[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ministry of Interior says a footage circulating in media which shows police torturing a detainee is two years old and that the perpetrators were detained and trialed.
Najib Danish, spokesperson for the said the footage was horrific and that the Ministry of Interior is very upset about it.
He added that the government is committed to human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... .
"Those coppers were tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! who tortured a member of Taliban," Danish told BBC.
The footage which prompted uproar in social media shows a detainee being dragged by a police vehicle.
It shows another man wearing local clothes but standing among others wearing police uniform forcing the detainee to confess.
Then most of them start beating the detainee.
Rights commission of Afghanistan urged all warring sides to refrain from violating human rights and badly treating the detainees.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A top aide to President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. voiced concerns regarding the growing infiltration by anti-government armed Death Eaters into the government institutions, including the security sectors.
In his remarks during the commemoration of the 5th death anniversary of Mawlana Syed Kheli, the former police chief of Kunduz province, Ahmad Zia Massoud said the anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups have infiltrated in almost all civilian and military institutions of the country in the past 14 years.
He said the Talibs have been freely moving in the past 14 years and establish networks 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.... city and launch widespread political movements in the major cities of the country.
Massoud further added that various groups affiliated with the Taliban group are actively operating in the capital and invite people to the group as well as sending youths to Pakistain for training.
He said the Mujahideen figures are outspread and in a state of confusion as the terrorist groups are moving forward with proper plans and strategies.
Massoud also added that numerous Mujahideen leaders were assassinated during the past 14 years and called on the former jihadi leaders to become united and launch anti-terrorism campaign in a coherent way by uniting the people in a proper political movement.
He called on the High Peace Council and International Community to include and consult with the jiahdi leaders in the grinding of the peace processor with the murderous Moslem groups, insisting the jihadi figures have been an important side of the affairs.
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United Nations agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are frustrating efforts to repatriate Somalia refugees.
Frustration is a U.N. specialty...
Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery yesterday said the refugees were willing to go back to their country but the organisations were frustrating the efforts of transferring them.
“There are big wars there; otherwise many refugees are willing to go back, but the NGOs are not interested because they make a lot of money in the process,” said Mr Nkaisery.
At the same time, the CS said the Government and the Jubaland region administration had identified 1,000 hectares to build a refugee camp inside Somalia.
“The UN and other agencies have set aside Sh10.5 billion for the construction of a refugee camp that can accommodate 50,000 people near Ras Camboni. The building will include schools, health facilities and an airport,” Nkaissery told MPs.
He was responding to a question from Parliament’s Administration and National Security Committee member Mohamed Diriye (Wajir South). He said once the new camp is complete, Kenya will supervise the repatriation of refugees to the new camp.
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Reports reaching us from Lower Jubba region indicate that fresh Kenyan troops have crossed into Somalia, to reinforce KDF fighting against Al shabaab militants. Sources says the KDF backed by armored vehicles and fighter jets stationed at Kenyan army bases in Afmadow, Tabta and Qoqani towns in Lower Jubba region, south Somalia.
Upon their arrival, the Kenyan troops began military movements and surveillance operations on nearby Al shabaab controlled villages, using four warplanes, reports said.
The move comes after as many as 150 Kenyan soldiers serving with the African Union mission in Somalia (AMISOM) were killed in a massive Al shabaab car bomb and gun attack in January 15, 2016.
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A senior al-Shabab commander has made a public appearance to deny claims that he and another group leader were killed in US air strikes last week at a training camp in southern Somalia.
"Lies! All lies!"
Washington said on Monday it had carried out several strikes in Somalia’s Hiiraan region, in which it claimed more than 150 of the al-Qaeda-linked group’s fighters had been killed. Somali officials said later on Monday that five al-Shabab commanders had been killed in Saturday’s attack, including Mohamed Mire, the group’s Hiiraan governor, and Yusuf Ali Ugas, al-Shabab’s former Hiiraan chief.
But Mire appeared on Thursday in the village of Buqa Qabe – in the same province the air strikes took place – to dismiss the claims.
“It is all lies. They said I was among those killed. But I’m here and doing well as you can see,” he told a crowd that had gathered to see the public execution of a man the group accused of being a Somali government soldier.
"No one higher than a number 6 was killed. That's a lieutenant in Stratego!"
“It is all propaganda. America is losing this war and that is why they now have to resort to guerrilla tactic,” Mire added, in reference to a Wednesday morning raid on the town of Awdhegle – 50km south of the capital Mogadishu – by joint US and Somali special forces.
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[ALMANAR.LB] 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... is seeking a bank loan of between $6 billion and $8 billion in what would be the first significant foreign borrowing by the kingdom's government for over a decade.
Riyadh has asked lenders to submit proposals to extend it a five-year US dollar loan of that size, with an option to increase it, in order to help plug a record budget deficit caused by low oil prices.
The sources declined to be named because the matter is not public.
Last week, Rooters reported that Saudi Arabia had asked banks to discuss the idea of an international loan, but details such as the size and lifespan were not specified.
The kingdom's budget deficit reached nearly $100 billion last year. The government is currently bridging the gap by drawing down its massive store of foreign assets and issuing domestic bonds. But the assets will only last a few more years at their current rate of decline, while the bond issues have started to strain liquidity in the banking system.
London-based boutique advisory firm Verus Partners, set up by former Citigroup bankers Mark Aplin and Andrew Elliot, is advising the Saudi government on the loan, the sources said.
The firm has sent requests for proposals to a small group of banks on behalf of the Saudi Ministry of Finance, the sources said. They added that banks participating in the loan would have a better chance of being chosen to arrange an international bond issue that Saudi Arabia may conduct as soon as this year.
Analysts say sovereign borrowing by the six wealthy Gulf Arab oil exporters could total $20 billion or more in 2016 - a big shift from years past, when the region had a surfeit of funds and was lending to the rest of the world.
All of the six states have either launched borrowing programs in response to low oil prices or are laying plans to do so. With money becoming scarcer at home, Gulf companies are also expected to borrow more from abroad.
In mid-February, Standard & Poor's cut Saudi Arabia's long-term sovereign credit rating by two notches to A-minus. The world's other two major rating agencies still have much higher assessments of Riyadh, but last week Moody's Investors Service put Saudi Arabia on review for a possible downgrade.
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Am I imagining things or what? Saudis being hoisted by their own petard? Dropped the price of crude by pumping at max to hurt American frackers and others. Low prices sustained because Iran now back in the market. So to keep up the welfare state the Saudis sell assets to make up difference between lower revenues and expenses. Now they need a bridge loan while they try to sell assets in an orderly way to avoid taking a financial bath.
This veddy interesting. A source of innocent merriment if true.
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And with other gulf states in the same boat, they are doomed to a steady decline towards bankruptcy if prices hold. If they decrease production then others will increase production. If they start to cut their welfare state then they face unrest at home. This is most interesting. Every disaster is a new opportunity.
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I would like to see this turn into a long term retrenchment where KSA withdraws from all of its expensive subvertiing in the wider world and withdraw into a quaint local tribe and take the rest of the sheikdoms with them.
I set width=500 for you -- not setting the width distorts Rantburg, while setting it much bigger than 500 can make it very hard to read. I find it easier to use the images in Fred's extensive library, which come properly sized.
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15 of the 19 911 hijackers were Saudis. The Individuals and charities based in Saudi Arabia financed al-Qaeda while Saud officials turned a blind eye. The Saudis have financed and spread Wahhabism which is full of hatred aimed at the West. They have raped the West via OPEC for decades. A $6-8 billion loan to support the state budget--screw em. We are not in the best of shape to finance anyone's budget thanks to our elite betters in Washington (sarc).
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Given the present political climate in the USA I cannot visualize an American bank initiating a loan with Saudi Arabia if it values its reputation.
Did you see the piece about how Chase isn't going to provide credit for coal plants in the US anymore? Only in "underdeveloped countries" or whatever phrase they used.
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Keeping oil prices low is a good way to starve Iran until they burn through the $150B that 0bean gave them for nothing in return. And starve Maduro into submission. And ISIS. I guess we owe the Saudis here. Cheap by comparison.
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If they start to cut their welfare state then they face unrest at home.
They've already started cutting subsidies on a variety of things loke utilitiy bills and gasoline, Alaska Paul. As I recall, they only have reserves to cover five years of expenses at the current oil price before they have to start selling off assets. So reducing expenses has already begun.
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...no problem. Just sell the assets to foreigners then after collecting the money, just nationalize them. They'll come back. Watch whats happening with Cuba now.
North Korean leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-Un has ordered further nuclear tests, state media said Friday, as military tensions surge on the Korean peninsula with South Korean and US forces engaged in large-scale joint exercises condemned by Pyongyang.
Just days after he was photographed posing in front of what state media described as a miniaturised nuclear warhead, Kim said the weapon required further testing. Overseeing a ballistic missile launch on Thursday, Kim ordered "more nuclear explosion tests to estimate the destructive power of the newly produced nuclear warheads," the North's official KCNA news agency said.
Experts are divided as to just how far the North may have gone in shrinking warheads to a size capable of fitting on a ballistic missile -- a major step forward in strike capability that would present a heightened threat to South Korea, other countries in the region and, eventually, the US mainland.
According to KCNA, Thursday's launch of two short-range ballistic missiles, which traversed the eastern part of the country before falling into the East Sea (Sea of Japan), was part of a nuclear strike exercise. The aim was to simulate conditions for "exploding nuclear warheads from the preset altitude above targets in the ports under enemy control," the agency said.
Watching the exercise, Kim reiterated an earlier threat to launch an immediate nuclear attack if the "sabre-rattling" South Korea-US drills should harm "even a single tree or a blade of grass" on North Korean territory.
That would be interfering with dinner, after all...
"I will issue a prompt order to launch attack with all military strike means," he said.
Military tensions on the divided Korean peninsula have been on the rise since the North carried out its fourth nuclear test in January, followed by a long-range rocket launch last month. South Korea and the United States responded by scaling up their annual joint drills, which Pyongyang has always condemned as provocative rehearsals for invasion.
The North's anger has been fuelled this year by reports that the drills included a "decapitation strike" scenario in which the North Korean leadership and command structure is taken out at the start of any conflict. In light of such drills, "our self-defensive countermeasures should adopt a more preemptive and offensive mode," Kim said.
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Kim reiterated an earlier threat to launch an immediate nuclear attack if the "sabre-rattling" South Korea-US drills should harm "even a single tree or a blade of grass" on North Korean territory.
What if we insult one of your remaining two blades of grass. Would that be OK?
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All things eventually have a day of reckoning - "nothing lasts forever", as the saying goes.
Iff Pudgy/KJU + Kim Regime = NOKOR can no longer stave off Chinese takeover or annexation for any reason, I sincerely believe that Pudge = NOKOR will find a way to unilaterally start a major US-China war, Conventional thru Limited Nuclear, as a last-ditch, you-betcha-its-desperate measure to save his Country from Beijing.
NO ONE SHOULD DOUBT THAT PUDGY = NOKOR IS USING BOTH OWG CO-SUPERPOWER CHINA'S DESIRE TO EXPAND ITS INFLUENCE + DOMINATE IN EAST ASIA-WESTPAC, + ANTI-US US GLOBALIST POTUS OBAMA'S PCORRECT-DENIABLE DESIRE LET CHINA DO SO AT THE EXPENCE OF HISTORICAL OR TRADITIONAL US INTERESTS, AS COVER TO BREAK CHINA'S HOLD ON HIS COUNTRY + FORCE INTER-KOREAN REUNIFICATION ASAP ONCE-N-FOREVAR!
OTOH, let us NOT forget that PUDGY = KJU IS NOT POTUS OBAMA ...
* LUCIANNE [repost] PRESIDENT OBAMA IS LEAVING THE US A MUCH WEAKER + MORE DIVIDED NATION.
* FOREIGN_POLICY@TWITTER > IS THE US SAFER UNDER OBAMA THAT IT WAS SEVEN YEARS AGO?
* FYI DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > USCNO RICHARDSON: NAVY NEEDS A DISTRIBUTED FORCE OF NETWORKED SHIPS, SUBS TO COUNTER [Chinese-led = SCS, ECS? Taiwan? IOR?]A2/AD THREAT - USNI NEWS.
["GUAM WILL CAPSIZE" = PEARL HARBOR 1941 USN BB USS "OKLAHOMA" here].
Iff youse thought it was only the US engaging in "A2/AD" agx China [+ Russia, Iran], YOU WERE WRONG - THE US FEARS CHINA,ETAL. LED COUNTER-"A2/AD" RESPONSE AGZ THE US = US-ALLIES.
I have nothing on the Net to indic or prove that the USN CVN "STENNIS" violated the 12-nm limits around China's improved islands in the SCS - IOW, DESPITE SENDING WHAT FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES IS THE CLOSEST WORLD'S EQUIVALENT OF THE STAR WARS "DEATH STAR" TO THE SCS, OBAMA STILL ENDED UP ONCE AGAIN INDIRECTLY RECOGNIZING CHINA'S CLAIMS.
[Ynet] German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... said on Thursday around 3,000 migrants colonists were returning to Iraq from Germany every month and that the number was on the rise.
Many are living in shelters and are frustrated with a slow asylum process in a country struggling to work through a backlog of asylum applications after 1.1 million migrants colonists arrived last year.
"At the moment 3,000 are returning to Iraq every month for example - and it's an upward trend - when their cities are liberated from 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.... ," Merkel said at a campaign event in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg ahead of a regional election there and in two other states on Sunday.
Three thousand per month returning out of 1.3 million who arrived last year alone. Still, it's something.
You didn't think Obama was going to take any blame, did ya?
Barack Obama has sharply criticised David Cameron for the UK's role in allowing Libya to become a "shit show" after the fall of the dictator Muammar Gaddafi, in an unprecedented attack on a British leader by a serving US President. How presidential and diplomatic!
Mr Obama said that following a successful military intervention to aid rebels during the 2011 Arab Spring revolt, Libya was left to spiral out of control -- due largely to the inaction of America’s European allies.
In a candid US magazine interview, Mr Obama said: "When I go back and I ask myself what went wrong... there’s room for criticism, because I had more faith in the Europeans, given Libya’s proximity, being invested in the follow-up."
Singling out the British Prime Minister, he suggested that Mr Cameron had taken his eye off Libya after being "distracted by a range of other things". "I ran out of gas! A friend came in from out of town! My tux was at the dry cleaners! IT WASN'T MY FAULT!
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It was an extensive interview with President Obama's favourite journalist at The Atlantic, in which our beloved president no longer suppressed his feelings about a great variety of people who have disappointed him over the years. Did you know that Bibi Netanyahu dared to condenscend to him?! And he the African-American child of a single mother who now resides in the White House itself!
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Commander of US Central Command General Lloyd J Austin has said Pakistain should "take decisive action" against the Haqqani terrorist network, calling the network as the greatest threat to the US forces in Afghanistan.
During a congressional hearing with the Senate Armed Service Committee, Gen. Austin said "We need Pakistain to take decisive actions against the Haqqani Network (HQN). The Paks are uniquely positioned to counter the HQN, which remains the greatest threat to our forces and to stability in Afghanistan long-term."
Gen. Austin further added that the US is encouraged by some signs from 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.... and Islamabad that point towards a renewed effort at improving Afghanistan-Pakistain relations, and Pak support for the reconciliation process in Afghanistan.
"The Pakistain military continues to play a visible role in efforts to reduce safe havens in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistain border, while at the same time actively countering VEOs, including AQ, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, and the newly-emerged 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.... -Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... ," he said.
The Haqqani terrorist network is accused of staging numerous cross-border attacks from their base in North Wazoo, including the 19-hour siege at the US Embassy in Kabul in September 2011.
Haqqani network was formed in the late 1970s by Jalaluddin Haqqani ...founder and still titular head of the Haqqani Network. Jalaluddin is old and tough and very crafty, one of the few Pashtun warlords who was worth spit... . The group is allied with al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban and cooperates with other terrorist organizations in the region.
The network is considered the most lethal murderous Moslem group targeting the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... -led coalition security forces and Afghan personnel in Afghanistan.
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As though all this was new! Why we continue to play footsie with Pakistan and fund their military, why we bother with what is in reality a failed state, is beyond comprehension.
[Daily Excelsior] After divisional commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT), Abu Dujana, and his associates fled from cordon in South Kashmire’s Pulwama district yesterday, security forces have intensified operations in the area as they have inputs that they are planning a fidayeen attack in Kashmire along the National Highway.
The 55-Rashtriya Rifles of Army, 182 Battalion of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmire Police, Pulwama, today cordoned off and conducted search operations at Koil, Prichoo and Wagun villages of Pulwama in search of the LeT Death Eaters including Abu Dujana.
Sources said that security forces have intercepted a phone call which indicated that LeT based in South Kashmire is planning fidayeen attack along the National Highway on security forces in Kashmire.
They said that LeT has already conducted recce of an Army camp near Jawahar Tunnel, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) 24th battalion at Jawahar Tunnel and one more security installation in South Kashmire along the highway.
These fidayeen are said to part of the group that carried out attack in Entrepreneur Development Institute (EDI) Building at Pampore in South Kashmire on the National Highway last month that lasted for three days in which 5 coppers including three Para-commandos of Army were killed and the building suffered extensive damage.
As part of proactive strategy to prevent the strike, Police and Army have established check points at various places along the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway and other roads so as to prevent movement of these fidayeen. They are conducting searches of all types of vehicles particularly trucks as LeT last year used a truck to ferry fidayeen to Uhdampur where they carried out an attack on BSF convoy.
Security forces were also conducting operations at various places in South Kashmire to put pressure on the holy warriors. Sources said that security forces are taking every input in South Kashmire these days seriously so as to counter the LeT strike.
For last four days police and Army conducted searches at several places in South Kashmire. These operations were conducted at Tulbagh and Patalbagh in Pampore areas near the National Highway by 55- Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and Special Operations Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmire Police, Pampore; Kaweni in Sangam by SOG and Army, Reshipora and Gowahapora near National Highway and Panzeth in Qazigund area by 9 RR and SOG Kulgam.
Yesterday, they trapped 11 Death Eaters of the LeT including its divisional commander, Abu Dujana, in village Wadhakpora in Awantipora area of South Kashmire’s Pulwama district where they were holding a meeting. Two of their members including a top commander, Abu Ukasha, were killed and others escaped.
Sources said that after the busting of LeT network following Udhampur attack on BSF convoy and killing of LeT commander Abu Qasim last year, LeT under the command of Abu Dujana in South Kashmire has re-established its network and received around a dozen foreign holy warriors, who were planning strikes.
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[Daily Excelsior] Deciding not to let Pakistain go unbeat feet from its responsibility and involvement in facilitating digging of tunnel along the International Border (IB) in RS Pura sector that was detected last Thursday, the Government of India has shot off a strong worded letter to Pakistain asking it to join the joint investigations with the BSF to punish the elements responsible for digging it as this would have resulted into major terror attack(s) against India.
Top official sources told the Excelsior that the issue has been taken up by the Centre Government with appropriate channels in Pakistain after the BSF Headquarters submitted a detailed report highlighting direct involvement of Pakistain in facilitating digging of the tunnel from their side into the Indian territory.
"The BSF Headquarters has also written to the Director General (DG) Rangers to join joint investigations with the BSF on digging of tunnel inside the Indian territory along the IB near Alla Mai De Kothe (AMK) Post in RS Pura sector. The BSF has given all evidence available with it including pictures of the tunnel to prove its point," sources said.
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[DAWN] The United States and India have agreed to ‘deepen’ their close collaboration in the fight against Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) and 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), the White House said.
In a joint statement with Pakistain last week, the United States stressed the need for a peaceful resolution of the Kashmire issue and called on ‘all parties’ in the region to act with ‘maximum restraint’ for reducing tensions.
But in a statement issued after US National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice’s meeting with Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Tuesday, the United States also underlined the need for greater cooperation with India for combating terrorist groups operating in Kashmire.
At the White House meeting, Ambassador Rice and Foreign Secretary Jaishankar discussed US-India collaboration against LeT, JeM and other terrorist threats.
"Building on their leaders’ commitment to make the US-India partnership a defining relationship for the 21st century, they agreed to deepen their already close collaboration on these issues," the statement added.
The two officials also noted their preparation for the upcoming Nuclear Security Summit, which would also be attended by Pak and Indian prime ministers.
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[DAWN] Pakistain has reminded US politicians that gunnies have killed thousands of Pak soldiers and civilians only because the country supports the US-led war against terrorists.
In a letter to a senior Republican Senator, Rand Paul, Pakistain’s Ambassador Jalil Abbas Jilani referred to a US intelligence document, which quotes the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... as asking his followers to attack the Pak state and it’s military because of their anti-terrorism partnership with the United States.
Senator Paul leads the congressional campaign to block a proposed sale of eight F-16 fighter jets to Pakistain.
He sent a letter to his colleagues earlier this week, claiming that it was "past time" to demand accountability from Pakistain whose "coziness" with gunnies has harmed the US military.
Senator Paul has also introduced a joint resolution of disapproval in the Senate, which may come up for hearing this week.
Last month, the US government approved the sale of the fighter jets, along with radar and electronic warfare equipment, in a deal worth $700 million.
Senator Paul is using the obscure Arms Export Control Act of 1976 to try and stop the sale, labelling Pakistain "an uncertain ally", which could not be trusted with sophisticated US weapons.
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[DAWN] 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... prayed for the speedy recovery of Kashmire's All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who was hospitalised after suffering a minor heart attack in New Delhi on Thursday morning.
In his message the premier said, "Syed Geelani's indefatigable leadership is a beacon of freedom for the people of Jammu and Kashmire. We pray for his quick recovery and good health."
APHC Chairman Syed Ali Geelani was admitted to a hospital in New Delhi after he complained of chest pain, which was later diagnosed as a minor heart attack.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Arab foreign ministers Thursday voted to appoint veteran Egyptian diplomat Ahmad Aboul-Gheit to the post of secretary-general of the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... He succeeds Nabil al-Araby, another Egyptian diplomat, who last month said he would not seek a second term in leading the Cairo-based organization. Al-Araby's five-year mandate ends June 30.
Aboul-Gheit, 73, was the sole contender for the position, and his choice comes at a critical time for the 22-member regional bloc.
Aboul-Gheit served as the last foreign minister under Egypt's president Hosny Mubarak, who stepped down in 2011.
Chiefs of the vaporous Arab League have always been Egyptians since the organization was created in 1945.
The only exception came in 1979 when the headquarters of the organization were moved from Cairo to Tunisia.
Chedli Klibi, a Tunisian politician, was selected for the position at that time.
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[IsraelTimes] Father and four siblings of Fouad Tamimi, who shot and maimed two coppers on Tuesday, did not have permission to live in capital
The family of a Paleostinian terrorist who carried out a shooting attack in Jerusalem earlier in the week were expelled from the capital to the West Bank, the Israel Police said Thursday.
Fouad Tamimi seriously injured two Border Police officers, leaving one at death's door, in a drive-by shooting attack on Salah a-Din Street, near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, on Tuesday afternoon.
A police check found that Tamimi’s father and some siblings were living in the capital without permits. Haaretz newspaper said Thursday that the killer’s mother, who has Israeli residency, took her four underage children to join her husband and four other offspring.
During the attack, the gunman shot up the officers, striking one in the head. As he attempted to escape the scene, security forces engaged the gunman in a firefight, during which he shot the second officer. Tamimi was then shot and killed by police.
Immediately following the attack, Public Safety Minister Gilad Erdan asked police to look into the legal status of Tamimi’s family, who were living in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiyah.
Police discovered that his parents had applied for permission to live together in East Jerusalem, under an Israeli law enabling Paleostinian families divided by the Green Line to be reunited. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the request had not yet been approved, police said, meaning that Tamimi, his father and some siblings did not have residency status that would enable them to live in Isawiyah.
"[T[hey were staying illegally in Isawiyah and as a result the family members were expelled to the West Bank," the police said in a statement, but did not note exactly where they had been sent. According to Haaretz, the family is now living in the West Bank village of Bir Nabala, some 8 km (5 miles) from Jerusalem.
"I made it clear to police: Whoever is here illegally -- will be expelled," Erdan said in the same statement Thursday. "We will continue to fight against terror with great force, on all fronts, and we will extract a heavy price from those who support, fund, or help terror."
[ALMANAR.LB] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... called his Iranian counterpart on Wednesday to protest Tehran's latest round of ballistic missile tests.
Iran and the United States have no formal diplomatic ties, but Kerry and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif built a close working relationship during negotiations for last year's nuclear accord between Tehran and world powers.
The United States argues that a series of apparent missile tests breach the terms of a UN Security Council resolution and will result in new economic sanctions - either from Washington or the world body.
"If they are confirmed, if they're true, as I said yesterday, we'll take up the appropriate action inside the UN," State Department front man John Kirby warned.
"But I don't want to convey the impression that we are only looking at multilateral or UN possibilities in terms of measures to deal with it."
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"If they are confirmed, if they're true, as I said yesterday, we'll take up the appropriate action inside the UN," State Department front man John Kirby warned.
Am I wrong, or did Iran already admit the deed, saying "they weren't against the agreement" or something like that?
[CounterJihadReport] The drug of choice for ISIL members is an amphetamine known as Captagon. A Lebanese Captagon manufacturer who supplies drugs for various groups fighting in Syria says that those who consume the drug 'have a thirst for fighting and killing and will shoot at whatever they see. 'They lose any feeling or empathy for the people in front of them and can kill them without caring at all. They forget about their mother, father, and their families.' Although US military personnel (usually pilots) utilize "go-pills," I suspect ISIL has more relaxed dosing protocols.
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Anybody else see that pattern moving? Not too much, just every now and again?
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PC is overdriving your monitor?
Retina flexing with heartbeat?
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'They lose any feeling or empathy for the people in front of them and can kill them without caring at all. They forget about their mother, father, and their families.'
So, amphetaminoethyltheophylline, a drug used to treat attention deficit disorder, mimics the effects of reading the Quran.
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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.
A senior al-Shabab commander has made a public appearance to deny claims that he and another group leader were killed in US air strikes last week at a training camp in southern Somalia.
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