[ARABNEWS] Titusville Police detectives have made an arrest in connection with the New Year's Day vandalism of The Islamic Society of Central Florida Masjid Al-Munin Mosque.
Michael Scott Wolfe, 35, of Titusville, was incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! Monday evening in Titusville, and charged with criminal mischief to a mosque, a third degree felony.
The evidence revealed Wolfe, wearing camouflage clothing, entered the mosque carport at 11 p.m. and destroyed property with a machete and placed raw bacon in and around the front door. He was caught on surveillance camera breaking windows, cameras and lights with a machete at a mosque and leaving bacon on the doorstep.
Wolfe was transported to the Brevard County Jail. He is being held on a $2,000 bail. He is expected to appear before a judge Tuesday.
Prior to the arrest, the leader of the mosque said the act was not typical of city area Muslims call home.
"You can't help but feel this is a hateful act. All of the negative media, the politicians who want to ban Muslims, close mosques...messages like that motivate people who have an illness in their heart," said Muhammad Musri, who is based in the Orlando area and who oversees a network of 10 mosques as part of the Islamic Society of Central Brevard.
Musri, who in public comments has called on Muslims to build stronger ties with the communities they live in, was at the Masjid Al-Munin mosque in Titusville overseeing the cleanup from vandalism that happened overnight Friday.
It was the third time in less than a month that vandals have left pork products at mosques in the US, said the civil rights group Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... (CAIR ...designated a terrorist group by the UAE... ), which has called for state and federal investigations.
Other civil rights advocates are also calling on state and federal authorities to investigate.
"People are afraid to take their children back to the mosque...a machete was used," said Rasha Mubarak, the Orlando Regional Coordinator for the CAIR. "They know we don't consume pork. This is something that those who are Islamaphobic tend to bring up or use," Mubarak said. Because of that, CAIR officials said it was an indicator of a bias motive in targeting the mosque.
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Another one who should've declared himself a "street/performance artist"?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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... 's Sunni-ruled but Shiite-majority ally Bahrain followed Riyadh's suit on Tuesday and cut all air links with Iran across the Gulf, official media reported.
The decision comes a day after Manama broke off diplomatic relations with Tehran amid an escalating crisis between Saudi Arabia and the Islamic republic over the execution of a Shiite holy man.
The official BNA news agency said on its Twitter account that the kingdom's civil aviation authority had "decided to stop flights to and from Iran."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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... said on Monday it would restore ties with Iran when Tehran stopped meddling in the affairs of other countries and pledged that Riyadh would continue to work "very hard" to support bids for peace in Syria and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... despite the spat.
Saudi Arabia cut all ties with Iran on Sunday following an attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
The attack was prompted by Saudi Arabia's execution of Shiite preacher Nimr al-Nimr, provoking outrage from Iran.
When asked what it would take for ties to be restored, Saudi U.N. Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi told news hounds: "Very simple - Iran to cease and desist from interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, including our own."
He added, "If they do so, we will of course have normal relations with Iran. We are not natural-born enemies of Iran."
On Monday, Bahrain and Sudan cut all ties with Iran, following Riyadh's example. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told Rooters that Riyadh would also halt air traffic and commercial relations between the rival powers.
Jubeir blamed Iran's "aggressive policies" for the diplomatic action, alluding to years of tension that spilled over on Saturday night when Iranian protesters stormed the kingdom's embassy in Tehran.
The UAE partially downgraded its relations but the other Gulf Arab countries - Kuwait, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... and Oman - stayed above the fray.
[ALMANAR.LB] The Saudi Culture and Information Ministry blocked on Tuesday Al-Manar Website across the kingdom.
KSA's measure against Al-Manar Website was not surprising as it was taken by an intolerable regime that committed the heinous crime of executing Sheikh Nimr Nimr for expressing his free opinion.
The Saudi ministry followed Arabsat which, ordered by KSA authorities, blocked Al-Manar and Al-Mayadeen TV channels' broadcasting.
KSA blocked Al-Manar Website because it contributed to exposing the takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... and terrorist face of the royal family and its involvement in betraying the Islamic righteous causes and conspiring against the Umma's countries.
[ALMANAR.LB] Kuwait became Tuesday the latest Gulf Arab state to recall its ambassador from Iran, as tensions between Riyadh and Tehran rise over the execution of Saudi prominent holy man, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
The announcement comes a day after 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... and Bahrain severed ties with Iran this week. And the United Arab Emirates has recalled its ambassador and downgraded ties with the Islamic republic.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... Kuwait did not expel Tehran's ambassador or downgrade the level of diplomatic relationship with Iran like the other Gulf states.
Saudi authorities announced on Saturday it had executed Sheikh Nimr. He was a vocal supporter of the mass pro-democracy protests against Riyadh, which erupted in Eastern Province in 2011, where a Shia majority has long complained of marginalization.
Following the execution of Sheikh Nimr, Saudi missions in Iran were attacked by protesters who were angered by the move.
The attacks "represent a flagrant breach of international agreements and norms and a grave violation of Iran's international commitments for the security of diplomatic missions and the safety of diplomats," the official KUNA news agency cited the Kuwaiti foreign ministry as saying.
Iranian officials have said some 50 people were detained over the incidents outside the Saudi embassy in Tehran and its consulate in Mashhad.
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The Mayor of Cologne said today that women should adopt a “code of conduct” to prevent future assault at a crisis meeting following the sexual attack of women by 1000 men on New Year’s eve.
Mayor Henriette Reker attended an emergency meeting with Chief of Police Wolfgang Albers and Wolfgang Wurm to discuss how to deal with the attack, where dozens of women were repeatedly touched and groped, with one case of alleged rape in the center of town.
“It is important to prevent such incidents from ever happening again,” said Mayor Reker, as reported in German by RP Online. “We have heard by now that they [the attacks] have occurred in other cities. This of course is not comforting to us.”
The crisis management team said prevention measures should include a code of conduct for young women and girls, and Mayor Reker said the existing code of conduct will be updated online.
Burqas, either black or blue, and escort by a male relative at all times. Wimmin shouldn't drive either. No makeup, jewelry, fingernail polish or pumps. Best just to stay at home according to the good mayor...
The suggested code of conduct includes maintaining an arm’s length distance from strangers, to stick within your own group, to ask bystanders for help or to intervene as a witness, or to inform the police if you are the victim of such an assault.
Inform the police if you're assaulted? I'll bet that never occurred to anyone...
In anticipation of large carnivals in the city centre in February, Mayor Reker promised an increased police presence. She warned young women about potential dangers of drunken events.
Mayor Reker also said a “better explanation” to asylum seekers was needed about the meaning of the annual carnivals. “We need to prevent confusion about what constitutes happy behaviour and what is utterly separate from openness, especially in sexual behaviour," she said.
Because separating clean fun from sexual assault is such a confusing thing at a carnival...
The attackers were described as North African and Arab appearance by the police. The Mayor has said that not all of the attackers were newly-arrived refugees and had already been known to the police, as reported by The Local.
Why should the new refugees have all the fun?
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Can you image what the media would say if The Donald of Trump had said that???
What the heck women's rights people have been saying for YEARS that rape and other forms of sexual battery were not the result of the women acted or dressed...and we've got a bizzillion years of jurisprudence to go with it.
Just goes to show you the liberals have one set of standards for Westerners and one set of standards for the poor waifs of Islam.
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Where the hell were the MEN of Cologne, while their women were being assaulted? If I heard of 100 women being "successfully" assaulted, I would expect to be hearing about dozens of muzzies turning up at the morgue, or at least the hospital.
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Women of Germany - if you are attacked sue the Government for compensation
they let in the Islamists
They knew - or should have known given the public speeches on record - that Islamists regularly preach that Western women are fair game for sexual predation.
Islamists teach their followers that muslims are superior to non-muslims
hijabi women are modest and to be respected
those not wearing a hijab are sluts and you can do what you like with them
this is taught to young men and you can see the result. A sense of entitlement and sexual predation.
Secular muslims hate this and do not want a bar of it.
The problem is Islamist supremacism
So women of Germany - make your government pay. Start documenting attacks. Take photos and screenshots of mosques and imams preaching that hijabis deserve more respect than non-hijabis
only if your government is forced to pay you compensation will they ever change their policy
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Just being an indigenous male in most Western Euro countries is pretty much a crime in of itself these days. After decades of leftist scapegoating, perhaps it shouldn't be too much of a surprise if they refuse to defend their government/communities against the results of their own poor governance.
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C'mon. How were those guys supposed to resist all that cat food?
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I believe there is already such a code, called "Fechtkampf mit schlogger"
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Code of conduct? That's the best the mayor has got for her townfolk? Guess that German women are better about just following orders than American women.
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I realize that these women were caught off guard, but didn't any of them try the good old go-for-the-gold tactic?
(You know, grab the scrotum of the offender, twist and pull - hard.)
Inquiring minds and all that.
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In Köln, town of Muslim molesters,
Frau Reker now counsels her sisters,
"Ye Nymphs, avoid sewers!
Eschew Muslim wooers!
Use German virginity testers!"
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I realize that these women were caught off guard, but didn't any of them try the good old go-for-the-gold tactic
My conclusion, based on what I've read about this incident as well as what happened to women on Tahrir Square is that the miscreants swarmed to isolate individuals, and then swarmed to assault each one, often pinning them down or lifting them off the ground. Under such circumstqnces, grabbing anything would be difficult. As for the men, I have to imagine -- knowing the cultures involved, that at least some of them were similarly molested, and the rest also were swarmed at the very least. Not the kind of thing many would complain about, nor would the reporters be very interested.
Police in Cologne have "no leads" on the perpetrators behind dozens of sex attacks committed against women in the western cathedral city on New Year's Eve, officials said at a press conference on Tuesday.
"At the moment we have no leads about the perpetrators," city police chief Wolfgang Albers told journalists in a joint press conference with recently-elected mayor Henriette Reker.
But he and Reker were able to clear up some details which had become muddled in the wake of the huge amount of media attention to the attacks – attention that first began on Monday, or several days after the attacks.
Police explained that a large group of 400-600 youts young men had gathered around the cathedral starting at 9pm, drinking alcohol and loosing off fireworks.
You were expecting 'refugees' to be doing something else, like attending to their families or looking for work?
As the group grew in number to around 1,000 people and became more unruly, police took the decision to clear them from the area – calming the situation until around quarter to one in the morning, although the men from the group were still present in numerous smaller gatherings around the city centre.
By 1am, the police commander on the ground had received several reports of sexual attacks on women. He ordered all the officers in the area to gather around the station to warn, escort and protect women into the station, while federal officers did the same inside the station.
Notice that he didn't issue any orders to arrest anyone...
Albers specifically countered reports that the group of sex attackers had been 1,000 strong.
"There were not 1,000 perpetrators," he said, but rather a gathering of people among whom were the perpetrators – although he could not say on Tuesday how many people were responsible.
Nor is he ever going to find out...
Police had been "correctly positioned" and responded quickly to news of trouble, Albers said - despite the fact that the police report issued at 8.57am on New Year's Day had spoken of a "jolly atmosphere" in the city.
Questions remain about how to prevent the same thing from happening again at large events, particularly the traditional high points of carnival season in early February.
I can think of a couple things the police and politicians could do...
"I am convinced that more uniformed police at large events in the city will discourage a repeat of what happened," a visibly moved Reker told reporters. "We have to make better use of the tools at our disposal."
Cologne must remain a city "in which anyone can celebrate", Reker said.
Reker insisted that there was "no evidence that we are dealing with people who have received accommodation here in Cologne as refugees."
Reker didn't look, either...
She added that women in the city should take steps to try and reduce the risk of being attacked – something that was quickly seized on for criticism by women online.
You could ask the wimmin to wear burqas and to be escorted by their brothers...
"I've noted the right behaviour manual for you: lads, don't be arseholes. Don't harass any women. You're welcome." one person wrote.
The best behavior manual would be a knife in the ribs to each perpetrator...
"I feel obliged to ask Henriette Reker for the behavioural manual for men at the carnival," another person tweeted.
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This contradicts previous reports that they knew these guys and had them under surveillance. Time to expel these sons of bitches on boats loaded with shipping containers back to Syria or for the German people to start emigrating to the States.
[WASHINGTONPOST] New Year's Eve attacks attributed to Arab and North African men threaten to fan the flames of Germany's refugee debate.
The wave of violence overnight on Thursday resulted in dozens of reports of sexual assault and robberies around the city's main train station, where a crowd of about 1,000 men had congregated, police said, according to Spiegel online.
"We will not tolerate such cowardly and abhorrent attacks," German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday. "This is apparently an entirely new dimension of organized crime."
More than 90 criminal complaints were filed. About a quarter of them cited sexual harassment or groping, including at least one rape, according to the BBC. Most others alleged theft, Cologne Police Chief Wolfgang Albers said at a news conference on Monday night. Small groups of men would emerge from the larger crowd to surround, harass and sometimes steal from women, Albers said.
The crimes were committed by men "who from appearance were largely from the North African or Arab world," he said, according to the Local. Police said they were previously aware of many of the men in the crowd, which did not include any recently arrived refugees. Similar attacks were reported in Hamburg and Stuttgart, according to the BBC.
Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker described the attacks as "outrageous" and called an emergency meeting of city officials, according to the Telegraph.
"We cannot tolerate a legal vacuum here," said Reker, who was elected in October while hospitalized after an opponent of her pro-refugee policies stabbed her in the neck.
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well it wasnt the Arab Christians, the Arab atheists or the Arab Jews who did it
[TODAYSZAMAN] The government has been working on a draft bill that will enable public employees to observe the Friday prayer without any interruption at work, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday.
"We have prepared a bill that would prevent office hours from affecting our freedom of worship without creating a loss in working hours," Davutoglu said during a group meeting of his Justice and Development Party (AK Party).
On the eve of collective bargaining negotiations last summer, the Civil Servants' Trade Union (Memur-Sen) asked the government to extend Friday lunch breaks at public institutions to two hours.
The Friday prayer is a weekly duty for Muslims that lasts some 45 minutes, requiring Muslim men to gather in a mosque. According to the current regulations, lunch break at public institutions is fixed between 12 p.m. and 1 p.m., or between 12:30 p.m. and 13:30 p.m., as the Friday prayer starts at 12 p.m. in winter months and at 1 p.m. in the summer season.
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[TODAYSZAMAN] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Habur border crossing with Iraq, which had remained closed for 22 days due to a curfew in nearby towns, was reopened on a limited basis on Tuesday, as only 1,250 vehicles will be allowed to cross the border each day.
Located some 18 kilometers south of the Silopi district in Sirnak province, where severe festivities are ongoing between security forces and the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) -- the ordinarily busy crossing was closed on Dec. 14, leaving thousands of cargo trucks stranded along both sides of the border.
"Only 500 vehicles will be allowed to drive over the border from Turkey to Iraq and 750 vehicles will be permitted to enter Turkey from Iraq," Bulent Tufenkci, the minister of customs and trade, told media on Monday, warning drivers of the limits in an effort to prevent new vehicle backups.
According to Tufenkci, as many as 13,500 trucks were waiting at the Habur gate, with 9,500 of them held up in Iraq, unable to cross into Turkey.
"A sizeable part of our exports, $8.5 billion worth, went through this gate in 2015. Exporters in Istanbul and eastern and southeastern Turkey send their goods to Iraq via this gate," the minister added.
Local trade unions said earlier that the estimated loss in exports to Iraq since the beginning of December was $450 million. A daily average of 6,000 trucks used to drive through the Habur gate before the curfew, accounting for 45 percent of land crossings between Iraq and Turkey.
Turkey's yearly export volume sustained a significant decrease of 21.9 percent year-on-year in 2015, falling from $10.7 billion to $8.3 billion. The second largest export partner of Turkey in 2014, Iraq fell to the third spot in 2015.
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[TODAYSZAMAN] Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has identified some of the issues agreed upon with the leaders of the main opposition parties after a round of meetings in recent weeks, stating that all had mentioned their dislike of the current Constitution, formed after the military coup in 1980.
Speaking to Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputies in Parliament on Tuesday, Davutoglu said that all the leaders he met with expressed the need for a new constitution, and he noted that polemics and petty squabbles should not overshadow the process.
Davutoglu met with main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Dec. 30 and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli on Monday.
The topics discussed at both meetings were primarily related to the formation of a new constitution and the switch to an executive presidential system, which the AK Party and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... have promoted.
Davutoglu stated that he had arrived at an agreement with Kilicdaroglu and Bahceli on the process of how to create a new constitution and how the Constitution Commission that will head the process will be formed.
After the meetings with Davutoglu, spokespersons from CHP and MHP said that 60 articles for a new constitution that had been readied by a previous commission studying the subject which collapsed after the opposition and AK Party were at odds are good building blocks that can be built on.
Expressing his desire to see support from the opposition in Parliament, Davutoglu also said that the second issue that he had come to an agreement on with opposition party leaders was a revision of Parliament's bylaws.
Davutoglu also noted that a third point the parties had found common ground on is The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's EU accession process, and in particular, a reform package related to Turkey's visa-free EU travel aspirations.
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The U.S. Pacific Fleet is shrinking even as the U.S. and its allies are facing challenges posed by China's growing military power. U.S. Navy officials say the more advanced ships of today make up for the decline in numbers. But the Navy has also had to lengthen deployments and postpone maintenance to maintain its presence with fewer ships.
Peter Jennings, an expert at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute think tank, said the issue in peacetime is whether there are enough American vessels to reassure friends and allies.
"I think this is emerging as a serious long-term problem," he said.
The Pacific Fleet currently has 182 vessels, including combat ships like aircraft carriers as well as auxiliary and logistics vessels, said spokesman Cmdr. Clay Doss. That compares to 192 nearly two decades ago.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy has more than 300 surface ships, submarines, amphibious ships and patrol craft, according to the Pentagon's Asia-Pacific Maritime Security Strategy report released in August.
The Chinese ships are generally less capable and older generation, though as the old saying goes, there's a certain quality to quantity...
This all comes as China has grown more aggressive in asserting claims to islands also claimed by U.S. allies, including the Philippines in the South China Sea and Japan in the East China Sea. Since December 2013, China has built what the U.S. estimates to be 3,000 acres of artificial islands in disputed areas of the South China Sea using sand dredged from the ocean floor.
Questions about whether the Pacific Fleet has enough resources are more of a reflection of regional anxieties than the Navy's actual capability, said its commander, Adm. Scott Swift.
"I'm very comfortable with the resources I have," Swift said.
He has to say that...
He pointed to the USS Benfold, a guided missile destroyer upgraded with new ballistic missile defenses, as well as three new stealth destroyers, the DDG-1000, in the pipeline, as examples.
One consequence of a smaller fleet has been more time at sea. Retired Adm. Zap Zlatoper, who commanded the Pacific Fleet in the 1990s, said deployments longer than six months made it harder for the Navy to retain sailors. Ships now deploy for an average of seven to nine months, though the Navy plans to lower this to seven.
Ship conditions have also suffered. The USS Essex left an exercise with Australia early in 2011 and skipped another with Thailand the following year because it developed mechanical problems after delaying maintenance to stay at sea.
Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington think tank, said these are signs the status quo is unsustainable. In a November report, Clark outlined alternatives: build more ships, though this would require money Congress may not give the Navy, or deploy less, though the Pentagon has been reluctant to accept less of an overseas presence.
The other choices: keep more ships at overseas bases where they would be closer to where they operate or mix up how ships deploy. One example would be to send fewer escorts with an aircraft carrier.
No carrier driver will accept that. The other choice not mentioned is to make fewer commitments and have our allies in the region take on more of the burden.
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China is launching tons of ships all the time. The scary part is, it's not all frigates and destroyers, they're building lots of boring logistics and supply ships. http://china-defense.blogspot.com has the details.
* MILITARY TIMES > NEW US NAVY LEADER [Incoming CNO ADM. John M. Robertson]: "NUKES [+ New Tech = New Gener Nuclear Submarines] ARE 'FOUNDATIONAL' TO OUR NATIONAL SURVIVAL". US likely to be see return to "Great Power(s) geopol competition [OWG Co-Superpower(s)?] NOT seen for 25 years.
To paraph an early 1970's PBS Ad in support of improving Amer's General Reading Skills + Books, NUKES + NUKE SUBS "IS FUNDAMENTAL"???
* SAME > AFTER NORTH KOREA NUKE TEST, 25,000 US TROOPS WAIT TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.
* TWITTER @ROBERTCOBRIEN > SENSING US WEAKNESS, CHINA TERRITORIAL AIMS ARE NOW BEYOND SPRATLYS AND SENKAKUS TO THE RYUKYUS INCLUDING OKINAWA [Island] | [Daily Beast = Repost] NOW CHINA WANTS OKINAWA, SITE OF US BASES IN JAPAN. BEIJING IS PUSHING IN ALL DIRECTIONS FROM THE SOUTH CHINA SEA TO SEVERAL JAPANESE ISLANDS, WITH EYES ON THE EASTERN PACIFIC THAT LAPS ON AMERICA'S SHORES [US West Coast].
IOW, even iff CHINA gets both GUAM-WESTPAC + HAWAII-EASTPAC, ITS AGENDA + AMBITIONS MAY CAUSE IT TO MOVE EVEN FURTHER BEYOND HAWAII TOWARDS CONUS ITSELF.
* MANILA TIMES > CHINA LANDS TWO MORE [Civilian[ PLANES IN DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA - STATE MEDIA [Xinhua].
* ZERO HEDGE > CHINA SET TO ESTABLISH NO-FLY-ZONE [ADIZ] OVER [SCS] ISLANDS AFTER SUCCESSFUL TEST FLIGHT [flights].
Once NON-MILITARY TEST FLIGHTS/LANDINGS are completed, DE FACTO TESTS USING VARIOUS TYPES OF LIGHT + HEAVY PLA MILITARY AIRCRAFT IS LIKELY - when all is complete, China may then base PLAAF Fighters, etc. there.
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [ANI] NORTH KOREA NUKE TEST IS "SERIOUS THREAT" TO JAPAN: ABE, + cannot be tolerated or accepted.
YES + NO = IMO KJU = Pudgy = NOKOR won't attack Japan unless NOKOR collapse cannot be stopped, Inter-Korean Reunification has NOT occurred, + CHINA STILL HASN'T RECOVERED TAIWAN.
IFF NOKOR H-A-S OR M-U-S-T GO DOWN, + SOKOR THE ONLY REMNANT OF ANCIENT PAN-KOREAN HOMELAND, IMO PUDGY IS GOING TO TAKE EVERYONE WID HIM TO HELL, BOTH CHINA + US-ALLIES, ETAL.
[DAWN] Indian forces have killed the last of the six holy warriors who attacked an air force base near the Pakistain border over the weekend, the defense minister said Tuesday, though soldiers were still searching the base as a precaution.
Manohar Parrikar stopped short of saying the operation had ended, but Indian officials have said repeatedly that only six gunnies were involved.
At least twice over the weekend it appeared that the attack had ended but fresh gunfire and kabooms erupted both times.
Parrikar did not explain how just a handful of gunnies managed to paralyse a large Indian air base for almost four days, insisting that security forces had done "a commendable job."
Seven Indian soldiers were killed during the attack.
"I see some gaps (in intelligence) but we will be able to understand only after the investigation. But I don't think we compromised on security," he told news hounds after touring the scene of the fighting.
He noted that the base is large, and is wooded in some places, making it difficult to pin down the gunnies.
Parrikar said the turbans' weapons included AK-47 assault rifles with makeshift rocket launchers attached, mortar rounds that could be fired from the launchers, pistols, and 50-60 kilograms (110-130 pounds) of ammunition.
A fifth gunman was killed Monday on the third day of a siege.
There was no gunfire as troops searched the air base on the fourth day of the siege looking for a possible sixth gunman involved in the attack.
Earlier, Indian Air Force spokeswoman Rochelle D'Silva had said, "There has been no firing since Monday night at the base."
The search operations at Pathankot air force base will continue until all areas have been completely secured, Maj Gen Dushyant Singh, from India's elite National Security Guard, told news hounds.
Indian army soldiers sit in a truck as they head towards the Indian Air Force (IAF) base at Pathankot. ─ Rooters
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[DAWN] The hijacking of an Indian police officer's car by gunnies disguised in uniform should have set off alarm bells and helped prevent a deadly weekend attack on a military air base, officials and security experts said.
His colleagues' slowness to react was one of several security lapses in the buildup to the pre-dawn raid, blamed by India on alleged Pak murderous Moslems and a blow to the recent improvement in ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
Three days on from an assault that killed seven military personnel and maimed 22, five attackers have also been eliminated, but an operation was still under way to secure the sprawling compound in India's northwestern Punjab.
Police Superintendent Salwinder Singh's call to a colleague in the early hours of Friday morning, after his car was hijacked, was at first treated as a case of armed robbery, the officer who answered the phone said.
"The truth is that we did not take Singh's complaint seriously, because his record has not been clean," a second senior officer in the 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.... police told Rooters, on condition of anonymity.
An Indian Army truck transports troops to the air force base in Pathankot- AFP
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Tuesday, international coalition’s spokesman Steve Warren
...a registered member in the Army of Steves...
denied all news that talked about air landing operations in Iraq, while pointed out that the international coalition had carried out only one air landing operation in Hawija two months ago.
Warren said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The operations that we are carrying out in Iraq are backed by the Iraqi government,” pointing out that, “We are consulting the Iraqi government regarding training and airstrikes.”
Warren added, “Defeating ISIS is part of our strategy and the American special forces are working hard to fight the ISIS organization.”
“The reports that talked about the execution of air landing operation are just lies. The international coalition has carried out only one air landing operation in Hawija two months ago,” he continued.
[AnNahar] 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 has lost around a third of the territory it once controlled in Iraq and Syria, according to figures provided Tuesday by the U.S.-led coalition.
"In Iraq, it's about 40 percent," said Colonel Steve Warren, front man for the international coalition which carries out daily air raids against IS and also provides training and weapons to local forces fighting the group.
"In Syria... we think it's around 20" percent, he said.
When the size of the so-called caliphate IS proclaimed 18 months ago was at its largest, Iraq accounted for a slightly bigger part of it than Syria.
"Taking together Iraq and Syria... they lost 30 percent of the territory they once held," Warren told news hounds in Baghdad.
Since taking control of Ramadi in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria in May 2015, IS has been on the back foot most of the time.
A variety of Iraqi forces -- including the Kurdish peshmerga, the Shiite-dominated Popular Mobilization paramilitary force and the federal forces -- have reclaimed major urban centers, including Ramadi last week.
Warren's estimate appear to differ significantly from a figure of 14 percent provided by the IHS Jane's think-tank, albeit predating the retaking of Ramadi.
Perhaps the difference is populated area vs. including empty desert?
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As of July 2015, Islamic State held about 33% of Syria. That that still puts them in control of about 26% (though I have sources saying it's as low as 25% and as high as 28%.)
[IsraelTimes] Photos of base for long-range projectiles come days after general says Iran has so many missiles, it doesn't have room to store them
Iran on Tuesday unveiled a second underground missile storage facility, days after the United States threatened to impose fresh sanctions over the country's missile program.
The Tasnim News Agency carried photos of parliament speaker Ali Larijani touring the base, which it said housed long-range Emad ballistic missiles and was not the same one the Iranians unveiled in October.
At last week's Friday prayers, an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said the Islamic Theocratic Republic has so many missiles, it doesn't know where to store them.
"We lack enough space in our stockpiles to house our missiles," said General Hossein Salami, the Guards' deputy, as a row with the US over Iran's ballistic missile program deepened.
"Hundreds of long tunnels are full of missiles ready to fly to protect your integrity, independence and freedom," he told worshipers in Tehran, promising to never "stop developing our defense deterrent."
Iranian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
aired in October unprecedented footage of such an underground missile base.
The general's comments came after reports that the US had plans -- later shelved -- to unveil a fresh round of sanctions following two recent missile tests by the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
The mooted financial penalties on companies and individuals in Iran, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates, for apparent links to Tehran's missile program, highlighted worsening US-Iran relations.
They also put in jeopardy a landmark deal struck in July between Iran and six world powers including the US, which is due to be formally implemented within weeks.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani denounced the US moves Thursday as "hostile and illegal interventions" that must be met with a response.
He ordered the military to intensify its missile development and take whatever steps necessary to start new programs if they would better serve Iran's defense.
After Rouhani's comments the White House put the sanctions on hold indefinitely, The Wall Street Journal reported, though officials said the measures remained on the table for use if necessary.
The specter of new penalties against Iran -- the nuclear deal is due to lift existing sanctions that froze Iran out of the global financial system and crippled its oil exports -- brought worsening relations to a head.
A United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... panel last month said the two missile tests breached previous resolutions aimed at stopping the Islamic republic from developing projectiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
Iran has always denied seeking an atomic weapon and argues that its missiles would never be designed to, nor ever carry, such a bomb.
The nuclear deal is due to come into effect on "Implementation Day," expected later this month, or soon after, when UN monitors sign off that Iran has applied major curbs to its atomic program.
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MissFac believed to be for Iran's new "EMAD" Nuke-capable 2000-km range BM.
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Is it because Iranian theologians believe the world is entering its last days that the Iranian people (and the Obama administration) do not seem to care that when Israel states, "Never Again", it means it?
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a tunnel with its' opening sealed is called a crypt
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The UN was feeling dejected:
"All pacts must be fully respected!
We'll cast a dim eye...
Now, comply or we'll cry...
Could we please just pretend you're inspected?"
[AlAhram] The masked turban in an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... video showing the killing of five men accused by the group of being Western spies is believed to be a Londoner known as Sid who once sold inflatable bouncy castles.
Siddhartha Dhar, who left Britannia for Syria while on police bail after his arrest on suspicion of belonging to a banned group and encouraging terrorism, has been identified by media as the front man in the turban organization's latest film.
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So if/when somebody gets him, will the news report be named "Death of a Salesman"?
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The Mayor of Cologne said today that women should adopt a “code of conduct” to prevent future assault at a crisis meeting following the sexual attack of women by 1000 men on New Year’s eve.
