[Tolo News] The acting governor of Badakhshan Shah Wali Adib says that foreign rebels are trying to destabilize parts of the province by conducting attacks.
He told TOLOnews on Friday that Chechen and Tajik fighters have settled with their families in parts of the province and are trying to pose a threat to Badakhshan security.
"As per reports that have reached us, foreign bully boyz have decided to conduct heavy attacks during Eid days or after that in parts of Badakhshan, but the security forces in the province are ready for any kind of threat by rebels," Adib noted.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon... Jawid Mujaididi, member of Badakhshan provincial council said: "The provincial council office in Badakhshan is also concerned over the increase of foreign holy warriors' activities in this north-eastern province. The fighters want to attack Baharak, Yamgan and Warduj districts."
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... Badakhshan police say they are well coordinated and are prepared to defend any kind of attack by bully boys.
"Badakhshan police in collaboration with the Afghan and NDS operatives are ready to foil any kind of attack by bully boys," Sakhi Dad Khan, the provincial security chief told TOLOnews.
"I warn anti-government bully boyz that if they attack the province, they will face a tit-for-tat response by the security forces," he noted.
On the other hand, a number of Badakhshan residents once again called on warring sides to support the Afghan grinding of the peace processor in order to witness lasting peace and stability in war-ravaged Afghanistan.
It comes as a number of Badakhshan districts have witnessed conflicts between Afghan cops and holy warriors over the past year.
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[Tolo News] Balkh province's acting governor Atta Mohammad Noor announced on Friday that leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , the Junbish-e-Milli Islami and the Islamic Unity parties of Afghanistan have decided to join forces to fight forces of Evil plaguing northern parts of the country.
Noor, who spoke during Eid-ul-Fitr prayers at the mosque of the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali in Mazar-e-Sharif on Friday, said the leaders of the parties have met and decided to band together to protect civilians from being victimized by krazed killers. The event was attended by hundreds of people, and held under tight security.
"We decided that Mr. Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... [Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum] and the First Vice President Ustad Mohammad Mohaqiq have to be prepared and jointly suppress the holy warriors, and stand against them strongly and gracefully to bring peace and unity and prevent more sacrifices of our people," Noor said.
Noor also criticized the peace talk process, which kicked-off last week with historic talks between Afghan government representatives and Taliban leaders in Islamabad. The acting governor said the negotiations must be held in consultation with the people of Afghanistan and their political parties.
"We should move forward - but not for the purpose of having countries come and invest in Afghanistan and hold a process for their own benefit, calling it the grinding of the peace processor," Noor said. He warned that the process could be used to legitimize terrorist groups backed by foreign powers.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. 's First Vice President, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who Atta Noor referred to in his speech and who has been an outspoken opponent of the Taliban, has expressed hope about the grinding of the peace processor. Nevertheless, he has also bucked any possibility that they can subdue the Afghan government through violence.
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[Tolo News] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. on Friday expressed appreciation for the recent message issued by the Taliban's top commander, Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... , in which he acknowledges that there is no Islamic prohibition against negotiating with an enemy and suggests peace is the best path forward for Afghanistan.
The statements come a week after the Afghan government officially held talks with representatives of the Taliban in Pakistain. The two sides agreed to continue their negotiations, and it is expected that the second round of talks will take place on July 30.
"We welcome the message released by Mullah Mohammad Omar Akhund in which he has said that negotiation is the solution," Ghani said. "The Taliban issue is different from others. They [the Taliban] want to join the system and settle their issues through negotiations."
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[AlAhram] The leader of Somalia's Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab rebels on Friday issued an Eid message calling for a wave of new recruits in order to "lift the pain of Moslems" across East Africa.
In a statement that underscored the group's ambition to expand its operations, Shabaab leader Ahmed Diriye, also known as Ahmed Umar Abu Ubaidah, took aim at Kenya, Æthiopia, Djibouti and Uganda.
"The sword of the Mujahedeen is drawn and attacks against the enemy are ongoing countrywide and we are calling them to increase their attacks on the infidels," he said in a statement posted on an Islamist website.
"We say to our beloved brothers living in territories under Kenyan colonisation that your brothers will never stop coming to your assistance," he said.
"You have to know that Jihad is the only way you can free yourselves from the oppression and humiliation you are now facing, so rush and join in the Jihad... and liberate your territories from the Christians."
Diriye praised the April massacre at Garissa University in northeastern Kenya, in which four Shabaab gunnies killed 148 people, most of them students. The attackers were mostly Moslems from Kenya.
"We congratulate you and the rest of the Moslems in the world on the heroic Garissa university operation," the Shabaab leader said, saying the massacre was retaliation for "organised extrajudicial killings against holy mans and kidnappings of Islamic youth" along Kenya's Moslem-majority coastline.
"The time for the Christians to engage in atrocities without accountability is over," he said. "We pray to God to lift the pain of the Moslems in the whole of eastern Africa -- Æthiopia, Uganda and Djibouti."
"We will not spare any effort to assist you, and the doors of our training camps are open to receive you and our houses are open to welcome you."
The Shabaab, meaning "youth" in Arabic, emerged out of a bitter insurgency against Æthiopia, whose troops entered Somalia in a 2006 US-backed invasion to topple the Islamic Courts Union that was then controlling the capital Mogadishu.
Shabaab rebels continue to stage frequent attacks, seeking to counter claims that they are close to defeat after losing territory in the face of an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... and Somali government offensive, regular US drone strikes against their leaders and defections.
Currently affiliated to the Al-Qaeda franchise, there has been mounting speculation that the group could shift its allegiance 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.... group.
The Shabaab were once a magnet for foreign volunteers, but their capacity to recruit has in recent years been eclipsed by the rise of Islamic State gunnies in Syria and Iraq, while several foreign Shabaab members have fallen victim to in-fighting and purges.
[Libya Herald] Mustafa Al-Kharoubi, a Sebha classmate of Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse... who went on to become a founding member of the Libyan Revolutionary Command Council has died in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... days before he was due to hear the verdict on his case in the mass trial of former regime officials held in Hadba prison . . .
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[Ynet] Britannia has been given nine months to produce new surveillance legislation it says is vital to national security after London's High Court ruled on Friday that emergency measures rushed through parliament last year were unlawful.
The court backed a judicial challenge from two prominent politicians and other campaigners that powers which compelled telecoms firms to retain customer data for a year were inconsistent with European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... laws.
Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... had said the measures were vital to protect the country, which is on high alert because of the threat posed
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.... gunnies and from Britons who have travelled to Iraq and Syria to fight with them.
"The court has recognised what was clear to many last year, that the government's hasty and ill thought through legislation is fatally flawed," said politician David Davis, a long-time campaigner against state intrusion who was defeated by Cameron in the race to become Conservative Party leader in 2005.
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you can hardly blame them after what they've been through. But I have printed a whack of t-shirts with the charlie hebdo cover with mohammad as guest editor "Sharia Hebdo - 100 lashes if you don't die laughing" - it is easy to do. Just save the image as a high-res jpeg on a memory stick and take to any t-shirt printer.
On the other side "freedom is my religion" with 2 jyllands postern mohammeds - angry bomb mohammed and happy moon-and-stars mohammed.
I proudly wear up and down the street all the time, i have 8 one for every day of the week and a spare. I never forget, never forgive.
I support the right of Muslim women to wear a hijab and believe in their religion here all they like. I will defend them.
I also support my right to wear a cartoon of Mohammed and NOBODY can tell me not to. I will defend this with my life.
[AA.TR] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has invited Friday the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) to sever all ties with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The president argued that as a HDP is now a political party with seats (80) in the Turkish parliament, it must break with the PKK group, which is considered as a terrorist organization 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 the EU.
"An offshoot that attained representation at the parliament must do its best [to cut off relations with PKK] as they apparently maintain an indirect link, even if not a direct one, with the terrorist organization," he told the press after performing the Eid al-Fitr prayer at Istanbul's Atasehir Mimar Sinan Mosque Friday.
Government officials and Erdogan have regularly accused the HDP of having ties with the group and acting and speaking like its political wing.
Erdogan said intelligence services had established that there were ties between the HDP and the PKK, which the former has categorically rejected.
The Turkish president went on to argue that certain results in the June 7 parliamentary elections proved his point.
"The pro-Kurdish party swept the polls in hundreds of villages while other parties had zero percent vote," he said, referring to southeastern Turkey where there is an important Kurdish presence. "It means the local people there are threatened with guns."
The Turkish government launched an initiative in early 2013 commonly known as the "solution process" to end the decades-old conflict with the illegal PKK, which has claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people for over 40 years.
Erdogan said that HDP should not attempt to play politics in the next stages of the process and should reject backing from an illegal group if it truly believed in democracy and wanted to stay within the parliamentary system.
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[DAWN] The Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... apex committee decided on Thursday to 'completely ban' collection of Zakat and Fitrana by banned outfits.
It was the sixth meeting of the committee and it continued for more than three and a half hours with Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... in the chair.
Corps Commander Lahore Lt Gen Naveed Zaman, Home Minister Shuja Khanzada, Director General Punjab Rangers Maj Gen Umer Farooq Barki, General Officer Commanding 10-Div Maj Gen Sardar Tariq Aman, chief secretary, Inspector General of Punjab Police, home secretary and senior civil and military officers attended the meeting.
The meeting decided to impose complete ban on the collection of Zakat and Fitrana by the banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations and monitor and control their other activities.
Analysts say that such decisions taken in the past had remained unimplemented.
The meeting decided to take more effective steps for the implementation of the National Action Plan. The committee expressed determination for elimination of terrorism, extremism and sectarianism.
It was also decided that indiscriminate crackdown would be carried out against Death Eaters and controllers of Lions of Islam as well as those providing them financial assistance.
The meeting was told that consignment of electronic devices had reached here from abroad. These devices would be attached to the ankles of those included in the Fourth Schedule of the anti-terrorism law. The devices are being tested and law-enforcement agencies personnel are being trained how to use it.
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Banned outfits?
No more Nehru Jackets, no more white belts and grey polyester trousers. :( Is life the worth living? Itn enought to make you take up your shutter gun and head for the hideout.
[DAWN] The federal government informed the Supreme Court on Thursday that it had asked the provincial governments as well as the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration to strictly monitor the functioning of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), scrutinise their sources of funding and seek audit reports from them.
The information was provided in a report submitted by the interior ministry in compliance with earlier court orders.
On July 1 and 3, a three-judge bench headed by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja had asked Attorney General Salman Aslam Butt to come up with information about the steps the government had taken after Dec 24, 2014 -- the day the National Action Plan (NAP) was prepared in consultations with all political parties against the backdrop of the Dec 16, 2014 massacre of children in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's Army Public School -- to curb extremism and militancy in the country.
The matter relating to NGOs' activities cropped up during the June 23 hearing of a bail application of Haroonur Rashid who had been booked for alleged fraud in a business transaction.
It was revealed during the hearing that the parties involved in the matter had invested in "Baraan", a Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... -based NGO, which was registered in Peshawar but carried out its activities in Tank, Bannu and D.I. Khan.
The non-availability of relevant figures was termed by the court alarming, especially when the 20-point NAP included a stipulation that "all funding sources of Death Eaters and terrorist outfits will be frozen".
Later Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... had said in a statement that his ministry would submit a detailed report on NAP's implementation to the Supreme Court to prove, with statistics, that the plan was not an eyewash.
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[DAWN] Former provincial minister and leader of the 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... Rauf Siddiqui was on Thursday granted protective bail by the Sindh High Court in a case registered against him under antiterrorism laws for listening to Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... 's speech criticising the military establishment.
The complainant in the case stated that the MQM chief criticised the government and the country's security agencies, and his slanderous remarks hurt his feelings.
A division bench headed by Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar gave the MQM leader protective bail for 10 days in the sum of Rs50,000.
His counsel told the judges that Mr Siddiqui was named in an FIR registered at the Sukkhun police by the complainant who alleged that his client had attended a public gathering and listened to the MQM chief's outburst against the security agencies.
He contended that no case was made out against the former provincial minister as no specific charges were levelled against him.
The counsel said that his client apprehended arrest in the case before he could appear before the trial court for his defence.
He said his client wanted to appear before the trial court to face the charges against him and asked the SHC to grant him protective bail.
The court granted Mr Siddiqui protective bail for 10 days directing him to appear before the trial court for further legal remedy.
The complainant in the case stated that the MQM chief criticised the government and the country's security agencies, and his slanderous remarks hurt his feelings.
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[AA.TR] Security forces raided the headquarters of a major ethnic political party 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... early Friday morning, arresting two key leaders, officials said.
Paramilitary Sindh Rangers raided the headquarters of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) in the city center, detaining the head of the party's central coordination committee and a former provincial politician for "hate speech".
Rangers commander Maj. Gen. Bilal Akbar said the suspects were involved in arranging and facilitating speeches against the army. He said further arrests would be carrying out soon.
"Those apprehended tonight... have been arranging and facilitating hate speeches against peace of Karachi," Akbar tweeted.
The security forces claim to have incarcerated Please don't kill me! several gunnies killers belonging to the MQM in recent months. The party, the fourth largest in Pakistain, claims to represent migrants who fled India during the partition of India and Pakistain in 1947.
It has strong roots in Karachi and holds 25 seats in the National Assembly. It was involved in factional fighting in the 1990s and has been accused of behaving like a mafia but now holds the majority of the city's legislative seats.
MQM's leader Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... , who lives in exile in London, has accused the military of targeting his party. Hundreds of members have been arrested in the crackdown.
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[Rudaw] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... has unveiled details of its biggest military exercise in 13 years, mobilizing 36,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen from more than 30 countries.
Officials said Wednesday that the exercise, named Trident Juncture, has been planned for years, but is being tweaked to test NATO's ability to respond to new security threats like those highlighted by Russia's takeover of Crimea and the spread of radical groups like 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.... in the Mideast and North Africa.
It will take place in October and November in Italia, Spain and Portugal, and the adjacent waters and airspace.
British Army Lt. Gen. Phil Jones said for NATO, "the challenge is to make sure that we as military, we're never fighting the last war, whether the last war was 10 years ago or 10 minutes ago."
[Rudaw] Another 11 people -- including women and kiddies -- have been killed by random Iraqi Arclight airstrikes in the city of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... said a top health official of the key city that Baghdad is fighting to retake 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.... group (ISIS, or Daesh in Arabic).
"The random Arclight airstrikes carried out by the Iraqi air force against Daesh in the center of the city and the Heyaskari neighborhood west of Fallujah have killed 11 civilians, including women and kiddies," Ahmad Shami, head doctor at the main Fallujah Hospital, said Thursday.
He runs his department at the behest of ISIS, it must be remembered.
ISIS has been in control of Fallujah since January last year. This week Iraq's hobbling army -- in cooperation with tribal militias -- launched an assault to retake the city.
Physicians in the city say that months of air and artillery bombings by Iraqi forces have killed some 71 residents and maimed about 90 others -- excluding the latest casualties.
Are they collecting the bodies in a freezer for maximum impact when displayed in their myriads, as Saddam Hussein used to do?
According to Shami, the maimed suffer grave injuries and the city is short of medicines, doctors and nurses.
Besieged is, I believe, the proper term.
He has accused the Iraqi government, as well as local and international health and humanitarian organizations, of ignoring what is happening in Fallujah.
None of which would be happening, of course, had ISIS not conquered the place with its usual viciousness.
The Iraqi government released a statement last week denying its Arclight airstrikes have ever targeted civilians inside Fallujah in the war against ISIS.
Accidents do happen, of course. Especially in war.
According to reports received by Rudaw from the frontlines, the Iraqi forces have made little progress in efforts to retake the Sunni-majority city, roughly 69 kilometers west of Baghdad on the Euphrates River.
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They ought to be used to it in Fallujah by now
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The US and others have wasted enough lives on Fallujah.
Rubble manufacturing
Bounce Rubble
Salt to taste
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I still say the proper solution is line up howitzers hub to hub in a line 500m across, and walk the fire in straight line followed 1km behind by D9's clearing the ground. Bisect the city N/S then E/W. Then do the same in each quadrant. Give you a giant cleared grid. any of the grid sqares falls to isis, it gets mined completely around, and reduced by artillery. Eventually the city is either pacified, or erased. Either way, no great loss of anything of value.
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None of the above. Let the various bastards fight it out until one side is is bleed white. If any one one of em shows danger to the U.S. , nuke the fuck out of them.
[ALMANAR.LB] The operative responsible for organizing the suicide bombings claimed by terrorists of the so-called 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri group in Baghdad revealed that most of the group suicide bombers who carried out attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad are from Arab nationalities.
The terrorist Abu Abdullah, who is currently imprisoned, said that most of the suicide bombers whom he prepared to carry out suicide attacks were from Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Algeria.
"Two other Westerns, one Australian and one German named Abu Qaqaa, were among the bombers," he said, pointing out that only one out of every ten suicide bombers was an Iraqi.
Abu Abdullah indicated during an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel from his cell in Baghdad prison, that choosing the locations of attacks was intended to kill the largest number of people, "especially police officers and soldiers, such as police checkpoints, markets and Shiite religious places." he said.
During the interview published Thursday, the ISIL official claimed that he doesn't remember exactly the number of attacks that he planned for, but stressed that in the last quarter of the year during which he was arrested, he had planned 19 implemented attacks.
The Iraqi security forces arrested Abu Abdullah in July 2014.
Answering a question about the process of selecting the suicide bombers and their nationalities, terrorist Abu Abdallah told the German daily that "this task was handed to the military planners who were ranked higher than me. They [suicide bombers] were being brought to me and most of them had come from Fallujah city."
"I was in charge of the latter step, i.e. preparing them in the workshop that I own, equipping them with explosive belts, and sending them to the specific places for implementation."
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Saudis love leaving Saudi for jihad.it must be something to do with their view of the world and encouraged by their govt/religious leaders to do so.
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[Rudaw] US President Barack Obama If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon... has ruled out cooperation with Iraq's government in areas where the Iranian military is present, warning that Iranian-backed militias might commit atrocities in recaptured Sunni areas.
In "what Iran is doing there is a problem, and we can't cooperate in that area," Obama said on Wednesday. He explained that, while Washington is cooperating with the Iraqi government on regaining territories lost 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.... group (ISIS), it does not shy away from telling Baghdad that military cooperation with Iran is wrong.
"For example, unless you get those folks out of there, because we're not going to have our troops -- even in an advisory or training role -- looking over their shoulders because they're not sure of what might happen to them," he added.
The US president admitted that Iran has influence in Iraq and described some cooperation in Iraq as "natural," while other relations as "less legitimate."
"Iraq has a majority Shiite population. They have relationships to Iran. Some are natural. We expect somebody like Prime Minister (Haider) Abadi to meet with and negotiate and work with Iran as its neighbor," Obama said.
"Some are less legitimate -- where you see Iran financing Shiite militias that in the past have killed American soldiers and in the future may carry out atrocities when they move into Sunni areas," the president said.
He stressed that US assistance to Iraq is conditional on having Iraqi security forces under the direct control of the country's prime minister.
"If we don't have confidence that ultimately Abadi is directing those soldiers, then it's tough for us to have any kind of direct relationship," he said.
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Hence the cold-shoulder Abadi received at the leadership get-together some weeks back.
The United States on Friday warned Israel against following through with a planned demolition of a tiny Palestinian village in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank.
Israeli authorities say that many of the structures in the village of Sussiya were built illegally, but the US State Department on Friday said that razing the buildings would constitute a provocative act. How about if we report finding a confederate flag in the ruins?
[AnNahar] A senior Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, official said Friday there could be no new exchange talks with Israel until it frees dozens of prisoners it has reincarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... since their release in a 2011 swap.
Ismail Haniya, a former Paleostinian prime minister, said Israel had re-arrested at least 54 of the more than 1,000 prisoners freed in exchange for soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured in a cross-border raid by GazooLions of Islam in 2006.
"We have told all the mediators who have mobilized to discuss a new exchange that there won't be any negotiations before the release of all those Israel detained from among the Shalit deal group," he said in a speech marking the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
"There will be no talks without their unconditional release."
Haniya did not elaborate on what new exchange was being mooted.
Hamas has long acknowledged holding body parts of two Israeli soldiers killed during last summer's conflict in Gazoo.
But it has not commented on Israel's announcement last week that Hamas is also holding two of its citizens in Gazoo.
Hamas and Israeli sources have reported informal, indirect contacts on the possibility of a long-term truce between them, to cement an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire that ended the Gazoo conflict last August.
Last Thursday, the Israeli defense ministry said that Avraham Mengistu, an Israeli of Æthiopian descent, had been held by Hamas since crossing illegally into Gazoo last September.
It said an Israeli Arab is also being held, although it has given no details of his case.
Israel does not allow its citizens to enter Gazoo, partly out of fear they may be used as bargaining chips to demand concessions, including the release of prisoners.
Israel insists that all of those rearrested since the Shalit exchange were implicated in fresh security offences committed after their release.
[AA.TR] Some political analysts believe Israel and Gazoo-based Paleostinian resistance group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, may be heading for a long-term truce following years of bitter -- and often violent -- animosity, based on recent statements by leaders from both sides.
Hamas, which has governed the Gazoo Strip since 2007 after winning legislative elections one year earlier, has remained tight-lipped on the issue. Indeed, for harder-core Paleostinian resistance groups, the notion of détente with Israel remains anathema.
But Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , a senior Hamas political leader, has recently made several veiled statements hinting at such a possibility.
"Thanks to ongoing Paleostinian efforts...," Haniyeh said in early July, "the Gazoo Strip will be relieved soon and the siege will be lifted."
Since 2007, Israel -- with Egypt's help -- has blockaded the strip by air, land and sea. The embargo has deprived the enclave's almost 2 million inhabitants of most basic commodities -- including food, fuel and medicine -- and turned the entire territory into a de facto prison.
Despite the years of suffering caused by the siege, Paleostinian political analyst Tayseer al-Muhaysini, believes Hamas may be mulling a long-term accommodation with the self-proclaimed Jewish state -- one, he believes, that would include an end to the eight-year embargo.
"Repeated hints by Hamas that the end of the blockade was imminent, along with recent calls to lift the siege by certain Israeli leaders, suggest that there is movement on this track behind the scenes," al-Muhaysini told Anadolu Agency.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... made a rare public appearance on Friday for holiday prayers at a Damascus mosque, state media reported.
Assad attended morning prayers at the Al-Hamad mosque in northwest Damascus on Eid al-Fitr, the Moslem holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, the SANA news agency reported.
He was accompanied by "high-ranking officials from the (ruling Baath) party and from the state," it added.
Photographs published by the news agency showed a smiling Assad surrounded by religious figures.
A photograph published by the president's official Twitter account showed him kneeling in prayer beside other officials.
The mosque's imam, Sheikh Mohammad Sharif al-Sawaf, "prayed to God to save Syria, its leader, its army and its people, and to bring victory against its enemies".
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[AA.TR] A congressional vote to undermine a recently brokered nuclear deal with Iran would be a victory for Tehran, the White House said Friday.
"If the U.S. Congress votes to kill this deal, Iran will get all the benefits of this deal without having to give up anything," front man Josh Earnest told news hounds.
Under the accord that was brokered between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, Tehran will begin to receive much-needed sanctions relief once it verifiably curtails its nuclear program and submits to international inspections of its nuclear program.
Responding to criticism that the international agreement ultimately emboldens Iran, Earnest said, "There's nothing that Iran could do to be further emboldened than to obtain a nuclear weapon."
Congress has 60 days to review the deal.
Obama needs the support of 34 of the 100 senators to protect his veto authority from potentially being overridden.
Congress requires a two-thirds majority vote in both houses to override a presidential veto.
World powers and Iran spent nearly two years trying to reach the milestone agreement with successive rounds of talks being extended beyond established deadlines.
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In a statement that underscored the group's ambition to expand its operations, Shabaab leader Ahmed Diriye, also known as Ahmed Umar Abu Ubaidah, took aim at Kenya, Æthiopia, Djibouti and Uganda.
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[AA.TR] A congressional vote to undermine a recently brokered nuclear deal with Iran would be a victory for Tehran, the White House said Friday.
