[AnNahar] Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... has active criminal proceedings against 33 individuals over suspected ties to krazed killer Islamist groups, but only three people are currently in jug, the attorney general's office said Sunday.
Some of those cases have been opened in the last two to three months, but the most serious involves a cell of possible Islamist faceless myrmidons uncovered in the Canton of Schaffhausen last year, said Andry Marty, a front man for Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber.
"In total there are currently 33 ongoing criminal proceedings against suspected supporters and/or members of krazed killer Islamist organizations," Marty told AFP in an email, confirming details given by Lauber in an interview with the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper.
Local media have previously reported that the case in Schaffhausen, in Switzerland's far north on the German border, involved Iraqi nationals who may have been in Switzerland illegally and could have been preparing an attack.
Marty provided no details of the allegations, but confirmed that three people involved in the Schaffhausen case remained incarcerated.
Switzerland's Sunday papers were dominated by the rising anxiety that has spread across Europe in the wake of the Gay Paree attacks last week that killed 130 people, and an ongoing anti-terror lockdown in Brussels.
Local Geneva politician Vincent Maitre called for police to receive special terrorism response training.
He lamented that police in Geneva carry 9mm weapons, which he described as "water guns" compared to the "weapons of war used by terrorists", according to newspaper Le Matin Dimanche.
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A long-ago buddy had a .350 bolt action he used for White Tails, 'big varmints' and the like. Think he called it a 'Short Mag' or something similar. The round was fairly short and 'pudgy'.
Worked really well as a brush gun as I recall.
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"degraded and contained" - No, not ISIS and Al Qaeda...
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Amerikans might as well stay back + get beheaded in the security of their own homes.
Espec since our mighty Unitarian Govt. wants to protect agz the Jihad by taking away all of our Guns + not mobilizing our Armed Forces, Police, or Econ, etc. for war.
OWG + US-GLOBAL SOCIALIST ORDER, NOT NATIONAL OR GEOPOL OR WORLD SECURITY.
[Hurriyet] A curfew has entered its tenth day in the southeastern district of Nusaybin on Nov. 22, while the curfew was ended in the Lice district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakir.
If I were living in Europe, I'd give serious thought to prepping for at least a full month without access to shops. President Erdogan clearly has no problem with supplying a touch of decimation.
A curfew, which was declared on Nov. 13 in the Nusaybin district of the Mardin province, was ended briefly on Nov. 21 during the day so people could leave their house for food and other needs. The curfew was began again in the evening in 11 neighborhoods of Nusaybin, a border town with Syria. Locals said they had no electricity or water during the curfew and had difficulties due to food shortages.
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Mithat Sancar, Erol Dora, Ali Atalan and Gulser Yildirim continued their hunger strike in Nusaybin, which they started on Nov. 19.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... the curfew has ended in seven neighborhoods of Lice on Nov. 22, after security forces ended their operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) myrmidons, the city governor's office said in a statement.
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The Mafia needs calm and order to run their rackets. Can't do that with Daesh causing havoc and getting more surveillance with the feds. So preventing terror is very much in both party's interests.
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Mafia offers protection sounds like a punchline.
"Hey, it would be a shame if someone were to burn down your nice city, know what I'm saying? Me and the boys can keep that from happening but, you know, it'll cost you."
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Hard to tell clearly what exact or particular advantage(s) the US La Cosa Nostra + Mafia Commission gets from the 9-11 + consequent Obama/US-led Anti-US OWG-NWO + Globalism, e.g. the "Sole" Superpower USA unilaterally devol or degarding itself into One-of-Many Par OWG Co-Superpowers wid Russia, China, + Iran, Other?, + in charge or not in charge of new NORAM-based OWG NAU but also simultan wid much-reduced, minimal, or no? influence in any or all other Regional, Continent-specific OWG Global Federal Union(s)???
THE MAHA-RUSHIAN LIMBAUGH QUESTIONNE' REMAINS THE SAME FOR OBAMA + OWG GLOBALISTS, ETAL. AS FOR THE US-WORLD MAFIAS - "WHAT IS THE END GAME"?
WHEN ALL IS SAID-N-DONE, WHAT KIND OF US-WORLD ARE YOU ULTIMATELY BUILDING OR INTEND???
Again, iff the OWG Globies + aligned miscalculate, instead of installing US-Global/World Marxist-Commmie-Socialist Secular Order + OWG, THEY INSTEAD GOT THE ANTI-SECULAR, THEO-SOCIALIST OWG NUCLEAR GLOBAL ISLAMIST-JIAHDIST CALIPHATE, + WID A NUKE-ARMED "MUSLIM/ISLAMIC NAPOLEON [Muslim Hitler, etal. sobriquets] TO BOOT.
EYES WIDE OPEN, NOT EYES WIDE SHUT.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU DEMAND OR ASK FOR - YOU GOT IT!
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I gotta quit tryin to read josephs post when I'm drunk. What the fuck u sayin man?
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chris pored over JOE fully loaded,
The CAPS and the slugs he decoded:
"I thought I heard singing...
Then clacking, bells ringing..."
And that's when his noggin exploded!
Five more Syrians have been stopped at a Laredo port of entry on Friday. This brings the total number of Syrians seeking to enter the US through our city this week up to 13.
According to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security, five Syrian nationals presented themselves at the Gateway to the Americas Bridge. A family consisting of a man, woman and child, and two other men were taken into custody by Customs and Border Protection -- a standard procedure.
The statement reads that CBP "checked their identities against numerous law enforcement and national security related databases. Records checks revealed no derogatory information about the individuals. CBP turned them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for further processing and placement in an ICE facility."
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Records checks revealed no derogatory information about the individuals. CBP turned them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for further processing and placement in an ICE facility."
Glad to see Chief Inspector Clouseau is on it and checking these databases. I am reassured.
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This group has about the typical demographic for the Syrian refugees - 60% fighting-age males. That is highly anomalous relative to historical refugee populations.
Ten Saudis fighting for the Daesh terrorist organization have been captured by the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Iraq during battle, an online newspaper reported on Sunday.
An adviser at the Iraqi President’s office was quoted as saying that the Kurdish government of Erbil might decide the fate of the Saudis. “They will either be tried there or sent to Baghdad.”
Thamer Al-Sabhan, the newly appointed Saudi ambassador to Iraq, said he had not yet received any information on the Saudis’ capture because “we are yet to start our work here.”
Meanwhile, the Peshmerga ministry had on Saturday announced that it had arrested three Daesh leaders — all Saudi nationals — in the northwest of Mosul. Quoting a German news agency, the online newspaper said Daesh’s Saudi leaders were arrested in Hardan town of Sinjar, 120 km northwest of Mosul, while they were trying to sneak into Sinjar.
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A group of seven North Korean defectors hoping to start a new life in South Korea has been detained in Thailand.
Citing local media, Voice of America reported that Thai police arrested seven North Koreans on the northern side of the Mekong River. The group, which consisted of youngsters and the elderly, were traveling without passports. Thai authorities were told the group wanted to be taken to the South Korean Embassy in Bangkok.
So take them there and apply a nominal fine for crossing the border illegally...
A growing number of defectors from the reclusive state are being caught after traveling through China to a third country en route to South Korea. Those captured in China are often sent back to their Stalinist home country and face harsh punishments on return.
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A more normal refugee demographic, and arguably a more desperate circumstance than the Syrians.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is reportedly moving foreign fighters and family members out of its self-declared capital, Raqqa, as an intensified air campaign by coalition forces begins to bite. Militants in Isil’s so-called caliphate across Syria and Iraq have faced several setbacks over the past week with Kurdish forces splitting a key cross-border supply line, and a US-led military coalition targeting its oil smuggling network and killing dozens of militants.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said on Wednesday that Isil had started moving the family members of foreign fighters across the border to Mosul, apparently claiming that Raqqa was no longer safe for them.
That must be difficult for them -- weren't they recently moved from Mosul to Raqqa because Mosul had become unsafe?
David Thomson, a French journalist who monitors French nationals fighting in Syria, said that French jihadists had begun leaving the city in the days before the group's deadly attacks in Paris, citing Isil sources.
Isil maintains a tight stranglehold over the flow of information outside of territory it controls, and it was not possible to immediately verify the claims that foreign fighters or family members were moving to Mosul, a city that is regularly bombed by coalition forces.
Local activists say the increased bombardment, including last week’s assassination of the Isil executioner known as Jihadi John, has spread fear and paranoia through the militants’ ranks.
“It’s really affecting people, they are getting worried,” said Abu Ibrahim al-Raqqawi, a spokesman for Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, a group of anonymous media activists who risk their lives to smuggle information out of the city.
“If they are gathered together, the fighters will scatter in all directions when a drone or a war plane is seen overhead. They hide among the people, they run into houses,” he said.
Isil is facing increasing pressure across its so-called caliphate, after Kurdish and Yazidi forces recaptured the town of Sinjar last week in a two-day operation which faced little resistance. They are also being squeezed in northeastern Syria where a Western-backed coalition of Kurdish and Arab forces are closing in on Isil-held territory. The terror group is now understood to be retrenching operations, moving heavy weaponry and oil supplies to Deir Ezzor, another Syrian stronghold.
“Heavy weaponry, oil facilities and the headquarters belonging to the group in Hasakah province have been relocated to Deir Ezzor using troop carriers and tank transporters,” reported Deir Ezzor 24, a local independent news outlet, on Wednesday. It said the process was being carried out in stages to avoid coalition airstrikes.
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Looking at a map Deir Ezzor is downriver from the big dam at Raqqa. Is it really a sound idea to relocate to a potential flood plain when Putin might just blow the dam?
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Of course the next dam downriver, if Raqqa's bursts is the shoddy one at Mosul. That chain reaction would pretty much take care of the Sunni Anbar province in Iraq.
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Sounds like the widows and orphans that Zero wants to let in here. Probably wants to bring their extended families too. They getting handed "Syrian Passports" too?
The Royal Air Force will join an offensive to seal off Isil’s last international border and block foreign fighters from travelling to and from the group’s territory.
The US is planning intense air strikes against the “Manbij pocket”, a 60-mile stretch of Isil-controlled Syria along the frontier with Turkey. On its western flank, the so-called 'Marea line', the pocket is under attack by Western-backed Syrian rebel troops. To its east is territory around the town of Kobane, recaptured by Kurdish forces in June.
Denying Isil its only stretch of border will make it significantly harder for young Britons and other westerners to reach the terror group’s so-called state. It will also obstruct terrorists such as Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the leader of the Paris attacks, who travelled back from Isil territory to Paris.
Turkey’s foreign minister, Feridun Sinirlioglu, said his country and the US were about to launch a joint operation to “put an end to the control Isil is still exercising on a zone of our frontier”, adding: “Our operations will continue with more and more intensity. You will see this in the days to come.”
RAF Reaper drones flying over the area will provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for bombing raids by Turkish and American F-15 and F-16 jets, it is understood.
If MPs vote to back RAF bombing in Syria, British Tornado bombers will join the operation. The bombing will allow anti-Isil ground forces on both sides to advance, US officials say.
“As friendly forces push east from the Marea line, the idea is that they will link up with friendly forces that are on the other side of the Manbij pocket and seal that border off,” said Col Steve Warren, spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, the US air strikes in Syria and Iraq.
Attacks on the Manbij pocket have previously been prevented by Turkey’s unwillingness to see Kurdish groups taking more territory inside Syria. In the wake of the Paris attacks, however, some of the diplomatic obstacles have been resolved.
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What path does ISIS use to get oil out, and money, arms & other supplies in? If I was GB I'd open the valve letting my nut-cases into ISIS land, as long as it was a one-way valve, and did not let supplies in.
Jordan's King Abdullah, a US ally, will hold talks in Moscow on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin on how to tackle "terror groups" led by Daesh in Syria, an official source said.
Jordan reached an agreement with Moscow last month to ensure Russian bombing of targets in southern Syria, which borders the country, does not target Western backed rebels known as the Southern Front - a grouping it supports as a buffer against the spread of hardline groups.
The king is expected to raise concerns that any stepped-up Russian raids in southern Syria along Jordan's northern border could trigger a big wave of refugees into the already over-stretched kingdom which hosts over a million refugees fleeing the conflict, one official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
Diplomats say the Russian air force has stepped up bombing in recent days of mainly civilian targets in rebel-controlled towns in southern Syria, including parts of rebel-held Deraa city that are run by moderate rebel groups backed by Jordan.
Jordan has not publicly commented but the king, who has close personal ties with Putin, recently publicly expressed enthusiasm about the intensive Russian military campaign in Syria, saying it offered a window of opportunity and that Moscow had a key role in defeating the ultra-hardline militants.
Diplomats says Moscow's expanding bombing raids in the south this week, however, showed the limitations of Jordan's leverage over the Russians who launched their air campaign on September 30 with the stated aim of hitting Daesh but mostly bombing other rebel groups in the west of the country.
They said there was also some disquiet in Washington about any closer security and military cooperation with Moscow.
Diplomats say Jordan's overt backing of Moscow's military campaign also risks putting it at odds with Saudi Arabia and Turkey that are very critical of Russia's campaign.
The King understands who the stronger horse is...
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Jordan's King Abdullah could have these same talks with Obola but is unwilling to have smoke blown up his ass.
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Obozo doesn't seem to be the "go-to-guy" anywhere anymore. They have lost confidence in him. They view him much like the Greek columns at his inauguration way back in 2009. That's what happens when you let in too many illegal immigrants from Kenya, tee hee.
Iran has sentenced detained Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian to an unspecified prison term following his conviction last month on charges that include espionage, Iranian state TV reported on Sunday.
Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi, the spokesman for Iran's judiciary, announced the punishment in a statement on the TV station's website.
"In brief, it is a prison sentence," he said. The verdict is "not finalised," he added, referring to an expected appeal.
Rezaian's lawyer, Leila Ahsan, said she had not been informed of the verdict - let alone details of the sentence.
"I have no information about details of the verdict," she said. "We were expecting the verdict some three months ago."
Rezaian was detained with his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, and two photojournalists on July 22, 2014. All were later released except Rezaian, a dual US-Iranian citizen. Rezaian went on trial in four closed-door court hearings at Tehran's Revolutionary Court over the past months. Last month, he was convicted of spying and other charges.
The Post has vigorously denied the accusations against its correspondent.
Rezaian, who has covered Iran for the Post since 2012, grew up in Marin County, California and spent most of his life in the United States. The Post, US officials and Rezaian's family have all called for his release. Iran does not recognise dual-nationality.
And they don't recognize him as being an American...
Iran's state media, citing the indictment, have said Rezaian collected information on Iranian and foreign individuals and companies circumventing sanctions and passed them on to the US government. Iranian state TV has repeatedly called Rezaian an "American spy."
Earlier this month, the intelligence department of the powerful elite Revolutionary Guard claimed in a report to parliament that Rezaian is an agent seeking to "overthrow" Iran's Islamic ruling system.
His incarceration and trial played out as Iran and five world powers, including the US, negotiated a landmark agreement in which the Islamic Republic agreed to curb its nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.
Iranian media in August quoted officials discussing the possibility of swapping Americans detained in Iran for 19 Iranians held in the US. It's unclear, however, whether that's been seriously discussed between Iranian and US officials.
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Syrian government troops are advancing on "nearly every front" thanks to Russian air strikes that began in September, President Bashar Al Assad said in an interview with Chinese television released on Sunday.
Of course he says that. It might even be true.
The embattled president also said he favoured new peace talks to be hosted in Moscow, but stressed that the Syrian conflict could not be resolved with "defeating terrorism".
In the interview with China's Phoenix television, Assad said the situation in Syria had "improved in a very good way" since Russia began air strikes on September 30.
"Now I can say that the army is making advancement in nearly every front... in many different directions and areas on the Syrian ground," he said, speaking in English.
Russia is coordinating its air strikes with Damascus, unlike the US-led coalition fighting the Daesh group, which Assad and his government criticise as ineffectual. The army has made minimal progress on the ground, according to groups monitoring the war, though the Russian strikes have reportedly boosted morale among government troops and supporters.
Moscow has also sought a leading role in a political resolution to the conflict, participating in high-level talks in Vienna with other powers recently in a bid to create a framework for peace. Talks there earlier this month produced a framework for the creation of a transitional government, a new constitution and elections within 18 months.
But there was no agreement on the fate of Assad, whom the opposition and their backers want gone, but allies such as Iran and Russia say should be allowed to run in new elections if he wants.
Assad said it was "my right" to run in new elections but it was "too early" to say if he intended to.
"(It) depends on how my feeling is regarding the Syrian people. I mean, do they want me or not?"
"You cannot talk about something that's going to happen maybe in the next few years," he said.
Assad said he backed Moscow's efforts to organise new dialogue between the regime and opposition in a "Moscow 3" conference, but insisted a political solution could only be achieved with the defeat of "terrorism". The Syrian leader said it would take "maximum of two years" to produce a new constitution and hold a referendum on it.
Assad's government considers all those who oppose his regime "terrorists," and has framed the conflict that began with anti-government demonstrations in March 2011 as a "war on terror". He accuses the West and other backers of the opposition of sponsoring extremism, and also said the West had exploited a photograph of a young Syrian refugee child, Aylan Kurdi, found dead on a Turkish beach.
"That photo was used as propaganda by the West," he said, accusing opposition backers of driving Syrians abroad by sponsoring "terrorism" and levying sanctions on Syria.
"This boy and... other children suffered and died and are being killed because of the Western policies in this world, in this region," he said.
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Persons of Color (POCs) fighting brutal injustice by acting like dipshits. Interesting that Avis doubled down. Hopefully, that rumbling sound in the distance is repercussions.
Any resemblance to the discrimination suffered by black folks in the previous century is purely coincidental.
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On FB: "We have investigated the denial of a rental that recently occurred in Manhattan. We have found that we have been inconsistent in applying our policies with respect to documentation requirements with this customer, who has rented from us in the past without providing a second form of identification. We are committed to providing an outstanding car rental experience to our customers and believe that we should have done better here. We have spoken with the customer and apologized for the misunderstanding that occurred as a result of this inconsistency in applying our documentation policy, and the customer has accepted our apology.
We reiterate our policy that we do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, national origin or sexual orientation. We intend to take steps, including additional training, to improve the consistency in our application of documentation policies."
humminahumminahummina
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I don't rent from Avis from a couple bad run ins a few years back. Lost reservations delaying trips, rude employees, trying to charge for things I declined, etc. Seems they haven't changed much.
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The Avis FB reply Frank G posts is considerably more reasonable than the one I saw this morning. It does not address the claim that a single photo ID - international drivers license or passport - from many countries was officially all that was required from a lot of countries, supposedly including Israel. I suspect Avis is not so much anti-Semetic as they are caught between threat of lawsuit by Israeli customer, loss of business to bad publicity, and threat of lawsuit by employees of protected demographic.
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Interesting - from linked-in she used to work at Bloomingdales, but from google search she has a lawsuit against them. Also on linkedin she mentions HIV walks and other stuff
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The Royal Air Force will join an offensive to seal off Isil’s last international border and block foreign fighters from travelling to and from the group’s territory.
