[ToloNews] MPs raised concerns Sunday that previously secure areas have been transformed into battle zones while areas once considered to be the frontline of the war are now fairly safe.
An example of this are the ongoing battles by security force members against forces of Evil in the north. Up until recently, Badakhshan, Kunduz, Faryab and Badghis provinces were fairly secure but that has changed since the launch of the Taliban's spring offensive, say MPs.
"Although Faryab province was insecure in the past years, it was never as bad as this. Insecurities in Badakhshan, Kunduz and other provinces especially Faryab has increased since the start of spring operations," said Haji Hashem, an MP from Faryab.
"A number of anti-government gangs that used to be in the other provinces have come here. There are also foreign holy warriors who used to be in northern Wazoo areas [in Pakistain] but have now come to these parts of the country," he said.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... Afghan Minister of Interior Nooluhaq Olomi on Sunday denied claims that forces of Evil were carving out a north-bound corridor for their war efforts. Addressing a presser, Olomi said the forces of Evil moved to the north and are being forced to fight in order to survive.
"A large number of forces of Evil that used to be in southern Afghanistan have now moved to the north. They have come with their families and are trying to use the resources that they have and [are trying to] create terror and violence in order to survive," he said.
But some MPs believe that these forces of Evil have opened up a new corridor into the northern provinces -- a corridor from Waziristan. They blame government for having been careless.
"The insecurities in the north are due to two problems - one is that the enemy is destabilizing secure areas in the north with the help of Daesh in order to have a bigger presence along the borders of central Asian countries, and secondly, it is because government cannot agree on who can defend the country [as minister of defense]," said Mirdad Nejrabi, an MP and chairman of the Wolesi Jirga's domestic security commission.
"There's also the fact that the American-led coalition is no longer protecting us," he added under his breath.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... the deputy front man for the ministry of defense Dawlat Waziri said that although forces of Evil are fighting in larger groups this year, they have been unable to gain a foothold in Afghanistan.
"If the goal of forces of Evil is to create a foothold, they will never be successful, because there is no area in Afghanistan where ANSF cannot access. But we have witnessed such areas in other countries like Pakistain, that have areas like Waziristan," said Waziri.
Analysts believe that the rise in insecurity in the country is because of two things -- an increase in the number of forces of Evil and government's failure to appoint a minister of defense and governors of over 30 provinces.
[AnNahar] Taliban faceless myrmidons who kidnapped dozens of people in southeast Afghanistan early Saturday released most of them that night but at least two are still being held, officials said.
The faceless myrmidons set up roadblocks in the Sayed Karam district of Paktia province, pulling passengers out of cars at gunpoint on suspicion they were government workers before taking them to an unknown location.
A total of 25 people who had been kidnapped were freed, interior ministry front man Sediq Sediqqi said on his Twitter account Sunday.
The Taliban who have been waging a fierce insurgency since their regime was toppled in late 2001, confirmed the release.
"The suspects placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! yesterday were released after investigation, only two of them are still under investigation," front man Zabiullah Mujahid said on a recognised Twitter account.
Provincial police chief Zalmai Uryakhail gave different numbers, saying 38 passengers were kidnapped with three still remaining in Taliban captivity.
Earlier this month Kabul secured the release of 19 out of 31 mostly Shiite Afghans kidnapped by gunnies in early February, after what was reported to be a prisoner swap.
[AnNahar] Egypt has imposed restrictions on female citizens traveling to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , police said Sunday, months after introducing similar measures for men to stop them joining 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.... jihadist group.
Women aged 18 to 40 are now required to obtain security clearance before going to Turkey, a police brass hat told AFP, without specifying why.
"A security clearance can be acquired within 72 hours, and it is now mandatory for women traveling to this country (Turkey)," the officer said.
The restriction took effect on Thursday, a Cairo airport official said.
In March Egypt's state-sponsored Islamic authority, Dar al-Ifta, warned women against marrying IS fighters over the Internet who woo them to travel to jihadist-controlled territory.
The compulsory security clearance for men, introduced in December, applies to war-torn Libya as well as Turkey.
Jihadists have regularly launched attacks in Egypt, mostly in the Sinai Peninsula, since Islamist president Mohammed Morsi was ousted in 2013, and officials say that many of them have fought in Syria, which borders Turkey.
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Hey brain-dead voters, "Knowing what we know now about the disastrous policies of the effete community organizer that you somehow elevated to the most powerful position in the world ....." - oh, hell, what's the point, or "what difference at this point does it make?"
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See also BIGNEWSNETWORK > [Addicting Info] SOURCES REVEAL IRAN DOESN'T HAVE THE [Nuclear]BOMB - SAUDI ARABIA DOES.
The Iran-fearing/phobic KSA ironically may end up possessing a Nuclear Arsenal long before the anti-Iran NucBomb P5+1 Nuclear Deal expires + Iran consequently devs or acquires a Arsenal of its own???
[ArabNews] An Iranian cargo ship carrying aid and activists crossed into the Gulf of Aden on Sunday and will reach Yemen’s Hodaida port on May 21, Iranian media reported, in a challenge to coalition naval forces controlling Yemeni waters.
A coalition of Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia has imposed searches on all ships trying to enter Yemen in a bid to prevent weapons being smuggled to the Iran-allied Houthi rebel group which controls much of the country, including Hodaida.
Iranian officials last week said they would not allow the coalition forces to inspect the Iran Shahed, which is under military escort, and warned of war if the cargo ship was attacked.
“After entering the Gulf of Aden today... we expect to be in the confines of Hodaida port early on May 21,” the Iran Shahed’s captain, Massoud Ghazi Mirsaid, was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.
Iran says the ship is carrying food aid, medical volunteers and seven Western activists, one of whom was identified by the Tasnim news agency as Caleb Maupin, a native of Ohio who has campaigned against war and the US financial system.
The presence of foreign activists has previously complicated plans to intercept ships carrying them.
Maupin also criticized a plea from his native United States that Iran redirect the ship to Djibouti, where the United Nations is coordinating relief efforts.
Reuters ship tracking data showed the Iran Shahed located off the coast of eastern Yemen at 1110 GMT, heading west toward the Bab El-Mandeb strait, one of the world’s busiest oil shipping routes.
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I'm thinking Iran may well have been outplayed in the long game by the Gulf arabs. Saudi and the UAE can export most of their oil via pipelines that bypass the Strait of Hormuz. While Iran can't.
If this becomes a sinking ships in the Gulf contest, Iran loses.
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I agree wid #2, IRAN at present will not prevail or win agz the USN in a war at sea in the Gulf.
As a traditional land power, albeit wid an aggressive navy, IMO Iran's modus in the NT would be to fight the US or US-Allies on land, i.e. Gulf States, Arabian Peninsula, + Iraq, NOT at sea.
POTUS OBAMA + ALIGNED ANTI-US OWG GLOBALISTS, ETAL. MAY WANT IRAN TO BE A "US-STYLE" CO-SUPERPOWER IN LEAD OF ONE OR MORE REGIONAL OWG "UNION(S)", BUT IRAN'S ECON + MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IS PRESENTLY STILL TOO SMALL + WEAK TO WIN AGZ THE US NAVY-DOD IN 1980'S STYLE GULF COMBAT.
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Iran + econ need time to modernize - either Iran allows the US or US-Allies to invade Iran, or in altern it fights the US or US Allies in "active-defense" desert war throughout the Gulf + ME deserts.
IRAN = VIETNAM WAR = PRIORITY IS FOR IRAN TO DEFEAT THE POLITICAL WILL OF THE US, US GOVT + PEOPLE, NOT THE US MILITARY, IN PROTRACTIVE CONFLICT = "LONG WAR".
[AlAhram] Yemen's exiled President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi was to open a conference of political parties from his war-torn country on Sunday but Iran-backed Huthi Iranian catspaws are boycotting the talks.
The Huthis, who are fighting forces loyal to Hadi and have seized large parts of the country including the capital, want talks to be held in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and are staying away from the meeting of about 400 delegates in Riyadh.
The Huthis have long complained of marginalisation and fought six wars with the central government between 2004 and 2010, before launching a sweeping advance from their northern stronghold last year.
Their southward push forced Hadi to flee to Riyadh and prompted a Saudi-led coalition to launch air strikes against the Huthis, who are allied with fighters loyal to former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... .
The Riyadh talks start on the final day of a five-day truce proposed by 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... to let vital humanitarian aid into Yemen. Despite the pause, festivities between rebels and pro-government forces have continued on the ground.
Although the Huthis are not participating, Saleh's General People's Congress party "has many of its leaders taking part", Abdulaziz al-Jaber, head of the conference's organising committee, told news hounds on Saturday.
He said, however, that "we will not deal with" Saleh or others facing international sanctions.
Saleh, who led the country until 2011, has been on United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... and US sanctions lists since November.
Jaber said the three-day meeting is "not a dialogue" but a decision-making conference.
"What will happen in Riyadh is an announcement of an agreement that will be binding on all parties present in Riyadh," he said.
Among the goals of the meeting is working towards a constitution which would be presented to the Yemeni people, "and to hold a referendum to put the results of the dialogue into practice," Jaber said.
"We reassure the people that restoring the state is inevitable."
About 1,600 people, many of them civilians, have been killed since late March and more than 6,200 others have been injured, while around 450,000 Yemenis are internally displaced because of the war, according to the United Nations.
This stuff is getting real, and someone is getting nervous.
[AlAhram] A report recently released by Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... Center for Studies stressed the need for conscription in Gulf states following events of recent years in the region.
The report said outside threats facing these countries strongly point to the historic and modern realities in the region, in addition to its geo-strategic location making these states vulnerable to continuing threats from major regional powers which always fight to impose their domination on the region.
The report written by Mohammad Eid, a specialist on Gulf affairs, said a number of factors compel GCC countries to adopt a compulsory draft system, and to actively face such permanent threats by forming a joint army of these countries' nationals to safeguard the security and peace of the region.
It pointed out that the region is witnessing continuous and rapid changes, and renewed challenges face the national security of these countries, especially the smaller states.
The report said that since the emergence of the Arab Spring, fundamental shifts and changes are expected, with accompanying implications during the coming decade.
The report stressed that the strategic environment of the Gulf will continuously change because of the developments on the structure of international systems, on one hand, and the momentum resulting from interactions and balances of the big powers which will influence Arab and Middle East systems on the other.
To effectively deal with the consequences of this turbulent environment, the report noted, there is urgent need for armed forces existing in each Gulf country based on renewable capabilities and qualified young people to meet the practical needs for protecting the security and peace of these states.
The report said the abundance of oil money must be invested in developing a qualified national army, equipped with the most state-of-the-art military technologies and techniques.
"Gulf states should consider the development of a qualified national army as a substitute for small-sized armies, as is the case with a number of countries in the world, which are similar to Gulf states in terms of population and in-depth strategic importance. On the other hand, relying on the most sophisticated weapons and technology without the availability of skilled human resources is a negative factor ... and not in the best interests of the GCC countries," said the report.
The positive side of such a decision is that it will contribute to including and embracing the younger generation to the military to support the defense institutions of the Gulf region to face any possible outside aggression or attacks.
There are a number of obstacles hindering the application of conscription in Gulf states, including the prevailing culture, and related economic, administrative and technical dimensions.
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...Oh yeah, the Jeffersonian democracies in the Gulf would do real well to give weapons and training to a bunch of guys who do NOT want to be sent into harm's way.
Mike
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[VOCATIV] The leader of the Chechen Republic lashed out at the U.S. Sunday over the jury's decision to give Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the death penalty for his role in the Boston Marathon bombing. In a post on his Instagram acccount, Ramzan Kadyrov accused U.S. intelligence agencies of using Dzhokhar and his older brother to hide their own involvement in the grisly 2013 attack.
Kadyrov is one of the most powerful figures in Russia, and a close ally of President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... . Under their unwritten pact, Kadyrov keeps order in a region that has been notoriously unstable, and in return, he gets free rein to be heavyhanded with any local opposition to his own rule. Some worry that the Chechen leader is transforming the republic into a place where dissenters are punished and Islamic law is used for oppression rather than religion.
At one point in his Instagram post on Sunday, Kadyrov says: "US intelligence agencies, who were accused of involvement in the Boston tragedy, had to find a victim. Tsarnaev was handed to them as a victim." Later, speaking about Dzhokhar and his older brother Tamerlan, who died in the police chase following the bombing, Kadyrov writes: "If they actually did that attack, I don't believe the US special intelligence services didn't know about it." Kadyrov is close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin
Dzhokar is from a family of ethnic Chechens who were forcibly removed from the Russian province in the years after WWII and resettled in the then-Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. In 2002, his immediate family gained political asylum in U.S. They had sought to return to Chechnya, but Russian authorities prevented them from returning to the Russian republic, which was ravaged by war and had become a hotbed of radicalism. Tamerlan Tsarnaev had made two visits to Chechnya in the years leading up to Boston bombing, and some believe those trips fed his growing radicalization.
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Damn, we're clever. Almost as clever as the Juice.
Like the assassination of Julius Caeser, everyone had to stick in a knife?
[AnNahar] Germany's foreign intelligence agency helped the CIA track down the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones... in Pakistain where U.S. special forces killed the al-Qaeda leader, according to a German news report published Sunday.
The BND spy service provided a tip-off that bin Laden was hiding in Pakistain, with the knowledge of Pak security services, according to the Bild am Sonntag report, which was published as the agency is battling heavy criticism in a spy scandal.
The information came from a BND informant within Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... agency and confirmed CIA suspicions, said the newspaper report which cited unnamed U.S. intelligence sources.
The American source was quoted as saying the German tip-off was of "fundamental importance" in the hunt for the architect of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Pakistain has denied that it knew bin Laden was living within its borders or that it had advance knowledge of the 2011 U.S. special forces operation which killed him in a walled compound in the city of Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... .
The German newspaper said that ultimately U.S. services tracked down bin Laden's exact location by following one of his couriers, as Washington has said.
The report also said the BND used its Bad Aibling listening post in Germany's southern Bavaria state to monitor telephone and email traffic in northern Pakistain to ensure the secrecy of the planned U.S. Navy SEALS' operation.
News portal Spiegel Online pointed out that the newspaper report about the German spy agency's "apparent act of heroism" was published "right in the middle of the BND affair" and asked "is it plausible?"
The BND has been accused of helping the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) spy not just on bandidosturbans and criminals but also on political and business targets, including the French government, European Commission and Airbus Group.
The claims -- and questions of how much the office of Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... knew about the reported joint snooping -- have occupied German politics and media for weeks, and are subject to two parliamentary inquests.
Merkel has pledged to testify before the panels if asked, while her Social Democratic Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has heaped pressure on her, demanding her office reveal the search terms for electronic surveillance which the NSA gave to the BND over the years.
On Sunday Gabriel demanded Merkel's government show "backbone" and release the classified list of search terms even if Washington objects to their publication.
His party has also charged Merkel's conservatives deceived the electorate by voicing unrealistic hopes for a U.S.-German "no-spy agreement" in the lead-up to 2013 elections.
Justice Minister Heiko Maas meanwhile demanded reforms to boost political oversight over the spy agency, telling the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that "we need to make all of the BND's activities subject to democratic controls".
[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has called on the international community and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to impose sanctions on Egypt after the death penalty given to former President Mohammed Morsi, blasting them for remaining silent toward Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
"Hey, Europe! Hey, West! Wasn't the death penalty prohibited there? So why are you silent? Why do you side with Sisi? I call on the entire world, international institutions: Why don't you impose sanctions?" Erdogan said on May 17 during a public rally in the Central Anatolian town of Kayseri.
"You were attacking us during the Gezi protests with all your media, because the real issue was something different: To weaken The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . But they failed. They thought we would collapse economically. But they were defeated," he added.
"What has been done against Morsi and his friends is not acceptable. The world is in self-denial by keeping silent. If you say 'democracy, election,' you should see that this verdict is a sentence given to elections, to democracy, and to the national will," Erdogan said.
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And a pony...to go with Turkey's vast herd of hobby horses.
[VOCATIV] With her terrorist son sentenced to death, the mother of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sent raging messages to his supporters saying the United States will burn "in the flames of an eternal and terrifying fire," her close friend told Vocativ.
"They think that they are killing us and they celebrate this, but we are the ones who will rejoice when Allah grants us the chance to behold them in the flames of an eternal and terrifying fire, an otherworldly flame," Zubeidat Tsarnaeva wrote Sunday in a WhatsApp message to Zarina Kasenova, a friend and supporter.
Or perhaps Allah won't. He hasn't thus far, despite earnest prayers from some of his faithful, and infinite opportunities to demonstrate his will. There's a message in that for those paying attention.
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva sent several distraught messages this weekend to loved ones after her 21-year-old son received the death penalty for his role in the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, her friend said.
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Undoubtedly. Now will you go home?
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[Business Insider] When the US found Osama bin Laden hiding in a walled compound less than a mile from Pakistan's elite military academy, questions arose about what the country's intelligence agency (ISI) knew about the world's most wanted terrorist hiding in its own backyard.
Journalist Seymour Hersh recently wrote that the US Navy SEAL raid was not unilateral as reported. Instead, Hersh asserts, the mission was fully backed by Pakistan's army commander and the head of the ISI after the US threatened to expose that the ISI had been sheltering bin Laden for at least five years.
Journalists and experts disputed much of Hersh's thinly sourced account. Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the US at the time of the May 2011 raid, subsequently wrote that Hersh's claims regarding Pakistan's role in and knowledge of the raid "simply do not add up."
In any case, a wealth of information has been uncovered in recent years pointing to ISI complicity in harboring bin Laden, even as the Obama administration's interest in demanding answers from the Pakistani government waned rather quickly in the months following the successful raid. In other news: Champ approves Syrian mission to kill or capture ISIS Moneyman Abu Sayyaf. Recent Hersh UBL story takes back burner as planned.
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FYI I was hearing stories about ISI involvement with keeping OBL as a leverage against the U.S. For years. And by keeping, i mean supporting his operations at least partially to keep OBL from trying too hard to bolt.
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Personally I do have strong doubts that OBL was "officially" killed at Abbottabad, given both of our links to the CIA during the 1980's anti-Soviet Afghan war + other, + the detected physical presence of certain top USG Personages during his so-called "burial at sea".
Iff it is true that Osama was secretly buried in Pakistan after Abbottabad, then POTUS Bammer + Admin have been "officially" + publicly lying to mainstream America all this time, + continues to do so by insisting that Osama was buried at sea.
WELCOME TO "BLACK/COVERT OPS", AMERIKA, PERHAPS YOU'VE HEARD OF IT???
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: A police team was manhandled by men from a religious seminary after they were caught with a banner inscribed with slogans against a federal minister on Friday night.
Three separate cases have been registered over the issue of the derogatory banners at different cop shoppes of the capital, sources told Dawn.
The banners, targeting Information Minister Pervaiz Rasheed, had been spotted at various points across the capital over the past week and called for his hanging, ostensibly over his remarks where he termed seminaries "centres of illiteracy".
According to the police, separate patrol teams found the banners in Aabpara and Sector F-11/1 and removed them after informing their superiors.
Later, separate cases were registered at the Aabpara and Shalimar cop shoppes under sections 500 (punishment for defamation), 501 (printing or engraving matter known to be defamatory) and 505ii (statements conducing to public mischief) of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC).
According to the FIRs lodged, the banners were put up by the Islamabad chapter of the Jamaat Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (JASWJ).
Later on Friday night, an Aabpara police team spotted motorcyclists near the F-6 Super Market carrying the same banners and tried to intercept them. The police party caught up with the fleeing men near the National Press Club and recovered the banners from them. All five motorcyclists and their vehicles were then taken into custody.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... before police could take the men to lock-up, a couple of dozen men appeared at the spot and prevented the police party from leaving the scene. They threatened the police personnel and asked them to hand the five men over to them, saying that the coppers would be allowed to go on their way if they complied with the demand.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... when the officials tried to contact their control room, a number of men attacked them and beat up a number of officials, including a sub-inspector, who was repeatedly punched and kicked to the ground.
In the interim, other police teams reached the spot and prevented the attackers from freeing the men in jug. The assailants expeditiously departed at a goodly pace when they saw reinforcements arrive. The police gave chase, but their pursuit ended at a religious seminary in Sector F-6/4. Police sources said the attackers were later identified as seminary students.
Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against the attackers at Kohsar cop shoppe, but no action has been taken so far.
The banners had previously been spotted in Sector F-8, the F-10 roundabout as well as Aabpara Market. They were put up in reaction to remarks made by the information minister at a Pakistain Academy of Letters event 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... on May 3, where he had criticised religious Lions of Islam for promoting ignorance, hatred, illiteracy and a culture of "unlearned hordes in Pakistain".
When asked to comment on the issue, Pervaiz Rasheed evaded the question, merely saying, "the issue of provocative banners is a police matter, what can I say about it."
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[DAWN] Deputy Chairman Senate Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri ...Central Secretary General of JUI-F, member of the Pak senate, formerly provincial minister of Balochistan. He has a master's degree in Islam and runs a madrassah... said on Sunday that seminaries were providing free education to about five million male and female students across the country. He said any action against madressahs would have a negative impact on the country's already poor educational structure.
Speaking at the 'Protection of Religious Seminaries Conference', Maulana Haideri said six million children were deprived of education across the country.
Those who were talking about taking action against madressahs did not understand the fallout such an action on the educational structure of the country, he added.
The deputy chairman of the upper house of parliament rejected propaganda against seminaries. He said madressahs were providing not only religious education but also modern education.
He said those who opposed seminaries could not provide an alternative system which could provide free education to such a large number of students.
He said conspiracies against seminaries would be resisted with full force.
Maulana Haideri said he was making efforts to draw attention of the federal government to the problems of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... .
Provincial chief of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl Maulana Faiz Mohammad Samalani, general secretary Sikandar Khan and JUI-F Sindh general secretary Maulana Arshad Mehmood Soomro also spoke at the well-attended conference.
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[Rudaw] In the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... that it controls, ISIS has declared that people will work only two hours a day and women will not be allowed to leave their homes during the fasting month.
The directive was announced through local television channels in Mosul and on banners posted in the streets, a source inside the city told Rudaw.
It decrees that residents old enough to fast will work only two hours during Ramadan, which begins after mid-June, and spend the rest of the day praying.
"Workers and employees should work only for two hours," said the source, quoting the directive. "According to the new ISIS rules during holy Ramadan, women are prevented to go outside their homes."
Earlier this month, ISIS issued a ban on men shaving their beards.
"In all Mosul mosques, preachers threatened men that if they shaves their beards they would be punished because it is against the Islamic Sharia law," a source had told Rudaw.
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[Rudaw] ISIS has started forcefully recruiting djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... high school students for military service, residents told German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA).
"Daesh gunnies from the Hasaba and Diwan brigades have been forcing Mosul students to join their fighters after finishing school this year," sources inside the city told DPA for a story published Saturday.
Mosul residents also reported that special ISIS teams have already been visiting Mosul schools to select the students, who are given no chance to appeal the decision.
Mosul fell in early June after the rapid capitulation of the Iraqi military, whose members reportedly abandoned their posts as the jihadis advanced.
A similar recruitment drive was launched in April by ISIS to press former Iraqi army members into ISIS military service.
"Once ISIS issued the order, several soldiers and former Iraqi army officers joined 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.... because they feared punishment. Many others went to the group's regiments to surrender," a source told Rudaw at the time.
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Survive by picking the strong horse. And changing horses when it weakens.
[Rudaw] Sexual jihad allows women to become jacket wallahs "without their male partner's approval," according to an article 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.... Saturday via social media.
"Those women who married our men can blow themselves up without having their husbands' consent," the article said.
According to the documents, self-described caliph His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... is the main person in charge of women's faith. Regional experts believe the new changes came after the murderous Moslem group's heavy losses in Iraq and Syria, and this has encouraged them to promote the role of female jihadis.
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When are these Brainiacs going to realize that killing off their "Jihadist factories" is not positive for the long-term effort?
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.
Wazoo
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means 
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
