An Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Badie, general guide of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, and seven others to life in prison on Saturday for inciting violence during protests last year, judicial sources said.
Badie had already been sentenced to death and received a life sentence in other cases, part of Cairo’s toughest crackdown - widely criticised by human rights groups - on the country’s oldest and most organised Islamist movement.
Hang him, cut him down, and hang him again...
The judge, Mohamed Nagi Shehata, also sentenced six other defendants to death in absentia.
Badie was charged with killing at least nine people and inciting violence that injured 21 others in clashes near a mosque in Giza in 2013. Prosecutors charged all the defendants with “murder and attempted murder and inciting violence and possession of arms”, the judicial sources said.
Senior Brotherhood leaders sentenced to life in prison on Saturday included Mohamed El Beltagi and Essam El Erian, as well as former members of the Mursi government.
Badie and 182 Muslim brotherhood supporters were sentenced to death in a mass trial last June over violence that erupted in Minya governorate which led to the killing of a police officer. A court sentenced Badie to life in prison in July for inciting violence and blocking a major road north of Cairo during protests that followed Mursi’s ouster.
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The Respect Party has released a photo of controversial MP George Galloway's battered face after he was beaten up in the street.The pro-Palestine Bradford West MP spent the night in hospital after suffering a suspected broken jaw, broken rib and bruising in the attack yesterday evening in Golborne Road, Notting Hill, London.
The Respect Party tweeted a picture showing two red lumps on his right temple. Wearing a black jacket and white shirt, Mr Galloway looked defiant in the picture taken in the street as he made his way to St Mary's Hospital, Paddington.
Mr Galloway had been posing for pictures when a man shouted a comment about the Holocaust and attacked him, according to his spokesman.
Police were quickly on the scene and made an arrest on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm.
Interesting how the bobbies pinched the guy so quickly. Had the perpetrator been a Hamas sympathizer and the victim a Jew, would they have reacted so quickly?
The spokesman did not know whether the attacker was an Israeli, an EDL-supporter or had some other motivation for attacking the MP. Mr Galloway was interviewed earlier this month by West Yorkshire Police following a speech in Leeds in which he claimed Bradford was an Israel-free zone.
The spokesman said Mr Galloway had described himself as being “in a pretty bad shape”. The firebrand politician received medical treatment but was not taken to hospital.
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Interesting how the bobbies pinched the guy so quickly. Had the perpetrator been a Hamas sympathizer and the victim a Jew, would they have reacted so quickly?
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Mr Galloway was interviewed earlier this month by West Yorkshire Police following a speech in Leeds in which he claimed Bradford was an Israel-free zone.
Galloway a member of the Respect Party. Now there's irony for you.
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it is never right to beat an old man even a vile one like GG
I have to disagree. Not beating a guy who so desperately needs it just because he is older seems like a PC attitude to me. It's not OK to be vile when you're young or old. He should know better by now is what I think, and he's not learning, so he gets what's coming to him. The world would be a better place if everyone were rational, but not everyone is rational. If not this, then the world would be a better place if his constituents would vote the guy out, but they don't. Hopefully this shines a light on what he is up to and people figure it out. Hopefully George got some sense knocked into him. Every day he is screwing up people's lives worse than him getting roughed up once. I don't relish the need for it, but sometimes a guy is the kind who needs to get some sense knocked into him.
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People forget that not all Jews are doctors, lawyers and Rothschilds. In England, a great many are small businessmen and labour union members... with a more direct approach to communications.
SEOUL -- North Korean leader Suet Face Kim Jong-un visited a newly built industrial factory and expressed great satisfaction, Pyongyang's state news agency reported Sunday.
Pudgy Kim was satisfied with the plant as he "could hardly find any trace he saw last year," and that the plant "did not look like a factory but a rest home," the North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in an English-language report monitored in Seoul.
The starving workers moved like they were in a nursing home...
He had toured the same factory late last year and named it the October 8 Factory to mark the day his late father and former ruler of North Korea, Kim Jong-il, was named the top secretary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
Fat Boy Kim said it was his intention "to turn the October 8 Factory into a factory representing the nation's industrial establishments" during the visit to the facility, an activity that Pyongyang's news outlets call "field guidance."
Leisure Suit Larry Kim also said that "the factory has a perfect computer-aided integrated production system," according to the KCNA.
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"the factory has a perfect computer-aided integrated production system"
Yeah, we've been using calculators for a while, too.
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Eighteen years after the signing of the accord that ended the Chechen war, a veteran Chechen field commander has issued a reminder that there are two sides to the ongoing struggle for the hearts and minds of the Chechen people.
In a statement dated August 28, Isa Munayev appeals to the United States and "the countries of the democratic world" to provide "comprehensive military assistance" to the Ukrainian people, whom Munayev calls victims of Russian imperial aggression, just as the Chechens were.
Munayev played a key role in the defense of Grozny at the start of the 1999-2000 war, and continued fighting after the resistance forces retreated south to the mountains, acquiring a reputation for courage and tactical skills. In late 2007, however, he distanced himself from Doku Umarov following the latter's abandonment of the cause of Chechen independence and proclamation of a Caucasus Emirate. Munayev left Chechnya soon afterward.
Meanwhile, evidence continues to mount of the presence on the side of the pro-Russian separatist forces in eastern Ukraine of hundreds of fighters sent by Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov. Those fighters are apparently primarily volunteers from among the various police and security forces under Kadyrov, who has consistently denied that there are any "Chechen battalions" in Ukraine, even after a Financial Times article quoted a fighter named Zelimkhan who said he and his comrades had been sent to Ukraine in mid-May on Kadyrov's orders.
Kadyrov has admitted, however, that a few dozen Chechen volunteers living outside Russia have traveled to Ukraine on their own initiative to fight, and that a handful of them have been killed.
Ingush chief Yunus-Bek Yevkurov similarly said in early June that 25 residents of his republic had travelled to Ukraine to fight, and four had been killed. In a subsequent interview, Yevkurov, a former Russian military-intelligence officer, affirmed his readiness to go to Ukraine himself "to defend those who are being humiliated and killed."
Unconfirmed reports suggest that Kadyrov's men did not distinguish themselves in battle. There have been several reports over the past few weeks that Chechen units fighting under the command of Russian officers in eastern Ukraine have been disbanded and sent home for cowardice or desertion, surrendered to Ukrainian security forces, or asked for safe passage to the Russian border.
Kadyrov rejected as false reports that Chechens had surrendered. he declared that "once a Chechen takes up arms, he doesn't surrender."
[Ynet] The Dutch government has unveiled a raft of measures aimed at countering radicalization of Moslems in the country, a day after police announced the arrest of two men suspected of recruiting people to fight in conflicts in Syria and Iraq.
The proposals include beefing up the government's powers to strip people of their Dutch nationality if they join terrorist organizations overseas or play a role -- as teacher or student -- in foreign terror training camps.
They also are aimed at countering the spread of extremism online and via social media by tackling Internet providers that knowingly allow terror organizations to spread jihadi propaganda.
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are you sure these measures are aimed at restraining fascist Islamism?
In australia, similar headlines touted a raft of new laws that have nothing at all to do with clamping down on radical Islamism.
Instead they strip the right to a fair trial and give the intelligence organisations immunity from prosecution.
nowhere do they mention Islamism
but they do give asio etc the right to put tracking devices on people without applying for the warrant (like they have to now)
hack computers and tamper with information - including the computers of journalists.
and force courts to accept illegally obtained information.
victims of special operations won't even be able to tell their lawyers what happened to them with a potential penalty of 10 years jail
got nothing to do with Islamism
it's an orwellian power grab. Nobody reads the legislation so the journalists are just quoting people talking about legislation they haven't even read.
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The proposals include beefing up the government's powers to strip people of their Dutch nationality if they join terrorist organizations overseas or play a role -- as teacher or student -- in foreign terror training camps.
Might be a good start so long as those who are radicalized and go to some terrorist supporting country are left in that country to enjoy the Islamic paradise (snark) forever. They should be people without a country. They should not be allowed to spread their filth.
Duly noted Anom1 re a loss of rights in countries that pass laws denying citizens rights (for one reason or another), e.g. to snoop on citizens without restraint, to have courts that are not subject to scrutiny, etc. There is a need for balance. We have not achieved that balance here. We probably never will as each issue will have to be resolved in the courts.
[Ynet] US military operations against Islamic State in Iraq have cost an average of $7.5 million per day since they began in mid-June, the Pentagon said on Friday, a figure that means the department has spent more than $500 million on the conflict.
Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, told a briefing the expense of US operations against Islamic State in Iraq had varied since US forces became involved on June 16 but on average "it's costing us about $7.5 million per day."
"As our op (operational) tempo and as our activities have intensified, so, too, has the cost," Kirby said, noting that the figures were based on a snapshot of expenses between June 16 and Aug. 26.
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Sure it costs something, but don't we have options? This seems like a perfect mission for a small airbase with 5 C-130 gunships that can fly around at night and a dozen A-10's to rule the Earth during the day. Gas and Ammo. Do we really need to attack them from 30,000 ft with Navy Jetfighters? Maybe we do, but seems like we have some hardcore, low cost, extremely effective options.
[Ynet] The United States is targeting more than 25 businesses, banks and individuals suspected of working to expand Iran's nuclear program, supporting terrorism and helping Iran evade US and international sanctions.
The Treasury Department's action on Friday is part of the B.O. regime's effort to show it will enforce existing sanctions even as it negotiates a deal to curtail Iran's nuclear program.
As a result of the action, Americans are banned from engaging in transactions with any of the designated parties and blocks all their property or interests in property under US jurisdiction.
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from Pappy's link: Iran's possible response to new US. sanctions could "not be pleasant", its foreign minister said on Sunday, raising the prospect of tit-for-tat retribution against the Islamic Republic's old adversary weeks ahead of fresh nuclear talks..
Oh NOES! They'll sanction companies doing business with the US!
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[BREITBART] Breitbart Texas has exclusively obtained a leaked document warning federal agents about an ISIS-related terrorism threat across the entire US-Mexico border. Though the document focuses on the Texas-Mexico border, Breitbart Texas has confirmed that federal agents across the entire US-Mexico border have received the ISIS terror warning.
The document was released by the Texas Department of Public Safety and warned that ISIS was actively promoting and encouraging supporters to take advantage of the porous Texas-Mexico border to carry out terrorist attacks against US citizens.
The document attributed the increased interest by ISIS to a report done by journalist James O'Keefe. Though the report did not mention O'Keefe by name, it showed images of O'Keefe crossing the porous Texas-Mexico border while wearing an the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... mask.
See that video here. Yes, he really did cross the border, unnoticed, dressed as Osama bin Laden including mask.
In addition to the report, U.S. Border Patrol Agents confirmed that the U.S. Border Patrol agency was indeed taking the threat seriously. A Border Patrol agent in the Laredo Sector told Breitbart Texas that they had credible information that ISIS was attempting to find individuals and groups in Nuevo-Laredo Mexico to assist in gaining entry into the united states.
A Border Patrol agent in the El Paso Sector would only tell Breitbart Texas that a warning was issued to agents pertaining to ISIS.
The Border Patrol agent spoke to Breitbart Texas on the condition of anonymity.
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Mexican border is about 2k miles, the Canadian border is 5k miles long and the coast line is near 20k miles. Not to mention all the legal ways to enter the US. Seems to me ISIS could have their pick of entry points. Why would they come thru where everyone's attention is focused?
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Perhaps because there is already a operating relocation industry in place for the uninitiated. Professional, recurring interlopers have other channels.
[FREEBEACON] The FBI's most recent national threat assessment for domestic terrorism makes no reference to Islamist terror threats, despite last year's Boston Marathon bombing and the 2009 Fort Hood shooting--both carried out by radical Moslem Americans.
Instead, the internal FBI intelligence report concluded in its 2013 assessment published this month that the threat to U.S. internal security from murderous Moslems is limited to attacks and activities by eight types of domestic murderous Moslem movements--none motivated by radical Islam.
They include anti-government militia groups and white supremacy murderous Moslems, along with "sovereign citizen" nationalists, and anarchists. Other domestic threat groups outlined by the FBI assessment include violent animal rights and environmentalist murderous Moslems, black separatists, anti- and pro-abortion activists, and Puerto Rican nationalists.
"Domestic murderous Moslem violence continues to be unpredictable and, at times, severe," the report states.
A copy of the unclassified, 60-page National Threat Assessment for Domestic Extremism, dated Aug. 14, was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. It warns that the threat of domestic-origin extremism was moderate in 2013 and will remain so for this year.
"Domestic murderous Moslems collectively presented a medium-level threat to the United States in 2013; the FBI assesses the 2014 threat will remain close to this level," the report said.
On black separatists, the report warned that "high-profile racially charged crimes or events" could lead to an expansion of black separatist groups. The report identified three such groups as the New Black Panther Party, the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ, and the Black Hebrew Israelite group as murderous Moslems under FBI scrutiny.
An alternative assessment section in the report warned that radical black activists could "reinitiate violence at the historically high levels seen for the movement during the 1970s, when bombings, liquidations, hijackings, and hostage-takings occurred."
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We here at headquarters, are requesting your assistance in finding the surviving workplace violence suspect.
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Islamic terrorism is not a threat, to the FBI. The Islamic types don't want to cut the FBI's budget, and any attacks will result in further expansion of FBI's power.
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The FBI must be channeling the Southern Poverty Law Center where they are showing images of people in hoods and white sheets burning crosses at night as a national threat (must use 1920s file photos).
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Well to identift Islamic Terrorist would be 'islamophobic'. And like the good officials of Rotherham UK, they, or more likely the ones at the top, don't want to appear 'islamophobic'.
One wonders how many underage-sex-trafficking rings and/or terrorist threats the lower and some mid-level FBI agents are being ordered to ignore from the Elitists at the top in the name of Political Correctness.
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I wondered how many Muslims are in the U.S. and to what extent there might be Islamist threats. A study was done by a researcher at the University of Kentucky in 2011. The estimated number of Muslims in the U.S. at that time was about 7M. One somewhat alarming statistic in the survey was that the number of mosques had increased in the U.S.: "Bagby identified 2,106 U.S. mosques, up from 1,209 in 2000 and 962 in 1994." The number of mosques had nearly doubled from 2000 to 2011. Survey results reported here.
If 10% of Muslims are/get radicalized, then that would be about 700,000. One article discusses radicalized Muslims and the percentage is much higher. Here. Suppose, for a minute, that one accepts 10% as the number, 700,000 Muslims with jihad and Sharia law on their minds is not a trivial problem. They can cause a lot of trouble.
Why would 700,000 Muslims be ignored as a problem? They are not that large a voting block when one considers how many might be of voting age and how many actually vote, etc. (although, The other day, I saw an article that reported 70%+ of the Muslims gave Obama a favorable job rating). I suppose they could swing an election.
The fact that the FBI does not include the Islamists in their threat assessments could be:
1. Political correctness could be squelching this heresy (sarc). It seems to be rampant in the federal government.
2. I don't know but maybe Muslims are in upper managerial ranks of the FBI. If they are, they might be able to discourage such reporting--probably would never have happened J.Edgar Hoover's day.
3. The executive branch might be driving this.
4. Perhaps too much attention is given to groups like CAIR and other Muslim groups who are very politically active in the U.S.
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the number is much lower than 7M. It is to their advantage to overestimate their numbers - much like the "Million Man March"
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It is to their advantage to overestimate their numbers
What Frank G. said. According to the Pew report on the subject from 2009, they estimated the United States Muslim population at a total of 2,454,000, which is 0.8% of the US population and 0.2% of the world Muslim population of 1,571,198,000.
There is a big emotional hook to having as many or more Muslims in America than Jews... and last I looked there were about six million American Jews.
Three million Syrian refugees have registered in neighbouring countries as of Friday, but many remain trapped by the advance of militants or are having difficulty in reaching open border crossings, the UN said.
Syrians desperate to leave their war-engulfed homeland are forced to pay hefty bribes at armed checkpoints proliferating along Syria's borders, or to smugglers, the UN refugee agency said.
Have you considered Mauritania?
The record figure is one million refugees more than a year ago, while a further 6.5 million are displaced within Syria, meaning that “almost half of all Syrians have now been forced to abandon their homes and flee for their lives,” it said.
“The Syrian crisis has become the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era, yet the world is failing to meet the needs of refugees and the countries hosting them,” Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said in a statement.
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, who serves as UNHCR special envoy, said in a separate statement: “Three million refugees is not just another statistic. It is a searing indictment of our collective failure to end the war in Syria.”
Sure Angie. You tell us how and we'll get right on it...
The vast majority of Syrian refugees remain in neighbouring countries, with the highest concentrations in Lebanon (1.17 million), Turkey (830,000) and Jordan (613,000), the UNHCR said. Some 215,000 refugees are in Iraq with the rest in Egypt and other countries. But there are worrying signs that the journey out of Syria is becoming tougher for desperate families, it said.
Some areas of Syria are emptying out as the front lines in the conflict shift. “Recent arrivals to Jordan, for example, are running from attacks in the areas of Al Raqqa and Aleppo,” the UNHCR said, referring to northern areas of Syria controlled by ISIS militants.
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We CAN end that war. It just requires total disregard for collateral damage or world opinion. I think things would calm down after about 5% of the population were killed.
[NEWS.YAHOO] King Abdullah 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... has warned that the West will be the next target of the jihadists sweeping through Syria and Iraq, unless there is "rapid" action.
"If we ignore them, I am sure they will reach Europe in a month and America in another month," he said in remarks quoted on Saturday by Asharq al-Awsat daily and Saudi-backed Al-Arabiya television station.
"Terrorism knows no border and its danger could affect several countries outside the Middle East," said the king who was speaking at a welcoming ceremony on Friday for new ambassadors, including a new envoy from Saudi ally the United States.
The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group has prompted widespread concern as it advances in both Syria and Iraq, killing hundreds of people, including in gruesome beheadings and mass executions.
Lack of action would be "unacceptable" in the face of the phenomenon, King Abdullah said.
"You see how they (jihadists) carry out beheadings and make children show the severed heads in the street," he said, condemning the "cruelty" of such acts.
"It is no secret to you, what they have done and what they have yet to do. I ask you to transmit this message to your leaders: 'Fight terrorism with force, reason and (necessary) speed'."
President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... has yet to decide whether the United States should launch raids against positions held by the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria to follow US air strikes on IS activities in Iraq.
US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... called Friday for a global coalition to combat Islamic State fighters' "genocidal agenda".
Writing in the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , Kerry said he and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will meet European counterparts on the sidelines of a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... summit in Wales next week, to enlist assistance.
They will then travel on to the Middle East to build support "among the countries that are most directly threatened".
"With a united response led by the United States and the broadest possible coalition of nations, the cancer of ISIS will not be allowed to spread to other countries," Kerry said in Friday's op-ed piece.
Asharq Al-Awsat said the king urged other countries to join the UN Counter-Terrorism Centre, set up in 2011 to respond to new threats, and to which Saudi Arabia has made a grant of $100 million.
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How about shooting your sheikhs and mullahs who encourage this bad behavior with money and fatwas?
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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The Respect Party has released a photo of controversial MP George Galloway's battered face after he was beaten up in the street.The pro-Palestine Bradford West MP spent the night in hospital after suffering a suspected broken jaw, broken rib and bruising in the attack yesterday evening in Golborne Road, Notting Hill, London.
[FREEBEACON] The FBI's most recent national threat assessment for domestic terrorism makes no reference to Islamist terror threats, despite last year's Boston Marathon bombing and the 2009 Fort Hood shooting--both carried out by radical 
