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3 Afghan prison workers missing during training in Colorado
Not yet War on Terror -- it might just be that they want to claim asylum in Canada.
[Ynet] Colorado officials say three Afghan prison workers in the United States for training are missing after failing to return from an organized trip.

The guards are part of a group from Afghanistan being trained at the International Correctional Management Training Center in Canon City, which is run by the Colorado Department of Corrections.

Department front man Mark Fairbairn says the trio didn't return to a meeting spot in Colorado Springs at the end of the trip on Saturday evening.

He says the three underwent background checks and vetting by the US State Department and the department's primary concern is ensuring their safety. They all have temporary visas.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Never take Afghans near mountainous regions. Lets just hope these ones are not very fertile.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 08/22/2017 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Remind me again why we are bringing these people into our country....
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/22/2017 11:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Remind me again why we are bringing these people into our country

Because somebody has to stand up to Mexicans?:-)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/22/2017 11:37 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Taliban: 'We will turn Afghanistan into American graveyard'
[Arutz Sheva] The Taliban terror organization appeared unfazed after US President Trump’s speech Monday night in Fort Myers, Virginia, where he outlined a new US strategy with respect to Afghanistan and South Asia.

While Trump acknowledged that his original instinct was to pull US forces out of Afghanistan, he said that he now realizes that the US cannot repeat in Afghanistan the same mistake it made in Iraq.

Calling terrorists "losers," he emphasized that he instead intended to employ a "fight to win" strategy which would include ratcheting up the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/22/2017 10:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Trump's Afghanistan Strategy Will Increase Pressure on Pakistan
[Free Beacon] The Trump administration will place new pressure on Pakistan to stop providing safe haven to terrorists as part of a broader Afghanistan strategy update announced Monday night.

President Donald Trump, who delivered a long-awaited address outlining a new plan for the 16-year war, now the nation's longest, suggested the United States will slash the billions of dollars in aid provided to Pakistan annually if it fails to take action against terrorist groups, namely, the Taliban.

"Pakistan has much to gain from partnering with our effort in Afghanistan," Trump said. "It has much to lose by continuing to harbor criminals and terrorists."

Pakistan and bordering Afghanistan are home to the highest concentration of terrorist groups in the world, with more than 20 U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations residing in the two countries. The Pakistani government is notorious for harboring terrorist groups, including top Taliban leaders.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/22/2017 04:14 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Could shutting down the apparent long-running Awan IT operation be a critical first step ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/22/2017 4:17 Comments || Top||

#2  ISI: "But, but, we want to play the Great Game! Even if it rips our illusory sovereignty with daily explosions in Quetta, Karachi, Islamabad. It's our due!"
Posted by: Frank G || 08/22/2017 7:12 Comments || Top||

#3  I was listening and when he started on about India getting more involved in Afghanistan, I believe I heard some mustaches getting really riled up somewhere.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/22/2017 8:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Could shutting down the apparent long-running Awan IT operation be a critical first step ?

No. That was an accidental incidental.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/22/2017 8:52 Comments || Top||

#5  "Pakistan has much to gain from partnering with our effort in Afghanistan," Trump said. "It has much to lose by continuing to harbor criminals and terrorists."

You mean like all that money we give 'em? But, but, but...how are they supposed to fund their own terrorist operations in India?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/22/2017 11:00 Comments || Top||

#6  "Don't worry -- this time it'll be different!"

I'm just so thrilled that we'll be wasting more blood and treasure on those goatf*ckers and their chattel and spawn.
Posted by: charger || 08/22/2017 11:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Every time a US soldier, adviser or agent is wounded in Afghanistan a Pakistani ISI general should suffer a similar wound.

Every time a US soldier dies an ISI general should die.

If this policy is followed the war will quickly end one way or another.
Posted by: 3dc || 08/22/2017 11:52 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: 3dc || 08/22/2017 11:56 Comments || Top||

#9  To start, shut off all immigrant, H1B and educational visas for Pakistan. Hit the elites. Look at eliminating trade deficit, esp wrt companies owned by the Pak military and other hostile entities.
Posted by: Elmiter Glump2058 || 08/22/2017 12:11 Comments || Top||

#10  To start, shut off all immigrant, H1B and educational visas for Pakistan.

Should have done all that a long, long time ago.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/22/2017 15:15 Comments || Top||

#11  To start, shut off all immigrant, H1B and educational visas for Pakistan.

What's the name of that judge in Hawaii?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/22/2017 15:17 Comments || Top||

#12  Pakistan will be Pakistan. China will expand as we leave, leaving us no illusory leverage.
Posted by: gorb || 08/22/2017 15:29 Comments || Top||


Abdullah slams Gulbuddin Hekmayar for his remarks against Ahmad Shah Massoud
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Chief Executive of the Government of National Unity Abdullah Abdullah
... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
slammed the leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil. He and his party are heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
for his remarks against the Jihadi leaders, specifically Ahmad Shah Massoud who has been given the title of national hero.
Hekmatyar spent the war against the Soviets periodically trying to sell out Massoud.
Speaking during a meeting of the cabinet of ministers, Abdullah said the remarks by Hekmatyar regarding Jihadi leaders have roots in his ego and hatred towards the others.
Massoud wasn't the only one he sold out, naturally.
Abdulalh further added that such remarks will not affect the personality of the prominent Jihadi leaders and their fame, like Ahmad Shah Massoud and Burhanuddin Rabbani
... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan...
, insisting that they were the true defenders of the country.

According to reports, Hekmatyar had accused Massoud of having links with Pakistain’s ISI and handing over of Kabul to Taliban
...Arabic for students...
during the civil war.
Hekmatyar was owned by the ISI and the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. His forces rocketed Kabul mercilessly during the "Dog Eat Dog," where he tried to grab exclusive power for himself. He so weakened the country that the Talibs were able to take over.
Hekmatyar also accused the former defense minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi of having role in the massive corruption and questioned the appointment of around 600 army generals only from the northern Panjshir province.
I don't know about the number of generals from Pandjir Valley, but the area was the center of anti-Soviet resistance. Hek was the Pashtun face of the Muj.
This comes as the chief executive of Jamaat-e-Islami and governor of Balkh province had earlier slammed Hekmatyar for his remarks against Ahmad Shah Massoud and Panjshir, and accused him of sparking tensions and divisions among the people based on geographical locations, skin color, and the languages they speak.

He said the leader of Hezb-e-Islami is strictly following a mission hatched by the foreigners to spark tensions among the people.

Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hizb-i-Islami-Hekmatyar


Rising tensions among prominent Afghan political leaders amid deteriorating security
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The tensions are on the rise among the two prominent politicians amid deteriorating security situation in the country.

The tensions among Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
, the emir of Hezb-e-Islami, and Ata Mohammad Noor, the chief executive of Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
intensified during the recent days and particularly after the arrest of Balkh provincial council member Asif Momand.

However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
Noor in his latest statement slammed Hekmatyar for his discriminatory remarks regarding the northern Panjshir province and Ahmad Shah Massoud.

Noor further added that Jamaat-e-Islami warmly welcomed the conclusion of a peace deal between the government and Hezb-e-Islami with expectations that the rate violence, suicide kabooms, and war would reduce.

The governor of northern Balkh province accused Hekmatyar of sparking tensions and divisions among the people based on geographical locations, skin color, and the languages they speak.

He said the leader of Hezb-e-Islami is strictly following a mission hatched by the foreigners to spark tensions among the people.

The Hezb-e-Islami party has not commented regarding the latest of Noor so far.

In the meantime, Noor warned that the people of Panjshir and Jamaat-e-Islami will not remain silent regarding the provocative remarks and any silence in this regard and desecration of the province and national hero Ahmad Shah Massoud will be considered as a major sin.

Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hizb-i-Islami-Hekmatyar


Africa North
Egyptian authorities freeze assets of 18 firms 'affiliated with Muslim Brotherhood': Sources
[AlAhram] Egyptian authorities have this week frozen the assets of 18 companies they believe to be affiliated with the banned Moslem Brüderbund, sources told Ahram Online.

The list of companies has not yet been announced, but the companies included are reportedly Radio Shack, Mobile Shop, Computer Shop, Delta RS Trading, CompuMe Egypt Information Technology, Delta Telecom, and Misr al-Arabia news website.

The sources said that the decision was issued by an Egyptian governmental committee tasked with appraising and seizing the funds of members of the banned Moslem Brüderbund group last January and was implemented by judicial order on Sunday.

The Central Bank and the General Investment Authority were informed of the judicial order to confiscate all liquid, movable and real estate assets owned by the entities and companies, according to a source.

The committee said last week that it had confiscated the assets of 16 Brotherhood members.

Among those whose assets were confiscated is Cairo Portal Company for Publishing and Distribution, as well as Alef bookstores, which has 37 branches across the country.

The committee also announced that it confiscated the assets of the children of Brotherhood spiritual leader Sheikh Youssef El-Qaradawi
...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Life on Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization. Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name....
, who currently resides 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...
In May 2017, the committee confiscated the funds 11 members of the family of leading Brotherhood figure and businessman Hassan Malek, including the funds of his five children.

Last December, the government committee announced that it had frozen the assets of a number of businessmen including Mostafa Sakr, the publisher of the English-language newspaper Daily News Egypt and the Arabic-language Borsa News.

In November 2016, the committee said it had seized the assets of more than 1,370 people and 1,125 companies and NGOs since March 2014, with a total of at least $34 million in seized Brotherhood assets.

The Moslem Brüderbund was designated a terrorist organization by the Egyptian government in November 2013.

The asset committee was established in 2014 and is headed by Mohammed Yasser Abo El-Fotoh.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Arabia
Hundreds of Hajj pilgrims evacuated from Mecca hotel blaze
[Dhaka Tribune] A hotel in the 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...
n city of Mecca, where two million Moslems will perform the annual Hajj pilgrimage, was evacuated Monday after a fire broke out, the civil defence service said.

Civil defence front man Nayef al-Sharif said no casualties were reported in the fire, which was sparked by a faulty air conditioning unit on the eighth floor of a hotel in the Azaziyah district of Mecca.

All 600 residents, most of whom had come from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
for the Hajj pilgrimage, were evacuated and have since returned to the hotel, Sharif said.

The Hajj draws Moslems from around the world to the western Saudi Arabian city of Mecca, birthplace of the Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh) and the most revered site in Islam.

The pilgrimage, a pillar of Islam that capable Moslems must perform at least once, will take place in the first week of September.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  not withstanding last sentence, the Hajj is scheduled to begin the evening of 30 august
Posted by: lord garth || 08/22/2017 7:13 Comments || Top||

#2  I think Gaia is upset.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/22/2017 13:54 Comments || Top||


Britain
UK plans crackdown on internet hate freedom of speech
Making a stupid standard practice official.
[IsraelTimes] British authorities are promising to prosecute hate crimes committed online as vigorously as those that take place face-to-face, recognizing the growth of hate speech on social media and the potential for such crimes to affect large numbers of people.

New guidelines issued Monday outline a tough stance on cyber hate attacks on the basis of race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity. In addition, the guidance for the first time recognizes hate crimes against bisexuals as distinct from homophobic or transphobic attacks.

"These documents take account of the current breadth and context of offending to provide prosecutors with the best possible chance of achieving justice for victims," Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, says in a statement. "They also let victims and witnesses know what they should expect from us."

The guidance underscores the need for prosecutors to take a proactive approach to hate crime, advising them to understand the changing nature of internet platforms and the policies different social media networks have for removing hate speech. It urges prosecutors to identify "originators" as well as "amplifiers or disseminators" of such attacks.

Community groups monitoring anti-Semitic and Islamophobic abuse have reported that a significant portion of such incidents involve the internet.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You can bet some speakers will be more equal than others.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/22/2017 10:28 Comments || Top||

#2  May's "Conservative" Party are committing suicide.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/22/2017 10:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Will they be translating Arabic and Urdu sites?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/22/2017 15:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Remind me who gets to decide on "hate" speech"
Posted by: irishrageboy || 08/22/2017 18:58 Comments || Top||


Lawyer who called for bombing of Jews on a plane ordered to pay £35,000
[IsraelTimes] Majid Mahmood has fines imposed by Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal for his ’incontrovertibly anti-Semitic’ remarks

A solicitor who lamented that a plane carrying Jewish refugees didn’t blow up mid-air has been fined £25,000 and ordered to pay almost £10,000 costs.

Majid Mahmood, a partner at City Law Chambers in Luton and a director at Liberty Law Solicitors, had the sanction imposed by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal for comments he made on social media in 2015 and 2016.

Mahmood, 40, said his statement referred to airborne IDF soldiers blowing up mid-air, but the panel ruled that this was an "implausible" argument, and accepted that the comments had been made in response to an article about Jewish refugees being airlifting out of a troubled country to Israel.

His comments first attracted attention in 2015, when he wrote: "Someone needs to shoot all the Israeli Zionists dead then send their bodies to America as a present for Obama and his Zionist pals."

Then, in early 2016, in response to the article, he wrote: "The [sic] ain’t gods [sic] chosen people they’re Satans [sic] love child’s [sic] and it’s a shame e [sic] the plane carrying them didn’t blow up mid air." In response to another Facebook user, Mahmood then referred to Israel as "a nation fuelled by greed".

After being challenged by the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), Mahmood’s solicitor said he "unequivocally accepts the posts... were wholly inappropriate" and that he "regrets doing so," but denied that they were anti-Semitic.

Appearing as a witness, CAA chair Gideon Falter said Mahmood’s comments were "pretty extreme" and "incontrovertibly anti-Semitic," but Mahmood said his comments were aimed at "Israeli Zionists" and not at Jews.

The tribunal said Mahmood had "stepped over the line" by advocating violence and that he had acted "without integrity". It gave Mahmood "the benefit of the doubt" in finding that his reference to "Israeli Zionists" was not anti-Semitic, after Mahmood said he was reacting to a video of innocent Paleostinian children being blown up.

However it found that the reference to "God’s chosen people" was "a trigger phrase for the Jewish people" and that Mahmood reference to Jews as "Satan’s love child" was "religiously offensive".

In addition to the fine, Mahmood was suspended from practicing as a solicitor by the panel, "weighing the interests of the profession in terms of the maintenance of confidence in its reputation," but the suspension was itself suspended.

Poll: 1 in 3 UK Jews considered emigrating over anti-Semitism

[IsraelTimes] 37% of over 7,000 respondents say they’ve been concealing signs that would indicate they’re Jewish; 767 anti-Semitic attacks in first half of 2017
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Europe
Leaked photo ends Amsterdam Police cover up; names Khalid Karmaoui as man ramming car through crowd, wounding eight
[TheOldContinent] The Dutch weblog GeenStijl has just obtained and published the identity of the man who on Saturday, June 10th, wounded eight people (including three Israelis) when he ploughed his car through a crowd at the Station Square, right in front of Amsterdam Central station.
We had the original story here.
The Amsterdam Police force has thus far been reluctant to publish the perpetrator’s name, and had released him after four days of detention. The police also made the highly unlikely claim that there was no camera footage of the incident because all 15 camera’s surrounding the area had been in “pre-set modus”, which meant that they weren’t recording anything.

About the picture they published, GeenStijl writes:

“This picture has been taken from a screen which is showing the police system called Bluespot. It concerns the file of the so called “blood sugar driver” at the Station square. The file belongs to Khalid Karmaoui, born on 9 September in Casablanca, Morocco. The date, June 10, checks out. The licence plate, 04-XL-NN, checks out. And the police’s explanation that the driver was suffering from low blood sugar seems to be compatible with that day’s warm weather and his possible observance of the Ramadan.”
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/22/2017 10:40 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So it'll take them two more months to determine his motive, right?
Posted by: Raj || 08/22/2017 15:49 Comments || Top||


Turku Attack Suspect Lived In Germany, Was Denied Asylum In Finland
Further details have emerged about an 18-year-old Moroccan accused of killing two people and injuring eight others in the Finnish city of Turku last week. The suspect temporarily lived in Germany before heading to Finland, where he was denied asylum.

The suspect behind the Friday stabbing attack, which the police are treating as terrorism-related murder and attempted murder, lived in Germany in 2015 and 2016 for several months, German media report citing officials.

The Moroccan man, identified as Abderrahman Mechkah, did not apply for asylum in Germany during his stay, a spokeswoman for Germany's interior minister told the media on Monday. However, he had been assisted by a civil servant, German officials say, without commenting further.
This article in German has more information:
The stabber used several aliases while in Germany. He was fingerprinted in Lower Saxony in November of 2015.
In Hamburg he came to the authorities' attention because of his illegal immigrant status.
In Neuss he was accused of criminal assault (apparently there was no arrest or prosecution though.)
In Dortmund his file at the foreigners administration office (Auslaenderbehoerde) was updated to a status of "moved to location unknown" in April of 2016.

In addition two of the other four arrestees were in Germany as well.

One of them used more than five aliases while in Germany. In Hamburg and Goettingen his files contain references to illegal immigration and robbery (again apparently no arrest or prosecution.)

Another suspect came to the authorities attention because of theft committed in Hamburg. Also, in Osnabrueck an arrest warrant was issued for him.

One wonders if each gentleman was collecting financial support for all of his aliases, rather than just one. This suggests not nearly as many migrants arrived as were counted, a good thing...
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 08/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Spain attacks: The imam who 'ate up the brains' of youths
[YAHOO] In a little Spanish town by the Pyrenees mountains, a Morocca holy man has come under intense scrutiny, accused of creating the terror cell that allegedly launched the twin attacks in Spain.

Those who knew him described Abdelbaki Es Satty as a discreet and religious man, who had recently asked for a holiday from the mosque he was preaching in, apparently to return to Morocco for personal business.

But police believe he may have been among those blown up in an accidential kaboom Wednesday in the house where the suspected attackers were believed to be building bombs.

The blast likely changed the plans of the attackers, who instead used vehicles to smash into pedestrians on Barcelona's busy Las Ramblas boulevard and in the seaside resort town of Cambrils.

"On Tuesday morning, he left saying he was going on vacation to Morocco," said fruit-seller Nordeen El Haji, 45, who four months ago moved into the apartment that Satty occupied in Ripoll.

The decrepit two-room flat rented for 150 euros a month has a view of the tree-covered Pyrenees and the red roofs of the quaint Catalonian town, 90 kilometres (50 miles) north of Barcelona.

- 'No internet, few books' -
"He spoke little, spent time with his computer in his room, and had an old mobile phone with no internet, and few books," said Satty's flatmate.

On a piece of furniture lies the police search order dated Friday, just after the twin attacks that claimed 14 lives and maimed 120 people.

Three days after the assaults, a picture was emerging of a holy man who may have radical leanings.

El Mundo newspaper, quoting anti-terrorist sources, said that in 2012 Satty left prison where "he had struck up a special friendship with another detainee, Rachid Aglif, nicknamed 'the rabbit'."
The Times of Israel adds:
A Morocca holy man believed to have radicalized youths who committed a pair of terror attacks in Spain was confirmed dead Monday in an accidental kaboom at the suspects’ bomb factory, police said.

Asked whether Abdelbaki Es Satty had died in the blast on Wednesday that precipitated the attacks, Catalan police chief Josep Lluis Trapero said: "It is confirmed," adding, "the remains of the imam were there" in the house in Alcanar that went kaboom!.

Police raided more homes in Ripoll on Monday, Catalonia’s regional interior minister Joaquim Forn said.
And from the Daily Mail:
Es Satty was reportedly friends with some of those tossed in the clink
You have the right to remain silent...
for the Madrid train bombings in 2004, having spent four years in prison himself for drug trafficking and breaking Spanish immigration laws.

Rachid Aglif had been sentenced to 18 years over the March 2004 Madrid train bomb attacks that killed 191 people, the worst terror attack on European soil.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Fifth Column
Pay Pal restores Jihadwatch account; Jihadwatch will not use it
[Jihadwatch] 1. Email from Paypal to Jihadwatch
Dear Jihad Watch:

Effective 08/21/2017, the limitation applied to your account associated with https://www.jihadwatch.org pursuant to our User Agreement was removed. Your services are being reinstated.....

Sincerely,
Benjamin
PayPal Brand Risk Management

2. Jihadwatch response on their site
I have no intention of restoring the PayPal buttons on Jihad Watch. I know where they stand now, and do not intend to place myself at their mercy again...
Posted by: Gleper Snairong7979 || 08/22/2017 13:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I avoid PayPal as much as possible. Only used it once in the past 7 years.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/22/2017 14:34 Comments || Top||

#2  It's madness for commercial companies to intentionally alienate half of their potential customers -- unless those customers refuse to react accordingly. It's not a boycott, just responsible capitalism.
Posted by: Iblis || 08/22/2017 15:55 Comments || Top||


PayPal Bans Jihad Watch from Accepting Donations
Follow up on this story from yesterday.
[Breitbart] Online payment company PayPal has banned Jihad Watch and the site’s director Robert Spencer from accepting online donations using the service.

PayPal has reportedly suspended the account of Jihad Watch, according to the website’s director, Robert Spencer. In a post on Jihad Watch calling for the boycott of PayPal, Spencer outlined his correspondence with the company over a number of emails. PayPal’s suspension of Spencer’s account came shortly after an article published by Lauren Kirchner of ProPublica who criticized tech companies such as PayPal that allow Jihad Watch to utilize their online services.

"Because of its "extreme hostility toward Moslems," the website Jihadwatch.org is considered an active hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League," wrote Kirchner. "But its designation as a hate site hasn’t stopped tech companies -- including PayPal, Amazon, and Newsmax -- from maintaining partnerships with Jihad Watch that help to sustain it financially."

In Jihad Watch’s post about the suspension, Spencer called for a boycott of PayPal saying, "So: if you support the work of Jihad Watch, close your PayPal account now. Contact them and tell them why. Tell all your friends that PayPal has bowed to Left-fascism
...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about...
, and to boycott it." For now, the site is accepting donations directly via check sent to 1040 1st Ave #121, New York, NY 10022.

PayPal did not respond to a request for comment from Breitbart Tech.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2017 02:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I took advantage of this article as a reminder of Fred's tin cup. No, it didn't go in via PayPal.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/22/2017 8:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Dang, just when I finally memorized my PayPal password. How long till they do this to Rantburg and how am I supposed to contribute when they do?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/22/2017 11:05 Comments || Top||

#3  But CAIR and other terrorist organizations can freely utilize the service right? I don't believe the SPLC designates them as a 'hate' groups. How about Antifa and BLM?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/22/2017 11:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Southern Poverty Law Center is an active hate group.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/22/2017 15:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Censorship and non monetizaton on the internet? Next, you will be told to whom you have to sell wedding cakes to or that you have to buy crappie health care insurance. Wait a second, never mind.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/22/2017 17:14 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey, Iran working on joint anti-Kurd military op — Erdogan
[IsraelTimes] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
says a joint Ottoman Turkish-Iranian operation against Kurdish bully boyz is "always on the agenda," a week after Tehran’s top armed forces commander visited Ankara for rare talks.

"It is always on the agenda to carry out a joint operation with Iran against those terror organizations which pose a threat," Erdogan tells news hounds in Istanbul before a trip to Jordan.

Erdogan does not say where the operation against the PKK will be focused.

"They always cause harm to Iran and to us. We work because we believe that if the two countries cooperate, we can reach a conclusion in a much shorter period of time," he says.

Iran’s Armed Forces chief of staff General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri says that during his visit it was agreed that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
would step up the control of its border with Iran.

"The actions of Turkey and Iran complement themselves. We reached good agreements to prevent holy warriors passing from one side of the border to the other," he says.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: WoT
US Navy halts worldwide fleet operations after deadly collision
[Iran Press TV] The US Navy has ordered a worldwide "operational pause" following the collision of the USS John S. McCain and a cargo vessel in the Pacific Ocean.

The USS John S. McCain collided with the oil tanker Alnic MC on Monday morning local time while the guided-missile destroyer was passing near the Malacca Strait to make a port visit in Singapore, the Navy's 7th Fleet said in a statement.

The dramatic pre-dawn collision, which left 10 sailors missing and five people injured, was the second major accident involving a US warship in two months.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nobody's watching. What do they think they are, a merchant ship?
Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 || 08/22/2017 2:35 Comments || Top||

#2  The sailors were probably looking over their notes so that could pass the test for their Sensitivity Rating. More important than study for Old School things like seamanship, electronics and other trivia.
Posted by: magpie || 08/22/2017 13:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Turn that damn alarm off! I'm trying to study.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/22/2017 15:28 Comments || Top||

#4  I am trying hard to understand what "suspending fleet operations" means? Did they find an empty patch of ocean, drop anchor and sit there watching the clouds blow by?
Posted by: magpie || 08/22/2017 17:48 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
ATC to hear Benazir murder case on daily basis from tomorrow
[DAWN] An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Rawalpindi on Monday decided to hear the Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
murder case on daily basis.

The last witness in the case recorded his testimony during Monday's hearing; the discussion on the case will start from Tuesday (tomorrow). Special public prosecutors Chaudhary Azhar and Khawaja Imtiaz will resume presenting their final arguments.

Former CPO Rawalpindi Saud Aziz and former SP Khurram Shahzad, who are currently on bail as they were accused in the case, and FIA Prosecutor Chaudhry Azhar appeared before the ATC on Monday.

ATC Judge Mohammad Asghar Khan postponed the hearing of the case until Tuesday.

Rawalpindi City cop shoppe SHO Kashif Riaz on behalf of the state had filed FIR 471/2007 on Dec 27, 2007, against unknown culprits for the murder of former premier Benazir Bhutto.

Eight different judges have headed the Benazir Bhutto murder trial and the prosecution has filed eight separate challans since the proceeding started on February 29, 2008.

Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


International-UN-NGOs
Ambassador Danon slams UN decision to publish list of businesses operating in Israel's 'occupied' areas
[Ynet] The UN Human Rights Council has announced that it will publish by the end of the year a list of international businesses operating in the Golan Heights, Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria.

Israel's Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon attacked the council's decision and said that "this is modern anti-Semitism and the purpose of the list is to encourage a boycott."

Ambassador Danon stated that "the UN human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
commissioner has become the most senior activist of the BDS movement and has set a goal to harm the State of Israel."
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
COGAT's Facebook war against Hamas
[Ynet] In addition to the ongoing security monitoring by the IDF of what is happening in the Paleostinian territories, Coordinator of Government Activities in Territories conducts psychological warfare against Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, leadership in Gazoo--using a Facebook page to publish embarrassing details about senior Hamas officials, and in particular about its head, Yahya Sinwar.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2017 01:10 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Abbas threatens to slowly cut funding to Gaza Strip over row with Hamas
[Iran Press TV] Paleostinian Authority (PA) President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
has threatened to gradually cut financial support to the impoverished Gazoo Strip "by 100 percent" until the Paleostinian resistance movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, agrees to reconcile with his ruling Fatah Party.

The Paleostinian leader made the remarks in a meeting with the Israeli politician Zehava Gal-On, the chairperson of the Israeli left-wing Meretz political party, in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday.

"We transfer $1.5 billion a year [to Hamas in Gazoo]," Abbas further said, according to a statement released by his office later in the day. He added that he had already slashed 25 percent of that amount.

The Fatah, chaired by Abbas, and Hamas are at loggerheads over a number of issues, which ultimately led to a split in the Paleostinian Authority in 2007. A year earlier, Hamas had won parliamentary elections and since June 2007 it has been ruling over the Gazoo Strip. During the past decade the movement has refused to reconcile with the Fatah and the row between the two still persists.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority


Olde Tyme Religion
Rights of migrants trump national security concerns: Pope
How fortunate he has no regiments to command.
[DAWN] Pope Francis urged countries on Monday to greatly improve their welcome to migrants colonists and stop any collective expulsions, saying migrants colonists' dignity and right to protection trumps national security concerns.

Francis' politically pointed message was made in view of the Catholic Church's 2018 World Refugee Day, celebrated January 14. It comes amid mounting anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe following waves of migrant arrivals and terror attacks.

In the message, Francis demanded governments welcome, protect, promote and integrate migrants colonists, saying Jesus' message of love is rooted in welcoming the "rejected strangers of every age."

He demanded an increased and simplified process of granting humanitarian and temporary visas and rejected arbitrary and collective expulsions as "unsuitable."
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  You first, bridge boy.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 08/22/2017 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  They did that gig in Rome before with the Goths. Didn't work out well for Europe or the church for a long time. Something, something, called the Dark Ages.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/22/2017 7:20 Comments || Top||

#3  I would like to migrate to the Vatican.
Posted by: gorb || 08/22/2017 11:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Easy to say for a man who has no daughters.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/22/2017 15:22 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
New report details Iran's growing influence in Syria
[Ynet] Fighters from Afghanistan, Leb, Iraq and Iran commanded by Qasem Soleimani and backed by the Revolutionary Guard and supply transports by air and sea; according to report by intelligence analyst, Israel's leadership has justifiably been losing sleep over Iran's encroachment into neighboring Syria.

Growing Israeli concern over Iran gaining an ever increasing foothold in Syria has been impossible to miss lately, as evidenced by the prime minister's statements along those lines. Mossad Director Yossi Cohen also alerted the government to the fact that Iran's influence in Syria in particular and the region in general is growing stronger by the day.

In light of these events, and moments before Prime Minister Netanyahu's next meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin
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Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2017 00:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Daesh gathering in Syria’s Dayr al-Zawr for last battle: Russia
[Iran Press TV] The remaining members of the ISIS terrorist group are gathering in Syria’s Dayr al-Zawr province for their last stand, says the Russian Defense Ministry.

"The remaining [terrorist] forces are heading there. According to our data, bandidos snuffies from djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
[in Iraq] moved there and the most battle-ready units from Raqqah," said front man for the Russian General Staff, General Sergey Rudskoy, on Monday.

He noted that despite the fact that most of the bully boyz had left Raqqah, the US-backed SDF forces have still not been able to capture the city.

Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Political geography change in Iraq creates regional insecurity: Iranian cmdr.
[Iran Press TV] Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri has warned that any change in the political geography of the region would create tensions across the Middle East.

"Any geographical change in the region, given the differences between the Kurds and the central Iraqi government about [the country's northern province of] Kirkuk and other areas, can start tensions and conflicts inside Iraq and this issue will never be confined to Iraq’s geographical expanse," Baqeri told news hounds on Monday.

Pointing to the outcomes of his recent visit to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, he said the Iranian and Ottoman Turkish military officials reached good agreements about boosting security along their common border.

The Iranian military chief added that the two countries also held "useful and complete" discussions about regional security, particularly in Syria and Iraq, and the role of Iran and Turkey in establishing peace and security in the two war-ravaged countries.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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