[AlAhram] Beni Suef security directorate facilitated a reconciliation between Moslems and Christians in a village in the Upper Egyptian governorate after Christians were attacked there on Friday, Al-Ahram Arabic reported on Saturday.
According to Al-Ahram Arabic, the security forces managed to control the situation, which was caused by a rumour that a church was being constructed, before it deteriorated.
On Friday, a group of Moslems in a small village in Beni Suef gathered after noon prayers, and went to the houses owned by Christians attacking them by rocks, after a rumour spread that one of the buildings had been turned into a church.
A video clip showing Christian families reacting to the attack while standing at their balconies went viral on Friday in Egypt.
The head of the local security directorate reportedly sat with the elders from the village, both Moslems and Christians, and they agreed on reconciliation and that the Christians would not turn a house into a church unless they received official authorisation.
This is the most recent sectarian incident involving Moslems and Christians in the past four weeks in Upper Egypt.
At least three festivities have erupted in different villages in Minya governorate between Moslems and Christians recently.
Sectarian festivities frequently occur in the countryside over news or rumours that an unauthorised church has been built or repurposed.
A draft unified law for building houses of worship is expected to be discussed by the House of Representatives.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean in May likely broke up in midair after a fire erupted in or near the cockpit, the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported Friday.
However it remains unclear whether the blaze was triggered by mechanical malfunction or a criminal act, Egyptian officials who spoke on condition of anonymity told the Times.
Last Saturday an Egyptian-led investigative committee reported that the word "fire" could be heard on EgyptAir flight 804’s cockpit voice recorder before it crashed.
But the forensic and aviation officials in Cairo who spoke with the Times said that both the cockpit voice and flight data recorders, combined with the distribution and condition of recovered debris and human remains, had led them to their latest conclusion.
EgyptAir flight 804 was carrying 40 Egyptians, 15 French people, two Iraqis, two Canadians and one passenger each from Algeria, Belgium, Britannia, Chad, Portugal, 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 Sudan.
The Airbus A320 was en route from Gay Paree to Cairo when it disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean.
The crash followed the bombing of a Russian passenger plane over Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula last October, killing all 224 passengers and crew.
ISIS grabbed credit for that attack, but there has been no such claim linked to the EgyptAir crash.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/24/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
So still, it could have been smoking in the pilot's lounge or a device tucked into the front wheel well. Which is more likely to cause rapid disassembly?
Jeddah- Civil rights organizations in Yemen called on the swift intervention of international forces and human rights organizations to pressure Houthis and ally ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh to allow the documentation of cases of abduction and arbitrary arrests.
Houthi militias had recently closed down all windows of communication between the captives and their families.
Civil rights organizations and institutions in Yemen have long been enduring Houthi hostility which had sieged and limited the free work of those organizations.
With difficulty in documenting cases of abduction rising, civil rights organizations estimate that the number of cases of abductions by mid-2016 have reached 17 thousand, six thousands of which have gone undocumented or justified.
Some reports of civil rights organizations operating under insurgency-held territory reveal the intolerable size of suffering and torture those held captive by Houthi militias are suffering.
Some extreme near death cases have been documented and will soon be presented before the United Nations.
Houthi insurgents imposing charges on the families of those detained as to cover the pharmaceutical costs for the prisoners’ alleged chronic diseases, which most relatives have denied the prisoners having.
Cases of electrocution, Plier usage and fire have been reported by Houthi-held captives.
[Breitbart] The BBC has unilaterally chosen not to report the Munich attacker’s full name, in what appears to be an attempt to scrub any Muslim or Islamic heritage link to its coverage of the incident.
Most sources at this point suggest that Ali David Sonboly ‐ the Munich attacker who targeted children and killed nine yesterday ‐ is not connected to radical Islam, but the BBC has gone to extraordinary lengths to try to keep any reference to his heritage out of its coverage, opting to name him only as "David Sonboly".
Other news organisations including the Wall Street Journal, Independent, Daily Mail, and Sky News named the attacker as "Ali David Sonboly" or "David Ali Sonboly". CNN even referred to him simply as "Ali Sonboly".
#3
Reminds me of the Home Security Company teevee advert where the hapless burglar is always someone who looks just like me, only wearing a watch cap and 50 years younger.
#4
The media playing this as a lone gunman rightwing style attack. I have yet to see a single reference to him persecuted in school because he was a shiia, and he appeared to have specifically targeted sunni muslims.
Immigrants bring their hatreds with them. If this isn't terrorism, then neither are the numerous sunni-shiia-sunni massacres across the Middle East.
[TheLocal.de] Calls for compulsory school Islam classes after axe attack.
Local authorities are calling for classes on Islam to be brought in at schools across the country after a radicalized Muslim youth attacked passengers on a train with an axe on Monday.
“It is appropriate to bring in classes on Islam in state schools or schools overseen by the state,” Gerd Landsberg, head of the association of local councils, told the Rheinische Post on Wednesday.
In this way the state can gain more control over the upbringing of Muslim youths, Landsberg said.
Posted by: Bov Flimbers ||
07/24/2016 00:07 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
IMO, the most important thing to learn about Islam & Muslims is: shoot first.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The anti-terrorism proposals of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump make him the better option for Europe and Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Saturday.
Orban, who has built razor-wire border fences to stop migrants colonists, said in Romania that Trump's ideas about the need for the best intelligence services and his opposition to "democracy export" were also applicable in Europe.
"I am not Donald Trump's campaigner," the Hungarian leader said at a cultural event in Baile Tusnad, Romania, an area with a large Hungarian population. "I never thought that the idea would ever occur to me that he is the better of the open options for Europe and Hungary.
"I listened to (Trump) and I have to tell you that he made three proposals to stop terrorism. And as a European, I myself could not have drawn up better what Europe needs."
Orban, who returned to power in 2010, has often been criticized by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , the United States and others for his policies to centralize power, control civic groups and increase government influence over media.
Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry L. Stimson ... visited Hungary in 2011 as secretary of state, and expressed US concerns over the independence of its courts and the press and government corruption.
EU ’fooling itself’
Orban, whose speech was broadcast live on Hungarian state media, blamed the West for intervening unsuccessfully in countries like Egypt and Libya. While Hungary was not "indifferent" to the state of political and human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , he said its stability was most important.
"If I'm asked what is Hungary's strongest expectation regarding Turkey today, we will put stability first," Orban said. "If Turkey becomes unstable, many tens of millions of people from that region will hurtle toward Europe without any sort of filtering, screening or control."
Orban was again very critical of the EU leadership in Brussels.
"Europe's current politicianship has failed," Orban said, adding that the EU was "fooling itself" if it still viewed itself as a "global actor," saying that era had ended with the vote by Britannia to leave the 28-nation bloc.
Orban again said individual countries in Europe should have more authority to make their own decisions on specific issue like migration.
"Our problem is not in Mecca but in Brussels," Orban said. "The babus bureaucrats in Brussels are an obstacle for us, not Islam."
Answering questions after his speech, Orban said Europe needed to set up its own army.
"A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration," Orban said, according to his office.
Orban did not directly address comments by Trump that called into question US commitments to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... 's mutual defense clause, but said he had changed his mind about NATO being enough in its current form to ensure the peace in Europe.
Hungary shut its borders with Serbia and Croatia last year, greatly stemming the flow of migrants colonists coming from Turkey through Greece and further north into the EU.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/24/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A passenger who allegedly had an Isis flag tattooed on his arm was removed from a Norwegian flight to Greece.
Cabin crew suspected the man's inking was of the terror group's symbol or a verse from the Koran, on the 9pm flight from Stockholm's Arlanda Airport to Heraklion on Thursday. They reportedly refused to fly with him on board and the captain removed the man and his female companion, causing delays to the flight.
The plane departed just over an hour later, at 10.05pm.
Darko Ali, a station officer at the airport's border police, confirmed that crew and passengers 'reacted to another passenger for some reason and it created some concern'.
'The captain decided that the person would not be allowed to remain on the plane and wanted the person to leave.'
Mr Ali told German newspaper Expressen: 'He was not welcome on board the plane and we helped him to leave the airport.'
Mats Eriksson at Stockholm Police said that despite police being present when the man was escorted from the plane, 'this is not a police matter.'
'The pilot has full authority to remove whoever he wants from the plane,' he told The Local.
He stressed that the man was not suspected of any crime or detained by police.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/24/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
"we helped him to leave the airport."
Scandinavian understatement?
Posted by: European Conservative ||
07/24/2016 12:01 Comments ||
Top||
[THELOCAL.DE] The lone teenager who shot dead nine people in a gun rampage in Munich was "obsessed" with mass killers such as Norwegian rightwing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik and had no links to the Islamic State group, police said Saturday. "Well, yeah, he was a Moslem mass murderer and not a right-wing Nazi, but he was inspired by a right-wing Nazi,"
Europe reacted in shock to the third attack on the continent in just over a week, after the black-clad gunman went on a shooting spree at a shopping centre on Friday evening before turning the gun on himself.
"There is absolutely no link to the Islamic State," Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae said.
He said the assault was a "classic act by a deranged person" and described an individual "obsessed" with mass shootings.
He said German investigators saw an "obvious link" between Friday's killings and Breivik's massacre of 77 people in a bomb attack in Oslo and a shooting rampage on the nearby island of Utoya exactly five years earlier.
Most of the victims in Friday's attack were foreigners.
Munich prosecutor Thomas Steinkraus-Koch said the 18-year-old German-Iranian student - named as David Ali Sonboly - had suffered depression, while media reports said he had undergone psychiatric treatment.
The teenager had 300 rounds in a rucksack when he targeted the busy Olympia shopping mall, just minutes away from the flat he shared with his family, according to authorities.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/24/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
inline is right on point -no matter what, it is some white guys fault
Posted by: Bov Flimbers ||
07/24/2016 1:58 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Lies! Damn Lies! Munich gunman inspired by Zionism!!!
Until they don't anymore, of course. And laws can be changed easily enough when the legislature knows that rubber-stamping is required.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... will strongly adhere to democratic principles and rule of law, Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said on Saturday, referring to the government’s crackdown in the aftermath of a failed military coup.
"From the very beginning, I wanted to say that despite what has happened a week ago in Turkey, that we will continue to strongly adhere to democratic principles and apply rule of law and not much really has changed. I know there are question marks," he told a meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bankers in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu.
The government’s widening crackdown in the aftermath of a failed military coup has spooked investors, who have dumped the lira currency and sold stocks.
Obama denies any US involvement in Turkey coup bid
President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... on Friday denied any US role in Turkey’s failed coup and insisted that an extradition request for a US-based Moslemholy man accused of orchestrating the putsch would have to go through normal channels.
Obama, speaking at a news conference, said he told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in a call earlier this week that the United States had no prior knowledge of the abortive coup.
"Any reports that we had any previous knowledge of a coup attempt, that there was any US involvement in it, that we were anything other than entirely supportive of Turkish democracy are completely false, unequivocally false," Obama said.
"He (Erdogan) needs to make sure that, not just he but everybody in his government, understands that those reports are completely false," Obama added. "Because when rumors like that start swirling around, that puts our people at risk on the ground in Turkey and it threatens what is a critical alliance and partnership between the United States and Turkey."
Reports of US involvement in the coup attempt, which were also denied earlier this week by the US ambassador to Turkey, appear to be partly fueled by the fact that holy man Fethullah Gulen lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains.
Erdogan accuses Gulen, a charismatic former ally, of criminal masterminding the plot against him. In a crackdown on Gulen’s suspected followers, more than 60,000 soldiers, police, judges, civil servants and teachers have been suspended, detained or placed under investigation.
Gulen has condemned the attempted coup and denied any involvement in it.
Obama, reiterating what US officials had said earlier this week, said he told Erdogan his government must first present evidence of Gulen’s alleged complicity in the failed coup. An extradition request would then receive the review required by the Justice Department and other government agencies just like any other petition.
"America’s governed by rules of law, and those are not ones that the president of the United States or anybody else can just set aside for the sake of expediency," Obama said. "We’ve got to go through a legal process."
An unobjectionable comment, but not what we expect from his highness, President Obama the First.
Serdar Kilic, the Turkish ambassador to the United States, told a news conference on Friday that his country had submitted the "necessary documentation" for Gulen’s extradition. But US Justice Department front man Peter Carr said he could not yet give a "hard yes or no" on whether the materials submitted by Turkey constituted a formal extradition request.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/24/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
Make your acts of submission now, O future subjects!
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Turkish minister chided the country’s Western allies on Saturday for not sending any representatives to demonstrate their solidarity with Turks following last weekend’s failed military coup.
Western leaders have pledged support for Turkish democracy since the July 15 coup attempt but have also expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the scale of purges against supporters of the coup and of the US-based Moslemholy man Ankara says was behind it.
Turkish authorities’ mass purges of the armed forces, police, judiciary and education system, targeting followers of a US-based Moslemholy man, Fethullah Gulen, whom Erdogan has accused of criminal masterminding the failed coup.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the reclusive 75-year-old Gulen denies the charge.
"We are very surprised that our allies have not come to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to visit even after one week has passed," Omur Celik, the minister for European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... affairs, told news hounds in Ankara.
Celik added that NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... needed to collaborate with Turkey, a reference in part to the struggle against ISIS bully boyz in Turkey’s southern neighbors Syria and Iraq.
Turkey has the second biggest armed forces in NATO and is also negotiating to join the European Union.
Coup’s outcome
Earlier on Saturday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has ordered the closure of more than 1,000 private schools and extended the period in which some suspects can be detained without charge, in his first decree since declaring a three-month state of emergency.
Erdogan declared the state of emergency late on Wednesday saying it would enable authorities to swiftly and effectively root out supporters of last weekend’s failed military coup in which at least 246 people were killed.
The state of emergency allows the president and government to pass laws without first having to win parliamentary support and also allows them to curb or suspend rights and freedoms as they deem necessary.
The first decree signed by Erdogan authorizes the closure of 1,043 private schools, 1,229 charities and foundations, 19 trade unions, 15 universities and 35 medical institutions over suspected links to the Gulen movement, the state news agency Anadolu reported on Saturday.
Erdogan has also approved the extension of the period in which certain suspects can be detained to 30 days from a maximum of four days, Anadolu said.
The period has been extended to facilitate a full investigation into the coup attempt.
Parliament must still approve the decree but requires only a simple majority, which the ruling AK Party founded by Erdogan and in power in Turkey since 2002 commands.
In an address to politicians late on Friday Erdogan vowed to bring to justice supporters of the Gulenist "terrorist" movement.
He also inspected damaged parts of the parliament building in Ankara that were strafed by the coup plotters during last weekend’s violence.
According to the authorities, 10,410 people have been detained — mainly soldiers, including 283 Presidential Guard officers, but also police, judges and civil servants. Of these, 4,500 have been formally placed under arrest.
Prosecutors said Turkey had set free 1,200 soldiers, all privates, detained in Ankara after the military coup, as authorities were seeking to swiftly sort out those who had fired on the people from those who did not.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/24/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
#1
We could have at least sent a card. Congrats on Your New Purge or something.
#2
He had some quote that went ... Ride the train to democracy and change to Islam. Something like that.
His plan seems to have worked out. The Turks are willing victims.
[BBC] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has detained the nephew of US-based holy man Fethullah Gulen, in connection with the failed coup attempt, state media report.
Muhammet Sait Gulen will be taken to the capital, Ankara, from Erzurum, the eastern region where his uncle was born, the Anadolu news agency says.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... blames the coup attempt on Mr Gulen.
Earlier, the president extended the period in which suspects can be detained without charge to 30 days.
A statement carried by state media also ordered the closure of more than 1,000 private schools and more than 1,200 associations.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/24/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that the presidential guard regiment will be disbanded, Anadolu reported.
"There will not be any presidential guard as we do not need it any more," the agency said citing the prime minister as saying.
At least 246 people, excluding members of the security forces and civilians, were martyred and more than 2,100 others were wounded as they protested the coup attempt.
Posted by: Steve White ||
07/24/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
probably they will replace the Presidential Guard with a more heavily armed group and call it something else
Posted by: lord garth ||
07/24/2016 14:45 Comments ||
Top||
#2
"The Sultan's Own", with historically correct xylophones in the marching band.
[Clarion Project] Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s newly-announced running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, has a history of embracing Islamists. He appointed a Hamas supporter to a state immigration commission; spoke at a dinner honoring a Muslim Brotherhood terror suspect and received donations from well-known Islamist groups.
Appointing a Muslim Brotherhood Front Leader Who Supports Hamas
In 2007, Kaine was the Governor of Virginia and, of all people chose Muslim American Society (MAS) President Esam Omeish to the state’s Immigration Commission. A Muslim organization against Islamism criticized the appointment and reckless lack of vetting.
Federal prosecutors said in a 2008 court filing that MAS was "founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America." A Chicago Tribune investigation in 2004 confirmed this, as well as MAS’ crafty use of deceptive semantics to appear moderate. Convicted terrorist and admitted U.S. Muslim Brotherhood member Abdurrahman Alamoudi testified in 2012, "Everyone knows that MAS is the Muslim Brotherhood."
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/24/2016 11:29 Comments ||
Top||
#4
trailing wife Abedin was raised in Jeddah, KSA. Maybe one parent is from Iran and one from Pakistan, but she is most likely Sunni.
Kaine is an idiot - so incompetent that he shut down Virginia's rest areas on the highways. Kaine and Obama campaigned for his hand-picked successor Creigh Deeds - who was thumped in the next governors election as push back against Kaine's failures. Kaine was helped into the senate during the 2012 presidential election cycle...not sure he is too popular amongst most Virginians.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
07/24/2016 12:03 Comments ||
Top||
#6
Good to know, Tennessee. I wonder why she picked him -- perhaps because as a former governor he has some idea of how governing is done, however poorly.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Friday summoned a director general (DG) of foreign ministry to brief the court on the efforts the ministry had made with regard to the production of 24 Indian prosecution witnesses in Mumbai attack case.
ATC judge Sohail Ikram ordered the DG of South Asia Desk to appear in court on July 27.
During the hearing, the ATC judge asked the FIA officials about their progress on procuring the attendance of Indian witnesses.
The FIA officials informed the court that they could not directly interact with the Indian High Commission for summoning of witnesses as it was South Asian Desk of the foreign affairs ministry’s job.
Earlier, Pakistain asked India to allow 24 witnesses in the case to appear before ATC in Islamabad in an effort to conclude the trial.
The Indian government was asked to send the witnesses to Pakistain to testify against the seven suspects, including the alleged criminal mastermind, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi ...an asset of the Pak govt and a big turban in Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is actually a redundant statement. Zak was the criminal mastermind behind the 2008 Mumbai attack. Despite what India's provided there is not enough evidence in this world for a Pak court to convict him or even to keep him in the calaboose for very long... The ATC has been trying Lakhvi and the other suspects including Abdul Wajid, Mazhar Iqbal, Hammad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jameel Riaz, Jamil Ahmed and Younus Anjum since 2009.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/24/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan
[DAWN] Indian Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj on Saturday said Pakistain's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... must know that "Kashmire can never become a part of Pakistain".
"Whole India wants to tell Pak premier in one voice that his and Pakistain's dream (of making Kashmire its part) will never come true," Swaraj said during a presser.
The Indian minister also accused Pakistain of backing bully boyz with the help of UN designated hard boyz and notorious figures like Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... , in order to turn the valley into a living hell.
"The Pak PM says his prayers are with people of Kashmire. I must remind him that Pakistain has never prayed for the people of the valley but has given them pain in the form of terrorism," said Swaraj.
She also condemned Nawaz Sharif's condemnation of separatist commander Burhan Wani's murder and asked him why he described Wani as a martyr despite knowing that he was a part of the 'terrorist group' Hizbul Mujahideen.
Nawaz Sharif, while addressing a public gathering on Friday after his party's victory in Azad Jammu and Kashmire (Pakistain administered part of Kashmire) elections, said: "We are waiting for the day Kashmire becomes Pakistain."
"Their movement for freedom cannot be stopped and it will be successful. You are aware of how they are being beaten and killed. All our prayers are with them and we are waiting for the day Kashmire becomes Pakistain," Nawaz had said.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/24/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraq’s prime minister is seeking to speed up the implementation of death sentences, his office said Saturday, despite persistent concerns over flaws in the judicial system that hands them down.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered the formation of a committee "to determine the obstacles and causes that result in the delay in the implementation of death sentences," a statement said.
The committee is to make recommendations to "speed up the ratification of those sentences and their implementation," it said.
Iraq has for years faced widespread criticism from diplomats, analysts and human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... groups who have said that, due to a flawed justice system, those being executed are not necessarily guilty of the crimes for which they were sentenced to die.
Following a bombing in Baghdad that killed nearly 300 people earlier this month, the justice ministry announced that five people had been put to death in a statement linking the timing of the executions with the blast.
Rights group Amnesia Amnesty International subsequently repeated calls for a halt to executions in the country, saying that more than 100 had been carried out so far in Iraq this year.
"Amnesia Amnesty International has repeatedly called on the Iraqi government to halt executions," it said.
"Death sentences are frequently handed out by courts following grossly unfair trials marred by the use of ’confessions’ extracted under torture," Amnesty said.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/24/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq
Fundamentally transformed, even if nothing visible comes from it.
[IsraelTimes] A retired Saudi general visited Israel this week, heading a delegation of academics and businessmen seeking to encourage discussion of the Saudi-led Arab Peace Initiative.
According to a report in the Haaretz daily, the delegation led by Dr. Anwar Eshki met with Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai, and several Knesset members from the opposition.
Such a visit by former general Eshki, who was once a top adviser to the Saudi government, is an extremely rare occurrence. "While this wasn’t an official visit, it was a highly unusual one, as Eshki couldn’t have traveled to Israel without approval from the Saudi government," the newspaper report said.
Continued on Page 49
#1
....This actually has some significance, though not sure how much. A Saudi isn't going to make General unless he has some serious sponsorship in high places, and even after he retires he's not going to risk losing it. So it's reasonable to assume he's there with the blessing of the House of Saud...
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
07/24/2016 11:16 Comments ||
Top||
#2
The usual sticking point is the fate of the "Palestinian refugees". If they are defined to be those who actually resided in Palestine before the creation of Israel and who fled (and who are therefore at least 68 years old, 89 if they were adults at the time) a resolution of it is possible. If it is defined to include all their descendants no resolution is possible.
#4
Good summation, Grins Snese4215. I seem to recall that the House is working on a bill to define Palestinian refugees as only the generation that fled in 1948.
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.
[AlAhram] Beni Suef security directorate facilitated a reconciliation between 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The anti-terrorism proposals of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump make him the better option for Europe and Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Saturday.
Hillary Clinton
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A passenger who allegedly had an Isis flag tattooed on his arm was removed from a Norwegian flight to Greece.
[Clarion Project] Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s newly-announced running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, has a history of embracing Islamists. He appointed a Hamas supporter to a state immigration commission; spoke at a dinner honoring a Muslim Brotherhood terror suspect and received donations from well-known Islamist groups.
