Video can be seen at the link. Gorgeous girl, too.
[KhaamaPress] The video song of a young Afghan girl has gone viral in social media as youths in Kabul and other cities of the country celebrated Valentine’s Day on Tuesday, a new phenomenon which is increasingly becoming famous among the youths of the country despite differences of views exist in this regard in the society.
Composed by a young Afghan poet Ramin Mazhar, the song ’I will kiss you amid Taliban ...Arabic for students... , you are not afraid’ was sung by Ghawgha Taban on the eve of Valentine’s Day.
The video immediately went viral and has become a hot topic in social media since it was uploaded in Facebook and Twitter
The youths in Kabul celebrated Valentine’s Day with gatherings and singings but the situation remained different in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province, one of the key western provinces of the country.
The Police Commandment of Herat issued a statement warning the residents of the province not to celebrate Valentine’s Day, insisting that marking the day is against the instructions of Islam as per the remarks of religious scholars and holy mans.
"I had a simple motive to specify my personal stance against a situation dominated by Talibanism, a thing which Taliban do not have any doubt about. But the reactions were enormous. The reactions are both hopeful and concerning with the main reason being populism, I do not think those who have supported me in their reaction are anti-Taliban and it should be considered as risky, since those considering us as sacred for such a small work, can stone us to death, call us hookers, or torch us to death in the center of the city. A Taliban dominant social situation is nothing more than a blink of an eye where people get united at a blink of eye while some actions are condemned blindly. It is our human obligation to react against Talibanism but at the same time we should not forget the horrific reasons, reactions and individual absenteeism, this individual absenteeism is horrific. Real fight against Taliban is nothing more than an individual revitalization," Ghawgha said in a statement.
This comes as a campaign dubbed ’Will Not Return Backwards’ has also been launched in social media amid rumors regarding the return of Taliban, formation of interim government, dissolving of Afghan army, and exit of the foreign forces.
The Afghan women have the most concern regarding the return of Taliban as they were deprived of their basic rights, including education and work during the Taliban regime back in 1990s.
The concerns, mainly among the women, are on the rise amid ongoing negotiations between the U.S. envoy Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and the Taliban politicians.
This comes despite the assurances given by the Taliban during the Moscow Summit on 5th and 6th of February which was organized in the absence of the government representatives.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... concerns still exist that the achievements of the past two decades would be compromised with, including the freedom of expression, political and civil rights of women, and elections, in the event the ongoing talks produce results and a peace deal is achieved.
[DAWN] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... have postponed an unscheduled round of peace talks with the United States set for Monday in Pakistain saying "most" members of their negotiating team are unable to travel because they're on the US and United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... ' blacklists.
The statement on Sunday offered no other details. It did not explain how several members previously were able to travel to meetings in the United Arab Emirates and Moscow.
The Taliban maintain a political office in 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , where members of the negotiating team reside.
The Islamabad talks were seen as significant, coinciding with the visit of the Saudi crown prince to Pakistain.
The Taliban 14-member team includes five former inmates of the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, and Anas Haqqani, the placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! younger brother of the leader of the holy warriorHaqqani network.
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That, and they seem to be coming to room temperature with great regularity these days.
[Al Jazeera] Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... must take in hundreds of ISIS fighters captured in Syria or else the United States may be forced to release them, US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... warned.
He made the comments in a series of tweets on Saturday demanding that Britannia, La Belle France, Germany and other European allies put more than 800 detained cadres from 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 the Levant (ISIS, ISIS) with their citizenship on trial.
The president issued the warning as a US-backed militia battles the last remaining ISIS combatants in a tiny sliver of territory in eastern Syria.
"The caliphate is ready to fall. The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them," Trump said of the war prisoners.
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release them on a random small island in the southern Indian Ocean
Yes, European countries need to take back "their" citizens, but that's complicated. Germany has no diplomatic representation in Syria which could establish citizenship, and we certainly won't take back scum that is not "ours".
Then, it might not be that easy to take them back and put them in jail. We don't have and do not want something like Guantanamo, but crimes might not be easy to prove. This means they would have to be released (and supervised 24/7).
The SDF sure doesn't want them. Too bad they have never heard of the Somali dictator Siad Barre, who was president in 1977 when the German Lufthansa plane was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists and successfully stormed by German GDG 9 forces.
Before the storming the German negotiator met with Barre and tried to find out what should be done with surviving terrorists.
Barre looked at him stunned: "You will have surviving terrorists???"
But yes, the Kerguelen Islands should be lovely in spring.
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Of course it isn’t that easy, European Conservative. But now various governments, including America’s, will begin pondering — with some sense of urgency — how to formally deal with the situation. We saw yesterday (see here) what the current positions of a number of countries is on the subject, but really it is not fair to burden the limited resources of non-state government of the SDF to handle it, especially as they are in the middle of two existential wars — against ISIS on one side and Turkey on the other... and the situation with Assad not yet finalized, but clearly no longer a negotiation between equals.
Iraq is happily judging their ISIS prisoners — male and female alike — condemning them, and hanging them in job lots. But what is ignored when done by the Iraqis will be loudly condemned should the Kurds openly engage in it, not to mention that the Kurds thus far seem less willing to take such a brutal approach.
Not to mention that President Assad may yet decide that dealing with the SDF’s ISIS captives is hs perogative as the national government. And he has been known to release prisoners just to spite those they would go after once freed...
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Procopius, the islands you name are inhabited by fine people. They have done nothing to deserve this.
The Subantarctic islands are much better suited. I don't know whether seals are halal though.
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@trailing wife
Maybe my Gülen approach would work? Release them into Turkey with the appropriate info.
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But seriously. A holding camp run by European forces in the region (maybe in no man's land at the border or a temporarily exterritorital zone?) could work. We establish who is who and what they have done, then act accordingly.
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We establish who is who and what they have done, then act accordingly.
A very German solution. I like it...
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Burn them all in cages. That's what they did to their prisoners, so turnabout is fair play.
[Al-Grauniad] An American woman captured by Kurdish forces after fleeing the last pocket of land controlled by Islamic State says she "deeply regrets" travelling to Syria to join the terror group and has pleaded to be allowed to return to her family in Alabama.
Once one of Isis's most prominent online agitators who took to social media to call for the blood of Americans to be spilled, Hoda Muthana, 24, claims to have made a "big mistake" when she left the US four years ago and says she was brainwashed into doing so online.
Speaking from al-Hawl refugee camp in northern Syria, while her 18-month-old son played at her feet, Muthana said she misunderstood her faith, and that friends she had at the time believed they were following Islamic tenets when they aligned themselves to Isis.
"We were basically in the time of ignorance […] and then became jihadi, if you like to describe it that way," she said. "I thought I was doing things correctly for the sake of God." Sucks to be you. Bye
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But her name is Hoda. A beloved name. Surely there must be mercy.
Um. NO!
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At DoS, they believe an American passport makes you American. Seems like abusing it to fight against America doesn't bother them much at Foggy Bottom...
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"We were basically in the time of ignorance […] and then became jihadi, if you like to describe it that way," she said. "I thought I was doing things correctly for the sake of God."
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Muthana angrily tweeted: “Americans wake up! Men and women altogether. You have much to do while you live under our greatest enemy, enough of your sleeping! Go on drivebys, and spill all of their blood, or rent a big truck and drive all over them. Veterans, Patriots, Memorial, etc day … Kill them.”
She gave up her citizenship when she joined ISIS. She married three jihadists who were later were killed as the result of their activities. She had children with these jihadists.
Often there are not second chances...Live with it (or not)--just not in the U.S.
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It's so hard to be young. Lots of emotions and half-baked thoughts. It delivers you unto various sorts of radicalism and stupidity. Maybe there should be some kind of path back to sensibility. But, nobody asked me to solve that problem, so it's not my problem. Good luck, lady.
[ELUNIVERSAL] Democrats plan to introduce a resolution rejecting the declaration once Congress returns to sessions and it is very likely that the resolution will be approved
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[DAWN] Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi has said "violence is not the policy of the government" while referring to an attack on Indian security forces in Indian Kashmiree on Thursday, in which 44 Indian paramilitary soldiers were killed.
"Violence is not a [strategy] nor is it our government's policy," Qureshi said in a video shared by the PTI Official handle on Twitter today.
The video was a recording of the foreign minister speaking to GeoNews in Munich, where he has been attending the Munich Security Conference.
Qureshi condemned the bombing and added that he was "a little sad" that, without investigating the incident, India had instantly levelled allegations against Pakistain in a "knee-jerk reaction".
"You can throw the blame at us," Qureshi said, noting that accusing Pakistain "took one minute".
Qureshi also noted that the world had condemned the incident, "as they should, as lives had been lost".
Qureshi added, however, that the voices coming from within India should also be heard, such as that of former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmire Farooq Abdullah, who has said that placing blame on Pakistain was the "easy route" and that Indian authorities should examine its policies in Kashmire.
Qureshi also highlighted Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmire, making mention of rampant human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... violations and the near daily funerals.
"Is a reaction to that not expected?" Qureshi asked, adding that a reaction to rape of local women and use of pellet guns had to be expected at some point.
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[DAWN] Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman on Sunday expressed optimism about the economic future of Pakistain, saying his country had been waiting for a leadership like that of Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... to partner with Islamabad in various areas.
Addressing a reception dinner at Prime Minister House hours after arriving in Pakistain, the crown prince ‐ known as MBS for short ‐ said Pakistain is a "dear country" to all Saudis and that the two countries "have walked together in tough and good times".
He said Pakistain today had a great future in store "with a great leadership", and noted that the country's GDP grew by 5 per cent in 2018.
"We believe that Pakistain is going to be a very, very important country in the coming future and we want to be sure we are part of that," the crown prince said.
Turning towards Prime Minister Khan, he said his country had been "waiting for that kind of a leadership" to partner with and "build a lot of things together".
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Translation error. He actually said "Impotent"
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[Al Jazeera] Pakistain has hit back at the allegations by India that it is harbouring fighters from the gang that grabbed credit for the last week's deadly attack on a paramilitary convoy in Indian-administered Kashmire.
Thursday's car kaboom, which killed 42 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, was claimed by the Pakistain-based Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... (JeM).
Following the blast, New Delhi called for "the complete isolation of Pakistain" with Prime Minister Narendra Modi promising a "strong response".
"If our neighbour thinks it can destabilise India, then it is making a big mistake," Modi said on Friday.
On Sunday, Islamabad rejected New Delhi's accusations, saying they were "knee-jerk" and made without any thorough investigation.
"India needs to introspect and respond to questions about its security and intelligence lapses that led to this attack," Pakistain's foreign ministry said in a statement.
"Bluster, belligerence and pursuit of expedient standards to suit internal political interests is both delusional and counterproductive.
"India must come out of the denial mode, end state repression against Kashmiri youth, address widespread alienation in IOK and pursue the path of dialogue," the statement added.
The bombing ratcheted up the tension between the two South Asian neighbours, which rule parts of Moslem-majority Kashmire while claiming the entire territory as their own. India has, for years, accused Pakistain of backing separatist groups in divided Kashmire.
Pakistain insists that it only offers political support to Kashmire's suppressed population.
Formed in 2000, the JeM (or Army of Muhammad) is a Pakistain-based gang that aims to undermine and overthrow Indian control over Kashmire through attacks on security and government targets.
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[IsraelTimes] Security source in Gazoo tells Ottoman Turkish news agency Israel attempted to send the boots to the Strip to spy on members of terrorist groups.
Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,-run security forces at the Kerem Shalom crossing in the Gazoo Strip have seized a shipment of army boots outfitted with tracking devices, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s state-run news agency ...and if you can't trust the state-run news agency who can you believe?... Anadolu reported on Saturday, citing a security source in the coastal enclave.
Hamas security forces were carrying out "a precise inspection of the tracking devices in order to... understand how they work," the security source said.
Pictures and videos shared on Twitter appeared to show the military boots and the tracking devices that were planted in them.
Shipments that go into Gazoo through Kerem Shalom typically pass through the Israeli part of the crossing, followed by the Paleostinian Authority- and Hamas-controlled portions of it.
Hamas, an Islamist terrorist group sworn to Israel’s destruction, has controlled Gazoo since ousting the Fatah-dominated PA in 2007. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... employees of the Ramallah-based PA government have continued to coordinate the entry of goods into the Strip through Kerem Shalom.
The security source accused Israel of attempting to send the boots into Gazoo to "spy on members of the resistance and to follow their movements," noting they resemble a design that terrorist groups in the coastal enclave wear.
The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, the branch of the Defense Ministry that oversees the entry of goods into Gazoo, declined to comment.
The IDF referred questions to the Defense Ministry spokesperson, who did not respond to a request for comment.
The security source in Gazoo said that the Hamas-run security forces were now also imposing "strict security measures" at Kerem Shalom including a "precise inspection" of everything that enters and exits the coastal enclave.
The source added that the measures were put into place after it was proven the Israeli army was "exploiting" the crossing to bring spying materials into Gazoo.
[IsraelTimes] Global Public Policy Institute calls on international community to target regime’s helicopter fleet to prevent delivery of chemical munitions.
The Syrian regime and government-backed militias have carried out over 300 chemical attacks in the war-torn country, according to a report published Sunday.
The research, published by the Global Public Policy Institute, shows there were at least 336 chemical attacks over the course of the civil war in Syria, with 98 percent of them carried out by Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... ’s regime. The remaining 2% of attacks could be attributed to 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.... terrorist group.
At least 89% of the chemical attacks were carried out by the Syrian government using improvised chlorine munitions delivered by modified barrel or lob bombs.
According to the report, the regime has targeted civilian population areas with its chemical attacks, rather than the frontline military positions of the rebels. The study said that showed that the use of chemical weapons is part of a strategy of collective punishment for opposition-held areas and the fear of attack is a major contributing factor to the country’s displaced persons crisis.
Approximately 90% of the confirmed attacks occurred after the August 2013 sarin attack on the rebel-held suburbs of Damascus the crossed what then-president Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... had previously called a "red line," saying it demanded a military response against Assad’s government.
Obama instead struck a deal in which Assad was supposed to destroy his stockpiles of chemicals; however, according to the GPPI report, many subsequent attacks utilized chlorine.
At the time of the reported destruction of the stockpiles, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons expressed concerns about omissions and discrepancies in Syria’s declaration.
US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has blamed Syria’s instability on his predecessor refraining to attack Assad after he used chemical weapons on his own people.
"You can’t make a threat and then do nothing. So Syria was lost long ago," Trump said in January when expanding on his decision to pull all American troops out of Syria. US soldiers had been leading the coalition against Islamic State, while also helping to thwart a permanent Iranian infrastructure in the war-torn country.
Last September, prior to the announcement of the troop drawdown, the US warned the Syrian regime that further use of chemical weapons against civilians will be met with "a much stronger response" from Washington, in the wake of a report Assad had authorized his forces to use chlorine gas in their assault on the last significant rebel stronghold in the country.
Sunday’s GPPI report calls on the United States and international community to intervene by directly targeting any apparatus that would allow the use of chemical weapons, saying "the Syrian helicopter fleet, which has played a critical role in the delivery of conventional and chemical barrel bombs, should be a primary target."
The Trump administration ordered a strike on a Syrian airbase in April 2017 in response to a deadly chemical weapons attack in Idlib that left at least 86 people dead, including 27 children, and which allegedly employed the nerve agent sarin.
Then in April 2018 the US, La Belle France and Britannia launched a joint attack on Syrian facilities after a chemical strike on the city of Douman was reported to have killed at least 70 people. US officials said precision strikes hit a scientific research center near Damascus, a storage facility and command post also near the capital and a chemical weapons storage facility near Homs.
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[ELUNIVERSAL] Bashar al Assad declared that there will be no dialogue in Syria between the national side, which protected the country, and others who are puppets from the West. Ugh! White man speak with pencil neck!
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[Al Jazeera] Iran has lodged an official protest with Pakistain's ambassador to Tehran over the suicide kaboom in Sistan-Baluchestan province that killed 27 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members.
Foreign Ministry front man Bahram Ghasemi said on Sunday that Iran "explicitly conveyed" to Pak Ambassador Rafat Masoud that Tehran expects Islamabad and its military "to make a serious and decisive action" against the Jaish al-Adl and its base inside its territory, Mehr news agency reported.
Ghasemi also said that the foreign ministry asked Pakistain to take "immediate and necessary measures" to identify and arrest the attackers, who carried out Wednesday's bombing, which also left 13 Revolutionary Guard members injured.
Masoud took over her post as Pakistain's first female ambassador to Iran in August.
The diplomatic protest comes as Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani said in a strongly-worded statement that the Pak government should be held to account for the incident.
"The Pak government should be accountable for this act involving the group orchestrating and conducting the operation from their territory," Larijani said during Sunday's session of parliament.
Larijani said Pakistain "cannot act irresponsibly", adding that "such behaviour will severely damage the level of cooperation" between the neighbouring countries.
Speaking at an event in Hormozgan province on Sunday, President Hassan Rouhani also repeated his earlier threat to avenge the attack, saying he "regrets" the "wrong policies" of Iran's neighbours, without mentioning Pakistain.
On Saturday, Iran's deputy foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi held a last-minute meeting with Sushma Swaraj, the foreign minister of India, the regional rival of Pakistain, to discuss the attack in Sistan-Baluchestan and a similar incident in Indian-administered Kashmire that killed 42 paramilitary members.
Both Jaish al-Adl and Jaish-e-Muhammad, which grabbed credit for the attack in Kashmire, are based in Pakistain.
Iran shares an almost 1,000km border with Pakistain, and in recent years has borne the brunt of cross-border attacks carried out by Jaish al-Adl and other affiliated gangs.
In response to Iran's demand, Pak Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi announced on Sunday that he will send a special delegation to Tehran to hold talks about the attack.
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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
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...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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[Al-Grauniad] An American woman captured by Kurdish forces after fleeing the last pocket of land controlled by Islamic State says she "deeply regrets" travelling to Syria to join the terror group and has pleaded to be allowed to return to her family in Alabama.
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[Al Jazeera] Iran has lodged an official protest with Pakistain's ambassador to Tehran over the 
