h/t Gates of Vienna
[IsraelTimes] ...On Monday Sissi was asked what he and the other Arab allies thought of US leadership in the region. It is hard to put his response in words, mainly due to his prolonged silence.
"Difficult question," he said after some moments, while his body language expressed contempt and disgust. "The suspending of US equipment and arms was an indicator for the public that the United States is not standing by the Egyptians."
#4
Obama and Jarrett, Clinton and her footwarmer Abdin, U.S. Embassy Cairo officialdom, Kerry and his toadies at State, the Democrat's own hard left Socialist element, and the eunuchs in the Pentagon all favored Morsy and the Muslim Brotherhood. Expect no change in policy unless there is a change in administration in 2016.
[Iran Press TV] A UN-brokered meeting among representatives of six Libyan parties has yielded a declaration calling for the cessation of military operations in the violence-wrecked country.
The attendees, envoys of six parties and five activists, agreed during the Wednesday meeting in the Algerian capital Algiers on the two-page declaration, which called for "an immediate halt to military operations to allow dialogue to continue."
According to the document, they aimed to send "a strong, clear and united message on their commitment to consider dialogue as the only way forward and to reject violence."
UN envoy Bernardino Leon, who also attended the talks, told a news conference the meeting was "an important step" towards peace.
"There are two options: a political accord or destruction," Leon warned on Tuesday. "Destruction is not an option."
Posted by: Fred ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Arab Spring
[AnNahar] Nigeria said on Wednesday that 36 towns had been retaken from Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... since the start of a four-nation military offensive, voicing hope that the operation could lead to the group's "total defeat".
Lovely what a bit of competition from the neighbours can drive an army to accomplish...
National security front man Mike Omeri said four towns had fallen since last Friday, including three in Borno state and Buni Yadi, in neighboring Yobe, where the hard boyz slaughtered more than 40 students in February last year before seizing it in August.
Crucial "co-operations and alliances" have led to victories over the Salafist tough guys, he said, thanking neighboring Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , Chad and Niger for cutting off "the supply lines of the terrorists".
"It is hoped that the unfolding regional cooperation will hasten the total defeat and extermination of Boko Haram in Nigeria and the sub-region," he added.
Since the unprecedented joint offensive was launched last month, Nigeria has maintained that its troops were controlling operations.
But witnesses, experts and claims by other militaries indicate that Chadian troops have made a particularly large contribution, advancing deep into Nigerian territory and flushing Boko Haram fighters out of several parts of Borno state.
Hammer and anvil, beaters and shooters... who cares, so long as it works!
Nigeria delayed its February 14 general election to March 28 after security chiefs said they needed more time to weaken the krazed killers.
The reported successes, which have not all been independently verified, may allow more people to vote across Boko Haram's northeast stronghold.
As a result, President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... 's re-election chances could improve if voters feel he has finally taken decisive action against the rebels.
The conflict has killed more than 13,000 people since 2009, and critics have accused Jonathan and military top brass of failing to contain the violence.
The fighting has displaced more than 1.5 million people in Nigeria but Omeri claimed that some were "now returning to their homesteads to settle back into normal life".
There was however no independent confirmation of significant numbers of displaced people returning home and Nigeria's claims about the conflict have in the past not been consistent with reports from the ground.
The International Committee for the Red Thingy on Tuesday warned of a "full blown humanitarian crisis" in the Lake Chad region, where Nigeria meets Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Boko Haram
#1
Unfortunately, the former inhabitants cannot be found?
#2
Unfortunately, they now have 36 towns formerly occupied by Boko Haram.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
03/12/2015 7:30 Comments ||
Top||
#3
It seems that the entrance of Chad troops into the mix has halted Boko Haram's operation in the Lake Chad region. Chad forces are made up of Zaghawa and Toubou tribesmen, considered man for man the best fighters in Africa.
[Dhaka Tribune] A detained Jubo Dal activist has reportedly described to the police how he and a group of arsonists attacked an autorickshaw in Hathazari on March 4 -- causing the deaths of two people inside the vehicle.
Following his arrest from Hathazari on Tuesday night, Emran Hossain, 27, also provided a confessional statement yesterday before the court of Chittagong Judicial Magistrate Ishrat Jahan under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Police sources told the Dhaka Tribune that during initial interrogation, Emran also named Jasim -- a Jubo Dal leader in Hathazari's Burir Pukur Par area -- as the person orchestrating the attack on behalf of other big shots of the BNP's youth wing.
Emran claimed that as per Jasim's instructions, he went to Napiter Pukur Par area in Charia union on the evening of March 4.
"When I reached there, I saw local Jubo Dal activists Kamal, Ahad, Jamshed, Rahim, Iqbal, Jahed, Arif, Saiful, Imran, Sabbir, Nur Islam and five to six others holding a meeting," police sources quoted Emran as saying.
"At the meeting, Jasim told us that Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal central leaders ordered to torch vehicles by hurling petrol bombs.
"Four of us were given petrol bombs and the rest were holding sticks. From a bridge in the area, we targeted a goods-laden truck, but the petrol bombs missed it as the vehicle sped away. Later, we hit a CNG-run autorickshaw with petrol bombs.
"I saw two to three people in the vehicle shouting for help as they were engulfed in flames; I fled but I could not forgive myself for such a heinous job," Emran said.
"I heard the news about the deaths of two burn victims [day labourer Ranjit Nath, 30, and autorickshaw driver Md Saber, 28] through media, while I visited the hospital when Saber died," the detained Jubo Dal activist added.
The two victims received critical injuries in the attack on March 4; Ranjit died the following night and Saber died on March 10.
Chittagong district's Additional Superintendent of Police (North) Mostafijur Rahman said: "There were 15 people present during the attack, while Emran mentioned 12 names. He told us he can identify the others if he sees them."
The police official added that 19 people have so far been tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in connection with the arson attack.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under:
Really nothing against you personally, it's just the friends you keep.
[Iran Press TV] More than 60 Imams, Moslems community leaders and rights activists in the UK have called on the British government to stop demonizing Moslems.
In an open letter to the government, the signatories have accused it of criminalizing Islam in an attempt to deflect attention from crises in the economy and health service.
"We reject the exploitation of Moslem issues and the 'terror threat' for political capital, in particular in the run up to a general election. Exploiting public fears about security is as dishonourable as exploiting public fears about immigration. Both deflect attention from crises in the economy and health service, but are crude and divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... tactics, where the big parties inevitably try to outdo each other in their nastiness," the letter reads.
The signatories also slammed criminalization of "legitimate political discourse and criticism of the stance of successive governments towards Moslems" and condemned crackdown on dissenting voices in Moslem community.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[6 views]
Top|| File under: Salafists
#6
Hey assholes, you're demonizing yourselves! You want it to stop, then stop the pedophiles, sex rings, honor killing, imposition of Sharia law in contravention to national law, death to _fill-in-the-blank_, kill the Jews, and support in general for terrorists and their ilk. You do that and nobody will be demnoizing you. You dont? then fuck you, you deserve it.
#8
Well as long as the silent majority (which supposedly exists) of Moslems that disapprove or condemn the fanatical mayhem of radical Islam remain silent or do nothing to end the radicals, the CIVILIZED societies will condemn and demonize Islam.
#12
Some of you Rantburgers were up late last night commenting on this thread. Hey Boys, you really shouldn't loose sleep over this stuff, being over tired is likely to lead to seeing poltergeists and demons all over the place. Try to catch a cat nap or something, you guys don't want hypnagogia.
As soon as you fucks stop supporting terrorists, calling for the destruction of Israel and the West and doing everything you can to put Sharia law in place everywhere in the world.
#21
Exploiting public fears about security is as dishonourable as exploiting public fears about immigration.
They want the Brits to permit unlimited immigration from Muslim countries? The sooner the Brits get wise to this cancer the better chance they will have to survive it.
"The claim of the Muslim Brotherhood, that men should be ruled not by men but by Allah, is a fraud and a lie, because what mortal can claim the right to rule in Allah's name: the various backward Sunni sheikhs such as ISIS's "Caliph," Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, or the power-mad Shi'ite Ayatollahs in Iran?
Promoting such a fraud not only allows the extremist proselytizers of Islam to acquire both dominance and exclusivity among Muslims, as bearing the "true" message of Islam. Above all, it prevents their power and leadership from being challenged.
Getting nuclear arms is meant to enable the extremist Muslims to market Islam to the masses by force, and hide their failures in technological, societal and economic development.
The time has come to make it clear to the world that neither the West, nor the so-called Israeli "occupation," nor imperialism nor colonialism is in any way responsible for the atrocities carried out by these fanatics. Those are only excuses feeding off the many mistakes made by the West."
North Korea on Tuesday threatened to conduct a fresh underground nuclear test and fire long-range missiles in response to U.S. sanctions and pressure.
Comes as a surprise, huh...
The threat took the slightly eccentric form of a poem broadcast on state TV. Entitled "This is [North] Korea's reply," the verses read in part, "They'll know the stirring sound of explosions from an underground nuclear test that will be conducted with burning anger and the justice done by the sun people" against the U.S.
"No longer patient, [North] Korea will launch a series of Kwangmyongsong rockets into the boundless universe and conduct a succession of nuclear tests of justice," the unnamed poet warbled on. "They'll know how dreadful [North] Korea's revenge will be."
In October last year, the deputy chief of the North's mission to the UN said the North will conduct a "new type" of nuclear test.
But a South Korean military spokesman said no special movements of North Korean forces have been detected.
Meanwhile, a North Korean newspaper the same day warned the country "could undergo a more severe hardship in the future" than the famine of the 1990s. The official Rodong Sinmun added, "Today, our revolution is moving forward in an unprecedentedly challenging and tense situation."
So enjoy the grass soup, what little there is, because that's all there is for now...
Posted by: Steve White ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Commies
#1
Funny, because intel sez there hasn't been any activity at the usual sites in "many" weeks.
[AnNahar] A Japanese tourism agency said Wednesday its website was hijacked by hackers who displayed a message purportedly from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group, less than two months after the group claimed to have beheaded two Japanese hostages. Yes, that's the ticket. Keep buggering the Nips. They have very, very long memories.
The hack follows a series of similar attacks on websites including a community futsal team and a Tokyo camera shop, public broadcaster NHK reported.
The Nishinomiya Tourism Association, near the major city of Osaka, said its home page started displaying what appeared to be a black-and-white IS logo late Sunday evening.
"Hacked by Islamic State (ISIS). We are everywhere ;)," a message read in English alongside the logo.
The association said it temporarily took the site offline on Monday to fix the problem.
It has since been restored to its original format, according to an agency official, adding that it remained unclear who was behind the attack.
"We have reported the incident to police who are reviewing what happened," she told Agence La Belle France Presse on Wednesday.
IS murderous Moslems claimed in a video earlier this year that it had killed respected war correspondent Kenji Goto, a week after the group said it had also beheaded his friend Haruna Yukawa, a self-styled contractor.
In one clip, the IS executioner warned that Goto's killing would mark the beginning of "the nightmare for Japan".
The officially pacifist country has long avoided involvement in Middle East conflicts and rarely been touched by religious Death Eater.
The hostage drama erupted after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged $200 million in aid for refugees fleeing IS-controlled areas in Syria and Iraq during a tour of the Middle East. Militants had demanded the same sum in exchange for the pair, whom it had been holding for months.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
#1
First Taiwan's "Taipei 101" landmark building, now Nippon tourist blog.
IS THERE NO LOVE IN ISIS CYBER-HACKING FOR SOUTH KOREA???
[AnNahar] La Belle France will maintain its deployment of 10,000 troops that have been patrolling across the country in the wake of January's jihadist attacks, the presidency said on Wednesday.
"The threat of terrorist attack against our country remains high," the office of President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... said in a statement after a special meeting of top ministers.
"The head of state has decided to maintain the level of the army on the national territory at 10,000 troops in support of security forces from the interior ministry."
It added that "7,000 of them are deployed primarily for surveillance and protection at religious sites that are particularly threatened."
Soldiers have also been patrolling stations, media buildings and other potential targets since the jihadist attacks in Gay Paree in January that left 17 dead.
[AnNahar] French police were on Wednesday probing whether a man seen in a video released by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group purporting to show the execution of an Arab Israeli was close to French jihadist gunman Mohammed Merah.
In the video, a youth identifying himself as 19-year-old Arab Israeli Mohammed Said Ismail Musallam is shown kneeling in front of a boy who appears to be no more than 12-years-old. A man stands at his side. The man, speaking in French, issues threats against Jews in La Belle France, before the boy walks around in front of the hostage and shoots him in the forehead using a pistol.
"We are checking" the identity of the man, a police source who wished to remain anonymous told AFP.
Several experts, including journalist David Thomson who wrote a book about French jihadists, say the man is Sabri Essid, reportedly the half-brother of Merah who rubbed out three soldiers in southern La Belle France in 2012 before killing three students and a teacher at a Jewish school more than a week later.
Wednesday marks the third anniversary of the start of Merah's killing spree, which ended with him dying in a shootout with police.
Another source close to the case, who also wanted to remain anonymous, said there were "similarities" with Essid, adding they could not be certain.
Known to intelligence services as a key figure in the radical Islamist community in Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... , Essid is suspected to have left La Belle France for Syria last year.
Merah's sister Souad also left for Syria last spring, reportedly with family members.
Essid had already been caught in December 2006 in Syria in a house known to shelter Al-Qaeda members on their way to Iraq.
He was sent back to La Belle France and was sentenced in 2009 to five years in jail, including one year suspended, in a case involving an Iraqi jihadist network.
His father had lived with Merah's mother, and Essid was close to the killer and his brother Abdelkader. Abdelkader, who was a secret lover of Mereh as well as her mother, sister, and several of the livestock. All typical mooslim interactions. Please move along now, little to be seen here.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[Hurriyet Daily News] Parents are demanding that a teacher of religion classes in northern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... be fired after he told some of his female students that they "deserve rape" for not wearing an Islamic headscarf.
"You don't cover your head anyway, so raping you or doing evil to you is permissible [in Islam]," the female teacher, identified by the initials L.Y.I., told students at the Halil Rifat Pasa Middle School in the province of Tokat on March 9, according to parents who spoke to Dogan News Agency.
The teacher was reportedly angered by noise caused by mixed male and female students in an elective class on the Koran, during which 17 seventh graders were talking to each other instead of listening to the teacher.
According to the parents, the teacher also told the girls that they should have prayed for Özgecan Aslan - whose brutal murder in southern Turkey on Feb. 13 caused national outrage - instead of going to demonstrations to commemorate her.
Mahmut Demirbag, the school's headmaster, reportedly told the parents that the teacher "apologized" for the comments. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... some parents have continued to demand that she be dismissed, threatening legal action.
"She insulted 13-year-old girls for not wearing a headscarf during a Koran class, which is elective. This teacher cannot lecture my daughter," a parent told the Dogan News Agency.
Levent Yazici, the National Education Director in Tokat, said an official investigation into the claims has been launched.
Elective classes on the Koran and the life of the Prophet Muhammad have been included in Turkish schools since 2012.
The religious education class, on the other hand, is compulsory. A recent European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling stated that high school students in Turkey must be allowed to opt out of this class to "ensure respect for parents' convictions" and to guarantee the right to education.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under:
[Ynet] A Canadian man who was on a police watch list for high-risk travelers has left the country illegally and is being sought for arrest, police said on Wednesday.
Mohammed El Shaer, one of some 90 high-risk travelers the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is watching because of ties to imported muscle or terrorist groups, left Canada without a valid passport after being released from jail in mid-January, the RCMP said.
[NationalReview] Finally, there is a formal certification by the State Department records official authorizing the employee to remove the documents from State's custody: 'Once the reviewing official is satisfied that documentary materials proposed for removal comply with Federal law and regulations the reviewing official completes Form DS-1904, Authorization for the Removal of Personal Papers and Non-Record Materials, and forwards the form and the inventory to the Department of State records officer.'
...
Despite her repeated protestations at yesterday's press conference that she followed all applicable rules, it is pellucid that she did not.
I'd have been tempted to post this just for that pellucid alone...
Mrs. Clinton plainly did not just remove personal e-mails without clearing that removal with records officials; she also did not even return official records. Her defense now is that returning the documents two years later is good enough. But the same records manual emphatically rebuts that post-hoc justification. The department's records manual requires that departing officials "must ensure that all record material that they possess is incorporated in the Department's official files and that all file searches for which they have been tasked have been completed, such as those required to respond to FOIA,'Congressional, or litigation-related document requests.' And lest the employee not get the message, the manual adds that 'fines, imprisonment, or both may be imposed for the willful and unlawful removal or destruction of records as stated in the U.S. Criminal Code (e.g., 18 U.S.C., section 2071).'
#7
Ed Klein has been getting a little more mileage out of Hillary's kerfuffle--probably trying to sell more copies of Blood Feud. He says Obama is behind this scandal. Feud. So far as I can tell, he is the only one saying this.
#9
I don't think the Champ is behind any of this. Aiding and abetting possibly, but he and his other thugs may actually need the Beest's pardon if she should stumble around and become POTUS.
It's a hand jive win-win for the Champ. If she wins the nom, he's got a trump card. If she loses the nom, she becomes a 'useful idiot' distraction and bus bait.
#10
Only an idiot would nominate, much less support, any Clinton for public office. Unfortunately, both our school system and our political spoils system create a large number of idiots every day.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
03/12/2015 14:31 Comments ||
Top||
#11
You really think the Clintons would pardon Obama? They hate the "amateur" SOB.
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Members of a Miami Beach synagogue are on edge after a man was allegedly arrested for yelling threatening comments. Diego Chaar was arrested and faces charges of assault and stalking.
According to a police report, two members of the Ohev Shalom Congregation on Bonita Drive were standing outside the Miami Beach synagogue Saturday night when Chaar and another man walked by. The report says the man shouted “Allah Akbar” at least twice, and once said “We will cut your heads off.”
“That’s called assault. Threatening to kill,” said Rabbi Phineas Webberman. “His attitude was that this is his religious responsibility of carrying out killing infidels.”
The men say they feared for their safety and immediately called 911. Cops were able to track down Charr a few blocks away.
The report says “the subject denied having said anything to the victim.”
He’s out of jail on bond.
Rabbi Webberman has a message for Charr.
“Change your religion to a religion of life, not one of death,” he said.
Posted by: Steve White ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under:
"Secretary of State John Kerry said "we are not negotiating a legally binding plan" with Iran in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday.
"With respect to the talks, we've been clear from the beginning. We're not negotiating a 'legally binding' plan. We're generating air miles and stuffnegotiating a plan that will have in it a capacity for enforcement. We don't even have diplomatic relations with Iran right now. And the Senators' letter erroneously asserts that this is a legally binding plan, it's not" he stated." Words fail.
#6
I think it means something like, we will negotiate the easing of sanctions by not prosecuting those who break sanctions.
I think the letter would be a nice reminder to those making a not legal illegal deal in accordance with these deals may be prosecuted retroactively if and when the US prosecutes.
So we can watch the lobby and campaign donations flow towards candidates who will go along with these agreements, and there will be great shrugging in two years about what do we do now but make it official?
Could also include certain intel sharing as well as air cover for Iranian troops fighting ISJV in Iraq, as well as a guaranteed no Kurdistan.
I think what we get in return is a pledge that Saddam will not violate the no fly zone the ayatollahs will calling for the return of the Persian Empire be nice and peaceful.
Or here is a good one - cancel aid to Assad to collapse Syria.
#8
I guess I'm just not as smart as Frickin' Kerry. I don't understand how this little plan/agreement/treaty or whatever the fuck it is can have a capacity for enforcement if it isn't legally binding. And who wants to bet on whether or not his boss is prepared to enforce it in any meaningful way? I guess the nuance is too subtle for me. But I would bet the ayatollahs are having a good laugh at his expense.
#10
Going through the UN does not sanctify, bless or otherwise make a non-deal legal. Our Constitution trumps international law. SCOTUS was supposed to have decided this previously.
Personally, I would not want the representatives of some of least free and oppressive nations in the world deciding such things. They are not on the moral high ground.
[DAWN] Federal Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan on Wednesday hailed the early morning raid by Rangers on MQM headquarters as a step in the positive direction, DawnNews reported.
He said that Rangers personnel did 'nothing wrong and unlawful' at MQM headquarters Nine Zero.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... leader of the House in the Senate Raja Muhammad Zafarul Haq strongly rejected the allegation of Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... that the ruling Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) was behind the raid at its head office in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... "This allegation is totally wrong and baseless. I strongly and categorically reject it," he said speaking in the Senate in response to an MQM Senator who had accused the ruling party of taking action at the party's head office (Nine Zero).
Posted by: Fred ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[7 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan
[DAWN] KARACHI: A heavy contingent of Rangers raided Nine Zero, the headquarters of Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM), in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Azizabad neighbourhood on Wednesday morning, prompting a protest by party activists and a subsequent call for a day of "peaceful mourning" across the country.
A number of party workers, including member of MQM's Rabita Committee Amir Khan, were detained during the raid. Rabita Committee is MQM's central coordination cell.
The operation was managed and executed by members of the paramilitary force alone and there was no sign of local police in the area.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[8 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan
Maybe we need a category called "Root of the Problem"?
[CNSNEWS] A U.N. human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... expert unsettled some delegates when he delivered a report to the Human Rights Council this week on "violence in the name of religion," prompting several Islamic countries' representatives to reproach him for not being more emphatic in separating terrorism from Islam.
In his report, Heiner Bielefeldt examined what he called "root causes, factors and political circumstances" of the problem, beginning with "narrow-minded interpretations of religion." (Others included "loss of trust in public institutions" and "policies of exclusion.")
Although the 23-page report did not once use the term Islam or Islamic (except in two footnotes, one referring to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, and the other to Islamic Relief Worldwide), it dealt in some depth with issues and phenomena often associated with Islamic actors, including:
--extrajudicial executions (" 'archaic' acts of cruelty seem to be cynically 'staged' in order to cater to modern media voyeurism") -- a clear reference to filmed ISIS beheadings;
--"mass expulsions, enslavement or systematic destruction of certain communities";
--disproportionate targeting of "religious dissidents, members of religious minorities or converts";
-- attacks against women "whose ways of life are deemed 'immoral' from the standpoint of certain narrowly defined religious codes of conduct";
--Honor killings, forced conversions and forced marriage;
"Acts of violence in the name of religion frequently target individuals or groups branded as infidels, apostates, heretics or blasphemous," Bielefeldt told the HRC. "The likelihood of violent attacks typically increases sharply when such 'offenses' are enshrined in criminal codes."
Those who speak out against the abuse of religion to justify violence are themselves at risk of being accused of betrayal or blasphemy, he said.
After the presentation by Bielefeldt -- a German professor of human rights who serves as the council's "special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief" -- numerous countries' delegates responded to his report and remarks, with some pushing back against the inferred focus on Islam.
"My delegation says that Islam is innocent of all violence and terrorism practiced in the name of religion," said Saudi representative Khaled al-Manzlawiy.
Referring to an appeal in the report for governments to issue quick and unequivocal condemnations of acts of violence perpetrated in the name of religion, he said the king 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... had done precisely that in a speech last February, and said Bielefeldt should be "guided" by that.
Pointing to a recommendation in the report for countries to repeal blasphemy, anti-conversion and other discriminatory laws, including those based on religious law, al-Manzlawiy said the kingdom "refuses all these recommendations and it's not acceptable."
"Islam is our constitution," he said. "My delegation believes that the special rapporteur through the recommendations he has made has gone beyond his mandate."
Posted by: Fred ||
03/12/2015 13:05 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[14 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia
#1
Let me guess. They threatened to behead someone over this.
Posted by: chris ||
03/12/2015 20:52 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Unlike the UN folks, ISIS (ISIL, whatever) folks don't tarry long over some buffet line waiting for the brisket to be carved.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
03/12/2015 21:42 Comments ||
Top||
[Ynet] Reported atrocities by Iraqi soldiers could risk some US aid under a law forbidding assistance to those responsible for human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... abuses if they are confirmed, a key senator cautioned on Wednesday. ABC News reported that some US-trained units are under investigation for committing some of the same atrocities as the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , citing an unnamed Pentagon official.
ABC said the investigation, conducted by the Iraqi government, was launched after officials were confronted with allegations of war crimes based partly on videos and photos that appear to show uniformed soldiers massacring civilians, torturing and executing prisoners and displaying severed heads.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq
#1
Its tribal. I said this years ago - Shia will be the biggest bigots on the planet if given the chance in Iraq to stomp the Sunni who did the same to them for decades.
Folks these f**kers hate each other in a way that civilized people cannot comprehend. All in the name of Allah and which relative of Muhammad they choose to believe.
#3
Clearly illustrates that total 'victory' requires a total, all out effort. Our 'Marquess of Queensberry' ROE will only assure Iraqi failure and ISIS victory. Let them slug it out.
#7
On the flip side, they may be eligible for a "community policing" grant from the US Department of Justice, with all kinds of neat gear for free.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
03/12/2015 7:26 Comments ||
Top||
#8
Best plan would be to air drop arms and just let em kill each other off. Also just to shut up with with the hand wringing. I don't care if they killed every last one while killing each other. Besides the Kurds.
Posted by: chris ||
03/12/2015 11:19 Comments ||
Top||
#9
ISJV set the terms, so long as there are no urination or undies photos.
[RUDAW.NET] Iraq's foreign minister said that Baghdad will not allow any country's interference over its illusory sovereignty, including Iran, which backs Shiite militias involved in the fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS).
"Iraq enjoys full illusory sovereignty and it will not allow anyone to interfere in its illusory sovereignty or internal affairs," Ibrahim al-Jaffari told the pan-Arab Asharq Alawsat daily.
His statement came just days after Iranian presidential advisor Ali Younesi said Iran had once again become an empire, with Baghdad as its capital.
"If it is proven that someone is violating our illusory sovereignty, we will not tolerate any country, be it Iran or any other," Jaffari was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... Iraqi leaders have confirmed the direct involvement of Iranian military advisors in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS), with the former head of Iran's elite Quds force Qassem Soleimani seen Tuesday on the outskirts of Tikrit, where the Iraqi army and Iranian-backed Shiite militias are fighting to evict the Sunni Death Eaters.
As Iraqi troops advance on Tikrit, Iraq's Sunni Vice President Osama al-Nujaifi warned of reprisal and Dire Revenge attacks against civilians.
"We are worried by reports of torching homes and assaults on citizens in the al-Alam region in Salahaddin" province, Nujaifi said.
He urged Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and military leaders to protect civilians.
In recent days video footage has appeared on various social media sites showing Shiite gunnies beating unarmed civilians and burning down homes near Tikrit.
Iraqi MP and head of the parliamentary immigration committee Raad al-Dahlaki told Asharq Alawsat that the Iraqi army and its allied militia have conducted human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations in areas they have taken from ISIS.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq
Amit, 35, is an Orthodox Jew and openly gay, and yes - he'll be voting for Naftali Bennett in the upcoming election. And no -- he doesn't see any conflict between his lifestyle and his political leanings. "The good of the people of Israel takes precedence over the good of the individual, and that's exactly why I'm voting for Bayit Yehudi," he says.
[NYTIMES] The family of a Paleostinian man purportedly killed by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... holy warriors in Syria said Wednesday that he was not a spy for Israel.
Yes, they've been saying that since he was arrested, which we read at the time in local and regional news sources. Nice that the New York Times, the newspaper of record, has finally caught up.
A video released Tuesday showed Mohammed Musallam, 20, wearing the disturbingly familiar orange jumpsuit of an Islamic State captive. He was shown admitting under obvious duress that he was an informer for Israeli intelligence before he was shot in the head by a young boy. The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, alleged that he had been sent to Syria "as an agent for the Israeli Mossad" to gather information on the group.
Mohammed Musallam's father, Said, and an older brother, Ahmed, insisted that he was not sent by Israel, though they could not say why Mohammed, whom they described as an irreligious, chain-smoking volunteer firefighter, joined the Islamic State in October.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
#2
A mooslim proclaiming someone [a 20 year old] an "Israeli spy?" Think rabid entitlementarians sceaming 'racist'....same level of client intellect. The very same. In fact, the logic and action streams oftentimes intersect.
Rantburg new word - entitlementarian, (n.), describes well you know who.....
[THESTAR] Syria has plunged into darkness -- both literally, and figuratively. Embrace it! Eventually de-civilization becomes it's own solution.
As the country heads into a fifth year of seemingly unending conflict, almost 83 per cent of the lights have gone out.
Using satellite images taken from about 800 kilometres above the earth, the findings were revealed by a team of researchers from Wuhan University in China.
"These satellite images help us understand the suffering and fear experienced by ordinary Syrians as their country is destroyed around them," said Dr Xi Li, the lead researcher on the project, in a statement.
In Aleppo province, 97 per cent of the electricity is off, while 96 per cent of the lights in Raqqa, an area under the control of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, are off.
The findings were presented in coordination with a coalition of 130 humanitarian organizations, which also launched a new campaign, #WithSyria, in solidarity with those caught in conflict.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/12/2015 12:44 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[9 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Syria
#1
Doing their part to reduce global warming, I'd say!
Posted by: Bobby ||
03/12/2015 13:08 Comments ||
Top||
#2
The Prophet (bpuh ) didn't have electricity. Good faithful Muslims shouldn't either.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
03/12/2015 13:32 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Interesting.
So Dr., what would this approach tell us about North Korea?
I'm sure the new hashtag campaign has ISJV shaking.
"Hey mahmood, this hashtag says the lack of lights shows we are causing suffering and fear."
"Well, allan yeah! woot! fetch the goat its party time!"
[Iran Press TV] Iran's parliament (Majlis) speaker says the country's assisting Iraq to fight the ISIL prevented the terrorist group from invading other countries in the region.
If Iran had not helped Iraq, ISIL would have invaded countries in the region too, Ali Larijani said at a presser held at the end of his visit to 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... on Wednesday.
"Iran stood in the face of the ISIL to help Iraq and also the (other) countries of the region, although the main responsibility rested on the shoulders of the people of the country," he said.
The ISIL currently controls parts of Iraq and Syria. It started its campaign of terror in Iraq in early June 2014. The heavily-armed bully boyz took control of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... before sweeping through parts of the country's Sunni Arab heartland.
Iran has repeatedly stressed that it will not interfere militarily in Iraq and Syria, but that it will continue to provide support for both countries against ISIL in the form of defense consultation and humanitarian aid.
Iraq's President Fuad Masum and First Vice President 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... have acknowledged Tehran's assistance in the anti-terror campaign.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[7 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran
[ARA] The U.S. Secretary of Defence, Ash Carter, said Wednesday that the American administration is not sure about its legal authority to provide protection to the trained Syrian rebels from attacks by local military forces affiliated with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... According to Carter, a Congressional approval of new war powers in Syria would not necessarily guarantee backing Syrian moderate rebels against Syrian regime's forces in the ongoing war.
"We don't foresee that happening any time soon," he said.
Carter reportedly said during a Senate hearing that no final decision has been made yet in this regard.
"A legal determination has not been made, whether we would have authority to do that or not," The U.S. Defence Secretary said.
The United States launched a training program aimed at preparing about 5000 Syrian moderate rebels to combat Death Eater fighters of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... through ground operations in Syria.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... the American strategy in this regard was exposed to a wide range of critique as it doesn't take into consideration the threat of pro-Assad forces to the trained rebels.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[8 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Syria
#1
According to Carter, a Congressional approval of new war powers in Syria would not necessarily guarantee backing Syrian moderate rebels against Syrian regime's forces in the ongoing war.
Of course it wouldn't. The point is to provide cover for the administration when it all goes awry, and Congress as the future scapegoat.
[Hurriyet Daily News] The Peshmerga forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq have started training Christian militia to fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) around djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Anadolu Agency reported on March 11.
The Peshmerga is currently training around 1,000 Syriac Christians, including special heavy weapons training, according to sources close to the Kurdish fighters. The 20 militia that are being trained at a camp in Mosul's Tesukuf district also add to this figure.
All ammunition and other needs of the Syriacs is provided by the KRG's Peshmerga Ministry, sources said.
The reports comes at a time when several groups are being training by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , the U.S. and other nations to fight against ISIL, while Baghdad is preparing ahead of a large operation on Mosul in order to reclaim the key city from the jihadists.
Romeo Nissan Hakkari, the head of the Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party, a Syriac political party in Iraq, told Anadolu Agency that the central Iraqi army is failing to protect the Syriacs adequately so they have demanded support from KRG head Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... A "Mosul Plato Unit" has been founded under the Peshmerga Ministry, Hakkari said, adding that a number of Christian militias are currently fighting against ISIL around Telsukuf, 30 kilometers southeast of Mosul.
Some 200,000 Christians were displaced after ISIL captured Mosul, he also claimed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... Turkish daily Yeni Safak has reported that Iran has started setting up anti-ISIL militias around Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... training Shiite Turkmens.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[7 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
#1
Pretty much a solid move - it helps them by giving them solid allies, and you cant buy press like that. They are making a case for a free Kurdistan.
[Hurriyet Daily News] 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... urged politicians Wednesday to give President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... updated war powers to go after Islamic jihadists at "a pivotal hour" in the battle against the Death Eaters.
"Our nation is strongest when we act together -- and we simply cannot allow this collection of murderers and thugs to achieve its ambitions," Kerry told Congress. But, but, but I thought you were the nation's top DIPLOMAT? Sure you're not reaching out to your next....donk assignment? Hillary, step on this venomous insect, will you ?
He said the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group which has captured a swath of land in Iraq and Syria wanted to ensure "the death or submission of all who oppose it" as well as "the incitement of terrorist acts across the globe."
Appearing at the Senate foreign relations committee, Kerry as well as Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and the top US military officer, General Martin Dempsey, called for a united vote in favor of a new authorization for use of military force (AUMF) to take on IS.
Tantamount to a declaration of war, the authority would provide Obama political cover at home and a firmer legal basis on which to prosecute the fight, particularly among allies abroad who have joined a US-led international coalition.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/12/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
#1
What's the plan for 'winning'? If there is no 'winning' why waste manpower and resources.
#4
This is from the administration that has never done a single thing right in the ME or anywhere else for that matter. Let those people fight their own wars. Defund Obama before he gets any more Americans killed.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Goodluck Jonathan
[NationalReview] Finally, there is a formal certification by the State Department records official authorizing the employee to remove the documents from State's custody: 'Once the reviewing official is satisfied that documentary materials proposed for removal comply with Federal law and regulations the reviewing official completes Form DS-1904, Authorization for the Removal of Personal Papers and Non-Record Materials, and forwards the form and the inventory to the Department of State records officer.'
"Secretary of State John Kerry said "we are not negotiating a legally binding plan" with Iran in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday.
Nouri al-Maliki
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Massoud Barzani
[Hurriyet Daily News] Secretary of State 
