[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A former top Taliban leader has said the group is under pressure to revive peace talks with the Afghan government months after the group rejected calls by the Afghan government to participate in direct peace talks.
Agha Jan Motasim has told the New York Times that the main motives behind growing demand to revive peace talks are latest mounting pressures and changes in the situation of the country.
Motasim was the finance minister in the Taliban regime and a close aide former Taliban leader supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.
He said the Taliban leaders have agreed to revive peace talks during a meeting in Quetta city, the provincial capital of Baluchistan province of Pakistan.
According to Motasim, the feasibility of peace talks revival is high and some Taliban leaders have asked him to mediate for the launch of peace negotiations.
The Taliban group rejected to participate in direct peace talks with the Afghan government earlier this year and opted to continue to its insurgency by launching their spring offensive in mid-April.
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The election talks in Mogadishu is reportedly on the brink on of collapse due to a standoff over the upper house of the next parliament power-sharing system. Unconfirmed reports suggest that Jubbaland and Puntland leaders have walked out of the National leadership forum (NLF) was overshadowed by the dispute.
No deal has yet been reached on the electoral process of the country as the time is running out and the election is set to take place in October 30, 2016.
Some of the regional states leaders say they want the upper house should be cancelled and shape a parliament similar to the outgoing federal parliment.
Somalia is approaching a critical period of parliamentary and presidential indirect election due to be held later this year, despite security and political challenges.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Sunday there would be new attacks in La Belle France but proposals by former president Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd President of the French Republic. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... to boost security was not the right way to deal with threats.
The French capital was put on high alert last week when French officials said they dismantled a "terrorist cell" that planned to attack a Gay Paree railway station under the direction of 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.... "This week at least two attacks were foiled," Manuel Valls said in an interview with Europe 1 radio and Itele television on Sunday.
Valls said there were 15,000 people on the radar of police and intelligent services who were in the process of being radicalized.
"There will be new attacks, there will be innocent victims...this is also my role to tell this truth to the French people," Valls said.
In an interview newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD), Sarkozy said La Belle France needed to get tough on snuffies by creating special courts and detention facilities to boost security.
"He is wrong about trying to wring the neck of the rule of law," Valls said.
Sarkozy proposed to systematically place French citizens suspected of having bad boy links in special detention facilities.
"And don’t tell me it would be Guantanamo," Sarkozy said in the interview. "In La Belle France, any administrative confinement is subject to subsequent control by a judge."
Guantanamo, opened by former President George W. Bush, was used to hold prisoners rounded up overseas when the United States became embroiled in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
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...but proposals by former president Nicolas Sarkozy to boost security was not the right way to deal with threats.
So, you have a magic wand which will make all of this disappear? This is stunning insanity / denial of the problem.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... said Ankara had a duty to defeat ISIS, describing its operation inside Syria as the first step towards this goal after Turkish air strikes killed at least 20 ISIS turbans in Syria.
"It is the binding duty in front of our nation to finish off the organization called ISIS (ISIS) in Syria and ensure it is unable to carry out actions inside our country," Erdogan said in a televised message for Eid al-Adha Islamic holiday.
"The Euphrates Shield operation is the first step towards this," he added.
Erdogan said The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... was now "much stronger, determined and more dynamic" than before the July 15 coup bid, which the authorities blame on the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... . He denies the charges.
Turkey has sent dozens of tanks and hundreds of troops into Syria, in an unprecedented operation dubbed Euphrates Shield aimed at booting out both ISIS turbans and Kurdish militia from the border area.
The operation, launched on Aug. 24, came after a string of bloody suicide kabooms and rocket attacks inside Turkey blamed on ISIS.
Six Turkish soldiers have been killed so far in rocket attacks in Syria blamed on ISIS but Erdogan said that the Euphrates Shield would continue and "not one drop" of blood of Turkey’s forces would be spilt in vain.
Turkish strikes kill 20 ISIS myrmidons Meanwhile, ...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often...... Turkish air strikes killed 20 ISIS turbans in northern Syria on Saturday, broadcaster CNN Turk cited the Turkish military as saying on Sunday.
The strikes targeted three buildings, one vehicle and one cycle of violence around the Syrian town of Tel el-Hawa, CNN Turk said.
Separately, the head of the military said in message to mark a public holiday that "Operation Euphrates Shield", a Turkish incursion into Syria against ISIS and Kurdish militia fighters launched two and half weeks ago, would "continue decisively," according to broadcaster NTV.
Turkey had previously been accused of not doing enough in the fight against ISIS and its Western partners have applauded the operation.
Turkey’s operation is also targeting the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia, which Ankara regards as the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which has waged a 32-year insurrection inside Turkey.
This has created strains with Turkey’s NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... ally the United States, which works with the YPG on the ground in the fight against ISIS.
Erdogan said the "PKK has no chance of resistance against the power of our state", despite an upsurge in violence that has seen hundreds of members of the security forces killed since a ceasefire ruptured in 2015.
"The PKK’s Syrian branch -- the PYD-YPG -- awaits the same fate," he added.
Erdogan had previously indicated Turkey and the United States have discussed an operation to push ISIS bandidosbully boyz out of their de facto capital of Raqa in Syria but there have been no details on the timing or how this would work.
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[RUDAW.NET] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , in his Eid message, vowed to "save The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... from the terror" of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
"We are determined to save Turkey from the terror of the PKK, working hand in hand with our security forces and our brothers in the region. PKK, just like FETO, doesn't have the power to fight against the determination and strength of our nation," he said, comparing the PKK to the Gulen movement, which Turkey calls the Fethullah Terrorist Organization (FETO).
Erdogan added that Kurdish parties in Syria, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed forces the Peoples Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara considers branches of the PKK, will suffer the same defeat.
"The same ending is awaiting PKK branches in the region, such as the PYD and YPG," he said.
"Finishing the organization called ISIS [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.... ] in Syria as well as disabling it in our country is our obligation to our people," the president continued.
"Operation Euphrates Shield is the first step to the completion of this duty. Nobody can stop us to do whatever is needed to destroy these organizations, which are threatening the future of our nation, regardless of who might be backing them."
Turkey launched its military operation Euphrates Shield in northern Syria at the end of August with the assistance of local militias fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA). The operation aims to clear ISIS from the Syria-Turkey border areas and to stop Kurdish forces from advancing west of the Euphrates River.
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Turkey has announced a recruitment of candidates for police service, Sabah newspaper quoted the country’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu as saying Sept.10. He said that 20,000 people will be selected for the police service and 10,000 of them will serve in the police special forces.
Background check, question 1: what did you do during the coup?
Currently, around 276,000 policemen serve in the structures of Turkey’s Interior Ministry.
In total, more than 7,000 policemen were dismissed in Turkey as part of the fight against the movement of Fethullah Gulen who is accused of being involved in the military coup attempt in the country.
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[IsraelTimes] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Sunday ousted 28 mayors accused of links to Kurdish murderous Moslems or US-based holy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , replacing them with state-appointed trustees in a major shake-up under emergency powers after a failed coup.
The mayors have been suspended from their posts on suspicion of links to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which is waging a deadly insurgency in the southeast or Gulen, who is blamed for the July 15 failed coup, an interior ministry statement said.
They have been replaced by state-appointed trustees, similar to how administrators are appointed to head a company that goes into bankruptcy.
Twenty-four of the outgoing mayors are accused of links to the PKK and four of links to Gulen, the ministry said.
The reclusive holy man denies charges of criminal masterminding the coup.
The move is the most important step yet taken by new Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu since he took over from Efkan Ala in a surprise reshuffle earlier this month.
Soylu said the move meant that local municipalities would no longer be controlled by "bully boyz or those under instructions from Qandil," referring to the PKK’s mountain base in northern Iraq.
The move was taken within the three-month state of emergency imposed after the coup. The incumbents had been elected in 2014 local polls.
The municipalities affected -- mainly in the Kurdish-dominated southeast -- include hugely important urban areas known as centers of PKK activity such as Sur and Silvan in the Diyarbakir region and Nusaybin in the Mardin region.
The mayors of the cities of Batman and Hakkari in the southeast have also been replaced. The interior ministry said 12 of the mayors suspended are already under arrest.
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Rolled over from yesterday because it was published late in the day.
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Actually, San Diego was an Islamist radical outpost in the decade leading to 9/11. Many Islamist activists (from CAIR, Holy Land Foundation, MSA, etc.,) operated from the city. The history is as interesting as the early AQ penetration of New York City, but a book has yet to be written on the subject.
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The various 9/11 reports that have come out over the years have had one overwhelming conclusion: had the CIA communicated what it knew to the FBI in a timely fashion, the terrorists might have been stopped.
A scenario which has been repeated time and time again since 9/11. Projects generally involve sources. Sources are seldom shared.
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The Saudis were lying with, and financing snakes...still are. The motive unknown...arrogant wahhabbi-ism or self-preservation the most likely candidates.
I really appreciate this newspaper investigating the links...
Many questions arise - the three that first come to mind are:
1. When will the 9/11 trial finally start? Perhaps all that classified information they are concerned about in that trial is classified due to the fact that is "political" and not capability related.
2. Why is no one else concerned about the fact that Saudi government money financed the 9/11 hi-jackers prior to the attack and when will the KSA be punished?
3. Why is Obama protecting the house of Saud with a veto?
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Look at the Somali colony in SD and the concentrated living area they have established. Ask the Sheriff, former FBI SAC for that area. He knows all about it.
[DAWN] Before the crack of dawn and before the protesters hit the streets to resume demands that India leave Kashmire, he dressed like an ordinary man and made sure not to carry anything identifying him as police.
He joined six passengers in a shared taxi outside his village in a lush pine forest near the militarised boundary that divides the Himalayan region between India and Pakistain.
A young woman asked if he was a policeman, warning that it could mean trouble for all of them if he was found out by the anti-India protesters who regularly check IDs at highway roadblocks.
"I couldn't lie," the officer said. He managed to convince them he could pass undetected. "But deep down I was shattered, and scared, given how hard it is to hide one's identity in this place."
As India-held Kashmire (IHK) enters a third month of tense conflict marked by violent street festivities and almost daily protests, Indian government troops backed by local police are maintaining a tight security lockdown throughout the region.
That's left the local Kashmiri police, tasked with patrolling the streets, gathering intelligence and profiling anti-India activists, feeling demoralised, afraid and caught in the middle between the Indian authorities who employ them and the friends and neighbours who question their loyalties.
The plainclothes officer in the taxi ─ one of 12 police officials who spoke with the News Agency that Dare Not be Named on condition of anonymity for fear of both public reprisal and official retribution ─ managed to avoid detection until he reached his precinct in the main city of Srinagar.
But a few days later, he said, his colleague wasn't so lucky. He was slapped and beaten, his clothing torn, at one of the protesters' ad-hoc checkpoints, "let go only after some elders intervened".
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I once called a distant relative on the rez for the first time. She mistook me for a cop calling her to get her to send money to buy a bus ticket for one of her miscreant relatives, back to the rez. This relative said my voice sounded like it was coming from some kind of official.
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On the rez again, once was walking the dogs along the railroad in the village...A wandering German shepherd joined my dogs...add to this my beaver fur hat and we got mistaken for a RCMP police raid...
A lot of coke was then flushed down the toilets...
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A senior Iranian military commander Sunday dismissed claims from Washington that U.S. patrol ships have been harassed by Iranian boats in the Persian Gulf, saying Tehran acted according to international law.
“Iranian boats continue to act based on defined standards and are well aware of the international laws and regulations, so the claims are not only untrue, but stem from their fear of the power of Iran’s soldiers,” said Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, deputy chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, according to state news agency IRNA.
The Pentagon last week said seven Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps fast-attack boats approached the USS Firebolt on Sept. 4 with their machine guns uncovered, though not trained on the Americans.
But Jazayeri said the claims were exaggerated.
“When Iranian boats pass by them at a distance of a few kilometers, Americans claim that Iranian boats have approached them within a range of one kilometer,” he said.
“Iran’s marine corps will never be stopped by the propaganda of extra-regional enemies and their vassals in the region in guarding the Islamic Republic of Iran’s sea borders and economic interests,” he added.
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Point of information: the body of water in question is the Gulf of Rumsfeld.
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One of these days an IRGC boat will cut it just a little too close and get rammed. Hopefully it will be an American destroyer rather than a PC that does the ramming.
The IRGC boat will become the second warship in modern history to be sunk by ramming. JFK'S PT 109 was the first.
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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
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[DAWN] Before the crack of dawn and before the protesters hit the streets to resume demands that India leave 
