Kampala -- The Ugandan police on Thursday said that it is on high terror alert following a video allegedly posted by the Somali militants; Al-Shabaab on YouTube calling for Jihad- inspired attacks on Uganda and Burundi. The Police in a statement issued here said the 12 minute video uploaded on Monday on the link “the final message of the Kampala warrior”, can not be taken as a joking matter.
“The police and its sister security agencies are actively examining the contents and authenticity of a YouTube link ‘the final message of the Kampala warrior’,” said the statement.
“As the public already knows the threat of terrorism whether real or perceived has never been taken for granted by security,” the statement added. It noted, “Although the threat has no specific information about what might be planned, the security and intelligence community continues to gather credible intelligence on the general threat.”
Uganda continues to face terror threats from the Al-Qaeda- linked Somali militants to avenge the East African country for sending troops in the war ravaged Horn of African country. Uganda provides the bulk of the African Union peace keeping troops in Somalia. Al-Shabaab on July 11, 2010 carried out twin bombings attacks that left over 76 people dead and dozens injured in the capital Kampala.
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Yea, the terrorists will set off some kind of bomb no doubt and a bunch of hapless people will loose their lives for nothing. Hope you find these idiots, and sentence them to a short swim in shark infested waters.
[BBC] A court has handed ousted president Mohammed Morsi a death sentence over a mass prison break in 2011. Egypt's former leader has already been sentenced to 20 years in jail for ordering the arrest and torture of demonstrators during his rule.
Death sentences must first be sent to the Grand Mufti for his opinion on whether they should stand. Convictions are still open to appeal, even if the Grand Mufti gives his approval.
An Egyptian court on Saturday sought the death sentence for former President Mohamed Morsi and 105 other members of the Muslim Brotherhood in connection with a mass jail break in 2011.
A severe drought could bring North Korea to the brink of famine this summer, according to experts who keep close tabs on the Hermit Kingdom.
"If they get a lot of rain over the next two months, then they've dodged a bullet," Marcus Noland, executive vice president and director of studies at the Peterson Institute of International Economics and the co-author of Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform, told VICE News. "If they don't get good rain, then this could be a mess."
Noland's comments came after Curtis Melvin of the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University told Radio Free Asia that satellite imagery showed alarmingly low reservoirs and dry lakebeds throughout the country's agricultural region. Even the lake next to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un's vacation house appeared lower than usual.
Melvin reviewed images dating from November 2012 to March 2014, so it is possible that rainfall has helped refill those water bodies since then — but it's not likely. A severe drought struck North Korea last year, and this past winter was also dry, leading to wildfires in recent months. Much of the precipitation North Korea sees in a given year comes during the wet season in June and July.
Without significant rainfall soon, North Korean farmers might not be able to grow enough food to feed the country's nearly 25 million people. The financial excesses of the country's elite are well documented, and Pyongyang lacks sufficient foreign currency reserves to make up for the shortfall. And while international aid has helped address the country's food shortages in the past, its distribution to the North Korean people depends on the country's paranoid government.
"They are moving into a zone of heightened vulnerability," Noland said.
A report on the situation from United Press International cited South Korean media saying that North Korean officials had called for a "national mobilization" in response to the drought.
But Melvin suggested in an email to VICE News that North Korea is ill-prepared to contend with an extended drought. He noted that, in addition to food shortages, low water levels could also lead to blackouts because of the country's dependence on hydroelectric dams.
"North Korea is a poor, repressive concentration camp country with a dated infrastructure and opaque political culture," Melvin said. "It would probably be very difficult for them to adapt to a severe climactic shock."
Of course, it's impossible to provide a clear picture of what's happening in North Korea because of the regime's crazed dictatorship ironclad grip on information. But the country has a tragic, well-documented history with famine. In the early 1990s, after the Soviet Union collapsed and ended its subsidies to the communist country, North Korea ran out of the fuel, fertilizers, and pesticides necessary to grow enough crops to feed its people. A deadly famine ensued and between 600,000 and 2.5 million people perished.
Few experts believe famine on that scale would hit North Korea again. News outlets have been unsuccessfully predicting another famine for the past few years, as Kookmin University Korean studies professor Andrei Lankov recently noted in a piece for Al Jazeera, but harvests lately have been good, and black markets sanctioned by corrupt bureaucrats are now booming in the country and distributing food more efficiently than the overweening state.
Still, in the twisted world of North Korea, Kim arguably has little incentive to work too hard to keep his people fed.
"There's a line of thought that says, 'As long as he keeps the army in good shape and the city of Pyongyang in shape, the rest of the country can go to hell,' " said Noland. "If you're starving, the only thing you're interested in is getting food in your belly. There are no revolts during famines."
I don't think that's quite true. People who see their children starving to death figure they don't have anything more to lose.
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Another one of those "droughts" that plagued the USSR all those years. Does NK allow little private gardens like the Russkies did? Those suckers never seemed to have a problem and fed most everyone.
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Look for the Norks to start waving around nukes and making threats. The know Zero will fold like a soggy wet noodle and give them all the food and energy they want.
And we go yet another turn around the dance floor...
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Does NK allow little private gardens like the Russkies did?
Not exactly. The Norks recently broke up some collectives and distributed the land to groups of families. But that won't have any short-term (or medium, for that matter) positive effect.
In general NorK agricultural policy is at the mercy of both the army and rural 'mandarins'. As 38 North put it, "Grand pronouncements followed by grudging implementation and eventual rescission when it seemed like central control was being weakened."
North Korean armed forces minister Hyon Yong-chol was executed because he fell foul of a younger generation of technocrats that make up the core of leader Kim Jong-un's regime, American experts estimate.
Makes slightly more sense than being executed for falling asleep. Though if we had a CIA worth anything we'd spread the rumor that he had given Pudgy HIV...
Ex-State Department official John Merrill told Radio Free Asia there was probably conflict between Kim and the military over where to spend resources and money. Merrill based his wild-assed guess surmise on the fact that several senior leaders in the unruly military have been purged while the technocrats seem secure in their posts.
"Military officials in North Korea seem to be more under fire than those in charge of economic policy," Merrill said.
Fat Boy doesn't need an economic policy but he does need a military...
Premier Pak Pong-ju, the most senior technocrat, fell out of favor with former leader Kim Jong-il but was reappointed as premier in April 2013 and has since held on to his post.
Meanwhile the chief of the Army politburo, the minister of the People's Armed Forces, and the Army chief of staff -- the top three military posts -- have been reshuffled several times. Armed forces ministers have served on average eight months.
Among more adventurous speculation here has been that Hyon was executed because he fell asleep during one of Kim’s speeches.
But the government here believes Merrill may be on to something. "Since he took power, Kim Jong-un has given more weight to technocrats, promoting them to senior positions in the Workers Party, a supreme body superior to the Cabinet," a government official here said.
There has been repeated conflict between military leaders and technocrats over lucrative projects handled by former eminence grise Jang Song-taek since his execution. Pundits say it must have been in this process that Hyon and other military leaders were purged.
The military accrued enormous power under Kim Jong-il's "military-first" doctrine and became a virtual state within the state that was difficult to restrain even by the leader.
Another U.S. expert speculated that Kim is taking extreme measures to appease complaints about economic hardship. Ken Gause of the Center for Naval Analyses said despite his repeated vows to solve the chronic food shortage, Kim has made little economic progress and is using the political struggle to offset this failure.
He can't make economic progress because the first thing he'd have to do to make progress is give up power...
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"Since he took power, Kim Jong-un has given more weight to technocrats, promoting them to senior positions in the Workers Party, a supreme body superior to the Cabinet"
Seems John F. Kennedy tried the technocrat route as well...
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Kim is playing this game with great skill, for someone who recently assumed power, and is only 32. It's not unheard of, for cabinet members with more experience and skill, to upend the hierarchy, in anticipation of a purge. Kim is riding the tiger.
One of the reasons North Korean Army chief Hyon Yong-chol was executed was because he was caught dozing off during a meeting. The official Rodong Sinmun daily on April 26 carried a photo showing Hyon with his eyes closed while leader Kim Jong-un was giving a speech at a military rally on April 24-25.
Pic at the link. I think he was just resting his eyes...
But Hyon is absent in photos of Kim and other officials published in the daily on May 1 after another military event the previous day.
A National Intelligence Service official said, "Kim Jong-un is very sensitive about dozing off during meetings and punishes officials who are caught." The official added that Hyon may have only looked asleep as his eyes were closed.
Pudgy Kim apparently warned officials several times not to fall asleep during meetings. Gen. Choe Kyong-song also failed to heed the corpulent Kim's warning and was apparently demoted from a three-star to one-star military rank, while espionage chief Kim Yong-chol was demoted for the same offense.
The draconian measure appears aimed at instilling a sense of fear among top brass. Kim's uncle and former eminence grise Jang Song-taek was executed after lounging during one of Kim's speeches and applauding feebly.
One member of a state-run think tank said, "Kim was raised as a prince and is extremely power-hungry and proud. He considers any dissent or improper behavior a personal insult.
Somebody in North Korea needs to shoot Fat Boy...
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In other news, the No-Doz and RedBull companies have received purchase orders for several pallets of their product to be shipped to a warehouse in Pyongyang.
Catania, Italy -- Almost 3,600 migrants have been rescued from overcrowded boats sailing from Africa to Europe over the past 48 hours, Italy said on Thursday, with sea conditions seen as perfect for attempting the crossing.
As more than 600 migrants were brought ashore at the port of Catania in Sicily, rescuers plucked another 2,500 from rickety boats off the coast of Libya, the coast guard said. Most of those who arrived in Catania had been picked up by the British warship HMS Bulwark and were Somali and Nigerian, port officials said.
With Libya engulfed in strife, people smugglers are increasingly free to pack migrants onto unsafe boats, and they are expected to push total arrivals in Italy for 2015 to 200,000, an increase of 30,000 on last year, according to an Interior Ministry projection.
Sandra Dike, a heavily pregnant 20-year-old Nigerian woman, said she left her home country because of the danger of attacks by the armed Islamist group Boko Haram.
“It’s not safe to go to a public place, like a church, the market. They (Boko Haram) might bomb the place at any time,” she said. “The war in Libya is worse. That’s why we decided to come to Italy.”
A German ship, Italian navy vessels, a merchant ship, and Italy’s finance police and coast guard all conducted rescue operations on Thursday, a coast guard official told Reuters.
The 40-metre Phoenix, based in Malta and run by the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) and Doctors Without Borders, rescued 561 people, including 136 women and 60 children, mostly from Eritrea. The ship picked up 188 people on Wednesday.
The surge in rescues comes just a day after the European Union announced a plan to distribute asylum-seekers more fairly around its member states and take in 20,000 more refugees.
Why not snatch a chunk of Libya, call it "Refugeeistan", and provide that any refugee who settles there gets an internationally recognized passport and a year's worth of sustenance? All they have to do in return is a) settle b) live there c) build there and d) be peaceful, both to themselves and to us.
Oh, and don't let the UN High Relief Commission near it...
With the estimated number of migrant deaths at sea this year approaching 2,000, and after as many as 800 died in a single shipwreck last month, the EU has bolstered its Triton sea mission to help Italy conduct the rescues.
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Why not snatch a chunk of Libya, call it "Refugeeistan", and provide that any refugee who settles there gets an internationally recognized passport and a year's worth of sustenance? All they have to do in return is a) settle b) live there c) build there and d) be peaceful, both to themselves and to us.
France, Britain and Italy could probably divide and conquer Libya. It's pretty clear the Libyans are incapable of governing themselves without a whack job strong man like Qdaffi. It'd be doing everyone a big favor. Maybe they could even cut Egypt in on a piece of the action.
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At first, it seems like Egan's job is disturbing but still better than the alternative. He can kiss his children goodnight, and he doesn't have to worry his plane will get shot out of the air.
But then he and his colleagues begin to get sketchy "signature assassination" orders from the CIA. A signature target is chosen based on information about who their compatriots are, not intel about things they've actually done. The idea is that somebody who hangs out with terrorists is probably also a terrorist. And in the world of Good Kill, these kinds of signature assassinations are happening all the time, at least for a few months in 2010. (There is conflicting evidence about how many such assassinations happened in real life, and when, but it is accurate to say that signature assassination exists.)
At one point, Egan says that the one constant in life is war. "There is always a war," he says, taking one of about nine thousand swigs of gin he downs in the movie. We realize, as we watch Egan's life fall apart, that drones don't take soldiers out of war. In fact, they bring war right to their homes. Egan can never escape Afghanistan, nor the horror of killing innocent people (because inevitably innocents are caught in the blasts). Because the theater of war is in a cargo container just up the freeway from his house.
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Leftist Hollywood bullshi* and rubbish. Yet another attempt to make military personnel out to be nut cases. The JPEL is how it's done.
By the way, I don't agree with the process, but that doesn't make 'Good Kill' a factual accounting. Whack-a-mole creates effective media and political optics, little more. Killing 'fire ants' with an ice pick, one at a time, is no less a fool's errand.
The people were not the disease, National Socialism was the disease. Same combatant rules should apply.
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Not to be compared to the hundreds of thousands who perished under various axis and allied bombing campaigns '39-'45. Yep, Lefty guilt trope. Instead of championing the incredible amount in the reduction of collateral damage, the usual 'it has to be perfect'(not the the Left has ever achieved much beyond mediocre at best) or its literally damnable.
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You mean their highly effective international effort to stop Franco in that Civil War?
Sort of like how they kept him from winning and becoming a dictator?
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Thanks for the link to JPEL. The link has some disturbing info:
"In 2009 the UN determined that the Taliban was earning $300 million a year through the drug trade, and according to a leaked NSA document "the insurgents could not be defeated without disrupting the drug trade."[5] In the opinion of American military commanders such as Bantz John Craddock, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander for Europe at the time, there was no need to prove that drug money was actually being funneled to the Taliban to declare Afghan couriers, farmers and dealers as legitimate targets of NATO strikes.[5] In early 2009 Craddock issued an order to expand the JPEL list to include drug producers."
I have a problem with drone strikes on farmers.
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Targeting the farmers and not the crops forces aggregation of producing venues, which reveals power structure signatures...
[Rudaw] Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a right-hand man of Saddam Hussein who was reported killed last month, has purportedly released a new audio message.
Al-Douri, who was pictured as the King of Clubs in the infamous US deck of cards of most-wanted Iraqis, apparently talks about the latest developments in Iraq to prove that he is alive.
Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi snuffies claimed last month that al-Douri was killed by the group's fighters in a military operation in the town of Alam near the newly-liberated city of Tikrit.
Following claims of al-Douri's death, Iraq's Ministry of Health said it did not have the means to determine whether the remains were really those of al-Douri.
Al-Douri is believed to have been heavily involved in the long-running Sunni insurgency against the Shiite-led government of Iraq.
"Those tribal militias called Hashd al-Shaabi, who are following a fatwa from Iran's Sistani are committing the most awful crimes against civilians," said the voice on the audio release, speaking about the latest events in Iraq.
An Nahar adds:
Friday's audio recording was released by the Baath party's Al-Tagheer channel.
Duri clearly refers in the recording to events that have happened since rumors of his alleged death surfaced on April 17, notably the deployment of Shiite paramilitary groups in the Nukhayb region earlier this month.
"Nukhayb represents a strategic position for Iran inside Iraq, and one of the aims of occupying Nukhayb is to open a front against 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 connect with the fronts in Syria and Leb after the northern passages were closed," he said.
"I affirm in this gathering that what's happening today in our country is a direct and a comprehensive Persian occupation, under the obnoxious cover of sectarianism," he said.
His words and some aspects of the recording suggest that the recording was made at a meeting, possibly of former Baath officials.
Nicknamed "The Iceman" for his humble origins selling blocks of ice, he was the King of Clubs in the U.S. Army's deck of cards of most-wanted Iraqis.
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Well CRAP.
I was hoping the old fart was dead.
Of course things he says in this tape are confusing.
So, who is he fighting? Us, the Iraqi Government or the Iranians in Iraq? He seems to really have his panties in a wad over the "Persian invasion"
I got so tired of trying to find his sorry butt, I was glad someone got him. Now, I don't know. Is he some kind of Lescase character that is undead and unkillable?
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The Ineffectual Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday set out preconditions to restarting the peace talks with Israel.
"A green tablecloth, you hear me!!"
According to Israel Radio on Friday, Abbas called for the halt of all settlement construction in the West Bank and for the immediate release of Palestinians that were imprisoned before the Oslo Accords who were supposed to be released in 2014.
The Palestinian leader demanded that the talks be held for a minimum of a year, during which the two sides will agree on a specific timetable for an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank that is to be completed by 2017.
In return for...
In a speech given Thursday before the new Israeli government was sworn in, Abbas declared that the previous government was not a partner for peace and had purposely hampered the peace efforts of US Secretary of State John Kerry. If the new government will continue on the path of the previous government, the Palestinians will continue to internationalize the conflict, he threatened.
This statement came on the heels of US President Barack Obama's speech at Camp David on Thursday where he said a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians "seems distant now."
Obama congratulated Netanyahu on the formation of his new government but also noted that some of its ministers are openly opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state.
Champ didn't bother to ask, even to himself, why that is...
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The Ineffectual Abbas has become that old guy yelling at the squirrels to get off his lawn. Is anyone even paying attention to this anymore?
Mosul -- Twin schoolgirls who fled Britain to become jihadi brides have not escaped the ISIS-stronghold of Mosul in Iraq and are now in Syria, a source close to the family has said. Zahra and Salma Halane, 17, were believed to be among three teenage girls who reportedly escaped Islamic State’s brutal regime in the city.
It followed reports from inside Mosul which claimed three British teenagers were being hunted down by the terror group for going on the run. But a new source in the UK says the Halane sisters contacted their father Ibrahim this week to tell him they are safe, but now in Syria.
The Somali-born twins – who are now reportedly safe – achieved 28 GCSEs between them and had ambitions to become doctors. And they might not face any terrorism charges if they do return to the UK, Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Crime and Operations in the Metropolitan Police Service has said.
Referring to the three Bethnal Green Academy schoolgirls who fled to Syria last year, Mark Rowley said: ‘Based on the fact they were still travelling out there, if nothing more came to light at that stage then there were no terrorism issues we would need to arrest them for.
‘Obviously we are working with the families, trying to investigate where they are and what they are up to.
‘As and when they come into the West and we have contact with them we will make a decision based on the evidence at the time.’
‘I said at the time, based on what we know at the moment, something to the effect that we will not need to make arrests for terrorism offences but we will keep it under review and that remains the case.
‘I’m not going to give a running update on what they are involved with, what they’ve been doing, have they been doing things willingly, have they been coerced into matters.’
But yesterday, Theresa May suggested the Halane twins may not be allowed back into the UK if they had in fact escaped from ISIS militants.
They could always go to Mauritania...
Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, the Home Secretary said: ‘We look on a case-by-case basis, and people have come back – youngsters who have gone there and suddenly realise what a mistake they’ve made.’
Two weeks ago, a blogger known as Mosul Eye said militants were desperately hunting for three girls, writing: ‘It is believed that those girls have escaped.
‘Three girls [Foreigners – British] married to ISIL militants, reported missing, and ISIL announced to all its checkpoints to search for them.
But yesterday he updated his Facebook page to say: ‘A key note on our report with regards to the three British escapees in Mosul.
‘We cannot confirm, as of yet, if those girls were the same trio mentioned in the British media, as their identities still unknown to us.
Police believe the girls were radicalised online and by their brother Ahmed. They fled their home in Manchester last July. It is understood they married IS militants but were widowed when their husbands were killed in fighting.
The girl’s father, Ibrahim, 52, said his daughters have told him ‘everything has changed’, The Sun reported today.
All the young widows can do now is shill for the Ammunition Fund...
Last night a senior member of the Somali community in Manchester told The Daily Mail: ‘The family are extremely positive the twins are trying to get home… we are praying they come back safely.’
The identity of the girls emerged after an expert on ISIS warned that, if caught, the girls are likely to be executed.
Raffaello Pantucci, Director at the International Security Studies at RUSI, said: ‘If you look on past form, [ISIS] have jailed people… or they’ve simply executed them.
‘They’ve quite publicly executed people who they say were trying to defect or became spies in some way and they’ve punished them with death. I can’t think of cases where they have executed jihadi brides but it’s possible they could execute them too.
‘What we don’t know is what they’re being accused of or why they ran away at the moment, whether it’s apostasy, abandonment, or adultery from their husbands, it’s difficult to know exactly what is happening.’
On the girls’ chances of survival, he added: ‘The terrain [around Mosul] is treacherous. It would be very difficult for three small girls. I don’t know how good their Arabic was, I don’t know if they know the area or how much money they have. But if they have managed to escape and they are now trying to find a safe place to go then they’re in for a very tough time.’
The ages of the three girls reported to have fled led to initial suggestions that they were Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana, who disappeared from their homes in east London earlier this year.
But a lawyer for the trio’s family denied they were on the run, insisting most recent reports from them suggest they are living 300 miles away from Mosul in the Syrian city of Raqqa, ISIS’s de-facto capital.
Tasnime Akunjee, who represents the girls’ families, said: ‘According to our own sources the girls from Bethnal Green remain in Raqqa and are not being pursued by any parties.
‘The families heard from me that it is extremely unlikely to be them.
‘The blog might be right about other girls, there’s a number of other girls out there. From my sources, it’s not them.’
He says the schoolgirls’ families met the news that they are not on the run with ‘mixed’ emotions.
The lawyer added: ‘The families have mixed feelings. One does not want their daughter going on the run from the most known terrorist organisation in the world in their own territory. But the families want them back.’
He said the girl’s famlies have had no recent communication with the girls.
The families of Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana refused to comment on the development.
The newly-appointed Home Secretary told ITV1’s Good Morning Britain: ‘Obviously there are young people who go to Syria, some of whom find that what they see there is not what they thought it was going to be. We look on a case-by-case basis, and people have come back – youngsters who have gone there and suddenly realise what a mistake they’ve made.’
She confirmed that some young Britons who went to Syria or Iraq to join ISIS have come back after becoming disillusioned.
Mosul Eye, a blogger in Iraq, revealed the girls had fled on May 2 through his Facebook page – set up ‘to communicate what’s happening in Mosul to the rest of the world, minute by minute from an independent historian inside Mosul’.
The blogger, who opposes ISIS and remains anonymous, has written in detail in both English and Arabic about the inner-workings of the group, their execution of civilians and casualties they suffer from coalition air-strikes.
In a later post he added: ‘The latest info I got on them is they are still on the run, but still in Mosul, and ISIL is thoroughly searching for them and hasn’t captured them yet.
‘They are Brits, not immigrants, and they are very young teens (around 16 years old). That’s all I have about them for now.’
The Foreign Office was investigating who the trio might be and a spokesman told the MailOnline: ‘We are aware of reports and are looking into them.’
In earlier postings Mosul Eye warns of IS carrying out mass searches of homes, looking for laptops, mobile phones, tablets and other devices, warning: ‘Please delete all your browsing history from anything related to politics, ISIL, adult content, music, movies, pro-government pages.’
ISIS are reportedly unpopular with much of the local population and appear to be increasing the terror in the city as their losses mount.
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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
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[BBC] A court has handed ousted president Mohammed Morsi a death sentence over a mass prison break in 2011. Egypt's former leader has already been sentenced to 20 years in jail for ordering the arrest and torture of demonstrators during his rule.
Catania, Italy -- Almost 3,600 migrants have been rescued from overcrowded boats sailing from Africa to Europe over the past 48 hours, Italy said on Thursday, with sea conditions seen as perfect for attempting the crossing.
