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US: Man screams 'Allahu akbar!' and kills three civilians
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Afghanistan
KISIS still playing moldy oldies despite MOAB attack
Residents of eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday said Daesh radio has continued to broadcast its propaganda in the province and that every evening theradio station airs anti-government programs.

Nangarhar residents said Daesh radio programs are “horrible and disgusting”.

The radio started broadcasting a year ago, but Nangarhar residents said in the past few days all the radio has focused on is the MOAB bomb that was dropped by U.S Forces in Achin district of Nangarhar on Thursday night.

“If the radio broadcasts are not stopped, it will have negative consequences,” said Guli, a Nangarhar resident.

“Daesh radio station broadcast anti-government propaganda and it has a bad effect on the society,” said Ali Jan, another Nangarhar resident.

Security forces have regularly claimed to have targeted the radio station but according to residents the broadcasts continue.

“Although today the youths know the truth and do not listen to Daesh propaganda, but there is still the need to stop the radio station,”said Zabihullah Zmarai, a member of Nangarhar provincial council.

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) meanwhile said security forces are trying to shut down the radio station.

“We have stopped the radio propaganda three times so far, but it once again has started its propaganda from the other side of the border. We are trying to stop the radio station,” Mohammad Radmanesh, MoD deputy spokesman said.

However, sources told TOLOnews that Daesh radio is a mobile unit and the group broadcasts their programs from Mohmand Dara area which was bombed by U.S forces.
Posted by: badanov || 04/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Used to be, Army could locate a radio transmitter.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/19/2017 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Used to be, Army could locate a radio transmitter.

They probably know where it is. It just takes time to fly in another MOAB.
Posted by: gorb || 04/19/2017 17:29 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Back to business as usual
US Defense Secretary James Mattis is in Saudi Arabia Wednesday to reinvigorate the Riyadh-Washington alliance, with both seeing a common adversary in Iran and its "destabilizing" activities.

The United States and Saudi Arabia have a decades-old relationship based on the exchange of American security for Saudi oil.

But ties between Riyadh and Washington became increasingly frayed during the administration of US President Barack Obama.

Saudi leaders felt Obama was reluctant to get involved in the civil war in Syria and was tilting toward Riyadh's regional rival Iran.
The idea that out of every 10 Muslim terrorists 9, and 99% of "soft Jihad" are supported by Saudi money, just doesn't seem to penetrate Washington.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/19/2017 02:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Kuwait Quizzes IS Suspect Deported from Philippines
[AnNahar] Kuwait was set to begin questioning on Tuesday of a suspected 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 jihadist deported from the Philippines as it remanded four relatives in jug, the emirate's media reported.

Hussein al-Dhafiri was jugged
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
in an upscale district of Manila late last month along with his Syrian wife Rahaf Zina on suspicion of being members of IS and of planning attacks in both countries.

He was deported to Kuwait on Friday to stand trial in his home country on charges of membership of a banned
...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization
and of plotting attacks.

His wife, whom he married after her high-ranking IS commander husband was killed in Syria, remains in jug in the Philippines pending deportation to Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
, from where she entered the islands.

Judicial authorities in Kuwait have remanded four relatives of Dhafiri in jug for 21 days pending further inquiries, al-Qabas newspaper reported.

They face similar charges to Dhafiri, the paper added.

Philippine Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said on Thursday that Dhafiri was suspected of manufacturing explosives and of possible operational planning against Kuwait.

Washington believed he could "pose a threat to the national security of the Philippines," Aguirre added.

A statement issued by the Kuwaiti embassy in Manila on Friday said evidence was obtained by the emirate's security services that Dhafiri was "planning to carry out terroristic attacks in the State of Kuwait."

Kuwaiti courts have handed down multiple convictions on charges of IS membership or financing. Some of the defendants have been found guilty of fighting with the jihadists in Iraq or Syria. All have received lengthy jail sentences.

In June 2015, a Saudi went kaboom! in a Shiite mosque in Kuwait City, killing 26 worshipers in an attack claimed by the Sunni bandidos Lions of Islam that was the deadliest in the emirate's history.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Bangladesh
New JMB’s Selim in jail all along as ‘Dakat Khokon’
[Dhaka Tribune] New JMB recruiter Mahbubur Rahman Selim, who has been wanted by police for over a year, is already in Chittagong Central Jail under the alias Mahbubur Rahman Khokon.

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) chief Deputy Inspector General Banaz Kumar Majumder told the Dhaka Tribune: "We have succeeded in locating Selim, who is in Chittagong Central Jail under the name Khokon. PBI’s Chittagong unit will plea before the court to take Selim in fresh remand, so that more information about New JMB’s finances and organizational structure may be collected."

Selim is the main associate of mid-level New JMB leader and bomb expert Lokman Ali alias Sohel Rana, who went kaboom! along with his wife and five kids at Nasirpur in Moulvibazar during Operation Hit Back on March 30.

According to the Police Bureau of Investigation, Selim was enjugged
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
on October 5, 2015, in a case for his part in a robbery and murder at the Shah Corporation in Chittagong. The crimes in question took place on September 24 the same year.

However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things...
law enforcement agencies have been scouring the country for the notorious myrmidon, who is suspected to be the recruiter for New JMB’s suicide squad.

While Selim was primarily in charge of recruitment for the myrmidon outfit’s suicide brigade, Sohel Rana trained the recruits in a clay house situated in the remote hills of Baishari’s Lombabil Khorolia Mora area of Bandarban, said police sources.

They added that turbans arrested or killed at the recent raids in Ashkona, Sitakunda, Sylhet, Comilla and Moulvibazar were all recruited by Selim and trained by Sohel.

Selim hails from Ichhanagar of the Karnaphuli area in Chittagong. Under order of New JMB Chittagong Coordinator Sohel, he purchased the clay-made house at Baishari for Tk1.60 lakh in 2012.

During the September 2015 robbery, Shah Corporation Manager Satya Gopal Bhowmik was killed along with two of the robbers ‐ Rafiq and Rabiul. Two other robbers, New JMB Chittagong Divisional Commander Raisul Islam Khan alias Fardin and his associate Piyas, were maimed while fleeing the scene as they detonated explosives to cover their retreat.
Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (IS)


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia metro bombing suspect says he was unwitting accomplice
[AlAhram] The man Russian Sherlocks say orchestrated a suicide kaboom on the St Petersburg metro told a court on Tuesday he was an unwitting accomplice in the attack.

At a preliminary court hearing, the suspect, Abror Azimov,
...who yesterday was reported carrying a pistol and a package containing two smartphones when he was arrested...
said he had participated in the preparation of the attack, in which 14 people were killed, but only indirectly.

"I did not realise that I was helping with this act," he said, referring to the April 3 blast on the metro. "I was being given instructions."

Earlier, a state investigator told the court that Azimov had confessed to having prepared the attack, but the suspect said he had not confessed to that.
Queerly enough -- or perhaps not queerly at all -- last November we had a report that Russian authorities arrested a ten person ISIS-linked cell of Central Asians planning gun-and-bomb attacks in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/19/2017 01:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


The Grand Turk
Fears of fresh migrant crisis after Turkey threatens to throw open doors to Europe unless Brussels allows visa-free travel
[DailyMail]
  • President Erdogan stepped up his demands for visa-free travel to EU for Turks

  • If he does not get it he might go back on last year's deal which stopped migrants
Now that the referendum has passed, as expected, Erdogan Pasha can get back to the business of blackmailing the EU until the colonization is complete.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Like he is a Union head or something.
They pathetically claim that he is their way into the EU.
Maybe by saturation. What say you?
Posted by: newc || 04/19/2017 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  For some reason I feel very little pity for Europeans - guess I'm a bad person.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/19/2017 2:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Fairly easy to see where Brussels and the feckless union has led Europe. If they don't cave to Erdogan's blackmail, they are history.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/19/2017 5:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Set up some minefields and machine guns at the borders.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/19/2017 9:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Shoot the first few and the rest will not follow.

Then push the colonists migrants they have back into Turkey.
Posted by: gorb || 04/19/2017 13:25 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
FBI Investigating Radical Terrorists in All 57 50 States as Threats Hit Peak
[FREEBEACON] Federal authorities have open investigations into radical Islamic bandidos bully boyz in all 50 states, according to the Department of Homeland Security, which is warning that the threat of terrorism in the United States has reached an all time high with radicalized individuals in the country plotting to strike "each and every single day."

The FBI has "open terrorist investigations in all 50 states," according to DHS Secretary John Kelly, who disclosed on Tuesday that there have been at least 37 "ISIS-linked plots to attack our country" since 2013, a number that shows no signs of diminishing.

Kelly, in his first wide-ranging public address on the threat of terrorism in America since taking office, warned that America's borders remain wide-open and that there is evidence terror-linked individuals are exploiting these national security weaknesses and entering the United States.

"We don’t know their intentions," Kelly said during an address at George Washington University. "We don’t know why they’re here or why they’re coming. We are completely blind to what they’re capable of."

Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At least they're finally talking about.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/19/2017 0:34 Comments || Top||

#2  News release for Real Journalistsᵀᴹ:
Home and Away: DHS and the Threats to America, Remarks delivered by Secretary Kelly at George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security
Transcript with video, Sec. Kelly's remarks start at 9:32
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/19/2017 7:38 Comments || Top||

#3  I know their intentions. Why the hell can't the FBI figure it out?
Posted by: chris || 04/19/2017 11:52 Comments || Top||

#4  You can bet the Southern Poverty Law Center doesn't see radical Islamic terrorists as the problem; they think conservative ex-military white guys are the problem.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/19/2017 17:32 Comments || Top||

#5  They're confusing "all time high" with "peak." We may have seen the latter, but the former, imo, has yet to manifest.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 04/19/2017 20:59 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Ahmadi killings: LHC upholds death sentence
[DAWN] The Lahore High Court on Monday upheld death sentence of a convict and commuted other’s to life imprisonment for killing 94 people and leaving around 150 men and children injured during an attack on Ahmadis’ worship place in Model Town in 2010.

A division bench headed by Justice Sadaqat Ali Khan passed the orders on the appeal of two convicts Muavia and Abdullah challenging decision of a trial court.

During the proceedings, a deputy prosecutor general told the court that the trial court sentenced both to death for killing Ahmadis at their worship places. After hearing both sides, the court upheld death sentence to Muavia and commuted Abdullah’s to life imprisonment.

On Jan 17, 2015, an Anti-Terrorism Court sentenced to death Muavia and Abdullah for deadly attack on an Ahmadis’ worship places in 2010.

Both the convicts, on May 28, 2010, attacked two Ahmadis’ worship places in Model Town and Garhi Shahu, killing 94 people and injuring others.

The ATC had sentenced Abdullah to death on nine counts and to Muavia on seven counts. Both were also fined Rs3.3 million.

Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Police claim Naureen divulged links to IS to a friend before disappearance
[DAWN] Hyderabad Senior Superintendent of Police Irfan Ali Baloch has said that Naureen Leghari, the second year student of MBBS at Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS) who had mysteriously disappeared and was incarcerated
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
two months later on Friday night in a raid on a hard boy hideout in Lahore, had divulged to her childhood friend that she had links with the hard boy 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.

She told her about 10 days before leaving Hyderabad on Feb 10 that she had links with IS and wanted to "join jihad," said the SSP quoting the girl.

"I can’t share her friend’s name because she may have come under pressure now," Mr Baloch told Dawn on Monday.

Naureen’s friends and teachers at her college and the university disclosed to police that she used to discuss ’jihad’ with them. "She used to draw their attention to the situation in Syria and Afghanistan and urged them that ’we must participate in jihad," he said.

He said that he had disclosed to Naureen’s father, Prof Abdul Jabbar Leghari, that his daughter harboured bully boy tendencies but he rejected it vehemently.

"She used a different name to book a seat on an inter-city bus at its terminal in Latifabad on Feb 9 but gave her own mobile phone number. She boarded the bus to Lahore on Feb 10," he said.

"Mr Jabbar was aware of his daughter’s case but did not want to admit it," claimed the officer.

Mr Jabbar who lodged a case of his daughter’s kidnapping at Hussainabad cop shoppe confirmed at a presser on March 26 that his daughter’s ID on Instagram had been blocked in 2014-15 after she forwarded some messages about atrocities against Paleostinian Moslems.
This article starring:
Naureen Leghar
Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  "Mr Jabbar was aware of his daughter’s case but did not want to admit it," claimed the officer.

Perhaps Mr. Jabbar took care are of the problem.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/19/2017 5:26 Comments || Top||


US asks Pakistan to fight all terrorist groups
[DAWN] The United States asked Pakistain on Monday to indiscriminately fight all terrorist groups.

This message was conveyed to Pak leadership during US National Security Adviser Lt Gen H.R. McMaster’s daylong trip to Islamabad during which he met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
, Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy...
, National Security Adviser retired Lt Gen Nasser Janjua and Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa.

Gen McMaster is visiting the region for consultations ahead of finalisation of the Trump administration’s policy on Afghanistan.

The adviser’s visit was the first direct high-level interaction between Pakistain and the US since the new administration assumed charge in Washington.

Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Like the ISI?
Posted by: 3dc || 04/19/2017 11:06 Comments || Top||

#2  "Even the ones you formed, funded, trained, and supported"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/19/2017 16:17 Comments || Top||


Senators call for amending blasphemy law
[DAWN] Senators on Monday called for amending the blasphemy law to provide for punishments to those who concoct blasphemy accusations against others and deman­ded a campaign against those taking the law into their hands.

Condemning the lynching of Mashal Khan, a student of Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan, politicians stressed the need for effective steps to prevent misuse of the blasphemy law.

Talking about the blatant misuse of the law, PPP’s Farhatullah Babar said a religious scholar had proposed that accusers who levelled false accusations should suffer the same sentence as provided for a blasphemer.

He recalled how a Federal Shariat Court decision had prompted the maximum punishment for blasphemy to be increased from life imprisonment to death, reminding the house that Raja Zafarul Haq -- the current leader of the house -- was the chairman of law and justice committee at the time.

He said the committee had made some suggestions while approving the bill and called for that report to be made the basis of any further action.

"The liquidation of Mashal Khan should make us think about concrete measures to prevent the misuse of the blasphemy law; we need to revisit this law," he remarked.

Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


We will make sure no one misuses the blasphemy law again: Imran Khan
[DAWN] 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) chief Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
, in a presser alongside Mashal Khan's father Tuesday, issued a strongly worded condemnation of the 23-year-old's lynching on what has so far proven to be a baseless accusation.

"It has become clear during the investigation that Mashal never committed blasphemy. He was framed in a conspiracy and murdered," Imran Khan said.

"As a father, I can understand what Iqbal Khan [Mashal's father] is going through. This was a cruel deed and they used the blasphemy law as an excuse."

"I want to assure his parents that I will ensure justice for his death," Imran Khan said.

"Whoever planned his murder and whoever participated in it will be punished and made an example of for future generations," the PTI chief said.

"Even if the culprits are found to be from the PTI, they will be punished. We will not discriminate along party lines in pursuing this case," Imran Khan said.

"The entire country saw [what they did]. Even animals don't behave this way," he added.

"We will take this as a lesson and make sure no one ever misuses the blasphemy law again to murder people again," he added.

Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  "I have seen this movie before".
Elton John
Posted by: newc || 04/19/2017 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Even animals don't behave this way,"

What does this say about the position of Moslems/Pakis on the hierarchy of creatures?
Posted by: AlanC || 04/19/2017 7:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Doing away with the bullshit "blasphemy" law would be a good start. The outright mocking of anyone believing in "blaspemy" laws would be a great follow-up.
Posted by: Crusader || 04/19/2017 12:34 Comments || Top||


New video shows Mashal's killers celebrated lynching, pledged to conceal shooter's identity
[DAWN] A new video circulating on Tuesday contains footage of scenes following the Mardan university lynching and shows a man demanding that a group of students take an oath to conceal the identity of the man who shot 23-year-old Mashal Khan.

Mashal, a student of Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, had been lynched moments before the video was made over allegations of blasphemy.

The video shows the mob involved in the lynching shouting religious slogans and congratulating each other over the brutal episode.

In the video, a man who appears to be the ringleader, Arif, is heard proclaiming that anyone who names the shooter will be considered "a blasphemer".

The following is the text of the slogans being chanted in the video:

"Congratulations, congratulations!

Silence, silence!

Whoever shot him [Mashal], don't take his [the shooter's] name

Whoever takes his [shooter's] name will commit blasphemy. If you want to file an FIR, my name is Arif"

The declaration appears to be a veiled threat to silence those who may testify against the murder and protect the main culprits.

Arif names himself and his father and states that anyone who wished to lodge a First Information Report in the case is free to nominate him for the murder.

According to university students, Arif does not attend Abdul Wali Khan University, but has been allowed on the premises on several occasions. Local media reports say he is the general secretary of the Insaf Student Federation, which is the student wing of the ruling party in KP, 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).

An investigation into the Mardan university lynching has been initiated, but the identity of Mashal's shooter is yet to be determined.

A postmortem report of Mashal's killing states a gunshot wound was the cause of death, but also noted that the body had been subjected to serious trauma.

Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ...
the administration of Abdul Wali Khan University on Tuesday suspended seven of its employees in connection with the murder of Mashal Khan.
Posted by: Fred || 04/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
UN 'closely monitoring' terrorist hunger strike
[IsraelNationalNews] The United Nations on Tuesday said it was following closely the hunger strike by more than 1,000 terrorists in Israeli prisons.

"We are obviously aware of the situation and following the developments closely," said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, according to AFP.
Just condemn Israel in advance
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/19/2017 02:41 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seriously! What sort of idiots care if terrorists decided to starve themselves to death?
Posted by: 3dc || 04/19/2017 9:16 Comments || Top||

#2  I would monitor it from outside their cells with a bucket of fried chicken and popcorn.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/19/2017 10:29 Comments || Top||

#3  When you think about it, the headline provides an apt summary of everything that is wrong with the UN. It "monitors" rather than acts, and WHAT it chooses to monitor is rarely worth the time of day.
Posted by: Crusader || 04/19/2017 10:51 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: 3dc || 04/19/2017 11:07 Comments || Top||

#5  That new American president doesn't allow the kinds of things the old one encouraged. It's dreadfully frustrating.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/19/2017 15:46 Comments || Top||

#6  The United Nations could do it more effectively if someone would give them 4 or 5 hundred billion dollars for crack hookers and small children and drugs for their parties!
Posted by: Crinegum Ulaigum2776 || 04/19/2017 16:59 Comments || Top||


Barghouti receives a cold shoulder from Palestinian leadership
[Ynet] the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas is not interested in riling up the region before his scheduled meeting with Trump, and in Ramallah they are convinced that only personal political interests are behind the initiators of the prisoners' protest. Thus, only about half of the Fatah members joined the strike.

The prisoners' hunger strike has only been going on for one day, but it seems that ever since it started, all Fadwa Barghouti, Marwan Barghouti's wife and representative in the outside world, has been doing is trying to explain time and again that her husband's protest is not a whim intended to serve his personal interests.

According to Barghouti's wife, the other prisoners anointed him as the leader of the strike, and her attempt to justify his actions is in response to accusations raised in recent days regarding Barghouti's motives--not only the accusations publicly issued by Israel, but those proclaimed behind closed doors in Ramallah.

The fact is that Barghouti stands nearly alone when she is addressing the Paleostinians, without any leader of repute by her side.

Comments backing up the strike were indeed received from the Paleostinian leadership, but they sounded forced and somewhat general.

Barghouti knows this and therefore demands the strikers have outside support. "The success of the strike depends on the solidarity of the people with my husband," she said.

The strike had been planned for some time, and the scheduled date was not coincidental: It bagon on Paleostinian Prisoners' Day in the West Bank and the Gazoo Strip. This explosive combination could lead to festivities and friction with the security forces, but in practice, the rallies took place in the centers of Paleostinian cities and ended in the same relative calm they had begun.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/19/2017 01:28 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Fatah

#1  The strike had been planned for some time, and the scheduled date was not coincidental: It bagon on Paleostinian Prisoners' Day in the West Bank and the Gazoo Strip.

I assume this submliminal reference to BACON was a cruel reminder of that delicious food and not a typo. Well Done, TW
Posted by: Frank G || 04/19/2017 16:16 Comments || Top||

#2  barghouti has criticized the PA under Arafat and under Abbas both for incompetence, corruption and violation of the human rights of Paleo dissidents

he is very unpopular with the PA ruling class
Posted by: lord garth || 04/19/2017 16:37 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Philippine military plans all-Muslim units to tackle insurgency
[AFP] The Philippine military announced plans to create all-Muslim fighting units on Saturday as it looks to bolster efforts to tackle Islamic insurgents. Five percent of all new applications will be allocated for Muslims under the new order, military spokesman Colonel Edgard Arevalo said, adding the eventual goal was to have a dedicated brigade or division to be deployed in the nation's troubled south.

Arevalo said the Muslim quota, which reflects the proportion of the religious minority in the population, would help the army operate in areas where local people have previously viewed it with suspicion. He said, "Most of our Muslim brothers and sisters perceive the deployment of almost 100 percent Christian soldiers in their communities as invading or occupational forces," he said, adding that fellow Muslims would be more aware of religious or cultural sensitivities.
Posted by: ryuge || 04/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



Who's in the News
30[untagged]
17Islamic State
6Govt of Pakistan
5Taliban
3Commies
2al-Shabaab (AQ)
2Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (IS)
1Govt of Pakistain Proxies
1Govt of Saudi Arabia
1Govt of Syria
1Houthis
1al-Qaeda in North Africa
1Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (IS)
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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.
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Sun 2017-04-16
  At least 43 killed as car bomb hits Syria evacuees
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Fri 2017-04-14
  Iraqi command says controls 60% of western Mosul
Thu 2017-04-13
  US drops MOAB on ISIS tunnel complex in Afghanistan
Wed 2017-04-12
  Bomb attack on Dortmund team bus
Tue 2017-04-11
  ISIS shells east of Mosul with chlorine gas, 10 casualties
Mon 2017-04-10
  Man steers car into town hall in Germany, fire breaks out
Sun 2017-04-09
  Church bombing north of Egypt's capital kills 26
Sat 2017-04-08
  Iranian brigadier general killed by jihadist militants in northern Hama
Fri 2017-04-07
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Thu 2017-04-06
  Al-Qaeda assassinates prominent Free Syrian Army commander in Idlib
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