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Afghanistan
Hekmatyar’s stance and warnings regarding the recent political upheavals
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar announced the party’s stance regarding the recent political upheavals in the country, warning that the persistent deadlocks and fall of the current regime will have a negative impact on the condition of the country.

Speaking during a press conference in Kabul, Hekmatyar said the nation has the right for peaceful demonstrations and every Afghan must raise their voice for the change.

However, he said the use of power, violence, and arms to reach to the ARG Palace were a mistake which should not be repeated in the future.

Hekmatyar further added that his party does not support the fall of the current system in the place and emphasized that such violent moves will not be allowed either.

He also warned that the country will fall to the hands of the Taliban group if any individual or party attempts to bring down the government.

This comes as deadlock persists between the government and the demonstrators, mainly comprising of Jamiat-e-Islami supporters after the Friday demonstrations turned violent.

The Jamiat-e-Isalmi party announced its conditions for an end to the deadlock and demanded the removal of the top security officials, including the national security adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar to step down, accusing the security establishments for failing to maintain security for the people.

The last Friday demonstrations were organized in response to the deadly bombing in Kabul on May 31st which left more than 150 dead and hundreds wounded.

Hekmatyar meanwhile accused the foreign circles for the attacks and said his party will continue support the current regime, urging the other parties to adopt a similar stance.
Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hizb-i-Islami-Hekmatyar

#1  Hek has been around a long time.he can be bribed and usually is. And he has a history of "doing things" to little boys.

Other than that he's OK.
Posted by: Clasing Gurly-Brown9415 || 06/10/2017 7:17 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Al-Shabab: 'No Mercy' for Al Qaeda Affiliate Group After Dozens of Soldiers Killed, Says Somalia President
[NEWSWEEK] Somalia’s president has vowed to show "no mercy" to al-Shabaab
... the personification of Somali state failure...
gunnies after the al-Qaeda affiliate raided a military base in the country on Thursday morning, killing dozens.

Fighters from the Islamist group attacked a base in Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
, a semiautonomous region in northern Somalia, killing at least 38 people according to Somali authorities. al-Shabaab said it had killed 61 soldiers; the group often exaggerates corpse counts in its attacks.

A 22,000-strong 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...
force (AMISOM) is assisting the Somali army in fighting the jihadis, and U.S. forces also carry out dronezaps in the country.

"We promise that al-Shabaab won’t get away with this. As of now, our troops are in hot pursuit of the enemy, they will pay for today’s attack," said Somali President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo in a statement Thursday.

Farmajo was elected in February and has declared war on the Lion of Islams, who have been fighting against the Western-backed federal government in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, for more than a decade.
Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)

#1  "You guys are SO gonna get it!"
Posted by: Frank G || 06/10/2017 8:09 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Qatar FM: Hamas in Doha to facilitate Palestinian unity
[Al Jazeera] 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...
's foreign minister has said the presence in Doha of politicians belonging to the Gazoo-based Paleostinian group Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", is "coordinated with the US" and aimed at facilitating Paleostinian unity.

"Hamas' presence [in Doha] is coordinated with the US and the countries in the region, and it's part of our effort to mediate between the Paleostinian factions to reach reconciliation," Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told Al Jazeera on Thursday.

The statement comes four days after 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...
, Bahrain, the UAE and Egypt cut diplomatic ties and transport links with Qatar, closing, air land and sea borders over and sending the GCC countries into their largest crisis in years.

They accuse Qatar of supporting gangs - including Hamas - and their regional rival, Iran. Qatar says the charges are baseless.
Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Britain
London Bridge killer tried to hire a 7.5-ton lorry but his credit card was declined, say police as they reveal shocking pictures of deadly 12-inch ceramic knife used in attack
[DailyMail]
  • Ringleader Khuram Butt was forced at the last minute to change his plan and hire a smaller vehicle

  • The trio packed their van with gravel to increase its weight as a ‘battering ram’

  • All three attackers carried identical 12-inch razor-sharp pink ceramic knives with hand-made leather grips

  • Police found 13 wine bottles in van filled to use as Molotov cocktails and two blow torches to ignite them

  • Police now believe the three terrorists acted alone

  • The trio used a flat above a bookmakers as a ‘safe house’, rented by Rachid Redouane in April.

Posted by: trailing wife || 06/10/2017 01:29 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  From the article:

‘We are in unprecedented times,’ he said. ‘At the moment we are doing everything we can alongside the security services to stop would-be attackers and keep the public safe.

‘We have foiled 13 plots since mid-2013 and since the Westminster attack alone we have prevented and disrupted five attacks, but three have got through.

‘The tempo we are working to is extraordinary. We are running 500 investigations into 300 people at any one time.’


You imported these rattle snakes, what did you expect?
Posted by: Sonny Phaigum2711 || 06/10/2017 2:31 Comments || Top||

#2  pink ceramic knives

Did ISIS knew before taking credit?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/10/2017 7:59 Comments || Top||

#3  If the Brits are unwilling to arm themselves with guns, how about ball bats?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/10/2017 9:15 Comments || Top||

#4  There's already a strong trade in Louisville Sluggers.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/10/2017 12:22 Comments || Top||

#5  There's already a strong trade in Louisville Sluggers.

Mostly delivered through Amazon, I believe, a nice addition to our balance of trade with Britain.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/10/2017 16:58 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian MP proposes ‘delayed death penalty’ for convicted terrorists
[RT] The head of the State Duma Committee for Security has proposed allowing Russian courts to sentence convicted turbans to death under condition that the execution of the sentence is delayed until the current moratorium on capital punishment is lifted.

"We are moving towards humanization, but I would like our courts to use the term capital punishment in the sentences passed for especially grave crimes, with large numbers of victims killed by kabooms or terrorist attacks. The actual execution can be postponed to the moment when the general public starts to realize that this punitive measure must be applied," MP Vasily Piskaryov (United Russia) said in an interview with TASS.
Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Down Under
'We don't scare,' U.S. defense secretary James Mattis sez after London attack
[Reuters] U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Monday the United States and its allies would continue to fight against Islamist extremists and would not be scared by attacks against the West by the Islamic State group.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has said Britain must be tougher in stamping out Islamist extremism after attackers killed at least seven people by ramming a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbing revelers in nearby bars.

Islamic State, which is losing territory in Syria and Iraq to an offensive backed by a U.S.-led coalition, said its militants were responsible for the attack, the group's media agency Amaq said in a statement monitored in Cairo.

One French national and one Canadian were among those killed. At least 48 people were wounded in the attack, including at least one Australian.

"We are united, as I said, in our resolve, even against an enemy that thinks by hurting us they can scare us," Mattis said, appearing in Sydney alongside U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for the first time outside the United States.

"Well, we don't scare," Mattis said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/10/2017 04:02 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rule number 1. SECDEF is not maddog. His call sign is Appropriately CHAOS.

Rule number two, He does not sleep.

Rule number three, Chuck Norris has nothing on him.
Posted by: newc || 06/10/2017 4:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, well he's still a globalist who thinks we need to pick up the tab for the ungrateful Europeans. America first.
Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 || 06/10/2017 5:01 Comments || Top||

#3  I'd rather hear "we're doing something constructive", but than I don't put much store in this particular american general.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/10/2017 5:43 Comments || Top||

#4  "We don't scare."

Most likely, the version suitable for publication. What's the Chesty Puller version?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/10/2017 7:53 Comments || Top||

#5  What's the Chesty Puller version?

We know where you live.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/10/2017 7:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Omar comin'!
Posted by: 2sealys || 06/10/2017 8:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Chesty Puller - Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller (June 26, 1898 – October 11, 1971) was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general who fought guerrillas in Haiti and Nicaragua, and fought in World War II and the Korean War. Puller is the most decorated Marine in American history. He is one of two U.S. servicemen to be awarded five Navy Crosses and, with the Distinguished Service Cross awarded to him by the U.S. Army, his total of six stands only behind Eddie Rickenbacker's eight times receiving the nation's second-highest military award for valor.
Posted by: warthogswife || 06/10/2017 13:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Dad served under Chesty in Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and though not under his command, on Peleliu. Dad had a lot of admiration for Chesty.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 06/10/2017 19:24 Comments || Top||

#9  Wonder if Comey knows his way around a handgun.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 06/10/2017 19:39 Comments || Top||

#10  Pencil guy.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/10/2017 21:50 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
President Trump to nominate counterterrorism coordinator
[The Hill] President Trump plans to nominate former Homeland Security official Nathan Sales as the State Department's coordinator for counterterrorism, the White House said Friday evening.

Sales, who teaches on national security and counterterrorism at Syracuse University, previously served as deputy assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security and as senior counsel in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy.

The State Department counterterrorism coordinator position was among a number of open senior posts for which the Trump administration had not put forward a nominee.

Trump has emphasized stepped up security measures following deadly attacks in the United Kingdom this year, most recently after attacks on and near the London Bridge last weekend.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/10/2017 03:53 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


2 Americans led double lives as Hezbollah agents, officials say
More about the miscreants in this story from yesterday.
[WBALTV] Two men traveled repeatedly to Leb for years, leading double lives as regular Americans and terrorist operatives for Hezbollah, according to US law enforcement officials.

Ali Kevin Kourani, 32, of the Bronx, New York, and Samer Steve el Debek, 37, of Dearborn, Michigan, were tossed in the clink
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
and charged last week by the Department of Justice with providing material support to Hezbollah's 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...
Organization, the IJO.

Details of the accusations against them were revealed in criminal complaints made public in Manhattan federal court on Thursday.

Hezbollah, which has roots in Leb, is considered a terrorist organization by the United States. The IJO wing of the group is "responsible for the planning, preparation and execution of intelligence, counterintelligence and terrorist activities," officials said.

Kourani, who came to the United States in 2003 with a Lebanese passport and became a citizen in 2009, is accused of being in contact with Hezbollah between 2002 and 2015, and of attending a 45-day Hezbollah "boot camp" in Leb at age 16.

According to the criminal complaint against him, Kourani described his role with IJO as a "sleeper." These undercover operatives were supposed to "maintain ostensibly normal lives but could be activated and tasked with conducting IJO operations," the complaint said.

Kourani was a student in the United States and received a bachelor's in biomedical engineering in 2009, the year after he was officially recruited by Hezbollah, officials said.
Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


India-Pakistan
Banned DeM operates freely in Kashmir
[THENORTHLINES] SRINAGAR: Dukhtaran-e-Milat led by Asiya Andrabi figures among the 36 bully boy groups in the banned list, framed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Despite being banned, the group is operating in the valley and also running the office.

The NIA last Saturday raided houses of several Hurriyat leaders in connection with a case of alleged funding received by separatist groups for carrying out subversive activities in the valley. However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
none from the separatist camp except the DeM figures in the banned list of 36 organizations by the NIA for carrying out "unlawful activities". In its official website, the NIA has put the DeM led by Asiya Andrabi under "Schedule I ‐ First Schedule (of the UA (P) Act, 1967) Terrorist Organisations".

According to the Act, "Any association can be declared unlawful if the central government is of the opinion that any association is, or has become an unlawful, it may by notification in the official gazette declare such association to be unlawful".

DeM is an all women outfit, was founded in 1987, and has been advocating to separate J&K from India.

It chief Asiya Andrabi was tossed in the calaboose
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
from her Soura residence on April 27, and booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA).

The grounds of PSA order prepared by the police call Asiya a "diehard secessionist" whose "endeavour is to secede the state of J&K from union of India and in order to achieve it she has indulged in anti-national activities and has played an important role in 2008 Amarnath agitation and also in 2010 and 2016 summer unrest by announcing programs/rallies with secessionist elements".

In the NIA’s banned list, there are some of the bully boy groups who have or are operating in the valley like Hizb-ul-Mujahideen/ Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Pir Panjal Regiment, Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
/Tahrik-e-Furqan, Jammu and Kashmire Islamic Front, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen/Harkat-ul-Ansar/Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami and Lashkar-E-Taiba/Pasban-E-Ahle Hadis.

Besides that there are groups like Babbar Khalsa International, Khalistan Commando Force, Khalistan Zindabad Force, International Sikh Youth Federation, al-Umar-Mujahideen, United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in Assam, People’s Liberation Army (PLA), United National Liberation Front (UNLF), People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup (KYKL), Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF), All Tripura Tiger Force, National Liberation Front of Tripura, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Students Islamic Movement of India, Deendar Anjuman, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) -People’s War, Maoist Communist Centre (MCC), Al Badr, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, al-Qaeda, Tamil Nadu Liberation Army (TNLA), Tamil National Retrieval Troops (TNRT), Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj (ABNES), Communist Party of India (Maoist), Indian Mujahideen
A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor...
, and Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) which too figures in the banned list.
Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
UN condemns Hamas for tunnel under schools in Gaza
[WASHINGTONPOST] A U.N. aid agency that helps Paleostinians in Gazoo condemned the territory’s Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", rulers on Friday after discovering a tunnel running under two of its schools for boys.

Hamas has built a sophisticated network of tunnels in Gazoo used for smuggling, storing weapons and for gunnies to infiltrate Israel and carry out attacks.

Israel has long accused Hamas of exploiting civilian infrastructure and of using supplies for military installations instead of civilian projects.

UNWRA said Friday it "condemns the existence of such tunnels in the strongest possible terms."

"It is unacceptable that students and staff are placed at risk in such a way," it said, adding that it "robustly intervened and protested to Hamas."

The agency said it is sealing the tunnel under its premises and will ban students and staff from the building until the issue is resolved.

The tunnel was found on June 1 under the Maghazi Elementary Boys A&B School and the Maghazi Preparatory Boys School during construction work, according to UNWRA. Both schools were empty at the time due to summer vacation.
The Times of Israel adds:
The tunnel, between two and three meters underground, was built both westward into the Paleostinian enclave and eastward toward the security fence with Israel, according to UNRWA.
So it was easy to find, unlike the deep tunnels where Hamas muckety-mucks live, far from Israeli missiles.
Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Because they didn't let gays & trans-gendered to participate?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/10/2017 5:40 Comments || Top||

#2  A U.N. aid agency that helps Paleostinians

That about says it all.

This is nothing but a PR move and photo-op for the slugs in the UN.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/10/2017 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  And after they condemned the tunnel under the boys schools, they offered to help relocate the tunnels.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/10/2017 9:12 Comments || Top||

#4  "Why did you place it under a boys school?? There is a perfectly good day care center and girls school down the street!" - UN
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/10/2017 10:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Its a Vo-Tec School.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/10/2017 15:51 Comments || Top||


Israel bans university lecturers from discussing politics in class
[RT] Lecturers at Israeli academic institutions will be barred from discussing political issues with their students, after the education minister introduced a new "ethical code." Breaking it could mean a reprimand or disciplinary action.

Lecturers at Israeli universities will be restricted in expressing their views to students under the "ethical code on political activity in academia" composed by Professor Asa Kasher, who also authored the ethical code of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Ynet reported.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett, who requested the development of the code, wants the restrictive rules to be implemented at all academic institutions.

"Complete academic freedom ‐ yes. Promoting political agendas of lecturers in academia ‐ no," Bennett argued.
Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good. How about firing all the people who got tenure due to "collegiality" and not ability as scholars or scientists for the next step?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/10/2017 5:35 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Maute's attack on church in Marawi a 'desecration'
[SUNSTAR.PH] A CATHOLIC priest called the recent attack of the Maute terrorist rebels against the church in Marawi City group as "desecration" to the Catholic faith after they destroyed the religious statues and torched down the church amid the crisis.

Former Davao Archbishop Emeritus Fernando Capalla, in Friday's Hermes Club press forum at Waterfront Insular Hotel, slammed the terrorist group who pledged alliance with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) in their recent attack on the Catholic Church in Maraw City.

"It was a desecration. According to Marawi Bishop Edwin del Pe¤a, it is demonic, only devil can do that to give brutal disrespect to something that we consider holy," Capalla said, pertaining to the video that circulated in social media showing how the notorious rebel group smashed the sacred images of the church and setting St. Mary's Cathedral in Marawi City on fire.

Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Maute group (IS)


AFP sees liberation of Marawi on Independence Day
[SUNSTAR.PH] THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is hopeful that Marawi City will finally be liberated on Monday, June 12, which is also the 119th Independence Day of the Republic.

During Friday’s Mindanao Hour press briefing in Manila, AFP spokesperson Restituto Padilla, said they are “feverishly working” on a target of raising the Philippine flag in Marawi City on Monday, the 119th year of Philippine Independence from Spanish colonial control.

“Rest assured, our soldiers are doing their part, they’re doing their best and are continuing on with this effort on the ground to facilitate the liberation of Marawi hopefully by Monday,” Padilla said.

Padilla said the resistance put up by the terrorist may have weakened by that day.

On Thursday, government soldiers began a final push to flush the terrorist out of Marawi, expected to conclude after four days.

Asked on the basis of the assessment, the AFP official said there was an offensive launched on Friday morning against enemy positions.

“So this continues up to this moment and we are confident our troops are gaining important headway inside these areas. And as I have mentioned the other day, definitely proving that the world of the terrorists inside the city is growing smaller by the day,” he said.

Padilla also noted that the volume of fire coming from the enemy has decreased and enemy activity in areas where so much has been monitored has dwindled, and sniper fire has been very selective. He said the end game is to have Isnilon Hapilon and the Maute brothers arrested “if we can arrest them.”

“But if we cannot, then to neutralize them, because I guess they will always fight it to the end,” he said. “So the liberation of Marawi will only be when every armed element in the city is gone,” the AFP official said.

Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Maute group (IS)


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lieberman: Senior Hamas commander moved to Lebanon
[Ynet] The defense minister asks US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley
...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
for her country's help in deporting Saleh al-Arouri from Beirut; Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", leadership to visit Iran.

Saleh al-Arouri, a senior Hamas commander who was recently deported from 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 moved to Leb and intends to launch terror attacks against Israel from there, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman told the visiting US Ambassador to the US Nikki Haley on Friday.

"Action must be taken to deport him from there," he told Haley.

He said Arouri was joined by two other Hamas members. "The three, led by Saleh al-Arouri, will continue trying to perpetrate terror attacks against Israel from Leb, while at the same time strengthen the ties between Hamas and Hezbollah. All of this will be done under Iranian auspicies and with aid from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and (IRGC command) Qasem Soleimani," Lieberman said.

Arouri, the defense minister added, "is a dangerous terrorist who was responsibile for some deadly Hamas terror attacks against Israel, and he must not be allowed to continue with his actions."

"Leb is a sovereign country that maintains ties with the United States," he continued. "Israel views Leb as responsible for what's happening in its territory and the terror attacks launched from there. That is why it is important for the United States to work with the Lebanese government to deport the three Hamas members and prevent the establishment of another terror base in its territory."

Arouri, who used to be in charge of Hamas prisoners in Israeli jail, has been operating from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
over the last few years and was the brains behind many terror attacks, mostly in the West Bank. He remained on Israel's watch list after moving to Qatar as well.

Contrary to Lieberman's claims, however, inside sources say Arouri moved to Malaysia, while other Hamas members headed to Leb and Turkey.

Lieberman and Haley, who met in Jerusalem, discussed several other security and diplomatic issues, including the fight against terrorism and combatting attempts to delegitimize Israel. They also discussed further cooperation between the US and Israel at the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time....

a Hamas delegation headed by leader 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...
is expected to make a visit to Tehran in the near future, senior Hamas member Osama Hamdan said Friday. The delegation will also visit other countries.

Such a visit is unusual and indicates a warming of Hamas-Iran ties, which suffered when Hamas declared its support to the rebels trying to topple Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
, Tehran's ally.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/10/2017 00:42 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas



Who's in the News
29[untagged]
11Islamic State
6Maute group (IS)
4Hamas
3Houthis
2Taliban
2Govt of Syria
1Hezbollah
1Hizb-i-Islami-Hekmatyar
1Govt of Iran Proxies
1Commies
1al-Shabaab (AQ)
1Moslem Colonists
1Palestinian Authority
1Sublime Porte
1Abu Sayyaf (ISIS)

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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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Two weeks of WOT
Sat 2017-06-10
  Islamic State claims it killed two Chinese in Pakistan
Fri 2017-06-09
  Nearly 70 dead in Al-Shabaab attack on Puntland military base
Thu 2017-06-08
  Syrian government, rebel forces fighting in Aleppo
Wed 2017-06-07
  Iran's parliament and Khomeini mausoleum attacked by gunmen
Tue 2017-06-06
  Shaboobs go into that good night softly after attempt to raid KDF camp
Mon 2017-06-05
  Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE sever ties to Qatar over 'terrorism'
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

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