New York- A confidential U.N. report is warning that the war in South Sudan has reached “catastrophic proportions for civilians” and the rise of militias risks spinning out of control, fueling fighting for years to come.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in the report obtained by Agence France Presse that civilians were fleeing villages and towns “in record numbers” and that the danger of mass atrocities “is real”.
“The security situation continues to deteriorate in parts of the country and the consequent impact of this ongoing conflict and violence, has reached catastrophic proportions for civilians,” Guterres wrote.
“The rise of militias under the loose command of the SPLA or rebel commanders is spreading the fragmentation and dislocation of its territories, which risk, if this trend continues, remaining out of any government control for years to come,” said the report.
After gaining independence from Sudan in 2011, South Sudan descended into war in December 2013, leaving tens of thousands dead and more than three million people displaced.
Meanwhile, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said about 5.2 million people are facing food insecurity in South Sudan, or nearly half of the population.
The figure includes 4.9 million South Sudanese and 260,000 refugees from Sudan, Congo and Ethiopia, who have been in South Sudan for about five years, OCHA spokesman in South Sudan, Frank Nyakairu, told German news agency (dpa) by phone.
Dry spells and flooding attributed to climate change have hampered farming, but the lack of food is also largely due to a military conflict that has ravaged the country since December 2013 and displaced 3.4 million people.
“The humanitarian situation in South Sudan has deteriorated dramatically due to the devastating combination of conflict, economic decline and climatic shocks,” said Eugene Owusu, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for South Sudan.
[ArabNews] CAIRO: The main figure killed in last month’s US raid in Yemen targeting Al-Qaeda was a tribal leader who was allied to the country’s US- and Saudi-backed president and had been enlisted to fight Yemen’s Houthi insurgents, according to military officials, tribal figures and relatives.
The government connections of tribal chief Sheikh Abdel-Raouf Al-Dhahab raise further questions over the planning of a raid that turned into a heavy firefight with casualties on both sides.
One US Navy Seal was killed, six American soldiers were wounded and a military aircraft suffered a hard landing and had to be destroyed in the assault, which took place days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
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So it was a raid on a family compound.
But a complete flush? Wonder if it was a cleaning?
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This is a crook of crapola! The Al-Dhahab brothers practically invented the AQAP! Don't fall for the Fake News! The world is a better place since our heroes iced AbdulRaouf!
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab coalition on Thursday said that it will investigate claims that it targeted a gathering of civilians in Sanaa, a statement said.
That statement said: "We are aware of media reports that Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias are claiming that Yemeni non-combatants were killed in an air raid overnight near Sanaa. There has been fighting between Yemeni armed forces and rebels in this area in recent days. We are investigating the reports and will release further information when we have it."
Reports alleged that warplanes struck a house north of Yemen’s capital on Wednesday night where civilians had gathered.
The Arclight airstrike hit the house of a local tribal leader in the Arhab district north of Sanaa, a resident told Rooters.
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[ARA] The Dutch intelligence service AVID has warned for an increase in the number of ISIS returnees that could carry out attacks in Europe due to increasing ISIS territorial losses in both Iraq and Syria
The Dutch intelligence says the small number of ISIS returnees from Syria and Iraq could carry out attacks in the Netherlands, or recruit new ISIS supporters.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... many Dutch jihadists would most likely die in the battlefield. Currently, the Iraqi security forces are carrying out an offensive on the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a campaign that started on 16 October, while the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are fighting to isolate Raqqa‐ISIS de facto capital. ISIS is losing more and more territory and is being pushed to the defensive.
Until now, 280 Dutch citizens have joined jihadi groups in Syria and Iraq.
In 2016, the number of Dutch citizens that joined jihadist groups has decreased significantly. The majority of these Jihadists have joined ISIS, and some have joined the al-Qa’ida affiliated Tahrir al-Sham.
One third of the Dutch jihadists are women and it also includes 80 Dutch children. Fifty per cent of them was born in the region and less than 20 per cent of them is 9 years or older.
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As you've been telling Israel for so long "Don't let terrorism stop the Peace!".
[ARA] The German Attorney-General has issued an international arrest warrant against an ISIS leader for committing war crimes and genocide against religious Yezidi minority in August 2014.
The German newspaper Die Welt reports that the ISIS leader was responsible for the abduction of thousands of Yezidi women. The German authorities are increasing their fight against war criminals.
The Federal Criminal Police Office managed to identify the high-ranking ISIS commander through interrogation of Yezidi victims.
"We have a little more hope of solving war crimes that ISIS perpetrated on Yazidi territory in the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq ‐ over 1,000 Yazidis have come to Germany, some of whom we have questioned," Germany’s top federal prosecutor Peter Frank told Suddeutsche Zeitung.
"So we have direct accounts of what happened there. On this point we are doing a ’structural investigation’ to determine what crimes against international law have been committed," he said.
The German State Security Unit 24, specialized in war crimes, is currently investigating more then 20 people for war crimes, including members of ISIS, and members of the Syrian government led by president Bashir al-Assad.
The enslavement of Yezidi women and girls are part of its investigations against war criminals.
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[IsraelTimes] The Israeli consulate in Miami was briefly evacuated on Thursday after a hoax bomb threat, the Foreign Ministry said.
Miami police gave the all-clear an hour after the building was emptied, saying that they had found no evidence of any explosives in the building.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the threat and the evacuation.
Last month the FBI announced it was launching an official probe into a wave of bomb threats to US Jewish institutions across the country in recent weeks.
On January 18 at least 32 Jewish centers in 16 states received threats.
Those threats came a week after an initial wave of bomb threats were called into 16 institutions across the Northeast and South on January 9, and hundreds of people were evacuated. All the alerts were false.
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Of course the standard 'active bomb threat' evac plan is for an orderly building exit then gathering at assigned but unsecured workgroup assembly points in the car park nearby for a headcount.
Unfortunately, this practice can lead to actual headcounting...
1) when a jacketed wallaby walks into the assembly area.
2) the newly painted 'ambulance' arrives.
3) angry democrats open fire from across the street.
4) vehicles in visitor parking self-actuate.
Observers now know where the Mossad operators cluster.
[An Nahar] 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... said Thursday he will announce next week a new executive order on immigration, trying to moving forward now that his travel ban is caught up in court.
"We will be issuing a new and very comprehensive order to protect our people," Trump told a news conference.
Trump's administration meanwhile dropped Thursday its appeal of a court ruling that suspended his travel ban targeting refugees and seven Moslem countries and said it would replace the measure with a modified version.
The Justice Department announced the move in a brief filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... . It said the new order would address complaints from a three-judge panel that parts of the order were unconstitutional.
"Rather than continuing this litigation, the President intends in the near future to rescind the Order and replace it with a new, substantially revised Executive Order to eliminate what the panel erroneously thought were constitutional concerns," the brief states.
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: The Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...a Pak religious party. It is usually part of the govt, never part of the solution... -Fazl has reached an understanding with the federal government on the extension in the term of military courts and mainstreaming of Fata, said party chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... here on Wednesday.
"The (federal) government has accepted our conditions and we will support extension to the military courts," he told news hounds at the party’s provincial secretariat here.
Mr. Fazl said the government had agreed to the condition that the role of military courts would not be confined to the holding of trial of the people involved in religious and sectarian terrorism.
He said the government hadn’t ensured security of civil judges during the last two years to end dependence on military courts.
"The words religious and sectarian terrorism will not be included in the draft amendment to the law for the extension of (the term of) military courts," he said.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Members of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat, while debating the Compulsory Education of Arabic Bill 2015, discussed whether the lack of Arabic as a subject in the curriculum was the cause of terrorism in Pakistain.
The bill was moved by MNA Naeema Kishwar Khan, and debate on it began even though the mover of the bill was not in attendance.
PML-N MNA Parveen Masood Bhatti expressed support for the bill, saying terrorism was increasing because students were not studying Arabic.
"We have started focusing on the English language, and parents put their children in English-medium schools and do not bother teaching their children the Arabic language. It is because of this attitude that terrorism is increasing," she claimed.
Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) MNA Syed Ali Raza Abidi, however, argued that even people who speak Arabic can be bandidosLions of Islam and spread terrorism.
Committee member Nafeesa Khattak from the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) supported the bill, saying introducing Arabic as a compulsory language from "the start of education" would allow children to learn and understand the Koran and help a large number of people get jobs.
Committee chairman Rana Mohammad Hayat Khan responded that the inclusion of Arabic would not increase job opportunities, and paraphrased Allama Iqbal, saying those who study Arabic would only get jobs selling oil.
"Students who are serious about studying the Koran, they go to mosques early in the morning and after that they go to school," he added.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... PTI’s Asad Umer argued that the language of the Koran and its translation should be taught to students, claiming that "85pc of mosques in the federal capital are run by those who do not preach what is mentioned in the Koran".
The Ministry of Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) has decided to oppose the bill, Secretary Nargis Ghalo said, because there are not enough teachers to teach Arabic as a compulsory subject.
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[DAWN] Jamatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed ...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain... and 37 others affiliated with the organization have asked the Ministry of Interior to remove their names from the Exit Control List (ECL).
In a letter written to the ministry’s concerned department on behalf of JuD chief and others, Advocate A.K Dogar pleads that a memorandum issued on Jan 30, 2017 placing 38 individuals on the ECL should be withdrawn.
The lawyer stated the JuD had never been involved in any terrorist activity in Pakistain and was never blamed for any incident of terrorism or destruction of property.
He argued that the JuD was an organization dedicated to welfare of the citizens as it had established 142 schools and four varsities in the country. He said Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) was a sufficient proof to this effect. Advocate Dogar contended that no material had ever been produced by the federal or provincial governments against 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. He referred to an observation made by a full bench of the Lahore High Court hearing a petition of Hafiz Saeed and others against their detention in 2009.
The bench had observed: "In the present case the Government is not in possession of any evidence that the petitioners are risk to the security of Pakistain and merely on the basis of the UN Resolution their liberty cannot be curtailed."
The lawyer has requested the ministry of interior to delete the names of Hafiz Saeed and others from the ECL.
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"The lawyer stated the JuD had never been involved in any terrorist activity in Pakistain and was never blamed for any incident of terrorism or destruction of property."
How about elsewhere? Nothing was said about activities outside Pakistan.
[DAWN] The newly-appointed ambassador to the United States, Aizaz Chaudhry, on Thursday said that the Taliban had entered Pakistain as migrants colonists, who had been told to steer clear of hard boy activities if they wanted to stay in the country.
Chaudhry, whose career as a foreign service officer spans over 36 years of multilateral and bilateral experience, was speaking at a seminar at the Air University Islamabad on matters of national security.
"We will not tolerate that the Taliban operate from here to carry out terror attacks across the border. The unrest in Afghanistan will not be allowed to infiltrate into Pakistain," Chaudhry said, when asked for a comment on the supposed distinction between "the good and the bad" Taliban. What you subsidize, you get more of.
The newly-appointed ambassador to the US said that the state wants Afghanistan and Taliban to enter dialogue.
"Billions of dollars have been spent on establishing peace in Afghanistan, but to no avail," Chaudhry added, saying that terrorism from Afghanistan is now spreading into Pakistain where elements are trying to destabilise the country and sabotage major events like the Pakistain Super League.
"We will not be pressurised by this so-called 'Do more' ideology being pushed on us. We're working on full capacity to counter terrorism and we will continue with our efforts in full force," he added.
Chaudhry also said that Pakistain is under threat from the hard boyIslamic 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) group, which may head to the country as the Syrian conflict nears an end.
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[DAWN] The government has sought a three-year extension in the term of military courts, read a document obtained by DawnNews on Thursday.
The government has formulated a draft to carry out legal amendments that aim to extend the tenure of military courts -- they had ceased to function after expiry of tenure earlier this year.
A meeting of parliamentary leaders was convened by the government in which it distributed the copy of draft among the attendees; a copy of the draft is also available with DawnNews.
According to the new definition of ’terrorist’, revealed in the new draft, now anyone can be termed a terrorist regardless of the matter that whether he is motivated by religion or not.
Commenting on the matter, Pakistain People’s Party Leader Naveed Qamar said they have not supported the extension of military courts yet.
Addressing a press briefing following the meeting, Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... leader Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi asked, "What surety is there that situation will get better if military courts are granted extension?"
He said that the meeting was briefed on the implementation of National Action Plan (NAP) by National Security Adviser Nasir Janjua.
"The security adviser also informed about the necessity of amending laws to try more terrorists," Qureshi added.
The PTI leader said that the government wants to pass the bill immediately but "doing anything in haste will not do any good".
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[DAWN] Moments after a devastating bombing at Lal Shahbaz Qalander shrine in Sehwan, Sindh, the Pakistain military issued a strongly worded statement to "hostile powers", saying it will respond to such attacks.
In a short message posted to Twitter, Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said, "Recent terrorist acts are being executed on directions from hostile powers and from sanctuaries in Afghanistan. We shall defend and respond."
"Each drop of the nation's blood shall be Dire Revenged, and Dire Revenged immediately. No more restraint for anyone," the army chief was quoted as saying.
He added that Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa has appealed for "calm".
"Your security forces shall not allow hostile powers to succeed. We stand for our nation," Ghafoor quoted COAS Bajwa as saying.
At least 50 people have been killed and scores injured in a suicide kaboom on the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan on Thursday evening. The attack is the fourth in a string of a shocking wave of militancy across the country, with Lahore, Quetta and Mohmand Agency ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... struck in the last four days.
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[ARA] On 15 February, a pan-Kurdish conference was held in Moscow with the participation of opponents of the Turkish government and allies of the Democratic Union Party in Syria (PYD), showing that Russia is trying to balance its relations with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... asnd the Kurds.
"Very pleased to see our national Kurdish conference in Moscow, which includes comrades from PYD, PUK [Patriotic Union of Kurdistan], Gorran and PJAK [Kurdistan Free Life Party]. Unity is strength," said Adel Murad, a co-founder of the PUK.
"Politician Baydemir Osman showed our partners in the Moscow conference the reality of Erdogan’s war crimes against Kurdish civilians," he added.
Speaking at the conference, PYD Co-Chair Asya Abdullah said they would not recognize any decisions taken on Syria in the upcoming Geneva talks, as long as they’re excluded from the talks. Although Russia called for the inclusion of the PYD, Turkey has pressured the Geneva 4 conference organizers to exclude the PYD from the peace talks‐scheduled for 23 February.
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[An Nahar] Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... chief Ahmed Abul Gheit said on Thursday resolving the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict would require a two-state solution, a day after Washington signaled it would drop that demand.
Abul Gheit affirmed that the conflict "requires a comprehensive and just peace based on a two-state solution with an independent Paleostinian state," a statement said after he met UN chief Antonio Guterres in Cairo.
His comments came a day 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... met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and suggested a two-state solution was not necessary.
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[ARA] Major General Rupert Jones, UK deputy commander of the Coalition forces against ISIS, said that most likely the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) will take Raqqa, and not the The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -led groups that are currently fighting in al-Bab.
"The force that looks most likely capable to conduct the liberation of Raqqa remains the SDF. Are we confident in the SDF? Absolutely we are. We’ve seen their fighting spirit, we’ve seen what they’re capable of doing. They re-took Manbij, a very tough fight, and they prevailed in the face of a tough opposition," Jones said.
"We’ve also always said that we would discuss with our partners in terms of who is best placed to conduct the actual liberation of Raqqa. We’ll do that, we’ll have those conversations," he added.
The Turkish president Erdogan last week said that after al-Bab, the Turkey-led Euphrates Shield Operation will target SDF-held Manbij and Raqqa.
"We shared our thoughts with the new US administration and CIA and we will follow the developments in line with our stance," he said.
Moreover, the pro-government newspaper Yeni Safak on 10 February reported that the Turks would attack the SDF-held town of Tel Abyad not of Raqqa, and also advance from the side of al-Bab," in case if Turkey and allied rebels move forward with their Raqqa operation plan.
On Friday, the US chief of staff Gen. Joe Dunford arrives in Turkey to discuss the Raqqa operation with Turkish officials, Rooters reported.
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[An Nahar] Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... on Thursday said Raqa is not a priority target for his forces, saying his goal is to retake "every inch" of Syrian territory.
"Raqa is a symbol," Assad said in an interview with French media, while asserting that jihadist attacks carried out in La Belle France were "not necessarily prepared" in the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (IS) stronghold in Syria.
"You have ISIS close to Damascus, you have them everywhere," Assad said, using another acronym for IS.
"Everywhere is a priority depending on the development of the battle," he said, as a new round of peace talks was set to kick off in the Kazakh capital Astana.
"They are in Palmyra now and in the eastern part of Syria," he said in the interview in Damascus with Europe 1 radio and the TF1 and LCI television channels.
"For us it is all the same, Raqa, Palmyra, Idlib, it's all the same."
The Syrian leader said it was the "duty of any government" to regain control of "every inch" of its territory.
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[An Nahar] Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... on Thursday called on Israel to "dismantle the Dimona nuclear reactor," warning that it poses a threat to Israel's existence if hit by Hizbullah's missiles in any confrontation.
"Israel is continuing to launch threats against Leb and speak of the third Leb war and of what it will do during this third war... This intimidation is not new and it seems that there is a permanent Israeli objective to pressure the resistance community in Leb, and after (Donald) Trump was elected U.S. president, this intimidation has returned," said Nasrallah in a televised speech commemorating Hizbullah's slain leaders.
"We've been hearing these threats since the end of the July 2006 war. Every other day we hear statements about the third Leb war and about the coming vengeance. The new threats are based on the election of Trump, but the policy of the new American administration in the region is not clear," Nasrallah added.
"Trump's election does not scare us, even if claims that he will give (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu the green light to wage a war on Leb turn out to be true, seeing as the issue of war on Leb is not hinging on the American permission," Hizbullah's chief noted.
He also noted that the alleged "Arab cover" that "allowed Israel to attack Leb in 2006 is also still present."
"The issue is not about the U.S. permission or the Arab cover but rather whether or not they will be able to achieve a victory. This is the main question," Nasrallah pointed out.
He however reassured the Lebanese public opinion that "the strength and firmness of the resistance and President Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... 's unwavering stance will deter Israel from waging any war."
Commenting on an Israeli court's order that an ammonia container in the northern city of Haifa be emptied of its toxic content, Nasrallah also advised Israel to "dismantle the Dimona nuclear reactor," warning that it poses a threat to Israel's very existence if hit by his group's missiles.
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If a Hizbullah missile hit the reactor, It's a pretty good bet that would be the end of Hizbullah period! (And probably most of Lebanon as well. Perhaps along with a large chunk of southern Syria.)
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If Hizbullah missile hits the reactor, the external maintenance people will be very upset - they'll have to climb on the dome, fill in the scratches, maybe even paint.
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I had to laugh g(r)omgoru. Yes Israel probability strengthened the reactor dome, and not much damage, if any will occur. However, Hizbullah would still be in a world of hurt!
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[An Nahar] President 
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Members of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat, while debating the Compulsory Education of Arabic Bill 2015, discussed whether the lack of Arabic as a subject in the curriculum was the cause of terrorism in Pakistain.
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
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