[HOSTED.AP.ORG] An evangelical preacher from Northern Ireland who branded Islam satanic has been charged with spreading a "grossly offensive" message.
In a May 2014 sermon, James McConnell told worshippers at the Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle in Belfast: "Islam is heathen. Islam is satanic."
The sermon was streamed online, and 78-year-old McConnell has been charged with transmitting the message over an electronic communications network.
Prosecutor David Russell told Belfast Magistrates' Court Monday that the case had "nothing to do with religion or freedom of expression."
He said McConnell "characterizes the followers of an entire religion in a stereotypical way. And that's grossly offensive and that's not protected from saying it from a pulpit."
McConnell denies the charges, and told police he didn't intend to offend, insult, arouse fear or stir up tension.
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[ARABNEWS] Egypt said Monday it still has no evidence to back up Moscow's analysis that a "terrorist" attack had downed a Russian passenger plane at the end of October in the Sinai.
The Daesh [Islamic State] group said it smuggled a bomb on board that blew up the Russian jet on Oct. 31, killing all 224 people on board.
On Nov. 17, Moscow said an investigation had found that the plane which took off from the Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh was brought down by a bomb on board, a view shared by aviation experts.
"The technical committee has not received to date any indication of the presence of illicit meddling or a terrorist action," said Ayman El-Mokkadem, the Egyptian head of a probe into the crash.
"The committee continues its work concerning the technical investigation," he said in a statement released by the Civil Aviation Ministry. "I can only recall the conclusion of our experts and our special services that indicates it was really a terrorist act," Kremlin front man Dmitri Peskov said, reacting to Mokkadem's remarks.
On Nov. 17, Russia's 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... announced that Russian Sherlocks had found evidence of a bomb on board, and vowed to punish the attackers.
"We will search for them anywhere they might hide. We will find them in any part of the world and punish them," he said.
The same day, Russian security chief Alexander Bortnikov said the passenger jet was brought down by a bomb with a force equivalent to one kilogram (two pounds) of TNT.
"We can say unequivocally that this was a terrorist attack," he said.
"Investigation carried out on all objects (personal belongings of passengers, baggage and parts of the aircraft) showed traces of foreign-made explosives," Bortnikov said at the time.
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Iranian-backed rebel stronghold Sanaa may fall to the Arab coalition and their allies the national army and resistance without fighting, a Yemeni army general has said.
Brigadier Samir Al Haj, military adviser to the Yemeni army chief of staff, said the legitimate army and resistance now control more than 70 per cent of Yemen and that many rebel areas were falling to the resistance one after another.
He acknowledged that the battle for the liberation of the Southwestern Taiz governorate has dragged on because of its difficult geographical nature but added that the offensive would not stop until the entire province is liberated from the coup insurgents.
“Regarding Sanaa, I believe that when the coalition, the army and popular resistance advance close to it, there will be dramatic changes in the scene and this could lead to its fall without the need for a military offensive,” he told the Saudi daily ‘Okaz’.
“I think the tribes in Sanaa will play a major role in its fall. Most of them are waiting for the time when they get rid of these militias.”
Al Haj said the legitimate army is capable of imposing its control over all liberated areas through the integration of the resistance fighters into the army and police. He said this would prevent the emergence of “warlords” in Yemen.
[Dhaka Tribune] The nation observed Martyred Intellectuals Day yesterday with the demand that all Razakars and local collaborators who aided the Pakistain occupation army during the Liberation War be hanged as soon as possible.
People from all walks of life gathered at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial in the capital's Rayerbazar area, paying tribute to the intellectuals who were systematically picked up and killed by the Pakistain occupation army two days before Bangladesh became victorious in 1971.
This year's commemoration was different, as the nation observed Martyred Intellectuals Day for the first time after the execution of a war criminal who was charged with the mass killing of the country's brightest minds during the war.
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... leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, who was also a commander of al-Badr in 1971, was hanged on November 22 for being involved in the heinous crime.
President Abdul Hamid and 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.. paid profound tribute to the martyred intellectuals by placing wreaths at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial in Mirpur.
BNP Chairperson the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... also paid tribute to the martyred intellectuals by placing wreaths at the memorial in Mirpur.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... common people as well as eminent political, professional, social, cultural and academic personalities paid their tribute at Rayerbazar, along with the families of the martyred intellectuals.
Besides the execution of all Razakars, they also demanded that Bangladesh cut off all ties with Pakistain for supporting the war criminals.
Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbub Ul Alam Hanif said: "We separated from Pakistain and became a sovereign nation in 1971. Pakistain is a failed state; it is meaningless to keep relations with it."
The country will be free from shame once all the war criminals are punished and all fundamentalist and fanatic groups are banned, he told news hounds.
Members of Prajanma 71, a platform of the children of the martyred intellectuals, observed a minute of silence in memory of the fallen heroes in Rayerbazar before forming a human chain to protest both the national and international conspiracies against the International War Crimes Tribunal.
Addressing the protest, Nujhat Chowdhury, daughter of Dr Alim Chowdhury who was killed on December 14, 1971, said: "Mujahid, an al-Badr commander, has been hanged. We are hopeful that the government will do justice and punish the rest of the war criminals too."
KM Shafiullah, chairperson of Sector Commanders' Forum, said the 195 officials of Pakistain occupation army who were identified as involved in war crimes must be brought to justice as well.
"Pakistain took those 195 army officials with the promise that they would be brought to justice, but it never happened. So, our next step is to make it happen. Pakistain must also apologise to Bangladesh for denying that its army committed genocide here in 1971," said Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan.
Members of other political and socio-cultural organizations paid their tribute at the memorials as well.
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[REUTERS] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... will use talks in Moscow on Tuesday to try to narrow differences with Russian leader 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... over the role of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... in any political transition, a senior State Department official said on Monday.
He will also seek to prepare the ground for a third round of talks of world powers on Syria amid doubts over whether a meeting pencilled in for Friday in New York will go ahead.
Russia's foreign ministry said late on Monday that Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had agreed in a phone call on the need for specific preconditions to be met before any new meeting, throwing its timing into doubt.
Russia is one of Assad's staunchest allies and launched a campaign of air strikes to support his forces against snuffies on Sept. 30. It says only the Syrian people and not external powers should decide his political fate.
Speaking in Gay Paree before Kerry visits Moscow on Tuesday, the State Department official said Kerry would raise concerns about Russia's continued bombing of Syrian opposition forces instead of 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.... myrmidons, an approach likely to anger Moscow.
Ahead of the talks, the Russian foreign ministry issued a statement criticising U.S. policy on Syria, complaining that Washington was not ready to fully cooperate in the struggle against Islamic State Lions of Islam and needed to rethink its policy of "dividing bandidossnuffies into good and bad ones".
Kerry's meeting with Putin follows a meeting last week in Riyadh which agreed to unite a number of opposition groups excluding Islamic State to negotiate with Damascus in Syrian peace talks.
While Kerry said there were still "kinks" that needed to be worked out on the plan to unite the opposition groups, the Kremlin rejected the outcome of the Riyadh meeting, saying it had no right to speak on behalf of the entire Syrian opposition.
Assad himself appeared to cast doubt on the very idea of peace talks last Friday, saying he would not negotiate with gangs which he said were backed by the United States and 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... .
The opposition groups said Assad should leave power at the start of a transitional period.
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An Islamist fascist murdered people on this day last year in a cafe right in the middle of Sydney. He forced hostages to hold up the black flags of IS in the windows for more than 12 hours.
And yet the Sydney morning herald reports the anniversary thus -
But we still do not know exactly what motivated the gunman, Man Haron Monis, to hold 18 people captive in the 17-hour siege.
The actions of the Iranian refugee - how is it relevant that he was from Iran? He declared he did it for IS, he forced people to stand in the windows holding black IS flags and he had been seen at Hizb ut-Tahrir rallies. He had 5000 followers on his FaceBook page on which he regularly let fly his theocratic Islamist fascist views.... and yet Islamism is not mentioned. Here is the reporter listing every other possibility other than the bleeding obvious...
and former well-to-do Tehran businessman left two people dead: 34-year-old cafe manager Tori Johnson and one of his regular customers, 38-year-old mother of three and well-known barrister Katrina Dawson. Their families, surviving hostages and all the police who were there seeking to end the siege carry with them scars that cannot be healed.
We don't know why Monis fled Iran under suspicion of black marketeering beyond evidence at the inquest that he always sought notoriety and had written a book of liberal-ideology poetry that failed to sell. We cannot say how he passed immigration checks or became so Islamist? no...
anti-authoritarian in Australia.
We don't know why Monis was out on bail on scores of sexual assault charges and for being an accessory to his wife's murder. Ummm this is only relevant because Islamists believe they skip judgement when they murder for allah and get straight into paradise...
His latest bail application had been granted by consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Questions linger, too, about why ASIO deemed him no threat just days before the siege, despite his conviction for writing abusive letters to the families of Australian solders who served in Afghanistan. Monis had lost a High Court appeal against the conviction three days before he took the hostages. And for all the bravery of the officers involved, we do not know whether the police response reflected best practice.
Some of the answers will emerge in the new year when Coroner Michael Barnes releases his report.
Crucial will be recommendations on how to reduce the likelihood of similar incidents or better equip security agencies to handle them.
In the meantime debate rages as to whether Monis was a terrorist or a mentally ill criminal with a vendetta against the justice system dating back to a long running battle in the Family Court. PEOPLE DIED the least thing a news organisation can do to honour their memory is to report the facts straight. But no, their deaths have to become part of a cheap propaganda campaign to cover for the Islamist ideology of the man that killed them.
[AnNahar] The Czech government said Monday it had decided for the first time to accept 37 Christian families fleeing the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Iraq.
"They are members of the Christian minority who found themselves in a very difficult situation following the Islamic State aggression in Iraq and asked the Czech Republic for help," said Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka.
He said that the refugees, numbering 153 in total, were based in Iraqi Kurdistan and Leb and should arrive in four groups between next January and April.
"In our country they should get international protection, a chance to integrate and start a new life in safety," said Sobotka.
They will be the first refugees being taken in by Prague aside from the several dozen who have followed formal asylum procedures.
Last week, a group of 149 Assyrian Christians from Iraq arrived in neighboring Slovakia after being offered aid by the government there.
Both the Czech Republic and Slovakia, former communist eastern European countries that joined the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... in 2004, have rejected the EU's system of quotas for distributing refugees amid the current migrant wave.
The two countries that formed the Czechoslovak federation until 1993 have accepted the Christian groups under voluntary programs unrelated to the EU quotas.
Within the current migrant crisis, few asylum seekers have chosen to stay in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with a majority heading to wealthier Germany and other western EU states.
[ARABNEWS] Opposition politicians released tear gas Monday in Kosovo's Parliament as they once again tried to pressure the government into renouncing deals with Serbia and Montenegro.
Clouds of smoke from two tear gas canisters forced politicians out of the debating chamber. The parliamentary session restarted later in another room without the presence of opposition politicians.
An opposition political party, the Alliance for Kosovo's Future, said one of its politicians, Pal Lekaj, was incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! , allegedly for using tear gas.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... police dispersed dozens of opposition supporters throwing stones and paint outside the building. There were no reports of any injuries.
Over the past three months, the opposition has blocked Kosovo's parliament with tear gas, pepper spray, whistles and water bottles to protest the deals and their supporters have held violent protests in Pristina.
One of the deals gives more powers to ethnic Serbs in Kosovo while the other demarcates the border with Montenegro.
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, an act that Serbia still rejects. The two countries have been holding European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... -mediated talks to overcome their differences.
Glauk Konjufca of the Self-Determination Movement told news hounds the opposition would continue different forms of pressure on the government "to make it understand that the Aug. 25 deals ... cannot pass in Kosovo and that the opposition is determined to use all the methods so these two deals damaging Kosovo's statehood are not applied."
US Ambassador Greg Delawie, who was at Parliament, criticized Monday's incident.
He repeated the warning from US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , who visited two weeks ago, that Parliament is "where meaningful debates on public policy are conducted, where people can listen to each other peacefully."
If the government refuses to halt the deals, the opposition wants a referendum on the issues or a new election. The government, the president and the international community have called for dialogue.
The deal on Serb minority rights is suspended until Kosovo's constitutional court rules on its legality. The government, which accuses the opposition of trying to seize power by force, has said it will ask international experts to decide on the border demarcation with Montenegro.
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In grade school, there would be playground justice for this kind of behaviour.
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[CNN] The ringleader of the Gay Paree attacks last month appears to have directed the three bandidosfaceless myrmidons inside the Bataclan theater by phone from a few blocks away, according to a French terrorism expert. And, a witness has told French Sherlocks that they saw Abdelhamid Abaaoud standing in a doorway yelling into his phone for about an hour.
That night, the witness had several times gone to a car parked nearby, and Abaaoud had been there every time. They described the man as very agitated. When the witness later walked past him, they were able to see his face. Abaaoud's head was shaved and he was wearing layers of loose clothing, but when photographs were later published in the media the witness immediately recognized him and alerted the authorities.
Ringleader was planning more attacks
The witness account was disclosed by French terrorism analyst Jean Charles Brisard in the latest edition of the Combating Terrorism Center's journal Sentinel.
Brisard writes that "the presence of Abaaoud in the immediate vicinity of the attacks provides an indication of his degree of implication in the supervision and control of the plot, and suggests he was giving direct orders and instructions to his team inside the Bataclan."
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[WASHINGTONPOST] German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... 's refugee policy has attracted praise from all over the world. Time magazine and the Financial Times newspaper recently named her Person of the Year, and delegates applauded her for so long at her party's convention on Monday that she had to stop them.
The speech that followed, however, may have surprised supporters of her policies: Multiculturalism remains a sham, she said, before adding that Germany may be reaching its limits in terms of accepting more refugees. "The challenge is immense," she said. "We want and we will reduce the number of refugees noticeably."
Although those remarks may seem uncharacteristic of Merkel, she probably would insist that she was not contradicting herself. In fact, she was only repeating a sentiment she first voiced several years ago when she said multiculturalism in Germany had "utterly failed."
"Of course the tendency had been to say, 'Let's adopt the multicultural concept and live happily side by side, and be happy to be living with each other.' But this concept has failed, and failed utterly," she said in 2010.
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"We want and we will reduce the number of refugees noticeably."
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well what the hell is this? merkel is the one who threw open the borders and caused this mess
how is that consistent with this position?
how is she going to change multiculturalism now? very difficult -- especially with thousands upon thousands of migrants who are radically different in cultural terms and feel a sense of entitlement never to change their ways
It is a clear and obvious lie. She cannot do anything about it now. She woumld have rioting in the streets from the violent thugs of the hard left and the fifth column she just imported
it would be civil war. it is impossible and she does not mean what she said or she wouldnt have set up these conditions in the first place.
Ebbert G -- i do not think it is correct to bring up auschwitz in response to merkel saying she would reign in multiculturalism.
What are you saying ? That if a country wishes to keep its borders, if they wish to keep their own culture, that if they ask immigrants to give up their own culture and integrate that is equivalent to auschwitz?
you must be an internationalist who does not believe in borders
well nor does Islamofascism and look at the violence that brings
that only leads to the worst kind of war - civil war, where ordinary people kill each other in the streets
state on state warfare is preferable because there is some discipline and rules of war, eg geneva convention
internationalism is in some ways worse than nationalism
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Ebbert G -- i do not think it is correct to bring up auschwitz in response to merkel saying she would reign in multiculturalism.
I didn't directly mention Auschwitz or any of the other Camps by name.
What are you saying ? That if a country wishes to keep its borders, if they wish to keep their own culture, that if they ask immigrants to give up their own culture and integrate that is equivalent to auschwitz?
I'm not saying that at all. Merely positing that it might ONE solution that could be studied. An effective one at that. So that others may learn.
The smart thing would have been to never let them in, however, that ship has sailed. For all of us. What remains is to finally accept that they need to be confined to their Muslim 3rd world crapholes by force if necessary.
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you must be an internationalist who does not believe in borders
well nor does Islamofascism and look at the violence that brings
that only leads to the worst kind of war - civil war, where ordinary people kill each other in the streets
Oops! I missed this. I'm NOT an Internationalist by any stretch. American, Southerner, hard core right-wing Nationalist. Willing to accept hard decisions and ruthless action to save my country from the Left and the Islamists. Including civil war.
Borders? I definitely believe in them. Just haven't seen them enforced for decades, past time for that to end.
Because, sometimes civil war is just what the doctor ordered.
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This is like Obama going over the Potomac to the five sided building and proclaiming we're winning against ISIS. Cheap theater for the masses who are becoming dangerously restive.
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Reciprocal Cultures can mix with each other without problem and often to mutual benefit.
Tribal cultures such as those found in islam infested areas cannot reciprocate and thus very little excess wealth can be created there, and thus civilisation is not possible.
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Good luck getting folks that came to your country for the nice benefits to suddenly develop a German work ethic.
Hopefully the US will change our own immigration quotas to allow lots of Germans in when the time comes and they decide their nation is lost. We could use an injection of hard work ethic DNA in our national character again.
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Multiculturalism is a sham. She got that right. Unfortunately, her epiphany was a little late in coming. Universities have raised multiculturalism to the level of a deity. Multiculturalism is not worth the candle--particularly if the cost is giving up your own culture.
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multiculturalism only works for those cultures based on Enlightenment principles that are secular in nature.
So for example - germans, portuguese, italians, greeks, english, indians, sri lankans, irish, americans, canadians, south africans all get along great in australia
those cultures that did not come from an enlightenment background but are at least secular and have a hard work ethic also rub along quite well - Iran (secular Iranians most fled when the ayatollah took over) chinese, thai, christian lebanese, secular muslim pakistanis, korean, japanese, vietnamese - all get along great in Australia
African blacks have only just begun arriving but so far the Kenyans are getting along great but the somalis less so ... guess why the somalis are less so....
But those from Islamic countries who themselves are Islamist, who view Islam as supreme and who wish for sharia - they have caused nothing but problems. muslim lebanese of southwest sydney, theocratic iranians, theocratic indonesians, somalis, theocratic pakistanis, theocratic turks... any Islamist immigrants = BIG problem
[IsraelTimes] Critique is quoted in New Yorker profile of John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , in which secretary also claims Israeli PM balked at 2010 chance for deal with Assad
It's not the first time for this kind of déclassé nonsense. Either they feel confident their Jewish donors have been pacified, or they're trying to forestall imminent criticism.
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Back a few months ago, Netanyahu addressed the UN. I happened to catch a few minutes of the speech in the cafeteria at work. I remember thinking "I wish we had a president who spoke so strongly and eloquently about the right of our country to exist."
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I trust Obama about as far as I can throw my thumb.
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A failing old nutter of Qatar,
Great Pharaoh, Retired, and tut-tutter,
Would mutter, "It's easy,"
And sputter, "I'm Preezy!"
A-flailing the sand with his putter.
An Nahar notices another bit of that Yahoo interview posted here.
[AnNahar] U.S. President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... has vowed to push ahead with plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects, despite evidence that a substantial number of former detainees have returned to the battlefield.
In an interview with Yahoo News that was published Monday, Obama said the strategic benefits of closing the notorious facility outweighed incidents of recidivism among "low-level" former inmates.
The White House itself admits that around 10 percent of those released from Guantanamo have resumed fighting for Islamic Lion of Islam organizations, but says it is more important to shutter a facility that has become a recruiting tool for myrmidons.
Obama's comments come as Sudanese myrmidon Ibrahim al-Qosi -- who was released in 2012 -- seemingly appeared in a recent video by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... "The judgment that we're continually making is, are there individuals who are significantly more dangerous than the people who are already out there who are fighting?" Obama said.
"What do they add? Do they have special skills? Do they have special knowledge that ends up making a significant threat to the United States?"
"And so the bottom line is that the strategic gains we make by closing Guantanamo will outweigh, you know, those low-level individuals who, you know, have been released so far."
Interesting that Yahoo's editors chose to transcribe one of those little verbal ticks that make the speaker sound less than highly intelligent.
The Republican-controlled Congress has thwarted Obama's repeated efforts to close Guantanamo.
Obama came to office in 2009 vowing to shutter the facility, which opened under his predecessor George W. Bush to hold terror suspects after the September 11, 2001 attacks and became known for harsh interrogation techniques that some have said were tantamount to torture.
Obama is soon expected to put forward a new plan that would speed the release of inmates and transfer the most dangerous ones to U.S. soil.
The plan is likely to accelerate the release of low-level detainees to foreign countries and move the most dangerous prisoners to a specialized facility in the United States.
Because of a congressional ban on funding US transfers, Obama has suggested he may have to resort to an executive order to close the prison. This would ignite a political and legal firestorm.
"I'll cry if I want to," sobbed Nero.
"I used to be saboteurs' hero
But can't hold a candle
To newfangled vandals,
Your skilled fiddlefarters like Zero."
[ARABNEWS] India’s representative to Pakistan said Monday his country was only prepared to discuss the part of Kashmir controlled by Islamabad in upcoming peace talks, presenting a potential stumbling block days after the dialogue was announced. Last time they had talks scheduled the Pak High Commissioner decided to hold some ostentatious meetings with Kashmir rebels. Notice the Paks never say anything about "self-determination" for their end of Kashmir.
High commissioner T.C.A. Raghavan made the remarks about the disputed territory during a lecture in the Pakistani capital, after a breakthrough visit by India’s foreign minister at which the resumption of ministerial talks was announced. Color the talks "scuttled."
According to a joint statement, the two sides will talk about peace and security as well as territorial disputes including Kashmir. Each country occupies part of the territory but claims it in full. ... and they've fought four wars over it, each started by the Paks, each lost by the guys who started it...
Since independence from Britain in 1947 they have fought two wars over Kashmir. Four.
Asked where the room for negotiation lay over the Himalayan territory, Raghavan said it was India which first petitioned the United Nations to intervene when the-then princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was invaded by Pakistani forces in 1947. That was War #1...
“The first application was moved by India and it was on the grounds that a part of the state, which had acceded to India, is now under the illegal occupation of the Pakistan army. So when you say what is it that India is going to discuss or what is it discussing, it is really, if you ask most Indians, and what is our position — it is the part of that state which is still under the control of Pakistan.” In politix this is known as "pie in the face."
The remarks could create a diplomatic wrinkle for the two countries as they seek to go back to the negotiation table to undertake broad-spectrum talks for the first time since the election of prime ministers Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif. I thought they tried this before and the Paks intentionally hosed it.
Badar Alam, editor of Pakistan’s political Herald magazine, said: “I think it is a step back,” adding that Kashmir was viewed internationally as a disputed territory. Both pieces of it are regarded as such...
He added that given the fragile state of the dialogue, officials on both sides needed to tread “very cautiously and very carefully” to avoid a backlash. Yeah. Don't make the Paks mad...
New Delhi suspended all talks after gunmen attacked the Indian city of Mumbai in November 2008, killing 166 people. The attacks were later found to have been planned from Pakistan. Came as a surprise, didn't it? And the attackers were tied to Lashkar e-Taiba, but, really, there wasn't enough proof to bring charges against anybody in Pakistain.
That last was particularly startling as we watched events, as I recall India had not only the cell phone numbers of those giving orders, but recordings of the conversations in which they did so.
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It would seem that when your illusory sovereignty over Pakland (omitting help-Kashmir) is a pestilential shithole of terrorists, rabid crazed Imams and ISI fiends, with polio, cholera, dysentery, daily bombings and assassinations, you should STFU
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12/15/2015 16:58 Comments ||
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[Rudaw] For Ewed Qais Nheli, whose dedication and 40 years as a Peshmerga have earned him the rank of brigadier, the Kurdistan region's war with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group touches close to the heart: that is because he is a Christian.
The dozens of Christian towns, villages and hamlets scattered across the Kurdistan region were especially targeted with the brutality of the religious fanatics, who have waged war against the autonomous Kurdish enclave since August 2014.
"I feel so sad to hear about Christians abandoning villages on the frontlines," said Nheli, who explained that he is the only Christian brigadier among the Peshmerga.
"I would like to ask those Christians not to leave their villages, because there is no doubt they will regret doing so," the commander warned in an interview with Rudaw, as his forces fight ISIS in the village of Wanke at the djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Dam.
Across Iraq, ISIS has killed and looted en masse in Christian villages, wiping or driving out some of the oldest Christian communities in the world. The vast majority of Iraq's Christians has either migrated abroad or sought shelter in the Kurdistan region. By some estimates, 95 percent of Iraq's Christians now live in the autonomous Kurdish enclave.
Among the more than 1,000 Peshmerga killed and over 5,000 maimed in the war with ISIS, there have been dozens of Christian dead and hundreds maimed.
"Until now the Christians have played a great role alongside the Peshmerga forces and have taken part in several difficult battles," Nheli said. "Besides hundreds of maimed, dozens of Christian Peshmerga -- including my father Hormoz Malk Jako -- have been martyred in Christian villages."
In the force where he serves, Nheli said his religion has never made a difference.
"I have never felt any discrimination against myself or anyone from other sects," he said, pointing to his own senior rank as evidence.
He explained that there are other Christian commanders among the Peshmerga, but "I am the first Christian to reach the level of brigadier in the Peshmerga forces."
The US-led coalition has called the Peshmerga the most reliable force on the ground in the war with ISIS. The Peshmerga have been fighting with air cover from the coalition.
Nheli said that Christians "have been given great opportunities" in Kurdistan, including politically.
Nheli also explained that he had lost five family members in a kaboom on his home by late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's forces. It was after he became a Peshmerga.
Coexistence, he said, has always reigned among the Kurds: "There are dozens of Christian villages and districts in Duhok, Hawler (Erbil) and Kirkuk provinces."
[Ynet] Hamas' military wing in Gaza is paying tens of thousands of dollars each month to Islamic State's Sinai branch, in exchange for the group's help with smuggling
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' military wing in the Gazoo Strip has been transferring tens of thousands of dollars a month 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.... group's Sinai branch over the past year, via one of its emissaries.
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Posted by: Frank G ||
12/15/2015 17:02 Comments ||
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There are many countries and organizations that fund Hamas such as Iran and the Gulf States. Fund raising goes on in the U.S. and Europe as well. Hamas funding. Indirectly, we fund ISIS through aid provided to Hamas via Palestine. Not too smart. We are funding the barbarians who lop off heads, burn victims, and shoot them in the back of their heads when their hands are bound.
[Jpost] In quietest year on border, IDF putting into place a new territorial defensive approach, aimed at rapidly responding to future attacks from Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
Southern Israel is experiencing its calmest period in 15 years, as Hamas continues to recover from the damage it sustained from Operation Protective Edge two summers ago.
Yet the quiet is deceptive, and what is visible to the eye along the border is less telling than the low-profile preparations for future hostilities that are being made on both sides of the frontier.
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