[FOXNEWS] Less than 24 hours after a driver plowed into a crowd Tuesday on the streets of New York City, NBC News faced mockery and criticism for posting a story about American Moslems that critics said was unfounded.
The NBC story suggested that Moslem Americans were fearing a potential "backlash" against their community because the suspect ‐ identified by authorities as Sayfullo Saipov, an immigrant from Uzbekistan ‐ shared their faith.
But critics posting on social media derided the network for focusing on an unsubstantiated idea rather than on those killed or injured in the attack.
"Maybe we should focus on those who were brutally murdered than a backlash you hope manifests," NRA spokeswoman and author Dana Loesch wrote on Twitter.
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Moslem Americans were fearing a potential "backlash" from tomorrows terrorist attack
[DigitalJournal] Italian police have seized 50 million euros worth of tablets of a synthetic opiate destined to be sold by the Islamic State (IS) group in Libya to raise funds for attacks, a court said Friday.
Financial police discovered over 24 million Tramadol tablets, en route from India to Libya, at the port of Gioia Tauro in southern Italy.
The painkiller has been described as the "fighter drug" as it is known to be popular among jihadists for its ability to dull pain and suppress fatigue. That's highly overstated.
The haul is estimated to be worth 50 million euros ($58 million), and was found following a police crackdown sparked by the discovery of a similar shipment in Genoa in May.
Investigators believe the IS group planned to sell the tablets to their foot soldiers for the equivalent of two euros a tablet.
"According to the information shared with foreign investigative sources, the traffic of Tramadol is directly handled by IS to finance terrorist activities planned and carried out across the world," the court of Reggio Calabria said.
Part of the money raised from the sales would also go "to subsidize terrorist groups and extremists operating in Libya, Syria and Iraq," it said in a statement.
The court said the catch had been possible thanks in part to the DEA, the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
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I had a little experience with this stuff after a minor surgery a few years ago. It'll dull the pain alright. But I'm surprised to hear the claim about suppressing fatigue because I all wanted to do was sleep. I had great difficulty keeping my eyes open. Highly addictive also, IMHO. Enjoy, all you jihadis.
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Think about the secondary laxative market!
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Yeah, that too.
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[Al Jazeera] The state-run human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... commission has told the government in Kashmire to investigate at least 2,080 unmarked mass graves discovered in border areas of the restive region.
The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), a human rights group in Kashmire, told the commission there were 3,844 unmarked graves - 2,717 in Poonch and 1,127 in Rajouri, twin districts in the region that lie along Line of Control (LoC) that divides the disputed territory between India and Pakistain.
In response, the commission acknowledged the presence of 2,080 unmarked graves and asked the government for a comprehensive investigation to be completed in six months, including DNA tests of the bodies to compare it with family members of the disappeared.
In 2011, the commission directed the government to investigate the mass graves. At the time, a special team from the commission said 2,730 unidentified bodies were buried in 38 sites across northern Kashmire.
"The commission has no hesitation to issue the same directions, which were already issued in the case," the recent order said.
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[DAWN] Iran has accused the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of spreading "fake news" about the Islamic Theocratic Republic with newly declassified files seized in the 2011 raid in Pakistain in which Al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... was killed.
The CIA on Wednesday released 470,000 additional files found in May 2011 when United States (US) Navy SEALs burst into Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... and shot him dead.
According to scholars from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), who were allowed to see the trove before it was made public, the files shed new light on the murky relationship between the terror group and Iran.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed the allegations.
"A record low for the reach of petrodollars: CIA and FDD fake news with selective Al Qaeda docs re: Iran can't whitewash role of US allies in 9/11," he wrote on Twitter late on Thursday.
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[In Military] US President Donald Trump announces his nominee for Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, November 2, 2017.
The new US strategy vis-à-vis Iran began to unravel this week.
Making headlines has been the CIA’s latest trove of nearly half a million documents indicating deep ties between Iran and the al-Qaeda terrorist network. Experts have been busy analyzing the data, especially showing how Iran offered al-Qaeda operatives "everything they needed," including "money, arms" and "training in Hezbollah camps in Lebanon, in exchange for striking American interests in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf," according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracy’s Long War Journal.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Among the documents related to former al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now beyond all cares and woe... , released by the CIA, is a letter reportedly sent by his daughter Eman to Iranian leader Ali Khamenei.
Here is a glimpse of what she said in the letter: "From the daughter of Osama bin Laden to the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, this is my message about my aunt, sisters, brothers and sons who were tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... in Iran after they had no choice but to enter the country secretly."
"One year after my family entered Iran, the Iranian security forces arrested them and after we knew this, we mailed the Tehran government many times for their release, pledging not to return to Iran, but to no avail", she wrote.
According to her, after her brother Saad beat feet from prison and told them about the tragic time spent in Iranian prisons, that led to deaths, and psychological disorder, they demanded again that the Iranian regime release the intermediary of scientists and dignitaries of the region.
"But the Tehran government continued procrastination for six years. They held them hostage to extort my father, and instead of releasing them it demanded that al-Qaeda in Iraq stop its fight against forces and militias loyal to the Tehran regime," she writes.
Qaeda and Iran intelligence
Another document, sent by al-Haj Osman (as he called himself) to Maulawi Azmari, a prominent al-Qaeda leader, sheds light on Iran’s support for al-Qaeda operatives. This finds mention in Bin Laden’s correspondence and reveals his role as the link between Iranian intelligence and al-Qaeda.
In the letter, Osman mentions the details of the return of some elements of the organization to Iran to collect funds and fighters and to communicate with the Iranian intelligence.
In this letter, Osman says: "We arranged for the return of our brother Yassine al-Kurdi to Iran, with some brothers, to arrange funds and individuals. He is a very acceptable figure for the Iranians and we stressed that there should be no direct contact between him and them and that they should not know about his location and movements".
He also writes that before the departure of their man, he contacted the intelligence and told them of the decision and arranged for them to pick him up on their own and it was done completely without the knowledge of the Paks. They assured during the communication that they will begin to release the brothers."
The letter also revealed that the Iranian intelligence refused to let Eman Osama bin Laden, daughter of Najwa Ghanem, to go back 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... and instead forced her to go to Syria with her mother, after they fled in 2009 to the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
Osman’s letter says: "They [Iran] told him that Eman was still with them and they do not agree that she goes to Saudi Arabia. She can go to Syria or come to you and in this case we prefer she goes to Syria and if this is not possible then she can come to us with the family of Brother Ishaq, who will receives the released brothers."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] New revelations from the bin Laden documents released by the CIA on Wednesday show that the former al-Qaeda leader has advised members of his family residing in Iran to move to 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... The bin Laden documents show the relationship between his notorious terrorist organization and the government of Iran. Despite the building of a strong framework between Iran and al-Qaeda the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... was distrustful of his allies.
Bin Laden writes that he wanted his son Hamza, the al-Qaeda’s leader in waiting, to leave Iran, where he married and started a family, and head for Qatar to study Sharia sciences in order for him to rest his doubts about performing 'jihad'.
Another letter in the documents that was addressed to one of his wives and three of his children telling them to leave all their belongings in Iran to move to Qatar.
The revelations about al-Qaeda and Iran's relationship documented in bin Laden's hand written notes has been denied by Tehran.
Hamza bin Laden has been placed on the US international terrorism list of since January 2017.
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That doesn't seem to be working as well as intended. I mean, it's not like Mr. Bin Laden managed to kill himself before the SEALs took care of it for him as well as revealing all his secrets.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Files released by the CIA in the Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... raid that killed the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... have revealed that the al-Qaeda leader directed his commanders and closest aides to commit suicide rather than fall into the hands of security forces.
This, according to him, helps hide secrets pertaining to the organization and its financiers and supporters. In a letter, believed to be written by Bin Laden, the leader called on his commanders to kill themselves via the easiest methods to avoid captivity.
Bin Laden specifically directed one of his family members, Abu Abdallah al-Halabi to kill himself if his plan to transfer money from a mediator called Saad fails. In the letter, Bin Laden requests Halabi to detail how he will transport the money and to have a plan in case anything goes wrong.
Jarboaa’s research on suicide
"He must prepare himself and read Abdulaziz al-Jarboaa’s research on suicide to avoid revealing secrets. He must have an easy and simple way to kill himself if it is a must to do so in order to avoid captivity. We recommend all our brothers who have secrets pertaining to jihad to read Jarboaa’s research," Bin Laden wrote in the letter.
Jarboaa, who published his research on a website called the forum of jihad and fatwa, concludes that suicide is permissible when there are fears that secrets - which if revealed may gravely harm Moslems ‐ may be exposed during the operative’s torture or imprisonment leading to their death.
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"Avoid the rush. Do it now"
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Uzbeks in New York’s "Little Uzbekistan" neighborhood were dismayed when they heard one of their countrymen was accused of carrying out Tuesday’s deadly truck attack in the city. But when they saw photos of the suspect, 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov, they were baffled.
It was the wild beard that threw them. No Uzbek, especially a young man, would grow such a thick, untamed beard, they said. People passed around his picture on smartphones, guessing at what seemed to them more likely origins: Pakistain, perhaps, or Afghanistan, or maybe Tajikistan?
Something must have changed this young Uzbek man, they reasoned, in the seven years since he immigrated to the United States.
"In Uzbekistan, with a beard, you cannot walk around looking like that," Ashraf Zakirov said at his office in Brooklyn’s Kensington area, where he shuffles between overlapping jobs as a notary, a real estate agent, a paralegal for Uzbeks navigating immigration laws and a community organizer.
Pushed by a lack of work and strict control of behavior and dissent, millions of Uzbeks have emigrated in recent years.
Uzbek communities
Thousands found their way to New York, which is home to one of the largest Uzbek communities in the United States. Many settled in Brooklyn’s Kensington and Midwood neighborhoods, creating their own Little Uzbekistan.
"Here, there is too much freedom," Zakirov said of what he saw as tolerance in the United States for even the more extreme interpretations of Islam. In Uzbekistan, Islam is the dominant religion but its worship is tightly controlled by a government wary of radicalism.
Like many of his Moslem Uzbek neighbors, Zakirov was appalled Saipov could kill eight people with a pickup truck and convinced he became radicalized after moving to the United States.
"When he came here I guarantee you 150 percent he never had the beard," Zakirov said. Some Moslem men grow beards as a mark of devotion to Mohammad, Islam’s chief prophet. The krazed killer group ISIS has made the practice compulsory in areas it controls.
The wrong mosque?
Bakhtiyor Akramov runs a men’s clothing store in Kensington filled with Hugo Boss and Pierre Cardin. Like many Uzbek men here, including Saipov, he has driven for the Uber ride service.
He said he was not particularly religious but tried to go to the mosque at least on Fridays, and a lack of Uzbek mosques meant he had to go to an Arabic-language one instead. Perhaps, Akramov thought, Saipov, who lived in Paterson, New Jersey, came under bad influences after wandering into the wrong mosque.
"In an Uzbek mosque you don’t have a beard like that," he said. Across the street at the Emir Palace banquet hall, a Central Asian whirl of clarinet and drums greeted a midday Uzbek wedding party of women in glittering clothes and curled hair and men in suits with fresh shaves.
Firdavs Gergiev, the owner, said he had never seen anyone like Saipov at Emir Palace. He pointed to his bar as an explanation, stocked heavily with the vodka and cognac his clients preferred. "I have alcohol, it’s ’haram,’" he said with a casual laugh, meaning banned under Islamic law, a ruling he estimated maybe eight out of ten Uzbeks disregarded.
Gergiev said when he saw images of Saipov he thought he looked like a member of Afghanistan’s radical Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... movement.
One of the wedding guests, Nodira Sidikova, rued Saipov’s actions for distorting the image of her homeland and her faith, which she thought made things harder for her two children.
"We’re proud of our nationality, we’re proud of our people, and we’re upset right now," she said.
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^ Uzbeckies! Their eyes is like rubies,
But I can't keep mines off her... movies
Tashkent trick-or-treating:
Crushed grapes 'n' hearts beating...
Somebody yells "Boo!" I beez, "Two, please."
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Pushed by a lack of work and strict control of behavior and dissent, millions of Uzbeks have emigrated in recent years.
vs.
"Here, there is too much freedom," Zakirov said of what he saw as tolerance in the United States for even the more extreme interpretations of Islam. In Uzbekistan, Islam is the dominant religion but its worship is tightly controlled by a government wary of radicalism.
I sense a cognitive dissonance
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No, there is not too much freedom here. There are too many Uzbek immigrants who don't know how to handle the freedom. I suggest deporting them all back to their home country. Sounds like they'll be much more comfortable there.
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"Rued Saipov’s actions for distorting the image of her homeland and her faith".
Funny how the islamic fundamentalists expect us to believe such flat out lies.
[Breitbart] Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will receive a dishonorable discharge for desertion in Afghanistan but no prison time, a military judge ruled Friday.
Bergdahl was convicted of desertion and endangering fellow troops when he left his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was captured by the Taliban. He was returned to U.S. custody in 2014 in a prisoner swap.
At the Fort Bragg, N.C., sentencing hearing on Friday, Col. Judge Jeffrey Nance added that Bergdahl must forfeit $10,000 in pay and will be reduced in rank to private.
The ruling followed a two-week sentencing procedure that included testimony from several of Bergdahl’s comrades. He pleaded guilty to the charges on Oct. 16, admitting guilt without prosecution assurances regarding his sentence. On Monday he apologized to those soldiers injured while attempting to rescue him. He also described the conditions under which he was kept by the Taliban, noting he was caged for four of the five years he was held.
Nance did not offer an explanation on Friday for the sentence, which will be reviewed by Gen. Robert Abrams, who convened Bergdahl’s court martial. It can also be reviewed by the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals.
The preliminary hearing officer’s recommendation of leniency in 2014 prompted a warning from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that he would hold a hearing if Bergdahl was not punished. The case was prominently mentioned in campaign speeches by President Donald Trump, who regularly called Bergdahl a “dirty rotten traitor” who deserved execution. Following Trump’s inauguration, Eugene Fidell, who led Bergdahl’s defense team, suggested a fair trial was impossible after Trump’s comments.
It isn't. The legal establishment has forgotten why they exist. Spends a lot of time making excuses for the perps rather than do the nasty stuff they are suppose to do. They lack will to invoke real justice (unless it touches really close to home - see Tim McVeigh).
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