Kunduz residents on Saturday criticized government's security strategy for their city, saying the security institutions have failed to safeguard the province.
Reports from the frontlines and the outskirts of Kunduz indicate that thousands of people are dealing with severe food shortages after a week of ongoing battles between the Taliban and security forces.
"We took our children and escaped with only our clothes and left our whole property behind," said an elderly woman from Kunduz.
"Taliban kill anyone who has worked with the security forces or local police force," said another resident.
"May Allah help us, we have no one, may Allah show mercy on this nation," said another resident.
"So far we have not managed to get the bodies of our countrymen who were brutally killed, the situation is quite sensitive," an Afghan solder said.
Meanwhile, displaced families who have escaped the city and sought refuge in Kabul and Badakhshan also complain about the lack of facilities and daily needs.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Pak envoy has reportedly linked peace in Afghanistan to the resolution of Kashmire issue as the Afghan officials are pessimistic regarding Islamabad’s honesty to bring the Taliban group to negotiations table.
Pakistain Prime Minister’s special envoy on Kashmire Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed has said a solution to both is required for peace and they cannot be "compartmentalised".
That's actually true: the Paks are perfectly capable of stirring a shitstorm up in Afghanistan whenever they like, and link that to whatever they like...
"Road to peace in 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.... lies in Kashmire in the sense that when you talk of peace, you cannot compartmentalise peace, you can’t segregate a section... ok you can have peace in Kabul and let Kashmire burn. That is not going to happen," Syed was quoted as saying in a report by Economic Times.
Syed who is the chairman of the Pakistain Senate’s Defence and Defence Production Committee was speaking during an interaction at Washington-based think-tank Stimson Centre.
"So you (US) talk of a comprehensive peace settlement, so let the people of South Asia not be hostage to the hostility of the past. Let them move forward," Syed added.
Shezra Mansab, a member of the National Assembly of Pakistain, as Special Envoys of Pakistain Prime Minister on Kashmire, said "Our core issue this time is Kashmire and no peace can prevail in the region, if this issue is not solved. It is an international dispute. It is not an internal problem. The stakes are very high now, we are nuclear neighbours so we need to have peace on the issue of Kashmire and then rest of the things can be solved."
This comes as the Afghan officials earlier said that they will not expect Pakistain to help revive the Afghan peace talks with the Taliban group.
Efforts in the framework of Quadrilateral Coordination Group consisting of Afghanistan, Pakistain, US and China failed after the Taliban group rejected to participate in peace talks and announced their spring offensive.
The Afghan officials criticized Pakistain for remaining reluctant to act against the leadership councils of Taliban and Haqqani terrorist network based in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and Quetta cities of Pakistain.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An old Nokia mobile has saved a man’s life in Afghanistan after a stopping a bullet to penetrate the man’s body, it has been reported. The news and incredible images regarding the incident became viral after the former Nokai executive Peter Skillman shared it through his Twitter account, according to MailOnline.
"A Nokia phone I worked on a few years ago saved the life of a man in Afghanistan last week," Skillman said in a Twitter post.
No further reports are available regarding to explain exactly how the bullet came to be lodged in the phone. Some have claimed that the photo may not be entirely genuine, especially given Mr Skillman’s affiliation with the phone maker.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... Gary Cutlack at Gizmodo, has said "There’s a chance it might not be a genuine thing and could be a stunt designed to boost Nokia sales in war-torn countries."
This is not the first report of a mobile phone stopping a bullet but a soldier’s life was saved when a flying shrapnel was stopped by his iPhone in Afghanistan in early 2014. According to reports, the iPhone 5s was in Staff Sgt. Shaun Frank’s pocket when he came face-to-face with a teenage bomber in Afghanistan who triggered a bomb filled with ball bearings.
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Nine aid workers were killed in violence in Somalia between January and September, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Friday.
Were any of them the third sons or daughters of European apparatchiks?
In its October bulletin, the OCHA says over 100 violent incidents resulted in the deaths. Eleven aid workers were injuried and three others were abducted during the nine months. The OCHA says the volatile security situation in Somalia continues to impact on civilian lives and create a challenging environment for the delivery of humanitarian assistance.
“Access constraints continue to impede humanitarian partners’ ability to reach people in need in a timely manner. Staff safety and security remain a major concern,” it says.
Al-Shabaab has been targeting humanitarian workers for political gain, sometimes demanding ransoms to free hostages.
In addition to security concerns, the OCHA says humanitarian groups continue to face administrative and bureaucratic impediments.
“These include demands for registration and involvement in staff recruitment processes among other activities. This has in certain cases threatened the operational independence of humanitarian partners,” it says.
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What would possess ANY body to go to Somalia ( of all places ) to be an Aid Worker? ( Notice the article doesn't say where they came from or what the Aid institution was called or what it actually did in Somalia .) How do you say "Save the Sick Puppies " in French?
WHY was it so necessary to go to Somalia in the first place.?
Would YOU go to Somalia for any ANY reason? Not even if the UN said it was vitally NECESSARY and a really " good idea " ?
Other than being totally S.T.U.P. I. D., I mean?
( Have you ever noticed that ( on average ) the stupid don't live to be old?)
PLUS : its very difficult to feel sorry for the Stupid.
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Well, oftentimes their motivation has absolutely nothing to do with.... "Aid."
Hence my comment about the apparatchiks. A young Euro man or woman can go work for the UN -- they get a salary, benefits, an expense account, a white Toyota Land Cruiser, and a houseboy or girl to suit their taste.
Or they can stay home in Europe, work on their second or third useless masters degree, and collect unemployment.
It's an easy choice.
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[AlAhram] A Nigerian state where festivities between the military and Shia Moslems led to over 300 deaths last year has banned the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), saying it was a security threat.
Two days of violence began on December 12, when supporters of the pro-Iranian holy man and IMN head, Ibrahim Zakzaky, refused to allow the chief of army staff's convoy to pass through the northern city of Zaria in Kaduna state.
In April, rights group Amnesia Amnesty International accused Nigeria's military of shooting dead more than 300 Shia Moslems, burying them in mass graves and destroying evidence of the crime. The Kaduna state government later confirmed the Amnesty report, saying that the army used "excessive force" and that those responsible for the killings should be prosecuted. But in a blurb issued late Friday, Kaduna state governor Nasir El-Rufai said IMN was a threat to Nigeria.
"The Kaduna state government has issued an order declaring the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) an unlawful society," a statement said.
It said the term applied to "any organization whose activities are dangerous to the security and good governance of the state."
The IMN said it would challenge the move. "We are not surprised by this decision of the Kaduna state government to ban the IMN," front man Ibrahim Musa told AFP.
"What do expect from someone that attacked you in your house, killed people in hundreds and demolished homes for no just reason?" Musa said. "We condemn this illegal decision in the strongest terms and we will challenge this decision through all legitimate means."
IMN leader Zakzaky, who lost an eye and was left partly paralysed in the violence, has been held in jug since December. He has previously been imprisoned for calling for an Iranian-style revolution to create an Islamic state in the country's north.
There have been fears the military action against the Shiite group in Zaria could trigger another violent uprising similar to that of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , whose insurgency has left some 20,000 dead since 2009.
[DAILYTRUST.NG] Fatsuma Abdullahi lived with her parents in Damaturu, before her husband’s friends kidnapped her,
So many questions are unanswered in this article: Was the husband in on this? What happened to him afterward?
along with others, to remote camps in Gombi and Talala and forced her to marry a Boko Haram ‘scholar’. She opened up to Daily Trust on her experience.
Daily Trust: After you were kidnapped by Boko Haram members, what happened to you next?
Fatsuma Abdullahi: We spent four weeks in Gombi town and proceeded to Markas, a forest in Sambisa near Talala village where we finally settled. Months later, the insurgents insisted I marry one of them, an offer I turned down. I gave in when they threatened to sell me off. That’s how I ended up married to Boko Haram ‘scholar’, Abu Hafsah for three years.
DT: How did you escape?
Fatsuma: The ideology clash between Shekau and Mamman Nur helped my people escape, because the strong members were too obsessed by it. In fact, Shekau killed many scholars who advocated for the Chibok Girls swap deal with government.
Shekau and his followers still hold the belief that all Nigerians are infidels, except those who follow his path.
So he is not actually a kinder, gentler jihadi who only goes after Christians and pagans after all. Good to know.
While on the other hand, Mamman Nur and the learned people among the members opined that anybody that observes the five pillars of Islam is a Muslim.
DT: You said Shekau killed many in cold blood...
Fatsuma: Yes. My husband, who is also a scholar,
...that would be the new husband, the one who was forced upon her...
was against the killings, so he supported Mamman Nur. One day, he confided in me his plan to defect. Unfortunately, some militants came in the night and told him that Shekau ordered them to pick him. He woke me up and handed his new phone to me, and advised me to sell it and escape with the children because Shekau is going to kill him.
How many children could she have produced in three years of "marriage"?
Weeks later, Shekau sent his fighters to kill all the men in Markas, because they rebelled. It was a major battle, but luckily our men defeated Shekau’s.
After that incident, our men joined Mamman Nur, and we were taken to Gwangon area, very close to Damboa town. The persecution became worse after Albaghdadi announced his support for Mamman Nur. Shekau refused to back down, that Albaghdadi is also an infidel, and threatened that he will not spare even women and children in the forest.
Many of us panicked when he made that statement. I told the other women my intention to escape, but none of them bought the idea. They warned that vigilantes are everywhere in the bush, and they would be cruel if found that I escaped from Boko Haram. But I’d already made up my mind.
About 11:30pm, I backed my child and took the bush path with my four children.
After three years of marriage, how could those children be able to walk a great distance?
We trekked for about four hours, then came across five insurgents. They helped me identify the proper route Buni Yadi. As we spoke, vigilantes sprang out of nowhere and shot one of them dead. I didn’t run, but my son ran with the escaping insurgents. I still can’t find him.
DT: Had you ever been to Sambisa Forest, before the ideology crisis?
Fatsuma: Yes, we went there after the army dislodged us from Buni Yadi. At that time, Markas was not a safe place, so we went to Sambisa. We spent some weeks but Shekau refused to talk to us, so we went back to Markas.
DT: Were you able to see the Chibok girls?
Fatsuma: Yes, but most of them were sold off as slaves. Some were married off, and others imprisoned. One of them lived in a room next to mine. She wanted to escape, but I couldn’t help her then.
DT: Were you there when Shekau demanded for Chibok Girls swap?
Fatsuma: Actually, it was Mamman Nur who tried to bargain for the Boko haram scholars. But Shekau is the one keeping the Chibok Girls. He kicked against the idea, and threatened to kill the girls if it came to that. My husband told me before he was killed that Shekau will not release the Chibok Girls.
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[THEMOSCOWTIMES] The Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, Magomed Daudov, has attacked a fellow politician in a bid to force him to resign, the Kavkaz.Realii news portal claimed Friday.
The official beat the Acting Chairman of the Chechen Supreme Court, Tahir Murdalov, and demanded that he resign "due to health reasons," the news outlet alleged, citing an unnamed source.
Daudov had arrived at Murdalov's office with 40 men on the evening of Oct. 6, Kavkaz.Realii reported.
Murdalov refused to resign despite the attack, the portal said.
Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta also reported the attack, claiming that the Chairman of Chechnya's Gudermes Court, Alavdin Gardaloev, was also present.
A front man for the Chechen president, the press secretary of the Chechen Supreme Court, and the press service for the Chechen Interior Ministry all said they "had not previously heard of the incident," the RBC newspaper reported.
Tahir Murdalov took his post in May after the resignation of his predecessor, Magomed Karataev. A number of experts have since speculated that Karataev had been pressured to leave his position by the Chechen authorities.
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[AlAhram] Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets Saturday in several towns across France to protest the government's plan to relocate migrants from the squalid Calais "Jungle" camp that is being shut down to their communities.
[Ynet] Both schools and universities are to be included in the ban, announced by the government; veils that do not cover the face are not to included in the ban. Muslim women are rarely seen wearing such veils in Norway, let alone in schools. But the issue has come up recently in political debates, with less than a year to go before parliamentary elections.
It's been a while since a car-b-que in the French banlieues has come to our attention.
[DeutscheWelle] Two police officers were attacked with Molotov cocktails in their vehicles on La Grande Borne housing estate in Viry-Châtillon south of Paris on Saturday afternoon. Four police officers were injured with severe burns to their arms and hands in the attack by up to 40 people.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls said two officers "were violently attacked with incendiary devices while they were on a surveillance mission in the Grande Borne high security zone." Security cameras have been installed and surveillance has been stepped up in recent months to contain widespread illegal drug dealing in the area. There had been previous attempts to destroy the cameras in recent weeks.
"The team in the police car were responsible for monitoring a video camera near the traffic lights at Viry-Châtillon," police told Le Parisien newspaper. "Dozens of people attacked them with Molotov cocktails." The two police cars were then set on fire.
Backup was sent to the scene near traffic lights where a number of violent robberies have taken place. "Their colleagues who came to back them up were also targeted," Valls said. He described the attack as "extremely serious and very cowardly." The wounded officers were taken to hospitals in Paris.
During the evening police patrols armed with tear gas and shields were sent into the area. "We believe that it was organized and premeditated," Jean-Marc Falcone, director of the national police said of the attack. He declared he was "shocked."
Attempted Murder Charge For Men Who Threw Hand Grenade Into Migrant Shelter
8 Oct 2016
Two men have been convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to several years in prison for throwing a hand grenade onto the grounds of a home for asylum seekers in southwestern Germany. The grenade was thrown over the fence of
Hungarian Govt Exclusive: Failure of Establishment To Address Migration Created Europe’s Patriotic Spring
8 Oct 2016
Hungarian government spokesman Zoltán Kovács discussed the rise of anti-mass migration populist parties in Europe in reaction to the migrant crisis and blames the establishment for not talking about reality.
Hungarian Intelligence Expert: Migration ‘Military Operation’ to Destroy Nation States
8Oct 2016
Former intelligence chief László Foldi has said that forces conspiring to open Europe’s borders are using the tactics of fourth generation warfare to turn the continent multicultural.
Hungarian Government: Trump ‘Philosophy on Migration’ Aligns With Ours
7 Oct 2016
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart London, Hungarian government spokesman Zoltán Kovács talked about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and how Hungary had felt abandoned by the Obama administration.
Overflowing Italian Shelters Force Migrants to Stay on Rescue Ships
7 Oct 2016
The dramatic situation of Italy’s overpacked migrant welcome centers has obliged authorities to delay debarkation of hundreds of new arrivals, leaving them for the moment on board the rescue vessels that brought them.
German Police Union Chief: Migrants ‘Laugh At Our Justice’
7 Oct 2016
The chief of the German police union claims that criminal migrants from North Africa are laughing at the German justice system as they are allowed to go free after committing crimes.
Soros Op-Ed For Biggest German Broadsheet: Mass Migration is Great
6 Oct 2016
Billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros has said Europe must welcome huge numbers of asylum seekers and economic migrants, claiming they will benefit the economy.
Greece Sees Jump in Migrant Border Crossings
5 Oct 2016
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek police detained 214 Syrian refugees after they crossed a river that forms a natural border with Turkey, authorities said Wednesday.
Cologne New Year’s Eve Sex Attacks: Migrant Perpetrators Planned In Advance
4 Oct 2016
The Parliamentary investigation into the Cologne New Year’s Eve sex attacks which saw over 1,000 criminal complaints made against predominantly newly arrived migrant males has found the event was not spontaneous but arranged between the perpetrators.
Czech President: Deport All Economic Migrants From Europe
4 Oct 2016
Czech Republic President Miloš Zeman, much like his fellow Visegrad Four group allies, is tough on mass migration and has announced that he wants to see all illegal economic migrants deported.
"The footage itself is really quick, but it's just a reminder that while Trump is under fire for saying lewd things, Bill Clinton has actually admitted to doing them: taking sexual advantage of an intern in The White House is but one case among dozens.
Trump, for example, has re-tweeted striking rape allegations made by Juanita Broaddrick. It seems that Hillary Clinton's campaign is not quite as vocal about those charges, however.
Hillary Clinton has also been called into question by a rape victim who claims that she was smeared by Clinton while she was a lawyer."
[DAWN] Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday said the proximity of a large arms cache, recovered from a vacant house in Azizabad, to the headquarters of a political party raises many questions.
"The house is close to the headquarter of a political party, therefore questions are being raised about the ownership of the weapons dumped there," he said.
He said an inquiry has been ordered to probe the origins of the arms cache and all the questions will be answered when the inquiry is completed.
A huge cache of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... weapons and ammunition was recovered by police earlier this week during a raid on an vacant house in the Azizabad area of the metropolis.
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[Breitbart] The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Iraqi Shiite militia fighters are "pouring into Syria to reinforce the Assad regime’s siege of Aleppo, further complicating the tangled web of alliances the U.S. relies on to fight 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.... , which can turn an ally on one side of the border into an enemy on the other."
This is very literally the case with the Shiite brigades, who have been working alongside U.S.-backed Iraqi government troops in that country but are now shooting at U.S.-backed rebels in Syria.
The WSJ estimates over a thousand Shiite fighters rolled into Iraq in September, joining some 4,000 who were already deployed around besieged Aleppo. In fact, the Shiites make up fully half of Assad’s ground forces in the area.
Assad, and most of the Syrian ruling elite, are members of the Alawite sect of Shia Islam, and Assad is strongly aligned with the dominant Shiite power, Iran. Syria is a Sunni-majority nation. Iraq is also beset by sectarian problems, including fears that Shiite militia groups are extending Iran’s unhealthy influence in the country. Of course, the previous Sunni-dominated government of Saddam Hussein is not remembered fondly by Iraqi Shiites, who comprise a slight majority of the national population.
The Wall Street Journal notes that Iraqi Shiite forces are fighting alongside Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hezbollah militia from Leb, and even Afghan Shiite troops in Aleppo, filling in the manpower gaps created by Assad’s defeats and defections in earlier years of the Syrian civil war.
Iraqi Shiite militia commander Hashem al-Mosawwi is quoted by the Journal describing Sunni opposition groups in Iraq as "terrorists" who "cause all problems in the region and the world," and therefore "must be stopped."
The B.O. regime, unsurprisingly, had no official response to this description of its soon-to-be-massacred allies in Syria.
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Shia militia from Iraq have been aiding the Assad forces since at least 2014. They have also been taking casualties since then. At least several hundred have died (also more than a thousand Hezbollah have died as have hundreds of Iran troops and Afghan volunteers).
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Make sure whoever is losing has sufficient arms to be competitive.
Russia vetoed a UN resolution aimed at stopping the bombing of Aleppo on Saturday, prolonging the division and paralysis of the security council in the face of the Syria’s humanitarian disaster.
The Russian ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, currently presiding over the security council, cast the veto against a Franco-Spanish resolution that had demanded an end to all aerial bombardment and overflights of Aleppo by Russian and Syrian regime aircraft. The resolution also called for a resumed ceasefire and the delivery of humanitarian supplies to besieged population.
China abstained, further isolating Russia on the issue, along with Angola. Venezuela was the only other country to vote with Russia against the resolution.
A Russian counter-resolution, which omitted mention of aerial bombardment, was voted down with nine votes against and four in favour.
The bitter divisions in the council, which faces a high and rapidly rising death toll in eastern Aleppo, produced a heated but fruitless debate that saw some of the normal diplomatic niceties abandoned.
“Normally I begin my statement with, ‘Thank you Mr President’,” Matthew Rycroft, the UK ambassador to the UN, said at the start of his remarks. “I cannot do this today.”
“This council cannot stand by while such misery is meted out on the people of Aleppo. And yet, thanks to you, Mr President, that is exactly what we are doing,” Rycroft told the council. “Thanks to your actions today, Syrians will continue to lose their lives in Aleppo and beyond to Russian and Syrian bombing. Please stop now.”
What are you going to do about it?
The US deputy ambassador, David Pressman, said: “One of us, perversely the president of council, is determined for the killing to continue, and is helping carry it out.”
There are about 275,000 people trapped by the siege of eastern Aleppo, where civilians are suffering through daily bombing, including by bunker-buster and incendiary weapons, and through starvation, as limited supplies run out and aid convoys are blocked from the city. John Kerry, the US secretary of state, on Friday called for a war crimes investigation of the Russian and Syrian regime bombing.
The Russian foreign ministry said the Franco-Spanish resolution “distorted” the real situation in Syria, and that a ban on aerial bombardment would “provide cover to terrorists from Jabhat al-Nusra” and allied militants.
According to diplomats, the UN envoy on Syria, Staffan de Mistura, told the security council that the presence of roughly 1,000 Nusra fighters was being used as a pretext for the bombing of 275,000 people and had offered to personally escort the militant group out of the city to guarantee their safe passage.
At the present rate of bombardment of eastern Aleppo, De Mistura said the city would be totally destroyed by December. The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, called it “worse than a slaughterhouse”.
“Russia has once again abused its veto privilege and sabotaged the UN security council, this time stonewalling efforts to stop the vicious assault on east Aleppo’s civilians,” said Louis Charbonneau, UN director at Human Rights Watch.
“Today’s vote is a stark reminder of the urgent need for permanent members of the security council to shelve the veto in situations of mass atrocities, an idea supported by a vast majority of countries around the world. The ball is now in the court of the UN general assembly, which should feel compelled to hold an emergency meeting, demand an end to unlawful attacks on civilians in Aleppo, 100,000 of whom are children, and explore avenues for accountability.”
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Just think of Aleppo's carbon footprint when Russians are through.
Iranian Air Force successfully overhauled Mirage fighter's on-board oxygen generation system (OBOGS) which supplies oxygen to the flight crew. The overhaul was carried out by experts of the Overhaul Center of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) for the first time, the official website of the IRIAF reported.
"Did they make the parts from the blueprints they 'stole' from our server, Moishe?"
"They sure did, Ari."
"Excellent, most excellent."
Mirage is a French air-superiority fighter and attack aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation. Iran's air force reportedly has at least 12 operational Mirage fighters.
Earlier in 2014, it was announced that the Islamic republic’s defense ministry has domestically produced a cruise missile system for its Mirage fighters.
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The Mirage F1 was sold by France to Iraq in the 1980s. During Desert Storm, pilots in Iraq took them to Iran.
They might be useful for surveillance.
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Oh yeah, I'm buying heavily into inshallah maintenance techniques...
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the waste product from the OBOGS is whatever else is in the air, primarily nitrogen. dont know about this system but American set ups have different sized porrts to prevent connecting the N2 to the aviator. wouldnt it be too bad if Al-Murphy worked on those birds????
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#1The Mirage F1 was sold by France to Iraq in the 1980s. During Desert Storm, pilots in Iraq took them to Iran.
March 1994 - Taxiing to the terminal in a C-160, past scores of demolished RU aircraft and bombed hangers. There they were, sitting on a spotlessly clean pad. French Mirage jets, possibly 4-5 of them. Seemed criminal at the time.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Pak envoy has reportedly linked peace in Afghanistan to the resolution of 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An old Nokia mobile has saved a man’s life in Afghanistan after a stopping a bullet to penetrate the man’s body, it has been reported. The news and incredible images regarding the incident became viral after the former Nokai executive Peter Skillman shared it through his Twitter account, according to MailOnline.
[DAILYTRUST.NG] Fatsuma Abdullahi lived with her parents in Damaturu, before her husband’s friends kidnapped her, 
[DeutscheWelle] Two police officers were attacked with Molotov cocktails in their vehicles on La Grande Borne housing estate in Viry-Châtillon south of Paris on Saturday afternoon. Four police officers were injured with severe burns to their arms and hands in the attack by up to 40 people.
Iranian Air Force successfully overhauled Mirage fighter's on-board oxygen generation system (OBOGS) which supplies oxygen to the flight crew. The overhaul was carried out by experts of the Overhaul Center of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) for the first time, the official website of the IRIAF reported.
