[ToloNews] The first winter military operation was launched in Maidan Wardak province ‐ in the west of Kabul ‐ after the imported electricity transmission lines were cut by Death Eaters.
Local officials claimed that a number of powerful figures and groups from the capital, Kabul, are involved in the problem including the Taliban ...Arabic for students... "Salar, Patanak, Mashin Qala and Watali vilalges in Sayed Abad district were the areas from where convoys were attacked and motorists were stopped," said Fahim Qayim, Wardak Police Chief.
Two days ago, the power company repaired eight kilometers of power cables to reconnect the transmission lines, TOLOnews news hound Tamim Hamid, who has visited the area, said.
Abdul Mohammad, an electric engineer, said his team has been threatened in parts of Sayed Abad district in Maidan Wardak since they started working in the province a few months ago.
"It is clear for all that there are some people who don’t want to implement such projects. Even there are people inside the government who support those elements," Mohammad said.
Other issues, officials said, were also impeding the power line transmission project in the province.
"There are many houses which have been built in the way of the transmission line. I cannot name the owners," said Jawed Karimzai, electricity officer in the province.
"They are powerful figures including local commanders, tribal elders and those who don’t see the benefit in it are trying to impede such attempts," Fahim Amin, a civil society activist.
The transmission of 220 kilowatts of imported power project is part of a $150 million USD plan which covers few southern provinces.
[RadioShabelle] The first batch of 1,000 troops operating under the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia have left Mogadishu but the country still faces challenges in transitioning from the multinational force to the local one.
Special Representative of the chairperson of the African Union Commission Francisco Madeira said the transitional government of Somalia has been progressively taking over Amisom’s roles in a gradual exit plan to end in 2020.
Mr Madeira said the new government has been ensuring its national security forces are trained to protect the country as another 1,000 troops get ready to leave next year.
Somalia’s soldiers are being trained by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... (EU), The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... and the United Arab Emirates.
But Mr Madeira pointed that the training is uncoordinated and needs harmonisation.
"The integration of the Somali National Army needs to happen with urgency. The training of the army must be synchronised and centred upon a common doctrine and ideology.
"Amisom and the federal government continue with deliberations on the drawdown of troops.
"During the transition period, the two will cooperate in joint operations by degrading al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... to allow the opening of the main supply routes and movement of persons," he said.
He spoke at a briefing in Nairobi last week.
Last year, the African Union’s Peace and Security Council announced an exit strategy that would see some 22,000 troops withdraw and hand over control of security to the national army.
Previously, Amisom trained 10,900 Somali soldiers, with an additional 20,000 troops coming as the mission prepares to exit.
The troops were deployed to Somalia in 2007 to defend the government against the al-Qaeda-affiliated Death Eater group al-Shabaab.
[AlAhram]An Egyptian military court sentenced 10 people to death on Wednesday, including two key runawayhard boyz Hisham El-Ashmawy and Shady El-Manaei, on various terrorism charges.
The court also sentenced 22 other defendants in the case to 25 years in prison, and four others to 10 years in prison. It also sentenced one defendant to 7 years in prison and two others to 5 years.
The sentences can be appealed.
The court also acquitted 83 defendants.
The military court also referred one defendant to a civilian court.
There are 155 defendants in the case, known in the media as the 'Ansar Beit al-Maqdis 3 trial,' with 89 standing trial in absentia.
In October 2017, the military court had issued a preliminary death sentence for 13 defendants, referring the verdict to Egypt's Grand Mufti for a non-binding consultation per Egyptian law.
In 2014, El-Ashmawy defected from Ansar Beit al-Maqdis terrorist group after it declared its allegiance to ISIS. El-Ashmawy then formed a new terrorist group, al-Morabetoun, which is affiliated with al-Qaeda.
Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which is based in North Sinai, has grabbed credit for most of terrorist attacks against security forces and churches in Egypt since July 2013.
[AA.TR] A group of Ottoman Turkish soldiers on Tuesday reached a military base in 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... ’s capital Doha, according to Qatar’s Defense Ministry.
The group reached the Al Udeid Air Base in southern Doha, the ministry said in a statement.
The soldiers will join another group which previously arrived at Tariq bin Ziyad military base in the Gulf state.
The move comes as part of a 2014 defense agreement between Doha and Ankara under which The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... established a base in Qatar at the request of its government.
In April 2016, the two countries concluded a military deal which would see Ottoman Turkish troops deployed to a military base in the Gulf state.
The first group arrived in Qatar this June and conducted their first drill at Tariq bin Ziyad military base.
With this new group, the countries will have more military drills aimed at strengthening the defense capabilities of both countries.
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[IsraelNationalNews] Federal judge in Argentina rules that Alberto Nisman was murdered and did not commit suicide.
A federal judge in Argentina ruled on Tuesday that Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor who was found dead days after accusing former President Cristina Kirchner of covering up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center, was murdered and did not commit suicide.
In a 656-page ruling quoted by Reuters, Judge Julian Ercolini said there was sufficient proof to conclude that the shot to the head that killed Nisman in January 2015 was not self-inflicted.
The ruling marks the first time any judge has said the case was a murder.
Nisman, who was Jewish, was found dead from a gunshot wound in his apartment in January 2015, the day before he was supposed to present a report on the 1992 AMIA Jewish center bombing to Argentine lawmakers.
It has been revealed that Nisman had drafted arrest warrants for Kirchner and then-Foreign Minister Hector Timerman before he was found dead.
Those warrants charged that Kirchner orchestrated a secret deal to cover up Iranian officials' alleged role in the attack. She denies the allegations.
Previous scientific tests showed that Nisman likely did not shoot himself, but the case languished until last year, when it was moved to a federal court that handles political murder cases.
After Nisman's death was initially labelled a suicide, his family – who insists he was murdered – commissioned its own independent forensic investigation.
“Nisman’s death could not have been a suicide,” Ercolini wrote in Tuesday’s ruling, which also charged Diego Lagomarsino, a former employee of Nisman‘s, with accessory to murder.
Lagomarsino has acknowledged lending Nisman the gun that killed him the day before he was to appear before Congress to detail his allegation against Fernandez. He has said Nisman asked him for the gun to protect himself and his family.
Kirchner is facing accusations of treason and plotting a cover-up for signing a 2012 pact with Iran that would have allowed senior Iranian officials accused in the deadly attack to be investigated in their own country, rather than in Argentina.
In early 2013, Argentina's congress approved, at the request of the executive branch, an agreement with Tehran to form a truth commission to investigate the bombing.
Leaders of Argentina's Jewish community, which at 300,000 people is the largest in Latin America, criticized the accord. An Argentine court in 2014 declared the agreement to be unconstitutional.
[ArabNews] Hundreds of British fighters who joined ISIS are believed to be hiding in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , adding to fears of an increased threat of terror attacks in Europe, according to reports.
Thousands of bandidosDeath Eaters fled to Turkey after the terror group lost its grip on the strongholds of Raqqa in Syria and djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in Iraq this year, The Times of London reported.
Ciwan Xhalil, a Syrian Kurdish intelligence officer who collaborates with Western intelligence agencies over foreign ISIS fighters, told The Times that most British ISIS fighters had fled Syria and gone to Turkey.
"The exodus began after Mosul (in Iraq) fell and continued after (ISIS) lost Raqqa. We have lots of French in our jails and scores of other nationals but we think most of the British have escaped," he said.
About 850 Britons traveled to join ISIS, of whom about half have returned. About 130 are confirmed dead.
The figure is higher than the 300 returnees to Germany and 271 to La Belle France.
The report warned there has also been a surge in the number of women involved in attacks ‐ with nearly a quarter of terror plots in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... from the start of 2017 to May involving women.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... according to the US-led international coalition fighting the bad boy group, fewer than 1,000 ISIS fighters remain in Iraq and Syria, a third of the estimated figure only three weeks ago.
"Due to the commitment of the Coalition and the demonstrated competence of our partners in Iraq and Syria, there are estimated to be less than 1,000 ISIS (ISIS) hard boyz in our combined joint area of operations, most of whom are being hunted down in the desert regions in eastern Syria and Western Iraq," the US-led coalition told Rooters in an emailed statement.
Moreover, British security sources said it is increasingly difficult to leave Turkey and return to Britannia without being flagged. Returning terror fighters are stopped and questioned by the MI5 security service and police and will be prosecuted if there is evidence that they fought for the caliphate.
The authorities also deploy covert techniques to track down Death Eaters. American intelligence sources said that the CIA and MI6 were coordinating to track a cadre of foreign ISIS fighters.
Although only three of the 40 attacks in Europe since 2015 have involved foreign terrorist fighters returning from Syria and Iraq, those incidents caused more than half the fatalities.
The threat level in Britannia remains at "severe," meaning that further attacks are likely. The country is dealing with one of the worst cases of homegrown radicalization in Europe, and the chief of Britannia’s MI5 domestic security service warned in October that the threat of Death Eater attacks in Britannia was at its "highest tempo" in his three-decade career. British security services have foiled almost a dozen attack plots this year.
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[IsraelTimes] Father of 5, an immigrant from Belarus, claimed he just wanted to live within the Caliphate, court documents say
Which is why he planned to leave his Muslim Arab wife and five children behind in Dar al Harb. Right.
A Belarusian-Israeli convert to Islam was convicted Wednesday of attempting to join 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.... terrorist group in Syria.
Valentin Vladmir Mazlevski, 40, who was tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! nearly a year ago while trying to travel to Syria via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , was convicted by the Nazareth District Court of contact with a foreign agent, attempting to travel to an enemy country and obstruction of justice.
Mazlevski is from the Arab Israeli town of Shibli‐Umm al-Ghanam, his wife’s hometown. The father of five moved to Israel from Belarus in 1996 at age 18 and converted to Islam four years later, while he was serving in the Israel Defense Forces, the Shin Bet said in its indictment.
"The investigation revealed that Mazlevski, who was active in IS-supporting groups on the internet, shared details of his intentions to travel to Syria and even coordinated his arrival with [the groups]," the indictment said.
Mazlevski argued that he did not want to join the military ranks of Islamic State, but rather was traveling to Syria in order to live under the nascent Islamic Caliphate set up by the international terror organization, according to the Nazareth District Court’s decision.
The defendant also said he did not know Syria was considered an enemy state, the decision said.
If you must lie, my dear idiot, at least lie better than that.
On January 16, 2017, Mazlevski was detained and interrogated in Ben Gurion International Airport, where he had gone to catch a one-way flight to Turkey but was stopped at the gate. The Shin Bet said it had received advance intelligence about Mazlevski’s plans.
Oh? Do tell.
In the days that followed, Mazlevski attempted to remove any trace of Islamic State support from his cellphone, deleting accounts and conversations, according to the indictment. However, ars longa, vita brevis... on January 26 he made contact on the Telegram messaging application with a Chechnyan who had links to Islamic State
Mazlevski was arrested on February 7 and admitted to Sherlocks that he had planned to join Islamic State in order to "fulfill the commandment placed on every true Moslem to live under an Islamic state and hold fast to his beliefs," police said.
Police were aware of Mazlevski’s support for Islamic State since at least July 2016. That month he was brought in for a "debriefing, in which it was clarified to him that Islamic State is an illegal organization and that he has been ordered to stop his security activities," according to court documents.
In October of that year he began looking into joining the fighting in Syria. He contacted a purported Islamic State fighter in Syria who identified himself as "Abu Abdullah." But before he could set out, Abu Abdullah broke off contact and scuttled Mazlevski’s plans, according to police.
A month later, he reached out to an alleged Islamic State member in the Sinai Peninsula and considered joining the fight against Egyptian troops there, police said.
Apparently undeterred, Mazlevski contacted a Russian-born IS fighter in Syria in January and began making preparations to travel there through Turkey, according to the indictment.
Mazlevski will appear before the court again on February 8 for a sentencing hearing.
The Shin Bet security service estimates that approximately 50 Arab citizens of Israel have traveled to Syria or Iraq to join the group in recent years.
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[IsraelTimes] Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz decides to thank US president for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital by honoring him with a planned railway station located near holy site, which is part of a NIS-2.5-billion project.
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One of the reasons I like Trump is because he proved what I've been saying for years: Israel doesn't need an "Israel first" POTUS - "America first" one is more than good enough.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian police are taking a softer approach to breaches of Islamic rules, opting for education over punishment, Tehran’s police chief says.
"According to a decision of the commander of the police force, those who do not observe Islamic codes will no longer be taken to detention centers nor judicial files opened on them," Brigadier General Hossein Rahimi says in a speech in the Iranian capital.
"We offer courses and 7,913 people have been educated in these classes so far," he says, adding that there were more than 100 counseling centers in Tehran province.
Rahimi, who was appointed in August, does not elaborate on which Islamic codes were in question or when the new guidelines were introduced.
It marks a stark shift from his predecessor, General Hossein Sajedinia, who announced in April 2016 that there were 7,000 undercover morality police reporting on things like "bad hijab" ‐ a blanket term usually referring to un-Islamic dress by women.
Figures are rarely given, but Tehran’s traffic police said in late 2015 they had dealt with 40,000 cases of bad hijab in cars, where women often let their headscarves drop around their necks.
These cases generally led to fines and temporary impounding of the vehicle, the front man said at the time
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[Ynet] Fewer than 1,000 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.... fighters remain in Iraq and Syria, the United States-led international coalition fighting the hard-line Sunni murderous Moslem group said on Wednesday, a third of the estimated figure only three weeks ago.
Iraq and Syria have both declared victory over Islamic State in recent weeks, after a year that saw the two countries' armies, a range of foreign allies and various local forces drive the fighters out of all the towns and villages that once made up their self-proclaimed caliphate.
The United States has led an international coalition conducting air strikes against Islamic State since 2014 when the group swept across a third of Iraq. US troops have served as advisers on the ground with Iraqi government forces and with Kurdish and Arab groups in Syria.
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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.
the personification of Somali state failure...
...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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[IsraelTimes] Father of 5, an immigrant from Belarus, claimed he just wanted to live within the Caliphate, court documents say
[Ynet] Fewer than 1,000 
