[CBSNEWS] A U.S. official said Wednesday that it appears a low-tech bomb exploded on a passenger jet over Somalia earlier this week, CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan reports.
No terror group has grabbed credit for Tuesday's blast. The kaboom blew a hole in the jetliner shortly after takeoff and left one man missing. The plane landed safely in Mogadishu.
Residents of Balad, a town about 18 miles north of Mogadishu, found the body of a man who might have been blown out of the Airbus 321, said police officer Mohammed Hassan.
Abdiwahid Omar, the director of Somalia's civil aviation authority, told state-run Radio Mogadishu that authorities were not sure if the body was the missing passenger.
Government officials also said no evidence had been found so far of a criminal act.
Mohammed Ibrahim Yassin, CEO of Daallo Airlines, did not rule out that a bomb planted on the aircraft was responsible.
"At this stage, everything is possible. We cannot rule out anything at this stage," Yassin told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
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no evidence had been found so far of a criminal act.
Not that it wasn't a criminal act, just that no definitive evidence has been found. So far.
This is reporting?
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Any chance missing guy is also the bomber? In a perfect world....
[DAWN] Bangladesh summoned on Tuesday Pakistain's high commissioner to lodge a protest after a Bangladeshi official in Islamabad was detained for four hours, two Dhaka officials said, amid a worsening diplomatic row between the two countries.
Weeks of rising tension in the relationship were sparked in late November by the executions in Bangladesh of two opposition leaders convicted of crimes against humanity during the 1971 war.
At the time, Pakistain's foreign ministry had expressed "deep concern and anguish" at the executions, describing the trials of those involved in alleged atrocities during the conflict as "flawed".
The Pak high commissioner was summoned after the Bangladeshi official in Pakistain was detained for hours on Monday, hours after police in the Bangladeshi capital had detained an official of the Pakistain High Commission, citing his "suspicious movement".
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'Tis more that that, as We're-Supposed-to-be-the-World's-First-Muslim-Nuclear-Superpower-NOT-Iran PAKISTAN = TURKEY = is a OWG Co-Superpower wannabe, + is itching to expand its sphere of influence.
[NHREGISTER] South Korea warned on Wednesday of "searing" consequences if North Korea doesn't abandon plans to launch a long-range rocket that critics call a banned test of ballistic missile technology.
The South's rhetoric about unspecified harsh consequences comes less than a month after North Korea's defiant fourth nuclear test and as diplomats at the U.N. work on strong new sanctions against the North.
North Korea on Tuesday informed international organizations of its plans to launch an Earth observation satellite on a rocket between Feb. 8 and 25, and if North Korea's past patterns are any clue, angry warnings by its neighbors and Washington probably won't dissuade a coming launch.
The launch declaration, which is meant to warn civilians, shipping and aircraft in the area about the rocket and falling debris, follows North Korea's disputed claim on Jan. 6 to have tested a hydrogen bomb, the country's fourth nuclear test. A launch would be seen as a snub by North Korea of its only major ally, China, whose representative for Korean affairs landed in the North for talks on Tuesday.
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NOKOR likely can no longer wait for Beijing to formally reunify wid Taiwan, whenever that may be; and iff recent incidents wid the PLA is any measure neither can CHINA???
NOT Year 2100, not Year 2050 or even Year 2030, but ASAP AMAP ALAP.
No "Sole" Base rights or strategic access for the PLA from the predominantlyPro-US "First Island Chain" = UNLEASH THE DOGS OF WAR, + LET MIL CONFRONTATION + FIREPOWER + TACNUKES? DECIDE THE ISSUE.
[AnNahar] Re-establishing European borders as a result of the migration crisis could cost La Belle France more than 10 billion euros per year, according to a study published on Wednesday.
The vast influx of refugees and migrants has seen calls grow for Europe's borderless Schengen zone to be abandoned and tougher immigration controls imposed.
But a study by La Belle France Strategie, a government-linked think tank, said the impact on trade, tourism and transport would trigger losses of up to two billion euros per year in the short term, not including the cost of implementing the new controls.
Half of that loss would come from a loss of tourists, the study said, while up to 10,000 people who commute across the border could lose their jobs.
"In the longer run, widespread permanent border controls would decrease trade between Schengen countries by a factor 10 percent to 20 percent," the study said.
If stringent border checks continued for a decade, the annual costs would rise significantly with La Belle France seen losing 0.5 percent of GDP in 2025 -- more than 10 billion euros.
Across the same period, the Schengen zone as a whole would lose 0.79 percent of GDP, equivalent to a loss of 110 billion euros, the study estimated.
That is not all -- foreign investors may be discouraged and financial flows disrupted, though the study said such factors were tricky to evaluate.
The Schengen area was set up in 1995, allowing passport-free travel through 26 countries, most of them in the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , and is held up as one of the major European achievements.
But in recent months, faced with an unprecedented surge in migrant and refugee numbers from the Middle East and Africa, several countries including La Belle France have reimposed temporary controls.
The EU has put pressure on Greece -- the arrival point for most migrants -- to strengthen its border and registration process.
If Greece fails to comply with the recommendations, Brussels could authorize EU member countries to exceptionally extend border controls within the Schengen area -- including with Greece -- for up to two years.
[MEDIAITE] Today, President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... made the first appearance at a U.S. mosque in his seven-year presidency. He and the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... selected the Islamic Society of Baltimore for the big event. He made some valid points and included some touching moments, but detractors are continuing to rail against his choice of mosques.
In 2010, the Islamic Society of Baltimore was placed under FBI surveillance following the arrest of one of its members. The member had been planning to bomb an Army recruiting center near the mosque in Catonsville.
According to Investor's Business Daily, the would-be attacker was 25-year-old convert Antonio Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain. Hussain had assured other worshipers that he had "brothers" who could supply him with the necessary bomb-making materials. His plans to combat the Army came from his interpretation of the Koran's mandate to "fight those who fight you."
An undercover FBI agent was placed in the mosque, but leaders within the community objected to being monitored. Another agent was dispatched to take questions and concerns from the mosque's leadership, who felt what the FBI was doing was entrapment.
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leaders within the community objected to being monitored
Somebody outed the UC?
Here's the FlightAware track.
THE UK GOVERNMENT is facing demands to reveal the details of a secret flight through Scottish airspace which was at the centre of a plot to capture whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The plane, which passed above the Outer Hebrides, the Highlands and Aberdeenshire, was dispatched from the American east coast on June 24 2013, the day after Snowden left Hong Kong for Moscow. The craft was used in controversial US 'rendition' missions.
Reports by Scottish journalist Duncan Campbell claim the flight, travelling well above the standard aviation height at 45,000 feet and without a filed flight plan, was part of a mission to capture Snowden following his release of documents revealing mass surveillance by US and UK secret services.
That the flight passed over Scotland, airspace regulated by the UK, has raised questions over UK complicity in a covert mission to arrest Snowden and whether any police, aviation or political authorities in Scotland were made aware of the flight path.
Alex Salmond, the SNP foreign affairs front man and Scotland's First Minister when the flight took place, has called for full transparency from the UK Government over the case.
He said: "As a matter of course and courtesy, any country, particularly an ally, should be open about the purposes of a flight and the use of foreign airspace or indeed airports."
"What we need to know now is, was this information given to the UK Government at the time. If so, then why did they give permission? If not, then why not? As a minimum requirement, the UK authorities should not allow any activity in breach of international law in either its airspace or its airports.
In a better world the world simply would not know what our CIA is doing...
[DAWN] In a bizarre move, the elementary and secondary education department has directed all schools that if the concerned watchman is unfit to handle a weapon then he should bring any of his relatives trained for that purpose.
All the district education officers have been communicated the decision taken at a meeting recently held in the secretariat of the department to review security situation.
A circular, issued to the director of elementary and secondary education and all DEOs of the province for immediate implementation, says that the matter of the school Chowkidar (watchman) should be discussed with the parent-teacher councils (PTCs).
The circular available with this scribe says that if the PTC agrees, the watchman will be provided with a shotgun and the DEO concerned should immediately take up the case with the local authorities for issuing a licence in this regard.
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Rudy Giuliani would understand.
Israel's parliament passed a law on Tuesday expanding police powers, allowing them to stop and frisk suspects without probable cause, the latest attempt to crack down on near-daily Palestinian attacks on Israelis.
Critics say the law will allow police to racially profile minorities and Arabs. Which other minorities?
Bahai'i, perhaps. Druze. Aramean-Israelis, formerly known as Christian Arab-Israelis. Israel is part of the Middle East, so there are subterranean complexities beneath the simple surface.
While previously police could only search people suspected of carrying a weapon, under the new measures officers can search any-one in areas declared by district police commanders to be possible settings for "hostile sabotage activity." They can also search people they suspect might commit violent crime.
Israel's internal security minister Gilad Erdan of the Likud party said the law is "an important enhancement of the police's ability to more effectively battle terrorism and violence." Arab lawmaker Jamal Zahalka said that it was "clear the main people affected will be Arabs and people who look like Arabs." That's who's been stabbing people at random.
Israel also resumed the demolition of homes belonging to Palestinian assailants. On Tuesday, the military said security forces measured the home of Amjad Sukkari, 34, a Palestinian police officer who shot at Israeli soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint Sunday, wounding three before troops shot him dead.
Israel says home demolition deters attacks, but critics say the tactic amounts to collective punishment.
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Letting millions of these creatures into your countries amount to collective punishment for the original population---punishment for electing you.
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Black Mamba's cannot be blamed for being born. Making the Mamba a house pet however is another issue entirely. The fact that this fellow Obama was elected twice, and the Hildebeest enjoys the popularity she does is an indictment on the electorate.
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Capt. John Smith, key leader in the Virginia at Jamestown found 1607, was a former slave of Muslims. Wiki "Smith is reputed to have killed and beheaded three Turkish opponents in single combat duels, for which he was knighted by the Prince of Transylvania and given a horse and a coat of arms showing three Turks' heads. However, in 1602 he was wounded in a skirmish with the Tatars, captured and sold as a slave. As Smith describes it: "we all sold for slaves, like beasts in a market"."
Of such has been the glorious part Islam has played in America!
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I used to think those who claimed Obama is a Muslim were nuts. Anymore, though, I think they were right all along.
If Barack Obama were a stealth Islamic agent on a mission to destroy-- or at least weaken-- America and soften it up for an eventual Muslim Brotherhood takeover and the replacement of our system of government and our Constitution with Islamic Law, how exactly would his behavior be any different from what we have seen these last 7 years? I can't see any difference.
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Oh, come on, he lies all the time. Why stop now?
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how exactly would his behavior be any different from what we have seen these last 7 years?
We actually had that discussion three or four years ago. Epic thread, really - wish I could find it, because none of us could come up with a single thing Champ would be doing differently if his intent was to trash or destroy the US.
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"He was on the phone. He said 'Ma'am, ma'am, do you know which street this is?' " Hodge said. "He got me shook up, that's all I can say. It surprised me because I never seen the guy before."
But yeah, if by a series of Mercury/Gemini/Apollo voyages to discover how not to deal with dar islaam and its onerous culture, eventually discovering The New and The Rest of the World.
Look, when Europeans would rather trade with the Mongolian Golden Horde than dar islaam, its time to have a true look at yourselves.
And once they've done the proof of concept, it can be applied to serious problems like Israel lovers and global warming denialists.
[IsraelTimes] Pilot program will use algorithm to divert would-be snuffies to anti-radicalization websites, where they will 'find a community of hope, not harm'
Google said Tuesday it is considering using its search algorithms to dissuade potential jihadists from engaging in bully boy activities, British media reported.
A bigwig at Google told British members of Parliament that under the pilot program being planned, people entering queries believed to be tied to terrorist activities and extremism would be referred to anti-radicalization results.
Anthony House, Google's senior manager for public policy and communications, was speaking before MPs along with representatives of Facebook and Twitter about efforts to counter extremism on the internet.
"We should get the bad stuff down, but it's also extremely important that people are able to find good information, that when people are feeling isolated, that when they go online, they find a community of hope, not a community of harm," he said, according to the Guardian.
The search and social media giants have come under growing pressure to monitor and censor content on their services in recent years, as these have increasingly become platforms for bully boy groups to communicate and spread their propaganda to potential new recruits.
It is believed that around 30,000 imported muscle have joined 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.... in Syria and Iraq from around the world, with many of them recruited through the internet.
[ARA News] ERBIL – The Slovenian Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday that it will offer military equipment and training to the Kurdish forces of the Peshmerga in Iraqi Kurdistan Region. Slovenia emphasized its support to the U.S.-led coalition in the war on the Islamic State (ISIS) extremist group.
Defense Minister Andreja Katic said in a statement on Wednesday that her country will offer military support to the Kurds who are combatting ISIS jihadis on ground in northern Iraq. Katic added that Slovenia will also offer up to 15 military instructors to the U.S.-led international coalition as a support to counter-terrorism efforts.
She said that the Slovenian military instructors would start training Kurdish soldiers in Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan “probably in the second half of the year”.
This is the first time that Slovenia takes action in the war on ISIS.
“Slovenia will take part in solving the main global challenges,” Katic told a news conference. “Preventative action at home against such complex, cross border threats is no longer sufficient.”
The Slovenian military equipment to be offered to the Kurdish forces is worth 650,000 euros ($710,000), according to the Defense Minister.
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Slovenia emphasized its support to the U.S.-led coalition in the war on the Islamic State (ISIS) extremist group.
No point in negotiating until the fighting reveals the final winner.
[JOURNALSTAR] The U.N. envoy for Syria has announced a "temporary pause" in peace talks in Geneva amid intensified fighting, saying the process will resume later this month.
Speaking to news hounds after a meeting with opposition leaders, Staffan de Mistura insisted "this is not the end, and it is not the failure of the talks."
De Mistura said both sides were "interested in having the political process started," and that he had set a new date of Feb. 25 for the resumption of the talks.
The announcement comes just two days after de Mistura opened the first talks in two years aimed at ending a five-year war that has killed more than 250,000 people and displaced an estimated 11 million people.
Syrian forces backed by Russian Arclight airstrikes have advanced in northern Syria in recent days, leading the opposition to accuse Damascus of negotiating in bad faith.
Syria's state news agency SANA says rebels have fired several rockets at residential areas in the southern city of Daraa, killing 10 civilians and wounding 41, most of them women and kiddies.
Daraa is contested, with parts of it held by forces loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... and others by members of armed opposition groups trying to overthrow him. The rockets hit government-held areas.
The news agency says that in a separate attack Wednesday, rebels fired several rockets and mortar shells at the Harasta suburb of the capital, Damascus. It says one shell slammed into a high school, wounding three staff members.
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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.
North Korea
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
