[Khaama (Afghanistan)] 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 grabbed credit for the deadly attack in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... targeting the Supreme Court of Afghanistan.
The loyalists of the terror group operating under the name of Khurasan province, issued a statement earlier this evening, claiming the attack was carried out by the group.
The statement was released in Arabic language along with a picture purportedly showing the jacket wallah who detonated his explosives near the court entrance gate.
According to the Afghan public health officials, at least 21 people were killed and 41 others were maimed in the attack.
The attack was widely condemned in Afghanistan as well as abroad.
"This attack appears to have deliberately targeted civilian judicial staff as they were leaving the office for the day," said Tadamichi Yamamoto, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of UNAMA. "This attack is nothing short of an atrocity. Those responsible for planning and carrying out this horrendous act must be brought to justice."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo, a US-educated former prime minister, was sworn in as Somalia’s new president on Wednesday after politicians gave him an unassailable lead in the second round of an election in Mogadishu’s secure airport compound.
Celebratory gunfire erupted across the city at his victory. Outgoing President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud conceded defeat as it became clear he could not win a third round.
"This is a victory for Somalia and the Somalis," Farmajo told politicians who had gathered in a hall behind the airport’s blast walls to vote. He was sworn in moments earlier.
Ynet adds that not only was the new president educated in America, but he holds dual Somali and American citizenships.
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[AlAhram] Egyptian border guards have tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... over the past 20 days 418 people of different nationalities who were attempting to illegally cross into Libya, the Egyptian Armed Forces announced in a statement on Wednesday.
The statement added the border jumpers were arrested at the border city of Salloum.
Despite a warning by the Egyptian government against travel to Libya, the country is still frequently used as a transit point for migrants colonists from Egypt and other nations seeking to cross the Mediterranean for Europe.
The Armed Forces statement also said that border guards arrested 15 people of different nationalities who were attempting to enter Egypt through its southern border with Sudan.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Theresa May slammed the disgraced lawyer Phil Shiner for hounding Iraq veterans today and promised to crack down on others who chase after former soldiers.
She said it was 'absolutely appalling' that the likes of Mr Shiner, who was struck off last week, could 'make a business out of chasing after our brave troops'.
And the PM promised to reduce the number of cases being pursued by the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (Ihat), which has been heavily criticised for leading a 'witch-hunt' and is estimated to have cost £36.3million to date.
It was set up in 2010 to probe claims of abuse of civilians following the 2003 invasion.
Professor Shiner made his name suing the Government at taxpayers' expense but last week a disciplinary tribunal found he acted dishonestly in bringing murder claims against British troops.
Today the PM was pressed by Tory MP Johnny Mercer, who is leading a parliamentary inquiry into Ihat, to 'get a grip' on the process, which led to many more claims than the Government expected, 'so that never again will our servicemen and women be exposed to the likes of Phil Shiner'.
Mrs May responded: 'In relation to Ihat, we are committed to reducing its case load to a small number of credible cases as quickly as possible.
’I recognise that the action that has been taken in relation to the individual that he has referred to.
I think it is absolutely appalling when people try to make a business out of chasing after our brave troops.'
Earlier this week MailOnline revealed that the disgraced lawyer was part of a group of conspiracy theorists that plotted legal action even before the Iraq War started.
Professor Shiner, 60, was a member of the ’Legal Inquiry Steering Group (LISG)’, which was set up in August 2002 to plan court cases and threaten the Government. British troops went into action in March 2003.
A damning report by MPs into Ihat set to be published next week is expected to call for the £60million probe to be scrapped immediately.
Mr Mercer said he believed a 'rotten core' of civil servants had warped the purpose of the process.
The report is set to blame the Ministry of Defence for creating a system that allowed Professor Shiner to bring criminal cases against former soldiers on an 'industrial scale'.
The MoD has said it is obliged to investigate criminal allegations and the existence of Ihat keeps British soldiers from being hauled through international courts.
The Defence Sub-Committee's report on the support given to former and serving personnel who face legal proceedings is due to be published on February 15.
Since its launch there have been 3,392 cases lodged with Ihat, two thirds of which were brought by Shiner and his firm, Public Interest Lawyers (PIL).
The allegations against British military personnel have ranged from low-level mistreatment of civilians to claims of torture and murder.
Mr Shiner was finally struck off last week after a string of misconduct charges against him, including five of dishonesty, were found proven following a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal hearing.
There have been calls for the lawyer to face criminal prosecution and the National Crime Agency is said to be reviewing evidence from the Legal Aid Authority.
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[GEO.TV] LONDON/KARACHI: The man who was nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! from PIA flight PK757, after it was diverted to Stansted Airport in London on Tuesday over security concerns, has been identified as Khalid Baqa, Geo News has learnt.
A Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) plane flying to Heathrow airport was forced to land at London's Stansted Airport on Tuesday evening over security threats. Reports surfaced that a suspect was taken into custody by the British authorities and shifted to a cop shoppe.
Stansted airport front man had said: "The aircraft is likely to continue its journey onwards to Heathrow today pending inquiries that the police are making into the individual on the aircraft."
The UK Ministry of Defence said that Typhoon jets had intercepted the aircraft, which had been en route to London´s Heathrow Airport, and escorted it to Stansted.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the identity of the suspect has now been confirmed as Khalid Baqa, who was apprehended along with his accomplices in 2012 on charges of terrorism.
In 2013, Baqa was sentenced to two years in prison in the UK. He was charged with having over 300 CDs in his possession, which had holy warrior material.
The CDs seized from him had sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list... and beheading scenes. Apart from that, the disks had bomb-making procedures, will of one of the convicts of London blasts and his confessional statement. The CDs also had recorded scenes of the 9/11 attacks.
British police said the plane was diverted over a bomb threat.
The PIA, however, said the response by British authorities was excessive.
Bright Pebbles submitted an article from the Standard on the same story, which it reported very differently:
A man from London who was arrested after a passenger flight was escorted by RAF fighter jets to Stansted Airport has been charged with fraud.
The Ministry of Defence deployed two Typhoon fighter jets to intercept the Pakistan International Airlines flight on Tuesday afternoon after an anonymous phone call sparked a major security alert.
The plane was making its way from Lahore to Heathrow.
Police said Khalid Baqa, of Priory Road, Barking, was due to be arrested on arrival at Heathrow but was instead detained at Stansted.
The 52-year-old, a UK national, has been charged with committing fraud by false representation and has been bailed to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on February 23.
It is not believed he had any involvement in the cause of the diversion.
The plane was accompanied by Typhoons to the Essex airport, with photos posted on Twitter showing several fire engines and a number of ambulances waiting on the ground.
An airline spokesman said UK authorities had "received some vague security threat through an anonymous phone call".
Passenger Naz Amin said the flight landed "in the middle of nowhere" and was quickly surrounded by police.
He told LBC Radio: "I realised it was surrounded by police and the police came on the plane about 45 minutes to an hour later and they took a gentleman off the plane.
"He wasn't being disruptive at all, he was just sitting down... there was no-one being disruptive on the plane."
Essex Police said the incident is "not believed to be a hijack situation or terror matter".
Stansted is a designated airport for dealing with hijacks and major security alerts. Incidents are dealt with in a remote part of the airfield to the north west of the terminal building.
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[FOX] White House blasts media coverage of terror attacks
The U.S. and European terror forecast for 2017 'looks alarming,' in part because of increased pressure on ISIS and other terror groups on their home turf, according to a monthly assessment by House lawmakers.
The House Homeland Security Committee’s February "Terror Threat Snapshot" report cited two homegrown terror attacks in January and officials predicted efforts to crush foreign terror groups, while laudable, could spur more attacks to American soil.
"At this rate, the forecast for 2017 looks alarming," warns the report, citing an "unprecedented spike in the homegrown terror threat, primarily driven by the rise of ISIS."
Officials predicted necessary efforts to crush foreign terror groups could actually spur more attacks on Western soil. Coming attacks in the U.S. and Europe could be carried out by so-called lone wolves as well as homegrown terrorists who return from fighting in such places as Iraq, Syria and Somalia.
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Your medua is censored so you won'tknow about the jihad terror attacks. You will be told only of the large ones that are impossible to hide and then you will not be told anything that would identify the attackers as islamist.
This will disarm the natural immune response of society to demand our leaders limit muslim migration and you will get the farce that is going on right now
Ignorant left protesters runing around in hijabs saying "i stand with muslims"
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Well, if the Europeans want it, then maybe our liberals ought to want it too. I guess that puts them into some kind of ban since they've been frothing at the mouth about this for so long.
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I'll bet a lot of US muslims are also in favor of such an action as they see their nice life of life style freedom in jeopardy if the ISIS, Al Q, Shabab, boko haram types come in
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From the Brits lips to God's and the 9th circuit courts ears.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Belgium's terror monitoring centre has expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s about the spread of Saudi- and Gulf-backed fundamentalist Islam in the country's mosques, according to an official report published in local media Wednesday.
The OCAM national crisis centre said the austere Sunni doctrine of Wahhabism preached in an increasing number of Belgian mosques was getting financial support from 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... and the Gulf states, according to the report quoted in Phlegmish-language daily De Standaard.
Belgium has been on high alert since three jacket wallahs attacked Zaventem Airport and the Brussels metro system in March 2016, killing 32 people.
"We believe that a growing number of mosques and Islamic centres in Belgium, like the rest of Europe, are under the influence of Wahhabism, the Salafist missionary apparatus," the centre said.
"We also note that the imams of these mosques are regularly being 'salafised' or are already 'salafised'," it added.
Saudi Arabia is the cradle of Wahhabism, which has been accused of inspiring holy warrior ideologies across the Moslem world.
The Belgian official report said Saudi authorities had set up a "generous" bursary scheme for Moslem students from other countries.
"They are strongly encouraged to become imams in their Belgian mosques or be active in proselytising in Belgium or more widely in French-speaking or Dutch-speaking areas," it said, as cited by De Standaard daily.
"The Saudi authorities and the Wahhabist establishment have clearly settled on this method to reinforce the influence of the doctrine and practice of Wahhabism in Moslem communities in Europe," it said.
Belgium has a long-running problem with radicalisation, producing what officials say is the highest number of jihadists going to fight in Syria and Iraq in proportion to its population of any EU country.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A 29-year-old Egyptian tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... after a machete attack at the Louvre in Gay Paree last week has said he acted on his own and was not under orders from ISIS, a source close to the probe said Wednesday.
Police have confirmed him as Abdallah El-Hamahmy, a sales manager resident in Dubai, who has denied being guided by the murderous Moslem group during interrogations.
He said that he "acted on his own will" and planned only to damage artworks as a symbolic assault on La Belle France, the source said, asking not to be named.
Although his backpack contained spray paint which could have been used to deface artwork, Sherlocks believe he appears to have "a certain sympathy for the ideas of IS," the source said, referring to ISIS using a different acronym.
In Friday’s attack at the world’s busiest museum, Hamahmy was shot after lunging at four soldiers with machetes in the underground ticketing area while shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest).
Hamahmy, who is recovering in hospital, is likely be charged once medical staff say he is well enough to appear before a judge.
The son of a retired policeman entered La Belle France legally on January 26 on a flight from Dubai and was staying in an apartment rented by the week in an expensive Gay Paree district near the Champs-Elysees, sources say.
Investigators are examining a Twitter account thought to his which sent out a dozen messages in Arabic between 9:27 am and 9:34 am, just minutes before the attack.
"In the name of Allah... for our brothers in Syria and fighters across the world," one said.
Another post asked: "Why are they afraid of the creation of a state for Islam? Because the state of Islam defends its resources and the honor of Moslems."
Hamahmy’s father Reda El-Hamahmy, a retired police officer, had previously given media interviews ‐ including with Al Arabiya ‐ saying his son was innocent.
But speaking in Cairo he told AFP that his son had shown no sign of having been radicalized.
He said the family was relatively well off, with Abdallah earning a law degree in the Nile delta city of Mansoura in 2010 before moving to Dubai to become a sales manager.
The father said the suspect’s wife was pregnant with the couple’s second child and was currently in 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... The Louvre assault revived fears of violence in La Belle France, which suffered a string of attacks that killed 238 people between January 2015 and July 2016.
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...a known wolf, the former Decarus Lowell Thomas, having given up crime and drugs, kept busy planning the attack and supplying guns for the attack on the Draw Mohammed contest in Garland, TX, also attempting to seduce several neighbourhood yoots to radical Islam while running an insurance scam to fund ISIS and researching explosives and travel to the new caliphate...
to 30 years in prison for conspiracy to support ISIS in Garland, Texas shooting attack.
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Firing squads are being considered in Mississippi as capital punishment.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Florida man pleaded no contest and was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in prison for setting fire last year to the mosque where Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen ... the Afghan-"American" who decided he was a soldier of the Caliphate and shot fifty unarmed people to death in a Florida gay bar he used to frequent... once worshipped, court officials said.
Joseph Schreiber, 32, caused more than $100,000 in damage to the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, which he set ablaze on Sept. 11, 2016, the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, authorities said.
The crime also coincided with the Moslem holy day of Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice.
No one was hurt, but the fire forced the congregation to relocate prayer services as it seeks a new home.
Schreiber told police after his arrest in September that his attack on the mosque had nothing to do with Mateen, Assistant State Attorney Steve Gosnell said in an interview on Monday.
A lawyer for Schreiber could not be immediately reached after Monday’s court hearing in St. Lucie County.
The mosque was close to the apartment Mateen shared with his wife before he killed 49 people and maimed dozens more at a gay nightclub in Orlando last June, the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
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If they keep letting the leftards keep getting away scot free with rioting, this guy then deserves a full pardon.
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl general secretary Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri ...Central Secretary General of JUI-F, member of the Pak senate, formerly provincial minister of Balochistan. He has a master's degree in Islam and runs a madrassah... has said that the federal government is targeting religious seminaries under the garb of National Action Plan (NAP).
Talking to media persons at the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. Press Club on Tuesday, he warned that no one would be allowed to use NAP as a tool against the religious institutions in the country. He claimed that NAP was not being implemented in its true sense rather it was misused.
Maulana Haideri, who is also deputy chairman of the Senate, said that his party had also supported NAP and establishment of military courts in the larger national interest, but they could not remain silent if anything was done wrong. He alleged that NAP was used as a tool against madressahs and for the arrest of religious scholars under the fourth schedule.
The religious seminaries, he said, were the places of Islamic teaching which had nothing to do with terrorism. He said that such policies would create unrest in the country and its entire responsibility would rest with the government.
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[DAWN] The Lahore High Court on Tuesday dismissed a habeas corpus petition filed by a lawyer challenging detention of Jamatud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... Justice Erum Sajjad Gull heard the petition of Advocate Sarfraz Hussain as objection case and upheld an objection put by the registrar office on its maintainability. The office had stated that the petitioner had not furnished the impugned notification of Saeed’s detention.
During the hearing, Advocate A.K Dogar appeared before the court and stated that a separate petition would be filed soon on behalf of Hafiz Saeed challenging his detention.
Advocate Hussain had contended that Hafiz Saeed was detained in the light of the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... ’ resolution of 2008. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... he said, the resolution of the UN Security Council passed in 1948 for holding a plebiscite in India-held Kashmire had not been implemented so far.
The lawyer stated that the JuD chief were tossed into the calaboose for keeping the Kashmire issue alive and the move was liable to be declared void as there was no nexus with anti-terrorism laws, which had been manoeuvered by the government to curtail the liberty of a Pak citizen at the behest of a foreign mission.
He asked the court to get the JuD chief recovered from the illegal and improper detention and set him at liberty in the interest of justice.
The government had placed Hafiz Saeed and four other members of his organization under house arrest last week for a period of three months.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] More than 1,000 Pak people applied for Indian citizenship in 2016 according to India’s Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju.
"More than 12,800 applications for long term visa and more than 1,200 applications for grant of citizenship to Pak minorities have been received across the country," the minister said on Wednesday.
Under the Indian Passport and Foreigners Act, Hindus and Sikhs from Bangladesh and Pakistain who have entered India on the basis of religious persecution on or before December 31 were allowed to stay in the country.
According to Rijiju, a number of Pak Hindus and Sikhs who entered India on pilgrimage visas have not returned to Pakistain on the grounds of religious persecution.
The minister added that all citizenship applications have been delegated to the district magistrates at the seven states were the applications were made.
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[Iraq Sun] Terrorists with 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 the Levant in the western part of Iraq's second-largest city face two options: surrender or die, the front man for Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve told Pentagon news hounds today. An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the Fighting Swordsmen of Strike Fighter Squadron 32 makes an tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Persian Gulf, Aug. 27, 2016. Ike and its Carrier Strike Group are deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan T. Beard Eisenhower Deployment An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the Fighting Swordsmen of Strike Fighter Squadron 32 makes an arrested landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Persian Gulf, Aug. 27, 2016. Ike and its Carrier Strike Group are deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan T. Beard Download Image Image details page
"The enemy is completely surrounded in West djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , and those who do not surrender to the Iraqi security forces will be killed there," Air Force Col. John Dorrian said in a news briefing from Baghdad.
As Iraqi security forces prepare to liberate West Mosul, coalition strikes are pounding ISIS targets, including bully boyz and their weapons caches and ISIS command-and-control sites, Dorrian said.
With eastern Mosul liberated, the 16th Iraqi Army Division is serving as a "hold force" there to maintain pressure on any remaining ISIS sleeper cells and prevent the bully boyz from infiltrating the city again, the colonel explained. VIDEO | 01:00 | Inherent Resolve Spokesman Provides West Mosul Update
Terrorists are targeting eastern Mosul with indirect fire, mortars and artillery fires, Dorrian said, causing damage and civilian casualties. They are also using commercially available drones to observe and drop explosives on Iraqi security force and civilian positions, he added.
"Although dangerous and effective as a propaganda tactic, this has limited operational effect on the battlefield and will not change the outcome or significantly delay the inevitable," he said.
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Yea, but they can reasonably expect "surrender AND die".
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"Does this burqa make me look fat?"
Wow! Sing of the burka that launches
A thousand one dhows with its haunches!
This tentmaker's dummy's
Caboose was so Rumi,
Its princes all pulled in their paunches.
[FOX] Defense and intelligence officials have reportedly expressed concern over the possiblity that the Trump administration will at some point designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization.
Officials said the designation could put U.S. troops in danger in Iraq and hurt the overall fight against the Islamic State, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The White House is weighing whether to designate the Muslim Brotherhood-- along with the revolutionary guard-- as terrorist organizations.
A senior White House official told The Post was still being mulled over. The White House has sought to take a hard stance against Iran and has even threatened fresh sanctions over Iran’s recent missile tests.
"There are so many second, third and fifth order of facts with every decision, as we see it, and so I think that this is an area where, rightly so, we have to be very smart... This all has to do with [Iran’s] behavior. What we have to do is figure out what are the right things to consider. We consider a lot of things. What we actually decide to do is different," the White House official said.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer declined to say whether the White House would take steps against either the Muslim Brotherhood or the IRGC, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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[IsraelTimes] Iran has reportedly test-fired another missile on Wednesday, just days after a series of warnings from the Trump administration that it was "on notice" for previous ballistic missile tests and that a military response to such actions was under consideration.
According to a Fox News report, a US official said the test on Wednesday was of a short-range surface-to-air missile, called Mersad, which impacted 56-kilometer (35 miles) away.
The test came on the same day US officials told Rooters that the White House was considering a proposal that could lead to naming Iran’s most powerful military and political institution, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, as a terrorist organization.
The proposal is reportedly one of many being weighed as part of an overall Iran policy review, amid a tougher line on Tehran since the Trump administration came into office.
On Friday, Washington slapped sanctions on more than two dozen people and companies from the Persian Gulf to China, in response to Iran test-firing late last month a 4,000-kilometer (2,500-mile) ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, as well as a home-made cruise missile with the same capabilities, acts which prompted an emergency UN Security Council session and an Israeli demand by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reimpose sanctions.
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I keep saying... launch the fircking "Rods from God". I am sure a Falcon Heavy could loft quite a few dispensers. If that requires muzzling the EPA and FAA do it.
Iranian forces in a fast-attack boat had their guns pointed right at a U.S. destroyer as it sped directly towards the ship, in a dangerous encounter in January, a U.S. Navy captain said.
Fearing collision, U.S. Navy Cmdr. Marc Davis was eventually forced to fire three warning shots from the ship’s .50 caliber guns, he said in a recent one-on-one interview with Breitbart News, where he shared new details about the incident.
The contact began early Sunday morning on January 8 when one of four Iranian boats harassing the Mahan began speeding straight towards the destroyer and its 330 sailors onboard, forcing a series of attempts to get it to stop.
"On that day, we were transiting into the Arabian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz," Davis recalled, referring to the narrow waterway, which is in international waters, but which Iran considers its territory.
The interaction with the Iranian vessels started very late the night before on Saturday, and occurred all evening and early morning. There were six interactions -- all what he would deem in Navy terms "safe and professional."
He said, "it was finally sunrise, so it was early in the morning the following day" when the last interaction occurred.
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This event took place on January 8th.
I wonder might have taken place if the Iranians had tried this on February 8th?
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Hopefully, our new chain of command will not allow threats within range of the .50 cals. I'm ok with engaging as soon as the Fire Controlman determines the CIWS or the 5" deck gun can reach them.
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...The fact that the Mahan's skipper was doing this brief is a sign - under the Obama Administration, some 07 at the Pentagon would be giving a 'summary', but this time we heard it from the man on the scene.
Blow the lead boat into fish chum, and then tell the Iranians that anything even remotely resembling a military response anywhere on the planet will be met with overwhelming force.
Mike
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A few bursts from a duel 50 or one hit from a 20mm is all that is needed against a speed boat.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A statement issued by the first lawful judge in Damascus encouraging second marriage to lessen the war losses and to reduce spinsterhood has sparked anger amid regime supporters on Tuesday.
Judge Mahmoud Marawi told state-run Tishreen Newspaper that second marriage is one of the proposed solutions to spinsterhood phenomenon and that war led to increase in female numbers rating 65% in relation to males.
Marawi talked about Syrian personal status and Sharia system facilitating second marriage and now, the judge is not required to check economic means to run two households.
Pro-regime activists who condemned the judge statement, said the support should be for the first family to overcome difficult living conditions before any talk about two families."
The activists have also demanded the wealthy endowment ministry and traders to support Syrian families instead of such calls.
Some men who liked the proposition of second marriage launched a campaign called "Together in support of the legislative judge". On the other hand, some women reacted with complaints and called for supporting families who lost their sons instead of proposing meaningless ideas.
Marawi confirmed that the proposition will be well-received by people, but he saw that second and third marriage will be facilitated by judiciary since it is the best solution to the spinsterhood.
A woman responded to the judge saying, "you can go marry Mr.judge". The responses come after the spread of undeclared marriage and brothels in some provinces especially the ones controlled by regime militias and what is left of regime army under threat and accusation of treason. In some cases, women accepted emergency marriages fearing rape which was committed by these forces against women and populations.
It is noted that it is not the first time that Marawi’s statement spark controversy especially in relation to the women whose husbands were killed and some statements regarding adultery and civil marriage.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Syrian government and rebel groups swapped dozens of women prisoners and hostages, some of them with their children, in Hama province Tuesday evening, pro-opposition activists said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based opposition-aligned group, said government representatives and rebel officials exchanged 112 women in the rebel-held Qalaat al-Madiq town in rural Hama. Many were tossed into the calaboose for years.
About half were released from government prisons and then taken to opposition-held areas, the Observatory said.
In return, the others were set free by various rebel groups and shuttled to government-controlled areas along the coast.
Such exchanges were rare in the nearly six-year-old war, but had been occuring more often in recent months, the Observatory said.
The war pits 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... 's government, backed by Russia and Iran, against an array of mostly Sunni rebel groups, including some backed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , the United States and Gulf monarchies.
The conflict has killed hundreds of thousands of people, made more than half of Syrian homeless and created the world's worst refugee crisis.
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[Right Scoop] The Trump White House is nearing completion of an order that would direct the Pentagon to bring future Islamic State detainees to the Guantánamo Bay prison, despite warnings from national security officials and legal scholars that doing so risks undermining the effort to combat the group, according to administration officials and a draft executive order obtained by The New York Times.
White House officials have detailed their thinking about a new detainee policy in an evolving series of drafts of an executive order being circulated among national security officials for comment. While previous versions have shown that the draft has undergone many changes ‐ including dropping language about reviving C.I.A. prisons ‐ the plan to add Islamic State detainees to the Guantánamo population has remained constant.
The latest version of the draft, which circulated this week, would direct Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to use Guantánamo to detain suspected members of "Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces, including individuals and networks associated with the Islamic State."
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More raids similar to the recent undertaking in Yemen are likely coming. The return of Human Intelligence (HUMINT) collection and exploitation is gaining ground.
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If they are not in uniform and following other rules of the Geneva Conventions, they are illegal combatants,not POWS. According to the GC, they can be given a drum head court martial and then executed. After we've wrung them dry of any useful intelligence.
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Hopefully 0bean is finding relief by banging his head on the corner of a filing cabinet about now.
Sounds like he'd be in an office; that's too much work for him.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Theresa May slammed the disgraced lawyer Phil Shiner for hounding Iraq veterans today and promised to crack down on others who chase after former soldiers. 
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[Ynet] The US has sentenced 
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