[Daily Nation (Kenya)] President Uhuru Kenyatta has been urged to withdraw Kenyan soldiers from Somalia, following a recent al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... attack on a KDF camp that left 21 personnel dead.
Speaking during the burial of Rajab Baya Kazungu -- one of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldiers who was killed at Kulbiyow, Somalia -- on Saturday at his Kinarani home in Kilifi County, mourners said it was time for the soldiers to protect the country’s borders from within.
Among those who attended the burial was Kaloleni MP Gunga Mwinga, area ward representative Pascal Thuva and a member of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) Morris Dzoro.
A sombre mood engulfed the village as KDF soldiers carried the casket bearing the remains of Mr Kazungu around 3pm, bringing to and end the life of the soldier who married on December 3 before being deployed to Somalia.
He was among four soldiers from the county who were killed in line of duty in Somalia.
Others who perished in the attack were Kennedy George Bakari, 30, and his nephew Juma Bakari, Mwanguyo, 38, from Mikuluni in Ganze Sub County and Francis Kombo from Mazeras in Rabai Sub County.
The other three are yet to be buried, with family sources saying they will be laid to rest next Saturday.
Mr Gunga joined locals and other leaders who spoke in calling for the withdrawal of Kenyan soldiers from Somalia.
"The President recently withdrew all the troops in Sudan. We would like to see the same happening now because we are not at war with Somalia," he said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In an exclusive interview with Al Arabiya's General Manager Turki Aldakhil, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. discussed Sudan's participation in the Decisive Storm Operation in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and Iran’s activity in the region.
Bashir said he met with King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... bin Abdulaziz Al Saud when he was still the Crown Prince and discussed Yemen and how dangerous the situation was there.
"We in Sudan feel that the situation in Yemen poses a threat to us," he said, adding that he informed high-ranking Saudi officials of this point of view.
Once the Decisive Storm Operation was declared, Sudan immediately joined forces through a number of military aircraft and Sudanese troops present on the ground in Aden, the president said. "We are also preparing troops to send them to the kingdom and to Yemen," he added.
Iranian ambitions
On Iran and its activity in the region, Bashir said Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... had information about carrying out certain activities against the kingdom from Sudan. "We've always confirmed that we will not allow our land to be exploited against the kingdom," he said, adding that the Iranian activity in Sudan created some sort of sensitivity. "In the end, we were convinced that this activity must be stopped," Bashir said.
Bashir accused the Americans of establishing a Shiite state in Iraq after the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime and thus helping Iran to expand. "This gave Iran control over four Arab capitals -- Damascus, Beirut, Baghdad and Sanaa," he said.
"Is this the end of Iran's ambitions or does it have other aims? I think Tehran has other aims," Bashir added.
Hala’ib Triangle land dispute
On relations with Egypt and the dispute over the Hala’ib land, Bashir reiterated that the land was Sudanese. "The Hala’ib triangle is Sudanese," Bashir said, noting that when elections were first held during the joint British-Egyptian governance, Hala’ib was one of the Sudanese districts that took part in the elections. "Elections are a major sovereign practice," he added.
On how Sudan will address the dispute with Egypt, Bashir asserted that they will resort to the UN Security Council if the Egyptians refuse to negotiate over the matter.
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[ALGEMEINER] A British campus activist said on Friday that a key player behind the deteriorating situation for Jewish students in the UK is an outside anti-Israel group with ties to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
In an oped in the International Business Times, Elliot Miller -- a student rights organizer and fellow at the Henry Jackson Society think-tank -- accused Friends of al-Aqsa (FOA) of fomenting antisemitism across UK schools.
Miller wrote that FOA and its partnering organizations are "driving the development of a 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... atmosphere on some campuses," most recently at the University College London in October, where, as The Algemeiner reported, Jewish students were targeted in coordinated, violent FOA-sponsored protests during a pro-Israel event.
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That may well be a major factor on-campus, but Jew hatred in Britain goes well beyond fans of Hamas. From The Times of Israel a few days ago:
Anti-Semitism at highest level on record: Latest figures show anti-Semitism in the UK rose 36 percent in 2016, with more than twice as many incidents as four years ago
One wonders how the French emigres feel about it, having already fled their homeland once due to the combination of socialist economics and jihadi Jew hatred.
[OMANTRIBUNE] The machete-wielding attacker, who was shot by a soldier outside La Belle France’s Louvre museum, refused to answer Sherlocks on Sunday after being formally placed into custody at a hospital, a source at the Gay Paree prosecutor’s office said.
Abdullah Reda Al Hamahmy, an Egyptian, was shot several times on Friday after attacking soldiers as he cried "Allahu Akbar" in what French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... described as a terrorist attack.
"The first interview took place this morning, but it turned out to be a short one. For the moment, he refuses to talk to Sherlocks," the source at the prosecutor’s office said.
Hamahmy’s father said it was "nonsense" to suggest his son was a terrorist, saying that the youngest of four children was a law graduate who had been working in the United Arab Emirates for about five years and was in Gay Paree on business.
The 29-year-old arrived in La Belle France on January 26 after obtaining a tourist visa in Dubai. Egyptian security officials have not said whether he had any known links to krazed killer groups.
Hours before the Louvre attack, an entry on Hamahmy’s Twitter account was posted reading:
The incident underlined the krazed killer threat facing La Belle France, which is still under a state of emergency as presidential elections loom following a series of attacks over the past two years that have killed more than 230 people.
Hamahmy’s father, Reda Al Refaai, in an interview on Saturday accused French officials of fabricating the allegations against his son to excuse the force used to stop him.
Asked if his son had shown any krazed killer tendencies, the retired police major general said: "If he had I would have thrown him out of the house."
French Sherlocks are hunting for clues to establish whether he acted alone, on impulse, or on orders from someone. He attacked troops checking bags near the museum’s shopping mall with a machete in each hand, wounding one soldier.
Hamahmy’s father said he last spoke to his son a few hours before the attack and that they had discussed what colour hat Hamahmy should buy to protect him against the cold weather of Gay Paree.
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I think the Bastille probably still has a few ways to loosen a tongue.
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Just play "Itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, yellow polk-dot bikini". Billy Wilder demonstrated the method in One, Two, Three, the adventures of a Coca-Cola executive in pre-Wall post-war Berlin. That scene can be seen here.
[RUDAW.NET] The veteran Kurdish politician Ahmet Turk who was released on orders of a Turkish court on Friday has reaffirmed that there is no solution for the Kurdish question in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... other than "democracy and peace," while calling for the immediate release of many other MPs, mayors and members of the pro-Kurdish parties.
"We believe that other than democracy and peace, there is no other solution. There is no other way," Turk told Rudaw after his release, referring to the Kurdish issue in the country.
He also said that the current situation is both "critical and difficult" for the Kurds.
"I came out of prison today, but our leaders, our MPs, and 70 of our mayors, are in prison now," Turk said as he recalled the moment he left the prison, leaving behind two party politicians, and also referring to dozens of big shots tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! by the Turkish authorities from the Pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) umbrella group.
A Turkish court in Mardin ordered the release of Turk on Friday on account of his health. The 75-year-old Kurdish politician was detained by the Turkish police in November as part of a "terror probe" against people with alleged connection to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Istanbul politician Sezgin Tanrikulu, who is a member of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), praised the court’s decision.
"Finally, a wrong verdict that contradicts justice and conscience has been rectified. Ahmet Turk was released," Tanrikulu tweeted.
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[reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... Tribune] House Speaker Paul Ryan ...U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President Obama's 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies... suggested in an interview broadcast Sunday that he would support using U.S. ground troops in Syria if it were part of a comprehensive plan to defeat 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.... that's due from the Pentagon later this month.
"It's in our vital national security interest. We must destroy ISIS in Syria," Ryan said on NBC News' "Meet the Press," using an acronym for the jihadist group.
The Wisconsin Republican was asked whether he'd be "reluctantly comfortable" sending U.S. soldiers into the conflict, which the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... estimates has cost the lives of 400,000 Syrians. "I've spent a lot of time on this issue," Ryan said. "We cannot afford to allow ISIS to continue to enjoy safe havens to recruit."
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Choices seem to be to ally with Russia to re-establish Pencil-neck's regime, or to continue to ally with whoever says they're fighting against ISIS other than Pencil-neck and end up in a war against Russia. Or just send in enough ammo to everyone to keep everybody occupied, and have some popcorn.
[NEWINDIANEXPRESS] Terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... Chief Hafiz Sayeed on Sunday exhorted his cadres in Pakistain and Kashmire to target those celebrating Valentine’s day later this month.
The terror criminal mastermind who has been put under so-called house arrest by the Pak authorities also gave call to his jihadi cadres and tanzeems associated with his outfit to redouble efforts for fundraising and launch a fresh wave of terror attacks in India especially Jammu and Kashmire.
Sayeed’s call not only exposes Pakistain’s duplicity but also bring to the fore the resolve of Lashkar and its frontal organization Jamat-Ud-Dawah’s determination to bounce back despite his house arrest.
The audacity of Sayeed’s call to launch a fresh wave of terror attacks in India also exposes the writ of so called democratically elected Nawaz Shareef government and also displays the terror group’s working relationship with Pakistain’s military leadership, an Intelligence official said.
Sayeed’s access to the Media and the outside world despite his house arrest also calls Pakistain's bluff as Islamabad was projecting itself to be cracking down on terror groups after US President 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... 's tough stand against Islamic terror.
As reported, the terror outfits based in Pak including LeT and JuD observe Kashmire Day on February 5 every year. This year also the day was observed as Kashmire Day and Sayeed’s call comes as part of the celebration.
In what clearly points to the free run being given to terror groups in Pakistain, as many as 40 different jehadi outfits have expressed solidarity with Sayeed’s call to hit India and target people celebrating Valentine’s Day both in Pakistain and Kashmire. The LeT has directed its cadres to kill people who celebrate Valentine’s Day in the Valley, Intelligence sources tracking terrorist groups in the region said.
The call against Valentine’s Day is not confined to Pakistain or Kashmire as the Lashkar has also appealed to its sympathizers in other countries to undertake personal and social media campaigns against those who observe the day on February 14.
While the Pak Government has tried to project itself as the ruling power in Islamabad by arresting Saeed, his supporters see an opportunity in Lashkar chief’s call to express solidarity with him and expose the weak position of democrats in that country as well as the influence of international community, the sources added.
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[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] Upping the ante, Pakistain Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Sunday said Kashmire is the "core dispute" between India and Pakistain and the dream of peace and prosperity of the people of the region will remain elusive without resolving the issue.
Describing Kashmire issue is the "unfinished agenda of partition and the oldest disputes in the UN Security Council, Sharif said "for the last seven decades India has denied the people of Kashmire the right to self-determination promised to them by the international community through numerous UN Security Council resolutions".
He was speaking on the occasion of ' Kashmire Solidarity Day+ '.
"The people of Pakistain join their Kashmiri brothers and sisters in observing Kashmire Solidarity Day today to reaffirm our moral, diplomatic and political support to the legitimate struggle of the Kashmiri people for their basic human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... , especially the right to self determination enshrined in the relevant UN Security Council resolutions," Sharif said.
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[RUDAW.NET] The Zoroastrian representation in the Kurdistan Region has filed a legal complaint against a Kurdish Islamic preacher whom they claim has issued a decree that all converts to the pre-Islamic faith must be killed if they did not repent within days.
"We filed a lawsuit against Mala Hasib, the [Islamic] preacher at Mala Rasul mosque, before the public prosecutor’s office today," said Awat Hussamaddin Tayib, the representative of the Zoroastrians at the Kurdistan Region’s ministry of religious affairs, "He has given a three-day deadline to all the Zoroastrians," she claimed.
"He says ’if they [the Zoroastrians] do not return to Islam’, which he described as the religion of our ancestors, while our ancestral religion is Zoroastrianism [then] they have to be killed as he issued against all the Zoroastrians," Tayib explained.
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Islam is insanity. We've got to push even the most "innocent" defenses of it.
[RUDAW.NET] For many residents in the newly liberated eastern districts of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the half-demolished shrine of the prophet Nabi Younis is a reminder of a more harmonious time.
On July 2014, one of the first actions that the Islamic gunnies carried out when they arrived in Mosul was the demolition of the shrine highly revered by Moslems, Christians and Yezidis for many centuries.
The Nabi Younis shrine was built on the reputed burial site of a prophet known in the Koran as Yunus and in the Bible as Jonah dating back to the 8th century BC. It was one of more than 30 shrines, as well as 15 Shiite husseiniyas and mosques, levelled in and around Mosul.
Demographically, the eastern parts of the city are notably different from other more Sunni inhabited neighborhoods. Districts around the Nabi Younis shrine include intertwined communities of Shiites, Sunnis, Yezidis, Christians, Turkmen and Kurds who have shared the area in peace for countless generations.
Many of the families here have established deep relations with other ethnic groups often through marriages and kinship over the past years. It would be a difficult task to make out different nationalities or faiths among residents here merely by their appearance or language.
"I wear Arabic clothes, but I am Kurdish. Here ethnicity and faiths have no 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... power. The Shiite and Sunnis have no problem with one another, the problem is merely politics, not us," said Abu Shirin a Kurdish resident of Nabi Younis neighbourhood wearing a traditional Arabic outfit.
"The Kurds were more repressed in the past when Saddam was in power," said Bahzad, a Kurdish vendor, referring to the former Iraqi ruler. "But ISIS made no distinction. It killed every one, Kurds, non-Kurds," he continued.
The Iraqi government has said it will dedicate a budget to rebuild the religious sites destroyed by ISIS around the country. Although for many residents in Mosul, the priority is security and the resumption of basic services like running water and electricity.
"We will earn our livelihood anyway possible, but we can’t do that if we have no security or lack running water," said Malik, a construction worker making 25,000 dinars ($20) a day rebuilding destroyed homes.
"That’s what we need; water, electricity and some security," he added.
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[IsraelTimes] Meeting unofficial representatives of Abbas, Jason Greenblatt, the administration’s special representative for international negotiations, indicated that the administration will not engage with PA until after President Trump meets Netanyahu on Feb. 15.
PA chief negotiator Saeb Erekat ...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently was negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state... lashed out at the White House last Monday, telling Newsweek that if Trump’s first days in office were representative of the shape of things to come, "God help us, God help the whole world.
"We have sent them letters, written messages, they don’t even bother to respond to us," he said of the new administration.
The lack of a response is a very clear response, methinks.
On Thursday, Trump met with Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC. According to Jordan’s official news agency Petra, the two "agreed on the need to intensify efforts to reach a solution to the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict."
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Good push them all into egypt or jordan. Push sll the muslims out from israel to the sea. Just move them out or put birth control in the vaccinations and prevent any muslim migration. Sick of this long story, judea is for the jews
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Note that these were "unofficial" representatives, which means that Abbas sent nobody that would commit him to anything. In response, President Trump (PBUH), only committed to hearing their side AFTER he meets with the Joos.
He built a tower in Chicago, and so got a taste of the "who sent you" mentality. Quick learner. Perhaps he would have beat Obama head-to-head.
[OMANTRIBUNE] Indonesia is moving to rein in a notorious hardline group which spearheaded protests against Jakarta’s governor, but experts warn it will be tough to bring to heel a network with close ties to the establishment.
The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) has in recent years become the face of the hardline group in the world’s most populous Moslem-majority country, growing in influence despite being a fringe organization whose extreme views are rejected by most.
The group has raided bars selling alcohol during the holy month of Ramadan, forced the cancellation of a concert by Lady Gaga -- whom they dubbed "the devil’s messenger" -- with noisy protests, and led demonstrations against the Miss World beauty pageant when it came to Indonesia.
Led by firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... holy man Rizieq Shihab, the FPI helped organise recent mass rallies -- which attracted conservative and moderate people -- against Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese, who is on trial for allegedly insulting religion.
The protest movement against Purnama -- accused of insulting the Holy Koran while campaigning for re-election in polls later this month -- propelled the hardliners from being a marginal group to the centre of national politics, alarming observers and some in the government.
Now authorities are seeking to put the muzzle back on the radicals, with police stepping up an investigation into Shihab in a move seen as supported by President Joko Widodo and his administration.
"This is unprecedented, it is the first time that the president and the government is openly challenging this group," Tobias Basuki, an analyst from Jakarta think-tank, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), said.
Last week, the police named the holy man a suspect for allegedly defaming Indonesia’s founding president, Sukarno, and the state ideology in a speech several years ago, meaning authorities believe there is enough evidence for him to stand trial.
Basuki said successive governments had shied away from cracking down for fear of being accused of attacking the religion but the current administration decided to "make a stand" as concerns mounted about the hardliners’ influence.
The forces of Evil have reacted angrily. Hundreds have rallied in support of Shihab -- who has served two short jail terms in the past -- whenever he is hauled in for police questioning.
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[CHANNELNEWSASIA] The Malaysian state of Malacca will review and tighten procedures for foreign preachers to prevent the spread of radical teaching.
"We will review, revisit and tighten up all our procedures and guidelines for foreign preachers to give sermons here, to prevent radical teachings. Prevention is better than cure," Malacca's Chief Minister Idris Haron told Channel NewsAsia.
Mr Idris also questioned the need to have foreign preachers from war-torn countries coming to Malacca to teach people how to live in harmony.
"For example, we have Syrian preachers coming here to teach us how to live peacefully. Their country is in chaos ... and they want to teach us how to live peacefully? By right, our preachers should be going there to teach them how to live in peace and stability," said Mr Idris.
The six-year civil war in Syria has claimed more than 300,000 lives and displaced an estimated four million people from the country.
According to the minister, 157 foreign preachers held sermons and talks in Malacca from 2015 to 2016. Most of them were from Indonesia, while the others were from Pakistain, Thailand, India, Yemen, Iraq and Syria.
"We have in our state quite a number of good preachers who can preach well and are well-understood by the people. They are knowledgeable, experienced and well-recognised by certain quarters in society, but we still want external preachers," said Mr Idris.
"My worry is that they (foreign preachers) don’t respect the law of the state. For example, we have the requirement that there must be no insult against any of the different beliefs in our country where we have been living in unity, solidarity and harmony for the past 60 years."
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[TODAYONLINE] Increasing concern over foreign terrorist fighters returning to South-east Asia has prompted Indonesia to enhance immigration cooperation with Asean member countries.
But regional cooperation must be preceded by significant internal improvement, particularly in regards to the integrity and capability of the country’s immigration apparatus.
Since coalition forces successfully pushed the so-called 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.... (IS) to djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and launched Operation Conquest, leaders from various countries have expressed their concern over the potential consequences of fleeing IS imported muscle.
Indonesia -- a country where a small collection of IS fighters has its origins and where imported muscle are often attracted to joining local resistances -- must keep an eye on its border security.
Indonesia already has experience in this issue, as its immigration and border security have been exploited in the past by Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) fighters wanting to enter or leave the country.
Indonesia’s problem with people movement seems to centre on a lack of integrity in the immigration apparatus, as well as the sheer scale of its borderlands.
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[IsraelTimes] Size of stockpile significant should Tehran keep it in storage until terms of agreement expire.
Iran’s nuclear chief said it would have 60 percent more stockpiled uranium than it did prior to its landmark 2015 agreement with world powers after a shipment expected later this week.
Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted by the semi-official Fars news agency on Sunday as saying that Iran would receive a final batch of 149 tons of natural uranium by Tuesday, in addition to 210 tons already delivered since early 2016.
The huge shipment of natural uranium from Russia was to compensate it for exporting tons of reactor coolant, diplomats said earlier this month, in a move approved by the outgoing US administration and other governments seeking to keep Tehran committed to a landmark nuclear pact.
Uranium can be enriched to levels ranging from reactor fuel or medical and research purposes to the core of an atomic bomb. Iran says it has no interest in such weapons and its activities are being closely monitored under the nuclear pact to make sure they remain peaceful.
Under the nuclear accord, Iran’s import of uranium is supervised by the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iran agreed to curb enrichment and place its nuclear program under international surveillance in exchange for the lifting of sanctions.
Diplomats said Tehran has not said what it would do with the uranium but could choose to store it or turn it into low-enriched uranium and then export it for use as reactor fuel.
Despite present restrictions on its enrichment program, the amount of natural uranium is significant should Iran decide to keep it in storage, considering its potential uses once some limits on Tehran’s nuclear activities start to expire in less than a decade.
David Albright, whose Institute of Science and International Security often briefs US politicians on Iran’s nuclear program, said earlier this month the shipment could be enriched to enough weapons-grade uranium for more than 10 simple nuclear bombs, "depending on the efficiency of the enrichment process and the design of the nuclear weapon."
The swap is in compensation for the 70 metric tons (77 tons) of heavy water exported by Iran to the United States, Russia and Oman since the nuclear agreement went into effect.
Heavy water is used to cool a type of reactor that produces more plutonium than reactors cooled by light water. Like enriched uranium, plutonium can be turned into the fissile core of a nuclear weapon.
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And what were the Mad Mullahs doing with 77 tons of heavy water they traded?
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Put Pershing missiles in Israel. Nuclear capable, of course.
[IsraelTimes] Mojtaba Zonour threatens attack on Israel if US launches military strike on Islamic Theocratic Republic.
Of course for 6.95 minutes the missile will be over Iran itself or a brotherly Arab country, meaning the thing will kill Muslims rather than Jews when Israel's countermissiles knock them aside or blow them up short of the target.
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The last time "Missiles rained in" from Saddam, the US coerced Israel to stand down and be patient, while the US reacted (presumable to keep Israel from going Nuclear). I wonder if that would repeat under Trump?
they may be assuming the operational capabilities of a newer missile
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And how long will it take the Israeli missiles to hit Iran, I wonder?
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Considering the Jericho III missile has a range of 6,000 miles (Tehran is only a little over 1,000 miles from the Negev) and it can pepper multiple targets with independent warheads...
I would be more concerned with "How Many" rather than how fast. ;)
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#3 And how long will it take the Israeli missiles to hit Iran, I wonder? Posted by Bobby 2017-02-06
about 1 minute from that missile sub off Iran's coast
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frank's comment got me thinking
if Zonour meant that Iran had sufficiently advanced missiles in south Lebanon and reliable people to launch them, the 7 minute threat would be within practicability
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Fine. After they push the button, they can enjoy the fruits of their labor for an hour and 53 minutes before our missiles reach Iran.
[RUDAW.NET] ISIS faceless myrmidons have dug a tunnel underneath the Nabi Yunis shrine of 8th century BCE in the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... . Nabi Yunis is the Islamic name for Jonah.
As Rudaw cameras entered some of the tunnels they came upon ancient bones and human remains in scattered around by the faceless myrmidons in the process.
ISIS faceless myrmidons have dug and left behind extensive networks of tunnels in Mosul and almost every town and village they held for two years.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Don't call it a comeback. Al Qaeda, the group responsible for the worst terrorist attack in United States history, never really left. Instead, while news media coverage inordinately focused on 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.... , al Qaeda re-tooled and re-established itself for a new age.
To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of al Qaeda's death were greatly exaggerated. Anticipatory obituaries appeared after the death of al Qaeda founder the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones... on May 2, 2011. Then-President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... , for instance, said on Sept. 10, 2011 that al Qaeda was "on a path to defeat." Similarly, then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... said in July 2011 that the U.S. was "within reach of strategically defeating al Qaeda."
The rise of the Islamic State -- an al Qaeda branch itself until an official split in 2014 cemented a long-standing rivalry -- received considerable attention from news hounds, pundits, and policymakers, as well as the public they influence.
But as terror analysts Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Bridget Moreng pointed out in an April 2015 op-ed, "The Islamic State's offensive through Iraq and Syria last year has dominated the headlines, but the jihadist group that has won the most territory in the Arab world over the past six months is Al Qaeda."
The two analysts cited the Islamic State's comparatively greater emphasis on media and more highly-developed media capabilities as part of the reason. This difference however, has worked to al Qaeda's benefit.
The terror group, led since 2011 by bin Laden-successor Ayman al-Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodx al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... , has employed a less flashy strategy that stands in contrast to its competitor's use of gruesome, and accordingly well-publicized, atrocities. Nor has al Qaeda, for the most part, attempted to hold and govern wide swaths of territory. The Islamic State's decision to do so and to declare a caliphate under His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... resulted in its split from al Qaeda.
By adopting a more covert approach, al Qaeda has been able to expand while flying under the radar as the West and its Arab government allies have focused on the Islamic State. Ironically, al Qaeda has taken a page from the counterinsurgency strategy employed as part of the "surge" in Iraq to defeat it. By embedding with local populations, selling itself as less of a threat than the Islamic State, and relinquishing the scorched-earth tactics it had once employed as al Qaeda in Iraq, Zawihiri has led his organization to steady gains.
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If you smash al-qaida another group will rise with a different name that does te same stuff
The organisation is not the enemy it is a symptom of the enemy
Just like a rash is a symptom of shingles
The virus is Islamism which is caused by the literal application of the violence directed in the hadith and Koran, and by the example of mohammad
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.
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] Upping the ante, Pakistain Prime Minister 
Zawahiri
