[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Joshua Boyle, 33, of Toronto, Canada and Caitlan Coleman, 31, from Pennsylvania were kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2012
In a video that surfaced Tuesday, the couple beg the Afghani government to stop executing Taliban prisoners
If the executions continue, the couple warns that they and other hostages will be killed
Coleman was seven months pregnant when she was captured
In a letter sent to her parents last year, she said she has since given birth to a second son with her husband
U.S. officials say they are aware of the video and are working to secure the family-of-four's release
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[NEWSWEEK] The interior minister of Somalia’s Jubbaland region has said that the state has blocked the repatriation of Somali refugees from Kenya due to inadequate humanitarian provisions.
More than 300,000 refugees are currently residing in a complex of refugee camps in Dadaab, a Kenyan town close to the Somali border, the vast majority of whom are Somalis.
The Kenyan government announced plans in May to shut down the camps, saying that they had become a hosting ground for members of Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , a Somali bully boy group that has launched several large-scale attacks in Kenya. Kenyan Interior Minister Joseph Nkaisserry said that the country aimed to move out 150,000 refugees from Dadaab by the end of 2016.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] When Saleh al-Abbas woke up with his brother to have breakfast with his children, the last thing on the father’s mind was how he would end the day in the hospital mourning the loss of his nephew and caring for his surviving son.
The boys - Mahdi, 9, and Yahya, 3, - were playing in the open corridors of their home in the border town of Najran, 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... on Saturday, when a militia rocket from Yemen
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[Dhaka Tribune] Neighbours of Kazi Fazle Rabbi, who was killed in a police raid in Narayanganj on Saturday morning, were not surprised to learn that he was a krazed killer and said he was radicalised in a neighbourhood mosque
"Rabbi left home in April, telling his sister that he was going to join jihad. He said he would meet his family on the Judgement Day," said Afzal Hossain Dodul, deputy commander of Muktijoddha Sangsad Jessore Sadar committee and a neighbour. "After he left, I helped his father in filing a general diary with police."
The Dhaka Tribune tried to contact Rabbi’s father Kazi Habibullah yesterday morning; after several attempts, he agreed to speak with this correspondent on the ground floor of his house, from behind a curtain.
"I learnt of my son’s death on Saturday evening. Write reports on him of you want, I don’t have a problem with that. But what about those who made my son a krazed killer? Why is the government not doing anything to catch them?" he said.
Asked if he would collect his son’s dead body, he said: "Of course, I will," before leaving abruptly.
Afzal said Rabbi would likely be buried at his ancestral village in Magura district.
The Dhaka Tribune also spoke to a number of people who live in the same locality as Rabbi’s family in Kismat Nawapara, Jessore Sadar upazila. All of them said Rabbi was shy and polite, but was not very social and did not mix with other boys his age in the neighbourhood.
"Rabbi was a recluse and was always using his laptop. Whenever his parents entered his room, he promptly shut it down. Different jihadi books were found in his house, which were destroyed by his father," said Moshiar Rahman, the family’s neighbour.
"The only person he was visibly friendly with was the imam at the local mosque, Md Yahiya. Yahiya tried to radicalise a number of local boys, but Rabbi was the only one to fall into the trap," said local resident Shafiul Alam.
When locals discovered Yahiya’s militancy recruitment, they threw him out of the mosque.
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the way the Dhaka Tribune writes the headline, a casual reader might think it was a Jewish Jihad
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[IsraelTimes] As refugees continue to flow into the country, new poll shows 50% of Germans oppose a fourth term for Merkel
Germany expects up to 300,000 asylum seekers to arrive this year, less than one-third of the total during 2015’s record influx, the Federal Office for Moslem colonists Migrants and Refugees (BAMF) said Sunday.
BAMF chief Frank-Juergen Weise told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that Germany’s healthy economy and improvements to refugee services over the last year meant that the country was well-placed to absorb new arrivals, particularly as their numbers have dropped off.
"We are preparing for between 250,000 and 300,000 refugees this year," he said.
"We can ensure optimal services for up to 300,000. Should more people arrive, it would put us under pressure, then we would go into so-called crisis mode. But even then we would not have conditions like last year."
Weise said his agency had made major strides in working through a large backlog in asylum claims but that it would not manage to clear the remaining 530,000 cases by the end of the year.
Nearly 1.1 million asylum seekers arrived in Germany, Europe’s top economic power, last year, putting enormous strain on the country’s bureaucracy to process claims and testing confidence in Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... ’s right-left coalition government.
The closure of the so-called Balkan migrant trail and a controversial European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... deal with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to keep migrants colonists from reaching Greece -- a main entry point into the bloc -- has driven down arrivals from the Middle East and Afghanistan.
Weise said his agency had made major strides in working through a large backlog in asylum claims but that it would not manage to clear the remaining 530,000 cases by the end of the year.
He said integrating those allowed to stay in Germany into the labor market would be a "lengthy and costly" process.
Weise was nevertheless upbeat about the long-term prospects.
"We can do it," he said, echoing Merkel’s rallying cry during the crisis.
"A lot of what was going badly in the beginning (one year ago) we’ve eventually managed to do pretty well. And the economy in Germany is so good, thank god, that we can afford it."
Public sentiment is nevertheless sharply divided when it comes to Merkel, who has not yet said whether she will stand for a fourth term in a general election expected next September or October.
Bild am Sonntag cited a poll by independent opinion research group Emnid showing 50 percent of respondents opposed another four-year term for Merkel, while 42% said they wanted her to stay in office.
[REUTERS] Germany and other European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... countries turned a blind eye to the refugee crisis building on its external borders for too long, Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... said in a German newspaper interview to be published on Wednesday.
Merkel, who has faced criticism in Germany for launching her policies of welcoming refugees a year ago, also told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung that Germany and the EU will need patience and endurance in dealing with migration of people to Europe.
"There are political issues that one can see coming but don't really register with people at that certain moment - and in Germany we ignored both the problem for too long and blocked out the need to find a pan-European solution," she said.
Merkel made the comments in an unusually self-critical analysis that appeared to be timed to the one-year anniversary on Wednesday of her now-famous statement "wir schaffen das", or "we can do this", when asked about the rising tide of refugees.
Her conservative party is expected to take a beating in two regional elections next month in part due to her refugee policies.
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In other words, "I'm not changing a damn thing, get over it."
A US Appeals Court on Wednesday threw out a historic $655.5 million judgment against the Palestinian Authority after it had been found liable to a group of American families who accused them of supporting terrorist attacks in Israel. Israeli law center Shurat Hadin has confirmed that they will appeal the decision.
PLO Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi stated that "the fact that the appeals court threw it out means that there is justice, finally."
She added that Shurat Hadin is "an abhorrent organization, really vicious and full of hate."
The Second US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said a lower court judge was mistaken in concluding he had jurisdiction over the PA and ordered that the lawsuit be dismissed. Well, OK. Just don't be surprised when IDF employs its "jurisdiction over the PA".
[REUTERS] A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday rejected a challenge by the alleged criminal mastermind in the bombing of a U.S. ship in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... in his upcoming trial before a military tribunal.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against Saudi defendant Abd al Rahim al Nashiri on a 2-1 vote.
Nashiri, a detainee at the U.S. naval facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is accused of overseeing a plan by myrmidon Islamic group al Qaeda to ram a boat full of explosives into the side of the U.S. guided-missile destroyer Cole off Yemen in 2000. Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed in the blast that tore a huge hole in the ship. He has also been linked with an attack on a French ship and an attempted attack on a second U.S. vessel.
His lawyers challenged whether the U.S. military commission had jurisdiction to hear his case. The lawyers argue that the United States was not engaged in "hostilities" with al Qaeda at the time of the attacks, meaning his acts were not crimes of war.
Writing for the court, Judge Thomas Griffith said Nashiri had to wait until after the trial to renew his claims because court precedent urges judges not to intervene in ongoing military legal proceedings.
Judge David Tatel wrote a dissenting opinion saying the court should have considered Nashiri's case now, citing the "extraordinary and unusual circumstances," including the allegation that he was subject to "years of brutal detention and interrogation tactics."
Nashiri was captured in October 2002 and has been in U.S. custody since then. He was at one point kept at so-called Central Intelligence Agency "black sites" where he was interrogated, according to his testimony. He has been detained at the Guantanamo facility since 2006.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Pakistain needs to join other nations in fighting gunnies within its borders, 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... urged on Tuesday, saying Islamabad should not feel isolated by talks between the United States, India and Afghanistan next month in New York.
Kerry announced the Afghanistan initiative on a visit to New Delhi for the annual US-India strategic dialogue. His show of support for his Indian hosts marked a change from Washington’s usual neutrality regarding India and Pakistain, South Asia’s two nuclear-armed antagonists.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An International human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... group says Iraqi militias are recruiting children from camps for civilians displaced by conflict ahead of the long-awaited operation to retake bad boy-held djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... 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.... said Tuesday, citing testimony from witnesses and relatives, that two tribal militias in the Kurdish region of Iraq recruited children from a camp south of Irbil and drove them away to a town near Mosul.
The group said the recruits are intended to reinforce frontline positions in Nineveh province, where Mosul is located.
Iraq’s prime minister has pledged that Mosul will be retaken from ISIS this year. After a string of territorial defeats over the past year, Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, is the last major urban territory ISIS holds in the country.
"The recruitment of children as fighters for the Mosul operation should be a warning sign for the Iraqi government," said Bill Van Esveld, senior children’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. "The government and its foreign allies need to take action now, or children are going to be fighting on both sides in Mosul."
Human Rights Watch has documented that ISIS has extensively recruited and deployed children in its forces.
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[IsraelTimes] Senior terror group leader says HQ operating in moderate North African country with Tunis’s blessing
Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, recently opened up official offices in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, a big shot from the terror group revealed on Sunday.
Moussa Abu Marzouk told the Tunisian news channel el-Bilad that Hamas has "new-old" offices in Tunis, publicly acknowledging the headquarters for the first time.
The Hamas leader said the offices were opened with the blessing of the Tunisian authorities. He did not specify when the offices were opened.
The Islamist terror group kept its main offices in Damascus until 2012, when war and political upheaval forced the group’s politicianship to move to 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... . Hamas also keeps official offices in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
...though Turkey made promises about what they would be permitted to do there.
After a late December 2011 visit to Tunisia by then-Paleostinian prime minister in GazooIsmail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , rumors swirled that Hamas might open an office in Tunis -- where the exiled secular Paleostinian leadership of the PLO -- led by Yasser Arafat -- were once based through most of the 1980s and early 1990s.
Widely viewed as the most liberal of Arab states, Tunisia began cooperating diplomatically with Israel in 1994, and two years later the two countries opened mutual representative offices. Tunisia shut its Tel Aviv office in 2000, however, following the outbreak of the Second Intifada.
A popular uprising that began in Tunisia in late 2010 further exacerbated the hostility on the street toward the Jewish state, and after the ouster of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in early 2011, calls for criminalizing ties with Israel abounded.
Tunisia is considered the rare success story of the Arab Spring, wherein the toppling of a long-time dictator has produced a series of democratic elections in relative peace. Tunisia’s largest Islamist party Ennahda ditched the term "Islamist" in May in a move seen as highlighting the success story of Tunisian politics.
The country still continues to be burdened by high unemployment and two attacks that targeted tourists last year have added more stress to the economy.
[NEWSINFO.INQUIRER.NET] A Catholic bishop expressed his disdain over the Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... ’s beheading of its 18-year-old captive.
Radyo Inquirer 990 AM reported that Basilan ...Basilan is a rugged, jungle-covered island in the southern Philippines. It is a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, bandidos, and maybe even orcs. Most people with any sense travel with armed escorts... -based prelate Martin Jumoad angrily condemned the Islamist group for decapitating Patrick Almodovar last week, after his family failed to come up with the P1 million ransom money.
Jumoad insisted that the military should aggressively pursue the perpetrators whom he labelled as "terrorists."
The bishop even said he would understand the need for bloodshed as means for self-defense in case members of the Abu Sayyaf refuse to willingly give themselves up and instead resort to violence.
Jumoad said that terrorism has been a major problem in the country since 1990, and added that he hopes that the military would follow President Rodrigo Duterte’s order "to kill" and "destroy" the bandit group.
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[IsraelTimes] Power plants, worth $10 billion, to be built by Russia in southern port city of Bushehr, in addition to already operational facility
Iran said Sunday that it will soon start construction on two nuclear plants in the country, as part of a deal with Russia announced two years ago called Bushehr Phase II.
The two additional plants are also set to be built in the port city of Bushehr in southern Iran in additional to the one that is already operational. The Russian-built plant was completed in 2011.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Britannia and La Belle France called Tuesday for United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... sanctions to be imposed on Syria after a UN-led investigation found the regime had carried out chemical attacks.
The UN ambassadors from London and Gay Paree described the use of chemical weapons against civilians as a war crime ahead of a council meeting to discuss the investigation’s findings.
"La Belle France favors a quick and strong Security Council response," said French Ambassador Francois Delattre.
This would provide for "imposing sanctions on those who are responsible for these acts, which are constitutive of war crimes and crimes against humanity," he told news hounds.
US Ambassador Samantha Power did not specify what measures should be taken, but called on the Security Council to act swiftly to ensure those responsible for using chemical weapons "pay a price."
An investigative panel set up by the Security Council said in a report last week that Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... ’s forces had carried out at least two chemical attacks, one in 2014 and one in 2015.
Previous reports from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had concluded that toxic gases have been used as weapons in Syria’s five-year war, but stopped short of identifying the perpetrators.
The panel of inquiry, known as the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM), for the first time pointed the finger of blame at the Assad regime for chemical weapons use after years of denial from Damascus.
British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said the council will be "looking at the imposition of sanctions and some form of accountability within international legal mechanisms."
Rycroft said it was "essential that we have a robust international response" to impose "measures under chapter 7" of the UN charter, which provides for sanctions.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] A Syrian negotiator between the so-called Hezbollah party in Leb and Libya’s former leader Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... told Asharq Al-Awsat that the party was preparing a deal with Libya to receive $200 million, weapons and an apology in exchange of closing the file of Cleric Musa Sadr.
The Syrian figure said he had met with Qadaffy in 2004. During the meeting, the source said Qadaffy had asked him to speak with "Hezbollah" in a bid to solve the Sadr case. He said Qadaffy’s fears were mostly related to the security of his family members and their desire to travel to Leb to spend their vacations. One of Qadaffy’s sons, Hannibal, had even married Lebanese supermodel Aline Skaff in 2003.
The Syrian figure was able to convey Qadaffy’s proposition to "Hezbollah" due to his close relationship with the party’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and one of his closest aids, Hajj Hussein Khalil.
"I was tasked to engineer the deal, particularly the financial part, which did not constitute any burden to Qadaffy, whatever the sum was," the Syrian negotiator said.
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[Ynet] A British man has identified his son, JoJo, as the British boy seen recently executing a shackled Kurd along with four other young boys; he says that JoJo was taken by his mother to Syria three years ago.
A British man claimed that, on watching an ISIS video, he identified his 12-year-old son murdering a Kurdish man in cold blood.
"JoJo was a completely normal boy who played in the park with his friends. I haven't seen him in over three years, and suddenly I identified him executing a man my age. I have no doubt that he's been through a serious brainwashing," said the father, a resident of Kent.
The 12-year-old JoJo, who has received the ISIS nickname of "the British Abu Hussein," is seen in the execution video wearing a camouflage uniform and brandishing a gun that he points at his shackled victim. Alongside him in the video are four other young boys about his age from Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Egypt and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... who are executing their own Kurdish victims.
The blue-eyed boy is seen yelling, "Allah akbar" and grinning after killing the man.
Three years ago, JoJo's mother, Sally Jones, converted to Islam and disappeared shortly thereafter. It turned out that she took her young son along with her to Syria. There, the 47-year-old Jones married a 20-year-old Pak who is believed to have been killed in a US drone strike last year.
JoJo's father, who fears for his life should his identity become public, said, "We have to find the boy and bring him to Britannia, treat him and save him."
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Yeah, bring him back to Britain, where he can treat and save the kaffirs. Not. He's permanently lost, another done strike is in order.
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.
[REUTERS] Germany and other 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
