[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan government has written a formal memo to the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council to file a complaint regarding the growing artillery shelling by the Pak military in eastern provinces of the country located along the Durand Line.
A government source privy of the development said the memo was sent to the UN Security Council by the Afghan government.
The source further added that the memo contains information regarding the artillery shelling, casualties incurred to the local residents and displacement of hundreds of families due to the shelling.
According to the official, the Afghan government has mentioned regarding the 1,266 artillery shells fired on eastern provinces since the month of January that has inflicted casualties to the residents besides causing collateral damage.
The memo also contains information regarding the displacement of more than 400 families due to the shelling.
Tensions between 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.... and Islamabad intensified following a series of deadly terrorist attacks in both the countries.
Both Afghanistan and Pakistain claim that the attacks are plotted and carried by the bully boyz having safe havens in the two countries.
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[DailyMail] Scores of British Muslims are joining ISIS because they think they can 'get an AK and get forgiven by God at the same time.'
The startling revelation is made by two young Muslim men, best friends Waseem Iqbal and Naveed Ahmed, on tonight's episode of Channel 4's Extremely British Muslims.
Many recruits come from a life of crime and see Islamic extremism as a chance to regain status and feel a sense of belonging, claims Waseem.
He reveals: ''You’ve got people that are sort of like ex-bad boys that still have that gang mentality. And if you want to be in a gang, what’s the biggest gang in the world right now? It’s ISIS.' Just a teaser. Way more at link.
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[Ynet] Scotland Yard and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are investigating more than a hundred bomb threats made to Jewish groups in the United States and Britannia since January 7, US and UK law enforcement and Jewish community officials said.
Investigators said there is evidence that some of the US and British bomb threats are linked. According to people in both countries who have listened to recordings of the threats, most of the them have been made over the telephone by men and women with American accents whose voices are distorted by electronic scramblers.
Waves of threats against US Jewish groups - including community centers, schools, and offices of national organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) civil rights group - have been followed within hours by similar but smaller waves against Jewish organizations, mainly schools, in Britannia, Jewish community representatives in both countries said.
FBI officials in Washington confirmed that the agency is investigating the threats against US Jewish organizations. Sources in Britannia's Jewish community said London's Metropolitan Police, otherwise known as Scotland Yard, is conducting its own investigation and collaborating with the FBI.
Scotland Yard did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.
[NYT] In recent years, the small Australian town of Young has seen a steady influx of Lebanese Muslim families. Among them are members of the Zahab family. Now one of them, Haisem Zahab is accused of using the internet to try to help the Islamic State develop a guided missile. Officials suspect that some of his relatives traveled to Syria to join the extremist group.
The allegations about the Zahab family have shaken many residents in the town, who have long taken pride in its peaceful multiculturalism. They have also stoked some of the worst fears about homegrown links to terrorism in a country that is grappling with immigration policy and labor shortages.
Zahab was arrested during a raid at his property on February 28. He was accused of researching and designing a long-range guided missile and laser warning device for use by Islamic State militants.
Zahab's extended family had been under investigation for 18 months, and officials suspected that some of his relatives had traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State and had sent money from the sale of their Sydney home to terrorists in Syria. A police report detailed how investigators believed the family had moved money there.
Zahab was charged with foreign incursion offenses, which are antiterrorism statutes that carry a maximum penalty of life in prison. After Zahab's arrest, police officers spent days searching his 10-acre property, using metal detectors and digging up the yard in search of evidence.
His arrest comes as Australians have been on heightened alert. The terrorism threat level in the country was elevated to "probable" in September 2014, and since then there have been four attacks tied to terrorism in Australia. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said that a dozen more have been foiled and that more than 60 people have been charged as a result of counterterrorism operations across the country.
In recent days, Turnbull, who has seized on Zahab's arrest as "yet another reminder of the enduring threat we face from Islamist terrorism," has ramped up his language, declaring his country’s objective is to kill Islamic State fighters. He said, "Our goal as far as those who serve with Daesh in the Middle East is to kill them. Let me be quite frank — that is our goal."
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A group of five Afghan asylum seekers are facing deportation back to Afghanistan after they were found guilty of gang-raping a young fellow refugee.
According to the local media reports, the five men appeared before the appellate court of Sweden and were convicted of gang-raping a minor fellow refugee, order the men to be deported after completing their jail terms in Sweden.
This comes as the primary court had awarded 15-month jail term for four of the convicts while the fifth convict was awarded a 13-month jail term.
The fifth convict was reported to be around 16-year-old when he was nabbed I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in connection to the incident.
The primary court had convicted men of forcing the victim, who was under age 15, into a forested area on the outskirts of Uppsala where they raped the individual at the end of October.
Part of the assault that included a beating was recorded on a mobile phone, according to EBL newspaper. The victim was also threatened with a knife.
The five were ordered to pay damages of 250,000 kronor (27,600 dollars) to the victim whose identity was shielded by the court.
According to the paper, the defendants had consumed alcohol and several said they were too drunk to remember the incident prior to the assault.
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[AlManar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... is planning more rallies in Germany ahead of a crunch referendum in April, its foreign minister said Thursday, despite an acrimonious row with Berlin after local authorities banned several campaign events.
Mevlut Cavusoglu said he had already handed a list of the planned rallies to his German counterpart Sigmar Gabriel.
"We expect Germany to solve this problem. We are planning around 30 rallies. We had informed German authorities of them all," said the minister in quotes carried by private CNN-Turk television.
Turkey and Germany have been at loggerheads this week after local authorities blocked several rallies by Turkish ministers.
Turkish politicians are keen to harness votes in Germany, home to a massive Turkish community, ahead of an April 16 referendum on whether to create an executive presidency in Turkey.
"Mrs. Merkel is right, we have profound disagreements on some issues. For example the fight against terror," presidential front man Ibrahim Kalin told news hounds in Ankara.
Kalin accused Germany of "opening its door to those leading the ’No’ campaign in the referendum including the PKK and other terror organizations," referring to Kurdish bully boys.
The front man also criticized other European countries like Austria where Chancellor Christian Kern has called for a ban on Turkish politicians from politically campaigning across the EU.
"We have a very clear message: don’t work in vain, the people will decide, not you," Kalin said.
"You've already been conquered, you idiots, He added. "So just lie back and enjoy it." Here's hoping every election in Europe goes to the populists, followed by immediate action.
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Make it really simple.....anyone that supports one of these Turkish pols is not a citizen and should be deported back to Turkey. Get rid of dual citizenship.
[ABCNEWS.GO] The United States risks major damage to its relationship with NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... ally The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... if the U.S. includes Kurdish forces in the fight to retake Raqqa, 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's de facto capital, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Thursday.
Turkey and the U.S. are locked in a heated dispute about U.S. plans to liberate Raqqa, with Turkey insisting its own military and allied forces in Syria should mount the fight and that U.S.-backed Syrian Kurds should be excluded.
Though the U.S. has been hoping to include both Turkey and the battle-hardened Kurdish forces, Yildirim insisted Turkey wouldn't be part of any operation including the Syrian Kurdish force known as the YPG, considered by Ankara to be holy warriors who threaten Turkey's security.
"If the U.S. were to prefer terrorist organizations over Turkey in the fight against IS, that would be their own decision, but that wouldn't be something we would consent" to, Yildirim told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
The prime minister also took issue with 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 use of the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism" and said "we would be actually happy if our friends were to be a bit more cautious about this issue."
In an earlier exchange with visiting foreign journalists, Yildirim said ties between the two countries would be significantly undermined, though he declined to name any specific steps Turkey -- a member of the U.S.-led coalition fighting IS -- might take in response. In the past, Turkey has hinted it could cut off access to Incirlik air base, home to coalition warplanes.
Though no decision has been formally announced, the U.S. has been sending signals that it is inclined to rely on the Kurdish forces, who have proven the most effective local force at battling IS. U.S. officials have said that Turkey, which has troops in Syria and is aiding other Syrian opposition fighters, has thus far failed to show that it has a force sufficiently large and capable to liberate Raqqa, the largest remaining IS stronghold.
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Fuck you Turkey.
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In the increasing welter of warfare in northern Syria, one of the biggest U.S.-based humanitarian organizations operating in the area has become collateral damage, at least temporarily--and perhaps a sign of worsening relations between the government of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and the Trump Administration.
Mercy Corps, based in Portland, Ore., and one of the biggest non-government relief organizations in the world, was abruptly told on March 7 to shut down all its operations in Turkey, which are overwhelmingly aimed at providing cross-border aid to hundreds of thousands of refugees in neighboring northern Syria. The shutdown affects some 300 relief workers. Expatriates among them would have to leave the country and local workers would be laid off.
"Our hearts are broken by this turn of events, which comes after five years of cooperation with the government of Turkey and other local partners," the relief organization said in a blurb. It added that its operations inside neighboring Syria "will continue," presumably sourced from elsewhere. The organization was given no reason for its eviction.
There were no indications that other humanitarian organizations were affected by the sudden Turkish diktat. Turkey’s foreign ministry had issued no formal statements about the decision. Rooters, however, said that a Turkish government official called the decision "technical" and said that Mercy Corps had failed to meet some unspecified documentation requirements.
Nonetheless, Mercy Corps was proceeding with a wind-down plan. Said Christine Brigale,a spokesperson for Mercy Corps, "We are deeply committed to continue working in Turkey and to do what we can to resolve this issue and strengthen our partnership."
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A reminder that not all terrorists are Islamicist...
A judge says a Kansas man accused of plotting to attack Somali immigrants poses “a grave danger” to the community if released.
U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren on Thursday denied Patrick Stein’s request for release. Prosecutors say Stein was the leader of a militia group called The Crusaders.
Melgren says Stein is a flight risk and the evidence against him is significant. The judge also says Stein has expressed extreme hatred and threatened violence against Muslims, and sought to obtain weapons and explosives.
Prosecutors allege Stein and co-defendants Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen conspired to detonate truck bombs at a 100-unit apartment complex where Somali immigrants live in Garden City, Kansas.
The three have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction.
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[IsraelTimes] New York police intelligence chief says one man using a voice changer and phone spoofing device likely responsible for most incidents; Brooklyn Jewish museum and Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, JCC evacuated.
New York City’s head of police intelligence said Thursday that Sherlocks believe one man using a voice changer and phone spoofing device is behind a large number of the scores of threats made against US Jewish institutions this year.
John Miller appeared on the show "CBS This Morning," describing the attacks as coordinated. The spoofing device makes it appear the call is not coming from the number the man is using, and makes it appear it’s coming from within the institution, he said.
"We have an offender with some technical prowess here," Miller said.
The Anti-Defamation League says 148 threats targeting Jewish institutions have been received across the country since January.
On Thursday, a Jewish children’s museum in Brooklyn was evacuated for a few hours after police investigated an emailed bomb threat. Hours later a JCC in Los Gatos, California, near San Jose, was evacuated over a bomb threat.
One arrest has been made in the threats, a St. Louis man accused of making eight of the calls in an effort to harass his ex-girlfriend. Juan Thompson has asked a federal judge in Missouri to release him on bond as he faces the federal charges out of New York. Thompson’s lawyer declined comment.
Miller said the New York Police Department is working with federal officials who are the lead Sherlocks on the case. He said he’s working with institutions in New York to help them manage responses to the threats.
"Most of the time, the person who’s legitimately trying to do harm doesn’t call ahead to diminish the amount of harm he or she is doing," he said.
[Ynet] Three teenagers have delivered an anonymous apology note and $50 to the Pennsylvania library where they sprayed a swastika using shaving cream in a parking lot. The teens left the envelope containing the note and the money in a book depository at the Exeter Community Library. Police and firefighters were called to wash away the graffiti on Friday. The envelope was found by library workers on Monday.
The teens' note says they are "three stupid teenagers apologizing for our heinous acts."
The teens go on to say that they didn't intend to offend or hurt anyone. The teens say they "all have religious roots and did not intentionally mean this as any form of hate speech or dislikeness towards any culture."
The teens apologized and say they'll never do anything like that again.
[IsraelTimes] An incarcerated homeless man will be charged with criminal mischief for allegedly scratching swastikas into several cars in a Jewish neighborhood in Miami Beach. The swastikas were found on the cars on February 26, including one owned by a non-Jewish family.
Timothy Merriam, 61, is already in jail on charges of using scissors to slash the tires of more than 100 rental bikes on Miami Beach owned by the city’s public bike share program. While in prison, he made statements that led detectives to believe that he had also scratched the swastikas into the cars, the Miami Herald reported, citing the Miami Beach police. Police told NBC Miami that they will be working with the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office to determine if hate crime charges should also be filed.
Police have video evidence connecting Merriam to both the swastika vandalism and the tire slashing.
[IsraelTimes] Trump administration vows to locate Robert Levinson, days after family of Jewish-American operative call on president to help.
A 2013 News Agency that Dare Not be Named investigation found that Levinson was working for the CIA on an unauthorized intelligence-gathering mission to find information about Iran’s nuclear program when he disappeared from Iran’s Kish Island on March 9, 2007.
The 2013 AP investigation showed that in a breach of the most basic CIA rules, a team of analysts -- with no authority to run spy operations -- paid Levinson to gather intelligence from hotspots around the world, including the Middle East and Latin America.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[NYT] In recent years, the small Australian town of Young has seen a steady influx of Lebanese Muslim families. Among them are members of the Zahab family. Now one of them, 
[ABCNEWS.GO] The United States risks major damage to its relationship with 
[IsraelTimes] Trump administration vows to locate Robert Levinson, days after family of Jewish-American operative call on president to help.
