[Tolo News] The Chairman of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) has called Zia-ul-Haq Amarkhail, former IEC Secretariat, guilty emphasizing that Amarkhail's alleged involvement in fraud has threatened the entire election process.
In an exclusive interview with TOLOnews, IEC Chairman Ahmad Yusef Nuristani implied that his views regarding Amarkhail had changed after listening to his recorded phone conversations.
"If Amarkhail was not involved in election fraud, he would not have beat feet from the country," Nuristani said.
This is while Nuristani had earlier claimed, at a presser on June 16, that the fraud accusations against Amarkhail were baseless.
"We do not have any justified evidence against Amarkhail, hence we will end the issue right here," Nuristani had stated on June 16. "If Dr. Abdullah has any evidence he should present it to the commission. The accusations are baseless."
Amarkhail resigned from his position soon after the release of his telephone conversations about engineering fraud in the election results. Soon after, on July 1, he left the country for the UAE.
According to the Head of Kabul Airport, Muhammad Yaqub Rasooli, Amarkhail left Kabul airport through the VIP exit with an ordinary passport. He added that the government officials cannot travel through VIP unless they have a political passport or an order from President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... .
"Amarkhail left for Dubai through a FlyDubai flight on July 1," Rasooli said.
Rasooli asserted that the commander of border police along with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) must answer as to why Amarkhail was allowed to travel through the VIP with an ordinary passport.
In response, the MoFA front man said that Amarkhail's travel through VIP was not coordinated through the ministry. MoFA added that Amarkhail traveled in a vehicle with no license-plate and his driver took his passport by the border police.
According to another source, a vehicle with no license-plate took Amarkhail to the plane and was the last person to board the FlyDubai plane.
The Kabul Border Police Chief, Haqnawaz Haqyar, refrained from commenting about the matter.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... a source from the IEC said Amarkhail has not returned the IEC resources and other equipments such as his laptop and iPad as well as four vehicles.
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[Tolo News] A number of analysts have criticized the government's negligence in the release of the high-ranking Taliban prisoners, claiming that a majority of the released inmates have reintegrated with the myrmidons.
According to the Afghan Minister of Defense, Bismillah Mohammad, Taliban's reclusive leader, Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... 's assistant—who was among the released prisoners—is now leading the war.
It is the first time that the Ministry of Defense (MoD) has publicly expressed criticism of the released prisoners.
"Majority of those released from the prisons are now leading the war in Afghanistan," Mohammad said. "Sadr, Mullah Omar's assistant, for instance was among the released from the Pul-e-Charkhi Prison."
Analysts have stated that the release of dangerous inmates—against whom sufficient evidence exists—was a big mistake.
"We can only detain people against whom we have criminal evidence and the government must have the capability to follow up on those they decide to release," University lecturer Nasrullah Estanikzai said. "The responsibility for the insecurities lies with those who released the inmates despite having sufficient evidence against them."
Furthermore, military experts assert that the government is responsible for the negative consequences of releasing the prisoners.
"We have heard the names and positions of the inmates released from Bagram through media," a military expert, Jawed Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... i, said. "The government released them cautiously and in cooperation with some circles working closely with the Taliban. The responsibility of the current war in Afghanistan is on the government."
The release of the Taliban prisoners had followed major criticisms inside and outside the country, but received no response from the Afghan government.
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THE UNITED STATES Embassy in Uganda said it had been warned of a “specific threat” of attack to the country’s main airport on Thursday and that travelers therefore “may want to review their plans.”.
The warning was one of several recent alarms in restive East Africa, where governments have sought to counter threats, particularly those by Al Shabab militant movement based in SOMALIA.
The embassy did not specify WHAT THE threat entailed, but said it had “received information from the Uganda Police Force that, according to intelligence sources, “there is a specific threat to Entebbe International Airport,” which serves the capital, Kampala. The warning, in a statement on the embassy’s website, said the attack could take place between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Thursday.
“U.S. Embassy Kampala wishes to remind U.S. citizens of the continued threat of potential terrorist attacks in the country,” the statement said. “The targets for these attacks could include HOTELS, restaurants, nightclubs, shopping malls, diplomatic missions, transportation hubs, religious institutions, government offices, or public transportation.”
The embassy’s warning followed a separate alert on Wednesday by Uganda’s Civil Aviation Authority, Reuters reported. The alert also coincided with alarms about flights from Europe and the Middle East to THE UNITED STATES because of concerns that militants may have developed explosives undetectable by conventional airport security devices.
According to Agence France-Presse, a Ugandan Army spokesman, Paddy Ankunda, said on Thursday that troops had been deployed at THE AIRPORT and in the capital.
“People must be vigilant IN THE FACE of this threat, report any suspicious individuals seen in their areas,” he said, calling on people to “stay calm and alert.”
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[AnNahar] The American embassy in Algiers has warned of a possible attack by "an unspecified terrorist group" over the weekend and advised its staff to avoid U.S.-operated hotels.
"As of June 2014 an unspecified terrorist group may have been considering attacks in Algiers, possibly in the vicinity of a U.S. branded hotel," the mission said on its website.
"The U.S. Embassy in Algeria has instructed embassy employees to avoid U.S. owned or operated hotels through the U.S. Independence Day (July 4) and Algerian Independence Day (July 5) holiday weekend."
The statement, dated Wednesday, gave no further details of the possible threat.
Violence attributed to Islamists has declined considerably in Algeria in recent years, after a decade of appalling blood-letting during the civil war of the 1990s.
But groups affiliated with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb continue to attack security forces in the eastern Kabylie region, in areas around the capital and in the south.
The last major incident in Algiers took place in December 2007, when twin suicide kabooms claimed by al-Qaeda targeted a government building and the offices of the U.N. refugee agency, killing 26 people and wounding nearly 180.
Since the 2011 uprisings toppled dictators across the region, Algeria has been increasingly vulnerable to attacks from Mali and Libya, with whom it shares vast desert borders.
In the worst attack on Algerian soil in years, al-Qaeda-linked snuffies stormed the In Amenas desert gas plant, 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) southeast of Algiers, in January 2013.
Around 40 foreign hostages, including three Americans, were killed in the four-day siege and army rescue operation that followed.
"But Pyongyang forbids South Korean factory managers at Kaesong from paying bonuses or cash incentives to North Korean workers. And so they began rewarding them with Choco Pies."
Old story, as it turns out. Nork workers at the Kaesong factory have been getting Choco Pies for years precisely because they couldn't get any direct pay, let alone a bonus. What they don't eat themselves ends up with their families or on the deep-gray market.
[AnNahar] Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... promised to represent all Turks as he declared he would stand for president, but critics fear his assumption of a powerful presidency risks further polarizing an already divided country.
Erdogan, 60, who has already been premier for 11 years, made clear in his announcement on Tuesday that he intended to be a much more powerful president than the largely ceremonial role performed by past incumbents.
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[Pak Daily Times] Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) leader Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. 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... on Thursday asked the civil servants and personnel of law enforcement agencies to disobey government orders.
Addressing a presser on Thursday, Qadri advised the "corrupt government officers" to mend their ways and start performing their duties strictly in accordance with the law and constitution. The controversial holy man asked the security and police personnel to doff their uniforms, and warned that if they do not do so, they would be hanged after his "revolution". "After my revolution these coppers and civil servants would be hanged, no matter if they are in hundreds and thousands," Qadri warned.
He said that after his "revolution", these people would be brought to justice within 15 days. The holy man claimed that the incumbent government and its "corrupt rulers" will be shown the door in the next few weeks. "The government officials take their salaries from the state and not from Raiwind," the PAT chief snapped. Qadri said the process of accountability will be initiated against the unscrupulous government officials and it will only take fifteen days to complete.
Qadri said his "revolution" does not need the support of "tsunami", a reference to the Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... -led 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.... . Speaking on the occasion PML-Q leader Chaudhry Pervez Elahi said that the Punjab government is taking its last breath. He said that doctors, teachers and nurses had not taken to roads at the time of his government in Punjab, and that his projects like Rescue 1122 were highly successful.
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[DAWN] Pakistain and Afghanistan agreed on Thursday to strengthen their border security cooperation mechanism to thwart any cross-border movement of gunnies and prevent terrorist activities.
The two sides made the commitment during high-level talks at the military's General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi.
"Both sides agreed to build further trust, continue to talk under all circumstances and evolve a robust and effective bilateral border coordination mechanism," a military front man said.
Afghan authorities had recently accused Pakistain of being involved in festivities in the Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... Islamabad on Tuesday expressed dismay over the allegations and denied that Pak security personnel had anything to do with the unrest.
"The issue of cross-border shelling also came under discussion. The Afghan delegation was told that Pakistain only fires back in self-defence when border posts are attacked or fired upon by gunnies from Afghan territory," the front man said.
The talks between the two sides focused on the ongoing action in North Wazoo and the armed festivities in Helmand in Afghanistan.
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[DAWN] The 111 Brigade of the army and the local police have started surveying the flight path of the Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... International Airport (BBIA) to set up security pickets, it has been learnt.
The security of the airport has already been placed on 'red alert' after the terrorist attack on the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... airport on June 8, a senior security force official said.
The 111 Brigade's senior officers along with the police have started a survey of the surrounding areas of the BBIA, especially those on the flight path, to set up pickets on the rooftops of some of the buildings. Sharpshooters will be deployed on the pickets.
Pickets to be set up on rooftops of buildings under flight path
Another team, comprising intelligence officials, also conducted a survey of the surrounding areas of the airport and suggested the establishment of the security posts on the roads near the airport.
"The objective to deploy sharp shooters is to target any such element in case they try to target any aircraft from the nearby localities during landing or takeoff," a security bigshot said on the condition of anonymity.
He, however, added that it was yet to be decided whether the sharpshooters would be from the army or the police.
During the survey, the army-police team visited Kuri Road, Asghar Mall Road, 4th Road and other areas lying under the flight path.
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[DAWN] The vaccination refusal cases continue to frustrate the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... government's fight against 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... as 17,583 people didn't allow health workers to administer anti-polio drops to their children in high-risk union councils of the IDP hosting districts during the recent campaign.
Among such people were internally displaced persons too.
The campaign had begun on June 23 and lasted three days.
The provincial health department vaccinated 94 per cent of the targeted 581,463 children i.e. 543,854 in Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... , Lakki Marwat, Tank, Karak and Hangu district ... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them... s.
Over 17,580 didn't let their children get vaccinated in recent campaign. Most of the vaccination refusal cases were reported in Bannu and Lakki Marwat.
Among those refusing the children's vaccination were displaced families from North Wazoo, which has been reporting the most polio cases in the country due to the Taliban ban on vaccination since June 2012.
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[DAWN] WITH a scorching sun above, barbed wires flanking both sides to maintain an orderly queue, and coppers patrolling with sticks and guns, Rizwanullah has been waiting for his turn for 10 hours. He is at this sports-complex-turned-relief-camp in Bannu to receive the government's promised ration package. It's 3pm, and he is nowhere near to getting his turn. The camp closes down at 5pm.
"I have eight family members to feed," he says. "I left everything behind, and now I have to stand in this heat. I don't even know whether my turn will come at all today."
Normally a resident of North Wazoo, Rizwanullah is one of the over half a million locals that have fled the army offensive. His hometown is in the tribal belt known to be home to Afghan Taliban, members of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain and their local and foreign affiliates.
As the line crawls along slowly, a young volunteer sporting a neon green jacket with the initials FIF (which stands for the Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation) is giving water to the thirsty IDPs. Dozens of hands reach out to him at the same time, men with parched lips and clothes drenched in sweat, just like Rizwanullah. The FIF volunteer quickly serves one IDP after another, and then moves back to the relief camp set up just outside the sports complex — the only one in the vicinity — for a refill. There's a huge banner which states: "In these tough times, we are standing with you [the IDPs] — Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... ."
The Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), which changed its name to FIF after it was accused of orchestrating the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was recently identified by the United States as a front for one of the world's largest terrorist groups. It was accused of carrying out an attack on an Indian consulate in Afghanistan in May. But in Pakistain, the group once also known as the Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... continues to enjoy state patronage.
"The Pakistain Army is really cooperative towards us," says Mohammad Sarfaraz, the chief organiser of the JuD camp. "We were the first ones to set up a greeting camp to receive the IDPs even though that area was in the red zone. This is the time to win the hearts and minds of these refugees, whom the government is failing. And the North Waziristan people are grateful to us. Many of them have promised to work for us — and that too for life," he proudly adds.
The organization has over 200 volunteers distributing aid across Bannu, with 25 ambulances on standby. Sarfaraz says they have given out more than 112,000 food packets, and provided medical treatment to over 10,000 patients.
And it is not just JuD that is free to operate in this region. Just half a kilometre before the sports complex, a large banner in blood-red colour bears the name of Masood Azhar, and calls him the Ameer-ul-Mujahideen. The camp, which provides water and medical facilities, also has a queue of people waiting to see the doctor.
"There are too many patients at the hospitals so we came here," says an IDP whose child is suffering from diarrhoea. This man is waiting to get medicine from the camp's pharmacist.
At first this camp's organisers are reluctant to speak to me. "We don't talk to the media because you publish anti-Sharia stories," says one of them, identifying himself as Maqsood. But upon my insistence he opens up and even tells me that his organization is involved in jihad in Kashmire and Afghanistan. "We are the soldiers of Allah and we are here to help our Mohammedan brothers," he says.
Behind him, a poster bears a picture of the Eiffel Tower with "Eurabia" written across it in English, below which there is an appeal to contribute to jihad in Syria. "We are carrying out a countrywide donation drive through mosques for the IDPs," he tells me when asked about his source of funding for the relief efforts.
After a few minutes, their senior camp organiser appears and asks me to leave. I head out to a nearby school that has been turned into an IDP camp with the help of a humanitarian organization. As I share my experience with the man there, he tells me that the organization he heads is not being allowed to set up relief camps. "The local authorities are asking us to apply for no-objection certificates while allowing religious and bad boy organizations to operate freely," says Nizam Dawar, who hails from North Waziristan and heads the Tribal Development Network which operated in the tribal belt. "These gunnies are penetrating the vulnerable IDP population to brainwash and recruit them for their purposes," he adds. "Also, these turban organizations may be giving safe passage to the fleeing gunnies who have links with them. Why is the government silent about them?"
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[Telegraph] Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed leader of the 'Islamic State' stretching across Iraq and Syria, has vowed to lead the conquest of Rome as he called on Mohammedans to immigrate to his new land to fight under its banner around the globe.
Baghdadi, who holds a PhD in Islamic studies, said Mohammedans were being targetted and killed from China to Indonesia. Speaking as the first Caliph, or commander of the Islamic faithful since the dissolution of the Ottoman empire, he called on Mohammedans to rally to his pan-Islamic state.
He also called on jihadi fighters to escalate fighting in the holy month of Ramadan, which began on Sunday. "In this virtuous month or in any other month, there is no deed better than jihad in the path of Allah, so take advantage of this opportunity and walk the path of you righteous predecessors," he said. "So to arms, to arms, soldiers of the Islamic s, fight, fight."
In a reflection of the havoc wreaked the past month by the Sunni insurgency led by the group, the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... said more than 2,400 people were killed in Iraq in June, making it the deadliest month in the country in years.
More in the same vein at the link. But a historian friend pointed out an interesting tidbit about the use of Rome in the Muslim historical lexicon. She wrote, with regard to the headline above, "'Rome' in Muslim historical parlance should mean Istanbul. The country we now call Turkey was called, by Turks, Rum: the land taken from the Eastern Romans."
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We should be sensitive enough to not disturb them during their Holy month of Ramadan, during which they sit quietly and contemplate World Peace. Which, I think, translates to Islam in their language. Or was that Submission? It's so confusing.
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It's well past time to start using napalm against these %$&^%#&%$%&%$^, to "light up their life". Napalm and ARCLIGHT, two sure winners, preferably used against the new "Caliph's" home.
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Constantinople was the original Mahdi's goal in the 19th Century. his death and Kitchener intervened.
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Constantinople was the capitol of the Roman Empire. The city called "Rome" was little more than a barbarian's grazing patch at the time.
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I suspect even with a weakened economy a well motivated Italy would clean the clocks of these pimples. And you gotta go through Italy to get the Papal States.
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See also BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Itar-Tass] RUSSIA, GERMANY, FRANCE, UKRAINE REACH PACKAGE OF AGREEMENTS ON TRUCE.
The new Caliphate + "Islamic State" has to get through the Knights of Muscovy, the Teutonic Knights, + The Knights Templar, etc. first.
IMO PUTIN is still working towards a unified JudeoChristian Bloc + Bulwark broadly centered around the Black Sea + Crimea.
PLUS theres also ... ...
* WORLD NEWS > [Yahoo DailY News] JIHADISTS THINKER SAYS ISLAMIC CALIPHATE WILL CAUSE JIHADISTS' INFIGHTING.
Yuuuppp.
This Caliphate is effec setting itself up as the THIRD ISLAMIC/MUSLIM COUNTER-SEE to SAUDI ARABIA + SHIA IRAN - IMO ITS HERE TO STAY FOR A LONG LONG L-O-N-G TIME TO COME, + WILL HAVE TO JUSTIFY ITS LEGITIMACY + EXISTENCE TO BOTH THE ISLAMIC + NON-ISLAMIC WORLDS IN THAT TIME.
Al-Baghdadi definitely gots the cajones or gonads for the above - he + Caliphate aren't going anywhere widout a hard bitter fight.
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We won't have to worry about this for a long time. ISIS will have it's hands full with the Shiites. Afterall, they just demolished the Makam al abas mosque in Mosul. Know that Via Gatewaypundit.
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[Iraq Sun] Sunni fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) Thursday gained control over the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ez-zor and now occupy an area five times the size of Lebanon in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The London-based group, which cited activists in Syria, said ISIS had taken the east of Deir Ez-zor after entering the largest provincial city, Al Mayadeen, and now also controlled the country's main oilfield in Al Omar, with a capacity to produce 73,000 barrels a day.
The breakthrough came as fighters of the Al-Nusra Front, a branch of Al Qaeda in Syria, and other rebel factions pulled out of the province after announcing they would stop fighting the ISIS.
ISIS forces now dominate an area that extends from the eastern city of al-Bukamal, near the Syrian-Iraqi border, to the edges of the northwestern city of Aleppo.
In the north, the Islamists have taken a large part of the border between Syria and Turkey with the exception of the Al Hasaka Kurdish province and some arab villages, while in the south they have reached the central provinces of Hama and Homs.
On June 29, ISIS proclaimed an Islamic caliphate in the large swath of territory it holds across Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
The group has been fighting several other rebel groups in Syria since last January, including the Al-Nusra Front.
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Fine with me if they and Assad go at it for the next 25 years.
[BUSINESSWEEK] Facing an Iraq that is being ripped apart by sectarian violence and a divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... government, leaders of the country's Kurdish region said Thursday they now believe they have a better chance than ever to break away and create an independent nation.
The semi-autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq's north has for years threatened to separate from the rest of the country, and it has feuded with both the Shiite-led government in Baghdad over oil revenues and the Sunni tribes who claim authority over territory the Kurds believe is theirs.
Now, with Baghdad battling a bloody Sunni insurgency, Kurdish officials say Iraq is already split along sectarian and ethnic lines.
"Iraq is divided. We have got a new reality," Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff to Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... , told news hounds Thursday. He was in Washington to update senior B.O. regime officials on Kurdish aspirations for "self-determination" — the region's term for breaking away from the central government in Baghdad.
Hussein said the government of 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... , a Shiite, had for years pushed divisive policies that made Iraq's current unrest inevitable. But he said it became clear in early June, after the 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... took over the northern Sunni hold of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , that the country was breaking into three distinct parts.
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"Joint Chiefs Chairman [Martin] Dempsey is an asshat yes man," he continued. "We have congressional authority to use force for the Iraq War, as it never expired, but people are putting targeting packets through unnecessary bureaucracy to slow events to the point that "-- they hope "-- the situation is overcome by events. Bad call. So fucked. Reads like another chapter in [Robert] Gates's book." Can't really blame Dempsey. He thought the job interview was for an Irish Tenor version of The Village People.
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“Targeting packets for action are going through processes they don’t need to keep us from getting involved,” our source reiterated. “They should be simple, but are being sent to the White House because the lawyers there are notorious for wasting time and looking for an excuse to say ‘No.’”
White House routing of certainly appears to have successfully delayed military action in Benghazi on 9/11.
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It's time to look at facts on the ground, there is an olde French Poem that describes this situation exactal
Un petit d'un petit
S'étonne aux Halles
Un petit d'un petit
Ah! degrés te fallent
Indolent qui ne sort cesse
Indolent qui ne se mène
Qu'importe un petit d'un petit
Tout Gai de Reguennes.
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But if Champ really is the smartest guy in the room, (a better speech writer, etc), then he's also a better targeting guy than anybody else. Must be. So how about, maybe, getting involved in doing something that involves doing something.
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Perhaps the media will compare Mr. Obama to LBJ?
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* See also WASHINGTON FREE BEACON > CAN IRAQI FORCES RECAPTURE LOST GROUND ALONE? US SAYS "PROBABALY NOT".
* RELATED TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > [Various] US GENERAL SUGGESTS US CAN RE-INVADE IRAQ.
* RELATED SAME, BIGNEWSNETWORK > ... ... IFF [US]"NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS DRIVE US THERE | DEMPSEY" NO ASSUALT ON IRAQ UNLESS US THREATENED.
Not that the US will re-invade Iraq , but that it can iff need be.
S A REMINDER, HOW THE BAMMER = USA RESPONDS, OR IN ALTERN DOES NOT RESPOND, VEE IRAQ + ISIS CRISIS, ETC. CAN EASILY REPEAT ITSELF OUT HERE IN EAST ASIA + GUAM-WESTPAC VEE CHINA.
versus
* WORLD NEWS > US MILITARY TO FACE GROWING [Global Jihad-led?]CRISES, FALLING BUDGETS.
* RELATED STARS-N-STRIPES > REPORT: DWINDLING DEFENSE DOLLARS SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON RUSSIA + CHINA.
* TOPIX >[CNN.com] CHINA ENFORCING NEW GEO-STRATEGIC BALANCE: ASIA FOR ASIANS.
Iff Beijing can convince Tokyo = Japan [+ ROK?]to leave the US-West + join its camp.
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this kind of thing is pretty hard to coordinate especially since the members of the sleeper cells are probably no more reliable than militia Iraqis.
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[AnNahar] Dozens of families who fled a Shiite Turkmen town in northern Iraq overrun by Sunni hard boyz want to move south but are stuck in limbo between the Kurdish authorities and bad boys.
The families said they initially fled Tal Afar, part of a swathe of territory across five provinces which fell to jihadist-led fighters in an offensive that began June 9, for the nearby town of Sinjar.
They then moved to camps on the outskirts of Iraq's autonomous three-province Kurdish region, they told AFP.
But land routes to the Shiite-dominated south, which is markedly more stable than the conflict-hit north and west, are controlled by hard boyz led by the jihadist Islamic State (IS) group.
And Kurdish authorities have blocked those fleeing the conflict in northern Iraq from entering the autonomous region without a resident sponsor.
They have also barred them from the regional capital Arbil entirely, meaning they cannot get to the airport to fly south.
"When we arrived at the camp, they provided us with food, but we do not want to live in a camp," said Murtada Qassem, who fled Tal Afar to Sinjar, and then later to a camp bordering the Kurdish region.
"We want to go to the south, to get jobs and better housing," the father of seven said.
Kadhim Naqi, a 64-year-old with nine children, added that his family wanted to move south because "there is no war or dispute there... It is more stable."
Around 1.2 million people have been displaced within Iraq by unrest this year, including hundreds of thousands who fled their homes following the recent myrmidon offensive.
Many have sought refuge in hotels in Kurdistan as tourists, thereby evading the requirement for a local sponsor, but a large number have been prevented from entering the autonomous area because they have not found a resident to support their entry.
As a result, they have been forced to stay in camps near Al-Khazar checkpoint, the main entry route from Arab areas of northern Iraq to Arbil.
"The situation is very difficult, and our policy now is to settle those refugees in the camps," said Dindar Zebari, deputy chief of the Kurdish foreign relations department.
Zebari said those in the camps were free to leave, but without safe overland routes and with air transport inaccessible, they have little option but to stay.
Amnesia Amnesty International, which has expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... that the region's minorities were being specifically targeted by IS, said Wednesday most of the families stranded on the edge of Iraqi Kurdistan were Turkmen.
The Kurdistan regional government has "an obligation to allow Iraqi civilians seeking to flee the fighting to enter or transit through KRG areas," said Donatella Rovera, the London-based rights watchdog's Senior Crisis Response Adviser.
[AnNahar] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... said Thursday it sees no let-up in refugees fleeing war-ravaged Syria for neighboring Jordan, and appealed for funds to help the kingdom cope with the influx.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said it expects the number of Syrian refugees in Jordan to increase by as much as 33 percent to up to 800,000 by the end of this year.
The agency said Jordan was in desperate need of $2.6 billion (1.9 billion euros) to care for the refugees.
"We expect that the number of (Syrian) refugees will continue to increase to some 700,000-800,000 by the end of this year," said Andrew Harper, representative of the UNHCR in Jordan.
"There is a regional response plan and national response plan, in which many aspects are still being finalized... basically $1 billion for the refugees and $1.6 billion for supporting Jordan's hosting community."
The UNHCR had so far received $400 million for the more than 600,000 Syrian refugees that Jordan is already hosting.
"We need generous and real support which is not measured in the short term... but which goes on for many years to come because the situation in Syria and Iraq is catastrophic," said Harper.
The Syrian war has caused the worst refugee crisis since the Rwandan genocide of the mid-1990s, with half the population having fled their homes, including nearly three million people mainly sheltering in neighboring countries.
In December, the U.N. appealed for around $6.5 billion for victims of Syria's war, and $2.3 billion was pledged at a Kuwait donors' conference in January.
But U.N. officials have said their 2014 plan is only 25 percent funded.
"We are underfunded and we are afraid that... the quality of services we are providing for both Jordanian citizens and Syrian refugees... are witnessing deterioration actually," Jordan's Planning Minister Ibrahim Saif said.
"If the international community wants Jordan to continue its current policies to help the refugees, it needs to provide aid to the kingdom," he told a joint news conference with Harper.
[Ynet] 'There's a possibility of nuclear leak in the area after two rockets hit the Dimona nuclear reactor,' hackers post on IDF Spokesman's English Twitter account.
The IDF Spokesman's English Twitter account scared its 250,000 followers on Thursday when it tweeted: "There's a possibility of nuclear leak in the area after two rockets hit the Dimona nuclear reactor."
But it soon turned out the account has been hacked.
"We apologize for the incorrect tweets," the IDF Spokesman's Office wrote after deleting the misleading message. "Our twitter account was compromised. We will combat terror on all fronts including the cyber dimension."
The Syrian Electronic Army grabbed credit for the hacking, posting a screenshot on its Twitter page to prove it.
[IsraelTimes] A new Paleostinian jihadist group pledging allegiance to the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIL) has grabbed credit for the killing of three Israeli teenagers last month in the West Bank, as well as other recent deadly attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians.
In a statement posted on jihadi websites Tuesday, the Supporters of the Islamic State in Bayt al-Maqdis said it was behind the capture and killing of "the three soldiers" in Hebron (actually, it was in the nearby Etzion bloc), sniper attacks in Hebron and Tarqumia, and missile launches from Gazoo into Israel a month and a half ago.
The actions were carried out in honor of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed "caliph" of the Islamic State, the reincarnation of the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (ISIL) declared last month, the statement said.
"We are not a partisan group like the humiliated organizations, many of whose leaders sold their religion for the benefit of politics," the communique read, in a critique of both Fatah and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
"They have entered polytheistic parliaments and allied themselves with heathens and Shiite leaders, transferring their preaching and religion to the West Bank and Gazoo, God help us."
Aaron Zelin, a Richard Borow Fellow at the Washington Institute and expert on global jihadist organizations, said he knew nothing of the group.
"It is difficult to assess whether it's legitimate," he said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has held Hamas responsible for the killing of Gil-ad Shaar, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrah on June 12. On Wednesday, Hamas front manSami Abu Zuhri ...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... refuted a report by Sky News Arabia claiming that the movement's political chief Khaled Mashaal had denied Hamas's involvement. Abu Zuhri said Hamas "has no information on the subject."
Israel's two prime suspects in the killing — Marwan Kawasme, 29, and Amar Abu Aysha, 32 — are both member of Hamas activists in Hebron.
The jihadist statement threatened both Israel and Paleostinian Authority leaders with death and destruction.
"Our message to the Jews in Bayt al-Maqdis [the Islamic term for Jerusalem] and its environs: by occupying the land of the Mohammedans in Paleostine ⦠you have opened a door that cannot be shut unless you leave [the land] humiliated ⦠or [are] killed, the way you found the putrid bodies of your three soldiers. We carry in our pockets black days for you.
"To the leadership of the heretic [Paleostinian] Authority: We have surprises for you that will shake your thrones and end your aggression against Mohammedans in the West Bank and Gazoo. You have killed us and and rebelled against God ⦠wait for us, we will come to slaughter and kill you. We shall not fail the oppressed Mohammedans until we free every believer from your prisons."
An unknown group named Hezbollah Brigades also grabbed credit for the abduction last month, saying it was retribution for the 2008 liquidation of Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh.
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In a statement posted on jihadi websites Tuesday, the Supporters of the Islamic State in Bayt al-Maqdis Not-Hamas said it was behind the capture and killing of "the three soldiers" in Hebron
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[Ynet] Former head of the Shin Bet, Avi Dichter said that Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, was trying to provoke Israel into conflict, but said that should Israel chose to fight the group it would take it more than a year to root out terror from the Gazoo Strip.
"Hamas is trying to push into another rough of rocket exchanges, and our mission is to destroy their terror and military infrastructure.
"This is a long operation, which can take a year or more, and we should time it carefully according to military needs and political conditions. We must act from our brain, not our gut."
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We need to "loan" Israel a dozen BUFFs, and maybe even the aircrews to fly them. A dozen loads each down the Gaza Strip from north to south would take care of the problem permanently, and it wouldn't take much more than a week or so. Expensive, but it only takes once. Any survivors can be exiled to Egypt or Syria. Let them tell all about their experiences.
This whole "islamic jihad" pile of crap has me wanting to go berserk on all the muddled east, but with conventional, not nuclear, weapons. I have absolutely no sympathy for any muslim, regardless of flavor.
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Malaysia is expelling four million illegal aliens from Indonesia as we speak...Jooz only have to put their pants on and do the same...PROBLEM SOLVED
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[Ynet] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' military wing threatened Israel with more rockets on Thursday in presser in the Gazoo Strip on Thursday in light of the escalation of violence.
"Any foolish move the Israeli leadership makes will put Israeli towns in the range of our rockets. We will strike new targets," an Izz ad-Din al-Qassam front man said.
Israel warned Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, Thursday against any escalation in violence, reinforcing its Gazoo border amid continued rocket fire and heightened tensions after three Israeli youths and a Paleostinian teenager were murdered.
"We are looking for calm, not escalation, but if Hamas chooses to act against us, we shall be ready," armed forces chief Lieutenant General Benny Gantz said in remarks tweeted by the army.
[AnNahar] The vague group known as the Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade vowed to task gunnies to attack churches in Leb and in the eastern Bekaa valley in particular.
The Brigade announced on its twitter account that a "specialized group of free jihadists were tasked with cleansing the Islamic state of Bekaa in particular and in Leb in general from the churches."
"We will target crusaders in the state and in Leb to silence the ringing of the bells," the group said.
The Brigade recently pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, previously known as the Islamic State of the Iraq and the Levant.
The Islamic State declared over the weekend the establishment of the "Islamic caliphate" led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ordering ordered Mohammedans worldwide to pledge allegiance to their chief, in a spectacular bid to extend their authority.
A "caliphate" is an Islamic form of government last seen under the Ottoman Empire.
The mysterious Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade had in the past claimed that it is an affiliate of the 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... , but the ISIL later denied that.
On March 16, the Brigade engaged in a war of words with the al-Nusra Front in Leb, believed to be a local franchise of the Syria-based, Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front.
The dispute erupted after both groups grabbed credit on Twitter for a deadly suicide kaboom that rocked the Bekaa town of al-Nabi Othman.
The Brigade has grabbed credit for several rocket and kabooms inside Leb, the last of which were the suicide kabooms in Dahr al-Baydar and Raouche's Duroy Hotel.
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Mebbe they'll melt the bells down for ammo? Waste not, want not.
[AnNahar] Security forces and the army have taken strong measures around the country's largest prison over terrorist networks run by inmates and a plan to escape from the facility, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Thursday.
The daily quoted security officials as saying that the ISF temporarily prevented the passage of vehicles on the road leading to Roumieh prison after suspects told Sherlocks that bully boyz were plotting an attack using a bomb-laden truck and inmates were planning a massive escape.
The ISF cited "security reasons" for the heavy measures, which went into effect on Tuesday night, but the officials said police had information that two of the prison's Islamist inmates were managing cells outside the facility.
"A terrorist network that has been recently busted is directly linked to the two prisoners," they told al-Akhbar.
The authorities have announced the arrest in the past weeks of several suspected bully boyz plotting to carry out suicide kabooms in Leb.
Previous attacks have been claimed by myrmidons, who have vowed to carry out more assaults to avenge the presence of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... fighters in Syria.
The Shiite party has sent its members to the neighboring country to fight alongside Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's troops against the Sunni rebels.
Dozens of Islamist inmates are held in Roumieh. They are awaiting trial for their alleged involvement in the festivities between Fatah al-Islam A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Lebanon pot stirred. terrorist group and the Lebanese army in the Paleostinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in 2007.
The emir of the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra in al-Qalamoun has recently promised in an audio message to free the Islamist prisoners "within days."
Abou Malek al-Shami described the inmates as "Moslem captives and jihadist brethren."
[AnNahar] Syrian refugees will constitute more than a third of Leb's population by the end of 2014, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said Thursday, warning of an increasingly unsustainable burden to the economy.
A report released in Beirut said the number of refugees will be 1.5 million by December, or a third of the country's population of four million.
Some 53 percent of the Syrian refugees in the country are children, the report added.
"We no longer have the capacity to carry this burden alone... We have crossed all limits," Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas said at a gathering of officials, ambassadors and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees representative, Ninette Kelley.
Leb currently hosts 1.1 million refugees, the highest number at 38 percent of Syrian refugees fleeing the war-torn country for other countries in the region.
The U.N. says the country needs $1.6 billion (1.2 billion euros) for 2014 to be able to cope with the refugee crisis, but that only 23 percent of this has been gathered.
"We are really facing critical and dire challenges," the UNHCR's Kelley said.
"With the current level of funding... will not meet the target that we set... (to have) over 172.000 children in school next year."
She also warned that the UNHCR "will not be able to launch a 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... vaccination campaign for all children in Leb under five", should the necessary funding fail to materialize.
Kelley said 800,000 refugees will be unequipped to face winter, and 30,000 people including Lebanese will not have access to safe drinking water without the necessary financing.
"We need you to stand with us, we need you to stand with Leb to ensure that more funding is secured," she said, addressing donor countries.
Also on Thursday, the United Nations launched a similar appeal in Jordan, where some 600,000 Syrians have sought refuge since war broke out in their homeland three years ago.
According to Central Bank of Leb statistics, the country faces a financial burden of $4.5 billion because of the refugee crisis.
In May, the International Monetary Fund said unemployment had doubled to 20 percent because of the refugee influx. It also warned growth was two percent lower than before the crisis.
Last December, the U.N. appealed for $6.5 billion for Syria war victims. It received $2.3 billion, and officials say the 2014 plan for the region has received just a quarter of the pledged funds.
[Ynet] Nine members of a Syrian-Jewish family brought into Israel secretly in undercover mission. 'They have no home but Israel,' official involved mission tells Ynet.
A Syrian-Jewish family has been secretly smuggled into Israel and out of harms way in a dramatic rescue operation, it was cleared for publication Thursday.
This was the first time in over three years of the Syrian civil war that a Jewish family has left the war-torn country for Israel. They made the secretive journey in a number of tranches until they reunited before with the family just before Independence Day at the beginning of May this year.
The story has been known for some time now, but because the operation was still taking place, it was put under censor. Even now, the story's full details can not be published.
In the first stage the mother and the eldest son crossed into with the help of both Israelis and non-Israelis who cannot be identified. After a few weeks additional family members made their way into Israel.
A source closely involved in the issue told Ynet that "what is amazing is that out of nine million Syrians who have been left without a home, these nine have a home and it is the State of Israel. We must understand that if they wouldn't have made it to Israel, they would have remained homeless.
"When they left they were afraid, but more from the possible ramification it could have on Israel."
According to assessments, only a handful of Syria's once-thriving Jewish community still lives in the country. Like the holy sites of Christians, those belonging to Jews have also been targeted or at least fallen victim to fighting.
Most notably, the Eliyahu Hanabi Synagogue in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, which was ruined at the end of May when the regime attempted to overcome rebels in the area. It is one of the world's oldest synagogues and is believed to be on the place Elijah the prophet anointed his student Elisha to be a prophet.
[Telegraph] Terrorists are plotting to use new stealth bombs in laptops and even humans to bring down a US-bound passenger plane, it is feared.
Airport security was increased across the UK, US and other countries amid fears al-Qaeda bomb experts have successfully designed a new explosive that can bypass current checks.
They are believed to be targeting the thousands of Western jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq as would-be jacket wallahs.
The threat, which originated from US intelligence, had an immediate impact at British airports where passengers were subjected to more stringent and rigorous security checks.
It raises the prospect of a summer of delays and chaos for holidaymakers with long queues at airports.
David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... , the Prime Minister, said the safety of passengers "must come first" while Nick Clegg, the Deputy PM, warned travellers the new checks would be a permanent feature.
Changes to security measures were announced after Washington homeland security secretary Jeh Johnson ordered beefed-up security at foreign airports which have direct flights to the US.
There are concerns that al-Qaeda snuffies in Yemen, known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and specifically its master bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, have linked up with the Jabhat Al-Nusra jihadists in Syria and passed on bomb making skills.
It is feared a new type of explosive has been developed that will not be picked up under normal checks.
It remains unclear whether that could be deployed in an electronic item such as a laptop, a liquid based explosive soaked on clothing or even surgically implanted in a bomber. All such techniques have been tried by Asiri in the past.
At Heathrow, passengers were being asked to turn on laptops, mobile phones and other electronics as they passed through security. Staff were also swabbing all electronic items, clothing and shoes to check for traces of explosives. Shoes and belts had to be removed and travellers were subject to "vigorous" physical searches, according to one passenger.
The threat centres on the thousands of Western jihadists, including hundreds of Britons, who are fighting in Syria and Iraq. It is feared they will be taught bomb-making skills by Asiri and AQAP and then sent back to target planes.
Asiri was the criminal mastermind behind an underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jet over bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... on Christmas Day 2009 and a more sophisticated version which was intercepted in a CIA sting operation three years later. He also designed the powerful bomb hidden in printer ink cartridges which was intercepted at a UK airport en route to the US in 2010, where it was timed to detonate over the east coast.
Downing Street said there was an "evolving threat" and people should continue to fly but allow "appropriate time" to go through security.
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