GAROWE, Somalia -- The President of Somalia’s Puntland Government Dr. Abdiweli Mohamed Ali has ordered senior Al Shabaab official identified as Abdullahi Abdi Haji [Mursal Madobe] to be freed from prosecution, Garowe Online has learned.
Can we drone-zap him?
Insiders have confirmed the release of Mursal Madobe, terror operations specialist and regional coordinator who was relocated to the rugged terrain of Galgala in 2013 on presidential order.
Puntland security forces nabbed Mursal Madobe at security checkpoint on his way from terrorist hotbeds along Golis Mountain Ranges. Tip-offs exclusively seen by Garowe Online indicate that the freed Al Shabaab official was planning to leave for southern Somalia when Puntland forces captured him.
It is yet unclear whether the wanted, Mursal Madobe was cleared or behind-the-scenes contacts prompted his release.
Yesssss, completely unclear...
He is believed to have masterminded attack on a police compound in the Gulf of Aden port city of Bossaso.
In December 2015, two convicted Al Shabaab members-Abdirizak Hussein Tahlil (Ilka Ase) and Mohamed Nuh Adan (Abu Hafsa)-were released from a prison in Puntland capital, Garowe. Information obtained by GO reveals that former Al Shabaab fighters-Mohamed Abshir Artan and Abdiqani Nur Qorane- also slipped through the justice.
8-member panel of UN investigators accused Ali of adopting ‘catch and release policy’ that largely contributed to upsurge in terror assaults in confidential report in late 2014.
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[AlAhram] Salafist Call has expelled all members who have chosen to violently confront Egypt's state or society, said the organization's vice-president Yasser Al Borhamy on Friday.
"Please don't jail us!"
"I also condemn the media smear campaign against leaders of the Salafist Call ahead of the parliamentary elections," he added in a press statement.
The Salafist Call, based and established in Alexandria, is Egypt's largest Salafist organization whose political arm is the Nour Party, the only potent Islamist party to run for this year's parliamentary elections.
Recently, however, a campaign under the name of 'no to religious parties' called for the dismantling of all religious parties, including Nour, arguing it is against the constitution. The Ministry of Endowments robustly supports the campaign that was launched months before the coming elections.
Nour had 22 percent of the seats in the 2012 parliament's lower body, the second largest percentage after the Moslem Brüderbund's Freedom and Justice Party, which was then headed by Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.
The People's Assembly, the parliamentary lower house, was dissolved after the Supreme Constitutional Court deemed the parliamentary elections had been unconstitutional. The Shura Council, the upper body that assumed legislative authorities following the dismantling of the People's Assembly, was also dissolved in 2013 as part of the roadmap that saw Morsi toppled.
Just how bad does your country have to be when you go to Libya for work and a future?
A great many Egyptians have not yet chosen to return home, as well. When home presents a distinct lack of employment prospects combined with a distinct surfeit of relations in need of financial support, choices become a bit more complicated.
The Bangladeshis in Libya are living in extreme uncertainty amid persisting violence in the war-torn country. Fearing for their life, many are returning home while some are embarking on risky boat journeys to Europe across the Mediterranean.
Those who are still stuck there often lose all their savings to robbers or armed groups or even civilians who take advantage of the absolute chaos that followed the ouster of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Their trouble deepened after money transfer agencies shut their services in the North African country over a year ago, rendering the migrant workers unable to send money home through legal and trusted channels.
The plights of the expatriate workers came to the fore when a boat carrying around 500 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea en route to Europe on August 24. At least 78 Bangladeshis were on the boat. Of them, 24 died and 54 were rescued. The rescued later told Bangladesh Embassy officials that security concerns in Libya forced them to take the risky journey.
Since Gaddafi's fall, the oil-rich country has been torn apart by various region- and tribe-centric armed militias fighting each other for greater control in the absence of a central government. Under these circumstances, Libya halted recruiting from Bangladesh in May this year and Bangladesh Embassy in Tripoli was relocated to Tunisia a month later.
According to foreign ministry officials, though nearly 37,000 migrants were repatriated from Libya since 2011, an estimated 40,000 Bangladeshis still work there. And they are not happy.
"It is very difficult to go out on the streets. Nobody knows when they will be attacked or robbed," said Jahangir Alam who has been working in Tripoli for six years.
Just a month ago, he and six of his colleagues were returning to their homes from work when an armed group robbed them of several thousand Libyan dinars and six mobile phones, Jahangir said.
"And last year, all that we had saved for our families back home were stolen from our residence," he told The Daily Star over the phone. "There are no authorities here to go with complaints."
That's not all they have to deal with.
"There's no money transfer service here. So, we have to send money to our families through hundi which costs us a lot. For one [Libyan] dinar we send, our families get Tk 35-40," Jahangir said. The current market value of 1 Libyan Dinar is equivalent to Tk 56, down from Tk 63-65 last year.
He said he was now planning to return home, most possibly after Eid-ul-Azha.
Counsellor (Labour) ASM Ashraful Islam of Bangladesh mission for Libya said they were aware of the situation and had advised the Bangladeshis there to move around in groups, and not after the sunset.
But there's a huge demand for Bangladeshi workers in Libya now, he said, as foreign companies have closed their operations there and most migrants from Egypt, Chad and Ghana have returned home since 2011. "The minimum wage is equivalent to Tk 30,000 which is quite good."
But since there were no proper money transfer channels, many are returning to Bangladesh, Ashraful added. According to him, 50 to 60 Bangladeshis are returning home every month, up from 30 to 40 in the last two years.
On Bangladeshis taking sea journeys to Europe, the counsellor said they were aware of it.
Asked if the government was planning to repatriate the Bangladeshis from Libya, Ashraful Islam replied in the negative. "But we are providing legal and consular assistance to those wishing to return home."
A former diplomat, who has worked in Libya, said the Bangladeshi migrants feel more vulnerable because of the relocation of Bangladesh embassy to Tunisia. "A second thought should have been given before the relocation," he said, wishing anonymity.
However, Ashraful Islam said though the embassy has been moved, some low-level embassy staffs are still working in Libya and senior officials take turns in providing consular services there.
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You may be wondering why Syrian and Iraqi refugees are pouring into Europe rather than into, say nearby Saudi Arabia. Well, Saudi officials planned ahead.
Although the Israelis are the most renown anti-immigrant border fence builders, which is why Hungary and Bulgaria are negotiating with Israel right now, it's really not that arcane an art. For example, if you can build an airliner, you can build a really good fence, like Airbus is building for Saudi Arabia. In fact, fence-building is one of the oldest and most developed crafts and there are no doubt perfectly fencing contractors with a few miles of you right now, wherever you are. When people tell you it's practically impossible or unbelievably expensive to keep out economic immigrants, they are either lying or ignorant or both.
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The berm/fence/border outposts along the extensive Saudi-Iraq border has been a-building for at least three years. The Saudi border fence along the Yemen border will likely not be built as the Saudi's plan to bomb the Houthi homeland back to the stone age and leave a cordon sanitaire in its place.
[AlAhram] Key dates 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... since a Saudi-coalition intervened after Huthi sock puppets of the Medes and the Persians overran the capital Sanaa and advanced on Aden, the second biggest city.
UN figures put the overall number of dead in the conflict at more than 4,300, including 400 children, and the number of displaced at 1.5 million.
On March 26, 2015, 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... begins Operation Decisive Storm with air strikes on the rebels after forging a coalition of nine countries to defend embattled Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi. Iran opposes the intervention.
On April 14, the UN Security Council imposes an arms embargo on the rebels and demands that they relinquish seized territory.
Riyadh says on April 21 it has suspended the military campaign, but resumes air strikes a day later in Yemen's third city Taez.
Huthis bombard the Saudi border town of Najran, killing several people on May 5 in their first such attack since the coalition operation began.
On June 16, Al-Qaeda confirms that its leader in Yemen, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, has been killed in a US drone strike, and names military chief Qassem al-Rimi as the regional affiliate's new leader.
A day later, more than 30 people are killed in Sanaa as five coordinated blasts claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group target Shia mosques and offices.
On March 20, IS carried out its first attacks on Shia mosques, killing 142 people. Since then other Shia mosques have been targeted, the latest on September 3 leaving 32 dead.
On July 17, the exiled Yemeni premier announces from Riyadh the "liberation" of the province of Aden after more than four months of fighting.
On July 22 pro-government forces, backed by Saudi air strikes, strengthen their hold on Aden.
With the airport and port back in loyalist hands, the coalition is able to ship in growing amounts of humanitarian aid.
The third ceasefire since the offensive began breaks down on July 28 after five days, with coalition jets hitting rebel positions north of Aden. A five-day truce in mid-May also failed to stop the fighting and a humanitarian truce ..The purposes of a truce are twofold: 1.) bring up more arms, ammunition, and reinforcements; and 2.) get the enemy to relax his vigilance. A truce is not the same thing as a ceasefire, and a ceasefire doesn't mean you have to stop shooting... initiated by the UN from July 10 never materialised.
Forces loyal to the exiled government retake a fifth southern province, extending gains against the rebels who still control the capital. They are currently fighting for control of Taez, in the southwest and Marib east of Sanaa.
On September 4 an arms depot kaboom that the rebels say was a rocket attack kills 45 soldiers from the United Arab Emirates, in the country's heaviest loss since joining the coalition.
Bahrain announces that five of its soldiers were killed in southern Saudi Arabia, but Yemen's exiled presidency says the Bahrainis died in the blast that killed the Emiratis.
The UAE forces in Yemen have become more determined to accomplish the mission of liberating Marib after the martyrdom of the 45 UAE servicemen, reliable sources said on Friday.
"Plans are in force and the Emirati troops are fully committed to achieving the objectives laid by the Saudi-led Coalition," the sources said. They added that efforts are being made to send Arab ground forces to liberate Yemen, and provide a safe haven for the legitimate government led by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in Aden.
Dr Anwar Mohammed Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, said in his Twitter post that the UAE and the coalition will not be deterred by the cowardly attack. He said the martyrdom of the UAE's children gives it the strength and determination to accomplish the mission. "Their souls and blood also give us more determination and commitment," he said.
"The lions of the Emirates will roar and the flag of pride will stay fluttering high," he added.
"The enemy should realise that the determination of the UAE is boosted by the sacrifices of its children and the performance of our gallant forces," he said, adding that the UAE, as part of the Arab coalition, will restore security and stability in Yemen.
"We will not be deterred by the cowardly attack. It will not deter us from achieving our objectives. The souls of the martyrs will safeguard us from the greedy. In the martyrdom, the UAE is born again with pride," he declared.
"We will shed our every drop of blood for you, Saddam!"
"Pride and loyalty to our political leadership, our bold armed forces. This is our UAE which we are proud of. With this high spirit, we will overcome any test and hardships. We are standing with Yemen, Saudi Arabia and all other Gulf countries. The real pride of the UAE is embodied by the sacrifices of its children. At this moment, I bow to my country and to the martyrs," Dr Gargash said.
"Our infliction today is big, and it has touched upon each and every street, neighbourhood and city."
He said the test of Yemen and the strength and firmness of the coalition send out a clear Arab message of a strong will and determination. "We will not be a common or easy target. And the UAE is taking the lead in terms of action and bravery," he added.
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This will lead to some kind of counter-move(s) by IRAN, + ultimately more risk of confrontation between Iran + rival KSA-led coalition.
[AlAhram] Britannia will take "thousands more" refugees from Syria, British 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 ... said on Friday.
Cameron said Britannia had already accepted around 5,000 Syrians under its existing resettlement schemes which would continue to take in more refugees.
"Given the scale of the crisis and the suffering of people, today, I can announce that we will do more in providing resettlement for thousands more Syrian refugees," Cameron told news hounds in Lisbon after meeting his Portuguese counterpart.
Britannia's government has faced calls to take in many more refugees after broad media coverage of the image of a dead Syrian toddler washed up on a Turkish beach. Big government demands surf replenishment. Manorialism must continue.
[AlAhram] Britannia will provide an extra 100 million pounds (137 million euros, $153 million) in humanitarian aid for the Syrian crisis, bringing its total contribution to more than 1.0 billion pounds, 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 ... said Friday.
"That is the UK's largest-ever response to a humanitarian crisis. No other European country has come close to this level of support," he told a news conference in Madrid.
"Please stay home instead of invading our shores... or our Chunnel!" he added.
[Telegraph] Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary has been granted bail as he awaits trial for allegedly encouraging support for Daesh. Choudary appeared before the Old Bailey by video link from top security Belmarsh prison alongside his co-accused Mohammed Rahman on Friday.
Following lengthy legal arguments, Saunders granted them both bail with a range of strict conditions ahead of their trial, which is due to start next year.
At a hearing last week, lawyers for the men had applied for conditional bail, but the senior judge adjourned his decision after asking for more information from the prosecution and defense.
Choudary and Rahman made copious notes throughout the hearing. The radical Muslim preacher, who has previously protested his innocence, addressed the judge directly on occasion even though he was represented by a barrister in court.
Both men had already spent months on police bail after their arrest in September last year and they were only remanded in custody after they were charged.
Choudary and Rahman are due back in court for a plea and case management hearing on December 11 with a provisional trial date set for January 11. The trial is scheduled to be heard by a High Court judge and will take three to four weeks.
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WASHINGTON -- North Korea is still not showing any concrete signs of preparations to launch a long-range rocket despite persisting speculation the communist nation could do so next month, a U.S. research institute said Thursday.
"While speculation that North Korea intends to launch a long-range space launch vehicle (SLV) on the 70th anniversary of the Korean Workers' Party in October continues, it is still not possible to determine whether Pyongyang will conduct such a launch using commercial satellite imagery," 38 North said in a report.
Satellite imagery taken of the Sohae Satellite Launching Station from August 27 to September 1 show that a movable structure on the launch pad, which is designed to transfer rocket stages and components to the gantry tower, has shifted back and forth, but it is hard to see that as a sign of launch preparations, it said.
"That movement may have occurred for a number of reasons ranging from testing the recently completed movable structure to launch preparations. Besides the fact that the general low level of activity throughout the facility suggests a launch is not going to occur over the next few weeks, in the case of a possible October launch, it is probably still too soon to move the SLV to the gantry," it said.
Should the North intend to launch a rocket, there would be indicators of launch preparations for a few weeks, 38 North said, such as a significant increase in fuel loading and pressure testing activity at the fuel and oxidizer building.
Recent imagery also showed construction at the vertical engine test stand that will allow the testing of larger, more capable rocket engines is proceeding rapidly. That work, however, "is unrelated to the question of whether the North will conduct a new launch in the near future," it said.
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More than 1,000 people from the Middle East and Asia, exhausted after breaking away from police and marching for hours toward Western Europe, boarded scores of buses provided by Hungary's government and arrived before dawn Saturday on the border with Austria. The breakthrough became possible when Austria announced that it and Germany would take the migrants on humanitarian grounds and to aid their EU neighbor.
European leaders are preparing to create a powerful EU-wide border protection force to deal with the refugee crisis engulfing the continent, The Independent understands. Under plans being discussed by officials in Brussels, legal responsibility for deporting people deemed to be economic migrants would pass from the member states to the European Union.
The proposal – which would have legal force – will be discussed at the meeting of EU interior and justice ministers later this month.
You could just borrow the U.S. Border Patrol -- we're not using it...
At the same time the Commission will draw up a list of “safe countries of origin”. Migrants from these countries would be returned, because the EU considers them to be sufficiently stable. The list is expected to include all the Balkan States, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Senegal and a number of other African countries.
The plan would mean that Frontex – the EU agency that currently acts as the liaison point for individual member states’ border controls – would take on new legal responsibilities. It would be able to arrange the deportation of people deemed to be economic migrants from across the EU as well as possibly managing the relocation of refugees across Europe.
On 9 September, Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission President, will present a plan to relocate 120,000 Syrians, Iraqis and Eritreans who have already entered the EU to states across the union. This is in addition to the relocation of 40,000 asylum-seekers previously proposed.
Britain is not expected to take part in the relocation programme as it has an opt-out on EU justice and home affairs issues under the Lisbon Treaty. David Cameron has pledged that the UK would welcome “thousands” of Syrian refugees under a separate scheme.
Best place in the world for Syrian refugees is Syria. Europe needs to understand that it will pay regardless: either the refugees stay in Syria under Euro protection or they come settle in Europe. Either way you pay...
The EU plan will need to overcome the opposition of Spain and several East European countries which have previously opposed the redistribution of refugees. Two months ago EU leaders rejected Commission plans for a similar compulsory quota scheme and agreed to share out only 32,000 asylum-seekers – short of the original 40,000 target.
Mr Juncker’s address is expected to kick off a move to agree a new plan ahead of an emergency meeting of EU justice and home affairs ministers on 14 September.
Frontex was established in 2004 to reinforce and streamline co-operation between national border authorities. But under the new plan its responsibilities and powers would be hugely extended, which would bring closer the reality of a single European border force.
Just what Europe needs: more bureaucracy. At least there would be more employment for the sons and daughters of Euro elites, and more white Toyota Land Cruisers Audis...
It could still run into difficulties as the plan would need approval not just from member states but also the European Parliament. However it is likely to be welcomed by some member states including the Hungarians, who are keen for a tougher line on immigration across the Continent.
The political tensions undermining the EU’s response to the refugee crisis were exposed at the start of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on 4 September. Countries such as Germany and Italy called for the EU rapidly to put in place a common asylum system or face the collapse of its cherished right to free movement.
“If we have learnt anything from the last three, four weeks it’s that we won’t overcome this crisis if we keep pointing fingers at each other,” said Germany’s Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier. He urged countries to back the joint push by France and Germany for a binding quota system for handling refugees.
Madrid to Berlin still isn't like Chicago to New York, no matter how much you wish it to be so...
But Italy’s Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said this would not fully address the crisis. “The problem is not so much about quotas,” he said. “The real problem is that we need a common right of asylum.” Current EU rules – known as the Dublin Regulation – which make refugees the responsibility of the first EU country they reach do not work any more, Mr Gentiloni said.
“Those fleeing wars or bloody dictatorships don’t want to stay in the first country they reach. They want to come to Europe.
“If we go on with this conflict of everyone against the other we risk jeopardising free movement,” he said, adding that “it is not by building walls that countries can stay out of this process”.
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Bestplace in the world for Syrian refugees is Syria.
Depending on their affiliation they could and should find refuge in Iran/Russia or Qatar.
Europe needs to understand that it will pay regardless: either the refugees stay in Syria under Euro protection or they come settle in Europe. Either way you pay...
Any Western intervention would be a therapeutic intervention operating under insane and suicidal ROE. IOW it would be a certain failure which in fact would increase the pressure on Europe to take in "refugees". Because "responsibilty!"
Letting Syrians settle in Europe would create a staging area for islamic terrorists in the West. In last consequence this would turn Europe into something resembling civil war Lebanon.
Muslims have repeatedly treacherously abused Western helpfulness and hospitality by staging attacks on Western populations that were enabled by Western helpfulness and hospitality. There should be consequences.
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A Musselman crab of Nantucket
Re Islam, was minded to chuck it.
More pious crustaceans
Observed his frustrations
And pulled him back into the bucket.
The Pentagon says it will pay for the voluntary relocation of family members of U.S. personnel stationed in Turkey, out of an "abundance of caution" for their safety.
"The families of U.S. personnel posted to Consulate Adana or Incirlik Air Base would have the option to depart Turkey at government expense. Those family members who wish to remain in Turkey are free to do so at this time," Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook told reporters on Thursday.
The decision follows the beginning of U.S. airstrike operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) last month out of Incirlik Air Base.
But Cook said there is no "specific new threat."
The authorization for voluntary departure would apply to about 900 people, Cook said. It is limited to the Adana area and does not apply to family members of U.S. military or civilian personnel in other cities, including Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir.
[AnNahar] U.S. President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... welcomed 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... 's King Salman
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[DAWN] When Adviser on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... travels to Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... on Friday for attending a regional conference, he will try on the sidelines to explore if the Afghan leadership is interested in reviving the peace dialogue with Taliban that was suspended weeks ago following the revelation about 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... 's death.
During his day-long visit, Mr Aziz will attend the ministerial meeting of sixth edition of Regional Economic Conference on Afghanistan and meet 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. .. and other leaders.
Pakistain will take a decision on its future line of action regarding ties with Afghanistan and the reconciliation process after Mr Aziz's return.
According to a bigwig, Pakistain is fully convinced that the way forward lay in an 'intra-Afghan dialogue', but would ask the Afghan leaders to make a choice between the reconciliation route and fighting the murderous Moslems.
The visit takes place amid heightened tensions between the two countries over allegations that terrorist groups involved in violence in Afghanistan continue to have sanctuaries in Pak territory. High profile attacks in Kabul last month had derailed the efforts started after the change of government in Kabul for normalisation of ties.
The official said in a background briefing that Pakistain had agreed to facilitate dialogue between the Afghan government and Taliban at the request of President Ghani.
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[DAWN] The United States has taken Pakistain into confidence over a new US military alliance to fight the growing global presence of the self-styled Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS), sources told DawnNews on Friday.
The new alliance, called 'Sahel to South Asia' is expected to be announced soon by the White House.
"Pakistain has been consulted by the US at the highest level," according to a top government official.
Pakistain will take a formal decision after conducting consultations with all domestic stakeholders over joining the alliance, added the official.
"IS has presence in Afghanistan, and they maintain close collaboration with bad boy organizations, and if not tackled they can pose a threat to Pakistain's security," the government official further said.
More details are expected to be worked out through a high-level meeting between the military leadership of both countries, once the alliance is officially announced and made public by the US.
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Something to make OldSpook and his comrades happy, I hope.
[Rudaw] The United States on Wednesday established a new Joint Coalition Coordination Center (JCCC) near Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region, to coordinate efforts in countering 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.... , the US Central Command said in a Thursday statement.
"The JCCC will facilitate closer collaboration between the Combined Joint Operations Command-Baghdad and the Combined Joint Operations Command-Erbil to fight Daesh across all of northern Iraq," said CENTCOM in the statement, using Daesh, the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
The statement said that the Ninewa Operations Center, which was established in Baghdad last year to orchestrate military plans and to train Sunnis as a part of preparations to retake djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , will also be moved to the Kurdistan region within the JCCC.
"The new center will also set the conditions to relocate the Ninewa Operations Center from Baghdad to northern Iraq to coordinate future operations in Ninewa and Mosul," the statement said.
CENTCOM said the new military center reaffirms Washington's commitment to security forces in Northern Iraq in order to defeat ISIS.
"The establishment of the JCCC is another tangible sign of the united effort of governmental security forces across northern Iraq and the coalition working together towards the shared goal of defeating Daesh and returning stability to the region," the statement said.
Equal numbers of representatives from the government of Iraq, the Kurdistan Regional Government and coalition forces will be stationed at the JCCC in Erbil.
The US has deployed nearly 3,500 military advisors and trainers to assist, train and advise Iraqi security forces, including Peshmerga and Sunni tribal forces, in order to degrade and defeat ISIS.
No one is ever going to confuse our current crop of general officers with MacArthur, Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Vandergrift, Smith, Puller, or Halsey.
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It's like they know something about the refugees that Europe doesn't...
Nothing so cerebral. They did nothing for the Palestinian refugees, as well.
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Perhaps see FREEREPUBLIC > THE HIRAJAH INTO EUROPE: "REFUGEES" COLONIZE THE CONTINENT.
[Once again again, TOM CRUISE'S "EDGE OF TOMORROW" Movie = "The Invasion will fail ... Every Soldier that lands on that Beach tomorrow will die"! here].
Lessirree, the US is nuclearizing Iran, the US = CIA is allegedly behind both AQ + the ISIS, THIS OF COURSE TEH FUTURE "ISLAMIC/MUSLIM NAPOLEON" = MAHDI/MESSIAH/HIDDEN IMAM CAN IN NO WAY BE AN AMERIKAN!
Yuuup.
Clear as Day.
WELL I'M CERTAINLY CONVINCED - ISN'T EVERYBODY, + THE CIA???
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It's like they know something about the refugees that Europe doesn't...
Nothing so cerebral. They did nothing for the Palestinian refugees, as well. ...Like it said, maybe they know something.
[AF.REUTERS] Thousands of protesters rallied in Beirut on Friday to support Christian faction leader Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... 's call for Leb to elect its president by popular vote to address a crisis that has paralysed government and parliament.
Aoun's supporters waved the orange banners of his Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... , and listened to a brief televised address by him. Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, another leader of the movement, told the gathering: "We Lebanese want to choose our president."
The president, who the sectarian power-sharing system stipulates must be a Christian, is chosen by parliament. But MPs have failed in at least 26 sessions to elect one since Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... 's term expired last year.
Aoun would like the post, but cannot muster the cross-party consensus required, and there is no sign of a credible alternative.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... Prime Minister Tammam Salam's government, which groups parties at opposite ends of the political spectrum, has been largely crippled since it took office with the blessing of Iran and 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... , which back rival Lebanese factions.
Opponents have accused Salam of usurping powers reserved for the president, and Salam has threatened to resign in frustration with the failings of his cabinet.
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In accordance with the example set by the Prophet himself, and by the four righteous caliphs who ruled after him.
[IsraelTimes] 'Dhimma' contract imposed 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.... includes ban on external displays of Christian faith, 'jizya' tax levied on non-Moslems
The Islamic State group is forcing Christians in the Syrian territory it controls to sign a contract for dhimma (non-Moslems), restricting external expressions of their faith and agreeing to pay a jizya tax levied on those who do not follow Islam.
The Islamist organization controls swathes of Iraq and Syria, where some 10 million people live, according to a March 2015 assessment by the International Committee of the Red Thingy.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which monitors the Arab media, says that the Islamic State's media office in the Damascus province on Thursday published a photo report showing Christians in the town of Al-Qaryatayn in central Syria signing the contract, which it says requires signatories "to pay the jizya poll tax, abide by Islamic rules and refrain from certain activities."
In exchange, MEMRI says, the contract offers certain protections for Christians, including a guarantee that they will come to no harm and will not be forced to convert. The contract adds that anyone found to be in violation of any of the articles in the 11-point contract will be "treated as a combatant."
The clauses in the contract include a ban on Christians building churches, monasteries, or hermitages in the town or the environs; a ban on displaying the cross or any books in the Moslems' streets or markets; and a prohibition against ringing church bells outside of their churches. The contract also warns against "any act of aggression against ISIS, such as giving refuge to spies and desperados," and demands that signatories report "any plot against Moslems."
In addition, the contract states that "wealthy Christians must pay an annual jizya of four gold dinars; middle-class Christians must pay two gold dinars, and the poor must pay one." The jizya can be divided into two payments, the contract says.
Further prohibitions reportedly include a ban on owning guns and on "commercial activity involving pigs or alcohol with Moslems or in Moslem markets." Christians are also banned from drinking alcohol in public.
This is not the first time that IS has forced Christians who found themselves under its rule to sign such a contract. In February 2014, the Christians of the Syrian town of Raqqa signed a simmilar agreement with IS.
The Islamic State has notoriously targeted Christians and other non-Moslems in the territory it controls, including forcible conversions, seizing and destroying property and driving residents out of their homes. It has also systematically destroyed evidence of cultures other than Islam in those territories, most notably destroying ancient artifacts at Tadmor, or Palmyra, in Syria.
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the contract states that "wealthy Christians must pay an annual jizya of four gold dinars; middle-class Christians must pay two gold dinars, and the poor must pay one."
And it's a progessive tax system, too. Bernie would approve.
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[Telegraph] Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary has been granted bail as he awaits trial for allegedly encouraging support for Daesh. Choudary appeared before the Old Bailey by video link from top security Belmarsh prison alongside his co-accused Mohammed Rahman on Friday. 
WASHINGTON -- North Korea is still not showing any concrete signs of preparations to launch a long-range rocket despite persisting speculation the communist nation could do so next month, a U.S. research institute said Thursday.
European leaders are preparing to create a powerful EU-wide border protection force to deal with the refugee crisis engulfing the continent, The Independent understands. Under plans being discussed by officials in Brussels, legal responsibility for deporting people deemed to be economic migrants would pass from the member states to the European Union.
Michel Aoun
