[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sudan has closed all Iranian cultural centers in the capital Khartoum because the establishment has become a threat to national security, President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. said in an interview with sister channel Al Arabiya News.
Commenting on his country's relations with Iran, Bashir said: "They are ordinary relations between any two countries."
"People pointed to things we were not well aware of: cultural centers that proselytized Shiism. We should note that we are Sunni. And we have enough problems," he said.
"We cannot handle a new problem and conflicts between Sunnism and Shiism. We closed these centers because we figured that they could harm Sudan and national unity," he said.
His statement was in reference to an announcement the Sudanese government made in September, in which it said that the Iranian cultural center in the capital and its other branches had violated their mandate and become a social and ideological threat to the largely Sunni country.
The government also expelled Iranian diplomats.
Commenting on the situation in Libya, President Bashir denied that his country supported bandidossnuffies groups in the war-trenched North African country, saying Abdullah al-Thinni's government was the legitimate government in the country.
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"People pointed to things we were not well aware of: cultural centers that proselytized Shiism. We should note that we are Sunni. And we have enough problems," he said.
Truer words....
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Translation "Iran had stopped shipping weapons to, and via, Sudan."
I thought we had this a couple days ago, or maybe it was creating the position so he could fill it.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The president of Libya's elected parliament has proposed appointing army Gen. Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... as top army commander, parliament's front man said on Wednesday.
The decision shows the increasing influence of military figures in the official government and parliament, which has been forced to operate from eastern Libya since an gang called Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... seized the capital 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... in summer.
"Mr Aguila Saleh [parliament's president] has proposed to appoint Haftar," front man Farraj Hashem told Rooters. "The House of Representatives supports this."
He said a decree appointing Haftar would still need to be signed by Saleh, who has quasi-presidential powers.
Haftar, an army general, has emerged as would-be strongman in the east, where the internationally recognised prime minister, Abdullah al-Thinni, has been based since losing control of Tripoli.
Haftar, who helped Moammer Qadaffy into power before falling out with him in the 80s and joining the 2011 uprising against his rule, has merged his forces with army troops in the east to fight Islamist groups including Libya Dawn?.
While the alliance has managed to win back some territory in Benghazi, Haftar has drawn criticism for ordering air strikes on civilian airports and seaports.
Critics say Haftar is sidelining Thinni and sees himself as the Libyan version of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former defence minister who toppled an Islamist president after mass protest to his rule.
The rival government controlling Tripoli and much of western Libya accuses Haftar of trying to reinvent the old Qadaffy police state.
But the grey-haired general also enjoys some support among normal people frustrated with hardships in the east, where a violent conflict between the two competing governments has made petrol, electricity and medicines scarce.
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Few nations have the tech and training to do 'point' deliveries. Just old fashion 'close enough' with as much as you can to get the job done. The little urban fantasists need to stay in their imaginary world, reality is beyond their grasp.
[Libya Herald] Sixty Egyptian bakers have left Zliten as part of the growing exodus of Egyptian from the west of the country. Over the past week, thousands have headed home via Tunisia fearing further kidnappings and even killings by militant Islamists. The Zliten bakers left today. Good idea. Chase the bakers out of the country and then complain about the bread shortage. To quote the late philosopher, M. Antoinette: "Let them eat cake."
The departure has compounded a bread supply crisis that has hit Zliten as well as Tripoli and other towns. Because of a shortage of flour affecting much of the country resulting from purchasing problems, supplies of flour to bakeries have been reduced on the orders of the Ministry of Economy, according to some reports, by up to 50 percent.
A fortnight ago, Libya’s Price Stability Fund warned that the grain reserve was reducing fast because of delays in money provided to the fund for purchases and the reluctance of grain ships to dock in Misrata and Tripoli.
There have also been widespread allegations of bakers selling state-subsidised flour on the black market for use in animal feed. As a result, the authorities have threatened to revoke the license of any bakery caught re-selling government-issued flour
This week it was reported that 21 bakeries in and around Ghariyan had been temporarily closed following allegations of selling flour on the black market.
The government’s ability to enforce such a policy is, however, limited. Closing bakeries only makes the problem worse.
According to local Zliten officials, the ministry has now warned bakers that if they are caught selling the flour, they will have their allocations cut. The ministry has also told the bakeries not to provide bread to shops and advised the public to purchase their supplies direct at the bakeries.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] A statement by a U.S. intelligence officer discussing the differences between 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... and 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and stressing that the two groups' "caliphates are completely separate" and that they would find it difficult to cooperate due to Arab racism, received plenty of traction in reporting last week.
"The Arab world is incredibly racist," explained a U.S. intelligence official. "They don't see black Africans as equivalent to them."
ISIS may show "affinity" with Boko Haram, said the official, "but they stop short of allegiance." Moreover, said the official, while Boko Haram has in the past year released videos to show "affiliation" with groups like the ISIS, there's no evidence of either group sending members to fight with the other. And while Boko Haram has praised the ISIS and shown the ISIS flag in videos, ISIS has not reciprocated.
Now, however, comes a new report by the private intelligence firm SITE, which notes that according to jihadist media sources, Boko Haram, whose actual name is Jama'at Ahl al-Sunnah Lil Dawa Wal Jihad (Group for the Propagation of the Sunnah and Jihad), will have its shura, or council, discuss swearing allegiance to the ISIS "caliph" Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi.
It's just another example of the ironic timing of an analysis which seems to misunderstand the nature of the Islamic State and the Global Jihadist Movement generally. The Islamic State, in its position as a declared Caliphate, does not need to offer allegiance to Boko Haram. Rather it is incumbent upon Boko Haram, as a group waging jihad, to swear its allegiance to the caliph. As ISIS wrote in its original declaration of the caliphate, "This is The Promise of Allah":
"We clarify to the Moslems that with this declaration of khilāfah, it is incumbent upon all Moslems to pledge allegiance to the khalīfah Ibrāhīm and support him (may Allah preserve him). The legality of all emirates, groups, states, and organizations, becomes null by the expansion of the khilāfah's authority and arrival of its troops to their areas. Imam Ahmad (may Allah have mercy upon him) said, as reported by 'Abdūs Ibn Mālik al-'Attār, "It is not permissible for anyone who believes in Allah to sleep without considering as his leader whoever conquers them by the sword until he becomes khalīfah and is called Amīrul-Mu'minīn (the leader of the believers), whether this leader is righteous or sinful."
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you DO KNOW they don't want/respect you because of...ahem....your skin color?
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[AnNahar] The chain-link fences, topped with coils of barbed wire, rise and fall like a serpent's back across the desert scrubland between Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the jihadist threat across the Iraqi border.
A double-fence system and complementary hi-tech surveillance tools, officially opened in September, have become the front line of efforts to protect the kingdom 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.... (IS) group holy warriors who have seized vast areas of Iraq as well as Syria.
"As you know, the murderous Moslems are the biggest threat," said border guards Major Mohammed al-Rashidi, a supervisor at Judaidat Arar command and control centre where officers monitor radar and cameras about 10 kilometres (six miles) from the frontier.
That threat became painfully clear in January when three border guards including a local commander were killed in nearby Suwayf in a battle with "terrorists".
The attack followed the launch in September of the kingdom's air strikes on IS targets in Syria as part of a U.S.-led coalition.
The jihadists have grabbed credit for widespread atrocities including the burning alive in a cage of a Jordanian fighter pilot.
Saudi Arabia's involvement in air strikes on IS targets has raised fears of retaliation by the group.
Authorities did not specifically blame IS for the Suwayf attack on the armed unit which protects the kingdom's land and sea frontiers.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... the interior ministry has alleged three Saudis operating "in support of" IS shot and maimed a Danish national in a separate attack in Riyadh in November.
Authorities have also blamed IS-linked suspects for the November killing of seven members of the minority Shiite community in Eastern Province.
Border guards are taking no chances after the death of their regional commander General Odah al-Balawi and the other troopers.
- Shoot on sight -
"Nowadays, anybody trying to cross the border, we deal with them as terrorists," Rashidi said in his command centre, one of several along the northern frontier.
That means they will be shot on sight, an order that applies all along the more than 800-kilometre border.
Rashidi said they have not yet had to carry out the directive along his sector covering nearly a quarter of the frontier.
In a room resembling a small lecture hall, five officers sit at desks monitoring radar and camera feeds from the border while telephones bleep.
On one screen, a radar sweeps a green and yellow path, highlighting about 30 white dots, moving objects which could be suspicious.
An adjacent camera image, either infrared or daylight, helps the operator decide whether the objects are innocent or an "enemy" to be marked in red.
Then a message is relayed to the laptops of troopers at Rapid Response Stations in the field.
"When we have an incident we send six men, two cars," at least, Rashidi said. They are armed with Heckler & Koch G3 rifles and machineguns.
Rashidi's command centre and others already online have combined to create what officers call an "almost finished" northern network.
It replaces traditional patrolling on the ground to guard against smugglers and other infiltrators.
In November, the kingdom expanded a no-go zone 10-20 kilometres south of the border.
"It's very difficult" for anybody to cross the border now, Rashidi said.
The only people allowed into the restricted zone are border guards, other babus government employees, and foreign labourers working with them.
Nobody else really lives in the region of yellowed, barren earth.
The paved road leading north to Iraq through the Suwayf area is flanked by barbed wire fencing and blockaded.
It once brought travellers to a sprawling walled Saudi customs compound. That was the only official crossing point but it has been closed for more than two decades.
IS does not control territory in southernmost Iraq but it was from there that the four attackers, all Saudis, came in January.
Cameras spotted them but when border guards went to investigate they came under fire, security officers said.
The battle ended down a bumpy track that leads from the fence to a wide, bowl-like depression in the hard ground and thorny scrub.
Here, officers say, an attacker went kaboom!, killing Balawi and his driver.
The weeks since have not erased the blood which has darkened the ground in a rough circle the size of a dinner plate. Spent cartridge cases and an unfired bullet lie in the nearby dirt.
[YEMENONLINE.INFO] Yemen's President Abdurabuh Mansur Hadi sought to rally supporters in the south after fleeing the capital Sana'a, which is under the control of Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels, as conflict threatens to split the impoverished nation in two.
Hadi called on the internationally recognized government to relocate from Sana'a to Aden on the southern coast, Majed al-Saqqaf, his press secretary, said by phone. The Shiite militia on Tuesday said Hadi, who's backed by the U.S. and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , has no legitimacy and warned that those following his orders will be held accountable.
The standoff has raised the prospect of Yemen disintegrating like Libya, where two rival governments and their militias are fighting for control of cities, airports and oil fields. The conflict has exposed regional tensions between Saudi Arabia, which supports the predominantly Sunni forces of the government, and Iran, where officials have talked warmly of the Houthis, who follow the Zaydi branch of Shiite Islam.
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Not the first time there's been a North and South Yemen.
[YEMENONLINE.INFO] Iran's Foreign Ministry has rejected as a blame game recent remarks made by US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , who accused the Islamic Theocratic Republic of intervening in Yemen.
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said on Wednesday that Kerry's recent comments accusing Iran of aiding the collapse of the Yemeni government constituted a blame game and contradict previous remarks made by US officials.
"All sides should allow the Yemeni nation to determine the country's fate by itself; and all mechanisms should be based on the people's will and demands," Afkham said, adding that Iran firmly believes in and respects the right of every nation to determine its fate.
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[YEMENONLINE.INFO] Yemen's Iranian catspaws said Tuesday that President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled the rebel-controlled capital earlier this month and has begun reconstituting his authority in the south, is "wanted for justice."
The move escalated a crisis that threatens to split the Arab world's poorest country between the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels, who control the capital Sanaa and much of the north, and Hadi, who enjoys wide support in the formerly independent south.
The growing chaos also threatens to undercut U.S. efforts to combat Yemen's powerful al-Qaeda affiliate, which has been linked to several failed attacks on the United States and grabbed credit for the assault on a French satirical magazine last month.
In the latest sign of the country's growing lawlessness, a Frenchwoman working for the World Bank was kidnapped Tuesday in front of a ministry building in Sanaa, where several Western countries, including La Belle France, have shuttered their embassies. No one grabbed credit for the abduction.
The rebel-run state news agency SABA quoted the Houthis' Revolutionary Committee as saying Hadi's "reckless and erratic actions harmed the Yemeni people," and called on the international community to consider him a runaway.
The group warned state employees and even diplomatic missions against dealing with Hadi as president, saying they would be "held accountable."
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[Dhaka Tribune] BNP is determined to continue its movement demanding fresh parliamentary elections even if party chief the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... is nabbed Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! .
There is much speculation that Khaleda, leader of the main political opposition on the streets, may be arrested anytime, after a Dhaka court issued a warrant for her arrest yesterday.
Khaleda Zia had failed to appear before the court where she is on trial for corruption.
The party stalwarts sent out directives to all units that their movement to topple the government must continue under any circumstances, clearly hinting that the 69-year-old three-time prime minister may be detained any time.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... it is still unclear as to who would take on the role of the party chief, with Khaleda behind bars, which appears to be a matter of inevitability to the BNP policymakers.
Acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been in jail and almost all the big shots are on the run.
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[AnNahar] La Belle France set out a package of reforms on Wednesday aimed at better integrating Moslems and preventing radicalization in the wake of the recent jihadist attacks in Gay Paree.
It outlined plans to set up a "dialogue forum", tapping leading associations, intellectuals and other notable figures from the Moslem community for regular talks with the government.
Much of the focus will be on the training of Moslem preachers, trying to "encourage the emergence of a generation of imams fully engaged in the Republic", an interior ministry source said.
Radicalization in prisons is also central to the reform efforts.
Two of the three Gay Paree attackers are thought to have been radicalized in prison, where a chronic shortage of Moslem chaplains -- there are only 180 nationwide -- has often ceded spiritual guidance to bully boys.
La Belle France's strict secularity laws make it illegal to count people by their religion or ethnicity, but a report on prisons by an opposition MP last year estimated that 60 percent of the prison population (roughly 40,000 people) were Moslem.
Prison chaplains "will only be recruited if they have obtained the new training diploma in the fundamental principles of the Republic," Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
The government is aware that it is treading on sensitive ground and is keen to avoid charges it is seeking to dictate religious practices, which would itself be a breach of the country's strict separation of church and state.
"It is not the state's job to reorganize the religion from within or to decide who are the nice Moslems," said another interior ministry official.
But it wants imams to take a new civic responsibility diploma, to be offered at a dozen universities by the end of the year, to imbue them with the values of a country that prides itself on liberty, equality and fraternity.
"Certain imams lack knowledge of the language and the law," the ministry official said.
It is a difficult balancing act for the government, and previous attempts to open a dialogue with Moslems have stumbled in the past.
The French Council of the Moslem Religion, set up in 2003, has been widely criticized for failing to represent the full diversity of La Belle France's 4-5 million Moslems.
A short-lived Islamic Foundation set up in 2005 was also considered a failure, but has been revived under the new reforms with the aim of providing training, research and cultural expertise.
The government also wants a closer eye on education, ensuring religious schools follow the national curriculum.
The reforms have been under preparation for a long while, but the January 7-9 attacks in Gay Paree in which 17 people died, have added a sense of urgency.
The government says they are partly designed to protect Moslems. January saw 176 acts of aggression against Moslems -- more than the whole of 2014.
To that end, it is providing cash to improve protection at Moslem places of worship, including video surveillance.
"It is crucial the Republic protects all its children and especially mosques from anti-Moslem acts," said Cazeneuve.
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Oh yes. The chronical shortage of Muslim chaplains. Having them would make Maulsm inmates less prone to radicalization. Never mind that one of Islam's central tenets is that whatever you have done no mater how evil and horrendous will be instntly forgiven by Allah if you go to Jihad. Plunder, Rape, torture, murder everything gforgiven. And never mind that when you take a look at history of countries living under Muslim occupation it is ever those "benevolent" chaplains who pressure authorities for a more rigorous treatment of infidels.
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France should make a special detachment of the French Foreign legion comprised entirely of muslims. Promise them they'll get training and be sent to the middle east. Try to encourage radicles to join up in any way possible. Then during parachute training....
[Hurriyet Daily News] A local research company has reportedly been raided by inspectors from the Finance Ministry, two days after releasing its latest public opinion poll showing support for Turkey’s ruling party below 40 percent. Rather harsh I'd say. Don't they have an IRS ?
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Harder to rig the elections if the polls show AKP losing.
Rosen, who is the director of counterterrorism programs and policy at the State Department, WTF is going on with DoS? Short answer: What has always gone on at Foggy Bottom.
was arrested and transported to the D.C. jail and charged with one count of Use of a Communications Device to Solicit a Juvenile.
[AnNahar] The American public has grown more supportive of the U.S. fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, with nearly two-thirds now backing the air campaign against the jihadists, according to a survey released Tuesday.
About twice as many approve (63 percent) as disapprove (30 percent) of the military campaign against the IS group in Iraq and Syria, a national survey carried out by the Pew Research Center found. Over 65% approved of Keystone XL. What the American people approve of matters little to the Champ.
Those numbers are compared to 57 percent for and 33 percent against in October.
More divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... is the possibility of sending U.S. ground troops to the region.
About as many would favor (47 percent) such a move, compared to 49 percent who oppose sending U.S. ground troops.
Four months ago, 39 percent favored the idea while 55 percent were against.
The survey also found broad support for the U.S. government's policy of not paying ransoms for hostages, with 70 percent in favor and 25 percent against. The remainder said they didn't know.
The public appeared divided over whether "using overwhelming military force is the best way to defeat terrorism around the world," Pew said.
Support for the U.S. military air campaign against Islamic State Lions of Islam in Iraq and Syria is split by gender and political affiliation.
More Republicans (70 percent) than Democrats (58 percent) approve of the campaign, and more men are in favor it (70 percent) than women (56 percent).
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the public is skeptical about the effectiveness of the U.S. campaign against the IS group.
Fifty-eight percent said the military campaign was not going well.
Pew polled 1,504 adults between February 18 and 22.
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It'll be fun to hear the Democrats try to defend Obama and his pull-out prematurly strategy during the next election. Yeah, he got us out of Iraq alright, well done, now they are all peace and harmony.
[WashingtonExaminer] A group of 23 prominent Muslim reformers signed a full-page ad in the Sunday New York Times on Jan. 11 asking "What can Muslims do to reclaim their 'beautiful religion'?"
Some names we are familiar with, here at Rantburg, but there are others as well.
The ad, by the Gatestone Institute, states, "If Islam is a religion that stands for justice and peaceful coexistence, then the quest for an Islamic state cannot be justified as sanctioned by a just and merciful creator. It is the duty of us Muslims to actively and vigorously affirm and promote universal human rights, including gender equality and freedom of conscience."
[DAWN] KARAK: Adviser to the chief minister on prisons, Malik Qasim Khan Khattak, has said that all hospitals in Karak district would soon be provided doctors and other staff according to the sanctioned strength. As Bishop Berkeley, licensed philosopher, would probably say: "Is it really a hospital if it doesn't have any doctors?"
He made this claim while addressing a ceremony held to hand over keys of new ambulances to the heads of health centres here on Tuesday.
He said that three ambulances would be provided to the tehsil headquarters hospital, Takht-e-Nusrati, and civil hospital, Latamber, soon.
Mr Khattak said that basic facilities would be provided in all health centres of the district, as ensuring efficient health service delivery was the top priority of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... -led provincial government.
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[DAWN] The Home and Tribal Affairs Department of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... on Wednesday ordered all commissioners and DIGs to expel Afghan holy mans from the province and submit a report over the implementation within seven days.
A home department source old Dawn that there were 294 Afghan peshimams (prayer leaders) in the province and their documentation had been sent to relevant commissioners as part of the National Action Plan.
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government is taking a tough stand against registered and unregistered Afghans after the killing of 150 people, including 134 children, in the December 16 terrorist attack on Army Public School 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. .
There are fears that the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government's approach to the Afghan refugee crisis will result in the harassment and exploitation of Afghan refugees at the hands of the police. Just this week, a New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... report described the mistreatment meted out to Afghan refugees in Pak camps, with some forced out if they couldn't pay the police.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: The government of Pakistain has said that the outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (LJ) has an affiliation with Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), a report published on the BBCUrdu website said.
In a letter sent to all provinces, the Interior Ministry said that the banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization had sought help from Al Qaeda but upon refusal had formed a nexus with TTP.
The letter states that LJ Lion of Islams, in an attempt to free their organization's imprisoned members, may possibly go to the extent of holding ordinary people hostage.
The interior ministry also said that LJ has made a man named Abdul Rehman from Kabirwala, Punjab, in charge of its activities in the province. It added that Rehman has planned various attacks in Lahore and other parts of Punjab.
The letter also mentioned that following a crack down by security forces and personnel from law enforcement agencies against the group, its members had sought help from Al Qaeda. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... Al Qaeda had refused to help LJ due to its engagement in Iraq and Syria.
The interior ministry said that after Al Qaeda's rejection, the group contacted TTP chief Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... who has promised to provide not only financial support to LJ but had also pledged to lend more support to the banned outfit.
The letter also state that imambargahs were being targeted in the country to pressurise the government to halt executions of convicts belonging to terrorist organizations.
The government believes that the recent spike in terrorist attacks in the country was the result of the affiliation between LJ and TTP. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the responsibility of an attack on an imambargah 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. was claimed by TTP with the terrorist group also releasing a video of the attackers.
A number of convicted LJ Death Eaters have been executed since the government rolled back the moratorium on capital punishment in the aftermath of the Dec 2014 attack on Peshawar's Army Public School.
The Dec 16 attack had resulted in the formulation of a National Action Plan to counter terrorism which also saw a parliamentary consensus on the formation of military courts in the country as well as renewed resolve to counter religious extremism by cracking down on terror financing and regulating madrassahs.
Since the government set the NAP rolling, the country has seen a number of terrorist attacks -- the major ones being attacks on imambargahs in Rawalpindi, Shikarpur and Peshawar as well as a recent attack targeted the police in Lahore.
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[DAWN] Police registered cases against 160 people in Nowshera after they refused to administer polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccine to their children during the ongoing anti-polio campaign in the district -- 10 people have also been tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in this regard.
The case was registered under Section 144 in Nowshera Kalan cop shoppe after the parents refused to let their children receive anti-polio drops.
According to police sources, the case was registered following the complaint of Union Council's official Akbar Ali. Police officials have initiated a crack down to arrest the remaining accused.
DIG Nowshera had ordered implementation of Section 144 in the wake of anti-polio vaccination campaign in the district. He had ordered police to take strict action against those who intervene and stop health teams administering polio drops to children below five years of age.
According to data available with Dawn, 96 per cent polio cases so far reported are among the Pashto-speaking population of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... and Fata and out of these, residents of North Wazoo Agency's Wazir tribe accounted for 34 per cent of the cases. Earlier in September, 2015, KP had reported 25 polio cases for the year with at least five traced back to Fata.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) had declared that Pakistain is responsible for nearly 80 per cent of polio cases reported globally.
To prevent the possible spread of the polio virus from Pakistain to other countries, the WHO imposed strict travel restrictions on the country.
Militant groups often attack polio teams as they see vaccination campaigns a cover for espionage. There are also long running rumours about polio drops causing infertility.
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[Breitbart] "A real genocide is occurring in Iraq that nobody wants to talk about and no international body is dealing with," said former Iraqi Minister Pascale Warda Tuesday.
According to Warda, the Islamic State (ISIS) is determined to "annihilate" the Christian presence and all social and religious minorities that oppose its principles, despite the fact that the Christian community in Iraq dates back to the first century, long before the arrival of Islam.
"In Mosul for the first time in two thousand years the Eucharist is no longer celebrated," she said. "It is a very dark historical period" for the Chaldeans.
Warda, the former minister of Immigration and Refugees in the Iraqi Interim Government from 2004-2005, was speaking at a press conference organized in Madrid by the foundation "Aid to the Church in Need."
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No different from our allies in the gulf and Pakistan.
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We get that ISIS is engaging in a holocaust against Christians in the mideast. It is just the current Washington regime who has its collective head in the sand or up its collective a$$.
[IraqiNews.com] Salahuddin governor Raed al-Jubouri declared Tuesday the arrival of more than 5,000 volunteer fighters to the outskirts of Tikrit, adding that the military units are ready to begin the operation of liberating the province, pointing out that camps have been built to receive the displaced because of the current military operations.
Jubouri said in an interview for IraqiNews, "More than 5,000 volunteer fighters have arrived in Samarra and Speicher Base; they will take part in the military operation to liberate Tikrit," noting that, "The military units are ready to declare the beginning of the operation."
Al-Jubouri added, "The operation will be managed in accordance with a central plan that will start from several directions," noting that, "The leaderships of Salahuddin and Samarra Operations, and the formations of the defense and interior ministries, as well as the volunteer and tribal fighters of Tikrit, al-Alam district and the surrounding areas; they will all participate in the operation."
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Lest we fergit, as per DEBKA.COM, Iran has repor airlifted thousands of Iranian, Afghan, + Pakistani Shia fighters to Syria, boosting the Aleppo war or battle front.
[IraqiNews.com] The Mayor of Sinjar district, Maysar Salih, stated that all the Arab villages near the Syrian borders are liberated from the ISIL terrorists.
Salih stated to Iraqi News (IraqiNews.com) "The military operations by the Kurdish security forces supported by the US-led Coalition resulted in liberating all the Arab villages near the Syrian borders."
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[IraqiNews.com] The United States had expedited about $17.9 million worth of armaments, ammunition and other military supplies to the Iraqi government, the Pentagon announced on Wednesday.
The U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon) front man Colonel Steve Warren stated in a press statement obtained by IraqiNews, that ten thousand telescope and 100 thousand ammunition envelope
No doubt that was more intelligible in the original bureaucratese...
have been sent to Iraq in the context of urgent military aid that was completed in 22 days, which is less than a quarter of the time agreed upon.
"The Defense Department has expedited $17.9 million in equipment and supplies -- some of which have already been delivered -- to the Iraqi government," The Pentagon front man Col. Steve Warren said.
"It was an expedited delivery, which took 22 days from the time of signature -- a letter of authorization -- until delivery. This is less than a quarter of the time it normally takes to execute these types of deliveries," Warren added.
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Gotta hurry - ISIS is running low on ammo. Need to deliver it to the Iraqi army so they can turn it over to ISIS.
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[IraqiNews.com) The Ministry of Defense announced Monday, that most of al-Baghdadi areas west of Ramadi have been completely purged, and an inspection campaign and a security scan are now running in the district in preparation for the return of its people.
The ministry said in a statement received by IraqiNew, "A force of the Iraqi Army represented by al-Jazeera and al-Badiya Operations and the 7th Infantry Division, under the supervision of the ground forces commander Lt. Gen. Riyad Jalal Tawfiq, and backed by the rustics and the volunteer fighters managed to liberate most areas of al-Baghdadi district."
The ministry added, "Supplies have been delivered and the siege on the residential complex of al-Baghdadi is lifted. We helped and sheltered the displaced people from the district," pointing out that, "A number of forces of Evil have been killed and their vehicles were destroyed in the operation. Now an inspection campaign and a security scan is running in the area in preparation for the people's return."
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[WAPO] U.S. intelligence shows that half of the Islamic State's leaders in Iraq have been killed, but there is still a long fight ahead to render the group irrelevant, the retired U.S. general in charge of the international coalition to counter the militants told Congress on Wednesday. Forget about the EKIA (enemy KIA), the numbers are deceptive and oftentimes meaningless. Concentrate on who actually owns the terrain !
"We have pretty good intelligence on this matter," Gen. John Allen said of the number of militant commanders killed. "In the process of tracking the elements within the senior echelons of [Islamic State's] leadership, we have been tracking and systematically as we are able to find them, deal with them." "We have pretty good intelligence"...which we are refusing to share with our allies. Care to comment on that General ? Allen's testimony follows a meeting in Kuwait this week in which new Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter and a group of more than 30 senior U.S. diplomats and military commanders held a wide-ranging debate about how the militants should be targeted in the future. Allen told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Islamic State cannot be eliminated entirely, but must be countered and targeted to the point that it does not pose a threat to the future of Iraq.
"We're not going to eradicate or annihilate ISIL," Allen said, using one of the acronyms for the group. "Most of these organizations that we have dealt with before, there will be some sort of residue of that organization for a long period of time to come. But we don't want it to have operational capabilities that create the opportunity for it threaten the existence of Iraq or other states in the region." "We're not going to eradicate..." Regime talking point and surrender monkey kak. Allen's entire testimony is designed to dampen the impact of the upcoming Netanyahu address to Congress.
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ISIS has lost half its leadership and our military has lost almost all of its leadership in the Stalinistic purge of our officer corps.
We need people who will FIGHT not talk or look good in a uniform or know twenty seven computer programs or do origami.
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Allen told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Islamic State cannot be eliminated entirely, but must be countered and targeted to the point that it does not pose a threat to the future of Iraq the political elites will think that they can negotiate with it.
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The Russian Federation has over 5,000 T-72 tanks in use, including around 2,000 in active service and 3,000 in reserves...The T-72 has been used by over 40 countries worldwide.
Some countries using variants of the T-72 (bold added for topical relevance):
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A friend of mine was a RIO (back seat driver ) on an F-4. His motto was "Don't get me a better bomb sight. Get me a bigger bomb"
Of course, that was during a less kind, less gentle era.
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All this talk about about bombing stuff and making life hard for the ISIS turds makes me think that its time for some of our avaitors to dust off Stephen Coontz's "Flight of the Intruder" and change Hanoi to ISIS targets and take the fight downtown in spite of the micromanagement the Rice in Chief's target selection yahtzee cup toss.
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[AnNahar] Iran's Revolutionary Guards began naval exercises Wednesday in the Strait of Hormuz, just a few hundred kilometers away from western vessels engaged in the fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
The three branches of the elite army of the Iranian regime are participating in the regular military exercises, dubbed "Great Prophet", off Qeshm Island.
It was unclear how long the drills would last.
State television showed an attack by "high-precision missiles" fired from the coast, and a helicopter on a replica of an "American" aircraft carrier.
Fast attack craft were also involved in the military exercises, which aim to "demonstrate the power" of the Navy in protecting Iranian interests in the Gulf, according to state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
The Revolutionary Guards are responsible for naval forces in the Gulf, mainly composed of hundreds of speedboats equipped with various types of short- and medium-range missiles as well as small submarines.
The Guards' naval forces, estimated at about 20,000 troops by Western experts, are tasked with blocking the Strait of Hormuz, through which a third of global marine oil traffic passes, if the country comes under attack.
Iran says its military doctrine is based entirely on deterrence.
The exercises began two days after French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle launched operations in the Gulf as part of the international coalition fighting the Islamic State group (IS) in Iraq and Syria.
The ship will be stationed off 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... for about eight weeks, working alongside the American aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.
The U.S. Fifth Fleet is stationed in Bahrain, and 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... hosts the U.S. military command for the Middle East and Central Asia.
A nuclear-powered attack submarine, a French anti-aircraft frigate and a British anti-submarine frigate are also in the area.
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[ARA] he Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... Organization said that the Syrian regime is the main party to blame regarding the high number of victims of the conflict in the country, and its attacks on the cities is the main reason for the worsening humanitarian situation.
The Vice President of the HRW in the Middle East and North Africa, Nadim Houri, told news hounds that the Syrian government's forces have bombed more than 1500 locations in Syria during the past four years.
A report explaining these facts was published following Houri's comments.
The organization accused the Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... of "lying" in his recent statements made in an interview with BBC two weeks ago, when he denied his government's use of barrel bombs in its war against the opposition fighters.
"We know that he is simply lying," said the HRW's head at the U.N. Department, Philip Pouloben.
The report documented 450 locations that have been exposed to barrel bombs in southern Syria, mostly centered in ten towns and villages belonging to the province of Daraa, while hundreds other sites were identified in Aleppo province, northern Syria.
According to the HRW's new report, the locations were identified through satellite images and footages broadcasted by Syrian activists.
Speaking to ARA News, Baraa Khalil, aid worker in the city of Aleppo, said that the pace of the bombing is still high in most areas where festivities continue around the city, pointing out that they are documenting dozens of air force sorties a day.
"The pro-Assad military forces are still using barrel bombs and artillery shelling systematically, and the largest percentage of the victims of these attacks are civilians," Khalil added.
Noteworthy, many international organizations demand passing on these facts to the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC), but this claim has always run into a deficit of the UN Security Council for a binding decision in this regard.
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"Computer graphics have been added to some of the supposed distant kills, shown through a computer generated rifle scope."
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IIRC, as per WORLDNEWS they are also dev a Hard Boyz-only Sniper Battalion in Iraq in counter-response to "American Sniper", + wid said Battalion to be named in honor of Kyle's nemesis in the film.
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Doesn't have the whole video, but the segment and description is enough if you have seen any of their shows.
I think they are just trying to cash in on the movie success, like moore et al riding tailcoats, standing on the shoulders of giants and proclaiming how tall they are.
And yes. They have their cheesy James Bond colon scope animation.
""Every terrorist I've ever interviewed, these people collect wounds," Navarro explains in the report. 'They will go back in history and tell you about the Crusades. That's a thousand years ago, and they'll tell you about it. They're collecting these injustices and they just hang on to them.'" Also see article entitled 'Black Caucus Democrats to walk out on Netanyahu address to Congress.'
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Injutiice the Cruissades? Ofh yes. Becaiuse in MLsulm vision the untermenchen don'ty have the right to retaliate after centuries of agressions by the herrensvolk. Same thing with the Reconquista where after every Muslim victory the chronicler deligts on the number of people executed (ie out of battle) and slaves taken.
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The Crusades? You mean where they invaded France and had to be stopped by Martel in 745? Or perhaps you refer to the invasion of Spain, finally ending in 1492? No, couldn't be either of those, maybe the Sultan's armies at the proverbial Gates of Vienna? Maybe the degradation and subjugation of the oldest Christian communities in Israel, Syria and Egypt? Sorry, just not picking up your 'Crusades' banter, mate.
[ARA] On Wednesday, forces of Evil of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (IS/ISIS) destroyed the French Lafarge plant of Cement, which is located between Kobane and the town of Ain Issa in Jalabiya in northeastern Syria.
Local sources told ARA News that the radical group went kaboom! the plant after evacuating its contents and and transferring it to the city of Raqqa, the IS' main stronghold in Syria.
The IS gunnies reportedly bombed tunnels of the plant's electricity network, which extends down the plant, southeast of Kobane. The blast led to the destruction of 80% of the plant.
The Lafarge Cement Company was founded nearly even years ago, and was considered one of the largest industrial investments in Syria, as it used to cover more than a third of the local market's need of cement.
In this regard, Syrian economist Dr. Moslem Talas told ARA News: "The IS power is meant to destroy, and no one heard about any constructions or economic projects by this radical group, so what happened to the cement company was not surprising.
"These barbarians are destroying the accumulation of generations. Bombing this plant is part of their atrocities against humanity," he argued.
"After losing ground in Kobane, the terror group is trying to take Dire Revenge from the region through destroying such valuable facilities."
Speaking to ARA News, Sherwan Khalas, the network manager of Rocher Company, said that bombing the plant would negatively affect the economic reality in the region, and may lead hundreds of families to the specter of unemployment.
"This terrorist group is building its economy on the ashes of Syria," he said.
The plant's protection has moved from the Syrian state to the People's Protection Units (YPG) in September 20, 2014, before IS took over it.
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[PJ Media] Excerpt: "Harf espoused the interesting proposition that we should create a jobs program for people who might be inclined to support groups like ISIS, jobs for jihadists. She didn't call it that, but I will," Chabot said in his questioning of Kerry. "And just where will these jobs come from? I guess not at the mall. It's apparently too dangerous to work there now. And are these shovel-ready jobs, or are they yet to be created, like Keystone Pipeline jobs?"
Kerry called it "a spreading cancer" that "is not going to be eliminated by just shooting at people once they finally get to the battlefield."
"Everything that came out of the conference we just had the other day pointed to the need to deal with prevention," he said, referencing last week's conference on violent extremism hosted by the White House.
Chabot tried to get in another question, but Kerry interjected, "Don't -- don't make fun -- don't make fun of what she was talking about." There really is no defense of the indefensible.
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Why, she's laughable. Mohammed Emwazi (aka Jihad Johnnie) comes from a well to do family in the U.K. and he has a degree in computer programming. He just needs a job to stop his psychopathic murderous ways? B.S. He needs to be killed. What a crock from JFnK and Marie Harf.
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