[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A senior Taliban leader Mullah Qayum Zakir The Guantanamo veteran that the Paks were said by Afghan intel to be trying to put together a new Taliban faction behind.
has proposed that the Taliban leadership should hold peace talks with the Afghan government, United States and other Western countries.
In a letter to the Taliban group’s council, Mullah Zakir has proposed that the Taliban group should adopt a new strategy for the movement’s internal and external policies.
The 12-point proposal form by Zakir also includes implementation of Islamic law, and improving military strategy and coordination within the group, according to Al-Jazeera. ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... the Taliban group front man, Zabiullah Mujahid has said the group has not received the proposal by Mullah Zakir so far.
Mujahid has further added that the group will not participate in talks with the foreign governments and will keep its focus on bring back Sharia law.
The proposal by Zakir comes amid ongoing efforts to revive the Afghan grinding of the peace processor which stalled following the confirmation of Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... ’s death last year.
The Taliban group has rejected to participate in direct peace talks as proposed by Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) comprising of Afghanistan, United States, Pakistain and China.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... condemned a drone strike in eastern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province of Afghanistan, claiming that non-combatants were killed in the raid.
According to a statement released by the Office of the Former President, the drone strike by US forces in Barmal district left a number of civilians dead.
The statement further added that the former President strongly condemns the strike by US forces, calling the raid as irresponsible.
Karzai warned that such Arclight airstrikes will have negative consequences as the civilian deaths will spark furor among Afghans against the foreign forces.
According to the local officials, at least 17 people were killed in two separate Arclight airstrikes targeting the Talibs.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... the provincial council officials said the victims also included ordinary civilians who bit the dust in the Arclight airstrikes.
Paktika is among the relatively volatile provinces in eastern Afghanistan where anti-government armed bully boy groups are actively operating in a number of its districts and often carry out insurgency activities.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Kerry reaffirm US support to AfghanistanThe 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... reaffirmed US support to Afghanistan during a surprise visit to 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.... today.
In a presser with his Afghan counterpart Salahuddin Rabbani, Kerry said the US support to Afghanistan will continue in a bid to prevent Afghanistan become a safe haven of the terror groups.
Kerry arrived in Afghanistan today to meet with the Afghan officials and discuss issues of bilateral interests.
His visit to Afghanistan comes as the officials of the two countries started third phase of negotiations to review the bilateral strategic partnership agreement between Kabul and Washington.
The negotiations are beind held in the format of join committee to review the bilateral strategic cooperation between the two nations.
Kerry said the meeting will focus on security, defense, economic and social cooperation between Kabul and Washington as part of the strategic pact.
This comes as the officials of the two countries met for two times to discuss bilateral cooperation between the two nations in the format of bilateral strategic cooperation agreement.
Kabul and Washington concluded the bilateral strategic cooperation agreement in 2012 and was signed by the former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... and US President Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... .
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A new terrorist group has pledged allegiance to Isis as it continues to expand its presence in East Africa. A group calling itself “Jahba East Africa” announced its alliance on Thursday, hailing a “new era” in the region.
In a statement, terrorists militants gave bayah (an oath of allegiance) to Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and recognised him as the “rightful Khalifa (leader) of all Muslims”.
The terrorist group’s name is previously unknown but there were hints in the statement that its terrorist supporters may previously have been part offal ofal-Shabaab.
Jahba East Africa criticised the group, which is linked to al-Qaedaand controls swathes of Somalia, as well as launching attacks in Kenya and other countries in the region.
“We in Jahba East Africa are advising all East Africans to leave al-Shabaab and their sponsor groups, like Al-Muhajiroun, Al-Hijra and Ansar Islam,” the statement said. “Like Al-Shabaab the sponsor groups have not understood the binding obligation of the Khalifah (caliphate).
“We are telling the terrorists mujahideen in East Africa that al-Shabaab has now become a psychological and physical prison.
“To pledge bayah to Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is freedom for the terrorists mujahideen in East Africa and opportunity to wage terrorism jihad according to the Sunnah against the enemies of Allah.”
A spokesperson said the group was “newly created” and comprised of terrorists militants fighting in Somalia, including Kenyans, Tanzanians and Ugandans. He said terrorists militants had been detained for pledging allegiance to Isis, adding that the statement was “on behalf all the East Africans in al-Shabaab and those terrorists that seek to open new up fronts in East Africa”.
There have been rumours of internal disputes between terrorist supporters of Isis and al-Qaeda within al-Shabaab for years, culminating in the reported creation of a pro-Islamic State faction.
Pressure to switch allegiance from al-Qaeda grew when Nigerian terrorists insurgents Boko Haram joined Isis in March last year and released a message urging its fellow sub-Saharan jihadists to do the same.
Isis terrorist leaders are understood to have approached al-Shabaab terrorist leaders themselves to make an alliance and released a series of propaganda videos calling for the creation of “Wilayat Somalia” – Somalia province. A memo was reportedly circulated among al-Shabaab terrorists fighters in September saying that its allegiance to al-Qaeda would not change and warning of punishments under Islamic law for any dissenters.
The move to silence pro-Isis terrorists elements appears to have failed. In a newly-created Twitter account, Jahba East Africa were calling on jihadists to join them on Friday, adding: “A new era will come to East Africa soon InshaAllah (God willing).”
Isis uses pledges of allegiance by existing terrorist and insurgent groups to establish franchises around the world. Libya’s Shura Council of Islamic Youth, for example, became Wilayat Barqa, while Egyptian jihadists Ansar Bait al-Maqdis were rebranded as Wilayat Sinai.
Terrorists Groups in Southeast Asia, the Caucasus, West Africa, Algeria and Gaza have also declared their allegiance to become part of the “global caliphate”.
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Blooming where they are planted rather than going up to the no longer expanding Caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
Pirates who once ruled the seas off Somalia are little more than a memory but while they are forgotten, they are not gone.
The trial in Paris of seven men accused of killing a French sailor and kidnapping his wife in 2011 is a reminder of the terror. However, experts and former pirates alike say the scourge may return.
“There hasn’t been a serious attack on a commercial vessel in over two years,” said John Steed, Horn of Africa manager for the US-based non-profit Oceans Beyond Piracy. “But the guys haven’t gone and nothing’s changed on the ground.”
Anti-piracy patrols by international warships and armed guards aboard commercial vessels, which continue to chug fast and far past the Somali coast, have suppressed piracy, not stopped it.
The last wave began in 2005 and reached its peak six years later when Somali pirate gangs attacked 237 vessels and, at year’s end, held 11 ships and 216 hostages, earning on average more than $2 million for every ship ransomed. Back then, the total economic cost of Somali piracy was estimated at $6.9 billion.
Much of that cost was down to counter-piracy actions, including the deployment of warships, extra fuel burned by vessels racing through the pirate ranges and the hiring of private armed security teams aboard ships. These costly measures worked and Somali piracy dropped off dramatically so that by 2013, no commercial vessels were successfully boarded.
Now some pirates have turned to a new activity, fishing, and are finding themselves up against a new enemy: Foreign trawlers.
The anti-piracy navies have no mandate to stop illegal fishing and private guards have no interest in it, while Somalia, making an unsteady recovery from war, lacks a coastguard and a navy.
I can see a solution other than piracy right there...
“There’s now no risk to illegal trawlers which can fish at will,” said Steed.
Pirates turned fishermen grumble about the trawlers and have threatened to take up arms.
“We are fishermen but where is the fish?” asked Abdulahi Abas, a former pirate in the coastal town of Graced. “I joined the pirates because of those illegal fishing vessels and now we have left the piracy business, we cannot fish in our waters.”
Some trawlers have been attacked. Last year, Iranian fishing boat Siraj was hijacked while its partner vessel, Jaber, escaped after a gunfight with pirates.
On any given day, scores of foreign trawlers illegally pull fish out of Somalia’s territorial waters. Among the worst illegal fishing offenders are Iranian, Spanish and Taiwanese vessels.
Which is why you won't get an anti-illegal fishing mandate: Spain and her friends will stop such a measure in the U.N.
“Illegal fishing is giving pirates the excuse they had in the beginning,” said Steed, “It is just an excuse. These are criminals, whether they are kidnapping at sea or on land.”
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[IsraelTimes] A terror suspect tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in Brussels three days after the attacks at the airport and the metro last month was reportedly carrying materials that could have been used to make a biological weapon.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal citing an internal Belgian police report, Abderrahmane Ameuroud, a 38-year-old Algerian national, was found with "a plastic bag containing three identity cards surrounded by excrement and animal testicles."
The police report said that on jihadist forums "if you mix a combination of excrement, of water and of animal meat for 10 days in a dark place, this can create a toxic reaction."
"In the case of unprotected contact with this substance, one can be infected by some virus or some bacteria provoking illness like typhoid, tetanus, colibacillosis, botulism, cholera or listeria," the police report read, as published by the Wall Street Journal.
The report advised those coming into contact with the material to wash their hands with chlorine.
"We have good reasons to believe that 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.... and some supporters of Islamic State are experimenting with biological weapons," Belgian police wrote.
According to the Journal, officials at first tried to downplay the findings.
Ameuroud was detained at a train stop in Brussels on March 25 in connection with a terror plot in La Belle France that authorities say was at an advanced stage.
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"biological material' - I thought he may have shit his pants instead; carry on...
[AnNahar] German police Friday released an Iraqi and a Nigerian man tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a day earlier after finding no evidence for their initial suspicion that the two may have planned a jihadist attack.
Prosecutors had said Thursday the 46-year-old Iraqi and the Nigerian, 29, were being held in the Munich area on suspicion they had links with 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.... group and may have been planning a "major act of violence".
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... on Friday police in the southern state of Bavaria said that questioning of the men and searches of their residential premises had netted no evidence to back up the suspicion.
The men were released on Friday shortly before noon, said the Bavarian State Office of Criminal Investigation.
Since the November 13 attacks in Gay Paree that killed 130 people, German authorities have repeatedly said they believe Germany also faces the threat of jihadist attacks.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Friday defended the police, saying that it was prudent, "if in doubt, to act earlier rather than too late".
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[IsraelTimes] About 20,000 applications received last month, compared to 120,000 in January
The number of new asylum applications in Germany, Europe’s top destination for refugees last year, dropped 66 percent in March to about 20,000, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Friday.
"In December 2015, it was 120,000 people, in January 90,000, in February 60,000 and in March 20,000," he said, weeks after a string of Balkan countries closed their borders to refugees, halting the mass influx.
Germany last year took in more than one million refugees and migrants colonists, with the flow accelerating after 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... in September suspended normal EU asylum rules to grant people fleeing the Syrian war safe haven.
The mass influx sparked a backlash in Germany -- which has since reintroduced temporary border controls and taken other steps to reduce numbers -- and in eastern Europe, where a string of Balkan countries in early March shut their borders to refugees flocking in from Greece.
De Maiziere also said that an EU-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... agreement to stop refugees crossing by boat to EU member Greece had "got off to a good start."
The March 18 accord sets out measures for reducing Europe’s worst migration crisis since World War II, including the shipping back to Turkish territory of migrants colonists who land on the Greek islands. In return, Turkey is allowed to fly batches of Syrian asylum seekers straight to EU member countries and is slated to receive benefits including visa-free travel for its citizens to Europe.
"The number of asylum seekers who have come to us to request asylum and refugee status fell markedly in the first quarter," De Maiziere said.
The numbers for January-March were down to 170,000 compared to over 500,000 for October-December 2015, he said, citing data from the government’s EASY initial registration system. But he warned that "despite the positive development, it is too early to give a prediction for the full year."
"We don’t know... whether alternative routes will emerge, especially Libya-Italia, and how Italia would respond," the minister cautioned.
[AA.TR] Turkish presidential front man Ibrahim Kalin has called for a new approach in the anti-ISIS strategy, which would enable Muslim and Western countries to work together.
Addressing the conference titled "Rethinking Violent Extremism in the MENA Region" in Istanbul Saturday, Kalin said: "The current strategy, which has focused primarily on Arclight airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria and Iraq, has failed to stop the terrorist group from striking in Syria, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Europe and the U.S."
Kalin said the war in Syria feeds ISIS and other terrorist groups. "The longer we let this war continue, the deadlier ISIS terrorism will become. ISIS reached its current level of network and impact primarily because of the war in Syria and Iraq," he said.
According to Kalin, there are no good or bad terrorists.
"Regardless of ethnic, religious or political motives, terrorism is terrorism everywhere. It is neither logical nor moral to treat ISIS as a terrorist organization that struck in Gay Paree and Brussels, but not the PKK that struck in Ankara twice over the last two months," he said.
He highlighted that PKK terrorism could not be justified in the name of fighting against ISIS in Syria.
"As the recent Ankara and Istanbul attacks show, ISIS and the PKK, although coming from opposite ideological-political backgrounds, are united in their terrorism directed at Turkey," Kalin said.
ISIS has been linked to a number of other suicide kabooms in Turkey.
In addition to the Jan. 12 Sultanahmet blast that claimed the lives of 12 German tourists, the group also carried out the March 19 attack in Istanbul, which killed three Israelis and an Iranian.
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Istanbul police on April 8 seized seven shotguns and 16 handguns at a youth association which is suspected to have links with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Police raided the Şehremini Youth and anti-Drug Association in the Fatih district and the homes of its founders upon an anonymous tip that guns were stashed in the association’s building. While no illegal materials were found in the house raids, seven shotguns, 16 handguns, 21 charger clips and 110 bullets were found in a stash hidden between two walls.
The six suspects detained during the operations are accused of selling arms over the Internet. The police said all suspects had criminal records, and an association founder, identified only by his initials M.İ., had been detained multiple times earlier on charges of drug, theft and resisting the police. It was also found out that M.İ. and another suspect had set up social media accounts under names “Ebu Zer" and "Ebu Katade," through which they shared messages promoting ISIL.
The arms trade was also made through those social media accounts, the police said.
The police are now investigation in detail the ties between the association and the jihadist group, which killed at least 150 people in four suicide attacks in Turkey since last July.
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The United States embassy in Turkey on April 9 warned American citizens of "credible threats" to tourist areas in Istanbul and the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya, a day after Israel warned of "imminent risks" of attacks.
"The U.S. Mission in Turkey would like to inform U.S. citizens that there are credible threats to tourist areas, in particular to public squares and docks in Istanbul and Antalya," read the emergency travel warning published on its official website.
On April 8, Israel reissued and accentuated a warning to its citizens to avoid Turkey over the "immediate risks" of attacks, weeks after three Israelis were killed in an Istanbul suicide bombing.
"Following a situational assessment, we are reiterating and sharpening the high level of threat in Turkey," the counter terrorism bureau said.
Its warning came hours after the Turkish foreign ministry announced "progress towards finalizing the agreement" on restoring ties with Israel, a day after both sides held talks in London.
"There are immediate risks of attacks being carried out in the country, and we stress the threat applies to all tourism sites in Turkey," Israel's counter terrorism bureau said in a statement.
It called on all Israelis to avoid visiting Turkey and urged Israeli tourists there to leave "as soon as possible," defining the threat as level 2 -- "concrete and high" -- the same as in its previous warning from March 28.
Three Israelis and an Iranian were killed and 39 people wounded when a man blew himself up on Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue, a famous shopping street in the heart of Turkey's largest city, on March 19. Turkey said the bomber had links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and on April 5 Israel's defense ministry said he had most likely targeted the Israelis deliberately.
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A team from the US Department of Defense is holding negotiations in India on potential co-production of fighter jets, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said on Friday, according to Sputnik.
This is going to curl some slippers in Islamabad...
"Members of my team... right now, as we are here in New York, in India [are] looking at the potential co-production of fighter aircraft," Carter stated at the Council on Foreign Relations.
India has recently signed a number defense deals with the United States, but Russia still providing about 70 percent of India's weapons, according to the US-based geopolitical intelligence firm Stratfor. RHowever, several deals between India and Russia have recently stalled, including an attempt to co-produce a multi-role transport aircraft and supply 100 Kamov-226T light helicopters to New Delhi.
In January, an independent Russia-based project scrutinizing the global arms market, Center for Analysis of World Arms Trade, said that Russia will retain its share of Indian arms market despite US advances.
If you really want to upset both Pakistan and China, set up a co-production agreement for some Lawn Darts F18E or F16V models. The U.S. side earns royalties and profits, the Indians learn how to build a 4.5 generation fighter. Win-win, except for the bad guys in the region...
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F-16???
I was hoping the Indian engineers would bring some sense to the F-35. Of course who in the F-35 program wants anyone around spouting common sense and sound engineering logic.
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...India is quite capable of building F-16s - but the standards for building -35s might be a bit beyond them yet. On top of that, their maintenance standards are occasionally iffy - they have some very, very good people but it's not unknown for them to say, "We know better -", and then when things don't work, blame it on the machinery and/or the designers thereof.
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The more I read about it, the more I'm convinced the 35 is a good airframe with lousy software, which the administration uses as an excuse to keep it in LRIP and disarm us by goldbricking.
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It's going to work Snowy, in spite of every damn thing it's going to work. Marines deploying squadron to Okinawa later this year. Squadrons already embarked on America and Tarawa class.
It has been the stupid assed logistics package that has FUBARed the whole show from the beginning.
I don't understand why they just can't do maintenance like they always have, which is very damn good, instead of this monstrosity that wants to measure probe and ruminate over every micron of wear in an aileron bushing or rivet.
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The civil administration demolished more Palestinian structures in Area C of the West Bank over three months in 2016 than it did in all of the previous year, the UN Office for the Coordinator of Humanitarian Affairs said on Friday.
"Thus far in 2016, the Israeli authorities have demolished 539 structures in Palestinian communities in Area C of the West Bank, compared to a total of 453 in Area C in all of 2015," it said.
The Civil Administration for Judea and Samaria says it removes Palestinian and Beduin structures that were built illegally without permits.
Aretz Israel is for the Jews, EUrope is for Arabs.
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The EU complained that all they'd spent to put up those structures was wasted, and the UN spokesman spoke. Perhaps Europe will choose to spend their tax monies at home as more conservative national governments are elected in the near future.
[IsraelTimes] Figure of 123 incidents is lowest since last July; only fatality was US visitor Taylor Force; total does not include 3 Israelis killed in Istanbul terror
The number of terrorist attacks carried out in Israeli-controlled areas in March decreased by 26 percent over February, making last month’s tally of 123 incidents the lowest recorded since July.
The only fatality among victims of March attacks inside Israel was US citizen Taylor Force, a Vanderbilt University student, who was killed in a stabbing attack on March 8 in Jaffa. That event also accounted for nine of the 26 victims maimed in terrorist attacks last month in Israel, according to data published earlier this week by the Shin Bet, Israel’s security agency.
Several Paleostinians were killed last month, most of them while carrying out attacks.
Paleostinian attacks in February resulted in the death of three victims and the wounding of 11 -- a decrease from the slaying of five victims in January, when 28 were maimed.
The figure for March is the lowest monthly total recorded since last July, when 103 attacks were observed.
The tally includes neither the three Israeli victims of a March 19 suicide kaboom in Istanbul nor the two Israelis maimed in the March 22 kaboom at Brussels’ Zaventem Airport.
In Israel and the West Bank, attacks began increasing in August, when 171 of them were documented, and rose sharply in September and October, with 223 and 620 attacks recorded in those months respectively. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in October called the escalation "a terror wave," whereas many in the Israeli and Paleostinian media dubbed it "the third intifada," or "the knife intifada."
But the overall number of attacks decreased to 326 in November, 246 in December, 169 in January and 155 in February.
Of the incidents recorded in March, only six were stabbing attacks. Another 92 involved Molotov cocktails and nine featured explosive charges along Israel’s fence with the Gazoo Strip.
Israelis crowd control method, NOW WE ARE TALKING--BRILLIANT.
Skunk spray! Leave it to the Israelis to come up with ingenious crowd control method!
For those who want less violent means used in handling protests, this seems to be the perfect fit. This is a riot control weapon that really works. Non-toxic, non-lethal, but very effective. The Palestinians want it banned because it makes them feel degraded. I wonder how long the aroma lasts on a demonstrator.
Looks like these guys may be eating outside for a while rather than around the family dinner table. Great stuff. The Israeli bio medical engineers have done it again.
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I like the fact that BBC reporters have to drink in the stench when they interview their heroes post-demonstration.
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Given as how we seem to have a never ending supply of our little black and white friends, It is good to know that another of God's gifts, indeed, has a purpose other than tormenting curious dogs. I don't think even Amnesia International could find fault with that...no wounds, no harmful side effects...of course, there is the unforeseen consequence of making those yay hoos take a bath.
Do you suppose we have a new kind of special operations unit.
"Okay, Lieutenant, time to call up the skunks."
Skunks do make excellent pets too so they could bond with a handler and work as a team. So you could have skunks walking guard duty at the perimeter just like a Dobie?
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I predict they will be spraying it from drones next.
[AA.TR] Gazoo’s only power plant went offline Saturday because the Strip’s Energy and Natural Resources Authority has been unable to pay a fuel tax imposed on it by the Paleostinian unity government.
"The power plant stopped operating because the Paleostinian unity government continues to impose a tax on the price of fuel," the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run authority said in a statement.
Hamas has been demanding a fuel tax exemption for years, citing the deteriorating situation in the blockaded Gazoo Strip.
Since Hamas won the Paleostinian legislative polls in 2006, Israel has imposed a tight blockade on the Gazoo Strip, creating a difficult economic and humanitarian situation for many of the territory’s roughly 1.9 million inhabitants.
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has been unable unwilling to pay a fuel tax imposed on it by the Paleostinian unity government.
"We need that money for the terror tunnels!"
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[AA.TR] The Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... will probably be deployed to western Syria to counter ISIS if ongoing conflicts around it get resolved, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said.
In remarks made during an exclusive interview to A Haber television channel Saturday, Cavusoglu said: "If ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around western Syria get resolved, the Free Syrian Army will be shifted to western side to combat ISIS."
He also reiterated The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s resistance to the YPG, an armed wing of the Syrian terrorist group PYD.
Highlighting that Turkey's concerns over the YPG are well known to the U.S., he added: "During my latest official visit to the U.S. along with our President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan, we stated Turkey’s position on that issue clearly."
He also said that the Turkish army will not enter Syria.
"Turkey will support from air and land. We have our opportunities in this way. So, we will clear the region from ISIS," he said.
He said that the Manbij pocket, a 60-mile (98-kilometer) stretch along Turkey’s southern border with Syria, should be rebuilt and cleaned as a security zone for Syrians.
The Manbij pocket is a "red line" of demarcation for Turkey, which has pledged to prevent any breach of the western front by the PYD.
Turkey recently concentrated artillery fire in that area to help opposition groups fight ISIS, which authorities said killed at least 200 hard boys.
Turkey recognizes the PKK, its Syrian affiliate the PYD and the YPG as terrorist groups. But the U.S. lists only the PKK as a terrorist group.
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In accordance with the 20-year perspective document, atomic energy should account for 10 percent of Iran's electricity production, which means nine more power plants are needed by then, said Behrooz Kamalvandi, spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. He said Iran is expected to turn into an exporter of engineering services for power plant building in 30 years, Mehr news agency reported April 9.
Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanai in January said Iran was planning to start the construction of the Bushehr-2 nuclear power plant in March.
In November 2014, Tehran and Moscow struck a deal to build eight more nuclear power plants in Iran. Russia has already built a power plant in Bushehr. The agreement for Bushehr nuclear power plant was finalized in 1995, but the project was delayed several times due to a number of technical and financial issues.
Iran's only nuclear power plant - Bushehr, which was inaugurated in September of 2013, has a capacity of producing 1,000 megawatts of electricity.
And an undisclosed amount of plutonium...
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Somebody - or several somebodies - who read this blog ought to be able to determine how much weapons-grade atomic bomb stuff comes from a 1,000 MW reactor.
Various types, (boiling water, liquid metal, breeder, etc.) I get that, and efficiencies, and the same for bombs (Little Boy and Fat Man, etc.). But how many bombs are they gonna be making in 2025? How many will the Juice have in 2025?
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In accordance with the 20-year perspective document, atomic energy should account for 10 percent of Iran's electricity production, which means nine more power plants are needed by then, said Behrooz Kamalvandi, spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. He said Iran is expected to turn into an exporter of engineering services for power plant building in 30 years, Mehr news agency reported April 9.
