That makes our (including how many allies?) average of 19 or so over Syria and Iraq look a little silly...
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Air Force (AAF) participate in 50 to 180 missions a day to support the Afghan National Security and Defense (ANSDF) forces.
A front man for the Ministry of Defense, Dawlat Waziri, said the Afghan Air Force utilizes the available resources, including combat and airlift equipment to support the Afghan ground forces.
He said the Afghan Air Force provide close-air support as well as logistics support to the Afghan forces in their fight against terrorism.
The Afghan defense officials said last month that the Afghan Air Force carried out the most missions in mid-April by flying 83 missions over a period of 24 hours.
The Afghan Air Force has started the new fighting season with the increased capabilities as several combat planes have been added to the inventory during the past several months.
The Afghan Air Force officials have said they have so far received 9 A-29 Super Tucano fixed wing light attack aircraft from the United States as well as surveillance unmanned aerial vehicle which are expected to further boost the capabilities of the Afghan forces.
Afghanistan also received 3 Mi-25 gunship helicopters from India last which are in service with the Afghan Air Force.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid 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... has urged the Afghan government to halt further execution of the prisoners charged with the terror offences.
In an online statement issued following the death of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, Karzai has said ’brotherhood’ and ’unity’ are the only way to achieve peace in the country.
The statement by Karzai further added that war and violence have been imposed on the Afghan people from abroad, insisting that the Taliban statement proves that the group’s leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed on the side of Durand Line in control of Pakistain.
He called on the new leader of the Taliban group Mawlavi Haibatullah Akhundzada ...Deputy to Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour... to join grinding of the peace processor and return to Afghanistan.
Taliban on Wednesday announced the appointment of Mawlavi Akhundzada as the successor of Muallah Akhtar Mansoor who was killed in an Arclight airstrike in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province of Pakistain late on Saturday afternoon.
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Don't you understand, it cuts down on bribes and money laundering.
Long piece in Shabelle of all places. The Kenyans appear to be serious. Just the first two paragraphs here:
The Kenyan government says that it plans to close Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp. It had also threatened to close the country’s other major refugee camp, Kakuma, but has subsequently said it won’t. Speaking at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Deputy President William Ruto declared that Dadaab will be closed by the end of the year.
This move has gained much-needed attention. Kenya continues to host one of the largest refugee populations at a time when international attention has overwhelmingly turned to Europe and the movement of people out of Syria. Despite hosting more than half a million people, the camps’ remote locations and longevity have made them easy to ignore.
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The search for the EgyptAir plane which crashed last week killing all 66 people on board has narrowed to a 5-kilometer-wide area in the Mediterranean Sea, based on signals from the craft's emergency beacon, Egypt's chief investigator said. The chief investigator, Ayman al-Moqadem, said late Thursday that Airbus had given Egyptian authorities information on the Emergency Locator Transmitter, or ELT, from the doomed aircraft.
An official from the Egyptian investigation team on Friday clarified that the beacon information was from the day of the crash, May 19, and that no new signal had been found. An Airbus official said he was unaware of any ELT received or given to the Egyptians.
The ELT's signal is too weak to transmit information from underwater, unlike the locator pings emitted by the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, known as the black box. Al-Moqadem stressed that the black boxes have not been found, which he said requires highly sophisticated technology. But he said the search was now being conducted in a 5-kilometer (3-miles) area. He did not clarify how long the search has been narrowed to that area.
A French naval oceanographic research ship, Laplace, carrying a long-range acoustic system able to detect signals from the black box is headed to the crash site, France's air accident investigation agency, the BEA, said in a statement. The ship left Corsica on Thursday and was due to reach the crash area on Monday or Sunday, it said.
Eight days after the plane crashed off Egypt's northern coast on a Paris to Cairo flight, the cause of the tragedy still has not been determined. Ships and planes from Egypt, Greece, France, the United States and other nations have been searching the Mediterranean north of the Egyptian port of Alexandria for the jet's voice and flight data recorders, as well as more bodies and parts of the aircraft.
Small pieces of the wreckage and human remains have been recovered while the bulk of the plane and the bodies of the passengers are believed to be deep under the sea. A Cairo forensic team has received the human remains and is carrying DNA tests to identify the victims.
Egypt's civil aviation minister Sherif Fathi has said he believes terrorism is a more likely explanation than equipment failure or some other catastrophic event. But no hard evidence has emerged on the cause, and no militant group has claimed to have downed the jet. Earlier, leaked flight data indicated a sensor detected smoke in a lavatory and a fault in two of the plane's cockpit windows in the final moments of the flight.
The French vessel, Laplace, is carrying three detectors made by the Alseamar company designed to detect and localize signals from the flight recorders, believed about 3,000 meters (3,280 yards) underwater. The torpedo-shaped detectors can be lowered about 1 kilometer (half mile) into the water to listen for signals up to 4 kilometers away.
France may also send an unmanned submarine and deep-sea retrieval equipment, the statement said. The BEA is involved in the search because the crashed plane was an Airbus, manufactured in France.
Because of the difficulties in finding the black boxes, Egypt has contracted two foreign companies, Alseamar and Deep Ocean Research, to help locate the flight data recorders of the plane.
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[ALLAFRICA] The Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, said on Thursday in Abeokuta that violent herdsmen ravaging some parts of the country may have links with the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Mr. Buratai, who spoke during a courtesy call on Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun, said the Nigerian Army was investigating the activities of the violent herdsmen.
Mr. Buratai identified timely information on the nefarious activities of the herdsmen as one of the best ways to tackle them, saying Nigerians must be security conscious at all times.
"We want to call on all Nigerians to be security conscious and to report any suspicious persons or group of people that are roaming about in their communities.
"One may not be too far from the fact that some of these herdsmen that are attacking communities across the country may have some affiliation with the Boko Haram terrorists.
"This we are further investigating and also pursuing them so that we can address the situation, so let's be security conscious. Let's report quickly movement of suspicious persons carrying arms.
"If you suspect any individual within your community, we should be able to report immediately.
"Timely information is very important. We have our troops deployed in certain areas and I believe the Police are working with them to be able to tackle any challenge that comes, "he said.
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The Fulani herdsmen have been moving south and are attacking primarily Christian farmers.
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Thank you for pointing that out, Eohippus Snore8229. On reflection, I'd confused the situation with Sudan, where Arab Muslims raid black Muslims as readily as black Christians and animists.
[RFE/RL] A court in Chechnya has sentenced two Ukrainian citizens to long prison terms after they were found guilty of fighting alongside Chechen separatists in the 1990s.
Chechnya's Supreme Court on May 26 sentenced Mykola Karpyuk to 22 years and Stanislav Klykh to 20 years in prison. On May 19, a jury found both men guilty of participating in militant activities, including murder and attempted murder.
Investigators said they were members of the group known as the Ukrainian National Assembly-Ukrainian National Self-Defense (UNA-UNSO) and arrived in Chechnya in 1994 to fight along with Chechen insurgents against Russian security forces, leading to the killing of dozens of Russian troops.
h/t Gates of Vienna
Slovak prime minister Robert Fico told local press agency TASR that "islam has no place in Slovakia". He feared a Muslim community would change the country's traditions. Last December, Slovakia sued the European Commission over its proposal to redistribute refugees in the European Union. I feel the same way about my country
[AnNahar] Prosecutors said Friday they have opened an investigation into a massive brawl in the "Jungle" migrant camp in the northern French town of Calais that left 40 people injured.
A young female aid worker was among those seriously hurt after the fight broke out between some 200 Afghans and Sudanese on Thursday.
Three of the victims were seriously injured, including one person who was stabbed, local official Fabienne Buccio told news hounds.
She denied an early report from a police source that someone had been shot.
The brawl started as food was being distributed at the Jules-Ferry aid center in the heart of the camp, but the cause has not yet been determined.
The victims included two riot police and five members of a local aid group, La Vie Active, which runs the aid center.
A total of 260 coppers were sent to the camp along with 70 firefighters and 11 ambulances.
Between 4,000 and 5,000 migrants colonists are living in the Jungle in the hope of smuggling themselves aboard lorries that are crossing the Channel to Britannia.
Fights have previously broken out in the tense and desperate atmosphere of the camp, which is roughly divided between different nationalities from the Middle East and Africa.
A fight between Afghans and Sudanese in March left 19 people injured.
[Hurriyet] Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has strongly reacted to photos of U.S. special operations forces wearing Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) insignia on their shoulders during an assault on Syria’s Raqqa, saying it is “unacceptable.”
“It is unacceptable that an ally country is using the YPG insignia. We reacted to it. It is impossible to accept it. This is a double standard and hypocrisy,” said Çavuşoğlu on May 27.
On the same day during a visit to the State Department, Turkish Ambassador to Washington Serdar Kılıç expressed Turkey’s irritation at the news that U.S. troops sporting YPG emblems were fighting against ISIL north of Raqqa.
As U.S. Ambassador to Ankara John Bass was not in town, Turkey’s reaction was passed on to Kılıç through a telephone conversation.
In both conversations, Turkey reiterated that it was unacceptable for the U.S. to cooperate with the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing, the YPG, despite the fact that Ankara emphasized to Washington the link between the PYD and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Commenting on the photos, the Pentagon acknowledged that special operations forces do what they can “to blend in with the community.”
“Special operations forces, when they operate in certain areas, do what they can to blend in with the community to enhance their own protection, their own security,” said Pentagon spokesperson Peter Cook during a May 26 press briefing, adding that he would not comment on specific photos.
And to irritate those who deserve to be irritated...
Agence France-Presse released photos showing armed men in uniform identified by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) as U.S. special operations in the northern Syrian province of Raqqa on May 25. Some of the men seen in the photos wore an YPG insignia on their shoulders.
“Special operations forces in the past have worked with partners, and in the past have conducted themselves in such a way that they might operate in an atmosphere in which they are supportive of that local force in their advice and assist role,” Cook said.
“And they might be, again, for visual purposes, blending in with the local community,” he added.
The U.S.-backed SDF, which consists of the YPG, Syrian Arabs and Syriacs, launched an offensive against ISIL stronghold Raqqa on May 24.
The YPG is the armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which Turkey says is a Syrian offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), thus making both the YPG and PYD terrorist organizations.
Though designating the PKK as a terrorist organization, the U.S. does not perceive the PYD and the YPG in the same way and says they are “reliable” partners in its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). This designation difference has caused a rift between the two NATO allies, Turkey and the U.S.
Meanwhile, the U.S. May 26 denied it has provided arms to the YPG in Syria, despite the insistence of the group to the contrary.
“We are playing an advise and assist role,” U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said. “But assisting is not specifically providing arms.”
Toner said, however, that there is a lot of “liberated” equipment being used on the battlefield and that it was impossible to say where from where they come.
“We just don’t have the clarity on that,” he said.
American special operations troops were not authorized to wear the patches of Kurdish forces while advising them in Syria and have been told to remove them, the U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad said Friday, after Turkish leaders protested.
Army Col. Steve Warren said that while U.S. special operations forces have historically and routinely worn the insignia of foreign troops they are working with, this case was not appropriate due largely to political sensitivities.
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Normally I disapprove of Pres'dent Obama/Sotero's deliberately pissing all over long term allies for short term tactical advantage, but I will concede the Sublime Porte has earned the golden shower this time.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Minnesota man on trial for plotting to go to Syria to join the ISIS testified Thursday that he thought about leaving the United States because he could feel the government closing in, but said he had no real plan and believed a scheme to get fake passports for the journey was a bad idea.
Guled Ali Omar, 21, is one of three men on trial in U.S. District Court in Minnesota on multiple counts. The most serious is conspiracy to commit murder outside the United States, which carries the possibility of life in prison. He is the only defendant to testify.
Prosecutors have said the men were part of a larger group of friends in Minnesota's Somali community who recruited and inspired each other to go to Syria. Six other men who were part of the alleged plot have pleaded guilty to "conspiracy to support a foreign terrorist organization."
A 10th man is at-large, believed to be in Syria.
During the trial, which is in its third week, prosecutors played secretly recorded conversations in which the men discussed travel plans, including the possibility of obtaining fake passports to go to Syria via Mexico.
Omar testified that he and his friends held regular study groups to discuss the Qur'an. He said that after one man left for Syria, the group began discussing the political situation there, but the group was not like the government portrayed it and he knew of no legitimate plans for anyone to travel.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Paleostinian not seen publicly since his 2002 capture by the CIA launched a brutal interrogation program may soon make his first appearance in a U.S. courtroom.
Abu Zubaydah, who CIA agents once sought to be kept incommunicado for the rest of his life, has been called as a witness by Ramzi Binalshibh, one of the defendants in the Sept. 11 war crimes case, to back up allegations of mistreatment inside a high-security unit at Guantanamo Bay.
Abu Zubaydah could testify, along with a prisoner from Somalia who has also never been seen in a public forum, as early as next week in a pretrial hearing at the U.S. base in Cuba.
James Harrington, a lawyer for Binalshibh, said that Abu Zubaydah is expected to support his client's allegations that prisoners inside the unit known as Camp 7 are subjected to noises and vibrations inside their cells intended to keep them awake and disoriented, similar to the sleep deprivation they were subjected to as part of the interrogation program they endured in a network of overseas CIA prisons. The military denies the allegations.
"He's experienced the same kind of thing that Ramzi has with the noises and vibration," Harrington said in an interview Wednesday.
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He's a Palestinian. He's not accustomed to ocean waves.
[DAWN] Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD), a self-proclaimed charity working across Pakistain, on Friday held funeral prayers in absentia for the dear departed Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour in the thriving provincial capital.
JuD provincial spokesperson Ghazi Inamullah told DawnNews that the funeral prayers in absentia were offered at Jamia Masjid Khyber Markaz in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and attended by hundreds of JuD activists and general public.
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[Daily Excelsior] Telling Pakistain that the path to peace is a "two-way street", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Islamabad needs to remove the "self-imposed" obstacle of terrorism which is coming in the way of Indo-Pak friendship.
Modi also asked Pakistain to play its part by putting a complete stop to any kind of support to terrorism ‐ "whether state or non-state".
"In my view, our ties can truly scale great heights once Pakistain removes the self-imposed obstacle of terrorism in the path of our relationship.
"We are ready to take the first step, but the path to peace is a two-way street," Modi told The Wall Street Journal, in comments posted on its website today.
He said he has always maintained that instead of fighting with each other, India and Pakistain should together fight against poverty.
"Naturally we expect Pakistain to play its part," he said.
"But, there can be no compromise on terrorism. It can only be stopped if all support to terrorism, whether state or non-state, is completely stopped.
"Pakistain’s failure to take effective action in punishing the perpetrators of terror attacks limits the forward progress in our ties," said the Prime Minister.
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[The News (Pak)] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Assembly on Friday adopted a resolution against a US drone strike in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... that hit a car last week.
The resolution was tabled by a Pakistain People’s Party (PPP) politician Fakhr Alam Wazir and unanimously passed by the house.
The resolution termed the US drone strike an attack on Pakistain’s integrity and called on President Barrack Obama to tender an apology.
It also asked the federal government to lodge strong protest at diplomatic level. A US drone attack killed Mullah Mansour, chief of Afghan Taliban in the border region of Pakistain and Afghanistan last Saturday.
Islamabad has lodged a protest with the United States and termed the drone strike an attack on country's illusory sovereignty.
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[The News (Pak)] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... on Friday said re-verification of Computerized National Identity Cards (CNIC) of all Pak citizens would be carried out within the next six months, warning fake ID card holders with punishment up to seven years.
Speaking to media at the NADRA headquarters, the minister said 25 million families would be targeted in the exercise to make the verification process easier. He said heads of families would help NADRA expunge names of imposters.
He issued a 2-month deadline to fake ID card holders to surrender their cards as they may have to face seven year jail term for the crime once the deadline lapsed.
Nisar said the government officials involved in issuing the fake ID cards would be sent to jail for 14 years if they didn’t identify the people who obtained the fake IDs.
"I will personally monitor the exercise...nobody will be spared," he said. "I was told that it is an impossible task and would cost a lot of money, he said. He said the issue was related to Pakistain’s security and he would make it possible like verification of millions of mobile phone SIMS.
He said a helpline would be set up for citizens to help authorities identify foreigners with fake Pak identity.
The interior minister said rewards would also be given to the citizens for providing information on foreigners.
Nisar said passport of Mullah Mansour was issued in 2001 and would have been caught if it had been brought for verification.
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[DAWN] Pishin’s Deputy Commissioner Hafiz Mohammad Tahir and Tehsildar Rafiq Tareen have been shifted to Islamabad from Quetta in connection with an investigation into verification of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour’s applications for Pak national identity card and passport.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had issued directives for the shifting of the two officials. They were brought to Islamabad on the PIA’s flight PK-352 on Thursday night by an FIA team.
Hafiz Tahir had verified the applications of Mullah Mansour using the name of Wali Mohammad while he was serving in Chaman as deputy commissioner.
An interior ministry spokesperson told Dawn that Hafiz Tahir had been summoned to Islamabad, but Rafiq Tareen had been jugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! by the FIA team for investigation into the matter.
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BAGHDAD: Only 800 people have been able to flee Fallujah since Iraqi forces launched a major offensive to retake the city, the United Nations said in a statement released Thursday.
Lise Grande, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, said that those who managed to leave the city occupied by the Daesh group reported dire living conditions inside.
“We are receiving distressing reports of civilians trapped inside Fallujah who are desperate to escape to safety, but can’t,” the statement quoted her as saying.
The UN said that only 800 people had been able to flee Fallujah since May 22, “mostly from outlying areas.”
“Some families report having to walk for hours under harrowing conditions to reach safety. People trapped in the city center are thought to be most at risk ,” the UN said.
Grande said that those who managed to flee told of a dire situation inside the city, which lies only 50 km west of the capital Baghdad.
“Food supplies are limited and tightly controlled. Medicines are exhausted and many families have no choice but to rely on dirty and unsafe water sources,” she said.
The UN and other humanitarian agencies have been unable to deliver much of the available assistance due to the lack of access since the operation was launched on May 22-23.
Humanitarian corridors discussed with the Iraqi authorities have largely failed to materialize so far.
Radical fighters holed up in the Fallujah city center have been imposing a curfew and forbidding residents to leave their homes, apparently using them as human cover.
Residents contacted inside Fallujah have also said that the amount of bombs and booby traps laid by Daesh in and around the city would make any flight very perilous. The UN also said on the first day of the operation that supply routes were effectively cut off by the tens of thousands of Iraqi forces surrounding the city, thus also preventing civilians from leaving.
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[Inquirer] Philippine security forces arrested Thursday morning in Maguindanao a suspect in the 2008 Digos City bus bombing that killed six people and injured 30 others. Also arrested during the dawn raid was the village chair of Penfarm, Datu Paglas, Maguindanao.
Senior Inspector Allan Uy identified the bombing suspect as Kamad Makauyag, a member of the Al-Khobar extortion group. Also arrested was Mahal Matalam, chair of Barangay Penfarm, Datu Paglas, Maguindanao, where Makauyag had been hiding since the bus bombing. Uy said, "Matalam was arrested for possession of unlicensed firearms."
The Al-Khobar group, composed of former Moro militants turned bandits, was blamed for a series of bus bombings in North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, South Cotabato and Davao del Sur after the transport company ignored the group's extortion demands.
The April 2008 bombing killed six passengers and wounded 30 others after the suspects set off a powerful improvised explosive device with cut nails used as shrapnel.
Makauyag was the third suspect arrested in connection with the bombing. In 2011, police nabbeded Nor Muhammid at his home in Barangay Nuangan. A certain Tahir Sindai was arrested by a police special unit in May 2014 also for his alleged involvement in the Digos bombing.
[IsraelTimes] Islamic State fighters cradle cats, eat Nutella and hand out sweets in ad campaign for potential supporters
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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.... fighters are a bunch of softies who love to cuddle with kittens and eat chocolate spread, a new jihadist media campaign suggests.
Recent images on the internet depict fighters with a feline in one hand and an AK47 in the other, holding jars of Nutella spread, or handing out sweets to children.
The pictures -- the cat images were tweeted under the heading Islamic State of Cat, and have since been removed -- came to light during a visit to London by John Carlin, a top US counter-terrorism official, who said IS understood that "kittens sell," the UK’s Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.
Carlin, assistant attorney general for national security, was in the UK to discuss how to counter the terror group’s efforts to persuade young people to leave home to join the organization or to perpetrate attacks where they live.
"We have an obligation to stop our citizens from going to commit those atrocities. And we need to figure out a way to stop these people getting radicalized, (the notion of ) no passport no travel required, this call to kill where you live," he said.
Carlin revealed that directors from Hollywood, advertising executives from Madison Avenue and tech gurus from Silicon Valley are being recruited to help fight the terror group’s propaganda.
According to the Guardian newspaper, Carlin also said that America’s success in integrating Muslims had helped intelligence experts to deal with the domestic terror threat.
He refused to be drawn into commenting about US presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s bid to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States.
In other remarks, Carlin called for the threat of terror in America to be kept in proportion, saying there were probably "only hundreds" who were attracted to Islamic State.
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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.
[Hurriyet] Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has strongly reacted to photos of U.S. special operations forces wearing Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) insignia on their shoulders during an assault on Syria’s Raqqa, saying it is “unacceptable.” 
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
[Inquirer] Philippine security forces arrested Thursday morning in Maguindanao a suspect in the 2008 Digos City bus bombing that killed six people and injured 30 others. Also arrested during the dawn raid was the village chair of Penfarm, Datu Paglas, Maguindanao.
