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[Breitbart] The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) is concerned that California police officers are acquiring "off-roster" guns, then "illegally" selling them.
Officers can take advantage of an exemption allowing them to purchase guns that law-abiding citizens are not allowed to buy‐"if they passed a three-day basic firearms training course [to be] covered under the exemption." On the other hand, law-abiding citizens are limited to a roster of California-approved handguns.
The ATF is concerned that officers are acquiring the "off-roster" weapons, then selling them for profit.
According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, the ATF’s concern came to the forefront with the recent seizure of two truckloads of guns from Pasadena Police Department Lt. Vasken Gourdikian. Although Gourdikian has not been charged, "federal records show investigators seized 57 firearms from the home, including pistols, rifles and shotguns." The Los Angeles Times reports the weapons were "worth tens of thousands of dollars."
The Union-Tribune reports the ATF views the possibility of California police officers acquiring "off-roster" guns to sell on the side as an "emerging problem." The agency worries that this is part of a "growing trend of law enforcement officials engaging in the business of unlicensed firearms dealing."
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...Anybody else think that this will probably be the excuse for the final banning of gun sales in Californiastan?
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Why do you think the first law the assembly passes after putting draconian restrictions on guns is for all members to be exempt from the restrictions?
Honda already showed what they plan to do. Police are just getting a cut of the action.
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Being a resident of Commiefornia the legislature has proven their words and promises to the people are worthless. The legislature are a bunch of liars. In 2000 we were told we could keep our standard capacity magazines that held more than 10 cartridges provided we had proof that we purchased them before January 1, 2000. The next battery of anti-gun legislation affirmed the previous exemption provided the owner of the standard capacity magazines that hold more than ten cartridges had documentation that they were purchased prior to 1,1,2000. Their latest insult and illegal act reversed those assurances and promises and laws. They violated their own published written procedures and allowed no period for public comment and passed a new law making any non L.E.O. in possession of a magazine holding more than ten cartridges a felony after July 1, 2017. This Unconstitutional law is the last straw for me. I getting my home ready to sell so I can move out of state. They also violated the Constitutional rights of every citizen when they passed a law that the people of California cannot buy ammunition from the large discounters who are all out out of state.
[Libya Herald] All six active members of the Presidency Council (PC) met together on Friday night to review Faiez Serraj’s Abu Dhabi meeting with Khalifa Hafter as well as assess the situation in southern Libya.
Serraj said the aim of his Hafter talks had been to reach a political consensus based on the Skhirat Agreement, prevent any further escalations of violence and to support the stability of Libya.
With intermittent fighting still occuring in the south, part of the discussions was devoted alleviating the suffering faced by Fezzan residents.
With Ramadan on the horizon, providing foodstuffs and other commodities for Libyans was also looked at, as were measures adopted by the PC in attempting to boost the country’s economic performance.
Without giving specific names, Serraj also praised the help of "several friendly countries" and the "positive contribution of those countries in resolving political, security and economic bottlenecks and accelerating the return of their companies and diplomatic missions back to Libya".
The only two countries whose embassy staff have returned to Libya are Italia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... In addition to Serraj, those present at the meeting were Ahmed Maetig, Fathi Majbri, Ahmed Hamza, Abdulsalam Kajman and Ahmed Hamza.
Also yesterday, the EU’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini spoke by phone with Serraj in which she expressed European endorsement of the Hafter-Serraj summit, stressing that he EU would continue to encourage the dialogue process in Libya.
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[An Nahar] A former radical preacher is the unlikely instigator of a debate on a topic long seen as off-limits in Moslem-majority Morocco: women's inheritance rights.
The country's Islamic family laws allocate female heirs half the amount men receive on the death of a relative.
Abdelwahab Rafiki, a former hardline holy man who served time in jail following jihadist bombings in Casablanca, says it is time that changed.
"I invite... religious scholars, sociologists and human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... actors to open a dialogue, primarily in order to uphold justice," he said.
Rafiki, also known as Abou Hafs, was one of around 100 male writers, journalists and artists who published a book in April called "Men defend equality in inheritance".
He also appeared on a prime-time television show on the popular 2M channel, arguing that the social roles of men and women had changed since the early days of Islam, meaning it was time for a debate on inheritance rules.
Since his TV appearance, he said, "I have been threatened with death and excommunicated, but I also received many messages of support".
The 43-year-old was once regarded as a leader of the Salafist-jihadist movement in Morocco.
He was among 8,000 people jugged Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! after jihadist bombings in Casablanca in 2003 killed 45 people.
- Death threats -
Sentenced to 30 years in prison, he was pardoned in 2012. Last year he stood for election to parliament representing Istiqlal, a conservative nationalist party.
His efforts to spark a debate on inheritance have won him plaudits from the liberal media and condemnation from his former peers.
"Thanks to 2M and Abou Hafs, a new step has been taken in Morocco: equality between men and women in matters of inheritance can now be raised in the public sphere," local site Medias 24 said.
Weekly magazine TelQuel said he had begun "dismantling one by one the dogmas of radical Islam".
But Abou Hafs has also received anonymous death threats on social media and been expelled from a national organization for religious scholars.
He has been denounced by the likes of Mohammed Fizazi and Hassan Kettani, preachers who were also placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! and later pardoned after the Casablanca attacks.
"He didn't just turn his coat inside out, he tore it up," Fizazi said.
Kettani said inheritance rules were not just a "red line" but an "impassable wall".
Islamic scholars argue that the Koran allocates women half the inheritance given to male heirs because men are responsible for protecting women and providing for them.
- Religious interpretation -
They say the rules were a major improvement on women's rights in pre-Islamic Arabia.
Sure, but that was more than 1,300 years ago. Much has changed since then.
But Abou Hafs argues that the issue is open to "ijtihad" -- the process of interpretation by religious scholars.
"The issue of inheritance must be consistent with evolutions in society" in order to "protect" Islam, he told AFP.
It is not the first time the subject has triggered controversy.
In 2015 Morocco's official National Council of Human Rights (CNDH) called for women to be guaranteed the same inheritance rights as men, arguing that "unequal inheritance legislation" made women more vulnerable to poverty.
Outraged conservatives rejected any debate on the issue and the ruling Justice and Development Party (PJD) slammed the organization for its "irresponsible recommendation".
But Nouzha Skalli, a former women's rights minister, said the lines are moving.
"Until recently, the question was taboo -- you couldn't even debate the subject," she said.
"As soon as you said the word 'inheritance' you were accused of blasphemy. Today, the debate can be held openly."
"The time has come to break the taboo, which hides major injustices against women," she said. "The Koran says that God is against injustice."
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[Ynet] Three years after they were kidnapped from a school in Chibok, dozens of girls have been released from captivity in return for the release of Boko Haram hard boyz arrested by Nigerian authorities; the fate of over a 100 others girls remains unknown.
Eighty-two Chibok schoolgirls seized three years ago by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... have been freed in exchange for detained suspects with the bad boy group, Nigeria's government announced early Sunday, in the largest release negotiated yet in the battle to save nearly 300 girls whose mass abduction exposed the mounting threat posed by 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.... -linked fighters.
The statement from the office of President Muhammadu Buhari was the first confirmation that his government had made a swap for the girls. After an initial release of 21 Chibok girls in October, the government denied making an exchange or paying ransom.
The April 2014 abduction by Boko Haram brought the bad boy group's rampage in northern Nigeria to world attention and, for families of the schoolgirls, began years marked with heartbreak.
Many of the captive girls, most of them Christians, were forced to marry their captors and give birth to children in remote forest hideouts without ever knowing if they would see their parents again. It is feared that other girls were strapped with explosives and sent on missions as jacket wallahs.
Before Saturday's release, 195 of the girls had remained captive. Now 113 of the girls remain unaccounted for.
The freed girls were expected to meet with Buhari on Sunday in the capital, Abuja.
A Nigerian military official with direct knowledge of the rescue operation said the freed girls were found near the town of Banki in Borno state near Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... "The location of the girls kept changing since yesterday when the operation to rescue them commenced," said the official. Boko Haram remains active in that area.
On Friday, the United States and Britannia issued warnings that the bad boy group was actively planning to kidnap foreigners in an area of Borno state "along the Kumshe-Banki axis."
The 276 schoolgirls kidnapped from Chibok in 2014 are among thousands of people kidnapped by Boko Haram over the years. The mass abduction shocked the world, sparking a global #Bringbackourgirls campaign supported by former US first lady Michelle Obama and other celebrities. It has put tremendous pressure on Nigeria's government to counter the bad boy group, which has roamed large parts of the north and into neighboring countries.
Sure it did. That's why it took three years and an election on one side and ISIS replacing Abubakar Shekau in the other for a partial trade of bad guys for good girls to get done. But AyPee wanted to flatter the First World twiitterers who so quickly posted the message that they care, which was just as meaningful as the ice bucket challenge that preceded it, or the email campaign in the months before 9/11 telling the Taliban to give Afghan women Western civil rights.
The latest negotiations were again mediated by the Swiss government and the International Committee of the Red Thingy, Nigeria's government said. At the initial release of girls in October, the government said the release of another 83 would be coming soon. But at the three-year anniversary of the kidnapping in April, the government said negotiations had "gone quite far" but faced challenges.
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Should have offered to trade the innocent school girls for the wookie. Oh, wait, I doubt that offer would have appealed...
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And they were all a-twitter about it...
I know. Corner. Right.
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[An Nahar] Britannia and the United States on Friday said Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... was preparing to kidnap foreigners in remote northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , which is in the grip of a food crisis caused by the conflict.
The Foreign Office in London said it had received reports the Islamist Lions of Islam were "actively planning" to seize foreign workers in the Bama local government area of Borno state.
Both said in travel advice that the affected area was "along the Banki-Kumshe axis", which is near the border with Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... The US embassy in Abuja said in a message to its nationals that the report was "credible".
Boko Haram has kidnapped thousands of women and kiddies, including more than 200 schoolgirls from the Borno town of Chibok in 2014, which brought the conflict to world attention.
At least 20,000 people have been killed since 2009. But abductions of foreigners have been rare.
There was a spate of kidnappings of foreign workers in the wider north from 2011 to 2013, claimed by a Boko Haram splinter group, Ansaru, which was more ideologically aligned to al-Qaeda. The leader of Ansaru, Khalid al-Barnawi, has been charged with the abduction and murder of foreign workers, among them an Italian, a Briton, a German, Greek, Lebanese and Syrians. Most were engineers or construction workers.
But now Mr. al-Barnawi is aligned with ISIS, in charge of Boko Haram, and back to his old tricks, while Abubakar Shekau leads the splinter group and insists ISIS didn't really reject him.
International aid workers now account for the majority of foreign nationals in northeast Nigeria. Most are based in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Bangladesh Nationalist Party Vice-Chairman Mir Mohammad Nasir Uddin called on Hefajat-e-Islam ...a madrassa-based false nose and mustache of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, formed in 2010 to protest against secular education. In 2011 demonstrated violentyly against women's rights and in 2013 held large rallies demanding capital punishment of Shahbag Square protesters and banning women working outside the home... chief Shah Ahmed Shafi on Friday.
The meeting coincided with the four-year anniversary of the mayhem caused by the radical Islamist group at Shapla Chattar in Motijheel on May 5, 2013.
Mir Nasir spent some time with Shafi at al-Jamaatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam Madrasa at Hathazari in Chittagong.
The surprise visit of the BNP leader, however, fuelled swirling speculation in the media when the top brass of BNP are quite vocal against the recent AL-Hefazat ties.
When asked for his comment over the visit, Mir Nasir told the Dhaka Tribune that it was merely a regular visit.
"As you know, both of us are residents of Hathazari area. I never miss the opportunity to meet him [Shafi] whenever I pay a visit to my village. This is purely a personal visit and there is nothing political about it," said Mir Nasir.
"I have known him for more than 50 years. Shafi is ailing, so I enquired after his health," added Nasir, who served as the state minister for civil aviation and tourism during BNP’s tenure.
Anas Madani, Hefazat central publicity secretary and son of Shafi, Munir Ahmed, press secretary to Hefazat chief, Nur Mohammad and Solaiman Manju, convener and member secretary of Hathazari upazila unit of BNP, Moslem Uddin, joint convener among others also attended the meeting.
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[An Nahar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... says detention warrants have been issued for 23 judges and prosecutors who have been dismissed from their posts.
Anadolu news agency said Saturday the warrants were issued for 17 judges and six prosecutors for "membership in an armed terror organization." They are suspected of being followers of U.S.-based holy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... who the government says is behind the July 15 coup attempt.
Gulen denies involvement in the coup.
Two judges were detained while working.
The suspects are among the 107 judges and prosecutors dismissed from public service Friday.
Since the declaration of a state of emergency last summer, more than 4,200 judges and prosecutors have been dismissed, an estimated 100,000 sacked from other public posts and more than 47,000 people tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent...
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Turkish Airlines on Saturday said it would offer laptops to business-class travelers after Britannia and the United States banned large electronic devices from the cabin of flights from certain countries.
Washington has barred all electronic devices larger a mobile phone on direct flights to the United States from 10 airports in seven Middle Eastern countries and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , only allowing them to be transported in hold luggage.
Britannia followed with a similar ban from five countries in the Middle East and north Africa as well as Turkey.
But Turkish Airlines said it would offer travelers a solution.
"The national flag carrier has now started to offer laptops for its business class passengers on US-bound flights as from today," it said in a statement released on Saturday.
The airline would also offer the same service for UK-bound business class passengers from May 12.
Such passengers would be able to request a laptop from the cabin crew to use in-flight, it said.
The laptops would offer top security and protect the users’ privacy by "automatically deleting" all personal data after being shut down, it said.
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[DAWN] More than 350 Paks are languishing in US jails under allegations of various offences, ranging from terrorism to violation of immigration laws, revealed a document issued by the Foreign Ministry in response to questions by a senator.
Everyone is equal under the law here. If only they'd not broken the law, they would not now be imprisoned.
According to the documents, a copy of which is available with DawnNews, 104 Pak citizens were serving prison sentences whereas 253 Paks are under trial.
Majority of the prisoners were in jail for violation of immigration laws while others were accused of terrorism, theft, burglary and fraud.
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui ...American-educated Pak cognitive neuroscientist who was convicted of assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan. In September 2010, she was sentenced to 86 years in jug after a three-ring trial. Siddiqui, using the alias Fahrem or Feriel Shahin, was one of six alleged al-Qaeda members who bought $19 million worth of blood diamonds in Liberia immediately prior to 9-11-01. Since her incarceration Paks have taken her to their heart and periodically erupt into demonstrations, while the government tries to find somebody to swap for her... , a Pak scientist, was sentenced to prison in 2007 for attacking US soldiers. Khalid Awan was facing imprisonment since 2006 for assisting an Indian terrorist organization, Shehwar Mateen and Abdul Naseer were imprisoned for allegedly planting a bomb, revealed the report.
The ministry presented a list of the prisoners, along with the nature of allegations levelled against them.
The report clarified that as soon as diplomatic missions are informed about the arrest of a Pak national, immediate consular access is requested and the relevant mission remains in contact with the national in prison and detention centres.
The ministry also claimed that regular consular visits are also arranged, adding that the missions also provide possible legal assistance, if requested.
"Most of the under trial prisoners/detainees usually sign a waiver at the time of their arrest surrendering their right to consular access with the intention to exhaust all possible legal avenues to stay in the United States even after completion of their sentences," the report said.
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Which probably by and large beats being in Pakistan.
Maybe the various prison systems can pool their Pak inmates, set up a call center, and sell condo timeshares in Caracas.
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[DAWN] PARACHINAR: The authorities have decided to continue with the Badraga system (vigilance committees) in the central and lower subdivisions of Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... in view of the prevailing security situation in the region which lies close to the Afghan border.
A ban has also been slapped on waving guns.
The decision was taken at a jirga attended by senior officers and elders of the two administrative units of Kurram in Sadda here on Friday.
Assistant political agents Tariq Hassan Khan, Arfan Ali Khan and Commandant Kurram Militia Col Umar Malik addressed the meeting.
An official said important decisions were taken in the wake of series of kabooms in Parachinar and Gowdar areas which had killed and maimed over 400 people.
Officials said the vigilance committees would continue operating in their respective areas to check activities of suspected people. Display of weapons has been banned and local people have been asked to cooperate with the security forces in this regard, they added.
It is worth mentioning that people in Pewar, Shalozan, Borki and Kherlachi areas in upper subdivision of Kurram have already set up vigilance committees. APA Tariq Hassan told the jirga that anti-state elements were trying to disturb law and order situation in Kurram valley, but the government would foil their designs.
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[DAWN] KHUZDAR: Trade and business activities partially remained suspended in Hub, the industrial town of Lasbela district, on Friday following tension over Thursday’s violent protest which had left a 12-year-old boy dead and some police officials injured.
A protest erupted in the city on Thursday after a 29-year-old minority community trader was accused of sharing blasphemous content on social media. It turned violent when police refused to hand over the suspect -- who was in their custody -- to angry protesters gathered outside the cop shoppe.
On Friday, personnel of police, Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... and other security agencies provided tight security to the Hindu population living in the town.
Deputy Commissioner of Lasbella Mujeebur Rehman visited Hindu localities in the town. Some protesters staged a sit-in at the town’s Seerat Chowk for a while, but they dispersed when security personnel reached there.
Lasbela’s District Police Officer Zia Mandokhail told Dawn that cases had been registered against some people who were involved in Thursday’s violence, adding that they were identified through CCTV camera footage.
Commissioner of Kalat division Hashim Ghilzai visited Hindu communities in Uthal and Bela in Lasbela district. He also visited some temples in the district and expressed solidarity with members of the Hindu community.
He said personnel of law enforcement agencies would provide them security.
He thanked media personnel for responsible reporting during the crisis.
Talking to journalists, the deputy commissioner said the blasphemy suspect was in police custody and a case had been registered against him.
He said the administration would take action against those who would break the law and incite people to violence.
Talking about Thursday’s incident, he said the police had to use force when the unruly mob turned violent.
The deputy commissioner appealed to the people of the town to remain peaceful and respect the law. He also appealed to religious leaders to play their role in the restoration of peace in the town.
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Marwan Barghouti is serving five life sentences for murders during the Second Intifada.
He is a hero to many Palestinians and also to Western leftists. The NY Times gave him a platform to announce a mass hunger strike, NY Times gives Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti platform to announce hunger strike.
In a reaction, Israeli protesters barbecued outside prison where Palestinian terrorists on hunger strike leading to an angry reaction, Palestinians fume over barbecue taunt of terrorist hunger strikers, as hundreds drop out.
Since then, there have been claims that if he died, it would set off a new Intifada.
It doesn't appear, however, that he is likely to starve to death, since he was caught on video eating.
Israel National News reports, Watch: Barghouti's lies caught on film: see link for video
Arch-terrorist and mass-murderer Marwan Barghouti, who has led a hunger strike by jailed terrorists held in Israeli prisons, has been eating in secret while maintaining the pretenses of his own hunger strike, footage released Sunday reveals.
Barghouti, who is believed to be responsible for the deaths of 26 people in suicide bombings and shooting attacks during the Second Intifada and is currently serving five consecutive life sentences for murder, declared the hunger strike in a New York Times opinion piece in April, in the middle of the Jewish festival of Passover.
But footage of Barghouti’s jail cell reveals that the arch-terrorist feigned his own hunger strike, eating in secret in a corner of his room.
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and how did he get his food? The nefarious Juice guards placed it outside his cell as bait
*snicker*
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Was this the nacho fast or the pizza fast?
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Israel is smarter about this than the Crusader states were, guys. But then, they're the aboriginal people.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Paleostinian resistance group Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... reiterated its stance on a Paleostinian state limited to the 1967 borders.
The announcement comes few days after other Paleostinian resistance movement, Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, unveiled a new policy document, announcing it accepts the creation of a Paleostinian state in the West Bank, east al-Quds (Jerusalem) and Gazoo, the territories occupied by the Zionist entity in the Six-Day War of 1967.
Islamic Jihad’s deputy leader, Ziad al-Nakhala said his movement rejects what he described as Hamas’s new policy of easing its stand on the Zionist entity.
"As partners with our Hamas brothers in the struggle for liberation, we feel concern over the document" which the main Islamist movement that rules Gazoo adopted on Monday, said Islamic Jihad’s deputy leader, Ziad al-Nakhala.
"We are opposed to Hamas’s acceptance of a state within the 1967 borders and we think this is a concession which damages our aims," he said on Islamic Jihad’s website.
Nakhala said the new Hamas policy formally accepting the idea of a state in the territories occupied by the Zionist entity in the 1967 Six-Day War would "lead to deadlock and can only produce half-solutions".
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In which the expected is announced to have occurred.
[IsraelTimes] Haniyeh replaces Khaled Mashaal who served two terms as the terror group’s political bureau chief.
Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",’s former chief in the Gazoo Strip, Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , has been elected to lead the Paleostinian terror group, succeeding Khaled Mashaal, the organization announced Saturday.
Mashaal, who lives in exile in 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... , has completed the maximum two terms in office. He became the leader of Hamas in 2004 following the Israeli liquidations of Hamas founders Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi.
"The Hamas Shura Council on Saturday elected Ismail Haniyeh as head of the movement’s political bureau," the group’s official website announced.
Haniyeh is expected to remain in the Gazoo Strip, though this may make it harder for him to manage the group’s international ties abroad, as traveling in and out of the Strip is difficult.
Haniyeh had long been seen as the leading candidate, with others in the running including Mashaal deputy Moussa Abu Marzouk and senior figure Muhammas Nazal.
Hamas front man Fawzi Barhoum said the group hoped Haniyeh’s election "would see opening to the region."
The 54-year-old takes charge of Hamas as it seeks to ease its international isolation. On Monday the group issued a new program that accepts the notion of a Paleostinian state in territories captured by Israel in the Six Day War of 1967 while still calling for the destruction of Israel.
Old milk in a new bottle.
Mashaal, 60, has led the Hamas political bureau since 1996. He is a veteran with close ties to regional powers Qatar, Egypt and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . He has been key to Hamas’s attempts to break out of political isolation following its violent takeover of Gazoo.
[IsraelTimes] Though seen as a relatively pragmatic voice in the group, he remains wholly committed to terrorism and ’liberation’ of Israel.
Haniyeh’s modest home in the narrow alleys of Gazoo City’s Shati refugee camp next to the Mediterranean Sea is under constant guard.
Sure, it's modest above ground. But it is the sprawling, luxurious tunnel complex underneath, never shown to international journalists, that really matters.
Also known as Abu Abed, he was born in the same camp in 1963 to parents who fled when Israel was created in 1948. They had previously lived in Ashkelon, in southern Israel near the border with the Gazoo Strip.
Yes, but how much longer than the required three years had they been in Ashkelon? Whether they arrived in 1944 or 944, they still were entitled to call themselves refugees.
Haniyeh, a father of 13, was educated at a UN-run refugee school, later earning an education degree from the Islamic University and becoming a university administrator.
In other words, he is steeped in indoctrination and doublespeak, with no leavening of reality.
Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, has frequently highlighted his modest background as a counterpoint to officials within the Paleostinian Authority who have been accused of being corrupt and too easily compliant with Israel or the United States.
Haniyeh was jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! several times by Israel during the first intifada, or uprising, which erupted in 1987, and was deported to southern Leb in December 1992 along with hundreds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... members.
He first rose to prominence as bureau chief under Hamas’s spiritual father Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the holy man who advocated suicide kabooms against Israel and who was assassinated by Israel in 2004.
Haniyeh escaped liquidation in September 2003 when an Israeli aircraft bombed a house where he and Yassin were meeting.
In 2006 he led Hamas to a shock legislative election victory over Abbas’s Fatah and became prime minister. The international community however refused to deal with any government in which Hamas participated until it renounced violence and recognized Israel and past peace agreements, which it has never done.
The resulting deadlock led to mounting friction between Hamas and Fatah which culminated in Hamas’s seizure of Gazoo in 2007.
Always dressed impeccably in Western-style suits
...translation: spending his money peacocking around instead of on housing for his numerous offspring...
and a sharp orator, Haniya has exemplified Hamas’s internal struggle between the traditional and the modern, between terrorism and mainstream politics.
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and a sharp orator, Haniya has exemplified Hamas’s internal struggle between the traditional and the modern, between terrorism and mainstream politics.
Further translation: "He's a 'Paleo Moderate™' we can negotiate with"
Naive wishful thinking. A real moderate would never get "elected" in Paleoland.
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He became the leader of Hamas in 2004 following the Israeli liquidations of Hamas founders Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi
Good times. Good. Times.
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[IsraelTimes] 12 months of raiding weapon workshops quintuples cost of home-made submachine guns, making them far less accessible for spontaneous terrorist acts.
The IDF has a simple theory on how to stop shooting attacks in the West Bank: Get rid of the guns.
Since 2015, the army has been on what some might regard as a quixotic mission to rid the West Bank of illegally made and traded weapons, raiding suspected gunsmithing workshops and warehouses on an almost weekly basis. The campaign is not regarded as a quick fix, but it has already led to a sharp rise in the cost to forces of Evil of acquiring such weapons.
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[An Nahar] Iran's armed forces warned President Hassan Rouhani against discussing the country's defense program after he criticized the anti-Israel slogans written on the side of ballistic missiles, local media reported on Saturday.
During an election debate on Friday, Rouhani took the rare step of criticising the elite Revolutionary Guards for the provocative messages they wrote on ballistic missiles before testing them.
"We saw how they wrote slogans on missiles and showed underground (missile) cities to disrupt the JCPOA (nuclear deal)," he said during the debate, which comes ahead of the May 19 election.
Armed Forces front man General Masoud Jazayeri responded that the missile programme had "no connection" to the nuclear deal.
"We again stress and recommend the presidential candidates to avoid controversial entries into important and sensitive military and defence issues of the country and giving false information to people," said Jazayeri, according to the website of state broadcaster IRIB.
"The existence of underground missile sites are an important deterrent factor against the sworn enemies of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran and the nation," Jazayeri added.
Iran says its ballistic missile tests are part of its legitimate defence programme and are not a violation of the 2015 deal, under which it agreed to curb its nuclear programme in exchange for an end to certain sanctions.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Russia said on Saturday that the United States has welcomed the outcome of the recent round of the Syria settlement talks held in Astana this week.
During an interview with the Mir television channel, Russian Foreign minister said that the US itself has proposed to stop violence in Syria.
"The United States itself has proposed to stop violence in the areas hit by the most severe festivities between the [Syrian] government and [the country’s] armed opposition in order to create conditions for the safety of civilians. And it is not a coincidence that the United States has welcomed the result of the Astana meeting -- an agreement to create de-escalation zones," Lavrov said.
The city of Astana has already held four rounds of negotiations between the Syrian government and armed opposition in order to settle the conflict in the Middle Eastern country.
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Debka file reports that the talks included the possibility of Russian, Turkish and Iranian officers presence in the no fly safty zone in the bordering the Golan heights.
Very slim chance that Israel will be able to agree to that because it will mean a free and safe zone for arming Hizballa by Iran.
If this actually materializes, I expect a lot of "unknown" aircraft activity in the region.
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Good to know, Elder of Zion. Occasional unexplained explosions of arms depots as well, yes?
[DailyMail] An interactive map compiled by Esri Story Maps and PeaceTech Lab has revealed Islamic State is responsible for the most amount of terrorist attacks and deaths as a result of terror attacks this year. By 1pm today, Islamic State had claimed responsibility for 140 attacks, which have resulted in 1,180 deaths. A total of 2,835 people have been killed as a result of terrorist attacks so far this year.
Map can be seen at the link -- just click on the headline.
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If Islam ever gets a Pope of its own, we are in deep trouble. Islam's footprints are everywhere now.
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[Ynet] Three years after they were kidnapped from a school in Chibok, dozens of girls have been released from captivity in return for the release of Boko Haram 
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[DAWN] PARACHINAR: The authorities have decided to continue with the Badraga system (vigilance committees) in the central and lower subdivisions of 
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[IsraelTimes] 12 months of raiding weapon workshops quintuples cost of home-made submachine guns, making them far less accessible for spontaneous terrorist acts.
