[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Following days of growing rift among the supporters of two prominent political figures in northern Afghanistan, the tensions have been resolved in the northern Faryab province.
The supporters of Junbish-e-Milli party led by vice president General Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... and 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... party led Ata Mohammad Noor reconciled in northern Faryab province shortly after the growing rift led to a bloody encounter last week.
The supporters of the two prominent political parties reinstalled the removed pictures belonging to Gen. Dostum, Ahmad Shah Massoud and Burhnuddin Rabbani in this province.
Faryab governor Syed Anwar Sadat said the reconciliation was achieved following a meeting attended by the representatives of the two prominent political parties in the provincial government office.
The officiasl of the two political parties said they hope to continue standing side by side with each other and support the Afghan cops in a sensitive moment the country is going.
They also insisted on resolving any issue they may come across the in the future through negotiations and understandings.
The supporters of General Abdul Rashid Dostum and Ata Mohammad Noor engaged in a clash last Thursday in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan, leaving one dead and five others maimed.
This comes as the former Afghan Intelligence -- National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) Chief Rahmatullah Nabil has warned regarding ongoing attempts to create ethnic divisions among the Afghan people.
Nabil issued an online statement amid intensifying tensions among the supporters of top political figures, General Abdul Rashid Dostum and Ata Mohammad Noor.
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The UN top envoy for Somalia has decried the use of child soldiers by the Islamist Al-Shabaab militant in their attacks in the Horn of Africa nation.
"Hey! That's our job!"
In a statement received on Saturday, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia Michael Keating deplored the high number of children among the Al-Shabaab militants captured by Puntland security forces during the recent fighting in that part of Somalia.
Keating said the blatant deployment of children by Al-Shabaab extremists is an outrage that warrants special condemnation.
“These children need support, and it is imperative that all feasible steps be taken to rehabilitate them and eventually reunite them with their families,” Keating said.
The UN envoy said these children are among dozens of extremists who were captured in coastal areas of Puntland and have been subsequently moved to the state capital of Garowe. Keating said the UN has entered into constructive discussions with Puntland authorities about making the necessary arrangements for ensuring proper treatment of these children in accordance with international human rights and humanitarian laws.
“Positive actions taken in this regard will demonstrate the authorities’ commitment to the obligations assumed by Somalia when it ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child in January 2015,” he said.
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[NBCNEWS] A teenager who surrendered before carrying out a suicide kaboom attack in northern Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... has told authorities she was one of the 276 girls kidnapped from a Nigerian boarding school by Islamic murderous Moslems nearly two years ago, authorities said Saturday.
If confirmed the development would mark the first news of the missing Chibok girls in many months. It has long been feared that some are being used by their Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... abductors to carry out such attacks given the growing number of youngjacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bombers.
The girl is about 15 years old and turned herself in before detonating her explosives, said Idrissou Yacoubou, the leader of a self-defense group in Limani, Cameroon.
"The girl looked tired, malnourished and psychologically tortured and could not give us more details about her stay in the forest and how her other mates were treated," he said.
Nigeria is sending a team to Cameroon on Monday to verify a would-be jacket wallah's claim that she is one of the 276 school girls kidnapped by the Boko Haram from the northern town of Chibok.
The Nigerian government said it would be sending a team to the Cameroonian capital Yaounde to meet the girl, who was tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! along with another would-be bomber.
They will "verify whether ajacket wallah'exploding trollop female suicide bomber arrested...is one of the missing school girls kidnapped in Chibok," Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's front man Garba Shehu said.
There was no guarantee that she was speaking the truth, said Shehu.
"Doubts have crept into the claim following new information from Cameroon that the two girls were aged about ten years," Shehu said. "One of the two is also believed to be heavily drugged and therefore not in full control of her senses."
However, "Bring Back Our Girls" advocacy group spokesman Rotimi Olawale said the youngest Chibok girl captured by Boko Haram was 16 years old.
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"The girl looked tired, malnourished and psychologically tortured..."
Another Mouchelle school lunch success story?
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In their first meeting in Riyadh on Sunday, military chiefs from Muslim nations vowed to "dry up terrorists’ resources," a Saudi military front man told news hounds.
They'll stop donating to ISIS, Al Nusra, and suchlike badmen? No? Which terrorists' resources do they have in mind to dry up, then, and who do they think will bell that particular cat for them?
Brig. Gen. Ahmed Assiri said the representatives of the newly-formed Islamic Alliance -- made up of 34 Muslim countries -- had discussed "ideological, media, financial and military" aspects to combat terrorism.
He also said the attendance of 39 Muslim nations, not all of which were members of the coalition, "sends a strong message on importance and nature of the alliance," adding that such force is needed in the face of "ISIS recreating Muslims and Arabs to put them in confrontation with the world."
Assiri said the officials met to discuss a "unified" strategy to degrade terrorism, and it is based on "proposed initiatives."
"Today’s meeting is to put the foundation stone for the coalition," he said, adding that the meeting "is about proposed initiatives. Today we did not discuss any individual cases."
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... he said "Saudi has presented a paper to follow the resources of terrorism funding."
The front man emphasize that the coalition will work according to "international law and standards," dismissing that any country "would take a unilateral decision."
"Sovereignty is respected," he reiterated. "States that want a military intervention in their countries would lead the mission."
While many of the Muslim states in the meeting - including Saudi, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and the UAE - are also part of the US-led coalition against ISIS, the Islamic Alliance would not only target the murderous Moslem group but "other terrorist groups in the wider sense."
The meeting, considered the first of its kind, aims to coordinate efforts among the 34 Muslim countries involved in the alliance.
The coalition was announced in December by Saudi Defense minister Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a bid to establish a unified Muslim body to fight terrorism.
The coalition started through the establishment of a joint operations center in Riyadh.
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military chiefs from Muslim nations vowed to "dry up place further controls on terrorists’ resources,"
[BLOOMBERG] Oil’s rebound to about $40 a barrel means some investors are nursing losses after betting that 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... would abandon its three-decade-old currency peg.
Contracts used to speculate on the kingdom’s exchange rate in the next 12 months have fallen to about the lowest since November. A $1 million wager on the contracts at their peak in January would have lost 68,900 riyals ($18,370), or about 1.8 percent, according to Bloomberg calculations. Several U.S.-based hedge funds were said in February to be among investors that have bet Saudi Arabia would devalue the riyal.
The decreased speculation that Gulf nations will abandon their dollar pegs underscores how crude prices have recovered this year. Oil, Saudi Arabia’s main source of revenue, is headed for a second straight monthly gain. The Saudi riyal has been trading at a rate of 3.75 per dollar since 1986, and the kingdom has taken steps to make speculating against the currency harder.
"We have argued that those positioning for a devaluation were going to be disappointed," said Simon Williams, the London-based chief economist for central and eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa at HSBC Holdings Plc. "The pegs have been in place for 30 years in times of high oil prices and low oil prices. I have no sense" that recent losses in crude are "going to change policy makers’ minds or force their hand," he said.
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Watch out, Saudis, here comes "The Donuuuld" ...
* NEW YORK POST > TRUMP TO SAUDIS [+ ME Oil Allies-States]: FIGHT ISIS OR WE'LL STOP BUYING OIL. | TRUMP SAYS ALLIES MUST START PAYING FOR AMERICA'S PROTECTION.
* RELATED YAHOO NEWS > TRUMP WOULD CONSIDER HALTING US OIL PURCHASES FROM SAUDI ARABIA [Etal.] UNLESS THEY PROVIDE TROOPS.
OHHH-SO-NICE + PCORRECT/POPULARIST, BUT THE NAHA-RUSHIAN QUESTIONNE' IS CAN THE ISIS = HARD BOYZ, + OWG CO-SUPERPOWERS RUSSIA, CHINA, + IRAN, OTHER? OPPOSTION OR CHALLENGE TO US LEADERSHIP BE DETERRED OR DEFEATED OTHERWISE???
"RED-LINE" ANTI-US US OBAMA = POST-JAN 2017 "PRO-US", BUT STILL "RED-LINE" US POTUS TRUMP???
versus
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Russia Today] SAUDIS TO MOVE FROM OIL [declining oil revenues], EARN MORE FROM HAJJ [+ Ummah Pilgrimages].
German train operator has announced it is introducing women and children-only train carriages amid fears over sex attacks in the country.
The Regiobahn line between Leipzig and Chemnitz will introduce the carriages to increase security for women.
The carriages will be next to the train conductor in a bid to make women feel more safe.
A spokesman for the railway said: "The local proximity to the customer service representative is chosen deliberately."
Germany is still reeling from a a string of sex attacks in Cologne on New Year's Eve, allegedly carried out by dozens of migrants.
In total more than 800 complaints were made to police and the incidents have sparked criticism over German Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to refuse to limit the number of refugees allowed into the country.
But the railway has said the measure is not a direct reaction to the Cologne incidents but is about increasing security generally.
The idea of gender segregated carriages was suggested by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn last year as a measure to reduce sexual harassment on public transport.
He said: "Some women have raised with me that a solution to the rise in assault and harassment on public transport could be to introduce women-only carriages.
"I would consult with women and open it up to hear their views on whether women-only carriages would be welcome -- and if piloting this at times and on modes of transport where harassment is reported most frequently would be of interest."
The measure is also currently in place in countries such as Brazil, Mexico and Egypt.
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[Jeremy Corbyn last year] said: "Some women have raised with me that a solution to the rise in assault and harassment on public transport could be to introduce women-only carriages."
Until the first female suicide bomber or two get on board.
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From a different time, when men and women (et. al.) were segregated.
The families would board and the men would adjourn to the smoking car.
Interesting twist, in a land where even the words have distinctive genders.
The carriages will be next to the train conductor in a bid to make women feel more safe.
So they ride in the 'back of the train'?
The measure is also currently in place in 'other third world' countries such as Brazil, Mexico and Egypt.
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Your Frenchman might color the Eiffel,
Or Schweizer show off with his rifle.
Such gestures are trifles:
We Germans make eyefuls
Parading in robes of Selbstzweifel.
[AnNahar] The Turkish coastguard on Sunday stopped five boats carrying dozens of illegal migrants, mostly from Myanmar, who were trying to reach the Greek island of Lesbos, local media reported.
A coastguard vessel spotted the boats about four miles off the shore of Dikili town in Izmir province as they tried to reach Lesbos, the private Dogan news agency reported.
The coastguard stopped the boats and took the migrants back to shore where they were handed over to the police.
Most of them were from Myanmar.
"There is a planned massacre against Muslims in the country we live," one of the migrants told Dogan, saying the combination of danger and poverty had forced them to leave.
His remarks suggested they were members of Myanmar's Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim minority which has been targeted by violent attacks and state-sanctioned discrimination in the Buddhist-majority state, earning them a reputation as one of the world's most persecuted peoples.
The numbers of people reaching Greece from Turkey have declined since an EU-Turkey deal went into effect on March 20 under which all migrants landing on the Greek islands face are sent back.
Before the deal, the numbers arriving each day had numbered in the thousands. On Monday, 1,662 people arrived, but this fell to 600 on Tuesday and 260 on Wednesday.
[AnNahar] Hopeful refugees flooded back Sunday to Greece's overwhelmed Idomeni migrant camp on the border with Macedonia, creating confusion, after rumors that the closed frontier would be forced open.
The influx came as Greek authorities were trying to evacuate the estimated 11,600 people stranded in the squalid camp after Balkan states slammed shut the migrants' route into the European Union.
Dozens of hopeful refugees gathered on railway tracks at Idomeni and at the fence on the frontier, singing and waiting for others like them to arrive, as Greek police in riot gear stood guard.
A young Syrian refugee told the Athens News Agency that the rumor doing the rounds was that international journalists and Red Cross officials would help them force their way across the fence into Macedonia.
"We heard today that the border will open and we came here to cross the border," he said.
"They told us that Red Cross and 500 journalists from all over the world will be with us," he said, without specifying the source.
Another young Syrian refugee said his sister, who is living in Germany, read the same claim on the Internet and alerted him.
[AlAhram] Hundreds of migrants stranded at a makeshift Greek camp protested near the border with Macedonia on Sunday, demanding that the border be opened as they clung to hopes of making it into Europe despite new EU moves to send some refugees back.
Around 50,000 migrants and refugees remain trapped in Greece after a domino of border closures by countries along the Balkan route has prevented them from continuing their journey into wealthier European countries. Many live in squalid conditions in tents near the town of Idomeni at the border with Macedonia.
Some 400 protesters gathered at the camp on Sunday, waving white napkins and holding signs that read "open the border". A man with a megaphone led them singing folk songs in Arabic.
Greek police formed a line to prevent the protesters from moving to the fence that separates the camp from Macedonia.
"We're here today, and everyday, because we won't give up. We protest here everyday for the sake of women and children," said a Syrian woman, Hana. "We are humans and we have rights, this is why we are here today and we will keep protesting until the borders open."
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I read an article in Discover about grey whales moving back to the Atlantic because of global climate change melting the Arctic ice caps. Supposedly, they were 'whaled out' by other human activities (hunting)in the 19th century. Later in the story, research showed the grey whales made two big migrations from Pacific to Atlantic in the Holocene and Pliocene (?) eras.
Maybe they came through the Panama Canal, because there were no coal-burning humans around during those times - the Holocene era starts roughly 12,000 years ago - after the last ice age.
So the author is willing to blame the current migration on the popular theory, so he can get published, but has no theories for the previous migrations across the Arctic.
Also not mentioned in the story is the possibility that a few were not harpooned 150 years ago and managed to avoid human contact until the era of cell-phone cameras. But he couldn't work global warming into that theory.
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In addition to its many advantages for the insipid ruling class and wannabe aristocrats, global warming also provides a useful distraction from real problems.
[IsraelTimes] Three attackers blew themselves up in Brussels, a fourth man was caught and charged, and a fifth remains on the lam
Two brothers who dabbled in crime, a freelance journalist, a university drop-out and a mystery man -- the five suspects in Belgium’s airport and subway train attacks are a mixed lot.
Two of the men blew themselves up at the Brussels’ airport, a third inside a metro train, killing 31 people and injuring 300 on March 22.
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[IsraelTimes] 3,200 attend two-hour sessions provided by rescuers to learn how to react in emergency situations
About 3,200 Gay Pareeians have attended free first aid training in the French capital to be better prepared for possible terror attacks.
The two-hour sessions provided Saturday by rescuers in every district of Gay Paree aimed to teach participants how to react in emergency situations. The measure was approved by the Gay Paree city council in December in the wake of the November 13 attacks that killed 130 people.
"We must all know the five or six basic techniques that will help protect the population if ever there are other attacks," said Dr. Patrick Pelloux, an emergency room doctor. Pelloux was also a columnist for Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... and was among the first to arrive at the satirical newspaper’s offices after the January 7 massacre there last year.
Gay Paree plans to repeat the event at least once a year.
"I was so shocked by the attack in Gay Paree, and again this week in Brussels, that I wanted to be able to do the right thing at the right moment, in order not to feel powerless if I ever have to face an emergency situation," 29-year-old Gay Pareeian Aurelie Bois said.
The capital’s firefighters and the French Red Thingy have noted a sharp increase in demand for their first aid training programs since the Gay Paree attacks.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Belgium's interior minister says the Belgian government has invested $670 million into police and security services over the past two years but acknowledged that neglect over decades had caused deficiencies that have hampered an effective response to violent extremism.
Minister Jan Jambon said errors were made in the run-up to the March 22 Brussels attacks that killed at least 31 people and maimed 270 others, but says fresh investments need time before they become visible. He said Sunday that hiring anti-terror specialists and specialized equipment could not happen in weeks or months.
Jambon says "it is also not because you put the money in now, that tomorrow all this is visible on the ground."
Meanwhile on Sunday, Brussels prosecutors have charged another man with participation in a terrorist group, the Belgian press agency Belga said.
Belga named the man incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! as A. Abderrahmane who prosecutors had said on Saturday was being detained for a further 24 hours after being shot during a raid in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek.
It said he was charged in connection with a related raid in La Belle France this week that authorities say foiled an apparent attack plot.
The prosecutor's office could not immediately be reached for comment.
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[MSN] President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... is offering his prayers for the families of the two Americans killed in the bombings in Brussels and telling Belgians that "America has their back" in the fight against terrorism.
Like he has Israel's? That should inspire confidence. Or not, as the case may be.
By now everyone knows it's better to be Obama's opponent than to be his friend...
In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama is renewing his vow to continue the campaign against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , which took credit for the attacks. He says U.S. officials are working with allies to root out the group's operations in Europe.
Obama says U.S. officials have ramped up intelligence cooperation and that FBI agents are in Belgium assisting with the investigation into the bombings.
The president says he and allies will review the U.S.-led air campaign and special operations against IS when world leaders gather in Washington next week for a summit on nuclear security.
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[FREEDOMDAILY] Norwegian Army Chief Odin Johannessen warns that European countries must be reading and willing to fight against radical Islam in order to preserve the values that unite the continent.
"I think we must be ready to fight, both with words, actions -- and if necessary weapons -- to preserve the country and the values we have in common," Johannessen said in a speech to the Oslo Military Society on Monday.
Citing the Islamist attacks in Gay Paree, Johannessen said that, "Europe can no longer expect to live in peace and security, without having to defend its interests and values."
The military chief went on to insist that well trained and adequately equipped soldiers would be crucial.
"You can not win wars without having people on the ground," he asserted.
Johannessen’s remarks mirror similar sentiments expressed by other military officials in Europe.
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Contrast that with the comments of....oh never mind.
When the U.S. Department of State released a statement condemning the Pakistani Taliban faction's Easter bombing in a Lahore park, it noticeably omitted the fact that Easter-celebrating Christians were specifically targeted. They can't say "Lord Voldemort."
[DAWN] Interrogation of the enjugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! Indian intelligence operative Kulbhushan Yadav revealed he had been imparting Naval fighting training to Baloch separatists in an attempt to target Pak ports, a security official who declined to be named said on Sunday.
Yadav, who was arrested in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , is believed to be a member of Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
The Indian Foreign Ministry earlier confirmed the arrested man was a former Indian Navy officer, but the Pak government claimed to have recovered travel documents and multiple fake identities of Yadav, establishing him as an Indian spy who entered into Balochistan through Iran -- holding a valid Iranian visa.
After his arrest, Yadav was shifted to Islamabad for interrogation, during which it was revealed that he had purchased boats at the Iranian port in Chabahar in order to target Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and Gwadar ports in a terrorist plot, the official said, adding that the 'RAW agent' is believed to be expert at Naval fighting techniques.
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[DAWN] A charged crowd at the Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... International Airport assaulted singer-turned-evangelist Junaid Jamshed, it emerged late Saturday night. A disturbing video of the attack made the rounds on social media.
A handful of people rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against the preacher, claiming he had committed blasphemy, and lunged at him. They struck several blows and then momentarily released Jamshed, only to attack him again.
"We have been looking for you," one male voice is heard saying in the footage.
"Hit him, him him," they shouted.
Visibly shaken, Jamshed maintained silence for the most part and offered the crowd to "talk" as the men confronted him. Jamshed then retreated into the airport's arrival lounge.
Many took to social media to condemn the attack on Jamshed.
The episode comes over a year after a controversy that pushed Jamshed into hiding, as he became the target of the wrath of right-wing groups over blasphemy allegations. He later offered a public apology in which he said he was "accepting his mistake" and asked for forgiveness.
The blasphemy case against him was registered in December 2014 on the directives of a district and sessions court. Jamshed was booked over one of his televised sermons that was thought to contain blasphemous remarks about a wife of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him).
The case had been registered on a complaint of Mobin Qadri, a leader of the Sunni Tehrik ...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and assassinations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities... , at the Risala cop shoppe under Sections 295-C (use of derogatory remarks in respect of the Holy Prophet) and 298-A (use of derogatory remarks etc in respect of Holy Personage) of the Pakistain Penal Code, police said at the time.
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[Ynet] A delegation of senior Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, officials is expected to arrive in Egypt today for a second round of talks with Egyptian intelligence officials in Cairo.
After consulting with Hamas leadership in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , the Hamas delegation is expected to bring its responses to Egyptian requests from the first round of talks two weeks ago.
A total waste of time. So long as Hamas' military wing in Gaza ties itself so closely to Ansar Bayt al Maqdis/ISIS in the Sinai Peninsula, the desire of the Hamas politicos in Qatar for peace with the Egyptian government is bootless.
Al Anram has more detail here, for those interested.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the Israeli army Sunday as controversy gripped the country over a soldier caught on video shooting a Palestinian assailant in the head as he lay on the ground.
The issue reportedly sparked a bitter argument behind closed doors at the Israeli government’s weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday.
Thursday’s shooting incident led to the soldier’s arrest and strong condemnation from military officials, but some rightwing politicians and their supporters have reacted angrily to the response.
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[IsraelTimes] After troops retake city from Islamic State, officials say only light damage suffered to artifacts at ancient site.
This will comfort all those who were more worried about the suffering of ancient stones than living people in that part of the world.
Update from The Times of Israel at 1:30 p.m. ET: The ruins are fine, except for the ISIS bombs tucked away here and there, but much in the antiquities museum was broken or sold. Still, the most important of the portables were taken away by the Syrian army when they retreated from the invaders, and are safe.
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And press communiques continue to be cheaper and more plentiful than actual high explosives. Propagandists can "blow up" ancient nonstrategic ruins out in the middle of nowhere far cheaper than actually expending the ordinance to shift around some rocks, and you still get all the crazy man-child jihadi recruits as if you'd actually blown them up in the real world. What a surprise.
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Don't worry, Putin is helping make new ruins quite nicely. Couldnt think of a better bunch to have their modern cities ruined. You want the 6th century? Happy to oblige!
[IsraelTimes] Terrorists who strike European countries often follow attacks with mass hacking, according to Israeli cyber
Terror attacks are often followed, in an extra strike of cruelty, by major cyber-attacks on the targeted country, according to data gathered by Israeli cyber-security firm Cytegic.
Such second strike attacks then provoke a response by anti-terror cyber-activists, with the result that a country could find its networks paralyzed for days because of the huge strain, just when communication is especially vital.
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[POLITICALCULT] During a heated discussion on CNN about radical Islam on Wednesday, a female Muslim activist tried pulling the race card against a former CIA intelligence analyst after running out of options to "win" the debate. After dealing with mostly far-left commentators on the network, it’s definitely safe to say she didn’t expect the response she received.
TheBlaze’s Buck Sexton appeared on the network to discuss fundamental Islam with Rula Jebreal, a Paleostinian foreign policy analyst, and when it was evident that Sexton wasn’t buying the excuses she was giving for Muslims resorting to a life of terror, she predictably pulled the race card and said, "white people like yourself" don’t understand the Islamic culture. Fortunately, Sexton knows first-hand what the culture is like after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he had a stinging reply that she likely never saw coming.
Jebreal questioned whether or not Sexton could speak Arabic, and said that he needs to be able to "understand" Islamic culture and the language to know what’s "appealing" to Muslims wanting to join the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS). But Sexton wasn’t about to take it lying down.
"Respectfully, I served in Iraq and Afghanistan targeting people that were doing beheadings, that were building boom jackets. I mean, so I was doing that at a very specific level," he said.
Jebreal didn’t appear to like the fact that he worked hand-in-hand with Muslims overseas, which gives him some credibility on the subject, and she started talking over him to silence his opinions. When that didn’t work, out came the race card.
"With all due respect, white people like yourself who doesn’t understand the language, doesn’t understand the culture and doesn’t even know the religion--" she said.
Whoops.
"I don’t know what that has to do with trying to prevent people from blowing up buses and trying to annihilate -- that was my job, that’s what I’m speaking to on this issue," Sexton interjected, before really driving his point home.
"There are a lot of people who are disenfranchised, who don’t strap on boom jackets, who don’t decide they’re going to join a foreign fight in a foreign country as part of an imperial venture and kill as many innocent civilians in their home country as possible," he shot back.
The clip ends shortly after, but not before one of the CNN hosts tried cutting Sexton off before he could finish his thoughts.
Following the heated altercation, Sexton took to Facebook to clarify just how much experience he has on this issue:
Sexton is absolutely right -- Muslims appear to be the only "disenfranchised" people who commit mass murder and terror because they’re allegedly disenfranchised. What kills me is that so few people realize the common denominator among Death Eaters isn’t their economic situation, it’s not their living conditions, it’s not their marital status or their views on climate change -- it’s their religion, and it’s the only religion on the planet that commands its followers kill non-believers.
But thanks to people like the Paleostinian activist above, who are aided by the liberal media, that fact is overlooked so that Americans can be given a watered down, politically correct explanation for why so many Muslims, and only Muslims, choose a life of terror. And it’s all done so that so-called "moderate" Muslims don’t become offended.
Here’s an idea, rather than becoming offended that so many people with your beliefs commit mass murder and genocide, why don’t you work on reforming your beliefs so that mass murder and genocide aren’t acceptable? A good start to that would be to become as outraged over terror attacks as they are over someone drawing Muhammad, since the taking of innocent lives in the name of Islam is far more offensive than a cartoon.
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Except both the outrage over cartoons and the murder of non-believers are mandatory parts of Islam.
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A good sized meteor traveling at a good velocity, toward Mecca, on a Hajji day would have a lot of positives.
[Mil.con] The career death of Rear Adm. Brian Losey, the Navy SEAL leader being forced to retire after his promotion was blocked in the Senate, marks the most public punishment ever at the top rank of the elite SEALs, who are known for running below the radar with their combat missions and internal business.
Even more tension between Congress and the SEALs may be looming. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, said this week that he will oppose the nomination of Losey's replacement, Rear Adm. Tim Szymanski.
Hunter told The San Diego Union-Tribune that he has concerns about the incoming SEAL commander's past performance on contracting, training and acquisitions. He didn't elaborate on the alleged problems.
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Like Rear Admirals Kubic and Gaouette, Losey knew too much about the tragic events in Benghazi. Or in the case of Losey, too little.... and said so in congressional testimony.
You'll find no reporting of it in this article however. Note the oblique references to potential causes such as gays and women, Losey's poor table manners, angry SEAL Foundation members, etc.
Not to be forgotten was the outing of an affair by DoJ/FBI and the November 2012 resignation of General Petraeus as Director CIA. I believe the attack on Benghazi took place on 11-12 September 2012.
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The leaks may have already happened and are continuing. What Admiral Losey has experienced may have been a shot over the bow, and a warning to others. None of these people want to lose their paycheck for life.
ST-6 fell on hard times and was nearly dissolved during General Powell's tenure as Chairman JCS. An operational cock-up at Paitilla Airport during Just Cause, communications losses during the Haitian Military Coup, and leaks to the press were some of the causes of Powell's distrust. For additional, read Sean Naylor's Relentless Strike, pages 54-55.
Did I mention leaks to the press, 'tell all' books, and movies like '13 Hours ?'
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Seems that Losey went after people under his command and a DOD investigation between 2011-2015 upheld 3 (of 5) violations of the Whistleblower Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_L._Losey
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When the U.S. Department of State released a statement condemning the Pakistani Taliban faction's Easter bombing in a Lahore park, it noticeably omitted the fact that Easter-celebrating Christians were specifically targeted.
