[Tolo News] Tens of Public Protection Forces (PPF) soldiers of eastern zone gathered in front of the national assembly on Saturday to raise concerns over not receiving their salaries in the past six months.
The soldiers say that they have filed several complaints with the Ministry of Interior (MoI) over the past two months, but received no responses.
"We do our duty with honesty; we lose our soldiers every day," one of the soldiers said. "But no one addresses our complaints. Our children are hungry."
In response to the statements, MoI stated that the salaries will be paid soon.
"We have good improvements regarding the issue," MoI front man Sediq Sediqqi said. "We will pay the salaries and solve the issue shortly."
Many other government employees also fear salary shortages, as the government faces major economic problems as a result of the prolonged presidential election process and electoral tensions.
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Usually ends up with the military (or parts thereof) running things if history is any indication.
[Tolo News] The second round of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccination officially kicked off on Sunday and will continue for three days, officials of the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said.
All families are cautioned to vaccinate children younger than five. Fifteen cases of polio have been registered in the country in Laghman, Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , Uruzgan, Khost, Farah, Ghazni and Kandahar provinces so far this year, marking an increase in the number of polio cases in the country.
"The MoPH has started seriously fighting against this illness to eradicate it across the country," Acting Minister Suraya Dalil said. "I ask all parents to vaccinate their children to prevent this illness."
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.
Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.
No, he said. Do you?... First Vice President Sarwar Danish stated that the country's health care system is not regulated, adding that an providing equal supply of health services across the country is one the main challenges ahead of the MoPH.
"There are some serious challenges left ahead of the MoHP. The new government has some strategies to provide facilities for people in remote areas."
Families of children suffering from the disease have asked the government to attend to their problems.
"'My son is three-years-old. I hadn't vaccinated him due to the lack of access to health facilities and now he cannot walk,"Noor Mohammad Din, father a child who has polio said. "I ask all parents to vaccinate their children."
Polio is eradicated in most countries but seen in remote parts of Afghanistan, Pakistain and Nigeria due to lack of access to healthcare facilities as well as weather irregularities.
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[AnNahar] Libya's remote desert south has become a haven for north African jihadists who have set up training camps in what has traditionally been a hotbed of arms smuggling, experts say.
Oil-rich Libya slid into chaos after veteran dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... was toppled and killed in a NATO
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[Al Ahram] Tunisians voted Sunday in an election seen as critical for democracy in the cradle of the Arab Spring, with the main secular party confident of a strong showing as the vote count started
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[Libya Herald] The Egyptian government has vowed to avenge the deaths of the Egyptian soldiers killed by faceless myrmidons in a suicide kaboom in southern Sinai on Friday. It is being suggested that this could involve targeting known terror camps in eastern Libya.
An interesting choice. Also useful to the generality of Mid-Eastern humanity and beyond, but not at all what I would have expected.
At least 30 military personnel were killed in the Sinai blast which targeted a security checkpoint in Sheikh Zuweid.
Egyptian sources have said that initial investigations of the Sinai massacre have shown that a number of the faceless myrmidons involved belong to the Moslem Brüderbund and were trained in eastern Libya.
Ah. That does change things.
Moreover, it is being claimed that the weapons and munitions used in the attack bore Libyan serial numbers.
That's not necessarily meaningful, surely. After we led from behind in the effort by Britain and France (and possibly Italy, but it's been so long I don't remember the details) to remove Moammar Khadaffi, his weapons stashes were sold to just anybody who had enough of the green stuff.
Egyptian authorities have been saying that for a long time faceless myrmidons are being trained in eastern Libya. They maintain that some 3,000 fighters have been passed through these battle camps. Some of them have reportedly then gone on to fight alongside Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libya and Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... The Sinai killings are being described by Cairo as a retaliation for Egypt's claimed involvement in air attacks in Libya and supply of weapons to pro-government forces. President Abdel Fatteh Al-Sisi's government has denied it has had anything to do with air assaults.
Fascinating, the Byzantine gyrations of the Mid-Eastern mind.
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Perchance an excuse for Egypt to join the "coalition" of the unwilling and unable in "Indifferent Response" errr "Inherent Resolve?"
[Iran Press TV] A former commander of a 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... group in Syria has shed light on the financial resources of the bully boyz fighting against the Syrian government.
Abu Leith al-Tabouki, who used to be a leader of the 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, has said that some Saudi holy mans play a great role in providing the financial resources of the myrmidons.
He specifically named Salafi holy man, Adnan al-Aroor, as the main supplier of al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... myrmidons.
Tabouki said the fund is funneled to the bully boyz via a mediator in an eastern region of Syria.
He also blamed the al-Nusra Front over its "corrupt structure," adding that the group is operating under a weak and biased leadership.
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[ARABNEWS] Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh has urged Moslems to maintain unity amid turbulent times.
Al-Asheikh, also president of the Council of Senior Scholars, made the remark during a recent statement congratulating Moslems on the advent of the new Hijri year.
On his weekly radio show, broadcasted live from Makkah, Al-Asheikh urged Moslems to stand strong in the face of discord.
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[IsraelTimes] Domestic intelligence chiefs estimates that some 6,300 nationals are now adherents of Salafism
The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency said the number of Islamic Death Eaters in the country is growing rapidly.
Hans-Georg Maassen said his agency estimates that some 6,300 people in Germany are adherents of a fundamentalist strain of Islam known as Salafism.
Maassen told rbb-Inforadio in an interview broadcast Saturday that the number of Salafis could rise to 7,000 by the end of the year, compared to about 3,800 three years ago.
He said myrmidon strands of Islam provide disaffected young people with a sense of belonging and purpose that allows them to hope they'll go 'from being underdogs to top dogs.'
Authorities estimate that some 450 Salafis have traveled from Germany to join Death Eaters groups fighting in Syria and Iraq.
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During the Cold war, it was said that, in war, the US-NATO would in serious trouble iff the Soviets or PACT forces ever broke through the [West] German army.
Looks like the Hard Boyz know the saying = lesson???
[DAWN] Vigilance has been mounted around 80 Ulema in the capital considered a threat to peace during Muharram.
Police and local administration officials on Saturday said 23 holy mans had already been placed in the 4th schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act under which they were bound to inform the cop shoppe concerned about their activities and movements.
The 80 Learned Elders of Islam belonging to the Sunni and Shia sects have been asked to restrict their movements and public appearances. Undertakings have also been taken from them.
The police have also been directed to check entry of leaders of banned outfits in the capital during Muharram.
The officials said details of such leaders had been acquired and coppers at the checkposts and patrolling teams were being briefed about them. Photos of a majority of the Ulema have been obtained and are being given to staff at the checkpoints to identify them if they tried to enter the city.
The capital police were also approaching their counterparts in other districts to make sure that Ulema considered a threat to peace are not allowed to come to the city.
All station house officers and subdivisional coppers have been directed to take steps to curb wall-chalking in the city during the month.
The officials said security measures had been taken for 177 processions and 909 Majalis to be held in the city during Muharram.
Inspector General of Islamabad Police Tahir Alam Khan said action would be taken against the organisers of Majalis and processions if they violated the routes and did not observe timings. Similarly, action would be taken if anyone was found misusing the loudspeaker.
Moreover, different wings of the police have been directed to keep close coordination, give full security coverage to the processions and allow entry to Majalis through walk-through gates. All bazaars and streets along the routes of the processions and Majalis will be closed.
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[DAWN] Pakistain Awami Tehrik chief Dr 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... has said that he will travel abroad to revive his party's overseas offices which have been dysfunctional since he resigned as member of the National Assembly in 2004.
Talking to journalists outside his Model Town residence here on Saturday, he said PAT would field its candidates in all by-elections whether it succeeded in forcing the government to introduce reforms in the electoral set-up or not.
"Our party became dysfunctional after I resigned from the assembly in 2004 in protest against the corrupt and tyrannical system. And since we have decided to take part in politics and in the next elections after calling off the Islamabad sit-in, it is necessary to revive the party in Pakistain and abroad.
"So I will visit Canada or other countries, whether for 100 times, to restore the party's overseas offices and complete other important assignments, such as lectures and events, etc., and will return to the country time to time to address rallies and public meetings," he explained.
He denied striking any deal with the government to end the sit-in. No member of the Sharif family met or even telephoned him before or after the end of sit-in, Dr Qadri said.
He said the decision to wind up the sit-in was exclusively of his party because it wanted to extend its movement to across the country.
"Last month, I had told Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... that prolonging the sit-in would not be beneficial anymore. Although the sit-in couldn't topple the government, it created a massive awareness among the masses about rigging, injustice, corrupt system, etc. But Mr Khan did not agree to my suggestion," he said.
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[DAWN] A Mehsud tribal jirga, likely to be headed by the father-in-law of the slain Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, will negotiate for peace talks between the Taliban's Mehsud faction led by Khan Said 'Sajna' and the government, sources said.
Well placed sources confirmed that the jirga will comprise of eleven key Mehsud tribal elders and that a consensus has been reached on its name.
The sources also said that a secret meeting was held on Saturday by the Mehsud tribal jirga in Tank, where they agreed to negotiate between the government and the Mehsud Taliban.
Khan Said became Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) deputy leader following the death of Wali-ur-Rehman in May 2013.
He is believed to be involved in the attack on a Naval base in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , and is also credited with criminal masterminding a 2012 jailbreak in which the Taliban freed 400 inmates from a prison in Bannu.
The Mehsud faction, which Said leads, split from the TTP in May 2014. In a public statement following the split, Said had stated his commitment to continue carrying out terrorist acts in the country.
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[Iraq News] The Premier, Haider al-Abadi, met with the chieftains of the Iraqi Anbar province in Amman. Source stated to IraqiNews.com "While visiting Jordan, Abadi met with the Iraqi chieftains of Anbar province in Amman."
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[Iraq News] On Saturday, German BfV Intelligence said that there are about 450 German nationals fighting with the IS group in Iraq and Syria.
The head of German BfV intelligence, Hans Georg Maassen said: "There are currently around 450 Germans fighting alongside the IS group in Iraq and Syria; most of which are of German nationals, but there are some of Turkish, Bosnian, Moroccan ethnicity."
Noteworthy, EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator, Gilles de Kerchove has said earlier in September: "About 3000 European fighters have joined ISIS and the fighters came mainly from La Belle France, Britannia, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Italia, Ireland and Austria.
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In a sane world he'd be descring 450 former germans renounced their citizenship by fighting for ISIS.
[Iraq News] On Sunday, U.S. officials declared that the Iraqi government canceled the purchase of Apache helicopters from the U.S. military. In a statement released on the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) website, it said the Iraqi government had canceled the purchase of 24 Apache helicopter model deal even so the Congress has agreed to Iraqâs request to buy the Apache helicopters. Iraqi government did not accept the offer which gave Iraqi officials acceptance period that ended in August.
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Interesting. So what is the backstory here?
Haggling for a better price?
Looking to get in bed with someone else?
Afraid their peeps can't run the fancy hardware?
Maintenance worries? (helos get crashy if you don't keep them tuned up)
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I wouldn't buy them either. (1) they require serious training and constant refreshers; (2) service/ maintenance requires a facility, not just 'do it'; (3) the logistical trail leads back to the US government, who may cut you off at any time, for any reason, or no reason.
Plus, Hellfires cost how much?
The Chinese, Russians, or Indians are bound to selling something...
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They know obama will eventually give too them for free
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...from the stockpile of demobilized American Apache units.
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Ed in Texas,
I worked on the manufacturing of the Apache helicopter, specifically the inventory system.
every single Apache is built differently than the others. This was because the engineers were continuously changing the design. The effect of all this on the logistics system can be imagined.
It also meant the inventory system would purchase parts only to have the design change and the parts would not be needed. The company would then sell the parts for scrap. This was a major reason for the high cost of weapon systems.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Knesset during the opening of the winter session on Monday, saying: "The Palestinians must have a desire for peace as well, and unfortunately I see no such desire."
"Had we agreed to every irresponsible and reckless initiative offered to us, Hamas would have already been digging tunnels to Kfar Saba and firing mortar shells at Ben Gurion Airport," Netanyahu said. Long overdue
[IsraelTimes] Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon has reportedly decided to implement a policy that will effectively prevent West Bank Paleostinian workers from riding in buses with Israeli settlers to reach their jobs in Israeli cities.
Ya'alon told settlement leaders that under a new policy, Paleostinians will only be able to return to the West Bank through the Eyal checkpoint near Qalqilya, out of the way of most major settlements, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported Sunday.
Paleostinian workers are required to leave through Eyal, where they undergo security checks before entering Israel, but they are currently allowed to return home through any checkpoint, which enables them to ride on the same buses as Israeli settlers
B'Tselem, a left-wing Israeli NGO,
...need anything more be said?
panned the move and called on Ya'alon to stop hiding behind pretenses and "admit this military procedure is thinly veiled pandering to the demand for racial segregation on buses."
About half of Israeli Jews come from the Arab world, so race can't possibly be the issue. Try religious segregation, dood.
Ya'alon's new order seems to fly in the face of IDF policy, which has allowed Paleostinian workers to ride on the same buses as settlers for the last three years, since Major General Nitzan Alon, then commander of the Judea and Samaria Division and now head of the IDF's Central Command, decided to do away with the separate transportation systems and allow the Paleostinians to ride alongside Israelis.
Oh. It's a recent IDF policy that's being thrown away. In other words, the experiment didn't work. Got it.
The IDF has said that the shared buses do not pose a security threat, as all Paleostinians go through security checks.
While the settlers have come under harsh criticism for demanding segregated buses, Jewish residents of the area have contended that they do not feel safe and that Jewish women regularly experience sexual harassment at the hands of Paleostinian riders.
Whether it's a different kind of jihad for some, or just continuing the behaviours they're accustomed to at home, they spoilt it for the rest.
Benny Katzover, head of the Samaria Settlers' Committee, has said that the decision to allow Paleostinians to ride the bus with settlers was a politically motivated move to harm the settlers.
[AnNahar] More than 800 people have been killed in ground fighting for Kobane since 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 gunnies attacked the Syrian Kurdish enclave on September 16, a monitoring group said Sunday.
The jihadists have lost 481 dead, while 313 Kurds have been killed fighting to defend the area, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The figures do not include IS losses to U.S.-led air strikes, which the Pentagon has said run to "several hundred."
Civilians accounted for 21 of the dead. The jihadist assault prompted nearly all of the enclave's population to flee, with some 200,000 refugees streaming over the border into neighboring Turkey.
Kurdish fighters have kept up a dogged resistance inside the border town, buoyed by coalition air support and U.S. arms drops earlier this month.
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[Ynet] Iraqi Kurdish forces will not engage in direct combat in the Syrian town of Kobani but are to provide artillery support for fellow Kurds fending off 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.... forces of Evil there, the regional government's front man told Rooters on Sunday.
Islamic State fighters have been trying to capture Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, for over a month, pressing their assault despite US-led air strikes on their positions and the deaths of hundreds of their fighters.
"Primarily, it will be a back-up support with artillery and other weapons," Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) front man Safeen Dizayee told Rooters. "It will not be combat troops as such, at this point anyway."
The scourge of ISIS --a female Kurdish warrior who was credited with killing 100 jihadists-- may have herself died in the desperate battle to prevent the city of Kobani falling into extremist hands. But her sisters-in-arms fight on. The young woman, known only by the pseudonym 'Rehana', became world famous after a picture of her flashing a "V" for victory sign went viral on social media.
She was part of an unusual movement in the Islamic world: A 10,000 strong, fully female and officially sanctioned militia unit dedicated to defending Kurdish territory.
They were formed in April to combat the Islamic State's extreme version of Islam which would have women locked up in their houses, only able to leave in the presence of their husbands.
It's an idea foreign to the Kurdish culture.
The battalion has a fully female chain of command. The detachment of the battalion fighting for the city of Kobane operates under its own female commander, Mayssa Abdo.
Reports suggest as many as one-in-three of Kobani's defenders is a woman. It's a struggle that has come at a heavy price.
"It's not strange that women are fighting," Wahida Kushta, an elderly Kobani woman told news organisation AP after preparing the body of a young female fighter for burial. "There is no difference between a lion and a lioness."
"I lost many friends to this, and I decided there was a need to join up," Afshin Kobani, a 28-year-old teacher now fighting on the front lines in Kobani, told AP at the weekend. "This is our land our own and if we don't do it, who else will?"
Truly. Let the ISIS idiots fear these women of Kurdistan, who carry death as well as life in their hands.
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Unless it is inconvenient. Or we have an afternoon tee time.
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The sad part is, were I to be training these folks, I would have to be dead honest and tell them to never completely trust the American government with matters vital to the Kurds survival. Ask the Hmong. Ask the Montagnards. Ask the Shia in the south of Iraq about 1991 when Pres GHW Bush called for a revolt during Desert Storm, and then had us sit passively across the river while Saddam's gunships and troops massacred them.
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...it didn't help in the quickly established cease fire agreement the command negotiating it allowed the authorization of the use of helicopters by Saddam* instead of simply saying - if it flies, it dies.
* oh, but you destroyed our bridges, how can we get around? Swim.
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In one of those amusing bits of syncronicity our universe is famous for, over at Wretchard's, he has a piece up titled "No Better Enemy, No Worse Friend".
It starts out: Back in 1968, Henry Kissinger once observed that “it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal”.
The main Kurdish party in Syria "does not want" Kurdish peshmerga fighters from Iraq to come to help it fight ISIS trying to overrun the town of Kobani, Turkey's president has asserted according to reports Sunday.
Really? I wonder what the Syrian Kurds have to say. Oh right, we can't get to them to interview them since the border is closed...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Turkish reporters aboard his presidential plane that the Syrian Kurdish party, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) which has been leading the defence of Kobani, feared losing its influence in northern Syria when the peshmerga arrive.
He also called the PYD a "terror" organisation, highlighting Turkey's wary stance towards Kurdish groups demanding an autonomous Kurdish state straddling the border with Turkey.
"The PYD does not want the peshmerga to come," Erdogan said in comments published by newspapers including the Milliyet and Hurriyet dailies.
"They don't want that the peshmerga to come to Kobani and dominate it," he added.
"The PYD thinks its game will be spoilt if the peshmerga come. Their set-up will be ruined," he said.
Turkey last week unexpectedly announced that it will allow peshmerga fighters from the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq to cross its territory to join the fight for Kobani. However the deployment has yet to take place. Some reports said it has been put back to next week. What relationship the peshmerga will have with the PYD on the ground remains to be seen.
Ankara has long accused the PYD of failing to distance itself from Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and being the Syrian arm of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish self-rule in Turkey.
"The PYD is a terror group just the same as the PKK," said Erdogan. "The PYD can accept this or not, but we know and see the practices of the PYD," he said.
In contrast to its acrimonious ties with the PYD, Ankara has in the last years built up a close relationship with the regional authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan, who control the peshmerga. Erdogan said last week that the peshmerga would be joined in the defence of Kobani by 1,300 fighters from the anti-Assad Free Syrian Army (FSA).
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"ISIS is not a terrorist organization. It's a group of people bound together with discontent and anger."Ahmet Davotuglu, Prime Minister of Turkey
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Erdogan will work as hard as he can to make sure there's a wedge between the Kurds. Can't let them unify, because that would really screw his endgame.
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Turkey allows two ISIS terrorists to cross over to fight at Kobane.
[Iran Press TV] The Iranian police have detained a man who threatened people with acid attacks in the capital, Tehran, amid national outrage over recent cases of acid throwing.
The arrest was made after a number of citizens in western Tehran contacted the police and reported that an unknown man had threatened them with acid attacks on the phone, Tehran Police Chief Brigadier General Hossein Sajedinia told news hounds on Sunday.
[ARABNEWS] Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate threatened Sunday to kill Lebanese soldiers it captured in fighting in August unless the army halts operations against IS gunnies in Leb's second city 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...
The Lebanese Army, meanwhile, said gunnies kidnapped a soldier from his home in the port city, the second seized in northern Leb since Saturday.
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, which has previously executed one captive Lebanese soldier, issued its threat after troops cleared gunnies from Tripoli's historic bazaar district Saturday in an operation that left one civilian and a Lion of Islam dead.
Many of the gunnies managed to withdraw to the Bab Al-Tebbaneh district of the city, a Sunni Islamist stronghold, where troops were engaged in heavy fighting on Sunday, an AFP correspondent reported.
The army's offensive against the Lion of Islams, who are suspected of having links to Al-Nusra, sparked attacks on troops across the Tripoli region that left six dead.
"We warn the Lebanese Army against any military escalation targeting Sunnis in Tripoli," the Al-Nusra statement said. "We call on it to lift its siege and accept a peaceful solution, or else we will be forced in the coming hours to bring closure to the issue of the soldiers we are holding hostage, given that they are prisoners of war."
The Al-Qaeda affiliate initially threatened to start executing its prisoners from 0800 GMT but then issued a second statement extending the deadline to 1200 GMT.
"At that time the execution can still be postponed or cancelled if the army agrees" to our demands, the later statement said. Al-Nusra and rival gunnies of the IS group captured some 30 Lebanese soldiers and police in fighting around the eastern town of Arsal, close to the Syrian border, in August.
IS has since executed two of its captives.
Al-Nusra has previously demanded that in return for the release of its prisoners, a Lion of Islam group Hezbollah end its intervention in Syria on the side of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's regime and that Leb free incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! Lion of Islams.
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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
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[Al Ahram] Tunisians voted Sunday in an election seen as critical for democracy in the cradle of the Arab Spring, with the main secular party confident of a strong showing as the vote count started
Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh
[DAWN] A Mehsud tribal jirga, likely to be headed by the father-in-law of the slain Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, will negotiate for peace talks between the Taliban's Mehsud faction led by Khan Said 'Sajna' and the government, sources said.
The scourge of ISIS --a female Kurdish warrior who was credited with killing 100 jihadists-- may have herself died in the desperate battle to prevent the city of Kobani falling into extremist hands. But her sisters-in-arms fight on. The young woman, known only by the pseudonym 'Rehana', became world famous after a picture of her flashing a "V" for victory sign went viral on social media.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
