[Ynet] The Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, holy warrior group says that Egypt has released eight Paleostinians, including four of its members, from detention after years of denying knowledge of their abduction.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... announced the release of the detainees and thanked Egypt upon his return from a three-week trip to the country on Thursday.
The four Hamas Lions of Islam were kidnapped in August 2015, when unknown button men ambushed a bus ferrying a group of Paleostinian travelers across the Gazoo-Egypt border.
[AnNahar] Jihadist attacks in the Sahel nations of Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , Mali and Niger have disrupted schooling for more than 400,000 young people, the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... ' children's agency Unicef said Thursday.
Nearly 2,000 schools have had to close, a doubling since 2017, it said in a statement.
"Direct attacks on schools, teachers and schoolchildren themselves, and the military occupation of places of learning are serious violations of children’s rights," said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.
"When children miss out on school ‐- especially in times of conflict -‐ not only are they unable to learn the skills they need to build peaceful and prosperous communities, they also become vulnerable to horrific forms of exploitation including sexual abuse and forced recruitment into gangs."
Northern and eastern Burkina Faso, north and central Mali, and the west and southeast of Niger are particularly unstable due to the activities of armed jihadist groups, according to local NGOs.
The armed forces in all three countries are struggling to contain the jihadists, including Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... fighters, who attack businesses and livestock, torch schools and evict villagers, according to the NGOs.
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[Rudaw] Belgium won an appeal Wednesday against a ruling ordering it to repatriate six children of Belgian jihadists living in a refugee camp with their mothers in Syria.
"The Brussels appeals court finds in favour of the appeal of the Belgian state "against a lower court's decision handed down on December 26, it said in a statement, confirming that "the Belgian state is no longer obliged to undertake any act of repatriation."
Another court had previously rejected a demand lodged by two women, each mother to three of the children, for their home government to intervene.
But the Phlegmish-speaking Court of First Instance in Brussels overturned that with its December ruling, ordering Belgium to take "all necessary and possible measures" to bring the children home from the al-Hol refugee camp, overseen by Kurdish forces, near the Iraqi border.
Human rights campaigners welcomed that ruling.
The children, all aged six or under, are the offspring of alleged jihadist fighters. Human rights groups fear as many as 160 Belgian minors are trapped in the Syrian conflict zone.
The December ruling gave the Belgian state 40 days to comply or face fines of 5,000 euros (almost $5,700) per child per day.
As a proportion of its population, Belgium has been one of the main suppliers of Europeans travelling to fight for Islamist bad boy groups in Syria and Iraq.
In all, more than 400 adults are thought to have left to join groups such as 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.... or al-Qaeda since 2013.
Belgium has been hit by several attacks claimed by IS, notably the Brussels attack in March 22, 2016 which killed 32 people.
The Belgian government has said it is willing to "facilitate the return of children (of jihadists) under the age of ten whose descent from a Belgian parent is proven. But for the remainder it is on a case-by-case basis."
European governments fear returning hard boyz will bring violence home, but the presence of non-combattant family members has complicated security policy choices.
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What was it Kurtz said? "A pile of little arms." Or a pile of little human shields...
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Prime Minister Justin “Pretty Boy” Trudeau, not content with firing his attorney general for refusing to join in his unethical behaviours, is tossing vocabulary about in an effort to hide his refusal to live up to oft and loudly stated principles with regard to repatriating innocent jihadi wives and children stranded in Syria.
[Rudaw] Bringing Canadian nationals accused of joining and fighting alongside 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.... (ISIS) to justice is proving "difficult" as Canadian prosecutors face huge hurdles in collecting "usable evidence" against around a dozen men and women detained in Syria, a senior law enforcement official said.
"The issue is in part working with our allies to make sure that we are collecting the maximum amount of usable evidence that can be practically available and usable in a Canadian court system to lay charges, to prosecute. That's difficult..." said Deputy Commissioner Gilles Michaud, the head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's (RCMP) federal policing branch on Wednesday.
Michaud highlighted that the main problem with suspected ISIS members is ensuring a trail of justice between their actions in the Middle East and the Canadian legal system.
He was responding to questions to journalists including those from Global News Canada.
At least 12 Canadian nationals are known to be held by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
He noted that the evidence would be coming from a battlefield that is "half a world away," but international allies long have discussed the issue of evidence at various meetings and conferences.
"This is a dangerous and largely dysfunctional part of the world and we do not intend to endanger the lives of our consular or diplomatic officials," added Michaud.
US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... called on countries in the international anti-ISIS coalition to repatriate their nationals, amid a massive US troop withdrawal from northeast Syria. The SDF has said imported muscle should face justice in their home countries.
"The Canadian share of that problem is relatively small, certainly smaller than most other countries involved," said Michaud.
The bulk of foreign ISIS suspects come from Russia, Europe, and the Caucuses.
"My abiding concern is always public safety and national security. And I want to make sure that those two imperatives are properly delivered on behalf of Canadians," Michaud said.
Those who joined ISIS need to "assume responsibility" for their behaviour, he underscored.
"In the case of North America [they were] abandoning the comfortable confines of free and open democracies to go half way around the world to engage with terrorist organizations..." Michaud said.
He called the behavior of alleged ISIS members who parented children in the so-called caliphate, "absolutely appalling and reprehensible."
However Ottawa will do what it can to "protect the innocent."
Alleged Canadian ISIS fighter Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed, who is held by the SDF, has appealed for his government to provide assistance.
SDF holds 800 alleged ISIS forces of Evil and 4,000 of their family members.
"ISIS from all over the world has gathered in Syria, out of the 800 fighters there were nationalities of 47 countries," Ilham Ahmed, the co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) that is the SDF's political wing said last week.
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Trump should make 'em very uncomfortable by announcing "Send 'em on down, we'll electrocute them for you..."
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[Free Beacon] Senate Republicans introduced legislation Thursday meant to block gang members from entering the United States or applying for asylum.
The bill, largely the work of Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) is named Singh's Law, in honor of slain police officer Ronil Singh. Singh, an officer in Newman California, was murdered in December of 2018 by an illegal immigrant with known gang affiliations and two prior DUI arrests.
Cotton promised to introduce a measure in honor of Singh earlier this month, as part of a broader commitment to combatting illegal immigration and transnational crime. Now, his proposed law has the backing of Republican colleagues Sens. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Kevin Cramer (N.D.), Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Thom Tillis (N.C.).
"Corporal Singh is dead because we failed to secure our border and enforce our immigration laws," Cotton said Thursday. "This bill is our attempt to honor Corporal Singh's vast sacrifice and ensure our communities are better protected from illegal-alien gang members."
If implemented, Singh's Law would prohibit people associated with a criminal gang and previously convicted of a crime from entering the United States. It would also bar illegal immigrants with a gang association from receiving asylum, temporary protected status, a special immigrant juvenile visa, or other forms of protection from deportation. These changes would make it easier for law enforcement to swiftly deport illegal immigrants with gang affiliations, like many members of the infamous gang MS-13.
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ The father of an Alabama woman who joined the Islamic State in Syria filed suit against the Trump administration Thursday in an effort to allow her return to the United States.
Ahmed Ali Muthana argues in the suit filed in federal court in Washington that his 24-year-old daughter, Hoda Muthana, is an American citizen by birth and should be allowed to come back to the U.S. with her toddler son.
Hoda Muthana is now in a Syrian refugee camp with the 18-month-old boy after fleeing the remnants of the Islamic State.
Her lawyers said in a statement that she expects to be charged with providing material support to terrorism if she is allowed to return to the U.S.
"Ms. Muthana has publicly acknowledged her actions and accepted full responsibility for those actions," the lawyers said. "In Ms. Muthana's words, she recognizes that she has 'ruined' her own life, but she does not want to ruin the life of her young child."
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that the young woman is not a citizen and will not be admitted to the country.
The family and their lawyers say they were told that the U.S. determined she did not qualify for citizenship because her father was a Yemeni diplomat at the time of her birth.But the family argues that is incorrect. They say that her father ceased to be a diplomat before she was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, and that she had a legitimate passport when she left the U.S. to join the Islamic State in Syria in 2014.
The Obama administration initially determined she was not a citizen and notified her family that it was revoking her passport in January 2016.
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a person born in the U.S. to an accredited foreign diplomatic officer is not subject to U.S. law and is not automatically considered a U.S. citizen at birth.
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There is something of a precedent in the return of the Americans that fought in the American Abraham Lincoln Brigade for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War against Franco. They were not very welcome on return because of their Communist connections in Spain...
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Indict her for treason, threats against Americans, inciting riots.... then let her decide if she wants to come back and enjoy a lifetime in ADX Florence
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They were not very welcome on return because of their Communist connections in Spain...
Decades ago, various federal governmental applications for commissioned officers, etc. included questions about this very issue.
[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 has ordered the federal government not to send former agency surgeon of Khyber Agency ... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though... Dr Shakil Afridi
... the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden in 2011 by running a fake vaccination program. He has been kept in solitary confinement in the high security Sahiwal prison, falsely convicted of supporting the terror group Lashkar e-Islam...
abroad in case of any secret deal with the US government.
The orders were issued after a bench consisting of Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth and Justice Mohammad Ayub Khan accepted the petition of senior lawyer Mohammad Khursheed Khan against the ’possible’ handover of Dr Shakil to the US.
A bench consisting of Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth and Justice Mohammad Ayub Khan pronounced the order after the petitioner, Mohammad Khursheed Khan, completed his arguments contending that any move by the government to shift Dr Shakil abroad would be unconstitutional and illegal.
The petitioner, who is a former deputy attorney general, had filed the petition in 2017 when there were rumours that Dr Shakil might be shifted abroad and handed over to the US government.
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[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...a Pak religious party. It is usually part of the govt, never part of the solution... -Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman has urged the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Security Council and other international organizations to ask India why it has imposed war ‐ that can prove harmful for the entire region ‐ on Pakistain.
The maulana said at a presser at Larkana Press Club here on Wednesday that Indian aggression was a war crime as the country violated the Line of Control on the pretext of unfounded claims of Pakistain’s involvement in Pulwama incident. India should have provided proof of the incident instead of imposing war, which was an irresponsible act, he said.
He said that Indian war hysteria was inexplicable at best as one could not understand what the Modi government could achieve by stoking war in the region. "Though we are confronting domestic, political and economic problems and our foreign policy is heading for failure we have complete confidence in Pakistain army and it is our first priority," he said.
As a mark of solidarity with Pakistain army his party would stage protests across the country on Friday and appealed to all religious and political parties to participate in peaceful demonstrations in large numbers, he said.
He urged all political and religious parties to participate in processions, protests and demonstrations and assured Pakistain army that the nation stood by it.
The maulana said in answer to a question about invitation to Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj to the meeting of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that OIC was an ineffective forum which carried no weight.
He said that India did not qualify to be an Islamic country while Pakistain was a large Moslem nation. It was right decision to boycott the OIC’s emergency meeting, he said, adding that war was fire that burned everything to ashes.
He said that Kashmire was a disputed issue and Pakistain had always welcomed international arbitration for settling it but India resisted such attempts. "Our stand about weaker role of international organizations in helping settle Kashmire dispute is still unchanged," he said.
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[DAWN] People took out processions in different areas here on Wednesday against the Indian aggression and vowed full support to the Pakistain Army for protection of the country.
Holding Pak flags in their hands, they marched on the Ring Road, 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. , from Achini Chowk and shouted slogans in support of the country’s armed forces. The people appreciated the Pakistain Air Force for shooting down two Indian fighter jets inside Pak territory and described it a brave step on the part of national leadership.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... the leaders of various political parties and minorities also condemned the intrusion by the Indian fighter jets and vowed that the entire nation would be part of the Pak security forces in case of war with India.
Qaumi Watan Party, Pakistain Peoples Party and Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz leaders and chief bishop of the Church of Pakistain in their separate statements on Wednesday expressed satisfaction over the shooting down of the Indian warplanes inside Pak territory and said that they would fully support the security forces for protection of the country.
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Meanwhile in Karachi it was business as usual -- rape, robbery, pillaging, arson, murder and other fun pastimes.
#2
"All hope, ye who enter, abandon!"
Not Wagah-Attari but London.
Thank Allah, we Pakis
Repelled this attack
As a cab wallah cries, "Aiii, I'm undone!"
[DAWN] Speaking to CNN's Ace newshound Christiane Amanpour, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi said Pakistain has never wanted to escalate, adding that it was when India attacked Pakistain that things escalated.
On a question regarding placing Jaish-e-Muhammad's Masood Azhar on the list of UN-designated terrorists, Qureshi said: "We are open to any step that leads to de-escalation and if they have good, solid evidence, please sit and talk, please initiate a dialogue and we will show reasonableness."
Responding to a question regarding Azhar's location, Qureshi said "he is in Pakistain, according to my information".
"He is unwell to the extent that he can't leave his house, because he's really unwell," the foreign minister said.
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"he's really unwell. He's got the Fevah. The Islam Fevah"
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Come home — all is forgiven. (Or possibly not, but it is hard to be ruler of all one surveys without an adequate supply of adoring populace.)
[AnNahar] Syria's government on Thursday called on thousands of displaced Syrians stranded near their country's southern border with Jordan to return to their homes, as the U.N. appealed for protection guarantees.
Nearly 50,000 Syrians are living in squalid conditions in Rukban, an isolated desert camp located near the al-Tanf base used by the U.S.-led coalition fighting 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.... group.
The Syrian government and regime-ally Russia said on February 19 that they have opened corridors from Rukban, calling on residents to leave the settlement.
Damascus renewed the call on Thursday, SANA state news agency said, citing an unnamed foreign ministry source.
"Out of concern for the interest of its citizens, Syria renews its call to our people in the Rukban camp to leave this settlement and return to their cities and villages," the source said.
"The Syrian government will do everything it can to facilitate the transfer of these citizens from the camp to their place of residence," he added.
No civilians are believed to have left Rukban in the two weeks since Russia and Syria announced the opening of corridors, Panos Moumtzis, the U.N. regional coordinator for Syria told AFP on Thursday.
"So far, as far as we know, there has not been any movement of civilians outside of Rukban," he said.
The official said the U.N. is not involved in the opening of the corridors but noted that most Syrians are seeking protection guarantees before deciding to leave.
"Most of the people from Rukban, more than 95 percent, want to leave and most of them actually want to go back to government-held areas," Moumtzis said.
"But they have expressed concerns on issues related to protection... basically they want to know that they will be safe," he added.
Conditions inside the settlement are dire, with many surviving on just one simple meal a day, often bread and olive oil or yoghurt, according to one resident.
Severe weather has hit the region in recent weeks, including heavy and sustained rainfall that flooded the settlement.
Earlier this month, a humanitarian convoy of 133 trucks delivered food, clothes, healthcare items and medical supplies to the camp's residents.
The February 6 delivery was the second delivery in three months.
Syria's civil war has killed more than 360,000 people and displaced millions since it started with the brutal repression of anti-government protests in 2011.
[AnNahar] Despite a Russian initiative that vowed to help repatriate the Syrian refugees to their homeland, genuine efforts to ease that return are "disrupted," al-Joumhouria daily reported on Thursday.
Official sources who spoke on condition of anonymity told the daily the file is currently "totally disrupted," and that Lebanese officials have no signs of any Arab or international efforts in that direction.
Although "Moscow confirms it has not stopped to secure the return of Syrian refugees, but nothing tangible has yet emerged," added the sources.
Moreover, the "shy" voluntary return of some of the refugees that is being coordinated with Leb’s General Security apparatus is "not compatible with the magnitude of this file," said the daily.
Last year, Russia has put forward plans to the United States to cooperate for the safe return of refugees to Syria.
It proposed the establishment of working groups in Leb and Jordan, to where many refugees have fled.
Seven years into Syria's war, Leb hosts around 1.5 million Syrian refugees, compared with a local population of 4.5 million.
Several hundred Syrians have willingly returned to their hometowns in Syria in the past few months.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. 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 him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... confirmed plans to create a working party with Israel and other countries to normalise the situation in Syria once the last pockets of terrorist resistance have been cleared. He made the comment in Moscow on Thursday.
"The idea is to create a structure that includes all involved parties," he said.
"It should deal with the final normalising [of the situation] after crushing the final remnants of terrorism. This is also connected with the complete military withdrawal from the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic as well as with the reconstruction of the Syrian state as well as the preservation of its territorial integrity," he added.
Putin also expressed confidence that the last pockets of resistance in Syria will be cleared soon.
The announcement comes following Putin’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu where the two leaders discussed how to avoid military festivities in Syria, where Israel is taking military action against Iran.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
[Rudaw] Belgium won an appeal Wednesday against a ruling ordering it to repatriate six children of Belgian jihadists living in a refugee camp with their mothers in Syria.
...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.
... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though...
[DAWN] 
Mehmood 
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. 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 him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
