[Khaama (Afghanistan)] President Mohammad 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. .. has expressed grieve over the loss of lives in Maidan Wardak province and offered deep condolences to the families of the victims.
President Ghani has also ordered related officials to provide treatment to the injured and necessary assistance to families of the victims.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened... a high-ranking government delegation headed by Ministry of Defense (MoD) has been assigned to investigate the incident.
Upon the completion of its investigation, the delegation has been ordered to summit its findings to the President.
The incident took place in Otri area of Sayed Abad District around 10 am on Friday.
According to local residents, a religious class was ongoing in the village mosque when a rocket landed leaving eight students killed.
The rocket was reportedly fired during a clash between security forces and Taliban.
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China firmly supports Somalia’s efforts of national reconstruction and stands ready to increase its aid to the Eastern African country, Chinese President Xi Jinping said here on Friday.
China will adhere to the friendly policy in conducting its relations with Somalia, Xi noted during a meeting with the Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on the sidelines of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit held in Johannesburg.
Reaffirming China’s firm support to the national reconciliation and peace process in Somalia, Xi said that China welcomes the Somalis in all fields and at all levels to visit China for exchange. China will also support the Somali efforts of economic recovery and national reconstruction, said the Chinese president, vowing to increase China’s aid to Somalia and encourage more Chinese enterprises to engage in mutually beneficial cooperation in the African country.
In the security sector, Xi noted that China will continue to help Somalia strengthen its national defense and security capability, and provide assistance to the African Union Mission in Somalia.
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Kenyan security forces have arrested 28 aliens from Somalia in Balambala region, Garissa County in northeast Kenya as authorities tightened patrols along the porous border. Garissa County Commissioner James Kianda said the group, consisting of 11 women and 17 men, were traveling aboard a hired private vehicle.
Kianda said members of the public informed the police, who quickly rushed to place and found the stranded aliens after their vehicle developed mechanical problem.
“The aliens decided to use the Balambala-Garissa route instead of the Dadaab-Garissa one to evade a massive security operation on the route by Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) and police. But fortunately members of the public informed us of their presence,” Kianda said.
He said that the aliens, who did not have any paper documentation, will be locked at the Garissa police station before being arraigned in court Friday to answer to charges of being in the country illegally.
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GALKAYO, Somalia -- Puntland and Galmudug Presidents have exchanged two weeks of hostility in central Somalia city of Galkayo for a spurt to peace in what is being billed as milestone, Garowe Online reports.
On Saturday morning, Galmudug President Abdikarin Hussein Gulled hosted breakfast for Puntland President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali at luxury hotel in south Galkayo, showing off a rare olive branch with Somalia Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke and Jubaland leader Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islam (Madobe) present.
Striking a conciliatory tone, Gulled expressed his delight with the tour of Puntland delegation. On his side, Ali called Galkayo clashes ‘unprovoked’ and pledged that he alongside Gulled will steer clear of incendiary moves.
Both sides have begun withdrawing paramilitary units to their permanent bases.
Construction of a paved road straddling a key junction between Galmudug-controlled Barahley neighborhood and Garsoor sparked off fierce gun-battles and shelling on to built-up areas over two weeks ago. Prime Minister Sharmarke embarked on mediations to end rekindled deadly violence in the potentially dangerous flashpoint in central Somalia.
Puntland and Galmudug leaders agreed to ceasefire on Tuesday.
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Tripoli’s Rada (Special Deterrent Forces) brigade, headed by Abdul Rauf Kara, has put out a video of an alleged Tunisian prisoner purporting to be a member of IS.
The prisoner was captured last Thursday after a raid by Rada forces on the Tawheed brigade in the Fournaj district of Tripoli during which an alleged IS commander, Murad Gmati, was killed. Rada said that they intended to question Gmati and that he had resisted arrest and opened fire on them.
The prisoner gave his name as Jihad Shandur / Shandub, aka Abusaif Al-Islam, and his date of birth 1989 hailing from Djerba, Tunisia. He said that he had been in Libya for a year and had been smuggled in through the desert by fuel smugglers from the Ben Guerdane Libyan-Tunisian border region.
Once in Libya, he claimed that he went to Al-Jmail then to Sirte to await a Libyan passport to go to Syria. A fake green Libyan passport was supplied with which he flew to Turkey via Misrata. However, he was returned by Turkish authorities to Misrata. He moved on to Sirte and then on to Sabratha where he claimed he joined another three IS members before going on to the Tawheed brigade’s headquarters in Tripoli’s Fournaj district where he remained for a few months.
The prisoner said that when he arrived in Libya his intention was to join IS in Syria but that there was ‘‘confusion’’ and ‘‘differences’’ of opinion between its local leaders and was forced to remain in Libya.
He claimed that he was told he was to carry out an operation in Tunisia against tourist targets. Four people were ‘‘prepared’’ for the Tunisia operations, but only three people went. The three he believes are still in Sabratha and were unable to go into Tunisia due to border closures. He also claimed, as had been alleged at the time, that IS were responsible for the attack on the Mitiga airbase prison in September this year.
The aim was to free IS prisoners held there by Kara’s Rada brigade. The attack was carried out by four foreign IS members, supported by three Libyans who stayed outside the airbase, he said. The weapons and explosives for the attack had been stored at a nearby mosque, he alleged.
Asked by the interviewer what was IS’s problems with Rada, the prisoner said that Rada was preventing them from hitting diplomatic missions in Tripoli.
He also claimed that IS were responsible for the kidnapping of foreigners in Libya, including the kidnapping of Italians from the Mellitah complex.
There has been a split within the Islamists who control the capital, between those who are Salafists and jihadists. Rada are in the former camp. IS is the most radical of the later.
It must be pointed out however, that there is some social media chatter questioning whether the prisoner is a member of IS with accusations that Gmati’s killing was no more than the inter-militia power struggle for turf control within Tripoli.
All the information about the incident has been from Rada’s own media output with no independent confirmation or denial of their version of events. No independent media has been allowed to question the accused prisoner and his on-video confession.
The incident and video has led to at least one other brigade pre-empting any accusations of extremism by releasing a statement in which they denied any links with extremist groups.
The reference to IS members being in Sabratha by the prisoner in the video has also led to Sabratha Municipality Council releasing a statement yesterday denying that their town harbours IS training camps. It has invited media to visit and inspect the town. The Libya Herald has received a direct invitation from Sabratha Municipality to visit it.
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That would be the Libya that O disposed the leader of without Congressional authorization to use force initiating a series of actions resulting in ISIS's rise and spread?
ADEN: The UN mediator traveled Saturday to Aden in south Yemen to press for the government and Shiite rebels to open long-delayed peace talks on December 12, a Yemeni official said.
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed met President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, who has declared the port city Yemen’s provisional capital following the rebels’ capture of Sanaa and other regions over the past year.
The official close to the president said the envoy left after a brief visit.
“Mr Ould Cheikh Ahmed is seeking the agreement of President Hadi to convening the talks in Geneva on December 12,” he told AFP.
But the mission was “difficult,” said the source, accusing the rebels of dragging their feet on implementing UN Security Council Resolution 2216, which calls for them to withdraw from occupied territory.
And Foreign Minister Abdel Malak Al-Mekhlafi told AFP: “The putschists are refusing to lay down their arms or to allow the government to carry out its duties” from Sanaa.
“They have not announced their list of negotiators” for the talks “and are trying to escalate the situation on the ground by bombing residential districts of Taez,” a strategic city in southwest Yemen under siege by the rebels and their allies, he said.
In a protest sent to the United Nations, Yemen’s minister in charge of human rights, Ezzedine Al-Isbahi, condemned the “massacres and atrocities” allegedly committed in Taez by the rebels that he said had killed 33 civilians last week, including four children.
Mekhlafi denounced the Houthis and their allies for having filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in Sanaa against Hadi and his aides over their request for a Saudi-led military intervention that had “damaged the independence” of Yemen.
The United Nations says that more than 5,700 people have been killed in Yemen, almost half of them civilians, since a Saudi-led air campaign began in March in support of the government.
In Aden, meanwhile, gunmen shot dead the presiding judge of a terrorism court, Mohsen Mohamed Alwan, and four of his bodyguards, a security source said, and police Col. Al-Khadher Ali Ahmed was gunned down in a separate attack
[ARABNEWS] Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi met with a UN envoy in Aden on Saturday to agree on peace talks with 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 ... rebels set to begin in mid-December, officials from the president's office said.
"Despite the suffering and wounds, our hands are always outstretched for peace based on national and humanitarian responsibilities toward our people," Hadi was quoted as saying after meeting the envoy.
It was the first such meeting in Aden since pro-government forces liberated Aden earlier this year with the help of a Saudi-led coalition.
"The government is ready for talks but the other side isn't, and its actions on the ground contradict their statements that they support a peaceful solution," said Abdel-Malek Al-Mekhlafi, who was named as foreign minister by Hadi last week.
Previous peace efforts have ended in failure, with the government demanding the implementation of a UN resolution calling on the Houthis to lay down arms seized from the state and withdraw from territory, including the capital.
At Saturday's meeting, UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed presented a draft plan to implement the UN resolution, the officials said.
The draft will also be presented on Sunday in Oman to leaders of the party of former President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , who is allied with the Houthis, party official Yasser Al-Awaidi told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
On Saturday, masked gunnies on cycle of violences carried out separate attacks on vehicles in Aden, killing Col. Aqeel Al-Khodr, a military intelligence official who supports Hadi, and Judge Mohsen Alwan.
Three other people were killed in the attack on Alwan, security officials said.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Several Olamas (religious preachers) in yesterday demanded immediate end to Peace TV telecasting in Bangladesh saying they were misleading the Muslims all over the world.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... the police chief yesterday hinted that they would collect information on those who were preaching radicalism and instigating youths to attack minority communities and bloggers.
Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque while addressing a discussion with Islamic holy mans at the Police Headquarters asked the Olamas to file a written complaint and send it to the Information Ministry and police force.
He said both the ministries and law enforcement agencies would investigate the matter and if needed actions would be taken.
Mohammad Nayeem Uddin, one of the Olamas present at the conference, told the Dhaka Tribune that the Peace TV was misinterpreting Islam.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... the IGP said directives had already been issued to collect information on the people who are tactfully preaching radicalism.
About the twenty-one Lions of Islam who were are awaiting the gallows would be punished as per the High Court directives.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Mia and other top police officials were present at the programme.
In the conference the Olamas provided some demands including making a list of the Imams in the country so that those who were misleading the people could be traced easily.
Khandoker Golam Mawla Nakshabondi said many students of Kawmi and Alia madrasas were joining Lions of Islam groups after being instigated by Olamas.
Another Olama claimed that the Madrasa Board should be freed from Jamaat influences.
If any Owaz Mahfil (religious sermon) is organised the organisers should take permission from the local cop shoppe concerned and the speeches should be recorded.
- See more at: http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2015/dec/06/olamas-demand-ban-peace-tv#sthash.EIEdWbTh.dpuf
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Support for France’s far-right party, the National Front, has been surging following the deadly attacks in Paris on November 13. And the party appears set for its biggest victory yet at the French regional elections this weekend, when the country votes in the first round.
According to recent polls, the party led by the outspoken Marine Le Pen is set to capture victories in as many as three regions out of 13 “super regions” created by French President Francois Hollande.
The two “rounds” of elections, which end December 13, mark the final time France will vote before the 2017 presidential elections — which is Le Pen’s ultimate preferred destination.
The Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie and the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur regions have long been expected to swing to the National Front. But a new poll in Les Échos indicates that the Alsace-Lorraine-Champagne-Ardenne region might also elect the National Front’s candidate, giving the party more gains than expected.
The party’s anti-immigration and anti-European Union stance is resonating with voters amid a climate of fear of terrorism and social instability, especially after last month’s attacks, for which the Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility. More than ever since the attacks, the main concerns for the French electorate have become the migrant crisis and security issues, which benefit the National Front.
You would think that the centrist parties would recognize what the citizens are saying to them. What the concerns and issues truly are. While the far left parties won't trim their sails, you'd think the centrist parties would incorporate enough of these concerns and issues so as to rally support. But no, they won't do that. Apparently they're afraid of being called "racist" or whatever, and so they won't listen to their citizens. They then react to surprise and vitriol when the far right parties rise up in the polls. "Unexpectedly", of course...
Those worries are especially present in northern France’s Calais, where the local population is faced with the “Jungle,” a makeshift camp now housing thousands of migrants and refugees hoping to pass through to the United Kingdom.
“The Front National vote was already high in this region, but the migrant crisis and the Calais issue, and now the November 13 attacks, are extremely favourable to that vote,” Pierre Mathiot, a politics professor at Lille’s Sciences Po university, recently told The Guardian.
But for Marine Le Pen, who is the National Front candidate in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region, those are not the only factors pushing the vote in her favour. It is the poorest region in France, part of the country’s rust belt, and is plagued by higher-than-average unemployment rates.
Meanwhile, in the south of the country, 25-year-old Marion Maréchal Le Pen (Marine Le Pen’s niece), has been surging in polls and is likely to win the the vote in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur region.
Politicians in France are only very slowly starting to recognise the potential success of the National, having so far failed to counter the far-right. Mathiot told the Guardian that in northern France, the left has been in power for so long that it had lost the habit of “being in political competition.”
Alain Juppé, France’s prime minister from 1995 to 1997, urged French voters to open their eyes to the reality of the party’s political platform.
“With so much demagogy, the Front National is fooling a number of disillusioned voters … into thinking there is a solution there. But one needs to think a bit before voting, and not get carried away by one’s anger,” Juppé told newspaper Le Monde.
See? It's not because the centrists are ignoring the concerns of citizens, it's "anger". As if it's wrong to be angry over watching your country being given away to outsiders.
Manuel Valls, the country’s current prime minister, has warned voters not to fall for the far-right party’s alleged “trickery,” according to the BBC.
"Trickery" is the new phrase to describe the right wing pols who tell the truth (at least more of it than the others). Expect that word to be applied to Trump and Cruz here in the U.S. just as soon as the American Democrats and MSM (but I of course repeat myself) get their marching orders from Mr. Soros and Madame Hilarity...
The president of the Medef, the largest employer federation in France, recently told the French newspaper Le Parisien that the National Front’s platform was “not economically responsible.”
“Bringing the retirement age back to 60, raising all salaries and the minimum wage by $220 and bringing back the franc, raising the import tax. … It is exactly the opposite of what we need to kick-boost economic growth in this country. The economy needs pragmatism and lucidity,” he told Le Parisien.
And a local newspaper in the region in which Marine Le Pen is running recently ran a front page that warned its readers against voting for her, titling the cover, “Marine Le Pen and the FN are not who they claim to be.”
The leftist newspapers in Europe have cried 'wolf' often enough that the population no longer is paying attention to them. Their response is to shriek "WOLFFFF!!!!" louder and more shrilly...
But despite the negative onslaught, Marine Le Pen’s rising popularity these days seems nearly impossible to stop. Her competitor in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region, Pierre de Saintignon, told RTL on Wednesday she would “not be presiding over the region” and that he would “take his responsibilities when the times comes” to ensure it.
That sounds like an anti-democratic step to me, though of course he won't be called on it...
His statement though makes it perhaps clearer than ever that her popularity is set to give Le Pen the biggest victory of her political career. It might also indicate that her party is primed to have another breakthrough performance in the 2017 presidential elections.
“The Islamic State fulfils its promises. It had announced attacks in France. There have been attacks in France,” she said recently at a rally in Nice to support Marion Marechal-Le Pen.
“Our politicians must open their eyes,” she added. “Yes, there is definitely a link between massive immigration … and radical Islam.”
The centrist parties could have saved themselves a lot of trouble by taking care of business when they had the opportunities to do so. Now people like Le Pen are going to take power in Europe, and the centrists are going to be on the outside looking in.
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“With so much demagogy, the Front National is fooling a number of disillusioned voters … into thinking there is a solution there. But one needs to think a bit before voting, and not get carried away by one’s anger”
[AA.TR] The Turkish military has released details of a training program for Kurdish peshmerga fighters it has been running in Iraq.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has cautioned against misunderstandings, saying, "The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has no designs on any country's land."
The army statement comes in the wake of Friday's deployment of around 150 Turkish troops to replace training forces in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , northern Iraq. Along with the troops, 20 to 25 tanks were also dispatched to the area.
Turkish army sources said Saturday that they had been training fighters across four provinces in northern Iraq to combat Daesh [Islamic State].
The fresh Turkish troops arrived in Mosul, Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) spokesperson Sefin Dizayi confirmed in a statement.
According to the KRG, Turkish military equipment and experts are to replace an existing unit in the northern Iraq.
The new arrivals will be stationed at different military camps in the Mosul region plus the Soran and Kalacholan districts near the Iranian border.
According to the Turkish military, peshmerga forces have been trained against homemade explosives and to use heavy machine guns, mortars and artillery. They also received first-aid training.
More than 2,500 peshmerga, including high-ranking officers, have attended the Turkish training, the military added.
KRG deputy peshmerga minister, Major-General Karaman Kemal Omar, said that the training given by Turkish soldiers made a huge contribution to an operation by Iraqi Kurdish forces to retake Sinjar district from Daesh [Islamic State] on Nov. 12.
Turkish Prime Minister Davutoglu said Saturday that Ankara's struggle was against terrorist organizations.
"Nobody should infer wrong meanings from our assistance. Turkey has no designs on any country's land. It does not and it cannot."
"Nothing less than the second Ottoman empire interests us. But that's just a matter of regaining our own lands, not any other country's."
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...that's cause MSNBC has got to have something to demonstrate their reasoning with. Otherwise, people would be out of their professional "two minutes of hate" job.
[ABC7] Following the announcement that one San Bernardino shooter pledged her allegiance to ISIS, new concerns about domestic threats have risen, but experts say there are ways to prevent those attacks.
After two days of investigation, federal authorities called Wednesday's rampage a terrorist act, and counter-terrorism experts said Americans need to be vigilant as there may be thousands of other ISIS sympathizers in the U.S. that are being urged to stage more attacks.
The couple behind the San Bernardino attack, Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook, was considered to be inspired by ISIS but not directed by the terror group.
Steven Gomez, a former head of the FBI's counter-terrorism division in Los Angeles, said that kind of act means ISIS successfully motivated and enabled somebody to be in the country to commit a terrorist attack and said the couple is only two of thousands that exist in the U.S.
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Experts Warn To Be Vigilant Of Thousands Of ISIS Sympathizers In U.S
A sad but banner moment when Rantburg commentary makes it to the mainstream.
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Making FDRs internment program looking better everyday.
And they didn't even have the technical means nor manpower to sift through the population, just the decoded Japanese diplomatic traffic that said they had agents in the community. We're at war whether the ruling class wants one or not. At least in December '41, that group recognized it for what it was.
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US-LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO + US-WORLD/GLOBAL SOCIALIST ORDER, N-O-T NATIONAL OR GEOPOL SECURITY.
The Secular Lefties will continue to let them in until such time Amerika's "Big[gest} Govt" devols into a de facto, permanent, repressive or hardline SOVIET = TOTALITARIAN GOVT.
OTOH, I'm sure the Anti-Secular, Theo/Islamo-Socialist Hard Boyz, Domestic andor foreign, will be READY + FULLY ARMED by the time the "Big Divorce" between Radical Islamist-Jihadists + Secular Leftist-Socialist-Communist, etal. OWG Marxist-Globalists occur.
[TIME] Lawyers for the Farook family accused the media of racially profiling his client
A lawyer for the family of one of the suspects in the San Bernandino shooting said that the media has been unfairly smearing his client because he is Muslim.
"Until there is absolute clear evidence, every headline doesn't have to say 'Muslim massacre' or 'Muslim shooters,'" said David Chesley, a lawyer for the family of Syed Farook, part of the husband-wife team allegedly behind the attack. "Because it's going to cause intolerance and what we need is forgiveness."
Chesley said in a presser that the media was unfairly characterizing his client's actions as terrorism-related, when there is also evidence that Farook may have had trouble at work and the attack could have been a work-related incident. He noted that co-workers may have teased Farook about his beard, which could have caused him to snap.
"When someone goes crazy and commits an act that probably could be work related, it doesn't make a statement about an entire religion," he said. Chesley also said that his client's named is being smeared in a moment of increasing intolerance, as some presidential candidates are calling for all Muslims to register with the government.
Syed Farook was a U.S. citizen and his wife Tashfeen Malik was Pak and in the country legally on a visa by marriage to Farook. The couple, who are the parents of a 6-month old daughter, were both killed in a shootout with police after they allegedly shot and killed 14 people at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. The FBI says it is investigating the incident as a terrorist attack, partly because of internet postings that suggest a connection to radical Islam.
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To have the gall to hire a lawyer accusing US... US of having responsibility.
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OK, so the government worker is upset about "someone" possibly saying "something" about his beard. It's a theory. So why bring the wife along? Lipstache?
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The original plan appears to have included several (as many as a dozen) remotely detonated pipe bombs.
One can reasonably assume some sort of serial detonation, multiple targets, and some form of sophisticated non-discovery and escape. Note the fact that no suicide vests were apparently discovered.
The 'workplace' slayings obviously placed non-discovery and successful follow-on serial pipe bombings at severe risk. Why go to the trouble to manufacture pipe bombs if the margin of success is going to be reduced by a massive and possible suicidal workplace attack ?
Something threw these people off their primary pipe bomb target(s), and I doubt it had anything to do with bearded insults.
We need more information on the pipe bombs and a possible target list.
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You have to stay up on current timeline on names.
Now they're "muslim shooters who have hired a California ambulance chaser".
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#10 Have you considered that the bombs may not have been intended for "personal" use, Besoeker?
Yes, they could have been manufactured for distribution to other domestic terrorists, but why was delivery not made prior to the workplace event? Why risk discovery and loss of resources, even if one were to survive police arrest and apprehension ?
As an aside; with a few exceptions, IED's in AFG and Iraq were usually constructed or assembled in the general proximity of the target or target area. Transporting IED's or IED components is prone to theft, or worse yet, discovery by the police or military. Another detractor is the obvious danger involved in moving the stuff around.
I still believe more will be learned if the chemical makeup and source of the explosives is revealed, along with a possible target list. Could the upcoming Dec 22, 2015 'Motley Crue' concert at the Honda Center in Anaheim been a target? Could there be a Paris 'Eagles of Death Metal' concert pattern? Would black attire also been appropriate for a 'Crue' concert ?
Notice how little is being said about the pipe bombs or potential target list.
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Same people who want to control the narrative by demanding those here illegally shouldn't be called 'illegals'.
B - have they considered the juicy targets presented by the crowds at the first showing of the new Star Wars movie? Now there's a Western Civ target to stage for a world wide coverage coup.
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Well g(r)om, Tasheen Malik certainly appears to be your garden variety (Islamic disposable female) terrorist plant or sleeper. If the Feds were NOT on to them, one must certainly ask why the fok not?
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Everyone has been taking notes. It would slow pursuit.
Apparently signing up for Mutual of ISJV affords legal and public relations benefits, preconditions are not reviewable.
Orphaned a six month old to go kill invalids and caregivers during a celebration of life and communion. I guess they hated them more than they loved the child.
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"In future, you rude persecutors,
Don't scrutinize hooters or suitors,
Recruiters, computers,
Or tactical tutors --
And call your jihadists Peace shooters!"
[NYPOST] The FBI called it a terror investigation and sources revealed that the female shooter in the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, bloodbath pledged her loyalty to ISIS -- but the B.O. regime was still hesitating Friday to declare that the massacre was terrorism.
"It's far too early to reach that kind of conclusion. We're still learning exactly what was motivating these individuals, what steps they took to carry out this terrible crime," White House front man Josh Earnest told news hounds.
"Before we make any grand pronouncements along those lines, it's important for our Sherlocks to find out what happened."
Obama initially downplayed terrorism as a motive for Wednesday's attack in San Bernardino, Calif., instead issuing another call for tougher gun-control laws.
But faced with mounting evidence that the killers, Syed Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, had been radicalized, FBI Director James Comey announced Friday that a terrorism investigation was underway.
Earnest had disputed that the focus on gun control was a bid to deny a terror attack.
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He's come a long way since his comment about how the police acted "stupidly", hasn't he?
I believe we've been doing very 'in depth' social media network analysis for quite some time, amped up considerably following 9/11 as I recall. Might be instructive to know exactly when these contacts took place and the particulars, assessments, distro, etc.
Any U.S. Person (USP) and gov't employee appearing on a network analysis chart would be very 'low hanging fruit.' Just saying.
[THEBLAZE] A former U.S. congressman urged Attorney General Loretta Lynch to arrest him after she warned on Thursday that her office would take a more aggressive approach to those spewing anti-Muslim rhetoric.
"I think Islam has a real freaking problem, alright?" Former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh said in a video posted to his Facebook page. "There is a cancer in Islam, and if they're not going to learn to assimilate, I don't want them in this country."
"You got a problem, Loretta Lynch, with me saying that? Then throw me in jail," Walsh, a conservative talk show host, argued. "I think Islam is evil. I think Islam has a huge problem. I think most Muslims around the world are not compatible with American values. I don't want them here."
Walsh continued to slam Lynch in his video for the comments she made at Muslim Advocate's 10th anniversary dinner one day after law enforcement officials say two people shot up a holiday party in San Bernardino, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, leaving 14 people dead and more than one dozen injured. According to reports, the wife pledged allegiance to 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.... on her Facebook page just moments before the attack.
"When we talk about the First Amendment we [must] make it clear that actions predicated on violent talk are not American. They are not who we are, they are not what we do, and they will be prosecuted," Lynch said at the banquet. "My message not just to the Muslim community but to all Americans is: we cannot give in to the fear that these backlashes are really based on."
Walsh, who now hosts his own radio program, served in Congress from 2011 to 2013.
In text that included some stronger language accompanying his video, which has been viewed more than 110,000 times as of Saturday morning, Walsh continued to argue that "most Muslims around the world are terrorists, support terrorism and/or support Sharia Law."
"Any Muslim that is a terrorist or supports terrorism should be killed," Walsh wrote. "If 'Moderate' Muslims don't speak out against terrorism, they are our enemy and we should call them out and kick them out of this country."
"Is that 'anti-Muslim rhetoric' that 'edges toward violence,'" he continued. "Go ahead and prosecute me. I dare you."
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The 1st amendment is there for a reason. Shame on Lynch.
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[NYTIMES] The information that Ms. Malik came to live in this country legally has heightened concern about security reviews in the immigration system. It has also renewed a tense debate in Washington, particularly after the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris provoked a furor in Congress and among state governments about the vetting of refugees from Syria and Iraq.
On Thursday, two Republican senators, Ted Cruz of Texas, who is running for president, and Jeff Sessions of Alabama, demanded that the Obama administration provide them with detailed information on the immigration history of Ms. Malik, who came to the United States and married Syed Rizwan Farook, an American citizen whom officials have identified as her partner in Wednesday’s shooting that killed 14 people and injured 21.
Ms. Malik, 29, was granted a K-1 visa, also known as the fiancé visa, in Pakistan in July 2014, the officials said, and she traveled to the United States that month.
The review process for a K-1 visa is “not as strict” as the vetting for refugees, Josh Earnest, the White House spokesman, said. But immigration officials said the K-1 review was more extensive than the vetting of a foreigner who planned to only visit. Mr. Earnest said Obama administration officials were examining Ms. Malik’s journey to this country to see if any policies should be changed.
As a routine part of the visa and green card applications, Ms. Malik gave fingerprints and other identifying information, which were passed twice through background checks using the State Department’s watch lists and the immigration, counterterror and criminal databases at the Department of Homeland Security and at the F.B.I.
For the K-1 visa, Mr. Farook, 28, started the application to bring in his fiancée, who provided a Pakistani passport. Adhering to standard procedure for the K-1 visa, Ms. Malik had to demonstrate to State Department consular officials in Pakistan that their relationship was legitimate, and that she and Mr. Farook intended to marry in the United States within 90 days after she received the visa. Mr. Farook had to prove that he and Ms. Malik had met in person at least once in the previous two years, typically done by providing photos showing them together, personal messages and travel reservations. After the 90-day period, a K-1 visa expires and cannot be renewed.
As part of that review, Ms. Malik had a personal interview with a consular officer in Pakistan, federal officials said.
The couple came to the country in July 2014 on a flight that originated in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, two federal officials said. According to a certificate obtained by The Associated Press, the two were married in Riverside County, Calif., in August 2014, within the 90-day time limit.
On Sept. 30, 2014, Mr. Farook applied for a green card to make Ms. Malik a permanent resident, based on her marriage to an American citizen. There is no limit on the number of green cards available to spouses of citizens, so the process generally moves quickly.
Since green cards are granted by a different agency, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Ms. Malik had to undergo more background checks, probably providing a new set of fingerprints, officials said.
It is routine for an officer from the citizenship agency to interview both spouses, but officials there could not confirm that Ms. Malik was interviewed, citing privacy concerns.
Under the standard procedure, the couple would have had to provide documents and undergo questioning, primarily to persuade immigration officers their marriage was not fraudulent. Sometimes the officer will interview the spouses separately, asking highly personal questions about foods or pastimes the other spouse enjoyed or other intimate details, to make sure the immigrant and the spouse lived together.
Ms. Malik received a conditional green card in July 2015, officials said. After two years, the couple would have had to apply again to get a regular green card, showing they were still married.
Both were killed in a shootout with the police on Wednesday, leaving behind a 6-month-old daughter.
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but they're totes competent in vetting the Syrian refugees, right?
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Mohammedans find it upsetting
Submitting to vigorous vetting!
"Plan any beheading?
Excessive bloodletting?
Manspreading or toilet-seat wetting?"
QUETTA: The passing-out parade of the sixth batch of Balochistan’s youths who have joined the Pakistan Army, comprising 944 recruits, was held here on Saturday.
Balochistan Governor Muhammad Khan Achakzai was the chief guest at the parade held at the EME Centre.
Speaking on the occasion, he said all nefarious designs and conspiracies of foreign elements against Balochistan, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Karachi would be frustrated with national unity and joint efforts of the government and security forces.
He said foreign forces were misguiding and trying to use the people of Balochistan and Fata against Pakistan. “People of the country will foil all these conspiracies with unity,” he said.
The governor said it was a matter of satisfaction that youths from Balochistan were joining the army in large numbers, noting that their number in the force a few years ago was very low.
He said the army had relaxed its rules and conditions to accommodate the youths of Balochistan.
KARACHI: The tenure of policing powers assigned to Rangers in Karachi, which is sanctioned by the Sindh government after every few months, is due to expire on Sunday.
But officials believe that sooner or later Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah will approve an extension in the tenure of “special powers” of the paramilitary force.
In August the chief minister had extended the period of “special powers” of Pakistan Rangers in Karachi for another four months, hours before the last extension was going to expire.
Sindh Information Adviser Maula Bux Chandio said that there could be a delay of a day or two but the government had no intention to discontinue the arrangements.
[DAWN] The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) chief the increasingly hugeAltaf Hussain ..The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in London and hasn't laid eyes on Pakistain since Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him,he may be a Hutt... and other party leaders in the murder of former MQM leader Dr Imran Farooq.
The news surfaced when polling in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , a traditional MQM stronghold, for local government elections was under way.
The case, filed by FIA's counter-terrorism wing in Islamabad, has been registered for "conspiracy, assistance, abettment and ultimately liquidation /murder of Dr Imran farooq, ex-parliamentarian and senior member of MQM in London on Sept 2010. The case has been registered under sections 302, 34, 109, 120B of the Pakistain Penal Code and section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act," read a statement issued by the agency.
"The government of Pakistain through FIA's counter-terrorism wing is the complainant in the case."
Others nominated in the case include Mohammad Anwar, Iftikhar Hussain, Moazzam Ali Khan, Kashif Khan Kamran, Syed Mohsin Ali and Khalid Shamim.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: The Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... presidents of both Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... and Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... lost their seats at the hands of Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... , as unofficial results for the third phase of local government polls start to pour in, DawnNews reported on Saturday.
Moreover, the chief of Pakistain People's Party Karachi division was outnumbered by the candidate nominated by PTI-JI alliance.
Results of the third phase of polling for local body elections held in 12 districts of 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.... and six districts of Karachi have started pouring in.
Initial trends indicate that PML-N is leading in Punjab while in Karachi MQM is in front.
It was reported that Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi Chief Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman lost the election for Union Council (UC)-18 chairman seat in Disrtict Central.
According to unofficial results, Muttahida Qaumi Movement's Mazhar Hussain obtained 3,205 votes, defeating Naeem-ur- Rehman who got only 702 votes.
PTI candidate Ali Zaidi lost to MQM candidate Noshad Khan in UC-16 Soldier Bazar, while PPP Karachi chef Najmi Alam suffered defeat in UC-30, DawnNews reported.
Muttahida's expected candidate for Karachi's mayorship, Waseem Akhter, was elected as Chairman UC-11 of Disrtict East. According to unofficial results, Akhter defeated PPP's District President Zulfiqar Qaimkhani.
PTI leader Arif Alvi accepted the defeat and congratulated MQM on winning a large number of UCs in Karachi.
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[Tolo News] Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad said Pakistain has always used the Taliban and Haqqani Network in its foreign policy and that it gives refuge to holy warrior groups.
Speaking to TOLOnews, Khalilzad said Pak generals sat beside leaders of hard boy groups at the first round of peace talks. The American politician said the Afghan government has had a number of problems over the last year and that it has had to work hard to gain public trust.
"This shows the lack of a system and a work plan in the government. We hope that lessons are learned from mistakes made in Kunduz war and that the mistakes are not repeated," he said.
"No doubt, without the help of Pakistain, the [terrorist] groups would not have the ability to operate in Afghanistan in ways that they are doing now and they would not have been able to threaten Afghanistan as much as they do," Khalilzad said.
"Pakistain is the center or capital of the groups -- whether they are Taliban or Haqqani. There is no doubt that Pak generals were present at the [the peace talks] session which was held with the Taliban and Haqqani network leaders."
He went on to say: "Regarding Daesh [Islamic State], it is clear which country is mostly supporting the group and on the part of Taliban and Haqqani Network we can say surely that Pakistain is their [Taliban's] supporter."
Khalilzad stressed the need to establish transparency in the government and said U.S President Barak Obama's new strategy has created more optimism in winning the war on terror in Afghanistan.
He said the presence of 10,000 US troops in Afghanistan can accelerate the training and equipment process of Afghan cops.
Khalilzad, who was born in Afghanistan, was U.S envoy to 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.... but is currently a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and president of Khalilzad Associates, an international business consulting firm based in Washington, DC.
He was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... under President George W. Bush and has been involved with U.S policy makers at the White House, State Department and Pentagon since the mid-1980s.
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[Tolo News] Pakistain's powerful spy agency - Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) reportedly sheltered key Taliban leaders, including the group's reclusive leader 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... , following the U.S's military intervention in Afghanistan in 2001, government sources have confirmed.
In the second part of TOLOnews' documentary on the Taliban, government sources spoke on condition of anonymity on Mullah Mansour's rise to power.
According to them, reports indicate that Mullah Omar was initially sheltered in an ISI safe house in Chawni area of Quetta city, the capital of 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... province. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... later on, ISI moved him to Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Islamabad and Lahore.
During his time in Pakistain, the only person Mullah Omar was allegedly in contact with was current Taliban leader Mullah Akhter Mansour - along with one other person named Azizullah -- who allegedly worked as the link between the two commanders.
Based on the reports, Mullah Omar had been put into isolation by Mullah Mansour and even close relatives of the reclusive leader were not able to see him without first getting permission from Mullah Mansour. Loyalists to Mullah Omar believe that he was suffering from depression during his last days -- this because of his isolation.
Sources said it is also believed that Mullah Mansour hid Mullah Omar's death for two years and that only two other top Taliban figures were aware of his demise. These included former Taliban supreme court chief Sheikh Haibatullah and the link person Azizullah.
After news broke of Mullah Omar having died two years earlier, Mullah Mansour quickly ordered the dismissal of the head of the military commission of Taliban - a decision that reportedly sparked major criticism among the group's loyalists. This is widely seen to have been the catalyst to the current friction between the two groups.
"Several foreign intelligence services planned to create friction and disunity between the Taliban and these spy agencies extended efforts in recent months to accomplish the task. The role of foreign intelligence agencies and ethnic issues within the Taliban finally split them," former Taliban deputy minister of mines Hassan Haqyar said in reference to the divided Death Eater group.
Sidelining Mullah Omar and then hiding his death; accusations against Mullah Mansour about the detention of Mullah Beradar Akhund, deputy of Mullah Omar by Pak forces; the reported murder of Mullah Dadullah, Mullah Raqeeb and Mullah Obaidullah and a failed liquidation attempt on Mutasim Agha Jan in Karachi are apparently fundamental issues that prevented the Taliban in general from announcing allegiance to Mullah Mansour, said sources.
The division within the Taliban leadership reportedly grew further after Mullah Mansour announced himself as successor to Mullah Omar without seeking the vote from the Quetta Shura ...Mullah Omar's command center, located in Quetta, that the Pak govt hasn't been able to find since its establishment in November, 2001. Honest... Many within the group have accused Mullah Mansour of corruption, having ties with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) and especially ties with the Pak intelligence service, said the sources. Critics have even called him an ISI puppet.
On the other hand, Taliban fighters loyal to Mullah Mansour also lodged complaints against him, accusing him of having links to Daesh [Islamic State].
"A third Taliban faction has yet to announce its existence. But this faction will be mostly political, and ideologically it would be the most stable faction of the Taliban comprised of Maulavi Abdul Jalil, former deputy foreign minister of Taliban, Mullah Hassan Rahmani, former governor of Kandahar, Mullah Hassan Babur, former minister of foreign affairs including Mullah Abdul Razqa ... [a faction that] maintains major influence among Taliban," military analyst Jawed Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... i said.
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The ghost of General Zia continues to haunt Pakistan
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DUHOK – Turkey is deploying nearly 3000 military troops near Iraq’s Mosul in a bid to take part in the battle for Mosul against the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) and help train anti-ISIS fighters, military sources reported on Saturday.
Three regiments of the Turkish army, accompanied by tanks and armored vehicles, have reportedly arrived to the countryside of Mosul, the major bastion of ISIS in northern Iraq.
Speaking to ARA News in Erbil, member of the Peshmerga army of Iraqi Kurdistan Barzan Bapir said they have received information that three regiments from the Turkish forces have entered the Iraqi territory through the Ibrahim al-Khalil border crossing.
“About 100 troops are now based in the vicinity of Mosul to provide training to the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters,” Bapir added, pointing out “the estimated number of these troops could reach 3000.”
“These troops are based now in the camp of Zalkan near the ISIS-held city of Mosul,” another informed source told ARA News.
“On Thursday, another batch of the Turkish military vehicles entered the lands of the Kurdistan Region through the Ibrahim al-Khalil border crossing,” the source added on the condition of anonymity.
The crossing process of the troops was coordinated between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey.
However, the Turkish authorities have not officially confirmed the news yet.
The Turkish presence near Mosul reflects the current battle map in the region and the Kurds are playing a major role.
Backed by the US.-led coalition, the Kurdish Peshmerga army and Iraqi government forces have been preparing for an extended military campaign to recapture Mosul from the ISIS extremist group.
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The big question is that when the fighting starts will the Turks be shooting at ISIS or the Kurds.
I don't trust Erdogan and his cadre of extremists at all. They've used the Syrian war as an excuse to bomb Kurds in Iraq and bomb units fighting ISIS in Syria.
I am convinced Turkey is NOT on our side in this at all.
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Baghdad -- The Oil Ministry announced on Tuesday, that Iraq has exported more than 100 million barrels of oil from southern fields in November, asserting that the daily average of exports was the highest in decades.
America thanks you at the gas pump...
Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com “the total volume of the exported oil last month amounted to approximately one hundred million, 945 thousand and 867 barrels.”
Jihad added that “Iraq was unable to export through the northern port of Ceyhan because of Kurdistan region’s lack of commitment to the oil agreement,” stressing that “the price of the barrel amounted to $ 36 and 420 cents.”
He also pointed out that “the total financial revenue generated in November amounted to more than three billion and 676 million and 413 thousand dollars,” pointing out that “the national production of crude oil, excluding the Kurdistan region, amounted to three million and 657 barrels per day.”
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“the total financial revenue generated in November amounted to more than three billion and 676 million and 413 thousand dollars,”
I.e. A rate of $44 billion/yr. not counting the Kurdish oil or the oil ISIS is selling at deeply discounted prices. The Iraqi economy has more than doubled since "evil" George Bush deposed Saddam Husain.
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"three billion and 676 million and 413 thousand dollars”
Actual total likely closer to five billion; there were losses due to 'friction' in the economic machine.
Iraq's Foreign Ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador on Saturday to demand that Turkey immediately withdraw hundreds of troops deployed in recent days to northern Iraq, near the Daesh-controlled city of Mosul.
The ministry said in a statement the Turkish forces had entered Iraqi territory without the knowledge of the central government in Baghdad, and that Iraq considered such presence "a hostile act".
But Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the troop rotation was routine and that Turkish forces had set up a camp near Mosul almost a year ago in coordination with Iraqi authorities.
"This camp was established as a training camp for a force of local volunteers fighting terrorism," he said in a speech to a labour union that was broadcast live by NTV news channel.
Local volunteers? I suspect they are Turkmen 'volunteers'. That's the area in Iraq in which the Turkmen live.
Daesh militants overran Mosul in June 2014. A much anticipated counter-offensive by Iraqi forces has been repeatedly postponed because they are tied down in fighting elsewhere. Iraq has urged the international community to provide more weapons and training in its battle against Daesh, but rejects most forms of direct intervention, mistrusting the intentions of foreign powers.
Davutoglu said the camp, located some 30km northeast of Mosul, was set up at the Mosul governor's request and in coordination with the Iraqi Defence Ministry.
"It has trained more than 2,000 of our Mosul Turkmen brothers, contributing to the freeing of Mosul from the Daesh terrorist organisation," he said.
Iraqi President Fouad Massoum earlier described the deployment as "a violation of international norms and law" and called on Turkey to withdraw, echoing a statement from Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi's media office a day earlier.
A senior Kurdish military officer based north of Mosul told Reuters that additional Turkish trainers had arrived at a camp in the area overnight on Thursday escorted by a Turkish protection force. A small number of Turkish trainers was already at the camp to train the Hashid Watani (national mobilisation), a force made up of mainly Turkmen Sunni former Iraqi police and volunteers from Mosul.
The United States was aware of Turkey's deployment of Turkish soldiers to northern Iraq but the move is not part of the US-led coalition's activities, according to defence officials in Washington. US officials made several statements last week on plans to send more US troops to Iraq, prompting powerful Iraqi politicians and militias to protest against the presence of any foreign troops in Iraq without explicit permission from parliament.
If the Iraqis don't want foreign troops in their country, fine. Fight and win on your own. But don't come crying to us.
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Sounds like a very blatant reinforcement of the ISIS in Mosul who are coming under more and more pressure every day.
Turkey is sending troops into Iraq to divert the Kurds from doing any more damage to ISIS in Mosul.
If this doesn't shoot up a signal flare on whose side Turkey Erdogan is on, then nothing will.
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See also FREEREPUBLIC > IRAQ MAY SEEK "DIRECT MILITARY INTERVENTION FROM RUSSIA" TO EXPEL TURKISH TROOPS".
Among OTHER OPTIONS, including but not limited to referral of Turkey to UNSC for Sanction and ...
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Twitter] IRAQI MPS CALL FOR TURKEY TROOPS TO LEAVE NORTHERN TURKEY OR BE BOMBED BY THE IRAQI AIR FORCE.
* AL ARABIYA > TURKEY MUST WITHDRAW "WIDIN 24 HOURS": IRAQI NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL.
* RELATED? SAME > [Iran Supreme Ayatollah] KHAMENI ADVISOR: ASSAD FATE IS A "RED LINE" FOR IRAN.
Ditto Turkish troops operating illegally widin "US-style/par" OWG Co-Superpower Iran's "Sphere of Influence" in Iraq, + Turkey setting up a Milbase in Qatar = Persian GUlf = Iran's "near-abroad/periphery" + "Sphere of Infleunce" in the Persian Gulf???
VERSUS
* ZERHO HEDGE > TURKEY DETAINS RUSSIAN SHIPS IN BOSPOROUS, BLAMES MOSCOW FOR [Russian Sailor's]BRANDISHMENT OF ROCKET-LAUNCHER [ManPad?] IN STRAIT.
* RELATED TOPIX > [The Age] TURKEY ANGERED [furious] BY ROCKET BRANDISHMENT ON RUSSIAN NAVAL SHIP PASSING ISTANBUL.
* DAILY SABAH > RUSSIAN MISSLE-FLAUNTING DURING BOSPOROUS STRAIT PASSAGE A "PROVOCATION": [Turkey] FM CASUVUGLU.
[WASHINGTONPOST] Secretary of State John F. Kerry warned Israel on Saturday against allowing -- or even promoting, as some have urged -- the collapse of the Paleostinian Authority, saying that it would leave the Israelis with unbearable financial and strategic costs and undermine the security of the Jewish state now and in the future.
In a strongly worded speech at the Brookings Institution's Saban Forum, Kerry asked whether Israelis were "ready to accept the heightened risk [of] chaos, lawnessness and desperation" that would result. Not only would Israel have to take over all basic services and welfare for the population, Kerry said, the end of the current modicum of Paleostinian self-rule would end international assistance to the West Bank.
"It really goes to the heart of the bigger debate," he said. "The truth is that many of those arguing against the Paleostinian Authority," a group he said includes some in the Israeli government, "simply don't believe in two states."
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[ALMANAR.LB] French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said he no longer believes that Bashar al-Assad's departure is necessary before any political transition in Syria, in an interview published Saturday.
"A united Syria implies a political transition. That does not mean that Bashar al-Assad must leave even before the transition, but there must be assurances for the future," he told the French regional newspaper Le Progres.
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Step 1 in the process of folding and going home.
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Maybe not Assad, but Obean's departure will be necessary before a 'solution' is possible.
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[ABC7] Following the announcement that one San Bernardino shooter pledged her allegiance to ISIS, new concerns about domestic threats have risen, but experts say there are ways to prevent those attacks.
Baghdad -- The Oil Ministry announced on Tuesday, that Iraq has exported more than 100 million barrels of oil from southern fields in November, asserting that the daily average of exports was the highest in decades.
[WASHINGTONPOST] Secretary of State John F. Kerry warned Israel on Saturday against allowing -- or even promoting, as some have urged -- the collapse of the Paleostinian Authority, saying that it would leave the Israelis with unbearable financial and strategic costs and undermine the security of the Jewish state now and in the future.
