[Tolo News] Following the deadly attack on employees of TOLO TV that killed seven, a number of prominent Afghan religious scholars on Thursday strongly condemned the attack and defied the Taliban for their crimes and violent acts against humanity and Islam.
The holy mans termed journalism as a sacred profession and said terrorist attacks are against the teachings of Islam.
They said that the forces of Evil by posing threats to civilians are trying to tarnish the image of Islam and the Islamic society.
"Reporting is a sacred profession," Lotfullah Haqparast, a religious scholar said.
"Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) says that the biggest jihad is to utter the truth while you are faced with an oppressive or a cruel ruler," he added.
"There is no justification for such cowardly acts in the Sharia Law (Islamic law). Islam has never supported such repressions," religious scholar Sayed Samiullah Sahibzada said.
The remarks come after seven TOLO TV employees were killed in a Taliban attack on Wednesday.
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"Reporting is a sacred profession"
We know. The New York Times tells us that every morning and twice on Sunday.
[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] The Taliban warned media organizations on Thursday not to promote immorality and foreign cultures a day after claiming responsibility for killing seven journalists for the country's most-watched television channel. The suicide car kaboom in 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.... rush hour traffic on Wednesday was condemned by governments, human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... groups and rival news organizations as an assault on press freedom.The Taliban said they targeted Tolo TV, Afghanistan's largest private television channel, because it was producing propaganda for the U.S. military and its allies.Tolo was attacked for "promoting obscenity, irreligiousness, foreign culture and nudity," the Taliban said in a statement. "Its workers were anti-jihad and anti-Islam elements trained by foreign intelligence toiling for the Americans."The Taliban openly threatened to target the station last year after it reported allegations of summary executions, rape and kidnappings by Taliban fighters during the battle for the city of Kunduz. Although some details of those reports have been disputed, Tolo insists it was scrupulous in reporting all sides of the fighting, including allowing Taliban spokesmen a right of reply.
Tolo, which created Afghanistan's first 24-hour news channel, has won a reputation for fast, credible reporting in a shifting media landscape that features scores of newspapers, broadcasters and online news sites.
The Taliban on Thursday said it is not specifically targeting media as part of a widening insurgency, but warned organizations they should not align themselves with Tolo.The emergence of a free and vibrant media is seen as one of the main achievements of post-Taliban Afghanistan. During their five years in power, the Taliban banned television to stop people viewing what they derided as vulgar, immoral and anti-Islamic material.Saad Mohseni, the owner of Tolo and the country's largest media mogul, said in a statement on Thursday the journalists killed were working to uphold freedom of speech in Afghanistan."The voices of those who we have lost will not be forgotten," Mohseni said.
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[Tolo News] After the death of the Taliban's former leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, the Taliban split into two main factions -- the first one led by Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour and the second led by Mullah Mohammad Rasoul ...Leader of a rival faction of the Afghan Taliban. He's probably not long for this world..... TOLOnews news hound Sharif Amiri has assessed the issue in a special report.
According to him, Mullah Akhtar Mansour has two deputies -- including Haibatullah Akhundzada ...Deputy to Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour... and Sirajuddin Haqqani ...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network.... , the leader of Haqqani network.
He said 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... (Council) has 18 members, which has the responsibility of making Taliban's strategies. The council is considered as the main factor behind the war in Afghanistan, Sharif said.
Based on him, another group which is led by Mullah Rasoul has focused more on Afghanistan.
Mullah Manan Niazi ...deputy to Taliban faction supremo Mullah Mohammad Rassoul Nowrozi... and Mullah Baz Mohammad ...deputy to Taliban faction supremo Mullah Mohammad Rassoul Nowrozi... Haris are his deputies, Sharif said in his report.
He added that he has found that Pakistain has little control over the Taliban faction led by Mullah Rasoul. The group led by Mullah Rasoul is more interested to join the grinding of the peace processor -- compared to other factions of Taliban, he added.
In addition he said there are a number of key Taliban leaders in 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... , including Abbas Stanikzai ...Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Head of the Taliban political office in Doha. He was a member of Rassoul Sayyaf's group in the war against the Soviets.... , head of the office, Mullah Jan Mohammad Madani, Mullah Shahabuddin Dilawar, Suhail Shahin, Mohammad Zahid Ahmadzai and Abdul Salam Hanafi.
According to him, the Qatar Taliban office has the responsibility of Taliban's foreign policy. This office takes orders from Quetta Shura, the report said.
According to the report, there are five key members of Taliban -- including Mullah Fazil Akhund, Mullah Khairullah Khairkhwah, Mullah Abdulhaq Wasiq, Mullah Noorullah Noori and Mullah Mohammad Nabi Omari.
Sharif said that the Taliban is not the only problem for Afghanistan; there are up to 5,000 foreign rebels, including Arab, Chechen and Uzbek fighters, fighting against security forces in Afghanistan.
It is believed that if the Taliban agrees to peace with the Afghan government, the groups will still pose a threat to the country's security.
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Kenya Defence Forces top commanders led by General Samsom Mwathethe are investigating the increasing role of foreign terrorist fighters used to target Kenya. The military and Ministry of Interior are examining links with ISIS after some 10-15 fighters, who are not of Somali origin, were found to be part of the group of suicide bombers who attacked the KDF camp in El Adde Somalia on Friday.
Documents seen by The Standard and authored by the Ministry of Defence point to an influx of foreign fighters and particularly Jihadists being used on the front line against specific targets.
“Al Shabaab are now receiving both technical and financial support from Syria, ISIS and other likeminded entities,” the report said.
The report points at how several unsuccessful attempts on KDF camps in Hoosingo in 2012 and Baure in 2015 are instructive.
“In these attacks, Al Shabaab have been repulsed by KDF and suffered massive injuries and fatalities.” Preliminary findings show there were foreign fighters involved in the planning and execution of the El-Adde Kenya Defence Forces attack.
This confirms fears that there are pockets of foreign fighters who have now joined the militant group Al Shabaab. Officials citing intelligence sources said the foreigners are now in charge of many issues and are protected by the militants.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Distressing reports have emerged regarding the recruitment of Afghan youths from 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... to fight in the ongoing war in Yemen.
The Afghan youths are mainly recruited to fight against the 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 amid ongoing campaign by Saudi-led coalition, according to BBC Persian findings.
The revelation was made after conducting interviews with the family members of the Afghan youths who have gone missing after visiting Saudi Arabia for Hajj pilgrimage.
Their family members however have said it is yet not clear who are deploying the youths to Yemen.
A man whose relative has been deployed to 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... two months ago told BBC Persian that six to seven members of his family have left for Yemen after visiting Saudi Arabia for Umra Hajj pilgrimage.
The man identified as Ahmadeen further added that 40 to 45 people from the close villages and the youths are mainly participating in the war in Yemen to defend from Mecca holy city.
This comes as reports emerged late in the month of August last year suggesting at least 3,500 Afghans are fighting in Syria in support of Bashir al-Assad.
Relatives of a number of those killed while fighting for the Syrian regime have said the Afghan nationals are lured by the month salary of $700 and Iranian residency permit.
There are no reports regarding the exact casualties of the Afghan nationals participating in the Syrian conflict as well as likely participation of the Afghan youths in Yemen war, although numerous pictures and videos of the Afghans captured by the Syrian rebels have emerged with their fate yet to be determined.
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See sunny Yemen! Why am I reminded of the floating billboard in the movie "Blade Runner"?
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Wonder what the retirement plan looks like? (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
[Iran Press TV] Israel, the United States and the United Kingdom have been contributing to 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 deadly war on 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... by sending warplanes to bomb the impoverished nation, a Yemeni army official reveals.
Sharaf Luqman, a front man for the Yemeni army, said on Thursday that fighter jets belonging to the US, Britannia and Israel have been directly bombing Yemen as Saudi pilots are unable to conduct sorties with modern warplanes over Yemen.
The army official said that Yemeni army and fighters of the 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 ... Ansarullah movement have so far managed to down three F-16 fighter jets,10 Apache helicopters and dozens of drones.
Luqman said about 400 military personnel from the European and Latin American countries, mainly from Colombia, have been recruited to fight for the Saudis in Yemen.
Reports emerged in late December 2015 that six Colombian troops and an Australian commander had been killed in festivities with Yemen's Houthi fighters and allied forces in the southwestern part of the country.
According to Yemeni sources, the Colombians have been dispatched to Yemen under an agreement between the United Arab Emirates, a major ally of the Saudis in the Yemen war, and a US-based security services company formerly called Blackwater.
The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported on November 25 that the UAE has "secretly" deployed 450 Latin American troops, most of them from Colombia but among them Panamanian, Salvadoran and Chilean soldiers, to fight in the war on Yemen.
Washington has also been helping the Saudis in their bombardment of Yemen by providing logistics and intelligence to the Saudi air force.
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In the snowy streets of Finland's cities, black-clad vigilantes are on patrol, to the alarm of the police and many residents. They say they're there to keep Finnish people safe from what they say is a new and clear threat -- the increasing numbers of asylum-seekers.
The rise of the Soldiers of Odin, which claims 500 members, has sparked both concern and ridicule in the Nordic country. Opponents dressed as clowns recently to accompany the ominous-looking men on their patrols.
But the Soldiers of Odin, who derive their name from a Norse god, insist their patrols are needed to protect the peace in the sparsely populated nation of 5.5 million, which wasn't a major destination for migrants until 32,500 people applied for asylum last year. Most came from Iraq but also from Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria.
"It's chaotic and getting out of hand," Mika Ranta, a 29-year-old truck driver who founded the group, told The Associated Press. "We should be more careful about who we let into the country."
The Soldiers of Odin say they are unarmed, though Ranta acknowledged he carries pepper spray, which is legal in Finland. They wear black jackets bearing their logo on the back -- a mustachioed man wearing a Viking helmet and Finnish flag as a neckerchief.
Speaking by phone from the northern city of Kemi, Ranta said the posse isn't racist, but considers the newcomers a threat because "they are Muslims."
"Islam has never adapted anywhere and only brings problems with it. They don't tolerate anyone else apart from believers in Islam," Ranta said.
He said police are overworked and need help to deal with the migration situation -- a claim rejected by Finland's top police official.
National Police Commissioner Seppo Kolehmainen said the tenfold increase in asylum requests in 2015 has greatly increased the workload for police officers, including the need to fingerprint applicants, keep order at reception centers and protect them from arson attacks, mostly by drunk Finnish men -- not always successfully.
"But we categorically don't accept any street patrols that have been set up solely against immigrants or asylum-seekers. It's the duty of the police to keep law and order," he added.
Formed in October when the flow of migrants peaked, the Soldiers of Odin raised their profile on social media following reports that Finnish women were harassed on New Year's Eve in incidents that resembled a string of attacks in Cologne, Germany, that were blamed largely on foreigners.
Police are investigating 15 reported cases of sexual assault, including rape, attempted rape and groping in downtown Helsinki during New Year's celebrations, with many of the suspected perpetrators having foreign backgrounds, including some asylum-seekers.
So far, the Soldiers' patrols have been uneventful -- they haven't had any encounters either with asylum-seekers or with the police.
But they have created debates on social media, radio and TV shows and worried officials. They have also sparked counter-movements.
Last week, a group calling itself the Sisters of Kyllikki, named after a mythological Finnish female figure, began street patrols of their own "to spread love and caring" in the southeastern town of Joensuu, where a week earlier the Soldiers of Odin held an anti-immigrant demonstration.
That group's fame has spread on Facebook, with patrols planned in at least four other towns.
A troupe of clowns calling themselves the LOLdiers of Odin, in apparent reference to the text messaging abbreviation, LOL, for "laughing out loud," has gone even further.
Dressed in crazy clothes, including Viking helmets, tin hats, and long flowing gowns, they taunted and mocked the vigilantes on one of their patrols last week in the southern city of Tampere. The clowns sang children's songs, threw cartwheels and slid down piles of snow along the black-clad men's route.
Ranta said one of the clowns poured water on a patrol member when the temperature outside was as low as minus 25 degrees Celsius (minus 14 Fahrenheit).
"They just tried to provoke us," he said. "If they poured water down my back I'd throw pepper spray in their face."
Unlike the clowns, some take the vigilantes seriously, including Prosecutor General Matti Nissinen, who described them as sending "a racist and threatening" message.
"If we go back in history, we see that nothing good has ever come out of street patrols by this kind of uniformed group," Nissinen said.
The patrols have also caused consternation at government level.
While Prime Minister Juha Sipila initially appeared to dither about taking a stand, Finance Minister Alexander Stubb quickly condemned the groups, saying the government would seek ways to ban them. Foreign Minister Timo Soini, who leads the anti-immigration Finns party, said he condemns racism but didn't take a clear stand on the patrols.
Ranta's group claims offshoots in Britain, Germany, the U.S. and Estonia as well as neighboring Sweden and Norway. It hasn't got a foothold in the Helsinki region, where people are used to foreigners and are generally welcoming toward them.
"We're not there yet, but it's just a question of time," Ranta says. "Those New Year attacks are a clear sign we are needed."
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"the government would seek ways to ban [the protection patrols]"
Howzabout the gummint "seeking ways" to stop the invaders from assaulting Finnish women? I can give you a few suggestions.
"Islam has never adapted anywhere and only brings problems with it. They don't tolerate anyone else apart from believers in Islam."
I know a few Muslim families who have wholeheartedly adapted to America while keeping their faith (they think all the killing and conquest by these clowns who claim to share their religion is nuts), but by and large he's correct.
Not politically correct - Gott sei dank - but correct.
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Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, would know exactly where to draw the line.
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#4 Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, would know exactly where to draw the line. Posted by: Shipman
Yeah, but his PREFERRED place to draw the line would be from Murmansk to Moscow to Kalinningrad! Mannerheim thought Russia hadn't given all of Finland freedom, and it was up to Finland to take back the rest. See "Aunus" and "Karelia".
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There is a whole army of 300,000 coming in here to all 50 states of the u.s. as we speak courtesy of their u.s. mooslim commander in chief.
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These guys expect everyone else to submit to their religious notions. There is no consideration given to accepting and/or adapting to the surrounding culture and STFU.
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If seeing these women is so provocative, then it's obvious such men are far too unruly to be let out in public. They should start a program of castration before puberty so muslim men will be much more docile and able to control themselves.
* FREEREPUBLIC > [Daily Mail.UK] GERMANY MUST BAN ALCOHOL IFF THEY WANT TO PREVENT FURTHER SEX ATTACKS, SAYS MUSLIM GROUP.
Banning beer in Germany - this I gotta see.
* SAME > [BreitBart] REPORT: [German] LOCALS FLED [Kiddie] POOL AFTER [Drunk? Muslim?] MIGRANTS MASTURBATE INTO JACUZZI, DEFECATED.
Why yes, SEXUAL ASAULTS also took place.
Apparently, any beer ban in Germany applies only "Whitey", Germano-Saxons, + JudeoChristians, etal. NOT TO MUSLIM AHMED???
VERSUS
* ZERO HEDGE > THE ISLAMIZATION OF FRANCE IN 2015.
The Muslim population in Les Francais is now approxi 6.5Milyuhn out of a tote French population of 66.0Milyuhn - iff only 1.0 - 10.0% of the 6.5Milyuhn Muslims were Hardlne, Pro-Jihad Radicals, STILL BODES A HELLUVA LOT OF ISLAMIST-JIHADIST TROUBLE FOR FRANCE AT A TIME WHEN THE BRITS DOUBT THEIR OWN MILITARY'S ABILITY TO DEFEND JUST THE ENGLISH CHANNEL.
E.g. France may have to amend the mission statement/charter of their famed Foreign Legion from conducting only overseas missions to being allowed to wage domestic operations.
* LUCIANNE > [Shoebat] "PLEASE, MEN OF GERMANY, DO SOMETHING"! GERMAN TEENAGER BANNED FROM FACEBOOK FOR THIS VIDEO SHOWING HORRIFYING ACCOUNT OF SITUATION IN GERMANY, RIPS MERKEL, BEGS FOR GERMAN MEN TO FIGHT MUSLIM INVADERS.
To paraph KRAUTHAMMER = Say it wid Me Again, Amerika, wid feeling ...
[1960's-1970's = 2014's TOM CRUISE'S + EMILY BLUNT'S "EDGE OF TOMORROW" MOVIE - "THE INVASION WILL FAIL ... EVERY SOLDIER THAT LANDS ON THAT BEACH TOMORROW WILL DIE"! here].
[AnNahar] A German-Turkish man with alleged radical Islamist ties went on trial Thursday accused of plotting a pipe kaboom, possibly targeting a bicycle race, last year.
The 36-year-old identified only as Halil D. faces up to 10 years jail if found guilty by a state court in the western city of Frankfurt of having planned a potentially lethal attack.
Police in a raid last April found a pipe bomb packed with nails and metal ball bearings, as well as weapons, ammunition and dangerous chemicals, in the basement of his building in Oberursel near Frankfurt.
Prosecutors claimed there was a "jihadist motivation" behind the alleged plot to commit a "serious subversive act of violence" and said D. had ties to Germany's ultra-conservative Islamic Salafist community.
Police were tipped off by a building supplies store where he and his wife had in late March purchased three liters (0.8 gallons) of hydrogen peroxide, a bleaching agent and disinfectant that can be used in improvised bombs.
The couple had provided the shop with false personal details, said police.
Authorities, fearing a kaboom plot, canceled a professional bicycle race that had been planned in the area for May 1.
Ah. They didn't say why at the time.
The suspect's wife was also detained but released in July after she claimed she did not know about the materials her husband kept in the basement and said they bought the chemicals to remove mold.
Defense lawyer Ali Aydin argued that the man -- who was already known to police for previous offenses ranging from assault to illegal weapons charges -- had not seriously planned an attack.
The man in the dock declined to speak and was fined 200 euros ($217) for refusing to stand despite repeated requests from the presiding judge.
The trial, held under tight security, was expected to call scores of witnesses and experts and run for 30 days of hearings until mid-June.
[AnNahar] After a night on the Greek-Macedonian frontier in sub-zero temperatures, some 2,000 mainly Syrian refugees on Thursday resumed their tortuous trek to northern Europe that was temporarily blocked by a border closure by Skopje.
"I'm very happy the problem is resolved," said 19-year old Imad. "I want to go to Germany to study".
Imad and some 1,200 other conflict refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan
...or at least that's what their possibly real papers say, if they actually have papers...
had just spent the night in heated tents operated by aid groups. Though cramped and stifling with the scent of body odor, the tents were nonetheless preferable to sleeping on parked buses -- which is exactly what another 600 refugees had to do for lack of available space.
Macedonia this week decided to close its border with Greece, and only reopened it on Thursday for refugees wishing to go to Germany or Austria.
"The border crossing for migrants near (the Macedonian border town of) Gevgelija opened early this morning, but only those migrants whose Greek registration papers show their final destination as Germany or Austria can enter," a senior police official in Skopje told AFP.
Greek police lend a hand by duly adding 'Germany' or 'Austria' to the refugees' registration papers.
...regardless where these people actually intend to go?
By midday, some 400 people had crossed the border.
"It's a temporary procedure to reduce pressure on the camp, which can only accommodate 1,500 people at most," a Greek police source said.
Aid groups had warned that their resources had been stretched to capacity, raising fears for the fate of families with small children already suffering from colds. Wood fires are burning in barrels outside the tents, and benches have been brought up so the refugees don't have to sit on the freezing soil.
"If this flow continues there is no possibility for accommodation," said Antonis Rigas, head of the local Doctors Without Borders mission to the Greek side of the frontier.
"It gets very cold at night. Early this morning the temperature was minus seven Celsius (19 Fahrenheit)," he said.
Leading children's charities have warned that young refugees were at serious risk from the bitterly cold Balkan weather, as figures showed 31,000 refugees and economic migrants had arrived in Greece already this year.
Among them is Bashar Darwish, a guitarist with Syrian rock group Khebez Dawlem, three of whose bandmates have already reached Berlin.
"I want to rejoin them and continue giving concerts," he says.
"Our songs are about war, xenophobia, racism. We are people with the same problems and concerns as Europeans," he says.
Unlike Darwish, many other Syrians hide their faces and ask photographers and camera crews not to capture their image.
"We are very worried because after the (November 13 jihadist) attacks (in Gay Paree) everybody thinks we are possible terrorists," says a young Syrian who declined to give a name.
Macedonia on Wednesday said it had closed the border with Greece owing to problems with Slovenian trains that had disrupted the flow of migrants moving further north. Greek police countered that the frontier had actually shut a day earlier. And the Slovenian rail company Slovenske Zeleznice insisted they were running services as normal.
Macedonia's plans to allow through only those who seek refuge in Austria and Germany follows similar decisions by countries further along the main migrant route -- Serbia and Croatia announced they would do the same on Wednesday.
Austria last week also signaled that it would follow neighboring Germany's lead and begin turning back any new arrivals seeking to claim asylum in Scandinavia, after Sweden and Denmark tightened their borders.
Countries along the Balkan route earlier restricted entry only to refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
More than one million migrants and refugees crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Europe in 2015, nearly half of them Syrians,
...or "Syrians", multitudes of whom have the same few passports...
according to the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR.
The International Organization for Migration said this week that 31,000 had arrived in Greece already this year.
Danish hospitals have been warned by authorities to be on the lookout for diphtheria, an illness that hasn’t been seen in Denmark for nearly 20 years but may have returned with asylum seekers.
The Danish State Serum Institute (SSI) said on Tuesday that diphtheria was found in two Libyan refugees.
“The infection can be very dangerous if one isn’t vaccinated against it. The dangerous type is very rare and we last saw it in Denmark in 1998,” SSI spokesman Kurt Fuursted told Metroxpress.
SSI has warned Danish hospitals about the possible return of diphtheria and Metroxpress reported that asylum seekers have also been found to carry tuberculosis and malaria. Unlike some European countries, Denmark does not screen arriving refugees for illnesses but Fuursted said that policy might change.
It's one of the founding principles of public health, a science that originated in Europe...
We've had similar problems with the unscreened illegal "unacompanied children" streaming across our southern border. Now is not a good time to be the child of an antivaxxer.
“There is no doubt that infectious diseases are coming in with the refugees that we aren’t used to. There have been discussions on whether all refugees who come to Denmark should be screened," he said.
Health Minister Sophie Lunde told Metroxpress that immigration officials and the Danish Health and Medicines Authority (Sundhedsstyrelsen) will discuss possible changes to screening policies. Officials will also discuss the need to vaccinate arriving asylum seekers, who often come to the country without having been vaccinated against illnesses they risk catching in Denmark.
Denmark doesn’t not vaccinate arriving migrants despite recommendations from the World Health Organization to do so.
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[Iran Press TV] A Danish city has made serving pork mandatory in an apparent bid to tighten restrictions for Muslim refugees coming to the country.
Frank Noergaard, a member of the council in Randers, said on Thursday that the council has ordered pork to be a mandatory feature on municipal menus, including in schools and daycare centers.
The move was first proposed by the anti-immigration, populist Danish People's Party and approved by Randers City Council.
Noergaard, himself a member of People's Party, denied the move was directly linked to increasing restrictions being imposed on the refugees arriving in Denmark, saying the council approved the decision earlier this week to to ensure that pork remains "a central part of Denmark's food culture."
He said, however, that there has been "several complaints about too many concessions" being made to Muslims in the small, predominantly Lutheran country.
"The signal we want to send here is that if you're a Muslim and you plan to come to Randers, don't expect you can impose eating habits on others," he added.
The government in Denmark has already faced huge criticism over its decisions to tighten immigration with officials in the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... refugee agency saying some of the measures, like the one which forces asylum-seekers to hand over valuable to cover up their housing and food costs, are targeting the dignity of the refugees.
Denmark has a history of opposing Muslims' habit of eating, with former prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt lashing out at some nurseries in 2013 for serving halal-butchered meat instead of pork because Muslim children had refused to eat.
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[EXPRESS.CO.UK] A FRUSTRATED refugee centre worker has revealed shocking incidents of cheating, death threats and demands for a luxury life from migrants.
In a searing indictment of the behaviour of some refugees, the woman said her idealism has been eroded and virtually destroyed.
At first she said was enthusiastic in her role of helping process tens of thousands of migrants arriving in Germany on a weekly basis. Now, she says she is disillusioned, disheartened and on the verge of quitting due to demands and sexual harrassment.
She told Welt am sonntag newspaper she took on the role at the refugee centre in Hamburg last Autumn and was "overjoyed" at the thought of "helping the refugees".
But after a few days, she said, her enthusiasm was drained away.
The woman, whose identity has been protected, said: "Of course you may not assess all refugees the same: there are many who are very friendly, happy to be here, very grateful, very willing to be integrated.
"But if I am honest, working with 90 per cent of them is rather awkward and unfortunately not as I previously thought.
"First of all, many of them are extremely demanding. They come to me and ask to get an apartment and a fancy car and, best of all, even a really good job for them.
"If I try to explain to them that's not possible, they are often noisy or even really aggressive.
"An Afghan only recently threatened to kill himself. And a few Syrians and a group of Afghans have declared they would go on hunger strike unless I would help them to move to another place.
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Where do they think they are, America? Well, except for the 'really good job' part.
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demands for a luxury life from migrants
You're kaffirs. You are less than a dog. You exists to serve the true followers of Islam.
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P2k, I would call that fundamentally Islam, too. It is not extreme Islam it is the basic stuff.
This brings back a real blast from the past for me. Way back in '74 I got a job with the Soc Sec Agency. A lot of us recent college grads were hired to deal with the back log of cases expected when SSI was put in.
I was working in lower Manhattan and they used to bus claimants in from the worst areas, Bed Stuy, Lower East Side etc. Most of the newbs were girls from the Ivy League type schools and sounded just like this woman. It took them about a month on the job before they were the biggest racists and nastiest liberals you'd ever meet. No compassion at all.
I didn't completely blame them these were not generally nice, clean people we were dealing with but the schadenfreude in the before and after images was quite enjoyable.
URFA – Turkish border guards prevented an aid convoy from entering the Kurdish border city of Kobane in northern Syria and confiscated its content after arresting the aid workers.
The convoy, which was carrying medicines to be delivered to the people of Kobane, was stopped in Suruc town at the border with Syria.
The Turkish authorities in Şanlıurfa province said in a statement that the aid convoy was trying to cross the border into Syria “illegally”. The authorities considered the convoy as illegal for trying to help “a terrorist organization” in Syria, in reference to the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) that are in control of Kobane.
YPG and allied rebels have liberated Kobane from militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) last February. Thousands of civilians have returned then to Kobane after months of displacement. However, the city has been suffering a sharp shortage of medicine and other basic supplies for nearly a year.
The Turkish army has recently hit headquarters of the Kurdish YPG forces in northern Syria on 23 occasions, according to Kurdish officials. Turkey considers the YPG an ally to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is deemed by the Turkish government as an outlawed “terrorist organization”.
[DAWN] A First Information Report (FIR) was registered on Thursday against the four unidentified bully boyz who attacked Charsadda's Bacha Khan University, killing 20 people and injuring at least a dozen others.
An injured university employee, Muhammad Fayyaz, expired this morning in the Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit at Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's Lady Reading Hospital ─ where two others maimed in the attack remain at death's door. The corpse count now stands at 21.
The FIR lodged was lodged on behalf of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) by Station House Officer Irfanullah of the Serdheri cop shoppe in CTD Mardan under sections 7 and 15AA of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Search operations in Charsadda are ongoing as police comb the area around the university. Several suspects have been incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! During initial investigations, four grenades, 16 magazines and 240 cartridges were recovered from the site of the attack, CTD sources said.
Several schools were closed last weekend after intelligence suggested bully boyz were planning an attack, according to Muhammad Amir Rana, director of the private Pakistain Institute for Peace Studies. A Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... government front man said they were closed as part of a security drill.
Fazle ur-Rahim Marwat, the university's vice chancellor, said security forces alone could not keep students safe, saying it required a move away from an extreme interpretation of Islam.
After the Peshawar attack, the government promised to set up a joint Intelligence Directorate, but that has not happened yet.
"The government is trying to develop a response but is facing capacity issues," Rana said, particularly in the area of intelligence-sharing among the powerful intelligence agencies and the police.
Rana, whose institute tracks krazed killer movement, said the divisions in the Taliban over who carried out Wednesday's attack probably has more to do with a fear of retribution than a reflection of a deeply divided Taliban.
The backlash that followed APS attack was so severe that it probably left the Taliban "reluctant to take credit", he added, noting that Afghan cops joined in operations against Pak Taliban hideouts afterward.
In a presser after the attack, Pakistain military front man Lt. Gen Asim Bajwa stated the attackers carried mobile phones with Afghan numbers and "were in touch with their handlers in Afghanistan."
He added that the bully boyz hate education because it is a symbol of progress.
Pakistain maintains that its bully boyz often find refuge in Afghanistan.
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I'm not sure what's "tough" about the question.
[REUTERS] Stuck with 15 of his students on a third floor balcony of a campus building as gunnies came up the stairs, university director Mohammad Shakil urged Pak police arriving at the scene to toss him up a gun so he could shoot back.
"We were hiding ... but were unarmed," Shakil told Rooters, speaking after four Islamist Lions of Islam attacked Bacha Khan University in Pakistain's troubled northwest on Wednesday, killing more than 20 people.
"I was worried about the students, and then one of the Lions of Islam came after us," Shakil added. "After repeated requests, the police threw me a pistol and I fired some shots at the terrorists."
As more details of Wednesday's assault emerged, attention focused on at least two members of staff who took up arms to resist attackers bent on killing them and their students.
Some hailed them as heroes, as the country digested an attack which bore similarities to the massacre, in late 2014, of 134 pupils at an army-run school in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , about 30 km (19 miles) from where this week's violence occurred.
Others questioned whether teachers should be armed, as many are, because it goes against the ideals of the profession.
Such a dilemma may have been far from the mind of chemistry professor Hamid Hussain, as he locked himself inside a room with colleagues after gunnies stormed an accommodation block on the university campus.
When the assailants broke down the door, Hussain fired several rounds from his pistol, according to Shabir Ahmad Khan, an English department lecturer taking cover in an adjacent washroom.
"They carried on heavy shooting and I was preparing myself for death, but then they did not enter the washroom and left," Khan recalled.
Later on in the same building, Hussain fired again at the Lions of Islam to allow some of his students to get away, surviving pupils told local media. Hussain was subsequently shot and later died from his wounds.
"Kudos to professor Dr Hamid Hussain. Our hero fought bravely n saved many," Asma Shirazi, a popular talk show host, said on Twitter.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Pakistain claims the attack on a university in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province that left 21 people killed and at least 30 others maimed was handled from Afghanistan. "The attackers were in touch with a number from Afghanistan," Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa, the director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), told a news briefing in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , according to Pakistain's The Express Tribune news.
"The bandidosLions of Islam were continuously conversing on their mobile phones, two of which we have recovered and collected data from."
ISPR spokesperson has further said that the SIMs used in the phones were of Afghan origin, adding that a mobile phone recovered from one of the attackers was receiving calls even after he had been killed.
Pakistain's Jamaat--e-Islami party Siraj-ul-Haq has blamed India for the attack
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... chief of Pakistain's Jamaat--e-Islami party Siraj-ul-Haq has blamed India for the attack saying that there is no doubt India was involved in it.
Afghan government has not yet responded to Pakistain's claim.
Yesterday's attack on Bach Khan University in Charsadda area was carried out by reportedly four attackers which started at around 09:30 and lasted for several hours.
The gunnies took students and instructors as hostages inside the university and engaged in shootout with security forces.
Several kabooms were heard from inside the university where some 3,000 students have been enrolled.
The overall attack left 21 people killed and around 50 others maimed.
Omar Mansoor, identifying himself from the Geedar group of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) grabbed credit for attack.
According to Mansoor, four attackers carried out the attack. Officials also confirm that four attackers were killed in the attack.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... Mohammad Khurasani, the central spokesperson for the TTP distanced his group from the attack.
It came a day after a TTP-claimed suicide kaboom at a security post in Karkhano area which is also close to Peshawar left 11 people killed and at least 30 others maimed.
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[Rudaw] Just weeks after their return residents of the town of Jalawla have started clearing their streets and public places of rubble and the aftermath of war.
Around 200 families returned to Jalawla last month after it was cleared of many bombs and explosives left behind by bully boyz of 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.... (ISIS).
The town's municipality machinery were destroyed in the war or stolen by ISIS. So these people use their own tools.
They hope for more support from the Diyala government.
Jalawla was taken by ISIS August 2014 but it was liberated by the Kurdish Peshmerga three months later.
Not the kind of things ISIS will be able to make use of should they somehow acquire them, one would think.
[AnNahar] The United States has approved the sale of almost $2 billion worth of bombs and missiles to equip Iraq's squadron of F-16 attack jets in their battle against jihadist rebels.
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said 400 American government staff and contractors would work in Iraq until at least 2020 to maintain the arsenal and train Iraqi pilots and ground crew.
"This proposed sale enables Iraq to fully maintain and employ its aircraft and sustain pilot training to effectively protect Iraq from current and future threats," it said.
The sale of the 36 jets had been previously announced, but the $1.95 billion arms package confirms that the Iraqis will have access to modern smart bombs and missiles.
U.S. military advisors, special forces and contractors are already working alongside Iraqi and coalition units in the battle against 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.... jihadist group.
The sale approved this week includes 24 Sidewinder and 150 Maverick missiles for each jet. Some 16,000 bombs will be delivered, along with laser and satellite guidance kits.
Each jet will be fitted with an M61 Vulcan 20mm cannon.
U.S. engineering giants Lockheed Martin and Raytheon will be the primary suppliers of the gear and training, along with other U.S. groups and the Royal Jordanian Air Academy.
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Not the kind of things ISIS will be able to make use of should they somehow acquire them, one would think.
[LATIMES] In a move that could lead to construction of more Jewish settlements, Israel plans to annex 370 acres of agricultural land in the occupied West Bank near the city of Jericho. Perhaps Europeans should consider moving to Israel, since their own countries are being colonized by Moslems. They tell me all y'gotta do to become Jewish is say you are and part with a bit of foreskin. Ladies don't even need the snip. In return you get to be a part of an international conspiracy. You get to control the currency of lots of countries, pull the strings in Congress, and control Hollywood. They're probably turning people away at the Synagogue doors.
The land has been under Israeli control since the Six Day War of 1967 and was already being farmed by members of the neighboring Etzion settlements, which are widely considered to be illegal under international law. Attacking Israel in 1967 wasn't, of course.
There are those opinions widely held, and those which are true, oddly enough.
Formal annexation would continue a pattern of Israeli expansion that has been condemned by the U.S. and other world powers because it dampens the prospects for creation of a Paleostinian state, which they view as the best hope for a lasting peace. Yasss, a project that's worked trippingly all these years. [Insert Star Wars film snippet: "Almost there!... Almost there!... Almost (KABOOM!)..."]
Israeli Army Radio quoted a defense ministry report describing the plan as "a very sensitive issue which will likely garner harsh critique from Europe and the United States, and of course from the Paleostinian Authority." ... as long as water continues to flow downhill.
The Cabinet is expected to quickly approve the plan, which was authorized in a declaration signed Wednesday morning by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, the radio station reported.
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The clock is not the paleo's friend. So why do they continue to run it down?
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why do they continue to run it down?
Loose grasp of the 'superior in every way' Manifest Destiny concept?
[IsraelTimes] Move against Paleostinians accused of killing four in two separate attacks is first since current round of violence began
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri revoked the residency rights Thursday of four Paleostinians charged with taking part in deadly attacks in Jerusalem. The move was the first revocation of such rights in 18 months, and the first since the start of a round of violence that has rocked the country over the last four months.
Israel effectively annexed East Jerusalem in 1980 and granted Arab residents some rights, but not full Israeli citizenship.
...although they can have Israeli citizenship for the asking. Some ask. The wonder, given the regular demands in negotiations for the right of return, is that they don't all do so, flooding the zone, as it were.
Deri, who said he would seek to have terrorists' residency revoked after entering office earlier this month, said those who murdered Israelis or harmed state security would no longer be able to enjoy the privileges the state afforded them
"This is an exceptional step but the severity of their actions completely justifies my decision," he said.
Three of the Paleostinians were indicted for throwing stones at a car in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, causing driver Alexander Levlovitz, 64, to lose control of his vehicle and crash into a pole. Considered by some the first casualty in the current round of Paleostinian violence, Levlovitz died of his wounds the next morning.
The three, all of whom have been charged with manslaughter, are Muhammad Salah Muhammad Abu Kaf, 18, Walid Fares Mustafa Atrash, 18, and Abed Muhammad Abed Rabo Dawiat, 17, all of the Paleostinian East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher.
The Shin Bet said one of the three had told Sherlocks that he carried out the attack in the name of terror group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and that they had thrown stones at several Israeli cars before hitting Levlovitz's. The group then expeditiously departed at a goodly pace, meeting later to coordinate their version of events in case they were caught, according to the Shin Bet.
The fourth Paleostinian whose residence rights were canceled was 21-year-old Jabel Mukaber resident and Hamas supporter Bilal Abu Ghanem, who, along with another man, Baha Alyan, boarded Bus 78 in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood and waited several minutes for the bus to fill with passengers before they began stabbing and shooting people, killing three passengers. He and Alyan were shot and subdued by police and the latter died of his wounds. Abu Ghanem was indicted at the city's district court in November.
One of the victims, American immigrant Richard Lakin, 76, succumbed to his wounds two weeks after the attack in which he was shot in the head and stabbed in the chest. Haviv Haim, 78, and Alon Govberg, 51, were also killed in the attack and additional 15 people were maimed.
The measure of revoking residency rights for East Jerusalemites has been used in the past. In October, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought up the idea of revoking residency for thousands of East Jerusalemites, drawing fire from Washington. White House front man Josh Earnest said at the time that the measure "would obviously be of some concern to us." The US, Earnest went on, reiterates the "importance of all sides avoiding provocative actions and rhetoric."
The Armon Hanatziv neighborhood saw a number of attacks and attempted attacks in late 2015, thanks to its location on the seam between West and East Jerusalem, close to the Paleostinian neighborhoods of Jabel Mukaber and Sur Baher. Eight days ago, a 16-year-old Paleostinian who allegedly attempted to stab an Israeli man near a bus stop was indicted at the Jerusalem District Court for attempted murder.
Earlier this month, police removed concrete barriers which had separated Armon Hanatziv from Jabel Mukaber since October, in a sign of increasing calm.
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They aren't Israeli citizens, Shipman, which means they have to move to the Palestinain territories where, in a highly tribal society it is likely they have no relatives and few if any friends. With the residency permit, if I understand correctly (a little help here please, g(r)omgoru), goes health insurance, an in-Israel work permit, and other benefits. If their wives are Palestinians rather than Arab Israelis, those wives and all children also must follow them into exile.
I don't know for certain, but I have to suspect this is in addition to the destruction of the family home.
Russia appears to be making preparations to establish a new airbase in Syria, this time along the border with NATO-member Turkey, a senior U.S. official tells Fox News.
The move is bound to anger the Turkish government months after the downing of a Russian jet by the Turks.
A handful of Russian military personnel, including engineers, has been seen in the vicinity of a largely abandoned airfield in Qamishli, a city in northeast Syria along the border with Turkey. The area is largely controlled by Syrian Kurds, with pockets of regime-controlled territory including the airport.
Russia and Syria’s Kurds have a common enemy in Turkey and make natural allies.
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oh, boy. Trolling the Ottomans in old soviet style. As a plus, the Russians are going to wind up with a lot more friends & allies (The Kurds) at our expense.
Thanks, Barrack. You are going to have the next 4 administrations cleaning up after you. Heck of a job!
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IIRC the US itself is being accused of "illegally" occupying + expanding an old airstrip at Rmeilia in Syria near northern Kurdistan/KAR, + widout the consent of Baby Assad's Govt.
Russia or the US, the new Airbases are being built in a strategic region close to the borders of several regional players - Syria, Turkey, Iraq, KAR [northern Iraq], Jordan, + Caucasus [Russia].
MOSCOW WANTS TO INTIMIDATE TURKEY, THE US WANTS TO PROTECT NATO ALLY TURKEY, + BOTH THE US + MOSCOW WANT TO CONTAIN OR PREVENT THE FURTHER SPREAD OF THE ISIS.
* WAFF > [GlobalPost = AFP] TAYIP ERDOGAN: "WE[Turkey] WILL NOT TOLERATE RUSSIAN TROOPS [just] ACROSS BORDER IN SYRIA |TURKEY WATCHING CLOSELY RUSSIAN TROOP MOVEMENTS AT SYRIA BORDER | TURKEY ALARMED BY "RUSSIAN BUILDUP" ON SYRIA BORDER.
Source is suspect; presented here because no one in the U.S. government is being straight with us. Truth will eventually come out.
When Iran freed 10 American sailors it had detained last week, it kept something — the SIM cards from two satellite phones that were in the Americans’ possession.
The first report on the incident, released Monday, noted the loss. “A post-recovery inventory of the boats found that all weapons, ammunition, and communication gear are accounted for minus two SIM cards that appear to have been removed from two handheld satellite phones,” said the report from the U.S. Central Command.
The importance of that loss could be substantial, according to a former naval intelligence officer who spoke to Independent Journal.
“Those SIM cards don’t just contain the satellite links,” he said. “They also include encryption codes, and otherwise unpublished data relating to specific orders and personnel,” he added.
The former naval officer said those SIM cards should not have been allowed to fall into Iranian hands.
“My first thought is that they should’ve destroyed those SIM cards in the first place because that is considered classified information. I hope that their careers are not tarnished for it,” he said. “The first thing an officer is told is to destroy anything of intel value lest it fall into enemy hands.”
The loss of the SIM cards, and the potential loss that could follow from exploiting information on them, calls to mind comments from Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.
“We’d be stupid to think that they didn’t [gain classified information]. I’m glad that the sailors are back safe, but there’s no way [the Iranian military] just let those boats sit there, and didn’t reverse engineer, or look at and copy everything that they possibly could,” he said.
The Pentagon is still developing a final report to explain how the sailors ended up in Iranian waters, where they were captured and detained for about 18 hours.
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Throw the sat phones in the drink. Literally deep-six them.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Leader of a rival faction of the Afghan Taliban. He's probably not long for this world.....
In the snowy streets of Finland's cities, black-clad vigilantes are on patrol, to the alarm of the police and many residents. They say they're there to keep Finnish people safe from what they say is a new and clear threat -- the increasing numbers of asylum-seekers.
Danish hospitals have been warned by authorities to be on the lookout for diphtheria, an illness that hasn’t been seen in Denmark for nearly 20 years but may have returned with asylum seekers.
[Iran Press TV] A Danish city has made serving pork mandatory in an apparent bid to tighten restrictions for Muslim refugees coming to the country.
Yesterday's attack on Bach Khan University in Charsadda area was carried out by reportedly four attackers which started at around 09:30 and lasted for several hours.
