[Tolo News] After weeks of coming under fire for releasing suspected Talibs from prison itself, the Afghan government has lashed out against the U.S. for releasing 10 Pak nationals from Bagram prison last week.
The prisoners were released back to Pakistain, likely as a favor to the government in Islamabad, analysts have said. Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking... the response in Kabul has been harsh.
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[Libya Herald] It is being claimed that Zintani forces withdrew from Tripoli International airport and other bases that they held in Tripoli on specific orders from the House of Representatives meeting in Tobruk.
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[Libya Herald] The House of Representatives today appointed new Chief of Staff. Colonel Abdul Razzaq Nazuri replaces Major-General Abdussalam Jadallah Obeidi who was summonsed for questioning by HoR members last week over allegations that he had backed Operation Libya Dawn in the capital .
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[ARABNEWS] The top Islamic authority in Egypt, revered by many Moslems worldwide, launched an Internet-based campaign Sunday challenging an krazed killer group in Syria and Iraq by saying it should not be called an "Islamic State."
The campaign by the Dar el-Ifta, the top authority that advises Moslems on spiritual and life issues, adds to the war of words by Moslem leaders across the world targeting the Islamic State group, which controls wide swaths of Iraq and Syria. Its violent attacks, including mass shootings, destroying Shiite shrines, targeting minorities and beheadings including American journalist James Foley, have shocked Moslems and non-Moslems alike.
The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shawki Allam, previously said the bully boyz violate all Islamic principles and laws and described the group as a danger to Islam as a whole. Now, the Dar el-Ifta he oversees will suggest foreign media drop using "Islamic State" in favor of the "Al-Qaeda Separatists in Iraq and Syria," or the acronym "QSIS," said Ibrahim Negm, an adviser to the mufti.
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As a new Sub/Mini-"Caliphate" is established, in times they will link up + merge.
Radical Islam's own "Ink Blot" strategy versus the same from the pre-ISIS, pre-Abbottabad US-Allies under POTUS Dubya, save for ISIS now under OWG GLOBALIST POTUS Obama.
Speaking of the Bammer + the OWG Globies ... ...
* CHINA DAILY > US HAS [SSSHH PCorrectly-Deniably]REFUSED IRAQ'S PLEA FOR HELP AGZ "ISLAMIC STATE"
* TOPIX > US SEEKS DIFFERENT WAYS TO CONFRONT ISIS, BESIDES MILITARY.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > AMERICA'S TOP GENERAL [US JCS Chair Gen.Dempsey]: WE WILL ACT IFF ISIS THREATENS AMERICA | DAILY MAIL ONLINE. USA [Obama? = Globalist?] WANTS REGIONAL STATES TO FIGHT ISIS.
IOW, as I've said before the Bammer's actions as a OWG Globalist is about empowering future OWG Global Fed Union + OWG Global Fed Union Principal = "Co-Superpower", or one of them, SHIA RISING IRAN.
THE BAMMER IS BEHAVING AS HE IS DELIBERATELY, PER A HIGHER AGENDA THAN JUST ME PEACE OR IRAN OR EVEN AMERIKA, ETC.
[Iran Press TV] Rival protests have been staged in the Yemeni capital Sanaâ™a after a government negotiating team abandoned talks with Shia Houthis.
Reports said on Sunday that rival leaders encouraged their followers to participate in the rallies in different parts of Sanaâ™a.
The anti-government protesters, who support the Houthis, mainly gathered in the north of the capital.
The pro-government demonstrations were mainly organized in the central part of the capital.
There have been no reports of festivities between the two groups.
Earlier in the day, Abdulmalek al-Mikhlafi, the front man for the governmentâ™s negotiating team, said that the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is "God is Great, Death to Americaâ¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" ... fighters ârejected all the proposals presented to them,â and that the ânegotiations in Saâ™ada have failed.â
Sources say the proposal suggested forming a technocrat government within one month from the date of signing the draft document. It also includes an offer to set up an economic committee to review a bone of contention over the fuel subsidies in the country.
The delegation representing President Abd Rabuh Mansur Hadi had been holding negotiations with Houthi leader Abdulmalik al-Huthi in Saâ™ada since Thursday in an effort to persuade him to end the demonstrations.
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The UAE will soon set up centres to counsel and rehabilitate persons “lured and misled” into joining terror groups and organisations. Some “precautionary measures” will be taken against the persons detained here, based on “final judicial judgments”, said Sultan Juma Al Shamsi, Rapporteur of the Legislative and Legal Committee at the Federal National Council (FNC).
Does it have room for Qatari emirs?
Al Shamsi said the establishment of such centres will be made under the recently promulgated anti-terror law.
These centres, Al Shamsi said, will come up across the country. Among its staff will be psychiatrists, social workers and preachers to help rehabilitate persons who get lured to international terror groups and cells. Al Shamsi told Khaleej Times that Article 68 of the anti-terror law stipulates that the centre will guide and rehabilitate the convicts of terror cases.
“Convicts of terror cases will be sent to these centres after or while serving their jail sentences,” he said.
These centres will help “protect the homeland’s citizens, restore them and help them get rid of any poisonous views and malicious thoughts”.
Al Shamsi warned that the law will punish any citizens or residents “found in possession of audio-video instruments of any kind that may promote violence”.
Such centres will be set up depending on the need of each emirate, Al Shamsi affirmed.
The anti-terror law, Al Shamsi said, will punish anyone who sets up or manages a centre to commit terror crimes or facilitate training or gets trained by terror groups. “If people are found in possession of unconventional weapons like biological, radioactive or chemical ones, the penalty will be more stringent.”
The law also has provisions to punish anyone who has knowledge about terror crimes in the country and fails to report it to the competent authorities. “Anyone who gives false reports about terror, especially to create panic in the country, will get maximum punishment.”
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[DAWN] Outside a mosque in China's restive west, a government-appointed Moslemholy man was dodging a foreign news hound's question about why young men of the Uighur ethnic minority don't have beards when one such youth interrupted.
"Why don't you just tell them the truth?" he shouted to the holy man under the nervous gaze of several coppers who had been tailing the news hounds all day in the oasis city of Aksu.
[MEDIAITE] Disgraced Veteran journalist Dan Rather ...a former ancherperson, the man who put the BS in CBS News. In 2004 he put on a news story that highlighted dissatisfaction with Lt. George W. Bush in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam war. This was almost casually--but gleefully--debunked by the Blogosphere at large. Rather's face was rubbed in journalistic mud, four of his staff were fired, and within a short time his career had settled to the bottom... told Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter that the scores of pundits calling for action in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere were reminiscent of the buildup to the 2003 Iraq War, which Rather called a blunder of "historic proportions," and that hawks needed to be prepared to send their own kids to battle before they so cavalierly recommend it for others.
Quoth Rather: "All of these people on television, some of whom I have enormous respect for, it unsettles me to hear them say, listen, we the United States have to "do something" in Ukraine, we have to "do something" in Syria, we have to "do something" in the waters around China, we have to "do something" in Iraq, we have to "do something" about ISIS. What they're talking about are combat operations.
"My first question to anyone who's on television saying "We have to get tough, we have to put boots on the ground, we have to go to war in one of these places" is: I will hear you out if you tell me you are prepared to send your son, your daughter, your grandson, your granddaughter to that war for which you are beating the drums. If you aren't I have no patience with you, and don't even talk to me."
Rather also called upon the press corps to more forcefully prosecute the case against military action as expiation for the Beltway media's complicity in the last Iraq War.
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There actually was a very long term reason to hold Iraq. But like everything that was correct, you parroted against it.
There was a BIG reason I wanted Iraq stable, and not fake stable.
You fought against it every step in Combat, every time.
FU too.
Tell your media buddies, they sunk the earth and they can rest now. Evil fucks
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What? No comment about the beheaded photo journalist by the great 'if I cannot find the news I will make up the news' Dan Rather. I think it might be better for America if you volunteered to keep your lying liberal diarrhea mouth closed.
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...Mr I fell for the fake Bush letter Rather does remember that we have an all volunteer military these days, right? And that you can't force anyone to go, right?
Just checkin', Kenneth.
Mike
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Dan Rather on "Reliable Sources"?
Bwahahahahaha
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It's not parents who "send their kids" to war.
Those "kids" are young adult responsible men who decide on their own free will to join the military and serve the United States of America.
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And I thank them for their service.
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It's not parents who "send their kids" to war
It's hard to change when you're welded to the 1967 playbook.
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Now that there is no draft to galvanize against war this is the new line I expect to hear again and again because it makes it *sounds* as if folks are just ordering other peoples children into a meatgrinder.
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The stupidity is in his tacit assumption that if we don't intervene then nothing bad happens to us. Dan Rather, you ignorant ass, ISIS has different plans.
[DAWN] MULTAN: A special anti-terrorism court on Saturday granted pre-arrest bail to 18 PML-N activists in a case lodged against them for attacking the residence of 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.... vice-chairman Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi.
All the 18 nominated accused, including PML-N district president Bilal Butt, secretary general Sheikh Athar and others appeared in the court.
ATC Judge Javed Iqbal Warraich granted them pre-arrest bail till September 4.
FIR of the incident includes sections 146 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) and 7-Anti-Terror-Act.
Daulat Gate police had registered FIR against 18 nominated and 50 unidentified PML-N activists on the complaint of Mr Qureshi's personal secretary Muhammad Iqbal.
The FIR was lodged on the interference of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... after the PTI protested against the refusal of police to lodge the FIR.
The prime accused, Bilal Butt, claimed he was in fact trying to stop the party workers from attacking Mr Qureshi's house.
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[DAWN] Chief of his own faction of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... said on Saturday that the Pakistain Army would never utilise the â"musical showâ™ in Islamabad to come into power.
âThe Pakistain Army is a serious institution which will not try to come into power through the musical shows,â the Maulana said while commenting on the ongoing sit-in protest of 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.... in Islamabad.
Addressing a presser at the JUI-F provincial secretariat here, the party chief said that if someone could bring 5,000 people to occupy Islamabad, than there was no need of elections.
He said that PTI had no political agenda to achieve through the continued sit-in protest. He alleged that apparently PTI had staged the political show to achieve its goals, but in reality it was for the promotion of western culture in the society. He said that dancing of a few youngsters couldnâ™t be called a political rally.
He said that the protesters were promoting obscenity and vulgarity in the name of sit-in as seen in the past few days in the capital. He said that JUI-F knew how to safeguard the local culture and civilisation. âWe are standing by the Constitution and parliament,â he said.
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"The Pakistain Army is a serious institution which will not try to come into power through the musical shows,"
I dunno. I realize this is a question of style, but IMHO, Ride of the Valkyries is the perfect accompaniment for a heliborne assault.
[DAWN] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Chief Sirajul Haq said on Sunday that the resignations submitted by the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) party members should not be accepted, otherwise the current political crisis will escalate.
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[DAWN] Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... denied reports that the Pakistain Moslem League - Nawaz (PML-N) government was considering his resignation as a means to end the political crisis.
DawnNews anchorperson Meher Bukhari quoted sources as saying that 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... was informed about the decision of Shahbaz Sharif's resignation from the post of Punjab chief minister during a meeting held between the two brothers today at Jaati Umra.
Punjab Law Minister Rana Mashhood talking to Dawn categorically rejected the reports that the option of Shahbaz Sharif's resignation was under consideration.
Earlier in the day, Pakistain Peoples Party leader Shaukat Basra had claimed that the government was ready to register the First Information Report over the Model Town incident, which had claimed the lives of at least 14 people on June 17, and was also considering the option of Shahbaz Sharif's resignation.
Basra had further said that Raja Ashfaq Sarwar and Mujtaba Shuja were being considered as options for the post of chief minister if Shahbaz were to resign.
Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... and Shahbaz Sharif are expected to meet with Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif later in the evening.
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[ARABNEWS] The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have condemned the heinous crime perpetrated by armed bully boyz who stormed Mosaab ibn Omayr Mosque in Diyala Province, Iraq on Friday. The attack caused the death of 73 innocent worshippers; scores of others were severely injured.
The secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Iyad Ameen Madani, offered his condolences to the bereaved families of the victims and prayed for the swift recovery of the maimed.
Madani denounced this and similar criminal acts that feed on sectarian strife.
He pointed out that these senseless acts seek to inflame tensions and sow discord among the different components of Iraqi society.
They also threaten the countryas already fragile social peace and harmony at a highly delicate juncture as Iraq scrambles to form a government which the OIC hopes to be all-inclusive, he added.
Madani emphasized that firm measures need to be deployed to confront and hold to account the gangs and militias that seem determined to unlock sectarian sentiments and fan denominational infighting.
It is not just peaceful coexistence in Iraq that is being jeopardized by the atrocious practices of these armed militias; it is the very future of Iraq that is at stake, he added.
Madani reiterated his appeal to the politicianship in Baghdad and to Iraqas influential religious figures to work toward a sustainable reconciliation across the different components of Iraqi society.
Madani further reaffirmed the OICas readiness to support Iraq by all possible means through this transitional phase in a bid to regain stability and security.
GCC Secretary General Dr. Abdul Latif bin Rashid Al-Zayani called the attack a terrorist crime against all divine religions and on human value s and ethics.
"The heinous crime exposed the moral decadence those militias have reached and how their sectarian approach has driven them to attack worshippers in houses of Allah," he said.
The GCC chief called for swiftly identifying those responsible for this brutal crime and demanded justice for the innocent victims.
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[ARABNEWS] Foreign ministers from the Arab Contact Group have pledged to adopt a unified stance against bad boy ideology in the Arab world.
Foreign Affairs Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal presided over the crucial meeting in Jeddah on Sunday.
Five Arab countries took part in the talks that focused on pressing regional developments.
Foreign ministers Sameh Shoukry from Egypt, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan from the UAE, Khalid Al-Attiyah from Qatar and Ambassador Nawaf Al-Tell, adviser to the Foreign Affairs minister in Jordan attended the meeting.
Delegates 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... over bad boy ideologies promoted by groups such as Islamic State (IS) that threaten regional stability and security.
They discussed the Syrian conflict and âchallenges including the rise of terrorist bad boy ideologyâ.
The talks focused on global geopolitical risks arising from ongoing conflicts in some Arab states and their impact on global peace and security.
The ministers agreed on âthe need to seriously work to deal with these crises and challenges to preserve security and stability in Arab countries,â said a report.
The Grand Mufti of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, had also called the group Islamâ™s No. 1 enemy.
Egyptâ™s Foreign Ministry said earlier that the meeting in Jeddah would address âthe growing presence in Iraq and Syria of bad boys,â notably the IS.
The rise of IS meant the âsearch for a political solution to the Syria crisis was needed more than everâ, it said.
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[NEWSWEEK] Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi said on Sunday during talks with Iran's foreign minister that international efforts would be necessary to destroy Islamic State Sunni turbans who have seized swathes of his country and of Syria.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran, a Shi'ite Moslem regional power likely to wield influence over the formation of Abadi's new cabinet, reaffirmed Tehran's support for Iraq's territorial unity and its fight against Lion of Islams.
"Abadi pointed to the presence of many dangers posed in the region as a result of the existence of the terrorist gang Islamic State which requires regional and international efforts to exterminate this terrorist organization," his office said in a statement after the talks with Zarif.
The advance of Islamic State through northern Iraq has alarmed the Baghdad government and its Western allies, prompting the first U.S. air strikes in Iraq since U.S. occupation forces pulled out in 2011.
The Sunni Moslem Lion of Islam group sees Shi'ite Moslems -- a majority in Iraq -- as infidels who deserve to be killed and has driven thousands of non-Moslems from their homes.
Bombings across Iraq killed at least 35 people on Saturday in apparent Dire Revenge™ attacks after Shi'ite Lions of Islam machine-gunned a Sunni Moslem mosque in Diyala Province on Friday, killing 68 worshippers in an attack that further deepens the country's sectarian conflict.
Critics have accused Iraq's outgoing prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite like Abadi, of fueling the conflict by pursuing a narrowly sectarian agenda that excluded Sunnis from positions of power and influence.
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More + more new "Islamic Caliphates" will spring up in various regions andor continents around the world, + then IMO will likely proceed to link up, consolidate or merge, into one massive Global = Planetary Super-state.
And ironically with direct andor indirect JudeoChristian = Non-Islamic help due to the "Great Game" + Other.
GLOBAL JIHAD = GLOBAL/UNIVERSAL ISLAMIC CONQUEST.
[Once again, as reminder, 1960's-70's = 2014 "INTERSTELLAR" Movie here].
But, to paraph Mel Gibson's character in "EXPENFDABLES 3" = "I digress ...".
IRAN = repor says Shia-led Sunni IRAQ can fight + defeat the ISIS by itself.
Well, Iran, dats what the Bammer + Globies want to hear from a future US-style OWG Co-Superpower, so hop to it - ALLAN KNOWS YOUR NATIONAL MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX CAN SURELY USE THE WORK = ECON ACTIVITES.
1970'S SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK = "TAKE YOUR RIFLE [+ latest indigenous MilTechs], TAKE YOUR SON, REPORT TO AL-ABADI IN BAGHDAD"!
The Israeli army has released what it says is a page from a seized Hamas training manual that would appear to support its case that Palestinian militants deliberately use the cover of residential areas for combat operations.
Hamas, which denies it puts civilians at risk by storing and firing weapons from built-up areas, dismissed the document as a forgery intended to justify Israeli attacks that have killed hundreds of children, women and other non-combatants.
Israel has been criticised by the United Nations and others for its tactics during the war, including the shelling of densely populated areas and attacks on several UN schools, which Israel says militants were using for cover. While many legal experts say Hamas is operating outside of international law by firing rockets indiscriminately at Israeli towns and cities from built-up areas in the Gaza Strip, they stress that does not absolve Israel of responsibility to comply with the laws of war itself, notably on endangering civilians.
No, of course not. Tut-tut and all. Just because you're fighting an evil, genocidal terrorist group bent on exterminating all your citizens doesn't absolve you from treating them according to the rules written by a bunch of Belgian and French colonialists...
The Israeli army said the training manual was found in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun at the end of July, when troops were operating inside the enclave. The full manual is 102 pages long, the army said, but it released just one page of it.
That page appears to set out guidelines on how to hide weapons and ammunition in civilian areas, how to transport them into buildings and how to conceal or camouflage explosives.
It is marked at the bottom with “Izz-el-Din Al Qassam Brigades, Training and Guidance Branch, Engineering Corps”. The Al Qassam Brigades are the military wing of Hamas. Unlike other Hamas documents, the page bears no Hamas logo.
“The process of hiding ammunition inside buildings is intended for ambushes in residential areas and to move the campaign from open areas into built up and closed areas,” reads the document, written in Arabic.
“Residents of the area should be used to bring in the equipment,” it continues, adding: “For jihad fighters, it is easy to operate inside buildings and take advantage of this to avoid (Israeli) spy planes and attack drones.”
The guidelines also explain that “the action of hiding weapons inside a building must be carried out secretly and shouldn��™t have a military character”.
An Israeli army spokesman would provide no further details about the document, only to say that the army was “extremely confident it is a Hamas training manual”.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said: “This is a fabricated paper and neither Hamas nor Qassam has anything to do with it.”
He added: “Israel circulating this is aimed at justifying the mass killings of Palestinian civilians and massacres committed by the occupation army.”
While it may be impossible to verify whether it is a genuine Hamas manual, the Israeli military��™s decision to release it underscores the efforts both sides in the conflict are making to justify their actions and support their narrative of events in a war that has drawn international condemnation of each party.
In an interview with Yahoo News last week, Khaled Meshaal, the exile political leader of Hamas, denied that the group fired its rockets indiscriminately at Israel, saying it tried to aim the low-tech munitions at military installations or army bases.
Mistakes happen with "low-tech" munitions, you know...
There is little evidence that that is the case - nearly all the 2,500-3,000 rockets and mortars Hamas has fired at Israel since the start of the war seem to have been aimed at towns. On Friday, one hit a synagogue and another killed a four-year-old boy in a kibbutz collective farm close to the Gaza border.
Israel has frequently accused Hamas fighters of taking cover among civilians and operating from residential areas, but it has not always been able to present clear evidence of that.
Some journalists in Gaza during the war captured video footage of rockets being fired from built-up areas, including around Shifa, Gaza��™s main hospital. Hamas has sought to dismiss those as isolated, one-off incidents or attacks carried out by rogue groups not under its control.
And they've threatened to murder the journalists who try to show Hamas launching rockets from civilian areas...
For its part, Israel drops leaflets on residential areas before any attack and makes phone calls to residents telling them to leave the area. On Saturday, the Israeli air force warned residents to leave a 13-storey apartment building before it was destroyed in an air strike. Israel said the building was a Hamas base. No one was killed, 17 were wounded.
The UN human rights council has already appointed a commission to look into the Gaza war, and other investigations will no doubt be conducted once the conflict is over. Bill Schabas, the head of the UN commission, emphasised that even if one side in a conflict is operating outside of international law, that does not relieve the other side of responsibility to act within the law.
In another era, Bill would have been working a desk at the Belgian Colonial Office in Brussels...
“There are some very fundamental obligations in international humanitarian law that have to be respected regardless of whether the other side respects them,” he said last week. “In short, it��™s not a defence to a war crime to say that the other side was committing a war crime.”
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[ISRAELNATIONALNEWS] "The residents of Gaza are living under a terrorist regime, and the world is not lifting a finger." So writes the Legal Forum for Israel to the U.S. Ambassador in Israel, regarding the Hamas executions of suspected collaborators in Gaza.
On Friday, Hamas executed four men suspected of collaborating with Israel, in public "ceremonies" before hundreds of people. Some 25 have been put to death thus far. The Legal Forum's letter to Ambassador Dan Shapiro requests that the U.S. "act and prevent murder and execution."
"While we understand that these incidents are not dependent on the United States," the Legal Forum writes, "the U.S influence over members of Hamas, directly and indirectly, can be significant. We request that your government act to put an end to the wave of executions in Gaza.
"These are cases of arbitrary killings, incomprehensible attacks on human dignity and a terrible violation of human and civil rights," the Forum states, and therefore concludes, "It is now clear that the residents of Gaza are living under a terrorist regime, and the world is not lifting a finger to stop the atrocities. I hope that your government, which acts for human rights and freedom, will see it fit to intervene on behalf of the innocent residents who are paying the price of living under this murderous terrorist regime."
The Legal Forum for Israel, originally founded in 2004 to protect the rights of residents of Gush Katif and northern Samaria in the wake of the Disengagement, today engages in various aspects of legal activism on behalf of the Zionist enterprise in general. The Forum's small legal and administrative staff is supported by an active volunteer membership numbering 350 legal professionals. The Forum drafts policy reports, lobbies Knesset Members, and appeals Supreme Court rulings.
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People are complaining that Hamas is killing Moslems? Who knew? And the Moslems it is popping just happen to be Hamas "associates"? Punch and Judy.
WHY would anyone do anything to save Moslems from other Moslems ? Go bite your leg.
And they want the US to "do something"?
never pet a burning dog.
Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 ||
08/25/2014 4:57 Comments ||
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#2
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
#6
Silentbrick is right - the world would be a better place without these mooks. Hey, maybe we could subcontract the job out to the Israelis! They seem to be working the issue even as we speak.
#7
Unfortunately, support for Hamass seems to be a congenital defect found in almost all members of Gaza's population. It's a shame, really. Some could even say it's terminal.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
08/25/2014 21:15 Comments ||
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#8
Works for me, Silenbrick.
Make it so. :-D
Posted by: Barbara ||
08/25/2014 21:38 Comments ||
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#9
My wife forbids me from becoming Evil Overlord so best I can do is keep buying the IDF pizza from
[Iran Press TV] Iran's foreign minister has reiterated Tehranâ™s support for Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi.
Mohammad Javad Zarif made the remarks during a joint presser with his Iraqi counterpart, Hoshyar Zebari, in Baghdad on Sunday.
âWe support the Iraqi peopleâ™s choice and respect Iraqi peopleâ™s decision. We have never interfered in Iraqâ™s affairs and will never do that. We support Abadi to the extent that we supported [Iraqâ™s outgoing premier] 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... ,â Zarif said.
He expressed satisfaction with the current political trend in Iraq and wished success for Abadi in forming a new government in the Arab country.
The top Iranian diplomat also ensured that the Islamic Theocratic Republic will continue to stand by the Iraqi people as was the case in the past.
Zarif further rejected the presence of Iranian forces in Iraq, saying, the Iraqis are capable of defending themselves.
Elsewhere in his remarks, he voiced satisfaction over expansion of bilateral ties between Tehran and Baghdad and expressed hope for the continuation of the two countriesâ™ cooperation in various fields.
Posted by: Fred ||
08/25/2014 00:00 ||
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