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Bangladesh
Pak diplomats fuelling militancy
[Dhaka Tribune] In the last two years, five foreign diplomats ‐ three Pak and two North Korean ‐ were asked to leave Bangladesh as they were found involved in criminal and anti-state activities including myrmidon financing

Due to such undiplomatic activities, those countries withdrew the officials.

Former Bangladeshi diplomats think the intelligence agencies should look into the matter seriously as such activities affect the country adversely.

In January last year, a Pak official named Mohammad Mazhar Khan was caught red handed from Banani with fake currency.

An intelligence report revealed that Mazhar was engaged in fake currency trading and he gave the earnings to different myrmidon outfits including Hizbut Tahrir
...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate...
, Ansarullah Bangla Team and Jamaat-Shibir for creating anarchy.

He was later released from police custody at the intervention of the Pakistain High Commission and the then first secretary of the high commission, Samina Mehtab, gave an undertaking for him.

The Foreign Ministry then asked the Pakistain mission to withdraw Mazhar and he was withdrawn accordingly.

Another Pakistain diplomat Fareena Arshad was asked to leave the country in December last year due to her involvement with myrmidon activities in Bangladesh. She was under intelligence radar for one year.

A member of banned outfit JMB, Idris Sheikh, gave a confessional statement at the court and mentioned that he had received money from Arshad.

Detectives later said that Idris Sheikh had been working as a spy for another country.

In February this year, another Pak official Abrar Ahmed Khan was nabbed
You have the right to remain silent...
in Gulshan area for his dubious movement in the area. He was later handed over to the Pakistain mission and asked to leave the country.

In August, a North Korean diplomat Han Sun Ik was asked to leave to country due to his involvement in smuggling.

Officials of the National Board of Revenue found a container full of cigarettes and electrical gazettes at the Kamalapur ICD. The consignment was imported in the name of the diplomat.

The NBR informed the Foreign Ministry about the matter, and the ministry later asked North Korea to withdraw him from the country.

In March last year, about 27kgs of gold was recovered from another North Korean diplomat, Sun Young, who came to Dhaka from Singapore. He was later released and asked to leave the country as per the Vienna convention.

When asked, former foreign secretary Faruk Ahmed Chowdhury told the Dhaka Tribune that the Pakistain was doing such type of thing with the help of people from different agencies or the police.

"In my long span of diplomatic career, I had rarely seen such type of activities. Pakistain is a member of Saarc and OIC. Such type of activities is not acceptable in Bangladesh."

Former ambassador Mohiuddin Ahmed said that such type of activities are exposed when two countries have bitter relationship, and Pakistain is doing it.

Mohiuddin, who is also a freedom fighter, said: "These are done to make a country weak. Our intelligence should be vigil in this regard and we must contain such activities."
Posted by: Fred || 09/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Europe
Germany says over 500 potential attackers currently in country
[IsraelTimes] Interior minister warns police are monitoring hundreds of people who could carry out jihadist terror attacks

Germany’s interior minister has warned his country is host to hundreds of potential Islamist Lions of Islam who could carry out attacks against the European nation.

Thomas de Maiziere told the Bild newspaper there were at least 520 potential attackers currently in the country, according to Rooters.

Another 360 people, he said, were also relevant targets for police due to their ties to potential terrorists.
Always good to have such things quantified, though that only covers the known knowns. We can assume another number less than 1.5 million of unknown knowns.
"The terror threat now stems from foreign hit teams as well as fanatical lone wolves in Germany," de Maiziere said.

"The hit teams are secretly smuggled into Europe and prepare their actions without being noticed, as we saw with the attacks in Gay Paree and Brussels," he said. "But it’s even more difficult to uncover the fanatical lone wolves. Unfortunately, there is a real and present danger from both threats."

Though counter-terrorism officials are monitoring and investigating all known potential assailants, "the authorities are assuming there are undiscovered lone wolf Lions of Islam out there."

Terror on European flight as migrant being deported to Venice screams 'Allahu Akbar' 29 times, 'death is coming' 17 times and 'we will die' nine times in shocking two-hour frenzy

[DailyMail] It has emerged that budget airlines are being used to deport illegal immigrants. Passenger Lucy O'Sullivan (pictured with husband Terence) described her terror at the handcuffed man's horror rant.

2,300 migrants rescued in Mediterranean: Italian coastguard

[AlAhram] Around 2,300 migrants including many women and very young children were rescued from the Mediterranean on Saturday while on a perilous crossing to Italy, the Italian coastguard said.

The rescues follow a huge wave of migrants who arrived in Italy at the end of August, when more than 14,000 people were plucked to safety in the space of five days. Most of them were from sub-Saharan Africa.

According to Italy's interior ministry, about 124,500 migrants have arrived since the start of 2016, slightly lower than the 122,000 recorded last year.

Italy is sheltering growing numbers of would-be refugees as its neighbours to the north move to tighten their borders and make it harder for migrants to travel to their preferred destinations in northern Europe.

According to interior ministry figures this month, Italy now has 148,000 asylum-seekers in reception centres, compared with 103,000 in 2015 and 66,000 in 2014.

Romania police find 10 migrants hidden in truck

[AlAhram] Romanian border police have found 10 migrants, including two children, hidden in a truck transporting paper that was crossing the border into Romania from Bulgaria. A statement said that the migrants, nine Syrians and an Iraqi man, arrived at Romanian customs on Saturday morning.

The Bulgarian truck driver told border authorities he was transporting paper from Bulgaria to Germany. Police checked the vehicle and found the migrants hidden in the back of the truck next to pallets loaded with piles of paper.

Police said they paid 4,000 euros ($4,050) each for transport and were to be left in Vienna. The migrants and driver will be handed over to Bulgarian authorities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Interior minister warns police are monitoring hundreds of people who could carry out jihadist terror attacks

If they didn't get in you wouldn't need to track them. Just saying.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/11/2016 8:13 Comments || Top||

#2  monitoring hundreds of people

Just like the commercials: "Oh I'm not an exterminator; I'm a pest monitor....you have termites, bye"

There was an old saying when I was a nail banger; "Can't see it from my house" used whenever there was a problem that probably should be fixed.

It seems to be the motto of the elite these days. Maybe they need to see it from their house, iykwim.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/11/2016 8:27 Comments || Top||

#3  There was an old saying when I was a nail banger; "Can't see it from my house" used whenever there was a problem that probably should be fixed.

Sounds like we were part of the same crew.
Posted by: Raj || 09/11/2016 10:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Close enough for government work right Raj? 8^)

Banged a lot of nails back in the '70s from Boston south to the Cape. Then Jimmy C tanked the economy and I got into 'puters. The rest, as they say, is history.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/11/2016 10:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Ah the good times, a man could make a decent living installing C-64z. :)
Posted by: Shipman || 09/11/2016 12:06 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey Suspends over 10,000 Teachers for 'Kurdish Militant Links'
Nobody stopped the anti-Gulen purge of Sultan Erdogan I "the much beloved", so he is expanding the effort. In the end, if he gets his way, only his true believers will remain free to inherit the future, with no competition from Untermeschen.
[AnNahar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
has suspended more than 10,000 teachers over suspected links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Turkish official said on Thursday, following a purge of education staff in the wake of the failed coup bid.

"The individuals in question are temporarily suspended -- placed on paid leave -- pending formal investigation," the official said on condition of anonymity.

A total of 11,500 teachers suspected by the education ministry of having engaged in activities "in support of the separatist terrorist organization and its affiliates" have been suspended, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

The PKK, which has waged a three-decade insurgency against the Turkish state, is listed as a terror group by Ankara and its Western allies.

The number was expected to go up to 14,000 based on the results of an investigation carried out in coordination with local governors' offices, Anadolu said, without elaborating further.

The suspension comes just over a week before the new school year gets underway in Turkey.

In a key visit to the Kurdish-majority city Diyarbakir in the southeast on Sunday, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said up to 14,000 teachers would be suspended over links to the PKK.

There are 850,000 teachers in Turkey.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  All Kurds are militants, eh?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/11/2016 7:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Yep g(r)om that's about it, just like all 'pubs a racists.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/11/2016 8:31 Comments || Top||

#3  The thinking, such as it is, is if they don't have jobs, maybe they'll quietly starve to death instead of out-breeding the Turks 3:1. Mr. Erdogan has been going on about the existential threat they pose for years, trying to get Turkish women to have more babies.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/11/2016 8:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe Recip is working on his Venezeula East model. It will take time and a lot of broken eggs. Sad to see. I do like Turkish calmyrna figs.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/11/2016 13:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Don't worry--that is 10,000 charter school teachers that can take on the teachers union ;)
Posted by: Thor Lumumba3940 || 09/11/2016 17:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
9/11 nonsense? Thousands evacuated from Six Flags America after phoned-in bomb and shooting threat on eve of 9/11
[DailyMail] State police received a phone call Saturday afternoon warning that there was a bomb inside the park. The person on the phone, who called around 1:30 pm, also said that people at Six Flags America would be shot. Authorities told Six Flags America about the call and asked them to evacuate visitors. The threat came on the eve of the 15th 9/11 anniversary.There were about 3,000 people inside when the evacuation happened. Police investigated the origin and validity of the phone call. County officers said they didn't find any source of danger inside the park.
Two high schools in the Cincinnati, Ohio area had phoned-in bomb threats yesterday during football games. Here's hoping all involved are just stupid teenagers.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Hostage rescue was aborted while Obama vacationed
More on this story from yesterday.
[AMINEWSWIRE] Some 90 minutes after Weeks and King were captured, the president arrived at the Farm Neck Golf Club on Martha's Vineyard, according to White House press pool reports. As the hostages were spirited away by their abductors and authorities in Afghanistan scrambled to find them, Obama teed off at the semi-private course that bills itself as offering "an idyllic setting" for golf. The president’s golf partners were Chris Paul, Cy Walker and Joe Paulsen, according to pool reports.

Over the course of the next two weeks, the Obamas enjoyed a holiday marked by trips to the beach, dinners with friends, and -- for the president -- round after round of golf.

"The hostages didn't have the luxury of time," said an official with knowledge of the events. "The president was on vacation. How could he not find time to approve this mission?"
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 09/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  First things first!
Posted by: gorb || 09/11/2016 10:41 Comments || Top||

#2  He'd make a fine HBCU drum major.
Posted by: Shipman || 09/11/2016 12:08 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Yezidis react angrily to film set during genocide
[RUDAW.NET] The opening film of the Duhok International Film Festival, which tells a love story set during 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....
seizure of Sinjar and genocide of the Yezidi people, was received angrily by some in the audience as it struck close to still open wounds.

The film, The Dark Wind, Reseba in Kurdish, from director Hussein Hassan, tells the story of Reko and Pero. The couple became engaged shortly before ISIS attacks their village in Sinjar. Pero and many Yezidi girls and women are captured and sold as slaves. Reko is left behind, determined to find her.

In the trailer, Pero returns but Reko’s family has trouble accepting her, broken by the horrors she suffered.

Crowds flooded out of the screening, upset because they believe Pero was killed in the film.

"The Yazidis are not killing their daughters," a young man shouted.

"It is not true...everything is a lie," another shouted among a crowd of protesters holding signs reading "Stop Reseba."

Even before the screening, some people protested the depiction of events in the film.

Commenting on the trailer of the film on YouTube, a commenter using the name faesal gyan, said, "The film says it is based on true events... at the last scene the father does not agree to the marriage of his son to the girl because she was released from the hands of ISIS and she was raped. We absolutely refuse this thing. It is not the tradition of the Yezidis. We call for deleting such scenes because it never happened."

The director, Hussein Hassan, speaking to Rudaw after the screening, said the movie was made in cooperation with Yezidi religious leaders and the Lalish cultural centre. During his meetings with the Yezidi community leaders, he was asked to change how the treatment of Pero by her family and community was depicted in the film.

Dimen Zandi, the actor who plays Pero, confirmed to Rudaw that her character is not killed in the movie.

Ayub Ramazan, director of art and culture in Duhok province, told Rudaw that the audience did not wait until the end of the film to see the conclusion before leaving the theatre to protest.

A member of the Yezidi Lalish cultural centre told Rudaw, "The final scene that shows the father and her brothers treating her in such [a bad way] has never happened in reality. Every returning girl was welcomed with open arms and has been seen as halal [allowed in Yazidi religion]."

The Yezidi genocide, which began two years ago, is still going on. Thousands of Yezidi girls and women are still in ISIS captivity and the true magnitude of the crimes against the Yezidi community are still to be known as the girls and women are found, mass graves are located, and areas are liberated from ISIS control.

Yezidi leaders have said they will meet to discuss how to react to the film.

The film is billed as the first feature film about the Yezidi people.
Posted by: Fred || 09/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Baghdad wants back all oilfields that fell to Kurds during ISIS war
[RUDAW.NET] Iraq's ministry of oil says that it intends to retake full control of all Kirkuk oil fields that fell to the Peshmerga during the war 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....
(ISIS) and that the recent rise of export from Kirkuk is part of an old agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) that had been temporarily cancelled due to sabotage against the pipeline that passes through The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
"The oil ministry reaffirms that the old agreement still stands as it was taken into account in the last two year’s fiscal budget and that of 2017. What happened was that due to sabotage against the pipeline that passes through Turkey the ministry halted exports of Kirkuk oil through the pipes." Iraq’s oil ministry said in a statement late Friday.

It also said no changes had been made to the 2014 December agreement that tentatively solved the lingering oil dispute between the two administrations. The ministry said that the resumption of Kirkuk oil exports will help the North Oil Company and the province financially.

"The resumption of oil exports through the Turkish Ceyhan port will bring extra income that will cover the operation costs of the North Oil Company and Kirkuk’s own share of petrodollars." the statement read.

The Iraqi oil ministry emphasizes in the statement its intention to take back all oil wells and fields that came under Kurdish Peshmerga control two years ago.

It said: "The oil ministry will also try to retake full control of all Kirkuk oilfields that were administered by the NOC before the terrorist gangs of ISIS entered Iraqi territories and before the Peshmerga forces seized some oil wells during the previous government."

On August 29, a top Kurdish delegation headed by the KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani visited Baghdad where he met with Iraq's Prime Minister Haidar Abadi regarding production and export of oil.

The export of crude from Kirkuk rose in late August after a ban was lifted on several oil fields in the province, increasing the total export of the crude to nearly 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) from previous 150,000 bpd.

Iraqi government's spokesperson Saad Hadisi described the visit as "a great beginning" and "an important step towards solving most of the financial problems between Erbil and Baghdad," in an earlier interview with Rudaw.

"This new step will become a starting point to implement the new deal and abide by it," he told Rudaw on August 30.

Earlier this year, Iraq's North Oil Company (NOC) halted the export from Kirkuk's three oil wells including Baba Gurgur, Khabaza and Jambouri on March 11 with an output of 150,000.

Under the terms of 2014 December agreement between Erbil and Baghdad, NOC will export only parts of its oil through Kurdish pipelines to the Turkish Ceyhan port in return for KRG administrating larger portions of the oil production in the province.

But according to the new arrangements, almost all produced oil in Kirkuk will be exported via Kurdistan pipeline with the revenues of 75000 bpd of the total of 300,000 bpd returned to the Iraqi ministry and the rest to the KRG.
Posted by: Fred || 09/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  Why? so you can fight over them with the Sunni?

F@ck you and your kurdish hate.
Try to keep the smoldering remnants of a state running before you start asking those you prosecute to give you hard fought gains.

Suck it up a holes. To the victor goes the spoils and do not for one second try to go around me on this.

I have a very, VERY painful plan for the f@cking piece of sh!t Moslem middle east after all this sh!t and you may want to keep the kurds as friends when you starve.

FISLAM
Posted by: newc || 09/11/2016 0:50 Comments || Top||


Shiite militia leader advises Peshmerga to ‘protect own borders’, stay out of Mosul
[RUDAW.NET] A Shiite militia official issued a strong warning to the Kurdish Peshmerga on Saturday, saying that the Peshmerga should retreat from all areas they have liberated from Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) in Nineveh Province and that they "do not need the Peshmerga" to support Iraqi armed forces in the looming battle for djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
"We are going to take part in the battle for Mosul and we do not need Kurds or the Peshmerga to assist our forces," Karim Nuri, spokesperson for the Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi militias, told Rudaw TV, warning that they "advise the Peshmerga to protect the Kurdistan Region borders and do not distract themselves with entering Mosul. If they do, they will definitely play with fire."

Nuri said that they in no way will allow "the annexation of Mosul areas including Shingal, Makhmour, and Bashiqa into the Kurdistan Region."

"We are calling our Kurdish brothers and the Peshmerga to protect their region’s border. We could liberate the city without them and even do not need them. All they have to do is protect their own borders."

Nuri warned that Kurds should not claim that they are "redrawing their borders with blood," referencing previous speeches from Kurdish President Masoud Barzani. "We are partners and in one trench together. Please, let the love and respect that existed between us remain as it is. Mosul should not be put under Kurdish administration, at all. The same for Shingal and other areas."

He reiterated that the Shiite militias will "play a decisive role" in the anticipated Mosul offensive, despite calls from local Nineveh populations, including Sunnis and Christians, that the Shiite militias should not be involved in order to avoid sectarian festivities.

"Of course we will participate in the battle and play a decisive role in it. We are committed to orders being issued from the Iraqi Armed Forces Command" led by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, Nuri said.

He stressed that "ISIS cannot be defeated without help from the Hashd forces. It has been proven in previous battles that we can end the battle. When ISIS hears the Hashd is coming, they will be defeated. Again our forces will participate in the battle and nobody can deter us. We do not need permission from any party."

He said that the Shiite militias will participate in the battle on multiple fronts but would not provide details for operational security reasons.

Last month, top Peshmerga commander Shiekh Jaafar Mustafa told Rudaw that any offensive to retake Mosul would be impossible without Kurdish support because "the Peshmerga surrounds and controls many areas and supply routes on the eastern and western sides of Mosul city."

When that issue was raised to Nuri, he stressed that Kurdish and Shiite forces are in the same trenches together, and have coordinated in many previous battles. We "have the same destiny," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  A portent of clashes to come. The Kurds have certainly a greater claim to the settlement of Mosul -- especially the eastern city -- than have the Shiites. The Iranian hope to split the Sunni and Kurdish leadership in Iraq thus far has not worked. (Note the article on Kirkuk oil in Rantburg, above.) The Iraqi quagmire remains just that, a quagmire, and the final Sunni-Shiite battle for control of territory before the partition of Iraq awaits.
Posted by: Shick de Medici6262 || 09/11/2016 9:22 Comments || Top||

#2  "Of course we will participate in the battle and play a decisive role in it."

And may it be a long and costly role.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/11/2016 12:23 Comments || Top||

#3  I wonder about the state of foundation stability of the Mosul dam. Just asking.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/11/2016 13:17 Comments || Top||

#4  The Flyash Mesopotamia Mud Liberation Army says: "fine"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/11/2016 14:47 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel ‘bracing for attack’ by IS in Sinai in next 6 months
[IsraelTimes] Army official tells Telegraph hard boyz on southern border are arming themselves with military vehicles, heavy weaponry ahead of likely assault

Israel is preparing for an attack by 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....
’s Egyptian affiliate, Wilayat Sinai ("Sinai Province"), within the next six months, a top military official told the UK’s Telegraph.

The unnamed official quoted by the newspaper Friday said Israel believes the group will soon use weapons and vehicles stolen from Egypt’s military to stage an attack on the Jewish state’s southern border with the Sinai Peninsula.

The weaponry includes an Egyptian tank and Russian-made Kornet anti-tank missiles, the officer said.

"It could happen today, tomorrow, in a month but within the next six months we will come into an engagement with Wilayat Sinai," the official said. "In the next six months they will try to carry out an attack and try to do something against Israel."

The group was established as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis
...Supporters of Jerusalem, the current pen name of al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula...
in 2011, amid the revolution that brought about the ouster of Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
. Comprised of gunnies and former al-Qaeda gunnies, it sought to fight both the Egyptian state as well as Israel.

In 2014, as the Islamic State swept into power in vast regions of Syria and Iraq, the organization pledged allegiance to the group and renamed itself as the "Sinai Province."

The Israeli official noted that the hard boyz would need to make good on the group’s founding principles in the near future.

"Many terrorist organizations use Israel as a prop but, for these statements to have any content or not be seen as empty, something must eventually happen in the field," he said.

The last major attack on Israel’s southern border was in 2012, when hard boyz belonging to the group, then still known as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, smashed into Israel through the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Egypt.

The heavily armed gunnies killed at least 16 Egyptian soldiers and commandeered two Egyptian armored vehicles before attempting to cross into Israel.

One vehicle went kaboom! at the border, but the second managed to enter Israeli territory.

The six attackers inside then managed to drive about a mile into Israel, and were traveling at 70 kilometers an hour along the road toward Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, before the Israeli Air Force was able to get a clear shot and blow the vehicle up. Gunmen who survived the blast were killed in an ensuing firefight with Israeli soldiers.

The Israeli army official told the Telegraph that Israel believed the group to be well more equipped today than it was then.
The Jerusalem Post adds:
Earlier this year, Israel tightened security and built a new barrier along the Israel-Egypt border, after reports from sources close to the bully boy group have claimed to be planning attacks against Israel in the south. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the security coordination between Egypt and Israel, saying that without increased security efforts "we would have been overflowed by thousands of ISIS fighters from Sinai."
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russian Forces Targeted 59 Medical Centers in Syria
Beirut- The Syrian Network for Human Rights has said that attacks on medical centers in Syria haven’t stopped, and even escalated alarmingly after the High Negotiation Committee’s decision to postpone its participation in the Geneva talks on April 19.

The report documents the targeting of no less than 59 medical centers by attacks that are suspected to be Russian.

The report, which was the 17th to be published by SNHR since the Russian attacks in Syria began on September 30, 2015, focuses on the targeting of medical centers from the beginning of the Russian intervention in Syria until August 31, 2016.

Fadel Abdul Ghani, chairman of SNHR, says: “Russian forces’ attacks on medical centers and medics are a blatant violation of the international humanitarian law and amount to a war crime on account of the fact that these attacks are indiscriminate and in many cases deliberately targeted protected objects. These attacks have deepened the agonies of the wounded and injured and are one of the main causes of the displacement of the Syrian people as the send a very clear message: there is no safe area or a red line including hospitals, you either flee or perish.”

The report draws upon the daily documentation and monitoring and includes accounts by survivors, victims’ families, and eyewitnesses.

The report documents the targeting of no less than 59 medical centers by attacks that are suspected to be Russian including five facilities that were targeted more than once. Eighty four percent of the attacks occurred in Aleppo and Idlib governorates.

According to the report, these attacks resulted in the killing of 86 civilians including eight children and 13 women. Also, 26 out of the 86 civilian victims were medical personnel.

The report notes that the Russian regime has, beyond any doubt, violated Security Council Resolutions 2139 through the practices of indiscriminate bombardment. Also, the Russian regime violated many rules of international humanitarian law and committed dozens of crimes that amount to war crimes through the indiscriminate bombardment which was also disproportionate in its use of excessive force.

According to the report, Russian forces perpetrated a violation that constitute a war crime through targeting medical centers with an indiscriminate, and in many cases, deliberate bombardment on objects that are supposedly protected.

The report calls on Russian forces to conduct investigations with regard to the incidents mentioned in the report and make the findings of the probe public for the Syrian people.

It also urges Russian forces to hold all those who are responsible accountable in addition to redress all the damaged hospitals, and to reconstruct and re-prepare them. Additionally, all victims’ families and wounded must be compensated.
Posted by: badanov || 09/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now I'm green with envy: if Syrian "freedom fighters" are anything like Paleostinians - medical- and command & control centers are the same.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/11/2016 4:26 Comments || Top||

#2  It's not the destruction of medical centers/HQs/weapons depots that I mind. It's the baby duck farms and bunny ranches I weep for.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/11/2016 15:49 Comments || Top||

#3  see, if you have an ammunition dump, but there's a couple of bandaids and a few grams of speed to keep the Lions of Islam all frisky, it's a medical center by gosh
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 09/11/2016 21:35 Comments || Top||


US, Russia agree new Syria truce plan
[DAWN] The United States and Russia reached a deal on a new Syrian ceasefire Friday, which, if it holds, could see the first joint military effort by the two powers against religious turbans.

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...
and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the truce would come into force on Monday, the first day of the Moslem holiday of Eidul Azha.

The two powers back opposite sides of the conflict, with Moscow supporting the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators...
and the US behind a coalition of rebel groups it regards as moderate.

But if Russia is able to pressure Assad to respect the ceasefire for a week, Moscow and Washington will set up a joint coordination unit and begin air strikes against agreed terrorist targets.
Posted by: Fred || 09/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  Peace plan #?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/11/2016 3:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Wasn't there a peace plan announced before the last election?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/11/2016 8:28 Comments || Top||

#3  I wonder how Putin is going to make a laughingstock of 0bean this time.
Posted by: gorb || 09/11/2016 10:39 Comments || Top||

#4  I think he will use old faithful, 7.a with an atomic knee drop.
Posted by: Shipman || 09/11/2016 19:55 Comments || Top||



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