[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Ex-Jehadi leader Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayaf has called Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar " expired medicine".
Ouch. That's worse than heaving a shoe at him.
Ah, but did he curse Omar's mustache?
Perhaps he could be moved to a lightly guarded retirement compound in Abbattabad.
Sayaf while talking to a gathering of Ex-Mujahedeen in Kabul said "Mullah Mohammad Omar's time is over. Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... is now expired medicine. Doctor has changed the prescription"
He did not put more light on his words.
The gathering was organized by Ex-Mujahedeen to celebrate the 26th anniversary of the withdrawal of the Soviet forces from Afghanistan.
Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayaf also talked about 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.... , the hot topic these days.
He used IS's Arabic name DAESH and said "DAESH is not a miracle", adding that "We will stop DAESH."
Sayaf said that if DAESH arrives at the doors of Kabul, then doors for Mujahedeen will be knocked.
Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayaf in the celebratory gathering also criticized foreign police of the government.
He said that bringing changes to the foreign policy towards neighbors without consultation with nation is disloyal.
About the involvement of Mujahedeen in the politics, Sayaf said that excluding Mujahedeen from the politics is not fair. He added that pretty soon Mujahedeen will come under one roof and their stance will go from one address.
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The only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.
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Expiration dates on medicines may or may not be meaningful. As I recall, they are based on when the level of the active ingredient falls to 90% of the initial amount or three years, whichever comes first.
Nonetheless, what matters in an insult is emotional impact, not fiddlin' facts.
[Libya Herald] Tunisia will continue to be neutral towards the Libya in the current crisis, Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Mokhtar Chaouachi has said. He was also reported adding that Tunisia planned to open a consular presence in Libya again. They can do that?
Chaouachi denied that parties in the Libyan conflict, especially 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... , had been responsible for âinflaming of the situation in the border towns of Dhehiba and Ben Guerdaneâ. "No,no! Certainly not! Please don't chop the heads off our nationals and subvert us!"
His statement came in response to reports suggesting the involvement of Libyan political groups in tensions on the ground at Libyan border crossings as a result of the tax imposed on all foreigners exiting at country.
He also discussed the crisis of the kidnapped Tunisian journalists in Libya, Sofiane Chourabi and Nadhir Gtari, stating that no information on their fate or their whereabouts were available. The Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans going to send a delegation to Libya to follow up closely on the case, Chaouachi added.
His statement comes after the border towns of Dhehiba and Ben Guerdane says protests last week over the exit tax which left one person dead and others injured. Tunisia has now decided to suspend the tax for all Maghreb citizens following protests.
Libya reciprocated by imposing a similar tax on Tunisians entering Libya but this has not yet been revoked.
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[Libya Herald] The Maltese Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, has today called for a UN military mission to restore security and order in Libya in order to prevent it from becoming a ââfailed stateââ, the Malta Times reports.
He objected to any form of unilateral action but expressed his backing for Italy's call for UN intervention.
Although Muscat said there was no 'immediate threat' to Malta from the Libyan situation, he felt that the real threat was to the entire Mediterranean region and felt that the illegal migration issue would intensify by the summer if the lack of security and law and order continued in Libya. Libya could become Switzerland tomorrow and the illegal migration issue would continued unabated.
If Libya is a failed state, there will be a free-for-all situation for criminal gangs running these illegal crossings, Muscat said. Yes, illegal crossings, gun running, kidnapping, assassination, terrorist infiltration into the continent, the usual.
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Libya became a failed state the moment the bloody handed dictator---who was keeping the lid on was removed from power.
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Here is a opportunity for Hillery to change her residence to Libya and run for Prez of Libya. Granted she don't have the looks of 'ol Kaddafy buts she's at least as ruthless.
[Ynet] An Egyptian court put ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi on trial on Sunday on charges of endangering national security by leaking state secrets and sensitive documents to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , furthering a state crackdown on his outlawed Moslem Brüderbund.
Morsi, who was toppled by the army in 2013 after mass protests against his rule, remained defiant, insisting he was Egypt's legitimate president despite facing several court cases."This court does not represent anything to me," said Morsi, who was on trial with 10 other people. The maximum penalty if convicted is death.
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President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said Egypt reserves its right to retaliate against the killing of 21 Egyptian Copts by the Islamic State (IS) group in Libya at the suitable time and place. The president added that the National Defense Council is in session to decide the course of action to be taken in response.
IS published an extremely graphic video on the internet Sunday purportedly showing the beheading of Coptic Christians it said it had kidnapped recently, and vowing to fight "crusaders."
El-Sisi said he ordered the Egyptian government to give full support to the families of the victims and tighten a ban on travel to its western neighbor. He also said directives were given to the state to take the necessary steps in order to secure and ease the return of Egyptians trying to leave Libya.
El-Sisi added he commissioned Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri to travel to New York and engage in necessary talks with senior United Nations officials and members of the Security Council to "place the international community before its responsibility and to take necessary procedures in line with the UN convention and to declare that what is happening in Libya threatens international peace and security."
You don't need the UN. Your citizens were murdered in a country next door to yours. That's a causus belli...
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You don't need the UN. Your citizens were murdered in a country next door to yours. That's a causus belli...
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Notice everyone wrings their hands about this type of display. The other side has no qualms about killing 'innocent' civilians and in such large numbers that their technological means allow. Quit worrying about 'collateral damage'. The quicker and sooner you get the uglies of war done and over the better chance for the survivors to move on with life and community. That means quit the 'kinder gentler' approach and go full 'war is hell, boys' on the barbarians. It's all about 'will', not about means. Tell the whining children to STFU or go to the front lines to stop it themselves.
Rome -- The Italian embassy in Libya, one of the last European missions in the troubled country, was closed on Sunday and its staff repatriated because of mounting insecurity, the foreign ministry said. In total, about 100 Italians were being evacuated from the country on a boat escorted by the Italian navy, foreign ministry sources said.
Rome on Friday warned its nationals against travelling to Libya and urged those already there to leave as militants gain ground in the violence-plagued country.
Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti said in an interview published on Sunday that Italy was ready to lead a coalition from Europe and north African states to battle the militants in Libya.
Go for it. We'll help you pass a UN resolution. Any spare NATO munitions stored in your country? All yours.
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[ARABNEWS] The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) announced a package of urgent measures to prevent the rapid spread of terrorism, which has hit a number of OIC member states, and halt a surge pf violence in the Moslem world.
The executive committee of OIC, at its meeting in Jeddah in Sunday, called for the development of an appropriate mechanism to face new trends of terrorism in member states.
The meeting comes in response to a call by OIC Secretary-General Iyad Madani to tackle terrorist attacks in the region. The meeting was chaired by 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... . It discussed a number of mechanisms and strategies to fight terrorism and extremism.
The meeting called for holding conferences, seminars and workshops with the participation of politicians, holy mans, community leaders, scholars and experts to discuss the best possible ways of responding to terrorist threat to electronic security and to work with OIC member states to develop a new approach and treatment of sectarian violence.
Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Multilateral Relations Prince Turki bin Mohammed bin Saud stressed the importance of the meeting as one of a series of international and regional ones to discuss the phenomenon of terrorism and its roots and causes. He confirmed the need to find a unified vision to combat this threat.
Prince Turki reviewed a series of Saudi efforts, which have been taken with all regional and international levels in order to end this phenomenon, including the convening of the first international conference to combat terrorism.
The conference was hosted by the Kingdom in February 2005. This event gave rise to the idea of the establishment of the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Counterterrorism Center.
Madani said terrorism cannot be countered by only military means but there must be scientific plans to treat aspects, dimensions and contexts of terrorism. The economic deprivation and exclusion methods provide favorable conditions for the spread of terrorism, extremism and violence.
Madani called for stifling the voice of terrorist and murderous Moslem groups, which is trying to legitimize violence in the name of religion, ideology or claims of cultural superiority. The Moslem world must understand causes, which are behind sectarian violence and attempts to politicize religious relations.
The executive committee of OIC comprises members from Egypt, Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... , Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Guinea and the secretary-general.
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How about ya'll abandon that barbarous "religion"?
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[CHRON] Yemen's Gulf Arab neighbors warned on Sunday that if the world fails to act against the Iranian catspaws who have toppled the Yemeni government, the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council will take whatever actions it deems necessary to maintain regional security and stability.
The foreign ministers of the GCC did not elaborate on what measures the group might take, but called specifically on the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council to intervene. The Iranian catspaws, known as Houthis, control the capital, Sanaa, and recently forced the resignation of the president and dissolved the parliament.
The ministers said that if the Security Council fails to adopt a resolution that would allow for the use of military force "over the Houthis' illegitimate' seizure of power," then the GCC states of 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... , Kuwait, 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... , Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates might essentially intervene on their own.
"In the case of failure to reach an agreement... the GCC member states will take measures which enable them to maintain their vital interests in the security and stability of Yemen," the foreign ministers said in a joint statement following their emergency meeting late Saturday in Saudi Arabia.
They also demanded the implementation of a U.N. resolution that imposes sanctions against anyone "hampering the process of peaceful transition of power" and called for urgent action to ensure the safety of Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who resigned last month after the Houthis put him under house arrest.
The GCC ministers met last month in a similar emergency meeting in Riyadh and condemned the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... takeover, calling it a "terrorist act" and a "coup against legitimacy." The council demanded the rebels withdraw from the presidential palace, fearing the Houthi offensive could fracture Yemen, bolster Shiite-led Iran in the region and threaten the Arabian Peninsula's stability.
As I said yesterday, here's the deal: the GCC and Saoodi-controlled Arabia have militaries. You have modern western weapons. You have plenty of young men. You want Yemen fixed? Go fix it. We'll vote a UN resolution to give you political cover, but you supply the military and the resources to take care of the problem. There's a precedent for this; Egypt went to Yemen a half-century ago to settle their hash. It even worked for a while.
So go ahead and handle this "regional security" problem yourselves. Let us know how it turns out.
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Fort Carson (Colorado) -- More than 4,000 US soldiers based at Fort Carson, Colorado, are heading to Kuwait, where they will take over as one of America’s largest ground forces in the region after President Barack Obama asked Congress to authorise military action against Daesh militants.
Obama ruled out large-scale US ground combat operations similar to those in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he asked for the option to use military force against Daesh fighters for three years. The fight could be extended to any “closely related successor entity” to the Daesh group that has overrun parts of Iraq and Syria and killed hostages it has taken, including several Americans.
Since the day he asked for the soldiers he's been out golfing. Now maybe he's burning up the phones working to build support with the Congress, but there doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency...
The US Army has kept a brigade in Kuwait since the end of the Iraq war in 2011. Those soldiers, including two units from Fort Carson, have worked to train local troops from throughout the Middle East. In its most recent deployment to Kuwait, a combat team from Fort Carson conducted training missions with allies.
The unit headed to Kuwait is Fort Carson’s heaviest force, armed with tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles. Many of its soldiers are veterans of one or more of the brigade’s previous combat tours in Iraq.
“We’re no strangers to deployment,” said the brigade’s commander, Col. Greg Sierra.
Sierra told soldiers and their families that if his brigade tangles with Daesh fighters, the outcome won’t be in doubt. “In the end, if we do get into fights, we win decisively,” he said.
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I don't think Daesh can play with the big boys.
when they come up against an armor brigade of American's finest, it will be a rout...maybe a meat grinder.
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I read an article that reported that hard-core ISIL militants were beheading smokers, because they were violating a Koranic scripture by effectively committing "slow suicide".
They were also destroying seized stockpiles of cigarettes.
So - all we need to do is fly cargo planes over ISIL territory, dropping packs of cigarettes - and let the loony militants slaughter their own nicotine addicts.
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The unit headed to Kuwait is Fort Carson’s heaviest force, armed with tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles. Many of its soldiers are veterans of one or more of the brigade’s previous combat tours in Iraq.
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What I have to ask, with all respect to the troops involved, will they be allowed to actually fight with loaded weapons or will it be more of the suicidal "don't offend anyone" ROE?
[AnNahar] Japan, reeling from the murder of two nationals by 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.... hard boys, will offer an extra $15 million in aid to fight terrorism in Middle East and Africa, a report said Sunday.
Japan hopes to demonstrate its resolve not to cave in to terrorism with the fresh assistance, which will be announced at a global counter-terrorism conference starting on Wednesday in Washington, the Sankei Shimbun said. Somehow I believe Hiroo Onoda has already demonstrated 'Japanese resolve.'
It said the money would be distributed through international organizations to affected regions, including countries bordering Syria and Iraq. Large parts of those countries are controlled by Islamic State myrmidons.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has come in for criticism over the timing of an earlier $200 million Japanese pledge to help refugees fleeing IS-controlled areas, and the comments he made.
Abe announced the $200 million aid in Egypt on January 17, saying Japan would "help curb the threat" of IS and give the money "for those countries contending with" the myrmidons.
The announcement was followed by the hostage drama, with the forces of Evil demanding the same sum in exchange for a captured Japanese contractor and a journalist.
The forces of Evil later changed their demand to the release of a death row inmate from a Jordanian prison.
Tokyo pressed Jordan for its help, but the forces of Evil eventually announced the killing of the pair as well as a Jordanian airman, along with photos and videos.
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[NYTIMES] After a January rampage in the Gay Paree area killed 17 people, and police raids in Belgium a week later that the authorities said thwarted a major terrorist operation, Denmark became over the weekend the latest European country plunged into what Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt described Sunday as "a fight for freedom against a dark ideology."
The Danish news media identified him as Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein, but the Copenhagen police did not confirm his name. They identified him only as a 22-year-old, born and raised in Denmark
Though the gunman's name and basic biographical details were still unclear late Sunday, he appears to have shared some traits with at least two of the faceless myrmidons responsible for the Gay Paree violence, notably a criminal record and an abrupt transition from petty crime to Islamic militancy.
He was released from prison two whole weeks ago for aggravated assault, according to The Times of Israel. No doubt he had plenty of deep religious discussions with his peers in the Big House Low Slung Danish Modern House.
The Danish news media identified him as Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein, but the Copenhagen police did not confirm his name. They identified him only as a 22-year-old, born and raised in Denmark, whom they knew for gang-related activity and for several criminal offenses linked to weapons violations and violence. What's in a name? The "el-" would indicate that Pop came from North Africa, rather than from Arabia (where they use "al-"). And the "Abdel" suggests he may not have been a Lutheran.
A Copenhagen police statement issued in November 2013 asked for help in finding a suspect by the same name who was wanted at the time in connection with a stabbing on a commuter train. The police noted then that the suspect "should be considered dangerous."
This weekend Ms. Thorning-Schmidt, warned the usually placid nation -- whose 5.6 million citizens regularly rank in opinion surveys as among the world's happiest people -- that "if a madman is willing to sacrifice his life, then we will never be able to guard ourselves 100 percent."
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[USATODAY] Denmark continued to reel Sunday over its first double terror attack Sunday, trying to make sense of killings in a country that rarely sees deadly violence and where the queen and officials walk around with light security.
"We are a nation that is completely unused to such drama," said Kirsten Stubbe-Teglbjærg, a resident of the Danish capital.
A gunman fired multiple shots Saturday through the window of a café in a tony part of Copenhagen during a free speech debate, killing one person.
By late Saturday night, the gunman stood in café-filled street parallel to the city's famous mile-long pedestrian shopping street, killing a guard at a synagogue. By early Sunday morning, a massive manhunt resulted in a shootout near a downtown subway station, and the gunman's death.
Five coppers were also maimed in the attacks.
Police haven't released the identity of the attacker but said at a news conference Sunday that the 22-year-old suspect was born in Denmark, was involved in gang criminal activity and had an interest in turban Islam. The suspect has not traveled abroad to the Middle East, police said. Police also said they suspect he was attempting to copycat last month's Gay Paree shootings on the Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... office and a kosher grocery store.
Police originally thought the gunman was working alone, but officers raided a local Internet café in Nørrebro, close to where the shoot-out occurred, and said they handcuffed one person.
The two people killed were Finn Nørgaard, 55, a filmmaker shot in the café, and Dan Uzan, 37, a volunteer security guard at the synagogue.
"It feels surrealistic that this happened in Denmark, just around the corner from where I live," said Uffe Alici Pedersen of Copenhagen, who is Moslem. "I think everyone is thinking of the dead and maimed and their families with the deepest compassion and respect." Not "everyone."
Denmark, who rescued its Jewish population during World War II by sending them to neutral Sweden, expressed solidarity with the murdered guard. Three Moslem organizations quickly condemned the killings.
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For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
[CBSNEWS] The gunman in the recent terror attacks in Denmark appears to have targeted a Copenhagen synagogue simply because there were Jews there.
Just like after the terror attacks last month in La Belle France - once of which was on a Kosher grocery store -- Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the occasion to encourage Europe's Jews to leave.
"Again, Jews were murdered on European soil just because they were Jews," Netanyahu said at the start of his Cabinet meeting Sunday. "This wave of attacks is expected to continue, as well as murderous anti-Semitic attacks. Jews deserve security in every country, but we say to our Jewish brothers and sisters, Israel is your home."
The Israeli Cabinet approved a $46 million plan Sunday to encourage Jewish immigration from La Belle France, Belgium and Ukraine, countries where large numbers of Jews have expressed interest in moving to Israel.
The plan aims to bring about a "significant increase" in the number of immigrants by boosting Hebrew studies, holding immigration fairs, and posting more immigration officials in those countries, according to a government statement.
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[ARA] Subsequent to a protest on the anniversary of the arrest of Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), festivities broke out between Kurdish citizens and members of the Turkish police in Nusaybin town of Mardin province, in southeastern Turkey, near the Syrian city of Qamishli (Qamishlo), local sources reported on Sunday.
Speaking to ARA News in Nusaybin, Mohammed Hussein said that the Kurdsh residents of Nusaybin took to the street to revive the 16th anniversary of Öcalan's imprisonment, condemning his arrest by the Turkish authorities.
Öcalan is held in Imrali Island of Marmara province.
"The festivities erupted after the protestors stoned the security forces who tried to disperse them with tear gas," the source said.
Hussein added that protests swept Turkey's Kurdistan (Turkish areas where Kurds constitute majority), as rallies and demonstrations took place in the cities of Diyarbakir, Batman, Qizil Tepe, Mardin, Cizre Botan, Sharnakh, and Midyat.
The protestors condemned what they described "the international conspiracy against PKK's leader", demanding his release to facilitate the grinding of the peace processor between the Turkish government and the Kurdish parties in Turkey.
Noteworthy, the Kurdish cities in Turkey are experiencing annual demonstrations by supporters of the PKK and its leader Abdullah Öcalan to demand his release, but those demands did not resonate with the Turkish government.
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[Ynet] Thousands of Kurds rallied in towns across Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast on Sunday and some clashed with riot police in calling for the release of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan on the 16th anniversary of his capture.
Idiots. They're fighting a genocidal war on two fronts, and need the country in between to be at least passive while they do so.
Ocalan, leader of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party(PKK), is viewed by nationalist Turks as responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people in the group's 30-year armed struggle with the Turkish army. But for many of Turkey's estimated 15 million Kurds, the 65-year-old represents their bitter struggle for greater cultural and political rights. Ocalan may call an end to the PKK's armed struggle by March, some people close to the process say. But some also say that unrest in the southeast suggests the PKK is flexing its muscles as it looks to stamp its authority on the mainly Kurdish region.
[IsraelTimes] White House calls TV report 'patently false'; State Department also disputes claims
It's all very strange -- who to believe?
The White House and State Department denied that it had stopped updating Israel on progress in talks with Iran over its contested nuclear program, as had been reported earlier by Channel 2.
According to the TV report, US National Security Adviser Susan Rice has cut off contact with Israeli National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen on the talks. It also quoted chief US negotiator Wendy Sherman as saying that she will no longer keep Israel informed of the attack. The channel characterized the move as Dire Revenge for Netanyahu's planned speech to Congress next month, which has raised the ire of the B.O. regime.
See, that's the problem -- the Obama Adminitration does behave like that, to the point of cutting off bullets in the mddle of a shooting war.
But the US swiftly rebutted the claims, with the White House terming it "patently false."
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[DAWN] As the government has started imparting special arms training to male and female teachers in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
Wait -- arming teachers?? But this isn't Texas!
and parts of the adjoining tribal region, the law-enforcement agencies in Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... have asked people to surrender weapons. And they're gonna line right up to do that.
Residents said that the army and paramilitary troops conducted raid in Bughdy village in the west of Parachinar four days ago and collected firearms from houses.
An elder of the area said that plenty of ammunition and several weapons were taken away from a residential compound.
Haji Gul Akbar, head of Anjuman-e-Hussainia, a body that represents all sub clans of Turi tribe, confirmed the raid in the Bughdy village.
He said that the matter had been taken up with political agent Amjad Ali Khan.
"The political agent appreciated support of Turi tribe and assured its elders that all seized weapons would be returned to them," he said.
Bughdy, a hamlet of houses, lies astride the border along Afghanistan's Paktia province and this long stretch from Piwar Kotal down to Kherlachi belongs to Turi tribe.
Gul Akbar said that last year, the Death Eaters sneaked into Pak territory from Afghanistan and attacked a border post of security forces near Bughdy.
Paramilitary forces suffered some casualties in the attack and residents of Bughdy provided backup support to the paramilitary troops besieged in the post.
Not only bodies of Frontier Corps soldiers were retrieved from the post but one attacker was captured as well.
Elders in parts of lower Kurram have been asked three days ago to hand over heavy weapons otherwise security forces will conduct operation to seize them.
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Residents said that the army and paramilitary troops conducted raid in Bughdy village in the west of Parachinar four days ago and collected firearms from houses.
Bloomberg's Amerika if he had his way
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[DAWN] A big shot of the Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) One of Iran's political arms in Pakistain.
on Saturday called upon the government to take effective measures to curb increasing sectarian attacks and get rid of those who were orchestrating and executing such attacks.
Speaking at a presser at his office, Allama Amin Shaheedi, the MWM's deputy secretary general, demanded that the government extend the scope of the Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... to Sindh and Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... where "forces of Evil have their safe havens".
Referring to the Friday attack on a Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. Imambargah ...since Pakistain is very religiously correct, Shia Moslems can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are... in which 20 people were killed, he said that the federal government was responsible for such attacks as many precious lives were lost because of its procrastination.
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[DAWN] The expected move by the government to streamline and restrict the admission of foreign students to religious seminaries has not gone well with the board of religious seminaries belonging to the Deobandi sect. Comes as a surprise, huh? Floored me, too.
While Wafaqul Madaris al Arabia has expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s over the proposal to ban the admissions of foreign students in seminaries, the madressah boards belonging to the Barelvi and Shia sects demanded the government carry out strict regulations in this regard.
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[USNEWS] The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... published an article this week that has re-ignited a 12-year-old debate: Was then-President George W. Bush right about Iraq? The report examined U.S. service personnel's encounters with abandoned chemical weapons in Iraq ‐ and some conservatives were quick to pounce on the story as evidence that claims by Bush in the lead-up to the war that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction were true and that the United States' 2003 invasion was justified.
The article by Times news hound C.J. Chivers focused on U.S. soldiers who suffered from exposure to the sulfur mustard and other nerve gases which emitted from the bombs. According to the story, about "5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs" were found scattered across Iraqi soil. The U.S. government buried the cases from both the public and the troops. As a result, injured soldiers did not receive proper medical treatment.
The conservative Twittersphere immediately went kaboom! with commentary ‐ not over the military's negligent health service or the government's secrecy, however.
The roots of the debate hark back to a year after the 9/11 attacks when Bush told the U.N. that inspections showed that "stockpiles of VX, mustard and other chemical agents" were likely hidden in Iraq and that the regime was "rebuilding and expanding" chemical weapons production facilities. But Bush's often-reiterated claims of an impending WMD threat were contradicted by a 2004 CIA report that said there were no WMD stockpiles in Iraq, and liberal media outlets had charged that Bush misled the country into an unnecessary war.
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Now that it is no longer of use, the truth is noted and the MSM drumbeat of "no WMD", and "Bush lied, people died" can be forgotten. In the run up, the convoys of Iraqi vehicles moving warehouses full of something into Syria, and years later, the huge Syrian stockpiles of WMD chemicals discovered, certainly had no connection? God I hate the way these people just plain lie to the American people. Not merely use selective reporting, the sin of omission, but actual lies. God save the Republic from Obama and Hildebeast...
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If the Bush administration, after 2003, had decided to deliberately undermine its own credibility and delegitimize its policy what would they have done differently?
Whatever was gained by this policy of secrecy is to be balanced against the Western defeat in the 9/11 war and the disastrous erosion of Western deterrence.
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...were contradicted by a 2004 CIA report that said there were no WMD stockpiles in Iraq,
Everyone involved in that report should be stripped of their pay and pensions as it was a deliberate attempt in effect to overthrow the lawful government of the US, one that they worked for, purely for their political agenda.
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If your narrative is that there.... 'was no WMD' then you have no need to explain the rather sordid measures used to get rid of it. If WMD surface at some future date, it can then be viewed as a mystery, or complete surprise, as opposed to evidence of a failed attempt at destruction.
If you hold with the narrative of 'no WMD' then the shipment of non-existent WMD to a third country need not be investigated.
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I tell liberals that months of Iraqi AD nodes lighting up American aircraft prior to Dubya's liberation of Iraq, was sufficient cause to go to war.
No other factor is relevant in my mind. You can argue WMDs or no WMDs, but you can't say that WMDs was the only cause for war.
As an aside, someone was feeding the media that pernicious lie for all those years. It started somewhere. The media just doesn't make sh*t up unless there's a paymaster behind it.
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Retired Army Lt. Gen. Richard P. 'Zippy' Zahner, the top American military intelligence officer in Iraq in 2005 and 2006, said he did not know of any other intelligence program as successful in reducing the chemical weapons that remained in Iraq after the American-led invasion.
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You guys didn't read the article. I did have to disinfect my computer...
The Slimes was careful to point out these were not real WMDs - they were degraded enough to not be mass destruction, just enough to make some soldiers sick, which the gubbamint then covered up.
So it still fits the narrative!
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The gas in the Tokyo subway attack was amateur compared to weaponized material. Yet people died. Even degraded weaponized gas is deadly. Anyone who says otherwise should volunteer their abode for temp storage of the stuff.
[IraqiNews.com] The ISIL Lions of Islam started to sell the possessions of the citizens that they looted in Nineveh.
Some witnesses stated to IraqiNews.com "The ISIL Lions of Islam started to loot the furniture and electric materials from the residences and sell them at the market in cheap prices," noting that "The citizens welcomed the cheap prices and started to buy them."
The problem is that kind of fundraising is a one-off. Those dhimmis will never acquire possessions to be taken and sold ever again, and the ones not yet completely sheared aren't being allowed the income to do so either. The model fails without continued rapid expansion-by-conquest, and with it Allah's approval. Sorry doods, y'all chose the wrong kind of piety.
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The R.O.P.: the Religion Of Piracy.
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Premiering this week on A&E: "Pawnstars Ninevah".
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[IraqiNews.com] On Sunday, Anbar Provincial Council announced, that a military force consisting of 10 thousands fighters from the rustics of al-Anbar will join the ranks of the Iraqi Army.
The tree of freedom being watered by the blood of patriots -- good for them. But how realistic is that number? And how dependable are the tribal levies as troops?
The Head of al-Anbar Council Sabah Karhoot stated, "Anbar Provincial Council has held a meeting with clan leaders of al-Anbar in order to discuss current problems in the province," pointing out that, "The meeting came out with a number of points, including the formation of a military force that would include 10 thousands fighters from the rustics of al-Anbar."
Yesterday, Iraqi joint forces, with support from the IAF and warplanes of the international coalition against ISIS, have managed to liberate the center of the district of al-Baghdadi in an extensive military operation in Anbar.
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[IraqiNews.com] The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari stated Saturday, that Iran has helped in thwarting ISIS plans in Iraq, and that the US President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... was surprised by Iran's actions.
Jafari said in a statement reported by 'Fars' news agency and followed by IraqiNews.com, "When ISIS started its terrorist work in Iraq, no countries but Iran helped the Iraqis in destroying this terrorist group," pointing out that, "Iran has helped in thwarting ISIS plans in Iraq."
Jafari added, "The whole world, even US President Barack Obama himself, was surprised by Iran's actions," asserting that, "Iran was the only country that supported the contemporary Islamic Awakening movements in Moslem countries."
PM Haider al-Abadi confirmed on Monday (December 1, 2014) that he was not ready to sabotage the relationship with Iran, noting that Iran stood with Iraq in its existential struggle.
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This is kinda stupid. Iran has been fighting ISIS for years, using Assad of Syria and Hezbollah as proxies.
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Like Millard Fillmore, Barack Hussein Obama has played Chess, however he is not familiar with Gambit Chess, hence his surprise. Me thinks the Iranians just pulled The Ponziani on young BO.
Baghdad -- Washington is working to install a new air base in Iraq’s Kurdistan to be used in a campaign against Islamic State (ISIS), media report. This comes as the White House’s special envoy on ISIS speaks of a ground operation in Iraq against the militants.
This time an American stronghold in the region will be deployed in Erbil, the capital of semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq that is expected to be used as a logistics hub to supply primarily munitions for warplanes of the US-led coalition against ISIS militants.
First good idea from our side that I've heard in a while. I'm guessing Champ doesn't know, but perhaps he'll read about it in the newspaper...
“The base is close to Erbil, the capital of the regional government…The warplanes will do surveillance, but the warplanes which will bomb ISIL targets will not take off from here,” Helgurt Hikmet, spokesperson for the Ministry of Peshmerga (Kurdish self-defense forces) said, as cited by Anadolu Agency.
Why not? Great location.
Turkey’s Hurriyet also reported that the US is preparing documents to get land leasehold for the next 15 years to station US military personnel and warplanes. A number of the US Air Force’s Black Hawk helicopters have already been deployed to Erbil earlier this month, to ensure quick rescue operations to save downed pilots bombing ISIS positions in Northern Iraq. Such operations became a priority after ISIS fighters burnt alive a downed Jordanian pilot.
Fighter jets of the US and its western allies have been conducting airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq since early August. Starting from September 23, the US and its Arab allies: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates started bombing ISIS in Syria, without obtaining any authorization either from Damascus or a UN mandate.
“There will be a major counter offensive on the ground in Iraq,”retired Marine Corps General John Allen, the White House special envoy on the Islamic State, told Jordan’s official Petra news agency a week ago. The operation is actually supposed to be an Iraqi army offensive supported by the anti-ISIS coalition firepower.
As long as the Iraqi army fights...
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[IBTIMES] Jihadists with 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 in Syria and Iraq reportedly cut off the hands of three women and whipped five men for violating a cell phone ban in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Iraq. The group also known as ISIS has warned that anyone caught using a cell phone would be subject to public whippings or worse. We're looking at the Islamic equivalent of Pol Pot.
ISIS opposes all phone use amid concerns residents will share sensitive information that would help the U.S.-led Arclight airstrike campaign against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, media reports indicate. The coalition has targeted ISIS fighters since August, with at least 20 Arclight airstrikes in Mosul.
The cell phone ban and subsequent punishments appear to be the latest acts of violence and brutality from ISIS, which made swift advances in Iraq last summer and has turned Raqqa, Syria, into its capital. In recent weeks, ISIS fighters reportedly forced Syrian civilians to donate blood for maimed fighters. Female Yazidi hostages also were required to give blood. "Forcing civilians to donate blood is prohibited and inhuman, especially since the IS group does so randomly, regardless of the type of blood," al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper news hound Jiwan Soz told ARA News. "The group is drawing blood in a primitive way without using the medical tools necessary for this process."
ISIS has long prohibited behaviors such as drinking alcohol, cursing, smoking and other acts deemed "haram," or sinful. Most recently, the severed head of an ISIS official reportedly was found last month in eastern Syria with a cigarette in its mouth. "This is not permissible, sheik," read a note attached to the corpse in Arabic, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
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raqqa and mosul needs to be targeted asap
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[ARA] The Peshmerga forces have arrived in the outskirts of the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , in northern Iraq, which is under 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.... 's (IS/ISIS) control, amid preparations for storming the city with support of the U.S.-led international coalition, local sources from Mosul reported on Thursday.
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A couple of dozen 6-aircraft ARCLIGHT strikes with 1000lb bombs would soften 'em up a bit, don't you think? Might kill a civilian or two, though...
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[ARA] On Sunday, Bahraini military has reportedly deployed fighter jets to Jordan, to launch operations against snuffies 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.... (IS/ISIL) in Syria and Iraq, local media said.
The Bahraini warplanes will be conducting Arclight airstrikes under the banner of the U.S.-led international coalition.
"A group of Bahraini Royal Air Force planes have landed in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to participate in the international effort to annihilate terrorism," BNA agency reported.
After the execution of the Jordanian pilot Moaz Kassasbeh on the hands of the IS group two weeks ago, Jordan has intensified its strikes against the radical group's locations in Syria and Iraq.
Last week, the UAE deployed several F-16 fighter jets to Jordan to carry out Arclight airstrikes against IS krazed killer group.
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[NEWSWEEK] Saint Michael, the archangel of battle, is tattooed across the back of a U.S. army veteran who recently returned to Iraq and joined a Christian militia fighting 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 what he sees as a biblical war between good and evil.
Brett, 28, carries the same thumb-worn pocket Bible he did whilst deployed to Iraq in 2006 ‐ a picture of the Virgin Mary tucked inside its pages and his favorite verses highlighted.
"It's very different," he said, asked how the experiences compared. "Here I'm fighting for a people and for a faith, and the enemy is much bigger and more brutal."
Thousands of foreigners have flocked to Iraq and Syria in the past two years, mostly to join Islamic State, but a handful of idealistic Westerners are enlisting as well, citing frustration their governments are not doing more to combat the ultra-radical Islamists or prevent the suffering of innocents.
The militia they joined is called Dwekh Nawsha ‐ meaning self-sacrifice in the ancient Aramaic language spoken by Christ and still used by Assyrian Christians, who consider themselves the indigenous people of Iraq.
A map on the wall in the office of the Assyrian political party affiliated with Dwekh Nawsha marks the Christian towns in northern Iraq, fanning out around the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The majority are now under control of Islamic State, which overran Mosul last summer and issued an ultimatum to Christians: pay a tax, convert to Islam, or die by the sword. Most fled.
Dwekh Nawsha operates alongside Kurdish peshmerga forces to protect Christian villages on the frontline in Nineveh province.
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WASHINGTON -- The Islamic State is expanding beyond its base in Syria and Iraq to establish militant affiliates in Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, and Libya, US intelligence officials assert, raising the prospect of a new global war on terror. They musta been reading the Burg. Nobody here's surprised, are they?
Intelligence officials estimate that the group’s fighters number 20,000 to 31,500 in Syria and Iraq.
There are less formal pledges of support from “probably at least a couple hundred extremists” in countries such as Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Yemen, said a US counterterrorism official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential information about the group.
Lieutenant General Vincent R. Stewart, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said in an assessment this month that the Islamic State is assembling a growing international following.
But it is unclear how effective these affiliates are, or to what extent this is an opportunistic rebranding by some jihadist upstarts hoping to draft new members by playing off the notoriety of the Islamic State.
Critics fear such assessments will once again enmesh the United States in a protracted, hydra-headed conflict as President Obama appeals to Congress for new war powers to fight the Islamic State.
Said critics being afraid to confront evil, afraid to deal with killers, and afraid of their own shadows...
“I’m loath to write another blank check justifying the use of American troops just about anywhere,” said Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
Because war is ucky...
Loathful democrat, only slightly redundant.
The sudden proliferation of Islamic State affiliates and loyalist fighters motivated the White House’s push to give Obama and his successor new authority to pursue the group wherever its followers emerge -- just as he and President George W. Bush hunted Al Qaeda franchises outside the group’s headquarters, first in Afghanistan and then in Pakistan, for the past decade.
“We don’t want anybody in ISIL to be left with the impression that if they move to some neighboring country, that they will be essentially in a safe haven and not within the range of United States capability,” Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, said Wednesday.
Correct, though we have little confidence that Champ and Suzie will push when the going gets tough...
The Islamic State began attracting pledges of allegiance from groups and individual fighters after it declared the formation of a caliphate, or religious state, in June. Counterterrorism analysts say it is using Al Qaeda’s franchise structure to expand its geographic reach, but without Al Qaeda’s rigorous, multiyear application process.
"Can you believe all this paperwork Achmed? They're worse than McDonalds!"
This could allow its franchises to grow faster, easier, and farther.
“Factions which were at one time part of Al Qaeda and its affiliates, as well as groups loyal to it or in some ways working in tandem with it, have moved on to what they see as more of a winning group,” said Steven Stalinsky, executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute in Washington, which monitors Arabic-language media and websites.
There is no indication that the Islamic State controls territory in Afghanistan, but it has signaled its interest in Afghanistan and Pakistan and has reportedly sent envoys there to recruit.
Similarly, until recently, leaders of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, in Yemen, used nonconfrontational language to mask simmering disagreements with the Islamic State and its head, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. But tensions peaked in November, when a faction of Al Qaeda fighters there swore loyalty to Baghdadi.
Any authorization to use US military force against the Islamic State could arguably also cover interventions in Egypt and Libya, where active militant organizations have pledged allegiance to the group and have received its public acknowledgment as “provinces” of the putative caliphate.
Although there is little or no public evidence that the Islamic State’s leaders in Syria and Iraq have practical control over its North African provinces, its influence is already apparent in their operations and is destabilizing the countries around them.
A publication released by the central group last week included a photograph of fighters in Libya with its affiliate there parading 20 Egyptian Christian captives in the Islamic State’s trademark orange jumpsuits, indicating at least a degree of communication.
The sawing off of heads is distinctly familiar...
In Egypt, the Sinai-based extremist group Ansar Beit Al Maqdis sent emissaries to the Islamic State in Syria last year to seek financial support, weapons, and tactical advice, as well as the publicity and recruiting advantages that might come with the Islamic State name, Western officials briefed on classified intelligence reports said.
In neighboring Libya, at least three distinct groups out of 300 have declared their affiliation with the Islamic State.
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They musta been reading the Burg. Nobody here's surprised, are they?
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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[ARABNEWS] The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) announced a package of urgent measures to prevent the rapid spread of terrorism, which has hit a number of OIC member states, and halt a surge pf violence in the 
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
[CBSNEWS] The gunman in the recent terror attacks in Denmark appears to have targeted a Copenhagen synagogue simply because there were Jews there.
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[USNEWS] The 
