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20 die in funeral attack in Kabul
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Afghanistan
Hekmatyar harshly criticizes Kabul bombing perpetrators, calling them stooges
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbudddin Hekmatyar harshly criticized the perpetrators of the deadly bombing in Kabul, calling those involved behind the attack stooges and murderers.
When Hek thinks you're evil, you'd make Beelzebub gag.
Speaking during a gathering of the women in Kabul on Friday, Hekmatyar said those who plotted and carried out the Wednesday attack in Kabul do not believe in Islam and such attacks have no justification in Islam.

Hekmatyar said even the murder of the non-Moslems who are not fighting is prohibited in Islam and the murder of their children, women, and their elders are also strictly prohibited in Islam’s religion.

He questioned the misperception of those fighting in the name of Jihad and believing that attacks in mosques, markets and other public places will take them to paradise, calling them ignorant people.

No group including the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Death Eaters has so far grabbed credit behind the deadly attack so far.

The Taliban group in a statement earlier rejected the group’s hand in the attack but the Afghan officials are saying that the attack was carried out by the notorious Haqqani terrorist network with the support of the Pak military intelligence.

The Haqqani network has close ties with the Taliban group and the network’s leader was appointed as deputy supreme leader of the Taliban after the death of Mullah Mohammad Omar was confirmed.

Posted by: Fred || 06/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hizb-i-Islami-Hekmatyar

#1  Speaking of checks clearing...
Posted by: Pappy || 06/04/2017 19:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Or maybe ceasing...
Posted by: Fred || 06/04/2017 20:47 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Qatar said to order several Hamas terror chiefs to get out
Perhaps next we can do something about CAIR and ISNA back in America...
[IsraelTimes] Coordinators of Islamist group’s activities in West Bank among those reportedly being booted, under pressure from the US and Soddy Arabia.

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...
is expelling several senior Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", members from the Gulf kingdom, in response to outside pressure, a report said Saturday, in a major blow to the Gazoo-based terror group.

Qatar has been a major backer of Hamas, pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the Gazoo Strip and sheltering the group’s top leadership in recent years.

Hamas was recently informed of the decision by a representative of the Gulf kingdom, who gave Hamas a list of members who must leave Qatar’s capital of Doha, Hebrew media quoted a report from the Hezbollah affiliated al-Mayadeen television station as saying.

According to the report, those singled out are Hamas members tasked with coordinating with the terror group’s operatives in the West Bank, and the list of names reportedly came from interrogations of Paleostinian security prisoners by Israel.

The Qatari’s reportedly apologized for the move, but said it came as a result of "external pressures" on Doha.

It gave no details on where the outside pressure came from, but it comes just two weeks after 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...
met with Moslem leaders in Saudi Arabia, calling on them to form a coalition against Islamist terrorism.

Israel’s Channel 10 TV on Saturday night quoted Paleostinian officials saying the pressure on Qatar to expel Hamas operatives came from Saudi Arabia and the United States. The sources added that the list of names was "only the beginning" and that further expulsions would follow.

In Trump’s speech he labelled Hamas as a terror group and bunched it with other terror organizations such as Hezbollah and 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....
. While in Riyadh, Trump also met with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

Qatar has also been under fire in recent days from its Gulf neighbors for its closer ties with Iran and the Moslem Brüderbund.

Since Hamas wrested control of Gazoo from the Paleostinian Authority in a bloody coup in 2007, Qatar has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the territory and backed Hamas diplomatically, sheltering its exiled former leader Khaled Mashaal. It was not clear Saturday if Mashaal was among those ordered to leave Qatar.

In 2012, its then-emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, became the first head of state to visit Gazoo under Hamas rule, pledging to raise $400 million toward reconstruction.

Mashaal decamped to Doha from the group’s former headquarters in Damascus in 2012 over reported disagreements with the Syrian regime over its brutal crackdown on protesters and rebels in the Syrian civil war, who like Hamas are primarily Sunni Moslems.

In addition to Qatar, a number of Hamas operatives are also reported to live in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, namely Saleh al-Arouri, a senior Hamas member who Israel says is in charge of training terror cells in the West Bank.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Let's see who takes them? Erdogan?
Posted by: Frank G || 06/04/2017 10:40 Comments || Top||


Britain
Two Days Before Terror Attacks, London Mayor Called Global Warming ‘One Of The Biggest Risks To Humanity'
[Daily Caller] Two days before deadly terror attacks hit London, Mayor Sadiq Khan railed against President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord.

Khan called global warming "one of the biggest risks to humanity" and pledged to work with other cities to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, which is to keep future global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. Trump announced U.S. withdrawal Thursday.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/04/2017 07:08 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nice to see Khan is properly focused.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/04/2017 7:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, Jihad is NOT a risk to humanity - not for a Muslim.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/04/2017 7:26 Comments || Top||

#3  ...unless its a Shiite vs Sunni jihad? Oh, that's right, one doesn't think the other one is truly Muslim. Never mind.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/04/2017 8:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, Jihad is NOT a risk to humanity - not for a Muslim.

When the jihadis are running amok, just being Muslim isn't enough, as they discovered in Mosul and Raqqa. One must be the right kind, and have been visibly sufficiently pious in precisely the right way. Saying that he was engaged in the soft jihad of the law by getting his hands on the levers of power will not suffice, though it does for now.

Two days ago all the bien pensants were hyperventilating about that madman Trump pulling out of the Paris "Agreement". As a Labour man he could have done naught else but posture along with the rest of them.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/04/2017 9:10 Comments || Top||

#5  IMO, somebody like Khan cares about ordinary Muslims less than Oxford dons care about the teenagers of Manchester, TW
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/04/2017 9:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Nice to see Khan is properly focused.

While Al Gore invented it please remember it was O'bama that prosthelytized the diversionary meme of warming to the world.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/04/2017 11:53 Comments || Top||

#7  "Global warming" is an outright *fraud*, perpetuated to redistribute wealth. I call it out as such anytime its brought up in social situations that I'm not enjoying to begin with.
Posted by: Crusader || 06/04/2017 14:19 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey detains PM’s adviser over alleged Gulen links
[IsraelTimes] Birol Erdem one of the most senior babus bureaucrats to be nabbed.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim’s chief adviser was detained Saturday over suspected links to the movement of US-based Moslem holy man Fethullah 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...
blamed for last year’s failed coup, state media reported.

Birol Erdem, a former senior justice ministry official, was taken into custody in Ankara along with his wife Gulumser Erdem, Anadolu news agency said.

He was accused of being a member of the movement led by Gulen, the agency reported, quoting sources from the office of the Ankara chief public prosecutor.

Erdem is one of the most senior babus bureaucrats to be suspected of Gulen links. Others who have been detained come from the military including Erdogan’s aide-de-camp Colonel Ali Yazici.

Erdem was called to testify as a witness last year fin an investigation into followers of Gulen’s movement after several suspected members named him in their testimonies, Hurriyet daily reported.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: WoT
ICE Raids Dozens of Convenience Stores in Massive Move… But Look What the Media's Hiding
[TopRightNews] President Trump unleashed ICE once again this week, this time deploying its Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit, along with the DEA to arrest dozens of convenience store owners across 4 states.

Over 60 people were arrested, and already 35 of them have been indicted by a Federal grand jury, with federal conspiracy charges for money laundering, distributing controlled substances and trafficking contraband cigarettes.

The AP carried this story:
Illegal profits form the contraband cigarette sales were laundered through accounts associated with the stores, and used to manufacture and distribute illegal controlled substances.

A synthetic drug, K-2, was sold every day from a handful of the convenience stores. Authorities said the store owners manufactured synthetic drugs themselves by importing chemicals from China.


But here's what the Associated "Press" didn't think you needed to know…the names of those indicted.

See if you notice any pattern…

Here is some additional salt for the 'Convenience Store' wound. Please do not open link without being comfortably seated.
Posted by: Pearl Spatch3340 || 06/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Moderate Muslims. Seriously. If you ever had to do business with Muslim business owners, you catch on real quick about how their culture implores them to take advantage of the non-Muslim for profit.
Posted by: Thor Grundy1456 || 06/04/2017 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  A strategy many will not see. Tactics they will excuse.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/04/2017 0:44 Comments || Top||

#3  "We don't charge interest. That is haram. We do get a return on our 'investment' based on the amount and length of time we invest. See? It's totes different!"
Posted by: Frank G || 06/04/2017 7:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Do a little mental gymnastics and you call interest something else.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 06/04/2017 10:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Dozens?
Should be thousands of known hotspots by now.
No resources or channels to process the captives I suppose.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/04/2017 11:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Look up "organized retail crime".
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/04/2017 15:00 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinians Pour Into Jerusalem for Ramadan Prayers
[AnNahar] Thousands of Paleostinians poured into Jerusalem to attend the first Friday prayers of the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third-holiest site, AFP correspondents reported.

Many had queued from before dawn at the Israeli checkpoints that control access to annexed east Jerusalem from the rest of the occupied West Bank.

Police reinforcements were deployed across Jerusalem's Old City to provide security around the ultra-sensitive mosque compound, which is also Judaism's holiest site.

A front man for police told AFP that over 100,000 had participated in the prayers on and around the mosque compound.

Israel had loosened a number of restrictions ahead of Ramadan, which began on Saturday, to enable easier travel from the West Bank to Israel for Friday prayers and family visits.

Women of all ages and men over 40 do not need entry permits in order to access Jerusalem for Friday prayers. Israel also allowed 100 men and women over the age of 55 from Gazoo to enter Jerusalem for prayers, police said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  + a chance to stab some Juices.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/04/2017 4:59 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Duterte shuns commie offer to fight Islamist terrorists
[ABS-CBN] Philippine president Rpdrigo Duterte said he was "not so keen" on accepting the New People's Army's offer to fight Islamist rebels in the country as troops continued to pursue terrorists in Marawi City. This after the National Democratic Front of the Philippines expressed its commitment to send New People’s Army militants to fight Islamic State-inspired militants in the country.

But the president said this may not be a good idea. He said, "I don’t know, but I’m not so keen about it. Anyway, it’s a show of goodwill."

Duterte said the communists may have realized that they could be rendered irrelevant if the Maute militants prevailed. He said, "They have offered to fight alongside with us against terrorism. Maybe they realized na kung manalo ang- we are overwhelmed at manalo- the ISIS will prevail in Mindanao or even a part of Mindanao, wala silang kasali sa gobyerno. The ISIS will never allow anybody to have in their company a group of persons which have... iba ‘yung ideolohiya.”

Duterte's latest pronouncement comes days after he called on the New People's Army and Moro militants to help in the fight against extremism. His decision to turn down the NDFP offer also comes in the wake of the government’s decision to suspend its talks with the communist movement.

Duterte reiterated his position that the communist militants must first issue a ceasefire document before the two sides could resume talks.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Doesn't want to trade cholera for typhus?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/04/2017 5:02 Comments || Top||


Government
Trump administration approves new rules requiring US visa applicants to hand over social media accounts as part of 'rigorous vetting' of potential terrorists
[DailyMail]
  • State Department has issued new guidelines for US visa questionnaires

  • Applicants will now by required to divulge social media accounts and handles

  • They will also have to reveal travel information from past 15 years

  • Trump administration says move is in line with 'extreme vetting' of migrants

Posted by: trailing wife || 06/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  The response by Zuckerberg et al will be interesting.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/04/2017 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  The response by Zuckerberg et al will be interesting

The response by some federal judge will be significant.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/04/2017 5:01 Comments || Top||

#3  It's so easy to create alternative social legends I doubt anyone will notice.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/04/2017 11:56 Comments || Top||

#4  I like this move.

Not because it will help identify terrorists.

But instead because it will identify those living here whose allegiances lie elsewhere.
Posted by: Crusader || 06/04/2017 14:56 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2017-06-04
  20 die in funeral attack in Kabul
Sat 2017-06-03
  BREAKING: Terror attacks reported at, around London Bridge
Fri 2017-06-02
  ISIS-loving Air Force vet gets 35 years at weepy sentencing
Thu 2017-06-01
  Philippines hotel on lockdown after suspected ISIS attack
Wed 2017-05-31
  Kabul Blast in Diplomatic Area Kills 80
Tue 2017-05-30
  Puntland sentences Five militants members to death
Mon 2017-05-29
  52 LNA soldiers die in Tripoli fighting
Sun 2017-05-28
  Russian airstrikes smoke 120 ISIS Bad Guys in Raqqa
Sat 2017-05-27
  Student sentenced to 15 years for planting bomb on London tube
Fri 2017-05-26
  31 Maute group members killed in Marawi gunbattles
Thu 2017-05-25
  Younger brother of Manchester bomber was planning terrorist attack in Tripoli, SDF says
Wed 2017-05-24
  ISIS takes control of its first city in the Philippines
Tue 2017-05-23
  Egypt orders military trial for 48 'Islamic State' suspects over church attacks
Mon 2017-05-22
  Manchester 'explosions': Police warn people to stay away from arena after loud bangs heard at Ariana Grande concert
Sun 2017-05-21
  Police arrest knife-wielding 14-year-old girl in West Bank


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