinawi, an engineer from Nuseirat who fought under the nom de guerre Abi al-Bara al-Ghazi, who was sent to Syria to offer his operational expertise on bombs to ISIS. He was killed on July 26 in a fight against the Syrian army at the Sha'er gas field just outside of Homs.
Ali Samir Abu al-Ainin was sent by the Sinai-based Ansar Beit al-Maqdis to fight alongside ISIS in Iraq. He was killed in the city of Samarra in a battle meant to be ISIS' push for Baghdad.
A video recently posted online could provide additional evidence to the presence of Salafists from the Gazoo Strip in the ISIS ranks. Among other things, the Gazook operatives are seen firing at what are allegedly Syrian army posts as part of ISIS' operations.
In the videos posted online, these bully boyz are said to be a part of the Sheikh Abu Noor al-Maqdisi Brigade. It is possible ISIS has a unit of bully boyz from the Gazoo Strip, similar to the organization's units of other nationalities.
Sheikh Abu Noor al-Maqdisi, after whom the unit was called, was a Salafist-Jihadist sheikh who was assassinated by Hamas in 2009, and is considered the religious authority for Salafists in the Gazoo Strip. In 2009, al-Maqdisi gave a sermon in a in a Rafah mosque, announcing the formation of an Islamic Emirate in Gazoo - which challenged Hamas and angered its leaders. The sheikh was then killed in a shootout that ensued between Hamas men and armed Salafists. Since then, al-Maqdisi became a martyr in the eyes of Salafists in the Strip.
Over the past year, dozens of Gazooks have reportedly gone to Syria to fight against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... , some even bit the dust. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... it has been reported that most of them preferred joining the ranks of the Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria. Following ISIS' success, however, it appears it has now become more attractive to Gazooks.
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Some Gazans opt for ISIS over Hamas.
Probably the reason our Champ is a bit reluctant to fully engage ISIS.
[Iran Press TV] The President of Paleostinian Unity government the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... has described the humanitarian situation in the besieged Gazoo strip as a disaster beyond imagination.
Worse than the disaster ISIS has made in Iraq and Syria? Worse than the disaster Boko Haram has made in Nigeria and surrounds, than Al Shabaab has made in Somalia and its surrounds? My dear Mr. Abbas, you are adorably ignorant of the possibilities encompassed within the word disaster, so clearly beyond your Moscow-trained sensibilities.
Abbas made the remarks on Tuesday hours after Paleostinian groups and mediators confirmed that a truce has been reached between Israelis and Paleostinians in Egypt to end hostilities between the two sides.
Abbas highlighted the need to help Gazooks rebuild their houses and infrastructure devastated in weeks of Israeli ground attacks and aerial strikes.
He urged international donors to help Gazooks with the reconstruction process, adding that the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... will send humanitarian aid to the impoverished Paleostinian territory very soon.
Elsewhere, the Paleostinian leader emphasized the need for Paleostinian factions to move forward with their national reconciliation plans.
The president of the Paleostinian unity government also referred to the role of Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i and US officials in reaching the agreement. He said the talks held earlier with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, officials in Doha revolved around an end to the Israeli aggression against Gazooks.
The Gazoo truce, which took effect from 1600 GMT, has sparked huge celebrations in the Gazoo Strip.
The ceasefire deal stipulates an end to the Israeli blockade as well as provision of a guarantee that Paleostinian demands and needs will be met. The deal also says crossings between Gazoo and Israel will open and the two sides will engage in direct talks.
The Paleostinian resistance movement Hamas says the truce marks a victory for the resistance. It says the deal shows the Paleostinians have prevailed in the Israeli war. Hamas has also called for mass rallies in west bank to celebrate the victory.
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Rebuild? Why?
Gaza is a toilet hole. Its "THEIR problem.
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just fence it off build a moat and expel all the muslims from israel.
they can't coexist, so pay them compensation, $10k in gold each and expel evvery man woman and child of them.
gtfo. then: peace!
[Iran Press TV] Gazooks celebrate victory after seven weeks of resistance against the Israeli offensive against the Paleostinians of the coastal enclave.
On Tuesday, Paleostinian groups and Egyptian mediators confirmed that the Cairo-based talks ended in truce.
Paleostinians poured into the streets of the war-torn sliver to celebrate as the Egyptian-brokered truce took effect at 1600 GMT.
People and traffic filled the streets with drivers honking horns and crowds chanting slogans.
The truce stipulates the removal of Israeli blockade as well as the provision of a guarantee that Paleostinian demands will be met.
Crossings between Israel and Gazoo will open and the two sides will continue holding indirect talks, according to the deal.
The Paleostinian territory's fishing zone will also be widened in the Mediterranean.
The Paleostinian resistance movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, said the deal marks a victory for Paleostinians and called for mass rallies in the occupied West Bank.
"Today we declare the victory of the resistance, today we declare the victory of Gazoo," Hamas front manSami Abu Zuhri ...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... said.
Israeli warplanes and tanks started pounding the blockaded enclave in early July, inflicting heavy losses on the Paleostinian land.
Some 2,139 Paleostinians, mostly civilians, including women, children and the elderly, were killed in 50 days of the Israeli onslaught on Gazoo. Around 11,000 others were maimed.
Tel Aviv says 69 Israelis have been killed in the conflict, but Hamas puts the number at more than 150.
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Victory?
Some of them are still alive? I guess they might feel that was some sort of "victory". I would call it luck.
Better luck next time, Chump.
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Anyone remember their dancing in the streets following 9/11 ?
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I suppose getting to the end of having the IDF "redecorate" your neighborhood is worth a celebration. And it's a victory if you're still alive at the end.
Euphemisms are big in the Arab world.
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The Washington Post's Pentagon journalist; the original account just a little too folksy.
A U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat got into an altercation Tuesday with an Iranian sailboat in the Persian Gulf, the Pentagon announced.
U.S. military officials said the trouble started when the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Monomoy, which regularly patrols international waters in the Gulf, approached an Iranian dhow, a traditional sailing vessel used by fisherman and traders. According to the U.S. account, the cutter dispatched a smaller boat, apparently to try to get closer to the dhow and possibly climb aboard.
The dhow was less than friendly; its crew pointed a machine gun at the visiting party. In response, the Monomoy fired a warning shot, which apparently had its desired effect. The dhow sailed off, the cutter retrieved its personnel from the small boat and went its own way.
From personal experience, the Iranians use dhows much like the Soviets used fishing boats - as intelligence gathering platforms. Also from personal experience, smuggling from Iran to the various Arab emirates is a long and historic tradition.
Coast Guard patrol boats have performed maritime security operations in the Gulf since 2003 and can board suspicious vessels. The 110-foot cutters complement larger U.S. Navy ships in the region. The Monomoy generated headlines in January 2012 when it rescued six Iranian fishermen.
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I have a difficult time figuring out why our Department of Transportation is conducting interdictions operations in the Persian Gulf whilst our borders and waterways are being overrun by the drug cartels and illegals. Perhaps someone could get me up to speed on this.
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It's quite simple, meneer, though the answer is not necessarily to your liking.
The USN (and its Marine Corps component), while authorized to conduct boarding and search operations, is prohibited from taking legal and enforcement action.
Coast Guard personnel, on the other hand are not part of DOD and are considered maritime law-enforcement personnel. At least one USCG member is hence always part of a USN boarding team.
With the realignment of naval assets in the Gulf, the Coast Guard took over maritime security and inspection ops, particularly in the northern part of the Gulf and in Iraqi territorial waters.
There are also not a lot of USCG assets out there - six 110-foot cutters and about 300 active/reserve personnel on 12-18 month deployment. BTW, that total is not much more than a Navy destroyer crew.
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It's what happens when you wage Lawfare instead of Warfare.
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It's quite simple, meneer, though the answer is not necessarily to your liking.
No, you're right. I'm with 'Maggie' on this one. Not that it matters much these days to jihadists, but if detained, or captured in a shoot out, how are these brave Coasties handled? As military personnel under the UCMJ and the laws of war, or as pirates, or what?
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Pappy, I like the way you addressed me, and I am very aware of the CG's ability to do law enforcement (I live near a sub base). However, it would appear that we are much more interested in lawfare in the Persian Gulf than in the Rio Grande/Gulf of Mexico. Even granted that there are only a relative handful of personnel; the question arises as to "Why there?".
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As military personnel under the UCMJ and the laws of war, or as pirates, or what?
That is a good question. My initial answer would be 'UCMJ' and Geneva Convention, since it appears that they are deploying under DOD auspices. I will find out.
Pappy, I like the way you addressed me, and I am very aware of the CG's ability to do law enforcement (I live near a sub base).
Old and perpetually exercised habits like professionalism are hard to break. As far as the oversupply of information, it's not personal, but rather directed at other readers on the Burg that may not have your range of knowledge.
However, it would appear that we are much more interested in lawfare in the Persian Gulf than in the Rio Grande/Gulf of Mexico. Even granted that there are only a relative handful of personnel; the question arises as to "Why there?".
I wouldn't call it "lawfare." To me, that refers to the use of a legal system by legal professionals to harass or inflict damage on an opponent (or an enemy.)
As far as "why," probably the simplest answer is that the Coast Guard has the assets and abilities that the Navy, for various reasons that I won't belabor here, does not, or cannot, provide. Ideally, it should be Gulf nations that perform most of the missions, particularly interdiction and maritime enforcement.
Curious equipment for a fishing boat. Not unheard of here to use dynamite or the odd hand grenade for a fishing trip. I suppose a machine gun would be useful for gators.
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Pappy, Besoeker, Pheremble Crairong2347: thank you for this informative seminar for Rantburg U. Once again my greed for knowledge has been fed. :-)
Indeed, Pappy. I was just snarking about equipment for what has been described in various reports as either a sail boat or fishing vessel.
I find it curious that none of the stories seemed to consider a machine gun as an unusual bit of kit. But then again, the news blurbs were written by journalists, the same class of people whose confusement between rubber bullets and earplugs suggest a lack of familiarity with firearms, power tools or lawn mowers.
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What's grating is that this particular article was written by the Washington Post's supposed Pentagon journalist. At my most charitable, I'd term the writing as "deliberately casual." Were I somewhat less charitable, I'd term it "dismissive," and an attempt to deflect from a current military tactical and strategic situation that conflicts with the media narrative that there's no "war in the Gulf."
[ARABNEWS] Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal held positive and constructive talks on Tuesday with Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian.
The two sides discussed major regional developments and agreed to join forces in the fight against terrorist groups that have threatened the region's security and stability.
"The meeting with Prince Saud took place in a very positive and constructive atmosphere," said Abdollahian.
It was the first visit by a senior Iranian official to the Kingdom since the election of President Hassan Rouhani last summer.
Riza Hamid Dahqani, Iran's representative at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), said that the two sides discussed bilateral relations, regional developments and "the challenges facing the region such, as extremism and Israel's savage aggression" on the Gazoo Strip.
They discussed the situation "in Iraq and means to confront extremism and terrorism" in particular, said Dahqani, referring to Islamic State (IS) myrmidons.
Mohammed Tayeb, director-general of the Foreign Ministry's branch office in the Makkah region and the Kingdom's representative to the OIC, and Iranian Ambassador Hussein Sadeghi attended the talks, which took place in Jeddah.
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 Iran have welcomed the departure of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki this month.
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[CHRON] The intelligence gathered by U.S. military surveillance flights over Syria could support a broad bombing campaign against the Islamic State myrmidon group, but current and former U.S. officials differ on whether air power would significantly degrade what some have called a "terrorist army."
Further complicating the plans, any military action against Islamic State murderous Moslems in Syria would also have the effect of putting the U.S. on the same side as Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... , whose ouster the B.O. regime has sought for years.
The Islamic State group is headquartered in the Syrian city of Raqqah and has been fighting the Assad government, though it is also at war with moderate rebels who have received arms and funding from the U.S. The group, which controls a large part of eastern Syria, crossed into Iraq earlier this year and has captured much of the Sunni sections of northern and western Iraq, prompting U.S. Arclight airstrikes to protect American personnel in that region.
U.S. officials say that surveillance drones and spy planes had begun flying over Syria on the orders of President Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... , who is considering a series of military options against the Lion of Islam group that also killed an American, journalist James Foley, and is holding an American woman hostage.
In recent months, the threat from the Islamic State has eclipsed the issue of Assad, who escaped U.S. military action after Obama pulled back planned Arclight airstrikes one year ago in order to consult with Congress. The hostage-takings have galvanized a U.S. government that already had been trying to respond to the myrmidon group's surge with Arclight airstrikes that seem to have the public's approval.
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[REUTERS] Iran has supplied weapons and ammunition to Iraqi Kurdish forces, Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... said Tuesday at a joint presser with Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Arbil, capital of Iraq's Kurdish region.
The direct arming of Kurdish forces is a contentious issue, because some Iraqi politicians suspect Kurdish leaders have aspirations to break away from the central government completely. The move could also be seen by some as a prelude to Iran's taking a more direct role in broader Iraqi conflict.
"We asked for weapons and Iran was the first country to provide us with weapons and ammunition," Barzani said.
Militants from the Islamic State have clashed with Kurdish peshmerga fighters in recent weeks and taken control of some areas on the periphery of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Earlier in the day, a boom-mobileexploded in a mainly Shi'ite district of eastern Baghdad, killing 12 people and wounding 28, police and medical sources said. The bombing in the New Baghdad neighborhood followed a series of blasts in the Iraqi capital on Monday which killed more than 20 people.
The Islamic State, which controls large swathes of northern and western Iraq, grabbed credit for a suicide kaboom in the New Baghdad neighborhood on Monday. It said in a statement the attack was carried out as Dire Revenge™ for an attack against a Sunni mosque in Diyala on Friday which killed 68 and maimed dozens.
The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold an emergency session in Geneva on Monday concerning abuses being committed by Islamic State and other murderous Moslem groups in Iraq, the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... said on Tuesday.
The 47 member states of the forum have moral authority to condemn abuses or set up international investigations into war crimes or crimes against humanity, but they cannot impose binding resolutions
The Iranian foreign minister held talks with Barzani on Tuesday, one day after visiting senior Shiâ™ite holy mans in southern Iraq. Zarif acknowledged giving military assistance to Iraqi security forces but said the cooperation did not include deploying ground troops in the country.
"We have no military presence in Iraq," Zarif said. "We do have military cooperation with both the central government and the Kurds in different arenas.â
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[TodaysZaman] The investigation into an Iran-backed deadly terrorist organization in Turkey has uncovered the organization's connection to the failed bombing attack against an Israel Embassy staff member in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on Feb. 2012. 
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[CHRON] The intelligence gathered by U.S. military surveillance flights over Syria could support a broad bombing campaign against the Islamic State
Massoud Barzani
