[Tolo News] Relatives of those killed and injured in Tuesday's blast have blasted government for not providing a safe environment for Afghans.
The relatives said however they have lost all hope in government. They also said government must eliminate the Taliban and forget about trying to get the murderous Moslem group to join the peace talks process.
Relatives of the victims said on Tuesday the attack was un-Islamic.
"Every day we hear about people being killed, groups of people are killed every day. People are helpless and homeless and I really feel sorry for such a reckless government," said Wakil Yar Mohammad Khan father of Hashmatullah, one of Tuesday's victims.
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[Tolo News] President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. 's Special Representative on Reform and Good Governance, Ahmad Ziad Massoud, called on the president to sign off on the execution orders of murderous Moslems on death row.
"We have murderous Moslems in our prisons, who have been sentenced to death and who are engineering suicide kabooms. The president should sign off on their execution," he said.
Massoud also said that some elements inside government might have been involved in Tuesday's deadly attack that claimed the lives of at least 64 people and maimed over 340.
He urged security organizations to clear government bodies of Taliban agents.
He said government must adopt a similar approach to the Taliban and suppress bad boys.
"Taliban have penetrated into our security and civil organizations and have paved the ground to carry out their cowardly attacks. Tuesday's attack was the same. Reforms should be brought to security organizations and factors behind the infiltration of the Taliban should end. Unless we seriously fight and eliminate these elements from inside [government], this situation will continue," said Massoud.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, a little lightbulb figuratively appeared over Bossy's head... former chief of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), Rahmatullah Nabil, said in reaction to Tuesday's bombing that if government is true to its people in the fight against terrorism, then it should execute Anas Haqqani, brother of the network's new leader, Sarajuddin Haqqani, who was sentenced to death on terrorism charges just over a year ago.
Haqqani was tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in Doha, 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... , around 15 months ago and was extradited to Afghanistan where he was sentenced to death.
It is said that the so-called spy chief of Haqqani network, through mediation of Sayed Hamid Gailani, deputy leader of Mahaz Milli Islami Party, has visited 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.... four times to negotiate the release of Haqqani allegedly with the National Security Advisor Mohammad Hanif Atmar.
"We have a government. We have a system and we have a judiciary. If the court has given them the death penalty and they have been found guilty, we have nothing to say. However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... there should be no accusation. Don't spuriously accuse me and Atmar for this. I reject this," said Gailani.
He stressed the need for the continuation of peace talks with Taliban leaders.
A number of former officials meanwhile said that not executing murderous Moslems who have been sentenced to death will negatively affect the morale of security forces.
"It's good that Anas Haqqani hasn't been released so far. Existence of a large number of murderous Moslems in prisons and keeping them for years, who have already been sentenced to death, will create desperation among security forces," said Mirza Mohammad Yarmand, a former deputy minister at the Ministry of Interior (MoI).
Massoud meanwhile stressed that former Jihadi forces can play an effective role in ensuring the security of Afghanistan.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) Chief, Rahmatullah Nabil has called on the government to hang the Haqqani Network leader’s brother in jug if serious in fight against terrorism.
In a statement following a deadly attack in capital 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.... , Nabil said "If the government is serious and honest in fight against terrorism then Anisa Haqqa, the brother of Siraj Haqqani and several other Death Eaters who have been sentenced to death, should be immediately hanged and must be hanged tomorrow."
At least 28 people were killed and 327 othrs were maimed after a group of holy warriors launched coordinated suicide kaboom on the directorate of security for elites in capital Kabul on Tuesday.
The Afghan intelligence ‐ national directorate of security (NDS) incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Anis Haqqani along with another key Haqqani network leader late in 2014.
"Both Anis Haqani, the brother of Sirajudin Haqani and the son of Jalaludin Haqani famous on Abdullah and Hafiz Rashid, famous commander of this network in Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... are arrested in a special operation of NDS on 14 October 2014," according to NDS
NDS further added that Anis Haqani is one of the powerful members of Haqani Network who is arrested by National Directorate of Security (NDS). Anis was the deputy of his brother Sirajudin Haqani, the leader of Haqani Network and was playing key role in strategic decisions of this network.
"Anis Haqani has special skills in computer and was considered one of the master minds of this network in making propaganda through social networks.He was responsible for collecting and preparing funds from Arabic countries to carry out operations of this network," NDS said.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The casualties toll as a result of a deadly attack in capital 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.... has climbed to 64 deaths and 347 maimed, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) announced Wednesday.
MoI front man Sediq Sediqi said at least 64 bit the dust in the attack and 347 others were maimed.
The attack on Directorate of Security for Prominent Figures was launched around 9:00 am local time after a Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) exploded near the compound.
The kaboom triggered heavy shootout between the Afghan forces and the Taliban turbans that continued for several hours before the assailants were rubbed out.
The Taliban group grabbed credit behind the attack which comes amid rampant insurgency led by the group since they announced their spring offensive.
The attack was widely condemned by the Afghan officials as well as the international community.
President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. vowed to Dire Revenge each drop of blood of the Afghan people shed by the Lion of Islams, emphasizing that the Lion of Islam groups pursued violence despite repeated calls by the Afghan government to participate in peaceful negotations.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Russian Presidential Special Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir 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.... ov has said the loyalists of 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Afghanistan are looking to expand to Central Asia and Russia.
Kabulov, who is also the head of the Asia and Middle East department of the Russian foreign ministry, said the number of the loyalists of the terror group has significantly increased in Afghanistan.
"There are now 10,000 IS fighters in Afghanistan. A year ago there was a hundred. This growth over a year is spectacular," he told news hounds.
Kabulov further added "The Afghan branch of IS is definitely specialized against Central Asia. Russian is even one of their working languages," Kabulov added. "They are being trained against Central Asia and Russia."
The remarks by Kabulov comes as a front man for the US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan earlier said the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group has the potential to be an ’enormous’ threat in Afghanistan.
The chief of communications for the coalition, Brigadier General Charles Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... , has said the threat exists despite the group has received major setbacks during the recent months, pointing towards the growing US forces Arclight airstrikes against the loyalists of the terror group.
"Obviously, we’ve all seen them, how rapidly they are able to spread, in other parts of the world," Gen. Cleveland said during a briefing at Pentagon.
According to Gen. Cleveland, between January and March, the United States has carried out 70 to 80 Arclight airstrikes against ISIS in Afghanistan.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and the United States have agreed to carry out joint patrols to stop any Iranian arms shipments reaching Yemen, the bloc's secretary general, Abdullatif al-Zayani, said on Wednesday.
Zayani was speaking at a news conference with U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter after a meeting between Carter and his counterparts from the GCC, which includes 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... , Kuwait, 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... , Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Oman.
Iran denies accusations by Gulf states that it is smuggling weapons to Yemen, where GCC countries are involved in a military campaign against the Tehran-allied Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... movement.
Carter urged Gulf states to do more to battle ISIS and reaffirmed the US’s commitment to Gulf security.
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Britain's National Union of Students (NUS) elected a new president who has been criticized for her anti-Israel views, and argued against an amendment to commemorate the Holocaust on campuses on the same day, British media reported on Wednesday.
Malia Bouattia, NUS's first black Muslim woman president, has been heavily chastised for her controversial opinions.
But got elected anyway...
In a 2011 blog post for a Friends of Palestine campaign, Bouattia called Birmingham University "a Zionist outpost." Bouattia also did not initially support a motion condemning ISIS as a terror organization, according to BBC.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Swedish Green Party politician, who ignited a storm of controversy after refusing to shake hands with a female news hound on grounds that it violated his Muslim faith, announced on Wednesday that he was quitting politics.
Yasri Khan is the second Muslim Green Party politician to resign in acrimony this week.
During an interview with a female news hound from TV4 on Tuesday, Khan placed his hand over his heart instead of shaking her hand in greeting.
"People can greet each other in different ways. The most important thing is to show respect by seeing each other, to meet each other ... to respect each other," Khan said during an interview with state broadcaster Swedish Radio.
Khan, also the general secretary of the organization Swedish Muslims for Peace and Justice, has faced strong criticism from within his party since the incident.
"It is unacceptable. You can’t have a man in the party who can’t greet women in the same way you greet a man. I’m upset," Stina Bergstrom, a Green Party parliamentarian, told Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet.
In an article published by the news website Nyheter24, Khan lashed out at his critics but did not specifically say why he was resigning.
"In today’s political climate, I wonder if politics is right for me, and if I want to be a media circus clown," he said.
Earlier this week, former housing minister Mehmet Kaplan, a Muslim of Turkish origin, resigned from government after media published old footage of him making controversial remarks about Israel’s politics towards Paleostinians.
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One gathers the women of Sweden
Respect a guest's manner of greetin'.
Each meetin' I'll start
With my hand on their heart
In that neighborly garden of Eden!
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In Betty, the women are pretty
And make a great plate of spaghetti;
They dance and get sweaty,
Then throw some confetti
And quote from Christina Rosetti.
[FRANCE24] A main suspect in the investigation into the Brussels bombings has also been charged with participation in the Gay Paree attacks four months earlier, Belgian federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Osama Krayem, who was nabbed Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in Brussels earlier this month, might have been present in different safehouses used by the bad boy attackers, such as a suspected bomb factory raided in December, prosecutors said.
"He has been charged with terrorist murder and participation in the activities of a terrorist group," prosecutors said in a statement.
Krayem, a Swedish national, had been previously linked to the attacks in Gay Paree after it emerged that he had been checked by police in October near the southern German city of Ulm in a car rented by Salah Abedelslam, a key suspect in the investigation.
Belgian prosecutors also believe Krayem is the man seen with Brussels bomber Khalid El Bakraoui shortly before he went kaboom! at a metro station, and was responsible for buying the bags used to transport the explosives. He was charged with terrorist murder over the Brussels bombings shortly after his arrest on April 8.
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Excerpt from very lengthy Washington Times article:
As a Democratic senator from Florida, Bob Graham co-chaired the joint committee that wrote those 28 pages. He is one of the nation’s most outspoken critics of the commission’s Saudi conclusion and is convinced there is a direct link between the hijackers and Saudi officials.
His interest focuses on several figures, including Omar al Bayoumi, who assisted hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid Almihdhar after they arrived in Southern California in January 2000. Al-Hazmi and Almihdhar were sent to California by plot leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to learn English, then how to pilot an airliner for what he called the "Planes Operation."
Mr. Graham also concluded that Saudi diplomat Fahad al Thumairy, an official of the Islamic and Cultural Affairs section of the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Los Angeles, also helped the hijackers.
The U.S. pulled Mr. Thumairy's visa and banned him from the U.S.
Mr. Graham said in a sworn affidavit on Jan. 28, 2015, in a civil case: "Al Bayoumi met al Hazmi and al Mihdhar at a restaurant in Los Angeles in late January 2000, immediately following a meeting between al Bayoumi and al Thumairy at the Saudi consulate. Shortly thereafter, the two hijackers traveled to San Diego, where al Bayoumi held a dinner in their honor, helped them find an apartment, fronted the initial payments of that apartment, and provided them continuing financial assistance going forward. During the period that he supported the hijackers, al Bayoumi’s allowances from a ghost job with a Saudi private firm and contractor to the Saudi government increased eightfold. During that same period, al Bayoumi had an unusual number of telephone conversations with Saudi government officials in both Los Angeles and Washington."
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I missed that article back then. Article probably wasn't 'well advertised'.
Thanks!
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Saudi Arabia’s grass roots of Muslim clerics, mosquegoers and wealthy oilmen funded al Qaeda’s $30 million annual budget at the time a Saudi-dominated platoon of terrorists carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America.
Yet the kingdom and its Islamic rulers had nothing to do with the plot, which killed nearly 3,000 people.
Grass roots is bad enough, isn't it? Doesn't that mean the people? Doesn't that mean they hate us? We should have nuked them. We still should. OK, how about we just arclight Mecca? If we were worried about the oil we should have sent our military to occupy their oil fields instead of Iraq's. Saddam did not finance alQaeda, the Soddies did. Was Saddam just a convenient whipping boy? Why do we continue to coddle these creeps unless our leaders are just as bad as theirs?
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Killing that Genocidal creep Saddam and his rapist children was a net gain for humanity as a whole.
OK, but Saddam did not attack the United States and kill innocent civilians. The Soddies did. Since we don't seem to know when to stop I'd suggest Mecca.
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OK, but Saddam did not attack the United States and kill innocent civilians. The Soddies did
Al Qaeda and other jihadi group cadres were trained by Saddam Hussein's people at the Salman Pak facility, Ebbang Uluque6305. There were classes in hijacking, making biological and chemical weapons, and all the things a good jihadi needs to know to be a successful terrorist.
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Why did we remove Saddam? The rumor was that OBL's plans were much more expansive than we were told. Phase 1 - eliminate his Northern Alliance competition via assassination (completed); Phase 2 - increase his stature in the ME by humbling the great satan via the planes operation (completed); phase 3 - assassinate Saddam and install a proxy loyal to a planned OBL caliphate (fail). Remember at that time OBL heavily influenced the affairs of several countries from Africa - Yemen - the Saudis were paying him tribute - and he chose his al Qaeda (base) in the remote region of Afghanistan where he thought himself out of our reach. It is rumored that Saddam ferreted his assassins out and mitigated the initial threat. It was further rumored that we really, really did not want Saddam killed by OBLs folks with an end result that the a new OBL influenced dictator would control one of the world's largest armies. Saddam was in a spot - we offered him a way out, he wouldn't take it. Instead we forced him out and naively tried to install a democracy in Iraq (democracies can not be overthrown by a single bullet like a dictatorship was the theory). Somehow we didn't consider the end result - an envionment where a Shia democracy would push the remnants of Saddam's military leaders to create an AQI bred caliphate...OBLs intent all along...
[PJ] The State Department official who issued visas to many of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists is still employed by the federal government, according to J. Michael Springmann, the author of Visas for al-Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World.
Springmann, former head of the visa section at the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, told PJM that Shayna Steinger approved 11 of the visas granted to the 19 9/11 hijackers. Fifteen received their visas at the Jeddah consulate.
Page 7 of the 9/11 Commission report states that "one consular officer issued visas to 11 of the 19 hijackers." Those visas were reportedly approved between the years 1999 and 2001.
Springmann, an attorney who no longer works for the federal government, learned the State Department commissioned Steinger as a class four foreign service officer in 1999, which he said is "a high rank for someone hired just out of Columbia University with no prior experience."
"Despite her issuing visas to terrorists and giving equivocal answers to the 9/11 Commission, Steinger is still an FSO," Springmann wrote in his book. One must wonder given the obvious threat, if Ms. Steinger was acting at the behest of others.
She was appointed and confirmed by the Senate under the Clinton administration in 1999 as Shayna Steinger Singh in the Congressional Record, Volume 145. Have the infamous 9/11 '28 pages' been leaked ?
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The Shayna Steinger piece gets worse, much, much worse.
Early Fall 2000: Jeddah-Based Consular Officers Argue over Visa Policy for Saudi ApplicantsEdit event.
Two consular officers at the US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Shayna Steinger and David El Hinn, argue over the eligibility of Saudi citizens for US visas. The consulate had instituted a policy of aggressively interviewing young Saudi males in the wake of the 1998 East African embassy bombings due to terrorism concerns (see (Late August-September 1998)). When El Hinn arrives in Jeddah in August 2000, the consulate is still interviewing a significant percentage of Saudi visa applicants and all first-time students. El Hinn will say that officers are suspicious of Saudi citizens who are from locations where they know extremists live and who have only a vague notion of where they are headed in the United States. In addition, officers at the consulate think that, because of trouble in the Saudi economy, Saudis perhaps should not be getting visas almost automatically. Therefore, El Hinn denies a significant percentage of Saudi visa applicants as well as third-country applicants. Steinger, who works full-time on visas and deals with most of the Saudi applicants, takes a different approach and issues visas to almost all the Saudis who apply for one. Despite the obvious terrorism concerns that had previously been known to US officials in Jeddah, Steinger will say that she is “never really afraid of Saudis” and never makes the connection between the known presence of al-Qaeda members in Saudi Arabia and the possibility that the Saudis applying for visas are terrorists. Steinger believes that El Hinn is denying Saudis visas for what she will call “the wrong reasons,” and the two clash over this. El Hinn is even rebuked by the consul general in Riyadh for his high refusal rate.
[IsraelTimes] Claimants, including relatives of 241 Marines slain in 1983 Beirut attack, will be able to demand compensation from Iranian central bank
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a judgment allowing families of victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism to collect nearly $2 billion.
The court on Wednesday ruled 6-2 in favor of relatives of the 241 Marines who died in a 1983 terrorist attack in Beirut and victims of other attacks that courts have linked to Iran.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the opinion for the judges, which rejected efforts by Iran’s central bank to try to stave off court orders that would allow the relatives to be paid out for their losses.
Iran’s Bank Markazi complained that Congress was intruding into the business of federal courts when it passed a 2012 law that specifically directs that the bank’s assets in the United States be turned over to the families.
The law, Ginsburg wrote, "does not transgress restraints placed on Congress and the president by the Constitution."
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented. "The authority of the political branches is sufficient; they have no need to seize ours," Roberts wrote.
More than 1,300 people are among the relatives of the victims of the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, the 1996 terrorist bombing of the Khobar Towers in 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... which killed 19 service members, and other attacks that were carried out by groups with links to Iran. The lead plaintiff is Deborah Peterson, whose brother, Lance Cpl. James C. Knipple, was killed in Beirut.
Congress has repeatedly changed the law in the past 20 years to make it easier for victims to sue over state-sponsored terrorism; federal courts have ruled for the victims. But Iran has refused to comply with the judgments, leading lawyers to hunt for Iranian assets in the United States.
Liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans in Congress, as well as the B.O. regime, supported the families in the case.
The case is Bank Markazi v. Peterson, 14-770.
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[IsraelTimes] Terror finance expert describes ’network’ of ex-fundraisers in organizations linked to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and key pro-boycott organization
The US should boost transparency of nonprofit organizations in order to shed light on ties between a key pro-boycott organization and defunct charities that were implicated in funding Hamas, analyst Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told members of Congress during testimony Tuesday afternoon when two subcommittees of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs met to discuss current threats to Israel.
During testimony, experts including Schanzer highlighted regional nonstate actors such as Iran and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) as key threats to Israel.
The chairman of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, Ted Poe, described the BDS movement as "a threat which seeks [Israel’s] ultimate destruction."
Schanzer, a former terror finance analyst for the US Treasury, presented open-source research conducted by his group, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies which highlighted a network linking Hamas supporters with the leadership of the BDS movement.
The research tracked employees of three now-defunct organizations ‐ the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, Kind Hearts Foundation for Humanitarian Development and the Islamic Association for Paleostine -- all of which were implicated by the federal government for terrorism finance, specifically of Hamas. A federal court found that the Holy Land Foundation had sent some $12 million to Hamas over the course of a decade
The research yielded what Schanzer described as "a troubling outcome" ‐ with seven key employees of these organizations now associated with the Illinois-based organization American Muslims for Paleostine.
Schanzer told members of Congress that the latter is "arguably the leading BDS organization in the US, a key sponsor of the anti-Israel campus network known as Students for Justice in Paleostine." The organization, he said, provides money, speakers, training and even "apartheid walls" to SJP activists on campus, for the annual Israel Apartheid Week events.
"The overlap between AMP, Holy Land, Kind Hearts and the Islamic Association for Paleostine is striking," said Schanzer, but noted that "our open source research did not indicate that AMP or any of these individuals are currently involved in any illegal activity."
"The BDS campaign may pose a threat to Israel, but the network I describe here is decidedly an American problem," he warned. Americans for Justice in Paleostine raises money as a transparent 501c3 tax-exempt non-profit, which then provides funds for AMP which has the usually temporary designation of a corporate non-profit ‐ a status that is usually transitional en route to a tax-exempt 501c3 organization.
"There appear to be flaws in the federal and state oversight of non-profits charities," Schanzer complained. Although advocating for increased transparency, Schanzer said that he had a sense from talking to former colleagues that the Treasury was less invested in uncovering charities serving to fund terror networks than in the past.
"BDS advocates are free to say what they want, true or false, but tax advantaged organizations are obliged to be transparent," Schanzer told the panel. "Americans have a right to know who is leading the BDS campaign and so do the students who may not be aware of AMP’s leaders or their goals."
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US-funding of Hamas dates practically from the date it was founded. In the early nineteen nineties Saudi and Gulf state funds were funneled through the New Jersey BMI, an Islamic investment bank, and the bogus Palestinian Occupied Land Fund operating out of Los Angeles. The Fund changed its name to Holy Land Foundation in 1992 and continued to operate for years.
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Certainly a far cry from the 'IRA' Mason jar found on Irish-pub bartops from Boston to Georgetown.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The special court hearing treason charges against retired General Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... issued on Tuesday non-bailable warrants of arrest over his failure to appear before the court, despite repeated notices to do so.
"Non-bailable warrants of arrest be issued against him (Gen Musharraf), executable through director general Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)," ordered the special court, consisting of Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Minakhel, Justice Syeda Tahira Safdar and Justice Mohammad Yawar Ali.
Gen Musharraf left the country on March 18, soon after the Supreme Court upheld the Sindh High Court directions to remove his name from the exit control list (ECL).
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[DAWN] LAHORE: A property developer summoned by ’Shariat Court’ of Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD) on a complaint regarding a monetary dispute has moved the Lahore High Court, seeking action against Qazi (judge) of the organization’s ’court’ for running a parallel judicial system.
Khalid Saeed of Samanabad has made interior secretary, federal law minister, 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.... chief secretary, Punjab IG, Lahore CCPO and Qazi Hafiz Idrees of JuD parties in the petition filed through Advocate Maqbool Hussain Sheikh.
The petitioner says he received summons written on the letter pad of ’Darul Qaza Al-Sharia’ Jamat-ud-Dawa, Masjid Al-Qadsia, Chauburji, Lahore, with a direction to appear before its ’arbitration court of Sharia’.
He says the summons was issued to him on the complaint of Muhammad Azam.
The summons warned that in case of non-appearance no excuse would be considered and the petitioner would be proceeded against in accordance with Sharia law, the petition stated.
He alleged that he also received telephone calls from the JuD "court" Qazi in "threatening tone", asking him to appear before him.
He said that applications were submitted to the government functionaries (respondents) and Chief Justice of Pakistain against the illegal summons but remained unanswered.
The petitioner urged the court to order the respondent authorities to look into the matter and take action against the organization for committing illegal acts and for subverting the Constitution by establishing a parallel judicial system.
Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan issued notices to the respondents for April 26.
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[ARA News] ERBIL – The Kurdistan Region’s Security Council (KRSC) took credit for providing intelligence to the US-led coalition that killed a senior military advisor for the Islamic State (ISIS) in Mosul.
“On 16 Apr, in coordination with our Counter-Terrorism Dept, an airstrike killed ISIS senior member Imad Khaled Afer,” the Kurdish council said in a public statement.
“Also known as Abu Sarya, he was a close associate of the groups spokesman, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, and a military advisor in Mosul.”
“He was also responsible for ISIS operations in Mosul. The targeted CJTFOIR airstrike was conducted in Sahel al Aysa near Salam Hospital,” the statement added.
The US-led coalition has recently increased its intelligence and counter terrorism cooperation with the Kurds against the Islamic State.
The Kurdish Special Forces from the Directorate General of Counter-Terrorism (CTD) has carried out several joint operations with US Special Forces in Kirkuk and Mosul, and rescued a Swedish girl on February 17 from ISIS captivity.
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Not mentioned here, but these people could be key enablers in the collection of intelligence against the Iranian regime.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi ordered a halt on unauthorized protests and said that that violators would be locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! , Al Arabiya News Channel’s correspondent reported on Wednesday.
Abadi, who emphasized that the authorities will continue their tasks of enforcing security, also told them to pursue anyone who trespasses on either public and private properties.
The prime minister made the order after an urgent security meeting with military and security leaders on Wednesday.
"The meeting discussed the protests being held in front of state institutions, which lead to obstructing work there. It also discussed the general security situation in the country," the prime minister’s office said in a statement.
"(We) confirm the (citizens’) right to peaceful protests according to the legal framework, and (we confirm) the government’s commitment to its duties in maintaining security and stability and preventing any unlicensed protests," it added.
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A mass demonstration took place on Wednesday as hundreds marched to the yard near the house of the family of the Palestinian teenager suspected of carrying out Monday's Jerusalem bus bombing in a show of support for the young martyr. In "western" capitals they call it "Peace Process"
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Film the faces. File them and analyze who they are. Note the leaders. Track them and arrange for them to be brought in to be questioned and then release them and learn about their friends and associates. Find out their vulnerabilities and try to "turn" them as informers.
[Ynet] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, claims the Jerusalem bus bomber as one of their operatives after the terrorist's death. Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... family of the terrorist hands out sweets and sings praise of the 'operation.'
The terrorist who set off a bomb on the 12 line bus injuring 21 people died of his wounds at Sha'are Tzedek Medical Center in Jerusalem Wednesday.
Hamas claimed the terrorist, a 19 year old Paleostinian from the Aida refugee camp next to Bethlehem, as one of their operatives.
Hamas made its announcement through its front man in Bethlehem. The operative's name is currently under gag order.
Due to the fact that the Paleostinian man was injured along with others in the blast, he wasn't immediately recognized as the terrorist responsible for the attack. This led Sherlocks to initially believe that the kaboom was the work of a jacket wallah, as a body could not be found.
Over 100 members of the terrorist's family are handing out sweets and singing songs of praise in light of the fact that he became a martyr and because he carried out a successful attack against Israeli citizens.
Additionally, a cousin of the terrorist was killed in a riot attacking Israeli security forces three months ago.
Sources within the Paleostinian security services reported that the Paleostinian who committed the attack was known to them, and was even placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! by them in 2014. The sources then said that the terrorist left his house in the Aida refugee camp on Monday, and that his family reported to the police the next day that he was missing.
The source, who is familiar with the al-Ayda camp, offered some details about the suspect.
The suspect comes from one of the most prominent clans in the Bethlehem area. "If you say [his family name] in Bethlehem, seven people turn around," said the source, who asked not to be named.
"His cousin was recently killed by the IDF (during festivities) on the border (the pre-1967 line) between Bethlehem and Beit Jalah," the source said.
The suspected terrorist’s family did not believe his cousin was involved in the festivities, which took place in mid-January. Instead they claim he was an innocent bystander, passing through the area on his way to university, when he was shot in the chest, the source said.
"The entire family was definitely impacted by this," he said.
At a mourning event for the cousin, the suspect was "angry," the source said.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the source doubted the 19-year-old could manufacture his own explosives and instead believed the suspect had been recruited by Hamas to carry out the attack.
“This kid was a very typical kid. The last time I saw him we were sitting on the street, drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes,” the source said.
If the suspect was indeed responsible for the bombing, he would not be the first terrorist in the family.
At least two of his relatives, Nasser Hasan Abdul-Hamid Abu Srour and Mahmoud Jamil Hasan Abu Srour, were released as part of the Gilad Shalit deal, which saw the release of 1,027 convicted Lions of Islam in order to bring the kidnapped soldier back to Israel.
Other members of the family, however, are said to be more closely tied to Fatah and hold positions within the United Nation’s Workers Relief Agency, the source said.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israel provides Jordan and Egypt with intelligence assistance in their fight against ISIS, a senior Israeli military officer said on Wednesday, describing the US-backed Arab neighbors as stable despite the bad boy threat.
Egypt made peace with Israel in 1979, followed by Jordan in 1994. They are the only Arab countries to have treaties with Israel, a matter unpopular with many Egyptians and Jordanians and which generally keeps Amman and Cairo quiet about the ties.
Major-General Yair Golan, deputy commander of the Israeli armed forces, said in a briefing that the countries were working with Israel as they try to beat back 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.... "Egypt fights ISIS in the Sinai peninsula. Jordan is terrified by the presence of ISIS in Jordan’s cities and towns. And we try to work with them in order to contribute something to their security," he said.
The help, Golan told the Foreign Press Association in Jerusalem, came "mainly by providing our intelligence, and you do know that while fighting all sorts of insurgency, intelligence is the most important element in the whole system."
Despite deeming this military cooperation as unprecedented, Golan cautioned: "I wouldn’t describe that as some sort of reconciliation between the people. But it is a good starting point and I’m quite optimistic concerning that."
The Israeli general described Jordan as stable, though it has seen major refugee influxes from Syria and Iraq even as it watches those frontiers for Death Eater infiltration.
Egypt’s large population and economic struggles during recent political chaos present a greater challenge, he said.
"I am quite optimistic about the future of Egypt, but I think that we are going to experience, or they are going to experience, you know, a crisis along the way," Golan said.
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[Ynet] Al-Quds University in Abu Dis has been home to a terrorist who perpetrated a stabbing attack, a cell that planned suicide kabooms, massive violent protests, and ceremonies to commemorate murderous terrorists.
Al-Quds University (AQU) in Abu Dis, where some members of the next generation of Paleostinian doctors and academics are studying, has become a terrorism nest during the latest wave of violence. Mohand Halabi, who killed Nahmia Lavi and Aaron Bennett in the current terror wave's first stabbing attack, was a law student at the university.
Halabi has since become one of the current escalation's main symbols in the eyes of Paleostinians. The first few months of the terror wave saw massive violent protests in AQU. Students attempted to break down the university-adjacent border fence and confronted Israeli Border Police on a nearly daily basis.
Some of them have also been actively involved in terrorism. Several AQU students established an explosive lab in Abu Dis, intending to perpetrate suicide kabooms as well as non-suicide kabooms. The Shin Bet, along with the IDF and the Israel Police, has exposed the existence of a large Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terrorist presence in the town.
The student terrorist cell was exposed when Givati Brigade soldiers discovered an explosives lab in Abu Dis, as well as a store in Ramallah that was supplying it with chemicals. Duvdevan (an IDF special operation unit that operates undercover among the Paleostinian population) and Yamam (Israel Police SWAT unit) forces later raided the homes of the cell's members and took them in for questioning. Their commander, Ahmed Gamal Moussa Azzam, had been communicating with his superiors in Gazoo, from whom he also received training and instruction in the preparation of explosives.
[Ynet] As the military's engineering corps continue searching for other sections of the recently-discovered tunnel, the army trains for underground combat, and teaches regular battalions to find and block tunnels.
The IDF will continue work to uncover all sections of the recently-discovered Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, tunnel over the next few weeks to ensure that there are no other exit shafts inside Israel, as it is unclear how far the tunnel penetrated into Israeli territory.
Simultaneously, the defense establishment is developing a system to combat the Gazoo tunnels threat which is due to be completed within two years. This system will include engineering and technological measures to detect and destroy the tunnels and will supplement the border fence.
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Any change they could send us the POI (Program of Instruction), lesson plans, etc? Considering the current diplomatic climate, I reckon a MTT (mobile training team) would be too much to ask ?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran’s army chief said on Wednesday the forces it had deployed in Syria in the first such operation abroad since the 1979 revolution were volunteers working under Revolutionary Guards supervision, and the regular army was not directly involved.
The Islamic Theocratic Republic announced this month that it had sent commandos from the army’s Brigade 65 to Syria as advisers, suggesting it was using its regular army as well as forces from the elite Revolutionary Guards to help Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... ’s forces in the country’s civil war.
Iran is Assad’s main regional ally and has provided military and economic support for his conflict with rebel groups and ISIS Death Eaters.
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[Ynet] Iran faces a struggle to increase oil exports because many of its tankers are tied up storing crude, some are not seaworthy, and foreign shipowners remain reluctant to carry its cargoes.
The poor darlings.
Tehran is seeking to make up for lost trade to Europe following the lifting of EU sanctions imposed in 2011 and 2012, which deprived it of a market that accounted for over a third of its exports and left it relying completely on Asian buyers.
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[AnNahar] Analysis of a windfall of data from inside 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.... shows fighters of more than 70 nationalities, including Lebanese, joined the ruthless jihadist group, researchers said after examining thousands of records.
The treasure trove came from an IS defector who handed over some 11,000 personnel files to US television network NBC, although more than half were found to be duplicates.
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senior Army leaders recently told Congress the Abrams tank and Bradley infantry fighting vehicle — Reagan-era systems — will likely remain in the force for another 50-70 years. Meanwhile, the Army is predicting that its workhorse Chinook helicopters will probably be in service for a full century.
Metal fatigue is a social construct.
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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.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Swedish Green Party politician, who ignited a storm of controversy after refusing to shake hands with a female 
Pervez 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
