[Tolo News] Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. residents from the Pachir Agam district on Sunday voiced their concerns over what they claim is the growing number of Daesh members in their area.
Speaking to TOLOnews, residents said at least 13 civilians have been killed and 14 maimed in a recent attack by Daesh in the district.
Tribal elders also said that at least 23 residents from Pachir Agam have been taken hostage by the group.
Hassan Jan, a tribal elder in Pachir Agam, who recently sustained injuries in an attack by Daesh, told TOLOnews that he was maimed some days ago. He said at least 13 others were maimed and another 13 were killed.
"Daesh is trying to capture the district therefore it has started attacks in parts of it over the past month," said Hassan Jan.
He said the Lion of Islam group had taken 25 residents hostage, of which 23 of them are still in their custody.
Nangarhar provincial council also raised concerns over the issue and confirmed the recent attack and killings by Daesh in the area.
"Daesh is oppressing residents of this province and it is an unacceptable act. We want the government to take steps in this regard," deputy of Nangarhar provincial council, Nasir Kamawal told TOLOnews.
Another member of the council, Zabihullah Zmarai, said: "Daesh has done lots of cruel things over the past four months in Nangarhar; it has beheaded people, it has placed explosives on people's bodies and has torched houses."
Concerns have continued to rise in the past few months after Daesh first emerged in the Achin, Kot, Haska Mina and Pachir Agam districts in Nangarhar. They have also reportedly clashed on numerous occasions with the Taliban in the province.
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[Tolo News] The head of Badghis' Ulema Council, Mawlawi Ibrahim, on Sunday said the council has issued a fatwa against the Taliban's war on security forces, but that the myrmidon leaders have rejected it.
He said the foreign leaders of the Taliban have refused to renounce violence.
Mawlawi Ibrahim said that the local Taliban has sent the text of the fatwa to their leadership in Quetta Shura ...Mullah Omar's command center, located in Quetta, that the Pak govt hasn't been able to find since its establishment in November, 2001. Honest... in Pakistain -- the main council comprised of the top leadership of the Afghan Taliban.
He said that the Quetta Shura members have warned the Taliban leadership in Badghis that they will be eliminated if they adhere to the fatwa.
Mawlawi Ibrahim said the religious scholars issued the fatwa based on instructions in the Holy Koran and messages of the Prophet, but the Quetta Shura members are preventing the Afghan Taliban from joining the grinding of the peace processor.
"They [the Taliban rebels] are not taking any steps without orders from the foreigners [those in Quetta Shura]; even they took our fatwa to Quetta Shura 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. and they ordered the Taliban in Badghis not to renounce violence," Ibrahim told TOLOnews.
"Their madrassas in Pakistain are not for training on religious books; the madrassas are for training suicide kaboomers and for subversive activities," he said.
The Afghan army commander in the western zone, Gen. Taj Mohammad Mujahid, of the 207 Army Corps, meanwhile said that many foreign snuffies from Pak madrassas have infiltrated into Badghis and Faryab, and that they are trying to destabilize the provinces.
"As per our information, there are a number of foreign rebels in parts of Badghis and Faryab provinces," he said.
Badghis police chief, Gen. Wali Jan Sarhadi, said they would however take serious steps to stamp out insurgency.
He said: "There are myrmidons. Foreigners might also be among them. Anyone who stands against the Afghan Constitution we will stand against them."
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan government officials have asked the Pak officials to act against the Taliban group bandidosholy warriors operating on its territory.
The demand by the Afghan government was reportedly made during meeting with the Pak officials on the sideline of the Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA) on Saturday.
Pakistain's National Security and Foreign Affairs Advisor 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... visited 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 Saturday to attend the conference and meet with the Afghan officials as the relations between the two nations hit all-time low following a series of deadly attacks in capital Kabul.
The Afghan government officials blamed Taliban group and Haqqani terrorist network for being involved behind the deadly attacks which rocked capital Kabul earlier last month.
Frustrated with the Taliban group and Haqqani network's operations from their safe havens in Pakistain, the Afghan government slammed Pak officials for their remarks regarding the elimination of Haqqani Terrorist Network following military operations in tribal regions of Pakistain.
The Presidential Palace issued a statement last week after Pakistain's National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz claimed that the terrorist network is no more operational in Pakistain and that they have shifted to Afghanistan.
The statement by the Presidential Palace stated "The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan believes that one of the major differences between Afghanistan and Pakistain is regarding the presence of terrorist groups, specifically the Haqqani Network in Pak soil."
"The recent remarks by Pakistain's National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz, suggesting that the Haqqani Network has been decomposed following military operations, are repeated claims by Pak officials during the past one decade," the statement said.
The Palace insisted that documents and evidences shows that the network's leadership, commander and control, supportive infrastructure and sanctuaries are still operational in Pakistain.
The statement further added that the government of Afghanistan has repeatedly handed over evidences regarding the Haqqani Network operations in Pakistain and has urged the Pak government to take action.
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Does the Paks still need the Haqqani and Taliban re strategic depth?
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[Tolo News] A new case of polio has been registered in Nimroz province, officials at the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) confirmed on Sunday. Afghanistan's soon gonna be as bad as Pakistain.
The patient is a three-year-old toddler from Zarang district, in the south-western province and has apparently lost the use of one leg. The case was confirmed last week and is now the ninth confirmed case of polio in Afghanistan this year, said officials.
The National Polio Communication Officer at the MOPH Dr. Maiwand Ahmadzai said the victim was, according to his family, vaccinated recently. However, his family said relatives from Bakwa district in western Farah province visited them a while back – the province that last month reported the previous polio case.
Ahmadzai told TOLOnews.com that this comes after serious efforts are being conducted by health officials to vaccinate all children in the province.
He said this is the first recorded case in Nimroz in 15 years, but the second case to be detected in the southern region this year.
However, MoPH officials have stepped in to ensure children are safe and after launching an investigation into the matter, health officials on Sunday went into the area to start vaccinating children that have slipped through the cracks.
"We have launched another vaccination campaign today in the whole of Zarang and it will continue for three days," he said.
"In the past 15 years we haven't had any cases from the north-west but in less than two months we have had two – one in Nimroz and one in Farah."
He said that "previously we had polio cases from southern provinces especially from Kandahar but this has declined. When we find any polio cases anywhere, we immediately launch vaccination campaigns," he said.
He went on to say that a vaccination campaign is also underway in Achin district in eastern Nangarhar province after a polio case was recorded there recently. This will also continue for three days.
"The seventh case has been registered in Achin district of Nangarhar. We have also launched a vaccination campaign there."
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In other polio news, Nigeria just went a year without any cases. Woo woo! Yay, Humans!
Somalia’s minister of foreign affairs has urged his fellow citizens not to join the exodus of African migrants to Europe, saying the country is now on the mend and needs them to help rebuild it.
"Nice continent you got there. If you want to keep it you should give me money."
In an intervention in the debate now dividing Europe’s politicians, Abdusalam Omer said that hard-won improvements in the war-scarred nation’s security meant a time could come when Somalis were no longer prominent clients for the people-smuggling gangs of the Mediterranean.
Over the past three years, the country’s transitional government has made major gains against the Islamist al-Shabaab movement, who once ruled most of the capital, Mogadishu, and much of the south of the country.
In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph ahead of a visit to London to speak at the Chatham House international thinktank, Mr Omer said that Mogadishu was becoming safer by the day and was now “open for business” to foreign investment.
Not sure if Mogadishu is open to foreign investment, but government ministers certainly are...
“A few years ago, the government controlled only a fraction of the city, but that is no longer the case,” he said. “Now I can take a car and go shopping or visit the Mogadishu beachfront. I wouldn’t want to say things were perfect, but they are certainly going in the right direction.
“Fewer migrants are leaving now than they were, but with every pound of direct investment we get, that is more money that can go towards creating schools, hospitals, and jobs for the future generation of Somalis.”
Mr Omer took over the foreign affairs portfolio earlier this year, having previously served as governor of Somalia’s central bank. Prior to that he was based in Washington, where he worked in the office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia.
So he understands graft at all levels of government...
He said that as a Somali expatriate himself, he could understand the desire of his fellow citizens to head abroad in search of a better life. But he said he would recommend them to think carefully before doing so, urging them to consider staying behind and helping the country towards a future free from dependency on foreign aid.
Somalis, he added, were naturally good businesspeople, pointing out that even when Mogadishu had had no functioning government, local entrepreneurs had set up thriving private mobile phone networks, electricity and water supplies, and other utilities.
“We have a strong service culture, where people expect to pay fees for what they get rather than relying on government,” he added.
He also said that Western businessmen should overcome any reticence about visiting the Somali capital, despite ongoing guerrilla attacks by the al-Shabaab network.
“I will be realistic about this – they would probably want to use bodyguards, just as businessman have always done when they have come here in recent years,” he said. “But things are definitely improving – and investors who want to come here to see for themselves are welcome.”
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It could have been avoided by ignoring the rectal orifices who deemed 'colonialism' as only a crime against humanity rather then a saving grace for the general population that has now suffered far greater calamities and death at the hands of their brethren.
Saudi Arabia's government is cutting unnecessary expenses and delaying some projects to compensate for low oil prices, though projects that are important for the economy will go ahead, Finance Minister Ibrahim Alassaf said.
His comments, made in an interview with broadcaster CNBC Arabia during a visit to Washington with King Salman, were the clearest official signal yet that the government was reducing expenditure in some areas as cheap oil slashed its revenues.
Are they cutting the funding of mosques in infidel countries? Cutting the funding to terrorist groups? Trimming princely allowances? When they do these things we'll know they're serious...
Alassaf said the world's top oil exporting country was well-prepared to cope with the plunge of crude prices since last year, and that Saudi policymakers were taking it seriously.
"We have built reserves, cut public debt to near-zero levels and we are now working on cutting unnecessary expenses while focusing on main development projects and on building human resources in the kingdom," he said in the interview, broadcast on Sunday.
"There are some projects like the ones that have been approved a few years ago and haven't been carried out until now - that means such projects are not currently necessary and can be delayed," he added. "Projects in sectors such as education, health and infrastructure are not only important for the private sector but also for the long-term growth of the Saudi economy."
The International Monetary Fund and private analysts have calculated Saudi Arabia may run a huge budget deficit of $120 billion or more this year because of cheap oil. Its financial reserves, which total over $600 billion, mean it is in no danger of running out of money for several years.
But the prospect of a long period of low oil prices - and the fact that officials have said little publicly about how they would handle it - have started to worry financial markets, with the cost of insuring against the risk of a Saudi sovereign debt default rising.
Alassaf did not give details of how he was cutting spending. Last December, the ministry said it would "rationalise" spending on public salaries, but analysts believe outright salary cuts would be too politically sensitive to introduce.
As would cutting allowances to the various princes...
With Saudi Arabia embroiled in a war in Yemen, security spending looks unlikely to be cut. So infrastructure projects may feel the brunt; for example, a plan to build soccer stadiums around the country has been scaled back, a $201 million contract to buy high-speed trains was cancelled, and expansion of an oilfield has been slowed, sources told Reuters in recent weeks.
In July, Riyadh began issuing sovereign bonds for the first time since 2007 to help cover its budget deficit. Alassaf said the government would continue issuing bonds and might also sell Islamic bonds, or sukuk, to finance specific projects.
"There may be an issue (of sukuk) before the end of 2015 but I cannot say this will continue - it all depends on the need to finance the budget deficit."
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There are good news from all over the ME. The only dissonant note is Iran's nuclear program---if only you (Americans) kept your passion for affirmative action within reasonable bounds!
WASHINGTON -- The United States has imposed sanctions on two North Korean trading firms under a law banning the transfer of materials related to weapons of mass destruction, according to the State Department.
Polestar Trading Company, Ltd., a North Korean entity in China, and RyonHap-2, a trading firm in the North, were among a total of 22 entities sanctioned by the State Department under the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act, the department said in a Federal Register notice.
Affiliated with the North's Second Academy of Natural Sciences, Pyongyang's main weapons development agency, RyonHap-2 is believed to be involved in weapons exports and parts procurements.
The State Department notice, published Wednesday, did not provide specific violations committed by the two firms. The sanctions will remain in place for two years, it said. In addition to the two North Korean entities, 20 foreign firms were also slapped with sanctions, including four from China, two from Iran, five from Russia, three from Sudan, four from Syria and one each from Turkey and United Arab Emirates.
The addition of the two North Korean firms brought to 18 the total number of North Korean entities and individuals that remain under active sanctions under the State Department's Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act. But the U.S. Treasury Department maintains more comprehensive sanctions on counties like North Korea and Iran. About 70 North Korean individuals agencies, entities, and vessels are on the department's Specially Designated Nationals' list.
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[IsraelTimes] As Europe gears up to take in those fleeing war, many who seek a better life are taking note -- and losing their passports
HAJDUKOVO, Serbia -- A Pak identity card in the bushes, a Bangladeshi one in a cornfield. A torn Iraqi driver's license bearing the photo of a man with a Saddam-style mustache, another one with a scarfed woman displaying a shy smile.
Documents scattered only meters from Serbia's border with Hungary provide evidence that many of the migrants flooding Europe to escape war or poverty are scrapping their true nationalities and likely assuming new ones, just as they enter the European Union
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...think of all the opportunities for Israelis to condemn Euros for their treatment of these 'victims', particularly when the so called 'victims' go feral on them.
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See also GUAMPDN WEEEKEND = ...
> REFUGEES REACH GERMANY.
> 13,000 MIGRANTS [plus] REACH/ENTER AUSTRIA.
Meanwhile, FYI as per FREEREPUBLIC< the ISIS/ISIL is repor bragging about allegedly mixing 000's of Islamist-Jiahdist MilTerr Extremists wid the Refugee masses.
Austria says it is planning to phase out special measures that have allowed thousands of migrants to travel freely from Hungary to Western Europe. Chancellor Werner Faymann said Austria would remove the emergency measures for asylum seekers "step by step".
They aren't refugees, they're shock troops...
The easing of rules has meant thousands have been able to leave Hungary for Austria and Germany over the weekend. Germany, where most of the migrants are heading, warned that its willingness to help "should not be overstretched".
The German interior ministry said the decision to allow migrants in over recent days was an exception and that the EU's rules requiring asylum seekers to be processed in the first country they arrived in remained valid.
Amid sharp disagreements among EU members, the UN's Refugee Chief Antonio Guterres said the crisis was "manageable" if member states could agree a joint plan.
Mr Faymann issued his statement after speaking by phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Sunday.
"We have always said this is an emergency situation in which we must act quickly and humanely," the Austrian chancellor said. "We have helped more than 12,000 people in an acute situation. Now we have to move step-by-step away from emergency measures towards normality," he added.
The change means that Austria will restore spot checks on those entering the country, as it had before the weekend.
On Sunday, a group of cars driven by German and Austrian activists travelled to the Hungarian border to pick up migrants and distribute food. One of the Austrian activists taking part, Angelika Neuwirth, told the BBC: "I think this is my duty. I can't close my eyes anymore."
Hungarian police said anyone taking people across the border was breaking the law on people smuggling - although the activists were able to collect migrants without being stopped.
Thousands of people have passed through Austria this weekend. But now the Austrian government says it is time to slowly stop the unimpeded flow of migrants and re-introduce spot checks on people entering the country.
The decision to open the borders was always meant as a short-term reaction to what Chancellor Faymann called "an emergency situation" - intended to ease the migrant crisis in Hungary. In the long term, Austria wants European Union countries to share the burden of refugees. The migrant crisis has caused tensions between Austria and Hungary.
In an interview on Austrian television, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called on Austria to close its borders.
BBC does it again: the single 'refugee' they show in a photo is a cute young girl. They don't show pics of the many, many young tough men marching through streets, lying down on railroad tracks, and chanting in unison. Does anyone truly think that "refugees" act like that?
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Around 20000 came to Munich over the weekend. For Monday Munich authorities are projecting 11000+.
All following Merkel's unilateral invitation.
This won't stop until something is done to deter these people. That would make for ugly tv news footage.
BTW it is the Syrians who are the real danger, Albanians, Macedonians, Roma etc are petty criminals at worst.
Syria is disintegrating in an extremely cruel civil war. All sides are enemies of Western civilization. All sides are allies of enemies of Western civilization.
As Daniel Pipes stated the West should try to make them all lose, instead we are surrendering to them precisely because they're failing.
Are the Syrians coming to Germany grateful middle class people?
It doesn't matter.
Islamic immigration is a failure wherever it is tried. Atta & Co hailed from the upper middle class, the 7/7 leader was a teacher, the Glasgow attackers were medical doctors.
Even if the first generation should be grateful, their descendants numbering in the millions will hate us.
Part of the price we'll pay for 'saving' these 'refugees' will be the blood spilled by the massacres that will be conducted in the West.
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In the photo of the refugees I have seen (caution it could be a fake) some 90% were men. First time in history men have left their country without their families. Or... or perghaps there are no refugees.
[DAWN] KARACHI: The city police chief has claimed that the ongoing targeted operations have resulted in a 70 per cent drop in terror-related activities during the past two years and law enforcers are making concerted efforts to eliminate the sleeper cells of terrorist outfits which still exist in the metropolis.
Additional Inspector General of Police, 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... , Mushtaq Ahmed Mahar was speaking at a presser at Karachi Police Office (KPO) where representatives of traders demanded a mechanism to ensure continuity of the operation and de-politicization of police for a 'sustainable' peace in the city.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The capital police have 'checked' religious seminaries twice this year, but found nothing suspicious.
The Rawalpindi police, on the other hand, tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! suspects from the premises of an Islamabad seminary in a joint operation with paramilitary troops, sources told Dawn.
The seminaries were first checked in January after the Army Public School (APS) attack 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. and then shortly after the Attock bombing.
Senior police officials told Dawn that the second round of checks began on August 17 which were carried out by SHOs in their respective jurisdictions, but nothing suspicious was found.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... two days later, the Rawalpindi police and paramilitary troops raided the Madressah Haqqania Masjid Qasmia located on the greenbelt adjacent to Faisal Avenue, and arrested four individuals, including two suspects, they said.
The presence of the suspects brought embarrassment to the Islamabad police as their checks were proved ineffective, the sources said.
The personnel went to the seminaries and asked the administrators to hand over details of their students and teachers, they said, adding the Margalla SHO, who went to the seminary in question, was served lunch in a room there.
The SHO was later given information on the number of students and teachers, as well as their native regions before being asked to leave. The officer's other queries regarding the students and teachers at the seminary were not answered, and he was not allowed to enter the seminary or its residential portion.
When Rawalpindi police officials and paramilitary troops raided the seminary on August 21, they too were denied entry, but they entered the seminary forcefully after breaking down the doors, the officials said.
"There is a huge difference between the professionalism shown by Islamabad police and Rawalpindi police, which is why they succeeded in arresting two suspects while the capital police returned after being denied entry," they said.
"The Rawalpindi police have the support of their seniors, and we (Islamabad police) do not," a capital police officer said on the condition of anonymity. "We have clear instructions not to enter or raid seminaries without evidence of a suspicious activity," he added.
"Such strict directions from our authorities prevented us from raiding and physically searching the seminary, as we will be criticised if we don't find anything there," he added.
"Previously, the capital police acted against seminaries based on reports from the special branch or intelligence agencies," he said, adding due to the lack of support from their seniors, special branch officials withdrew from seminaries, which led to a drop in surveillance.
Following the arrest of the two suspects from the seminary, senior police officials asked the special branch and Margalla police to investigate whether they were present when Margalla police came to check the seminary. "But we have no effective intelligence or surveillance system at the seminary to investigate this, which must be investigated in the current circumstances," he said.
Officials from Islamabad police, disguised as civilians and in uniform, went to the seminary to investigate but were denied entry again. "Our hands are tied. We cannot take action because of the lack of support from the decision makers," he said.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: An antiterrorism court asked on Saturday the police to initiate proceedings of proclamation and attachment of property against 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... chief the increasingly hugeAltaf Hussain ..The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in London and hasn't laid eyes on Pakistain since Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him,he may be a Hutt... in a case pertaining to criminal intimidation.
The self-exiled MQM leader was booked for allegedly threatening Rangers officials during a TV talk show following a pre-dawn raid on his party headquarters, Nine Zero, in Azizabad, on March 11.
The police chargesheeted Mr Hussain under Section 512 (record of evidence in absence of accused) of the criminal procedure code and showed him an absconder in the investigation report.
Subsequently, the court twice issued non-bailable warrant for the arrest of the MQM chief. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... the investigating officer submitted a report during the hearing on Saturday saying that the warrants could not be executed since Mr Hussain had left the country in 1992 and had since been residing in London.
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[Rudaw] Iraq will take delivery this month of four advanced jet fighters bought from the Czech Republic, an Iraqi official said Sunday.
"According to a deal struck between the Czech Republic and Iraq, the Czech government will hand over four 159T1 warplanes to Iraq," said Hakim Zamli, head of the Iraqi parliament's defense and security committee.
"The warplanes are scheduled to arrive in Iraq in mid-September," he told Rudaw by phone.
"The Iraqi military is better equipped compared to the past in terms of heavy weapons," he disclosed. "With the arrival of these warplanes... it can be fully ready to defend itself and keep defeating ISIS on all fighting fronts," he said, referring to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
In January 2012, the Iraqi government signed a military agreement with the Czech Republic to buy four 159T1 warplanes, but technical details had delayed delivery.
The Aero L-159T1 ALCA (Advanced Light Combat Aircraft) is a Czech-built multi-role combat aircraft.
In an effort to bolster the Iraqi air force in the war with ISIS, the US handed over four F-16 jets to Iraq in July.
In his speech at an event celebrating the arrival of the jets, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi described the delivery as a sign of international trust in Iraq's fighting forces.
Iraq has been struggling to rebuild its military ever since it collapsed in the face of an ISIS onslaught in June 2014, fleeing without a fight and leaving vast quantities of arms that were seized by ISIS.
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"The Iraqi military is better equipped compared to the past in terms of heavy weapons,"
Last I looked, the problem with the Iraqi military was the inability to field a national army, as opposed to a collection of tribal militias.
Still, they look like fun little planes. And as the Tamil Tigers and Baby Assad have proved, you don't need state of the art to rain down death and annoyance on your enemies.
[Rudaw] About 400 Kurdish Yezidi women have joined Peshmerga forces and established a special regiment to protect themselves and fight 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....
Video at link.
"We knew it would be challenging and hard for us. You may get killed or martyred and face lots of hardships," said a female Peshmerga in the video. "But we stand our ground steadfastly and will face all of those threats to protect Kurds and Kurdistan."
On August 3, 2014, ISIS launched a massive assault on the town of Shingal. Thousands of Kurdish Yezidi families fled to Mount Shingal fearing the group's myrmidons, and hundreds of men were massacred inside the town.
During the attack, more than 8,000 Yezidi Kurds were captured. Iraqi MP and Kurdish Yezidi Vian Dakhil told Rudaw on Sunday that 5,820 Kurdish Yezidis are held as hostages under ISIS control, and nearly 2,200 have been rescued.
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Israel has the right idea. Europe has gone mental under Merkel.
This is a Trojan horse invasion
Worse, the lefties are campaigning for Australia to take 10,000 with no screening, no safeguard and no bothering to acknowledge we have already got 10,000 real refugees on our northern border - West Papuans fleeing an Indonesian genocide.
why on earth would we take people from Syria especially young able bodied men aged 20 to 40 who should be fighting Islamic State themselves
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It's what we do anon1. I got back here a week after evacuating from Katrina & found lots of Mexicans (many/mostly illegal) camping in parks or 6 to a no utilities room cleaning up damage while the able-bodied property owners stayed in Atlanta or Houston or Memphis in taxpayer-funded air-conditioned hotels eating taxpayer-funded food etc.
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Shipman, I was really impressed with those Hispanics. I would gladly trade them 2 or 3 for one for the losers we had/have again. Perhaps the worst thing I saw was when the contractors they were working for turned them in to Immigration after 2 - 3 weeks, when they were due to be paid.
[WSJ] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected calls from opposition leaders to help absorb some of the Middle Eastern migrants flooding Europe, saying Sunday that Israel was too small to take them in.
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When it comes to leftards, I deplore Israeli tendency to be the best in the World on any subject.
Israel has begun building a fence along part of the country's eastern border with Jordan as Syrian civil war refugees and other migrants flee their countries. What would Wallsend-on-Tyne be without the wall, not to mention Hadrian. The lad in the photo is pointing northward. As you can see, the southern zone has been incentivized.
Ynet has more details here, including photos of the current fence, for those interested.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday: "We see today what happens when countries lose control of their borders." He seemed to be referring to the massive influx of refugees from the war-torn Middle East and African migrants heading to Europe.
Netanyahu earlier bemoaned the "human tragedy" of Syria's civil war and said Israel has aided its victims. However, he said Israel is too small to take them.
Israel already built fences along its border with Egypt to stop African migrants and in the Golan Heights bordering Syria.
Opposition leader Isaac Herzog said Saturday that Israel should take in a limited number of Syrian refugees.
I agree. House them in Syria, right there in the Syrian part of the Golan. To ensure proper security the IDF could advance its holdings a few kilometers towards Damascus. Put the refugees in the new space and have the UN Relief and Works Agency provide services...
The budget for the new fence, which is to be finished within two years, is NIS 280 million ($71.4 million). Brigadier General Oren Ofir of the Israel Defense Forces -- who directed the building of the country's fence along its border with Egypt and in the Golan Heights -- will lead the project, the Hebrew-language news site Ynet reported.
A fence, replete with sophisticated sensors and regular IDF patrols, already exists on the northern half of the Israeli-Jordanian border, from the northern edge of the Dead Sea up to the three-way meeting point of Israel, Jordan and Syria near the Sea of Galilee.
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See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > WHY [Persian = GCC]GULF COUNTRIES CANNOT ACCEPT REFUGEES?
Becuz they are different from the GCC Locals despite also being Muslim.
Youse can just feel the Islamic/Muslim "Ummah", can't ya???
JEEBUS, PEOPLE, YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP.
VERSUS
* GROONG > [Russia Today] WEST CREATED REFUGEES BY DESTROYING ISLAMIC NATIONS - CHECHEN LEADER.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) operating in northern Syria has dissolved one of its factions, mostly Arabs who support ruling Baath party, where the battalion commander has been tortured in public over rape issue.
Sources from the tribe of Alsharabin reported to Zaman al-Wasl that the holy warriors from (PYD) raided the village of Khirbet Alward which is part of Abo Rasin town in Hasaka Northern countryside, and placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! Yassin Bakar and chased many people of his family and youth from the village. Many of them escaped to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... The sources mentioned that PYD's officials have tortured Bakar with another relative of him called Rami Albahri, openly in public squares of town of Ras Alain, Tell Tamer and Abo Rasin, before taking them away to unknown destination.
There were conflicting reports about the charges against Bakar and his relative, many said that dispute about some gains they seized from villages in Abdul Aziz mountain, other reported that the battalion cooperated with a military formation known as "Jazeera Shield" and belongs to the regime's forces in the province.
Other Sources correlated the dispute between PYD and the military formation of Yassin Bakar to the mutual accusation in regard to two incidents of rape of Arabic girls in the villages of Tel Hamam south Tal Tamer, and Kobor Algrajenh near the town of Abo Rasin. Bakar held responsibility for the two incidents to Lund Anquezk, the military commander of PYD's Brigades in Tal Tamer.
From its side, the PYD's leadership accused "Yassin Bakar, Commander of Abdul Hannan Matar Battalion, because the incidence took place in areas within its responsibilities, according to the same sources.
Democratic Union Party (PYD) announced on15-August- 2013 the formation of Abdul Hannan matar battalion led Yassin Baka. The majority of its members from two Arab tribes "Alsada and Alsharabin. They were 34 members all of them were supporters of the Baath Party and loyal to Al-Assad regime in the region, the main centre of the battalion was in Alabboh Village located on the road to Tel Tamer -Abo Rasin.
The latest developments came at a time when the militias of Democratic Union Party PYD face many charges of violations against people in the western countryside of Hasaka, including destruction of homes, stealing cattle and houses' Furniture, and seize lands of the opponents of the al-Assad regime.
The Democratic Union Party (PYD) controlled the city of Tel Tamer in 2012 after the withdrawal of the regime's forces and handing the security buildings to militias of PYD. The city is considered an important connection point as it is situated at the international Highway towards Aleppo and the provinces of the north. Its population about 30 thousand people, mostly Assyrians, Arabs and Kurds.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Tolo News] A new case of polio has been registered in Nimroz province, officials at the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) confirmed on Sunday.
Saudi Arabia's government is cutting unnecessary expenses and delaying some projects to compensate for low oil prices, though projects that are important for the economy will go ahead, Finance Minister Ibrahim Alassaf said.
[IsraelTimes] As Europe gears up to take in those fleeing war, many who seek a better life are taking note -- and losing their passports
Austria says it is planning to phase out special measures that have allowed thousands of migrants to travel freely from Hungary to Western Europe. Chancellor Werner Faymann said Austria would remove the emergency measures for asylum seekers "step by step".
