[Tolo News] Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said on Monday it hopes to eradicate polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... by the middle of next year as 2015 has seen the lowest number of reported cases to date.
This comes after a scare on Sunday where health officials suspected 75 cases of the virus in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... . However the children thought to have contracted the disease were tested and results came back as negative, officials confirmed Monday.
But this year, 17 polio cases have been registered - a major decline against last year's recordings of 38, said Hedayatollah Stanikzai, an advisor to the ministry of public health.
This decline shows the polio immunization campaigns being conducted in the country are starting to show results.
The Ministry of Public Health has said that concerted efforts have been made to control the spread of virus in the country, adding that Afghanistan will hopefully be a polio free country within four years.
But Stanikzai was a little more positive and said: "God willing, we will overcome the spread of the polio virus in the country by June 2016 and this is a national commitment," Stanikzai said.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... blood tests of suspected patients are sent to Pakistain laboratories for testing. Health officials want this changed.
"We send lab samples to Pakistain, but now we are concerned, we made a request to World Health Organization to send the samples to another country," he said.
The statement comes a day before the launch of a major polio immunization campaign in south and western provinces. The ministry of health says that children under the age of five will also be vaccinated against polio in insecure regions.
"We do not have concerns that some children could be deprived of vaccination, we are determined to vaccinate them all," head of Helmand health department Abdul Ahad Hazeem said.
Statistics of ministry of public health reveals that eight polio cases in 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.. , one in Helmand, one in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , four in Farah, one in Nimroz and one in Faryab were recorded this year.
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[Tolo News] 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.... Police have detained the brother-in-law and one other in connection with the shooting in Kabul of Amanullah Ataee, head of Asia television, said Kabul police Monday.
Ataee was the head of Asia TV an independent television channel. He was bumped off outside his house in Kart-e-Naw in Kabul city on Sunday night.
Ataee's family said that he was killed by relatives.
"We have detained two people in connection with the murder. One of them is named Ajmal and both of them are in police custody," said Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi.
Meanwhile the victim's brother Abdul Qadir Ataee, blamed family for the murder.
"Those who killed my brother are family and we told the police who they are. We ask the police to arrest them and punish them," said the victim's brother Abdul Qadir Ataee.
Amanullah Ataee's family called on government to ensure justice is carried out and said that if government does not take the matter seriously they will take action.
This is the second attack in the past week in Kabul against public figures. Last week two men on a cycle of violence opened fire on Ahmad Saeedi a well-known political analyst. He was shot in the head but is in a stable condition in hospital.
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[Libya Herald] The leaking of bugged mobile phone calls is the latest twist in the drama between Rada, the 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... "deterrence" force and Grand Mufti Sadeq Ghariani, who has accused them of being "bandidos".
The two calls, posted on social media by a bigwig of the Khalifa Ghwel administration in the capital, both involved the head of the religious endowments (awqaf) ministry's Tripoli office, Mohammed Atkitek. He was nabbed Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! last week and held for three days by Rada, which is run by Abdul Raouf Kara.
No date has been given for either call, though they were clearly made before his detention. In the first, Atkitek is said to speaking to Abdulbaset Ghiwla, who is close to Ghariani. In the second Atkitek is apparently talking to his deputy at the ministry, Tarek Al-Daghel.
Ghiwla is heard complaining that the ministry was losing control of some mosques, though he did not say to whom. He urges Atkitek to be more efficient and replace incompetent personnel.
Ghiwla also asks Atkitek if he knows if his deputy has received a new threat from Rada. Atkitek replies that he has no idea but will contact Daghel and find out.
The second call appears to lead on directly from the first. Atkitek asks his deputy if he has been threatened and Daghel says he has. He mentions the name of someone belonging to Rada and uses some choice expressions to describe this individual.
After his release from custody yesterday, Atkitek told the Ghariani's TV channel Tanasah that the men who arrested him had told him that they were Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... who rejected IS.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Police had sensed a possible attack on the Shia Muslims living in several villages in Bogra's Shibganj upazila after the Hussaini Dalan attack and asked them to take special security measures.
Police officials told the Dhaka Tribune on Sunday that they had repeatedly asked the Shias to arrange security at their mosques, especially Al Mostafa Jame Mosque in Haripur village where three youths launched a gun attack on November 26.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... the Shia community, which has been living in harmony with others for decades, thought they had no enemy. They were proud of the religious harmony that prevailed in the area since long despite having differences with the Sunnis in terms of rituals.
Muezzin Mozammel Hossain, 70, died and three other devotees were maimed in the attack carried out by three unidentified youths. Officials of the Police Bureau of Investigation have collected blood and other evidence from the spot. They also found eight bullet shells of a 0.22-bore revolver.
Law enforcers and Shia community leaders suspect that members of the banned bully boy group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s which remains obscure even today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. (JMB) or some radical Islamists in Qawmi madrasas might have conducted the attack on Thursday.
The police are now interrogating three suspects in the case. One of the trio is a former JMB organiser while another is the principal of a local Qawmi madrasa.
One of the three remanded on Saturday, Anwar Hossain, 48, is a former JMB member. Police said he had been tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! earlier in 2010 and came out two years later on bail.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.
If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... police yesterday formed a five-strong probe body led by Additional Superintendent of Police Arifur Rahman Mandal. Sources said two members of the Special Branch also went to Bogra to assist in the case.
The shooting incident took place one month after the kaboom at Hussaini Dalan that left two people dead and several others injured. Detectives have found the involvement of JMB men in the attack. Police said they had alerted the Shia leaders about a possible attack.
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.... grabbed credit for the Bogra attack, but the government brushed aside the claim, saying local Lions of Islam backed by 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... conducted the gun attack.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Pakistain has denied its involvement in crimes and atrocities during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
It yesterday summoned the acting Bangladesh high commissioner in Islamabad to convey its rejection of what it said "baseless and unfounded assertions" of Bangladesh against Pakistain. "It wuz somevbody else."
"It is regrettable that attempts have been made by the government of Bangladesh to malign Pakistain, despite our ardent desire to develop brotherly relations with Bangladesh," the Pakistain Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued yesterday.
On November 23, Bangladesh had summoned Pakistain High Commisionner in Dhaka Shuja Alam and formally protested a Pakistain Foreign Ministry statement issued after the execution of war criminals Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Muzahid.
The Bangladesh high commissioner was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said a blurb of the Pakistain Foreign Ministry.
Pakistain believes that the peoples of both countries not only want to maintain but also further strengthen the bonds of friendship and brotherhood. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... sadly, the government of Bangladesh does not seem to respect these sentiments, said the release.
Pakistain reiterates its desire for further enhancing relations with Bangladesh, because it believes that the hearts of the people of Pakistain beat in unison with the people of Bangladesh.
It is important for the two countries not to forget the role played by their people in the struggle for the establishment of a separate homeland for the Muslims of the South Asian sub-continent. It is, therefore, imperative to move forward in the spirit of goodwill, friendship and harmony for the collective good of the peoples of Pakistain and Bangladesh.
The statement claimed that the 1974 tripartite agreement is the bedrock of relations between the two countries.
As regards the Bangladesh government's contention that Pakistain presents a misleading interpretation of the Agreement of 1974, it needs to be emphasised that, as part of the agreement, the government of Bangladesh had "decided not to proceed with the trials as an act of clemency."
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[Dhaka Tribune] In what sounds like a scene from a James Bond film, Sherlocks say a foreign intelligence agency provided a local Islamist bad boy outfit with a spy telephone to evade increased surveillance operations by local law enforcement agencies.
A high official of the Detective Branch (DB) of police, asking not to be named, yesterday confirmed the development to the Dhaka Tribune.
He added that the recent bombing of the Hussaini Dalan, an important Shia shrine, was carried out by banned krazed killer outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s which remains obscure even today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. (JMB) according to the instructions of the unnamed foreign intelligence agency.
The DB source said a foreign agency was definitely involved in the attack and added that Sherlocks were searching for the involvement of other groups.
The link between a foreign intelligence outfit and the JMB was discovered after the arrest of four JMB men last night and the analysis of their spy cell phone records.
The arrestees have been identified as Md Idrish Sheikh, Md Makbul Sharif, Md Salam and Md Mostofa Zaman.
"After conducting a drive in the Khilgaon and airport areas, DB tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! the four men last night and recovered a huge stash of jihadi literature, Indian, Pak and Bahraini currency, a spy mobile phone, two Pak and one Bangladeshi passport," Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of DB police, said.
Addressing a briefing at the Dhaka Metropolitan Police's media and community centre, Monirul said whenever the JMB operatives communicated with each other using the spy phone, a copy of their voice and image was automatically sent to foreign intelligence officials.
"Idrish Sheikh used the spy mobile and we have found evidence of a relationship between him and a female official of a foreign embassy in Bangladesh," Monirul said.
Monirul declined to disclose the name of either the foreign intelligence agency or the foreign embassy implicated in the investigation.
Monirul, also the DB chief, said Idrish went to India with the aid of brokers in 1985 before travelling onward to Pakistain. He received Pak citizenship after marrying a Pak woman in 1990.
Idrish became involved in Pak politics and took part in national elections there in 2002 under the banner of the "Pak Muslim Alliance." He lost the election.
Idrish returned to Bangladesh in 2007 and, after providing a false address in Bagerhat, procured a new Bangladeshi passport, Monirul said.
Idrish later began working with the JMB. An analysis of his passport shows that he entered Pakistain at least 48 times over the last two years, Monirul said.
JMB member Makbul Sharif also has connections to Pakistain. He went to Pakistain through brokers in 1985 and repeatedly visited the country as a cloth trader.
"He was a JMB operative working in the guise of a trader," Monirul said, adding that Makbul used a fake passport to visit Pakistain.
During his visits, Makbul established good relations with a Rohingya man living in Pakistain, Abdul Kuddus.
Makbul helped Rohingya based in Bangladesh by providing fake passports and helping to send them to Pakistain, Canada and Australia.
The funds he collected for these activities went into the JMB's coffers, Monirul said.
Of the two other arrestees, Salam lived in the Bihari camp in Dhaka and also visited Pakistain. Mostofa worked as an assistant traffic inspector for Pakistain International Airlines.
Monirul said they not only worked for the JMB but operated as currency traders, using their profits to fund krazed killer activities.
Asked about the recent attacks on the Shia community, Monirul said the attacks were designed to create uncertainty in the country. He said a foreign power was behind the attack.
Police have filed two cases with Airport police and another with Khilgaon cop shoppe against the four arrestees. The four were later placed in court where police sought a 10-day police remand. The court granted three days' remand for each of the arrestees.
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[AnNahar] Kurdish rebel leader said Sunday that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has slipped into a civil war with the Kurds, as he urged the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and the United States to step up as peace brokers to end the conflict.
"Military tanks, artillery and helicopters are being deployed in the south of Turkey against the Kurdish civilian population. The situation is the worst in decades," Cemil Bayik, one of the leaders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) told Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
"The Turkish government say: this war will last until all Kurdish fighters surrender or are killed. Therefore I say that yes, we Kurds are once again in a civil war with Turkey," said Bayik, speaking at his group's stronghold of northern Iraq's Qandil mountains.
Bayik along with Murat Karayilan is considered the PKK's top commander on the ground in the absence of its tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! chief Abdullah Ocalan.
Southeast Turkey has been rocked by a new wave of unrest that has left several hundred people dead since a two-year-old truce between Ankara and the PKK fell apart in July.
The PKK tore up the unilateral ceasefire it had declared in 2013 after Turkey began waging a relentless campaign against the group in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.
"If the military act against the Kurdish civilian population, then we will defend the Kurds. That is our right and our responsibility," said Bayik.
At the same time, the PKK leader said he still believes in a political solution out of the crisis.
"We don't want to fight anymore. We want political solutions. For that we need a peace broker, a third party," he said. "Therefore we are asking the United States or Germany as part of the EU, to take on this task."
Both the U.S. and the EU have put the PKK on their list of terror organizations.
But Bayik said it was time to review that listing, as he underlined the role that his group has played in the fight against 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.... jihadists.
"Since we began battling IS on several fronts and freed many people, the people in Europe have begun to understand the real nature of the PKK," he said. "The time has come to finally remove PKK from the terror list."
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Sorry, Cemil - the Euros are rather preoccupied with the teeming hordes sent onward by Turkey. And Mr. Obama is rather preoccupied with studying the way the light from L'Ambroisie's chandelier bounces off his champagne glass. You're on your own.
What odds he is invited to dinner with the president afterward? You will recall, dear Reader, that the Arab List, an innovation of the last Israeli election, was coaxed into being by political advisors previously used by the American Democratic Party and funded by the American embassy in Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Arab-Israeli politician Ayman Odeh will be first prominent rep of Israel's Arabic community to engage in high-profile talks in Washington
The chairman of the Joint Arab List party in Israel will hold groundbreaking talks during a US visit with senior White House and State Department officials.
Knesset member Ayman Odeh, who begins his visit Monday night, will be the first prominent representative of Israel's Arabic community to engage in high-profile diplomatic talks in Washington, according to a report on Ynet.
Along with the talks, Odeh will attend an event in his honor hosted by billionaire S. Daniel Abraham, a champion of coexistence between Arabs and Jews. The politician will also speak with media outlets such as The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... and the Washington Post, and meet with civil rights leaders at the Atlanta church of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
"The issues that matter to Israel's Arab citizens are hardly represented in the international conversation," Odeh told Ynet. "I'm going to the US to bring that voice with me to influencing sources and opinion leaders, and to create contacts and connections with the progressive and civil rights movements."
The Joint Arab List, a combination of the Arab parties in Israel, was formed in the lead-up to elections in March and is now the nation's third largest political party.
Odeh has been criticized for failing to condemn Paleostinian attacks on Israeli civilians in recent months.
Asked on Israeli radio in October if throwing rocks is a legitimate form of protest, he said, "I always blame the occupation for being guilty. I cannot tell the nation how to struggle, where and at which target to throw the rock."
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I left my home in Ramallah for Detroit City.
By day I play for for par,
By night I bomb the bars.
I don't want to go home
I don't want to go home!
Please don't make me go home.
[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... , addressing what appeared to be one of the biggest gatherings organised by the party in Sindh, on Sunday threw his party's weight behind the army chief "in defending every inch of the country's territory" in the face of a threat from the US and its allies.
Besides him, a host of leaders including Senate Deputy Chairman Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haidery, Maulana Saeed Yousuf, Maulana Mohammed Amjad Khan, Syed Salman Gillani, Nayab Sarkash Sindhi (of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz), Qari Mohammed Usman, Malik Sikandar (from Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... ), Rashid Mehmood Soomro and Nasir Mehmood Soomro spoke to the participants at the gathering titled 'Shaheed-e-Islam conference' held to pay tribute to JUI-F leader Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro on his first death anniversary.
The conference was held in the Peoples Stadium which was packed with JUI-F leaders, activists and supporters who came from across the country. Delegations from from other countries including the United Kingdom, 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... , Yemen, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... and Dubai also participated in the conference.
The JUI-F chief paid tribute to Dr Soomro for his services to Islam, the Ummah and Pakistain, and strongly condemned his liquidation which, he said, was part of the West's conspiracy to replace Muslim rulers with liberal ones around the world. He also made mention of terrorist attacks on himself, Akram Khan Durrani and other JUI-F leaders as well as Learned Elders of Islam over the past few years in the country.
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif ..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all.... on Monday signed the black warrants of four holy warriors involved in the Army Public School attack, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.
The army chief signed the black warrants of Maulvi Abdus Salam, Hazrat Ali, Mujeebur Rehman and Sabeel alias Yahya nearly a year after the horrific massacre.
Militants stormed the school on Dec 16, 2014, killing at least 144 people ─ most of whom were children.
In the wake of the APS carnage, military courts were set up for trying holy warriors under amendments made to the Constitution and the Army Act.
This was the first sentence approved by the army chief following the Supreme Court's August 2015 judgement giving legal cover to the establishment of military courts.
The ISPR had earlier released the following details of the convicts and the crimes for which they were sentenced:
Civilian Molvi Abdus Salam s/o Shamshi: The convict was an active member of Toheedwal Jihad Group (TWJ). He was found involved in harbouring jacket wallahs, later used in the attack on the Army Public School, 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. , which resulted in the deaths of 151 persons including 125 children and injuries to 147 persons and damage to govt property. He was also involved in abetting deaths of two colonels and a civilian, Director of National Development Complex (NDC). He confessed to his offences before the magistrate and the trial court. He was tried on four charges and awarded the death sentence.
Civilian Hazrat Ali s/o Awal Baz: The convict was an active member of Toheedwal Jihad Group (TWJ). He was found involved in attacking law enforcement agencies, abetting kidnapping and killing of Levies soldiers and collecting funds for attack on Army Public School, Peshawar. He was also involved in killing 23 Levies soldiers. He admitted his offences before the magistrate and the trial court. He was tried on five charges and awarded the death sentence.
Civilian Mujeebur Rehman alias Ali alias NajeebUllah s/o Ghulab Jan: The convict was an active member of Toheedwal Jihad Group (TWJ). He was found involved in transporting 10 suicide bombers for the attack on Pakistain Air Force Base Peshawar. He was also involved in attacks on law enforcement agencies and abetment in the attack on the Army Public School, Peshawar, which resulted in the deaths of 151 persons including 125 children, injuries to 147 persons and damage to govt property. He admitted his offences before the magistrate and the trial court. He was tried on three charges and awarded the death sentence.
Civilian Sabeel alias Yahya s/o Atta Ullah: The convict was an active member of Toheedwal Jihad Group (TWJ). He was found involved in the attack on Pakistain Air Force Base, Peshawar; a Police check post, transportation of 10 suicide bombers and abetment in the attack on Army Public School, Peshawar, which resulted in the deaths of 151 persons including 125 children and injuries to 147 persons. He admitted his offences before the magistrate and the trial court. He was tried on three charges and awarded the death sentence.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: With the unofficial results start pouring in, Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) seems to be taking the lead with the party's candidates winning at six wards in Islamabad's Union Council-40, DawnNews reported on Monday.
As it was being anticipated, a large number of independent candidates also won -- with the PML-N trailing behind the PTI. The Pakistain People's Party (PPP), however, was nowhere in the competition.
Apart from sweeping the polls in UC-40, PTI secured chairman seats from UC-50, UC-36 and UC 27 while in UC-30, PTI won all seats except that of chairman.
PML-N has secured chairman seats in UC-43, UC-41, UC-33 and UC-32 so far, according to the unofficial and unconfirmed results.
Voting concluded peacefully in the federal capital on Monday amid low voter turnout and high security as residents of the federal capital went to the polls to elect local representatives for the first time under the newly-minted Islamabad Local Government Act, 2015.
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Zameer Khan's voice remains steady as he recounts the number of bombs he has defused in his lifetime.
"Thirty-seven bombs and Improvised Explosive Devises," he says.
There is an almost defiant indifference in the ex-serviceman's tone. It does not for a moment indicate the formidable line of work he has chosen; a job that requires him to methodically approach a ticking bomb when everyone is running away from it.
Lionhearted Khan first learnt how to dismantle a bomb when he was in the Pakistain Army. After 20 years in service, he is now enrolled at Pakistain's first police school of explosive handling (PSEH) in Nowshera taking a refresher course to hone his skill.
Despite his years of experience, at PSEH he has a chance to enhance his knowledge as modern war tools evolve. He can learn about circuits -- the latest bombs -- and how to battle the "technological war."
The explosive handling school, which launched operations in February this year, provides training on the latest equipment and technology to detect and safely diffuse bombs. It is a major step towards improving the safety of civilians as well as that of Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) personnel.
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(IraqiNews.com) Salah AL-Dien – A security source in Salahuddin province announced on Monday the arrival of large military reinforcements in Baiji in preparation for storming Sharqat District in the province.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “Large military reinforcements arrived, this evening, in Baiji in preparation for storming the last stronghold of the ISIS in the district of Sharqat (65 km north of Salah al-Din),” noting that, “The reinforcements included heavy weapons and equipment used for the first time.”
The source, who asked to remain anonymous, added: “ISIS deployed its elements and requested reinforcements from Nineveh for the purpose of repelling any attack on the organization.”
[ALMANAR.LB] Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said Monday that Iraq has sufficient forces to fight the ISIL group, after American senators called for more US troops to be deployed to the country.
"The Iraqi government welcomes an increase in support in weapons and training and (air) support from international partners in our war against ISIL," Abadi said in a statement.
But "we confirm that Iraq has enough men and resolve to defeat ISIL and other similar criminal groups," he said.
Abadi's remarks came a day after American senators John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution... and Lindsey Graham ... the endangered South Carolina RINO... advocated an increase in US forces in Iraq to around 10,000 from the current cap of 3,550.
"The prime minister... said he wanted more American presence here," McCain, the chair of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, told journalists in Baghdad.
And Graham, a member of the same committee, said: "I talked with the prime minister -- would you like more American help? The answer was yes."
He added: "If you went up to 10,000, you're not gonna get any pushback from the Iraqis."
"I mean the difference between 3,500 and 10,000 is meaningless politically inside the country."
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10,00 US Troops each to Syria + Iraq, as backed up or supported by a 100,000-man, mainly Sunni Arab Coalition force.
Read, NO 150,000 RUSSIAN TROOPS IN SYRIA-IRAQ = THE MIDDLE EAST.
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France had sufficient (actually superior) forces to fight Nazi Germany. What was lacking was will. See W. Shirer's "The Collapse of the Third RTepublic" for an arguably definitive account.
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For the elderly amongst us, I used to play play Avalon Hills war game,France: 1940, if played in a realistic rules way the French didn't have a chance and the British are very lucky to get away. The units morale was too brittle, the leadership lacking (with the notable exception of DeGaulles armour end brigade) to stand for more than a day or two. The French player can win by points, holding out a little in each scenario, but not in a real way. I would love to see that game brought into the computer along with panzer-bush, but keeping die-rolls and deep rule sets, just using the computer for the maps and bookkeeping.
[IsraelTimes] Directive seen as part of an effort to crack down on incitement
The Paleostinian Authority on Monday instructed its broadcasting authority to indefinitely suspend Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s Al-Aqsa TV programming in the West Bank.
"The PA's security apparatuses have announced officially to all broadcasters in the West Bank that they are forbidden from airing the Al-Aqsa network," Hamas confirmed in a statement on Facebook.
Israeli watchdog groups have long-claimed Al-Aqsa TV promotes terrorist activity, teaches anti-Semitism and incites hatred of Israelis, especially in its programming for children.
Monday's move was seen as an attempt by Prime Minister the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... to tackle Hamas "incitement," and in so doing to curb the almost-daily festivities between Israeli soldiers and Paleostinian rioters.
[Tolo News] The family of the woman allegedly shot by Iranian border police while trying to enter The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... recently, said on Monday they still have not received her body.
The women's husband Mohammad Zarif said his wife's body has apparently been sent by Iranian soldiers to Afghanistan but that he has not been able to track down her body here.
Zarif said he and his wife, along with their three children, had wanted to go to Europe through Iran and Turkey but that they were shot at by Iranian border police in Oromia. His wife was hit and died at the scene, he said.
"It is almost 10 days that we have been contacting Afghanistan embassy and no one has helped us. What should we with with such a government," said Zarif.
One of Zarif's sons who also witnessed his mother's death said: "Going to Europe is full of problems, I request my people to not go there, it is full of troubles and difficulties".
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... Mohammad Alif, a Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... resident said: "If government addresses people's problems and find jobs inside the country for people, we wouldn't need to go to other countries. If there were opportunities we would rather stay in our country."
This latest incident comes on the heels of recent reports that over 146,000 Afghans have sought asylum in Europe this year alone.
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[AnNahar] 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 has executed more than 3,500 people in Syria, including nearly 2,000 civilians, since declaring its "caliphate" in June last year, a monitor said Sunday.
In the last month alone IS executed 53 people -- including 35 civilians -- in areas it controls in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The new figures from the Britannia-based Observatory bring to 3,591 the number of people executed by IS in Syria since it declared its Islamic "caliphate" after seizing control of large parts of the country.
The new toll includes 1,945 civilians, including 103 women and 77 children, with civilians defined as those who are not taking part in the fighting.
Some were executed for alleged witchcraft, homosexuality and collaborating with the U.S.-led coalition that has been bombarding IS in Syria since September 2014.
Members of Sunni Shaitat tribe account for around half of the civilians killed. IS killed 930 members of the clan in the northeastern Deir Ezzor province last year after they opposed the Death Eater Sunni Muslim group.
The monitor also documented 247 IS executions of rival rebels and Kurdish fighters, as well as the executions of 975 members of regime forces.
IS has also executed 415 of its own members it accused of crimes including spying, many of them captured as they were trying to desert the group, according to the Observatory, which relies on a network of activists, medical staff and fighters on the ground.
IS controls large swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq.
In Syria, it controls areas in the Homs and Hama provinces in the center, Deir Ezzor and Hassakeh in the northeast, as well as Raqa and Aleppo in the north.
The jihadist group counts tens of thousands of fighters and carries out abductions, rapes, beheadings and stonings in the areas under its influence.
The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... has accused it of "crimes against humanity."
More than 250,000 people have been killed and more than four million have fled the country since the Syrian conflict erupted in 2011.
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They're underachievers.
The Islamic State group has executed more than 3,500 people in Syria, including nearly 2,000 civilians, since declaring its "caliphate" in June last year (18 months)
More than 250,000 people have been killed...since the Syrian conflict erupted in 2011 (48 months)
The National Women's Studies Association voted to join the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.
The vote on the BDS referendum passed 653 to 86 at the organization's annual conference earlier this month, the association announced last week. Slightly more than a third of the members voted.
The recommendation to join the BDS movement was sponsored by Feminists for Justice In/For Palestine, an ad hoc group founded at the studies association's annual conference in Puerto Rico in 2014.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Dhaka Tribune] Pakistain has denied its involvement in crimes and atrocities during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Zameer Khan's voice remains steady as he recounts the number of bombs he has defused in his lifetime.
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Lindsey Graham
