[EXPRESS.CO.UK] DEBRIS found washed up on the shores of Mozambique MATCHES the missing parts from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the Australian Transportation Safety Bureau has announced.
A Malaysian investigation team examining the two pieces of debris confirmed the paint and stencilling of the parts were consistent with the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 jet.
The Malaysian ICAO Safety Investigation Team said the debris were panels from the plane, which vanished in March 2014.
A report read: "The dimensions, materials and construction of both parts conform to the specifications of a Boeing 777 aircraft.
"The paint and stenciling on both parts match those used by Malaysia Airlines; and as such, both parts are consistent with panels from a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft, and are almost certainly from MH370."
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A diplomatic quarter has been planned for foreign missions in Jalalabad city, capital of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
Hifzullah Ishaqzai, head of the foreign affairs of Nangarhar said on Wednesday that efforts have been made to implement the project.
While talking to a gathering organized to celebrate 100 years of the friendship between 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 Germany, Ishaqzai added that the diplomatic quarter would be built close to the Governor House.
He further said that consulates of India, Pakistain, Iran, and as well other foreign offices operating in Jalalabad would move there.
Meanwhilek, spokesperson for the Governor House said that construction of the diplomatic quarter would begin this year. Attaullah Khogyani did not specify a date for it.
Residents of Jalalabad had been demanding foreign missions to vacate populated areas since long ago saying that they come under occasional attacks.
Most of the victims of these attacks have been recorded civilians who had been living or working in surrounding areas by the time of the attacks.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The acting Minister of Defense Masoom Stanikzai has said that the foreign bandidos bully boys disguised as the Talibs are fighting the Afghan forces.
In his trip to the southern provinces, Stanikzai stopped in the restive Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province to review the security situation of this province.
He said the ongoing violence in Afghanistan is not having internal links but is a major conspiracy led by the foreign forces of Evil who have turned the the Afghan soil into a fighting ground.
Stanikzai further added that his claims could be proved with the death of hundreds of foreign forces of Evil killed during the operations in Khanshin, Baramchi, Marjah and other parts of Helmand province.
Speaking during a gathering in 215th Corps of the Afghan army in Helmand, Stanikzai said the local residents and Afghan people are not prepared to remove the corpses of the gunnies killed in the mentioned districts.
Stanikzai stressed that the Afghan people are not fighting the Afghan forces but they are the foreign forces of Evil who are waging war and violence.
The acting defense minister also added that the security of the bordering regions should be strengthened in a bid to prevent the infiltration of foreign forces of Evil into the Afghan soil.
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afghanistan has its own truter
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Uganda, the lead troop contributing nation under AMISOM has deployed a new batch of 2000 troops to Somalia to battle the al Shabaab. This new Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) contingent replaces the rotating troops of Battle Group XV under Col Silver Aguma’s command that deployed to Somalia in 2015.
The new batch, Battle Group XVIII will be under Col Ronald Bigirwa and is set to be located Aribiska some 40km from Mogadishu. The first flight arrived in Mogadishu on March 28th 0600hrs where they were received by the Uganda Contingent Commander Brigadier Sam Okiding.
The fresh battle boots comes at such a time when they war against the al Shabaab is at its peak in Southern and central Somalia is at its helm with al Shabaab loosing most of its strongholds in the regions to the AU troops and respective states’ militaries.
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batches? We doan need no steenkin batches!!
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] An Egyptian court sentenced 23 supporters of Mohammed Mursi to lengthy prison terms on Wednesday over a violent protest against the Islamist president's ouster in 2013, judicial officials said.
Fifteen defendants were tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... for life, three for 15 years and five for 10.
The defendants were found guilty of killing three civilians during the protest in Cairo on July 5, 2013, two days after Mursi's overthrow, judicial officials said.
They were also convicted of "carrying weapons and attacking state institutions" during the protest near state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Libya's unrecognized authorities in control of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... on Wednesday demanded that the head of a UN-backed unity government Fayez al-Sarraj leave just hours after he arrived in the capital.
In a televised address, the head of the Tripoli authorities Khalifa Ghweil said Sarraj's government was "illegal", asking him to leave the capital or to "hand himself in".
Sarraj, who was named prime minister-designate in December under a UN-brokered power-sharing deal, arrived at a naval base in Tripoli Wednesday following growing international calls for Libya's rival political camps to unite behind his administration.
"Those who entered illegally and secretly must surrender or turn back," Ghweil said. "We won't leave Tripoli as long as we are not sure of the fate of our homeland."
Libya has had two rival administrations since mid-2014 when a militia alliance overran the capital, setting up its own authority and forcing the internationally recognized parliament to flee to the country's remote east.
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[AlAhram] 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... seized hundreds of children from a remote town in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... in late 2014 but initial calls to report the kidnapping were ignored with locals fearful of the government's response, residents told AFP on Wednesday.
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Boko Haram is not the name of the group
Their actual name is Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād which means "Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad"
while it is unwieldy that is not the reason it is not used.
Our rulers are busy lying to us we are not in WW4 against Islamist theocratic fascism.
just look at your headlines and substitute Islamists for each and every time you see these words.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Saudi political activist, Mujtahid, said that KSA's announcement about establishing Drone factory in South Africa is a mere ruse to purchase Israeli drones via the African state.
On his Twitter account, Mujtahid added that South Africa is going to purchase the drones on behalf of Saudi that will import them disjointed before it builds them again.
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[AlAhram] Austria on Wednesday moved to further tighten migrants colonists' access to the country by placing tough new restrictions on asylum eligibility and making it easier to reject asylum seekers at the border.
As of mid-May, the government will only accept cases of refugees facing threats to their safety in a neighbouring transit country or whose relatives are already in Austria.
"We will not consider any asylum requests unless we have to because of certain criteria... like under the (European) Convention on Human Rights," Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner told a presser in Vienna.
She said the decision was in accordance with European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... law which allowed member states to take national measures in emergency situations.
Austria -- which last year received one of the highest asylum claims per capita in the EU -- was no longer "obliged" to accept all requests because the migrant crisis posed "a threat to public order and national security", Mikl-Leitner said.
The new rules will also force migrants colonists to request asylum directly at the border in purpose-built registration centres, where they may be held for up to 120 hours while their application is being checked.
Illegal migrants colonists caught inside the country will be taken to the border, Mikl-Leitner warned, while rejected asylum-seekers will be returned to the nation from where they crossed into Austria.
The government also reaffirmed its intention to step up controls at existing checkpoints along its southern frontiers, including at the Brenner Pass, a key European transit route on the Italian border.
Some 14,000 people have already applied for asylum in Austria so far this year, according to the interior ministry -- reaching nearly half of the annual quota of 37,500 claims imposed by the government in January.
But the flow has slowed to a trickle since Austria and Balkan countries along the main migrant trail leading up from Greece shut their borders at the end of February.
[Express] THE European Union has been branded "irresponsible" for "throwing money" at an African state besieged by poverty, violence and corruption. I've got it! Small forts could be built adjacent the rail lines. They can be built of concrete or stone and will serve as a long lasting testimony to British and EU resolve. Not sure why I didn't think of it before.
More than 400 people have been killed in Burundi since last April when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced he was standing for re-election - a vote he won that July for the third time.
Now as the threat of violence between rebels and government-backed soldiers heightens, and the country faces civil war, the EU has announced it will suspend funding to the army in a ploy to encourage peace talks - a move which UKIP (United Independence Party) have dubbed irresponsible. I had to include the following comment from a chap named Wallace:
"Surprise surprise!!!! THE European Union has been branded "irresponsible" for "throwing money" Nothing new here folfks! I have worked and lived in Africa and can say ALL of Africa is corrupt! The British government accountants have known this for generations. To say the unelected EU thiefs and the British elected are only seeing this now, takes a lot of believing? Most of the money goes to the top political peoples bank accounts. The working people paying taxes have always been the ones to pay it ALL. Even the Salvation get goods free here and SELL them in Africa. IT's ALL about money. All the charities you give money to , live it up in Africa and have outlandish weekend parties all paid for. Governments have FREE holidays, everything paid for by YOU.
Britain needs a shake up and needs OUT of the EU. Muslims need to be be told there are no changes here , if you do not like it then LEAVE!"
[FOXNEWS] Gay Paree authorities filed preliminary terrorism charges Wednesday against a 34-year-old Frenchie for allegedly plotting an imminent attack and operating an explosives arsenal of what prosecutors called "unprecedented scale."
Gay Paree Prosecutor Francois Molins said Wednesday that the suspect, Reda Kriket, is accused of participating in a terrorist group with plans for at least one attack, possessing and transporting arms and explosives, and holding fake documents, among other charges. Kriket will stay in jug while magistrates continue investigating the case and determine whether to send him to trial.
Kriket is believed to have traveled to Syria in 2014 and 2015 and made several trips between La Belle France and Belgium and the Netherlands, Molins said.
At least three other people are in jug in the case in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Molins did not say whether Kriket's purported plot was linked to 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.... network behind last week's attacks in Brussels and last November's attacks in Gay Paree.
The prosecutor said no target for Kriket's thwarted attack has been identified, and Kriket has given limited explanation to Sherlocks in his six days in detention.
Two Algerians believed linked to Kriket's alleged plot are being held in Brussels. The Belgian federal prosecutors' office said Wednesday that the men, identified as Abderrahmane A. and Rabah M., will face a hearing April 7.
Another Frenchie linked to Kriket, Anis Bari, is being held in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, Molins said. Bari is resisting extradition to La Belle France.
Among things found when police searched Kriket's apartment in the Gay Paree suburb of Argenteuil on Thursday were 500 grams of the explosive TATP, 1.3 kilograms of industrial explosives, several bottles of oxygenated water and acetone, material to make detonators, five automatic rifles, seven cell phones, stolen passports and two computers showing links with jihadi groups, Molins said.
Before the Gay Paree attacks, Kriket and the suspected Gay Paree attacks ringleader were convicted in absentia in the July 2015 trial of Khaled Zerkani, who Belgium's federal prosecutor described as "the most significant recruiter of jihadi candidates in Belgium." Kriket, like Gay Paree attacks criminal mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was absent for the trial. Also implicated in the network was Najim Laachraoui, the bombmaker who made the explosives for the Nov. 13 attacks and then used his own creations as a suicide kaboomer in Brussels on March 22.
Also Wednesday, French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... decided to abandon proposed legislation that would have revoked citizenship for convicted gunnies and strengthened the state of emergency, because differences between the two houses of parliament could not be resolved.
He had submitted the two proposals days after the Nov. 13 attacks in Gay Paree that left 130 people dead.
The country's state of emergency, swiftly declared by the government on the night of the attacks, was recently extended to May 26. It extends some police powers of search and arrest and limits public gatherings, among other changes.
[IsraelTimes] Officials request US authorities’ help to examine electronic devices seized in raids conducted after last week’s Brussels attacks
An official linked to the investigation of the Brussels terror attacks said Wednesday that a laptop found near the hideout of the suspects in the March 22 airport bombing contained images of the prime minister’s official residence and office.
The official, who asked not to be identified because the investigation was ongoing, said that at the moment there were "absolutely no" specific indications that Prime Minister Charles Michel was under threat from the attackers.
He said the computer "was full of stuff" of many locations and information garnered from the Internet.
The prime minister’s office has long been under special security review which been increased since the November 13 attacks in Gay Paree.
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Belgian officials had requested of US authorities to help examine two laptops and several phones seized from suspects in raids since the attacks in Brussels.
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Turkey and the United States will not fall out over their differing stances on the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said.
Just wait until Biden gets there...
“Not every two countries can be like-minded on every issue. For example, they [U.S.] think differently, we think differently, but we will not fall out because we have differing thoughts,” Çavuşoğlu told Voice of America on March 30, after lecturing at George Washington University.
“We are two significant partners and we have common targets but we can think differently on some topics. When we express our thoughts, then it is perceived as though there is a problem between the two countries,” he added.
Turkey’s relations with the U.S. have been strained due to their differing stances regarding the PYD and its military wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG). The U.S. sees the two organizations as “reliable” and important partners in its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in northern Syria and supplies them with military logistics. Turkey meanwhile says the PYD and YPG are terrorist organizations as they are the offshoots of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which the country has been in an armed conflict with since the mid-1980s.
“Why do we need to convince each other that we think differently; we have proof in our hand. We give [them] the documents and information that the PYD/YPG is no different than the PKK,” said Çavuşoğlu.
“Therefore, there is no deterioration in the relations between the U.S. and Turkey. On the contrary, our strategic partnership marks even more importance,” he said.
Çavuşoğlu also said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was planning to visit Turkey, without disclosing any details of a possible visit.
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You will do what the fuck I SAY.
You WILL return the Judiciary, you WILL return the Military, You WILL stop Ottoman dreams. You will protect the Jews, You WILL forget your deft alliances with sunni butchers, you Will SHUT THE FUCK UP for now.
A chronic disease is one lasting 3 months or more. Some folks might argue that the initial signs were somewhat earlier, but it would appear we've experience periodic recurrences since around 1933. I'm not referring to polio by the way.
Since it's been so very long ago, it might be instructive to note that the 'big givernment' SOB pictured here died in his 4th presidential term in 1945. Had he not died, he might STILL be president of the United States. The popularity of wealth redistribution, free stuff, and big giverment is well documented. The diseases of corruption and greed are inherently evil and appear to have no known cure.
"Hell is empty and the devils are here."
~ The bard of Warwickshire
A camp with a capacity of 5,000 people will be built in the western province of Manisa to accommodate colonists migrants readmitted to Turkey, Turkish Red Moon Shaped Thingy Crescent Deputy Chair Kerem Kınık has said.
“We are conducting work for the construction of a camp with a capacity of 5,000 people to host the colonists refugees in our country under humanitarian conditions and to provide for their needs,” Kınık told Anadolu Agency.
The plan for the camp, which is the first to be constructed in Turkey outside the country’s south and southeast, comes after Ankara inked a deal with the EU regarding colonists refugees who arrive in Europe via Turkey. According to the deal, Turkey is set to take back colonists migrants who reached Greece on or after March 20. For every colonist migrant Turkey takes back, the EU will accept onecolonist migrant from camps in Turkey, in an effort to reduce the illegal crossings. The returns will begin on April 4.
Isn't that just another version of 'catch and release'?
As part of the deal, Turkey will receive 3 billion euros – in addition to an initial 3 billion euros that was earmarked late last year – to provide further assistance to the refugees. Turkey has also agreed to pursue all measures in an effort to prevent migrants from using sea or land routes in their quest to reach Europe.
"All measures"? What's that, exactly?
Turkey is already home to over 2.7 million Syrians, most of whom live outside official camps.
Kınık said the Turkish Red Moon Shaped Thingy Crescent was working with the Directorate General of Migration Management about the services to be offered to the colonists refugees who will return to Turkey in accordance with the deal.
“The directorate carried out some activities in Greece for the identification of the colonists refugees and irregular migrants who are subject to return,” said Kınık.
Highlighting that there are already 22 refugee camps in Turkey, Kınık said: “250,000 Syrians are living in these camps. We have Turkish Red Moon Shaped Thingy Crescent cards for these people. We have provided financial support of around 310 million Turkish Liras [to refugees] with these cards. Our support for those living outside the camps continues as well in this regard. We are trying to solve our colonists refugee brothers’ problems with adaptation in society centers that we recently opened. There are also camps that we are supporting inside Syria. We are giving support to 500,000 to 600,000 victims inside Syria.”
Meanwhile, the number of colonists refugees arriving from Turkey in Greece rose sharply on March 30. Greek authorities recorded 766 new arrivals between the morning of March 29 and the morning of March 30, up from 192 the previous day. Most arrived on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos.
The EU Commission said on March 29 that the flows in the last week had diminished, with only 1,000 people arriving from Turkey on the Greek islands, compared to an average of 2,000 a day in the last couple of months. It was not clear why the numbers had dropped, but the Aegean Sea had been hit with bad weather and gale-force winds, making the journey from Turkey on small rubber boats even more dangerous.
The colonists refugees aren't stupid...
Turkish, Greek and other NATO member state ships are in full view on the water, while on land, Turkish police have increased controls on the main roads leading to the Aegean coast, turning back those suspected of planning to take to migrant boats.
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"Western Turkey"
Isn't that Greece?
Housing for 5000 only 20 miles ('who gives a shit' km) up the 881 from the ports of Izmir.
Convenient for shopping junkets I suppose.
[REUTERS] Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will sit down with U.S. Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... this week on the sidelines of a nuclear summit, and will likely have a chance to speak with President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... as well, the White House said on Wednesday.
Biden "is going to make time in his schedule for President Erdogan, and I'm confident that President B.O. will also make at least a little time for some kind of conversation with President Erdogan while he's here too," White House front man Josh Earnest told news hounds.
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"I'm confident that President B.O. will also make at least a little time for some kind of conversation with President Erdogan while he's here too"
No awkward photos ops; just a nice, casual chat...
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No awkward photos ops; just a nice, casual chat...
Unless Tayyip plays golf....
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So if JB 'resolves' the Syrian migrant problem for Europe during a global nuclear summit, he would be a pretty good replacement for Hilarity on the ticket.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Canada’s foreign minister said his country’s 2012 move to cut diplomatic ties with Iran has had no positive consequences whatsoever, expressing articulate willingness for re-engagement with the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
Canada"Canada’s severing of ties with Iran had no positive consequences for anyone: not for Canadians, not for the people of Iran, not for Israel, and not for global security," Stéphane Dion said on Tuesday while addressing an international conference at the University of Ottawa.
The administration of former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper severed diplomatic ties with Iran in September 2012, citing, among other pretexts, what it described as continued threats from Iran to Israel.
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...and we look forward to one day facing off against the Persians for Lord Stanley's Cup.
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This sort of thing is so depressing. Thank heavens that I'm OCD (Old, Cranky and Dangerous) and can just spend my few remaining years enjoying the decline - and that's in any way you wish to take it.
[The Hill] The Justice Department’s hacking of an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists without Apple's help is raising more questions about the bitter fight between the government and tech giant.
The DOJ on Tuesday said it had accessed the phone and dropped a case against Apple that sought to force the company to help unlock the device. But the fight over encrypted communications is far from over.
Here are five lingering questions: Watayawannabet.... DoJ and Apple made a high stakes, out o'court clandestine deal. Face saver for DoJ and the Feds, big bucks for Apple, swell stories for the media, whilst the taxpayer picks up the tab?
[DAWN] India poured scorn on the video confessions of an alleged spy shown by Pakistain on Tuesday, claiming the man was tutored and that he might have been kidnapped from Iran.
"We have seen a video released by Pak authorities of a former Indian naval officer, doing business in Iran, who is in Pak custody under unexplained circumstances," the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement.
It said the individual’s televised statements had no basis in fact. "That the individual claims to make the statements of his own free will not only challenges credulity but clearly indicates tutoring."
The Indian statement stressed that despite New Delhi’s request, Indian consular officials were not allowed to meet him.
"We have not been given consular access to an Indian national under detention in a foreign country, as is the accepted international practice. We are naturally concerned about his wellbeing in these circumstances." The comment appeared to deny the man was a spy, underscoring he was an ordinary citizen eligible for consular help.
"Government categorically rejects allegations that this individual was involved in subversive activities in Pakistain at our behest. Our enquiries reveal that he apparently was being harassed while operating a legitimate business from Iran," the statement said.
"While we probe this aspect further, his presence now in Pakistain raises questions, including the possibility of his abduction from Iran. This would become clear only if we are given consular access to him and we urge the Government of Pakistain to respond immediately to our request."
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[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...a pak religious party. It is usually part of the govt, never part of the solution... (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... has called for making Pakistain a true Islamic welfare state and introducing the Islamic system in the country.
He was addressing the 77th annual Dastar-e-Fazeelat Conference at the Jamia Mazharul Uloom, Manzilgah, on Tuesday. The conference was presided over by caretaker of Dargah Halejvi Sharif, Abdul Samad Halejvi.
The JUI-F chief said his party opposed moves to promote secularism in the country. He claimed that Pakistain was created in the name of Islam and solution of country’s all problems lied in following the guidelines provided in the Koran and Sunnah. Introduction of secular ideas in the name of moderation and progressive thoughts could not be accepted, he added.
He criticised the rulers and some politicians for what he called promoting secular ideas in the country. He accused the rulers of handing over the affairs of the country in the hands of international NGOs.
The JUI-F chief said international conspiracies were being hatched against the Islamic world and madressahs (religious seminaries). Some politicians and NGOs are trying to portray a bad picture of madressahs and they are forcing the government to take action against them. He claimed that raids had been conducted on thousands of madressahs, but not a single terrorist was found there.
Maulana Fazl held the West, particularly the United States, responsible for bloodshed in Islamic countries and said the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... had failed in finding solutions of international disputes which was the main cause of unrest in different parts of the world.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) constituted by the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government to probe the suicide kaboom in a park here claimed on Tuesday to have found some clues which suggested that banned bully boy outfit Jamaatul Ahrar ...A Pak Taliban splinter group that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough... was involved in the carnage. Since they said they dunnit that shouldn't come as a surprise.
"The daylong investigation produced some solid evidence that the same network (Jamaatul Ahrar) was behind the terror strikes in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Youhannabad, Wagah border and the Police Lines," Lahore Capital City Police Officer retired Capt Amin Wains told Dawn.
He said the JIT had shifted its focus to Jamaatul Ahrar when it released the photo of the bomber, identifying him as Salahuddin, aged between 20 and 25.
Jamaatul Ahrar was formed in September 2014 when Ehsanullah Ehsan ...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency... announced quitting the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, led by Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... , and claimed to have the support of 70-80 per cent of TTP commanders and fighters.
The group said to be involved in other attacks as well
"The photo shared by the banned outfit and the sketch drawn by the Lahore police of the suspected bomber a day after the attack were almost identical," the Lahore police chief said.
Surprisingly, he said, some evidence found from Sunday’s blast site had strong resemblance to those collected by Sherlocks after the three previous terror attacks carried out in Lahore, suggesting that Jamaatul Ahrar was behind all these incidents.
"A group of senior coppers thoroughly re-examined the three previous terror cases to analyse them in the perspective of the Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park suicide kaboom and found strong indicators that led them to this notorious organization," Mr Wains claimed.
He said officials of the Punjab Forensic Science Agency, who were analysing the fresh evidence sent to them by police, had also endorsed the Sherlocks’ point of view. For instance, he added, the bomber had used specifically engineered belt, instead of ‘suicide jacket’, in the blast. In the previous three attacks the same belt was used.
The CCPO further said that the design, pattern and material of the belt (remains of which were found from Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park) being examined by forensic experts was almost identical to those analysed after the previous three terror incidents.
"We again interrogated the detained accused, including controllers of the previous three terror incidents, and reached the conclusion that Jamaatul Ahrar was behind the latest attack," he said.
On the basis of Tuesday’s investigations, he added, police teams had started a massive search in the city, particularly Iqbal Town, for sleeper cells of bandidosDeath Eaters and their controllers.
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[DAWN] The army has said that the capture of an Indian spy 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 a proof of India’s interference in Pakistain.
"This is no less than the state-sponsored terrorism," military front man Lt Gen Asim Bajwa said on Tuesday while releasing a six-minute video of confessional statement given by the spy, who identified himself as Kulbhushan Yadav and said he had been operating under the cover name of Hussain Mubarik Patel.
The military front man said that Yadav would be prosecuted as per the law of land.
Responding to a question about granting consular access to him as sought by the Indian government, Gen Bajwa said he was caught red-handed while planning subversive activity in Pakistain and a decision in this regard would be taken later.
"We’ll cross the bridge when we come to it. There are lots of technicalities involved in it," he said.
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Twirling his mustache, Asim said defiantly to the newhounds "We would never stoop to such a thing!"
Then Gen. Bajwa twirled his mustache a while more, hoping they'd never find out the truth about his love for Shabba the goat.
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[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... on Wednesday evening announced the end of the sit-in at Islamabad's D-Chowk by pro-Mumtaz Qadri protesters, following successful negotiations between the government and protesters.
Nisar also denied media reports that a deal had been struck, saying the demonstrators left "of their own accord".
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The head of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization forces (PMF), Hadi al-Ameri said that the powerful group will have major role in liberating djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... insurgency.
In an interview with Financial Times, Ameri said that the "United States should look to the Popular Mobilization units (also known as Hash Saabi) as an official power."
"Despite objections by the US-led coalition, PMF will take part in battle of retaking Mosul."
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit. Y'got the wrong guy! he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed... Ameri said the PMF will not enter Mosul but will work on a strategy to isolate the city in a bid to help the Iraqi army from getting into the city which is controlled by Takfiri group, ISIL.
Ameri, who leads Badr group (which is part of the PMF), said that the "European states and US don’t trust the PMF because they are Shia," noting that "they consider ISIL holy warriors ‘fighters’ while they describe PMF fighters ‘militia’."
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In an interview with Financial Times, Ameri said that the "United States should look to the Popular Mobilization units (also known as Hash Saabi) as an official power."
I don't see why the White House would have any problem - it's not like they haven't been using versions of "popular mobilization units" in the US since 2008.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Paleostinian resistance movement, Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , called on Paleostinians to escalate the Intifada (uprising) against the Israeli enemy.
In a statement released on Land Day, the Paleostinian movement urged confronting the Israeli enemy "with patience and steadfastness till the liberation of our beloved country, Paleostine."
"Land Day should be a day for escalating the Intifada against occupation forces and confronting the settlement projects which are intensifying."
"The escalation of martyrdom operations against settler gangs and occupation soldiers will end up with the defeat of the enemy and its withdrawal from the West Bank," the statement added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit. Y'got the wrong guy! he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed... Islamic Jihad movement called on Paleostinians to unite in Land day against the Israeli scheme, stressing on the importance of boycotting the Israeli goods.
"Economic boycott is an important weapon and a way of pressure on the occupation," the Paleostinian movement said, according to the statement.
"In Land Day we salute our steadfast people in the occupied territories who refuse to abandon their identity or their land," the statement added.
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[NIQASH.ORG] One of the smallest and oldest religions in the world is experiencing a revival in the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. The religion has deep Kurdish roots -- it was founded by Zoroaster, also known as Zarathustra, who was born in the Kurdish part of Iran and the religion's sacred book, the Avesta, was written in an ancient language from which the Kurdish language derives. However this century it is estimated that there are only around 190,000 believers in the world - as Islam became the dominant religion in the region during the 7th century, Zoroastrianism more or less disappeared.
Until -- quite possibly -- now. For the first time in over a thousand years, locals in a rural part of Sulaymaniyah province conducted an ancient ceremony on May 1, whereby followers put on a special belt that signifies they are ready to serve the religion and observe its tenets. It would be akin to a baptism in the Christian faith.
The newly pledged Zoroastrians have said that they will organise similar ceremonies elsewhere in Iraqi Kurdistan and they have also asked permission to build up to 12 temples inside the region, which has its own borders, military and Parliament. Zoroastrians are also visiting government departments in Iraqi Kurdistan and they have asked that Zoroastrianism be acknowledged as a religion officially. They even have their own anthem and many locals are attending Zoroastrian events and responding to Zoroastrian organizations and pages on social media.
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Said folks have always had a soft spot for dogs and other critters.
Hopefully he was killed by one of the YPG women fighters.
Wearing a Go Pro camera on his helmet, the militant films the gunshot that kills him in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria.
ISIS released the slickly-edited and chilling footage of the gunfight against the Kurdish People's Defence Units (YPG) that has become a hallmark of their propaganda.
Featuring a voiceover, edited shots and Arab music, the minute-long clip features a small ISIS flag in the corner of the screen.
Ankara is closely following reports of a planned operation by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northern Syrian town of Manbij, held by fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Turkish military officials have stated, expressing readiness to shell Syrian Kurdish forces in the event of a violation of “Turkey’s red line.”
Confirming recent moves in the region, military sources said Turkey would launch the “required response” from inside Turkish territory in the event of seizure of the so-called “Azaz-Jarablus line” by the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the militia forces of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), both of which are regarded as off-shoots of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
So the Turks are now openly supporting ISIL?
In such a case, Turkish artillery units deployed near the border would launch intense fire at the PYD forces, the sources said on March 30.
PYD-YPG mobility in the field, which is apparently aimed at moving towards the Azaz-Jarablus line after seizing Manbij from ISIL, has been closely followed by aerial and ground intelligence units, military sources said. They noted that they did not yet have information indicating that the U.S.-led coalition forces would lend support to this planned operation from the air.
“The required response would be given from inside Turkey without entering Syrian territory,” the sources said.
In such a situation, the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) plans to use the South Korean-designed T-155 Fırtına howitzers, in retaliatory shelling of its southern neighbor.
Turkey had also used Fırtına howitzers in mid-February, while shelling YPG targets in the Azaz town of northern Syria, after the group seized the Menagh air base north of Aleppo.
A leading U.K. daily newspaper recently reported that Washington has been pushing Turkey to close “the last border exit” from Syria used by foreign ISIL fighters to gain access to Europe for terrorist attacks.
“Western intelligence agencies believe that some of the terrorists involved in the bombings in Paris and Brussels travelled along a 60-mile highway that runs through the [ISIL]-controlled town of Manbij, south of the Syrian-Turkish border, before making their way to France and Belgium,” The Times reported on March 28.
“The American plan is to back up Kurdish fighters who would seize the road leading out of Manbij and take control of the border,” it said.
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[REUTERS] Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. said it would not be difficult to agree on a new Syrian government including opposition figures, but his opponents responded on Wednesday that no administration would be legitimate while he remained in office.
Assad, bolstered by military victory in the desert city of Palmyra, was quoted by Russia's RIA news agency as saying a new draft constitution could be ready in weeks and a government that included opposition, independents and loyalists could be agreed.
While the distribution of portfolios and other technical issues would need to be discussed at Geneva peace talks, which resume next month, "these are not difficult questions", Assad said.
Opposition negotiators immediately dismissed Assad's remarks, saying that a political settlement could be reached only by establishing a transitional body with full powers, not another government under Assad.
"What Bashir al-Assad is talking about has no relation to the political process," said George Sabra of the High Negotiations Committee.
The United States also rejected Assad's comments.
"I don't know whether he envisioned himself being a part of that national unity government. Obviously that would be a nonstarter for us," White House front man Josh Earnest said.
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In the battle with ISIS for storied Palmyra, Russian forces unleashed their flying tank.
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's forces battling to recapture the ancient city of Palmyra had a lot of help from above. At least one Russian Mi-28 attack helicopter--Moscow's answer to the U.S. Army's fearsome Apache gunship--flew top cover as Syrian tanks and infantry stormed the modern city adjacent to the UN World Heritage Site.
Video posted online by a pro-regime group clearly shows an Mi-28 firing a rocket from beneath one of its stubby wings. The battle for Palmyra, which ended this week as ISIS militants fled the city, apparently represented the two-seat, gun- and missile-armed Mi-28's combat debut.
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[Gulf News] The spectre of the Daesh [Islamic State] group obtaining a "dirty bomb" will loom over a top-level nuclear security summit hosted by President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... in Washington on Thursday and Friday.
Obama welcomes several leaders from countries as diverse as China and Nigeria, as well as representatives from nearly 50 other nations, for the summit aimed at elevating the problem of shaky safeguards from the desks of technocrats to the highest corridors of power.
The meeting comes just days after 32 people were killed and 340 were maimed in bombings at Brussels airport and the Belgian capital’s metro.
The attacks featured conventional explosives, but two of the jacket wallahs -- Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui -- have been linked to possible efforts by the Daesh [Islamic State] group to secure fissile material.
Late last year, Belgian police investigating the November 13 Gay Paree terror attacks found 10 hours of video surveillance detailing the comings and goings of a senior Belgian nuclear official.
Belgian media have since reported that the brothers were linked to the surveillance.
The incident has only heightened existing concerns about Daesh [Islamic State] efforts to get nuclear material.
"Having a portion of the discussion that is focused on counter-ISIL [counter-Daesh [Islamic State]] is a decision that was made in January," said Laura Holgate, the National Security Council’s senior director for weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and threat reduction. "But it turns out that it is obviously very timely, unfortunately.
"The video footage is of concern," she said, adding, with regard to the Belgian case, that the United States does not "have any information that a broader plot exists."
But groups like Daesh [Islamic State] have long shown their interest in obtaining nuclear material.
"We’ve seen over the years that different terrorist organizations have ambitions related to acquiring nuclear materials," said Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes.
"We’ve seen that in their public statements, we’ve seen that in some cases in their monitoring of nuclear facilities," he added.
"That’s why the summit process is so important, because different countries have different levels of security at their facilities or in terms of how they are handling nuclear materials."
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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 camp with a capacity of 5,000 people will be built in the western province of Manisa to accommodate 
Joe 
[The Hill] The Justice Department’s hacking of an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists without Apple's help is raising more questions about the bitter fight between the government and tech giant.
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Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
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