[AnNahar] Afghanistan will host a grand presidential inauguration on Monday, with former U.S.-based academic Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. taking power as NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... troops end their 13-year war without defeating the fierce Taliban insurgency.
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[Libya Herald] A small group of Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... supporters are reported to have demonstrated in Beida today in front of the public prosecutor's office. According to a local resident, they were demanding the release of a leading member of the Moslem Broherhood in the town, Musa Al-Abdi Al-Barasi. They claimed he had been tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... last week and charged with threatening national security after he started planning an anti-House of Representatives demonstration in Beida.
Barasi, who was active during the revolution, supposedly vanished after leaving dawn prayers at the King Idris Mosque in Beida last Thursday.
Organisers are said to have hoped that around 500 people from Beida and other towns would attend today's protest. In the event, fewer than 30 turned up.
According to the local resident, the low number reflects the unpopularity of Libya Dawn in the town, currently the seat of both the government led by Abdullah Al-Thinni and the Constitution Drafting Assembly.
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[Libya Herald] Russia has demanded the facts about Libya's remaining chemical weapons, with foreign minister Sergei Lavrov that NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... could not pretend the problem did not exist.
Lavrov told the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... General Assembly today: "We would like to see truthful information about the state of the chemical arsenal in Libya.
"We understand" he continued "that our colleagues in NATO, having mutilated the country in violation of the UN Security Council resolution, would rather not touch the mayhem they have created. But the issue of an uncontrolled Libyan chemical arsenal is too serious to turn a blind eye to it".
Three days ago Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni appealed to Hague-based inter-governmental body, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for help in getting rid of the final 850-tonne stockpile of chemical weapons that remains.
Work on destroying the deadly arsenal, which had begun before the Revolution, resumed in February 2012. Canada, Germany and the US were helping with the operation, which has since been suspended because of security concerns.
Under international law Libya is obliged to guard its chemical weapons. It is also supposed to be responsible for their destruction on Libya soil. However a deal was reached with the Assad government in Syria for the removal of much of its chemical stockpile by outside countries for destruction beyond its borders.
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[Ynet] Egypt has struggled to achieve the kind of democracy many demanded during the protests on Cairo's Tahrir Square that helped to end Mubarak's 30 years in power.
"You reap what you sow... This is the nature of the Egyptian people... Personal services come first. We are not like America yet... The culture of opinion and debate, no, no... This maturity does not exist here."
In a dusty courtyard in Egypt's Nile Delta, men gather to ask for favors at the home of retired police general Sayyed Azb.
Some are seeking jobs, others want certificates proving they are literate or help in securing building licenses - a throwback to the patronage politics of Hosni Mubarak
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An appeals court in Egypt on Sunday acquitted 112 people convicted of holding an illegal protest on the third anniversary of the 2011 revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak, judicial sources said.
The defendants, including supporters of ousted president Mohammed Mursi, were among 1,079 people arrested nationwide on January 25 as security forces cracked down on illegal demonstrations. Clashes between protesters and police that day resulted in the deaths of 49 people.
A lower court originally sentenced the 112 to a year in jail after finding them guilty of violating the protest law, illegal assembly, rioting, inciting violence, blocking roads, assaulting police officers and vandalising public and private property.
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[AnNahar] Social and economic development has long been touted as the way to revive the fortunes of Nigeria's impoverished north and prevent legions of disaffected young men turning to radical Islam.
But 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... violence has scuppered progress, particularly from one potentially lucrative source of revenue -- the oil found under the Lake Chad Basin in the country's far northeast.
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Back to credit card scams.
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[AnNahar] Hundreds of Yemenis erupted into the streets of Sanaa Sunday to demand the withdrawal of Iranian catspaws, in a first protest against the bandidos murderous Moslems since they overran the capital last week.
The irony is overwhelming.
In eastern Yemen, meanwhile, a suicide kaboom struck a hospital used by the rebels, tribal sources said, without giving a casualty toll.
Protesters from the February 11 Revolution movement marched along the main Zubairi road in Sanaa chanting slogans against the Houthis who remain in control of most of the city.
"We don't want Huthis any more," shouted the demonstrators, whose movement was behind the 2011 uprising which ousted former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... Houthis are heavily deployed across Sanaa but there were no reports of confrontations between the bandidos murderous Moslems and Sunday's demonstrators.
The rebels swept down from their stronghold in the rugged northwestern mountains last month, demanding economic and political reforms.
Last week, they seized key state installations without resistance, most of them in northern Sanaa, after festivities on the city's outskirts with Islamists killed more than 270 people.
The demonstrators on Sunday put out a statement demanding the "withdrawal of all armed militias from the capital and the return of security forces".
They also urged the Houthis to "apologize to the Yemeni people" and implement a UN-brokered peace accord, including a security protocol that stipulated their withdrawal from Sanaa once a new prime minister is named.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has failed so far to name a new premier as stipulated by the agreement.
After initial hesitation, the rebels signed the security protocol, state and rebel media said on Saturday.
In Mazjar, a town in the eastern province of Marib, the entrance of a small hospital used by the Iranian catspaws was targeted by a suicide boom-mobileing on Sunday, tribal sources said.
Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... , a group linked to Al-Qaeda, said on Twitter that it carried out the attack which had caused "dozens" of casualties.
It also grabbed credit for an ambush on the army in Shabwa province that had left three dead and five maimed, although there was no independent confirmation of either toll.
Also known as Ansarullah, the Iranian catspaws now in Sanaa have battled the government for years, complaining of marginalization.
Yemeni authorities accuse Iran of backing the rebels, who also appear influenced by Leb's powerful Tehran-backed Shiite militia Hezbollah.
[ABNA.IR] Ansarullah revolutionaries in Yemen have signed a security agreement that calls for them to disarm and pull out of the areas they have seized over the past months.
On Saturday, the Ansarullah activists, also known as Houthis, signed the accord as part of a UN-mediated comprehensive agreement with pro-government Salafist Islah party and other parties.
Saudi Arabia has said "unprecedented challenges" facing Yemen since Shia rebels took over the capital could threaten international security, and called for swift action to deal with instability in its southern neighbour.
The world's largest oil exporter, which shares a long border with Yemen, welcomed an agreement signed in Sanaa on September 21 to form a new government incorporating the Houthi rebels and some Yemeni southern separatist forces. But the kingdom fears the accord could benefit its main regional foe Iran, which it sees as an ally of the Houthis, and might also bolster Al Qaeda group.
Don't worry, no 'ceasefire' or 'peace agreement' ever lasts between Arabs. You guys of anyone should know that...
Certainly not when Muslim Arabs are involved -- the hudna rules guarantee that. I'm not sure how the Christians of, say, Lebanon behave among themselves, although it was Christians who invented the concept of byzantine.
It is not clear whether the power-sharing deal will satisfy the Houthis' demands, or whether it will instead embolden them to seek further powers. Under a security annexe to the accord, they had been expected to leave Sanaa in return for their inclusion in the new government. To date they remain in place.
In some of his strongest language about Yemen to date, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal told the UN General Assembly that hopes for an end to the crisis had been wrecked by what he suggested was the Houthis' failure to honour the deal.
“The lack of implementation of the security annexe of the agreement and the lack of implementation of the agreement itself in the required manner by the Houthi group has dashed these hopes,” he said in a speech circulated by the Saudi mission at the United Nations in New York.
“Yemen faces accelerating and extremely dangerous conditions that require us all to look and propose the necessary solutions to confront these unprecedented challenges,” Prince Saud said.
Prince Saud said Yemen's violence “will no doubt extend to threaten stability and security on the regional and international arena that could prove difficult to put down regardless of the resources and efforts that may be exerted.”
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Yuuup.
Again, fear of Rising Iran + Shia separatism or dominance of local Yemeni Govt. may lead the Yemen Govt or other GCC Govt-State to recruit foreign militias to counter the Shias, including but not limited to the anti-Shia ISIS + AL-Nusra, etc.
In response, Iran may militarily intervene to save their Yemeni Shia = Houthi brethren, which in turn again may lead to a KSA military counter-response to Iran + destabilize the entire GCC.
["INDIANA JONES" DAD SEAN CONNERY = "OUR SITUATION HAS NOT IMPROVED"]???
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So you're saying stupidity in an Arabic crap-state has the potential to screw things up far and wide. (Pot, meet kettle.) Whataconcept.
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Well, the House of Saud can do something about this. Yemen is on their border. They don't have to go far to confront the problem. Don't just sit on your royal thrones and wait for the West to clean up your problems. Get on with it.
[AnNahar] A controversial Buddhist holy man from Myanmar announced Sunday he is linking up with hardline monks in Sri Lanka, alleging that their religion is under threat from Islamic jihadists.
The Mandalay-based monk Wirathu, addressing a convention in Colombo of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) or Buddhist Force, said they would work together to protect their common religion.
The BBS has been accused of instigating hate attacks against minority Moslems and Christians in mainly Buddhist Sri Lanka.
"To protect and defend the threatened Buddhist the world over, my 969 movement will join hands with the BBS," the Myanmar monk said at a 5,000-seat stadium packed with monks and their lay supporters.
He said MoslemLions of Islam had tried to scuttle his visit to Sri Lanka, which shares close cultural and religious links with Myanmar.
"I am thankful to the President (Mahinda Rajapakse) for granting me a visa in spite of attempts by MoslemLions of Islam to prevent my visit," he said.
"Buddhists are facing a serious threat today from jihadist groups," the monk said, without giving details. "The patience of Buddhists is seen as a weakness.
"Buddhist temples have been destroyed. There is a jihad against Buddhist monks. Media organizations along with world powers are using technology to carry out a campaign against Buddhists," he added.
BBS has been linked to stepped-up attacks against minority Moslems and Christians in the past two years.
The group has denied involvement, but some of their members have been seen on videos posted on social media websites while engaged in violence against minority religious places as well as businesses.
The government has denied allegations that it provided tacit support to the BBS.
Sri Lanka suffered its worst religious violence in decades this June when riots broke out in the resorts of Aluthgama and Beruwala, leaving four people dead.
The BBS has been accused of instigating the attacks, a charge it denies.
The Moslem Council of Sri Lanka had warned the authorities that allowing Wirathu to visit "would pose a serious threat to peace in our beloved motherland".
BBS leader, Buddhist monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara, has been compared to Wirathu, who has been accused of ratcheting up tensions between Buddhists and Moslems in his own country.
Gnanasara has described both of them as "peaceful monks with no blood on our hands".
In Myanmar festivities between Buddhists and Moslems have left at least 250 people dead and tens of thousands displaced since fighting broke out in the western state of Rakhine in 2012.
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Ayman-the-Z-Man said it when he announced the formation of "AQ in India", i.e. that Radical Islam needs Asia's or East Asia's Manpower [+ MilTechs, etc.] to successfully defeat the US + its Allies anywhere + everywhere around the world despite their Tech, Mil advantages.
[AnNahar] The German military has begun training 32 Kurdish fighters from northern Iraq at an army school in Bavaria on handling weaponry provided by Berlin to support their battle against 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.... jihadists, officials said Sunday.
The fighters, who arrived Saturday, will receive instruction on using Bundeswehr anti-tank Milan missiles, a defense ministry front man told AFP.
The training will takes place at an infantry training center in the southern town of Hammelburg through Friday.
German military personnel this week are also due to start training Kurdish fighters in Iraq, Der Spiegel news weekly reported Saturday. That training is expected to run until the end of November, the magazine said.
Late last month Berlin announced that it was sending weapons to the Peshmerga Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq to help them fight off IS bully boyz who have seized large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.
[ARABNEWS] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... said Turkey could take a military role in the coalition fighting 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.... (IS) Lions of Islam as Ankara moves to take a frontline position in the campaign, the Hurriyet daily reported.
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[Ynet] US House Speaker, republican John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... said in interview to ABC that the US may have no choice but to send American ground forces to fight 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.
"I think it's going to take more than air strikes to drive them out of there. At some point somebody's boots have to be on the ground."
"We have no choice," Boehner warned. "These are barbarians. They intend to kill us, and if we don't destroy them first, we're going to pay the price."
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"Its not pronounced 'Boner'"! > D *** NG IT, WHO SEZ!
Don't be ridiculous - next thing you're going to tell me is that the Clintons never pronounced ARKANSAS as "AR-KANSAS", as opposed to "ARKAN-SAW"???
lol.
Anyhoo, ... ...
* WORLD NEWS >[New York Post] US MILITARY CHIEF [GEN. Martin Dempsey, USA]: 15,000 GROUND TROOPS [12-15K] NEEDED TO DESTROY ISIS.
ARTIC > GEN. DEMPSEY = there absolutely positively categorically undeniably ... @etc. MUST be a ground component to the US' anti-ISIS campaign.
"MUST, MUST - spelled M-U-S-S-E - MUST"!
FYI the Pentagon has sent to Iraq approxi 500 personnel from the HQ section of the US Army's First Infantry Division, aka "The Big Red One", ostensibly to help advise, org, + train the troubled Iraqi Army under post-Maliki, new Shia PM Al-Badi.
versus
* SAME > [Inquisitr] ISIS HAS RECRUITED 6,000 NEW FIGHTERS SINCE THE US LAUNCHED AIRTRIKES.
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So the Pentagon calls up Plan TLTL. That's, 'Too Little, Too Late'.
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the US may have no choice but to send American ground forces to fight Islamic State
Get that in writing. BTW, that is your responsibility under the Constitution (not that the document seems to matter to you and your fellow drones congresscritters).
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Hey, we don't need no Constitution, I'm Commander-in-Chief, plus I got a whole slue of E.O. notepads in the lower left hand corner of my big Oval Office desk. I can just jot one off before I head out to the Congressional Golf Course. See, I do my best thinking out there and technically, the way I see it, I am in touch with Congress, by using the Congressional Golf Course. Yeah, that's it.
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[DAWN] Responding to the recent breakdown of a scheduled meeting between Indo-Pak foreign secretaries, Adviser to Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said that the timing of Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit's meeting with Hurriyat leader Shabir Shah was 'perhaps not right'. Considering the Hindoos took it as a slap in the face, he's probably right.
At the same time, Aziz said the timing of India's message expressing reservations against the meeting was 'not right' either. "So, really, y'see, it's not all our fault..."
While talking about the meeting between Basit and the Hurriyat Leader, in an interview given to an Indian news channel, Aziz said that, "This has been a regular practice for the last 30 years and there was nothing new in it."
He added that "in this case perhaps the timing was not totally right because substantial discussions on Kashmir were yet to start. This meeting on August 24 (Foreign Secretary level meeting between India and Pakistan) was to declare the agenda and so on so forth."
Aziz further said "I think if the request (from India) had come earlier, about the timing not being right, probably it could have been considered. But, in this case the message came at a time when one Hurriyat leader was already in Pakistan's high commission (in New Delhi); hence there was nothing to respond."
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[DAWN] The crowd was large, the atmosphere was charged, but the PTI tsunami in Lahore brought almost nothing new to the protest table.
Reiterating points that have been raised many times over the last 45 days, PTI leaders and Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... delivered speeches on Sunday that meandered from personal narratives to catchy anti-government slogans, but offered little in the way of substance or strategy, beyond the announcement that yet more protests would be held -- this time in Mianwali and Multan.
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf chief Imran Khan said on Sunday that sit-in in Islamabad will continue until the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigns.
“We will celebrate Eid at ‘Azadi Chowk’ in style and will continue our protest,” he said while talking to media in Islamabad.
Imran said the Election Commission had itself admitted that there was historic rigging in the 2013 general election. “It is the right of people to ask the prime minister to give reasons for being tax evader and not investing in Pakistan,” he said.
He asked: “People are questioning that why the prime minister is not declaring his assets. “Do we have separate laws for rulers and the general masses. I will return to my dharna (sit-in) in Islamabad after addressing the Lahore rally.”
Imran Khan said that there was no reason for constituting a judicial commission when there is no real democracy in the country. In presence of Nawaz Sharif, no judicial commission can work, he added.
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[Ynet] Rioters threw stones Sunday at the light train at Shuafat neighborhood in Jerusalem. No injuries were reported, but the train suffered damage to both doors and windows.
[AnNahar] The difficult process of disarming Philippine Moslem rebels after a decades-long insurgency has started, negotiators said Sunday, with the decommissioning of a first batch of firearms expected before year-end.
Philippine government and Moslem rebel negotiators started meeting in Malaysia on Saturday to discuss the disarmament process, key to ending the insurgency in the country's south and sealing a peace deal.
The two sides have appointed three foreign experts -- from Brunei, Turkey and Norway -- to join an independent body that will oversee the decommissioning process, together with four local experts who are yet to be nominated.
"Decommissioning is a delicate and difficult component of any peace settlement. It must be done effectively and sensitively," chief Philippine government negotiator Miriam Coronel-Ferrer said in a statement.
The meeting will continue until Monday.
Chief rebel negotiator Mohagher Iqbal had said earlier that 75 assorted firearms, including high-powered rifles, would be stored and padlocked in a warehouse as part of the "normalization" process that will see the rebels trade their weapons for a chance to join mainstream society.
"Decommissioning firearms is really very difficult, but you have to undertake the ultimate sacrifice just to have the Bangsamoro," Iqbal said.
Bangsamoro is the southern region on Mindanao island where the country's Moslem minority will have self-rule under a pact they signed with President Benigno Aquino's government in March.
The peace deal seeks to end four decades of fighting that left tens of thousands killed and stunted development in the mineral-rich area.
Ferrer had said that "the first order of business" for the meeting would be for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to submit a list of weapons and combatants.
Military estimates place the strength of the MILF at 10,000. The group has not disclosed the size of its force or the number of weapons in its arsenal.
Decommissioning will be phased, depending on the delivery of government commitments under the peace deal, Iqbal said.
Ferrer said there was enough "goodwill" to push through with normalization after a bill that will grant the country's Moslem minority self-rule was submitted to Congress earlier this month.
Legislators said the Bangsamoro bill had bipartisan support and would be passed early next year, giving Aquino time to set up an autonomous government before his term ends in mid-2016.
The head of Syria’s Al Qaeda affiliate warned on Sunday that failure to stop US-led air strikes on militant positions in Syria would “transfer the battle” to Western countries. In an audio message posted on the Internet, Abu Mohammad Al Jolani, who heads Al Nusra Front in Syria, addressed citizens “in America and Europe” and called on them to stand against their governments.
“Your leaders will not pay the price for the war alone, you will pay the higher price,” Jolani warned, in his first speech since the coalition launched strikes on Syria earlier this week.
The United States initially launched strikes in Iraq on August 8 against positions of the ISIS group, and then widened its campaign with a coalition of partners last Tuesday to include Syria, where ISIS has its headquarters. The coalition has carried out daily air strikes since Tuesday against ISIS and Al Nusra Front in Syria.
Failure to stop these strikes “will transfer the battle to your very homes,” Jolani said. Jolani did not elaborate.
But he said: “People of America and Europe, what have you gained from your war against Muslims and jihadists except tragedies and pain brought on your countries and children?”
Jolani’s warning comes a day after a spokesman of the same group also threatened reprisals against nations participating in air strikes, denouncing them as “a war against Islam”.
Jolani, meanwhile, called on people rebel-held areas of Syria to stand by Al Nusra, describing the countries striking militant positions as a “new crusader alliance”.
“People of Syria, stand against those who allied themselves with the crusader slaves,” he said, in reference to some rebel factions who have expressed support for the strikes.
Jolani also addressed Sunnis in Lebanon, calling on them to defect from the army. Sunni extremists perceive Lebanon’s army as being controlled by the Shia movement Hezbollah, which has sent thousands of fighters into Syria to support President Bashar Al Assad’s troops in a war that has killed more than 180,000 people in three years.
“Sunnis, take your sons away from the army that serves your enemy, and make them join the ranks of the jihadists,” he said.
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So basically the ISIS' new BFF = Frenemy? AL-NUSRA is threatening to attack the US-West iff the majorily US-led, anti-ISIS etal. airstrikes in Syria don't cease.
I'm interpreting this as a indirect threat to attack POTUS Bammer andor his Admin.
[THEDIPLOMAT] Some 24 hours before he arrives in the United States on his first visit to the country as prime minster, the U.S. Federal Court of the Southern District of New York issued a summons against Narendra Modi regarding his alleged involvement in the 2002 Godhra riots, in his home state of Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... . The summons requires Modi to respond within 21 days of receipt, barring which the court will decide in default against Modi for the damages sought by the plaintiffs. According to The Hindu, the summons "charges PM Modi with committing crimes against humanity, extra-judicial killings, torture and inflicting mental and physical trauma on the victims, mostly from the Moslem community." This is stupid on probably a hundred different levels, starting with the fact that Modi is the head of a friendly government. The fact that the Gujrat riots were an internal affair of India, and only India, is Stupid #2.
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This is beyond stupid. Modi seems to be one of the better things to happen to India lately.
[Daily Times Pakistan] WASHINGTON -- United States intelligence agencies underestimated Islamic State activity inside Syria, which has become ground zero for militants worldwide, President Champ said in a CBS television interview broadcast on Sunday. Not the Champ's fault, somebody else's. Under the bus please. Have we had an intel agency that has gotten anything right since the Red Scare of the 1950s?
Conversely, the US overestimated the ability of the Iraqi army to fight the militant groups, Champ said in an interview taped on Friday, days after the US president made his case at the United Nations for action. Citing earlier comments by James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, Obama acknowledged that US intelligence underestimated what had been taking place in Syria. Militants went underground when US Marines quashed al-Qaeda in Iraq with help from Iraq's tribes, he said. Again, not his fault, somebody else's.
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I thought the joint chief of staff recommendation was to keep troops in Iraq? This would be an indication of not underestimating the enemy and not overestimating the Iraqis capability.
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Dr. Carson has also recently predicted that within a couple of years, a wave of civil unrest may grip our nation. He's obviously been reading the Burg, and clearly sees the consequences resulting from the inevitable termination of benefits and free stuff to the entitlement crowd.
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Obama is blaming the Intel. Problem is he didn't pay attention, and is wrong. Hell, we've been warning about this here in Rantburg for months before the MSM and President noticed anything amiss, and we don't have access to anything other than open sources. You can bet the IC had stuff in front of him well before that.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[DAWN] Responding to the recent breakdown of a scheduled meeting between Indo-Pak foreign secretaries, Adviser to Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said that the timing of Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit's meeting with Hurriyat leader Shabir Shah was 'perhaps not right'.
[DAWN] The crowd was large, the atmosphere was charged, but the PTI tsunami in Lahore brought almost nothing new to the protest table.
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