[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan defense officials said Saturday that the Taliban leaders even used own family members as human shield in northern Kunduz province to counter the Afghan forces operation as they were planning another attack on Kunduz city.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) front man Dawlat Waziri told news hounds that the Taliban leaders had gathered in the house of their commanders to plan the attack.
He said the Afghan special forces launched an operation but faced a strong resistance from the Taliban bully boyz who used the house of one of their commanders located in a residential area.
Strongly condemning the use of civilians as shield, even their own family members, Waziri said the defense ministry and government are feeling grief regarding the civilian deaths, even if they are family members of the Taliban group commanders.
In the meantime, the Afghan government said a delegation has been formed and will soon visit the area to investigate the deadly incident.
At least 30 non-combatants were killed and 25 others were maimed, including women and kiddies during the operation on Thursday.
The defense officials said at least 3 soldiers of the Afghan special forces also bit the dust during the operation together with the 2 US special forces.
In the meantime, a front man for the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... -led Resolute Support Mission (RSM) Gen. 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 ... said the civilians deaths in Kunduz was tragedy.
He said the Taliban group leaders who were planning fresh attacks on Kunduz city were targeted in the operation and several Taliban leaders and fighters were killed in the operation.
Reaffirming NATO’s support to Afghan forces, Gen. Cleveland warned that the presence of the Taliban forces in Kunduz will continue to pose threats to the province.
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Taliban version of 'women and children first'. Snark of the Day
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 45,000 opposition forces are operating in Afghanistan with foreign turbans comprising around 20 to 25 of the forces, the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... experts have said.
The experts informed regarding the estimated number of the turbans as they presented a report to the United Nations Security Council on Friday.
According to the report, the Talibs group’s relations with the al-Qaeda terrorist network have strengthened, specifically during the Mullah Akhtar Mansoor times.
The report further added that the relations between Taliban and al-Qaeda are still persisting since the new Taliban leader assumed charge of the group after Mullah’s Mansoor’s death.
The report also added that the position of 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 has distinctly weakened in the country.
This comes as the regional countries are concerned the attempts by the terrorist groups to expand foothold in Afghanistan as they fear the growing instability could further destabilize the region.
The Russian Presidential envoy to 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 estimated earlier this year that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group has 10,000 loyalists in Afghanistan.
Kabulov who is also director of the Second Asian Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry has said the terror group is expanding its military activity in Afghanistan.
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Framing an ethno-religious conflict as an ideological one.
You'd think after 40 years of this stuff and a huge body count, people would get a clue.
A UN report criticized the Somali government for failing to pay soldiers’ salaries, which led to withdrawals from areas in the south and center of the country that allowed Shabaab forces to return. It cited continued corruption and a likely misappropriation of funds and supplies intended for soldiers, some of which came from outside countries.
And if there's anyone on the planet who knows about corruption and misappropriation of funds, it's the Clinton Foundation United Nations...
Attacks on AMISOM have continued, the report said, including a deadly twin truck bombing of a Kenyan military compound in January that left some 150 soldiers.
Allied to Al-Qaeda since 2012, the Shabaab controlled Mogadishu for several years until it was pushed out in 2011. But the extremist group continues to fight to overthrow the Western-backed government.
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[Libya Observer] The leaders of the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... revolutionary brigades issued a statement on Friday calling on the Presidential Council of the UN-proposed government to either commit to the Skhirat agreement or declare it as a failure.
"We are very concerned about the deteriorating living and security conditions in the country after the arrival of the UN-proposed government to Tripoli." The statement goes.
They also called for unity to save the country from collapse and for peaceful power circulation, warning of any harbored intentions to spark war in the capital.
"We totally reject the coup attempts and the rule of military." The statement continues, adding that the Tripoli brigades condemn liquidations, abductions and breaking into houses.
The leaders also called for the release of all the kidnapped people and for lifting the siege on Benghazi and Derna, urging at the same time for stopping Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... from pursuing his coup.
They also added that they are against radicalism and will fight it in all of its forms, reaffirming that they are fully ready to work with whomever is loyal to the country and wants to form united army and police institutions.
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[DeutscheWelle] Troops have rescued one of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the jihadist group 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... in April 2014. The girl was carrying her 10-month-old son when she was found by troops screening Boko Haram escapees.
Nigerian military front man Sani Usman said that the girl, identified as Maryam Ali Maiyanga, was discovered by troops screening escapees from the Boko Haram's base in the Sambisa forest, near the Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... border.
"She was discovered to be carrying a 10-month-old son," named Ali, Usman said. "She has been taken to the unit's medical facility for (a) proper medical check up."
The campaign group Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG), which has close ties to relatives of the kidnapped girls confirmed the release. "We are happy with the news... We have confirmed the name of the freed girl to be among those on our data base," BBOG campaigner Aisha Yesufu told the news agency AFP. "Our hope is that the government will work towards an early release of the remaining girls so that we can bring this sad episode to a close."
The campaign group said that Maiyanga, who was number 198 on its register of the kidnapped girls, was from Askira Uba in the Borno district and was kidnapped along with her twin, who remains missing.
The rescue came just three weeks after 21 of the kidnapped Chibok girls were released following negotiations between the military and Boko Haram, which were brokered by the Red Thingy and Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... Aside from last month's release, the military previously managed to recover just one other of the missing schoolgirls, in May near the border of Sambisa forest.
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In one of the year's least surprising news...
Fars news agency, which is affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, said Friday that Houthi missile units pounded the Yemeni forces’ military positions in the capital city of Sanaa on Friday with the ballistic “Zalzal-2” missile.
It added that forces’ gathering in the center of the Malah region of Sanaa came under attack by the ballistic Zalzal-2 missile, according to the news agency’s army source.
“It was a precision missile strike and [it] hit the target,” the source said without expanding on the damage and toll inflicted.
The agency quoted “a prominent analyst” Seyed Sadeq al-Sharafi as saying that militias “are developing their missile power to target Riyadh and Dubai in the future, after they increased their missile and military capabilities and expanded the range of their military operations against the enemies.”
The Zelzal-2 is an Iranian developed long-range unguided rocket in use by the Iranian military, Hezbollah and the Houthis.
Previously, Iran’s foreign minister repeatedly rejected the reports confirming that his country supplied the Shiite militias in Yemen with missiles.
The official IRNA news agency quoted Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as saying these are “baseless accusations.”
The latest news comes a few weeks after news that warships from the US Navy and allied nations intercepted four weapons shipments from Iran to war-ravaged Yemen since April 2015, according to a US admiral.
[DeutscheWelle] Austria's defense minister has said the European Union's migrant deal with Turkey is dead. The EU must now prepare to strengthen its external borders, he added
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... should bolster its border defenses against another influx of migrants colonists in anticipation of the possible collapse of the bloc's refugee deal with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Austria's defense minister said Saturday.
"I have always said that the EU-Turkey deal should only be a stop-gap measure until the EU is in the position to effectively protect its external borders and thereby stem the flow of migrants colonists," Hans Peter Doskozil told the German daily "Bild" in an interview.
"The time to organize for that is ever closer," he said, adding that he invited defense ministers from Central European states to Vienna early next week to discuss joint measures and the situation in Turkey.
Doskozil's comments come as the EU-Turkey migrant deal, which went into effect in March, has encountered a number of stumbling blocks even as it has reduced the number of migrants colonists arriving in Greece.
Under the deal, Turkey agreed to take back Syrian migrants colonists in Greece who did not apply for or did not receive asylum in the EU in exchange for aid and the bloc taking a set amount of Syrian refugees directly from Turkey.
But since the deal went into effect, migrants colonists who previously tried to reach richer northern European states before applying for asylum have put in applications in Greece. This has slowed down deportations back to Turkey and left Greece overburdened as applications are processed. The EU, meanwhile, has been slow to develop a refugee distribution plan as countries, mainly in central and eastern Europe, refuse to accept asylum-seekers.
The refugee hotel in Greece
Political developments in Turkey have also cast the deal into doubt. Doskozil said Turkey was "on its way to becoming a dictatorship," a reference to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... 's consolidation of power and targeting of the opposition.
The political situation in Turkey makes implementation of another part of the migrant deal problematic. Under the agreement, Turkish citizens are to obtain visa-free travel to the bloc, but EU officials have questioned whether this will happen due to draconian anti-terror laws and the deterioration of democracy in Turkey. The security situation and instability in Turkey also casts doubt over whether it is a "safe country" to return migrants colonists.
Absent visa-free travel, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu this week suggested his country would pull out of the deal by year's end.
Vienna has allied itself with the Visegrad group - Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic - against the EU's migrant policy. Earlier this year, Austria was instrumental in the closure of the Balkan route used by migrants colonists to travel to northern Europe after it tightened its border controls and set a ceiling on asylum applications.
Also earlier this week, Austria sent 60 troops to Hungary to help build infrastructure along the border with non-EU member Serbia.
Austrians head to the polls on December 4 for a rerun presidential election that pits anti-immigration and eurosceptic Freedom Party (FPO) candidate Norbert Hofer against the left-leaning Alexander Van der Bellen. Migration has been a centerpiece of the campaign.
[DeutscheWelle] The German government is planning security checks on all Bundeswehr applicants from July 2017 after 20 Islamists were uncovered in the army, a report says. It said 60 more suspects in the ranks were being investigated.
German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen will soon propose legislation to carry out security checks on every aspiring Bundeswehr recruit, after the military counterespionage service (MAD) identified 20 Islamists in army ranks, a media report said on Saturday
The draft law, to be considered by German parliament in the coming weeks, could result in the army holding 20,000 additional security checks per year, the report from German publisher Funke Mediengruppe said.
Up to now, the law has allowed security checks on recruits only after they have been taken on by the Bundeswehr.
Growing security concerns
A front man for MAD said 60 additional potential cases in the Bundeswehr were under investigation for suspected links to Islamist murderous Moslems.
He said recruiting offices had received an undisclosed number of queries from people wanting to join the military for just a few months to undergo intensive weapons and equipment training.
Such queries have bolstered concerns that Islamist groups might be trying to gain military training for their supporters by having them join the Bundeswehr. MAD already warned early last year that radical Islamists holy warriors could be abusing the opportunities offered by the army.
In the draft law, the Defense Ministry refers to incidents in which Islamist forces of Evil in other countries, such as Afghanistan, have urged members of the military to attack their own colleagues or allied armed forces.
German security services are on high alert after two Islamist murderous Moslem attacks this summer. The arrival of some 900,000 migrants colonists last year, many of them from the Middle East, has also fueled fears that Islamist Death Eaters might have entered the country as pretend asylum-seekers.
[AlAhram] A news outlet linked to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group said its fighters staged a bombing that killed nine people in southeastern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , according to US-based monitors, after Ankara blamed Kurdish bandidosgunnies for the attack.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Friday's bombing was carried out by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which has regularly targeted security forces since ending a truce in 2015.
The early morning attack on a police headquarters in the Kurdish-majority of Diyarbakir left nine people dead, including two police, and over 100 maimed.
It left a swathe of devastation, blowing out the entire front of a nearby apartment block and leaving the surroundings covered in rubble. Emergency workers on Saturday began to sift through the damage while residents arrived to pick up whatever belongings they could salvage, an AFP photographer said.
The pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) said six of its MPs, including its co-leaders, had narrowly escaped injury in the attack as they were being held in the cop shoppe following their detention overnight.
The US-based SITE Intelligence Group cited an "insider source" for the IS group -affiliated Amaq news agency as saying that "Fighters from the Islamic State detonated an explosives-laden vehicle parked in front of a Turkish police headquarters in Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey."
If confirmed, the claim would be the first ever by IS group for an attack in Turkey, although it has been blamed over the last year for a series of strikes against Kurdish activists, tourists and on Istanbul airport.
There has so far been no denial or claim of responsibility from the PKK.
The HDP meanwhile said its co-leaders Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag as well as four other MPs had been brought to the cop shoppe overnight after their detention early Friday.
It said in a statement Demirtas had been taken to court just before the attack and Yuksekdag was in the complex when it happened.
Without directly saying its MPs were the target, it noted that the minibus packed with explosives had blown up early following an alert from a taxi driver.
"All the facts must be revealed about this attack which was planned to be even more devastating and did not reach its intended target," the HDP said.
Demirtas and Yuksekdag have been transferred by air to prisons in the western regions of Edirne and Kocaeli respectively, well away from Diyarbakir.
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The Democratic National Committee recently told the FBI that it collected evidence last month suggesting that its Washington offices had been bugged, two party officials told Mother Jones magazine.
"We were told that this was something that could pick up calls from cellphones," one official said about a radio signal found near the chairman's office that indicated that a listening device might be located outside the office. "The guys who did the sweep said it was a strong indication."
No device was recovered, however. No possible culprits were identified, according to the report.
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I charge 1,400 a day plus travel and stripend to to sweep with a frequency counter, IR Note, and a multi-meter for the land lines. Can hack for bonus. Restore data? maybe.
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So, no evidence, just agitprop from the DNC and their paid commie chihuahuas at Mother Jones
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..If the FBI - whose technical excellence is legendary - couldn't find a bug, then there wasn't one there. I think the DNC is absolutely losing their sh!t over the fact that Malificent isn't ahead by double digits, and on top of that, Trump may have done something no other Republican candidate has done in living memory - gotten inside the Democrats' OODA loop even if just briefly. The only explanation, at least according to the DNC, would be a bug since Trump is a Republican and Nixon was a Republican and it's the only goddamned thing we can think of.
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Three possibles:
1. A mobile monitoring system
2. A femtocell/cell phone signal booster
3. Amway's spying on them (they have an office next door.)
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"May Allah make this year’s US presidential election a dreadful calamity like no other to have struck America throughout its pathetic history," the article said in closing.
Why didn't they just say to vote for Hillary then?
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I doubt ISIS has much of a preference in the US presidential election.
The doctrine which requires muslims living in infidel territory to refrain from support of the infidel state goes back centuries and has been reinforced many times by various fatwa.
In the case of an election for president, muslim voters are giving an infidel (Hillary or Donald) authority over muslims which, in almost all circumstances, is violation of a Koranic verse (4:141).
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Correct. Any participation is rejected as "shirk" or ..'literally, it means ascribing or the establishment of "partners" placed beside God.'
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Not to worry - I'm sure the Black Panthers suitable security arrangements have been made.
[USAToday] The Islamic State is calling for the "slaughter" of U.S. voters on Election Day and demanding Muslims not participate in the democratic process, according to a U.S.-based terrorist monitoring group.
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[DAWN] Mysterious banners urging Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif ..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all.... to contest the general elections in 2018 were spotted in Rawalpindi on Saturday, a few weeks ahead of the military chief's last day on duty.
In bold letters, the banners call for 'no extension but reduction' -- asking for reduction from two to one year the minimum duration before a retired government servant can enter politics as well as urging General Raheel to enter the political arena and contest national elections in 2018.
The banners call on the government and the opposition to bring to an end "their divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... politics". They also call on the general to enter politics in the hopes that "ties between the country's civil and military leadership can harmonise".
The banners say there was hope that by taking part in the elections, [General] Raheel's party "will secure majority votes and he will be elected prime minister, leading the country on the path to becoming a success".
The posters name a Sheikh Rasheed Amjad Ali, member of a group called the Awami Monitoring Cell (Rawalpindi), as the man who has organised the campaign.
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We wish Admiral General Sharif a long career in Pakistani Politics.
[DAWN] The National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) on Saturday forwarded names of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... al Alami (LJ-A) to the Ministry of Interior recommending banning of the murderous Moslem groups.
"Nacta has recommended Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Alami to be included in the list of proscribed organizations," said the letter written by Nacta to the Ministry of Interior.
JuA emerged in August 2014 after splitting from the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
It has carried a number of attacks in Pakistain against military personnel, law-enforcement agencies (LEAs), government buildings, politicians, religious minorities and lawyers.
JuA also grabbed credit of the attack on lawyers in Quetta on August 8 this year which claimed 70 lives.
Earlier in August, the US State Department designated JuA as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs).
The list of banned or proscribed organizations by Ministry of Interior contains 61 groups and the addition of two more murderous Moslem outfits will increase the number of banned outfits to 63 in the country.
Nacta has also recommended Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Alami (LJ-A) to be placed in the list of proscribed terrorist organizations.
The group grabbed credit of attacking Police Training Academy in Quetta on October 25 in which 61 cadets were killed.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Alami is a splinter group of banned Lashar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) involved in sectarian violence across the country and particularly in Quetta and Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Possibly to avoid another embarrassment, the capital administration on Friday did not allow the proscribed Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (ASWJ) to take out a rally. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the party claimed that there was no official pressure for the cancellation of the rally.
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[Jpost] A European organization dedicated to rallying support for Israel announced Thursday it would confront a massive anti-Israel campaign anticipated in 2017 with an initiative of its own.
Speaking at an event at the Carlton Hotel in Tel Aviv, Swiss MP Corina Eichenberger-Walther said she had "reliable information that a network has been building itself since the middle of the past year already, a network planning a campaign throughout Europe and having started the necessary funding for that."
The goal, she said, was to malign Israel during the year of the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War, in which the IDF captured east Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gazoo Strip, Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights.
Israel, she said, will be accused of "having oppressed Paleostine for 50 years and occupying it contrary to international law" and be painted as an "apartheid state and unjust nation."
Eichenberger-Walther chairs the European Alliance for Israel (EAI), of which the Israeli-Swiss Association, which hosted Thursday’s event alongside the Israel-Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... and Liechtenstein Chamber of Commerce, is a member. The new Swiss ambassador to Israel, Jean-Daniel Ruch, also participated.
Predicting that international organizations and governments would join the ranks of the anti-Israel network, the EAI decided to develop what Eichenberger-Walther called a "friendship campaign."
According to the EAI, it already has some 30,000 members in 23 countries and plans to make the campaign prominent in those countries.
In a closed-door session with a small group of journalists, Eichenberger-Walther admitted that the EAI had a way to go in order to counter the force of the expected anti-Israel campaign, noting that the hostile movement comprised not just BDS supporters, but also church and humanitarian groups.
"It’s a network," she stressed, emphasizing that it had been raising funds for the campaign for over a year and was "ready" to begin its activities. She added that the EAI’s counter-campaign still lacked funds to realize its full scope, which will be focused on creating a greater understanding of Israel and highlighting its positive qualities in the fields of research, science, the environment, democracy and security.
One body founded by the EAI is the European Parliamentary Alliance for Israel, which seeks to unite pro-Israel parliamentarians.
While the defamation campaign will apparently present Israel as a lawless state, the EAI, she said, was working to ensure that there would be a strong parliamentary voice in Europe that "makes clear that Israel, with all its weaknesses and faults, is a democratic state that has a freely elected parliament and an independent judiciary."
In the Swiss parliament, pro-Israel MPs have been working against government funding for anti-Israel NGOs, some of which have links to terrorist groups. A motion on the issue this year lost by just three votes, but Eichenberger-Walther said she believed government awareness about the issue had increased and it would now be more careful with its funding activities.
Members of the Israeli-Swiss Association have been in Israel for a week, meeting with politicians and representatives of the government. Eichenberger- Walther remarked that discussions with her Israeli counterparts had been fruitful, and their collaboration would help advance the campaign.
The EAI is a relatively new organization, officially founded in May 2015. It comprises mainly non-Jewish members who strive to show solidarity with Jewish communities in Europe.
Much more at the link, and Ynet promises more to come as they delve through the files.
[Ynet] Secret KGB documents reveal just how deeply involved the Soviet Union was in the spilling of Israeli blood. The Russian spy agency provided Paleostinian terror organizations with funds, training and arms, running agents like 'Krotov' - aka the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , 'Aref' - or Yasser Arafat, and 'Nationalist,' who was behind several plane hijackings long before 9/11.
The Soviet navy's reconnaissance ship Kursograf was speeding through the waves on a moonless night in March 1970, making its way to the rendezvous point. Two weeks earlier, Marshal Dmitry Ustinov, at the time a senior defense official and later the Minister of Defense of the USSR, ordered the ship to leave its patrol assignment in the Pacific Ocean and quickly make its way to the military port of Vladivostok to collect several crates of cargo and one passenger. Then, the ship was to sail to the Gulf of Aden in Yemen
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Possibly to avoid another embarrassment, the capital administration on Friday did not allow the proscribed 
