[DAILYCALLER] Afghanistan’s parliament dismissed seven cabinet ministers in a single week, deepening its political crisis amid historic Taliban battlefield gains.
President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... campaigned in 2008 on a promise to withdraw troops from Iraq and win the "good war" in Afghanistan. After surging troops to nearly 165,000 in 2011, he precipitously withdrew them and ended the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan in 2014.
Since the end of the U.S. combat mission in 2014, the Afghan government has been roiled by political crisis. Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. governs in a tenuous power sharing agreement with Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... , his main political rival. The Afghan parliament’s move is reportedly an attempt to clear a way for Abdullah to rise to the rank of prime minister.
As 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.... squabbles over political power, the Afghan Defense Forces are suffering historic casualties in their fight against the Taliban. Afghans suffered 15,000 injuries in the first eight months of 2015, with 5,523 ending in death. The numbers reflect a beleaguered force with an astoundingly high rate of attrition.
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ISIS, the Taliban and the Afghan National Forces have been taking casualties at high rates
ISIS has had several hundreds killed since early 2015, the Afghan National forces have lost well over 10k, Taliban probably over 20k - civilian fatalities also in the thousands
Trump will inherit a truly awful situation in that country.
wasn't much of a campaign issue
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"The Good War!" "Obama's War!" "Didn't he end up killing ole what's his name over in Pakistan??!!" That is all we heard from the press for years.
An AAR of this Administration reveals that Joe Biden, believe it or not, was 100% correct on both Afghanistan/Pakistan and Iraq. Joe thought the real enemy was in Pakistan (he was right - still is), and that Iraq should be split into three smaller states (well, two states and a caliphate, but who is counting...) Obama and Clinton dissed the only good advice that ever came out of old Joe.
[All Africa] The Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, on Wednesday said that judging by the current activities of the 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... terrorists, 60 per cent of them are not Nigerians.
Mr. Buratai, a lieutenant general, said this in Maiduguri when he received the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Mohammed Ibn Chambas, at the headquarters of the Theatre Command of Operation Lafiya Dole at the Maimalari Cantonment.
"Your Excellency, I want to bring to your attention that while the Boko Haram (insurgency) can be said to have started in Nigeria, by and large as at today, I can say that almost 60 per cent of the bully boyz are from our neighbouring countries.
"You can see that almost all of the recently surrendered bully boyz are not Nigerians.
"This is a challenge that impacts more on the Nigerian side than the other countries. But by and large, our military is up to the task and we will continue to do our best to ensure that our country is secured," Buratai said.
He said that there was no doubt that the gunnies had been defeated but added that troops would continue with their operations until the bully boyz finally surrender.
The army chief thanked the UN for identifying with Nigeria in its efforts to rout-out the gunnies and solicited additional support from the world body.
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Did they get the secret war manual on base guarding?
[BREITBART] A monthly tracker of public attitudes towards key issues shows Germany has now overtaken the United Kingdom as the most concerned nation in Europe on the subject of immigration, a significant development for a nation which has long prided itself on their openness to migrants colonists.
The research by Ipsos Public Affairs which took the views of thousands of people in 25 nations worldwide found a remarkable shift in opinion in Britannia following the Brexit vote, with concern over mass migration falling to the lowest levels since early 2015. The more than ten point drop, which left immigrations still the highest concern but only now slightly ahead of poverty, means Germany is now the most concerned nation on that point in the world.
The research has found a sustained relationship between immigration and fear of immigration, with nations experiencing very low rates of arrivals generally not expressing concern. Examples of this include Mexico, where just one per cent of residents are from abroad and less than one per cent of residents are worried about it, and Japan, China, India, Brazil, Peru, and Korea which experience similar levels.
On the other side of the scale are nations like Germany, where a grand total of 15 per cent of residents are immigrants colonists and 38 per cent express concern, and Sweden where 14 per cent are immigrants colonists and 36 per cent are worried.
Also high among German concerns is worries about crime and extremism. Thirty-five per cent of Germans told interviewers they were worried about terror, 28 per cent about extremism, and 36 per cent about crime and violence.
After poverty and immigration, crime was the third most important concern for Germans in the month of October.
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Reality is a bitch huh?
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Kinda late for all this now though
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Concerned they are not importing enough of the worst kind, no doubt...
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[CALGARYSUN] The federal Liberals are providing $25 million to a UN relief agency for Paleostinian refugees that was cut off by the previous Conservative government for alleged ties to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau made the announcement at a news conference and also during question period in the House of Commons -- news that was greeted by cries of "shame" from the opposition benches.
The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Relief and Works Agency for Paleostine Refugees, also known as UNRWA, lost federal funding in 2010 amid allegations it was tied too closely to Hamas, considered a terrorist organization by Canada and others.
Bibeau says $20 million will go support education, health and social services for millions of vulnerable Paleostinian refugees, as well as urgent humanitarian assistance.
An additional $5 million is being provided in response to the agency’s appeal for help for those impacted by the crisis in Syria and its environs.
"I’m horrified," said Conservative foreign affairs critic Peter Kent, who said there is ample proof that "massive amounts" of UN aid have been redirected to support Paleostinian military efforts against Israel.
"We have abundant evidence that UNRWA is part of the problem."
The government says the money will be accompanied by "enhanced due diligence," including a "very robust oversight and reporting framework" that includes regular site visits and anti-terrorism provisions.
"Millions of Paleostinian refugees across the Middle East have the right to receive basic services such as health care and to send their children to school," Bibeau said in a statement.
"We want to see Paleostinian refugee children in classrooms where they can learn universal values of tolerance and respect. Vulnerable Paleostinians deserve all the opportunities they can to contribute positively to their communities and Canada’s funding will help to better the lives of millions of refugees."
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The nation's top intelligence official on Wednesday evening submitted his letter of resignation, ensuring that President-elect Donald Trump will have the option to build his own network of intel leaders.
"I submitted my letter of resignation last night, which felt pretty good," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday morning. "I have 64 days left and I would have a hard time with my wife for anything past that."
Clapper has long promised to leave his job at the end of President Obama's term in office, so his resignation was expected.
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[BREITBART] Female 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.... fighters have expressed their wish to defy the organization’s leadership and carry out suicide kabooms in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , according to internal communications obtained by Breitbart Jerusalem. So the Cubs of the Caliphate are joined by the Bitches of the Caliphate, just like in Nigeria. But HRW will criticize the Iraqi forces for killing wimmin and kidneys, yew betcha.
A closed group on the encrypted messaging app Telegram functions as a Twitter of sorts for IS fighters and their loyalists, giving them a forum to communicate and express their opinions. The female fighters in the forum revealed they are being stymied by the IS leadership in their attempts to organize suicide attacks.
The user who goes by the name Daughter of State of Justice wrote: "We’re waiting here for a sign from our leader so that we can participate in the fighting, but the leaders oppose our request and our wish to blow ourselves up amid the nonbelievers, our wish to die for Allah, and we asked our leaders to pass on our request to the leaders so that we will be able to do it but they refuse."
IS Girl from Mosul wrote: "The message of justice and Allah will persist, our wishes will be realized thanks to Allah. Our state will return as victor, and we’ll lead it to victory. If we are asked to blow ourselves up we’ll do it. We’re not afraid of dying for Allah. We’re more afraid of living under tyranny. We trust the youngsters who believe in the righteousness and in the victory of our state to defend us. We’ll continue to be obedient and abide by the decisions of our leaders and our sheikhs. We owe them our obedience and our attention."
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This past Monday, Isaac Herzog crossed a dangerous moral red line.
Speaking on Army Radio, the chairman of Israel’s parliamentary opposition referred to Jews living in Judea and Samaria as a "virus," in effect stripping hundreds of thousands of loyal citizens of their dignity and humanity.
"See what this virus has done to the State of Israel," he thundered. "Look how dangerous it is to our democracy and how we have to sacrifice lives for this nonsense," Herzog said. A leader of a party which represents less that 1/6 Israeli voters
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Herzog is head of the Israeli Labor Party. In 2006 it was said the Party was cloaking its Marxism and "becoming a classical social democratic party [reflecting]a move to the left on the part of the working class in Israel."
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"Call me deplorable, call me irredeemable
Throw in undependable too.
Do my foolish alibis bore you?
Well, I'm not too smart or clever; but have no doubt, I do abhor you..." (Old Frank Sinatra song)
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p.s. The thing Boogie & Co fail to notice is "settlers" nowaday constitute the bulk of elite units and are on the way of being the bulk of combat officers corp.
[ISRAELNATIONALNEWS] The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group is continuing its military build-up, a bigwig in the organization claims, and now possesses a large stockpile of powerful, long-range missiles capable of wreaking havoc across large swaths of Israel.
Speaking at a memorial service marking the fourth anniversary of the assassination'>assassination of al-Qassam commander Ahmed Jabri, Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas official and spokesperson for the group, declared that the terror organization possed "hundreds and even thousands of missiles that can blow up Tel Aviv and even [targets] beyond it."
Al-Masri also touched upon the two fallen Israeli soldiers, Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, whose bodies have been held by Hamas since 2014, saying that they would not be released, except as part of negotiated deal, on terms determined by Hamas.
The Hamas leader rejected what it claimed were efforts by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to extract information on the two fallen soldiers, and remained confident that a deal will ultimately be reached that is beneficial to the terrorist group.
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Who directed them not to?
[WASHINGTONPOST] President B.O. has ordered the Pentagon to find and kill the leaders of an al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria that the administration had largely ignored until now and that has been at the vanguard of the fight against the Syrian government, U.S. officials said.
The decision to deploy more drones and intelligence assets against the krazed killer group formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... reflects Obama’s concern that it is turning parts of Syria into a new base of operations for al-Qaeda on Europe’s southern doorstep, the officials said.
The move underlines the extent to which Obama has come to prioritize the counterterrorism mission in Syria over efforts to pressure Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... to step aside, as al-Nusra is among the most effective forces battling the Syrian government.
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From the Lebanese army, of course.
[WASHINGTONPOST] Over the weekend images surfaced online of a Hezbollah parade in Qusair, Syria, featuring U.S. armored personnel carriers affixed with antiaircraft guns. The images prompted a flurry of speculation about the vehicles’ origin and whether the group had pilfered the stocks of the U.S.-supplied Lebanese military.
The armored personnel carrier, known as the M113, is one of the United States’ most ubiquitous armored vehicles and has been in service since the 1960s. The tracked semi-rhombus-shaped vehicle comes in numerous variants and can be outfitted to carry troops and artillery; its chassis was even used as the basis for a nuclear-missile carrier. It has appeared in every major U.S. conflict since the Vietnam War and is used by U.S. police departments and dozens of others countries’ militaries around the world.
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whether the group had pilfered the stocks of the U.S.-supplied Lebanese military
Everybody, except the official USA, knows "Lebanese military" and Hezbollah overlap.
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The M113 is so numerous in the world, they could have almost bought them from a used car salesman.
Plus, they ain't that great. Protects against small arms and artillery splinters, but anything more than a 7.62 will go through the base models. Even the souped up armored ones have a hard time holding back an RPG.
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I can tell you that after a couple of fire fights involving .51 heavy machine guns and mortars, most of my unit's 113s looked like Swiss Cheese. You could slam the hatch and enough light came through the holes to read a map.
At least they were better than those crappy flak jackets they gave us and you didn't have to dig a hole AND they had this big old M-2 on top that could rain on everyone's parade
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The House on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved bipartisan bills to crack down on supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government and renew a decades-old Iran sanctions law.
Swift passage underscored broad support on Capitol Hill for punishing financial backers of the Syrian government and maintaining economic pressure on Tehran. Both bills had the firm backing of Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, the panel’s top Democrat.
The Senate must now act on the legislation before the bills can be sent to the president.
Lawmakers have accused the Assad government of war crimes as the number of people killed during the violence in Syria continues to mount. The war, now in its sixth year, has killed as many as half a million people, contributed to Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II and given ISIS room to grow into a global terror threat.
“What we have now is a grim lesson in human suffering,” Royce said. “We can see the ethnic cleansing going on. Even the United Nations calls this ‘crimes of historic proportions.’ Enough is enough.”
The Syria legislation targets key backers of Assad such as Russia and Iran, according to Royce, by requiring the president to sanction countries or companies that do business with or provide financing to the Syrian government or the Central Bank of Syria.
Anyone that provides aircraft to Syria’s commercial airlines, does business with the transportation and telecom sectors controlled by the Syrian government, or supports the country’s energy industry also would be subject to sanctions, according to the legislation.
“If you’re acting as a lifeline to the Assad regime, you risk getting caught up in the net of our sanctions,” Engel said.
Sanctions could be suspended if internationally recognized negotiations to resolve the war in Syria are making progress and the violence against civilians has ended, according the legislation.
The White House and State Department had previously argued to Congress that new sanctions legislation could undermine efforts with Russia to forge a cease-fire between Assad and rebel groups. While the Russia talks have collapsed, the administration maintained concerns that the sanctions might hurt Iran, another Assad supporter, giving Tehran an excuse to renege on the US-brokered nuclear deal.
The House bill would authorize the State Department to assist in the collection and preservation of evidence for war crimes trials. Secretary of State John Kerry last month called for a war crimes investigation of Russia and Syria, a move that escalated already heated rhetoric against Moscow for its part in a deadly military offensive in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, and its longstanding support of Assad.
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[VOA News] Even as the transition team for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... works to assemble his Cabinet, a consensus is emerging on what the world may be able to expect from the new administration on counterterror policy.
The view, from longtime Washington veterans and from those close to members of the transition team, is one of an administration likely to place a premium on innovation and the selective but convincing use of force. And it will put America's interests above all else.
The approach, in some ways, is intended as a rebuke to the administration of President Barack Obama Dreams of My Sainted Father... as well as that of his predecessor, President George W. Bush. One is seen as too timid and the other as overly aggressive on the international stage.
"You're going to see a lot more resolve," said Tony Shaffer, a retired intelligence officer and vice president of Strategic Initiatives and Operations at the London Center for Policy Research.
Shaffer, who has worked with retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, a key Trump military adviser, believes that resolve will be most evident in the Trump administration's approach to counterterrorism, specifically in the fight against 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.... terror group.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
[BREITBART] A monthly tracker of public attitudes towards key issues shows Germany has now overtaken the United Kingdom as the most concerned nation in Europe on the subject of immigration, a significant development for a nation which has long prided itself on their openness to 
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[VOA News] Even as the transition team for U.S. President-elect 
