[Tolo News] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in a statement on Saturday called on all anti-government gangs, including the Taliban, to stop attacks in civilian-populated areas.
"Another critical task checked off the list! Really, they don't pay us nearly enough for the good we bring to these benighted areas of the world. Percy, pour the tea, will you; Isfahanullah, coffee for those who want it, and then the cakes. We've got to keep up our strength for the next round."
The statement came after Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... saw three deadly attacks on Friday, two of which claimed by the Taliban, causing over 400 casualties in a single day.
The Friday's casualties were "the highest number of civilians killed and injured in one day since UNAMA began systematically recording civilian casualties in 2009," said the statement.
"Those responsible for suicide and complex attacks in civilian-populated areas can no longer shrug off the disproportionate harm to the civilian population they cause," said Nicholas Haysom, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan. "The Afghan people are resilient, but the suffering caused by these tactics in terms of civilian deaths, injuries, and the loss of family members, is extreme, irreversible and unjustifiable in any terms."
The Mission also extends its condolences to the families of those killed and injured, and reiterates UNAMA's unwavering support to the people of Afghanistan, the statement reads.
The Taliban in a statement on Saturday grabbed credit for two of the three massive Friday attacks.
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[Newsi.ng] Durban - "I told you I was coming to get you. I told you my boy."
After a two year separation, the moment war dog Django spotted his best friend and handler Sheldon Holland through the gates of Johannesburg's quarantine kennels, his ears pricked up.
With fur bristling, Django bolted towards Holland the second he was released.
Tail wagging and tongue flailing, Django flew into the open arms of an emotional Holland and showered him with slobbery kisses and playful nips.
The Pietermaritzburg local and former American K9 explosives handler had been paired with the German Shepard in Kandahar, Afghanistan four years ago. The pair had immediately formed an unbreakable bond.
Working side-by-side for 18 months, the two became inseparable and when Holland finished his contract with the AMK9 unit, he promised his furry friend that he would one day live with him in South Africa. Hat tip to the quiet professionals at AMK9 whom I first encountered at Fort Benning and later in theater. A story seldom told. Many long hours, many young lives saved.
After two years of separation and a lengthy, complicated process, Holland was told last week that the best friend, he thought he would never see again, was finally on his way to South Africa.
Although the kennels had told Holland that Django would only be released at 10:00 yesterday, Holland and his younger brother, Hadley Holland arrived at quarantine at 08:00.
As Holland paced anxiously around the reception area, he told Weekend Witness that his "nerves were shot" and his greatest fear was that after two years of being apart, Django would not remember him.
However, the minute Django layed eyes on Holland, he strained to free himself from the kennel handler's grip.
The second he was released from his leash, Django sprinted towards Holland.
The US has donated 9.5 billion Kenyan shillings (US $92.4 million) to the Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF) to fund soldier training and new equipment acquisitions and sustain the counterterror war against Somali militant group al-Shabab.
Speaking at a July 25 joint press conference with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at the end of his visit to Nairobi, US President Barack Obama said the fund is part of a broader bilateral security cooperation project meant to increase US military support for the KDF fight against terrorism in Somalia.
Downsizing the American military, but upsizing its responsibilities? Clever.
“Today we discussed deepening security cooperation between our governments and signed an action plan in which we will support Kenya’s judiciary, police and border security,” Obama said. “We also discussed broader efforts to counter violent extremism here in Kenya and around the world.”
So he didn't go empty handed...
The new allocation is a 163 percent increase in US funding for the KDF counterterror war, up from 3.8 billion shillings donated for the same purpose last year. From the 9.5 billion shillings, an estimated 2.52 billion shillings will be used to provide for the Kenyan Rangers Regiment, a KDF special operations unit which is leading the fight against al-Shabab.
Among other projects, the money will be used to train, equip and provide logistical support for border security forces; support interagency intelligence sharing and gathering; and improve force protection by providing explosives detection equipment and troop carriers built to withstand improvised bomb attacks.
Unnamed KDF officials told media in Nairobi that 1.9 billion shillings will be used to buy UAVs for use in border surveillance operations along the Somali border. Kenya says the porous border allows al-Shabab gunmen to enter Kenyan territory and carry out attacks such as the June 2013 siege of a Nairobi shopping mall, in which 67 people were killed. A similar attack at Garissa University near to the northeastern border with Somalia killed 147 people in April.
Apart from the US package, the KDF has an acquisition plan reflected in Kenya’s 2014-2015 budget, which allocated $205.6 million for the procurement of 10 new military helicopters. An additional $12.6 million is for the refurbishment of three grounded Russian-made Mi-17 attack helicopters, while $11.4 million will be spent on leasing 10 helicopters for the Kenyan Police Service Air Wing to widen national airspace surveillance operations.
In 2013, the KDF mechanized unit acquired 76 Serbian-made armored personnel carriers; 32 were delivered by the end of 2014.
The Kenyan Navy will receive six new 4.7 meter-long rigid hulled inflatable boats by the end of 2016. In 2012, the US donated six used patrol boats to the Navy.
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[Libya Herald] The head of security in Ghat, Colonel Murtada, has confirmd that Libyan officials are ready to reopen the nearby Libyan-Algerian border post. Shut down in May last year by the Algerians when they closed the entire frontier because of security concerns, it was reported earlier this week that they had now decided to reopen it, but only for Libyans crossing into Algeria. Algerians will still not be allowed to enter Libya.
"We have had a meeting with the Algerians about opening the Tin El Koum border post," Murtada said. "They have received orders from the president to open it but only to Libyans crossing in vehicles and only after the necessary security arrangements have been made."
Colonel Fathi Sherif, in charge of the frontier post, added that the e-passport system was not yet available there but that "we will work in the traditional manner, try to overcome the difficulties and to return to work as soon as possible".
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[AnNahar] Nigeria said Friday it would step up domestic arms manufacture for the military to cut its reliance on foreign weaponry in its fight with Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Islamists.
Skilled jobs are good... and not being jerked around by certain Western governments with arms to sell and strange ideas about how things ought to be done is even better.
President Muhammadu Buhari instructed the Defense Ministry to create "a modest military industrial complex for the local production of weapons to meet some of the requirements of the country's armed forces", his office said in a statement.
Buhari told a graduation ceremony of the National Defense College in the capital Abuja that Nigeria's over-dependence on other countries for military equipment and logistics was "unacceptable," the statement said.
"We must evolve viable mechanisms for near self-sufficiency in military equipment and logistics production complemented only by very advanced foreign technologies," he was quoted as saying.
Buhari asked officials and industry leaders to work together to "re-engineer" the Defense Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON), a military department responsible for arms manufacture.
DICON was set up in 1964 to manufacture weapons from its factory in the northern city of Kaduna but production ground to a halt and the unit is now used mainly for civilian purposes such as tool-making.
Buhari, who ruled Nigeria as a military strongman between 1983 and 1985, returned to office in May as the country's first opposition challenger to defeat an incumbent in a largely fair poll.
His victory triggered a wave of optimism for oil-rich Nigeria, which has Africa's biggest population and economy but many deep and seemingly intractable problems.
excellent story from SMH via the Telegraph, London - more at link
If the oil futures market is correct, Saudi Arabia will start running into trouble within two years. It will be in existential crisis by the end of the decade.
The contract price of US crude oil for delivery in December 2020 is currently $US62.05, implying a drastic change in the economic landscape for the Middle East and the petro-rentier states.
The Saudis took a huge gamble last November when they stopped supporting prices and opted instead to flood the market and drive out rivals, boosting their own output to 10.6 million barrels a day (b/d) into the teeth of the downturn.
Bank of America says OPEC is now "effectively dissolved". The cartel might as well shut down its offices in Vienna to save money.
Once oil climbs back to $US60 or even $US55 - since the threshold keeps falling - they (oil shale frackers) will crank up production almost instantly.
OPEC now faces a permanent headwind. Each rise in price will be capped by a surge in US output. The only constraint is the scale of US reserves that can be extracted at mid-cost, and these may be bigger than originally supposed, not to mention the parallel possibilities in Argentina and Australia, or the possibility for "clean fracking" in China as plasma pulse technology cuts water needs.
The Saudi royal family is leading the Sunni cause against a resurgent Iran, battling for dominance in a bitter struggle between Sunni and Shia across the Middle East. "Right now, the Saudis have only one thing on their mind and that is the Iranians. They have a very serious problem. Iranian proxies are running Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon," said Jim Woolsey, the former head of the US Central Intelligence Agency. they have also been spending billions exporting theocratic sunni islamism and sharia
Money began to leak out of Saudi Arabia after the Arab Spring, with net capital outflows reaching 8 per cent of GDP annually even before the oil price crash. The country has since been burning through its foreign reserves at a vertiginous pace.
The reserves peaked at $US737 billion in August of 2014. They dropped to $US672 billion in May. At current prices they are falling by at least $US12 billion a month. perhaps this is why they are setting up halal certification bodies to establish local funding streams on your groceries for when the funds dry up for proselytising in the west
In hindsight, it was a strategic error to hold prices so high, for so long, allowing shale frackers - and the solar industry - to come of age. The genie cannot be put back in the bottle. in hindsight it was a mistake not to introduce secularism and to eradicate sharia
The Saudis are now trapped. Even if they could do a deal with Russia and orchestrate a cut in output to boost prices - far from clear - they might merely gain a few more years of high income at the cost of bringing forward more shale production later on.
Yet on the current course their reserves may be down to $US200 billion by the end of 2018. The markets will react long before this, seeing the writing on the wall. Capital flight will accelerate. however the saudis had 50 years of rolled gold to invest and they have bought up our major companies - 49% newsltd, harrods etc etc
The government can slash investment spending for a while - as it did in the mid-1980s - but in the end it must face draconian austerity. It cannot afford to prop up Egypt and maintain an exorbitant political patronage machine across the Sunni world.
Social spending is the glue that holds together a medieval Wahhabi regime at a time of fermenting unrest among the Shia minority of the Eastern Province, pin-prick terrorist attacks from ISIS, and blowback from the invasion of Yemen.
Diplomatic spending is what underpins the Saudi sphere of influence caught in a Middle East version of Europe's Thirty Year War, and still reeling from the after-shocks of a crushed democratic revolt. democratic revolt? the "oppressed populus" wants theocracy not democracy. they want sharia
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question for the 'Burg: what do we do if Saudi implodes leaving a large number of newly poor unskilled men with a massive sense of entitlement and full of resentment
these people are going to be a massive problem in the future
and there will be refugees as well, economic migrants, with the worst mind set imaginable
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question for the 'Burg: what do we do if Saudi implodes leaving a large number of newly poor unskilled men with a massive sense of entitlement and full of resentment
Kill them as they emerge, blinking in the sunlight, from their lair?
More seriously, without the funds for foreign educations and adventures, surely they'll be more of a plague in the region than firther afield.
Seriously though i was just watching Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss on YouTube
They are trying to get the atheist debates and science talks translated into arabic, urdu and persian
This could really help - especially the Christopher Hitchens vs Tariq Ramadan debate on "is Islam a religion of peace" - these debates would really open up the minds of a lot of Islamists never exposed to any thought outside what they've been brainwashed
And they've all got satellite dishes and YouTUbe access
plus some translations the other way can help = Lawrence Krauss is writing the foreword to Raif Badawi's book which is being translated to english. Raif Badawi is the Saudi blogger who is being flogged for blasphemy
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OH the pain. We must offer whatever assistance we can provide. Extend Obamacare to them and welfare programs. Allow them to vote in our elections. Well, after all its our fault. Our evil fracking industry has caused this to happen anyway. Encourage immigration so they will have an able labor force to do the manual things that are required. Who pays for this? now don't forget Obama's stash.
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what do we do if Saudi Latin America implodes leaving a large number of newly poor unskilled men with a massive sense of entitlement and full of resentment
I believe its called California or El Norte in general.
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Question for the Burg: This not related to the specific post, but your insight is appreciated. We have the State Dept. and who knows how many other govt. agencies infested with M.B. agents via the lead of Huma W. Then we have the ValJer effect of Iranian influence in the admin. Now, nominally those organizations are at cross purposes to each other, and sometimes they unite for common goals.
What does the community think about this US infection?
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The House of Saud may go broke, or not. As I recall, they own a substantial stake in western oil companies.
There's stall a lot of bleeding to be done before the end.
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Idiots we can all get rich. Oil isn't a zero sum pie, there will be cash for oil and all. Calling oil over $85 by 2017.
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The actual house of Saud will do ok. They have billions stashed in Swiss bank accounts. They will escape to London, the US, and wherever they can.
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Kill them as they emerge, blinking in the sunlight, from their lair?
More seriously, without the funds for foreign educations and adventures, surely they'll be more of a plague in the region than firther afield.
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question for the 'Burg: what do we do if Saudi implodes leaving a large number of newly poor unskilled men with a massive sense of entitlement and full of resentment?
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I am surprised no mentions of the soon-to-be nuclear power Iran, and of the possible response from filthy rich Saudi Arabia. In your future considerations, throw in 2 more nuclear powers with no real future worth having, a couple of nukes on an oil shipping dock or the Strait of Hormuz, then the possibility of SA going broke won't matter one little bit.
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I am surprised no mentions of the soon-to-be nuclear power Iran, and of the possible response from filthy rich Saudi Arabia.
Irrelevant except as a transient event. Drilling through the thin glowing layer of trinitite that will soon cover vast swaths of the Middle East is no problem.
[IsraelTimes] Al-Hayat says initiative to end civil war would also see halt in Saudi support for rebels, clear way for UN-supervised elections
About as much a non-starter as the Saudi idea that Israel would withdraw to pre-1967 borders in exchange for Saudi recognition, one suspects.
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... has proposed a new initiative to end the conflict in Syria that would see Iran and its proxy Hezbollah pull their fighters from the country, al-Hayat reported Saturday.
Citing "high-level Saudi sources," the pan-Arab newspaper said that in return for an Iranian and Hezbollah withdrawal, Riyadh would end its support for the rebels seeking to oust Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... in a bloody civil war now in its fifth year. This would then pave the way for parliamentary and presidential elections under the supervision of the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... The report said that Saudi Arabia hosted Assad's security adviser and close confidant Ali Mamlouk in July, a meeting that came some three weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... held talks in St. Petersburg with Saudi Defense Minister Muhammad bin Salman.
According to the report, Russia believes that Saudi support for the Syrian opposition has fueled the violence in the country, while Riyadh says it is ready "to do anything to stop the Syrian bloodshed."
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was wondering if Buck was okay. He suspected he wasn't... Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem met Wednesday with Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran to discuss the war in Syria, Iran's Tasnim News Agency reported. A short time earlier, Muallem also met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, who landed in the Iranian capital that same day.
Like the Syrian regime, Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy in the region, receiving funds and arms from the Islamic Theocratic Republic, and has dispatched thousands of fighters to support the embattled Assad.
The Arab world has been polarized for years in a worsening proxy conflict between Iran and Gulf powers, particularly Saudi Arabia, fueling Sunni-Shiite tensions and stoking wars.
In Syria, Iran's support has ensured the survival of Assad against Sunni rebels backed by Gulf nations in the devastating civil war.
Tariq al-Shammari, a Saudi analyst and president of the Council of Gulf International Relations, told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named last month that following the deal on Iran's nuclear program, Gulf Arab countries will work to try to keep Tehran isolated politically and economically, noting that Saudi Arabia in particular has already moved to improve ties with Russia, a strong ally of Iran.
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Turkey + Egypt are now beginning to MilPol assert themselves regionally - this means the KSA has to deal wid two regional Sunni competitors in addition to Shia Iran + possibly even Nuke-armed Pakistan.
LETS NOT FORGET ISRAEL + PREMISES OF SECULAR ZIONISM.
WHOM IS GOING TO GIVE UP THEIR NEWFOUND OR "NEO-" AMBITIONS FOR SO-CALLED "LEBENSTRAUM" [living space] = more popularly aka "SPHERE(S) OF INFLUENCE".
THE OWG GLOBALISTS HAVE NOT ANSWERED THE MAHA-RUSHIAN QUESTIONNE' AS TO HOW MANY MUSLIM "US-STYLE", "US-PAR", "NUCLEAR"? CO-SUPERPOWERS IS INTENDED FOR THE ME, + PERSIAN GULF + CENTASIA???
[Bangla Daily Star] Four Bangladesh nationals were among those killed in Thursday's suicide kaboom on a Saudi mosque, diplomatic sources in Dhaka confirmed yesterday.
Four more Bangladeshis were maimed in the attack, the sources said, adding that the Bangladesh foreign ministry was likely to provide details about the victims' identities today.
An 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 jacket wallah detonated an explosives-packed vest in a mosque inside a Saudi Special Forces headquarters, killing 15 people on Thursday. In the latest string of ISIS attacks in the kingdom, the bomber struck during noon prayers in the city of Abha, in the southern province of Asir near the border with war-strewn Yemen, the interior ministry said.
A ministry front man, quoted by al-Ekhbariya state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, said 11 of those killed were coppers and four were Bangladeshis who worked at the police compound, reports Al Jazeera.
One Bangladeshi victim was identified as Jibon, son of late Belal, of Asadnagar village in Brahamanpara upazila of Comilla, reports UNB.
Earlier yesterday, Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. condemned the attack and expressed her solidarity with the Kingdom to fight against terrorism in any form.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. yesterday warned that the government would not allow anyone in Bangladesh to do politics over people's religious sentiment.
"At least, this can't be done in Bangladesh ... we won't allow this to happen," she told a function in the capital's Osmani Memorial Auditorium.
The women and kiddies affairs ministry organised the programme to mark the 85th birth anniversary of Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib, wife of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The PM said various incidents are happening now in the country and the government is tackling those. "At least our government is not sitting idle."
The wave of terrorism and militancy that spread to different parts of the world had also hit Bangladesh, she noted. "We're trying to check those incidents with an iron hand."
Hasina said 90 percent people in Bangladesh are Moslems, and there were so many attempts to unleash terrorism and murderous Moslem activities in the country.
"But Bangladesh is a non-communal country. This is how Father of the Nation had brought independence to the country ... we're building the country by following that path and we want to continue with it."
Expressing sorrow over the suicide kaboom on a mosque after Juma' prayers in 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... on Friday, the PM questioned, "Are they Moslems? How those people who commit suicide and kill other Moslems can be Moslems? Which religion are they protecting?"
The al-Qaeda claimed that they had been killing bloggers here, said Hasina. "So where's the answer to this conflict? Moslems are killing Moslems by carrying out suicide kabooms. Also, they are killing people and bloggers for writing against religion. Then which one is true? Which particular path people should follow?"
She also questioned in whose interest the bloodletting has been going on.
Terming Islam the religion of peace, she said those who are polluting Islam do not believe in any religion.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A four-inch wound gaped from below the chin to the right ear and a three-inch wound in the right side of his head. Another gaping wound was deep in the back of his neck. His chin and hands were severely maimed too.
This was how a police inquest report described the wounds to the body of Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy, 28, who was hacked to death by four assailants inside his flat in the capital's Goran on Friday afternoon.
There were eight wounds to the upper part of his body, excluding several others to both of his hands. The ones to the upper part were three to four inches wide and two to two-and-a-half inches deep, according to Dhaka Medical College (DMC) morgue sources.
A test at the DMC's forensic department says he was hacked 14 times in a brutal manner, which has many similarities with the murders of other bloggers.
He was struck down in his prime due to excessive blood loss from the wounds, said Prof Habibuzzaman Chowdhury, head of the forensic department at DMC.
Hours after the gruesome attack, a group identifying itself as Ansar Al Islam grabbed credit for the murder.
A Gonojagoron Mancha activist, Niladri is the fourth blogger hacked to death this year. Earlier this year, suspected forces of Evil killed three secular bloggers and writers -- Avijit Roy in February, Oyasiqur Rahman in March and Ananta Bijoy Das in May. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... unlike Niladri, the others were attacked outside their homes.
Niladri's wife Asha Moni said that he had tried to lodge a general diary to the nearest cop shoppe a couple of months ago after sensing that he had been followed by some men. She alleged Khilgaon police refused to file any complaint, passing the buck to Shahjahanpur Police.
Investigating the gruesome killing, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday said they would probe the allegation immediately.
"We will probe the allegation over police refusal to file a GD about his security," Muntasirul Islam, deputy commissioner (media) of DMP, told news hounds yesterday.
The DMP has formed a three-member committee, headed by Additional Deputy Commissioner Tareque bin Rashid of DMP's Motijheel division, to look into the allegation.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... Zia Md Mostafiz Bhuiyan, officer-in-charge of Khilgaon Police Station, said he was unaware that anybody had wanted to file a GD.
Talking about the progress of the investigation, he said the evidence collected from the scene of the crime was sent to the DMC for a DNA test.
Police, however, are yet to arrest anyone in connection with the killing, said the OC.
Niladri's wife Asha Moni filed a case with Khilgaon police on Friday night, accusing four unnamed persons. While leaving, they took away Niladri's laptop and mobile phone, Asha mentioned in the case statement.
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theocratic islamist fascists murdered an atheist.
this is widely reported by bbc, the guardian et al as "machete gang" attacks "blogger"
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The leader of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's pro-Kurdish HDP urged the holy warrior Kurdistan Workers Party on Saturday to "remove its finger from the trigger" and said the government should launch talks to halt a surge in violence.
The holy warrior PKK announced it was stepping up attacks in mid-July, saying Turkish forces were violating a 2013 ceasefire. Turkey began an air campaign against PKK camps in northern Iraq on July 24.
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) leader Selahattin Demirtas told news hounds: "Today we call to both sides: the PKK must immediately remove its finger from the trigger and declare it will observe the ceasefire."
Speaking in the southeastern city of Van, a day after six people were killed in festivities between security forces and bully boyz in the mainly Kurdish southeast, he said the government must halt security operations and revive a grinding of the peace processor launched with locked away Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in 2012.
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[DAWN] RAWALPINDI: Local police have announced Rs700,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the killers of senior judge Tahir Niazi and sought Federal Investigation Agency's help in tracking them down using "geo-fencing" to get assistance in tracking down the culprits.
A source close to the police investigation "geo-fencing" would help locate the murderers by monitoring the cell phone they snatched from the wife of the slain district and session judge who was bumped off by unknown assailants in his house on Wednesday.
Geo-fencing is a feature in a software program that uses the Global Positioning System (GPS), or radio frequency identification (RFID) to define the location of a cell phone call.
At the same time, the source said, police Sherlocks continue pursuing the case on different lines, "including possibility of old enmity", and are examining the criminal cases which were under trial in the slain judge's court.
"Yes, they have been questioning criminals released from jails and checking on those sentenced by the judge," City Police Officer Israr Ahmed Abbasi confirmed to Dawn.
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[DAWN] Minister of State for National Health Services Saira Afzal Tarar said on Friday that areas where the government lacked access, including Wazoo and some other parts of the tribal region, had become hubs 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... virus but a National Routine Immunisation Plan was being prepared to permanently eradicate the disease from the country.
"Tirah valley in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) is the largest area where the virus exists, while in the past it had also been reported in Waziristan and other areas where the government had no access because of anti-peace elements," she said during a presser at the Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Assembly.
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[DAWN] Afghanistan has sought the help of Maulana Samiul Haq ...the Godfather of the Taliban, leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as Mullah Sandwich for his habit of having two young boys at a time... to urge the Taliban to resume the Pakistain-brokered peace talks, which had been halted after the announced death of Taliban chief 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... Afghanistan's ambassador in Pakistain, Janan Mosazai, along with a delegation met the Maulana, who is the chief of his own faction of Jamaat-e-Ulema-e-Islam, and held a six-hour long meeting with him in Nowshera, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... .
Sources say the Afghan ambassador conveyed President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. 's message to Sami, requesting him to play his role in resumption of the suspended talks with Afghan Taliban.
Talking to media, Mosazai said Samiul Haq enjoys great support in Afghanistan and Pakistain, and confirmed that he requested the holy man to play his role for peace in the region.
The holy man, who runs the famous Darul Uloom Haqqania ...an Islamic seminary located in Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The seminary propagates the Deobandi trend of Sunni Islam and is headed by Maulana Samiul Haq, known as the Godfather of the Taliban. It has been dubbed The University of Jihad due to the methods and content of instruction along with the future occupations of its alumni.... , appreciated Mosazai's struggle for restoration of peace in Afghanistan and agreed to play his role in the matter.
On Aug 6, Maulana Samiul Haq, an influential figure among members of the Taliban on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistain border, himself had urged the newly declared head of the group, Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansour, to sit down with rivals who have challenged his right to leadership.
"I would arrange for members of the two rival factions together to sit down in front of each other, and in the presence of other leading religious scholars, we would listen to both sides and overcome this issue amicably," he told media.
Pakistain had hosted a meeting between the Afghan government and Afghan Taliban representatives in Murree on July 7, 2015, which was also attended by representatives from China and the United States.
The second round of the talks, which was scheduled to be held in Pakistain on July 31, 2015 was postponed after reports regarding the death of Mullah Omar and the ensuing leadership crisis among Taliban.
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[DAWN] Special Adviser to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Foreign Affairs and National Security, Sartaj Aziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... , on Saturday said Pakistain will "never invite the speaker of occupied Jammu and Kashmire Assmebly to the upcoming Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference" to be held in Islamabad from September 30 to October 8.
Talking at a book launch ceremony in Islamabad, Aziz said Pakistain's principle position on Jammu and Kashmire will be compromised if the speaker of Indian-held Kashmire's legislature is invited to the conference because Pakistain does not recognise and accept the said assembly.
The national security adviser went on to say that the conference will go ahead as scheduled, with over 70 per cent of the delegates having confirmed their participation.
Talking about bilateral talks with India, Aziz said Pakistain had not as yet responded to India on the national security advisers' meeting proposed by the latter on Aug 23 in New Delhi.
Petty, small-minded idiots need to be slapped down hard.
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[RUDAW.NET] Kurdish Yezidi who have joined the Peshmerga are receiving training in order to learn the discipline and tactics needed to fight Daesh (ISIS).
The Peshmerga training is not just to control Shingal and its outskirts, but also to protect the areas afterwards.
"We will overcome the enemy. We learned a lot here and we thank the trainers. Now, we have the will and fighting skills to liberate Shingal and any other Kurdish territory from the enemy," a Yezidi trainee told Rudaw.
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[ALMANAR.LB] As he stressed that he is fully committed to the guidance of the religious authority in Iraq, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pledged to fight corruption.
The premier "pledges to announce a comprehensive plan of reform and work on the implementation" of it, his office said in a statement following a call by the country's most senior Shia holy man, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
Abadi is "fully committed to the valued guidance of the supreme religious authority," the statement added.
It also said Abadi would draft a plan to fight graft, calling on political parties to contribute to the measure.
Earlier in the day, Sayyed Sistani had addressed the prime minister, urging him to resolve internal issues in the government.
The premier must be more "daring and courageous" in his efforts to reform the government, Sistani had said during a Friday prayers sermon delivered by his representative Ahmed al-Safi in the holy city of Karbala.
His eminence called on Abadi to strike "with an iron fist anyone who is tampering with the people's money."
Abadi assumed power almost a year ago vowing tough action against corruption.
Iraqi people have recently staged protest rallies in a number of cities against alleged graft among government officials and the shortage of electricity and water.
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[IsraelTimes] Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades gives 25,000 residents military training; Islamist group is militarizing Paleostinian society, human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activists say
Paleostinian youths -- many of them minors -- and older residents of Gazoo graduated late last week from what Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, termed a "summer camp" in the Paleostinian enclave.
In the camp, the youths learned skills ranging from traipsing down buildings to launching shoulder-fired missiles. According to AFP, during the camp some 25,000 Paleostinians took part in combat training. The youngest were as young as 15; the oldest trainees are 60-years-old.
"The goal of these military training camps is to train the vanguard for liberation -- spiritually, intellectually and physically -- to be ready and able to play its role in liberation," said a statement by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing in late July, when the camp opened.
Participants spent two weeks being "trained in military techniques and in firing live ammunition" as well as "first aid and rescue techniques."
Participants spent two weeks being "trained in military techniques and in firing live ammunition" as well as "first aid and rescue techniques."
Hamas has long run summer camps devoted to sport and study of the Koran in Gazoo but over the winter the al-Qassam brigades launched a new kind of camp, giving military training to 15 to 20-year-olds.
Human rights activists condemned it as a forced militarization of Gazook society and a violation of children's rights.
Brushing off the criticism, the brigades are repeating the exercise with the summer camp, while raising the upper age limit to 60.
A photo essay published by The Telegraph contains additional images.
Among the more bizarre photos one can find youths jumping through hoops of fire -- a staple of Paleostinian combat training despite the practice's uselessness on the modern battlefield. The participants also launched a cardboard cutout of the Aqsa Mosque tied to a bunch of helium filled balloons.
Israel withdrew its military and civilian presence from Gazoo in 2005. Hamas seized control of Gazoo in 2007, ousting the Fatah forces of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... in a violent takeover.
Avowedly committed to the destruction of Israel, Hamas has fought three rounds of conflict against Israel since it took charge, most recently a 50-day war last summer. It has bragged since that it is again digging tunnels to the Israeli border and developing and manufacturing new rockets for use against Israel.
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Among the more bizarre photos one can find youths jumping through hoops of fire -- a staple of Paleostinian combat training despite the practice's uselessness on the modern battlefield
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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blame it on the Joo,
If you can jump through flaming hoops -- "Ouch! Ouch! Whew!" --
But draw the line at eating flaming poo,
Okay, you'll do.
[ALMANAR.LB] Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon made a less-than-veiled threat that covert liquidations of Iranian nuclear scientists could resume.
In an interview with German newspaper Der Spiegel, Yaalon said that the Zionist entity is not responsible for the lives of Iranian nuclear scientists. As the world moves closer to ratifying a nuclear deal Israel would do anything necessary in order to assure Tehran does not get atomic weapons, including taking military action, Yaalon said in the interview published on Friday.
"Ultimately it is very clear, one way or another, Iran's military nuclear program must be stopped," Ya'alon said, according to a retranslation from an interview published in the German daily.
"We will act in any way and are not willing to tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran. We prefer that this be done by means of sanctions, but in the end, Israel should be able to defend itself," the defense minister said.
He added that he was "not responsible for the lives of Iranian scientists," according to Der Spiegel, which will publish the full interview on Saturday.
Ya'alon further stated that Tel Aviv was considering carrying out Arclight airstrikes on Iranian military facilities, the German paper reported.
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Artic infers that, iff it hasn't already, ISRAEL will intensify MOSSAD-led assassination andor destruction operations agz Iran's NucProgs.
PROBLEM = Israel leg is very weak in the aftermath of the Post-P5+1 NUke DEal wid Iran, + Israel can act only iff it is certain that the US under Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama, include any post-Jan 2017 Globalist POTUS Obama successor, will continue to support, $$$, + resupply Israel + IDF iff war breaks out wid Iran.
AGAIN, OSAMA BIN LADEN, etal. = MANY IN ISLAM OR RADICAL ISLAM = BELIEVE ISRAEL WOULD'VE BEEN DEFEATED IFF NOT DESTROYED DURING THE 1973 YOM KIPPUR WAR IFF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR US MILITARY SUPPORT.
* ARAB-MUSLIM LESSON FROM 1973 [paraph] = "TO DESTROY ISRAEL MEANS DESTROYING THE US FIRST".
ANTI-ISRAELI ARAB-MUSLIMS = RISING IRAN = RISING CHINA = PUTINIST RUSSIA = ULTIMATE "ACE" IS HAVING AN ANTI-US US = ANTI-AMERICAN AMERIKAN POTUS IN CHARGE OF THE US' DIRECT MILITARY OR MILPOL RESPONSE, OR IN ALTERN THE LACK OF SAME.
POTUS Obama = "FULL OF SOUND-N-FURY", BUT STILL SSSSHHH ... CCCCCCCC LETS IRAN, CHINA, + RUSSIA HAVE THEIR "SPHERE(S) OF INFLUENCE" TO THE DETRIMENT OF US ALLIES + TRADITIONAL/HISTORICAL US INTERESTS.
All things equal, ISRAEL will be broadly or specifically treated no differently.
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As many MSM-Net Bloggers would argue or agree, CONTROLLING THE US POTUS/COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF = CONTROLLING THE USDOD WHOM CONTROLS THE US GOVT. + WHOM ULTIMATELY CONTROLS THE US = AMERIKAN NATION.
Not just controlling "dominos", but to control the "right/correct" domino.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In pro-Western Jordan, a leader in the fight against 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) murderous Moslems, school books warn students they risk "God's torture" if they don't embrace Islam. They portray "holy war" as a religious obligation if Islamic lands are attacked and suggest it is justified to kill captured enemies.
Christians, the country's largest religious minority, are largely absent from the texts.
The government says it's tackling the contradiction between official anti-extremist policy and what is taught in schools and mosques by rewriting school books and retraining thousands of teachers and preachers.
Critics say the reforms are superficial, fail to challenge hard-line traditions, and that the first revised textbooks for elementary-school children still present Islam as the only true religion.
"ISIS ideology is there, in our textbooks," said Zogan Obiedat, a former Education Ministry official who published a recent analysis of the texts. If Jordan were to be overrun by the murderous Moslems, a large majority "will join IS because they learned in school that this is Islam," he said.
Government officials insist they are serious about reform.
The rewritten books will teach "how to be a moderate Moslem, how to respect others, how to live in an environment that has many nationalities and different ethnic groups," said Education Minister Mohammed Thnaibat.
Thnaibat refused to discuss hard-line passages in the unrevised books, but said there are limits to reform. Jordan is an Islamic country, he said, and "you cannot go against the culture of the society."
Success or failure of the effort matters in a region engaged in what Jordan's King Abdullah II has framed as an existential battle with IS gunnies who control large areas in Syria and Iraq. Abdullah has emerged as one of the most outspoken Arab leaders urging Moslems to reclaim their religion from Death Eaters.
Reform efforts target both schools and mosques.
All school books are to be rewritten over the next two years, said Thnaibat. Lesson plans will shift from rote learning to critical thinking, and tens of thousands of teachers will be retrained. Revised books for grades 1-3 are already in use, and 11,000 teachers were given monthlong courses to deliver the new curriculum.
Among preachers, the government hopes to promote a "moderate Islamic ideology that is in line with our national principles," said the religious affairs minister, Haeli Abdul Hafeez Daoud.
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[JPOST] The Paleostinian Authority pledged to pursue Israel diplomatically and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, called for a violent response to the death Saturday of Sa'ad Dawabsha, from burns he sustained in the terrorist attack on his home in the West Bank village of Duma on July 31.
Sa'ad, 31, is the second victim of the attack, which also claimed the life of his son, 18-month-old Ali, a toddler who was burned alive in his crib when the house was torched before dawn, allegedly by Jewish terrorists.
Hundreds of mourners filled the roads of Duma on Saturday during Sa'ad's funeral. Once the procession was over, Paleostinians burned tires on the road leading into the village, prompting the army to close it temporarily, according to the IDF. Following the funeral, several dozen Paleostinians threw rocks at IDF soldiers.
The soldiers did not respond.
The PA government renewed its call seeking international protection for Paleostinians in the face of recurring settler attacks. PA Foreign Minister Riad Malki said on Saturday the "heinous crime" against the Dawabsha family would not go unpunished.
Fatah and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, flags flew at the funeral. Israeli security officials said Hamas was pushing hard for an intensification of terror attacks on Israeli targets in the West Bank and inside Israel. Israel's Channel 2 quoted West Bank Hamas leader Hassan Yusef declaring Saturday that the time had come for "a third Intifada." The TV report said Saad Dawabsha was a Hamas supporter.
Israel has boosted its military deployment in the West Bank since the Molotov cocktailing attack. In the wake of Saad's funeral Saturday, dozens of Paleostinians threw stones at IDF soldiers and lit tires on fire near Duma. Military forces responded with riot-dispersal means. Forces remained on alert for further festivities.
Just the usual Saturday night fun in Jerusalem, nothing to do with West Bank problems.
[Ynet] Dozens of young Paleostinians blocked a street and set fires at the entrance to Isawiya in East Jerusalem Saturday night while threw stones at Israeli border police. The rioters were repelled deeper into the neighborhood.
Stones were also thrown at an Israeli bus belonging to the Egged company on its way to Ma'ale Adumim. No injuries were reported, but damaged was caused to a window on the bus.
Security forces began searches for suspects.
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[FIRSTPOST] Iran's foreign minister said on Saturday that accusations about activity at its Parchin military site were "lies" spread by opponents of its landmark nuclear deal with world powers clinched last month.
A U.S. think-tank on Friday questioned Tehran's explanation that activity at its Parchin military site visible in satellite imagery was related to road work, and suggested it was a clean-up operation before IAEA inspectors arrive at the site.
"We said that the activities in Parchin are related to road construction," Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was quoted as saying by the IRNA state news agency.
"They (opponents of the deal) have spread these lies before. Their goal is to damage the agreement," he added.
The Institute for Science and International Security in Wshington was quick to deny on Twitter that it was one of the deal's opponents.
"We are neutral," the thinktank said.
Parchin is a site to which the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), requested access as part of the July 14 nuclear accord between Iran and six major powers, which include the United States.
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While attending the Iraqi army's artillery school nearly 20 years ago, Ali Omran remembers one major well. An Islamic hard-liner, he once chided Omran for wearing an Iraqi flag pin into the bathroom because it included the words "God is great." Werwolves I believe they were called.
"It is forbidden by religion to bring the name of the Almighty into a defiled place like this," Omran recalled being told by Maj. Taha Taher al-Ani.
Omran didn't see al-Ani again until years later, in 2003. The Americans had invaded Iraq and were storming toward Baghdad. Saddam Hussein's fall was imminent. At a sprawling military base north of the capital, al-Ani was directing the loading of weapons, ammunition and ordnance into trucks to spirit away. He took those weapons with him when he joined Tawhid wa'l-Jihad, a forerunner of al-Qaeda's branch in Iraq.
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Do you see why you could not keep that "government
" now?
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I think Paul Bremer sort of drove them into the arms of the insurgency when he issued the edict to exclude Baathist from the government and former Saddam Army officers from the "new" Iraqi Army...when you take away a livelihood and Al Douri is trotting around with $250 million in seed money, you follow the money.
I believe that Paul Bremer personally with his idiot view of the reconstruction did more to foment this pestilence than any decision made before youknowho came into office.
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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.
[Tolo News] The 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
[DAWN] Minister of State for National Health Services Saira Afzal Tarar said on Friday that areas where the government lacked access, including 
