[The News (Pak)] Afghan presidential election candidate Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... on Wednesday demanded a halt to vote-counting over fraud allegations, raising the prospect of a political crisis as the country undergoes its first democratic transition of power.
"We suspend engagement with the (election) commission and we have asked our monitors to leave their offices," he said. "We are asking for the counting process to be stopped immediately.
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[Iraq Sun] Mohammedan leaders in Kenya have urged political parties to shun their tribal politics and forge unity across the country, a media report said Tuesday.
Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Mohammedan Leaders Forum, said the leaders from the ruling Jubilee Alliance, and from the former prime minister Raila Odinga-led CORD coalition in the opposition should stop shifting blame on each other as it was fuelling communal tension, and instead form peaceful dialogues among themselves, Capital FM reported.
"We fully support dialogue to seek ways to address the challenges facing the country but calls for mass action from the leaders is a recipe for sectarian and ethnic violence which might be a repeat to the tragic events of 2007," the report quoted Abdi as saying.
Somali krazed killer group Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... grabbed credit for attacks Sunday and Monday that have left at least 60 dead and many others injured in the coastal Kenyan town of Mpeketoni and nearby villages in coastal Lamu county.
Mohammedan leaders have also accused the Kenyan government of abdicating its responsibility of protecting its citizens after the attacks.
Echoing a similar sentiment, Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya official Sheikh Muhammad Khalifa said it was high time the government took the country's security seriously, by employing strategies that can restore peace.
Khalifa urged Kenyans to be patient enough until the matter is resolved and not to resort to actions of mass destruction as a result of ethnic discord, the report said.
"In these trying times, the country needs to be united and at the same time, we need to be mindful of the fact that some of these attacks are aimed at planting seeds of conflict and animosity among Kenyans," Khalifa said.
Sunday's attack killed 48 people in Mpeketoni, when gunnies arrived in the coastal town in minivans and went on a firing rampage.
The attackers also destroyed property and vehicles, burning a cop shoppe, petrol station and a building housing banks and hotels.
More than 20 cars, including those belonging to the police, were burnt.
A second attack Monday night left at least 15 dead. Several houses were torched in nearby Poromoko village.
Analysts said the latest attacks, the deadliest since the Westgate shopping mall attack in the capital Nairobi that killed 68 people, were a blow to Kenya's already troubled tourism which relies heavily on foreign visitors who often combine safaris with beach holidays.
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Sheikh Abdiaziz Abu Mus'ab, spokesperson for the Al-Shabaab search operations has declared that the Al-Qaeda linked terrorist group has opened bases and battlegrounds in Kenya.
Abu Mus'ab said that after Kenyan Defence Forces did not withdraw their presence in Somalia, they implemented bases in which the terrorist insurgents will control internal attacks.
"In our latest attacks you have seen the fatalities we caused to our enemies and others can expect to be hurt too." He said
Various terrorism attacks have been staged in Kenya very recently which has resulted in severe fatalities. Kenyan government officials have accused Al-Shabaab for being responsible for those attacks.
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[MAGHAREBIA] The alleged criminal mastermind of the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi was caught in a raid in Libya, US officials announced Tuesday (June 17th).
Ahmed Boukhtala was apprehended on Sunday in Benghazi. There were no civilian casualties in the operation.
[MAGHAREBIA] Saadi Qadaffy will appear in a Libyan court for the first time since his extradition from Niger, Tunisie Numerique reported on Tuesday (June 17th).
The son of ousted Libyan dictator Moamer Qadaffy will face a Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... court on June 22nd to answer charges of killing Libyan football player Bechir Riyali.
The former playboy is also accused of involvement in the 2005 murder of a former coach of al-Ittihad and causing the deaths of 20 fans during a 1996 match in Tripoli.
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An Egyptian judge convicted 12 Islamists on Wednesday of murdering one of the most senior police officers to be killed in the country in recent months, sentencing them to death.
The ruling session was aired live on Egyptian television. As soon as judge Moataz Khafagi read out the sentence, the defendants broke out in chants of "God is great" in defiance while pacing around the cage. Only nine defendants were present, with the others were sentenced in absentia.
Gen. Nabil Farrag was shot dead in September during a raid on an Islamist stronghold in Kerdasa, just outside of Cairo. The raid followed an attack by militants on a police station, killing 15 policemen and mutilating their bodies, in one of the grisliest assaults on security forces.
The militants had taken control of the town, near the Pyramids, and attacked the police station to apparently avenge a violent crackdown on a sit-in of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Mursi. The break-up of the sit-in killed hundreds.
Judge Khafagi referred the ruling to the Grand Mufti, the highest Islamist authority in Egypt, to review it before the final decision is pronounced on August 6. Defendants then can appeal.
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Libya's second national election since the 2011 ouster of strongman Muammar Gaddafi will go ahead next week despite growing political chaos, organizational troubles and the prospect of a low turnout, Reuters reported.
Because nothing fixes chaos faster than an election...
Dismissing doubts among foreign diplomats that Tripoli could arrange the vote in only a month, election commission head Emad Al-Sayeh told Reuters that preparations for polling on June 25 were coming along well and staff were being trained.
The challenges are daunting. Libya's government and parliament are deadlocked, militias and tribal groups hold sway over parts of the country and a renegade general has launched his own campaign against Islamic militants in the east.
But instead of taking months of preparation as diplomats thought it needed, the election commission opted for a quick vote. Sayeh sounded confident its initiative would pay off.
"The commission has finished the last preparations of the elections," he said, adding that 1,601 polling stations around the country had been readied.
He said there were "positive indications" that the vote would go ahead even in Benghazi, the eastern city where fighting takes place almost daily between forces of renegade Geenral Khalifa Haftar and Islamist militants.
A Western diplomat said the government was adamant the vote should go ahead and noted that voting for a constitutional committee in February went ahead in most areas.
"There will be challenges to open polling stations in some places in the east and south," he said. "The bigger question would be what will happen after the election, whether tensions will ease."
Hmmm, let's consult the oracle ... hmm ... right ... m'k ... the oracle says, 'NO!'
The General National Congress (GNC) assembly decided in February to step down after its initial mandate had ended, bowing to pressure from voters who blame political infighting for Libya's bumpy transition to democracy.
Libya's neighbors and Western partners hope the election will provide a push for state building and help the oil producer overcome some of its deep divisions between Islamists and more moderate forces as well as competing tribes and regions.
Turnout looks like it could be low. Over 1.5 million voters have registered, roughly half of the 2.8 million registered in July 2012 in Libya's first free election in more than 40 years.
The commission has tightened registration rules by requiring voters to show a national identification number.
Racists...
Many Libyans in the south and the east do not have one because insecurity there there has hampered the development of such basic state services. Some people have also avoided getting a state identity card because it would make it harder to exploit the country's chaos and claim several state salaries. Clamping down on such fraud was one of the state's reasons for introducing the number.
Hard boyz in particular behind it hard to spread chaos when ev'ryone has a state ID...
Western diplomats hope the vote will ease tensions in the OPEC oil producer but some fear it could produce yet another interim assembly. Legal experts have still not finished working out a new constitution for the post-Gaddafi political system.
The new parliament will made up again of 200 seats but be called House of Representatives, replacing the current name GNC linked by many Libyans with the country's stalemate. Thirty-two seats are allocated for women, said Sayeh. Only 10,087 voters have been registered abroad, reflecting the lack of time to organize voting in embassies.
Sayeh said a total of 1,628 candidates will compete, around thousand less than at the last vote. Some candidates have started putting up posters but, given the short time available, there has been no real election campaign like in 2012.
The vote will also be marred by a boycott of the Amazigh, or Berber, minority that demands a stronger say in the body drafting the constitution. The Amazigh have seized oil installations in the past to press for their demands.
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O we are to conclude Benghazi is unimportant, Mr. WaPo? Or that your average reader is geographically challenged? Did you consider Hilly and Champ might have voted hundreds of times just to sway the results?
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I can. I can also prove its historical ties to Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood. I can prove that its location and those ties are a primary reason the Islamists both gathered there and use it as a conduit.
Do I get a prize (and please don't tell me it's a WaPo subscription?)
[The News (Pak)] The Tribunal, formed to investigate into killing of Tehrik-e-Minhajul Koran (TMQ) workers in Model Town Lahore, has begun its work, Geo News reported.
The one-member Tribunal of Lahore High Court (LHC), comprises Justice Ali Baqar Najfi, has made Staff Officer of CJ as Registrar of the Tribunal.
The Secretariat of the Tribunal has been established in the premises of LHC.
Chief Justice LHC had constituted an inquiry commission in connection with Model Town incident in which 8 people were killed and scores others injured.
Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... had requested the CJ LHC to form a commission to investigate into the matter.
Shahbaz Sharif said he would resign if held responsible following the probe into the incident.
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[The News (Pak)] 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) chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... has demanded resignation from Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... and Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah over Model Town mayhem, Geo News reported.
Talking to media after inquiring about the health of injured of the incident here Wednesday, Imran Khan said: "Rana Sanaullah should be put behind the bars over the incident."
PTI chairman police violated the decision of Lahore High Court (LHC).
"Was it a castle of turbans where police arrived at 1:30AM at night?", he questioned.
He said 11 people were killed and more than 80 injured in the Model town tragedy, adding such kind of incidents could not occur even during the dictatorship tenure.
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[The News (Pak)] Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) Chief Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... says his party and workers will not participate in any Judicial Inquiry.
Addressing a presser via video-link from Canada the PAT Chief termed Tuesday's incident at the Minhaj-ul-Koran International (MQI) secretariat and his residence Al-Qadria as 'state-terrorism'.
Qadri added, that through media channels everyone witnessed where bullets were being fired from, further adding that MQI security guards did not fire a single bullet.
Tahir-ul-Qadri said, bullets were fired upon his residence in Lahore and the electricity connections to his house had been severed, which have not been restored.
The PAT Chief rejected the Judicial Commission adding that no one from PAT would cooperate with the commission and would not record their statement, terming the Judicial Commission to be an eye-wash to provide cover to 'state-terrorism'.
Tahir-ul-Qadri in his presser alleged that the Prime Minister, Chief Minister Punjab, IG Punjab Police, and certain ministers were behind what he termed 'premeditated murder'.
He further alleged that those officers who were involved in the incident were the same ones who prepared the FIR adding that while they were the victims, they have not lodged any FIR.
He appealed to the Judges of the Lahore High Court to distance themselves from the inquiry commission.
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[DAWN] Who ordered the firing on the supporters of Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... in Model Town? As the question was repeatedly asked on Tuesday, there was no straight answer from the police.
No immediate action against coppers leading the operation suggests that the 'top man' of the province might have given the 'go-ahead'.
Senior coppers associated with the anti-encroachment operation in and around Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) chairman Tahirl Qadri's residence and near-by Minahjul Koran Secretariat adopted a defensive strategy. They put the entire blame on the PAT activists for resisting the drive and attacking coppers.
Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Chaudhry Shafique Ahmad told news hounds at the Central Police Office that police remained defensive for several hours against PAT activists.
The incident came at a time when its chairman had already announced his June 23 Pakistain visit for a series of demonstrations countrywide. This made it easy for PAT workers to project the raid as politically-motivated. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the coppers leading the operation denied any pre-planned move against the PAT. They claimed they were assisting City District Government of Lahore (CDGL) officials in removing barriers from roads leading to the PAT premises.
The anti-encroachment action in this case came at an odd moment, at midnight contrary to the routine morning raids.
The CDGL staff was accompanied by the police in large numbers which was also unusual.
Interestingly, in this instance not even a single police official was immediately held responsible for mishandling and criminal negligence. This is contrary to the past practices when the chief minister had ordered summery suspension of officers accused of negligence or excess.
According to a neighbour, he had been seeing barriers and bunkers outside two PAT places for the last three years or so. He said coppers were also routinely seen guarding barriers.
A police source, who was present at the scene of the crime, told this news hound that PAT activists first pelted CDGL and police officials with stones to resist the removal of barriers and then some gunshots fired in air by PAT activists present in bunkers forced the coppers to run away.
He claimed later on the directive of a police brass hat, police began straight fire on PAT workers.
The source added some seven or eight divisional SPs were also seen commanding the force with divided strategy as some put focus on straight fire and others insisted dispersing activists through other means.
The CCPO, now made OSD, claimed that they held two negotiations round with the chief security officer of Minahjul Koran Institute in the morning, asking him to remove hurdles on their own. PAT activists deployed at roofs and bunkers again started firing at police and CDGL officials. He claimed activists also used patrol bombs against police, but police kept showing patience.
He said police resorted to baton charge and used shelling which helped CDGL officials to remove hurdles.
Mr Ahmad, who initially claimed that killings might be the result of firing by PAT activists, later said he could not determine at this point who killed who, adding the judicial inquiry and police investigation would fix the responsibility. Inspector General Mushtaq Sukhera said a three-member departmental committee had been constituted to determine criminality of any police official.
Faisal Town police lodged a case against seven nominated people, including general-secretary Khurram Nawaz Gandapur and Sheikh Fayyaz and CSO Altaf Shah, eight unidentified gunnies and hundreds of unidentified workers.
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[DAWN] SINCE the World Health Organisation advised in early May that restrictions be placed on people travelling from countries that export the polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... virus, notable amongst them Pakistain, most of the world has shown grace in allowing us time to clean up our act. There has been some activity on this count, with the government having imposed from June 1 a travel ban on people not able to produce a government-issued vaccination certificate and the setting up of vaccination booths at international airports, etc and -- on paper, at least -- a renewed resolve to overcome the myriad challenges that lie in the path of improving matters. Most recently, on Sunday, Islamabad hosted an international conference on polio eradication that was attended by about 50 holy mans from Pakistain, 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... , Egypt and Nigeria. Also present were representatives of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy, Al Azhar University and King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. According to the blurb, Minister of State for National Health Services, Saira Afzal Tarar, had sought the guidance and aid of holy mans in eradicating polio.
Given the situation, there is no doubt that the step must be appreciated. Other than plain misinformation or the lack of awareness, much of the resistance in parts of Pakistain to having the vaccine administered to children has been the result of the manner in which the anti-polio campaign has been made contestable on religious grounds by krazed killer elements. Nevertheless, there is great irony in Ms Tarar regretting that Pakistain remains one of the world's only three polio-endemic countries (the others being Afghanistan and Nigeria). The fact is that even at this critical juncture, and notwithstanding efforts such as vaccination booths and conferences, nowhere in evidence is the urgency and tight coordination among governmental and administrative circles that the situation warrants. Polio cases are still being reported with distressing frequency; in fact, it was reported yesterday that a five-month-old from Datta Khel in the tribal areas is the latest to succumb, bringing the number of cases detected to 83 this year alone. Worryingly, the challenges are set to mount -- and fast. With the military operation now under way in North Wazoo, estimates say that there will be 300,000 unvaccinated children among the flood of non-combatants that are set to flee the region. Has the government a real plan, one that goes beyond good intentions and promises? We have yet to see any.
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Hasn't the CIA used polio or other health workers as spies in the past?
ISIS's success in Mosul could have something to do with the Iraqi government putting a general accused of carrying out systematic torture in charge of the city's security. The top Iraqi officer in Mosul, whose forces fled with hardly a fight as ISIS militants and their allies took over Iraq's second-largest city, is an accused torturer who was once targeted by the U.S. military and the Iraqi criminal justice system.
American and Iraqi lawyers and investigators, built a strong case against Mahdi. The unit compiled dozens of witness statements about his participation in the systematic torture of detainees along sectarian lines at the height of the violence between Sunni and Shia factions in Iraq in 2005 and 2006. This investigation augmented a previous Iraqi warrant from 2006. Twenty brave witnesses delivered statements that he ordered the systematic torture of detainees and often supervised it himself.
From 2006 to 2008, U.S. military lawyers and commanders pressed Maliki to support sending Al Gharawi to trial, to prove he was serious about weeding out sectarianism in the ranks of his security forces. Those efforts failed. A 2006 diplomatic cable released by wikileaks shows then-U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilizad explaining Maliki's intransigence. "Mahdi is alleged to have committed gross human rights violations and extra-judicial killings during his service as the National Police's Second Division Commander at the detention facility known as Site 4. Mahdi has proven valuable enough to Maliki, however, that he rebuffed our request that he execute an Iraqi warrant for Mahdi's arrest."
By all indications, the general was operating [in Nineveh and Mosul] exactly as he had in South Baghdad in 2005 and 2006, abusing, torturing and alienating the population.
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I have to admit I laughed...then I cried.
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Line-hauling aging Iraqi Hummers back to Syria; a supreme stroke of tactical and logistical genius. Russian Operations planners and targeteers must be ecstatic.
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She's eminently mockable, so, why shouldn't she be an international laughing stock? Around the world, they've started to pick up on the fact that her husband runs a clown show, so it's all of a pattern.
The entire episode calls into question the leftist belief that people are interchangeable, anybody can replace anybody, and we're all just cogs in a social machine.
Her husband is a cog that doesn't bother to engage any other gears; he just sits and spins.
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The entire Obama clan is highly mock-able.
When the MSM starts dog piling on them I'll know it is finally over and the Hope and Change ship has completely sunk and the rats have abandoned it.
[Iran Press TV] Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... says snuffies belonging to the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) will turn against their Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n and Qatari supporters who call them "revolutionaries."
Maliki said on Wednesday that the situation in Iraq is due to a conspiracy by certain political factions.
"You hear the Saudi and Qatar and some other Arab media calling them revolutionaries and that the Iraqi army is a sectarian force, but they've forgotten that they are living in countries brimming with sectarianism and marginalization of minorities," al-Maliki said, adding, We tell them and all our friends and Arab brothers to be sure that terrorism will never be limited to the Iraqi borders."
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco... he expressed optimism that Iraq would soon weather the ongoing crisis.
Maliki also said army forces will continue their operations against the ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group until victory is achieved. He expressed gratitude to Iraq's most senior Shia holy man Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistan, for encouraging volunteers to join the army and help the government.
More than two million Iraqis have already volunteered to join the fight against the Takfiri bully boys.
The ISIL Takfiri group threatens to take its acts of violence to several Iraqi cities, including the capital, Storied Baghdad.
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INDIA CONFIRMED on Wednesday that 40 of its nationals, who were working for a construction company and were stranded in the violence-torn city of Mosul in Iraq, had been abducted.
âThese 40 workers were working for Tariq Noor Al Huda Construction Company,â Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin told newspersons.
âOur understanding is that, based on information gleaned from various sources, including the International Red Moon Shaped Thingy Crescent Society, is that these 40 Indian workers....I can confirm that they have been kidnapped,â he said. The workers are mainly from Punjab and other parts of north India.
He said the Red Moon Shaped Thingy Crescent had, however, been unable to find out where the Indians were being held or by whom. âThese are difficult situations. We are working with the company and, also, we are trying to work with the Red Moon Shaped Thingy Crescent,â he said.
âWe have not received any calls of any nature from anyone,â he said when asked if any group had claimed responsibility for the kidnapping or made any ransom demand. âWe have not received any information whatsoever.â
As many as 46 Indian nurses, mostly from Kerala, are known to be stranded in Tikrit and the Indian mission had requested the Red Moon Shaped Thingy Crescent to establish contact with them, which was done on Tuesday, Akbaruddin said. He said that most of them had indicated that they would like to stay on in Iraq but the government would make arrangements for the return of anyone who wished to come back home.
Akbaruddin said about 200 Indians employed by a Turkish company had been stranded in Najaf and the Indian Embassy had established contact with it. The company had promised to provide assistance to any of the Indian workers who wish to return to India, he said.
He said the government would not spare any effort to help the Indians in Iraq and that it was in touch with its partners in that country and in the region as well as with the United Nations and agencies such as the Red Moon Shaped Thingy Crescent. âThese are difficult times for us and we trying out best on all fronts,â he added.
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[Ynet] Israel gave approval Wednesday for the construction of 172 new homes for Jewish settlers in annexed east Jerusalem, a city councilor said, nearly two weeks after it announced thousands.
"The municipality approved this morning the construction of 172 apartments in Har Homa," Jerusalem city councilor Yosef Pepe Alalu of the leftwing Meretz party, who opposes settlements, told AFP.
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Home construction, jobs, families, children, schools, businesses and commerce. Yes, I remember all of that. We did it here in the 1950's. I believe it was referred to as progress, economic prosperity.... or something like that.
[Ynet] After the IDF incarcerated Please don't kill me! Wednesday 51 of the Paleostinian prisoners released as part of the Shalit prisoner exchange deal, their families sent a letter to the Egyptian mission to the Paleostinian Authority imploring Egypt's new President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi to intervene and force Israel to respect the deal's terms, which Egypt mediated at the time.
But President al Sisi doesn't like Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. In fact,
[Ynet] Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah told young Shiites that the terrorist organization was "willing to sacrifice for Iraq five times as much as we sacrificed in Syria for the significantly more important holy places," Lebanese media outlets reported.
Nasrallah added that "as long as we have the spiritual leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, nothing will happen to our holy places across the world. We will be where we are needed."
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Hezbollah has already lost 500 or so in Syria. Among these were some of its most experienced and battle hardened.
If they actually were to lose 2500 in Iraq, it would be a major problem for them because they would then not have enough left to protect their territory in Lebanon from sunni avengers.
so basically, Nasrallah - go for it!
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[The News (Pak)] Iran will not hesitate to defend shia Mohammedan holy sites in neighbouring Iraq against "killers and terrorists", Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, following rapid advances by Sunni snuffies there over the past week.
Speaking on live television, Rouhani said many people had signed up to go to Iraq to defend the sites and "put the faceless myrmidons in their place". He added that veteran fighters from Iraq´s Sunni, Shia and Kurdish communities were also "ready for sacrifice" against these murderous Moslem forces.
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With ISIS working hard to hide its secrets and push propaganda as fact, leakers may turn out to be an increasingly important source of information about it and other extremist groups.
So they have their own Bradley Chelsea Mannings and Eddie Snowdens? Wotta tragedy!
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So the old redhead is alive??? So the intel that Al-Douri had died of cancer was a sham?
So Al-Douri has been camped out in the Mosul/Tikrit area for ten years and our magnificent intelligence apparatus and NSA monitoring could not find him?
Amazing.
Of course, when Al-Douri went dark he had $300 million of Saddam's oil for food money and I am sure he didn't spend it all on the insurgency. $300 million will buy you a lot of anonymity.
Wow talk about an intelligence bust...Al-Douri is alive and well in Nineveh? And we bought the cancer story? That is possibly the most embarrassing intelligence failure of the last ten years in Iraq.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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ISIS's success in Mosul could have something to do with the Iraqi government putting a general accused of carrying out systematic torture in charge of the city's security. The top Iraqi officer in Mosul, whose forces fled with hardly a fight as ISIS militants and their allies took over Iraq's second-largest city, is an accused torturer who was once targeted by the U.S. military and the Iraqi criminal justice system.
Nouri al-Maliki
