[AlAhram] One of the prime suspects in the Alexandria church bombing on Palm Sunday was extradited from Kuwait to Egypt prior to the attack at the request of Egyptian authorities, according to Kuwaiti newspaper al-Qabas on Monday.
The newspaper reported that, according to Kuwaiti security sources, the suspect entered Kuwait in 2016 and worked there as an accountant.
Kuwaiti intelligence then summoned him for questioning after receiving information from Egypt suggesting he had links to 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.... (IS) group, according to the article.
The suspect was then extradited to Egypt after Kuwaiti security services confirmed his links to the group.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... once in Egypt, the suspect was apparently released, for reasons that are unclear, the sources told al-Qabas.
The IS group grabbed credit for the two deadly blasts that hit Egypt's St George Cathedral in Tanta and St Mark's Cathedral in Alexandria on Palm Sunday, killing 44 and injuring dozens more during prayer services, naming the Alexandria jacket wallah as Aba Isaac al-Masry (Aba Isaac the Egyptian) and the Tanta suicide bomber as Aba al-Baraa al-Masry (Aba al-Baraa the Egyptian).
[AlAhram] Bishop Makarious of Minya and Abu Korkas in Upper Egypt announced on Tuesday the cancellation of this year's Easter celebrations in his diocese.
The announcement comes after two suicide kabooms hit St George Cathedral in Tanta and St Mark's Cathedral in Alexandria on Palm Sunday, killing 46 and injuring dozens in the deadliest attack on Copts in the country's recent memory.
The cancellation of celebrations will apply to all churches in the diocese "due to the current circumstances the country and the Church are witnessing," the bishop announced in a statement on the Eparchy's Facebook page.
"The Easter mass will be limited to prayers only," the statement said.
"We apologise that we will not be receiving felicitations from officials or regular citizens. The Eparchy also appreciates all the kind regards it has received from everybody."
Christians are set to celebrate Easter in masses across the country's churches on Saturday night.
[Dhaka Tribune] A parliament member’s remarks on the role of law enforcement agencies to cap bad boy activities created such a row on Tuesday that a cabinet minister and the police chief had to step in to reiterate the administration’s counter-terrorism message.
MP Nezamuddin said: "We have the best law enforcement agencies in the world. Because, you first caught the snuffies and then you killed them. No other law enforcement agency anywhere in the world could have done it."
Chittagong-15 MP Dr Abu Reza Md Nezamuddin Nadwi made the remarks at a book launch organized by the Rapib Action Battalion at Lakeshore Hotel in Dhaka.
The book launched at the event was published by RAB aiming to de-radicalise people by explaining Koranic verses with the help of the Islamic Foundation and other scholars.
The MP’s remark was swiftly refuted by Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Haque who were in attendance as well.
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[RT] Russia’s domestic fight against terrorism should focus on better border control and countering terrorist propaganda aimed at migrants living in the country, the head of the Federal Security Service (FSB) said.
“The analysis of our operative information shows that the core of the terrorist groups operating in Russia comprises citizens of former Soviet republics, who arrive amidst the flows of guest workers,” FSB chief Aleksandr Bortnikov reported Tuesday at a session of the National Antiterrorism Committee.
“The terrorists are actively recruiting from among the people of our neighboring countries, drawing them into joining militant forces in Syria and Iraq and then using them as executors for terrorist attacks in Russia,” he said.
“Last year alone 16 terrorist attacks were thwarted in Moscow, St, Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Ekaterinburg, Tula, Ufa, Sochi, Novosibirsk and Nizhny Novgorod,” he added.
Bortnikov was reporting a week after a suicide bombing in the St. Petersburg Metro killed 14 people, including the attacker, and left over 50 injured. The attack was the deadliest in Russia’s second-largest city in modern history.
The official said eight people suspected of being members of terrorist sleeper cells have been arrested during raids in connection with the bombing. All of them came to Russia from Central Asian countries, he said, adding that explosives and firearms were found by law enforcement officers during the raids.
The security chief said the bombing in St. Petersburg showed that Russian law enforcement must work harder to counter the threat of terrorism. He suggested that in addition to tougher border controls, Russia should look closer at migrants living in the country, particularly those arriving illegally.
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News reports strongly indicate China is prepared to deal with Norkland in order to forestall any action by Trump.
I personally doubt we will see more than some trade slaps on the wrist OTOH, the media just doesn't understand how the CPC's fear of social unrest, and consequently concern for their own necks, means they will do what Trump wants to avoid trade sanctions.
[Breitbart] Cars and other vehicles "have turned into deadly weapons", and should be banished from cities to stop attacks like the one in Stockholm from happening in future, according to Aftonbladet editorialist Eva Franchell. You should just ban mooslimbs instead. Stop lots of terror, rape, etc. that way.
Crackdowns on immigration or extremist ideology are not the way forward when it comes to terror prevention, according to the veteran journalist, writing after Friday’s terror attack in Stockholm left four people dead.
Instead, it is cars -- which she calls "effective murder machines" -- that Franchell says "must simply be removed from city centres and places where people gather, if people are to be protected in future".
Vehicles are "easy to steal, and so nothing has been able to stop their advance", writes Ms. Franchell.
"It just isn’t reasonable that a big truck can be driven right into one of Stockholm’s busiest streets on a Friday afternoon right before Easter." All points sounds suspiciously like the anti-gun lobby in the US. Do they use the same crib notes?
Noting how it is a popular destination for tourists, Franchell says the city centre must be a "safe environment" for visitors to enjoy. She described it as "remarkable" that it is possible to drive around the Swedish capital's medieval old town.
Outlining her vision for a car-free Stockholm, she argues: "Most problems with regards to mobility and public transport can be solved, and deliveries to shops and restaurants could take place at times when people aren't out on the streets."
"Vehicles have been allowed to dominate our cities for decades and it's the people who need space. It's vital now that cars be regulated," the piece concludes. So... cars aren't regulated in Sweden? You can just buy one without a license or registration and drive it around without laws?
The idea of reducing the number of cars in Swedish cities was backed last month by Sweden's environment minister, who argued that driving is a gender equality issue as well as a matter of shrinking the nation's carbon emissions.
"Cars are driven largely by men so by giving a lot of space to cars; we're giving a lot of space to men ‐ at the expense of women," Karolina Skog explained. Gotta throw the sexism card as well.
Talk about the ultimate Stockholm syndrome. You people are under attack by invaders that want to kill, enslave and dominate you... and you propose banning cars. You idiots deserve this fate and you bring dishonor to your ancestors.
"Would it make you feel better if they were throw out of windows instead, little girl?"
The problem will not go away. It will just manifest itself differently.
The solution would be to take colonists "migrants" who were more compatible with your values.
Of course, for fearful/naive liberals who are trying to prove their Utopian system is so wonderful that it can soften the hearts of their worst enemies, denial is a problem.
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To steal a phrase from Jerry Seinfeld, "the Volvo-ness" of it.
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In the long run the solution might be re-colonization because the Islamic world seems incapable of running themselves. Nobody wants to do that because they are violent nutbags but in the modern world I don't think you can quarantine the virus any other way.
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Pic of guy with headache time--not this $hit again caption. Is that always the response of liberals, to punish everyone and ban everything? Blame and ban the instrument used by terrorists rather than the terrorists. Same thing occurs with firearms in the U.S. Just ban everything used by criminals to bring mayhem to others which is just about everything and it is still not going to address the problem.
[RT] Following the adoption of restrictive new immigration laws in Hungary last month, Germany has said it will no longer transfer asylum-seekers to the country unless Budapest guarantees they will be treated in compliance with EU regulations.
"In cases of Dublin transfers to Hungary, an assurance must be sought ensuring that the transferred person would be accommodated in accordance with EU norms. Without such a reassurance from the Hungarian authorities, the transfer should not take place," says the text of an order sent from the interior ministry to the migration office earlier this month.
It refers to the Dublin agreement, which stipulates that asylum-seekers should be returned to the EU country where they first registered.
It is unclear whether Hungary has provided any assurances, or how many migrants colonists would be affected by the order. Last year Germany sent back nearly 12,000 asylum-seekers in accordance with the Dublin agreement, almost 300 of them to Hungary.
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They are punishing Hungary by withholding migrants?
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To see us ensconced in Wisconsin,
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With Andrew and Lyndon Baines' Ronson.
Rakhmat Akilov allegedly drove truck into Stockholm's biggest department store
Father of four from Uzbekistan, confessed killing four in a Swedish court
His lawyer said he 'confesses to terrorist crime... accepts his custody detention'
A court has already heard his claims of beatings in Uzbekistan were exaggerated for asylum request
More than 3,000 migrants living unlawfully in Stockholm and 12,000 in Sweden
Swedish prosecutor demanded Akilov remain in custody under maximum restrictions: solitary confinement without access to television or internet, no communication with the outside world
The court rejected Akilov's request to replace his state-appointed lawyer with a Sunni Muslim
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...Akilov's request to replace his state-appointed lawyer with a Sunni Muslim.
[IBTIMES.CO.UK] India has warned Pakistain that a military court's death sentence to alleged spy Kulbhushan Jadhav would have serious "consequences" for bilateral relations. There is a growing clamour in India to bring the former naval officer back home.
The Field General Court Martial (FGCM) in Rawalpindi sentenced Jadhav, who was locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in March 2016, to death on Monday, 10 April, for alleged espionage activities in the restive Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... region. India denied the spying charges but acknowledged he was a former naval officer.
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[Iraq News] Amnesia Amnesty International has put Iraq among the world’s top five countries in terms of the rate of the application of capital punishments for 2016. Iraq's a good idea in favor of capital punishment.
In a report released on Tuesday, the London-based organization said Iran, 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... , Iraq and Pakistain joined China as world’s top five executioners. I must be dumb. I don't understand why capital crimes don't rate capital punishment.
"Excluding China, 87% of all executions took place in just four countries ‐ Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistain," according to the organization.
Amnesty said 1,032 people were executed in 23 countries in 2016, a drop from 2015’s recorded count of 1,634 executions in 25 countries worldwide.
"The fall in executions worldwide is largely driven by drops in Iran (down 42% from at least 977 to at least 567) and Pakistain (73%, from 326 to 87)," the report said.
It said that Iraq was among countries where confessions before death sentences were extracted by force. "In many countries where people were sentenced to death or executed, the proceedings did not meet international fair trial standards. In some cases this included the extraction of ’confessions’ through torture or other ill-treatment, including in Bahrain, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea and Saudi Arabia."
It said, however, that the executions rate dropped during 2016 in In the Middle East and North Africa by 28%, but Iran and Saudi Arabia remained among the top executioners.
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I must be dumb. I don't understand why capital crimes don't rate capital punishment.
Seems like a capital idea to me, Holmes.
As I understand, the ChiComs don't publish stats on how many people they execute. Not that I'm suggesting Amnesia Internationale is just making stuff up...
[Iraq News] The aim behind the presence of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) forces in Sinjar is to constitute barriers to hold the referendum for Kurdistan Region independence and affixing the district to Kurdistan Region.
Confidential sources told BasNews that PKK does whatever it takes to keep the situation in Sinjar as destabilized as possible to prevent the displaced people from returning to the area in order to secure its stay there.
PKK, according to local sources, has deployed a large number of additional forces in Sinjar mountain, in an attempt to render it a permanent military base.
The sources revealed that PKK has moved the local Yezidi forces to Qandil mountains and it has in return brought fighters from other parts of Kurdistan to Sinjar. This move came after hundreds of Yezidis left the party and joined the Peshmerga forces.
Sheikh Shamo, the representative of the Kurdish Yezidis in the Kurdistan Region Parliament, told BasNews that PKK is not only trying to impede the Kurdistan independence referendum, it is also precluding the IDPs from returning to their areas in Sinjar, explaining that their return is not in PKK’s favour.
"The referendum cannot be hold in this situation of Sinjar because from 400,000 people only 40,000 have returned home," said the official.
Shamo said PKK’s agenda in Sinjar is clear; it is against the Kurdistan independence and affixing Sinjar to the Kurdistan Region.
The official argued that if PKK steps out of Sinjar, the security and stability will be restored in the area.
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[BBC] Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has registered as a candidate in Iran's presidential election, despite being told not to by the Supreme Leader.
Mr Ahmadinejad, a hardliner who served two terms between 2005 and 2013, filed paperwork for the 19 May poll at the interior ministry in Tehran.
Last year, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned him that such a move was "not in his interest and that of the country".
But Mr Ahmadinejad told reporters on Tuesday that had been "just advice".
Associated Press journalists who witnessed Mr Ahmadinejad register on Tuesday said election officials were "stunned" when he submitted the paperwork.
[DAWN] The US strike on a Syrian air base destroyed a fifth of the Damascus regime's remaining warplanes, Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Monday as Washington fired a fresh salvo of warnings at 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... The public assessment of Friday's missile strike and the forceful rhetoric came as G7 ministers met in Italia to send a "clear and coordinated" message to Russia over its support for Damascus.
The United States on Friday blasted 59 Tomahawk missiles at the Shayrat air base near Homs, which the Pentagon said Assad's jets had used to launch a deadly chemical attack on rebel-held Idlib province.
"The United States will not passively stand by while Assad murders innocent people with chemical weapons, which are prohibited by international law and which were declared destroyed," Mattis said in a statement, noting that 20 per cent of Assad's "operational" aircraft were destroyed.
"The Syrian government would be ill-advised ever again to use chemical weapons," he added.
Mattis's warning came as White House front man Sean Spicer appeared to lower the threshold for new US action against Assad to include barrel bombs, a crude yet hugely destructive weapon of choice for the Syrian leader.
"If you gas a baby or drop a barrel bomb onto innocent people, you will see a response from" 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... , Spicer said.
But US officials later walked back Spicer's remarks.
"Nothing has changed in our posture," a senior administration official said.
"As the president has repeatedly made clear, he will not be telegraphing his military responses," the official said.
Trump discussed Syria during separate telephone calls Monday with British Prime Minister Theresa May and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom... May and Merkel "expressed support for the action of the United States and agreed with President Trump on the importance of holding Syrian President Bashir al-Assad accountable," the White House said in a statement.
Downing Street said Trump and May had "agreed that a window of opportunity now exists in which to persuade Russia that its alliance with Assad is no longer in its strategic interest." The two leaders were looking to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's trip to Moscow this week as an opportunity to lay the groundwork for a "lasting political settlement," May's office said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] Cars and other vehicles "have turned into deadly weapons", and should be banished from cities to stop attacks like the one in Stockholm from happening in future, according to Aftonbladet editorialist Eva Franchell.
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[BBC] Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has registered as a candidate in Iran's presidential election, despite being told not to by the Supreme Leader.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
