[PRESSTV] French President Emmanuel Macron has declined to publicly criticize the rights record of his Egyptian counterpart amid a visit by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to the Elysee Palace.
Macron said at a presser with Sisi in the French capital, Gay Paree, on Tuesday that he was not in the business of giving "lessons."
"We do not give lessons without taking account of the context."
The French president also voiced support for Egypt's "fight against violent religious fundamentalism."
Macron, however, said combating extremism "should be carried out with the respect of the rule of law and human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... Macron's aides earlier said he had raised cases of detained activists in private during the two-hour talks with the Egyptian head of state.
The two countries marked Sisi's visit to Gay Paree with the signature of several agreements on transport, energy and cultural cooperation.
Egypt is a major buyer of French military equipment with orders worth more than 5.8 billion dollars since 2015 including for 24 Rafale fighter jets.
International rights organizations have repeatedly accused the former head of the armed forces and current President Sisi of repressive policies that stifle dissent in the media and politics, as well as the use of torture by security forces.
On Monday, Human Rights Watch urged President Macron to end La Belle France's "disgraceful policies of indulgence" toward Sisi.
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[MIRROR.CO.UK] Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud also announced the kingdom would do more to tackle extremism today. Get a remote starter for your car.
Speaking at the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh he said: "We want to go back to what we were, the moderate Islam that is open to the world, open to all the religions.
"We will not waste 30 years of our lives dealing with murderous Moslem ideas, we will destroy them today".
The conference, which runs until Thursday, aims to show how the country is opening itself up to the modern world and diversifying economically.
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But only after IAF has it's field day with you.
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"We want to go back to what we were, the moderate Islam that is open to the world, open to all the religions."
When was that?
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He knows radicals will be returning from the smoking ruins of ISIS and will be a serious problem for the Magic Kingdom which will be running short of oil revenue to buy them off.
Also its a good time to ingratiate with the west so the Princes have a place to retire.
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I'm willing to wait ans see what he does - disbanding the religious police would be a good marker. Even if he does produce, let's not think this is anything other than removing threats to his power.
Long run, it won't help. If every muslim in the world should suddenly become a peacenik, the breathing space would only be one generation as the new crop would read the source text and realize they should be killing infidels.
"Nah, why do you think we have 'allowed' women to drive alone?? They'll be standing in line to use the Royal Bentley ( at least until the FIRST explosion)."
[PJ] A top UK official told the BBC last week that ISIS terrorists from the UK returning from Syria and Iraq will not be prosecuted. Instead, the government will try to reintegrate them back into society because they were "naive" when they joined the genocidal terrorist group.
This came just two days after the chief of the UK's MI5 spy service gave a rare speech warning that the terrorism threat was higher than he had ever seen.
Maybe, just maybe, these two statements are related.
Just yesterday, one government minister suggested that the best way to deal with returning ISIS terrorists would be to kill them. And it has been just over a month since an Iraqi refugee attempted to detonate an IED on a London subway, injuring 30 -- a refugee who was already part of the UK's "deradicalization" program.
The "no prosecution" policy statement for ISIS terrorists was made by Max Hill, the UK government's new independent reviewer of terrorism legislation. Hill told the BBC last Thursday:
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Anyone know where Max Hill and family live?
I'm sure a crowdfunded effort to buy his neighbour's houses and fill them with returning ISIS members would be a success.
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I've always wondered about the legal justification for countries prosecuting someone over something that didn't happen in that country.
Evidently it's just me...
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"Instead, the government will try to reintegrate them back into society because they were "naive" when they joined the genocidal terrorist group."
I don't think the jihadis are the ones who are being naive here.
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"Just yesterday, one government minister suggested that the best way to deal with returning ISIS terrorists would be to kill them."
Not all is lost in the United Kingdom
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Muhammed's Islam means submission, always has and always will. There is no such thing as "radicalized". This is pure Islam with some further twists. But make no mistake, this folks is Islam. Global terrorism.
The returning Jihadi animals will join their fellow Islamic fundamentalist. They will continue the Koranic "holy war" in the UK. And in the USA.
500 Muslim terrorist investigations in I think, London along. Not to mention in all 50 states.
Obummer let all the returning Somalians back into Minnesota. And the libs claim, fine we can deradicalized. Bullshit. That is akin to declaring Moohamhead's Islam, Quran, and example of Jihad is illegitimate. That ain't going to happen.
The Jihad fundamentalists should be banned from returning from out of country Muslim terrorism. For that matter their mosques should be razed. Islam is not a religion. It is a scam founded by a failed caravan thief, sex slaver and child rapist.
What I find exasperating is for the most part, pure ignorance of the life and teachings of Muhammad. Not to mention the almost complete ignorance of historical Islam and the Jihad wars.
That is a reflection on the "conservatives". The left refuses to learn. Not to mention excuses the pure evil recorded in the Quran and Hadiths.
A comparison would be to WWII and all of us refusing to know who and what Hitler and the Nazis were. F-ing insane. By the way Hitler simply followed Muhammad's life regarding killing all Jews he could not enslave.
A great pure mathematical-historical overview is "Why We Are Afraid, A 1,400 Year Secret, by Dr Bill Warner". Bill Warner holds a PhD in physics and math, NC State University. If you are not well versed in the start of global Jihad, I can heartily recommend his talk.
For 95% of us, it is a disturbing eye opener and should not be missed.
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Anyone know where Max Hill and family live?
I'm sure a crowdfunded effort to buy his neighbour's houses and fill them with returning ISIS members would be a success.
Maybe Max and friends folded like a cheap lawn chair. Worried about being targeted by offended ISIS terrorists.
[Al Jazeera] Paleostinians in the UK have welcomed Jeremy Corbyn's decision not to attend events organised by a pro-Israel group celebrating the Balfour Declaration centenary.
For supporters of the Zionist cause, the declaration marks the first milestone leading to the creation of Israel in 1948.
The declaration was contained in a letter dated November 2, 1917, to leading English Zionist Lord Walter Rothschild from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, promising British help in creating a "national home" for the Jewish people in Paleostine.
The letter conditioned British assistance so that there be no "prejudice" against the rights of existing non-Jewish populations living in the area.
After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire during the first world war, the UK became the dominant power in the region and established Mandate rule in Paleostine.
A long-term critic of Israel's occupation of Paleostinian land, the leader of the opposition Labour Party has not yet explained his reasons for not attending "About Balfour 100" - a series of country-wide events in October and November marking the occasion including lectures, dinners, film screenings, and Jewish religious services.
November 2 marks 100 years since the declaration.
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[Al Jazeera] Two British activists could face jail terms of up to 10 years after attempting to "disarm" BAE fighter jets heading to 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... , where they would have been used to support the kingdom's ongoing bombing campaign in Yemen.
Sam Walton, a Quaker activist, and Daniel Woodhouse, a Methodist minister, were enjugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in January after breaking into a BAE Systems airbase in Warton, Lancashire, with hammers and crowbars as they tried to "prevent a war crime" in the Arabian Peninsula state.
The pair managed to get beyond fences, closed doors and CCTV camera at the site, which they claim was housing 13 fighter jets scheduled to be sent to Saudi Arabia.
"We brought a hammer and a crowbar and were intending on disarming the jets by hammering their noses, which houses the radars, as well as the side panels and the cockpits," Walton told Al Jazeera.
"We got within five feet of them ... but as we started to go at a door with our crowbars, we alerted security, and they found us."
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[Firstpost] Asked about Pakistan's harbouring of terrorists and its support of terrorism, Tillerson says, "In my discussions in Islamabad, we were frank to conclude that there are too many terrorist outfits that find a safe haven in Pakistan. We are putting in place a mechanism to deny these outfits the ability to launch attacks on other countries."
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No, we have no intention of returning Mr. Imran Awan just yet. We're concentrating on his bank fraud issues and will hopefully not have to explore his long-standing connections to your intelligence community.
BTW, did I mention we'd really like your support regarding the cross-border sanctuary issues ?
Excuse me, I've got a plane to catch for Delhi. Lots of strategic issues to discuss there. You know the deal. Please keep in touch.
[DAWN] The Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court (PHC) on Tuesday directed the federal government to file a detailed reply in response to a petition seeking trial in a military court of Ehsanullah Ehsan ...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency... , former spokesperson of the banned Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) and Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP).
The court issued the direction after finding the government's response regarding Ehsan ‐ who turned himself in to security forces earlier this year and is currently in their custody ‐ inadequate.
Advocate Fazal Khan, the father of a student slain in the Peshawar Army Public School attack, had filed a writ petition in PHC, seeking the high court’s order for trial of Ehsan by a military court over different acts of terrorism, including the APS carnage.
On Tuesday, the federal government submitted a single line response to the court saying that investigation is currently underway regarding Ehsan's case.
The court expressed dissatisfaction on the government’s reply and asked the respondents to submit a detailed response regarding the case in the next hearing.
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[DAWN] Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Tuesday expressed concern over the statement made by United States (US) Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Afghanistan a day earlier.
"His [Tillerson] tone and tenor are not acceptable," the Senate chairman declared. "His statement came one day before his visit to Pakistain. It seems like a viceroy told Tillerson what to say [on his visit]."
He also summoned Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif to appear before the Senate on Wednesday and inform about the "US demands". He said that the Parliament and Senate have been kept in the dark about the conditions that were laid down by the US.
He also suggested that Tillerson should read the resolutions and recommendations passed by the Parliament "so he knows what [Pakistain's] reaction is".
In a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Monday, Tillerson had said that Pakistain "needs to take a clear-eyed view of the situation that they are confronted with in terms of the number of terrorist organizations that find safe haven [in the country]".
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I guess I can now support Tillerson - wasn't sure until this.
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"His [Tillerson] tone and tenor are not acceptable," the Senate chairman declared. "His statement came one day before his visit to Pakistain. It seems like a viceroy told Tillerson what to say [on his visit]."
IOW: "We're going to keep on doing what has worked all along because we think it will continue to work. And Donald Trump can blow me."
[DAWN] US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is in Pakistain to deliver a tough message on the importance of fighting Death Eaters and driving them from hideouts on Pak territory.
Tillerson arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday, a day after traveling to Iraq and Afghanistan in conditions of strict secrecy. He met with Pakistain's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Foreign Minister Khwaja Mohammad Asif and the heads of the army and intelligence services.
Tillerson told Abbasi that Pakistain is "so important regionally to our joint goals of providing peace and security to the region and providing opportunity for greater economic relationship."
Abbasi said Pakistain is "committed in the war against terror."
"We have produced results and we are looking forward to moving ahead with the US and building a tremendous relationship," he said.
"The US can rest assured that we are strategic partners in the war against terror and that today Pakistain is fighting the largest war in the world against terror," Abbasi said.
"We appreciate the understandings that we agreed and we appreciate the engagement."
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[DAWN] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... said that forcibly converting Hindu girls to Islam after abducting them had nothing to do with Islam, instead, "it was a wrongdoing".
He was addressing a religious ceremony of Hindu community held in connection with the religious festival of Diwali.
Khan further said that any circumstances that lead to creating unrest among religious minorities should be avoided, reported DawnNews.
"The bandidoshard boyz are mistaken that forcibly converting someone to Islam will bring them virtue," he maintained.
The PTI chief said that he would empower the weak segments of Sindh along with him.
He was of the view that injustices to the Hindu community in Pakistain should be brought to an end. The weak segments of the society were affected due to the challenged writ of the law in the country, he said.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iraqi army’s press service has refuted claims about festivities with the Kurdish Peshmerga forces near the northwestern town of Rabia near the Syrian border.
"The reports about festivities between Hashd Shaabi units and the Peshmerga forces near the village of Mahmoudiya of the Rabia district do not correspond with reality," the press service said in a statement quoted by the Iraqi NRT broadcaster.
Hemin Hawrami, a senior assistant to Iraqi Kurdistan’s President Masoud Barzani stated earlier in the day, "This morning in Mahmudia near Rabiaa, PMF attacked peshemrge [Peshmerga] forces. Peshemrge repelled the attack and pushed PMF back in to Rabiaa."
Later in the day, the Kurdish official accused the Iraqi forces of furher boosting military buildup along the line of contact with Iraqi Kurdistan and vowed that the region would mobilize all its resources for defense in case of an attack. Baghdad hasn’t commented on the claims so far.
The statements came just a day after Erbil had demanded an "immediate" withdrawal of Iraqi troops from the Kurdistan region’s territory.
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[PRESSTV] A top commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (Hashd al-Sha’abi) has called for the immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq after the elimination of ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorists.
"To the US secretary of state, your military forces must prepare now to get out of our homeland Iraq immediately and without delay once the ISIS elimination excuse is over," Qais al-Khaz’ali, the secretary general of the League of Righteous, an Iraqi gang fighting ISIS as part of Hashd al-Sha’abi, wrote on his Twitter page.
The statement came after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a Sunday joint presser with his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir in Riyadh that Iran and all other countries currently helping Iraq in its fight against the ISIS terrorist group needed to leave the Arab country now that the battle was drawing to a close.
A day later, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's media office criticized Tillerson’s meddlesome comments, saying, "No party has the right to interfere in Iraqi matters."
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No one has the right to meddle in Iraq's affairs until you're being taken over, need our troops to die helping your sorry asses. Nation building my ass, we should have took their shithole country over took your fucking oil and kept our boot on your heads until we go every damn drop you worthless shits.
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[PRESSTV] The parliament in the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan has announced that legislative and presidential elections that were delayed due the ongoing political stand-off with Baghdad would be held in eight months' time.
"The Kurdistan parliament decided... to postpone the parliamentary elections in the autonomous region by eight months," Bahzad Zebari, a Kurdish politician representing the Islamic Union of Kurdistan, said on Tuesday.
The politician did not elaborate on a new date for the elections, which had originally been set for November 1.
The vote was delayed over an escalating stand-off between Erbil and the central government in Baghdad.
Iraqi leaders have harshly criticized a decision last month by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to hold a referendum of independence in the region. They, along with neighbors Iran and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , say the move could further complicate security in Iraq and the entire Middle East. Sources in the Kurdish parliament said on Monday that political parties could not focus on introducing candidates for the elections and a postponement was inevitable.
More than 90 percent voted in favor of independence in the September 25 referendum. Baghdad says it will not allow secession.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Myanmar has agreed to the repatriation of the Rohingyas to their homeland and implementation of the recommendations made by the final report of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State.
Dhaka and Naypyidaw ...generally translated as royal capital, seat of the king or abode of kings because the general in charge had a massive ego. It was founded in 2002 because Rangoon was worn out. Traditionally, Naypyidaw was used as a suffix to the names of royal capitals, such as Mandalay, which was called Yadanabon Naypyidaw in Burmese... will form a joint working group in this regard by November 30, reports BSS.
It said the decisions were taken at a home minister-level bilateral meeting between Bangladesh and Myanmar officials on security and law enforcement matters in Naypyidaw on Tuesday.
Apart from discussing cooperation and security and law enforcement issues, both sides also signed two Memorandums of Understandings during the meeting, BSS reported quoting a message from Home Ministry spokesperson Sharif Mahmood Apu sent from Naypyidaw.
One of them was on setting up a Border Liaison Office and the other on Security Cooperation and Dialogue, he said.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, who flew to Myanmar on Monday, is leading a delegation to hold talks with the neighbouring country on a number of unresolved issues including the ongoing Rohingya crisis.
Sharif also said that the minister was scheduled to make a courtesy call on Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi at 10am (local time) on Wednesday.
The Bangladesh delegation is expected to return home on Wednesday ending their three-day visit.
Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... heads the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State that released the report on August 24, only one day before the Myanmar security forces’ crackdown was launched in response to attacks on several police outpost and an army base in Rakhine.
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[Al Jazeera] ISIS's Southeast Asian oblates may have failed at their first attempt to carve out territory here, but their defeat was by no means final.
With the Philippine government delaying a peace deal that would give a predominantly Moslem southern region more autonomy, experts, rebels and even officials warned of possible attacks from several gangs that have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS).
Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, leader of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), told Al Jazeera, "Radical groups emerged whenever there were failures in the grinding of the peace processor. Leaders with radical ideologies exploit the people's frustration at these failures."
The MILF fought decades with the government of the Christian-majority country, first for independence and then for autonomy. It broke away from the original Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in 1977 when the MNLF settled for autonomy after years of fighting for a separate state.
Now, the MILF is steps away from sealing a deal that will expand the autonomous region and give its government more substantial powers.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte promised to sign the deal into law after his predecessor, Benigno Aquino III, failed to do so. However, ars longa, vita brevis... Duterte's allies in congress have not prioritised passing the measure.
"There is consistent prejudice against the Bangsamoro people," Ebrahim said, referring to the southwestern Mindanao region that is home to several Moslem ethnic groups collectively called "Moro".
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian Arab Army troops continue to discover untold numbers of weapons in the recently liberated city of al-Mayadeen. The weapons are of almost every type imaginable and appear to be in plentiful enough quantity to outfit an entire division.
In the words of the top commander for the Syrian Army’s elite Tiger Forces, Suheil al-Hassan, "we [the Syrian Army] will need no less than six days to remove all the items that IS Death Eaters left behind [in al-Mayadeen] before fleeing."
The general’s words are by no means far-fetched as some 10 days after liberating al-Mayadeen, Syrian troops in the city continue to discover new stockpiles of weapons.
Among the loot are assault rifles, medium and heavy machine guns, mortars and their ammunition, communication devices of various types, drones, heavy howitzers and dozens of armored personnel carriers and battle tanks.
Suheil al-Hassan has noted that some of the captured weapons belong to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... member state nations such as United States, United Kingdom and Belgium and include, for example, a 155 mm howitzer of British design.
The capture of these weapons represents one of the greatest war loots ever achieved by any side of the war in Syria and is rivaled in regional terms perhaps only by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s capture of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ’s arsenals in June 2014 ‐ some of those weapons now being in the hands of the Syrian Army following the al-Mayadeen campaign.
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[PRESSTV] Iran has sentenced to death an individual found guilty of cooperating with Israel's Mossad spy agency and providing information to it, Tehran’s prosecutor Abbas Ja’afari Dolatabadi says.
He said on Tuesday that the spy passed intelligence to Mossad officers about the location and other details of 30 high-profile figures working on the country’s research, military and nuclear projects, including Iranian nuclear physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi and university professor Majid Shahriari, which led to their liquidation.
Professor Ali-Mohammadi, a lecturer at the University of Tehran, was killed by an explosive-laden cycle of violence in the Iranian capital on January 12, 2010. The bombing took place near the professor's home in northern Tehran.
The late professor lost his life when the booby-trapped motorbike was blown off with a remote-controlled device.
Also on November 29, 2010, gunnies detonated bombs attached to the vehicles of university professors Majid Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi. Professor Shahriari was killed immediately, but Dr. Abbasi and his wife survived the attack with minor injuries.
Ja’afari Dolatabadi also said the suspect had had several meetings with more than eight Mossad officers and provided them with "sensitive information" about Iran's military sites and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran in return for money and residency in Sweden.
In August 2016, Iran confirmed that it has executed a nuclear scientist convicted of leaking the country’s top secret information to the United States.
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[PRESSTV] Russia has vetoed a United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council resolution aimed at renewing a UN probe into the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria.
On Tuesday, two other UNSC members ‐ Russia and Bolivia ‐ also voted against the mandate, while China and Kazakhstan abstained from voting on the US-prepared document.
During this week, the UN-OPCW Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) is set to present a report on the alleged chemical attack on the Syrian town of Khan Shaykhun on April 4.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The international community should prevent murderous Moslems from moving to other countries after their defeat in Syria and Iraq, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after talks with his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari on Monday.
Lavrov said the sides discussed the situation in the Middle East and in the region in general, focusing on "stepping up efforts in the fight against international terrorism." "Now the key forefront of this battle is ongoing in Iraq and neighboring Syria," Lavrov said.
"The task of all participants of anti-terrorist steps is to defeat terrorist groups such as 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.... and Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... (outlawed in Russia) and minimize, if not nullify, their chances of moving to other regions of the globe," he said.
The initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... to create a global anti-terror coalition, based on mutual trust and without double standards, fully meets this task, Lavrov said.
"We support the efforts of the Iraqi government not only against terrorism, where serious success has been reached, but also in the context of normalizing the situation in the country through an inclusive dialogue of all ethnic and religious groups," he said.
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[Al Jazeera] Thousands of of foreign ISIS supporters have returned to their home countries after leaving Syria and Iraq over the past two years, a US-based security analysis group has said.
At least 5,600 people from 33 countries left ISIS-held areas in that period, with numbers increasing as the group began to suffer territorial losses, the Soufan Center said in a report published on Tuesday.
The figure, based on official government records, included women and kiddies, Jeffrey Ringel, a director at the Soufan Center, told Al Jazeera.
More than 40,000 foreigners from 100 countries joined ISIS before and after the group declared the establishment of a "caliphate" in 2014 after seizing large swathes of territory in both Syria and Iraq.
Thousands have been killed on the battlefield as Syrian and Iraqi forces captured major strongholds and urban centers, leaving ISIS only in control of a sliver of land along the Euphrates on the Syria and Iraq border.
ISIS's self-proclaimed capital in Syria, Raqqa, fell to the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces earlier this month. In June, Iraqi forces ousted the group's fighters from djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Iraq's second-biggest city.
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Good. I hope the streets of Europe run blood - the way the streets of Israel did while the preached at us about "not letting terrorism stop Peace".
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PRESSTV] French President Emmanuel Macron has declined to publicly criticize the rights record of his Egyptian counterpart amid a visit by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to the Elysee Palace.
[MIRROR.CO.UK] Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud also announced the kingdom would do more to tackle extremism today.
[PJ] A top UK official told the BBC last week that ISIS terrorists from the UK returning from Syria and Iraq will not be prosecuted. Instead, the government will try to reintegrate them back into society because they were "naive" when they joined the genocidal terrorist group.
They have their returnees, we have murdering Mexican National López-Sánchez, and possibly tens of thousands just like him.
[Firstpost] Asked about Pakistan's harbouring of terrorists and its support of terrorism, Tillerson says, "In my discussions in Islamabad, we were frank to conclude that there are too many terrorist outfits that find a safe haven in Pakistan. We are putting in place a mechanism to deny these outfits the ability to launch attacks on other countries."
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
[DAWN] Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Tuesday expressed concern over the statement made by United States (US) Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Afghanistan a day earlier.
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
[Al Jazeera] 
[PRESSTV] Iran has sentenced to death an individual found guilty of cooperating with Israel's Mossad spy agency and providing information to it, Tehran’s prosecutor Abbas Ja’afari Dolatabadi says.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[Al Jazeera] Thousands of of foreign 
