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Someone told me that Walid Shoebat is discredited, he can't prove having been a Palestinian terrorist, etc. I hadn't the knowledge to argue with her, though that doesn't sound right at all. Ladies and gentlemen of Rantburg, your assistance please!
The executive director of Human Rights Watch and another senior staff member were denied entry to Egypt for "security reasons" after being held at the Cairo airport for 12 hours, two of the group's staff said on Monday.
Kenneth Roth and Sarah Leah Whitson had flown to Cairo to take part in publication of a report to be released on Tuesday on the mass killings of protesters by security forces last year, in the aftermath of then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's ouster of elected Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.
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With the visible bloody hand of barbarism now upon the world, these NGOs are displaying their real calling, ambulance chasing. Time to raise some more cash from the gullible.
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no 24-hour catering I imagine. And seeing those children beheaded for the crime not converting to the Religion of Peace kind of makes them feel queesey - almost guilty.
But don't worry - after someone else has scarified treasure and blood to solve the problem they will be more than happy to jump in, take credit, and blame those who did all the work for the mess and carnage.
What did the Diplomad call them - I think it was the 'Vampire Vulture Elite'. (But I think he was talking more about the U.N...)
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Human Rights Watch is too cowardly to go observe what the ISIL is doing so they pick a nice safe target in Egypt to justify their shilling for donations.
When HRW says something about Boko Haram, ISIL, and the Taliban, I'll consider them reliable. Because they only seem to comment on US "atrocities" or Israeli "atrocities", they are just a punk leftist parasite.
Give me a few minutes and I will tell you what I really think about them, Amnesty International, NOW, and all of the other US bashing, turning a blind eye, ignoring the truth organizations getting air and print time for no reason other than their sewage supports the empty suit narrative.
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[MAGHAREBIA] With the continued influx of refugees from Libya, Tunisia fears its already battered economy will not be able to withstand the extra burden.
The flood of Libyan refugees could lead to a 10% increase in the subsidy bill, Tunisian government spokesperson Nidhal Ouerfelli warned on Saturday (August 2nd), adding that the current economy could not cope with the additional expense.
To escape the security chaos, tens of thousands of Libyan nationals and the country's foreign workers have recently fled across the border to Tunisia. This is on top of the estimated two million Libyans living in Tunisia since 2011.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Tunisian journalist Nouredine Mbarki, a political analyst and observer of myrmidon organizations, is making the rounds of the international press to discuss security in his country. Magharebia met with him in Tunis to find out why he's so worried.
Magharebia: In recent appearances on Arab satellite TV channels, you have been sounding the alarm about the terror threat to Tunisia. Is the situation worse than we think?
Nouredine Mbarki: Threats facing Tunisia have gone beyond the phase of speculation and analysis, or as some political actors describe it- a "scarecrow"...
First, there is a Tunisian group that is embracing jihad and has already carried out operations. Second is the situation in Libya [and] groups in influential positions, where they can provide shelter to Tunisian jihadist leaders. And third is the return of Tunisian jihadists from Syria and Iraq. Security and intelligence reports confirm that these groups are preparing for terrorist acts.
The terrorist threat in Tunisia has become a reality….
Magharebia: The president recently called for reconciliation with forces of Evil who lay down arms and abandon battlefields. Do you support the move?
Mbarki: The final form of that law is still unclear: will it be a new law, or an article in the new terrorism law? However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... steps have been certainly taken in this regard, and it appears we have benefited from the experiences of other countries in dealing with terrorist groups.
This is a response to calls by many political actors and civil society activists about the need not to place all those who travelled to Syria in the same basket, given that some "have been deceived".
Magharebia: Will reintegrating repentant forces of Evil solve the problem?
Mbarki: Terrorism in Tunisia has reached an advanced stage, and therefore, needs to be dealt with using all necessary mechanisms that can prevent it from expanding. Such mechanisms include the repentance law, especially as the countries that resorted to the move did so following very bloody and long years of conflict with terrorism…
A repentance law in Tunisia may realise its political, social and security goals, such as isolating the hard core of those groups from those who joined such groups for material or even psychological reasons, and want to withdraw but don't know how.
The repentance laws and reconciliation initiatives are only small rings in a long chain of measures to combat terrorism, and can't replace the security, social, psychological, and religious approaches in combating this phenomenon.
In the countries that underwent such an experience, terrorism was not eliminated.
Magharebia: What else must be done?
Mbarki: Such laws and reconciliation initiatives need to have an infrastructure capable of embracing those who decide to repent and rehabilitate them socially, psychologically, and religiously, and monitor them after they graduate from these 'rehabilitation programmes'.
Progress needs to be made in combating all incubators of terrorism; the mosques that are under Lion of Islams' control, discourse of incitement and takfir, and associations that have unknown sources of financing.
Magharebia: What will happen when Tunisians return from fighting in Iraq and Syria?
Mbarki: Through previous experiences, especially the "return of Arab Afghans" in the mid-1990s after the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan, and also after the fall of the "Taliban emirate" in 2001, we notice that [handling] the return to home countries is governed by two factors: the presence of a fatwa directing those fighters to go to other battlefields, and the danger they pose to security...
For Tunisians in Iraq and Syria, we notice that the return is still restricted to those who were recruited to fight, not the leaders.
We can understand this to mean that Tunisia has not yet turned into a main battlefield… for jihadists from other nationalities "to join the Tunisian front".
Magharebia: What drives someone to leave home to fight in Syria or Iraq?
Mbarki: We can't understand affiliation to these groups and full involvement in them based on just one factor; there is a set of interconnected factors that lead to full and organic involvement.
These include poverty. This is understood from the spread of these groups in popular neighbourhoods and disadvantaged internal areas, such as Sidi Bouzid, Kasserine, Jendouba, etc.
Cultural and religious factors can't be ignored; such groups expand and spread when there is a vacuum.
Magharebia: How did we get to this point?
Mbarki: Throughout the last decade, Tunisia has lived in real cultural vacuum because of the policy of the former regime, which subjected all things to its political purposes. Youth institutions are almost non-functional and cultural clubs are almost absent.
The official religious discourse was also distorted and subjected to political authority; something that made it unable to stop the proponents of those groups whose discourse could reach youths through satellite channels and the internet.
After January 14th, 2011, those groups, supported by significant financial resources and political coverage from the troika parties that won the election and formed the government, found ample space to move.
Magharebia: How do you distinguish between internal and external dangers to Tunisia?
Mbarki: Terrorism is no longer an internal threat.
We can't just think that the source of threats facing Tunisia is from within; jihadist groups don't believe in nationalism or national borders, and therefore, internal and external threats are the same.
Magharebia: Do you think that the law will deter or constrain terrorists?
Mbarki: The terrorism law is a mechanism in the hands of executive authority; it may help achieve security and judicial progress by besieging and restricting terrorists. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... it would be wrong to think it will be enough to deter these groups…
Magharebia: Now that we're about to hold legislative and presidential election in Tunisia, how do you see the future of political Islam in Tunisia?
Mbarki: Political Islam, through the Ennahda movement, is still trying to maintain its place in the general scene in the country by embracing a discourse based on a civil state, law and institutions, the rejection of terrorism, and the call for moderation. Such a discourse resonates well both inside and outside Tunisia.
However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... we must also say that Ennahda's experiment in government has shown that it was very tolerant with jihadists and tried to defend them against charges of terrorism at a certain stage. In addition, it has failed in running the economic and social files; something that has affected its standing and they know it.
It will have a presence in the general scene after the next election, but it won't be the same as it was before 2011.
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[MAGHAREBIA] News about a Moroccan national who leads an Islamic State (ISIS) brigade in Syria is raising talk about Islamist jihadists in northern Morocco.
Mohammed Hamdouch, a 28-year-old jihadist who is also a member of the Islamic council of the organization, appeared in a video cutting off the heads of five people.
Before fighting in Syria, he ran a clothing business in Fnideq and was recruiting jihadists from the area.
A fortnight ago, Moroccan security services also tossed in the slammer I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! a French jihadist in Tangier for seeking to recruit fighters and send them to organizations loyal to al-Qaeda.
Analysts say that northern Morocco has become a fertile breeding ground for radicalisation.
According to Human Rights Defence Association Chairman Lahbib Haji, the region is more conservative than elsewhere in Morocco.
"Furthermore, they are permanently in contact with Moroccans who have settled in Europe. That makes it easier to recruit them," the Tetouan barrister said.
The cells recruit members from underprivileged areas, he noted.
Mediterranean Strategic Analysis and Intelligence Company head Mountacir Zian puts forward other factors to explain the phenomenon.
"The northern region has been neglected, if not completely forgotten, since independence," he said.
"What also sets the north apart from the interior of the kingdom is the lack of zawiyas, (brotherhoods), which are centres for spirituality," Zian said.
The zawiya enables "religion to be separated from politics," he added. "It is a place for debate, where people can devote themselves to all the spiritual practices. But that's completely lacking in the north," Zian explained.
Writer Abbassi Mustapha tells Magharebia: "For a long time we've been drawing people's attention to the existence of international fundamentalism in the northern region," he said.
Now, women, old and young, "are being radicalised and setting off for jihad to join their husbands", he commented.
He noted the ties between turbans and street crime.
"The facts show that murderous Moslems have always had connections with this easy money," he explained. "It's this money that allows them to set up cells. In fact, the jihadists who have been arrested have links with drug trafficking, car theft and all kinds of illegal activity."
"This is why the north has become fertile ground for the development of jihadist cells, particularly in Fnideq, Martil, Tetouan, Laarache and Tangier, to a lesser degree," he told Magharebia.
"The majority of these work in smuggling, have a history of drug trafficking, or are street vendors with connections to smuggling," the journalist said.
This pattern is now taking on an international dimension, he concluded.
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[AnNahar] The Central African Republic named it first Mohammedan prime minister on Sunday as part of an effort to create a more inclusive government and end more than a year of sectarian violence.
Mahamat Kamoun, formerly a special advisor to interim President Catherine Samba-Panza, will lead a transitional government that is seeking to implement a precarious ceasefire signed late last month.
He was appointed by presidential decree, according to an announcement on state radio by a front man for the presidency.
A specialist in finance, Kamoun was the director general of the treasury under former president Francois Bozize, in power from 2003 to March 2013.
Together with Samba-Panza, a Christian, he faces the difficult task of revitalizing a delicate political transition aimed at ending deadly sectarian violence and disarming militias in one of Africa's poorest countries.
Representatives of the main groups involved in the fighting -- the mainly MohammedanSeleka ...a 'mainly' Moslem rebel force in the Central African Republic that overthrew the govt, imposed a regime of rapine and looting on the country's non-Moslem population, and was then tossed by France. They still exist, getting funding and weapons from somewhere or other, licking their wounds, complaining about the oppression of Moslems, and occasionally raping and looting someone... rebel coalition and predominantly Christian anti-balaka forces -- signed a tentative ceasefire at talks in neighboring Congo in July.
As part of that agreement, the government stepped-down on Tuesday in order to make way for one that is more inclusive.
The anti-balaka (anti-machete) forces were formed following the overthrow of Bozize by the Seleka coalition in March 2013.
The Seleka carried out a campaign of violence against the majority Christian community in the aftermath of the takeover, prompting the creation of the vigilante militia.
Thousands have died and around a quarter of the country's 4.5 million population have been displaced in the conflict. Much of the country's Mohammedan community have fled their homes, with others sheltering in camps.
Despite the peace accord, tensions remain high in the country, where this week several Seleka snuffies were killed in a clash with French peacekeepers and rival anti-balaka factions fought in Bangui.
Of course. And this all is an artifact of World War I and Britain's silly dividing up of the Middle East immediately subsequent. France was involved, too, I realize, but they aren't issuing fatuities at the moment, being rather busy dealing with jihadis in Mali and such.
[Iran Press TV] The 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States and the UK has led to the rise of Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Lion of Islam group ISIL in the country, Britannia's former foreign secretary David Miliband admits.
Expressing regret over the UK's involvement in the war, Miliband told the Observer on Saturday that the outcome of the Iraq war after almost a decade "induces a high degree of humility."
"It's clearly the case that the invasion of Iraq, or more importantly what happened afterwards, is a significant factor in understanding the current situation in the country," he said.
Asked whether the conflict had led him to regret voting in support of the Iraq war, Miliband said he regrets it because he made the decision "on the basis of upholding the norms of respect to weapons of mass destruction, and there were none."
The former minister urged British authorities to accept the responsibility for the Iraq war, saying that the consequences of the war have left the public in Britannia and the US unwilling to support any military intervention in other parts of the world.
Miliband's remarks, however, contrast with those offered by Britannia's former prime minister Tony Blair, who dismissed as "bizarre" the view that the war had led to the development of terrorist groups such as the ISIL in the country.
UK forces participated in the US-led invasion of Iraq in a blatant violation of international law in 2003 under the pretext that the regime of Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. No such weapons were ever discovered in Iraq.
The crisis in Iraq escalated after the ISIL Takfiri forces of Evil took control of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , in a lightning advance on June 10, which was followed by the fall of Tikrit, located 140 kilometers (87 miles) northwest of the capital Baghdad.
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Asked whether the conflict had led him to regret voting in support of the Iraq war, Miliband said he regrets it because he made the decision "on the basis of upholding the norms of respect to weapons of mass destruction, and there were none."
Notice the use of the term "norms of respect" as opposed to dozens of UN Resolutions against Saddam? Resolutions that were hollow threats until the U.S. led coalition moved against a tyrant. Dr. David Kelly might take exception to that last sentence, that is, if he had not been murdered.
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The left in the U.S. keeps insisting that Iraq was an illegal war no matter that U.N. resolutions justified such an action. The U.S. Congress voted in favor of going into Iraq. Intelligence is probably never as certain as one would like it to be. The intelligence services of the West believed that Iraq had WMDs. Saddam has used chemical weapons against the Kurds. Tyrants in the M.E. seemed to prefer these WMDs. Syria has used these WMDs more recently. It is time to put these old shibboleths of the left away and move on. We still need to keep an eye on terrorist and proxy groups who would use these WMDs and respond appropriately.
What I gather from the interview is that Russian nationalists are having a hard time recruiting and getting local support. Bezler has also said that fighters from Serbska have joined the nationalists, as well as fighters from elsewhere.
Also indicated is that the Russian nationalists have been recruiting and requisitioning ( i.e pressing and stealing) to support their activities. He said that local warlords have come up in both Lugansk and Donetsk regions, but that support in Novorossia (near the border with Ukraina) for Lugansk and Donetsk is weak due to a lack of unity.
While Bezler refused to answer questions about the state of supply of small arms and ammunition, he did later admit his forces were dealing with problems with arms, ammunition, uniforms and equipment. He protested that Russian nationalists in Ukraina needed financial help. He also reiterated the lack of human resources for the war. That is indicated when a writer asked about basic services in a city after a victory, which Bezler dismissed as being unable to do that and also prosecute the war.
Bezler was asked about what he would do to members of the "punisher" battalions such as the Azov Battalion if captured. He told the writer that he would deal with them according to the laws of war: humanely. In response to a question about the presumed looting going on in Gorlovka, he said not all has been looted, and not much is worth looting. But looters were be dealt with according to the laws of war.
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] The former Chief of the Australian Army, professor Peter Leahy, has warned that Australia needs to prepare itself for a century-long war, both overseas and at home, against radical Islamic bully boys.
Currently the director of the National Security Institute at the University of Canberra, professor Leahy told Daily Mail Australia that as a liberal, secular society, Australia is perceived as 'the far enemy' by radical Islamic groups and individuals, and would no doubt continue to be targeted.
'We are already affected in that there are places that would be wise for us not to travel to and there have been terrorist bombings in places that we do travel to, as we can see from 9/11 and both of the Bali bombings,' Mr Leahy said.
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It won't last that long. They will do most of the killing of EACH OTHER. Do they invent anything? Do they just borrow or steal?
Its already over. Just a matter of watching them fall down slowly.
And its not like they were really good soldiers to begin with, is it?
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The war is already going on. It has its ebbs and flows. It rises and then it gets beat down for awhile. If one counts all these ebbs and flows, we have already been at it longer than 100 years with these jackasses.
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Anon1, We passed the Patriot Act here. Sounds similar to what you are talking about. The Islamics have taken advantage of our freedoms. It is a challenge for Democracies to balance freedoms vs. security. Ben Franklin is attributed with saying the following: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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Anon1. We have the Bill of Rights which guarantees individual liberties. Included are in these rights are freedom of religion and the right to bear arms. Didn't Australia outlaw arms in Australia a few years back? We have assaults on these freedoms all the time. I don't know what you do when religious adherents are determined to undermine your government, way of life, and culture--there is that supremacy notion within Islam. We are still picking our way through that.
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The moslems have been at war for 1400 years, since by definition any territory not subjugated is Dar al-Harb. Why would it stop now? Rome utterly destroyed Carthage. What is going to be today's equivalent for the West against Islam?
[IsraelTimes] Italia's Jewish leadership called a new wave of anti-Jewish signposting in Rome "an alarm bell that cannot be ignored," suggesting that it appeared to link far-left and far-right factions.
Renzo Gattegna, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, issued the warning after fliers urging a boycott of Jewish-owned stores in the capital were discovered plastered on walls in several districts of Rome on Saturday.
The fliers were signed by an extreme-right group, "Vita Est Militia," but its pro-Paleostinian text echoed slogans of the far-left.
"We are witnessing with concern the solidifying of the holy warrior underworld in the name of a common anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hatred, whose most violent mode of expressions, still partially latent, risks forming a danger to the entire national collective," Gattegna said.
The fliers said that "boycotting any type of Jewish product or business is fundamental to stop the massacre in Paleostine," claiming that "every shop, factory and business under Jewish ownership sends a percentage of its profits to Israel to furnish weapons and continue to kill those who have a right to live in their own homeland."
The fliers listed by name more than 40 clothing stores, butcher shops, restaurants and bars, and hotels, which, they said, were owned by Jews.
Since the fighting in Gazoo broke out, there have been several instances of anti-Jewish graffiti in Rome and elsewhere in Italia. Last week, for example, unknown vandals scrawled "Judey pigs we will kill you a lot" in ungrammatical English on the wall of the synagogue in the northeast town of Gorizia. In all cases, authorities sharply condemned the vandalism, removed the graffiti, and ordered police investigations. News reports said three extreme right-wing activists are under investigation for scrawling anti-Semitic graffiti in Rome at the end of July.
In his statement, Gattegna thanked the authorities for the "firmness" of their response.
[IsraelTimes] Organizers of a demonstration against anti-Semitism in Sweden cancelled the event amid fears of violence and disturbances to public order.
The demonstration was supposed to take place in Gothenburg on Thursday by at least 100 people, but the two organizers cancelled because would-be participants said they were too afraid to show up, the Göteborgs-Posten daily reported.
"At the last minute we learned that many Jews are afraid to come, and that there were rumors that people will come and try to destroy the demonstration and crash it to spread political messages," organizers Elin Schwartz and Kaino Nordgren wrote on Facebook to announce the cancellation.
They added they could not verify the rumors but, said "we are two individuals and as organizers dare not take upon ourselves the responsibility of ensuring everyone's safety." They also wrote:
"Had we had more time, we could find out more about the threat, but now we feel that we need to postpone."
No new time or venue was set.
Also on Thursday, a well-known Swedish hip-hop music artist, Jacques Mattar, wrote on the picture-sharing social network Instagram that Zionists created the ISIS jihadist group.
Posting a picture of dead bodies, he wrote: "The media aren't there. Why? The same people who created ISIS control the media: Senior Zionists."
Mattar, who is known by his stage name Jacco and who is a member of the popular band Labyrint, removed the remark about Zionists from his Instagram account shortly after posting it, the Dagens Nyheter daily reported.
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Apparently at a recent pro-Israel demonstration in Norway, when the small crowd was threatened by a large, loud, and potentially violent anti-Israel counter-demonstration, the police made the pro-Israel people leave "to protect the peace". So that may be something the Judeophile Swedes were thinking about.
On Saturday, August 9, Kurdish Canadians and their allies staged a rally in solidarity with Yazidi Kurds who face a genocide at the hands of Islamic State Arab jihadis in Iraq. Unfortunately, pro-Hamas Islamists staged a counter rally across the street and tried to drown out the Kurds, who were visibly disturbed that instead of joining them, these mostly Arab Canadians were mocking them and taunting them with slurs of being 'Zionist agents' and 'American agents'. link is to youtube video
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[DAWN] LAHORE: The government action to lock down Punjab to stop Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) supporters from heading to Lahore started biting the industry across the province as it disrupted the local supply chain as well as delayed export shipments.
The Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... government had used large containers to block highways to bar PAT workers from reaching Lahore from the across the province to participate in its Sunday protest, making travel and cargo movement from one city to another almost impossible.
"There has been no cargo movement from or to any city in Punjab for the last couple of days. Police have impounded tens of containers, many of them loaded with explosive chemicals, to block highways in the province as well as roads in Lahore to immobilise protestors; others are stranded on the highways," noted Aftab Vohra, a business leader who runs a customs clearing company in Lahore.
"This situation is resulting in shortage of imported raw material for the local industry and delaying export shipments," he added.
The businessmen said they were really worried about the situation in the province as a consequence of violent festivities in different parts and the blockade of travel and cargo movement.
"I came to Lahore for a wedding on Thursday but couldn't return home because all the roads to Sialkot were totally jammed," said Ijaz Khokhar, a sportswear exporter from the border city and a top leader of the Pakistain Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association.
"Our foreign buyers are worried about growing political uncertainty in the country. They believe that we may not be able to ship their orders on time. This isn't good for foreign trade," he said, adding the government had impounded almost every 40ft container, loaded and empty both, from dry ports in the province.
A marketing manager of a ready-to-eat poultry products supplier told Dawn his firm had to cut off fresh supplies outside Lahore because of blockade of highways. "That is not all. We are also facing problems in supplying our products to some parts in Lahore because of road blockade as well as petrol shortage in the city."
It is difficult to calculate tangible losses to the industry in Punjab because of the anticipated delay in export shipments and shortages of raw materials to the manufacturers but the prevailing situation will certainly scare away their foreign buyers. "If the uncertain conditions prolong for long, we will lose a lot of international business. That will be unfortunate," Khokhar noted.
M.I. Khurram, a major knitwear exporter, said if the situation did not improve in a day or two he and many other exporters would be forced to airlift their export orders at a much higher cost to meet the deadline of their buyers.
"The industry in Punjab was already facing a severe energy crunch — 11 hours of power shutdown and 18 hours of gas cuts a day. Now this new situation is threatening to cause more factories to close down," he said.
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[DAWN] The politicians attending a national security conference here on Saturday endorsed Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... and underscored the need for bringing to logical conclusion efforts to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the tribal areas.
They asked the government and the military to address extremism and work out a long-term strategy for eliminating militancy and terrorism.
The conference, convened by the government for a briefing on Zarb-e-Azb, was attended by the leaders of parties represented in the National Assembly and military commanders.
This was the second conference on militancy in 12 months — the previous one held on Sept 9 last year had authorised the government to hold dialogue with the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain.
"There was absolute unanimity of views on the need to evolve a strategy to eliminate terrorism on a long-term basis. The meeting also agreed to work to address extremism," a statement said.
A senior parliamentarian, who attended the conference, said he witnessed "rare consensus" among the politicians against extremism and terrorism, some of whom even called for action against sectarianism.
The media statement on the conference also noted "the rejection of forces of Evil and their ideology" by the political parties and the nation as a whole.
The parties stressed upon the government to ensure effective border management to prevent the forces of Evil from returning to the region.
In this regard, the government was asked to engage Afghanistan politically and diplomatically for removing lingering distrust.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , while speaking at the conference, recalled the circumstances that led to the launch of the military operation after his dialogue initiative failed.
Terrorism, he said, had resulted in massive casualties among civilians and security personnel, besides causing huge loss to the national economy.
Endorsing the military operation in North Wazoo, "representatives of all political and religious parties agreed that the state has to fight and eliminate militancy".
The participants were told that the military operation and contingency planning for pre-empting the feared blowback had been given the required legal and constitutional cover through the invocation of Article 245.
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[DAWN] Breaking the silence after nearly three months, former president Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... said he would not be running away from Pakistain.
"I am not running away from Pakistain. Rather, I will defend [myself] in all cases against me before a court of law," General (retired) Musharraf said to supporters gathered in Islamabad as he spoke via telephone.
"I have to go out of Pakistain only to see my ailing mother and will return back to you," he said to the gathering.
He said the cases against him are politically motivated and baseless.
He also lamented the current economic situation and claimed that when he resigned in 2008, the country had $18 billion reserves as compared to only $4 billion to $5billion today.
He condemned the Model Town incident and condoled with the families of those who had bit the dust.
Earlier, a convention of the All Pakistain Moslem League (APML) elected Musharraf as chairman of the party for the next term.
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[DAWN] Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) chief Dr 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... announced on Sunday that August 14 will be the day of his 'revolution march' to topple the government.
He made the announcement at the end of a speech to thousands of supporters who had gathered in Model Town to observe 'Martyr's Day'— a demonstration to protest against deadly festivities that took between his supporters and the Punjab police in June.
Qadri has condemned the Pakistain Moslem League Nawaz (PML-N) government as corrupt and called for the overthrow of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... Saturday was another day full of violence as aggressive PAT workers resisted police officials manning pickets in parts of Punjab.
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When he was running for re-election in 2012, President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... repeatedly took credit for ending the war in Iraq and bringing all U.S. troops home from that country. At the White House on Saturday, however, when talking about his decision to use military force against the al-Qaeda-related ISIS terrorist group in Iraq, Obama said removing all U.S. troops from Iraq was not "my decision."
On the South Lawn of the White House today, after Obama explained why he had ordered the U.S. military to renew Arclight airstrikes in Iraq, a news hound asked Obama about his decision to remove all U.S. troops from Iraq.
"What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision," Obama said, indicating he does not believe it was his decision as commander in chief of U.S. troops in a congressionally authorized action in Iraq to decide whether the troops should stay or leave.
"So let's just be clear: The reason that we did not have a follow-on force in Iraq was because the Iraqis were--a majority of Iraqis did not want U.S. troops there, and politically they could not pass the kind of laws that would be required to protect our troops in Iraq," said Obama.
On Dec. 14, 2011, President B.O. and First Lady Michelle Obama delivered speeches at Fort Bragg, North Carolina that the White House posted under the headline: "Remarks by the President and First Lady on the End of the War in Iraq."
"Now, Iraq is not a perfect place, Obama said. "It has many challenges ahead. But we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations. And we are ending a war not with a final battle, but with a final march toward home.
"This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making," said Obama. At the end of his speech, Obama said: "You helped forge a just and lasting peace with Iraq."
On the campaign trail eleven months later, just before the 2012 election, Obama repeated in Cincinnati on Nov. 4 what he had said earlier that day in Hollywood, Fla.
"But you know I say what I mean and I mean what I say," said Obama. "I said I'd end the war in Iraq. I ended the war in Iraq."
He repeated the same words the next day in Madison, Wisconsin, and Columbus, Ohio.
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"What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision,"
Yes, hundreds or possibly thousands of brutally murdered civilians is an issue that can..... "come up."
What have those fellows living in the former Green Zone and working in the largest U.S. Embassy in the world been doing? All of these very unhappy events just snuck up on POTUS did they?
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Oh, come on guys! Give the POTUS a break! The Iraqis failed to see the wisdom of his initial position - "Can we have a status of forces agreement? No? O.K., bye!"
So he wisely chose to end negotiations with the result he wanted anyway. How can you fault him for that, when he can blame someone else?
Izzat convoluted sarcasm, or what? It may not have been his decision, but it certainly achieved his goal, and he was more than happy to take credit for 'achieving' his goal.
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He's the Messiah. And the American people can get a thrill up their leg. Who elected him? The American People. Do they want to take responsibility? You get what you deserve, chumps.
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Emperor Zero: Playing golf all the f**king time "Not my decision"
[Ynet] Indictment of three Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, activists reveals extent of Gazoo group's underground operations.
An indictment served Sunday to the Be'er Sheva District Court against three Hamas activists described in detail how the organization's tunnel digging unit prepared the ground for the group's terror operations.
The three, who were tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! during IDF Operation Protective Edge, were charged with attempted murder and membership in an illegal group — among other charges.
The tunnel digging outfit was also tasked with rehabilitating tunnels demolished by the IDF. According to the indictment, the widespread tunnel operations were intended for rocket launches and to document the rocket fire for use by the military wing's propaganda department.
One of the suspects, Abdel Rachman Ba'lusha, 30, underwent a month of military training during which he even fired an active mortar round. After being recruited into the al-Qassam Brigades, Ba'lusha joined a cell whose aim was to target Israel.
At the end of 2011, Ba'lusha helped dig a tunnel on the land of one of the Brigades' operators in order to launch mortar rounds. The suspect and members of the cell dug a tunnel under a tree in an attempt to hide the dig. To allow the cell to wait by the launch site, they also built a tent nearby to hunt the dig.
The digging took around two weeks, and the end product was a tunnel five meters below ground and running between 50 to 60 meters. Fortunately, the tunnel was discovered and demolished in 2012.
In another instance in 2012, the cell members dug on a plot belonging to a Hamas activist, with the opening to the underground passage hidden in a shed. The dig lasted a month and a half — it included a shaft several meters deep leading to a tunnel nearly 50 meters long.
One of the problems in digging the tunnels was the removal of dirt and soil, as careful monitoring of the area would discover the suspicious activity and expose the tunnel. One of the suspects, Hassan al-Astal, 28, was also part of the tunnel digging crew.
According to the indictment, al-Astal and his friends would arrive at a location and spread sand around the cell's position.
Al-Astal was promoted and joined Hamas' artillery unit, in charge of mortars and small rockets. His unit even dug tunnels near civilian homes. A chicken coop near one house had an opening to one of the Brigades' tunnels running 70 meters, at a depth of 5 meters. At the end of the tunnel was a launching pad with a mortar aiming at Israel.
But the tunnels were not only used for firing rockets and mortars, but for the movement of the Brigades' members within Gazoo. The indictment served against the third suspect, Mohammed Ala'ja, showed that after the end of IDF Operation Cast Lead, the suspect and other members of his cell dug a secure room ("bunker") for Brigades snuffies to help them hide from IDF soldiers.
The same operative was part of the tunnel digging outfit, and even rehabilitated tunnels that were demolished and bombed by the IDF in the past. The third suspect received a salary of some $200 per month for the work.
In 2013, he helped set up a communications infrastructure for the Brigades, in order to prevent any eavesdropping of their calls and aid their operations against Israel. Together with his friends, he dug tunnels which carried encrypted communications lines for Hamas which connected the homes of the Brigades' officials. For this work, the third suspect was paid 50 shekels per day and received his own encrypted line.
The indictment against Ba'lusha also exposed the widespread documentation effort by the terror group's members. During Operation Pillar of Defense, operatives filmed a launch of Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... from the roof of a Gazoo home.
It was also discovered that the al-Qassam Brigades has a chief photographer, which documented the organization's operatives. The footage is used by the Brigades for internal purposes.
[ArutzSheva] Report exposes Arab citizens of Israel, both Moslem and Christian, fly, photograph with, and parade with black flag of murderous Moslem Jihadist group.
As 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... (ISIS) continues its bloody conquest of Iraq and Syria and begins invading Leb, all in the name of establishing a global Sunni Moslem caliphate system, signs of support for the murderous Moslem are being seen among Israel's Arab citizens.
Channel 10 exposed on Sunday that in recent months black ISIS flags have been commonly seen in Arab-Israeli towns in northern and coastal Israel, notably in the cities of Nazareth and Akko.
The flags have been seen flying among both Moslem and Christian Arab citizens of Israel, an ironic move given that ISIS in Iraq has emptied cities of their Christian populations by issuing them an ultimatum either to convert to Islam, pay non-Moslem jhizya taxes - or die.
In response to the widespread photos of ISIS flags flying in Nazareth, Ali Salem, mayor of the city, claimed "there are no things like that in Nazareth, and whoever sends (photos) is a deceiver and liar."
The report also exposed a wide-reaching trend on Facebook, in which Arab-Israeli youths take pictures of themselves bearing ISIS flags, sometimes wearing the flags draped around their shoulders.
More evidence of the growing ISIS support among Arab citizens of Israel was presented in video footage of an Arab protest in Akko's Old City, in which protesters could be seen waving large black ISIS flags in the Israeli city.
ISIS has rapidly expanded its strength since launching a blitz offensive in Iraq in June, and later declaring itself a caliphate.
It has captured numerous weapons in Iraq, including a long-range Scud missile which it transferred to Syria, and which a member of the group threatened is "heading towards Israel."
A video uploaded by the group in July revealed that ISIS Death Eaters are active in Gazoo as well, firing rockets on Israeli civilian centers in cooperation with the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terrorist organization.
The murderous Moslem group has been enjoying wide support, including a pro-ISIS anti-Semitic demonstration in Holland. Meanwhile in response to ISIS's rapid expansion, the US last Friday launched its first strikes on the group, in what was defined as "limited Arclight airstrikes."
US President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... was careful to emphasize he would not authorize further military action, such as troop deployment.
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"Israeli Arabs", rights without responsibilities.
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After 911, there were those who danced in the Muslim cities across the world so it is not just ISIS. ISIS just seems to be a magnet to those who admire the notions of supremacy. Hitler started off small also. As Barney Fife said, "Nip it in the bud."
Peace negotiators for the Philippine government and the country’s largest Muslim militant group said on Sunday they had "reached agreement on substantial portions" of a draft self-rule law meant to end years of bloody rebellion. Both the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panels said in a joint statement they were committed to completing the draft bill by August 18, so it could be passed by Congress as soon as possible.
The joint statement said, "The panels have reached agreement on substantial portions of the document and have developed a shared understanding of the remaining challenges and unsettled issues, which they will bring back to their principals for further guidance."
Asked what these challenges and unsettled issues were, head MILF negotiator Mohagher Iqbal said they included the draft law's "preamble", as well as "fiscal autonomy and inter-government relations". He said, "We covered many things but there were a lot of things that have not been resolved."
The statement said the two sides had discussed "fiscal autonomy and administration of justice", as well as the issue of budget transfers from the national government to the proposed Muslim autonomous government during the closed door talks in Davao.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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