KISMAYO -- Federal Government of Somalia��™s President Hassan Shiekh Mohamud is on second visit to the southern port city of Kismayo as Jubaland peace-building conference kicked off in the presence of community and political leaders on Tuesday, Garowe Online reports.
In advance of the gathering, Jubaland President Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islam (Madobe) received Mohamud��™s delegation at Kismayo International airport where Somalia President inspected guard of honor. Mohamud addressed conference participants on the choppy stages gone through by Jubaland administration in the course of its existence since May last year.
“Today, reconciliation conference will be kicking off and mutual consensus depends on the hearts of the people,” said Mohamud.”We travelled on long path, we faced numerous challenges but by God��™s grace we are here”.
Mogadishu-based Federal Government President also urged all parties to engage in serious dialogue and present their complaints in the peace-building conference.
“I commend Jubaland officials for tolerance and at the same time salute the political retreats being made by those who were complaining,” he said.
Continuing, Mohamud expressed his delight with the outcome of the reconciliation process and pledged continued facilitation to both organizers and delegates. Thirteen representatives from Ministry of Internal and Federal Affairs were set to leap the agendas with security and liberation efforts at the forefront.
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[Libya Herald] The former Chief of Staff, Major-General Abdussalam Jadallah Obeidi, who was sacked by the House of Representatives last month, has declared that he is still in post. Speaking on Al-Nabaa TV yesterday, he said that he had not been formally notified of his dismissal. In any event, he added, he was going to appeal to the Supreme Court on the matter.
Obeidi was removed after being questioned by the HoR amid allegations that he had supported Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... militiamen. He was replaced by Colonel (now Major-General) Abdul Razzaq Nazhuri, a senior commander in Khalifa Hafter's Operation Dignity. As a result of this it, theoretically, has no separate existence and is now part of the national army.
At the time of Obeidi's dismissal, General Staff based in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... refused to accept it, saying they still supported him. Although he himself was initially reported to have agreed to it, in his TV appearance yesterday he said that no decision concerning national security could be taken while the country did not have a constitution.
He also came out firmly in support for Libya Dawn.
He said that the Libya Shield ...a conglomerate of pro-Islamist militias deployed across Libya. It reports to the Libyan defense ministry and is organized like a real army unit. Its commander used to head a Benghazi brigade called Free Libya Martyrs... forces (part of Operation Libya Dawn) had participated in the 17 February Revolution and had to be supported. He also stated that any individual or body that took decisions which were against the revolution had no legitimacy -- a direct reference to the HoR. As for the places under Libya Dawn control, everything there was working well, he declared: the situation on the ground in the west, of the country where Libya Dawn operates was "excellent", he stated.
Meanwhile yesterday, sources at the Central Bank of Libya in Tripoli said that Saddek Elkaber, sacked as its chairman on Sunday by the HoR, also planned to appeal to the Surpeme Court.
The source claimed that Elkaber had a five-year contract and could not be sacked by anyone, including the HoR, unless there was proof of embezzlement or of undermining state security.
Elkaber is reported to have taken the view that since he too has not been formally notified of his dismissal, he is not going to comment on it.
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[Libya Herald] Ali Salabi, viewed by many as the ideological brains and real head of the Moslem Brüderbund in Libya, and Nizar Kawan, a member of the rump General National Congress as well as of the Brotherhood and its political wing, the Justice and Construction Party, have been holding talks in N'Djamena with Chadian President Idriss Déby.
The visit is seen as an attempt by the Congress and its Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... allies to gather international and regional support ahead of tomorrow's conference in Madrid on Libya.
At the beginning of month, former Congress President Nuri Abu Sahmain was in Khartoum looking for Sudanese support.
Both countries will attend the conference.
Libya and Chad have a long and often bitter history of involvement in each other's affairs. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... in the Libya neighbours' conference which took place last month in Cairo, Chad (and Sudan) agreed that the House of Representatives, not the former Congress, was Libya's sole legitimate legislature and that Libya's militias should be disarmed.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami ... a Pakistani catspaw remaining active in Bangla politix, loosely affiliated with the Pak religious party of the same name and closely affiliated with most of the terror organizations in Bangla. A member of the BNP's four party governing coalition.... has demanded release of its Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayeedi ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... ahead of the Supreme Court verdict on appeal against Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi's death sentence scheduled to be delivered on Wednesday.
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... acting Ameer Maqbul Ahmed made the demand in a blurb on Tuesday.
According to the blurb, Jamaat-e-Islami termed the long term imprisonment and verdict to its Nayeb-e-Ameer and world renowned religious scholar Allama Delwar Hossain Sayeedi as tyrannical government's wish.
"The government has filed false and fabricated case against Sayeedi in line with the false allegation of committing crimes against humanity to attain their ill political interest," reads the release.
"During this trial procedure, the prosecution has taken various types of falsehood. We truly believe that the tribunal did not make justice to Allama Delwar Hossain Sayeedi offering him death penalty," it added.
Jamat urged to all Moslems of Bangladesh and world to pray for Sayeedi.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is set to deliver its judgement on appeal against Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi's death sentence in war crimes case on Wednesday, according to the Supreme Court website.
The five-member bench led by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain will give the order, says the cause list of court 3.
The rest four justices are Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, Justice Md Abdul Wahhab Miah, Justice Hasan Foez Siddique and Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury.
The tribunal handed down the death penalty to Sayeedi on February 28 last year.
He appealed against the sentence seeking acquittal on March 28.
The government also lodged an appeal to specify the sentence in all the six charges that were proved at the tribunal.
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[Dhaka Tribune] In a clear deviation from its previous stance, 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... yesterday did not announce a countrywide shutdown in response to the apex court's setting today for delivering the verdict in the appeals case of Delwar Hossain Sayeedi ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... Before the last verdicts were delivered by the tribunal and the Appellate Division against the Jamaat leaders, the party -- a key ally of the BNP-led alliance -- called hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... on the verdict dates and went on a rampage.
Asked why they did not announce a hartal this time, the party's Working Committee member Sayed Abdullah Mohammad Taher said they would decide on agitation programmes after the verdict was announced.
"If the verdict is given following due legal procedure then we will welcome it. But if not, tough actions will be taken in protest against the verdict," he told the Dhaka Tribune.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... Jamaat acting ameer Maqbul Ahmed in a statement demanded immediate release of Sayeedi.
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[AnNahar] Turkey's military is mulling the prospect of establishing a buffer zone along its border with Syria and Iraq amid an escalating threat posed by Islamic State holy warriors, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
"The TSK (Turkish Armed Forces) are working on plans and will present them to us and we will decide if it is necessary," Erdogan was quoted as saying by the Hurriyet newspaper and other media, when asked about the possibility of a buffer zone being established.
Turkey, a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... member and Washington's key ally in the region, has been reluctant to take part in combat operations against Islamic State myrmidons, or allow a U.S.-led coalition to use its airbases for strikes against the jihadists because the bully boyz are holding dozens of Turkish nationals hostage, including diplomats and children.
IS holy warriors are holding 49 Turks in all, kidnapped from the Turkish consulate in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in Iraq in June.
Last week, a senior Turkish official told Agence La Belle France Presse: "Our hands and arms are tied because of the hostages," adding that Turkey's role in the anti-IS coalition would be confined to humanitarian assistance.
Erdogan said Turkey wanted to solve the hostage crisis through "contacts."
"Our intelligence units have been working for three months on this," he said, adding that "We will provide humanitarian support (in the coalition against IS)."
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[AnNahar] Turkey would welcome exiled leaders of Egypt's outlawed Moslem Brüderbund who have come under pressure to leave Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has said.
A Brotherhood official said on Saturday that several members of the group were relocating after Qatar came under enormous pressure from other Gulf Arab states to cut support for the Islamist group.
"If they make any request to come to Turkey, we will review their request," Erdogan was quoted as telling news hounds on his plane back from an official trip to Qatar late on Monday.
"If there are any reasons that would prevent them from coming to Turkey, they would be assessed. And if there aren't any obstacles, they would be granted the ease that is granted to everyone," he said.
Turkey and Qatar have been some of the staunchest supporters of the Brotherhood, the movement of Egypt's former president Mohammed Morsi who was ousted by the army last July following mass protests against his turbulent year-long rule.
But other leading Gulf states have grown increasingly concerned about the Brotherhood after its prominent role in the Arab Spring, viewing the movement as a threat to their monarchic rule.
Egypt's military-installed authorities designated the Brotherhood a "terrorist organization" last December.
Since then, the group's exiled leaders set up headquarters in several countries including Turkey, to where the leadership in Doha may now relocate.
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[IsraelTimes] The US Court of Appeals heard a case on Monday filed by an American terror victim who is seeking to seize 14 vessels that participated in the 2010 Gazoo flotilla.
The suit, which was originally filed in June 2011 by Dr. Alan Bauer, seeks to confiscate the 14 ships on the grounds that they were used in a hostile fashion against a nation friendly to the United States.
*snicker*
Israeli naval commandos boarded the boats that departed from Turkey in May 2010 after they disobeyed instructions from the Israel Defense Forces. The commandos immediately faced violent resistance upon boarding the main vessel, the Mavi Marmara. Ten Israeli commandos were maimed and 10 Turkish activists were killed in the ensuing conflict.
The incident sparked a great deal of controversy throughout the world and led to a deterioration of ties between Jerusalem and Ankara.
According to a blurb disseminated by the Israeli legal group Sasi-Aharoni, the plaintiff based his case on the grounds that the vessels violated the infrequently cited "informer" statute of the US Neutrality Act of 1794, an act that, according to the legal group, "makes it illegal to furnish, arm or fit out any vessel for hostile use against a foreign country."
The legal group contends that the flotilla operators were affiliated with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, -- a terrorist organization, according to the United States government -- and that the operation was partially financed by American pro-Paleostinian groups, therefore allowing the vessels to be seized under the provisions of the act.
Furkan Dogan, a dual Turkish-American citizen, was one of several Americans who participated in the flotilla and one of the 10 activists killed in the raid.
The Neutrality Act was originally created to prevent American citizens from joining a military operation against any country at peace with the United States. During the time of the act's creation, La Belle France, Spain and Great Britannia had attempted to lure American privateers into pirating each other's naval vessels in an effort to weaken the military capacities of their rivals.
The release stated that Dr. Bauer originally contacted American attorney general Eric Inaction Jackson Holder ... aka Mister Fast and Furious... to file the suit against the flotilla group. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... the attorney general's office declined to take on the suit. The district court that originally heard the case dismissed it, stating that the US government -- and not Dr. Bauer -- was the only authority capable of seizing the boats.
The appeal, filed by Florida attorney Asher Perlin and Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, the founder of the Israeli law center Shurat HaDin, alleges that the lower court had erred in not realizing that a provision in the act allows private informers to sue.
Dr. Alan Bauer was injured in a suicide kaboom in Jerusalem on March 21, 2002. The bomber, a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, went kaboom! in a crowded shopping district, injuring 42 people and killing 3 others, including a woman pregnant with twins.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: A district and sessions court judge here on Monday disposed of a petition of the Pakistain Awami Tehrik over the alleged killing of its workers and directed the Secretariat police to take cognisance of the matter and proceed in accordance with the law.
The petition, filed by the vice president of PAT's Islamabad chapter, Advocate Ahmed Yar Gondal, had sought registration of FIR against 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... , Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif
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[DAWN] The army said on Monday that counter-terrorism operations would continue till elimination of terrorism.
"The capacity of the Talibs to plan and execute terrorist activity has been disrupted," Military front man Maj Gen Asim Bajwa said while talking to Dawn.
The front man was discussing the progress achieved in 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!)... in North Wazoo and the intelligence-based operations carried out elsewhere in the country since the start of the operation on June 15.
He said the operation was "proceeding as per plan and desired targets were being achieved". But he avoided quantifying the progress achieved.
The army claims to have cleared over 80 km of main road in North Waziristan and its three major population centres -- Mirali, Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... and Dattakhel. But importantly the much feared blowback of the military operation in the once Taliban stronghold has been avoided. Except for a couple of attacks on military installations and a few other minor strikes, holy warriors have not been able to carry out any major act of violence.
Gen Bajwa said the holy warriors were on the run now and they were carrying out sporadic attacks.
"They have been dislodged from their base, their command and control centre and logistic base has been destroyed, and their communication network has been smashed," he said.
Gen Bajwa avoided a direct comment on renunciation of violence by Punjabi Taliban led by Asmatullah Moavia, but there is a perception within the military that it was a result of the pressure generated by Zarb-e-Azb.
He regretted that Afghanistan was not extending commensurate cooperation.
"We have through military and diplomatic channels been asking Afghan authorities for cooperation, but they have not been forthcoming," he said.
The military claims to have eliminated over 1,000 TTP soldiers, including the second tier of the murderous Moslem leadership, but says the main leaders including the group's chief Maulvi Fazlullah were based in Afghanistan.
The military front man specifically underscored the success of over 2,200 operations across the country that had been undertaken as part of the newly-instituted 'Integrated Security Mechanism'.
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[DAWN] Foreign Office (FO) on Tuesday expressed its dismay over allegations made by Afghanistan accusing Pak intelligence institutions of being involved in terrorist activities.
"Repeated attempts by the Afghan side to implicate Pakistain's intelligence institutions in terrorist activities are both unfounded and counter-productive," said a statement release by FO.
The statement said that Pakistain was committed to prevent its territory from being used to launch attacks against any country.
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BEIRUT - Islamic State has won new recruits in Syria since President Barack Obama signaled last week that air strikes against the group will be expanded from Iraq to its strongholds in northern and eastern Syria, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 162 people had joined Islamic State training camps in Aleppo province since Sept 10, when Obama said he would not hesitate to strike Islamic State in Syria.
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No surpise here - this is what happens when Politicos = OWG Globalists try to unilaterally forcibly impose their agenda widout asking the Mainstream = Voters iff they want it or not, like it or not.
Iff the MARXIST COMMUNISTS-SOCIALISTS-GLOBALISTS think they are going to control Radical Islam, THINK HARDER!
[AnNahar] The United States plans to strike the Islamic State group in its Syrian strongholds and could send military advisers into combat alongside Iraqi troops, American commanders said Tuesday.
Military leaders warned of a further escalation in their battle against the jihadists just as two branches of the rival Al-Qaeda group called for a united front against the war coalition Washington is building.
U.S. warplanes have been targeting IS jihadists in northern Iraq since August 8, and in recent days hit the gunnies southwest of Baghdad for the first time, in a significant expansion of the campaign.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start on his third quart... Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told US politicians that plans are being laid to hit targets in Syria, where the IS group is holding hostages and has a stronghold in the city of Raqa.
"This plan includes targeted actions against ISIL safe havens in Syria, including its command and control, logistics capabilities, and infrastructure," Hagel told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
But the U.S. military's top-ranking officer, General Martin Dempsey, told the same hearing the bombing would not match the huge raids that accompanied the start of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
"This will not look like 'shock and awe' because that is not how ISIL is organized, but it will be persistent and sustainable," Dempsey said, using the term Washington used for its 2003 bombardment.
Dempsey also went further that any U.S. official has gone before in admitting that the military advisers that President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... has dispatched to bolster Iraqi forces could get involved in combat.
Obama's administration has insisted that his action against the IS hard boyz is not the start of another U.S. ground war in the Middle East, and that there will be no large-scale American invasion.
But nearly 300 U.S. military advisers are already working with Iraqi government forces, 300 more are on their way and Dempsey refused to rule out their providing "close combat advising."
"To be clear, if we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific ISIL targets, I will recommend that to the president," Dempsey said.
Dempsey said the advisers are "very much in a combat advisory role" and that there is "no intention" at the moment for them to engage in combat: "I don't see it to be necessary right now."
But he said if there were an "extraordinarily complex" operation planned by Iraqi forces -- such as a bid to recapture the rebel-held city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... -- then advisers could head to the front.
Dempsey said any use of U.S. troops in the field would be approved by Obama, explaining: "He told me to come back to him on a case-by-case basis."
Obama has vowed to expand American efforts and U.S. diplomats are scrambling to put together an international coalition for a "relentless" campaign against the jihadists.
The slow coming together of this alliance drew a fierce reaction from Al-Qaeda's branches in Yemen and in North Africa, who said jihadist forces must also unite against the common threat.
In a joint statement, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) urged their "brothers" in Iraq and Syria to "stop killing each other and unite against the American campaign and its evil coalition that threatens us all."
The Islamic State group began as a successor to Al-Qaeda's Iraqi branch, but has beat feet from the group's shadow and clashed with its surrogates in Syria, while claiming leadership of global jihad.
The U.S. strikes against IS fighters in the Sadr al-Yusufiyah area, 25 kilometers (15 miles) from Baghdad, was the first in support of Iraqi forces near the capital.
They bring the number of U.S. air strikes across Iraq to 162. The CIA estimates that the Islamic State organization may be able to field as many as 31,500 fighters -- many of them foreign volunteers.
Iraqi security front man Lieutenant General Qassem Atta welcomed the expanded American action, saying the U.S. "carried out an important strike against an enemy target in Sadr al-Yusufiyah."
Sadr al-Yusufiyah lies in the Euphrates Valley, between the bad boy stronghold of Fallujah and the key battleground of Jurf al-Sakhr, further south. It is one of the closest front lines to Baghdad.
Western nations and 10 Arab countries, including regional powerhouses 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... and Egypt, have agreed to back the U.S.-led campaign, but not all will engage in military action.
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The lead units will have a campaign patch that says "Nobel Peace Prize Representative". You may already be a winner!
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'Rurun' possibly, but I suspect the ISIS cash bounties for captured American servicemen are much higher than what the Vietcong or NVA might have offered. I hope and pray we don't one day soon, find out.
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US should say we are sending a ton of unarmed advisors and otherwise easily killable Americans to the city of Fallujia and then bomb the Holy crap out of the place when the mob of Jihadi' show up.
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CIA should also let slip (by way of Snowden if possible) that there was an ISIS/Muslim brotherhood/Iran plan to spread Ebola at Mecca that was stopped by Israel.
OTOH, as per CNN AM looks like theres a possible disturbance in the Force between POTUS Bammer + JSoC Chair Gen. Martin Dempsey, USA as the Bammer made it absolutely positively categorically undeniably .... clear that the US will N-O-T be waging ground war in Iraq andor Syria - PERIOD!
AKA "BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT ...".
More from GEN. DEMPSEY via the Net ... ...
* TOPIX > [WaPo] DEMPSEY: ONE-HALF OF IRAQI ARMY NOT OK AS US PARTNERS.
Wid the remaining one-half in need of re-org, retraining, + reequipping to be of value to the US or the new Anti-ISIS Coalition.
Dempsey's statement is roughly consistent wid those in Congress whom argue that the US needs to dev a "ENTIRELY NEW ARMY/FIGHTING FORCE" to either rid of Baby Assad, OR to defeat the ISIS.
[DAWN] The United States is not preparing to unleash a "shock and awe" campaign of overwhelming Arclight airstrikes in Syria against Islamic State fighters and instead envisions a more modest, longer-term campaign, Pentagon officials told Congress on Tuesday.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the military's current plan would be outlined to President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... on Wednesday by the US military's Central Command and envisioned striking the group's safe havens to knock out infrastructure, logistics and command capabilities.
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instead, "hope and change"
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Yeah, a nice nuanced war that won't intrude into the news cycle.
Shock and awe isn't just about massive bombing, although that part *is* fun. It is about conducting maneuver warfare at a pace the enemy cannot match. It takes personnel, not just a few 'advisors'. It takes commitment.
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JFK say, "Me love you long time!"
Till he was cut down in his prime.
A profile in courage!
A headful of porridge!
"Oops, mom's calling. Must dash. Suppertime!"
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creative jealousy.
God forbid. I make poopie. You, I gather... well...
When hipsters and artists all smirk
And imply you're a rough-handed jerk,
Just you sing Kumbaya,
Frank, and help to end war --
Building bridges is man's noblest work!
In case anyone had any delusions about what, exactly, the Islamic State and all the rest, including the so-called moderate Islamist Muslim Brotherhood really are.
[IsraelTimes] The murderous Moslem-held Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... is set to usher in a new school year. But unlike years past, there will be no art or music. Classes about history, literature and Christianity have been "permanently annulled."
The Islamic State group has declared patriotic songs blasphemous and ordered that certain pictures be torn out of textbooks.
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[IsraelTimes] Israel and the Paleostinians have reached an agreement that will allow the start of reconstruction in battle-scarred Gazoo, according to the UN envoy in the region Robert Serry.
In a UN Security Council debate Tuesday, Serry, who serves as the world body's special coordinator for the Middle East grinding of the peace processor, said the Paleostinian Authority would have a central role in the rehabilitation activities: It is to be in charge of ensuring that the construction materials sent into Gazoo for reconstruction will not be diverted to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s military efforts.
The agreement on monitoring the supply of materials "must get up and running without delay," said Serry.
The deal would allow private companies to move in to rebuild Gazoo.
Israeli officials confirmed that Israel had acquiesced to a UN proposal to establish a mechanism for Gazoo's reconstruction under the auspices of the UN.
Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, who runs the IDF's coordination with Paleostinian authorities, said the mechanism would allow Gazoo's rehabilitation to go forward while securing the defense interests of Israel.
Israel has been concerned that cement and other materials could be used to rebuild Hamas's attack tunnels, which were constructed to carry out terror strikes against Israelis.
Serry described the destruction in Gazoo from the summer's war between Israel and Hamas as "truly shocking," with some 18,000 houses flattened or severely damaged, while 65,000 Paleostinians remain in UN-run shelters and 100,000 are homeless.
He appealed for the reopening of crossing points to allow the delivery of materials and emphasized that quick action on reconstruction would provide a "signal of hope to the people of Gazoo."
Egypt is due to host a donor conference for Gazoo reconstruction on October 12, supported by Norway.
"The crisis in Gazoo is far from over and the window of opportunity to address critical needs and stabilize the situation is short," Serry warned.
The envoy appealed for action to "change fundamentally the dynamics in Gazoo," warning that "if we do not, Gazoo could implode -- or, yet again, explode -- possibly with a new and even more devastating round of violence."
According to Israel Radio, the new UN oversight mechanism was coordinated by Serry, Mordechai and Paleostinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, and was approved by the Israeli government.
From MEMRI - group that digs deeply into sources and knows what it is talking about
Although the IS and global jihad organizations affiliated with Al-Qaeda share similar beliefs about the necessity to wage jihad for the sake of Allah and establish a caliphate where Islamic shari'a law will be instated, a major distinction exists between them in terms of the order of priorities for implementing these major goals. Whereas in Al-Qaeda, emphasis is on worldwide jihad prior to the declaration of the yearned-for Islamic caliphate (see Osama bin Laden's February 23, 1998 declaration of jihad against the Crusaders and the Jews), IS doctrine is characterized by prioritizing the establishment and consolidation of the caliphate state as the immediate and overriding objective.[2] This objective is presented by the IS leaders as a matter of survival[3] that warrants making compromises dictated by reality, the major compromise being deferral of the struggle with the West to a distant future. In other words, the IS' doctrine under Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi explicitly puts off the clash with the West to different times, and concentrates in the immediate term on the region where the Islamic caliphate is being established.[4] The IS's English-language magazine Dabiq says that the Islamic State "is a marvel of history that has only come about to pave the way for al-Malhamah al-Kubra [the grand battle against the Crusaders at the End of Days]."[5]
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A couple of heavy ARCLIGHT strikes would put an end to that "caliphate". Think of what al Raqqa would have been like if Obumble had ARCLIGHTed it first, THEN announced the US would attack ANY area held by IS. Of course, that would take a brain larger than the one a stegasaurus had, which leaves out Obumble and most of his "associates and advisers".
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Oh! My liver. Drink up!
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I'm reading the body and I'm thinking "Trotsky vs. Stalin."
[Ynet] Facing US air strikes in Iraq, Islamic State fighters abandoned heavy weaponry that made them easy targets; In Raqqa, the group has evacuated buildings it was using as offices, redeployed heavy weaponry, and moved fighters' families out of the city.
Loose lips sink ships, as they used to say. Still, taking a defensive posture ought to slow down the pillage, plunder, and rape of their previous blitzkrieg conquering, which means the jihadi tourists will be unhappy... and bored. But Boko Haram will be glad to provide opportunities for experienced IS jihadis, right?
Islamic State has gone underground in its Syrian stronghold since President Barack Obama Dreams of My Sainted Father... authorized US air strikes on the group in Syria, disappearing from the streets, redeploying weapons and fighters, and cutting down its media exposure.
In the city of Raqqa, 450 km (280 miles) northeast of Damascus, residents say Islamic State has been moving equipment every day since Obama signalled on Sept. 11 that air attacks on its forces could be expanded from Iraq to Syria.
Islamic State activists who typically answer questions on the Internet have been off line since then. Its leaders have not given a direct response to Obama: his speech last week was not mentioned in a video released on Saturday showing the beheading of British hostage David Haines by an Islamic State bully boy.
As the United States tries to assemble a coalition to fight Islamic State, the jihadist group appears to be trying to leave as much uncertainty as possible about its strategy.
Facing US air strikes in Iraq, Islamic State fighters abandoned heavy weaponry that made them easy targets and tried to blend into civilian areas. In anticipation of similar raids in Syria, the group may already be doing the same.
In Raqqa, the group has evacuated buildings it was using as offices, redeployed its heavy weaponry, and moved fighters' families out of the city.
"They are trying to keep on the move," said one Raqqa resident, communicating via the Internet and speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because of safety fears. "They have sleeper cells everywhere," he added.
"They only meet in very limited gatherings."
The top US general promised on Tuesday "a persistent and sustainable campaign" against Islamic State in Syria, and Washington is probably already watching its positions in Raqqa. Obama approved surveillance flights over Syria last month, and footage taken by activists earlier this month appeared to show an American-made drone over the city.
The hard boyz are not dormant; the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks violence in the country's civil war, said they had shot down a Damascus government war plane near Raqqa using anti-aircraft guns.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... another resident said: "Islamic State is now carrying out tactical defensive moves by relocating their assets to different places so that their heavy weaponry is not all concentrated in one place."
Raqqa and the surrounding province is Islamic State's main base in Syria. Last month, its fighters drove the final government forces from the area when it seized an air base.
Since seizing the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in June, the group has also extended its control over neighbouring Deir al-Zor province, which borders Iraq. Making good on its promise to redraw the Middle East, Islamic State has declared a new province including territory on both sides of the frontier.
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In Raqqa, Islamic State had taken charge of many aspects of civilian life, managing everything from traffic to bakeries in an effort to establish a state run according to its own, radical interpretation of Islam.
Islamic State has been trying to give a sense of business as normal even as it has reduced its presence in the streets, said another resident of the city whose population numbered about 200,000 before the civil war. "They are giving the impression they don't care," the resident said.
"These days the fighters are not deployed heavily on the streets. Only those who have to are appearing. The streets are empty and the people are worried and scared."
Some activists did appear on the outskirts of Raqqa on Tuesday. They were pictured collecting wreckage of the downed Syrian war plane and loading it into the back of a truck flying the group's black flag.
Since Obama's speech, shops in Raqqa have been closing early and the value of the US dollar has jumped in the local hard currency market, residents said. Dozens of people have left the city, though there has been no sign of mass migration.
While preparing for an attack, Islamic State has also been trying to promote its cause among residents. Some already express support for the group whose rule has brought a modicum of stability, albeit in a hardline form.
A 14-point statement distributed in recent days reminded residents of Islamic State rules such as its ban on smoking and drinking, and requirement for women to cover up and stay at home. It also warned that anyone who dealt with Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... 's government would face death.
But the statement also tried to promote the group, telling residents they would see "the great difference" between Islamic State rule and that of the "oppressive secular government" - a reference to Assad. "Live joyfully and in plenty in an Islamic government," declared the statement, which was obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Hassan Hassan, an analyst at the Delma Institute in Abu Dhabi, said the statement amounted to a carrot and stick approach. "It was obviously a move to reassure people but warn them at the same time," he said.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... governing Raqqa would come second to survival in the face of US air strikes. "(Islamic State) has always had that back-up plan, even before the news of an imminent action by Americans," Hassan said. "It's important to realise these people don't need to be in bases."
In one of the few responses to Obama's announcement, an Islamic State supporter warned of attacks on the United States and its allies if they continued to carry out military action against the group, the SITE monitoring service said on Tuesday.
Hassan said the group had yet to issue a proper response. "They are reflecting on what to do next. It's probably their way of making it vague - so that people don't know what to expect."
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[AnNahar] Jihadists have set hard demands in exchange for the release of the Lebanese soldiers and coppers, who were kidnapped in the northeastern border town of Arsal, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Terms designed to cripple and humiliate Lebanon if fulfilled, or to allow the usual torture and head-chopping for the pleasure of the jihadi guards if not.
The daily pointed out that the al-Qaeda-affiliate al-Nusra Front and 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... (ISIL) raised the ceiling of their demands when Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i and Turkish authorities announced that they entered the line of negotiations to release of the kidnapped security personnel.
The Islamist gunnies, according to sources, added a crippling condition which is the release of prominent opposition figures from Syrian prisons.
Media reports have said that the jihadists have a list of demands, including the withdrawal of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... from battles in Syria and the release of ten Syrian inmates held at Roumieh prison in return for each captive soldier and policeman.
A Lebanese delegation headed by Prime Minister Tammam Salam traveled to Doha on Sunday on a one-day visit.
Salam announced that Qatar agreed to negotiate the release of kidnapped soldiers and coppers as General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim, who accompanied the premier on his trip, remained there to follow up the case with Qatari and Turkish officials.
Al-Joumhouria reported that Ibrahim is expected to return to Beirut on Tuesday along with the Qatari negotiating delegation.
The soldiers and coppers were taken captive by Islamist gunnies in August in light of festivities in Arsal between the army and the gunnies who infiltrated the town from Syria.
A few of the captives have since been released, while two others had their heads chopped off, prompting a backlash against Syrian refugees in Leb.
A ministerial panel has been tasked with following up the case.
[IsraelTimes] The Islamic State terror group is operating sleeper cells in southern Syria near the border with Israel, a front man for the opposition's Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... charged Sunday.
The front man, speaking to The Times of Israel on condition of anonymity, as he was not authorized to communicate with Israeli media, said that some of the 6,000 Islamist fighters who fled southward toward the borders with Israel and Jordan in July actually belong to the Islamic State, not to the less extreme Nusra Front as previously believed.
The two Islamist organizations had clashed militarily in a struggle for control over oil-rich northeastern Syria, in which the Islamic State triumphed. The Times of Israel could not confirm the information, which was recently conveyed to the front man from a number of different sources.
While both are opposed to the rule of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... , the Free Syrian Army, a moderate rebel group, and Islamic State have fought a number of fierce battles in Syria.
"There are sleeper cells in the south, which are hidden. They don't do anything [military] at all," the front man said of IS. "Many people [in the moderate Syrian opposition] are following them and will strike at them before they organize."
According to the intelligence agency of the Free Syrian Army, Islamic State activists would approach individuals in the area, offering them basic food staples or financial aid.
"They say: 'Stay at home, no one will know about you. The moment we need you, we'll call.'" The front man said that many locals refused the IS overtures, but that could change given the region's grave poverty.
Prices have skyrocketed recently, he added, with a liter of diesel fuel costing $15, for example.
Two villages where IS representatives made such proposals are Hayt and Sahem Al-Jawlan, near the Syrian-Jordanian border, the front man said.
"They were sent by the Islamic State to control the largest portion of land possible," he said. "We are against them wholeheartedly. They have nothing to do with Islam, which they merely use as a cover."
Eyal Zisser, an expert on Syria at Tel Aviv University, said he was unaware of the IS presence in southern Syria, but was not surprised by the new information.
"The Islamic State is trying to establish itself all across Syria," he told The Times of Israel. "The organization is going through a process of transformation. Other groups [in Syria] are trying to associate themselves with it and pledge allegiance to it. Some do so out of fear of IS, while others hope to benefit from it in the future."
Zisser doubted, however, that the holy warrior group currently had a military presence in the south.
Focused against Assad
The FSA front man said relations between his group and al-Nusra Front, the al-Qaeda affiliate vanquished by IS in northern Syria, were "tense" and could erupt in armed confrontation at any moment. For the time being, however, the field commanders of the Free Syrian Army have decided to focus their limited military capabilities on the Assad regime, he said.
Al-Nusra Front is still holding Sharif as-Safouri, the commander of the FSA's Al-Haramein Battalion kidnapped in July, who has confessed on video to military collaboration with Israel. Another FSA commander, Colonel Ahmad Al-Ni'meh, has been held captive by Al-Nusra Front since early May.
The Free Syrian Army currently controls the entire border between Israel and Syria, including the Quneitra border crossing, wrested from the Assad regime by opposition forces including the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front in late August, the front man said.
The Assad regime still controls areas further inland, between Quneitra and Daraa, including Tel Al-Hara and As-Sanamayn. Further east, the regime controls the 52nd Brigade in Daraa and two military airports in the area.
A new military corps is being formed in southern Syria by the Free Syrian Army to incorporate some 40 fighting units in the Daraa region, and will be known as "Failaq (Corps) 1." The battalions that will form the core of the new unit are Karamah, Special Operations, Ahl As-Sunna and Al-Haramein.
The front man said that the Free Syrian Army was conducting daily negotiations with Western donor states in a bid to arm the new unit, which will be headed by Colonal Ziad Al-Hariri, commander of the Karamah Battalion.
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"Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting Jooos. Shhh."
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[IsraelTimes] Troops from the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah will fight alongside Syrian regime forces for as long as necessary in order to eradicate Islamic State combatants in the embattled country, the deputy head of the Shiite organization's executive council said Monday.
"There could never be a war of words between ISIS and us, but there is the field where we will defeat them," Nabil Qaouk maintained, according to the Daily Star, a Lebanese media outlet.
"Day after day, it is becoming clear to Leb, the Arab, Moslem and international communities that there is a great need for Hezbollah to remain in Syria. The current situation today imposes on Hezbollah to stay in Syria more than any other time," he added.
Qaouk, speaking during a ceremony in the village of Aita Shaab, claimed that Hezbollah, along with the Shi'ite Amal movement, has played a key roll in containing sectarian tensions in Leb in recent weeks, after two Lebanese soldiers were reported to have been brutally beheaded by Islamic State jihadists last week.
"The beheading of soldiers by ISIS was aimed at inciting strife between Sunnis and Shiites but Hezbollah and Amal succeeded in eliminating such strife, not just putting out the blaze," he said.
On Saturday, an apparent Islamic State supporter posted a photo to Twitter showing a masked man wearing black, holding the severed head of a bearded young man over his body. The corpse is lying in a pool of blood and, in the background, a man is holding up the black Islamic State flag. An Islamic State commander later told the Turkish Anadolu news agency Saturday that his group beheaded the Lebanese soldier for attempting to escape.
The image emerged four days after DNA testing confirmed that the body of a man whom jihadists had said they beheaded was that of Lebanese soldier Ali Sayyed. Sayyed had been captured by jihadists from the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra Front and the IS, along with some 30 soldiers and police in the eastern town of Arsal last month.
Qaouk said Hezbollah would fully support any effort by the Lebanese government to reclaim the border city of Arsal, adding that the Lebanese people would have to commit to tighten "the noose on the takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... s [the infidels] and strengthen the army so that it could free the soldiers [that remain in Islamist captivity]."
"Any delay in drafting a national defense strategy or in using strong cards would endanger the lives of soldiers and paves the way for takfiris [to launch] more attacks and provocations," he said.
Hezbollah has sent thousands of fighters to Syria over the past two years in a bid to bolster its ally Bashir al-Assad, who is combating opposition forces, many of them Islamist.
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[IsraelTimes] Troops from the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah will fight alongside Syrian regime forces for as long as necessary in order to eradicate Islamic State combatants in the embattled country, the deputy head of the Shiite organization's executive council said Monday.
