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Africa North
Europe stresses importance of dialogue in Libya, but HoR 'the only legitimate parliament'
[Libya Herald] Any solution to the current problems facing Libya must include dialogue that reaches out to all parties, according to a statement released today by the European Union.

The EU released an 11-point statement following its Foreign Affairs Council Meeting held today in Luxembourg. The statement expressed concern, saying that the situation threatened the Libyan peopleâs hopes for a peaceful democratic process.

The situation also threatened security throughout the region, as well as in Europe, and could lead to an increase in arms smuggling, illegal immigration and the spread of terrorism.

The EU statement included a condemnation of âviolence, human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian lawâ. There was âno military solutionâ, it said, demanding an immediate ceasefire.

It added that the EU fully supported the work of UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bernardino Leon and UNSMIL and welcomed the dialogue meetings that had taken place so far. It called on all parties to support this process, stating that member states were âexploring with UNSMIL ways to support confidence building measuresâ on all sides.

The EU again reiterated that the House of Representatives (HOR) was the âsole legislative authorityâ in Libya. The EU did not recognize any parallel government, a reference to the Hassi anti-government in Tripoli. Even so, the HOR had to reach out to all parties and seek inclusive political dialogue in order to reach a lasting solution, the statement continued. The âcountry cannot afford to be divided,â it read.

The EU also urged the Constitutional Drafting Assembly to continue its work, writing a constitution that would be inclusive of the rights of all Libyans.

It stressed the importance of a united approach by the international community, as agreed in recent meetings in Madrid and New York. All efforts, it said, and to be in accordance with the UN-led mediation process. Neighbouring countries, though, could provide complementary efforts â a reference to plans by Algeria to hold a conference of the various Libya parties, supposedly this month.

The EU called for the protection of civilians and for humanitarian assistance. According to the statement, the EU had released funds to help, but called on others in the international community to support such efforts.

Libyans had to unite against terrorism, the Europeans said. âTo do this, all armed forces must be united under the control of one central authority which reports to a democratic and inclusive parliament,â their statement read.

In conclusion, the EU stated its commitment to supporting Libya in addressing issues such as border control, security, human rights, and protection of vulnerable citizens.

It said that the EU remained committed to the sovereignty and national unity of Libya.
Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Libya Dawn claims Saudis behind Shara Mizran mosque attack
[Libya Herald] Libya Dawn
...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar...
has accused 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...
of supporting terrorism within Libya's borders and has claimed that it was behind Saturday's attack on 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...
's Ottoman-era mosque in Shara Mizran.

The claim follows reports that the mosque, along with others recently targeted in Tripoli, had been attacked by Salafists
...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them...
connected to Lion of Islam elements within Libya Dawn.

A statement from Libya Dawn's media office, however, has strongly condemned the attacks claiming that they were carried out by paid agents of the Saudi government. Saudi intelligence was hostile to the 17 February Revolution, it said, because it feared a similar uprising within its borders.

The aim of those behind the attacks, Libya dawn claimed, was not the desecration of a Sufist mosques, as it was made to look, but to convince the outside world that Tripoli under Libya Dawn was insecure and under the control of Lion of Islams.

The statement called on the Libyan Ministry of Awqaf, the Dar Al-Ifta and civil society organizations to recognise clearly the political agenda behind the attacks and condemn them. They have already been condemned by UNESCO, Omar Al-Hassi's interior ministry and the Council of Ulema.

It is not thought the claims about Saudi Arabia, reminiscent of the propaganda of the Qadaffy regime, will be widely believed.

Salafists are certainly strongly opposed to Sufist traditions in Tripoli and Saudi Arabia is the heartland of Salafism. But there are Salafists on both sides of the current political divide in Libya. Some support the HoR and are opposed to militancy (and a few among them have been murdered by gunnies in Benghazi, Derna and elsewhere as a result). Others, such as the Grand Mufti, support Libya Dawn.
Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Public lashings follow Derna 'Sharia Court' verdicts
[Libya Herald] The "Sharia Court" of Derna, an institution of Derna's Shoura Council of Islamic Youth, has laid down the law for a group of young men guilty of alcohol abuse, sentencing them to a public flogging, which was carried out on Saturday in the courtyard of the town's old mosque.

According to common interpretations of the Hadith, the appropriate punishment for alcohol consumption is 40 or 80 lashes--left to the discretion of the Moslem leader ‐ "with two palm branches stripped of their leaves".

Derna's Shoura Council of Islamic Youth was said to have declared its allegiance to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS), and to the "caliphate" of His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
at the beginning of October.
Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
KSA message to Yemeni factions: Defeat agents of destabilization!
[ARABNEWS] The Council of Ministers on Monday urged warring factions in neighboring Yemen to reconcile for the good of the country.

The Cabinet said it was concerned about events taking place in the troubled nation, and called on political groupings to seek consensus on national issues, rather than play into the hands of those seeking to destabilize the country.

Crown Prince Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense, chaired the meeting in Jeddah on Monday.

The meeting also praised the country's leadership for organizing a successful Haj this year. It underlined the recent public message of King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, who called on Hajis to adhere to the Islamic principles of moderation and tolerance, and reject bloodshed, extremism and violence.

At the outset of the meeting, the ministers were briefed on the outcome of talks between King Abdullah and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on cooperation between the two countries.
Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  The Maha-Rushian Questionne' remains will QATAR intervene in Yemen, or for that matter any other GCC iff that Member-Nation becomes destabilized, espec via the ISIS.

Qatar claims the ISIS/ISIL is IIO presently NOT a threat to any Member of the GCC.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/21/2014 2:29 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
He threatened bomb attack to delay verdict
Two people, arrested for threatening to launch suicide bomb attack in Chittagong court on October 14, have claimed that they made the threat to defer verdict in a land-related case.

Mohammad Nasir, 45, and his brother-in-law Salauddin, 22, were arrested in separate drives in the port cityâs Badurtola and Rahattarpool areas on Sunday, DB Deputy Commissioner Kushum Dewan said.

They were put on three-day police remand yesterday.

Following his arrest, Nasir claimed that he was not a member of banned Islamist outfit Jamaâatul Mujahideen that he had mentioned while giving the threat to lawyer Manash Kumer Das over the phone.

Police, however, could not seize the mobile set and the SIM card which were used for giving the threat. Salauddin threw the SIM into the river on October 14 and left the phone beside a road in Bahaddarhat area on October 18.

Nasir, owner of a phone-fax shop named Nasir Telecom in Badurtola area, said he has a land in the area which was given to a developer company to construct a building. But since one Kamrunnahar claimed ownership of the same land, he lodged a case.

Verdict in the case was set to be delivered on October 14 and Nasir thought it might go against him. He thought that after issuing such a threat, identifying him as a JMB member, the court proceedings would be adjourned and he would get the scope to file another case in the meantime.

Lawyer Manash is the defence counsel in the case. On that day, the designated court did not deliver the verdict.

âThe detectives are investigating whether Nasirâs lawyer Abu Bakar was also involved in the bomb attack threat,â DB ADC Hasan Chowdhury said.

Soon after receiving the threat, law enforcers tightened security measures in the Chittagong Court Building Hill area where a total of 75 different courts are housed while offices of the deputy commissioner and the divisional commissioner are adjacent to the court.
Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh


China-Japan-Koreas
Kim Jong-un's Wife Reappears As Well
North Korean leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un's wife Ri Sol-ju has also resurfaced in public for the first time in 46 days.

Ri on Sunday greeted sports officials and medalists in the recent Asian Games in Incheon, the official Rodong Sinmun daily reported. The last time Ri was seen was when she and her gout-ridden husband attended a concert on Sept. 3. Then the couple disappeared until the cognac swilling Kim resurfaced on Oct. 14, walking with the aid of a cane. This spawned rumors that the two had marital problems.

The paper said Kim visited two air bases and watched pilots in training with 20th century state-of-the-art MiG 29 fighter jets.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Well, we better start the six party talks right away. If we don't do it, KJU will drown us all in a Sea of Fire®.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/21/2014 1:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Paul, that's Sea 'O Fire®
(Gotta stay within the copyright.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/21/2014 7:33 Comments || Top||

#3  "Excellent Horse-Like Lady" back on the charts?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/21/2014 14:05 Comments || Top||

#4  It took her that long to shop for a new Hermes handbag?
Posted by: Raj || 10/21/2014 14:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Thanks, ed in texas. That spelling has more pizzaz. Heh
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/21/2014 16:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Could be gout. Could be all that extra weight on the knees causing arthritis. He's a little young for knee replacement surgery.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/21/2014 16:36 Comments || Top||

#7  More of a anti-Persephone.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/21/2014 16:41 Comments || Top||

#8  It's truly surreal to wonder who has been turned into dog food.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/21/2014 20:16 Comments || Top||


Down Under
Australia Nixes Burqa Segregation In Parliament Building
[IsraelTimes] Australia abandoned a controversial plan to make women wearing the burqa or niqab sit in separate glassed public enclosures at Australia's Parliament House due to security reasons.

The backdown followed a decision on October 2 by Speaker Bronwyn Bishop and Senate President Stephen Parry to seat people wearing face coverings in areas normally reserved for noisy school children while visiting parliament.

It followed heated debate about potential security risks since the rise of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
organization.

The ruling was condemned by human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
and race discrimination groups, and Prime Minister Tony Abbott asked that it be reconsidered.

Race discrimination commissioner Tim Soutphommasane told Fairfax Media the original ruling meant Moslem women were being treated differently to non-Moslem women.

"No one should be treated like a second-class citizen, not least in the parliament," he said.

"I have yet to see any expert opinion or analysis to date which indicates that the burqa or the niqab represents an additional or special security threat."

Labor opposition frontbencher Tony Burke welcomed the backdown but said the initial decision should never have been made.

"What possessed them to think that segregation was a good idea?" he said.

"Segregation was previously introduced, apparently, with no security advice attached to it and no security reason attached to it."

Temporarily remove face coverings
The Department of Parliamentary Services said in a statement that the rules had been changed and all visitors must now "temporarily remove any coverings" that prevent the recognition of facial features.

"This will enable security staff to identify anyone who may have been banned from entering the building or who may be known to be a security risk," it said.

"Once this process has taken place visitors are free to move about the public spaces of the building, including all chamber galleries, with facial coverings in place".

Parry explained that the original "interim" decision was made after rumors began circulating earlier this month that burka-clad protesters were planning to disrupt parliament. No protest took place.

Australia has been on edge since the rise of the IS group with the government tightening counter-terrorism laws and police in recent weeks conducting major terror raids amid fears of an attack on home soil by radicalized Australians.

The country was one of the first nations to join the United States' aerial campaign against the bully boy group, which controls large parts of Iraq and Syria and is increasingly seen as a global threat.

On Sunday, Canberra said it had reached a deal with Baghdad for the deployment of about 200 special forces to assist Iraqi troops in their fight against jihadists.

While overturning the plan was largely welcomed, Palmer United Party senator Jacqui Lambie, an outspoken opponent of face coverings, said it would encourage gunnies to commit "acts of violence against Australians".

"The decision today to allow burqas and other forms of identity-concealing items of dress to be worn in Australia's parliament will put a smile on the face of the overseas Islamic gunnies and their supporters in Australia," she said in a statement.

"This decision will not stop me from putting private members legislation before parliament, which will make illegal the wearing of the burqa and any other form of facial identity-concealing outfit or items of clothing in public."
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  These who won't learn the easy way...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2014 2:57 Comments || Top||

#2  I think if a potential bomb carrier arrives in a burka you should ask to be seated somewhere safer.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/21/2014 6:35 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Benghazi Attack Suspect Khatallah Pleads Not Guilty To 17 New Charges
[Ynet] Ahmed Abu Khatallah, a Libyan bad boy accused of participating in the September 2012 attack on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
on Monday to 17 new charges related to the attack, including some that carry the death penalty.

Khatallah did not speak at the brief hearing, but his lawyer entered the plea on his behalf.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ansar al-Sharia


Obama Sees an Iran Deal That Could Avoid Congress
Even this NYT op-ed piece understands the danger of a President going around the Congress on what is, by all common definitions, a treaty. Presidents conduct foreign policy but they have to get their agreements ratified by the Senate. This time it's truly a matter of life and death.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  O&Co is a symptom of the problem. Congress is the problem. They are not assuming their power AND their constitutional responsibility. The Senate gives advice and consent to treaties. This is not party politics. This is about the Chief Executive going against this nation's bylaws---the Constitution.

Every member of the House and Senate upon assuming office has sworn an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/21/2014 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  So will congress rise up against this tyrant with us if he does this?

Ain't holding my breath.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/21/2014 1:21 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 || 10/21/2014 7:13 Comments || Top||

#4  He goes around them on everything else, why would this be any different?
Posted by: chris || 10/21/2014 7:25 Comments || Top||

#5  At least Caesar Augustus had to win a harsh civil war before making the same move...
Posted by: borgboy || 10/21/2014 15:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe congress is following the roman senate model.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/21/2014 16:30 Comments || Top||


Iraq
American Aid Going To ISIS, Not Those In Need
[DailyBeast] While U.S. warplanes strike at the Death Eaters of the so-called Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in both Syria and Iraq, truckloads of U.S. and Western aid has been flowing into territory controlled by the jihadists, assisting them to build their terror-inspiring "caliphate."

The aid--mainly food and medical equipment--is meant for Syrians displaced from their hometowns, and for hungry civilians. It is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, European donors, and the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
. Whether it continues is now the subject of anguished debate among officials in Washington and European. The fear is that stopping aid would hurt innocent civilians and would be used for propaganda purposes by the Death Eaters, who would likely blame the West for added hardship.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1 
Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 || 10/21/2014 7:19 Comments || Top||


Iraq Prime Minister arrives in Tehran
Iraq Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, heading a high- ranking delegation, arrived in Tehran on Monday evening and was welcomed by Deputy Foreign Minister in Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian at the airport, IRNA reported.

This is the first visit of al-Abadi to Iran after taking office as the premier.
Begging for arms and hard boyz? Planning the partition of Iraq?
Iraq's Ministers of Oil, Electricity, Commerce, Water Resources as well as a member of parliament are accompanying al-Abadi in his visit to Tehran.

Iraq premier is scheduled to meet with first Vice-President Es-haq Jahangiri and a number of other senior officials on Tuesday.

On the eve of his visit to Iran, al-Abadi said that his country's ties with Iran and other neighboring countries will be expanded in different fields. Iraq premier office had already declared that visit of al-Abadi to Tehran and meetings with Iranian senior officials is in direction of the two sides' efforts to help Iraq in war against terrorist group of ISIS as well as strengthening cooperation between the two countries.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Iraqi PM rules out foreign boots on the ground
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al Abadi on Monday ruled out any foreign ground intervention to assist government forces in retaking territory lost to militants and urged Sunnis to give up such hopes.

Abadi was speaking in the city of Najaf after a rare meeting with the most revered figure among Iraqi Shias, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani, and before a trip to neighbouring Iran.

"No ground forces from any superpower, international coalition or regional power will fight here," Abadi told reporters, reiterating previous remarks on the issue. "This is my decision, it is the decision of the Iraqi government."

Some officials and Sunni tribal leaders in areas most affected by the unrest have argued the world should step up its involvement from air strikes to a ground intervention against the ISIS group.

"I am telling our brothers in Anbar and Salaheddin who asked for foreign ground troops that such an appeal should not be made for two reasons," Abadi said. "We don't need foreign combat troops. And there is no country in the world which would be willing to fight here and give you back your land even if they were asked to."

The prime minister had just met with Sistani, a reclusive Iranian-born cleric who is the highest Shia religious authority in the country. Iraqi state television said it was the first time in four years that Sistani had met a high-ranking Iraqi government official.

Abadi was due to travel to Iran later on Monday for talks on Iraq's war against the ISIS, which has since June seized control of swathes of the country and brought it to the brink of collapse.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  Unless of course the IS makes another run at Baghdad, in which case the pitter patter of size 12 boots would be welcomed.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/21/2014 7:29 Comments || Top||

#2  And there is no country in the world which would be willing to fight here and give you back your land

Being an American, I am, of course, ignorant of history. But didn't this exact thing just happen recently? Perhaps Bushhitler and Chainey could shed some light.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/21/2014 13:42 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
'What Israel? It's ours,' says PA TV host
[IsraelTimes] A children's program on Paleostinian Authority TV said that all of Israel is Paleostinian land earlier this month.
They've got to be carefully taught.
"I have never entered Israel or Gazoo," said a boy, who was a guest on the show, according to a Paleostinian Media Watch translation.

"What Israel? It's our land," replied the host.

The boy recovered, responding with "Israel is our land ‐ the 1948 lands."

"Our land, occupied Paleostine," added the host. "It's Haifa, Jaffa, Acre. These are our occupied lands, the 1948 lands that Israel occupied in 1948. Israel occupied them in 1948. These are Paleostinian lands and will remain Paleostinian. Allah willing, they will return to us some day and will not be under the rule of the occupation."

In May, the official PA daily paper published an op-ed piece which called Israel a "monstrosity," whose creation was "a crime unprecedented in history."

The opinion piece, published in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, said that "the occupation of Paleostine was the greatest crime known to humanity" and noted that since 1948, the Paleostinian people have been using "all the means and methods at its disposal" to regain their "stolen" land.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  I'm fast reaching the point of saying that we should give all of the middle east to Israel.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/21/2014 1:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Well SB, it's pretty obvious where the neighborhood goes when Israel pulls back.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2014 1:42 Comments || Top||

#3  This is not different from what being taught in schools around "the West".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2014 2:55 Comments || Top||

#4  In parts of Rochdale, Rotherham, Birmingham and East London they say "It's our land"
Mo'Hamed
Mo'Paedophiles
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/21/2014 6:37 Comments || Top||

#5  When they reach the outskirts of Oundle, book me at the Talbot BP. I'm coming over !
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2014 6:42 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 || 10/21/2014 7:05 Comments || Top||

#7  So their TV hosts are as divorced from reality as ours are.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/21/2014 7:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Cut off all aid to the Middle East. They will all be without gas, food and water in a month.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/21/2014 13:42 Comments || Top||

#9  g(r) This Tucson, Arizona teacher says you are spot on. "Por la Raza todo; Fuera la Raza nada!

borgboy from "Aztlan"
Posted by: borgboy || 10/21/2014 15:06 Comments || Top||

#10  I guess they are like my dogs, when my dogs p!ss on a fire hydrant, they think it is theirs also.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/21/2014 16:53 Comments || Top||


Hamas Admits Rebuilding Tunnel Network In Wake Of Gaza Conflict
[Ynet] Gazoo newspaper news hound visits tunnel under repair; head of digging team says repairs began during one of summer conflict's humanitarian ceasefires.

Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' military wing, the Izz a-Din al-Qassam Brigades, is openly stating that the group is rebuilding the network of tunnels used for terror attacks, which was largely demolished by the IDF during the summer's conflict in Gazoo.

A news hound for the Gazoo-based newspaper Al-Resalah was visited a tunnel site Sunday, where he was shown the diggers hard at work repairing a tunnel bombed by IAF planes during Operation Protective Edge.

The commander of the digging team, Abu-Khaled, said that the tunnel's repairs had started "during one of the humanitarian ceasefires reached during the war."

The IDF destroyed more than 30 tunnels in the Strip during Operation Protective Edge. The tunnels, which cover an extensive area of subterranean Gazoo, were used to transport munitions and missiles for use against Israel. During the fighting, Hamas sent a series of bully boyz through tunnels that emerged inside Israel to carry out attacks.

There have been previous indications that Hamas was engaged in efforts to rebuild its tunnels in the wake of Protective Edge. In mid-September, the al-Qassam Brigades had announced that one of its fighters, Ahmad Riyad al-Hadad, had died while engaged in "underground activities". The group did not specify what those activities were.

Earlier this month, al-Qassam Brigades' spokesperson announced at a rally that, "the tunnels of al-Qassam are fine, thank God. Our men will begin the next battle with their feet on the ground in Nahal Oz....and the other settlements around Gazoo."

A senior Israeli diplomatic source was quoted in the Israeli media as saying that, "Hamas did not wait a single moment after the last round of fighting, and began its rearmament in anticipation of another round".
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Rebuilding the Tunnels ? How did that work out for you last time?

Have a go. Dead and stupid have a lot in common.
Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 || 10/21/2014 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Is anyone really surprised?
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/21/2014 14:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Somewhere in the future, somewhere in Gaza, after one too many tunnels.

"Howdy Hadji, welcome to hell"

Posted by: Shipman || 10/21/2014 18:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Really, the Israelis should dig a ditch down to sea level around Gaza and just let the ocean manage the paleo tunnels. It wouldn't cost very much to do. It would use up about a kilometer of land around Gaza, but most of that is unusable because of rockets and mortars anyway; so, no big loss.
Posted by: rammer || 10/21/2014 20:46 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Report: Extremists to Attack North Lebanon in Attempt to Grab Land
[AnNahar] Extremist groups are set to launch a wide attack on north Leb, according to French intelligence reports that were conveyed to Lebanese authorities.

As Safir newspaper reported on Monday that the concerned authorities received a French tip off that Death Eaters will launch their attack from the northern district of Akkar.

Informed sources told the daily that the Lebanese army is dealing seriously with all warnings, whether they were true or not.

The sources noted that the army took all the necessary measures to confront any development on the field in the North and to avoid any surprises.

For the past few months, the military has been coming under increasing armed attacks mainly in northern Leb.

Since August, the Lebanese army has been fighting bandidos gunnies from the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group and al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
Front near the border with Syria.

Earlier that month, the Death Eaters crossed into the northeastern town of Arsal from Syria, capturing soldiers and coppers. Two of the soldiers have since been beheaded and one has been killed in captivity.

The attacks against the military rose after the Arsal gunbattles.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra

#1  Popcorn
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2014 2:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Extremists? Oh, you mean they're not "Palestinians". Got it.
Posted by: gorb || 10/21/2014 13:59 Comments || Top||


Syrian Professor in Saudi Disappears, Joins IS
[AnNahar] A Syrian professor at a 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...
n university has disappeared and joined the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group fighting U.S.-backed forces in her homeland, a newspaper reported on Monday.

Al-Hayat quoted Ibrahim al-Khaldi, the front man for the University of Dammam, as saying Iman Mustafa al-Boga had resigned for unknown reasons.

It quoted from her Facebook page, which says she is "moving around in the north of Syria".

"I was Daesh even before Daesh existed," she says in another post, using the Arabic acronym for the group which has been accused of atrocities including crucifixions and beheadings.

"And I have always known that there is no solution to the problems faced by Moslems but in this jihad," Boga added.

The kingdom is seeking to deter youth from becoming jihadists after Syria's conflict attracted hundreds of Saudis.

King Abdullah decreed in February jail terms of up to 20 years for citizens who travel to fight abroad, and the kingdom's top holy man has called IS and Al-Qaeda "enemy number one" of Islam.

Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh has urged Moslem young people not to be influenced by "calls for jihad... on perverted principles".

Since September Saudi Arabia and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
, along with their Gulf neighbors Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, have taken part in or given support to U.S.-led coalition air strikes against IS, which has declared a "caliphate" straddling Syria and Iraq.

Moslems around the world have denounced the myrmidons.

"I left my dear university, my fancy car, my big house and large salary", to be free from "sinful laws of the tyrants that suffocate the ummah", Boga posted on October 14.

She later added that she had traveled without assistance from anyone.

"We do not know the reason behind her resignation", Al-Hayat quoted the university front man as saying.

The university "is keen to protect its students from ideas and methods that could be a danger to them, and could question their beliefs, traditions and customs", he added.

Al-Hayat reported that Boga, who was known to have bad boy ideas, had spent many years at the campus teaching Islamic jurisprudence and economics.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Probably a ploy to gain an H1b and future assignment as head of some Islamic Studies program at UCLA or White House Islamic culture advisor.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2014 1:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Hopefully with a litte lead therapy he can be rehabilitated.
Posted by: gorb || 10/21/2014 14:07 Comments || Top||

#3  This professor is a rather dim bulb.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/21/2014 16:48 Comments || Top||


Iran Military Ready To Ship Equipment To Lebanon
[Ynet] Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency is quoting the country's defense minister as saying Iran is ready to ship defensive materials to Leb to aid its army.

The Monday report quotes Gen. Ahmad Dehghan as saying in order to thwart snuffies who plan to commit inhuman crimes in Syria, Iraq and Leb, "we will provide an Iranian-made consignment of defensive items to the Lebanese army for their use in fighting the group and other terrorist groups."

The contents of the shipment were unknown. The U.N. in 2007 banned Iran from exporting and importing weapons.

Gen. Dehghan said the shipment now awaited approval from Leb, a country he described as having a "special position" in Iran's foreign policy.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1 
Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 || 10/21/2014 6:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Will go to Hezb'allah.
Coal to Newcastle.
Posted by: borgboy || 10/21/2014 15:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Equipment + training staff + advisers.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/21/2014 15:27 Comments || Top||


Turkey says releases last Syrian Kurdish detainees
Turkey on Monday released the last group of Syrian Kurds who were being held on suspicion of having links with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a local official said.

"The last 95 people were advised to go to a tent city having reported their contact details," local official Fatih Ciftci told AFP.

Turkey had detained almost 300 Kurds who crossed the border from the besieged Syrian town of Kobani on suspicion of having links with the PKK, Kurdish lawmakers said.

The Syria-based Kurdish fighters of the People's Defence Units (YPG) battling ISIS fighters are affiliated to the PKK militants who have fought the Turkish authorities for the last three decades in an insurgency that has claimed 40,000 lives.

"They were not placed under formal custody but kept under administrative surveillance as part of a routine security check," said Ciftci.

"We presented them with two choices: either to go back, or be settled into a (refugee) camp," the official said, adding that the ones who preferred to stay in Turkey would be tracked by Turkish authorities.

Almost 300 Syrian Kurds had been held by Turkey for the checks, with many held in a sports hall in the border town of Suruc under conditions that have appalled Kurdish activists.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Turkey to let Iraqi Kurds reinforce in Kobani
Turkey said on Monday it would allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters to reinforce fellow Kurds in the Syrian border town of Kobani, while the United States air-dropped arms for the first time to help the defenders resist an ISIS assault.
If the Turks had allowed aid and arms in the first place they could have built some good will with the Syrian and Iraqi Kurds, who then could have influenced the Kurds in Turkey. But they didn't and thus reinforced to every Kurd in the world that the Turks are still their natural enemy...
Washington said the arms had been supplied by Iraqi Kurdish authorities and had been dropped near Kobani, which came under ISIS attack in September and is now besieged to the east, west and south, and bordered to the north by Turkey.

Turkey has stationed tanks on hills overlooking Kobani but has refused to help the Kurdish militias on the ground without striking a broader deal with its Nato allies on intervening in the Syrian civil war, saying action should also be taken against Syrian President Bashar Al Assad.
Apparently the Turks couldn't withstand whatever moral condemnation was coming their way over their letting the Kurds die.
However, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told a news conference that Turkey was facilitating the passage of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces which have also fought ISIS when the militants attacked the Kurds' autonomous region in Iraq over the summer. He gave no details.

Earlier the US Central Command said it had delivered weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to allow the Kurdish fighters to keep up their resistance in the town which is called Kobani in Kurdish and Ayn Al Arab in Arabic. The main Syrian Kurdish armed group, the YPG, said it had received "a large quantity" of ammunition and weapons.

Redur Xelil, a spokesman for the YPG, said the weapons dropped overnight would have a "positive impact" on the battle and the morale of fighters who have been out-gunned by ISIS. But he added: "Certainly it will not be enough to decide the battle."

"We do not think the battle of Kobani will end that quickly. The forces of (Islamic State) are still heavily present and determined to occupy Kobani. In addition, there is resolve (from the YPG) to repel this attack," he told Reuters in an interview conducted via Skype. He declined to give more details on the shipment.

The resupply of Kurdish fighters marks an escalation in the US effort to help local forces beat back the militant group in Syria. It points to the growing coordination between the US military and a Syrian Kurdish group that had been kept at arms' length by the West due partly to the concerns of Nato member Turkey.

Washington has pressed Ankara to let it use bases in Turkey to stage the air strikes, and a Turkish foreign ministry official said the country's airspace had not been used during the drops on Kobani.

US President Barack Obama gave advance notice to his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan of its plans to deliver arms to the Syrian Kurds, a group Turkey views with distrust because of its links to Turkish Kurds who have fought an insurgency in which 40,000 people were killed.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As per DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS, Turkey is repor arming + allowing KRG + YPG Kurd fighters to leave for Kobane/Kobani, but NOT PKK???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/21/2014 2:24 Comments || Top||


ISIS 'warriors' think they won't go to heaven if killed by a woman
Posted by: frozen al || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Finally a good reason to put women into combat.

Of course, put them in an F-15 and let them bomb the piss out of those psychopaths.

Maybe we should paint our planes with women pilots pink so ISIS knows when a woman is dropping the hammer on them?

Or maybe a bunch of female snipers?

How about carpet bombing them with used tampons?
Posted by: Mystic || 10/21/2014 4:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Evidently, this fight is a bitch in more ways than one.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/21/2014 7:30 Comments || Top||

#3  We can use this . . . .
Posted by: gorb || 10/21/2014 14:12 Comments || Top||

#4  We need to spread rumors. The muslim mind loves rumors. Perhaps female mossad sniper squadrons are deployed to Kurdish territory. Something like that.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/21/2014 14:33 Comments || Top||

#5  I don't think these psychos are going to heaven.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/21/2014 17:00 Comments || Top||

#6  To paraphrase someone else, they'll inherit their own kingdom (one they deserve).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/21/2014 19:34 Comments || Top||


Government
Kerry Blames Israel for the rise of ISIS.
[Breitbart] Thursday’s claim by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that lack of “progress” in the Israel-Palestinian peace process is helping fuel the rise of ISIS continues to reverberate both in Israel and the Middle East.

Kerry’s remarks, which appeared to lay the blame for the rise of the ISIS terrorist army in Iraq and Syria squarely on Israel, are but the latest in a series of controversial comments made by America’s top diplomat that seem to highlight the Obama administration’s growing hostility toward the Jewish state.

Speaking at a ceremonial State Department dinner commemorating the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, Kerry implied that Israel’s refusal to concede to Palestinian demands were helping ISIS recruit new fighters.
I stopped reading when I got to..... "State Department dinner commemorating the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One day
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2014 2:54 Comments || Top||

#2  If israel ceased to exist of course fascist islam would say all goods in the world and thus ending its jihad against everything.

Kerry can be first in line to find out how pacifist islam becomes and good luck to him hiding behind the argument that he went to their stupid dinners.
Posted by: Herman Munster || 10/21/2014 3:19 Comments || Top||

#3  John Kerry and John Edwards for President and Vice President. I love America. A country rich in wisdom and integrity and values.

And a little ketchup on those fries?
Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 || 10/21/2014 7:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Because it would take something as big as blaming Israel to cover up such a stupid mistake.

We hear you, JFnK.
Posted by: gorb || 10/21/2014 14:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Most dispicable thing he's said or done, trying to deflect blame from the current adminstration's failures in Iraq to Isreal just encourages other anti-semites.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/21/2014 14:32 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2014 16:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Just?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/21/2014 19:14 Comments || Top||

#8  I never thought I would say this, but I'm starting to feel sorry for Jawn. Either he actually believes the nonsense he is spouting which means his brainal functions are at permanent low tide OR he is playing the good soldier and sacrificing himself on dull point of the admin's narrative. Either way, sucks to be him.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/21/2014 19:21 Comments || Top||



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