[Khaama (Afghanistan)] New pictures have emerged from the eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan showing the aftermath of an Arclight airstrike involving GBU-43 bombing, also known as Mother of All Bombs (MOAB) on ISIS hideouts.
The pictures were released by the provincial government earlier today which shows the massive losses incurred to the ISIS gunnies in Asad Khel area of Achin district.
A destroyed car, bodies of ISIS gunnies dispersed and still lying across the area, damaged tunnels, and presence of the Afghan cops are shown in the latest photographs released by the government.
The bomb was dropped around 7:30 pm local time on Thursday, the 13th of April, a move which was widely welcomed by the local residents and tribal elders of Nangarhar.
The commander of the US forces based in Afghanistan Gen. John Nicholson appeared in a presser after the Arclight airstrike was conducted, saying the use of the GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb or Mother of All Bombs in Achin district sent a clear message 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group.
Gen. Nicholson made the remarks as he was speaking to reports together with the US Secretary of Defense James Mattis in Kabul on Monday.
"The strike in Achin was to send a very clear message to ISIS. If they come to Afghanistan they will be destroyed," he said.
Gen. Nicholson further added "We are going to keep going until ISIS-K is defeated in 2017. There is no space for ISIS-K in Afghanistan."
A number of the tribal elders also appeared in a gathering after the Arclight airstrike was conducted and urged for further strikes to clear the province from the presence of ISIS murderous Moslems.
Nearly 100 ISIS gunnies including several of their key leaders were killed in the Arclight airstrike and the main tunnels network and other hideouts were totally eliminated.
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We need a bigger MOAB. Maybe GMFnMOAB super plus. The mountain is still standing.
[SHABELLENEWS] On the eve of the Third London Conference on Somalia, President Uhuru Kenyatta insists that it would be catastrophic for the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia to exit before realising the extermination of the Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... terror group.
As the United States, a funder, sets its sights on a full hand-over of security functions to Somalia’s own forces, President Kenyatta is adamant that AMISOM ‐ whose drawdown was projected to commence next year ‐ must be adequately facilitated to complete its mission.
"We can hurry to leave but what happens when an inadequately prepared Somali force is left to its own devices? A vacuum is left and the root of the problem will re-emerge."
He maintained that it is in the best interest of Kenya to take the fight, as it were, to the enemy and not risk compromising regional stability.
"It is not a Somali problem. It is in essence our problem."
His position is shared by the AMISOM Force Commander Lieutenant General Osman Noor Soubagleh who at the conclusion of the African Chiefs of Defence Conference said, "the draw-down will be depend with (sic) some conditions."
"We need to first help to degrade and contain Al-Shabaab, to bring levels of violence to levels that are acceptable that can allow for the government as such to be present and exercise its functions all throughout the country."
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[DailyMail] Thomas Cook has become the first operator to cancel holiday bookings to Sharm el-Sheikh following ISIS attack fears in the area. The British travel company has scrapped all flight and hotel packages for the winter season onwards, with alternative trips or refunds offered for some 200 pre-booked customers. The decision comes after continued warnings against travel to the area by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, with March's terror attack alert tipping the balance.
[217.218.67.231] Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi has ordered the country’s army to do what is necessary to protect businesses amid widening protests against poverty and unemployment.
Essebsi said during a speech in Tunis on Wednesday that the "grave but necessary decision" of asking the army to intervene in protests was made at a top-level government security meeting.
He said "the state must protect the people's resources" as protesters in Tunisia's impoverished inland provinces become increasingly vocal in their demands for jobs and better living conditions. Demonstrations and sit-ins staged in recent weeks have led to a halt in production at Tunisia’s oil and phosphate facilities as protesters continue to block roads in those areas.
Essebsi said continued protests had cost the government five billion dinars (about two billion dollars), especially due to the stoppages of phosphate mining, adding that the situation had worsened the country’s debt.
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[217.218.67.231] Former Yemeni president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... has expressed his willingness to enter into talks with the Saudi regime, which has been engaged in a massive bombing campaign against his nation since 2015.
"We have no choice but dialogue," AFP quoted Saleh as saying on Tuesday during a meeting of his General People's Congress Party in the capital Sana’a.
"We are ready to go to Riyadh, Khamis Mushait, Muscat or elsewhere to start dialogue and to reach an understanding," Saleh added, referring to cities in 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... and neighboring Oman and without elaborating on what sort of understanding he was looking for with Riyadh.
Saleh, however, underlined his opposition to the Saudi-backed resigned president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, insisting that Saudi Arabia would have to find a "new leadership." "Like... ahem... me."
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[217.218.67.231] The UN has warned that a Saudi attack on Yemen’s Houthi-controlled port city of Hudaydah could displace half a million civilians.
"Between 100,000 and half a million people could be displaced as the conflict and humanitarian situation continue to worsen," said Shabia Mantoo, the spokesperson for the UN refugee agency, on Wednesday.
Located in the southern Yemeni province of Tai'zz, Hudaydah is part of a broad battlefront where Saudi forces are fighting the Yemeni army and its Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... allies, which are in control of most of Yemen’s northern and western regions. Some 80 percent of the war-torn country’s food imports and relief aid also come through the port.
"The humanitarian situation alone continues to worsen even without the conflict intensifying," she added.
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Eleven immigrants including a seven-year-old boy are found inside cramped refrigerator lorry full of oranges in an Aldi car park
10/05/17
[DailyMail] Police and paramedics were called to the scene at about 11.30pm last night after reports of people inside the lorry outside the supermarket in Northfleet, Kent. One boy needed medical treatment, while the 54-year-old lorry driver was arrested on suspicion of assisting illegal entry to the UK and remains in custody. A Kent Police spokesman said: 'Officers and the South East Coast Ambulance Service attended and a boy was taken to hospital as a precaution. He was later discharged and the group were taken to the Home Office.
Syria Fighter and Islamist Anjem Choudary Deputy Allowed Back into UK to Work… as a Take-Away Driver
10 May
[Breitbart] The former right-hand man of infamous hate preacher Anjem Choudary has been allowed to return from fighting in Syria to work in the UK, despite being deemed “a risk to the national security”. The jihadist, identified by the pseudonym Abu Rayah, went to fight in Syria just three years ago but is now delivering take away food to unsuspecting members of the public in London. Mr. Rayah, who now works for Just Eat, has previously hit the headlines when he was fronting the Muslims Against Crusades group, whose members celebrated the 9/11 terror attacks and burnt poppies on Armistice Day.
[DAWN] Police on Tuesday evacuated a tent camp in northern Gay Paree where more than 1,600 migrants colonists, mostly from Afghanistan, Sudan and Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... , were living in squalid conditions.
Hundreds of police moved in at dawn to remove the migrants colonists, camped between major access roads into the French capital.
The settlement at the Porte de la Chapelle area was located just metres from a new refugee transit centre set up by Gay Paree city authorities late last year to take asylum-seekers off the streets but which has limited space available.
These "illegal camps" present "major risks for the security and health of their occupants as well as for local residents," Gay Paree police said in a statement.
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[DW] The trial began Monday of an 18-year-old accused of attempting to murder "infidels" by throwing two Molotov cocktails into the entrance of a shopping mall. Both devices failed to ignite, and no one was injured in the attack. The man, identified only as Saleh S. in line with German laws to protect the privacy of defendants, has been in psychiatric custody since December.
Authorities say the teenager had hoped to "spread fear and terror in the population."
Prosecutors allege that he traveled to Syria twice to fight alongside Death Eaters. They say that the second time he took his then-15-year-old sister, Safia S,
... the German-Moroccan teen known as "the ISIS girl", who attempted to kill a German policeman after being prevented from emigrating to ISIS in Syria. Despite her youth she was a known wolf, a favourite of prominent Salafist preacher Pierre Vogel when she was seven...
to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , where she met with members of 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.... ." Less than a month after the girl's return, she had been jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! by German police, allegedly for carrying out orders given by IS.
Safia's story
In January, a court sentenced Safia, now 16, to six years in prison for stabbing a police officer in the neck with a vegetable knife at Hanover's main train station in February 2016. Because of Safia's age, the trial was not open to the public.
According to Sherlocks, Safia had intended to carry out a "martyrdom operation" for IS. The 34-year-old police officer suffered life-threatening injuries but survived after undergoing surgery.
Safia's defense called her sentence "unquestionably high" and announced an appeal. Her lawyers said a teenager lacked the capacity to understand the impact of her actions. The defense team had pushed the court to convict the teenager on the reduced charge of aggravated assault, arguing that the knife attack had resulted exclusively in grievous bodily harm and that Safia had not intended to kill the officer.
Lawyers disputed the charge that Safia supported IS, pointing out that the group's members have not generally apologized to their victims after attacks, as she had when she wrote a letter to the officer while in jug. Nevertheless, in January the judge cited Safia's mobile phone chats as proof of her intent to kill on behalf of IS.
The girl's father, identified only as Robin S., told the RedaktionsNetzwerk news platform that prosecutors had carried out a "show trial" against his daughter because of her religion. "She wore a head scarf," he told the platform, "but she was also a fan of Justin Bieber and played soccer."
Robin said Safia regretted her actions and deserved another chance. "If she had been a punk," he said, "she would have gotten a maximum of two years."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on Wednesday called on the United States to immediately reverse a decision on arming Syrian Kurdish fighters considered by Ankara to be a terror group.
"I hope very much that this mistake will be reversed immediately," Erdogan said after Washington announced it would arm the Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) in the fight against forces of Evil in Syria. Erdogan vowed to bring up "our worries" on the issue in talks with US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... on May 16 in Washington.
After Trump approved the arms supply to support a campaign to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa, Erdogan told a news conference he wanted to believe that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s allies would side with Ankara and not with terrorist organizations.
Turkey views the Kurdish YPG militia as the Syrian extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought an insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984 and is considered a terrorist group by the United States, Turkey and Europe.
The YPG has been seen by Washington as the best ally against forces of Evil in Syria.
"The supply of arms to the YPG is unacceptable," Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli told A Haber television on Wednesday. "Such a policy will benefit nobody".
"We expect that this mistake is to be rectified," he said, days ahead of a crunch meeting in Washington between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US counterpart Donald Trump.
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Maybe if Turkey was an actual ally we wouldn't need Kurdish ones?
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I hope Trump does the right thing and arms the Kurds, the only sensible people in the region. Shooting down a couple of Turkish planes would be a bonus.
......the probably Taliban-trained Afghan-American whose various bombs in New York and New Jersey caused havoc last September. His name also appears in our archives as Ahmad Khan Rahmani and Ahmad Khan Rahami...
the terrorist responsible for the New York City bombing in September of 2016, wants a reduced prison sentence for the pain and suffering he has faced.
The bomber’s attorney asked prosecutors to consider his "mental and physical health" as part of a plea agreement, arguing that his pain should be considered equally to the victims he injured and tried to kill.
Federal court documents show that the lawyers defending the terrorist argue that because police shot him 11 times, he has experienced "brain injuries, limited longevity, and/or post-traumatic stress disorder." Maybe he is beyond the ability to live a rewarding life and should be, out of compassion, put down?
This article starring:
Ahmad Rahimi
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[DAWN] There is a need to promote tolerance and coexistence in society. If incorporating blasphemy in the cybercrime law is necessary, religious minorities and their revered personalities should also be protected.
This was stated by Members National Assembly (MNAs) Shazia Marri and Ali Raza Abdi during a meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology on Tuesday.
At the start of the meeting, Chairman retired Capt Mohammad Safdar said it was the responsibility of all Moslems to play their role to stop blasphemy.
He said the Islamabad High Court and Lahore High Court in their judgments had already ordered action against elements involved in uploading blasphemous content on the social media besides making legislation.
"We will take Learned Elders of Islam on board and will also request the judge who has directed to make legislation to give us time. We have to stop blasphemy on the social media at all costs," he said.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... Shazia Marri of the PPP said though no one tolerates blasphemy, the issue should be dealt with an utmost care.
"We have examples when Christians were killed for personal gains by using the name of blasphemy. On the other hand, there is a precedent that a judge offered to a Christian litigant that the decision can be given in his favour if he accepts Islam. We should give space to other religions," she said.
"The cybercrime law was made against terror elements but we don’t know what progress has been made to check this menace so far. But the law is being used against suspects of blasphemy. Once the investigation starts into a blasphemy case the life of the suspect and their family is put in danger. We should be very careful regarding the issue," she said.
Ms Marri said a Christian youth from Kasur was locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on the charge of blasphemy after he retweeted a blasphemous tweet.
"He could have retweeted the blasphemous tweet by mistake. We should not make laws without analysing its repercussions," she said.
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[DAWN] The Pakistain Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has launched an awareness campaign through SMS service against the uploading of blasphemous content on social media.
Through the campaign, social media users are being provided information about the issue and those users who react to such content in ignorance are being motivated not to do so.
After reports that websites containing blasphemous material are being operated in the country, the Islamabad High Court has taken up the issue.
Besides, the National Assembly’s standing committee on information technology and telecommunication, headed by retd Capt Mohammad Safdar, is also pushing the PTA to take steps to address the issue.
The message being sent by the authority to people says, "Uploading and sharing of any blasphemous content on Internet is a punishable offence under the law. Instead of taking law in hand, such content should be reported to PTA on info@pta.gov.pk for legal action."
Director (legal) of the Ministry of Information Technology, Nasir Ayaz, assured the parliamentary committee on Tuesday that steps would be taken to stop the uploading of blasphemous content on social media.
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[DAWN] India has moved the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Pakistain, accusing the latter of violating the Vienna Convention in the case of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was handed a death sentence by a Field General Court Martial (FGCM) last month.
In an application filed in the ICJ Monday, India stated that Pakistain has been repeatedly denied consular access to Jadhav, a blurb issued by The Hague-based ICJ said.
India alleged that "it was not informed of Jadhav’s detention until long after his arrest," and learned about the death sentence through the media.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] They made the captive children, weak from hunger, fight over a single tomato. Then the ISIS gunnies told them that in paradise they could eat to their hearts delight, but they could only get there by blowing themselves up.
The lesson was part of the indoctrination inflicted by the gunnies on boys from Iraq's Yazidi religious minority after the Lion of Islam group overran the community's towns and villages in northern Iraq. The group forced hundreds of boys, some as young as 7 or 8, into training to become fighters and jacket wallahs, infusing them with its murderous ideology.
Now boys who escaped captivity are living in camps for the displaced along with what is left of their families.
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...It is said that when the Holocaust begain, if every Jew was prepared to take one SS man or Gestapo agent with them, the Holocaust never would have happened.
I wonder how long ISIS would last if every one of these lost souls would detonate those vests standing amid those monsters.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... appealed to Moscow to "rein in" the regime of Syrian 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... and its key ally Iran, during White House talks Wednesday with Russia’s top diplomat Sergei Lavrov.
"President Trump emphasized the need to work together to end the conflict in Syria, in particular, underscoring the need for Russia to rein in the Assad regime, Iran, and Iranian proxies," the White House said following their talks at the Oval Office.
Trump described the Oval Office meeting with Lavrov as "very, very good" on Wednesday, urging that the horrible killing in Syria must stop.
Trump also claimed progress on ending the conflict in Syria.
"We had a very, very good meeting" Trump said shortly after the meeting. "We're going to stop the killing and the death (in Syria)."
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[RUDAW.NET] After meeting with US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov asked the international community to consider the consequences of ousting leaders of state as was done in Iraq and Libya.
"We need prevent such a situation that evolved in Iraq and Syria ... Both in respect to Iraq and Libya, the international community, the progressive community, was obsessed with the idea to oust one person -- Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... in Libya -- and look what it has led to," said Lavrov in a presser at the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C.
"That is why when we are talking about the Syrian settlement; we [should] try to learn from our mistakes. Why don't we try to focus on the settlement and not on ousting one person? Why don't we focus on eliminating the threat of terrorism," he added.
Lavrov said Moscow believes it is in Washington’s interest to go along with de-escalation zones guaranteed by Russia, Iran and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... .
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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.
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
[217.218.67.231] Former Yemeni president 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Turkish President 
[DAWN] There is a need to promote tolerance and coexistence in society. If incorporating blasphemy in the cybercrime law is necessary, religious minorities and their revered personalities should also be protected.
[DAWN] The Pakistain Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has launched an awareness campaign through SMS service against the uploading of blasphemous content on social media.
[DAWN] India has moved the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Pakistain, accusing the latter of violating the Vienna Convention in the case of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was handed a death sentence by a Field General Court Martial (FGCM) last month.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[RUDAW.NET] After meeting with US President 
