[Daily News] She told the Columbia Spectator that she was ashamed and embarrassed, and did not report the incident until after she met two other women who were allegedly assaulted by the same student. Call? No he never called. Why do you ask? Oh wait, this is my selfie with him going.... 'gasp' Oh wait, this is MY selfie with him going.... 'shriek' Oh wait! This is MY fok'n selfie with ....THAT RAT bastard ! The "rapist" was found "not responsible?" There's a whiff of mackerel about this performance art.
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Sandra Fluke protege. No room necessary. round heels
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Sulkowicz, who filed a police report against her alleged rapist on May 14, says the assault occurred at the beginning of her sophomore year.
She told the Columbia Spectator that she was ashamed and embarrassed, and did not report the incident until after she met two other women who were allegedly assaulted by the same student.
In April 2013, Sulkowicz filed a complaint with Columbia regarding her assault, but she said her alleged rapist was found “not responsible.” She says the same was true in the other two complaints.
so, she filed the report nearly two years later, has filed two other complaints and the college (which is under tremendous pressure to shame and convict accused males - without due process) declines? Her story sucks
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In a true democracy, each citizen's word is no more and no less valid than the other in an accusation. To shift the balance of claim, one must offer other proof or corroborating testimonies. In the absence of such, there is no basis to convict. In the child like fantasy world (unfortunately apparently overcoming academia), one's word is more value than another. In other words, some are more equal than others. It's called privilege. Cue the Salem Witch Trials (coming to a campus near you).
Three people were killed and nine injured when a Libyan war plane crashed on Tuesday in a residential part of the eastern city of Tobruk, residents and medics said, Reuters reported.
The plane went down around one km (0.6 miles) from the seat of the country's elected parliament. The crash happened during a military event to honor the pilot of another war plane that had crashed last week, residents said.
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[ARABNEWS] The Yemeni president on Tuesday dismissed the Cabinet including the prime minister who led it for two years, while partially reversing an earlier decision to lift fuel subsidies in a bid to end a standoff with Iranian catspaws holding anti-government protests across the country.
Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi made his decision during a meeting with the now outgoing government, representatives of political parties and parliament members, the official news agency SABA reported. The decisions came in response to an "initiative" submitted by a presidential committee formed by Hadi to examine peaceful resolutions for the Yemeni crisis.
"The nation is passing through tough times," the agency reported Hadi as saying during the meeting. "It is standing at a crossroads: either walk the path of life, development, and a new Yemen, or chaos, lawlessness and the unknown."
Hadi pledged to represent the interests of the Yemeni people as a whole and not privilege particular factions or groups. He said he would appoint a new prime minister within a week, after which political parties will nominate Cabinet ministers from their own ranks. Hadi will appoint defense, interior, finance and foreign ministers, SABA said.
Rebel front man Mohammed Abdel-Salam said his group rejected the move and would continue to pressure the government. "We are not giving in ... but we will also not shut the door to dialogue."
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[Iran Press TV] British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has acknowledged that seizing the passports of suspected ISIL turbans returning from Iraq and Syria could be in violation of international law. Oh, tut tut! Not International Law?
"At the moment, it is not obvious what one can do that is consistent with our legal obligations," Clegg said on Tuesday.
He said it was not obvious how Britannia could withdraw passports from suspected turbans and remain inside the international law.
The deputy premier also said that although the idea was unlikely to work, its legality was would be examined.
Perhaps you could just declare them to be outlaws? Or put a restriction on their passports such that they have to check in at the nearest embassy (to be greeted by the SAS)? I'm being creative here -- more so than you are, Nick...
"We are not going to do something which flouts international and domestic law. Of course we can't do that. We must act within the law," the deputy prime minister said.
The UK government has been examining the possibility of withdrawing citizenship from suspected bully boys.
This comes a day after British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... announced a new package of anti-terror measures.
Under the new measures, British police will be allowed to temporarily seize the passports of the people suspected of traveling to Iraq and Syria to fight along the ISIL bully boys, and to increase air travel checks.
The government's proposals also say suspects in the UK must be subjected to "stronger locational constraints," which will either force them to move to a new area or be excluded from certain parts of the country.
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He said it was not obvious how Britannia could withdraw passports from suspected turbans and remain inside the international law.
Sure it is - you could say 'fuck that noise' and do what's best for Britain, but that would be simplisme cowboy posturing, amirite?
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Then just shoot them on sight. Lots of countries take that approach, and "international law" never seems to apply to them.
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Go back to the old Medieval status of 'outlaw' which means they lose the protection of the crown and the king's law. They live amongst the population at their own risk.
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Nick Clegg has acknowledged that seizing the passports of suspected ISIL turbans returning from Iraq and Syria could be in violation of international law.
Declare them enemy combatants who want to invade UK. Or label them spies.
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I don't understand the problem here if we are sincerely putting on our pointy noses.
ISJV is not a recognized international government. Fighting with or assisting ISJV is conducting violence against uniformed soldiers and civilians, therefore murder or accessory to murder, genocide.
Doesn't matter if the jihadi all stars cut them from the team, these people had the will to travel halfway across the world to die. They will then decide to do so wherever they come back to, if they are not already purposeful agents on missions.
Could just load them up on passenger jets and RC fly them back to ISJV. Fly them low and slow, paint them something offensive, like the battle standard of Don Juan or Jean Parisot de Valette.
[AnNahar] Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... announced tougher measures Monday against Britons planning to fight in Iraq and Syria, and battle-hardened jihadists who could return to launch attacks on home soil.
Cameron said his government would draw up measures to ban suspects who are British nationals from returning to the UK, while police will get enhanced powers to temporarily strip departing suspects of passports at the border.
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North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile from Jagang Province about 60 km from the border with China into the East Sea on Monday morning. It was the first launch from the area and comes at a time of deteriorating relations between Pyongyang and its sole ally.
"Around 10:30 a.m. Monday, the North suddenly fired a short-range projectile in an easterly direction from near Ryonglim, Jagang Province, without declaring no-fly or no-sail zones," a spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff here said.
The projectile flew some 220 km and fell into the East Sea near Kimchaek, North Hamgyong Province.
So once again they aimed at the ocean, and hit it...
It is believed to have been a new improved version of the KN-02 short-range missile or a Scud missile with a range of 300-500 km.
The missile was probably fired from a mobile launcher. Although there is an underground Rodong missile base in Ryonglim, that was not where missile was fired from, the spokesman said.
Military authorities are busy trying to find out why the North fired the missile at a time when inter-Korean relations are thawing after the close of the joint South Korea-U.S. military exercises and ahead of the Asian Games.
Because the authorities fail to realize that inter-Korean relations are not thawing at all...
It was the North's 18th missile launch this year alone.
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It was the North's 18th missile launch this year alone.
North Korea has allowed CNN to interview three Americans who have been detained there for unspecified crimes against the state. CNN aired the interviews with Kenneth Bae, Matthew Todd Miller and Jeffrey Edward Fowle on Monday.
Saddam was pretty good about giving CNN access to Baghdad back in the day...
"I've been going back and forth between hospital and to the labor camp for the last year and a half," Bae said in the interview. In the camp, he works eight hours a day, six days a week, doing agricultural work and other hard labor, he said.
But Bae told CNN's Will Ripley he is being treated humanely. He said he initially did not think he had done anything wrong but realized during his trial that he had violated the law. Bae, an evangelical Christian, was arrested for proselytizing in November 2012 and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.
The CNN crew were on a visit to Pyongyang at the regime's invitation and only realized that they would meet the detained Americans after they were taken to an unknown location, Ripley said.
Right. Sure. They were there to cover the North Korean cheerleading team when the opportunity just arose out of nowhere...
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Should have taken a page from ISIS and kept the CNN crew too.
[AnNahar] A French court Monday upheld a ban on a Moslem engineer from accessing nuclear sites, citing his links with jihadist networks but his lawyer said it was a case of Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
The 29-year-old working for a firm subcontracted by energy giant EDF had been granted access to nuclear installations as part of his job throughout 2012 and 2013.
But in March 2014 the man, who cannot be named according to French law, had his pass to enter the Nogent-sur-Seine nuclear power station revoked.
Officials said he had links with a jihadist terrorist group and that he was in touch with a holy man involved in recruiting youngsters to fight in Iraq.
A court in the north-eastern town of Chalons-en-Champagne upheld the ban saying the management could prevent those "undergoing a process of political and religious radicalization" from accessing sensitive sites.
The lawyer for the man cried foul and argued that his client had no police record.
"There is no proof of these supposed links," Sefen Guez Guez told Agence La Belle France-Presse, adding that he was looking at launching an appeal.
In June 2014, Guez Guez successfully had the ban revoked by an appeals court. But when the engineer turned up for work, he found he was once again refused access --- this time by EDF --- to his place of work and his lawyer appealed again.
La Belle France is home to some five million Moslems -- the largest population in western Europe.
Like a number of European countries, La Belle France has 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 radicalized young people leaving the country to fight in Iraq and Syria, and who could pose a risk to domestic security on their return.
According to official estimates, around 800 Frenchies or residents -- including several dozen women -- have traveled to Syria, returned from the conflict-ridden country or plan to go there.
[DAWN] A worker of Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz from Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth... has threatened to commit self-immolation if 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... is forced to resign. I was gonna do that when Romney lost, too, but I couldn't find a match.
"Our property case depends on stability of the government. If Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is forced to step down, my tribe will be unable to recover the land and I will commit self-immolation at Liaquat Bagh, Rawalpindi," Shehryar told journalists at 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. Press Club on Monday.
With a party flag around his neck and a bottle full of petrol on the table in front of him, the PML-N worker said that his family had a valuable land property worth millions of rupees in Bajuar Agency and Nawaz Sharif before coming into power had promised to help him in recovery of the land.
"We are waiting for the end of the sit-ins. The prime minister will help us get back our land. In case he is forced to step down, it will be a serious setback to my family and as result we all landowners will commit self-immolation," Mr Shehryar said.
The PML-N worker said that Nawaz Sharif was an elected prime minister and the demand of his resignation was wrong and undemocratic.
He said that the entire nation supported Nawaz Sharif to strengthen democracy and supremacy of the constitution in the country.
Criticising Pakistain Awami Tehrik chief Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... and 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.... chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... , he said
that the two leaders had nothing to do with the country's interests but they wanted to gain powers at any cost.
"I along with my family and relatives will commit self-immolation and the entire responsibility will rest with PTI and PAT leadership," Mr Shehryar said.
He added that PAT chief was a Canadian national, who was trying to ruin democracy by besieging parliament and national institutions with the help of few thousands people.
The PML-N worker demanded of the government to arrest Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri for what he called their unconstitutional and undemocratic step and lodge a case against them for attacking Parliament House and other national institutions during the sit-ins in Islamabad.
Mr Shehryar said that they would render any sacrifice for protection of democracy and supremacy of constitution.
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Another one might combust
Another one might combust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one might combust
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[DAWN] Another 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.... MPA tendered his resignation on Monday.
Jehanzeb Khichhi, who had been elected from PP-239 on a PTI ticket in the 2013 general election, accompanied Opposition Leader Mahmoodur Rashid when he came to submit his resignation to assembly secretary Rai Mumtaz Husain.
Speaker Rana Iqbal has not been attending his office for the last week.
The PTI had submitted resignations of 28 out of its 30 MPAs last Wednesday.
One of its MPAs, Nighat Intisar Bhatti, from Hafizabad, is presently abroad. Mr Rashid said she would tender her resignation on returning home.
He demanded the rulers should step down as a murder case had been registered against them. He claimed the Sharifs would have to face another case for resorting to "state terrorism ... any action taken by a non-Moslem state that constrains the violent impulses of Moslems or their allies ... in the red zone".
He demanded release of the PTI and PAT activists detained in various cop shoppes and prisons and threatened to lay a siege to the detention centres if the workers were not released immediately.
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[DAWN] The Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz has asked Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... to say goodbye to politics after a disclosure by his party president, Javed Hashmi.
In a statement issued here on Monday, Punjab Law Minister Rana Mashhood said 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.... President Javed Hashmi's revelations before the media that the PTI chief was working on someone other's agenda had exposed the real objectives of Imran Khan.
He said had the masses were with Mr Khan he would not have to seek support from other sources.
He demanded that Mr Khan should step down as PTI chief and retire from politics.
He said the PTI chief tried to defame the armed forces through a false propaganda that he had the support of the institution. The step, he said, came at a time when the military was fighting against Lions of Islam in North Wazoo.
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[DAWN] Hours after PTI's estranged President Javed Hashmi made explosive claims about a scripted plan to overthrow the government by using violent protests as a pretext, the military rejected assertions that the army and Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... (ISI) were backing 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.... (PTI) and Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) and were behind the current political standoff.
"Army is an apolitical institution and has expressed its unequivocal support for democracy at numerous occasions," the Inter-Services Public Relations said in a statement issued here on Monday.
It is unfortunate that the army has been dragged into such controversies. "Integrity and unity of the army is its strength which it upholds with pride," the ISPR said. The statement followed calls made by leading rights activists that the ISPR should clarify its position. And some analysts suggested an immediate reaction from the ISPR, a debate in parliament and a notice by the Supreme Court.
Talking to news hounds at the parliament house, Mr Hashmi quoted PTI Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... as having told him that "we cannot move forward without the army" and that the 'badge-bearers' wanted PTI protesters to move along with those of the PAT and march together on the Prime Minister's House.
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[DAWN] The mob that stormed the headquarters of Pakistain Television (PTV) was uncannily familiar with the inner workings of a TV station and made a bee-line for the station's Master Control Room (MCR) -- the nerve centre of the network's broadcast uplink facility.
They were also surprisingly familiar with the locations of key offices and the central newsroom and news studios located within the labyrinthine building of the state-broadcaster, which is a veritable maze for newcomers.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] "The bottom line is this: our objective is clear.
Every time he says something is clear that means he's about to flimflam us...
That is to degrade and destroy ISIL so that it is no longer a threat not just to Iraq but also to the region and to the United States," Mr. Obama said. "In order for us to accomplish that, the first phase has been to make sure we've got an Iraqi government in place and that we are blunting the momentum that ISIL was carrying out. And the Arclight airstrikes have done that. But now what we need to do is make sure we've got the regional strategy in place that can support an ongoing effort not just in the air but on the ground to move that forward."
The president also said the U.S. will seek to build an effective "regional coalition" capable of defeating the Islamic State, a well-armed, highly capable force that controls a nation-sized swathe of territory across Iraq and Syria and has slaughtered Christians and other religious minorities.
Translation: we're going to ally with Iran...
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seek to build an effective "regional coalition" capable of defeating the Islamic State, a well-armed, highly capable force that controls a nation-sized swathe of territory across Iraq and Syria and has slaughtered Christians and other religious minorities
Just like his despised predecessor, Boooosh.
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"The bottom line is this: our objective is clear. That is to degrade and destroy ISIL so that it is no longer a threat not just to Iraq but also to the region and to the United States,” Mr. Obama said. “In order for us to accomplish that, the first phase has been to make sure we’ve got an Iraqi government in place and that we are blunting the momentum that ISIL was carrying out. And the airstrikes have done that. But now what we need to do is make sure we’ve got the regional strategy in place that can support an ongoing effort not just in the air but on the ground to move that forward.”
A string of one-liners, delivered with the passion of chilled chickpeas.
I think I can come up with something like that:
The bottom line is this: These Barbarians and Destroyers have turned innocents into The Running Man. Have given the region a Raw Deal. I will issue a Total Recall of non-essential personelle...and we will be Commandos. And Terminators. We will no longer be Kindergarten Cops but Commandos. And Terminators. We will bring Judgement Day, The End of Days, we will bring Red Heat to their Last Action Hero, Baghdadi, until he is giving Tales from the Crypt.
Thank you. And Twins
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Being the good OWG Globalist that he is, the Bammer + SecState Jaawhn "Presidential" Kerry desire to see a [IRAN-led?]Regional Coalition of the Willing fight the ISIS + related Qaeda Boyz, widout need of major US intervention outside of light TacAir, CIA, + of course SPECOPS.
Ditto vee PUTINIST RUSSIA + ultimately CHINA in East Asia-Pacific.
* CNN > [SecDef Chuck H.] HAGEL: NO NEW US GROUND INVASION OF IRAQ.
IMO safe to say ditto for Globalist Obama vee Baby Assad in Syria.
AFAIK the Bammer hasn't even started bombing the ISIS/ISIL Boyz + aligned in Syria.
President Obama was given detailed and specific intelligence about the rise of the Islamic State as part of his daily briefing for at least a year before the group seized large swaths of territory over the summer, a former Pentagon official told Fox News.
Where did the briefing take place -- 19th hole?
The official -- who asked not to be identified because the President's Daily Brief is considered the most authoritative, classified intelligence community product analyzing sensitive international events for the president -- said the data was strong and "granular" in detail.
The source said a policymaker "could not come away with any other impression: This is getting bad."
Obama, unlike his predecessors who traditionally had the document briefed to them, is known to personally read the daily brief. The former Pentagon official, who has knowledge of the process, said Obama generally was not known to come back to the intelligence community with further requests for information based on the daily report.
The claims come as the Obama administration continues to launch airstrikes against Islamic State targets in northern Iraq and weighs whether to expand that campaign, particularly into Syria.
Right call to do air strikes. We owe the Iraqis that. Perhaps the new prime minister will, in 2017, negotiate a new status of forces agreement with President Palin...
The president's team has publicly suggested that the group only recently gained in strength, accounting for why Obama earlier this year dismissed such extremists as akin to a "jayvee" team.
But after suggestions that the administration may have been blindsided by the rise of ISIS, and that poor intelligence was to blame, the former Pentagon official said some of the intelligence was so good in the region, that when the president drew a red line on chemical weapons use in Syria in 2012, the information was "exquisite."
The source said "[we] were ready to fire, on a moment's notice, on a couple hundred targets," but no order was given. In some cases, targets were tracked for a "long period of time" but then slipped away.
The source also claimed that there was a delay regarding the question of whether to act to save American journalist James Foley from Islamic State militants. The Sunday Times of London first reported that the delay was 30 days. The former Pentagon official described a White House that was hesitant and continually asking for "the intelligence to build up more."
At the time, Fox News is told that a large, heavily armed compound, believed to be housing Foley, and other potential captives, was identified near the ISIS stronghold of Raqaa, Syria.
The Obama administration confirmed, after a video of Foley's execution was posted online, that the U.S. ultimately launched a failed effort to rescue the hostage journalist.
Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said last month, regarding Foley's capture and execution, that "we have done everything that we can possibly do to try to bring home our hostages."
He added: "It's an incredibly difficult circumstance in a place like Syria, again, where you have such a violent conflict raging. But we've used all of our military, intelligence, diplomatic resources that we can bring to bear to try to pull a thread to find out where our hostages are; to try to rescue them when we saw an opportunity; to try to work with any country that might have any means of locating them. And tragically, we weren't able to rescue Mr. Foley."
The National Security Council has not yet responded to a request for comment.
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Headded: "It's an incredibly difficult circumstance
...and "messy" as well, all those unattached heads rolling around. Who could have imagined. Can't anyone find the moderates? Someone tell Valjar I'm going out for a walk and a pee.
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Three times now i bave read that Champ took the briefing "electronically" which i assume means via computer and that he read it "personally" rather than a briefer hitting key points.
Why do i think he rarely actually read it or did more than skim?
After all, he already knows everything he needs to.
Israel will sign a deal to supply natural gas from its Leviathan field to Jordan for 15 years, Israeli Energy Minister Silvan Shalom said on Wednesday. Shalom said the agreement comes after many meetings with Jordanian officials but gave no other details.
An industry official who asked not to be identified said the deal was worth about $15 billion. btw - this is more of a WOT economics but we don't have a category for that
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Q: Why did the Israelites wander in the wilderness for 40 years?
A: It took them that long to find somewhere in the Middle East with no petroleum.
So much for that old joke Ah well, time moves one and the world changes.
[IsraelTimes] A drone downed by the Israeli military over the country's northern border on Sunday was an Iranian "Yasir" UAV, officials said Monday night, according to Channel 2.
The aircraft was reportedly shot down by a Patriot missile and later recovered by security forces.
Channel 2 said the drone, first introduced in September 2013, has a range of 200 kilometers (125 miles) and can fly at an altitude of 1.5km (1 mile) for approximately 8 hours without refuelling.
The unmanned aircraft entered the country from Syria on Sunday near an area that has seen heavy festivities between Syrian troops and rebels forces, the IDF said.
The drone was hit with a Patriot missile as it flew near Quneitra, the Syrian town that has been the stage for fighting between rebels and regime forces in recent days.
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon praised the army's swift response, which he said was "admirable," and warned that Israel would not tolerate any attacks on its troops, "whether intentional or unintentional."
There have been several cases of cross-border fire from the Syrian fighting over the past several days, with the Israeli army hitting back in some cases.
Israel has shot down a number of drones sent into the country over the past years.
Last month, during Operation Protective Edge, an unmanned aircraft launched from the Gazoo Strip was shot down by Israel as it penetrated Israeli airspace over the coast near Ashdod.
The drone set off air raid sirens in the city before it was downed by a Patriot surface-to-air missile launched from a location near the center of the country.
[IsraelTimes] On Sunday, Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... gathered his advisers at his Muqata'a headquarters in Ramallah ahead of a planned visit by his chief negotiator Saeb Erekat ...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state... and intelligence chief Majed Faraj to the US. The negotiators are set to meet next week with 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... and present him with Abbas's new diplomatic proposal.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the meeting also reviewed the tense relations between the PA and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, strains that have most certainly continued even after the cessation of the 50-day conflict in the Gazoo Strip. It has become clear to the Paleostinian leader and those close to him that, despite the pleasantries heard from Hamas leaders praising Paleostinian unity and reconciliation, words and actions are two different things.
Even at the height of the Israel-Hamas conflict, Hamas security forces continued to crack down on Fatah activists in Gazoo. There were arrests, knee-cappings of Fatah members, and even executions of "suspected collaborators" -- at least some of whom were Fatah people who had been languishing in Hamas prisons for the past six years. In addition, over the weekend, Hamas members prevented the planned opening of offices for five Abbas "governors" who had been appointed on the eve of the conflict as part of an effort by the PA leader to show that he has some authority in the coastal enclave.
The PA hasn't been idle either. In the past two days, the PA security services, the general intelligence service, and the preventative security force, have carried out a wave of arrests of Hamas operatives across the West Bank.
In other words, it's business as usual between Fatah and Hamas: The Gazoo conflict against Israel may have ended, but the conflict between the two Paleostinian organizations rolls on.
And this rivalry now threatens to paralyze rehabilitation efforts in the Gazoo Strip. Those close to Abbas say that he is not prepared to play along with Hamas's duplicitous games. He's not prepared to tolerate Hamas's talk of unity on the one hand and its efforts to hinder the work of the PA unity government on the other.
The Paleostinian leader has appointed a committee, composed of five Fatah leaders, that is supposed to negotiate with Hamas leaders on the next steps for Gazoo. One of the principles that the committee will demand is freedom of activity for PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah's ostensibly Fatah- and Hamas-backed government to operate in Gazoo, and an end to the attacks on Fatah personnel there. The Abbas representatives will make it clear that if those conditions are not met there will be no wages paid to Hamas officials and responsibility for rehabilitation of Gazoo will fall on Hamas's shoulders alone.
Which means no rebuilding, as Egypt has made it clear it will only deal with the PA.
But Hamas, it can assumed, will be in no hurry to give up its control of Gazoo and clear the stage for Abbas's people.
While grappling with the tensions with Hamas, the Paleostinian leader simultaneously intends to renew the diplomatic pressure on Israel. His peace plan, which he is set to submit for Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... approval by the end of this week, envisions filing a request with the Americans in the coming days to pressure Israel to present a map of a future Paleostinian state as the basis for substantive negotiations. After Israel presents the map, Abbas's plan calls for a firm timetable to be laid down for a gradual Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and the establishment of a Paleostinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
If Israel refuses his plan, or refrains from responding, the Paleostine Liberation Organization intends, within three months, to seek a UN Security Council resolution that recognizes the establishment of a Paleostinian state on the 1967 lines.
The Paleostinians, expecting the US to veto any such resolution, intend to then approach the General Assembly with the same request. After that, the PLO will seek to join international bodies and organizations, and then to campaign to have Paleostine recognized as a nation under occupation according to the Geneva Conventions.
The final phase of Abbas's ambitious plan is to halt joint security operations with Israel, so central to the recent relative calm in the West Bank, and hand over all responsibility for rule in Paleostinian cities to the IDF.
Going limp? An interesting concept. Especially as it means giving up tapping donation flows...
PA sources note that no one is talking about declaredly disbanding the PA, but in practice it will cease to function.
Ending joint security operations is still a long way off and, at this stage, there could yet be changes, developments, and restructuring of the Abbas plan. But, for Abbas and his close confidants, matters are clear: Israel has until the end of the calendar year to decide whether or not it intends to present a map of the future Paleostine. If the answer is negative, a diplomatic confrontation between the PA and Israel will be unavoidable, and will also lead to the cessation of the joint security apparatus.
[Iran Press TV] Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says violence and extremism are threats to the entire world, urging close cooperation and dialog among countries to fight these threats.
"Countries should have more close cooperation [in fighting extremism] and if there is a disagreement, the best solution is negotiations," Rouhani said in a meeting with Lithuania's new Ambassador to Tehran Kestutis Kujmanas on Tuesday.
He criticized the use of military approaches against civilians and said, "Peace requires collective will and process."
Rouhani added that Iran is keen to expand relations with Lithuania in all fields and noted that the presence of Lithuanian businessmen in the Islamic Theocratic Republic would prepare a very appropriate ground for enhanced trade and economic cooperation between the two countries.
Iran and Lithuania can also bolster political cooperation to find ways to resolve regional and international problems, Rouhani added.
The Iranian president pointed to growing insecurity in the region and noted that the ongoing developments in Ukraine and terrorism in Iraq and Syria are among issues of common concern.
The Lithuanian envoy, who submitted his credentials to President Rouhani, said for his part that security is beneficial to all regional countries.
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As per CNN this tropical Guam AM = "ISIS WON'T RECEDE FROM THE WORLD.
Again, iff there is going to be any so-called "New Cold War" taking place, IMO IT WILL BE NORTH-VS-SOUTH, NOT WEST-VS-EAST, WID THE ISIS CALIPHATE SMACK ON THE CENTERLINE = EQUATORIAL LINE = "DMZ".
IMO again the true threat from the ISIS is, besides its influence on the future US Convert to Islam or Radical Islam known as the "MAHDI/HIDDEN IMAM, is its influence in the ME, particularly vee "Mahanist", future OWG Co-Superpower RISING IRAN + NEO-OTTOMAN WANNABE SECULAR TURKEY.
[Iran Press TV] The ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Lions of Islam are reportedly preparing for a major attack in the eastern Syrian province of Dayr al-Zawr to take control of an air base.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday that the bully boyz were mobilizing as civilians beat feet from the nearby villages.
Some 1,500 Syrian soldiers are stationed at the airbase in Dayr al-Zawr, which is used by the Syrian air force for operations against ISIL positions in the province.
A number of bully boyz were killed by Syrian soldiers in the quiet provincial capital over the past week.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco... the Syrian army troops were closing in on the bully boyz near the al-Tim oil field.
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Might be a good time for an Assad coordinated B-52 strike eh? What's to lose ?
[AnNahar] Al-Nusra Front is reportedly demanding Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi to apologize for the burning of an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... flag by youth in Beirut's Ashrafiyeh district.
Sources close to the Moslem Scholars Committee said in comments published in the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Tuesday that "the group (al-Nusra Front) will not release the soldiers and coppers without anything in return."
Media reports have said that the jihadists have a list of demands, including the withdrawal of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... from battles in Syria, the release of ten Syrian inmates held at Roumieh prison in return for each captive soldier and policeman, an apology from al-Rahi over the burning of the flag and the end of calls by the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... to mobilize Christians against the Syrian people.
Islamists have allegedly burned crosses in the northern city of 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 retaliation to the burning of an ISIL flag in Ashrafiyeh's Sassine Square.
Reports said however that the flag was burned last month and not over the weekend.
Several threats were written on the walls of Churches in the northern city of Tripoli, the latest on Tuesday when assailants vandalized the walls of Mar Elias Church.
They vowed to "slaughter the worshipers of the Cross."
Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... politician George Adwan had said that al-Rahi "will not address these people," considering that the apology demand will not occur.
Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi vowed to legally pursue the youth who set ablaze the flag, considering it a sectarian incitement. He also called for an investigation to be carried out into the burning of crosses in Tripoli.
For his part, FPM official MP Ibrahim Kanaan said that he will defend the youth who set ablaze the flag.
The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group has prompted widespread concern as it advances in both Syria and Iraq, killing hundreds of people, including in gruesome beheading and mass executions.
[AnNahar] Fiji revealed for the first time Tuesday the demands being made by al-Qaeda-linked Syria rebels who took more than 40 U.N. peacekeepers hostage in the Golan Heights last week.
Fiji army chief Mosese Tikoitoga said the rebels wanted their organization, the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front, to be removed from the U.N.'s list of terrorist organizations.
He said they also wanted humanitarian aid sent to a small town which is an al-Nusra stronghold just outside Damascus and were demanding compensation for three of their fighters who had been hurt in recent days.
"These are the official demands that are being quoted to the U.N. for the release of our boys," Tikoitoga told news hounds in Suva.
Unconfirmed reports in Fiji's media said the hostage takers were also demanding the release of Abu Mussab al-Suri, also known as Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, an al-Qaeda leader who was tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in Pakistain in 2005 and is now being held by Syrian authorities.
Tikoitoga said there were 45 troops in the captured peacekeeping deployment, not 44 or 43 as authorities originally stated. He released the names of the soldiers and said the Fiji government was operating a crisis center for their families in Suva.
He said a U.N. negotiation team had arrived in the Golan Heights from New York to take over negotiations with the rebels.
"Unfortunately we have not made any improvement in the situation, our troops remain at an undisclosed located, the rebels are not telling us where they are," he said.
"But they continue to reassure us that they're being well looked after, they're being fed well and are being kept safe. They've also told us that they've been taken out of battle (combat) areas."
The Fijians were captured last Wednesday when the rebels stormed a Golan Heights crossing.
The rebels' targeting of the UN mission has touched off criticism among some nations contributing troops to the peacekeeping force about how the Golan Heights operation functions.
Ireland, which contributes a 130-member armored rapid response unit to the UN mission, warned Monday it would not replace its troops next month if UN leaders in New York do not agree on strengthening the force's firepower, command and control, and rules of engagement.
"I've made it very clear that I'm not going to continue to commit Irish troops to this mission unless there's a very fundamental review of how it's going to operate. Clearly this is no longer a demilitarized zone," Irish Defense Minister Simon Coveney told RTE state radio in Dublin.
"We need to get a significant reassurance from the UN, and the Syrian side, that we can operate a mission safely. The risk levels, given what's happened over the last three days, are not acceptable."
He said Irish troops in armored vehicles exchanged fire with rebels Saturday as they rescued Filipino troops from one of the besieged border posts. The Indian-led, 1,250-member force includes soldiers from Fiji, India, Nepal, the Philippines and the Netherlands.
Coveney said the Irish unit remained on standby for a potential rescue of the seized Fijian troops. Ireland's current military deployment has been in the Golan Heights since March and is supposed to be replaced by other Irish soldiers next month.
An Irish withdrawal could deal a final blow to the UN mission, which has already seen Austria and Croatia pull their forces last year over fears they would be targeted. The Philippines, meanwhile, has said it would bring home its peacekeepers after their tour of duty ends in October.
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And the nearest competent force to execute a rescue and recovery operation happens to be Israel. You know the people the UN has gone out of its way to alienate and disparage at every opportunity.
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Fiji for years has worked the perfect racket. It takes its young ethnic Fijian miscreants into the army. It fees them lots of ethnic propaganda, knocks the sass out of them, and then hopefully returns good citizens back into the community where they will be a dependable bloc against the increasingly contentious Indian community. They were never expected to fight. They were just a potemkin military used to suck dollars from the UN (and from the USA when they were members of the Multinational Force in the Sinai).
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Didn't the U.N. order the Philippine soldiers to surrender when they were surrounded? And I believe the Philippine commander told them to essentially F-ck off and they didn't surrender. If they hadn't I'm sure they would also be hostages.
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InterAksyon: MANILA - The Armed Forces of the Philippines said United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) commander, Lt. Gen. Iqbal Singh Singha, has rejected the resignation of his chief-of-staff, Col. James Ezra Enriquez, in the aftermath of last weekend's Golan Heights standoff that ended with Filipino peacekeepers ignoring Singha's order for them to yield their arms to Syrian rebels who attacked the UN outpost.
[IsraelTimes] Syrian rebels have issued three demands for the release of 45 Fijian peacekeepers they've held captive for five days, Fiji's military commander said Tuesday.
Brig. Gen. Mosese Tikoitoga said that the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front wanted to be taken off the UN terrorist list, wanted humanitarian aid delivered to parts of the Syrian capital Damascus, and wanted compensation for three of its fighters it says were killed in a shootout with UN officers.
Tikoitoga said the UN has sent hostage negotiators to Syria.
The al-Nusra Front kidnapped the Fijian soldiers Thursday morning and was holding them at an unknown location. The rebels also surrounded two Filipino units serving in the UN mission that monitors the buffer zone between Israel and Syria, but the Filipino troops escaped over the weekend.
The Syrian rebels clashed with government troops on Monday in the Golan Heights, activists said.
The fighting was focused around the town of Hamidiyeh in Quneitra province near the frontier with Israel, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Observatory said there were casualties on both sides but did not have exact figures.
Syria's state news agency said the military killed "many terrorists" and destroyed a heavy machine gun in the fighting.
Heavy festivities have raged in the area since Syrian rebels captured a border crossing near the abandoned town of Quneitra on Wednesday.
The rebels' targeting of the UN mission has touched off criticism among some nations contributing troops to the peacekeeping force about how the Golan Heights operation functions.
Ireland, which contributes a 130-member armored rapid response unit to the UN mission, warned Monday it would not replace its troops next month if UN leaders in New York do not agree on strengthening the force's firepower, command and control, and rules of engagement.
"I've made it very clear that I'm not going to continue to commit Irish troops to this mission unless there's a very fundamental review of how it's going to operate. Clearly this is no longer a demilitarized zone," Irish Defense Minister Simon Coveney told RTE state radio in Dublin.
"We need to get a significant reassurance from the UN, and the Syrian side, that we can operate a mission safely. The risk levels, given what's happened over the last three days, are not acceptable."
He said Irish troops in armored vehicles exchanged fire with rebels Saturday as they rescued Filipino troops from one of the besieged border posts. The Indian-led, 1,250-member force includes soldiers from Fiji, India, Nepal, the Philippines and the Netherlands.
Coveney said the Irish unit remained on standby for a potential rescue of the seized Fijian troops. Ireland's current military deployment has been in the Golan Heights since March and is supposed to be replaced by other Irish soldiers next month.
An Irish withdrawal could deal a final blow to the UN mission, which has already seen Austria and Croatia pull their forces last year over fears they would be targeted. The Philippines, meanwhile, has said it would bring home its peacekeepers after their tour of duty ends in October.
The group that kidnapped the peacekeepers, the al-Nusra Front, published a statement online on Sunday that included photos showing what it said were the captured Fijians, along with 45 identification cards. The group said the men were "in a safe place and in good health."
The al-Nusra Front accused the UN of doing nothing to help the Syrian people since the uprising against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... began in March 2011. It said the Fijians were seized in retaliation for the UN's ignoring "the daily shedding of the Moslems' blood in Syria" and even colluding with Assad's army "to facilitate its movement to strike the vulnerable Moslems" through a buffer zone in the Golan Heights.
The group is one of the two most powerful Death Eater factions fighting in Syria's civil war, which the UN says has killed more than 190,000 people. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... the al-Nusra Front has been eclipsed by the Islamic State group, which broke away from al-Qaeda earlier this year and has since carved out a proto-state spanning the Syria-Iraq border.
[MAGHAREBIA] More foreign jihadists in Syria are from Tunisia than from any other country, Tunisie Numerique reported on Tuesday (September 2nd), citing a new study from the Pew Research Centre. Tunisia topped the list, with some 3,000 nationals said to have arrived in Syria since the start of the conflict. Saudi Arabia was second, with 2,500 jihadists. Morocco was third, with 1,500 jihadists.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
David Cameron
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...
Wazoo
[WASHINGTONTIMES] "The bottom line is this: our objective is clear. 
President Obama was given detailed and specific intelligence about the rise of the Islamic State as part of his daily briefing for at least a year before the group seized large swaths of territory over the summer, a former Pentagon official told Fox News. 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
