Kabul city has been without power for 13 days - almost two weeks that Afghan security forces have been trying to push back Taliban militants from the area where they blew up a power pylon. Officials from Da Breshna Sherkat (DABS) said that they do not know when they will be able to rebuild the pylon.
"I don't know when the power will be restored. Security forces should specify the time when they will allow us to rebuild the pylon," said Wahidullah Tawhidi, spokesman for DABS. He added that security forces have made no progress in the past 12 days in securing the area.
The Deputy Chief of Army Staff, General Murad Ali Murad, a few days ago assured people that power will be restored within two days.
This electricity outage has also inflicted losses for manufacturing companies.
"Production of oxygen is very important for hospitals and nitrogen is also important. However, the electricity outage has affected our activity," said Fahim, a worker at Maihandost oxygen manufacturing plant.
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Somali authorities arrested two employees of the Mogadishu airport in connection with an explosion on board a Somalian passenger plane caused by a bomb, a spokesman for the Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke said.
You knew that the bad guy on the plane had to have had help...
On Tuesday, a blast tore a hole in the side of the Airbus A321, belonging to the Dubai-based Daallo Airlines, minutes after it took off from the Mogadishu airport to fly to Djibouti.
“There is a CC video showing 2 terror suspects hiding a laptop #Somalia,” Abdisalam Aato wrote in his official Twitter account on Saturday.
The video released by Somali intelligence services showed the laptop, believed to have contained a bomb, had been taken by an only victim of the blast, Abdullahi Abdisalam Borleh, who was sucked out of the plane from the gash in the fuselage.
Seems to me there are two more guys who should take a flight without wings...
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Riyadh- A seminar at the Saudi 30TH Janadriyah festival on Sunday has dealt with the “decisive storm” and the geopolitical changes happening in the region. The seminar was held at the King Faisal Conference Hall in Riyadh. It highlighted the Iranian greed spreading into the region and how the Saudi-led Arab coalition has confronted it in an effort to keep Iran from being left alone with Yemen.
. Najeeb Ghallab, Head of Aljazeera Alarabiyah Center for Studies and Research forum, pointed out that Iran has proceeded with its plans based on a miscalculation. It has depended on the Zaidiyyah Shi’ite sect to help in taking over Yemen as a whole. Iran has skipped the day on the differences on perception in “Fiqh” (Islamic divine law) between Houthis and the Zaidiyyis, and has attempted to yield a political and religious state designed with a specific ideology. Iran has also taken advantage of the Yemeni deepened strife on the presidential institution to plant Houthi militias for the Iranian ideology to be implemented.
Ghallab explained that the six wars waged by Houthis against the Yemeni Legitimate government, have changed the political parties’ definition of the group. Their insurgency sparked in the Saada Governorate then spread towards Zaidiyyah inhabited regions after their Coup d’état.
Moreover, Ghallab confirmed that Houthi militia has managed to infiltrate into the Yemeni Left and the precedent government. He also mentioned that Houthis have taken part in 2011in the rebellion against the now-ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Moreover, political parties have accepted the Houthis as a basic component of Yemen’s make-up, and have integrated them to all the deliberations regarding the political process, despite that they have refused the Gulf initiative and announced going forth with the insurgency against President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
Houthi militia had struck under-the-table deals with all parties, who had believed that the militia would benefit them with terminating the 30 year-old Saleh corrupt remnants from the country, and launch a new unsoiled rule. However, an Iranian cell organization had planned for the Houthis something more, the political parties were not aware of their true intentions that showed up after the insurgency. The group flashed its vicious truth.
Ghallab also mentioned that the Iranians created a system for the Houthis comprised of vulnerable institutions that are led by insurgent committees which control all the vectors of the government and manipulate the ministers. Yemen as a whole was turned into a hostage in the hands of a Supreme Leader who dubs himself great. Khamenei had attempted to include Yemen to his Wilayat al Faqih propaganda until the process was obstructed by the Decisive Storm.
The conspiracy, before the Decisive Storm, had planned for Yemen to become the center for launching wars against the Arabs after it was transformed to an Iranian colony head by gangs. Yemen was set to become a replica to Iran, which would be considered the greatest victory in the history of the Iranian revolution.
The Yemeni people have sensed danger after the insurgency, and now welcome the Decisive Storm, and back the spent efforts for the reinstatement of legitimate governmental institutions, putting them into effect again.
On the other hand, Moroccan expert, Dr. Abd al-Haq Azoozi , said that the Arabs should take a serious look into fixing the Arab League. This case is a corner stone to all priorities, and a preliminary principal to all sessions held to remove all the harm inflicted on the Arab world.
Recent Arab awareness, a real story, which is supported by the positive Arab coalition in Yemen is a manifest of political sciences and international relations.
[RFE/RL] Russian state television plans to broadcast a documentary this week alleging that Chechen forces loyal to the Kremlin are on the ground in Syria.
A preview for the documentary to be broadcast on February 10 quotes Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov as saying Chechen agents are gathering military intelligence inside Daesh-controlled territory and have also infiltrated the ranks of the group. It showed a training camp in Chechnya, where it said soldiers now in Syria had been trained.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to confirm the report.
Greece's defense minister has said he wants an agreement with neighboring Turkey that would allow the European Union's Frontex border agency to stop and turn back - within Turkish waters - boats carrying migrants to the Greek islands.
I'll bet he did. And I'll bet the Turks said 'no'...
Panos Kammenos said Monday that he has already made the proposal to his EU colleagues, who "showed great interest," and will raise the matter with NATO officials.
He said Greek authorities are in a position to locate smugglers boats as they leave the nearby Turkish coast and alert Frontex, and the Turkish coast guard. Kammenos said this would "stop the great migratory flow to Greece" and stop deaths of migrants and refugees trying to reach Greece in rickety boats.
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Greeks suggesting that NATO blockade the Turkish coast?
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Monday there was a possibility that 600,000 refugees would soon arrive at the Turkish border, Anadolu Agency reported.
Might be true, or he might be squeezing the EU for a few billion more Euros...
“It is estimated that a wave of 600,000 refugees may come to the Turkish border soon in a worst case scenario,” he said. “Our first goal is to host these refugees outside of Turkey.”
Earlier Monday, the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Germany and Turkey had taken in most refugees from the Syrian crisis, with Turkey now hosting more than 2.5 million Syrians. Germany took in 1.1 million refugees last year, the most of any EU nation.
Last week, the EU approved a 3 billion euro ($3.33 billion) aid package for Turkey to help care for the world’s largest refugee population.
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ION NOT-1970's-SCHOOLHOUSE-ROCK "No. 6" News ...
* WORLD NEWS > "ISIS DEPLOYED 60 JIHADIS [60-90] TO EUROPE TO ATTACK FIVE CITIES", before the recent Paris attack.
CNN AM = MAJOR "EURO/EUROPEAN 9-11" Event may loom on the nwear-horizon for the EU.
VERSUS
* JAPAN TIMES > ISLAMIC STATE [ISIS/ISIL/Daesh] BENT ON ARRANGING ATTACK(S) IN US THIS YEAR [2016]: TOP US INTELLIGENCE CHIEFS WARN.
Anti-US Caliphate-happy ISIS/ISIL = Anti-US OWG Par Co-Superpowers CHINA, IRAN, + RUSSIA, OTHER? to come = pragmatically behooves them to make their MilPol or Geopol moves while ANti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama, aka the Pert, MSM-Net verified Weakest or Worst US POTUS in US History or since Jimmy Carter, STILL occupies the WH or OVal Office in 2016 thru Jan. 2017, + STILL sits atop the US National Command Authority responsible for the US' Direct Military Response [DMR] to any US-World Crisis or Crises, OR IN ALTERNATE THE LACK OF SAME.
The Bammer as above PCorrectly-Deniably gave CHINA what it wanted in the SCS, so why not ditto in the ECS agz US Regional Allies Japan, Taiwan, + SOKOR; + also as per Russia, Iran, + now the ISIS/ISIL including Al-Nusra???
* E.G. INTERNATIONAL_BUSINESS_DAILY@TWITTER > 2008 POTUS CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA SAW IRAN + NORTH KOREA AS TWO INDIFFERENT NUCLEAR THREATS HIS DIPLOAMCY COULD RESOLVE OR END - BOTH HAVE BECOME WORSE THAN EVER | NUCLEAR NORTH KOREA WORSE, IRAN STILL NOT SOLVED.
* WORLD NEWS > CLAPPER: CHINA TO KEEP PUSHING ILLEGAL SOUTH CHINA SEA BOUNDARIES | CHINA TO KEEP BUILDING ON ARTIFICIAL ISLANDS.
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [UPI] MULITPLE CHINESE SHIPS SAIL NEAR JAPAN'S WATERS.
"US-style/par" OWG Co-Superpower CHINA wants its "Sole" Leadership of East Asia-Pacific/ WESTPAC, intact, + also wants its unchallengeable or unopposed strategic access + overseas Milbases for the PLA for the projection of Chinese power, + ISN'T TAKING "NO" FOR AN ANSWER FROM EITHER THE US = POTUS OBAMA, NOR FROM US REGIONAL ALLIES IN EAST ASIA.
PRAY HARD + KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED THAT OBAMA-APPOINTED NIPPON AMB. SWEET CAROLINE KENNEDY IS UP TO HER JOB DESCRIPTION AS PER PREVENTING CHINA-VS-JAPAN [China-vs-US?] WAR.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday Canada would pull out six jets that have been bombing targets in Iraq and Syria, ending Canada's controversial combat role in the effort against Islamic State.
Canada will end its bombing missions by Feb. 22 but keep two surveillance planes in the region as well as refueling aircraft, and triple the number of soldiers training Kurdish troops in northern Iraq to about 200, from about 70 currently, the government said.
"In any mission, you need to make choices. We can't do everything. In our decision, we were guided by our desire to do what we could do best to help in the region and to do it in the right way," Trudeau said during a news conference.
"The people terrorized by ISIL every day don't need our vengeance, they need our help."
You help them by killing the people who would kill them, Mr. Trudeau...
Trudeau won an election last October promising to pull out six jets that have been bombing targets in Iraq and Syria but had been under pressure from allies unhappy with the decision.
He said Canada would keep two Aurora surveillance planes in the region, as well as a refueling aircraft.
Trudeau made the promise to end his country's combat role shortly after being elected, but a recent poll showed that some two-thirds of Canadians support the Arclight airstrikes, or even want them expanded, after "IS"-inspired attacks in Jakarta and Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... killed seven Canadian nationals last month.
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[DAWN] The Milli Yakjehti Council has criticised the Sindh government's move to formulate Friday sermons for all mosques in the province, saying that "idealising 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... over this issue was not correct".
Addressing a presser on Monday, Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... 's Prof Ibrahim Khan, head of the council's 'Khutbat-e-Juma commission', said the government could not dictate the holy mans over what to say or not to say in Friday sermons.
"This is not the right way," he said. "The government should seek guidance from the Learned Elders of Islam to implement Sharia in the country... ."
Prof Khan said that no government should dictate holy mans.
The commission was formed by the council to promote sectarian harmony and members of several religious parties are its part.
Replying to a question about incidents in the federal capital where the authorities shut down mobile phone service to prevent a holy man from delivering a fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... Friday sermon, Prof Khan claimed that the step was taken on the basis of assumptions and over the conduct of one individual.
"Whatever is happening in Islamabad is a result of flawed government policies," he said.
"This system of forcing their voice and opinions through us is not fair."
He said this was a way to "manipulate their politics through the mosques. If a holy man doesn't abide by it, then the government can use the law against him for not reciting the 'certified' khutba".
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: A special investigation team set up in Pakistain to probe a deadly assault on an Indian airbase last month found no evidence implicating the leader of the group India blamed for the attack, Pak security officials said on Monday.
The officials said the team interrogated Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azhar ...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his terrorist activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included the release of Masood Azhar among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India... and his associates and found no evidence linking him with the Jan 2 attack on the Pathankot airbase in northern India that killed seven Indian military personnel.
"We searched their homes, seminaries, hideouts and also examined their call records for past three months and found nothing dubious," a security official with links to the investigating team said.
The raid on the airbase stalled efforts to revive talks between the neighbours after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an unscheduled visit to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... in December.
A front man for India's foreign ministry declined to comment on reports of the special investigation team's findings.
In January, authorities detained Maulana Azhar and several members of JeM, sealed offices belonging to the outfit, and shut down several religious schools run by the group.
The security officials said on Monday that Maulana Azhar remained in jug, but did not say whether authorities were considering his release.
The investigating team has not ruled out the possibility that other members of JeM may have been involved, the officials said.
It also continued to look into groups affiliated with the United Jihad Council, an alliance of pro-Pakistain bully boy groups based in Azad Kashmire that grabbed credit for the assault in Pathankot.
Jaish-e-Mohammad did not claim responsibility for the attack, but praised it in a statement released a few days after the incident.
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[Daily Excelsior] Pak-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, a key LeT operative, today illustrated how his outfit had planned the 26/11 attacks and executed it after two failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! s and gave details of the role played by ISI whose three officials he named.
Headley, who is serving 35-year prison sentence in the US for his role in the Mumbai attacks, spoke about the role of LeT founder Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... , another LeT commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi as well as his handler in the outfit Sajid Mir.
He gave the sequence of events leading up to the November 26, 2008 assault as he deposed before Special Judge GA Sanap via video link, in the first such case of deposition in an Indian court from foreign land.
The 55-year-old, who has turned approver in the case, revealed details about his training by LeT in Pakistain-Indian Kashmiree (PoK) and Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... near Islamabad under the guidance of LeT founder "Hafiz Saeed sahab", whose picture he identified in the court, as also Lakhvi, and how he got in touch with three officers of Pakistain's ISI -- Major Ali and Major Iqbal and Major Abdul Rehman Pasha.
Headley told the court that he had changed his name from the original Dawood Gilani after instructions from the LeT commanders, including Lakhvi, and ISI officials to carry out recce in India for an attack, an "adventurous" task for him.
He also revealed that the 10 terrorists, who struck at various places in Mumbai on November 26, 2008 killing 166 people, had planned to carry out the attack twice earlier -- in September and October -- but the attempts failed. Once their boat hit a rock in the seas, because of which they lost all the arms and ammunition and had to go back to Pakistain.
"I used to treat India as my enemy. Hafiz Saeed and LeT operative Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi also saw India as their enemy," he said in his deposition which began at 7 AM.
He said he had joined the LeT after getting "influenced and motivated" by the speeches of "Hafiz Saeed Sahab".
Headley, who described himself as a "true follower of LeT, said he took his first "course" with the outfit in 2002 at Muzaffarabad and had also attended a 'leadership course' which was led by Saeed and Lakhvi.
He said he underwent 5-6 training courses in LeT camps for about two years. "Daura-e-sufa is a study course and is held in Muridke in Lahore while 'Daura-e-aam' is a preliminary military training course held in Muzaffarabad in 'Azad Kashmire' (PoK)," Headley said.
In 'Daura-e-Khas, which is a more advanced training, he was taught to handle weapons, arms, explosives and ammunition, the LeT operative said.
He said he was also given 'Daura-e-Ribat' training, an intelligence course in which setting up of safe houses and reconnaissance are taught. The center where it is taught is in Mansera, 40 miles from Abbottabad, a place in Pakistain where former Al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no longer with us, and won't be again... was killed by the US.
Headley said he had wanted go to Kashmire and fight Indian troops but he was told that he was "too old" for that. "Lakhvi told me that they would use me for some other purpose," he said, adding it was to be more "adventurous" than Kashmire.
Talking about his travels to India, Headley said, "Before the first visit here, Sajid Mir (his LeT handler and an accused in the case) gave me instructions to make a general video of Mumbai."
He said he visited Mumbai seven times before the 2008 terror attack and Delhi once after the attack in March 2009.
To enter India, he said he changed his name from Dawood Gilani to David Headley in 2006 so that he could travel here with an American identity and set up some business.
"I applied for change in name on February 5, 2006 in Philadelphia. I changed my name to David Headley to get a new passport under that name. I wanted a new passport so that I could enter India with an American identity.
"After I got a new passport, I disclosed it to my colleagues in LeT of which one of them was Sajid Mir, the person with whom I was dealing with. The objective for coming to India was to set up an office/business so that I can live in India," he said.
Headley said he had applied for business multiple-entry visa with the Indian embassy so that he does not have to apply for Indian visa repeatedly.
"My office was established in Mumbai so that I could take cover in India," Headley told the court, adding he wanted the cover so that his real identity would not be known.
He said while applying for the Indian visa, he cooked up a story that he was an immigration consultant and had furnished all wrong information to protect his cover.
"I had discussed it (cover story) with Sajid Mir and Major Iqbal of ISI, and they were very happy to see my Indian visa," Headley told the court.
He said he knew Major Iqbal of ISI and had met him in Lahore after one Major Ali (also from ISI) introduced him to the former.
Special prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, who examined Headley and will do so again tomorrow, said, "I am absolutely satisfied with what Headley had revealed in today's deposition. Headley has given certain sensational revelations during his deposition. He confirmed that he met Hafiz Saeed and he identified his picture as well."
He said, "He (Headley) revealed a lot about Major Iqbal and Major Ali, both of them were there in ISI. It was Major Iqbal who trained him and he also unravelled names of few LeT trainers before the court."
Nikam said Headley had "joined a leadership course where both Sayeed and Lakhvi used to come and give speeches against India. He completed his education from Hasan Abdal Cadet College in Pakistain but left for America at the age of 17."
Headley's lawyer's Mahesh Jethmalini said he has confessed that he had joined LeT after being influenced by Hafiz Saeed.
Headley wanted to fight actively in Kashmire against the Indian Army but LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi ...an asset of the Pak govt and a big turban in Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is actually a redundant statement. Zak was the criminal mastermind behind the 2008 Mumbai attack. Despite what India's provided there is not enough evidence in this world for a Pak court to convict him or even to keep him in the calaboose for very long... stopped him, saying something more "adventurous" was in store for him.
Giving details about the deposition of Headley which began at 7 AM here, Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told news hounds here that the terrorist said he wanted to fight against the Army deployed in Kashmire.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... Lahvi told Headley that they have something "more adventurous" for him.
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Headley is also linked to Fort Hood shooter MAJOR HASAN, as well as ABU MUSAB ZARQHAWI.
A heavy police presence, guarded convoys, new checkpoints and troop reinforcements have turned parts of the southern port city of Gwadar into a fortress, as Pakistan's powerful military seeks to protect billions of dollars of Chinese investment.
Securing the planned $46 billion economic corridor of roads, railways and pipelines from northwest China to Pakistan's Arabian Sea coast is a huge challenge in a country where Islamist militants and separatist gunmen are a constant menace.
On a recent visit, an SUV carrying Chinese visitors was escorted by two police cars and an army vehicle, while police blocked traffic at every crossroad along the route. It was not clear who the passengers were.
"We consider the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor as ... an occupation of Baluch territory," said rebel spokesman Miran Baluch, a member of the Baluchistan Liberation Front (BLF), adding its fighters would attack anyone working on the project.
"Thousands of Baluch families have been forced to flee the area where the CPEC route is planned. (The) Baluch (people) will not tolerate such projects on their land."
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Yuuup.
* "An occupation of Baluch territory" > which islamabad = Pakistan deems to be better than seeing Pakistan lose Baluchistan to independence, or worse to Afghanistan as Kabul's "Road/Path/
Corridor to the Sea" [maritime trade] + Afghan National Prosperity [also read, US SUCCESS].
[IsraelTimes]Gazoo's terrorist rulers said to be getting money and guns in return for treating maimed jihadists smuggled in via tunnels
The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group is allowing 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.... fighters from Sinai to be treated in Gazoo Strip hospitals in exchange for weapons and money, an Israeli general told a Saudi-owned news outlet on Monday.
The IS operatives enter the Gazoo Strip through tunnels from Egypt and receive medical treatment at Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, according to Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the head of Israel's Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories unit.
In exchange, the Islamic State supplies Gazoo's terrorist rulers with money and weapons, both of which the terrorist group has been lacking since Egypt began cracking down on the tunnels Hamas had been using for its lucrative commercial trade, the Elaph news site said.
Though Israeli officials have noted the growing relationship between terror groups in the Gazoo Strip and terror groups in the Sinai Peninsula, most have been reticent about the exact nature of the relationship.
The relatively small Islamic State contingent in Sinai -- approximately 500 fighters in all -- has nevertheless put up a considerable fight against Egyptian forces, with regular shooting and boom-mobileing attacks on military bases and cop shoppes.
Gazoo's Hamas-run Health Ministry denied the allegation, in a statement posted on Facebook, calling Mordechai's claim "completely baseless."
"Paleostinian government hospitals only receive the sick and maimed residents of the Gazoo Strip," Dr. Ashraf al-Qudra, front man for the ministry, said.
The relatively small Islamic State contingent in Sinai -- approximately 500 fighters in all -- has nevertheless put up a considerable fight against Egyptian forces, with regular shooting and boom-mobileing attacks on military bases and cop shoppes.
Israel has not taken a role in the fight, but the IDF has provided intelligence to Egyptian forces, according to military sources.
Egpyt, meanwhile, has reportedly helped Israel in the fight against Hamas by flooding the tunnels used by the terror group for both commercial and military purposes. According to Energy Minster Yuval Steinitz, speaking on Saturday, this was done at Israel's request.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... Egypt has denied this. A bigwig in the Egyptian foreign ministry called the Israeli ambassador in Cairo, Haim Koren, to voice his objection to Steinitz's remarks, the London-based news site al-Araby al-Jadeed reported.
On Monday, a Paleostinian man died when a tunnel collapsed on him in the latest in a series of fatal Gazoo tunnel collapses. The 24-year-old man had been repairing the tunnel, which had been damaged by the Egyptian military, according to local reports.
Since September last year, the Egyptian military has periodically pumped sea water into the underground cross-border tunnels dug between its Sinai Peninsula and the Gazoo Strip in a campaign to stamp out smuggling.
Past weeks have seen at least five separate tunnel collapses in the Gazoo Strip, according to Paleostinian reports, and Tuesday's incident marks the tenth death. In the previous cave-ins, the victims were identified as members of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the Islamist group that rules the Paleostinian enclave.
A Hamas spokesman denies they're helping the wounded of IS in the Sinai, according to Ynet, and says Israel is only saying so to be mean.
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Hamas almost certainly has a 'don't help ISIS' policy but that won't keep individual Gazans, including those who are nominally Hamas, from helping their co-believers out on occasion.
Of course ISIS is more likely to execute a wounded Hamas fighter than to give them medical care.
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[Hot Air] Curious indeed. Didn't John Kerry assure us that Tehran had negotiated the nuclear-technology agreement in reasonably good faith? Stratfor's analysis of satellite imagery of the Parchin site, which was a hub of activity for Iran's development of nuclear weapons, has had a facelift of sorts in recent months. And there appears to be a new tunnel leading to .... what, exactly? A hydroponic farm?
Satellite imagery provided by our partners at AllSource Analysis gives a clear picture of the dual nature of Iran's approach to its nuclear program throughout its negotiations with the West. The pictures of the Parchin Military Complex, taken in July 2010 and January 2016, respectively, show how Tehran removed potentially incriminating traces of activity at the site while talks were ongoing. It also constructed an underground facility within the complex, where research and weapons development could be concealed. ...
Based on the images, it is clear that Iran began making an effort to scrub the site clean in 2012, as talks with the West began to show more potential. It removed layers of soil and foliage that could have contained evidence of its previous activities well before inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived in September 2015, and covered large areas with concrete. Tehran also insisted that Iranian personnel, rather than IAEA experts, collect the test samples required for the inspection. However, the IAEA insists that this process was subject to rigid oversight, and the organization found no incriminating evidence against Iran during its visit to Parchin, though this was likely in part due to the recent renovations and the lack of equipment left in the high explosives test building.
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The only effect of the agreement was that they have a LOT more money to work with.
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A success for ValJar, Obama, and Kerry
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Yes, but the currency is new money with the tracking stripe.
[AnNahar] Rebels in northern Syria were under attack on multiple fronts Monday from Russian-backed regime forces, advancing Kurdish militia and 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 jihadists.
One week into an assault on opposition-held areas of Aleppo province that has caused tens of thousands to flee, troops loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... have seized a string of villages.
Aided by Russian air strikes and allied militia including Leb's Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... , regime troops are now around 20 kilometers (14 miles) from the Turkish frontier.
"It's the first time since 2013 that the Syrian regime has been this close to the Turkish border in Aleppo province," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitor.
Opposition fighters are now squeezed "between the pincers of the army, which is pushing north, Kurdish forces coming from the west, and IS which dominates the east," he said.
The regime offensive, one of the largest yet in the north, has cut a major rebel supply route out of Aleppo city.
Regime forces now have their sights set on taking Tal Rifaat, one of three remaining rebel bastions north of Aleppo city.
With their capture of the village of Kafeen late Sunday, government troops are stationed only five kilometers (three miles) south of Tal Rifaat.
A rebel front man blamed the losses of villages in Aleppo province on the lack of support from regional powers opposed to Assad.
"The difference between them and us, it's that we don't benefit from the help of our allies, while the regime gets all sort of support from its allies," said Haitham Hammo, a front man for Jabha Shamiya (Levant Front).
"This means the areas held by the revolutionaries are collapsing," he told AFP.
Since fighting intensified there in 2012, Aleppo province has been transformed into a patchwork of territories held by the government, rebels, Kurds, and jihadists.
In the province's north, opposition fighters are centered in three main strongholds: Tal Rifaat, Marea -- under attack by IS -- and Azaz, which lies five kilometers from the Turkish border.
All three towns fell to opposition fighters in 2012, just a year after the popular uprising against Assad's rule erupted.
But in recent weeks, developments around Syria's second city Aleppo have put serious pressure on rebels there.
On Sunday night, Kurdish fighters took control of three villages east of Afrin after festivities with rebels, who were urged to leave by residents to avoid Russian air strikes, Abdel Rahman said.
The Kurds are one of the most powerful fighting forces on the ground in Syria and have scored significant victories against IS.
About 350,000 civilians are now stuck in the opposition-held eastern parts of Aleppo city, bombarded daily by government forces.
On Monday, 10 non-combatants were killed in an air strike on the rebel-held Salhin neighborhood of the city, according to the Observatory.
With the city nearly completely surrounded, the fear is that residents of opposition-held areas will face severe shortages of basic goods.
"What peace negotiations are they talking about when the regime is transforming the people here into human remains?" said Abu Ahmad, a resident of Aleppo.
Peace talks in Geneva quickly collapsed last week amid rebel anger over the government offensive.
Further north in the Shiite villages of Nubol and Zahraa, where regime forces recently broke a three-year rebel siege, steady transport routes with Damascus have finally resumed, an AFP journalist said.
Three people were killed there Monday when rebels nearby fired rockets into the villages, according to the Observatory.
If rebels lose Aleppo, it would be a major turning point in the nearly five-year war, which has left more than 260,000 people dead.
In Damascus province, regime forces began a siege of the rebel bastion of Daraya over the weekend, prompting the opposition National Coalition to warn Monday of an "imminent massacre".
There will be no reestablishing sanctions, exactly as Prsident Obama planned.
[IsraelTimes] French carmaker agrees to Tehran's terms in bid to return to its second-largest pre-sanctions market
French carmaker Peugeot is to provide Iran Khodro with 427 million euros ($475 million) in debt waivers, bonuses and discounts under their first post-sanctions deal, the Iranian manufacturer said Sunday.
Iran Khodro signed a deal with Peugeot during President Hassan Rouhani's trip to La Belle France last month to form a joint venture that is expected to invest up to 400 million euros ($436 million) over five years.
Peugeot is the first Western carmaker to announce a return to Iran since many economic sanctions against the country were lifted last month upon implementation of a nuclear deal with world powers.
"To compensate for suddenly leaving Iran under sanctions," Iran Khodro CEO Hashem Yekkeh Zare said Sunday, Peugeot has agreed to waive 80 million euros ($89 million) of outstanding debts and provide free car parts worth 25 million euros ($28 million), and a free production line for the Peugeot 207 model worth 11 million euros ($12 million).
Peugeot will also offer 311.6 million euros ($347 million) in discounts, he said, including 140 million euros ($156 million) in royalty fees for cars made under Peugeot's name.
Instead of 100 euros ($111), "Peugeot will receive 30 euros ($33) in royalty for two million cars," Yekkeh Zare said.
As part of last month's deal, Peugeot and its French partner Citroen will work with Iran Khodro to eventually produce 200,000 vehicles a year using parts manufactured in Iran.
The aim is to make the Peugeot 208, the 2008 sport utility vehicle and 301 compact models, with the first vehicles expected to roll off the production line in 2017.
The joint venture will export 30 percent of its production, and the remainder will be sold in the domestic market.
Peugeot front man Olivier Salmon told AFP the deal with Iran Khodro was "a balanced agreement."
"The joint venture that will be established will help to provide vehicles to Iranian customers for sustainable mobility," Peugeot added.
Yekkeh Zare added that talks were under way with Germany's Mercedes Benz and Volkswagen as well as Italian carmaker Fiat.
Iranian conservatives have been critical of Rouhani's government for restoring trade with Peugeot and other foreign firms whose departure under sanctions dealt a blow to the economy, saying the international partners proved themselves unreliable.
But when Peugeot pulled out of Iran in 2012 it was a major loss for the French company as the Islamic republic was its second-largest market, after La Belle France.
With the lifting of the sanctions, Iran has signed a raft of commercial deals, including one to buy 118 Airbus aircraft worth about $25 billion.
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The financial totals read the opposite of the emotionally suggestive title.
Peugeot will install a new production line for free which is in their favour, a majority of the money is made up of accepting $33, as opposed to $111, just for sticking the Peugeot badge on a vehicle already destined to sell.
Waiving a debt of company you want as a partner to deal with it's reasonable practice.
The only real freebie is the spare parts giveaway of $28m
[TIME] The Syrian civil war reached a turning point last week when forces loyal to the regime of president Bashir al-Assad cut a key supply line into rebel-held city of Aleppo, imperiling one of the key strongholds of the nearly five-year-old rebellion.
Further advances by the regime and allied militias could place Aleppo under siege, striking a potentially crushing blow for the insurrection that began a series of unarmed protests against Assad's authoritarian regime in February 2011 and later metastasized into a civil conflict that left more than a quarter million Syrians dead.
The Russian air force, which has supported the regime's offensive against the rebels since October 2015, has intensified Arclight airstrikes in the Aleppo area over the last week. Fearing a siege of the city, tens of thousands of civilians fled Aleppo last week, the latest exodus from a city already devastated by years of shelling, including often indiscriminate bombardment by government forces. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday that as many as 70,000 new refugees are headed toward The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... from Aleppo.
Aleppo was once Syria's largest city and its commercial capital and is now a key redoubt of the mainstream and Salafist tough guys opposed to the regime, the fall of the city could irreversibly alter the dynamics of the war. The rebels' loss of Aleppo would also empower murderous Moslem groups including ISIS, transforming the conflict into a largely binary conflict between the regime and the jihadists.
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As per the MSM-Net, the outcome of the Battle of Aleppo will supposedly reveal Darth Putin's real or true regional intentions = agenda???
* IIRC FARS NEWS AGENCY > TURKEY AND SAUDI ARABIA'S PLANS TO INVADE/INTERVENE IN SYRIA IS ALL ABOUT RUSSIA?
More specifically, the Russo-Iranian Alliance LR or strategic scheme to eventually dominate or control Sunni States in the ME???
The United States welcomes a Saudi offer to deploy special forces to support a possible coalition ground operation inside Syria, the kingdom's foreign minister said Monday. Speaking after a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said any operation would be US-led but that Saudi Arabia would play a leading role.
"The United States government was very supportive and very positive about the kingdom's readiness to provide special forces to the operation in Syria, should the international coalition make a decision to do so," he told reporters.
"So the kingdom will be part of it," he said. "That support came from the White House, it came from the State Department, it was natural for Secretary Kerry to support such a decision."
Jubeir said the idea for a possible ground operation had come from Washington, and said that members of the 65-strong coalition against the Islamic State group would expect the United States to lead it.
And pay for it. And supply the weapons, maintenance, and logistics. And put our boys out in front...
But debate continues in Washington about the advisability and final size of a possible larger ground operation against the hardline group.
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The farce continues.
If they were really interested in defeating ISIS, they'd sit back and let Russia, Iran and the Syria forces do the job.
Former war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, who is currently probing rights abuses in Syria, on Monday backed Russia's air strikes on "terrorist groups" in the war-torn country.
This is not a surprise: now if she were asked about U.S. bombing of the same bad guys, her answer would be different. Of course it would.
"Overall, I think the Russian intervention is a good thing, because finally someone is attacking these terrorist groups," Del Ponte told Swiss public broadcaster RTS, listing the Islamic State group and Al-Nusra among the groups targeted.
But Del Ponte, a member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, quickly added that the Russians apparently "are not distinguishing enough between the terrorists and others, and that is not as good."
Our guys work much harder to do that. Notice she didn't give us any credit...
Her comments came amid international bickering over the Russian air strikes and what role they played in undermining last week's peace talks to end the country's five-year war.
Moscow launched a bombing campaign in Syria last year at the request of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, saying it was targeting the Islamic State group and other Islamist militant organizations. The West has accused Russia of targeting more moderate factions that oppose Assad's regime, and Syrian activists say the strikes have killed civilians, allegations Moscow dismisses as "absurd".
The Rooshun spokes-thug is just being a Rooshun...
UN envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura last week suspended attempts to begin a dialogue between al-Assad's regime and the opposition, as Russia pressed on with its bombing campaign on the ground.
One day after the talks broke down, Russia's defence ministry said that air strikes had hit 875 "terrorist targets" in Syria since the start of the month.
Del Ponte, a 68-year-old Swiss national who came to prominence investigating war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, also touched on another sensitive subject Monday, saying she thought Assad should be included in peace negotiations.
"If you want a ceasefire, if you want peace, you first have to negotiate with the government," she said, pointing out that the late Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic was already under investigation when the US negotiated the 1995 Dayton accord with him that ended Yugoslavia's bloody war.
Look what happened to him, too: died of old age in a hotel prison in the Netherlands while awaiting trial. Pencil-neck watched and learned...
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Moroccan ground forces will reportedly be dispatched to Syria to combat on the side of the Saudi-led combat forces to drive out Islamic States (IS) fighters. Moroccan Arabic daily Assabah Monday quoted Saudi military sources as saying that Morocco will send troops to war-torn Syria to combat on the side of the Saudi-led coalition forces. “Aside from Morocco, Turkey, Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE and Qatar have announced they will send military troops in Syria,” Assabah said in its Monday publication.
Morocco’s involvement has been also confirmed by the US television network CNN which has indicated that Morocco has pledged to take part in Saudi-led operations.
The Moroccan local paper also indicates that a Saudi senior military officer told the American network that the Sunni Gulf giant is planning military drills in the north of the country in the framework of the future operation. Another senior Saudi military officer according to reports said that the future drills will take place in March and around 150,000 soldiers from Saudi Arabia (majority of them), Egypt, Sudan and Jordan are expected to participate.
Morocco has been taking part in air operations in the US-led coalition shelling IS fighters’ positions in Syria.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Greece's defense minister has said he wants an agreement with neighboring Turkey that would allow the European Union's Frontex border agency to stop and turn back - within Turkish waters - boats carrying migrants to the Greek islands.
...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his terrorist activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included the release of Masood Azhar among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...
Headley told the court that he had changed his name from the original Dawood Gilani after instructions from the LeT commanders, including Lakhvi, and ISI officials to carry out recce in India for an attack, an "adventurous" task for him.
He said he was also given 'Daura-e-Ribat' training, an intelligence course in which setting up of safe houses and reconnaissance are taught. The center where it is taught is in Mansera, 40 miles from Abbottabad, a place in Pakistain where former Al Qaeda chief 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
The United States welcomes a Saudi offer to deploy special forces to support a possible coalition ground operation inside Syria, the kingdom's foreign minister said Monday. Speaking after a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said any operation would be US-led but that Saudi Arabia would play a leading role.
Former war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, who is currently probing rights abuses in Syria, on Monday backed Russia's air strikes on "terrorist groups" in the war-torn country.
